This also leads to the fact that if the ship is too large, it can only make up for the lack of power of a single mast by adding more masts. For example, the famous Zheng He treasure ship was driven by nine large and small masts, causing the ship to move.
It looks a bit bulky.
At the same time, the hard sail only has two states: raised and stowed. If you want to raise it, you must rise directly to the top. It is difficult for people on the boat to adjust the speed of the boat by adjusting the size of the sail, which means that when
In naval battles and ocean navigation, hard sails are not advantageous, and they may even cause trouble when crossing islands or narrow channels.
Moreover, hard sails will cause the hull's load-bearing capacity to be fragile, make the sails heavy, and require greater force balance. Once the weight of the ship is unbalanced, or the ship shakes briefly due to the firing of artillery, the ship is likely to suffer major damage.
A large amount of inclination will lead to overturning, so it is okay to install trebuchets on ships loaded with hard sails, but it is difficult to install a large number of artillery on the ship.
In contrast, although soft sails have many shortcomings, their advantages in being suitable for rough sea conditions, ocean navigation, and being suitable for armed ships are also obvious.
For a long time in the future, the most important task of the invincible navy will no longer be to fight enemies or defend ports, but to explore wider sea areas, especially the numerous islands in the Southeast Asia, which will be the navy's main exploration in the future.
One of the directions, so the navy's demand for soft sails is naturally higher than hard sails.
With some guidance from Li Xingchen, the birth of the soft sail and its successful installation on the warship became a matter of course.
The giant ship now in front of us has two huge masts, and there is also a mast extending forward on the bow, like a mighty swordfish, and under the bow mast, a man is holding a long sword.
The portrait has already taken shape. You don’t need to look to know that it is modeled after His Majesty the Emperor’s armor. For naval officers, there is nothing more glorious than placing His Majesty the Emperor on the bow of their ship. This is
It was also allowed by Li Xingchen, because it would symbolize that he would always lead and command the navy to move forward.
There is another obvious difference from other ships, that is, there are rows of holes on the thick hull, and above the hull, there are no longer ship walls similar to the battlements of a city wall like the Five-Tooth Ship.
, there are also a row of holes on the flush side of the ship.
Since water warfare entered the age of sails, things with obvious designs from the paddle era have disappeared. In particular, ships such as the Wuya Ship and the Qinglong Ship still retain some characteristics of inland river ships, so this has led to
Its seaworthiness on the sea is not good. It is okay to say that the Wuya big ship cannot go to sea, but the Qinglong big ship is actually designed according to the naval combat ship.
The problem of seaworthiness at sea caused the Qinglong ship to shake very violently in high sea conditions. Although it was not overturned, it was very common for waves to hit the deck. This also directly caused Qi Xin and Luo Yi to
When leading the army across the sea, it was obvious that there was plenty of space on the Qinglong ship, but he did not dare to carry too many people.
Even so, the Army suffered greatly during the crossing of the South China Sea, and even some naval officers who had just been transferred from the Navy suffered from seasickness to varying degrees.
The poor seaworthiness of the ship not only makes people uncomfortable, but also requires that the sealing on the ship must be good. Not to mention opening holes, even if there is a seam, it must be smoothed out.
Therefore, I had never dared to think about opening holes like this before.
The purpose of this hole was very clear to Li Jing, who had just returned from the artillery test firing range of the Ministry of Industry with Li Xingchen.
There are two rows of holes on the hull, six in each row, plus one row on the deck, and three rows of holes. There are eighteen cannons on one side, and a ship has thirty-six cannons, plus the bow
and the stern of the ship, a total of forty artillery pieces.
Just now, Li Jing saw with his own eyes how powerful an artillery piece is.
Even if it could hold up a trebuchet, Li Jing didn't think there was any problem.
At least eighteen artillery pieces on one side can fire, which means that eighteen trebuchets can be thrown at the same time, and the distance is farther and the power is greater!
What is this scene?
Thinking of the scene of such huge warships lining up on the sea one after another and thousands of cannons firing, Li Jing felt like he was shaking all over and blood rushed to his head.
Not only Li Jing, but also Li Ping, Secretary Supervisor Qin Sizu and others were all excited when they saw such a warship appearing in front of them.
Only a big man can create such a behemoth, and once such a behemoth roars, the mountains and rivers will tremble!
Seeing the reactions of Li Jing and others, Li Xingchen smiled.
He had seen the world in later generations, and of course he would not lose his composure just because he saw a sailing warship.
But Li Xingchen can also understand their mood.
Big ships and big guns, no matter in any era, are men's romance!
Especially for Li Jing and others as soldiers, if they can command such warships and command a huge fleet composed of such warships, I'm afraid they will need nothing.
"Your Majesty, this is the Navy's hard work over the past two years," Qiu Zhi's voice was also trembling. He saw His Majesty's smile, which shows that His Majesty is very satisfied with this ship, which is gratifying enough for the Navy. "
Now the navy plans to install new artillery in all the reserved gun ports, making this warship truly an unprecedented gunboat and the vanguard for our great men to conquer the wider ocean!"
Li Xingchen nodded. He knew how much effort the navy had put into this warship.
The Qinglong warship is not the ship that the navy really wants. It is just an improved and enlarged warship based on the Wuya warship. Although it can enter the sea, it is still an out-and-out river ship at its heart.
Walking along the coast is fine, but entering the deep ocean is indeed too risky.
This new type of sea-going ship, designed entirely for ocean voyages and for the purpose of conquering islands and land masses in the ocean, is what the navy is most looking forward to.
In the past two years, the Navy has paid a lot for this ship. Wang Chang, the boss of the Navy, has been living and eating in the shipyard almost all the time. Even the Southern Expedition, a rare job for the Navy, was given to Qi Xin, who is one level below him.
It wasn't until the Navy and Army began to jointly plan the construction of the Marine Corps some time ago that Wang Chang left the shipyard and handed over the task of supervising the construction of the ship to Qiu Zhi. This made Qiu Zhi excited and naturally wanted to launch the ship as soon as possible.
, becoming a symbol of the navy’s true march towards the ocean.
This ship uses soft sails, which means that the criss-crossing sail ropes do not allow the installation of trebuchets and other weapons on it, so artillery naturally becomes the best and only choice.