Li Er, the chief steward of the Li family in Beitongzhou, was busy on Huangjiawan Island, arranging the loading of ships, and he found that the Huang family's warships were several times more, this kid was used to running old fritters in Japan, and knew that with such strength, there was no one to beat on this sea route. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was already thinking about how to take the Huang family's warships to find the only way for other countries' sea ships, and complete the task assigned by his son-in-law to attack all the fleets of Japanese suppliers.

This kid thinks that the more he fights, the more ruthless, the better, because in this way his family's business will get better and better, and the Li family has a unique strength in Beizhili, and when he goes to sea, he is escorted by the Huang family's warship, and it is difficult to say that his profits will double in the future.

Everything is ready, and the flagship 'Liaodong', which has poured countless ingenuity and ingenuity into the Huang family, has made its debut, and this is the first voyage!

Huang Sheng suddenly remembered the 'Titanic', which seemed to hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage.

In Europe, the self-righteous King Gustav II of Sweden built a flagship 'Goblet' with an overly high center of gravity, which sank at the first launch of the sea trial, killing more than 500 people.

The cautious Huang Sheng believed that the excessive casualties caused by the maritime affairs were entirely due to the carelessness of the command, and as long as there were psychological and material preparations, all this could be completely avoided.

Huang Sheng can't predict whether the maiden voyage will go smoothly, but he can avoid everyone being helpless when misfortune happens.

The Chinese ship is a multi-sealed cabin structure, and there is no possibility of sinking instantly, as long as the supplies they bring are sufficient, and there are enough ships going to sea together, they are safe.

Huang Sheng is also reluctant to abandon the ship in the event of an emergency, this flagship has poured too much effort into the top master of the Huang family, and has also invested too much emotion, even if the design backfires, you will find clues when sailing, and continue to improve the design after returning to the voyage.

If everything comes to naught when it sinks into the vast sea, Huang Sheng has a way to bring all the sealed pontoons and fasteners at home, so many wooden sealed pontoons can theoretically float more than 3,000 tons of objects, and can be used as a lifeboat and an emergency boat to increase the buoyancy of the sea ship in the accident.

The maiden voyage is of great significance, and there is no room for mistakes, and the best sailors and gunners of the Huang family have been selected to serve the flagship, and they must be careful for their safety.

The Huang family's warships were still dispatched, seven No. 2 Fuchuan-class warships and fifteen grass-skimming ships, plus five unarmed No. 2 Fuchuan ships and forty horse ships, all of which were remodeled and upgraded sea ships, and their speed was not slower than the flagship 'Liaodong'.

The goods were loaded on horse ships and fortune ships, and all the porcelain produced in the past few months was also brought along, and many dioramas and soap gift boxes were brought with them, and all the small quantities of Matsue cloth produced were also loaded on the ship.

The total tonnage of the fleet dispatched by the Huang family exceeded 20,000 tons, and there was simply not so much cargo and supplies to be loaded, all cargo ships were only loaded with a small half-cabin, and the warships were empty.

There were as many as 1,500 sailors and gunners who went to sea, as well as six heavy infantry of the general flag, 870 musketeers, six engineers of the general flag were selected to bring with them, and 30 men of the medical team were on board.

Zhao Shimin took more than a dozen masters on the maiden voyage together, and they were the main designers and participants in the manufacture of this flagship.

Zhao Shimin's attitude is a bit heroic if he doesn't succeed, Huang Sheng smiled dumbly, what about failure? You can do it all over again, and you can leave the green mountains in this arrangement.

But they were right to know first-hand, and they were able to put themselves in their shoes and solve problems.

Even if the flagship sinks on its first voyage, there will not be too many casualties, but it will only lose more than 100,000 taels of silver. Therefore, it is not too valuable, if according to the design, all the equipment and decoration are completed, the flagship is worth 200,000 taels of silver.

At present, only the bow and tail guns are real rifled steel cannons that can be fired, and most of the other gun emplacements are fake, and the muzzles are made of wood to stick out of the muzzles.

Only twenty-two six-pounder and four-pounder smoothbore guns reloaded from other ships are real, these guns are only temporary appropriation, not at all the guns required for design, but they are just used to make up the façade, there is no way there are only so many guns at home.

