Chapter 355: The Biggest Harvest

Long sails are divided into triangular sails and rigid sails. The common advantage of triangular sails and rigid sails is that they are flexible to operate. In particular, rigid sails can turn 360 degrees around the mast and have a strong windward ability. They can sail up to 3 or 40 degrees, which is far stronger than horizontal sails.

In terms of disadvantages, since the area of ​​hard sails is only half that of square sails, the downwind is not as good as that of square sails.

Multi-angle sails are heavy due to the battens and the mast is not reinforced by stays, so it is difficult to make them taller and larger, which limits the size of the ship.

Therefore, although the multi-angle sail is the most efficient in utilizing the wind, it is still not as good as the horizontal sail in actual use.

Simply put, schooners have strong adaptability, especially sloops, most of which are schooners. Before the body size reaches a certain level, schooners still have advantages.

Hengfan is conducive to making the ship bigger, and will sacrifice part of the pursuit of speed. There is a big gap between the two in terms of design concepts.

Due to the limitation of the single means of naval warfare, it is often necessary to engage in string battles or frontal collisions, so the body size has certain advantages in naval warfare.

Therefore, now the shipbuilding style on the west coast is beginning to move closer to the large ones, especially the Witches' Secret Society. of.

The first four-masted sailing ship was made by them. Limited by their pressure, the Commons family had to devote more energy to the square-sailing sailing ship.

It is said that the high-level members of the Witches' Conclave are no longer satisfied with the four-masted sailboat, and have begun to pursue a larger sailboat. To what extent, it is unknown, and it has not really been released until now.

Compared with the Witch's Conclave, which is fond of flat sails, the Commons family's shipyard has more research on schooners.

After all, the sideline they are now engaged in - pirates, requires their ships to have an absolute advantage in speed.

Otherwise, if you can't catch up with others, how can you rob?

Compared with square-sail sailboats with obvious disadvantages, schooner sailboats have wider adaptability.

The Third Fleet is no exception. Regardless of the Wave Breaker class or the Hurricane class, they are all schooners with a high degree of similarity in size and shape. Even if they are not produced by an assembly line, they are still produced by a large shipyard with complete craftsmanship.

The seven wave-breaking ships are all between 20 and 24 meters long, and the only hurricane-class ship is 34 meters long.

In the same category, although their size is not huge, but regardless of the internal structure, workmanship and materials, there is nothing to say, it is definitely a mature work of the middle class.

You can see that they have big holes in their bodies, and they still refuse to sink.

Airtightness and firmness are one of the two major criteria to measure the quality of a big ship.

"One, two, three, pull together!"

"One, two, three, pull again."

"Everyone, work harder, we will be out of the water soon. If the big guys drag the bow of this warship out of the water today, I will apply for extra meals for everyone."

"Let's talk about what to add to the meal first?"

"Big pork buns."

"Pork buns don't count. Even if you don't mention this, it's still a pork bun today. It doesn't count. Change it."

"How about pork stuffed dumplings?"

"This is good, are you full?"

"Be full, as long as you can eat, go ahead and eat."

"Okay, the team leader said, if we can pull the bow of the boat out of the water today, we can fill up the pork stuffed dumplings, for this dumpling meal, let's work harder."

The Danube battlefield, where the flames of war had not completely dissipated, was once again in full swing.

However, the main force led by the Yongye Army has become the Yongye Army's subordinate engineer regiment and the hired crocodile people. The two are mixed together without distinction.

Even in the cold winter, white steam was rising from the top of their hot heads, their muscles bulged, and they worked hard together with the animals, accompanied by loud and clear slogans.

And the big ropes, thick as a baby's arms, went deep into the river.

The target they dragged was the warship of the Commons family that had sunk in the previous battle.

Whether it is for the purpose of clearing the river, or their own maintenance value, the Eternal Night Army Leader will not allow them to rot at the bottom of the Danube.

In fact, it is not only these sunken ships that need to be salvaged, but also the black powder mines planted by the Yong Ye Army before they take the lead. They also need to be cleared.

After all, they are the ones who have the absolute advantage on the river now, and they must ensure the smooth flow of the waterway.

Fortunately, the Yong Ye army leader had this consideration from the very beginning. They have an absolute advantage in black powder mines, so they used clear mines to deal with the Commons family's third fleet. The battleship is huge in size and difficult to change direction.

Due to inertia, even if a mine is noticed, there is often no way to change direction.

