Start with Island Lord

The sky is blue and the clouds are light, and the waves are blue.

The knights of the Northern County were invited to an observation deck hidden in the mountains.

Looking from the mountain to the northeast sea, you can clearly see a vast blue sea.

"Gentlemen, I will demonstrate the power of the new battleship in this sea."

Rosen said so, and in the curious eyes of the knights, he said to Harry beside him: "Lieutenant Colonel, let the Banshee Queen come over."

The Banshee Queen is the second high-speed battleship, which has many improvements over the first Sturgeon. The biggest improvements are two.

One is that it is equipped with artillery.

The second is that in addition to the lightning storm rune, the pure water shield rune array, the mental immunity rune array and the storm calm rune array are added, which greatly increases the defense capabilities of the hull and crew.

Due to the rapid expansion of the navy, Master Harry's rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

He had already prepared everything and immediately issued a detailed execution order to the telegraph signalman.

The knights immediately found the telegraph box.

They are the Earl's agents, and they are all first-class people in their counties.

As soon as they saw the telegraph box, they all felt very strange.

Sir Humphrey wanted to ask for details directly, but at this moment, the Banshee Queen arrived.

In the northern waters, a light blue pointed warship slowly sailed.

After the second wave of improvements, the size of the warship remained basically unchanged, 50 meters long, slightly increased to 8 meters wide, and 10 meters high on the water deck.

Because a large number of heavy combat equipment has been added, the full load displacement of the hull has exceeded 2,800 tons.

The reason why it is heavy and large in size is of course on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is because the average density of the hull material is much greater than that of wood, and a large number of heavy metal parts such as artillery, metal ammunition, and hybrid power cores have been added.

If it is a wooden sailing warship of the same size, it will not exceed 1,000 tons when empty, and it will not exceed 2,000 tons when fully loaded. As soon as the warship appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of all the knights.

The knights immediately found a lot of things wrong.

"Where's the sail? Why is there no sail?"

"Hey~ It's running against the wind! It's running quite fast!"

"Why is this ship so narrow? It's narrow and long, and it's made into a pointed head?"

"Shouldn't a warship have a round head?"

"What are the rows of windows on both sides of the hull for? I seem to see a lot of black holes."

Lieutenant Colonel Harry immediately stepped forward to explain the basic situation to each lord.

"Dear gentlemen, this is the Black Stone Flame Gunboat independently developed by our White Sturgeon Island. The force that drives it forward is no longer the uncontrollable sea breeze, but the fiercely burning black stone."

Hearing this, Sir Humphrey, who has been staying in Dawn City for many years, frowned.

"I heard that the naval powers in the Wit Continent are all trying to build black stone warships. They use a high-temperature pure water magic tool called 'Rune Steam Engine', which can provide extremely powerful power and push warships of thousands of tons very fast."

"Is it the same for the Baron?"

Rosen nodded vaguely: "My warship has some minor innovations, but the principles are not much different. They all get power from black stone."

Sir Humphrey nodded thinking he understood, and asked again: "It is indeed good to burn black stone to get power, and it can get rid of heavy sails, but how fast can it run?"

Rosen immediately winked at Harry: "Major, let the knights see the speed of the Banshee Queen."

Harry knew it well, and immediately passed the order down: "Medium speed, 27 kilometers per hour."

It is about 15 knots, and the fastest speed of a sailing warship in strong wind weather is about 12 knots, so this ship speed has exceeded all sailing warships.

With the order, the Banshee Queen slowly accelerated.

The pointed bow began to chop the waves slightly, and conical waves appeared on both sides of the hull, and the Banshee Queen's momentum became somewhat amazing.

"Such a big ship can run so fast!"

"It's really fast, this is against the wind!"

"It's worthy of being a new Black Stone warship, it feels like a beast on the sea."

Listening to these praises, Lieutenant Colonel Harry on the side laughed in his heart: "What a bunch of ignorant country bumpkins~"

The maximum speed of this ship is 45 kilometers per hour. Now it can only be said to be a simple warm-up. It would be wild if it ran to the maximum speed.

Sir Humphrey looked at it carefully for a while, and then asked: "Baron, are the new flame thunder magic weapons installed in the windows on both sides?"

