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"Perhaps we can install two thick, hard slide rails on the ship frame and add more grease to lubricate them. In this way, the ship we build can slide directly in with less resistance and faster speed. The sea, you don’t have to work hard like now..."
On the beach outside the junior shipbuilding factory, Guard Kanglin Kangda, wearing an eight-petal hat, an iron-pointed helmet, and a bright silver mountain armor, was standing quietly under the retinue of a group of soldiers, watching the command of junior engineer Yue Heli. How do my men drag the newly built ship into the water! Yes, unlike the former imagined ship launching situation, the craftsmen actually used dragging to launch the ship. They evenly applied mud on the beach between the ship frame and the sea water, and then laid a uniform thickness on the mud. The logs, and then, there is nothing more, the mud, the logs are all in place, what else do you want, drag it!
Therefore, as the rhythmic chants of Yue Lihe continued to sound, twenty or thirty shirtless apprentices exerted all their strength and began to drag the thick hemp rope on their shoulders! Point by point, the originally motionless Cangshan boat finally moved slowly under the huge pulling force! Kanglin saw how laborious they were in launching the tugboat, and he immediately gave the latter some help, building special slide rails and applying grease. In this way, the bottom of the ship can slide into the seawater more smoothly through the slide rails. After hearing this, Yue Heli, the commander-in-chief of the ship launching project, immediately followed suit! Soon, under his command, the apprentices and laborers moved in the hard oak wood and started construction on the spot to build slide rails for launching ships! As for the grease used for lubrication, in Kanglin's opinion, whale oil is the best. However, Chiyang currently does not have the ability to hunt whales, and the surrounding forces, such as the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo and other countries, do not have the habit of hunting whales, so they I used tung oil purchased from Dengzhou and Donghaiwei instead. It’s all oil anyway. At most, the effect is not that good!
"One, two, three, pull! One, two, three, pull!"
Wait until the slide is built and coated with thick tung oil! The apprentices and laborers really felt that the Cangshan boat behind them was dragging a lot, but the heat generated by the friction between the bottom of the boat and the slide rails melted a lot of tung oil, and the stench emitted was nauseating! However, it was all worth it. With wooden slide rails and tung oil, the huge Cangshan boat finally slowly entered the cold water after an hour! Then, amidst the cheers of everyone, the sailors on the boat shook the big oar and began to stabilize the shape of the boat. They had to let the wooden boat, which was more than six feet long, stay quietly on the beach, waiting for their leader to board the boat and launch the new boat. The last step of the project is naming and sea trial!
"Since this is the first ship we build, let's name this class of warship after a tree. I think this ship will be called the Oak Tree..."
Seeing that everything is done, all it takes is for him to board the ship and start the maiden voyage of Chiyang's self-built ship! Kang Lin immediately held the eight-petal iron pointed helmet on the armrest, and then with the support of his own soldiers, he stepped onto the ship on a swaying jump! Next, the guy just thought for a few seconds and gave the Cangshan boat at his feet the name Oak Tree. Firstly, the boat was made of oakwood. Secondly, Kang Lin was really lazy. , use trees to name small ships of this class. In the future, when ships are launched, they can always be named after elm, oak, pine, fir, etc. It is so convenient and effort-saving. From now on, I don’t have to burn my brain anymore. Let’s think of a ship name!
"Okay, then this Cangshan ship will be called the Oakwood from now on! Brothers, get busy, and let the Lord Guard see what our brothers' methods are like!"
There was really no time to complain about the arbitrariness of the name given by Chief Kanglin Kangda. Yue Heli, the temporary captain of the Cangshan ship of the Oakwood, waved the winning flag fiercely. The next moment, under the control of a group of apprentices, this small fortune ship, which was made of 150 materials, slowly sailed out of the temporary port of Longtouyan and came to the vast sea with the help of the big oar. Next, following the shouts of the little leader, the apprentice in charge of sailing began to push the windlass and raise the heavy sail to increase the speed of the Cangshan ship; at the same time, the watch hand on the upper bucket also stretched the brass in his hand Monocular telescope, trying to cast a scrutinizing gaze on the distant sea; the busiest ones are the temporary gunners on the deck. These young men who have been injured in the army took off the gun jacket on the artillery with ease and began to clean the cannon. Today, they have two There are two experimental projects, which are to control artillery to shoot stationary targets at sea and movable targets at sea. If they can achieve good results during the period, they will be rewarded with ten taels of silver and half a pig! Of course, meat and wine are not good after all. Kang Lin also prepared fine wine for the outstanding performers. The homemade sweet potatoes cost thirty cents per pound. The amount is large and the tube is full. You can drink as much as you want, as long as you don’t have to worry about having a headache when you wake up tomorrow. Just crack it!
"Put down the firewood boat and ask someone to row it to the north. It doesn't have to be too far, just two or three hundred steps! The others quickly prepared to load the artillery. It's still the old rule, bow cannon first and then the side cannon. Okay. , everyone, let’s move..."
