Daming pirates
Chapter 47 Heavy Artillery Clippers
At present, Seawolf's main artillery is mainly six-pound guns and twelve-pound guns. Twelve-pound guns are divided into three types: long-gun howitzers and short-guns. There are also some Fran machine guns. These guns are used to deal with pirates along the coast of China.
There is no problem, it can even be said to be quite powerful, but if placed on a Western warship, these guns are all light artillery and can only be used as secondary guns.
This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian has decided to gradually eliminate the six-pounder cannon from the fleet and main battle ships. This thing is indeed too weak. If it is used to deal with European sailing warships, it will basically be useless.
It's almost like itching, and there's no way it can penetrate their hull.
The replacement of the twelve-pound short cannon is much more powerful than the six-pound cannon. Together with the standard twelve-pound howitzer and the twelve-pound long cannon, which is also a cannon, the firepower on the Sea Wolf warship has been increased.
It's a step up, but it's still a bit powerless when dealing with Western-style warships.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to equip the Sea Wolf with larger-caliber artillery to give it stronger firepower, ensuring that it could easily sweep through its counterparts along the Chinese coast and at the same time be able to deal with the European warships.
In the past, Seawolf had launched a set of twenty-four-pound naval gun models, but only two were produced and equipped on the chicken coop fort. Because of the heavy weight of this gun, Seawolf did not have a ship to carry it at that time, and it fell into the category of cannon.
, has a long range and is powerful, but it consumes a lot of iron and is too heavy. It can only be used as a shore gun and is of little use to the Sea Wolf fleet.
Now he must consider that while increasing the caliber and power of the artillery, he must also control the weight of the artillery so that it can be loaded on his current ships. Therefore, before doing so, he must first make preparations and continue to strengthen his own
The structural strength of the built ships allowed them to carry larger and heavier artillery.
Nowadays, these newly built ships have been modified and their structural strength has been greatly enhanced so that they can carry heavier artillery.
After looking at the structure and construction of these boats, Yu Xiaotian expressed satisfaction. These boats were carefully built by shipwrights. The style is a bit like Western boats, but the construction techniques are commonly used by Chinese craftsmen.
, there were many problems that he felt were difficult to solve, but after being handed over to Guo Fu and other shipwrights, they were able to come up with ways to solve them. Yu Xiaotian did not dare to underestimate these old shipwrights on this point.
of wisdom.
These shipwrights are basically illiterate. They only rely on word-of-mouth and step-by-step instructions from their previous generation's family members. They have memorized many techniques and are quite creative. If they are not accustomed to stick to the rules.
, these craftsmen can definitely build better ships than the Chinese sailing ships of this era.
Yu Xiaotian stood still on the middle deck of one of the ships. This is the deck behind the mast, which is the widest place on the ship. Generally, there is an opening here on the ship as a door for entering and exiting the cabin, but this ship's
The upper and lower hatches were adjusted to the front of the mast, freeing up this space.
This is also the place where the hull deck structure is the strongest, and the load-bearing capacity is also the strongest. The lower part is reinforced with beams and reinforced ribs, which is enough to carry a lot of weight, including the thickness of the deck, which has doubled, making this area
, a fairly solid platform was obtained.
According to Yu Xiaotian's design, this platform is now equipped with a round wooden outline. A gun mount is placed on the outline. There are small wheels below the gun mount on the outline. The gun mount can be easily rotated to move the platform.
The cannon on the mount points in any direction.
The gun mount adopts a slide-type gun mount, which eliminates the four small wheels under the gun mount, so that when the artillery fires, the recoil force is directly transmitted to the gun mount slide rail, driving the gun mount backward to offset the recoil force, and then
After loading, the gunner can push the gun carriage back to the firing position, which makes firing the gun easier and faster.
But there are still problems. This contoured rotating gun mount occupies a much larger area than a general wheeled gun mount, making it impossible to place more artillery pieces on the ship deck.
However, for this kind of sloop, its carrying capacity is limited. If it is replaced with large-caliber artillery, there will not be many artillery guns on the deck, so the impact will not be great.
However, the outline of the ship's rotating gun mount has not yet been completed, and the artillery has not yet been put in place. The structure has only been initially completed, and adjustments will continue in the next step. After the artillery is in place, the gun mount can be installed before testing.
This is what Yu Xiaotian is paying attention to. This is a method that he has thought about for a long time, so that this kind of sloop can be loaded with a super-caliber cannon and gain considerable firepower.
After looking at this rotating gun mount, Yu Xiaotian greatly appreciated Guo Fu and his team's craftsmanship. At first, he just drew a picture of the structure of this gun mount and asked Guo Fu and his team to test it, but he didn't
Thinking that Guo Fu and others completed the design, modification and manufacture of this gun mount so quickly, it can be seen that these craftsmen are indeed very capable, but they were too rigid in dogma in the past, which inhibited the development of their creativity.
