Pike is lively and good at jumping. He often swims in groups against the current. He is a kind of lively and free fish.

The pike we are talking about is actually Chen Kui's war fleet - the second time I returned to the Ming Dynasty from Japan, I asked Chen Kui and Murong Qin to go to the West to buy it. In general, it was the type of ship I wanted, installed the cannons I wanted, and modified the ones I wanted, so they were the ships I wanted, the fleet I wanted!

When I saw them from afar on the coastline of the dead wooden beach, I knew that this was the boat I wanted! Their curves were like elegant beauty figures, fascinating!

The hull built by ironwood allows them to withstand considerable amount of shelling! The streamlined hull ensures their unparalleled speed! This is the ship I want: Calais Clippers! She is also called the hybrid Clippers!

This kind of ship is definitely not the largest in the world today, nor the most powerful artillery, nor is it an indestructible fortress, but they must be the fastest!

In the case of a wind, the speed of 22 knots can be reached by relying solely on wind power, and the extreme speed can even reach twenty-four or five knots! Even when it is against the wind, it can be used together by sailing and paddles to reach speeds of more than seventeen knots!

Which boat could catch up with such speed before the steam engine was invented?

The displacement of the Calais Clippers is calculated as the medium-lower tonnage of about 1,000 tons among all ships. It is the fourth-class warship of Europe standard. The hull is 135 feet long, about 45 feet long, and the widest is over 30 feet, about 10 meters, and the overall shape is a shuttle!

It is particularly important to note that the ships I want are specially made for French Royal Special Edition! For this reason, I also paid more than 3,000 gold coins for processing! But as the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and the labor and materials of five ships are the best! It even exceeds the equipment of the Royal French Navy.

The cabins on the ship were also renovated as my requirements, and all were changed to artillery shooting ports and sailor gatherings! In addition to the necessary functional areas such as the adjutant's office, the staff room, the carpentry room, the medical room, the entertainment room, etc., all were changed to supply cabins! According to the full supply of 100 people per boat, and the water and grain loading is calculated to be one-to-one. One-time supply can last about 45 days!

Each side of each ship is equipped with twenty-two rapid-fire cannons, plus three cannons at the bow and stern of the ship. The number of artillery in the whole ship reaches fifty, and the number of artillery on one side can reach twenty-seven!

The maximum pitch angle of the cannon is from negative seven degrees to twenty-five degrees, and the horizontal rotation angle is about fifteen degrees. Therefore, if we enter our ship at an angle of forty-five degrees with the enemy ship, ordinary warships can only fire the bow or stern guns, with seven or eight guns at the top of the sky. But we can guarantee that at least nineteen guns can fire! It is definitely a sharp kite weapon! This is not explained!

The range of the artillery reaches its peak at about two and a half kilometers, and attenuates to its limit at three kilometers. This is already beyond the range of most contemporary artillery guns except the latest cannon mortars. Of course, the power is not very amazing, but these small broken ships attacking Japan are already enough!

After boarding the ship, Chen Kui and I finally met! After two years of intensive trips to the sea, this middle-aged sailor has become darker in his skin but more energetic!

After seeing me, he took off the captain's hat on his head, imitated the Western sailors, and bowed to me with the hat and said, "Welcome! My boss!"

I was immediately amused by his inappropriate expression! Sure enough, every middle-aged master had a Tieling Sketch Master hidden in his heart! So I replied to him with an American military salute.

Everyone didn't understand what my action meant, but they all learned it secretly depending on the meaning, which was the meaning of returning a favor.

After walking around the deck, I went to the cabin to take a look. There were about 110 sailors, and there were all kinds of skin color, and my morale was very high! The artillery was well maintained, and the deck and cabin were cleaned. These details can be seen that Chen Kui managed the fleet very well!

"Let's go! Find a place to take a boat!" I said with a smile on my finger at the empty sea.

"Abide by the order!" Chen Kui said loudly. He sent out another signal and the five boats began to move towards the southeast.

The observer on the boat was a Korean man, with a broken Chinese and full of sticks. However, the technology was very good. Under his leadership, we slowed down in the open waters of 136 degrees east longitude and 32 degrees north latitude, and prepared to start the test ship.

As a leader of the fleet, you must understand your fleet's performance in order to make reasonable judgments. This understanding is not about the understanding of data on paper, but about the true sense of familiarity, which is to make the attributes of the ship completely engraved in the heart, just like a tacit understanding with a lover, which can only be understood, not expressed in words.

For the fleet, there is a short-term effect. In other words, the fleet's various parameters will take the lowest value among all ships.

At present, the five ships in my fleet are of the same model, and the theoretical parameters should be the same. However, due to the physical error of the ship itself, coupled with the factors such as the driver and the proficiency of the sailor, there will still be differences in one or another. This requires the commander to be familiar with the employees and make reasonable allocations.

In addition to objective factors, there is also the issue of command, dispatch and coordination and proficiency. What is required to improve this aspect is time.

For a single ship, the most important thing to pay attention to is survival, firepower, mobility, concealment, etc. Today, let me give you a comprehensive physical examination for the five Calais Clippers!

In terms of survival, although Chen Kui gave me factory parameters, I don’t believe this. Back then, when the US army invaded Yuenan, the newly equipped m16 small-caliber rifle had all the parameters of the newly equipped m16 small-caliber rifle, but in actual combat, they were still beaten by the rough AK47. This fact tells me that we cannot rely solely on parameters.

