Otherworldly Castle Era

Vol 4 Chapter 75: Expansion of the fleet

   Yang Song sat in the living room of the monarch’s mansion and asked Li Jing: "Yao Shi, you tell me, how many battleships should Xia Guo build?"

   "Come on, Mr. Qi! To say that it is appropriate, there is no exact measurement. The minister can only say that the more is the better." Sitting on the lower right of Yang Song, Li Jing held a fist at Yang Song and gave an answer that was not an answer.

   Yang Song was very helpless to Li Jing's answer. After all, he had always been directly responsible for the military, so he turned to Liu Ji and asked: "Berwyn, by the end of this year, what is the population of this country?"

"Back to the Lord, it is now June 8th of the 11th year of the Apocalypse. The minister learned from Minister Xun Yu that the country has a population of 6 million. According to the minister's estimation, the population of the country will reach 7 million by the end of the year." Sitting on the lower left of Yang Song, Liu Ji bowed his hand to Yang Song and reported in detail the growth rate of Xia Guo's population.

"With a population of 7 million, even a 1% military-to-civilian ratio is enough to expand Xia’s military power to 70,000." Yang Song thought to himself: "With 42,000 people in the army, the navy can have two. More than 10,000 people."

   Thinking about the number of troops, he calculated the number of navy nowadays. Each of the three destroyers has 90 crew members, for a total of 270.

   There are six frigates, each with 50 crew members, for a total of 300; the three supply ships, each with 300 crew members, for a total of 900.

This is all the warships currently owned by the Xia Guo’s navy. There are 1,470 soldiers, plus the commanders, clerks, and the like. There are only 1,500 people in total. The same as a battalion.

   In other words, with a quota of 70,000, there are still 26,500 people left. According to the current size of the navy, more than 17 more can be built.

   Seventeen, there were 51 destroyers and 102 frigates. With such a huge scale, Yang Song didn't know how to arrange them.

   "How many people are needed for the new types of warships in existence?" Of course, Yang Song could not build all these "small" warships now.

Shen Kuo just walked around the library in general, and now if he is to answer such a delicate question, he must not be able to answer: "The monarch makes atonement, the minister does not know it. The minister will check it now." He was about to get up. Hurry to the library.

   "Well, you go first. It's best to copy the basic data of these warships." Yang Song thought for a while and agreed to Shen Kuo's action.

   Yang Song now really wants to know the outline of these new warships, so he can make a plan for the next action.

   "Yes, Lord." Shen Kuo arched his hand at Yang Song and hurried out.

   And Yang Song continued to ask: "Pharmacist, does the army need to be expanded?"

"Enlighten you! The army has one regular brigade, cavalry brigade, city guard brigade, and conscript brigade, including the Imperial Guards, Shenji Battalion, and Jinyiwei directly under the king, and there are 42,000 people in total." Li Jing was first. Reported to Yang Song about the number of armies that Xia has now.

"This number has not changed for more than two years. There is no war in the country now, and there is no threat outside the customs. There is no need to expand the army for the time being." Li Jing said this, hesitated and continued: "It's just that the army has not been on the battlefield for many years. , How much combat power you still have is still unknown."

   "This is a problem." Yang Song heard that the army's combat effectiveness had not been tested, especially after the expansion had added so many new recruits, how much combat effectiveness was still unknown, leaving him and Li Jing unsure of the high level.

   Yang Song was a little worried, and asked Li Jing, "Pharmacist, what can you do to solve this problem?"

   "Back to the Lord, combat power can be improved by training and exercises, but there is only one way to test combat power." Li Jing held a fist at Yang Song with a serious face, and said: "It can only be tested by actual combat!"

   "Actual combat?" Yang Song asked suspiciously: "Just now you also said that there is no war in this country. How to conduct actual combat?"

   "Enlighten you! The minister suggested..." When Li Jing stood up and fisted and was about to say something to Yang Song, Shen Kuo ran in.

   "Mr... the lord, the lord... the lord is back." As soon as Shen Kuo entered the door, he panted out of breath. Seeing his sweaty face and breathlessness, he must have ran and ran back.

   In less than half an hour before and after, Shen Kuo actually came back and forth, even if the library is next to the monarch's residence, there is no need to work so hard.

   Yang Song looked at Shen Kuo in astonishment. He didn't even listen to what Li Jing wanted to say. He hurriedly asked Shen Kuo to sit down and said, "Save it, slow down, sit down and take a break before talking."

   "Come on, Xie Jun, the minister has already rested." Shen Kuo stopped for a while, and was already breathless. He took out a notebook from his arms, turned a page, and bowed his hand to Yang Song, saying: "The basic data of the battleship has been copied by the minister."

   "Then you can talk about it." Yang Song saw that there was nothing wrong with Shen Kuo, so he let him continue to report.

"Yes, Lord." Shen Kuo said yes, lowering his head and looking at the notebook, and said: "The frigate needs fifty crew members, with a full load displacement of 260 tons...Destroyer, the crew needed is 120 crew members. The name is different from those previously designed and built by the country. The destroyers in these drawings are basically the same in terms of external dimensions and the same number of guns, but the internal design is more reasonable. There are many more in UU Reading www.uukanshu.com It is worth learning."

   The three destroyers previously built were designed and built by Xia Guo, and Shen Kuo, as the dean of the Academy of Sciences, also participated in them.

   It’s just that Yang Song didn’t expect that the drawings of the system rewards were similar to those designed and built by Xia Guo. The same size and the same number of naval guns are just more reasonable in terms of crew and internal layout.

  Xia Guo’s self-built destroyer has only ninety crew members. During the battle, he can only operate the guns on one side of the warship, and cannot allow the guns on both sides to fight at the same time.

   Yang Song remembered that it was because the structure of the battleship could not withstand the reaction force of the simultaneous firing of guns on both sides, and the destroyer produced by the current system, with 120 crew members, seemed to be able to fight at the same time.

   "The cruise ship needs 180 crew members, with a full load displacement of 1,200 tons..." Shen Kuo then reported the basic data of various warships one by one. (Detailed introduction in related works)

After listening to Shen Kuo’s report more than half an hour later, Yang Song’s heart was not at all calm, especially when he learned that the largest super battleship has a full displacement of 5,700 tons, and a powerful 110 doors. After the artillery, I can't wait to build it right away to see what kind of warship it is.

   It’s just that Yang Song is still very calm, knowing this is in a hurry.

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