Seeing that the ship had already set off, Kang Lin no longer delayed and immediately ordered his soldiers to remove his armor. Damn, this Lao Shizi's eight-petal cap, iron-pointed helmet, and bright silver mountain armor look majestic and majestic, but the problem is that his grandma's helmet is too heavy. The helmet weighs more than ten kilograms, and the mountain armor weighs dozens of kilograms. It was heavy. Even not counting the iron arms, iron knee pads, and iron mesh shoes, it weighed nearly sixty or seventy kilograms. The pressure was so intense that Kang Lin sweated. Now that they were on the ship, there was no one else around, so the man took off his heavy helmet and mountain armor, wearing only a piece of chain mail, and sat on a low stool in the cabin, watching Yue Heli command his apprentices. Load the cannon and prepare to shoot the firewood boats that are rowing farther and farther away!
"Master Yue, Xiaowu and the others are back. The firewood boat has dropped its anchor and cannot move for the time being. What should we do next?"
Not to mention Kang Lin and his party who were watching in the cabin, Yue Heli, who was standing by the small mast on the bow of the ship and commanding the battle, quickly received a report from his men that the target ship was already in place! So next, the master craftsman from another world gave the order to fire to a group of apprentices who were eager to try! Since it is not a real battle, the original flag army and the apprentices now have a lot of time to aim at the target ship and shoot. What they want this time is accuracy and power, not time! Therefore, it took twenty seconds for the four apprentices of the bow gun crew to adjust the cannon and fire hot lead-iron cannonballs at the undulating firewood boats on the sea!
"No, we missed. Our ship keeps shaking, and we can't aim accurately at all! Let's change the Ye Gong's magic gun on the side. I hope those four cannons can live up to their expectations!"
I saw the long-prepared cannonball flying over the target ship and stirring up a high water column in the cold sea water! Yue Heli, the commander-in-chief of the trial voyage, ignored his annoyance and immediately ordered his apprentices to swing the big oar and aim the left side of the Cangshan ship at the sea area where the Chai Shui ship was! Next, there was another twenty or thirty breaths of careful aiming. When the left side of the Cangshan boat was in line with the Chaishui boat, the assistant gunners lit the fire gates of Ye Gong's divine gun and the earth-shaped gun! The next moment, with a huge sound of cannons, thick smoke and orange flames were sprayed out from the muzzles of two finely crafted ground-shaped cannons. Two six-pound lead-iron shells broke free of the mini-cannon in an instant. With the restraint of the tube, sparks and lightning hit the target ship and the surrounding sea water! What a bad move, why did he miss again? After seeing the poor performance of his men, the original warm smile on Yue Heli's face finally disappeared without a trace. The man who was eager to show off in front of his new master could no longer hold back. He couldn't control his bad temper and started to curse his mother in unskilled Mandarin!
"Tell the people below on the oar to hold on to the oar. Let's adjust the starboard side and try firing another round at the target ship!"
Same process, same result! Unsurprisingly, the two ground-shaped guns on the starboard side of the Cangshan ship failed to achieve any results! Next, Yue Heli, who was unwilling to give up, let the reloaded six-pound bow cannon fire another shot! Fortunately, they didn't know which god they prayed for appeared. The six-pound shell hit the target ship as if with divine help, and instantly dismantled the damn diesel boat into parts. Parts in the sense!
"Okay, good shot, good shot! Let's take a look. Each person in the bow gun crew will get one tael of silver and half a pound of pork. Don't worry if you missed it. There's also a movable target! Come on, let's walk north again. , let’s see if we can catch an unlucky Korean ship and try out the cannon!”
Seeing the lone firewood boat dismembered by a six-pound eagle shell, Kang Lin couldn't help but stand up and applaud. At the same time, according to the previous agreement, each of the four members of the bow gun crew received one tael of silver and half a pound of pork as a reward! Next, in order to encourage other gunners, this guy issued a new order. They will continue to move north along the Jeju Strait to see if they can find an unlucky Korean ship off the coast of Jeolla Province and try it out! As long as he can injure or sink the opponent, Conlin's previous promise is already valid! When I think of the white money and the fragrant braised pork waving to me, the more than twenty craftsmen apprentices and laborers on the Cangshan boat feel full of energy, and the big oars in their hands that were originally heavier than Mount Tai suddenly become as light as a feather. ! So the next moment, as a series of neat commands sounded, the small Cangshan boat immediately broke out at unprecedented speed and pounced fiercely towards the large and small islands outside Jeolla Province!
"Okay, Lord Guard, we can't disappoint him. Brothers, work harder. Let's go to Bangzi's island to stop them!"
Note: Liangyinshan Wenjia is a typical Chinese-style armor that has appeared at least in the Tang Dynasty. It was later popular as armor for generals in the Tang, Liao, Song, Xia, Jin, and Ming dynasties. Because its armor pieces are mostly made of gable-shaped metal pieces, it is called mountain armor. In the early days, the mountain beetle appeared only as a new type of armor beetle, mostly attached to the Mingguang armor. Later, it gradually developed and formed a unique armor style. Except for the bright-light armored breastplate that still remains on the chest, the rest is completely independent.
