Datang first village

living hope!

The birth of a child represents a new beginning, which is a very auspicious omen. .A few big men couldn't help but wiped their eyes a few times, and cursed: Damn it, it's so windy!

How big is a five-hundred-ton ship? It is seventeen feet long, four feet three wide, and thirty-seven high.

At the bottom of the boat, there is the protruding keel. This part of the boat is two feet in the front of the boat, and it is about five feet thick at the stern.Sea boats are naturally designed to resist wind and waves, and the extended keel is to maintain balance.

Because the ships of the Tang Dynasty had no sails, this alone made the center of gravity of the Spanish galleons of later generations lower by more than a foot, so there were far fewer counterweight stones in the bottom cabin.

The second-generation design of Tempest's five-hundred-ton seagoing ship.

The rear bridge on the deck adopts a small two-and-a-half-story design.The one level with the deck is only seven and a half feet high, equivalent to two meters.Here is the main activity room of the boatman, as well as a small weapon storage, and a tail gun.The second room is also equivalent to two meters high and is the captain's cabin.

Then the top half floor is the wheelhouse of the ship, or the control room.

Below deck is also a three and a half storey design.The negative floor is full of small rooms, which is the living quarters of the boatmen.Each room can accommodate eight people on bunk beds.There was only three feet of space between the beds on either side, and there were four beds on each side.All fixed to the wall.

The full crew of the Tempest is 120 and eight people.

(Spanish galleons, with the same tonnage, have 300 people. Of course, Spanish galleons need sails)

The entire length of the first floor is more than 50 meters according to modern calculations, and the actual width of each room is only about [-] to [-] meters.There are a total of forty rooms on the first floor, only twenty are equipped with beds, there are ten beds that can be folded, and eight purely empty rooms, and two are personal storage rooms belonging to the boatman , There are small cabinets designed one by one.

In addition to these, there is also a large bay that is completely empty in the direction of the bow, which is equivalent to the size of four rooms. According to the calculation method of later generations, it is [-] square meters.You can drink, eat, and even play mahjong.

The second floor of the deck is still above the waterline.There is a large warehouse door at the stern of the ship, which is the cargo warehouse.Each warehouse door can be closed very tightly, and can also be stuck outside the door with wooden strips.Even if there is wind and waves, it will not affect the attitude of the hull due to the cargo slipping.

The deck is negative three floors, and half of it is already below the waterline when the warehouse is full.

Here the stern is not allowed to approach casually, there are steam engines and huge water tanks.There is also a warehouse specially used for coal storage.The rest is still a warehouse, but there is a warehouse for gunpowder, shells, and weapons at the bow of the ship.And, the food and water needed by the boatmen.

The bottom half layer is for heavy things.

Canned food, food, water.There are also ballast stones. Especially when the ship is empty, some stones must be brought in. The Storm is almost never empty, so apart from the original standard long stones on the ship, the bottom is less than one meter high. In the half layer, the tin cans become ballast stones.

The three captains are all sitting in the captain's room, no one is allowed to enter here, there are too many confidential information here.

"There are almost 400 people. This is already the limit of our ship. Those warehouses in A and II are full of people. If this continues, even those who are fine will get sick. We need to call at the port." The second officer Open your mouth and say.

Originally, I should go to rest, but this time I dare not leave.

"Down to Hong Kong? Go there!" the first officer said helplessly, and handed over a dozen telegrams to the second officer.

Those telegrams are the contact telegrams with some state cities. There are no ports available in them. Because of the flood, the largest ports have been closed.Even if the ports in the surrounding small rivers were not flooded, such a [-]-ton ship would not be able to stop.

"Right now, there are two ways, one is to turn around and go back to Huating, and the other is to go forward to Jingzhou!" Su Shanhu kept looking down at the map, and the two ways she said were also the two most suitable ways.

The first officer said: "No, it's still raining, what if Jingzhou floods again?"

"Go and rest, let's turn around and go back to Huating." The captain made up his mind.

"Report, I saw another person trapped on the mound." The guard at the gate sent back the information from the observation tower.

Su Shanhuo said seriously to the first officer: "Go to sleep immediately, order the ship to start changing shifts one by one, and order the patrolling personnel to protect the tranquility and safety of the lounge."

There is still a lot of work to do, and the first officer enters the back room of the captain's cabin, where there are only two beds.They are all four-foot wide beds, but there are two floors above and below. If you can save space on the boat, you will definitely save space.

For the three captains, this is already the tightest arrangement in the regulations.Everyone sleeps for four hours and works hard for eight hours. For them, they dare not relax at all. They must know that the captain's carelessness may cause the ship to be destroyed, and the regulations must be followed.

Four hours is more unbearable for those waiting for rescue than four days.

But for people who are already very tired physically and mentally, it will pass in the blink of an eye.When Yiyi woke up, it was already afternoon.Before Su Shanhu went to bed, she didn't say a word, she just fell asleep on the bed.

