Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 1827 Heroes are useless

"There are now two Dahan-class ironclad ships!"

Chu Yun caressed the thick naval gun with his hand, and the cold steel made a chill run down his spine.

The strongest spear and shield in one is simply terrifying.

No ship can compare with the Dahan-class ironclad ship.

However, the two Han-class battleships "Emperor Han Wen" and "Emperor Han Jing" are useless for heroes.

The wooden battleships of this era are a joke in front of iron-clad ships, not to mention the Dahan-class iron-clad ships that use turret structures are already the best among iron-clad ships. Even "Huo Qubing" and "Wei Qing" can hardly defeat a Dahan-class iron-clad ship .

Chu Yun couldn't help but think of an allusion in "Zhuangzi"-Zhu Xiongman learned how to slay dragons in Zhiliyi, a family of only a thousand gold, and he succeeded in three years without using his skills.

This Dahan-class ironclad ship is the art of slaying dragons. Unfortunately, there are no dragons in the world, so the art of slaying dragons is useless.

Chu Yun didn't know whether the existence of the Dahan-class ironclad ship was meaningful, maybe its appearance was just to accumulate experience for future dreadnought ships.

The two battleships "Emperor Hanwen" and "Emperor Hanjing" are likely to have no chance of fighting from their launch to retirement, because their younger brothers can easily defeat the European wooden ships.

Other naval officers were amazed at the giant cannon much larger than a person. Among them, Zheng Zhilong, who is older and the current Minister of the Navy, is also a person who has experienced the age of sail. The cannon already felt quite powerful, but the Frang machine gun and the Hongyi cannon were all scrap metal in front of the 30-ton cannon.

No wooden ship can withstand the devastation of such a huge cannon. It may be scrapped as soon as a shell hits the wooden ship.

"Except for our own steamship, no ship can pose a threat to us. We are already invincible."

"I'm afraid our own ships are no match for the same guns."

Naval officers have seen super-large caliber main guns, and larger and larger main guns are also refreshing the common sense of officers.

They even doubt whether there will be a larger main gun in the future.

However, Chu Yun knew that there might be larger main guns, or that it might directly transition to more advanced technology.

"One of these two steamships is equipped for the Zhili Fleet, and the other is equipped for the Nanyang Fleet. It is enough to use small and medium-sized ironclad ships in the Western Ocean. It is easy to maintain the large ships in the mainland. The training significance of building such two ships more than anything else.”

Chu Yun decided to turn the two ships into active training ships to train several batches of crew members to operate the main ironclad ships.

Using these two ironclad ships as "training ships", I am afraid that not many people have such a big deal.

If this was in the 19th century, maybe the two Dahan-class ironclad ships in front of us could go to the ocean and confront other ironclad ships. Unfortunately, in a certain sense in this era, they are really fearless at sea.

Zheng Zhilong of the Zhili Fleet is naturally comfortable. One of the two latest ironclad ships was given to the Zhili Fleet.

Unlike the first-generation main iron-clad ships who took the lead in deploying the fourth fleet, Chu Yun believed that the backward-generation iron-clad ships could already deter Europe, and there was no need to send two second-generation iron-clad ships thousands of miles away.

If the Dahan-class ironclad ships arrive in Europe, it will probably make them desperate.

"They will only exist in our naval bases and nearby waters, and on paper. They will not appear in front of the public until we develop the third generation of ironclad ships. If the shipbuilding technology elsewhere is still nothing by then If there is no change, then we will save it until the fourth-generation ironclad ship appears and make it public." Chu Yun decided to keep it a secret and no longer show it like before.

The technologies he showed that are known to the public are enough for them to study for a long time, and then they should continue to hide a batch of technologies.

Xue Zang belongs to Xue Zang, and he also needs to ensure that these technologies that have been hidden by Xue Zang can be used on a large scale when needed.

"Can shipyards mass-produce Dahan-class ironclad ships during the war? I want the ability to produce 10 Dahan-class ironclad ships within a year." Chu Yun asked.

"As long as the steel, artillery and other materials are complete, there is no problem at all." The director of the shipyard said.

Chu Yun nodded. The Imperial Shipyard has done well enough, and the most important thing is productivity.There is no need now, but it does not mean that there will be no demand in the future. When there is a real need, it is possible to continuously produce ironclad ships with strong production capacity.

"One more thing. Last time you ordered your shipyard to study ships equipped with new weapons and new weapons?" Chu Yun remembered one thing.

In addition to ironclad ships, the Imperial Shipyards of course also build other ships, such as ironclad cruisers, cable ships, passenger ships, and freighters that are smaller than capital ships.

As for the confidential production plan, in addition to the second-generation main ironclad ship, there is another small military ship.

"Forgive my subordinates, the actual combat of the small ships secretly researched is not very ideal. It is better to focus on the research of capital ships." The director of the Imperial Shipyard heard Chu Yun mentioning the new ships and new weapons, and suddenly became confused. frown.

He didn't understand that Chu Yun was thinking of developing new ships and weapons when his own ironclad ships were already far ahead and had no opponents at all.

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace, we must go further. Take us to see your research on new weapons." Chu Yun said.

"Please come with me, everyone. We are researching a new type of ship, and its displacement may only be tens of tons." Seeing that Chu Yun was very interested in new types of ships and weapons, the director of the Imperial Shipyard had to take Chu Yun with him. A group of people went to visit their unformed research.

"What can a ship of tens of tons do? The mosquito gunboat we use now has hundreds of tons. A ship that we can consider as the main force must have a displacement of at least 2000 tons."

"Is there a way for a small ship to defeat a big ship? It's like the fire ship that was often used in the past, but the fire attack has long been ineffective against the iron ship. Could it be an explosive ship loaded with gunpowder? The explosive ship may indeed bring casualties to the iron-clad ship. But who wants to take a dynamite boat and risk death against an enemy warship?"

After the senior officers of the Ministry of the Navy have owned ships with larger and larger tonnages, they are even a little numb when they hear that the small ships are only tens of tons, or they have said that they are used to the days of abundance, and it is difficult to accept small ships as warships .

The notion that tonnage and caliber are king has infected these naval officers.

(End of this chapter)