The sound of clanking echoed in the dock. This is a large shipyard in Cyric, which originally produced steel paddle steamers.
Now, this place has been taken over by Sophia. She has mobilized more than half of the elite workers in the consortium to build a super battleship belonging to the Cyric Consortium here.
Naturally, Sofia, who has acquired propeller propulsion technology, cannot just watch Datang Group dominate the ocean. So Sofia wants to be a challenger, or a sharer of ocean interests!
The huge hull has been redesigned and renovated. This battleship adopts a brand-new design, which can definitely be said to be an unprecedented test for Cyric's designers.
In the end, the technically experienced designers completed their designs and then started building this behemoth!
The super battleship belonging to Cyric refers to the design ideas of the dreadnoughts of the Datang Group. After all, the Tamaki-class battleship has been to Mirage and Bunas, and its appearance has been seen by many people.
The huge hull and the powerful artillery on it left a deep impression on many people. Many painters have painted the dreadnoughts docked in the port, one of which was even collected by Tang Mo.
Nowadays, many technologies have spread, so many times, you can easily copy your opponent's design with just a pair of Sharingan.
At least copying the cat will save you a lot of trouble. This is how Cyric's new battleship was copied.
It's a pity that copying a cat and painting a tiger will ultimately mean copying a tiger from a cat. After plagiarizing a shape, Cyric's designers still encountered unprecedented difficulties in many key links.
For example: Cyric copied the turret layout and turret appearance design of the Dreadnought, but could not copy the internal structure design of the Dreadnought.
Especially the long-distance optical sighting equipment unique to Datang Group, that thing pays attention to precision processing and cannot be copied.
In order to make up for the gap in equipment performance caused by similar problems, Cyric's idea was to increase the tonnage, install more armor, and expand the caliber of the artillery...
This set is almost an improvement of the on-paper data in the game: thicker armor and larger gun caliber can naturally create more powerful warships.
But in fact, in reality, the larger the caliber, the stronger the firepower, nor the thicker the armor, the higher the defense.
The defensive power not only depends on the thickness of the armor, but also on the technology of splicing these armors, the quality of the armor, and the location of installation...
Firepower depends not only on the caliber of the cannon, but also on the density of firepower, the type of ammunition selected, the bore pressure, caliber, and rate of fire.
Moreover, sometimes, technology cannot be surpassed even if you want to.
The head craftsman who supervised the manufacture of Cyric's dreadnought battleship was talking to his boss about the "super" dreadnought in front of him: "Sir, the barrel life of the 320mm caliber gun we made...
actually……"
"You don't have to worry about this! Although the life data is not very good, its performance on paper is stronger than the 305mm caliber of Datang Group!" the person in charge said proudly.
Although the metallurgical technology was insufficient and the artillery casting technology was also lagging behind, Cyric still relied on his profound knowledge to create a 320 mm caliber cannon.
The advent of this kind of cannon gives Cyric's new battleship, which uses the same layout as the Tamaki-class battleship, seemingly stronger firepower.
For Cyric, as long as the data on paper looks better, customers will be satisfied and people will pay. This is enough for them!
Workers in the distance are perfecting the huge hull bit by bit. In order to carry more armor, Cyric's battleship has a displacement of more than 25,000 tons!
The complex and backward internal design of the hull wastes a lot of displacement, which leads to the overall defense that the larger and heavier Cyric's new battleship is actually not much better than the Tamaki-class battleship.
What is even more ridiculous is that because there is no new power system similar to the Tamaki class, Cyric has to use an old-fashioned steam boiler as power.
This makes the speed of Cyric's version of the battleship a joke: in theory, it can only barely catch up with the free wheel at full speed.
"The people from the Mirage Kingdom made a reservation. I heard that even their king is frugal and only eats one meal a day." The person in charge said proudly: "No matter what, they all hope that we can build a more powerful warship for them.
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Once, in order to frighten the people of the Mirage Kingdom so that the Mirage Kingdom no longer dares to covet the Qi Kingdom and other areas that the Tang Kingdom is interested in, two Yucheng-class battleships sailed to the Mirage Kingdom and paid a visit that was very threatening.
During the visit, the two warships even pointed their main guns at Mirage's port, scaring the King of Mirage into not even daring to say a harsh word.