It was not easy to produce rifled steel cannons, and eleven twelve-pound guns were produced, except for the 'Liaodong', which was installed, and the rest were replaced with the bow guns of the seven No. 2 Fuchuan-class warships, and fifteen nine-pounder rifled steel cannons were produced, and the six-pounder and four-pounder copper-core iron cannons installed on the bow of the grass-skimming ships were replaced.

The bow and tail guns of the 'Liaodong' are large-caliber rifled steel cannons, which are 20 pounds and 12 pounds and 4 guns respectively.

When the enemy ship can be shelled horizontally, it should be hit by more than nine shells, and whether it is willing to compete with the enemy ship will depend on whether the Huang family is willing to do so.

More than 3,000 people and 68 ships, thousands of sails danced vigorously when they set off, the scale was not small, and the family members who came to see off Huangjiawan Island were all smiling, they trusted the head of the family, knew that their relatives would not be too dangerous, and would earn a lot of silver.

Because as long as the Huang family starts to carry out the task, all the participants are double-paid.

Every time you go out on a mission, there is an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, the future of your relatives is not something that can be obtained by living on the island all day long, the Huang family is the fairest, as long as you dare to fight for it, there will be no shortage of opportunities for you.

In the blessings of the relatives, the mighty fleet sailed away, riding the wind and waves all the way, the flagship was very stable, eighty-eight people increased the power, in the case of the wind in general, the speed of the ship can be increased to eight levels, if the wind and water can be more than ten knots.

You can lower all the sails when the wind is going against the water, and you can reach five knots when you are completely driven by manpower, and you can go against the wind and the water? Damn it! Such a fucking voyage, our Huang family chooses to avoid it.

Just kidding, you can sail as well as a big zigzag method, and you are not afraid of headwinds in the sail era, but fortunately, no wind at sea is too rare, and there will be a few levels.

The Huang family's 40 horse boats, 10 lucky boats, and 7 straw skimming boats are still spliced together into a huge whole, and more than 2,000 people work, study, and train together.

Eleven large and small warships, led by the flagship, cruised around the fleet, and all the binoculars were observing the movements of the nearby sea, not for fear of pirates attacking their own fleet, and no pirate had such a great appetite on this route.

The captains of those warships are looking forward to discovering the passing merchant ships or pirate ships, the Huang family is a Ming official army, and it is not easy to deal with the merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty, and they are embarrassed to see foreign ships.

Fifty-seven seagoing ships are connected into a huge forward platform, between the ships there is a thick cushion made of straw rope and hemp rope to prevent hard collisions, comfort and stability are undoubted, on the platform, the Huang family soldiers can even two or three small flags in a group of small-scale running drills.

Li Er and the six tents were running on the spliced deck with Huan'er, and they also told everyone that the happiest voyage was this time, and they used to run the sea all day long and were trapped in the cabin and suffocated to death.

Huang Sheng, the head of the family, was deprived of the right to take the first voyage of the 'Liaodong' flagship, and Zhao Shimin, the technical director of the Huang family, had a good reason, and he stressed that this was not the first voyage, but a trial voyage, because the flagship had not yet been delivered to the army for service, and it was still a semi-finished product of a military factory, nominally under his management.

Moreover, there are no living facilities in the 'Liaodong', and it is inconvenient for the teacher to take a group of commanders, so it is no wonder that Zhao Shimin deliberately did not carry out interior decoration, and it turned out that he was ambushing here.

The last time Huang Mingdao attacked Fuzhou, he was assigned the task of staying on the beachhead and directing the warships to shoot at the enemy who came to Jinzhou's aid, and there was no good thing about the field attack.

He looked at his high-spirited cousin Huang Mingli with envy, thinking that in the future, if he did not command the warship, he would have to command the landing force and fight the enemy face to face.

This time, he was taken by the head of the family to go to sea as the commander-in-chief, and when he saw the huge flagship, he dispelled this idea.

Huang Mingdao did not listen to Zhao Shimin's dissuasion, and he must personally participate in the trial voyage of the 'Liaodong', and he also had sufficient reasons, saying that he was also experienced in going to sea often, and he might be able to give some suggestions to the flagship.

Zhao Shimin naturally agreed, they were all worried about the safety of the head of the family, and they were not afraid at all.

Huang Sheng is people-oriented, every time he fights, he puts the safety of his soldiers in the first place, and now he also considers safety first for him.

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