What I want is the limit test - I ordered the No. 4 ship Weihai to anchor it in the distance, and I directed the flagship Dinghai to shoot it live-fire!

No one understood my orders very much, but I had my reasons. So, there were only four clever observers left on the Weihai, and all the others evacuated to other ships.

"Boom!" The nine guns on the port side of the Dinghai opened fire - this nine gun does not refer to nine guns, but the ninth gun we designated as the benchmark gun. When encountering an enemy, they will come up and fire the ship on the side. Once they fail, according to the firing frequency of three shots per minute, the reloading cycle will fall into a passive position.

So we designated the middle gun as the benchmark gun. Once the gun was out, we probably master the deviation data. Experienced commanders can immediately adjust the direction and the height ruler, and then cover the firepower with a volley or rapid fire, greatly improving efficiency.

So my test was to test the survival of the ship and firepower. The cannonball roared out an arc and flew towards the Weihai! It drifted through a kilometer and a half in the sky, and finally fell into the sea water a hundred meters away from the Weihai.

Seeing this, Chen Kui shouted: "Nine Pao! Upward for three moments! Right for one moment!"

There is no concept of secret positions in the unit of measurement now. My understanding is that there are about ten secret positions in one moment.

As for what is a secret position, simply put it, it is to subdivide the circumference of 360 degrees and transform it into 6,000 or 6,400 small grids, which is more accurate when directing shooting, but the current manufacturing process cannot reach the point of mass production of a secret position command device.

After adjusting and firing again, the shell roared out again, hitting the Weihai ship's side accurately, and a hole the size of a human head was punched with a "pop" sound!

Chen Kui felt distressed when he saw it, but he knew that the current love was to survive better in the future, so he tried his best to suppress his unbearableness. During this period, he has taken great care of these ships, so how could he have been tormenting like this?

I ignored what he thought, and nodded when he saw the result, basically as I expected. So I ordered the boat to go forward, walked for a short while, and shot again!

After a few rounds, I got the real parameters I wanted - within 1,500 meters, the angle between the ship's side and our cannon was 75 degrees, and the shells had a high probability of breaking through the hull's protection! After all, in order to maintain mobility, the hull was not covered with iron armor, and the front protection was not too strong.

When the angle is between 75 degrees and 60 degrees, there is a certain probability of jumping and will not cause damage at all, but there is also a small probability of breaking down and a certain probability of damage!

When it reaches less than 60 degrees, it becomes a high probability jump to avoid injury, and a low probability of injury, and almost impossible to break through!

When the distance is widened to 1,000 meters, that is, when the Western scale is more than 5,000 meters, the probability of breaking down will drop in a geometrical multiple, and the probability of jumping will be greatly increased!

When a ship shoots a stationary target while still, the hit rate is more than 75%. When a ship shoots a stationary target while traveling, the hit rate is about 60%. When a ship shoots a stationary target while traveling, the hit rate is greatly reduced to 30%. This is also the data within a reasonable range.

Of course, it also depends on the speed, direction and other factors of the target.

For example, if the enemy hits me, it is extremely difficult to hit me with the speed and maneuverability of the Calais Clippers for more than 20 knots! As the saying goes, those who can beat me cannot catch me, and those who can catch me do not exist at all! Speed ​​is my best armor! You don’t need to paddles, you all rely on waves when going out! That’s so handsome! Ouye!

As for the artillery, I have tested it just now, so there is no need to test it separately, and there is no need to say that the secondary artillery is not available, so I will just skip it.

The speed was in front of me, and it was already a test when I came here, which was amazing! In this world, it was definitely a great existence!

Mobility is another highlight of the Calais Clippers! The rudder rotation time is only six seconds! The turning radius is only less than one hundred and fifty meters!

Here I want to explain that the so-called rudder rotation time refers to the time when the steering wheel goes from the left limit to the right limit. On the sea, it is not like on the road, and it turns when you pull the steering wheel and turn, but there is a hysteresis period of a certain length of time.

As the saying goes, a small boat is easy to turn around. That is to say, the rudder turn time is short, and the direction change is completed in a few seconds. Unlike some large boats, they start turning a minute ago, and the rudder has not been completed after one minute. There are many large boats with a radius of more than one thousand meters that are changing their heads. They are very problematic in avoiding shells, chasing and escaping.

Therefore, the Calais Clippers' steering ability is absolutely first-class! As for the acceleration and deceleration performance, it is also extremely excellent. It only takes twenty seconds to achieve the extreme acceleration and deceleration smoothly, twenty-seven or eight seconds to achieve the wind, and about thirty-five seconds to achieve the wind, which is an incredible parameter in the pre-steam era when sailing and paddles are used!

As for concealment, it doesn’t matter if there is no radar now. Besides, can such a high-looking ship be worse than the turtle shell ship in Japan?

After the test, I was full of confidence! I was once again grateful for my original decision. This is the power from later generations - prophets and wisdom.

When repairing the boat, I also asked the carpenters of several boats to compare. The best result was Haleha, who played a guest carpenter. I couldn't help but sigh that talent is really something I can't ask for!

Then there was an exercise circulated from Governor Qi. We happily tumbling on the sea for three days. I felt that both ourselves and the crew had a higher understanding of the Calais Clippers! Of course, especially me.
Chapter completed!