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Chapter 147 Sea Trial Success

Chapter 147 Sea Trial Success

When the battleship returned to the sea, Zhu Lei ordered the battleship to start heading towards Pearl Harbor.

As the distance between the battleship and Pearl Harbor gets closer, there will be more and more ships on the road, and most of these ships are civilian ships. After all, the Philippine Islands are a strategic place in the Pacific Ocean!It is also an important traffic artery on the Pacific Ocean. The route is very busy, and it is impossible to avoid these other ships!

At the beginning, Zhu Lei paid attention to other civilian ships nearby, but as he got closer to Pearl Harbor, there were more and more civilian and military ships. In the end, he gave up the idea of ​​going to Pearl Harbor. Zhu Lei paid attention to himself, because in his previous life, Pearl Harbor had been occupied by the United States as an important naval base in the Pacific Ocean, and he guarded the route of Huaxia out of the Pacific Ocean in his previous life.

But this world is exactly the opposite of the previous life. Pearl Harbor was already an important naval base of the Ming Empire, which happened to be the base for the United States to enter the Eurasian continent. Although there are islands of the United States in the Philippine Islands, these islands are all Some very small islands don't even have water resources, so they are not suitable as the naval bases of the United States. Therefore, the naval bases of the United States in the Pacific Ocean are at least thousands of kilometers away from Pearl Harbor.

And Zhu Lei used to want to see the scenery above the Philippine Islands, especially Pearl Harbor. Of course, the name of the Philippine Islands in this world is different from the previous life. This world calls Pearl Harbor in the Philippines the Honolulu Naval Base.The Philippine Islands are called the Honolulu Islands, and the Philippine Islands are also called by this name. This name is what Westerners call it, but the Ming Empire has always been called Honolulu.

So Zhu Lei and the others began to return.

In fact, Zhu Lei and the others did not completely avoid these civilian ships during this trial voyage, but only avoided those large ships, and they still couldn't completely avoid the small targets at sea, especially those densely packed fishing boats of Ming Dynasty. It is unavoidable at all, of course Zhu Lei and the others can fly the battleship to the sky and fly to the Philippines, but this will defeat the purpose of the trial voyage, and even though this battleship has a hundred tons of gold essence The battery also has more than 200 tons of spare gold batteries, but because the anti-gravity engine is still not mature enough, it can only provide anti-gravity support for the battleship for less than an hour.

So they had no choice but to drive on the sea honestly.

"Brother, look quickly, what kind of warship is that? Why is there so much water vapor behind it? Is something wrong?" This is a fishing boat working at sea, and the tonnage of this fishing boat is very small. With a displacement of [-] tons, all the employees on board are only the two brothers. Looking at the battleship approaching at high speed, he said to his brother who was working next to him.

Hearing his brother's words, his brother also raised his head and looked in the direction of the battleship.

Looking at the ship approaching at high speed in the distance, he was surprised to find that after the ship passed by, there was thick steam floating on the water.

"This! Nothing will happen here! You can see that the speed of the two ships is so fast. It must be a military warship. Civilian ships can't travel at such a high speed! And brother, you Look, there is no open flame or thick smoke on this battleship at all! This shows that there is nothing wrong with this battleship, and thick steam appeared on the sea after the battleship sailed, so it means that there is no problem with this battleship at all, it is possible It’s a new type of warship from our Ming Empire. So let’s just pretend we didn’t see it, and don’t tell it when you go back today!”

"Okay brother! You still know a lot. You really deserve to be in the navy. By the way, brother! Last time the news didn't say that our Ming Empire is preparing to increase the number of soldiers. I don't know if the navy will increase the number of soldiers this time. If you really want to increase the number, brother, will you be re-recruited, after all, the navy does not need longer training than other arms.” Looking at the battleship approaching at a high speed in the distance, my brother asked his brother.

"I don't know that I was just a low-level officer when I was in the navy. I really don't understand this recruitment and the huge number of recruits. But I don't know if I will go back or unload. It depends on the decision of the Ministry of War. , if the Ministry of War comes to inform me, I think I will definitely go back." The elder brother replied to his younger brother.

"Brother, because I am also 18 years old, I have to take the military recruitment physical examination this time. I don't know if I can pass the test. If I can, it would be great. It would be best if I am also a navy like you, brother. Then we two brothers will be in the navy again. We can be together!" said the younger brother.

"It depends on whether you can pass the physical examination. If you pass, you are very likely to be assigned to the navy. After all, you are a fisherman, not a landlubber from the inland." brother replied.

During the speech, the battleship could already be clearly seen with the naked eye, and the battleship they saw in the distance was indeed their driving.

In fact, this was just an illusion seen with the naked eye. Soon the battleship was not far from them. Only then did he see the entire appearance of the battleship clearly. He knew a battleship just by looking at it.

However, this battleship was different from the battleships he had seen before, especially the battleship's artillery system. This battleship's artillery was very different from the battleship artillery he had seen before when he served in the navy.

Although he didn't know what kind of artillery this was, but just looking at the caliber and length of the artillery, he knew that it was not comparable to the previous artillery.

The long water vapor dragging behind is caused by the propellers installed on the back of the battleship, because eight jet engines like jet planes are installed behind the battleship, and these engines are working The water vapor formed when the high-temperature flames ejected evaporated the water on the sea surface.

I was stunned to see this battleship passing by at high speed, and was speechless for a long time.

When I came out, I was flying in the air for more than half an hour, so I was still far away from the mainland at this time. When I went back, although the battleship had a high speed of 45 knots, it still took more than a day to get back. to the fief.

When they were about to return to the port, a lot of people had already gathered in the port. This was because they had already notified the battleship when they came back. After the sea trial was over, the battleship had to be manually inspected. Check the state of the battleship after sea trials, and the degree of wear and tear on the parts on the battleship.

The consumed power also needs to be replenished, and the electromagnetic guns and other equipment on the battleships have also been tested by Zhu Lei during sea trials. Zhu Lei is very satisfied with the power of these electromagnetic rail guns, although these electromagnetic guns are in It has been tested when it leaves the factory, but during this sea trial, except for the small-caliber artillery on the ship, other large-caliber artillery, including the main gun, have been tested.

(End of this chapter)