"Battleship?" Zheng Sen was stunned for a moment. You must know that this is an invincible existence on the sea today. Zheng Sen also knew about the Battle of Liaoluo Bay. He heard from his father that the Dutch plyship was as tall as a mountain, using double-layer wooden boards, which were indestructible and fierce in artillery fire. His own big lucky ship could not match it at all.

Although Zheng Zhilong used a large number of small boats to protect the fire attack ships and set up a five-point plum blossom formation on the sea to sink the Dutch people's plybo boats, his side suffered even greater losses. A total of ten large lucky ships, eighteen fire attack ships and dozens of small boats were sunk, and the Netherlands approached and sneaked, burning down a large gunboat that combines Chinese and Western styles.

It can be seen from this that the Dutch people's plywood ships are much stronger than all the warships in the hands of the Zheng family. The Zheng family can only adopt the method of beating and pay a heavy price to defeat the Dutch people.

But I heard that the Dutch plywood ships were actually just armed merchant ships, not real warships. I heard from the Red and Mavericks that the armed merchant ships that participated in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay were four or five hundred tons, and even larger armed merchant ships did not come out at all. The large armed merchant ships had seven or eight hundred tons, and even more than one thousand tons.

But even a 1,500-ton Spanish sailboat could not defeat a 500-ton fourth-class frigate from the European Navy.

European warships are divided into six levels. The first-class battleship displacement is between 1,500 and 1,700 tons, the second-class battleship displacement is about 1,000 tons, the third-class battleship displacement is between 700 and 800 tons, the fourth-class frigates are between 500 and 600 tons, the fifth-class frigates are between 300 and 400 tons, and the next is the sixth-class cruise ship.

Class 6 cruise ships are generally between 150 and 300 tons. In the hands of Englishmen, Class 6 cruise ships are generally used as privateers, that is, legal pirates with licenses issued by the Emperor, such as the Golden Deer Class 6 ship.

Although the sixth-class ship is very small, it is a regular warship after all. Although the gun caliber is small and difficult to sink a large merchant ship, it is the best choice to rob a merchant ship. Although Captain Drake's Golden Deer is small, it runs fast and cannot sink the Golden Deer with the firepower of the merchant ship. Once the Golden Deer approaches, it can violently bombard the merchant ship.

Although the eighteen three-pound cannons of the Golden Deer cannot sink the armed merchant ship, they can kill and injure sailors and gunners on the merchant ships in large quantities. However, the cannons on the merchant ships are difficult to break the Golden Deer defense.

The Golden Deer killed a large number of sailors and gunners on the merchant ships. Then the pirates on the ship would jump onto the merchant ships and snatch the opponent's merchant ships and cargoes together. As for the surviving crew members on the ships, they usually gave them a small boat and let them fend for themselves.

A fourth-level or even a fifth-level frigate can easily defeat a 1,500-ton-class merchant ship. So what is the concept of a first-level and second-level battleship? Can't it be possible to easily crush an armed merchant ship?

In fact, Zheng Sen didn't know that the first-class battleships of the Westerners were actually a mascot, not the main force of naval battles.

At that time, Western countries had not mastered the technology of iron keels. To build a first-class battleship, a large number of oaks were required to cut down, and there were very few oaks that could be used to make keels. A first-class battleship had a significance to a country as much as an aircraft carrier in later generations. Once sunk, the morale blow to the entire country's navy was fatal.

Moreover, the number of first-class battleships was rare and the long-range airworthiness was not that good. Therefore, in the naval battles that year, the main battleships of Western countries were third-class battleships and fourth- and fifth-class frigates.

The large-scale Yuefei flying shear ship built by Zhao Peng is completely a Western first-class battleship in tonnage. Its firepower is between the Western first-class battleship and the second-class battleship. Although its firepower is slightly inferior to that of the Western first-class battleship, it is fast and has good airworthiness. If you really fight, you can completely hammer the Western first-class battleship.

The center of gravity of the Yuefei fast battleship is very low, so it is very seaworthy. It not only adopts a Western double-layer shipboard structure, but also a Chinese compartment structure. In terms of vitality, it is far superior to Western warships.

The material for building warships in the West was oak, but the Ming Dynasty lacked oak, so Zhao Peng used ironwood to replace oak to build warships. Ironwood is actually a type of mahogany. In later generations, a set of mahogany furniture was a luxury, let alone how luxurious it was to use mahogany to build ships. The ships made by ironwood were actually even stronger than oak.

However, Tielli Wood also has a disadvantage, which is that it is too hard. Once attacked by heavy shells, the inner ship plates will easily collapse. The collapsed ship plates will cause casualties on the ship like shrapnel. Western oak is more flexible and elastic, so this problem will not occur.

In order to buffer the impact of the shells, when building the ship, a layer of cork was also sandwiched between the two inner and outer slabs. In this way, when the warship was bombarded by enemy forces, the cork layer in the middle could play a buffering role, which protected the hull very well. This is actually equivalent to the earliest composite armor.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call Yue Fei a battleship, and he can afford this title.

The Yuefei fast battleship headed north and sailed towards the Jiaodong Peninsula at full speed of 16 knots. This time, in addition to its own weapons and equipment, the ship also transported two thousand Lumi guns, five hundred turtledove guns and a large amount of ammunition to Jiaodong.

This time, I did not plan to stop and recharge in Jiaozhou Bay, because the Yuefei tonnage is large, and the supply I carried on the ship is enough for more than one week to sail. In addition, I can also produce bean sprouts and bean seedlings on my own, so that the officers and soldiers on the ship can eat fresh vegetables.

On the upper deck of Yuefei, there are square-shaped wooden basins, and peas and soybeans are cultivated in the wooden basins. When the soybeans sprout, soybean sprouts are planted. When the peas sprouts, fresh and tender pea seedlings are obtained.

There are also chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep on the deck, which can be made with fresh eggs and meat.

The huge warship sailed on the sea for two days and two nights. On the morning of the third day, the Yuefei rapid battleship finally arrived at Penglai Port.

"Wow, what a big ship!" Seeing a huge warship as mountain as entering the port, Shen Yunying's maid was shocked. She actually forgot to buy vegetables and go home to cook. Instead, she stood by the dock and watched for a long time. Until the Yuefei was parked on the dock and the springboard on the boat was placed on the dock, she remembered that she would go home to cook quickly, otherwise the lady would be starved to death.

The little maid was about to leave the dock, but someone called out from behind: "Yun'er, please stay!"

Yun'er heard the voice very familiar. She turned her head and saw that Zhao Peng was standing behind her. She quickly blessed her: "I will meet the marquis!"

Seeing the little maid holding a vegetable basket with vegetables and meat in it, Zhao Peng smiled and said, "The little girl is planning to go back to cook for her sister? When is it time? Why haven't she returned yet?"

Yun'er blushed and said, "It's all because the Marquis's boat is too big. I was stunned by the boat on the dock and forgot to go back to cook for my sister."

Zhao Peng laughed: "Little girl, it's too late to go back to cook now. Let's do this. I'll go back with you. Today I'll serve you and have a banquet for your sisters. By the way, you don't have to worry about being hungry. I've been there a few personal soldiers, including female soldiers. You can have dinner with them."

After hearing what Zhao Peng said, the little maid was relieved that she had been holding her heart and happily led Zhao Peng and others to the house.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard someone shouting inside: "Yun'er, why did you go out to buy vegetables for so long? It's already noon. Why don't you come back to cook quickly!"
Chapter completed!