Chapter 11: The Holy Emperor (3,000 words) To be honest, Cheng Chuliang was shocked by his guesses......
If it's just the previous guess, at most Liu Renliang can be replaced, but if it's the latter, then the matter is really big - the majority of the governors of a fleet have become spies, which not only means that Datang's maritime frontier will have problems at any time, but more importantly, it means that the enemy has infiltrated the core of Datang's internal power, which is undoubtedly very fatal to the development of Datang.
Because since they can penetrate the first, they can naturally penetrate the second and even the third and fourth......
It is conceivable that if the Tang Dynasty is fighting fiercely in front of him, and he is suddenly stabbed in the back, this is likely to affect the entire battle situation, and perhaps the Tang Dynasty may face a fiasco because of this......
"The subordinates understand, and the subordinates will never spread the word."
If Datang loses fiasco, what will be the consequences, and what will happen next, Cheng Chuliang doesn't dare to think about it, but he also knows that this kind of thing must not be made public, otherwise it is likely to cause greater disasters - if this matter spreads, not only will the enemy be alarmed, but some people are also likely to break the jar and break, then everything will be over......
"Then how is Your Highness going to deal with this matter?"
Cheng Chuliang asked again: "Our patrol route is not kept secret, in order to avoid some young people......
Are we going to change the route?
” "Why change the route?
Why change routes?
There's no need for this at all, you're worrying too much, it's fine.
"Li Zhen waved his hand indifferently, some things can't be avoided by changing the route temporarily, if the high-level of Datang is really infiltrated, then no matter how much you change the route, it's useless, not to mention, letting the enemy know your route is not necessarily a bad thing, they want Li Zhen's life, but Li Zhen also plans to take this opportunity to solve all the troubles......
"Don't talk about that, it's almost time, let's go now."
Li Zhen didn't want to say more about this matter, and when she saw that it was getting late, she got up and ordered.
"Yes, my subordinates will set sail."
"Woo~" With the sound of a long horn, the warships that were originally docked at the dock began to row their oars and separate from the dock, and then after a short quarter of an hour, a regular array was formed, surrounding Li Zhen's ship 'Holy Emperor' in the middle, and slowly sailed towards the outside of the port.
Speaking of the name of Li Zhen's Holy Emperor, in fact, this name was not given by Li Zhen, but by Li Shimin, because this ship also has a sister ship, named the Holy Emperor, which is Li Shimin's ship, which is more powerful and luxurious than the Holy Emperor......
It is said that when he got the name of the Holy Emperor at that time, Li Zhen was very disdainful - he always felt that Li Shimin thought that he had made a little achievement in the past two years, and he was a little floating, otherwise who would be so shameless to name his ship like this?
But......
Why are you so happy?
It's just that although the name is very shameful, since it can be used as the seat ship of the Tang Emperor and the crown prince, the Holy Emperor and the Holy Emperor are naturally not ordinary battleships, first of all, this is not a pure wooden battleship, but an ironclad battleship.
Although the hull is not entirely made of pure steel, the outside of the hull is also covered with a layer of steel plates, which is a full five millimeters thick - don't underestimate this thickness, even at this thickness, in the era when bows and crossbows were still the main long-range weapons, the full coverage of the hull was enough to ensure the basic safety of the crew.
It's not that thicker steel plates can't be made, but there is really no need for this, you must know that the thickness of five millimeters can even resist ordinary solid shells, and weapons such as bows and crossbows are even more unlikely to break through the defense of five-millimeter steel plates, not to mention that behind the steel plates, the shipwright has three layers of special nitrate old cowhide - even these three layers of old cowhide alone are not something that ordinary weapons can damage.
But because of the steel plates, the weight of the Holy Emperor reached an astonishing 3,500 tons - note that this is its own weight, not its displacement, and under normal circumstances the displacement of the ship is equal to the weight of the hull plus the load capacity.
If you count the displacement, the displacement of this ship even reaches an astonishing 5,000 tons, so don't look at the small hull of the Holy Prince, it is about the same as a first-class battleship, but the displacement is almost more than half of them (in order to hit the floating objects in the sea, so the bottom of all battleships is also covered with steel or copper, but it is not as perverted as the Holy Prince).
In addition to defense, the attack power of the Holy Emperor is also super strong, after all, no matter how tight the defense is, there are loopholes, in case it is really touched by someone through layers of blockade, if there is no combat effectiveness, then the Holy Emperor can really only close his eyes and wait for death, so Li Zhen not only has weapons on it, but also the firepower is not simple, it can be said to be violent.
