Lu Ming

Chapter 178 Preparations for War
The renovation project of the "Ruian" is now coming to an end: including strengthening the hull, adjusting compartments, and installing electronic instruments. These modifications have been completed, and now only the power system remains.

Traditional blessing boats and sand boats rarely use ribs.The craftsmen developed these ship types, which were originally aimed at cargo ships. The main function of Fuchuan is to carry goods in the coastal areas of the mainland.

The designer did not expect Fuchuan to cross the Pacific in a storm, nor did he consider installing dense ship ribs on the bulkhead for firing guns—it can be seen from the "V"-shaped bottom of the ship.In order to discharge guns on the side, the shape of the ship must be a "U" shape with a big bottom and a small top, and the bilge must be filled with ballast to lower the center of gravity of the whole ship below the waterline, just like a tumbler.

Since it is only a coastal freight, and there is a storm, you can stay close to the shore at any time, so it is very wise to omit the expensive process of ship ribs: Facts have proved that the existing structural strength of Fuchuan is sufficient for hundreds of years of civil sea trade. needed.

However, the "Ruian" which is being transformed by the traversing people is different.

For Fuchuan that needs to perform special missions, a thin layer of outer plate is definitely not enough-even if the power system is running, there may be leakage, not to mention that this ship may have various unpredictable battles in the future.

Therefore, the structure of the Ryan was fully strengthened.

After various supports, stiffeners, and the replacement of good wooden decks, the Ryan finally paid the price of a 20% reduction in the volume of the cargo hold in order to be strong.There is no way, the shape of the ship has already been fixed, and it is impossible to add ship ribs from the keel, so this is the only way to go.

After the firmness problem is solved, other communication aspects are the simplest: the telegraph, radio, radar screen are installed in the stern cabin, and the antenna and radome are installed on the rear mast. These are all skilled procedures and can be easily done.

Like all other refitted ships, the most difficult part of the refitting project of the lucky ship "Ruian" must be the power system.

In the early sand ships represented by the Dog Eye, the power system was a diesel outboard engine installed at the stern.

The advantages of outboard motors are many: plug and play, concealed, safe and efficient, no need to install complicated power systems in the cabin, no need to consider sealing, leakage and other troubles, outboard motors only need to install an external slide rail at the stern , everything is OK.

However, one black top ten fans: Outboard motors need to eat diesel, firewood, and .
Although the amount of diesel consumed by the transport fleet is very small, it is usually only used in some special cases. However, with the continuous increase of the fleet, the consumption of diesel oil is always increasing. The friends finally can't stand it anymore. This shit is a bottomless pit!

At this time, even though the big office has ordered the formation of an oil exploration team in advance, the outboard motors are still temporarily disabled under the strong calls of many departments.

Nowadays, the power systems of all pilot ships and special ships such as "Chengfeng" have been changed to wood gas + propeller power.

This is rather cheating.

Wood gas power: slow start, low power, and the whole system is much more complicated than outboard motors.From the gasification furnace to various connectors, gas pipelines, special gas engines, and then to the main shaft and propellers, the completion of this series of projects has also made the industrialists in the kiln area slander.

First of all, the operation and maintenance of this system is a big trouble: some workers who have finally been trained in the kiln area will now be separated by the fleet.

Secondly, the ability of the current kiln area to produce workpieces is still very low.In the above systems, except for a few stupid cast iron gasification furnaces, the rest of the spare parts, including lubricating oil and metal sealing rings, still have to be imported
If you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred.It seems to prevent the consumption of imported diesel oil like a bottomless pit, but the one-time basic investment amount is enough for young and old to drink a pot.

The only consolation is probably the volume of the gas system.

The entire system occupies a small area, and does not need to install a huge boiler and a water purification system like a steam engine.Although the power of the gas engine is insufficient, the crossing public does not need the Fuchuan to soar to a high speed of 20 knots like a battleship—under the same circumstances, as long as the speed is 2-3 knots higher than the native ships, the navy is already satisfied.

The "Ruian" renovation team headed by Qiao Zhengtai finally installed all the equipment before the deadline, and the test run was successful.

The "Mission" of the Intelligence Bureau took over the Ryan the next day."Boss Cao" wearing a wig immediately boarded the ship. After walking around the sea, the officers found that the ship was in good condition. With the wood gas power fully turned on, the Fuchuan could reach a high speed of 4 knots when the sails were lowered. that's enough.

The mission will soon be ready, and then set off for Fuzhou to meet Lao Xiong in secret.

As a result, the crossovers entrenched on Dayuan Island began to adjust their policies in order to deal with the coming war in the near future.

Since war is to be dealt with, the first thing to be opened up is gun ban.

It's ashamed to say that after a certain force has occupied Dayuan for such a long time, so far, it has not produced a single gun or cannon to defend its homeland.

For a long time, the fighting methods of the crossing people, in addition to using the weapons and ammunition of later generations to destroy the enemy, is to distribute some knives, axes and spears to their subordinates and let them fight hand-to-hand
The advanced and the backward are mixed together, there is no transition in between, and the style is extremely weird. However, a certain force has mixed up to this day without any sense of disobedience.

Now the princes of the court finally couldn't hold back anymore.

The bad slogan "All resources should be given priority to the development of basic industries" can no longer be shouted in the face of the increasingly severe situation!
On the third day after Comrade Chen Huoding came to Dayuan, the Dayuan Office issued an official document: Kiln District Base will open a special weapons workshop from now on to produce self-made guns.

It was too late to complain about the insane style of the princes who are in power, and the weapons sub-section on the forum became extremely lively overnight.All kinds of information flooded the screen, from bronze cannons to barrel cannons, from brown basses to AKs, fans behind all kinds of weapons jumped out at this moment, shouting hoarsely for the best murder weapon in their minds. Countless debates, invective and taunts.

So the weapons expert came on the scene——the only gun repairman in the cross-country has been appointed as the general manager of the newly opened state-owned weapons company. Comrade Ma Zekai officially announced: the meeting will be held tomorrow.

What meeting?Firearms stereotypes meeting.

As for artillery?

We'll talk about it the day after tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)