However, the boat led by Yongye Army can run smoothly under the speed limit. After all, they have been in the Andes inland lake and have undergone professional training in this area.

Demining is naturally relatively easy now.

The reason is relatively easy.

In addition to throwing the finished torpedo into the water when deploying it, you need to be careful not to trigger it when it is deployed, and the danger is greatly increased.

Also because of the previous scuffle, many mines were no longer in their original positions, and some had changed from clear mines to hidden mines. It took a lot of work to find them, and it was difficult to clear them.

This is a hangover from the gunpowder wars that will become more common as gunpowder weapons become more sophisticated.

"It's okay to increase your strength, but you also need to pay attention to a strategy. Head, send the water ghost down to cut through the buttocks of the boat. It will be easier to pull it out from the bottom of the water, let alone pull out the bow. Tomorrow, the whole ship will be directly destroyed." It is not impossible to drag the boat out."

"The order from above is to ensure the integrity of the warship as much as possible, and it is not appropriate to cut through it casually?"

"What is suitable or not? The whole ship sank, it must have been severely damaged, whether the keel was damaged, and whether it can be repaired is still unknown. It is not bad for such a hole, just be careful to avoid the keel , The most valuable thing about this warship is the keel, and the deck is just a pile of wood, the last thing we need is this, when the water sawing factory is built, the wood will flow down the river, as much as we need."

"Brother knows a lot, how do you call him? What did you do before?"

"You can just call me Allens. When the No. 2 Shipbuilding Factory was just separated, I worked there as a small worker for two years and learned a little bit."

"Hey... Skilled workers, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the salary of skilled workers in the shipyard is not low, right? Why did my brother come here?"

"Don't mention it, the salary is good. The question is whether it's the material. I'm impatient and restless. I can't bear the single repetitive work, especially the blueprint. Similarly, even if you hang around for another ten or eight years, you won’t have a chance to get a big job, so you apply for a change of job, join the army as a leading soldier, and go where you need it, it’s not that you are assigned to help you catch boats.”

"There are quite a few soldiers who have transferred to technical jobs. It is rare for skilled jobs to transfer to the army. It is a pity that brothers gave up such a good opportunity. After all, technical jobs are more stable and less dangerous."

"You can't say that. Someone has to carry the knife. If everyone goes to become a technician, what are we going to fight with? While we are young, we will fight in the front for two more years. When we can't carry it anymore, we will turn back. Technicians are not too late."

"By relying on this awareness and self-confidence of brothers alone, it will not be easy to go anywhere. Success, I will listen to you and try. Cut through the deck below and try to resolve the battle within three days. If these warships are salvaged one day earlier, it will The sooner it is repaired and the sooner it enters the battle, the Kingsley family will definitely not just sit around and die."

"Brother, if you can trust me, wait for a while, and I will take someone down personally. After all, I have been in contact with this area, and I know where to start, so as to minimize the loss."

"That's what you wish for. I'll find some crocodile leather jackets for you. It's freezing cold now, so keep warm."

"Then trouble brother!"

Under the leadership of Sergeant Allens, several selected water ghosts successfully opened several holes under the big ship.

When the battleship's head surfaced and began to be dragged towards the shore, it was obviously much easier.

If they didn't dig out the bottom, they wouldn't be pulling a huge monster out, and they would have to add a boat of water.

Even if their number is tripled, I'm afraid it won't be possible.

"Come out, come out."

"Haha... We were the first to complete it, and the construction progress was half a week ahead of the other brother teams. This time the award cannot be missed."

"It's enough to achieve this level. The rest of the work will be handed over to those professionals. Today, I will call the shots and give everyone a half-day holiday. The gang leader will cook a delicious meal to reward everyone, take a rest, and tomorrow we will assign people. Reinforce other brother teams."

"The leader is wise."

The whole construction site fell into cheers.

The Yongye Army Leader places great emphasis on healthy competition.

Because of their affiliated engineering regiment, to some extent, they eat from the big pot.

If there is no competition mechanism to motivate them, it is easy for them to develop a lazy habit of working without effort from top to bottom.

Therefore, horizontal comparison is necessary.

The first and the second are not only a matter of reputation, but are often linked to material rewards, coupled with proper supervision and brainwashing.

The three-pronged approach allowed Yong Ye's army leader to maintain a relatively high efficiency from top to bottom.

It sounds complicated, but in fact the truth is very simple, if you do something wrong, you must be punished, and if you have done something, you must be rewarded.

