Release that Witch

Until the way to the backyard of the North Slope Mountain, Roland’s ear has been echoing this sentence. ??

He felt that there was a gap in his heart that was opened a little bit. Yes, he thought that he was no longer the original cartographer who worked with mechanical drawings all day. It is not a world familiar in the past. He has gradually become a The great lord who leads the party may even become the ruler of the kingdom in the future. When the situation changes, it is no longer applicable to take the previous concept to bind yourself.

It’s good to follow the innermost thoughts. He tells himself that if you force each other for some false rules, there is no benefit other than hurting both sides.

Thinking of this, Roland's mood suddenly widened. He took a deep breath of cold air and slowly pushed open the backyard door.

The open iron door is like a gap in the bottom of my heart, and a new world is opened in an instant.

"Ah... it’s Your Highness," Hummingbird and Lucia ran up to the court.

"Are you coming?" Anna showed a sweet smile and saw a shallow red mark on her white neck. Roland couldn't help but think of the other party's enthusiasm last night, but since he made the decision, he I have no interest in waiting for this last time.

"How, is the model made?"

"Of course," Anna made a gesture with me. The two walked out of the back door of the yard and saw an iron boat floating in the middle of a pool surrounded by snow. The iron boat is about one meter long and twenty centimeters wide. It looks much longer than the crude benzene cement ship. The bow has a distinct fusiform shape and the rear end is a flat tail. The most special is that the bottom of the ship is covered with criss-crossing support strips, which look like a myriad of squares.

“This is what I want,” Roland sighed. Compared to the stone boat that was cast from reinforced concrete, the pure steel boat has a unique sense of exquisiteness, especially with the intertwined beams that are like a piece of art. general. He knows that each module of this ship model is completely scaled down and cut by black fire. A connection point is not omitted. If it is placed in later generations, it is also a boutique worth tens of thousands.

"Is it a new ship you want to build?"

“Well,” he nodded. “It’s also the town’s first regular warship.”

Originally, Roland intended to still use the cement ship as the hull of the shallow-water heavy gunship. However, in the case of insufficient steam engine power, the cement ship’s navigation became the most significant shortcoming, only with fuel and personnel. The entire fortress of the song fortress is only eight to nine kilometers. If it is equipped with a rotatable 152mm fortress gun, plus necessary ammunition and other combat weapons, it is likely to fall below the five-kilometer mark. If you convert it into a festival, you can't guarantee even three flights. The reason is that the weight of the concrete is too heavy. If you use it to transport it, you don't care about speed. If you are a warship, you will naturally be lighter.

If the steel production capacity was seriously insufficient two months ago, he could only hold his nose and recognize it, but with the Iron Star in production, today's steel reserves have been able to support him to build a real armored warship. In terms of structure, Roland chose the simplest modular assembly method, which is to weld a piece of steel plate with transverse longitudinal beams to form a larger hollow box structure, and then splicing together a plurality of flat boxes to form a hull bottom plate. This kind of building block type shipbuilding method does not need to set the keel, and it has nothing to do with the classical method. Moreover, the enemy does not threaten his own artillery completely, so he does not need to care about the defense problem. The side is almost surrounded by thin iron sheets. , to minimize costs and weight.

As for the power section, Roland decided to put the propeller technology on the new ship instead of the paddle wheel drive of the cement ship... The power unit is still a steam engine that drives the two propellers with rotating gears. However, in the design plan handed to Anna, he reserved the modification space of the three-up steam engine, and planned to wait until later for mass construction, and then re-converted into a new steam engine that is more suitable for ship use.

Back in the yard, Anna began cutting the first steel plate.

The black fire is like the most accurate ruler in her hands. The thick steel block of one meter square is like a potato. It is instantly turned into seven or eight thin plates. The thickness of each steel plate is five millimeters, not more than one minute. A lot of it.

Next is the welding, the hummingbird puts the weight-reduced steel beam between the two steel plates, and Anna's black smoldering into the naked eye, the filaments are inserted into the bottom of the beam, like the sutures, the three are tied together. Together, the simultaneous lifting temperature is completely different from the initial open flame welding. This heating from the inside to the outside allows the flowing molten steel to completely fill the gap between the plates. When the three are completely joined together, the stringer has slightly sunk. About a millimeter, this is the proof that the bottom is melted and filled into the gap between the two steel plates.

A staggered cross-shaped longitudinal rail can connect four steel plates, and more cross beams form a hollow box unit. These units will be transported by the hummingbirds to the Chishui River and the final assembly process will be completed in the dock.

Roland's gaze stayed on the busy Anna's figure. The girl's linen color swayed back and forth with the cutting action. In a pure white snow scene, it was like a dancing elf.

......

In the afternoon, Roland saw the newly awakened witch, Axia.

She can appear in the office, indicating that she has passed the night squad review. Regarding her peculiar ability, Wendy has recorded very clearly that Roland did not do more tests, but placed the contract directly in front of her.

Asha picked up the pen for a while and then said with a red face, "I can't write."

"It doesn't matter," Roland smiled. "It's fine to press your handprint."

She carefully pressed the inked thumb to the end of the parchment. "So that's it?"

"Well," Roland received the contract. "I have already learned from Wendy in your case, so even if you sign the contract, you don't have to live in the castle. Just come to practice the ability and class every day, about the magic. Characteristics, Wendy should have told you these days?"

"Yes, Your Highness," I heard that I didn't have to stay in the castle. Asha's expression suddenly relaxed a lot. "When Wendy said, if you don't release the magic of daily accumulation, you will be in danger when you wake up."

"Yes, so you have to practice well. Regarding the precise control of the magic and the corresponding ability, I think she will teach you slowly," Roland did not correct the honor in the other mouth, to maintain awe for beginners. It's not a bad thing. "If you don't understand anything, you can ask any member of the Witch Alliance."

"I understand, Your Highness," she lowered her head. "But... does this ability have no effect? ​​I once asked Wendy, but she said that only His Highness knows the answer."

"Of course not," Roland said with a smile. "You are the ability of a detective to have the ability to fight crime."

"Name...Detective?" Axia looked confused.

"It doesn't matter, you won't know how long it will take," he called out the nightingale in the fog. "From today on, this witch is your top boss." (To be continued.) 8