Chapter 249 Iron-armored Battleship

Yang Ling now practices martial arts with Wu Hanchao every day, with famous teachers instructing him, and practices the best martial arts. He is much faster than ordinary martial artists. Now he has achieved some success, at least he is smart in his ears and smart in his eyes and flexible in his skills.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly leaned over and stopped him, reaching out to grab Cheng Qiyun's slim waist.

Cheng Qiyun's waist looks like a willow, but it is extremely plump and smooth, with warm and soft tentacles, and as soft as boneless. In addition, Cheng Qiyunjing's scary face is slightly red, and the fragrance is so delicate that it is very moving.

Yang Ling remembered the stunning scene of Cheng Qiyun raising her hand to dance in the mansion, with the golden leaves and Yinling tied around her waist, the spirit snake as the bones and the spring water as the skin, and couldn't help but feel the ecstasy and smoothness in her heart. Unconsciously, her hands were tightened, and she felt the ecstasy and smoothness in her greed.

Although the movement was not obvious, the place where Cheng Qiyun was held by him was slightly calmer was like a soldering iron, and she seemed to feel his slightness. Her watery eyes glanced at him, with no anger in her eyes, but a faint smile. Yang Ling couldn't help but feel warm.

"Uh... Is this girl okay? Do you still have to watch the boat?" Lord Luo asked embarrassedly after being hung for a long time.

Yang Ling turned around and said, "No need, I will learn more about it after entering the Shicheng." After saying that, he lowered his head and asked softly, "Is your foot hurt? I will help you into the Shicheng to rest."

Cheng Qiyun felt sweet when she heard his concerned tone. She could do something. She had only had a little fever and didn't realize that there was anything serious, but she couldn't get up now. Xiangxiang's soft body snuggled up to him without any hesitation, letting him hold him and slowly walked towards Shicheng.

The two of them walked slowly. There was a large group of gentry and celebrities behind them, but it was difficult to surpass them. A large group of people had long robes and sleeves, followed the two of them and stopped step by step. Look at the slow formation, they were solemnly like they went to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors under the leadership of the old man.

Cheng Qiyun was held by him, and raised her head as if no one was around. Her eyes were just staring at Yang Ling, and suddenly she felt like she had never seen before. She felt that her heart was numb, a little sweet, a little sour, and she was soft like sour teeth, so she didn't dare to touch it, for fear that it would turn into a pool of water when touched.

"After making up, ask my husband in a low voice, the depth of the eyebrows is gone." If he and I were in the embroidered bed now...

Cheng Qiyun's heart jumped up with a "bang", and she thought for a moment: I have such luck and such favor? If one day I can be hugged by his beloved, sleeping in the same bed with him, and when I get up early, I will have the opportunity to show my love with him. Being hugged by him like this, I feel pity for my love, my God...

Thinking of this, the soft and tender heart was like fried eggs, and it broke open suddenly, and a heat flowed from her heart to the bones of her limbs. Her thighs couldn't help but tremble slightly. She was deliberately trying to make a move, but now she really couldn't stand it.

Yang Ling didn't know that Dai Louer was so romantic and beautiful. Once the love master had a true love, the mentality of the young children was even more sensitive than that of ordinary girls. He thought Cheng Qiyun's ankle was painful, so he was even more careful.

The two of them finally moved into the stone city next to the dock, entered the house and sat down, and a large number of officials following behind them became polite. Even Qian Ning secretly wiped his sweat.

Yang Ling asked Cheng Qiyun about her foot injury. Cheng Qiyun felt sweet in her heart, but she didn't feel any pain. Yang Ling sat down with confidence. He greeted the officials, and the gentry sat down one by one, nodded to Lord Luo and smiled: "Please continue with Lord Luo."

Luo Enyuan coughed and said, "In order to save costs, the components of the helm, sailing winch, sail, cable, artillery and other equipment are distributed in various small shipyards, each responsible for one piece, and the main body of the ship is only responsible for the final assembly after completion.

Among the various ships built, the Fu Ship is as tall as a city and powerful as a powerful force, which makes it easy to rush to plow the waves and drift two feet away. The Japanese ships are as short as the small ships of our dynasty, so the Fu Ship is pressing down on the wind. It is like a carriage and mantis. If the Japanese pirates face the enemy head-on without avoiding each other, there is no need for a soldier or a soldier. Just by the collision of the hull, the Japanese ships will scatter into sampans everywhere."

Lord Luo seemed quite content when he said this.

