Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 313 Daming Aegis
Wubei City Shipyard, Drawing Room.

Taichang was discussing eagerly with Wang Zheng and his disciples.

Everyone has the same excited look on their faces, and they seem to have no scruples when they speak. You talk to each other, and the discussion is full of enthusiasm.

They seemed to be caught up in the frenzied design atmosphere, forgetting about each other's identities.

To be honest, sometimes designing or creating a new thing can really make people forget myself.

Taichang is also quite excited at the moment, because many ideas he proposed have been adopted by Wang Zheng and others, and Wang Zheng and the others are not flattering him. These ideas can indeed make the iron-clad battleship more perfect.

For example, the cabin design in the three-story gun tower.

Originally, there were no compartments for the three-story gunhouses of the gunships. For the convenience of command, the three-story gunhouses were all open rooms, from the beginning to the end.

This time he came up with a different idea.

Because he thought of the school dormitory.

He thinks that each floor should be divided into two rows of separate rooms, leaving an aisle in the middle, just like a dormitory, with three beds on both sides of each compartment, and the gap in the middle is used to place artillery .

In this way, the space of each blockhouse is more than doubled. Not only do the soldiers have a place to rest, but it is also more convenient to transport personnel.

After all, people can not only lie on the bed, but also sit on it.

If it is a normal naval fleet going out to fight, there are two rows of three-layer beds in each compartment that can accommodate twelve sailors, and fifteen compartments on each floor can accommodate 360 ​​sailors. The gun tower is [-] sailors!
If it's transporting people, it's even more terrifying.

Five people can sit side by side on a bunk, and as long as everyone sits in, leans against the wall, and supports each other, no matter how big the wind and waves are, they will not be afraid.

In this way, sixty people can be seated in one compartment, 800 people can be seated in 400 compartments on the first floor, and [-] people can be seated in the three-story blockhouse.

That is to say, the guards of a guard can be transported away by an armored warship!
As for load, it doesn't matter at all.

Because an ordinary person is only two hundred catties to death, and more than 5000 people add up to only one hundred thousand catties.

This weight is nothing to an ironclad warship with a seed load of more than 100 million catties.

As for the unified command, it is actually very simple.

As long as one person stands at the door of each compartment to pass the order, anyway, twelve people in a cubicle only need to control one cannon, and there is no problem with a few more people standing at the door to pass the order.

The reason why Wang Zheng adopted his idea was really not to flatter him, because this compartment structure can strengthen the cabin!

This is the most important.

After all, ironclad battleships have to endure shells hard. If the middle of the three-story gun tower is all empty, then there is no strength to speak of.

With such a huge hull, it may be okay to take a few shots, but if it takes too many shells, the three-story gun tower may collapse.

The three-storey blockhouses are divided into rooms, which is different. The walls of each compartment are equivalent to strong support columns!
This is equivalent to adding tens of hundreds of strong support columns to each floor, and no amount of shells can shake this structure.

As for Wang Zheng's disciples, they also quite like this compartment structure.

This kind of compartment is actually not small, because the Zheng He treasure ship with two thousand materials is seventeen or eight feet long and four to five feet wide, and the three-story gun towers cover the entire deck.

In other words, after being divided into two rows of fifteen compartments, the width of each compartment is actually more than one foot, and the length even reaches two feet.

With such a large compartment, there is so much that can be added.

Such as chairs, benches and wardrobes.

And these tables, chairs, benches and wardrobes can also be designed to be multi-functional, such as making granaries, ammunition boxes and so on.

Anyway, a bed that is seven feet long is enough, and the two beds add up to only one foot four, and there is a space in the middle that is six feet wide and nearly ten feet high, enough to stuff a lot of things into it.

They even thought of opening a lot of shooting holes on the outside of the compartment where the basalt armor was installed, and it was the kind with a baffle.

Cover the baffle when not in use, and the outside cannot be seen at all.

When in use, open the baffle and stick out the muskets. There are twelve muskets in one compartment, and more than 1000 muskets in ninety compartments on three floors.

