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Chapter 304 Submarines, Assassins at Sea ([-]rd update, please subscribe)
After the meal, Ma Guorong deliberately took Liu Tiannian to the pier.

The small boats moored in the bay are next to each other.

"Is this the torpedo boat?"

"That's right!"

Ma Guorong pointed to the twelve torpedo boats and said.

"Jingke-type torpedo boat is the first torpedo boat manufactured by the Navy. It has a displacement of 90 tons, a length of 39.01 meters, a width of 3.81 meters, and a draft of 1.91 meters. The power system uses a three-expansion steam turbine and a boiler. 1 horsepower, speed 1000 knots, coal bunker standard coal load 23.8 tons, maximum coal load 12 tons. The torpedo boat is equipped with 20 torpedo tubes. Among them, the front two are installed at a water entry angle of 3 degrees, and the rear one can be installed at 2 degrees. Rotating launch. In addition, it is equipped with four 7mm six-barreled rapid-fire guns, and the crew of the whole boat is 1 people..."

On the surface, these small boats are really nothing worth seeing, and they are not even interesting, they are just a few small boats, but Liu Tiannian, who is an instructor at the Naval Academy, knows very well that the boats carried by these small boats How deadly torpedoes are to warships!

"In naval tactics, in the right weather, such as gloomy weather, it may be night, the torpedo boat brigade can implement "wolf pack tactics" against the British fleet under the cover of twilight, that is, besiege it like a pack of wolves , torpedoes are their human spikes, once a warship in the British fleet is hit, it will definitely die, which is why it is called "Jingke"."

"Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin!"

Any Chinese who has read the book will know this allusion.Of course, I also know what the name "Jing Ke" represents?
It's a dead man!

The sea water beat against the cliff, looking at these small boats and the sailors who were still on duty, Liu Tiannian felt a little heavy.

Lightning strike!
It is to launch an attack with the belief that you must die. Using such a small boat to attack the large fleet will never return!
"Sailors, they're pretty much the same!"

Pursing his lips, Ma Guorong smiled.

"There are no flowers on the graves of sailors, and it is God's blessing to have warships as graves!"

"Yes! A sailor's grave has no flowers..."

Nodding slightly, Liu Tiannian's heart was touched a little. In the end, he just took a hard look at these small torpedo boats. They are Nanhua's hope to defeat the British navy!

Afterwards, Ma Guorong took Liu Tiannian into the mysterious dock.The lights inside are bright, the lights on the roof are dazzling, and the sound of hammering and riveting is particularly harsh in the dock. Many technicians are working there nervously, and no one pays attention to the visitors.Ma Guorong and the others had to be careful to give way to others.

After entering the dock, Liu Tiannian immediately recognized the submarine lying in the dry dock that Ma Guorong had talked about for a long time.Its length is about thirty meters, it looks so small and delicate, it looks like a fish or a cigar.

"This is the submarine!"

Liu Tiannian couldn't help admiring.

"It doesn't look like much, but it's beautiful."

"That's right, that's it. In the future, you will form Nanhua's first submarine force."

"I?"

Liu Tiannian said in surprise.

"You haven't received the order yet, and the order will be issued soon, my captain."

Ma Guorong patted him on the shoulder.

"This submarine was designed by us. I happened to be studying in France after Simon Bourgeois built the "Divers" submarine in 1863. Since then, I have been eager to build Nanhua's own submarine. Major, go , let's keep going in and have a look. Based on your experience, pick out its faults..."

In fact, who is the real designer of this submarine?
It was Zhu Xianhai who drew the sketch of the submarine and carefully planned the structure of his cabin.

Although this submarine looks very primitive, its structure is actually very modern. After all, when designing this submarine and drawing sketches, he borrowed the structural principles of submarines from another world.It's just that he is simpler and more primitive.

"Let's go in and take a look!"

Can't wait to get into the cabin of this unfinished submarine, looking around, Liu Tiannian gestures and touches, sometimes he will walk through the narrow cabin, asking about these things while walking what is it.

What's the engine compartment, what's the battery compartment.Stayed for more than an hour.

When they got to the torpedo boat, Ma Guorong smiled and asked him:

"How is it? Dude."

"Simply perfect."

Liu Tiannian praised.

"This is the torpedo tube. The torpedo is launched from here!"

"Yes, that's right. This is the 550mm caliber torpedo tube. The torpedo is launched from here. Three long torpedoes or five short torpedoes can be installed in the boat,"

Ma Guorong began to introduce.

"Its water displacement is about 115 tons, and its underwater displacement is 124 tons. It has a total length of 19.5 meters and a width of 3.58 meters. It uses a 160-horsepower gasoline engine when sailing on the water surface, and a 75-horsepower electric motor when it is submerged. Its The speed is 7.5 knots on the water, 5 knots underwater, and the crew is 8 people..."

Submarines need to use electric motors for submersion. Although this is a bit new, Liu Tiannian has seen it before, because the first tram line in Nanhua was opened a month and a half ago, and the electric motors driven by electricity naturally attracted his attention. It's just that he didn't expect it to be applied to submarines so soon.

The use of electric motors in submarines is a matter of course, after all, only electric motors can run independently of air.

"Then how is the electricity supplied?"

"Battery! The battery pack is divided into two groups and installed in the submarine. It has a reduced bridge, which is where we came down just now. There is a tall periscope in the bridge, and this periscope is also specially made..."

Ma Guorong specifically explained:
"It is to use the periscope to search and find targets at sea."

"I've seen the ship just now, that is to say, will it attack from underwater in the future?"

"Yes, its tonnage is not large. It can only launch torpedoes, approach enemy warships from underwater, get as close as possible to them, and then use torpedoes to give them a fatal blow when they are close enough."

Ma Guorong explained.

"The charge of the 550mm torpedo exceeds 200 kilograms!"

"The charge exceeds 200 kilograms!"

Liu Tiannian said in surprise.

"So many!"

"A lot. A torpedo carries 200 kilograms of explosives, and they are all high explosives. As long as such a torpedo can explode near the waterline of a warship, no matter what, even a dead ship with tens of thousands of tons will not Shen also has to overhaul the first half of the year."

"I think the power of the 200kg torpedo warhead is extremely powerful. No ship can withstand such a blow. Even if they can withstand such a blow, they will only sink into the sea in the end. It is simply impossible to cross the ocean and return to the British mainland for repairs, and in South America, only our shipyard can repair such large warships, no matter what, as long as they damage their warships, it is basically a death sentence."

Liu Tiannian smiled, patted the torpedo tube hard and said.

"With it, we don't need to worry about the British Navy anymore!"

(End of this chapter)