Chapter 331 Sail Battleship, a New Class in the Wasteland
The night of February 18th, and the early morning of February 19th.
This time-staggered point is the same as the heavy snow warning that was issued seven days before the blizzard disaster.
After Somo fell into a deep sleep, a thunderstorm followed immediately.
Boom!
Boom!
Like a thunderous roar, or a natural disaster coming to the world, every lightning flash across the sky can illuminate all the darkness below.
No one wants to die!
No one gives up their desire for the New World!
At this tense time, more than 90% of large gathering places are making the final sprint before the disaster.
Even the lone wolf is trying every means to prepare supplies for going to sea.
On Tieshi Mountain, temporary canopies have been erected to block the raging raindrops outside and provide a stable working environment for the busy villagers.
Pots of hot soup to drive away the cold were also cooked and delivered by the cooks to drive away the chill in the villagers.
At this stage, more than 80% of the food resources in the hands of the villagers of Hope Village have been taken out and replaced with various tools.
Thirty people are responsible for manufacturing, forty people are responsible for compressing, forty people are responsible for packaging, and finally twenty people are responsible for packaging and counting and placing them in the warehouse.
With efficient personnel allocation, there is no need for shipbuilding, work is simple, and the villagers' nightlife is simple and fulfilling.
All the villagers sitting under the awning obviously knew that they chose to make such a high-risk investment.
But what reassures all the villagers is that.
This major investment has been approved by Somo!
Management will make mistakes, make mistakes, and make misjudgments. Su Shen, as everyone, will never do that!
Listening to the sound of rain in their ears, they were full of expectations for how much this batch of energy-absorbing glue could bring back.
Similarly, in this wasteland that is about to be baptized, it is not just the villagers of Hope Village who are full of expectations.
Looking away, on a moss-covered plain, there was a tribe several times larger than Hope Village, brightly lit in the thunderstorm.
Different from the rush to work in other places, in this shelter, as lightning flashes across the dark night sky, it can be clearly seen from the faces of these busy people
Excited!
They are wearing raincoats, they are holding umbrellas, their steps are brisk, and there seems to be fire burning in their hearts!
Although there was heavy rain falling from the sky, it still could not stop them from walking out of the house in groups. After identifying their directions and forming a large group, they moved like ants moving.
One hundred meters.
Two hundred meters.
Five hundred meters!
More and more people walked out of the village and joined the team, so that every time lightning illuminated the earth, a "world famous painting" was formed.
Gradually, as less than half an hour passed, even though the ground was muddy and slippery, they still reached the end of the village on the way out.
Turn right along the end and walk about 300 meters. In front of everyone, a small hill appeared.
The mountain bag is not small, it is much larger than the underground shelter.
The length is over two hundred meters, but because of the height, it is only about twenty meters, and because it is too long, it looks far less majestic than the underground shelter.
And you can see from a distance that this mountain bag has no roof from the left to the middle. It is like a volcano crater, and rainwater pours into it.
But it is this mountain bag that brings full surprises to everyone who comes here.
“Everyone, please line up, don’t be anxious, the test has not started yet”
“Hey, hey, Lu Xin, I’m just talking about you! Scrape the mud off your feet. Scratch, others, scrape a lot of mud on their shoes before going in. If possible, put a plastic bag on your feet before going in."
On the side of the hill, there is a small door open for Three people came in and out.
At this time, four guards with rifles stood at the door, shouting at the crowd who came, and these crowds also cooperated very well.
If there is little mud on your feet, wash them while scraping them. If there is a lot of mud on your feet, simply take off your shoes and put them in the storage space, then walk in with bare feet.
Everyone was filled with excitement, just like the supermarkets on Earth that had just opened with 50% off promotions, and the entrance was crowded in the blink of an eye.
Take out the wooden sign with your identity engraved on it. After being verified by the guard and put in, more and more people entered along this passage.
But what is surprising is that so many people entered the mountain bag, but they could not hear any noisy sound, as if the microphone was turned off.
What kept them silent was not the rules or threats, but the
boat walking along the deep passage and nestled in the mountains!
Everyone who came here and saw the boat seemed to be possessed. They numbly walked to the open space and sat down quietly.
In their eyes, at this moment, there is only this ship!
This is the next time, they will take the boat to the other side of hope, which is their only help to survive in this wasteland ocean.
This is the big guy that everyone has accumulated their resources to replace, and it is also the good treasure that they have been thinking about for countless nights.
At this time, if Sumo could come to this place, he would definitely scream in surprise!
“Tundra Sanctuary, awesome!”
Twenty days ago, in Su Chan’s video, it can be clearly seen that Tundra Sanctuary experienced the separation from Ying Tianlong , the frightening decline in strength.
Not only are there only a little over twenty houses left, but the population has also dropped by half, with less than 300 people left.
Under such a decline, even if the Tundra Refuge is an official refuge, it is destined to slowly decline.
Under a marine disaster, no miracle will happen, so we can only choose to be affiliated with a large shelter like other small shelters, or we can divide our possessions and everyone will go their separate ways!
But now, the situation has changed!
In just half a month, not only did the village have forty or fifty more rooms, but the population also increased to a terrifying number
Seven hundred and eighty people!
Although women and children with low combat effectiveness account for the majority of these people, according to the scale, the tundra shelter can definitely be regarded as a medium-to-large shelter!
And the ship placed in the mountain bag fully proved their strength. Unlike the Hope, the boat used by Tundra Refuge for migration is a wooden sailboat.
