Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 357 Set sail
"Navy? Isn't our navy in the Song Dynasty not enough to deal with it now?" King Rong said.

Li Qingwei shook his head and said, "Of course it's not enough to deal with it. Our warship is still too small. We should find a way to make it bigger and install artillery on the ship."

"If the Mongolian army wants to attack our Great Song Dynasty, they must use sailors like Cao Cao in the later Han Dynasty. If they want to train sailors, they must build a dock in the deep water area of ​​​​the Jianghuai area. First, it will be used for shipbuilding. For training."

"And we don't have to fight with their infantry and cavalry. We directly dispatch new naval forces, mount artillery on warships, and then cruise along the Huai River and the Han River defense line, specifically attacking their docks, warships, and bombarding them with artillery. Just dry camp.”

"As long as the opponent has no warships, we block the entire river, the river. Unless the Mongolian army grows wings, otherwise, they will not be able to cross."

King Rong blushed when he heard this, and he repeatedly praised and said: "Wonderful! Wonderful! But our warships are not enough to mount artillery, and if the warships are erected with artillery, they will not be able to mount a few cannons. It is useless to install less, because our The range of the artillery is about the same as that of the Mongolian army. I am afraid that our ship has been sunk by the artillery of their land fortress before reaching it. If there are too many, I am afraid that we will not hit the enemy and overturn our own ship first. .”

Li Qingwei said at this time: "It doesn't matter, we just need to improve the warship. I wonder if 'old uncle' can bring me some models of the warship that are currently in use. It is convenient for me to improve."

King Rong said: "This is not difficult. Li Shaoxia will stay in the mansion for a while, and the old man will come back when he goes."

Zhao Ke said to Li Qingwei at this time: "Are you really sure?"

Li Qing smiled and said, "It's natural! The Mongol Tartars of Kublai Khan's department are nothing to be afraid of. I need your help for the next thing."

Zhao Ke asked, "My help?"

Li Qing nodded slightly and said, "That's right. After all, I can't draw sketches for improving warships. But I can guide you to draw them."

At this time, Li Qingwei remembered the time when he designed the rockets by himself. At that time, Tang Lan helped to draw the straw paper for the design drawings. After all, his drawing skills were really bad.

Half an hour later, King Rong returned to the mansion, holding two models of wooden boats in his hands, which were the models of Song's current navy warships.

Li Qingwei picked it up and looked at it carefully for a long time.

He was a little fortunate that the world in the book he traveled to was the God Sculpture, and the background of the Sculpture Sculpture was the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he still had a way to improve the production. If he traveled to "Book and Sword Enmity Record", then he would really have no choice.

After all, the manufacture of large ships requires a special kind of wood, that is Chinese fir, and this kind of Chinese fir, which can be used to manufacture large ships, grew widely in the south of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the heavy construction work of Shiquan Laogou, almost all the available wood was cut down, and even the Ming Tomb was demolished. If he was asked to build these boats in that era, he would have nowhere to go. "Iron Armored Battleship" can be built.

With Zhao Ke's help, Li Qingwei easily drew a sketch of the new ship, and clearly marked the position of the artillery.

This is the benefit of having more interests and hobbies in college. Li Qingwei played with these ship models when he was in school, and they also specially studied what ships were like during Zheng He's voyages to the West.

And what Li Qingwei is designing now is the ship of Zheng He's period, which is more than a hundred years earlier than the current shipbuilding technology.

The difficulty of this kind of big ship is the design, not the manufacture.As long as you help them design it yourself, the rest of the manufacturing is not very difficult for the shipbuilding process of the Song Dynasty.After all, the Song Dynasty also sent a fleet to trade, after all, that's how the famous "Sea Alliance" came about.

Moreover, the artillery on the boat first appeared in China from the Poyang Lake water battle between Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

Chen Youliang's warship adopted this method.And when fighting the Mongols, Chen Youliang's warship also made the Mongols lose their temper.

It is enough for Li Qingwei to use the warships and tactics of the next 100 years to deal with the current Mongol Tartars.

Li Qingwei and Zhao Ke drew up the sketch overnight and handed it over to King Rong, who asked the king to send craftsmen to build one for a try day and night.Then let the navy drive to the Huaihe River to test its power.

About fourteen days later, King Rong invited Li Qingwei to Qiantang Port to watch the ceremony.

Naturally, it was the inauguration ceremony of the warship built by the new supervisor. Li Qingwei and King Rong sat in the port teahouse, looking at the warship parked in Qiantang Port.

According to Li Qingwei's instructions, the craftsmen worked non-stop and worked overtime day and night to complete the big boat.

In order to complete the ship in the fastest time, King Rong touched more than 6000 craftsmen.Every 2000 people work on a shift, and there are no rest shifts. He personally supervised at the dock, and finally completed the big ship within [-] days.

This new type of warship designed by Li Qingwei is more than twice the size of ordinary warships, and it is completely made one-to-one according to the warships of Zheng He Yuanhang in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

This ship is not to mention fighting against the Mongolian Tartars. If a large-scale fleet is organized, the Southern Song Dynasty can even attack Tanggu from the waterway, conduct an amphibious landing from Tanggu, and then attack Yanjing, or land from the Liaodong Peninsula and sneak attack on Mongolia. All Kaiping.

Moreover, the ship designed by Li Qingwei can carry [-] cannons, and the firepower is very fierce.And Li Qingwei not only improved the warships of the Song Army, but also changed the artillery by the way, changing their gunpowder ratio, which increased the range of the Song Army artillery.

However, compared with the gunpowder developed by Tang Lan, its power is much worse.But there is no need to make Song Jun too strong, just enough.

After all, for such a big guy, if the range of the artillery is not enough, it will be a living target for the Mongolian army.

Now with Li Qingwei's design, the warship of the Song Army can completely fire at targets on the shore beyond the range of the Mongolian Army.

After watching the ceremony, Li Qingwei said, "'Old Uncle', do you dare to come with me to test the power of this new warship?"

King Rong said: "This is too risky. I am not afraid of the old man being spoiled by this king. If something happens and you are implicated, A Ke will be sad."

Li Qing smiled lightly and said: "It's okay, I know it in my heart, 'Old Uncle' has known me for so long, have I ever done something that I'm not sure about?"

King Rong thought for a while and said, "That's not true. Well, the old man will accompany you for a while."

After finishing speaking, the two boarded the newly built warship, and King Rong ordered Captain Fen Shui, who was in charge of the warship, to sail to the place where the Jianghuai armies faced each other.

However, the trip this time was a bit long. Firstly, it was because the ship had just been launched, and the officers and soldiers of the Song Army were not yet proficient in operating it.

The second reason is the wind direction at sea. This kind of ship is too big, except for lowering, raising and turning the sails, there is no other extra power.Therefore, it took some time to drive to the Huaihe River.

Li Qingwei was a little worried at first that such a big boat might run aground due to the depth of the Huaihe River, but after arriving, he found that his worries were unnecessary.

Because the Huaihe River in this era is different from his era. There is not so much silt on the bottom of the Huaihe River in this era, and the river bed is not so high.

It can completely sail for such a large warship.

When the warship arrived, the two armies of Song and Mongolia who were facing each other along the Huaihe River were dumbfounded, because they had never seen such a large ship.

(End of this chapter)