After leaving there, Xia Hongsheng finally felt that he could be angry again. Although the earth dragon is useful, the smell is too bad.

Li Shimin was obviously still thinking about this matter, and explained to Xia Hongsheng, who was walking beside him, and asked him to hurry up and give him a detailed note of circular agriculture after he went back.

Li Shimin walked all the way, and he was happy all the way, so he casually turned into a certain courtyard to see what was going on there.

Xia Hongsheng took Li Shimin all the way to the site where the ship was ready to be tested, and the swishing iron boat had already been driven back and put in a big pond.

"What an iron ship!" Although Li Shimin already knew about the ship, he was still taken aback when he saw it with his own eyes.

"Your Majesty, the pure iron cast ship is too heavy, even if we make it at present, but we don't have so much motivation to push the pure steel cast ship to move forward and turn flexibly in the water." Xia Hongsheng explained to Li Shimin: "So Weichen thought of a compromise solution. The ship was still made of wood, but with an iron coat on the outside, which not only reduced the weight of the hull, but also gave it some of the advantages of an iron ship. ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin was obviously very curious about this, and said with great interest: "Maybe you can go up?" I'm going to go up and have a look! ”

Everyone boarded the tin boat, and the old boatwright, dressed as if for the New Year, was standing on the boat with his head held high, waiting, and when he saw everyone coming up, he hurried over to salute.

"Your Majesty, this old master is the most experienced and capable old shipwright in the dockyard, and he is also a highly respected old man among all shipwrights." Xia Hongsheng smiled and introduced to Li Shimin: "If it weren't for the old man's exquisite skills, many of Weichen's ideas would not have been realized. This new ship can be made, and this master is the first. ”

"I can't do it! I can't help it! The old shipwright hurriedly waved his hand: "If it weren't for Master Hou coming up with a way, how would we know that the ship could still be changed like this?" And those juniors, they are all very hard-working, very hard-working! ……”

Li Shimin laughed, stepped forward in front of the old shipwright, and said: "Master don't want to give credit, I naturally understand that such a big ship can't be done by one person, thanks to Xia Qing, you, master, and all the shipwrights working together and working together." Rest assured, I remember all these credits! ”

"Ouch! This, this, this...... This is Your Majesty...... "The old shipwright was like a pendulum, and he didn't know how to answer Li Shimin's words, so the pestle trembled there: "Ouch! His Majesty personally spoke to the old man...... It's not a dream! ”

As he spoke, he reached out and unscrewed it on his face.

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, Li Shimin pulled the old shipwright's hand, and said with a smile: "Master don't be like this, this is not a dream, I will often come to the military aircraft workshop in the future to visit the craftsmen who have made such great contributions to our Datang." ”

The old shipwright was so excited that he couldn't even speak, his eyes were full of tears, originally Xia Hongsheng wanted the old boatwright to be in the limelight and introduce Li Shimin to the most advanced ship in the world today.

Li Shimin and everyone looked carefully at the corners of the ship, and Li Shimin asked: "There are many places on this ship that are very different from the ships I have taken in the past, but I don't know why?" ”

"Your Majesty, these different places have been conceived, studied, discussed, and finally tested by the shipwrights of our military aircraft workshop, and applied to this ship after success, which can make the ship more convenient, more stable, and more flexible. Your Majesty, Weichen dares to say that in terms of the technology of this iron ship, except for our Datang, other countries will not be able to do it in another hundred years! Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin very confidently.

Li Shimin listened to Xia Hongsheng's words, his eyes suddenly burned, and he asked in a deep voice: "I want to try this ship with the method of fighting on the water, are you ready?" ”

Xia Hongsheng perked up and said, "Everything is ready, please get off the boat Your Majesty, let's try it immediately!" ”

"Good!" Li Shimin was very excited, and immediately left the ship with everyone, and the old shipwright also asked all the shipwrights on the ship to come down, leaving only one empty ship there.

After going ashore, there were already prepared stone throwers on the shore, as well as the gasoline in the jar, all of which were prepared according to Li Shimin's arrangement.

"Your Majesty, the ship's navigation ability has been tried on the Wei River, and Your Majesty has also gone up to see it. Next, let's see what advantages this ship would have if it were used for water warfare. Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin nodded: "Let's start." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! Nowadays, in water warfare, they mostly attack with clusters of arrows, and then get close to the side of the ship, and then slash and kill, or use sampan boats to fill tung oil, so that the small boats collide with the enemy's large ships, and set fire to the local ships. Xia Hongsheng explained to Li Shimin: "Weichen doesn't think so. Wei Chen thought that water warfare should be based on long-range attacks, avoiding engaging with local ships and avoiding local ships from approaching our ships. Therefore, Weichen's design is to enable our Datang warships to withstand various local and long-range attack methods, and to be able to flexibly swim away from enemy ships at a distance to avoid enemy ships approaching, and defeat the opponent's ships from a distance. Therefore, if this ship is used as a warship, Wechen will be equipped with a large number of steel crossbows, repeaters, bed crossbows, stone throwers and ******, as well as bombs. Through fierce long-range attacks, they will destroy enemy ships without contacting them. ”

After hearing this, Li Shimin nodded and said, "This idea is good. Now that my Datang has the advantage of long-range attack, I don't have to stick to the side for white-knuckle combat. With gasoline and bombs, as long as the ship is fully equipped and the projectile soldiers can be trained on the water, then one ship of our Datang will be enough to wipe out dozens of enemy ships. ”

"Exactly!" Xia Hongsheng nodded and said: "Weichen thinks that now our Datang warship, if it is equipped with gasoline and bombs, after being trained skillfully, there is actually no opponent. Therefore, Weichen assumed that the other party had the same means as our Datang to attack this ship, so that he could test the ship's defense capability. ”

"Good!" Li Shimin said: "Then I will depend on the performance of this ship!" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded, and then shouted loudly: "First round, crossbow strike!" Begin! ”

At the moment when Xia Hongsheng's voice ended, the surrounding Datang Blade team members shot out steel crossbows one after another, and rushed towards the iron boat in the big pond! (To be continued.) )