Chapter 955 Flying Scissors Head

Green Wings are also on Catalina's flagship, while Xuanyuan and Dark Sakura are monitored in Panama. Katrina's familiar command of the indigenous workers in the hiding place to classify the looted goods into the warehouse and wait for the Stoke merchant fleet to deal with them. Large and small sailboats are towed into the dock, ready to undergo transformation, and then the best to stay, and the rest will be sold. This loot earned at least 200,000 pounds for the alliance!

Zhang Fan looked at Captain Hooker sitting on a big windward stone outside the camp and drinking wine. He didn't know what to say. Instead, Green Wing understood the mind of such a man and mentioned a few bottles of rum without saying a word. He just sat aside and drank with him. After finishing her work, Caterina also joined in. Zhang Fan could see that there was a slight warmth in the corner of Captain Hook's eyes.

"Grandma's! Do a few more strokes while you can!" Captain Hooker was drunk silently by two women, but he was a little embarrassed, so he got up fiercely, broke the wine bottle, and was about to go to sea to do a few tickets.

Catrina stopped and said, "Can't you figure out that you want to die? Now the Spanish fleet must be wanted all over the world, and now it's probably going out to fall into the trap of Enrikis!"

"I'm afraid of him!" Hooker shouted heartfeltly.

"Believe me, I'll cut off this guy's head sooner or later!" Katrina brushed her red hair on her forehead, "But it's not the right time, but I don't think it will be long!" Since meeting Zhang Fan's team, Caterina has had the hope of revenge.

"Don't worry, boss. I will definitely help you!" Captain Hooker still recognizes Katrina as his leader, but does not recognize Zhang Fan. Even Green Wing has more prestige than Captain Hooker than Zhang Fan.

When Katrina saw that Zhang Fan was left alone, she greeted him with a smile, "Hey, come and tell us the story of the Eastern Continent. Aken is full of nonsense and nothing true..."

Zhang Fan shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not as good as you think. I can take you to see it later."

"Do you keep your word?" Katrina was very happy and laughed like a little girl, which infected Captain Hooke with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Of course, as long as you want to go." Zhang Fan sat down with a smile.

Caterina patted Captain Hooker on the shoulder, "Did you hear what the boss said? After that, we will go to his hometown to rob! Hahaha!"

Zhang Fan was a little helpless when he was about to say something when Caterina suggested, "Well, how about we go to the Fountain of Youth? The clue Victor gave us last time was broken, but I heard the old drunkard in Havana say that the fountain of youth is in Florida! And the head Panamanian also said that there is a spring of life in the north of Havana, which should be said to be the same spring. Well, let's go to Florida to try our luck and avoid the limelight.

"I have no problem." Zhang Fan shrugged his shoulders.

In fact, Zhang Fan is not very interested in the so-called 'spring of youth', because he and Yaoji live next to the 'moon well' and drink the 'water of life' every day. What else can they be interested in the 'spring of youth'? However, since the characters in the scene are mentioned, it is a scene task that must be completed. If you are not interested, you have to do it. Because if you don't go, I'm afraid you will miss an important scene instruction and affect the completion of the main task.

"Only sail one ship." Green Wing nodded.

Captain Hooker thought for a moment and agreed, "Okay, find a faster one."

Catrina boldly shook her red curls, "I know that a new fast ship has just been built in the shipyard. Hey, it's a new design by Captain Baca, but it's not the old man's turn to test this time!"

"This is not good..." Zhang Fan was a little hesitant.

............

"Oh!" A bottle of champagne smashed on the flying shear-shaped bow of the new warship, and the new warship slowly slid into the sea.

"Good baby, why do we have to leave it to Old Baca?" Katrina shouted.

"Don't touch his baby, this old guy... Old Baca will be terrible!" Zhang Fan was a little worried.

Caterina laughed, "Hahaha! The old guy is falling in love and has been in love for a long time! Also, why does he occupy both benefits? ...Huck, don't go. What's good about oriental women? I don't even dare to take a gun..."

This ship is actually a fast reconnaissance gunboat newly designed by Captain Baka and Akan. The ship is narrow and long. Only one propeller was used under the stern, which is behind the steering board and integrated with the steering board. It looks very similar to the old German U-boat during World War II, with a long and narrow hull and low port and tower. The hull is 20 meters long, the widest part is more than 4 meters, and the displacement is less than 100 tons.

There is only one mast on the ship, with a slightly curved triangular vertical sail on the front and back. The main sail is the Bermuda sail, which appeared 200 years later and was designed and applied by the book demon in this era. This is to be able to borrow wind power and save manpower when sailing on the ocean.

