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Chapter 882 The shock brought by the [-]-ton giant ship

"That sailboat is on fire!" exclaimed the sailors on the deck of the Dauphin.

On the sea, in the distance, a ship with its mast erected was billowing black smoke.

The Crown Prince, the three armed merchant ships and even the people on Li Jinde's merchant ship all got out of the cabin and looked at the black smoking ship on the sea.

"Why is it on fire, full sail and go to the rescue!" Li Jinde said anxiously to the sailors when he saw that his own ship had an accident.

Princess Sophia looked at the smoking ship in the distance, and also gave an order to the captain: "Rescue the burning ship immediately."

In the age of sailing, it was normal for a ship to catch fire. Because of the lack of wireless telegraphy, it was impossible to call for help from nearby ships, and it was only possible to see if there was a nearby ship passing by.

They thought that the ship that was on fire and smoking was actually the giant cable-laying ship Vostok, and the black smoke was naturally the black smoke from the coal-fired boilers of Vostok.

The sailors of the Vostok also noticed the approaching flotilla of wooden galleons.

"There is a fleet approaching! There are gunboats!" A sailor with a telescope observing the crew informed the crew on the Vostok.

"There is no reason for gunboats to appear in a hinterland like the Bohai Sea. Is it our fleet? Get my binoculars." Nelson took the binoculars from his deputy and looked at the Crown Prince.

"The flag of the Royal Navy..." Nelson, who is also from the Royal Fleet, can see the flag hanging on the battleship Crown Prince, the British Royal Fleet more than 100 years ago in his era.

Recently, he has been supervising the laying of submarine cables at sea for a long time, and has not received any news about the British Royal Envoy. When he saw the ships and flags of the Royal Navy appearing in the Bohai Sea, he felt a little complicated.

Nelson was summoned to this era by Chu Yun, and he has already entered the household registration of China. In addition, he has almost no connection with Britain in this era, so it is definitely impossible to play for Britain again.What's more, Chu Yun has a system to guarantee the absolute loyalty of those who are summoned.

"Don't worry, it's not the enemy." Nelson put down the binoculars and said.

He knew that it was impossible for Britain in this era to send a dedicated battleship to the east, because the Royal Navy simply couldn't spare it to maintain the North American colonies, let alone spend half a year to the east.

Maybe the arrival of these ships is the limit of this era.

The crown prince battleship, Li Jinde merchant ship, and three armed merchant ships gradually approached the Dongfang, only to find that the "burning" ship they wanted to rescue turned out to be a long and narrow steel monster.In addition to the tall main mast, this monster also has several thick chimneys. The black smoke that everyone saw just now came out of the thick chimneys.

The battleship Crown Prince, which was more than 50 meters long and was enough to look down on many ships, seemed so small in front of the Dongfang, less than half of the Dongfang, and Li Jinde's merchant ship was only one-third of the Dongfang.

The battleship fleet of the Crown Prince passed by the Vostok, and all the sailors on it looked at this huge steam iron-clad ship dumbfounded.

Although Vostok is not a warship and does not have a single cannon, it uses steam power, steel hulls, propellers, paddle wheels and other advanced technologies to bring shock to this era, especially for sea powers like Britain. The shock of the country is unparalleled.

"The black hull, is this iron...!" Princess Sophia looked at the steel hull opposite her, her mind went blank.

How does a steel hull float in the sea? !Her common sense was beyond comprehension.

"What kind of monster is this..." Sir Greenville was terrified when he saw the black smoke and armored Vostok, as if he had seen a giant beast on the sea.

The sailors of the Royal Fleet were full of despair in the face of the sea monster.Their artillery might not be able to penetrate such an iron-clad ship. As long as the other party dares to collide with it, the Royal Prince may be sunk!

"Our Royal Navy probably doesn't have a warship that can match it...not even the battleship that is being built in secret..." The captain of the battleship Crown Prince stood at the bow and said blankly.

They had seen the Daqin of the Nanyang Fleet in Hoi An Port before. The Daqin was the first batch of sailing battleships built by Chu Yun. It may be slightly stronger than the battleship of the Crown Prince, but the gap is not too big. It is still in the understanding of the British. within range.And the steam ironclad ship, a behemoth that has broken away from the era of sailboats, is completely incomprehensible.

"Is this still a sailboat?" Selina was shocked when she looked at the body of Dongfang on Li Jinde's merchant ship.

"No, don't look at it with sails, it's actually a steamship... Before I went to the West, I heard that there was a steamship 'Yongchang' in the north, but it can't be so huge. I should have disappeared It was built during this period of time." Li Jinde left Huaxia for a year, and during the time he left, the Dongfang was launched and the cable laying project began, and Li Jinde had never seen the Dongfang.

This was the first time he had seen the Orient.

"Steam?" Selina looked at Li Jinde.

"A machine that can make water boil and generate high pressure to drive the machine is the force that pushes the lid of the pot open when the water boils. I don't know the details." Li Jinde said.

"Can the power of water be so powerful?" Sarina still had a hard time imagining that the giant wheel over 100 meters in front of her was driven by the power of hot water?
"I'm just a businessman, and I don't know the principle very well. I only know that the steam engine has brought us a lot of convenience. Many of our businessmen have already used such machines in their workshops." Li Jinde couldn't help regretting what he knew. Not enough to even introduce to people.

In fact, not to mention Li Jinde, even Chu Yun couldn't explain too many details.How can a practical steam engine be so easily understood by an ordinary person?The structure of a practical steam engine involves a separate condenser, an insulating layer outside the cylinder, oil-lubricated pistons, planetary gears, parallel-moving linkages, centrifugal governors, throttle valves, pressure gauges, and so on.The steam boiler that can drive an ironclad ship with a maximum displacement of more than 10000 tons like the Dongfang is so complicated that it is unimaginable.Maybe one cylinder weighs more than 20 tons.

If the system had not summoned thousands of designers and skilled craftsmen successively, and these craftsmen had cultivated more apprentices, relying on the strength of these people to accumulate and build the iron-clad ship technology, otherwise the Dongfang would not have been built at all.

If the natural development is allowed, the steam engine has been used by several generations for nearly 100 years from the proposal of the concept to the improvement of Watt, and it has been used for several decades to be applied to steamboats and locomotives.Unless you are a steam engine engineer who lived in the age when steam engine technology was mature, even the traveler could not build a steam engine by himself without any accumulation of steam engine.

(End of this chapter)