Probably because he felt that Zhou Changfeng didn't put on airs, the captain deliberately kept it a secret, saying that he would find out when dinner was served.
Zhou Changfeng was quite surprised by the elegance and sophistication of the decoration of the battleship's living area - the floor was covered with vermilion or orange felts or blankets, the bulkheads were painted with off-white paint, and the wall skirts were made of teak wood with swastika patterns or water ripples. Every few steps you can see a hanging calligraphy and painting.
"This time it's really like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden." The dazzled Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but sigh.
Who is Grandma Liu? Where is the Grand View Garden?
The breadth and depth of the Chinese language was fully demonstrated at this moment. Although the captain did not know this remark, he could understand its meaning accurately.
"The most important weapon of the country often has to patrol all over the world for a long time. Decorating it in an elegant and elegant manner will also help maintain morale."
"Besides, the cannons and engines on this ship are all expensive. In comparison, these decorations are not worth much."
"It does make sense." Zhou Changfeng, who was examining a landscape painting, nodded in agreement.
Interestingly, there is no Story of the Stone or Dream of Red Mansions in the Later Ming Dynasty, but there is "The Story of Red Mansions", which is both a literary classic. The contents of the two are quite different, but because they also depict wealthy families, they are also named "Red Mansions".
Bai Juyi's "Ten Songs from the Qin Dynasty" said, "The rich girl in the Red Mansion, embroidered with gold threads," so people use the Red Mansion to mean the attic where ladies live.
Six o'clock in the evening is the theoretical dinner time, and it almost hits the spot. Before then, all the kitchen cabins have prepared sumptuous dinners.
However, because there are more than 1,500 people on the ship, the kitchen cabin cannot feed so many people at once, so the soldiers eat in turns. Each shift lasts two quarters of an hour, and they leave after taking the meals. .
However, you definitely have to queue up to get your meal, and it takes time to return the tableware when you leave, so it actually only takes more than a quarter of an hour to eat. Although I couldn't enjoy my meal leisurely, it wasn't rushed either.
The number of officers is small, so there is no need for this.
"The time has come, ring the bell and serve the food!"
The jingling bell sounded throughout the ship, but compared to the battle alarm, this bell was much gentler.
Although Zhou Changfeng was mentally prepared when he arrived at the officers' mess, he was still shocked by the superior conditions here.
The officers' dining room uses carved ebony tables, chairs engraved with various patterns, white glazed porcelain plates and bowls, and chopsticks made of silver-copper alloy; the chandeliers also have a light yellow warm light, which makes people quite charming. appetite.
There is a row of six immortal tables, each with six dishes and two soups.
Beef meatballs, spicy chicken, red stuffed trotters, mapo tofu, braised bamboo shoot tips, white chopped chicken, winter melon and corn soup and tofu and pork ribs soup.
Yes, it is true that they are just common ordinary dishes, not delicacies, but a dinner of this kind is too outrageous.
Not to mention there were snacks and fruits after dinner. At least Zhou Changfeng got to eat strawberries.
"To store so many fruits and vegetables, the cold storage of this ship should be very large, right?"
In fact, the cold storage capacity of Longshuo exceeds 150m, and stores various pre-cut meats, eggs, fish, dairy products, as well as various vegetables and fruits; in addition, it also stores a large amount of wine , it is said that there are dozens of tons, including Mianzhu Daqu, Guilin Xiaoqu, rice wine, beer, wine, whiskey and rum.
The officers who dined together did not dislike Zhou Changfeng, a country bumpkin who came to the city. On the contrary, they all went out of their way to steer the conversation towards something related to it.
For example, how to effectively support battleships during landing operations, how to choose the timing of stopping in and out, how to communicate more smoothly with landing units, etc.
Before leaving that night, Zhou Changfeng stamped a postmark at the ship's post office, then went to the canteen to buy a commemorative medal before leaving the ship.
Because it is at a base with sufficient manpower and equipment, the efficiency of the ground crew and engineers is quite high.
By evening, the cutting of the left bulkhead had been completed, and lines and welding joints had begun to be reserved inside the cabin.
The left side of this Type 32 seaplane was neatly cut with a rectangular opening eighty centimeters high and thirty centimeters wide; there was another opening about sixty centimeters high and twenty centimeters wide next to it.
In order to strengthen the opening, we used thin steel sheets riveted to the edge of the cut, just like a window frame.
The 480mm barrel of the 80mm mountain cannon has been cut off at the repair shop, and the diameter has been reduced from 16 times to 10 times.
After actual testing, when no propellant pack is attached, the rear seat travel fully meets the requirements.
The weapons were arranged the next day. In the morning, everyone drew lines on the mountain cannon's tripod with chalk, and used an acetylene gas cutting gun to cut off the auxiliary hoe and part of the tripod.
After that, the tripod was fixed to the cabin floor through twelve curved steel sheets, and the front was reinforced with a steel frame. This made the mountain cannon firmly fixed in the cabin, with only the barrel protruding a little from the cabin.
The other small opening is used to place the machine gun. A Type 32 12.7mm aviation machine gun is used. It is a sibling of the Type 31 anti-aircraft machine gun, but the rate of fire is increased from 500 rounds per minute to 700 rounds per minute.
The speed of aircraft is faster, and the window period for shooting is shorter. Therefore, the rate of fire of aircraft machine guns must also be faster, and a large number of bullets can be fired in a short period of time.
It only took more than two days before the modification work on this aircraft was basically completed.
The aircraft of this year are not too sophisticated yet, the aerodynamics are still in the exploratory stage and are not yet mature, and there is not much demand for strict aerodynamic shapes, so this level of modification is completely acceptable.
Ever since, on the sixth day of February, the world's first gunship aircraft, which had been hastily modified, taxied and took off on the No. 3 runway of the Ming Dynasty Hangzhou Naval Base.
It circled the sky twice to test its flight performance and the field of view of the deployed weapons.
It tilted to the left visible to the naked eye during the landing, but fortunately the pilot was experienced and landed smoothly. Pilots also reported feeling a noticeable heaviness on the left side and lightness on the right side during level flight and circling.
"The left side is a few hundred pounds heavier. It must be unbalanced."
"It's okay. If you need to carry artillery shells in actual combat, why don't you just put the ammunition on the right side?"
"If the fight is over, wouldn't it be unbalanced again?"
"Put a few hundred kilograms of counterweight in the middle aisle at the center and rear. When the ammunition is finished, move the counterweight in."
After solving the minor problem simply and crudely, the gunship then underwent a live fire test.
The shooting range was ready and easy to borrow. It happened that HNA had no training missions these days, so it was borrowed openly.
Although time was limited, the actual test performance of this hastily launched gunship was still quite impressive.
The gunner fired at ground targets from an aircraft for the first time. At first he could hardly achieve accurate hits, but after becoming proficient, he soon achieved a good hit rate.
Because of the huge bomb load and exaggerated range, in actual combat, it may be able to hover over the enemy's head for several hours, working in different shifts, and even one group of people can cook and another group of people can fire on the ground.
Strings of machine gun bullets mixed with tracer bullets were poured on the ground, like lasers, dust was flying, debris was flying, and the sudden explosion of artillery shells swept across a large area. The scene was not small.
Seeing this scene, the satisfied Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but sigh, "What does it mean that the god of death descends from the sky?"
After the plane landed, he said bluntly to the crew members: "Without further delay, let's go directly to Wuhan, and then get familiar with the local terrain and environment first."
(End of chapter)