Yang Ling shook his head and said, "This is not enough. We must build a fast ship. We can only sigh if we can't do this. The ship is loaded with ground spray drums, muskets, rockets and cannons. The craftsmen must constantly improve their skills. Which craftsman can improve the efficiency of firearms and ships? Lord Qian, you must give him a reward!

Only when the firearms can you fight far and fast can you win steadily. Don’t rely solely on the high and sinking power of the ship. As far as I know, Western enemies have appeared in the South China Sea now, and all the firearms are powerful. No matter how big our ship is, it is sunk before we can see the shadow of the enemy. What’s the use of that?”

Lord Luo hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes, yes, yes, the subordinates must pay attention."

When talking about the knowledge of this ship, the advantages and disadvantages of the firearm were not Director Cheng Qiyun. She sat aside without saying a word, watching Yang Ling talk, with a very general style, and her heart was even happier than showing off her skills.

She couldn't help but smile at Yang Ling. She smiled silently, with her eyebrows bent, her eyes bent, and her lips curled up. Her beautiful face suddenly became lively and vivid, and she was so gentle that she could reach her bones.

Lord Luo also saw the beauty smile. It was really Lou'er's smile, and he was distorted by all living beings. Lord Luo was not the object of Cheng Qiyun and charming, but was also stunned by her coquettish smile. It took him a while to wake up.

He hurriedly looked away and continued, "In addition to the treasure ship, the second is the horse and fast ship. The horse ship has eight masts, thirty-seven meters long and fifteen meters wide. It is mainly used to transport war horses, military supplies and soldiers. It is also equipped with artillery and muskets, which can be used for rapid water warfare.

The second is the warship, mainly used for decisive battles on the water surface, and the overall equipment is equipped with firearms, and the fastest speed. The ship is used for two types of combat methods: fleet protection and landing, and landing. Finally, it is the seven-masted grain ship and the water boat. This kind of ship can also raise livestock and grow vegetables on its own, and also be equipped with fishing gear to catch aquatic products. It is a necessary supply ship during ocean warfare."

Yang Ling had never heard of these things. He closed his eyes, took a long breath, and slowly opened his eyes. He remembered and said, "As anyone who tries to wipe out the power of my heaven, the army can immediately launch a devastating blow to it without mercy.

With such a huge fleet and the Nanyang vassal states as supplies, it would be easy for the Celestial Army to continuously transport to the West. If we use war to support the war and replenish local supplies in the occupying country, the Ming Empire would be like the Yuan Empire in the past, and the whole world would tremble at its feet. The difference was only... they were by land, and we were by water. Who would have thought that we could..., if it were not for today, how could it be... in the future...."

Yang Ling said leisurely, and it seemed that he remembered the song that made the Chinese people heartbroken again: "

Who makes you lose your might? Who makes this fire light rise everywhere? Hate rushes through the clouds, who doesn’t feel angry or sad? How much blood and sweat has been dripped away to take over the heavenly craftsmanship, and build it with my heart, and spread it for generations. I don’t expect that it is this field that has humiliated the family and the family lintel... I hope that this fire can make my descendants remember it and will wake up. Why do you get bullied when foreign aggression? Use this fire as a record, and why do you get bullied when you re-report your old grudges...",

Yang Ling slowly let out a long breath, as if he was exhaling the injustice and bitterness in his heart: No, that scene will never happen again, right? I hope that people in the future will see the glory of the powerful Qin, Han and Wu, and the prosperous Tang Dynasty. What they have seen is, from today, from the bottom of their feet, everything has changed...

The officials didn't know why Yang Ling said incredibly heroicly, but his face showed a painful expression. They looked at each other and did not dare to interrupt for a while.

Lord Luo swallowed his saliva before he said carefully: "Sir, you... You are visiting the Longjiang Shipyard on behalf of the emperor. This is a great blessing for the local area. The great blessing ship is about to be completed. This is the first giant ship we rebuilt based on Zheng He's nautical chart. Can you please give the treasure ship a name?"

"Hmm?" Yang Ling woke up and looked at Lord Luo carefully: "If you want a leader to write an inscription? I can't tell that this technical talent is also quite good at flattering, promising, and promising."

Yang Ling really wanted to name this lucky ship, but he pinched his chin and thought for a long time, and could vaguely remember that the name of the land ship was..., the Titanic...sinking! The Kursk...sinking! The Zhongshan ship...sinking.

He thought for a long time, and had to make up for himself, and slapped his forehead and said, "Call... let's take a boat with a Buddha's belly."

Lord Luo said in surprise: "Buddha's belly is on the boat?"

