Chapter 1043: King's Ironclad

Yue Yun on the Ironclad Sovereign was observing the city of Relanzhe in front of him with a telescope.
The incident of Dutch soldiers attacking the local garrison is now circulated in newspapers in the country. It is against this background that he was ordered to attack all Dutch warships in the South Seas, and at the same time cooperate with the Southeastern Military Region to occupy Manila and Jagda belonging to the Netherlands. .
Liu Chen was also looking at the situation on the island. He put down the telescope and said, "Except for some buildings destroyed by shells and explosions, it seems that there is no difference on the island."
"Huh, the Dutch and the Japanese are unreliable. It's not bad to show the fox tail now. At least it can reduce the loss suffered by the empire. If the Dutch deceive more technology empires, it will suffer even more." Yue Yun said lightly. He has a deep guard against foreigners, after all, the empire has suffered too much humiliation over the years.
Liu Chen looked back at the twenty-three iron-clad ships braving black smoke behind him with a proud expression. The iron-clad ships performed well in the Battle of Dengzhou. At that time, they were almost carrying the artillery fire of the combined fleet in the navy, fighting the warships of the combined fleet. There is nothing to fight back.
Such excellent performance naturally allowed the shipyard to see the blueprint for the development of future warships. So in this year and a half, the empire’s shipyards were running at full capacity, and on the basis of the first ironclad ship, all shipyards in the United Nations built at the same time. Twenty-four ironclad ships of three tonnage classes.
For example, the armored ship they are currently riding on is the top battleship among the armored ships. The total armor weight is 1461 tons, the length of the armored fort is 45.5 meters, the armor thickness of the armored fort is 355 mm on the waterline, and the armor thickness is 304 mm under the waterline. The main gun is exposed to the turret. The armor thickness is 304mm, the gun cover is 15mm thick, the conning tower is 203mm thick, with a total length of 95 meters, a width of 19.4 meters, and a draft of 6.53 meters. It uses a horizontal three-expansion steam engine with a power of 6000 horsepower, a speed of 14.5 knots, and a load of 700 tons of coal at a time. , It can endure 3,500 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots, has 8 boilers, has a displacement of 7411 tons, and a full load displacement of 7,935 tons.
In addition, they felt fortunate that the Empire’s electricity during the ironclad construction period also had considerable development, so this technology was also applied to the ironclad ships.
Because of the electricity, the King's armored ship installed searchlights produced by the Imperial Lighting Factory. The brightness of these searchlights is comparable to the light of 8,000 candles.
In terms of weapons, the King also adopted the most advanced breech artillery technology. It has 4 guards 305mm breech guns as the main gun. These 4 artillery guns are installed on the open-air turret in two pairs, each with a 150mm breech. There are 8 secondary guns, which are also exposed guns, with four front and rear guns, and 16 75mm sampan guns, which can be described as sufficient firepower.
The most important thing is that the design of the ironclad turret completely overturned the previous sailing warships. This open-air turret has a rotatable turret base and can shoot without dead ends when sailing.
Thinking of the data of the King's armored ship, Liu Chen's face flushed with excitement, but the King's face is a giant among the armored ships after all.
At present, the Imperial Navy is mainly composed of iron-clad cruisers with a displacement of about 3,000 tons and about 1,500 tons. Although these warships cannot be compared with the King in terms of firepower, they are enough to hit European sailing warships.
However, these warships are both mighty and expensive. It is said that the construction of the King's armored ship cost two million golden dragons. These warships totaled more than 30 million golden dragons, which was huge.
Liu Xinhong and Fang Hongming looked at the battleship group slowly entering the harbor with a dull look at the pier of Relanzhe City.
Although the name of the iron-clad ships has spread to every corner of the empire, seeing such a huge iron-clad fleet in person still makes them feel unprecedentedly shocked.
Especially the iron armored ship with the word KING on the leading hull, just one glance at this steel monster can imagine how powerful it is.
"Lao Fang, these iron-clad ships are too good, I want to be a navy." Liu Xinhong's saliva was all flowing down.
Fang Hongming nodded stubbornly. The appearance of the long flat machine gun made him feel that there is no more powerful weapon in the world, and now he has seen a miracle again.
The two waited at the pier for a while. After the battleship was docked securely, the admirals such as Yue Yun and Liu Chen walked down from the battleship.
"General Yue Yun." Liu Xinhong and Fang Hongming gave a military salute at the same time, and they received the fleet's sailing plan before the warship arrived.
As before, as an important supply station on the road to the south, Jeranja City is almost the place where warships must stop.
After giving a military salute, Yue Yun said; "It's going to be a lot of hard work again. This time coal is no longer needed. Fresh water, vegetables, and fruits are the same as before."
"No problem, General." Liu Xinhong said, and he immediately called the soldiers to the warehouse to carry the supplies.
Yue Yun nodded in satisfaction, and then he looked at the scarred battlefield with amusement and said: "It seems that the battle that day was not easy."
Fang Hongming said: "Indeed, the Dutch had planned for a long time, and although their captive rifles were not as easy to load as the Han-style rifles, they did not differ greatly in power, and the threat to the soldiers was still great."
"Indeed, the air-tightness of the musket still has an advantage. Liu Chen, this attack on Manila and Jagheda cannot be taken lightly." Yue Yun reminded.
Fang Hongming was deeply moved. He said: "The soldiers used to fight against the barbarians, merchant councils, and Japanese countries. They didn't think about the threats they faced when they were fighting, so the casualties were not small at the beginning, and they got used to it later. Don't dare to charge recklessly."
Liu Chen looked serious~EbookFREE.me~ In recent years, while the empire is developing, the European countries have not been idle, and unlike the barbarians, these Western countries pay more attention to science than the empire, and accept new things. quickly.
According to the information they received from the Prussians, after Europe has mastered the secret of cone-shaped bullets, the old lead bullets are being eliminated in large numbers and new bullets are gradually used.
"Don't worry, when I was in Singapore, I learned about the standards of the British. They are indeed not at the same level as the soldiers of the Japanese and Korean soldiers. I will be cautious."
Yue Yun showed a satisfied look, he said; "That's good, when this Nanyang incident is over, we will go to clean up the Japanese kingdom."
"Pack up the Japanese country?" Liu Xinhong asked strangely, "hasn't the Japanese country signed the surrender letter?"
"As the emperor said, the surrender book is just a piece of paper. The most important thing is the degree of execution. The current chaos in the country makes the emperor very unhappy. During this period of time, he has been trying to get rid of it to see what they can make. "
Speaking of this, Yue Yun stopped the topic suddenly, and he said; "Don't mention this, I will rest here tonight and sail tomorrow."