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It is not easy for people in this era to build such a warship. First, they must find towering trees that are tall enough.

You must know that the keel length of this ship is 67 meters.

In order to build such a warship, the United Kingdom planted oak trees wildly all over the country, and at least the oak trees needed to manufacture such a large ship were at least one hundred years old.

Because the keel made of oak has high strength and high hardness, and it has the advantage of not cracking or deforming after being soaked in seawater for a long time.

Moreover, after such oak trees are felled, they must be placed in the natural environment to dry in the shade, exposed to wind and rain, and let the natural environment eliminate the natural tension and stress inside the tree boards before they can be used to make warships.

And this process will take fourteen years.

To manufacture such a huge ship requires at least 5,000 and at most 8,000 oak trees. Seeing this, do you still think that the British ruled the world back then, but it was just luck?

Without such a spirit of scientific research, without such endurance of loneliness, they simply could not have created the Armada that Nelson led to sweep across the French fleet.

So when Xiao Feng chose his favorite battleship, he naturally chose the most powerful Victory class in the Age of Sails.

Fortunately, in this era, the materials for shipbuilding are very easy to solve, because in this world, there are many trees and magical plants that are completely different from the earth.

For example, there are too many towering giants in this world, let alone more than 60 meters high, even more than 100 meters high, and giant trees close to 200 meters high can be found everywhere.

Moreover, its hardness and flexibility are no worse than that of oak trees on earth, making it very suitable for shipbuilding.

To build such a giant ship may require 5,000-8,000 century-old oak trees on the earth, but on this planet, according to Ying Ran, only 4,000, 50-year-old red beech trees are enough.

The red beech here is also a towering tree, tall and straight, Xiao Feng likes this kind of tree very much.

A fifty-year-old giant tree like this is enough to be used as the keel of a boat. As for relieving stress and naturally drying it in the shade, Xiao Feng and the others can't wait for such a long time.

They adopted the method of drying. After cutting down the giant tree, they put the big tree next to the fire wall and dried it with the fire wall, which greatly accelerated the speed of shipbuilding.

Although the ship built by this method is fast, its durability is not very good to be honest.

Before the rise of the British on earth, when the Dutch were still sea coachmen, they used this method to build a large number of merchant ships, flute-shaped ships.

Although the quality is not comparable to that of a warship, it is fast and low in cost. There is no need to use expensive oak trees, and ordinary fir or even pine will do.

But the disadvantages are also very obvious. A boat made of oak using the ancient method may last for decades or even hundreds of years, but a boat made of fir or pine using the drying method can only last for thirty years at most. year.

Because the hardness and toughness of fir and pine are not enough, on the other hand, the fast drying method is used, and the internal tension and stress of the firewood itself are not eliminated for a long time, so they are made into the back of the ship.

After soaking in seawater for a long time, the wooden boards on this boat will be pried and deformed, and often need maintenance and replacement, and the airtightness is not good.

Moreover, the strength of the hull is very poor, and it may be blown apart in a storm at sea.

But in this world, there is no such problem. First of all, the hardness and toughness of red beech in this world are much stronger than the pine and fir used by the Dutch to shoddyly build merchant ships.

In addition, although there is no stress relief, there will be problems with the deformation of the wood in the future, but this world is rich in a very good gum.

When Yingzhou people used these gums, they didn't know what strange other hydrosols were filled into the gums.

Then a strange glue is created.

This kind of glue can not only be used as boat paint, but also can greatly improve the strength of the boat.

The structure of this boat not only uses the mortise and tenon structure taught by Xiao Feng, but also uses a lot of rivets, and the most used is this kind of gum.

Each board will be painted with a layer, and then several layers will be painted between the ship boards. This kind of gum is not only strong, but also has very good corrosion resistance, waterproof, crack resistance and other characteristics, and it also makes the boat With super tightness.

Xiao Feng has been thinking about bringing this material back to the modern world. Even if it is brought back to the modern world, this material is still a very good paint, and he even thinks it is better than the paint used by many warships in the modern world.

After a large amount of this kind of paint is used to smear the whole body, the amount of rivets used is greatly reduced, which greatly reduces the weight of the hull, but the strength of the hull does not decrease at all.

The British Victory has a light weight of 4,245 tons, but their ship has a dead weight of only 3,800 tons, which is more than 400 tons lighter than the British Victory.

And the strength is not much less, coupled with a thousand crew members and a 1200-horsepower engine, this has created today's giant sea monster that Xiao Feng sits on!

