Chapter 159: Shipyard
"The shipyard is built?" Meng Xiang asked Xiaohua in surprise. Count silently in your heart, a full three days.
"Open the catalog!" Meng Xiang carefully examined each illustration. But obviously, there is still not much information available on that simple interface.
"What is the ship's production capacity and speed?" Meng Xiang saw that the first-class shipyard only had one ship production line.
"The standard production speed of a first-class shipyard is one ton per hour, and then there are different coefficients adjusted according to the type of ship and the degree of technological advancement. There is no limit to the tonnage of production. Xiaohua explained.
"Different coefficient adjustments?" Meng Xiang asked, "How much?" ”
"Depending on the type of ship and the degree of technological sophistication, the coefficient fluctuates between 0.3 and 1.2 ten levels."
"That 0.3 coefficient is 0.3 tons per hour?" Meng Xiang pondered for a long time.
"Yes."
"That's too little, isn't it?" Meng Xiang silently calculated, according to the standard, it is only 24 tons a day, only 720 tons a month, and it can't build a 10,000-ton ** in a year. Even after adding the highest coefficient, it is only a little over 10,000 tons. What's more, it is very likely to encounter that coefficient of 0.3.
"Is it worth the trouble?" Meng Xiang muttered, but he understood that this was not a game, and many factors in reality determined that many things were not simplistic.
"How many ship production lines does the secondary shipyard have?" Meng Xiang asked again.
"Two!"
"It's only two, too little, right?" Meng Xiang felt a little lost in his heart, and the illusion of imaginary thousands of warships sweeping across the four oceans was finally shattered.
"What is the production speed of the second level?" He pulled himself together and continued.
"Standard speed 1 hour 10 tons."
"That's fine! You can produce two Yamato in a year! Meng Xiang pondered for a while, only to find that this speed could also be used.
Just as he put down his counting fingers, he suddenly thought of the speed of the gun production line after he upgraded, and hurriedly asked, "Can the third-level commander speed up the production of ships?" ”
"Yes." Xiaohua's answer overjoyed him.
"How much?"
"Not enough to answer!" Xiaohua's voice was still cold.
However, Meng Xiang was already very satisfied. As long as the speed is increased, it is definitely no less than 10 tons.
Meng Xiang took a general look at what could be built in a first-class shipyard, and looked at the rows of catalogs that made him dizzy and plausible, Meng Xiang didn't know how to choose for a while. The battleships of the invincible class were somewhat impressed, but they were too expensive. Even after one-twenty-four, many are still over a million.
"Keep upgrading!" Meng Xiang invested another million and ordered directly. He has a lot of forums for this pseudo-army fan, and he has also learned some military knowledge of the navy, and the most familiar of them is the ships of World War II.
The German S-class high-speed torpedo boats that Meng Xiang later learned about were built in a second-class shipyard.
The day passed quickly.
On the 20th, the southbound army had completely occupied Tai'an, stabilized its foothold, and no longer advanced forward. They ventured south, but they had almost broken through too much, and the follow-up troops had not yet kept up, and it was easy to be cut off by the vanguard army and wrap dumplings. It's a pity that Meng Xiang was not interested in this point from the beginning. Once he defended these troops, his whole plan was completely disrupted. It is said that the local area was stimulated by the victory in Nanjing, and more divisions were preparing to throw themselves into China to occupy territory. When the time comes, the vanguard army will not only face the matter of three or four divisions.
At this time, although Ryosuke Isoya of the 10th Division gambled on his wealth, a wing went south. However, the 107th and 69th Wings of the 109th Division were still in Jinan City, and although the 119th Wing also followed south, another wing of the 118th Brigade had been stationed on both sides of the Yellow River outside the city, maintaining the passage of the Jinpu Line on the Yellow River.
If the vanguard army wants to cut off the back road, Meng Xiang is not sure that he will destroy all three wings at once, and the men and horses of the 108th Division who are rushing towards this side will soon be able to kill them. After Meng Xiang and Fan Chong discussed for a while, they decided to follow the original plan.
Although the intensity of the battle has decreased, there are more than a dozen devils harvested every day for these two or three days. And your own casualties have always remained in the single digits.
Fan Chong has been busy, busy with the reorganization of the 54th Army, and he doesn't bother to discuss it with Meng Xiang.
Meng Xiang is also waiting for the end of the upgrade of the shipyard. As a rule of thumb, this type of upgrade is usually only one day.
