For Meng Yuling, the dinner she attended that night was something she would remember for the rest of her life.
Because when Lin Ziran invited her for a walk, he formally proposed to her!
For Lin Ziran, this is just one of the many things he handles!
After he returned to Luohai City, he had many important matters to deal with, including proposing to Meng Yuling, confirming his marriage, and then shaping a more mature and stable image of a politician to prepare for the subsequent unification of Daheng and the establishment of the emperor.
Prepare.
A young single man who is not married can easily be regarded as immature and unstable by those people.
And an emperor without a wife or a son is even more unacceptable!
The Daheng Unified Army and the entire interest group are working towards unifying Daheng and establishing their own Seventh Dynasty.
At this time, Lin Ziran, as the leader, becomes extremely important. Many seemingly personal issues will become important political issues.
Especially the issue of heirs is a top priority.
If there is no heir, if Lin Ziran suddenly dies on this day, wouldn't the Daheng United Army be split instantly?
Even if Daheng has been unified and a new dynasty has been established, if Lin Ziran dies without an heir, the new empire will fall into civil strife again.
For future stability, Lin Ziran must have an heir!
If you want to have an heir, you must first have a legal and reasonable wife. This is why Lin Ziran proposed directly after returning to Luohai City.
After the formal proposal, the next things will be relatively simple. Many procedures will naturally be organized by subordinate officials. Lin Ziran continues his busy work.
On the tenth day after returning to Luohai City, Lin Ziran went to Luohai Port Pier and participated in the commissioning ceremony of the new generation battleship Luohai cruiser.
The tonnage of the Luo Hai cruiser is not large, only 2,500 tons. The tonnage is not even half of the brand new battleship Pingbo that was commissioned half a year ago. However, the Luo Hai cruiser has great strategic significance.
significance.
Because this is a battleship designed from the beginning to unleash the firepower of breech-mounted rifled guns, and it is actually the first ocean-going battleship with non-traditional side-mounted guns.
The ship began to be designed last year, and the basic design was quickly completed and put into construction. After more than a year of intense construction, the construction was completed and sea trials were conducted half a month ago.
Because it was a war period, the sea trial time was also shortened. Half a month later, the Navy officially put the ship into active service and incorporated it into the First Fleet.
This first fleet is actually the original first squadron of the escort fleet.
However, when Lin Ziran established the Marshal's Office and reorganized the Southern Navy Fleet Command into the Naval Command, the name of the fleet with a strong transitional meaning, the Escort Fleet, was also revoked.
Its three squadrons were renamed the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet. These three fleets were actually ocean-going fleets.
At the same time, various local fleets were also reformed, and the original Luohai County Fleet, Luoan County Fleet, Anlong County Fleet, Guang'an County Fleet, Hetai County Fleet, and several local fleets in Dongding Prefecture were completely cancelled.
The offshore and inland river vessels in the original local fleets were under unified jurisdiction and were organized into two patrol fleets, namely the First Coastal Defense Fleet stationed in Nanhai Prefecture and the Second Coastal Defense Fleet stationed in Dongding Prefecture.
It was newly established and the responsibilities of these two coastal defense fleets were clarified, which are offshore patrol, naval base protection, coastal defense forts, and also taking into account inland river operations.
And ocean warfare is not under the jurisdiction of the coastal defense fleet!
The ocean fleet is solely responsible for the three major fleets!
The new battleship Luo Hai, this battleship is named after Luo Hai City, the capital of Nanhai Prefecture. Although it is only a 2,500-ton cruiser, it represents the latest naval warfare concepts and technical standards of the Daheng United Army.
The power and protection technology represent the contemporary first-class level. Although this first-class is only at the bottom of the first class, it can still keep up with the first echelon.
And its most special layout is the firepower layout.
The ship adopts a relatively special artillery layout. Its artillery does not adopt a shipside column layout like previous warships, but adopts a front and rear and midships layout.
One Type 51 200mm long-barreled naval gun is deployed at the front and rear respectively. This gun is also the main gun of the Pingbo armored ship, the main gun of the army train gun, and the current Nanhaizhou
The artillery with the largest caliber, greatest range, and most power that can be produced.
It is worth noting that these two artillery pieces are deployed at the front and rear of the battleship. They are mounted on rotatable gun mounts. During combat, they can be rotated to adjust the shooting angle and focus fire on the left or right side at the same time.
A gun shield was also deployed to protect the enemy from direct fire.
On both sides of the ship's midship, there are two protruding semi-enclosed armored protection gun emplacements, each with a 150 mm long-barreled naval gun.
Deployed, so it can shoot forward or backward.
In this way, when the entire battleship is in combat, it can use its three main guns to fire forward, backward, left and right at the same time.
In addition, there are six 75mm naval guns and eight 40mm small-caliber artillery deployed.
There are only two main guns, and there are only two large-caliber secondary guns. There are only four guns in total. It seems that the main artillery is missing a bit.
But the caliber is big!
The designers adopted the method of replacing quantity with caliber.
This is considering that the armored ships of various countries and even the northern vassal towns are now very protective. Small-caliber artillery, even breech-mounted rifled guns, are difficult to penetrate enemy ships. In order to penetrate the armor belt of enemy ships, designers began to
Consider using a larger caliber main gun.
So even though the Luo Hai is only 2,500 tons, the artillery equipped on it is a 200 mm caliber main gun.
What we pursue is that as long as one shot hits the enemy ship, it will severely damage or even sink the enemy ship!
In order to match such tactics, the Luo Hai's speed was quite fast, reaching 16.5 knots.
The most important thing is that the ship also uses the South Navy's latest improved sextant rangefinder to measure distance, calculate shooting targets, and pursue destroying enemy ships at a distance of more than 1,500 meters or even further.
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Although this improved sextant rangefinder is still very primitive, and requires a large number of professional officers to perform calculations, and it takes a long time to get the results, making it difficult to keep up with the fierce naval battles.
However, this is already the most advanced auxiliary fire control equipment that Nanhai Prefecture can currently produce.
And these are things that the previous Pingbo didn’t have!
Although the Pingbo armored ship has many of the most advanced technologies in Nanhai Prefecture today, including power technology, armor technology, and even hull construction technology and firepower.
But it was not designed as a battleship equipped with a breech-mounted rifled gun from the beginning. Even if it was modified midway, it still had great limitations.
At the beginning, the ship's firepower was prepared to equip front-loaded rifled guns, using a shipside gun layout. Although it was later modified and a breech-loaded rifled gun was installed, the layout of the artillery was also slightly changed.
Artillery is also deployed at the stern, but it still cannot be changed. This is still a battleship with a side-gun layout. It is an improved version at most.
This ship still cannot fully unleash the power of its breech-mounted rifled gun!
The former Nanhaizhou Fleet and now the Daheng United Army Navy have been pursuing a tactical system since last year that can better utilize the firepower of breech-mounted rifled guns. This tactical system includes a series of things such as formations, battleships, firepower, observation, and command.
The cruiser Luo Hai is an important part of this new naval tactical system.