Later, after the battleships of the Tang Kingdom left the Mirage Kingdom, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom regarded this threat as a great shame and humiliation.
The unwilling people of the Mirage Kingdom approached Cyric, hoping that Cyric could build a more powerful warship to help them overpower the Tang Kingdom.
It happened that Cyric was also building a dreadnought, so he took the Mirage delegation to visit the dock where the warship was being built.
The Mirage purchasing group was quite satisfied with Cyric's new battleship and immediately placed an order. This money almost emptied the Mirage's treasury reserves.
In order to avenge his shame, the king of the Mirage Kingdom only ate one meal a day to motivate his subjects, save food and clothing, and expand the army to prepare for war.
Under the leadership of His Majesty the King, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom tightened their belts, donated money and materials, and went crazy to raise money to buy warships.
How crazy are they? The children of Mirage Kingdom have developed a game called "Sink the Tamaki"...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now the navy of Mirage can be said to be completely reborn, and its combat power even exceeds that of other navies by a large margin.
At least on paper, the Mirage Navy purchased one Bunas-class ironclad ship from the Datang Group, and spent money to purchase five new destroyers launched by the Datang Group.
This is actually just a fraction of the Mirage Navy's procurement. The focus of the Mirage Navy's procurement is the various types of warships built by the Cyric Consortium.
In order to make up for the losses in the last naval battle with the Datang Group, Mirage purchased 30 new Cyric battleships in one fell swoop. At the same time, it also spent all its money to buy three Cyric battleships that were under construction.
If you simply look at the number of battleships, the statistics of the Mirage Navy can be said to be quite scary: they have 36 new battleships, 3 battleships, and more than a dozen paddle steamers left over from the last war...
Although the naval fleet of the Tang Dynasty was obviously more numerous and seemed to be of better quality, the Tang navy was dispersed in Bunas, Dragon Island, Everwinter City, Neverwinter City, Linshui and Dongwan Port.
Therefore, the Tang Navy, which has been controlling the sea since the moment of its birth, seems to have encountered a challenger this time, a challenger who does not know whether to live or die.
It's a pity that the commanders of the Mirage Navy don't know that the warship they spent all their money to buy is actually a big toy with a worse aiming system, a garbage power system, poor tonnage protection, and backward artillery technology.
"As far as I know, we are not the only ones building similar warships, right?" the leader of Cyric's craftsmen asked in a low voice.
"Indeed, as far as I know, many countries are building their own new warships, some are larger and some are smaller." The executive of the Cyric Consortium said with emotion behind his hands.
In the past, Cyric dominated the workshops of several countries and almost monopolized the construction of sailing battleships.
Because whoever built warships at that time needed to purchase naval guns from Cyric to arm those sailing warships.
But now, with the spread of technology, some countries have gradually completed industrialization on their own, or completed partial industrialization, and have more or less certain production capabilities.
These countries have taken weapons production back into their own hands while industrializing, which has actually broken the previous marketing model of the Cyric Consortium.
For Cyric, the losses caused by the gradual loss of control of many countries have actually made them miserable.
Countries no longer name their warships after the manufacturer. They prefer to use the Datang Group's naming method to divide the warships in their hands into destroyers, ironclads, cruisers and battleships. However, none of the countries actually equips battleships.
Most don't even have cruisers.
In order to catch up with the gap, every country is trying every means to improve the strength of its navy. If you can't buy one, then build it yourself.
As a result, many new types of warships have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Many countries have also made so-called improvements to the warships they built, creating a lot of weird things.
Some countries mainly imitate, imitating the destroyers of the Datang Group or the destroyers of the Cyric Consortium.
Other countries focus on improvement, and they often install larger-caliber artillery on their destroyers, or create monsters whose tonnage is between cruisers and destroyers.
In short, the development of naval ships is still in a barbaric state. Everyone is wild and has many immature design ideas.
Just like a tank.
"Next year, we will be able to see the interesting picture of those maritime countries with more warships joining forces to threaten the Datang Group." The person in charge of Cyric sneered, as if he saw the anxious people. Datang Group is general.
"That's really great!" The leader of the craftsmen quickly offered his compliments: "With your help, Lady Sophia, you will definitely win the final victory!"
"Haha, hahaha!" The person in charge of Cyric, who felt good about himself, became even more proud after hearing the compliment, and looked up to the sky and laughed.
