The situation is like this, China's water power is actually determined according to the "material" to determine the tonnage, but each level of warship does not belong to its own level of name at all, just simply according to the number of materials, but the lack of strict level regulations is destined to fail to develop a systematic shipbuilding system.

The development of science has never been inseparable from a system, and hypotheses and experiments are carried out within that system, so if Lu Zhe wants to develop the navy, the first step is of course to come up with a plan, and then divide the class of warships according to tonnage.

The 2,000-ton warship is indeed the largest warship in the empire today. According to the popular interpretation, it is difficult to make any breakthroughs in a short period of time, but it will not be permanently limited to the tonnage of 2,000, and there will definitely be warships with larger tonnage in the future.

The Imperial Navy has no opponents now, and 2,000 tons as a warship is actually considered an "excessive surplus", so the research on warships can already take a break at this point, and turn to the study of more urgent seaborne ships, and the research of warships is still a strategic technical reserve even if it continues.

At present, there is no need for warships of more than 2,000 tons, but it does not mean that they are not needed permanently.

Considering that there will definitely be more than 2,000-ton warships in the future, the latest 2,000-ton warships have been set at the level of "county", and there are also "state" class, "feudal state" class, and "empire" class on it, and below it are "county" level, "township" level, "li" class, and "pavilion" class. Admittedly, the names of the warships are very old-fashioned, and there are another set of more old-fashioned names that are rivers, rivers, lakes, and seas......

In fact, it should be named according to the dynasty, but now it is the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States, followed by the two Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, and Song...... Such dynasties did not appear at all, and there is no such thing as "dynasty" now, and Lu Zhe is even more reluctant to appear such a term as "dynasty", hoping that it is better not to change the dynasty. Naturally, it was ignored.

In addition, there is also a method of naming the warship class with important regions, which is actually included in the naming system, but it is used as the name of a single ship, such as "Nannanjun", "Lujiang", "Changsha...... Names such as the same are almost the names of each county that are used to name the flagship or capital ship of a certain fleet, but they haven't appeared yet.

After Taiquan finished speaking, Qi Fanyu added. Qi Fanyu was naturally another lieutenant, and he said later: "After you return to your homeland, do you have any tasks?" ”

"Well, we need to build a base for the newly discovered mainland (Luzon), and then we need to explore inland." Bianliang thought for a moment. Addendum: "While building a base and exploring the interior, it is necessary to send a fleet to conduct a new round of exploration of the southern seas. ”

Qi Fanyu and Tai Quan glanced at each other without a trace, their faces were smiling, and they responded in unison, "No!" Then Qi Fanyu smiled and suggested: "You should take a look at the launch of new weapons." ”

A new round of rewards has been sent out by Lu Zhe, and there will be corresponding rewards for discovering an island or a large island, and the biggest reward is about finding the Mauryan Empire and the Seleucid Empire by bypassing the strait.

Bianliang has been in the open sea for a long time, relatively unfamiliar with what is happening in the empire itself, and has not yet received news of a new round of bounties. He saw that Qi Fanyu was cautious. After a moment's hesitation, he nodded and personally ordered the ship's gunners to conduct a test firing.

The order was given, and the windows of the second floor of the warship opened back and forth, and the bronze-quality cannon muzzle also stretched out in the sound of the trumpet. A roar caused Bianliang to fall into a momentary state of distraction, but before he came back to his senses, he saw columns of water rising on the sea.

The 2,000-ton ships were not loaded with many guns, and each ship was equipped with six 90-millimeter six-pounder guns, and the longest range of the guns was about 800 meters. The firing was a solid bullet weighing about 5.4 catties; Of course, this cannon can also fire other shells, and if necessary, it can be detached and carried to land to fire shotguns at close range.

It is a spectacle to watch the bursts of water burst out of the sea with solid bullets hitting the sea. But there was no way to see how much lethality there was, and the naval guns fired at a useless land on the reef, and the solid shells were fired through the breech and then bombarded the reef.

Not only was Bianliang shocked by the scene after the launch of the new weapon, but all the people present looked distracted and surprised, they didn't know who developed such a weapon, but it did not prevent them from seeing the power of this weapon.

