The main keel and two secondary keels have been installed. Next is to install the dragon tendons, strengthen the ribs, and then install a piece of ship board on the ribs, so that the hull is completed.

The construction speed of this ship was very fast. It took only eight days for the hull skeleton to be completed. The next step is to lay the ship boards on the skeleton, install the deck inside the hull, and after installing the deck, install the partition inside the hull and install the partition in the bottom cabin.

"The bow of the fly-scissor ship is too small to install a five-thousand-pound red cannon." Zheng Sen said as he looked at the skeleton of the fly-scissor ship being constructed.

"Brother Damu, how many cannons are you going to install?" Zhao Peng asked.

Zheng Sen made a rough calculation and said, "Each three thousand kilogram red cannon is installed on each bow and stern of the ship, and four thousand kilogram general cannons are installed on each side, and a total of ten cannons are installed."

Zhao Peng shook his head: "There are more heavy to ten such cannons? Two three thousand kilograms of red barbarian cannons, six thousand kilograms, eight thousand kilograms of general cannons, eight thousand kilograms, all the cannons combined with the recoil force when firing, this ship can't bear it, right?"

Zheng Sen smiled and said, "What's the matter? The four hundred-material big lucky ships of our Zheng family army are accompanied by this, two 3,000-pound red cannons and four 1,000-pound Franchise. I just changed the Franchise to a general cannon."

"Brother Damu, can the Clippers ship be the same as the Dafu ship? The Clippers ship must be fast, and they are both red and generals cannons. The ship cannot speed up. What's more, the Clippers ship is narrow in width, only 10,5 feet wide, and a thousand kilograms of general cannons are placed on both sides, so they can't be put down, right?"

Zheng Sen calculated that the length of the thousand-jin general cannon was almost ten feet long, and the hull was only ten feet five feet wide. The two cannons combined were two feet long, and it was impossible for the two cannons to be too close to the tail. At least one meter of width must be left between the two cannons, so that the hull width needs at least three feet to meet the requirements.

Zhao Peng also said: "The bow of the ship is narrow and long, and it is not suitable for installing large-caliber red cannons. According to my suggestion, it is best to install small cannons for this ship to make full use of the advantage of running fast and to match small cannons with fast firing speed. Do not seek to sink enemy ships, but mainly to plunder enemy ships."

"Prior to rob enemy ships?" Zheng Sen was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, Damu knows about English in Thailand, Europe?" Zhao Peng asked.

Zheng Sen nodded: "I know, our cannon is not calculated by how much pounds the cannon weighs, but by how much pounds the shells are. This pound is the weighting unit of England."

"Yes, Damu, you know how the British Royal Navy, which is equivalent to our Ming Dynasty navy, did it? They issued privateing permits to their navy, that is, they let their officers and soldiers act as legal pirates, and rob the Franchise man's silver ship, and gained a lot of wealth from it." Zhao Peng replied.

Zheng Sen shook his head: "We China is a country of etiquette, and we don't want to do this thing of robbing and stealing."

"The survival of the jungle is a natural law. Wolves want to eat sheep, otherwise they will starve to death. At the beginning, we only had a small piece of land in the Central Plains? How did the Han land come from today? It was not obtained by our ancestors' expansion of territory? We Han people were mighty lions and ferocious tigers during the Tang Dynasty. The evil wolf around us was afraid of us! But at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, they turned the Han people from lions and tigers into sheep! We should not be sheep, we should turn back into tigers and lions!" Zhao Peng said loudly.

Sheep can only be eaten by the wolves, while tigers and lions can drive away the wolves!

Zhao Peng continued: "Why did the Song Dynasty ruin the world? It was because the Song Dynasty turned the Han people into sheep, and the Mongolians' totems were wolves. If you became a sheep, don't blame them for being eaten by wolves! If we were tigers and lions, would the wolf dare to eat us?"

"The loyal and brave wait is reasonable, but it may be difficult to convince the scholars in the court." Zheng Sen sighed.

