Chapter 204: The Warrior (3)

Although Zhao Yu's words were not Chrysostom, they were also true, so the numbers of other turtle ships were already brave. Everyone also felt that it was appropriate, and Chen Renweng took the opportunity to ask His Royal Highness to personally inscribe the name of the ship, and everyone surrounded him on the top cabin, where pen and ink had already been prepared. This made him feel like he had been calculated, but at this moment, it was difficult to ride a tiger and be ugly.

Under the hospitality, Zhao Yu brewed for a long time, holding his breath, blushing, holding his strength, splashing ink, and writing the two big words 'warrior'. But Chen Renweng refused to let him go, and asked His Highness to inscribe the names of the remaining ten ships by the way. He sighed, anyway, losing someone once is a loss, and losing ten times is also a loss. Gritting his teeth, stomping his feet, and writing down bravery, bravery, courage, and bravery, he wrote down bravery, bravery, courage, and bravery......

"Commander Chen, looking at the strict posture of the soldiers on your ship, it must be extraordinary in combat power!" Ying Jieyan looked at the forty soldiers lined up on both sides, and said with emotion.

"Fu Shuai praised it, but these soldiers are also selected from the army, and they all have the courage to be ten!" Chen Renweng was of course overjoyed when he heard the praise, and said humbly.

"Well, it's a brave man to look at!" Ying Jieyan glanced at His Highness, who was still inscribed, and said loudly in a long voice.

"Damn, the master still understands me!" Zhao Yu secretly said in his heart, but his subordinates did not idle the pen After You Long wrote the last two big words 'brave', he threw his pen at the head of the case and secretly bowed his hand to Ying Jieyan.

"Humph!" The old man snorted as if he hadn't seen it, but he secretly decided in his heart that he would learn from Yuan Miao when he went back, and train His Highness well, so as not to embarrass himself. Let's not talk about how this word is written, if it weren't for the fact that His Highness was writing more and more slowly, and realized that he had no goods in his stomach, the eyes of the master and apprentice would have widened today!

Zhao Yu also dared to see that it was not good, looking at the old man who went back like this, he would definitely not be able to spare himself, first of all, he couldn't run away from practicing calligraphy, and he had to endorse if he didn't get it, which didn't cost Lao Tzu's life. And thinking that these were all the 'disasters' caused by being too carried away just now, he gave the protagonists to Chen Renweng and Zhou Xiang, and he was low-key and low-key, let them go proudly......

Seeing that it was already three poles in the morning, Chen Renweng gave the order to set sail, and his orders were instantly transmitted to each post through the microphone tube on the command platform. Immediately after the lookout slowly rises, the sail roper retracts the gangway, turns the winch to raise the anchor, the oarsman shouts the trumpet to shake the oar, the helmsman adjusts the rudder according to the command of the boatman, and the warship slowly leaves the dock and sails into the Nandu River and goes north.

As the boat entered the middle of the river, the drums gradually became denser and the speed gradually increased. Zhao Yu looked out through the crossbow window beside him after the ship started, and he silently calculated the time in his heart, estimating that the speed of the ship could reach about eight knots per hour, and the instantaneous peak was about ten knots. Even after subtracting the water velocity, it still exceeds the design speed. At high speeds, the lateral swing of the ship is very small, and the undulations are almost undetectable. And there is no sense of hindrance in speeding up and steering, at least it shows that the stability and handling of the boat are good, which is still in the case of serious overcrowding, and it may perform better if the weight is reduced.

In everyone's praise, Zhao Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. According to the design, the turtle ship is a thousand-stone ship, with a capacity of 200 people, including three captains and deputy captains, one boatmaster, four helmsmen and helmsmen, five Guantong sentinels, one doctor on board, two shipwrights, ninety-two ballista teams, forty-two warriors, forty-eight sailors, and two firefighters. According to the current calculation of two stones per person, the soldiers took up 400 stones, and the ship was equipped with 22 ballistas, plus the reserve of ammunition and daily necessities, and heavy iron-backed armor, leaving not much room left.

Today, it was originally scheduled that only Ying Jieyan and Liu Zhu and Zhou Xiang would accompany him to inspect Haiphong, but he didn't expect a group of people to see him off and felt strange and temporarily decided to follow them on the boat. When he checked the bilge, he had already seen that in order to test the performance of the ship, it was full of things, that is, the approved load capacity had been reached before the ship set sail, and even the maximum load had been reached, which made Zhao Hao secretly a little worried.

And now the warship has not been affected by the overcrowding, and it can only be explained by the fact that he does not know the structure of the ancient ship, or the different materials used affect the calculation results, after all, the things he came into contact with in his past life are very different from the present. But at this moment, no matter where the problem is, we have to wait for it to be found out slowly. However, it also shows that the warship still has the potential to be developed, such as loading more weapons, carrying more daily necessities, traveling with or carrying more personnel, which can further improve the utilization rate of the ship, and it is not impossible to replace it with real guns one day......

August and September are the hottest years in Hainan, although the portholes of the top cabin have been opened, but the closed ship is still a little stuffy, and Zhao Yu today because he can't lose his dignity in front of everyone, a dress wrapped his body tightly, and the heat is a little uncomfortable. But he couldn't take it off, so he could only endure it, which made him envious of the soldiers and sailors who only wore half-sleeved short clothes.

The boat entered the sea from the mouth of the river in half an hour, and in the astonishment of the people, a crack in the top of the ship, two masts were erected and the sails were hung, and the sails were turned to cruise along the shoreline, although the speed was reduced, but still steady. And this time, Zhao Yu learned to be obedient, and didn't say a word anymore, let Chen Renweng and Zhou Xiang follow everyone, leading everyone up and down to visit, blowing the wind at the lookout port of the bow of the ship, squinting with a monocular, and still not quiet.

"You also said that Your Highness is not partial, only this one ship is equipped with more than 20 large and small ballistas, and our large warships are equipped with five!" Liu Su couldn't help but complain after watching it.

"You guys are already good, our infantry army is now equipped with an artillery team under a commander, and there are twenty ballistae under its jurisdiction, all of which are not precious, but every ship of your navy is equipped with ballistas!" Huang Xianyao is even more 'jealous'.

"Eh, don't you still have a fort in your infantry army? I've seen it, the stone thrower is no worse than the Xiangyang cannon of the Tartar, more than 30 catties of stone projectiles can shoot more than 300 steps, no ship can stand up to smash it like this! Seeing that he had the intention of biting himself, Liu Zhu quickly changed the topic.

"Liu Dutong, have you seen the ballista that can fire continuously? It can be automatically wound and fired, and ten crossbow arrows can be fired in one go, which is really like a series of arrows, if you and I can equip hundreds of them, even if the Tartars' thousands of troops come to attack, they can all be knocked over. Go back and talk to Your Highness together! Huang Xianyao licked his lips and peeked at His Highness.

"Alas, it's still young...... Zhao Yu twisted his face and glared at Chen Renweng, who was still struggling, and secretly scolded this guy for not knowing that there was a treasure, and he took it out to show off and make people red-eyed...... (To be continued.) )