Yang Ling smiled and said, "That is, it is said that the prime minister can hold a boat in his belly, and he also said that the Buddha's big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world. The lucky boat is seeing the light of heaven again, and the time when the Ming Dynasty's ocean-going navy is just around the corner. This boat's meaning of taking the Buddha's belly is to ask the people of the Celestial Empire to accept things, and to absorb the strengths of the countries for their own use, and not blindly arrogant and closed-door construction.

At the same time, our navy in the Celestial Empire also needs to punish those who insult and punish those who are kind, and not bully others with power. Always have a compassionate heart. As for the word Buddha, haha, sailing on the sea is the most auspicious. Isn’t it safe to sail in the womb of the compassionate Buddha?”

Lord Luo praised, "It's wonderful, it's wonderful, the name of Lord is of extraordinary significance."

The other officials and gentry praised the same praise, only Qian Ning was familiar with Yang Ling. Although he did not dare to touch Yang Ling's women, he still had a good grasp of the matter that he had a close relationship with the imperial envoy. He laughed at the side and said, "The Buddha's belly is a good name. When the official heard this, he remembered that Dongpo Pork was coming. Mr. Wu and Mr. Xu invited the four best famous chefs in Jinling and held a banquet by the river. Let's go to the Buddha's belly to hold a boat. How about it?"

Everyone was amused by his jokes, and Wu Jiyuan and Xu Jing bowed and said, "In order to welcome the imperial envoy, we prepared a small banquet by the river. Please give us all the honors, please..."

The Xu and Wu families are indeed rich in Jiangnan. They specially rowed a large and carved beams and painted buildings, and the exquisite tour boat. The famous Jinling sing musicians were invited to cheer them up. Even the inconspicuous musicians next to them played the piano and pipa were famous musicians who were famous in Jiangnan.

At the banquet, the delicious food, the slightest, the wild camel's hooves, the deer's lips, the leopard fetus, and the crispy cicadas are all rare delicacies, and they are also conditioned by famous artists. The beauty of the taste makes people feel like they are dying.

Most of the officials who attended the banquet had never eaten these rare and delicious foods. When they saw this, they couldn't help but be surprised by the wealthy families.

Among these people, Yang Ling was ignorant and did not know how difficult it was to make one of these rare treasures of mountains and rivers and how many cooking procedures were. The ignorant people were fearless. Those knowledgeable officials who had lived in Jiangnan for a long time were amazed when they ate a dish, but Yang Ling looked as if the Mount Tai collapsed in front of him.

A small cup of nine-grade soup cooked with four kinds of mountain delicacies, five kinds of seafood, three kinds of wine, twelve kinds of Chinese medicine, and then steamed and then cooked after more than forty processes. Others sipped in small sips, but Yang Ling thought it was not enough to quench his thirst. The officials were in awe when they saw it: It was indeed a good thing that it was the Jingguaner, who had such a courage...tsk tsk..."

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Yang Ling gradually became more excited. He talked with the officials, and there were also beautiful words like pearls in the middle. From time to time, everyone gradually let go, and laughter and joy came from the water.

Yang Ling was talking and laughing with Qian Ning, but suddenly heard someone whispering and suddenly raised his voice a little higher, saying: "It is difficult to hit the cannon when it is far away. It is easy to hit the goal within a hundred feet, but the enemy cannon can also break the board of our ship."

Yang Ling looked in the voice and saw that the two young officials sitting at the end of the banquet were arguing in a low voice. The two were quarreling and making a loud voice. Yang Ling smiled and said, "Which department official are you two, you seem to be arguing about artillery. Can you tell me to listen to me?"

The two young officials stood up in fear and fear, "Return to the imperial envoy, Lu Zekai, ambassador of Nanjing Military Weapons Bureau, and Cheng Bingxi, disturbed the imperial envoy's drunkenness. Please forgive me."

When Yang Ling was in the capital, he had dealt with the Military Weapon Bureau in order to study muskets. He knew that the ambassador was a ninth-rank official, but they were not qualified to get on the boat for a banquet. I guess Qian Ning didn't know which aspects he was going to ask about, so he prepared two local officials just in case, so he followed him on the boat in a confused manner.

Yang Ling smiled and said, "No wonder, what kind of official position is discussed at the banquet? Please sit down. If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter. I want to hear it too."

The two of them wanted to be polite. Qian Ning said impatiently: "You can just sit by sir. Where do you get so many rules?"

