The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 447 Weapon Upgrade

These new factories were able to manufacture a variety of civilian and military items, as well as smelt better steel for weapons.

Jiang Chuan continued to check. After clicking on the menu of the shipyard, he found that there were three more warships in the shipyard.

Originally, there was only one type of armed transport ship, which is the main battleship used by the navy now.

Strictly speaking, this kind of armed transport ship is just a transport ship loaded with artillery, not a real warship.

They are small in size, and their ability to resist wind and waves at sea is relatively poor. Once they encounter real warships or bad weather, they are prone to danger.

And now after the upgrade, there are real warships.

There are three kinds of real warships, including heavy warships, escort warships and mortar warships.

These three warships are much larger than armed transport ships. Among them, mortar warships are the largest, followed by escort warships, and finally heavy warships.

Of course, their advantages over armed transport ships are not only in size, but also because of their larger hulls and deeper drafts, they are more resistant to wind and waves.

In addition, the artillery on these warships surpassed the armed transport ships several times in terms of range, accuracy, and power.

Among them, the most powerful artillery is of course the mortar warship loaded with heavy artillery.The trajectory of this artillery is curved, but its power is extremely powerful.A single shot can directly sink a ship of the size of an armed transport ship.

But obviously, the heavy mortar warship is used as the flagship of the navy, because the hull is so large and tall that it looks like a tall fat man.In addition to the two heavy naval guns installed at the bow and stern, there are also dozens of direct-fire guns installed on the left and right sides.

Therefore, this fat man couldn't help but resist beating, and beating people was very sharp.

The escort battleship is relatively slender, with no heavy naval guns at the front and rear, only direct-firing artillery on both sides.It is more flexible due to its slender body.

Although the heavy warship is small in size, it has the most artillery loaded on it, because this kind of warship often acts as the vanguard in naval battles.

However, after Jiang Chuan carefully checked the information of these warships, he still had some regrets.

Because these warships are still powered by sails, and there is no ironclad warship powered by steam as he imagined, this has to be said to be a pity.

In the industrial era, Jiang Chuan felt that the most notable sign should be the birth of the steam engine and the improvement of the steam engine.

If we talk about the landmark event of the first revolution, it must be the birth and improvement of the steam engine.

However, among all the technical upgrades, Jiang Chuan did not see the option of steam engine.

After he asked the system puzzledly, the system told him: It still belongs to the pre-industrial era.In order for steam engine technology to appear, the system must be upgraded to the post-industrial era before this new technology can appear and be applied.

The words of the system made Jiang Chuan very painful, but that was all he could do.

He was not so naive as to think that a liberal arts student who knew nothing about steam engines could invent any steam engine, and he didn't have the relevant talents and equipment, so he had to wait for the next system upgrade.

However, although it was a pity that there was no steam ironclad ship, after calculating the funds at hand, Jiang Chuan ordered the construction of five heavy mortar warships, ten escort warships, and twenty first heavy warships.

Since then, the combat effectiveness of the navy has taken a qualitative leap.Even if you encounter a strong enemy at sea, you can fight now.

After Jiang Chuan checked all the menus, based on the existing funds and resources, he first built a quilt factory and a steel factory.

Both of these are still achievable at the current level of technology.

As for other factories, Jiang Chuan checked and found that not only the cost is relatively high, but also because some technologies cannot be achieved at present, they can only be built after the system is upgraded to the post-industrial era.

The high-quality products smelted in the steel factory can be used as raw materials for guns and artillery and enter the gun foundry to manufacture weapons.

And those slightly inferior products can be used to produce civilian utensils, including various tableware, agricultural tools and so on.

As for the quilt factory, it is more widely used. It can not only produce various military uniforms for the troops, but also produce civilian clothing.

After learning about the new changes in the system upgrade, Jiang Chuan withdrew from the fortress base.

Now only two days later, all the technological upgrades in the arsenal are completed, and new muskets and artillery can be manufactured.

After this batch of artillery and muskets are manufactured, they will be sent to Weihaiwei to equip the front-line troops used to exterminate Japanese pirates.

Two days passed quickly, and Jiang Chuan got a reminder that all the technical upgrades in the arsenal had been completed.

He couldn't wait to click on the manufacturing menu of the gun foundry.

He found that the names of the weapons that can be manufactured in the menu have changed:
For example, the type of musket has changed from the original single flintlock musket to three types of musket: the rotary bolt rifle used by infantry, the carbine used by dragoons, and the pistol used in close quarters.

On the artillery side, the original single field gun has been increased to several types of artillery, including: light howitzer, medium howitzer; light direct gun, medium direct gun; light mortar and medium mortar.There are six types of artillery in total.The small bomb used by the original grenadier was also upgraded to a grenade, and it was the kind of wooden handle grenade.

As a person who came from the era of highly developed thermal weapons, Jiang Chuan was overjoyed to see these familiar weapon names.

He didn't expect that after this system upgrade, the technological range would be so large, and he felt like he had changed from an ordinary person to an upstart.

Seeing these eye-catching weapon names, Jiang Chuan couldn't wait to order to start manufacturing.Among them: [-] muskets were manufactured, including [-] bolt-action rifles, [-] carbines, and [-] pistols.

In terms of artillery, Jiang Chuan originally wanted to directly manufacture at least [-] artillery pieces, but after looking at his already meager funds, he finally gritted his teeth and manufactured a total of [-] pieces, of which [-] pieces were light artillery pieces that could follow the infantry. mortars and heavy mortars.

After such a large-scale weapon manufacturing and warship manufacturing, Jiang Chuan's current family property was basically emptied again.

But he doesn't care, now that he has a plantation, his funds will be continuously replenished quickly, so he doesn't have to worry.

Now just wait for these muskets and artillery to be manufactured and see for yourself.

　Continue coding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)