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　　The new battleship "Nanhai One" entered service. Standing on its thick deck, Yan Changwu was in full bloom!

　　 With the great help of British shipbuilder Phineas Petter, the Southeast Fleet made a great leap forward and built a three-tier sailing battleship with a total of 70 artillery!

This is an "ideal" battleship. Compared with the common Galen ship in Europa, it lacks a tall arched aft and a taller bow in the front. The hull is large and stable, which is beneficial to Fighting wind and waves, with streamlined hull and fast speed, it can almost be compared to a Tier 5 cruiser in a tailwind.

　　 Its appearance is simple and unpretentious, without any dazzling carvings of the Red Haired Warship, except for the statue of Mazu carved on the bow of the ship.

The ship's length reaches 50 meters, the keel length is 43 meters, the hull width is 15.5 meters, the draft reaches 6.5 meters, and the full load displacement reaches an astonishing 2280 tons (for convenience, modern weights and measures), mainly made of fir from northern Fujian. , The keel on the battleship is made of hard but flexible teak wood (cedar cannot bear the keel of the battleship). The teak used for this keel is a teak tree that has been cut down somewhere in Myanmar for at least a hundred years.

It was not easy to come by, and it was transported by the British. When passing through the Strait of Malacca, the Dutch "stalwart patriots" let them go. Together with the British heavy artillery, the British listed a staggering 50,000 silver bribe in the bill. The government pays at the price!

　　The country’s heavy equipment can be shipped, and you have to pinch your nose for as much money!

Since it was built in-house, the hull was reinforced and loaded with 70 artillery, of which 26 were on the lower deck with 24 pounders, 26 on the upper deck with 18 pounders, and the weather deck was equipped with 6 12-pounders and 6 6-pounders. With 12 guns, its firepower is second to none in the same class of warships!

　　 At that time, the 24-pounder artillery was already very fierce. Generally, battleships of the same rank as his class usually used 12-pounder guns on the upper gun deck and 4-pounder guns on the open deck.

　　 Yan Changwu strives for high DPS output, always boasting that his gun is thicker, bigger and harder than others' guns. He is blindly superstitious and is a fireman.

　　 However, in the next battle of Batavia, the Dutch gave him a good lesson, using a thinner, smaller, and softer cannon to beat him upright!

　　The gun door on the lower gun deck is higher from the water than the red captain boat, so it can still open the gun door to fight when the wind and waves are a little bigger.

　　 There are compartments in the bottom compartment, and each compartment is equipped with elm wood pumps (manpower) on both sides to facilitate pipe damage operations.

　　 This battleship has soaked a lot of Yan Changwu's hard work, walking on the deck of the ship, like looking at his own child.

There are two dedicated cabins on the highest level of the stern tower, each with a bedroom, a living room and a bathroom, and several cabins for senior officers underneath. Their living conditions are the best, and the rest environment for other personnel has also been improved. , They got more water (specially added reserves of fresh water) and better food, as well as more toilets, as well as activity cabins.

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　　 There are six hundred and fifty officers and men on the ship. They are fully equipped, and they are enthusiastically loading the warships: supplies and ammunition for people to eat and wear and ship.

This is a big ship. Its reserves are huge, and the quantity is astonishing. Just for the sailors to eat and drink, they must prepare rice, noodles, biscuits, pork jerky, beef jerky, venison jerky, dried vegetables, and mustard. , Salt, candies, tea, jam, dried fruits, kippers and dried fish, cooking oil, eggs, condensed milk, sugar, rum, soybeans and fresh water, etc., there were bread, fresh vegetables, fruits and Fresh meat supply.

　　 Compared with the Hong Maoban boat, the food is unusually rich, allowing the officers and soldiers to maintain a good physical fitness to cope with training and combat.

　　 If it weren’t for the supply to the Logistics Department, I’m afraid the chief of each ship would go crazy for purchasing so many kinds of things.

In addition, there are also many other things, such as medicinal materials, coal, cables, wood, sails, canvas, gunpowder barrels, projectiles, etc., just now piled up a hill on the side of the pier of Nanhai No. 1, but there were hundreds of people. Thanks to his efforts, the hill has almost disappeared (they started work almost in the early hours of the morning).