"Cannon, yes?"

"It seems to be called a six-pounder or a ninety-millimeter gun? Right! It's a naval gun! ”

"It has a longer range than catapults, ballistas, giant ballistas, and other original instruments, and the power is also incomparable to those previous instruments!"

"The maximum range is almost a kilometer......"

"It's about 800 meters, some are less than 800 meters, some are more than 800 meters. The head should be slightly more accurate than the previous instruments! ”

"Hey, somebody's boating out, what is that trying to do?"

"You'll find out if you look at it."

Someone rowed a light boat out, and the two of them rowed four oars, and they parked an eight-long light boat with a length of about five meters and a width of about one meter to a position about 600 meters away from the gunboat.

"Let's go to the battleship." Bianliang seemed a little impatient, standing on the shore and watching it, how could he go on the ship to watch the launch process in person.

The gunboat stopped not far away, and wanted to get on the boat and row for about ten meters, so they climbed up one by one from the climbing net on one side of the ship, and Bianliang, who was the first to climb the deck, accepted the greeting of the sailors on board, and after a little questioning, they walked towards the nearest door.

He walked a few steps and found a staircase that could be used up and down, and a sailor next to him said: "The upper part is the command room, and the lower part is the second floor of the battleship's water surface, if you walk forward for a distance, you can see the officer's recreation room room and the officer's canteen, the commander's bedroom is next to the command room, the first officer's bedroom is separated from the commander, and the rest of the officers' bedrooms are on the first floor of the water." The sailors' dormitories, recreation rooms, and canteens are on the first floor underwater, and the second floor is a storage room for gunpowder and projectiles. The third floor underwater is a storage room for the rest of the supplies. ”

In the past, warships also had special officers' lounges and officers' exclusive canteens, but this 2,000-ton battleship has obviously more officers' lounges, and the canteens are also much larger, and there are even special recreation rooms for officers. In fact, the previous battleship did not have any entertainment room, and it was not so easy to relax, and the layout of the previous room was not the same as that of the new battleship.

It is not so clear how other dynasties delineated the level of ships, the empire was divided into upper and lower according to the water level, and the water level was used as the "starting point", beyond the water level is a layer above the water, and below the water level is the bottom layer. That also presents a three-two-one and one-two-three pattern, rather than according to the maximum penalty of the battleship is six, and the next is five-four-three-two-one.

Bianliang walked upward, stopping only briefly at the first staircase, scanning the busy artillery with his gaze, and then continuing up to the third floor of the water.

The third floor of the water is the smallest internal area of the whole ship, and in addition to the command room, it is the captain's lounge and the first mate's lounge. Who knows why the captain's and first mate's lounge is located at the top, presumably so that the captain and first mate can go to the nearest command room in case of emergency?

That is, the empire has no strong opponents, and even on the sea, there are no warships of other countries except for the empire's warships. Otherwise, if the captain's lounge and the first mate's lounge are placed on the top floor, if other warships also have naval guns, the first round of direct targeting of the captain's and first mate's lounge can directly paralyze the command of the battleship.

"Well, it seems to be the same thing. After Wang Shang saw the structural diagram, he became angry, saying that the craftsmen who developed the battleship were caught in the door and how to put the captain's and first mate's bedrooms in such a position. Qi Fanyu's expression was a little strange no matter how you looked at it: "Everyone didn't understand it when they didn't see the naval gun, and they came back to their senses when they knew the weapon of the naval gun." So. Except for the two newly built 2,000-ton warships, which were laid out in this way, future warships will be modified to accommodate the captain's and first mate's lounge. ”

Bianliang didn't say anything. He only walked around the command room and found that the view from the command room was very good, and he was satisfied. Then, he went down to the second floor, and after careful observation, he found that the entire second floor of the water was an open structure except for some necessary support columns, and six 90-millimeter guns were placed in the windows on both sides of the ship, and the gun body was firmly fixed in a kind of chute position by the base, and then he saw that there was a pod at the front and rear ends of the cabin?