Although because of the shape of the ship's hull, the Holy Emperor only has two decks, of which the top deck is also a leisure area, which he transformed into the shape of a later cruise ship, not only has a swimming pool, but even a lot of plants, which can be called a luxury cruise ship in the seventh century.
Therefore, the whole ship can only be loaded with guns with a second deck, so Li Zhen simply banned the design of multi-caliber guns and adopted a unified 100-millimeter caliber artillery.
On the entire second deck, there were twenty hundred-millimeter guns, two in the bow and two in the stern, and the remaining sixteen on both sides of the ship - in the beginning, the guns of the battleship were not of uniform specifications, and there were at least three or four cannons on a battleship, which was actually a compromise.
Although this made it more difficult to supply the battleship logistically, due to the underdevelopment of the battleship and artillery technology, the battleship had to be arranged in this way.
After all, the strength of the hull of the sail battleship is still too weak, and the cannon at that time did not encounter shock absorption facilities, if you face the enemy at close range, but also use the most powerful artillery, the huge reaction will bring damage to the battleship, and the service life of the battleship will be reduced after a long time, so the use of short-range and small-caliber guns at close range, and the use of large-caliber naval guns at a long distance has become the most popular practice at that time, and this situation has continued until the appearance of ironclad ships.
However, Li Zhen's Holy Emperor was different, this was specially designed for Li Zhen, and it was far more robust than ordinary first-class battleships, so it could barely use large-caliber giant guns of uniform specifications.
Twenty hundred-millimeter cannons, under a salvo, can even make the strongest battleship in the current Tang Dynasty explode to pieces in an instant, and it is guaranteed that anyone who dares to invade this ship will know why the flowers are so red.
To tell the truth, in fact, with the sturdiness of the Holy Emperor, it may not be able to be equipped with stronger cannons, because a 100-millimeter cannon, the weight of the cannonballs is actually about 8 pounds, and the calculation is only a little more than 3 kilograms, and the first-class battleships of the Tang Dynasty are equipped with eight 150-millimeter cannons, and the cannonballs alone have 19 kilograms, which is a 42-pound cannon according to the British system.
The performance of the Holy Emperor is far superior to that of a first-class battleship, even if it is equipped with a fifty-pound heavy gun, it can withstand it, but when the designer handed this design to Li Zhen, it was ruthlessly passed by Li Zhen, because in his opinion, there was no need for this at all.
In the final analysis, although this Holy Emperor also has combat effectiveness, this is a prince's ship after all, and it is said to be a battleship, but it is actually more like a cruise ship.
That is to say, Li Zhen chose this ship to enjoy it, not to fight a war, it only needs to have a certain self-defense ability, and it doesn't need too strong combat effectiveness at all - to put it mildly, if the situation really has to be the turn of the Holy Emperor, it means that the battle situation must have deteriorated to the extreme, and the enemy has formed an absolute suppression of the escort fleet, in such a situation, even if there is another battleship to counterattack, what is the use?
It's better to take advantage of this opportunity to run away quickly, and maybe you can escape with your life.
What's more, artillery is not the only self-defense weapon on the ship, in addition to artillery, there are dozens of bed crossbows on the Holy Prince, the power is connected to a huge winch, originally this winch is a special equipment for putting anchors or nets, but if necessary, you can also transfer the power to the bed crossbow through a special connection device, through the installation of pulley sets, this winch is very convenient to use, ten people can run it, whether it is to release arrows or harvest fish, it is very easy.
In addition to weapons, the Holy Emperor is also armed with a full 300 elite guards, and on the two Liaoyuan-class escort ships next to it, there are also 300 soldiers hidden in each, with the protection of these 900 elite soldiers, even if someone touches the battleship, it can ensure that they will not return.
Not only is it attacking and defending, but the speed of the Holy Prince is also very extraordinary - what no one knows is that in addition to the regular sail power, there is a complete steam system inside the Holy Emperor, which is a real steam warship.
This steam system is not used in normal times, but in case of danger, it only takes an hour for the steam engine to run completely, and under the huge steam power, no ship can catch up with the speed of the Holy Prince.
It can be said that this Holy Emperor has gathered the pinnacle of all the current science and technology of Datang, whether it is the process or the materials or the facilities equipped with the top selection, just the decoration that can be seen and cannot be used Li Zhen has spent more than 10,000 yuan to go down, and the whole ship is decorated with gold and splendor, and then equipped with a steel shell, it is simply the development of luxury to the extreme - of course, there are only two such ships in the entire Datang, and only Li Zhen and Li Shimin are worthy of this ship in the whole world.