Daming 1805

Before dawn on the fourth day of the first lunar month of the Era, hundreds of warships in Zhoushan Naval Port blew their whistles.

Under the command of Chen Huacheng, the naval commander of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ming Dynasty, the entire fleet was divided into several fleets and sailed out of the military port separately, heading for the sea area to be inspected.

All the personnel invited to participate in the ship review also got up early at this time and gathered at the pier to prepare for departure.

The fleet to be read will be prepared in advance, and the fleet for reference can arrive a little later.

The emperor Zhu Jingyuan also got up early, and at seven o'clock in the morning, accompanied and guarded by Guan Tianpei, he arrived at the pier of the military port.

Yang Yuchun, the governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion, Zhu Jianxun, the military governor, and Chen Hua, the naval governor, became the Chinese military governor's mansion and navy generals headed by them.

The Ming nobles, officials, generals, craftsmen, scholars, and representatives of the Thai and Western countries were accompanied by the reference.

They have all arrived at the pier, and they are evenly divided into three parts, waiting for Zhu Jingyuan's arrival.

After Zhu Jingyuan arrived at the scene, he accepted the worship of all the generals and courtiers, greeted the guests, and then began to board the ship.

All the princes of the Ming Dynasty, all the ministers of the Nine Ministers, and officials of the same level, shopkeepers, and craftsmen.

The monarch of the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family and prime ministers of the Thai and Western countries, as well as the commanders-in-chief of the three armies.

They will take part in the ship review ceremony on the same warship as Ming Emperor Zhu Jingyuan.

The other personnel on the scene will take the other two cruisers separately and follow Zhu Jingyuan's ship.

Yang Yuchun, Zhu Jianxun, and Chen Huacheng are the commander-in-chief of the ship review and will set off during the review fleet.

Guan Tianpei, deputy governor of the Navy, and Wang Lai, Shangshu of the Ministry of Ordnance, will specially accompany Zhu Jingyuan.

The two wanted to directly introduce the situation of the reviewing ship and the reviewing fleet to Zhu Jingyuan.

In fact, it also introduces these situations to other people around.

At seven-thirty in the morning, all men boarded the ready battleship.

The inspection fleet, which had already finished warming up its boilers, honked its whistle one by one and set sail to leave the berth on the pier.

Zhu Jingyuan and these people around him are currently the most powerful and powerful people in the world who control the entire world.

In the process of the fleet sailing towards the target sea area of ​​the ship review, he also began to observe and appreciate the situation of the ship he was on.

Zhu Jingyuan did not pay much attention to the design and construction of warships in the past few years.

Although I know of such a ship through reports, I have never had the opportunity to see it in person.

Now that I am the emperor, I may not have the opportunity to see it with my own eyes in the future.

So now Zhu Jingyuan was standing on the front deck of the battleship, looking up at the two huge turrets and artillery next to him, feeling quite novel and emotional.

Li Rui, Minister of the Ordnance Department, also took the initiative to stand up very conscientiously, and gave Zhu Jingyuan and others around him a brief introduction to the situation of the battleship:
"Your Majesty, the battleship we are currently riding on is named Henan, and Ankang just entered service in early 15.

"The full-load displacement of the Henan is 290 tons, the maximum length of the hull is 40 meters, the maximum width of the hull is 12 meters, and the maximum draft is [-] meters.

"The maximum output power of the power system is 28 shaft horsepower, and the maximum design speed is 32 knots.

"The maximum range at [-] knots is [-] nautical miles, or about [-] kilometers.

"At a speed of [-] knots, the maximum range is [-] nautical miles, which is about [-] kilometers.

"It is equipped with three triple-mounted main turrets, and adopts the layout of two front and one rear.

"A total of nine main guns are equipped with a caliber of 480 mm and a multiple of [-] diameters.

"The thickness of the main armor belt remains the same as that of the previous 420-ton warship, which is still [-] mm, and it is arranged at an angle of [-] degrees outward.

"The length and height of the armor belt have been increased, especially the armor height has been increased to six meters.

"What's more important is the horizontal armor of the core area of ​​the hull, whose thickness has been increased from 240mm to [-]mm.

"The thickness and size of the secondary armor in other areas have also been optimized and improved to varying degrees.

"The overall defense effect of the new warship is more complete and comprehensive than that of a [-]-ton warship.

Zhu Jingyuan listened to the data, looked at the weapons and equipment on the deck in front of him, and nodded slightly from time to time.

Without a doubt, this is the most powerful battleship in the world today.

In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, it was also the most powerful battleship actually built.