"The pod is directly connected to the second underwater layer to replenish gunpowder and projectiles." Qi Fanyu seemed to be very satisfied with this design, thought about it and pointed to the centipede structure pillar on the side of the pod: "The artillery enters the combat position from the 'Feng'-shaped pillar to climb up and down, so this is also connected to the sailor's lounge on the underwater floor." ”

Bianliang nodded, and then said, "Let's start!" ”

The artillerymen, who had been standing still, began to move to the sound of slogans, and it was clear that they were not prepared to shoot in advance in order to demonstrate to the fleet commander the whole process of the artillery, so they came step by step.

The artillery carried out the three steps of gunpowder packaging and filling, fuse placement, and projectile loading, and then completed the state of waiting for fire with various slogans such as "how much elevation angle scale" and "how much transverse ruler" of the gun commanders of each ship's guns.

The officer, who looked like an officer on duty on the second floor of the water, shouted: "Commander, you have entered a firing posture and are waiting for the next order." ”

It was the first time for Bianliang to experience such an incident, and he felt a novelty at the same time, but he couldn't help but feel a little weird, thinking that the navy was really more rigid than the army's discipline, and he didn't give the first order to shoot, but walked to the side of a naval gun and looked out through the window, and saw a floating light boat in the distance. When he withdrew his eyes, he kept looking at the bronze naval gun, and when he wanted to touch it, he found that the faces of the artilleryman and the gunner became very nervous, and he hesitated and retreated.

The officer on duty can fully understand Bianliang's curiosity, fortunately Bianliang finally did not move the ship's guns, but Bianliang was so curious for a while, and the horizontal ruler and elevation angle set before were estimated to be invalid, after all, although the waves in the reef are not big, but the wind will push the light boat to move.

The artillerymen reset the elevation angle and lateral angle after Bianliang retreated, and Bianliang knew what he was getting in the way no matter how dull he was, but he was not embarrassed.

"Ready--" several artillery commanders shouted together, "fire!" ”

The huge roar was not unanimous, but divided into one, two, and three...... Until the sixth sound, many people who watched the launch for the first time were directly shocked by the roaring sound, and they also felt a shaking under their feet, and some people were directly stunned.

If you look outside, you can actually see puffs of smoke coming out of the ship's guns when they are fired, and the hull of the ship is also pushed to the side by some force.

Biao Liang was also a little stunned, what he saw in his eyes was that the naval guns after firing the guns retreated to the back of the chute, he couldn't understand what recoil was, and naturally he didn't understand the role of the chute so much, he only saw that after the firing was completed, the artillery hurriedly cooled down and cleared the chamber.

"Missed!" A series of roars were shouted by the six gun commanders one after the other, and then the order was given to continue loading.

After a few minutes, there was another roar, and this time Bianliang and a few people who had not figured out the situation before, they covered their ears and opened their mouths wide in the same way, and it was finally better to have such a tactical move.

The current accuracy of the cannon is really worrying, firing back and forth, the light boat was bombed near the water column and splashed water, has been fired until the seventh round, I don't know whether to find the feeling or rely on the blind, finally a projectile hit the light boat, the light boat also became scum in a burst of sawdust flying around.

"Commander, do you need to demonstrate the starboard and starboard change shooting?"

"Demo!"

It was all a port shelling before, and Bianliang replied that he didn't stay here, he went directly to the command room, almost when he arrived at the command room, the anchor was also recovered to the deck, and then the sailors were busy setting sail, and after moving, they carried out a circular round of moving to port and starboard.

Wanting to understand that the new weapon does not depend on watching and firing a few times, Bianliang inquired, and learned that there were only two gunboats in the entire empire, namely the new flagship under his feet and the new flagship of his former boss, and he wanted to know why only two were armed, but he didn't ask.

"It's been too long since I've been back to the Empire." Bianliang was satisfied, he just knew that this return to the empire was to return with half of the fleet, which meant that he could familiarize himself with the new flagship as soon as possible on the return trip, and he could also let some of the new and old ships run in. Feeling happy and looking forward to returning to his homeland as soon as possible, he sighed with a smile on his face: "I don't know what is happening in my homeland with each passing day......" (to be continued......