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Ships in this port are mainly divided into two categories.
One type is the very traditional ships of the Han Dynasty. This kind of warship is in line with the current era. There is nothing special about it as a whole. If there are some differences, it is only in the workmanship and materials. And the details are a little different.
Although the combat power of such a warship is not bad, it is nothing compared to Zhuge Liang's newly developed warship.
However, since it is a small witch, why did Cao Ang develop such a warship?
In fact, the reason is very simple. It is precisely because steamships and ordinary warships are insignificant, so steamships are relatively difficult to make.
Under normal circumstances, the time and materials required to build a steamship are several times that of ordinary warships.
It is precisely because of this that if all steam ships are formed, there will only be about a hundred steam war ships parked in this port.
Such a situation will have a considerable impact on the overall scale, and will even reduce the momentum.
After all, this ordinary warship is already familiar with the road, and it cannot be easier to build, so the construction time is much faster.
Another reason is that although this steamship is very powerful, it is the first development after all, so there is no standard to measure whether it is successful or not.
This situation directly led to the extremely high probability of damage to the construction of this steam ship.
If you concentrate on building steamships, the final result will definitely be unbearable.
It is precisely because it is impossible to put all eggs in one basket at the same time that Cao Ang is building a lot of ordinary warships.
Of course, it is said that they are ordinary warships, but their materials are still very unusual.
These ordinary warships have been tested by a large number of excellent craftsmen, and there are even improvements in many places. The reason for this situation is that to make such traditional warships extraordinary, at least It is better than the warships of Soochow.
Therefore, for comprehensive consideration, when Cao Ang ordered the production of the steam ship, he also ordered his subordinates to produce the steam ship, in order to seek stability and to expand the whole situation.
At this time, Cao Ang was standing on the newly built port, looking at the more than 400 warships assembled on the port, his heart was also very surging.
Among them, there are many ships rising with faint black smoke. Don't even think about it, this is the characteristic of steam engine ships.
Following the faint black smoke that drifted away, Cao Ang's eyes quickly focused on those ships that looked different from others.
Cao Ang knew very well in his mind that these ships, which looked different, were obviously heavy warships, and it was no exaggeration to say that these warships were the first time Cao Ang had seen them up close.
The main function of these battleships is to charge forward, because they are very strong, and can even resist the impact of ships in front.
The only downside, though, is that their ships are a bit too big.
Such a situation will greatly reduce their speed, but such a situation is not fatal, because Soochow's warships cannot be faster than them no matter how fast they are.
Such a design, no matter in terms of power or the toughness of the battleship itself, is more advanced than any ship in the world today.
If such a ship can make it to history, it will surely leave a name through the ages, and it will shock the world!
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Of course, this ship cannot go to sea for long distances, because the ship did not consider that factor when it was built, and only considered walking in the inland river or fighting.
And if fighting in this inland river, such a ship must have no opponents, and it is impossible for any ship to compare him.
Of course, this is all theory and not real.
What is left to Cao Ang now is to gain true knowledge from actual combat.
Speaking of the construction of the steam ship, we have to mention the power system of the steam ship.
Because a steamship is much heavier than other ships, it needs a lot of power. There are three ways to provide power on a steamship.
The first thing to provide power is the very traditional sail of the wooden boat. When the wind is downwind, the sails are sailed. This speed is very cumbersome, and it only works when the wind is downwind.
The second power supply is the steam engine. Among the steam engine warships, each ship is equipped with two steam engines, and when the steam engine provides power, only one runs, and this one The power provided by the steam engine can already make the ship run very fast.
The steam engine generates huge kinetic energy, and the kinetic energy even drives the propeller at the back of the ship, causing it to start rotating at high speed.
With the rotation of the propeller, it is possible to push the huge and heavy ship forward.
This so-called heavy warship is nothing more than relative weight.
The Mengchong ship is a battleship responsible for charging, not a flagship, so it is impossible to have such a large one.
No matter how big the Mengchong ship is, it cannot be much bigger. After all, this ship is used for charging, and if it is too big, it will definitely affect the speed.
This Mengchong battleship can carry a few hundred soldiers at most, and the highest limit is only a thousand.
This kind of situation is simply too small. Compared with the cargo ship that constantly drains hundreds of thousands of tons in the future, it is simply the little witch among little witches!
Therefore, under such circumstances, this new type of warship has another power supply, and this method is also to prevent damage to the steam engine.
The third type of power for the steam engine is the soldiers in the cabin.If the steam engine is damaged and the wind is not smooth, then these soldiers will act as power, sliding and manually shaking the paddle wheels so that they can move quickly.
It is even more difficult to make such a large ship move on the water, so this third method can only be used at a critical moment. After all, after making it move, the people in the cabin The soldiers were exhausted one by one.
Cao Ang, who was standing at the port, took Lv Wen, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others up to a ship and looked at it from a distance. It was completely different from standing on it.
After a group of people went up, they realized that the ship was really big. Among the tall ships, it was even bigger than a house. This old ship was a traditional warship, so the number of people it could carry was also large. From once directly to 3000 people.
Therefore, this ship is the one that can carry the largest number of people, the largest displacement, and the largest size among all ships.
When watching the ship, Lu Wen saw a lot of equipment on the deck of the ship that she had never seen before, and then she began to watch carefully.
She had never seen such a thing before, so she was very curious.
Afterwards, Na Lu Wen also asked a little confused: "What are these things placed here? Why do I look so much like engineering trebuchets?"
After hearing Lu Wen's question, Zhuge Liang also explained with a smile: "The ones on the deck are the weapons carried on our ship!"
Zhuge Liang had already said in the report before that some weapons and equipment would be carried on the ship, but no one had seen such weapons and equipment, this time it can be regarded as seeing it.
Such a situation also makes people a little confused about what should be called this thing.
The reason why Lu Wen named the catapult is because its appearance is indeed somewhat similar, but such a name is definitely not correct.
The weapon mounted on the deck is a very large bow and crossbow from its structure, and it even looks a bit like that particularly large slingshot.
Unlike the catapults used for siege, such weapons are much lighter than catapults at first glance, so the throwing equipment used here must also be much lighter.
Zhuge Liang saw that everyone didn't quite understand what such a thing was, and then he said to the general Cao Ang: "General, I will show you a demonstration now!"
Afterwards, Zhuge Liang began to demonstrate towards the equipped weapons.
After Zhuge Liang started to prepare, everyone saw objects in the shape of wooden barrels being brought up, and then placed next to the weapons, which were neatly stacked.
After preparing these things, Zhuge Liang explained: "This is the ammunition for the weapons we are equipped with!"