Extraordinary Sailing

beep--!

Accompanied by the sound of long sirens, a huge black steel battleship appeared brightly on the battlefield where the sailing fleets of both sides were fighting.

In addition to the unexpected material.

The most notable feature of this battleship is that it can't find the standard equipment of ships of this era at all - tall masts, huge sails, and replaced it with tall chimneys emitting thick black smoke.

This is actually a creation that was directly skipped by the "Tulip" technology tree - [steam-powered ironclad ship]!

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

The war between the two strong neighbors is of course what they like to see, and the three of Aiwen can't wait for them to rush out of their brains, but this change is beyond their expectation.

Go back and check your own equipment library for the first time.

The results were no surprise.

Including the prototype of the [Full Heavy Battleship] [Instrumented Knight], Phalitis has successively launched four new battleships in the past three years.

As the trump card of Tulip, it is still parked in the secret military port intact.

The Garriott Principality has not lost any of the three [full heavy battleships] headed by the first [Dreadnought-class Black Sea Pearl].

The cost of [Dreadnought-class full-heavy battleship] is about 400,000 gold lions, which is equivalent to the cost of ten first-class sailing warships.

Even Phalitis and Garriot, who are rich and powerful, can only temporarily maintain the speed of one ship per year to hoard arms.

Moreover, weapons in the era of the technological explosion are being updated very quickly, and Aiwen and Liwena are not prepared to dig a big hole for themselves that they can't climb out of.

As for the [Steam Ironclad Ship], 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 sailing warships.

boom! boom! boom! boom!

As soon as it was out of stealth, this [steam-powered ironclad ship] launched an extremely fast offensive against the fleet of the Sak Empire.

The extremely sharp conical shell easily pierced through the thick hull of the Sark warship with an accuracy unimaginable by conventional ship-borne artillery.

Far beyond the range of conventional sailing battleships, just firing four shots in a row sank one of the opponent's main third-tier ships.

In the eyes of Ivan's three bystanders.

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

It is equipped with a 304mm front-mounted rifled naval gun, using conical shells that pursue range and precision.

One of the great advantages of the turret is that it solves the problem of the gunner's protection when the front-loading artillery is loaded.

When the gun needs to be loaded, it can be retracted into the turret, covered with an armor plate, and then pushed back to the gun position.

In this way, the gunner does not have to risk his life to reload the artillery on the deck where the shrapnel is flying, and the safety is greatly guaranteed.

Moreover, the two twin main turrets are arranged above the hull instead of on the side of the hull like conventional battleships, and the number is greatly reduced.

This design concept, which is in line with [Full Heavy Battleship Dreadnought Class], is not the patent of Ivan and Watt, but an inevitable choice made by engineers following the development of battleships.

Because the arrangement of a large number of broadside guns is not more advantageous than a small number of artillery arranged in a rotating turret.

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

In addition, the flexible steam-powered battleship also made the use of side artillery less and less, and the thick armor could completely resist the artillery shells used by sailing warships.

Therefore, warship engineers, of course, began to shift from the pursuit of artillery quantity to the pursuit of artillery quality. Larger caliber, stronger shells, stronger penetration killing effect!

It is also the mainstream of the era of "giant ship cannon" in the future.

But Ivan still didn't understand how Atlan made this kind of stuff?

Without an industrial foundation, without relevant technical personnel, and without a consistent technical route, could it be that it just popped out of a crack in the rock?

Driven by a strong thirst for knowledge.

Aiwen simply gave up the indirect monitoring of [Mind Network], but used [Magic Eye of Insight] to launch remote viewing, and looked directly from Long Island to the smoky battlefield thousands of kilometers away.

In the next second, the main parameters of this battleship were scrolling rapidly in Ivan's eyes.

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

[Magic Eye of Insight] also penetrated its steel body and saw the sophisticated system inside.

Steam was used not only for power, but also for steering rudder systems, mooring systems, turning armor systems, loading ammunition, pumping and lifting shipboard boats, harpoons, and more.

Some of them are also applied on [Full Heavy Battleship], but some of them make Aiwen also feel refreshed.

What? You say stealing technology is wrong?

Hey, can technicians be called stealing? This is called plagiarism!

"Well, the technology seems to be very mature, it doesn't look like it was created by a genius on a whim.

But in the absence of any pre-technology, it is really amazing to be able to achieve this level! "

In the rushing tide, there are people who guide the tide, and some people are carried forward by the tide.

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

The world will not completely stagnate because of the lack of Memnon Watt or Ivan Garriott, at most it will be delayed for tens or hundreds of years.

Suddenly, when his eyes moved to the core power room of the [Steam Ironclad Ship], Aiwen frowned slightly.

"This thing. Sure enough, it's more than that!"

【Power Core·Steam Ball】

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

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

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

The speed is as high as 3,000 revolutions per minute, providing this battleship with an endless stream of surging power.

Looking at the [steam-powered ironclad ship] criss-crossing in the fleet of sailing battleships that was behind an era, Ivan gradually fell into deep thought.

"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 the "Grand Wizard", it is impossible for anyone else to be able to match his attainments in "steam-powered machinery".

but.

As far as this ironclad ship is concerned, the weapon system, steel armor, ship-mounted artillery, etc. are fine, but the powerful [power core · steam ball] should never be the creation of human mechanical engineers.

Combined with the fact that the Kingdom of Atlanta was the first place where demons appeared in the information, and even demon gods descended, Aiwen had every reason to suspect that this was the "demon technology" bestowed on some Atlantans by the demon gods from the lower realm.

At least in the mysterious knowledge that Ivan possesses.

Among the seventy-two pillar demon gods, the demon god "Vasago" ranked third; "Waliver" ranked sixth; "Baimon" ranked ninth; ; the twenty-eighth "Belle"; the thirty-third "Giabo".

A total of six demon gods have knowledge related to science or alchemy.

However, if we add the "stealth" ability that even the [Mind Network] didn't notice just now, this target can be narrowed down to the sixth, ninth, and twenty-fifth demon gods.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are multiple demon gods with various abilities who are "helping" the Atlantes.

It's a pity that Solomon's contract with the seventy-two demon gods prevents him from taking the initiative to trouble them.

"MD, it's not hard to fathom the intention of these demon gods to seek life 'behind the door', but judging from the current situation, they are trying to steal a deal from us!"

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

The so-called "Renaissance", "The Age of Discovery", "Steam Industrial Revolution", and "The Torrent of Capital". All are just small tributaries of the great trend.

The trend of "weak compensation" that runs through the entire Herag star is the mainstream that has always accompanied this world.

What individual power weakens, scientific power makes up for.

no matter who.

In this process, every beneficial promotion of "compensation" should be able to get a huge amount of feedback from [World Appreciation].

Maybe it is really possible to walk out of another brand-new road of "crossing the catastrophe" besides going "behind the door" and hugging the true god's thigh.

Even if you can't reach the level of the true god, you can still carry the current strength and reason to enter the next era safely. Just ask, which true god has thicker thighs with world consciousness!