Of course, it’s not that people in the tundra don’t want to use steel to build ships, or that they don’t have the relevant technology, but the materials and manufacturing speed!
There is no steel plate provided by the furnace that works 24 hours a day, there is no simplified construction process of the modular shipyard, and there is no super work efficiency of the machinist who does not sleep around the clock.
There is no way to achieve a miracle like the "Hope".
So, at the beginning, basically 99% of the shelters targeted wooden sailboats.
Looking back at history, China's shipbuilding industry only began to lag behind the world in modern times.
In ancient times, China's shipbuilding industry was always ahead of the world.
Not to mention Zheng He’s huge fleet of battleships during his voyages to the West, there was also the “Big Dragon Boat” that cruised on the Grand Canal during the Sui Dynasty. It had four floors and a total of 160 rooms.
Even now, some countries may not be able to manufacture such a huge ship.
With the experience inherited from our ancestors, in this competition for survival, the advantages and disadvantages of each country have been clearly revealed.
According to the number of people, any shelter with less than 300 people is called a small shelter.
300-500 would be called a quasi-medium-sized shelter.
500-700, medium-sized, and above 700, it is a large-scale shelter.
Under the natural disaster, in the first round of ship-building competition, with only three days left before the disaster, the battle situation was very clear.
Those small shelters without resource accumulation will form the bottom of the entire competition level.
This kind of shelter does not have a strong enough leader to form a cohesion, and the villagers who make up the shelter are not willing to trust the management and pay materials to form the village's collective material library.
Naturally, all villagers can only format the core of their shelter and form a raft for migration.
There are many people like this in the wasteland, accounting for about 20%. They are nicknamed the "resigned to fate" level by those who do good things.
They can only rely on luck, and they can only trust their lives to the raft beneath them that may capsize at any time!
As we move up to the fateful level, we reach the most popular
Fearless Sandship level in the world chat!
The sand boat is also called "square stern". The shape of the ship is square head and square stern, with a wide deck, deep and small hull, low freeboard, and a stern at the rear.
Its shallow draft makes up for the disadvantage of the large resistance between the square head and the water surface. In addition, because of its thick hull, it can be equipped with more masts and sails, and it can also sail against the current.
In addition, the cabin adopts watertight compartments and has good anti-sinking performance, so small and medium-sized shelters with some accumulation of resources have set their sights on this kind of ship.
Thanks to the Ming Dynasty, the ship type used by Zheng He on his voyages to the West was the sand ship type. This type of ship was very well-known in China, and its craftsmanship was also spread more widely.
Currently, apart from the 20% of people who are resigned to their fate, the remaining 65% of people have chosen this kind of ship. The only difference lies in the materials and size of the ship!
Those that can be built over 30 meters will be called golden sand boats, those that are 20 meters tall will be called silver sand boats, and those that can be built below will be collectively called copper sand boats.
As long as we can build this kind of ship, we are basically no longer resigned to fate. We are fully qualified to fight on the ocean, and we have a good chance of reaching the New World.
From the Dreadnaught Sand Ship class upwards, we reach the
Sail Battleship Class, which is only revealed when showing off its muscles in medium and large shelters!
From 1637 to 1850, in this chaotic age of navigation, before the advent of the steam engine, the ruler of the oceans was the sailing battleship.
The sailing battleship with hundreds of naval guns moves gracefully and slowly, and the two sides of the war line up in neat steps to fight against each other. This is an eternal classic scene.
Although the sailing battleship has many shortcomings, it was the main ship of the navy from the 17th to the 19th century, and its dominance at sea for more than two centuries fully proves its power.
This is the true crystallization of human maritime civilization, and it is also one of the reasons why human large-scale shelters dare to intervene in this alien war this time.
Thirty years of army, fifty years of air force, and one hundred years of navy. This classic saying comes from the era of sailing battleships!
A century-old navy is not an exaggeration. It takes at least a hundred years for a tree to grow into a plank that can be used as a mooring board for ships.
A 74-gun battleship needs to harvest more than 2,000 Eagle Country oak trees planted a hundred years ago, and it cannot be wood that grows in the deep mountains and old forests, has been abandoned, or even has rotten heartwood.
It must be high-quality wood that has been specially planted on private estates, riversides, and roads.
Oak trees should not be planted too densely. An environment that is too dense will cause the oak trees to grow into a shape that competes for sunlight. Such wood will not be well-proportioned.
At that time, it could be said that whoever could own the forest would own the fleet.
Similarly, in the wasteland, other things may not be available, or may be scarce.
But this kind of excellent tree used to make sailing battleships is not rare, it can even be said to be abundant!
Therefore, this provides perfect prerequisites for the construction of sailing battleships.
As long as you have enough resources, as long as you are willing to use disaster points to dry wood and prepare materials, as long as you have enough people in the shelter to drive it out!
Then choose it without any reservation and no brainer!
Because this is the most powerful ship currently in the wasteland!
No one!
The ship currently chosen by the Tundra Refuge to go to sea is a super sailing battleship built of wood.
This ship has a total deck length of 61 meters, a keel length of 49 meters, a width of 14.7 meters, a depth of 23.17 meters, a draft of 6.8 meters, and a displacement of up to 1,500 tons.
With the help of sufficient wood and games, Tundra Shelter spent almost all its resources to build such a monster!
Of course, the ability to create such a monster does not mean that the Tundra Refuge is an official refuge and ranked among the top ten in disaster rankings.
It’s not that the Tundra Shelter just got lucky and found something good from the treasure chest, but
it’s the hot man standing behind the Tundra Shelter!
It's him!
Taking action!
(End of this chapter)