Chapter 205 Days at Sea
Now that we go out to sea, we are of course riding on the most sturdy new flagship - the "Bahuang".
The "Bahuang" is larger than the previous "Bahuang" and can ride 800 people. The materials used are the best and most solid. One fifth of the two thousand hemlock trees in the Liao Kingdom are used on it, creating its tall and mighty appearance.
The "Bahuang" is not just a powerful and tall look. The hidden second-layer deck is equipped with five trenchers on the left and right. Once it rises to the deck, a huge rock as big as a millstone will be launched as quickly as possible, attacking enemies within three or four hundred meters in front of you. It is absolutely capable of fighting against the super warships of the Hatan family and the Tsuga family.
What’s a bit of a pity is that our iron is very scarce, so we cannot be equipped with a strong iron crossbow, otherwise this will be even more powerful, and it is not a problem to defeat the super warship.
Not every twenty-two ships have the ability to attack, so there will be too many soldiers required, and our four thousand navy soldiers are not enough.
So after careful discussion and modification, only the newly built ten warships were equipped with large and medium-sized catapults, such as large and medium-sized catapults, and most of the rest were reprinted goods and surrounded by the center of the warship group.
Most of the general drawings and suggestions for transforming the warship came from Dad Lauren. Because he had worked in the Spanish Navy and knew many excellent designs that were different from the East, he and Baye discussed the advantages and disadvantages of ships in both aspects. Finally, Dad Lauren gave the drawings and suggestions, and carefully told the shipbuilders that they would first understand the overall structure and then build the warship.
Ba Ye said that riding in such a new type of warship in the Shirae Harbour really feels like a fish in water. Whether it is the degree of solidity, speed, the power of a catapult, the adaptability of various environments, etc., it is different from the warships he has ridden before and has definitely beaten the same level of warships.
I was riding on such a carefully crafted warship, and I had almost no bumps at this time. I was also interested in running around the wide deck with my friends.
If we bought a horse now, it would be fun to hold a horse riding competition on this deck.
We even climbed onto two thick masts and looked at the spectacular view of the sea further away.
The ships we saw before had no masts at all, only medium and large ships, and they were all single-masts. They were just the sails on the masts were big and small.
After the mast is raised, the sails can be borrowed from the power of the wind, allowing the wind to blow the sails and lead the ship forward, thus saving energy. The sailors in the bottom cabin do not have to row the oars so hard, and can even rest completely when the strong wind comes.
Especially during the sailing process at sea, sails will exert greater strength. At least half of the time, you can paddle without any sailors. By adjusting the direction of the sail through special personnel, you can master the direction and sail along the way.
The warship with a bridle designed by Dad Lauren is the best in the use of wind power. It has two masts to raise a large sail, which is not only twice as fast as possible. The personnel responsible for controlling the sails have a more accurate grasp of the direction they want to sail. They can even adjust the error within one thousand meters in such a vicious storm around the Shimanai Harbour, and they will not lose their direction.
Now the wind is sunny, and the "Bahuang" only raises a sail, which is also to take care of the medium-sized ships with only one mast in the middle. Otherwise, the "Bahuang" will ride the wind and waves without caring about it, and the speed will be twice as fast as them.
According to Ba Ye's careful observation, if you walk on the windy road and the strong winds are very favorable, the speed of the "Bahuang" can reach thirty miles per hour at the fastest. If the environmental conditions are average, it is twenty miles, and the worst one can be ten miles.
The other ships are a little weaker, but this time we sailed out to sea, because the spring breeze was very helpful for sailing, so it can still be achieved at an average of fifteen miles per hour.
It’s not that you can’t be faster, but the most important thing about sailing on the sea is safety, rather than blindly pursuing speed. Too fast will sometimes cause the ship to be blown over directly by the vast waves and strong winds, which is not worth the cost.
Although the things on the sea are magnificent, they are also quite boring, because from beginning to end, there are only these sea surfaces, sea water, sun, moon, stars, etc., which are repeated day after day, and life is very boring.
This is even more interesting for our children. They were running around like a group of monkeys on the first day, which was very interesting, but on the second day, everyone was lying on the deck very bored.
Seeing the bored friends, I simply asked them to take the big net and follow me to catch the fish in the ocean.
The fleet is constantly moving forward and can catch very few fish, but this continuous gain makes us happy. For a moment, we forget the boredom in the voyage.
The fish caught are also very interesting. There are several types of fish that Baye and Lauren said are poisonous fish, and it is very troublesome to clean them up, so it is best not to eat them.
But when we looked at those fish, we all felt that they looked delicious, but the two adults were too authoritative and more knowledgeable than us, so we hurriedly threw several poisonous fish into the sea.
Liuyin Harbour is probably at least a thousand miles away from the nearest Central Plains Port. The seven or eight-day voyage time expected by Ba Ye and Lauren’s father is actually not very late. If you go from here to the Great Liao Kingdom or the Great Song Kingdom, that month is possible, that is, that is, loneliness is unbearable.
Before we knew it, we arrived at the ninth day of the fourth month, the fourth day of sailing out to sea.
When I woke up early this morning, I realized something was wrong.
Because when I woke up, the sky was still very dark. When I finished washing up, I ran to the deck with my friends as soon as possible. What I saw was that the sky was not only dark, but also the wind was not loud and the clouds were covered with dark clouds, as if I was about to be pressed down. From time to time, there were also a slight "boom" sound.
I looked around and could see the visibility of less than twenty meters, and I could not see the other ships a hundred meters away.
However, at this time, some simple leather rafts were already tied with ropes as thick as human legs, and they were struggling desperately into the sea.
The raft was filled with things, but we couldn't see clearly what it was.
Fortunately, the sea breeze is very small now and can almost be considered still. Otherwise, these rafts would not have gone far and would have been knocked over into the sea.
Such a gloomy and depressing situation made me and my friends who returned to the cabin of the dining room, feeling a little depressed and inexplicably panicked, as if they had some bad premonition.
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Chapter completed!