Sure enough, 24 hours after being on time, the shipyard was upgraded.
Since Meng Xiang is now a third-level commander, ships before December 7, 41 can be built. Looking at the figures of Bismarck, Yamato and other battleships that appeared on the catalog, Meng Xiang was also excited. At this time, the most powerful ships in the world can already be built. Although the aircraft carrier can already win against it, in this era, the deterrent power of battleships is incomparable with aircraft carriers at this time.
Even after these ships were discounted at half price, he still didn't have enough belongings to produce one. This made Meng Xiang look through the middle of the night, and finally could only give up with a long sigh.
Ships are to be produced, and the navy needs to go through systematic study and a lot of training before it can become a talent, and becoming an army in a hundred years is not empty talk. Without more than 10 years of sedimentation, a navy will not be able to have super combat effectiveness. So far, only Long Yi and Long Er have been trained by the training center in Meng Xiang's hands, and the nine dragon warriors who Meng Xiang urgently included in the training list have only been trained for two days now, and they will not be considered as preliminarily qualified naval officers until tomorrow. There is still a bit of a gap between virtual training and reality, and we still need to keep running-in.
It is unrealistic to build a large ship, it takes a long time, and the water depth of the Yangjiaogou channel is only more than 2 meters, and the battleship cannot get out after it is built.
Meng Xiang simply turned his attention to the S-class torpedo boat. Later generations have read a lot of related posts, although he doesn't know a lot of things, but the German S-class torpedo boat is a good thing, known as the best torpedo boat in World War II, he still knows. But when he looked at the catalog, he realized that the S-class, which could be produced just 41 years ago, was divided into more than a dozen models.
37 years later, Meng Xiang looked at the price, it was still expensive. And after they were made, some of them may still exist in the laboratories of the Germans, which is a big problem for arousing suspicion.
The early S-1 and S-2, Meng Xiang couldn't help but look at the S-7 and S-14 models that had appeared at this time, and these two models also enjoyed one-eighth of the cost discount.
"Build an S-7 and an S-14!" Meng Xiang ordered. There is only a directory on the base brain, which makes Meng Xiang very distressed, and he can only test it a little bit.
Neither torpedo boat had any advanced technology, but the manufacturing process was slightly more cumbersome, so the base was weighted by 0.6. And Meng Xiang also knew that after his third level, the shipyard's speed was doubled, that is, the standard production speed became 20 tons per hour.
In this way, even a production capacity of 12 tons per hour is very fast.
Meng Xiang, who had secretly arrived at the shipyard, excitedly watched the phantom of the S-7 in the production factory slowly solidify, and finally a 32.4-meter-long mighty torpedo boat really appeared in front of Meng Xiang. Looking at the splash after it entered the water, Meng Xiangdu always felt like he was in a dream.
He has always had a sense of unreality about the manufacturing line at the base.
As for Xiaohua's roughly explained theory of space-time transmission, he never understood what was going on. But it didn't prevent him from understanding this as using the energy of the base, using the template of the weapon, and then combining it with the basic particles bit by bit. Otherwise, it wouldn't have gone from being an illusion to slowly becoming an entity.
"But what about those resources?" Meng Xiang also had this question.
"Teleportation to the Network Consortium in exchange for energy and template support." Xiaohua only has this one explanation, but Meng Xiang also understands that the electricity of the power plant alone is still not enough to support the energy consumption of space-time transmission, and its role is just the key to open the door.
The S-7, which had only 75 tons of standard displacement, was produced in just over six hours. The 97-ton S-14 is just over 8 hours.
"Hurry up and measure the experiment!" Without Meng Xiangduo's instructions, the three engineers and Long Yi and Long Er all started to get busy.
Three hours later, a preliminary test result came out.
As soon as he saw that the draft of the S-14 reached 1.5 meters, Meng Xiang directly ignored it. At the beginning of training and fighting, for the time being, it could only be shallow water, and its draft was a little deeper, not as good as the 1.2 meters of the S-7.
The S-7 has a top speed of 34.5 knots, two 21-inch torpedo tubes and one 20-mm high-level dual-purpose cannon in the bow. According to Long Yi's explanation, this data should be very good.
"Go all out to build the S-7, let's build 10 first!" Meng Xiang ordered. Anyway, one only costs 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, which is relatively cheap and fast to produce. If it weren't for the lack of manpower, he could have exploded the torpedo boat directly.