The boat seemed to be standing still, and she wanted to ask something, but Su Shanhu had already fallen asleep, she didn't even take off her shoes, and she didn't have the strength to climb to the bed on the upper floor, which made a pair of clothes come out without even her own clothes. And get off the bed.

Helped take off the shoes, turned over, and then took away the military uniform that was pressed by Su Shanshan.Dressing neatly is the rule of the army of the Tang Dynasty. No matter what the time is, the military uniform must not be messed up.

On the deck, looking at the scene in front of him, he was really shocked.

Thick hemp rope was attached to the stakes for mooring cables, the winches for anchors, and flagpoles.There are already dozens of wooden rafts and bamboo rafts on both sides of the boat and behind it.The old and infirm people were changed to the boats, and the people on these rafts or bamboo rafts were all young people.

Many more were tying new rafts.

"The water is still rising, and the mound about three miles away from here will definitely be submerged in an hour at most. So we have to go there." The second officer stood beside the first officer and said in a low voice.

One pair didn't answer immediately, but just climbed to the side and glanced at the water level.

"It's still seven inches from the highest waterline!" Apparently the second officer was also very concerned about this issue. There is no way to count how many people are on board now. In this rescue, besides food, water, and medicines on board.It is impossible to throw away anything. Coal and clean water for steam engines are not on the list of items that can be thrown away.

The two vice-captains looked at each other almost at the same time, with a determination in their eyes.

The first sentence of the Datang Military Regulations is: no complaints, no expectations, no despair.

Especially the navy, on the boundless sea, when a single ship is operating alone, without strong spiritual strength, it is impossible to face the stormy sea.

"Order, check the cable again, thirty starboard."

At this time, Huating Harbor.

The wind and rain still surrounded the entire port. Just after completing the shipment of a batch of relief supplies, the person in charge of the port returned to his office, picked up a large bucket of herbal tea on the table, and poured it into his mouth.

A messenger rushed in as if flying.

"Sea, His Royal Highness's military emblem!"

"Sea?" The official from the fifth rank almost threw the small wooden barrel in his hand. You must know how strong the wind, waves and rain are at this time. Did His Royal Highness King Qin come from the sea?

Picking up the binoculars and looking out of the window, there is only a [-]-ton ship on the sea.

This boat was going to Nanyang to load rice, so it must not be this one. Looking around, there was nothing.

The messenger's words cannot be false, and there is a large ultra-long-distance telescope on the observation tower, and it is impossible to make a mistake.The person in charge of the port quickly took his raincoat and ran towards the observation tower.

There is a silver boat on the surface of the sea, only about three feet long, one foot wide, and no more than one foot high.

Huge waves hit one after another, and the boat broke through the waves and rushed towards Huating.

"It's so fast!" The person in charge of the port said with emotion.

"Visual estimation is at least five times faster than the big ship." The sentinel in charge of observation also replied.

In a blink of an eye, the ship was already approaching Huating, and the person in charge of the port shouted: "Quickly inform the wolf general! His Royal Highness King Qin is here."

But when the ship was not about to enter the port at all, it entered the river mouth without slowing down from the front of the port.It was only at a distance of less than five miles that the boat could be seen more clearly.

It is completely different from any kind of ship in Datang.

Datang's sea-going ships are all larger and heavier in the rear part, which slightly presses the bow.

This boat has a big bow, and the stern is almost empty. .

There is no flag on board, as long as there is the badge of the guards of Prince Qin's Mansion on board, at the highest point of the ship, King Qin Li Yuanxing, wearing big goggles, tied himself to an iron pillar, holding a disc tightly with both hands.From the binoculars, it can be clearly seen that Qin Wang Li Yuanxing has been clenching his teeth, and the veins on his hands are bulging.

The speed is so fast, at least two hundred miles per hour.

In the blink of an eye, the boat disappeared from sight and went upstream along the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River in the wind and rain is turbulent.In less than half an hour, Li Yuanxing caught up with the fleet sailing upstream from Huating.Li Yuanxing didn't slow down, his goal was Suzhou City.

Pei Xi walked to the deck with difficulty, first tied himself to the post with a rope, and then took out two flags and waved them with difficulty.

[-] tons, Datang's real ocean-going battleship, someone has discovered this ship long ago.

The soldier in charge of the semaphore read the semaphore three times before he could see the content of the semaphore clearly, and shouted at the iron pipe of the intercom: "The small boat is His Royal Highness Qin Wang, and the semaphore is the army semaphore. It means that the big ship goes ahead, be careful of the current The huge damage in it is called floating objects."

"Respond..." Before the captain finished speaking, the second officer next to him said, "Your Highness is already three miles ahead of our lead ship."

The captain put down the binoculars: "That should be the rumored speedboat, with a pure steel hull! I heard that General Wang Ba might get the first one." (To be continued.)