From tonnage to speed, from artillery caliber and double diameter to bomb weight ratio, it exceeds all existing battleships.

There are also some deeper data, which are beyond the technology of the times and the technical level of other countries.

Zhu Jingyuan had seen these things from reports.

First of all, all new warships are equipped with the latest radio detection system.

Although the research on beyond-the-horizon detectors has not yet achieved results, the traditional detection system is quite mature.

The detection distance of the traditional detection system is limited by the curvature of the earth's surface, and the higher the observation point, the farther it can see.

With the help of the towering mast of the [-]-ton warship, the Henan's radio detection equipment can observe small warships within a range of [-] kilometers.

If the target is a large battleship, the opponent's mast can even be spotted at a distance of [-] kilometers.

Then came the transistor computer and the accompanying command system.

It can realize the automatic linkage of target observation, ballistic calculation, and test firing calibration system.

After the detection system detects the enemy ship, the gun barrel can automatically track the enemy ship, automatically complete the ballistic calculation, and automatically continue to track and correct the firing.

It can achieve continuous shooting during the process of traveling and turning, and basically maintain the accuracy of stationary shooting.

With these traditions, the combat methods of Ming Dynasty's new battleships are completely different from those of historical battleships from World War II and before.

It has been able to abandon the historical combat method of standing against each other, and enter the mobile and even twisting battle similar to later warship games.

At the same time, it also realizes the unified and coordinated operations of secondary artillery and anti-aircraft artillery, as well as unmanned remote control operations.

There were already fully automatic anti-aircraft guns of forty millimeter caliber.

At the same time, the battleship itself has reserved a large amount of missile installation space.

Just haven't actually installed it yet.

Even if the missiles that have not yet been installed are excluded, the technological advantage of this battleship over the battleships of World War II has opened up an era.

Thinking of these situations, Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously looked at the Taixi people on the right.

Of course they didn't know about these internal technological upgrades, but now they seem to have been greatly shocked.

Because even if these internal technologies are not considered, the hard power of this ship itself as a battleship alone can already crush the audience.

Including the admirals headed by Nelson, almost all the heads of state looked at the 480mm cannon on the bow of the ship and were stunned for a long time.

On the traditional naval battle battlefield in reality, there is no restraint and balance of ship types similar to those in later games.

The bigger the battleship, the stronger it is.

There are more powerful artillery, stronger defenses, and more persistent firepower.

With more abundant reserve buoyancy and crew space, it is a more stable artillery shooting and combat platform.

It can configure more comprehensive combat functions to achieve almost all combat requirements.

Battleships can also do anti-submarine escort work, and their efficiency will be much better than that of cruisers and destroyers, but the cost is too high.

Facing a large ship alone, a small ship basically has no resistance.

This long-standing reality shapes the general perception of those involved in society as a whole.

Let them have a natural fear of larger warships and larger caliber artillery.

This is the deterrence that the battleship itself can provide, and it is also the most simple, crude and intuitive deterrent effect.

However, considering the actual combat efficiency, when Zhu Jianyan was in office, he had already stopped the construction of [-]-ton battleships.

Naval personnel from various countries in Thailand and the West learned from the Daming Navy that there are eight [-]-ton "battleships" in Daming's shipyard.

The statement itself is of course good, because they are talking about a "battleship" of [-] tons, not a "battleship".

There are only two [-]-ton battleships in the shipyard, and no more battleships will be started after completion.

The [-]-ton battleship known as the Henan type is the last ultimate battleship in this world.

The other six [-]-ton battleships are actually aircraft carriers.

The preliminary design of a larger [-]-ton battleship has been completed, but permission to start construction has never been obtained.

Even the construction of smaller battleships has all stopped.

The number of Ming battleships will stop at its current size.

That is, four [-]-ton ships, eight [-]-ton ships, and sixteen [-]-ton ships.

Now the capital ships in the shipyard, except for the two unfinished battleships, are all aircraft carriers.

Six [-]-ton aircraft carriers and [-]-ton amphibious assault ships.

There is no need to speak out about this private matter of Daming himself.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jingyuan slowly showed an imperceptible smile on his face.

I hope that the Taixi people can go in the direction they intentionally misled.

Zhu Jingyuan walked unhurriedly, leading a group of people around the deck of the Henan.

Zhu Jingyuan roughly appreciated the gestures on the deck of the entire battleship.

Li Rui also introduced a lot of equipment details.

Including the weight of the main gun shells, the rate of fire of the secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns, the armor thickness of the gun mantlet and the conning tower, etc.

These data are far superior to their counterparts in the West, showing the strength of Daming's craftsmanship.

