A month later... The morning sun shone on the Port of Lushun, and the water surface reflected the towering green mountains. Thousands of shipyard workers gathered at the shipyard to watch the launch ceremony of the warships. On the largest 20,000-ton ship platform in Western Australia, a slightly short warship was quietly parked on it, the hull was decorated with flowers, and a yellow-bottomed golden dragon flag was flying on the bow flagpole.

The hull is painted silver white, and the bow is covered with huge red cloth. The entire hull is beautiful and streamlined, looking full of artistic sense.

The rostrum on the left side of the boat platform was also decorated very beautifully, with tender green birch leaves and red wild flowers, which brought the chairman into a grand and gorgeous decoration.

A plaque hung on the rostrum, which read: "China's first armored ship enters the water" and on one side of the rostrum, a very young soldier in the front was yelling at the crowd below...

"... Not to mention the distance, just talk about the Battle of Mawei ten years ago. The French army relied on a 4,000-ton armored giant ship to destroy the Nanyang Fleet. We suffered all the hardships of having no defense in the sea. We did not have a decent navy. In the past ten years, we established the Beiyang Navy, and the great power stood up again.

However, these giant ships and cannons were sold to us by foreigners, and they were bought with white silver. Dingyuan spent more than 7 million taels of silver, which was exchanged for one kilogram of silver, and even if you have money, you can't spend it like this.

Today, relying on the efforts of the vast number of shipyard personnel and the support of everyone, we have created advanced ironclad ships! Although they were modified by us, there are still several warships designed by us that are being produced one after another. After these ships are launched, those robbers will no longer dare to do whatever they want in our seas and do whatever they want!

After saying that, the young man reached out and pulled a cable. The warship anchored on the huge ship platform trembled. The red cloth on the bow fell, and the white ship with the words "Shooting far away" was written on it, "Shooting far away". The entire shipyard burst into thunderous applause.

The Killing Ship slowly entered the water along the rails. The huge bow stirred up waves several meters high when entering the water, and formed a beautiful pattern under the sunlight. Zhao Gang's eyes were wet...

As the sun sets, the sky is reflected in the clouds, and the afterglow of the sunset dyes Lushun a layer of bright yellow clothes. It seems that he is too tired during the day, and Lushun is now like a sleeping doll.

Suddenly, the sound of a steam engine came from the water surface, and a black smoke on the water covered half of the port. Amid the huge roar, a black ship shadow appeared in the smoke. Compared with the morning's strike distance, the ship was much smaller, and the size of the two thousand tons of Zhiyuan ship.

However, this ship is different from any other ship. It has no collision angles and no secondary guns lined up on the side. Only five double-mounted 127mm rapid-fire guns (6 rounds per minute) are placed in the middle line of the hull, arranged in front, two, and three behind. The fat and thick figure makes the ship look a bit ridiculous.

With the rumbling of cannons on the warship, in five minutes, the ship fired 16 volleys of targets distributed on the surrounding sea surface. The wooden water artillery turned into ruins in the flames, and the moving ships were interrupted in the waist. After a round of artillery fire, the wreckage of ships was everywhere on the water surface, and blue smoke rose.

The warship, which had ended the bombardment, adjusted its direction and seemed to continue testing, but there was an inconsistent sound from the hull. After a whine, the steel plate opened a big crack and the sea water rushed into the ship frantically.

The soldier in a navy uniform stood steadily on the bridge, and the first mate on the side reported to him nervously: "Captain Wen, after checking that there was a crack on the right side of the ship, two meters long and 11 cm wide, and now he has controlled the water inlet. It is preliminary judgment that the first artillery here is only two meters away, causing the steel plate to break in the volley?"

"Brother Wen, this is really a good warship. If the problem of main gun shooting is solved, I think its power is not inferior to that of Zhiyuan."

"Brother Fenglin, see what you said, it's really that good. I'll exchange it with you. You'll be the captain of the dreadnought and I'll be the captain of the Fighting Ship."

Captain Wen looked back at the captain of the Kyuyuan Ship. The young man named Tan Fenglin, who has enviable talent. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, USA, a school with many famous generals. On the eve of graduation, the US Congress passed a bill that had a great impact on his future.

This is a very unfair bill for Tan Fenglin, which stipulates that students will be replaced only when there are shortages of personnel on the warship. In 1894, the size of the US Navy was not large. A large warship could almost install all the officers at that time. This was very unfair to the reserve of talents. For many students, the bill was unfair to them, because they had promised to become naval officers, trained in the academy for four years, and then served at sea for two years. As a result, only the first 12 of the graduates of that year had the opportunity to enter the navy, and the remaining 90 had to go home to be ordinary people. As compensation, each person was given a resettlement fee of 1,000 US dollars.

Tan Fenglin ranked second in the grade, but the US Navy still rejected him. A banana man could not get his dignity. In six years, Tan Fenglin only got a thousand dollars, but he had studied in the best naval academy after all. This was his only capital. He could not put his knowledge into practice in the United States, so he had to look for opportunities abroad.

After Zhao Gang bought the Olympia, he recruited naval personnel in the exam. The test questions involved ship driving, gun use, navigation, navigation, navigation astronomy, algebra, geometry, spherical trigonometry, quadratic curves, other different curves and integral operations.

Tan Fenglin answered all five questions in the first group correctly. Tan Fenglin answered three questions in the second group, and they were all correct. Finally, an examiner said that he didn't need to finish the questions and would report the situation to the general manager tomorrow. In the test the next day, Tan Fenglin defeated all opponents in a simulated naval battle effortlessly and became the first captain of the ship.

After a while of busyness, the Dreadnought regained its power and began to turn around.

Behind Captain Wen, the sailors on the deck of the warship were busy wiping weapons, and the huge 127mm cannon was projected on the river.

The dreadnought is the product of Zhao Gang's strange thoughts. If there are still people who agree with the transformation of the dreadnought, then everyone will reserve their own opinions on the transformation of the dreadnought, except Zhao Gang himself.

However, under Zhao Gang's tough order, the manufacturing of the dreadnought was raised to the highest level. After a while, the Zheng He ushered in the first live-fire shooting.

The host on the Dreadnought has a power of 4,000 horsepower and a speed of 19.5 knots, which is specially optimized for the joint fleet.

Five double-mounted 127mm rapid-fire cannons. In actual combat, this fast cannon can vomit six shells per minute. Anyone in the Japanese joint fleet that runs faster than him cannot withstand the bombardment of 127mm shells. The speed of the three "Three Scenery Ships" cannot keep up with the dreadnoughts, and it happens to divide the Japanese fleet into two halves and divide and treat them.

Captain Wen did not understand Zhao Gang's painstaking efforts, but after several trial voyages, Captain Wen still fell in love with the Dreadnought.

The construction idea of ​​"Dreadnought" is easy to master, but it has revolutionary significance. A single 10 127mm caliber cannon abandoned the previous method of mixing large and small caliber cannons. The problem with the previous installation was that large caliber can be fired before the small caliber cannons reached the range, and small caliber cannons occupy the space that could have been given large caliber cannons.

The "Default" warship is wider, faster than any warship with the same tonnage in the past, and has a higher freeboard. Due to the cancellation of the collision angle, the speed still reaches 19.5 knots at 4,000 horsepower, and it can last for 5 hours. Captain Wen believes that this is really a dreadnought, with more than twice the strength of the appearance allowing him to challenge a giant ship with the same performance.
Chapter completed!