"Hahaha!" Zhao Peng laughed, "Don't those literati want money? Brother Damu, how honest do you think they are? Especially the Donglin Party, as long as they see the opportunity to make money, they will definitely be more ruthless than anyone else!"

Zheng Sen asked, "So according to Zhongyonghou's meaning, what kind of artillery should our ship be installed?"

Zhao Peng thought for a moment: "There is no need to install artillery on the bow and stern of the ship. Eight four-pound cannons are installed on both sides. We only want to capture prisoners, not sink, four-pound cannons are enough!"

The caliber of the four-pound gun is smaller. If you encounter Western battleships, you will not be able to penetrate their thick oak boards at all. However, it is enough to deal with merchant ships. The boards of merchant ships are thin and the four-pound gun can penetrate; and the four-pound gun is not powerful and it is difficult to sink the opponent's ship. All they have to do is to kill and injure the people on the opponent's ship as much as possible.

Being a pirate is originally a robbery ship. If the opponent's silver treasure ship is sunk, then what else can you steal?

According to Zhao Peng's suggestion, all sixteen four-pound cannons were installed inside the cabin, and the gun doors were opened on both sides. Usually, the gun doors were closed. When fighting, the gun doors were opened and the gun doors were extended out of the gun doors.

The length of the four-pound cannon is only one meter and two long. The width of this clipper is 1 5 feet, which is more than four meters wide. The cannon is enough to be installed in the cabin. During combat, after the gun door is opened, the cannon can still extend part of the length outside the gun door. There is enough operating space between the two cannons, which is just enough.

In the next period of time, Zhao Peng returned to his cannon factory to cast naval guns specifically for this new ship.

The barrel length and caliber of the four-pound naval gun are exactly the same as those of the four-pound cavalry cannon used in the army, but they use not copper cannons, but iron cannons. Another difference is the cannon stand. Of course, the naval cannon cannot use two-wheel cannons like cavalry cannons, but four-wheel trolley cannon stands.

It took Nanjing Xinjun Illegal Factory 36 days to cast all eighteen four-pound naval guns. This kind of iron cannon is heavier than the Army's four-pound copper cannon. The cannon weighs more than 400 kilograms, and the total weight is 600 kilograms.

When Zhao Peng brought the eighteen four-pound naval guns to the shipyard with the new army, the hull of the fly-scissor ship had been completed, and the upper deck was being laid and the mast was being installed.

Zhao Peng took the man and pushed the naval gun in front of the flying scissors, then separated the cannon body and the cannon stand, and then ordered the shipbuilder to lift the cannon with a winch, hang it onto the ship, then slowly landed, and sent the cannon to the cabin.

In the deck of the Clippers' artillery, two grooved guide rails with a diagonal upward tail have been installed on the gun position of each artillery. The four wheels of the artillery gun mount just snap into the guide rail. After firing, the recoil of the artillery will automatically retreat and retreat to the end of the guide rail. The two wheels behind just stuck. After loading the shells, as long as the gunner pulls the handle of a mechanism, the two wheels behind pop up from the position of the card owner and fall back into the guide rail, the gun mount will automatically slide forward under the action of gravity, and the reset will be completed.

All eighteen cannons have been installed, and shipbuilders are also carrying out final construction of the clippers.

The workers laid pieces of wood on the upper frame and nailed the wooden boards to lay the upper deck. The mast extends from the bottom of the cabin and passes through the artillery deck and the upper deck, and stands on the cabin.

There are three tall masts in total, and the height of the mast is ten feet long. However, because the hull is short and the center of gravity is low, the ship has good stability. The mast can be higher than ordinary ships and the area of ​​sails is larger, allowing the ship to eat more wind and increase its speed.

A mast extends along the forward bow, extends a mast in the direction upwards of the ship, and four sail cables are pulled up between the mast and the foremast, and a spinnaker is hung; the foremast, main mast, and rear mast are hung with a full sail set, and the width of the sail surface is greatly exceeded the width of the hull. The cross mast extends to the hull. In addition to the main sail, top mast sail and other square sails, each mast also has a spinnaker such as a cable sail, wing sail. The complete sail set can accept the wind blowing from all directions.
Chapter completed!