Accompanied by Shi Daxuan, the new deputy captain, Yan Changwu inspected the preparations of the cabins, mainly for supplies. They all wore the official equipment of an officer. Stand aside and salute them.

Yan Changwu saw many young faces. This battleship has replaced a lot of manpower, and many positions are newbies. Like Yan Changwu’s former deputy captain Yan Donglai, he is less than twenty-five years old. He was very lucky to rush. After this shipbuilding frenzy, he was appointed as the captain of the battleship Southeast, and this kind of position in Hong Maofan's fleet is not possible until he is at least forty years old!

As the new flagship, Nanhai One kept as many veterans in key positions as possible, while the manpower qualifications of other warships were worse than those of the flagship. Novices were recruited, and many combat personnel were sent without qualification certificates. It's useful.

　　 There is no way, that is, training, in which you are proficient in business and obtain a certificate of induction.

More than those newcomers, officers like Yan Changwu who have obtained the command of Tier 3 battleships must also be familiar with his new flagship. This is a brand-new model. The operation is definitely different from his previous Southeast. If he is not familiar with this new one. The performance of the ship, then he will be unlucky in the battle with Hong Maofan, he will lose the battle with the entire fleet!

Chief instructor Storm suggested that Yan Changwu should remain as captain at least until he is thirty years old before he can leave the post of captain. Only after long-term training and combat can he be familiar with the performance of the warship and have sufficient sailing experience, he must not use his hands as a commander. Others, like other captains, have to do it personally. What other captains do and what he does, Yan Changwu thinks makes sense, so he is the captain of Nanhai No.1 and the commander of the fleet at the same time.

The officers and soldiers of this fleet are very young and lack experience. They only have to sacrifice the moon, water, fire, wood, gold, gold, and gold, and go to sea for continuous training. The allowances, wastage, and supplies paid for going to sea (the officers and soldiers eat more than those on shore when they are at sea. More and better), every shell shot out of the barrel is a silver dollar!

　　 With so many warships for long-term training, the funds disappeared like water flow, which made Yan Changwu's financial expenditure tight. CEO Chen Zhongji threatened that if he had no money, he would have to auction Yan Changwu!

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　　 Because of Storm’s suggestion, he had to perform his duties as a captain.

Back in the captain’s cabin, Yan Changwu was trapped in the various accounts and books that the captain usually had to deal with, or in trouble: roster, uniform list, crew certificate (file), chief of armor, captain of sailors, and carpenter’s newspaper. The purchase account of the various expenses, food supplies and necessities that came ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, accompanied by the quality certificates of rum and tea, and the orders that need to be issued, especially the spare accounts, it is troublesome: the inventory is over Numbered and signed barrels of beef, pork and venison (the beef and venison are cured and air-dried, and the pork is cured and smoked), barrels and small barrels of rum, per ton Loaded military biscuits, barreled gunpowder, cannon brush, fuse, cannon plug, bullet delivery rod, iron chain, number of projectiles, and messy necessities, such as all kinds of pulleys, long, single Double, parallel, single pulley with rope, double pulley without rope...

Yan Changwu is familiar with everything. When he received the goods at the dock, he personally participated in the counting (supplies are all placed on the dock and sent to the ship after the inventory is completed). The difference between this pulley and that pulley is like day and night. Generally speaking, he knows the number of shells and gunpowder more well, but he still groaned, the captain did not do this job by ordinary people!

Of course, after sailing, you can leave it to the chief of affairs to take care of him. He only needs to look at the accounts. A good chief of affairs can manage the materials in an orderly manner, while a bad chief of affairs may keep you from defeating the battle (because he can’t Name the exact number of gunpowder and pellets).

　　 Therefore, any position on the ship is sloppy.

　　 A young sailor with freckles on his face was allowed to come in after passing the gate guard, and asked: "Captain, we are ready to sail!"

　　 "Okay!" Yan Changwu grabbed the military cap, walked out of the stern compartment, and got on top of it, where Storm, Shi Daxuan, and Mr. David were all waiting for him.

　　 "Dangdangdang!" The bell rang, and the Nanhai No. 1 sailed slowly, and a fleet consisting of two other battleships, twelve cruise ships, and two supply ships following it followed immediately.