Advantages of Gartle-class battleships.

The Galese-class battleship is a classic in Venice. The displacement of the Galese was even more than a thousand tons, making it a giant in the Mediterranean at that time. With its "unparalleled" size, the Galese could carry more than the traditional Calais ship.

Several times the number of artillery and armed personnel, firepower and troop strength are its greatest advantages.

The famous Battle of Galese was the Battle of Lepando in 1571. In this naval battle, which was said to determine the fate of Christian Europe, both sides assembled huge fleets and armed personnel. The Ottoman Empire's fleet had a total of 90,000 sailors and 250 soldiers.

Ten battleships, the Venetian fleet had a total of 440,000 sailors and soldiers, and 200 battleships.

On paper, the Ottomans had a huge advantage, but the result of the subsequent battle was shocking. The Ottoman fleet suffered a disastrous defeat. Its commander Ali Pasha and 30,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 8,000 people were captured.

Two hundred and thirty ships were lost. The Venetian allied fleet lost 13 ships.

The result of this naval battle was thirteen to two hundred and thirty, which is equivalent to one to twenty. This made the reputation of the Galese-class battleships spread like wildfire. Since then, the Venetian Galese battleships have been continuously defeated by the navies of the Mediterranean and Baltic countries.

Competing to imitate, France, Ottoman, Spain, Sweden, Russia and other countries all developed their own Galese fleets. Galese remained active until the 18th century before being completely eliminated.

This new type of warship is the first steel keel built based on the advantages of the Gartle-class warships combined with the Ming warships. It has 3,000 materials, which is equivalent to a 975-ton warship.

For this new type of three-thousand-material warship, the entire warship is equipped with sixty-eight artillery pieces, including a total of thirty-six three-inch breech-mounted smoothbore cannons, two five-inch cannons, one in tandem and one in the rear, plus thirty-four

Menflam machine-type breech-loading cannon.

Its firepower is considered to be the most powerful warship in the Ninghai Navy at present. Since it is the first time to build a warship with 3,000 materials, there is only one ship in the batch. The other seven ships are still in the keel laying state, and no one dares to do so.

Make sure the steel keel is suitable.

This kind of warship with sixty-eight guns can barely be regarded as a third-level warship in the Europa Navy sequence. However, due to the slender hull, this new type of warship has not been named.

While sailing on the vast sea, Shen Shikui burst out laughing.

This made Li Zhixiang a little confused: "What are you laughing at?"

"Cheng Shuai must have miscalculated!"

"Miscalculation?"

Li Zhixiang was even more confused.

Shen Shikui smiled and said: "Cheng Shuai thought of naming warships after place names. How many states do we have in Liaodong? Even if all the places in Liaodong were added together, there would only be fifteen ships. But looking at the wood prepared by the shipyard, I'm afraid there are one hundred and fifty ships."

There is no way to finish the construction. The question is, do we have so many place names in Liaodong?"

Li Zhixiang smiled and said: "How many provinces does our Ming Dynasty have?"

"Two capitals and thirteen provinces!"

"How many mansions?"

"One hundred and fifty-three mansions!"

"How many states?"

"Seventy-six Zhili prefectures and 48 scattered prefectures!"

Shen Shikui understood: "Together, there are a total of 153 prefectures and 124 states, which is 277!"

"Understand!"

Li Zhixiang smiled and said: "If the names of prefectures and states are used in the future, we will still have 1,427 counties in the Ming Dynasty!"

At this moment, a sailor reported: "Master Li, Master Shen, we seem to have deviated from the course!"

"Where are you now?"

"It seems that we are almost arriving at Quxian Port (Lianyungang) in Huai'an Prefecture!"

"It's okay. Let's go to sea this time. We will have water and food. When we get to Shanghai, we will return!"

"yes!"

While he was talking, suddenly there was a dull thunder in the distance.

Li Zhixiang frowned slightly: "Is the sky going to change?"

The sailors on the watchtower reported: "Master Li, there seems to be pirates ahead!"

Li Zhixiang couldn't see farther away, so he immediately grabbed the telescope, and through the forty-fold telescope, he finally saw clearly that on the southeast sea where they were born, there were four ships running in front, followed by more than a dozen clippers.

The clippers fired guns from time to time, and one of the ships was hit by a gun. The burning fire formed a huge column of smoke.

The navy soldiers who had not fought for a long time looked at Li Zhixiang and said, "Sir, should we..."

"Adjust the course immediately and head towards the direction of the gunfire at full speed. Let's go meet these pirates who dare to come to our Ning Haijun territory to cause trouble!"

"Master Li, I'm afraid this is not our territory!"

"Yes, it will definitely become our territory in the future!"

As the three-thousand-material ship moved forward at full sail, its speed suddenly increased. After half an hour of sailing, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer.

Because the distance was closer, the people on the ships on both sides could see more clearly. These pirates who were pursuing were not naval anti-smuggling ships along the coast, but real pirates. Although there were no flags on the ships, the sailors on the ships,

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"That motherfucker is actually a Japanese pirate!"

At this time, the sound of the Japanese pirates' cannons could be clearly heard, and the pirate ships could also be seen clearly. There were actually as many as seventeen ships. Many soldiers of the Ning Navy looked at Li Zhixiang and said, "Sir, what should we do now?"

A pair of seventeen, the Ning Navy Navy has never fought such a huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves.

Although this new type of ship is large, the problem is that the key is that this is a new ship. They are only conducting sea trials. Although the battleship is equipped with 68 artillery pieces, the problem is that each of these artillery pieces only has five rounds of ammunition. They are used for sea trials.

Shot.

If it were a naval battle in later generations, sixty-eight times five would still have at least 340 shells, which would be enough to fight. But the problem is, this is the era of smoothbore gun naval battles.

The warships of both sides fired hundreds of cannonballs, but no one could do anything to the other.

What's more, there was a serious shortage of sailors for this sea trial.

Li Zhixiang gritted his teeth: "Brothers, the opportunity to make a fortune has come, rush forward and kill them!"

Shen Shikui said: "Master Li, be careful!"

Li Zhixiang said: "If anything happens, I will be responsible for it!"

"The question is, can you afford it?"

Shen Shikui pointed to the ship at his feet and said: "This is a new ship. If something goes wrong, how will you explain it to the commander?"

Li Zhixiang pointed to his head and said, "Can you use my head to confess?"

After Li Zhixiang said this, Shen Shikui stopped talking nonsense.

Li Zhixiang said: "Brothers, cherish this opportunity and strive to hit the starting lineup!"

It sounds nice, but the problem is that no one takes it seriously. The chance of hitting the first shot is lower than the chance of being struck by lightning.
Chapter completed!