Extraordinary Voyage

2021-06-09

Chapter 863 The rush to buy and sell and the mainstream of the world

Duow!

With the sound of the long whistle, a huge black steel battleship appeared on the battlefield where the sail fleets of the two sides were fighting.

Except for unexpected textures.

The most striking feature of this battleship is that the standard ships of this era cannot be found at all—the towering masts and huge sails, replaced by thick black smoke from the bones. towering chimney.

This is actually a creation that was directly skipped by the “Tulip” technology tree – [Steam Powered Ironclad]!

“Atlan, an Icelandic country with a weak industrial foundation, can suddenly come up with weapons of this level? And the steam engine is no longer auxiliary power, but directly removes all the sails in one step?!”

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The war between the two strong neighbors was of course their attractive spectacle, and the three of Alwin could not have wished for them to hurry up, but this change was unexpected.

Immediately go back and check your gear arsenal.

The results are not surprising.

Including the prototype of the 【Full-heavy battleship】【Guizo Knight】, Phalatis has launched four new battleships successively in the past three years.

As the killing move of Tulips, it is still parked in the secret military port intact.

Garriott dukedom has three [full-heavy battleships] headed by the first [fearless-class Black Sea Pearl], and none of them are missing.

The cost of [fearless-class full-heavy battleship] is about 400,000 Golden Lion, equivalent to the cost of ten Level 1 sail battleships.

Even the rich and imposing Pharretis and Garriott can only temporarily maintain the speed of one ship per year to stockpile weapons.

In addition, weapons in the era of technological explosion are very fast, and Alwin and Liweina are not ready to dig a big hole for themselves that they can’t climb out of.

As for the [Steam Ironclad], the cost is much lower, and it is much weaker than the [Full-heavy Battleship], but it still has a huge advantage when dealing with ordinary sail battleships.

bang! bang! bang! bang!

As soon as it was out of stealth, this [Steam-Powered Ironclad Ship] launched a swift and violent offensive against the fleet of the Sark Empire.

The extremely sharp conical shells easily penetrated the thick hull of the Sark warship with unimaginable precision from conventional ship-borne artillery.

Far beyond the range of conventional sailing battleships, just firing four shots in a row sunk one of the opponent’s main Level 3 ships.

In the eyes of Alwin and their three onlookers.

Compared to the mainstream sailing battleships of this era, this battleship not only uses steam power, but also creatively uses the design of the main weapon contained in the upper turret of the hull.

It is equipped with a 304mm front-loading rifled naval gun, using a conical shell that pursues range and precision.

The big advantage of the turret is that it solves the problem of the gunner’s protection when the front-mounted artillery is loaded.

The artillery can be retracted inside the turret when it needs to be reloaded, covered with armor plates and pushed back into the emplacement.

In this way, the gunner does not have to risk the mortal danger to load the gun on the deck where the shrapnel is flying, and the safety is greatly guaranteed.

In addition, the two twin main battery turrets are arranged above the hull, rather than on the broadside of the hull like conventional battleships, and the number is also greatly reduced.

This design concept of [full-heavy battleship·fearless class] of common origins is not the patent of Alwin and Watt, but an inevitable choice made by engineers with the development of battleship.

Because of having a large number of broadside guns, there is no advantage over a small number of guns in a rotating turret.

And due to the contradiction between the displacement of the battleship and the armor of the hull, a large number of broadside guns will also seriously occupy the load and make the armor of the battleship thinner.

In addition, the flexible steam power battleship also makes the use of broadside artillery smaller and smaller, and the heavy armor can completely resist the artillery shells used by the sail battleship.

So battleship engineers, as it should be by rights, began to shift from the pursuit of gun quantity to the pursuit of gun quality. Larger caliber, stronger shells, stronger penetrating killing effect!

It is also the mainstream of the future “giant ship cannon” era.

But Alwin still doesn’t understand how Atlan came up with such a thing?

Without an industrial foundation, no relevant technical personnel, and no consistent technical route, could it not have come out of the cracks in the rocks?

Driven by a strong thirst for knowledge.

Alwin simply gave up the indirect surveillance of [spirit net network], but used [Dongzhi Magic Eye] to launch remote viewing, and looked directly towards the battlefield filled with gunpowder thousands of kilometers away from Long Island.

The next second, the main parameters of this battleship were already scrolling rapidly in Alwin’s eyes.