If the enemy tried to use small boats to siege, and just stretched out all the muskets, anyone who dared to come close would be beaten into a sieve!
There are also gun doors, their design is also quite bold.

They directly designed the cannon door as a door with a height of one person, and it was the kind that could be lifted with a sling.

If you want to seize the enemy ship, the sailors in the compartment can directly lift the gun door, throw out the hook lock and even jump directly onto the enemy ship!

They even thought of how to quickly land and load and unload supplies.

Anyway, the water wheels on both sides had to be protected by iron armor. They directly added iron ladders with [-] steps on the left and right between the bottom gun port and the protective plates of the water wheels.

In this way, not only can the protection on the water wheel be strengthened, but it is also much more convenient when landing and loading and unloading materials.

After the warship landed on the pier, it directly opened the fifteen gun ports on the bottom floor. There was no need to set up hanging ladders. You can directly step on the iron ladder to enter and exit the fifteen gun ports. More than a thousand sailors and soldiers can go up in less than a quarter of an hour. Ship or landing, loading and unloading materials is also very fast.

Of course, Taichang's whimsy is not limited to this one.

For example, the boiler and chimney, he proposed to integrate the boiler, and then make the chimney a built-in structure.

That is to make the boiler on the bottom floor bigger, synthesize four large boilers, and then install them at the two ends and the two ends respectively.

In this way, not only are there fewer chimneys, but the counterweight of the whole ship is also more reasonable.

As for the built-in chimney, it is actually very simple, because the bow and stern are not ordinary cabins, and the chimney can be raised directly from the inside of the first two cabins, to the top of the three-story gun tower, and then add a thicker layer on top iron hat.

In this way, the chimney cannot be seen from the outside at all, and even if the shell hits the top of the chimney, it will not be able to penetrate it.

He also proposed a structure that covered the top of the entire three-story blockhouse with triangular eaves.

In this way, not only the overall defensive performance of the top of the iron-clad battleship is enhanced, but the iron-clad battleship also has an extra layer of cabins.

Moreover, the cabin on this floor is still a very large cabin with a length of five to sixty meters and a width of more than ten meters!
With such a large space, there are so many things that can be added.

Wang Zheng and a group of disciples also came up with fantastic ideas frequently, constantly adding various functions to it.

In short, under everyone's eager discussion, the design progress of this armored battleship is quite fast, and there are quite a lot of functions. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as terrifying.

They have packed almost all the good things that can be made under the existing conditions into this iron-clad battleship.

The drawing room of Taichangwo Shipyard discussed with Wang Zheng and his disciples in less than half a month, and the blueprint of the armored battleship was almost drawn.

This iron-clad warship is mighty. If you look at it from the outside, it is a super-sized iron shuttle covered with basalt armor!
If you look at it from the inside, the cabin is densely covered, like a honeycomb.

It can be said that this is an unprecedented super battleship, not only has amazing defense power, but also has amazing attack power.

The attack power of this armored battleship is really amazing.

Just the ninety five-hundred-jin Thor cannons equipped in the ninety cabins of the three-story gun tower have an attack power no worse than that of ordinary gunboats.

There are also thousands of gun shooting holes all over the sides of the ship. If it is fully loaded with more than 5000 people, it is estimated that even the boats and people who approach will be sieved!

There are also two special triangular cabins on the front and back three floors, which are also equipped with two Thor II cannons, adding up to twelve long-range attack artillery with a range of more than ten miles.

There are also six [-]-jin Thor cannons at the front and rear ends of the top floor.

All of this attack power has already surpassed Dragon Fang Battleship.

Looking at the final exterior drawing, Wang Zheng couldn't help sighing: "Your Majesty, such a mighty battleship is so ancient and modern! Tell me, what is the name of this battleship?"

Uh, it's a name again!
What is a good name for this kind of battleship?

Taichang thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

Obviously, he thought of a good name.

Immediately afterwards, he said with pride: "This kind of battleship is called the Aegis Ship, and it will definitely become the Aegis of Ming Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)