Chapter 204 The Warrior (3)
Although Zhao Bing's words were not golden words, they were also just a word, so the other turtle ships had the word "Rare" as the head. Everyone also felt that it was appropriate. Chen Renweng took the opportunity to ask His Highness to write the name of the ship himself, and everyone surrounded him into the top cabin. There was already a pen and ink here. This made him feel like he was being plotted, but now he was unable to get off the tiger and even if he could show his ugly appearance.
With a warm heart, Zhao Bing brewed for a long time, holding his breath, blushing his face, holding his strength, splashing ink, and writing down the two big words "warrior". However, Chen Renweng refused to let him go, and asked His Highness to write the names of the other ten ships by the way. He sighed, anyway, he threw him away once, and he threw him away ten times. He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and waved his pen to write down his courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage, courage...
"Commander Chen, look at the stern military posture of the soldiers on your ship, you must have extraordinary combat power!" Ying Jieyan looked at the forty soldiers lined up in the queue and said with emotion.
"The Fushou praised him, but these soldiers were all selected from the army, and they all had the courage to be ten!" Chen Renweng was of course happy and said modestly after hearing the praise.
"Well, look at it, you're a brave man!" Ying Jieyan glanced at His Highness who was still inscribed with the inscription and said loudly, pulling Changyin'er.
"Damn, the master understands me!" Zhao Bing said in his heart, but his subordinates did not have a pen to write the last two big words "Brave", and threw the pen on the desk and sighed, secretly bowing to Yingjieyan.
"Hmph!" The old man breathed a sigh of relief as if he didn't see it, but he secretly decided to go back and learn from Yuan Miao and practice Your Highness well, so as not to embarrass himself. Not to mention how this word is written, if you hadn't seen Your Highness write slowly just now, and realize that there was no goods in his stomach, the eyes of both masters and apprentices would have become bigger today!
Seeing this, Zhao Bing dared to be bad. Seeing that the old man would definitely not spare him when he returned like this, he couldn't escape from practicing calligraphy at first, and he had to memorize the book if he couldn't do it well. This would cost me my life. Thinking about it, these were all the "disasters" that he had just been too proud, so he gave the protagonist to Chen Renweng and Zhou Xiang. He was low-key and low-key, so they could go with satisfaction...
Seeing that it was already three o'clock in the sun, Chen Renweng ordered his sailing, and his orders were instantly transmitted to each post through the sound transmission tube on the podium. Then the observation deck slowly rose, the sailing cable hand put away the gangway, turned the winch to anchor, and the oarsman shouted horns in the drums, and the helmsman adjusted the rudder board according to the command of the boatman. The warship slowly left the dock and sailed into the Nandu River and flowed northward.
As the boat entered the middle of the river, the drums gradually became denser and the degree gradually accelerated. Zhao Bing looked out through the crossbow window around him since the ship started. He calculated the time in his mind, and estimated that the ship could reach about eight knots, with an instant peak of about ten knots. Even if the water flow was subtracted, it was still beyond the design time. In the high driving state, the lateral swing of the ship was very small, and the ups and downs were almost impossible to check. Moreover, there was no sense of blockage in the steering, which at least showed that the ship's stability and handling were good. This was still in the case of serious personnel. If the weight was reduced, it might perform better.
Amid everyone's praise, Zhao Bing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. According to the design, the turtle ship was a thousand stone ship, with a captain of 200 people, including three chief and deputy captain, one boat division, four helmsman and helmsman, five observers, one doctor, two boat craftsmen, ninety-two crossbows team, forty-two warriors team, forty-eight sailors team, and two fire soldiers. According to the current algorithm of one person receiving two stones, the soldiers occupied 400 stones, and the ship was equipped with twenty-two crossbows, plus the reserved ammunition and daily necessities and heavy iron-backed armor, the remaining allowance was not much.
Today, only Ying Jieyan and Liu Zhu were scheduled to be there, and Zhou Xiang accompanied him to inspect the coastal defense. Unexpectedly, a group of people who were seeing him off felt strange and decided to follow him on the boat. Zhao Bing calculated that these people plus his more than ten entourages, and the number of people increased by about fifty people at once. When checking the bottom cabin, he had already seen that in order to test the performance of the ship, there were things inside, which means that the ship had reached the approved load capacity before it set sail, and even the maximum load capacity had reached, which made Zhao Bing a little worried.
Now the warship is not affected by the personnel, and can only explain it by not knowing the structure of the ancient ship or the different materials used, which affects the calculation results. After all, the things I came into contact with in my previous life are very different from those now. But no matter where the problem lies, I have to wait to find it slowly in the future. However, it also shows that the warship still has the potential to drive, such as loading more weapons, carrying more daily necessities, traveling with or carrying more personnel. These can further improve the utilization rate of the ship. One day, it is not impossible to change into a real artillery...
August and September are the hottest year in Hainan. Although the portholes in the roof cabin have been opened, the closed boat is still a little stuffy. Besides, Zhao Bing cannot lose his dignity in front of everyone today, and his dress is tightly wrapped around his body, which is a bit hot. But he cannot take it off, so he can only endure it, making him envy the soldiers and sailors who only wear half-sleeved short clothes.
After half an hour of sailing, the boat entered the sea from the mouth of the river. A crack was cracked in the top of the boat, and the two masts raised up and hung sails, turned to sail to drive the cruise along the coastline. Although the degree had decreased, it was still stable. This time, Zhao Bing learned his lesson and said no more. He let Chen Renweng and Zhou Xiang be proud of everyone, leading everyone up and down to visit. He was blowing the wind at the lookout at the bow of the boat, holding a monocular telescope and squinting his eyes to look out, but his ears were still not quiet.
"You also said that Your Highness is not biased. This ship is equipped with more than 20 large and small crossbows, while our large warships are equipped with five!" Liu Zhu couldn't help but complain after seeing it.
"You are already good. Our infantry commander now only has one artillery team under his command, and has twenty crossbows. All are not good, but every ship of your navy is equipped with crossbows!" Huang Xianyao said even more 'jealous'.
"Hey, don't your infantry still have a fort? I've seen it. The stone thrower is no worse than the Tartars' Xiangyang cannon. More than 30 kilograms of stone bullets can shoot more than 300 steps. No boat can hold it and smash it like this!" Liu Zhu saw that he had the intention of catching himself, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Dutong Liu, have you seen the crossbow that can be shot continuously? It can be automatically turned on the strings and hit, and shoot ten crossbow arrows in one go. It is really like a bead. If you and I can equip hundreds of dozens of them, even if the Tartars' troops attack, they can shoot them all over. Go back and talk to your highness together!" Huang Xianyao licked his lips and looked at his highness and said.
Chapter completed!