It’s a waterway, but it’s still more convenient and easier than the land route.”

"Then why not just locate the shipyard in Changchun?"

"Because the old shipyard is located in Jilin, it is on the bank of the west-flowing Songhua River. It is the center of Haixi and has sufficient water in the river, which is convenient for large ships to sail and cruise the Songhua River and Heilongjiang."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The city was built next to a large river. This was naturally due to many reasons. First, it was convenient for transportation. Second, of course, it was also easy to contact other tributaries inland.

Only by occupying the center of the region can we better control the Haixi region.

Set sail again, this time going down the river. The water surface gets wider as you go down. After entering the main stream of Songhua River, the river becomes even wider. When you turn into the second Songhua River, the river surface is also wide and the water waves are flat.

It took only five days to reach the eight hundred miles.

When we finally arrived at the Jilin Shipyard, Lu Yiming, who arrived first, came to greet us.

The garrison that came earlier has built a bastion here. Next to the bastion is a town, and on the other side is a new shipyard camp.

"It took me a full month to get here from Qingdao, but I'm finally here. Let's unload the goods quickly."

Lu Yicheng brought people to help unload the cargo, and boxes and boxes of materials were unloaded. Yan Shuxun couldn't wait to instruct the craftsmen in the shipyard to start unpacking and assembling.

More than ten days later, in the dock of Jilin Shipyard on the banks of the Songhua River, the Qingdao Crab Boat built by Qingdao Shipyard was finally fully displayed.

The old craftsman looked at the ship and proudly said to Yan Shuming, Lu Yicheng and other officers and generals, "The sail paddle boat produced by our Qingdao No. 1 Shipyard is called Kuai Crab. It is a river warship specially built for the Northeast Army. It is light and fast.

, light and sensitive.

The length is six feet and the width is one foot. It is larger than our traditional sailboats and uses a pointed bow, so it is very fast. Compared with the previous Centipede sail paddle boat, it is more advanced than the previous centipede sail paddle boat. This boat has attracted some of the Western sail paddle boats.

The advantages are combined with the characteristics and advantages of our traditional Chinese sailing paddle boats.

The old craftsman looked proud. Once assembled, the boat looked like a work of art.

The ship is divided into two layers, with ballast stones on the bottom layer, accommodation and cargo holds on the upper layer, and a watertight tank structure on the hull.

There is a war shed and an artillery platform on the bow of the ship, which can be equipped with two artillery pieces. The warship's long gun used is the Zhoushan Cannon Foundry. It is an iron-cast three-pound cannon, which can shoot three-pound shells, but weighs only eight hundred pounds.

The hull is covered with oars, with a total of fifty oars, which can be operated by a hundred people. It has two sails and can fly at high speeds.

It can also be equipped with a Fran rapid-fire cannon, coupled with the soldiers' fire blunderbuss and the big nine-headed bird blunderbuss. This ship can fly in the Northeast's Songhua River, Nen River, Heilongjiang, Jingqili River, and Wusuli River.

Invincible.

"Although this ship is not as good as a clipper ship that travels on the sea, it is very suitable for inland rivers, especially in the Northeast to recruit Jurchen tribes and pursue and suppress Tsarist Russian bandits."

"This time there are a total of thirty crabs. The first batch of seven has been assembled. The second batch has just been delivered and will take about ten days to assemble."

Both Yan Shuxun and Lu Yicheng had seen such ships at the Qingdao Shipyard, but now they saw that the scattered parts they had worked so hard to transport had finally turned into seven ships and launched into the water.

The red-black painted hull and the red sun and moon flag on the white sail made them feel extremely excited, and they felt that no matter how hard they worked, it was worth it.

The sailors and crew members of the Blackwater Fleet were even more impatient to get on board and operate the ship.

"Fucking Tsarist Russian bandits, my crab boat is finally ready. Now let you try the power of our crab boat. Hahaha, Yanfutai, choose a day and set sail!" Lu Yicheng was already a little forced.
Chapter completed!