As long as these eight characters are implemented in place, the group will usually not be much worse.

I'm afraid that if you know this truth, if you don't implement it properly, it's useless.

Pulling the sunken battleship out of the water is only the first step.

Next, some of these affiliated engineering regiments will leave some people to assist the professionals transferred from the Yongye Junling Shipyard to check whether these warships are worth repairing.

If there is no value for repair, it will not be abandoned like this.

Instead, it was dismantled on the spot, and the dismantled materials would become substitutes for repairing other warships.

The Wave-breaking warship of the Commons family is a very mature type of warship, although there is no assembly line product that unifies the sizes of various parts and facilitates interchange like the Yongye Army Leader.

However, there is no problem in using some relatively core materials interchangeably.

Inland ships like building ships have only one core, and that is the keel.

As long as the keel is not damaged, it has the value of repair.

It is not the construction speed of the shipyard itself that limits the shipbuilding speed of the shipyard, which can be fully compensated by manpower.

What really limits their speed is the treatment of wood, especially the keel.

It's not like finding a few strong trees and cutting them down, and it's over.

It still needs to wait until it is completely dry, not the kind that is directly exposed to the sun, which is easy to cause cracks in the wood, and the whole keel will be useless by then.

Different woods require different environments and treatments.

Some woods have the best effect of shade drying in a cool and ventilated environment, and they are more resistant to decay and the strongest.

Some need to be peeled from the beginning, and some not only do not need to, but also need to be soaked or oiled.

It all depends on experience.

According to the methods that the Yongye army leader has at hand, even if it is artificially dried regardless of the cost, it will take about two years at the earliest for a keel to reach a usable level (here refers to a first-class building ship).

Slowly, where the Yongye Junling Shipyard is being built, the focus is on hoarding giant wooden keels, and it has not been processed yet.

It has been five or six years in total, and it will take seven or eight years to formally take shape, or even more than ten years.

But there is a consensus in the shipbuilding industry.

The longer the time it takes to dry in the shade, the more likely it is to produce better shipbuilding wood, although it does not necessarily produce the best shipbuilding wood—mainly in terms of corrosion resistance and impact resistance.

The former represents the service life, and the latter represents the combat effectiveness.

But one thing is certain, in the next few years, as the wood processed over the years will be put into use one after another, the shipbuilding industry led by Yongye Army will enter a state of blowout, and the launching speed of various warships will increase. will increase substantially.

The large ships of the Commons family have one more core than the large ships, and that is the mast.

But in the final analysis, it is the same thing as the keel, and it is still a tall and strong wood.

In fact, there is another factor that limits the speed of shipbuilding, and that is the cutting speed of wood processing.

However, this problem has not been so big since Yongye Junling built a large number of cutting saw factories driven by water, and the processing speed is dozens of times that of manpower.

However, the speed of building is not as fast as the speed of repair.

To build a breaking wave-class battleship, even if it is a medium-sized shipyard, even if there is ready-made wood, it will take less than half a year to complete it.

But it takes only a few weeks to repair a warship, even a small shipyard, and less than a month for a severely damaged ship.

Therefore, the sunken battleship of the Commons family is still worth the effort of the Yong Ye army leader to salvage.

After confirming the value of repair, a temporary repair yard will be built around the sunken ship. The required repair materials are either disassembled and transported from those battleships that have no repair value, or directly from the shipyard of the Yongye Army Commander. In mobilization.

Therefore, the salvage time of the sunken warship seems to be isolated, but it is actually closely related, and it is best to ensure that the steps are as consistent as possible to maximize the benefits.

This is the consistent style of doing things of the Yongye military leader.

Soon the battleships sunk by the Commons family were dragged out of the water one after another.

After a two-week effort, four sunken warships have been identified as having repair value, one of which is a Hurricane-class ship.

Others can only be used by dismantling parts. The specific situation will wait until those relatively intact battleships are repaired.

If there are enough disassembled parts, they will try to see if they can piece together a battleship.

This victory against the Commons family brought far-reaching significance to the Yong Ye army leader, not just the explosive growth of water power.

But in terms of shipbuilding, there will be two or three steps in a row, and you can directly start preparing to build your own sea-going ship.

It is far less difficult to imitate according to the gourd painting scoop than self-developed, not to mention that Yongye Army Leader has never stopped trying in this area since he owned his own shipyard. Combining the two, the speed will naturally increase to a higher level ,