Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 317 Warship Modification
When Gao Jingzong said that Huan Wen was cheap, Ji Kan subconsciously thought about the most critical question: "If we want to help Huan Wen conquer Guanzhong, we will at least dispatch at least one division of troops to assist the Xifu Army in attacking Guanzhong. What will Chen Liu and Dingtao do to resist the counterattack of the Xianbei people?"

Gao Jingzong looked at the dark night sky: "This question, the governor can't answer, but I believe we can see the result in half a month. We only need to do one thing now!"

"What's the matter?" Feng Lei asked nervously.

"Trust me!" Gao Jingzong said: "This governor has never lost."

The night is dark, and the shadows of candles are flickering.Gao Jingzong didn't feel sleepy at all, he still had a lot of things to do right now, Gao Jingzong's thoughts were very active, he thought carefully about the inspiring war declaration of later generations, and slowly Gao Jingzong picked up the pen and wrote on the paper The first line of the next line: "Our Chinese nation is the most peace-loving nation in the world..."

Xi Chao, who had long been unconscious, opened his eyes when Xia Jun's attendants lifted him out of the bath bucket, put on light clothes and slowly put them on the bed. His eyes were so clear that he couldn't see at all. To a trace of drunkenness.

Xi Chao's envoy to Xia Guo this time is carrying Huan Wen's important mission.In fact, Huan Wen hasn't made up his mind yet, whether to form an alliance with Gao Jingzong, or take advantage of Gao Jingzong's advantage to earn some benefits for himself.

Xi Chao believed his own eyes, ever since he entered the Xia State base camp in Sui County, he had carefully observed every move of Xia State, every plant and tree.Although Sui County, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, had entered the highest combat readiness at this time, there were soldiers of the Xia Army on duty everywhere.Although the armor of some Xia Jun soldiers is not considered sophisticated, what makes Xi Chao puzzled is that there is no trace of possible fear in the eyes of Xia Jun soldiers.

This made Xi Chao very puzzled. It is said that Yan Guoxia is weak, this is a problem that anyone with a discerning eye can see. Could it be that Xia Jun has no brains, and they are all stupid and bold, and they don't know how to be afraid? ...

If it is said that some people are ignorant and fearless, it is fine, and newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but from top to bottom in Xia Kingdom, there is no tension before the war, but peace and tranquility.

Regarding this strange situation, Xi Chao has been thinking about it, what method did Gao Jingzong use to make millions of soldiers and civilians across the country fight him to the death without hesitation?

Gao Jingzong is a mystery, Xi Chao can see through countless people, but he is the only one who can't see through him.

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Qingzhou Jiaodong Guobuqi City (now Qingdao), originally only a seaport for sea-going ships, has now become a huge construction site.One by one sea ships slowly entered the port, and as soon as these sea ships came to a stop, civilians as dense as ants swarmed up.Quickly unload the grain, cloth, armor, weapons and other materials from the sea ship and pile them in the warehouse on the port.

As soon as a ship is unloaded, it will be towed by the tracker to the dock for emergency refitting.In fact, the merchant ships in the age of sails were not significantly different from warships.The design of the bow and stern of the warship is relatively narrow, and it is equipped with a ram that looks like a beast. Relatively speaking, in order to pursue speed, the warship will make the ship shape narrower and longer, while the merchant ship will deliberately expand it in order to pursue the carrying capacity. Ship cabin and hull.

Gao Jingzong did not have enough time to build a brand new warship. Instead, he used the racket rod invented in the Sui Dynasty as a self-defense weapon for warships. In addition to the angle of the tiger's collision, there are also twelve racket sticks, two at the front and back, and four at the left and right wings. The shape of these is like an enlarged version of the "weighing" pole with a stone bullet weighing a thousand catties hanging from the tail. Just move the racket, move the hanging stone bomb directly above the enemy ship, and then operate the soldiers to suddenly lower the rope on the stone bomb. The stone bomb weighing a thousand catties is accelerated by its own gravity and potential energy, and can instantly penetrate the enemy ship. on the upper deck or injure personnel on the enemy ship.

Since the merchant ships of the Jiangnan Gentlemen Group and the Xin'an Merchant League were of different sizes, Wang Jia also had different sizes when modifying the rackets.Among them, the styles are mainly "eight slot ships", "bird ships" and "sand ships". The so-called eight slot ships are the crystallization of the hard work and wisdom of the people of Jin Dynasty. They took the lead in adopting the design of "dense water warehouse". It has four floors and is about forty feet long.Even in later generations, this kind of eight-slot boat is also a large ship, because this kind of boat is six feet and eight feet wide, which is about 94 meters in later generations, and forty feet long, which is 58 meters.The load capacity of such a large ship is also quite amazing (the prototype ship restored by Wuhan University of Technology, it is speculated that this type can carry about [-] tons.)
In fact, there were not many Bacao ships given to Gao Jingzong by the Jiangnan Gentlemen Group and the Xin'an Business League, only 43 ships.When Gao Jingzong saw this kind of eight-cavity ship, his eyes seemed to see a top-quality beauty, and his mouth couldn't help but drool.This is simply the battleship of the age of sails, but it is a pity that in this era Gao Jingzong has no way to manufacture the artillery of later generations, even if it belongs to the original artillery of the level of the Franc machine sub-mother cannon, with these 43 sail battleships, it can sweep all the water in the world battleship on board.

Although Gao Jingzong had no way to manufacture artillery, he moved the counterweight heavy trebuchet and Wanjun crossbow to this eight-slot ship to increase the long-range strike capability of the eight-slot ship.

When Wang Jia refitted this eight-slot boat, he increased the weight of the racket to three thousand catties, and used the movable pulley block mechanism plagiarized by Gao Jingzong, a butterfly from another world, to operate it.Of course, except for this eight-slot boat, it belongs to the bird boat.The so-called bird boats are basically warships, with both ends upturned and the bow like a bird's beak, hence the name bird boats.This kind of boat is flat and wide in the middle, rushing and sending waves, and it is always unfavorable.

The Xin'an Business Alliance built this kind of bird ship mainly for the pursuit of speed. In areas where pirate activities in the South China Sea are rampant, this high-speed bird ship can be used to throw off the pursuit of pirate ships.However, the bird boat is not suitable as a warship for sea battles, it is only suitable for use as an assault boat for rapid interspersed assaults.There are a total of 56 bird ships of this kind. Wang Jia hardly modified the bird ships. The only rectification was to uniformly paint them in the black of Xia Jun's standard.

As for the sand ship, it is the most numerous type of ship in the entire fleet, and it can also be called a square boat.According to the size, the square boats are equipped with rackets ranging from [-] to [-] kilograms.In order to pursue attack power, and Gao Jingzong also pursued asymmetric strikes more, so any ship was equipped with trebuchets and bed crossbows.Each bird ship is equipped with two Wanjun crossbows at the bow position, and two counterweight trebuchets that can shoot [-]-jin heavy stone bullets at the hull position.Even though this kind of bird ship is a little smaller than the building ship, once it really faces the Jin army-style building warship, the bird ship can use a stone bomb to hit the building ship from the upper deck to the bottom cabin from [-] steps away. A complete heartbreak.

The first batch of refitted 56 bird boats were all painted black above the waterline, hung the Xiajun Festival flag, and began to carry out armed patrols along the Jishui River and the Yellow River.

(End of this chapter)