Xiao Feng liked this ship very much, and appointed this ship as his flagship, named Victory!

The speed of the Victory equipped with an oil extraction machine is much faster than that of the British Victory class, which is the main reason why they were able to travel south along the coastline to the southernmost tip of the Mesodis continent in two weeks.

During this journey, Xiao Feng used the secondary diesel engine to drive the warship, and encountered several high-intensity sea conditions, but the performance of this ship was very satisfactory.

The wave resistance and strength are very reassuring, which proves that the strength of the hull is very qualified. The next durability test, because it is a long-term test, may have to be handed over to Yingran's navy.

This trip to the south is also a voyage. If it succeeds this time, Xiao Feng plans to let Yingran build a large number of such warships in the future.

This kind of ship can be used not only as a warship, but also as an ocean-going fishing boat and a merchant ship.

And from this kind of ship, more ships can be derived. With these ships, the people of the Great Qin Kingdom can sail on the ocean and start to explore this planet.

Of course, other ships will definitely not be equipped with the diesel engine on this ship. The reason why this diesel engine is installed this time is also because Xiao Feng wants to complete the voyage quickly.

In terms of firepower, because no firearms have been developed yet, the firepower configuration is much worse than that of the British Victory Class.

Back then, the British sailed across the sea with this ship, not only relying on the ship to run fast, but also relying on the more than 100 artillery pieces on the ship.

Just below the deck, there are three layers of firepower output platforms.

There are 32 8-inch guns on the lower deck, middle deck and upper deck, 24 8-inch guns on the open deck, and a ten-foot 68-pound gun on the bow.

This kind of firepower configuration can definitely be called luxurious. No wonder the French fleet was beaten all over the place by the British fleet led by Nelson in the naval battle of Trafalgar.

But on the side of the Great Qin Empire, because there is no artillery, Ying Ran can only let people equip the hull with a giant catapult.

This kind of catapult is not the same as the catapult used for siege. To put it bluntly, it is a giant ballista equipped with chutes.

The source of the power group is the extremely tough and thick spring made by the dwarves under the leadership of Ge Luoyin, and it uses the winch tightening mode.

Very similar to the distance fired by crossbow bolts, it can fire giant iron arrows, polished round stone rounds, and pyrotechnic rounds.

In fact, this weapon has been developed for several generations in the Great Qin Empire Army, and now it is a must-have weapon for the Army when it is fighting in the field.

The launch vehicle dragged by mules and horses can shoot flat and projectile. It is very flexible and has an effective range of 500 meters. It is a rare multi-purpose weapon.

In order to better use this weapon, Kyle and Bloom even set up an artillery department in the army.

As for the navy, it was relatively simple. According to Xiao Feng's drawings, Ying Ran directly opened the corresponding embrasure holes on the hull, but instead of being equipped with cannons, he was equipped with this giant ballista.

It can also be fired flatly or projected, and because the ballista is fixed on the warship, it can't help but consider that it must be dragged by mules and horses on land, and take all kinds of bad roads, so it is necessary to miniaturize and lighten the ballista.

Therefore, the ballista on this ship is much larger than the ballista on land, and the firing distance is much farther.

According to Yingran's test results, if projected at an elevation angle of 30 degrees, a stone bullet the size of a shot put can be launched at a distance of more than two kilometers, and a kerosene projectile can be thrown at a distance of three kilometers.

Although this combat power is not comparable to the British artillery ship, but in this world sea, Xiao Feng estimated that it should be invincible.

At this moment, the captain and first mate looked at the half-orcs who were yelling at them on the shore, and the human slaves in the field who were driven like animals by the half-orc soldiers, and they couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation.

They all called for the battle one after another, and Xiao Feng also wanted to test the power of this battleship.

Simply let people drive the boat to the coast, the hull is horizontal, the gun holes on the side of the hull are opened, and a ballista is taken out and fixed to the firing position.

Under the whistle of the gunner, the sailors exerted force rhythmically, pulled the giant spring up with the winch, and then put the stone bullet into the launch slot.

After the gunner takes aim, he calls out to fire, and the shooter uses a mallet to smash down the shoots.

With a whoosh, the stone bullet the size of a shot put drew a perfect arc in the air, and slammed towards the half-orcs on the bank like raindrops.

Among them, a few half-orcs who stood on the bank and shouted the fiercest were hit by stone bullets on the spot, and a strong half-orc was pierced through the chest by stone bullets on the spot.