"Yes, this is what I want. What you did is pretty good. It's basically the same as I thought, and there seems to be improvement. Not bad! Haha!" Yu Xiaotian patted the cannon that has not yet been installed.
The gun carriage laughed with satisfaction.
Guo Fu quickly said: "After the master sent someone to send this picture over years ago, the younger ones didn't dare to delay, so they quickly started thinking about it. First, during the holidays, they made a model on the shore and tried to modify it several times.
, I thought it should be okay, so I started doing it on the boat, but I didn’t know if it would suit the boss’s wishes. Now that the boss has said this, the kids can feel relieved!”
Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Satisfied, I should be very satisfied! You have done a pretty good job, and now we are waiting for the cannon! Once the cannon is made by the artillery factory, it can be immediately shipped over and loaded on the ship for trial use!"
Well, I've seen it here. Guo Fu, you've done quite well. It's better than I thought. But the shipbuilding speed is still a bit slow now. You can keep an eye on it and increase the shipbuilding speed. These three things
The ship will be launched into the water within five days, the sails will be hung up, and it will be handed over to the fleet to test the water!
As for the thing I talked about today, you should arrange it as soon as possible and start doing it! There is also a batch of hard materials that will be shipped from Nanyang this month, which can ensure that you will not be short of hard materials in the next six months. In short, there is only one
, I want ships, if you find a way to build more ships quickly and efficiently, I will certainly not treat you badly!"
The Tamsui City Artillery Works is similar to the Nanyue Island Artillery Works, a bustling scene. However, compared to the Nanyue Island Artillery Works, the buildings built here are more regular and larger than the Nanyue Island Artillery Works.
, unlike Nanyue Island, the work sheds were relatively small at first, but later to expand production, additional work sheds had to be built, and the layout was messy.
At the beginning of the construction of the artillery operation here, three large-scale work sheds with wooden truss structures were built directly in consideration of future expansion of production. Outside the work sheds was the iron furnace. Several iron furnaces were lined up in a row, with the chimneys pointing directly at the site.
The sky was filled with thick smoke billowing out.
The wood resources here are rich, unlike Nanyue Island, which is relatively shabby. Large-scale timber is directly used for construction. The load-bearing columns are directly driven deep into the ground, making them appear very strong. At least they have strong wind resistance.
There are connected large windows on the walls, which can be opened at ordinary times, and the ventilation and lighting are quite good. During the day, the work shed is bright and bright. Once there is a strong wind or typhoon, the windows can be closed, and production can still continue in the work shed.
Inside the work shed, there are casting platforms one after another. In the past, on the Nanyue Island side, manpower was mainly used to carry the crucible to hold the molten iron, then lift it to the casting platform, pour the molten iron into the mold cavity for casting, which consumes a lot of manpower.
And there are certain dangers. There once was an accident. One of the two apprentices carrying molten iron accidentally fell down. As a result, the molten iron spilled out. The fallen man was burned alive on the spot, and the legs of the other one were also splashed.
He was exposed to molten iron, burned to a pulp, and almost lost his life.
So when Yu Xiaotian was constructing here, he had several human-powered walking cranes made of hardwood, with a set of pulleys installed on them. Although it still required manual operation, it was relatively safer and could hold the load at one time.
Receiving more molten iron will make the continuous surname stronger during casting, and the quality of the artillery produced will be better.
Making a pulley set is really not a problem for Yu Xiaotian. Anyone who has attended junior high school can basically do this. He only needs to make a sketch, and the craftsmen can naturally make it according to the sketch.
Therefore, in terms of scale, the scale of Danshuizhai artillery production is much larger than that of Nanyue Island artillery industry, at least two or three times more. However, the current output here can only be the same as that of Nanyue Island, and part of the production capacity is not yet there.
Some of the iron melting furnaces and casting tables have not yet been put into use. The key is that there are not enough craftsmen and the number of gun molds, so we can only reach the current level first. However, as apprentices start training and the number of workers increases, the output here will increase.
It will definitely soon greatly exceed the output of Nanyue Island Artillery Industry.
When Yu Xiaotian arrived at the artillery work, the place was in production. Among the three large work sheds, some casting stations were not in operation. The animal-powered blowers outside the sheds were making a whirring sound under the traction of cattle.
A large number of craftsmen are busy around some casting tables.
Someone is placing the cannon mold into the pouring pit, and then burying it with sand to make it a stable casting platform. Others are shouting slogans and pushing manpower to hoist a large crucible filled with high-temperature molten iron.
, moving towards the casting table, pouring red molten iron into the casting mouth, sparks flying, very lively.
Some people are digging out the sand under the casting platform, digging out the cast and annealed gun molds, lifting them out with a crane, placing them on the ground, knocking open the iron molds, and peeling them off piece by piece.
Revealing the iron cannon that has been cast inside.
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