Displacement 9448 tons; length: 87 meters; width: 20 meters; main armament: two turrets, four 304mm front-loaded rifled guns, huge angle of impact; cruising range: capable of traveling at a speed of about 15 knots Driving for 12 hours.

[Dongzhi Magic Eye] also penetrated its steel body and saw the precise system inside.

Steam is not only used for power, it is also used for steering rudder systems, mooring systems, turning armor systems, loading ammunition, pumping and raising and lowering boats, harpoons, and more.

Some of them also have applications on [Full Heavy Battleship], but some also make Alwin feel refreshing.

What? You say stealing technology is wrong?

Hey, can a technician be called stealing? It’s called stealing!

“Well, the technology seems to be very mature, it’s not like some genius created it on the whim of sudden enlightenment.

But in the absence of any pre-technology Under the circumstances, it is really amazing to be able to do this!”

In the surging trend, there are some people who lead the trend, and some people are carried by the trend and keep moving forward.

Alwin has always believed that no great person is indispensable and that the people are the creators of history.

The world will not be completely stagnant because of the lack of Memnon Watt or Alwin Garriott, at most, it will only be delayed for dozens or hundreds of years.

Suddenly, when his eyes moved to the core power room of the [Steam Ironclad], Alwin’s brows were slightly raised.

“This thing. It really doesn’t stop there!”

【Power Core·Spin Ball】

The working principle on the surface is a closed steel A brass conduit is installed on both sides of the mass container, and there is a hollow sphere in the middle of the conduit that can rotate around an axis.

Two reverse elbow nozzles are installed on both sides of the ball, in the direction of the vertical rotation axis, and the inside of the container is filled with water and heated with charcoal.

The water boils and turns into steam, which carries huge energy and pours out from the nozzles on both sides of the sphere. The water vapor will drive the hollow sphere to rotate at high-speed.

The speed of rotation is as high as 3000 rpm or more, which provides an endless stream of surging power for this battleship.

Alwin gradually fell into deep thought while watching the [steam-powered ironclad] that was swept up and down in the fleet of sailing battleships that were an era behind.

“It’s not human who invented this ironclad ship!”

Since Watt was able to break through the knowledge and cognition circle of all intelligent creatures and successfully become a “crown wizard”, then it is impossible Someone can match it with the accomplishments of “steam powered machinery”.

But.

As far as this ironclad ship is concerned, the weapon system, steel armor, ship-borne artillery, etc. are all right, but that powerful [Power Core·Spin Ball] should never belong to a human mechanical engineer Creation.

Combined with the fact that the Kingdom of Atlan is the first place where demons appeared in the intelligence, and even the Demon God descended, Alwin has every reason to suspect that this was given to some Atlan people by the Demon God from the lower realm. “Devil Technology”.

At least in Mystic Knowledge owned by Alwin.

72-post Demon God Ranked 3rd in Demon God “Vassago”; 6th “Wallifr”; 9th “Baimon”; 25th “Casey” Moral”; “Belle” in 28th; “Gyalpo” in 33rd.

A total of six Demon Gods possess knowledge related to science or alchemy.

However, if you add the “stealth” ability that was not even noticed by the [spirit net network] just now, this target can be narrowed down to the sixth, ninth, and 25th places. On Demon God.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are plural Demon Gods with various abilities “helping” the Atlan people.

It’s a pity that Solomon’s contract with the seventy-two Demon Gods prevented him from taking the initiative to trouble them.

“MD, it’s not hard to figure out the intentions of these Demon Gods who want to seek life behind the door, but according to the current situation, it is simply a deal with us!”

Either based on adventure, or based on personal experience, or based on independent thinking, Alwin has gradually sorted out a main line with a detached vision.

The so-called “Renaissance”, “The Age of Navigation”, “Steam Industrial Revolution”, “Capital Flood”. Everything is just a small tributary in the big current.

The trend of “weak compensation” that runs through the entire Herag star is the mainstream that accompanies this world.

Individual strength is weakened, and scientific strength makes up.

Whoever it is.

In this process, every beneficial push to “compensation” should be able to get huge feedback from [world favors].

Maybe I can really go to the “behind the door” and hug True God’s thigh, and walk out another brand new “Transcending Tribulation” road.

Even if you don’t reach the level of True God, you can safely enter the next era with your current strength and reason. Just ask, which True God has a thick world consciousness!

(End of this chapter)