The bow of the fast gunboat is narrow and long, and the bow is sharp. Looking from the sky, it is like a narrow and sharp wedge, which can easily break through the wind and waves at sea. The rear of the hull is relatively wide, and the length-to-width ratio of the hull is 5 to 1 with a high-speed design. On the surface, this is an ordinary dhow.

The gunboat is divided into three floors, and the bottom compartment is the control room and cargo compartment of the human-powered propeller. The middle compartment of the second deck is the living compartment and cargo compartment. A chassis is installed on the upper front deck fixed on the middle line of the deck. The gun body can rotate 360 degrees with a spiral worm line. The shells fired are also conical, not spherical iron eggs, but spherical bullets can be used.

This is another contribution of the book demon and Aken. The conical warhead and the fixed launch package began to be standardized, and the ammunition was separated. Therefore, the range and power have more than doubled. Some warheads are even equipped with gunpowder and fuses, which hit the hull and trigger the fuse, which can explode! This is completely a cannonball in the modern sense!

However, this kind of shell process is relatively complex and has a high production cost. Generally, only more than a dozen shells are distributed, which are only used to greatly destroy rival ships and kill people at close range! But when robbing, it is rarely used, otherwise it will blow up the ship and grab a fart! At present, the small foundry where it is hidden can only make some small-caliber rotary guns, and it can't cast large-caliber guns by itself, so it can only do something about the barrel and ammunition of the purchased artillery.

On the upper deck of the wide middle and rear of the gunboat, there are two long-tube cannons, and the chassis is also fixed in the center of the deck. The gun body can also rotate 360 degrees in situ with spiral lines. The five guns on the gunboat are arranged on the middle line, not on both sides. In this way, the number of artillery can be reduced by half under the condition of bi-side firepower, which not only reduces the load on the ship, but also reduces costs. Moreover, it saves a lot of deck area and can be arranged with larger caliber and longer gun bodies.

Although the number of cannons of this fast gunboat is small, the spiral worm and conical shells made by the Arkans make the range of the cannon far. Theoretically, the maximum range can reach 2,000 meters, and the effective range is 1200 meters. If a gunpowder-filled shell is used, it will be lighter than a solid bullet, and the range will be longer, about 2,500 meters.

Such a range is far more than the 800-meter range of the Koufeilin long-tube guns of this era. And equipped with newly developed explosive shells filled with gunpowder, the lethality is amazing. Although it has not been actually fought, in theory, it is much more powerful than an ordinary Spanish warship of 300 tons or more!

If it is verified in actual combat, it can indeed achieve the power of the 300-ton Spanish gunboat in this era, then this kind of fast gunboat with small size, fast speed, short construction time and low cost will be the main battleship of Zhang Fan's team.

In order to emphasize low cost, flexibility and speed, this gunboat is even made of lighter pine wood, so its durability is much lower than that of iron-clad gunboats made of teak and iron wood. But because of the significant weight reduction, its fastest speed has reached a terrible 25 knots! The flexibility is unparalleled, much faster and more flexible than the fast and light Galen warship and the fastest and most flexible Caravel small light sailing ship in the Caribbean!

This is the advantage of using propeller technology. Moreover, this kind of gunboat also uses a 'flying shear bow', which is quite wave-breaking, which is another important reason why this kind of gunboat can achieve flexible and high speed.

The 'flying shear bow' is a high-speed flying shearing sailboat designed by Americans in the 19th century. It has excellent performance and is very suitable for sailing in the storms and waves of the Atlantic Ocean, so it is also known as the 'Atlantic bow'. The bow of the flying shear ship will narrow the water line of the bow to almost blade-shaped, with a long and sharp curved scissor-shaped first column, which is suitable for racing, so that it can split waves (waves) on the sea to reduce wave resistance, so it can greatly increase the speed of the ship!

Therefore, although the gunboat has a small tonnage, it will be stable even in the wind and waves of the ocean. Captain Hooker, who is steering on the back deck, is extremely comfortable, and he really has a feeling of riding the wind and waves when driving this ship! It's as graceful as a sharp blade across butter, as if it were flying smoothly on the sea...

Of course, Zhang Fan's green wings will not feel this way. No matter how fast this kind of gunboat is, it can't be the speed and flexibility of high-speed yachts in the real world. However, for the captain of the Age of Great Navigation, this is already a qualitative leap!

Captain Hook opened his chest to the sea breeze, opened his arms and laughed at Captain Baca's boat. He had a feeling of riding Wang Cuichao in his heart, and he was still in front of Captain Baca. He is in a much better mood! However, he didn't know that at this time, Baca was trying to collide with Wang Cui, listening to the delicate cry from the East, and also caring about ** in front of the 'blood lion' Hooker...

Men like the feeling of conquest, whether it is conquering the sea or women!