The two were startled and then apologized and sat down. Lu Zekai bowed and said, "Sir. I specialize in artillery research. I think that attack is the best defense, and using attack instead of defense can achieve the greatest results. If one side holds heavy artillery in a naval battle, it can be wiped out in one fell swoop. After the new gunpowder formula was reported by the Beijing Military Arts Bureau, the power of the gunpowder increased greatly. I thought that if the court was willing to allocate manpower, property, and study it carefully, the cannons of our dynasty will increase greatly."

Yang Ling couldn't help but look up and down, "Is Lord Lu a firearm expert?"

Lu Zekai doesn't understand the word "expert", but he probably means having a specialized meaning. He smiled and said, "You are too proud, but you are a low-ranking person who studies artillery."

The head of the Military Weapon Bureau stood up and said, "Sir, although Lu Zekai is young, he is indeed a specialist in the Military Weapon Bureau for developing firearms. He has specialized in his studies and many masters feel inferior."

Yang Ling nodded, then smiled at Cheng Bingxi and said, "So why did Lord Cheng argue with Lord Lu?"

Cheng Bingxi said with a sigh: "Sir, I think that the huge waves surging in the naval battle and the hull sways. Even if we develop a long-distance giant cannon, it is difficult to hit the target, and it will eventually have to be within a hundred feet before the decisive battle. At this distance, our artillery advantages are not obvious, and the cabin is only two feet thick. The effect of our heavy artillery and enemy ship-land artillery hit the target is the same.

Therefore, we should first study how to strengthen the hull, and the strength of the wood is different. Beizhi also found that the angle of the tilt of the wooden board is different, the filling stuffing in the interlayer is different, and the damage caused by shelling is also completely different. Therefore, we can start from this aspect and study how to strengthen our naval warship as the primary task."

Yang Ling hadn't developed systematically at that time. Even though he had studied long-range cannons, it was really useless to kill mosquitoes. However, if he was used to bombard fixed targets in land combat, it would still be of great use.

Furthermore, this development trend is about sooner or later. We first study long-range cannons, and once there is an auxiliary aiming tool, it can be effective immediately. If we wait until the aiming tool appears and then think about studying the cannon, it will be prolonged.

However... no matter when, strengthening one's own tanks and warships are the research and development goals of the army. It is rare that although these two small officials from the Military Weapon Bureau have different opinions, they can have such insights in different research fields. But no matter how much the wooden ship is researched, how can it be solid?

He joked: "If this is the case, why not put iron armor on the warships...?"

He paused when he said this, and his mind flashed. He suddenly thought that modern steel warships could not be used because the ships were driven purely by wind and without riveting technology. But what is the difficulty of installing a layer of iron plate on the wall of the wooden ship? Wouldn't this reinforce the hull?

He asked hurriedly: "So, Lord Cheng thought, what if we installed a layer of iron plate on the outer shell of our ship and turned the wooden ship into an iron armored ship?"

Cheng Bingxi's eyes lit up and he praised: "Okay, this method is not difficult. You can only use a little research to install it. It's just that adding iron plates on the ship consumes too much silver..."

Yang Ling smiled and said, "Although installing iron plates consumes more money, it is not much less than the entire ship. If the ship is sunk and the ship is gone, our well-trained navy officers and soldiers will be gone. How much is the loss?"

He also said: "But the ships are driven by wind, and it will be heavy to install iron plates. I think we can study them. Now our local warships are mainly divided into six models, and a batch of iron armored ships can be developed, which is the seventh type of warship, specially used for offshore defense."

Yang Ling said to Qian Ning: "Brother Qian, these two ambassadors of the Military Weapon Bureau, please take a look back and transfer them to the Military Marshal Bureau Bureau of the Town and Funeral Office, and then draw personnel from the Military Weapon Bureau for their use and provide money.

Haha, Lord Lu, you are specializing in how to attack, and Lord Cheng is specializing in how to defend, to see if your Lu family spear is powerful or your Cheng family shield is powerful!”

Cheng and Lu heard this and a flush of excitement spread on their young faces. They looked at each other, and there was joy and unconvinced competition in their eyes. Yang Ling saw it and felt secretly happy.

Later generations of Navy envoys studied the naval envoys. Some people once said that the iron-walled piercing-shaped sea falcon warship built by Qin Shifu in the Song Dynasty was the earliest iron-clad ship in the world, but this kind of warship only wrapped in iron sheets on both sides of the ship's side. Therefore, it is more common to say that the tortoise shell ship invented by Lee Sun-sin of North Korea was the ancestor of the world's iron-clad ship.

However, now there is a banquet on the Yangtze River and a joke between the imperial envoy and the imperial envoy has made the iron-armored ship appear decades ahead of the time.
Chapter completed!