The data on these details once again brought shock to everyone on another level.

After visiting the deck, Zhu Jingyuan entered the interior of the cabin, walked around the most important cabin, and finally went to his own lounge.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's early plans and suggestions, all of Ming's cutting-edge high-speed battleships, except for the earliest ones, have been adjusted to meet the needs of fleet command.

Most of the battleships have very complete large fleet combat command rooms and corresponding supporting facilities.

Inside the core armor box, there is a space specially reserved for the commanding personnel of the Grand Fleet.

The standard of living, living and working facilities is very high.

When this kind of warship does not undertake the task of commanding the fleet, it sometimes serves as a ship for the emperor and core royal family members.

Adding some royal logos to these spaces directly becomes a temporary royal living area.

As the emperor, when Zhu Jingyuan came to visit the battleship, he also lived directly in the room of the admiral of the large fleet as a matter of course.

Zhu Jingyuan took everyone to visit along the way. The space scale and facility standards inside the warship made the admirals of the Thai and Western countries all admire.

Although the facilities in Daming's cabin are not "luxury", the overall level of the facilities is very high.

In particular, the standard of living facilities of the bottom-level soldiers is not at the same level as that of the Taixi battleship.

All soldiers had individual berths, and all berths were permanent.

There are no hammocks that can be tied anywhere that are common on Thai and Western naval ships, and there are no "hot bunks" where multiple soldiers take turns sleeping.

A relatively independent dormitory for soldiers is also designed, each dormitory has only eight people, and there is a broadcasting system in the dormitory.

Ordinary Thai and Western sailors who don't have fixed beds don't have to think about the issue of fixed dormitories at all.

In the Taixi Navy, even senior soldiers like pilots can only live in a group dormitory with a large group of people.

Not to mention, on the battleship of Ming Dynasty, there is also a clean and spacious restaurant for soldiers, and there is a very rich canteen food.

There are even various entertainment and construction facilities, as well as teahouses and shops open to the crew.

So much so that they also saw the bank.

Whether it is the functional compartments of various weapons, or the compartments where soldiers live and live, they are all very tidy and clean.

Most areas have air-conditioning facilities...

These modern navy-style designs and functional planning have stunned most Thais and Westerners.

The treatment of the Ming Navy is good, the space for soldiers on board is large and fixed, and there are various military facilities beyond ordinary people's understanding.

Most of them are due to Zhu Jingyuan's guiding ideology.

Since Zhu Jingyuan began to preside over the design and construction of the Ming warship, he has always adhered to the concept of slightly increasing the displacement within a relatively reasonable range.

With a larger displacement, more space can be given to the crew, and more living facilities can be equipped.

These facilities also directly refer to the capital ships of later generations.

The modern aircraft carrier of the later generations is a small modern city, and basically everything that is found in a regular town is also found here.

Although the traditional Thai-Western navy is an "advanced arm" compared to the army, its internal classes are very obvious.

The living facilities of officers can be very high-end.

There is an armored cabin dedicated to storing red wine on the Richelieu, a special one-person bathtub on the Iowa, and a special church on the Hood.

Not to mention the cabins prepared for the royal family on the Vanguard.

But the conditions of their ordinary soldiers are very simple, hammocks and hot beds are the most basic conditions.

A large number of sailors will sleep directly in the cabin where they work.

Sleep wherever there is a place.

Zhu Jingyuan brought the standards and direction of future generations. The officers' rooms are not much higher than those on the Taixi ship, but the facilities are more optimized.

But this greatly widened the gap between officers and ordinary soldiers.

After George IV visited several cabins, he couldn't help asking Nelson beside him in a low voice:
"The treatment of the soldiers in Daming is too good. Could it be that all of Daming's navy are children of nobles? Can the warships operated by these noble soldiers have combat effectiveness?"

Nelson's expression was a little weird:
"Of course not all the navy soldiers of Ming Dynasty are descendants of nobles, some of them may be descendants of nobles, but their treatment seems to be the same...

"As for combat power...it depends on how you define combat power.

"If it is the courage and guts to go all out on the ocean, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty should not lack it, they are more proud than our soldiers.

"Pride is something very important to a Marine.

"If we talk about tolerance to poor living environment and living conditions, then the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Navy may be much worse than us.

"Because they really don't need that ability anymore..."

British Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson said with emotion in his tone:
"Actually, the people of Ming Dynasty... the workers of Ming Dynasty are the same, of course they are more confident and proud than our people and workers.

“They should and already cannot afford to live and work by our national standards.

"But they don't need to suffer..."