"Yes, it is the flame thunder magic weapon. We call them cannons on the Sturgeon Island."

"Cannons? It sounds easy to pronounce."

Among the ten knights, Sir Humphrey's knowledge is obviously better than others, even Sir Robert from the Shire County can't compare.

Of course, the most knowledgeable person in the Shire County is not Sir Robert, but the earl's sister, the magic master Lady Agnet.

"Can you show the power of the cannon?" Sir Humphrey asked.

Rosen nodded: "Of course, this is the focus of this battleship demonstration, and we will show you the great power of this new weapon!"

To make the earl stand firmly with the Sturgeon Island, it is natural to show strong strength, so this time, Rosen made a big one.

He nodded to Lieutenant Colonel Harry, who immediately issued orders according to the action plan prepared in advance.

"Banshee Queen, enter the designated sea area and attack the designated target ship."

Following the order, the Banshee Queen on the sea began to adjust its direction. At the same time, the fish-killer boat on the sea quickly followed to maintain order on the sea to prevent irrelevant people from entering the dangerous sea.

Sir Humphrey had been observing closely and found that the ships on the sea cooperated very well, as if there was an invisible collective will.

He couldn't help asking: "Baron, is every ship equipped with a telepathic mage?"

The telepathic spell is very subtle and the difficulty of practicing is a bit high. It is normal for large warships to be equipped, but it would be quite luxurious if a small boat is also equipped.

What puzzled him even more was that he did not see the figure of the telepathic mage.

Rosen smiled: "It's not a telepathic mage, but a lightning messenger created by our island. Yes, it's the big black box over there."

The lightning messenger is another brand new thing, which made the northern knights stunned.

Sir Humphrey said, "Is it better than telepathy?"

"It's much better. If you need it, I will give you the Lightning Messenger for free to achieve real-time communication between the White Sturgeon Island and the earls."

The knights were more surprised when they heard this.

"Will this work? The Black Sea County where I am is more than 600 kilometers away from the White Sturgeon Island!"

"Yes, and is this thing reliable?"

Rosen smiled and said, "Later, I will introduce the performance of the Lightning Messenger to you, but now, let's continue to look at the warship."

The Banshee Queen is basically in place, and its target ship is a simulated ironclad warship built on an island reef one thousand meters away.

Although it is a simulated warship, it still took a lot of effort. It took 5,000 Oggs to build it, and the hull is 70 meters long.

From a distance, it is almost exactly the same as the current mainstream ironclad warship.

On the other side, Sir Humphrey felt that the White Sturgeon Island seemed to have a lot of new magic achievements. He was very curious, but since the battleship was already in place, he could only turn his attention back to the battleship.

Rosen began to introduce again.

"The battleship is equipped with smoothbore rear-mounted cannons, using explosive spherical shells, with a total of 32 guns."

"Currently there are two specifications."

"The two large ones in the front are the front-firing main guns, with a caliber of 12 cm, a charge of 5 kg, and a maximum range of more than 2 kilometers. There are 15 auxiliary guns on each side, with a caliber of 10 cm, a charge of 3.5 kg of gunpowder, and a maximum range of 1.5 kilometers."

These data are quite professional, and the knights didn't understand them at all, but they all felt that they were very powerful and there was something real.

Sir Humphrey listened hard, and then caught a word he didn't understand and asked: "What does blasting spherical bomb mean?"

Rosen explained intuitively: "The essence of artillery is a powerful throwing magic weapon. Its function is to throw an iron ball to hit the opponent."

"This iron ball is called a cannonball."

"Oh~~ What about blasting?"

"Explosion means that there is a certain amount of gunpowder inside the iron ball. At the moment of hitting the target, the gunpowder inside will be ignited and become a powerful explosive fireball."

The gunpowder in the blasting bomb was newly developed by Bell Labs. It is as powerful as order thunder powder and safer.

How to achieve safe and stable excitation?

Bell geniusly divided the excitation process into two steps.

The first step is installed at the exit of the barrel, which is a special rune magic ring. When the cannonball passes through the barrel, it will inevitably pass through the rune magic ring, which will complete the first step of the gunpowder excitation and put it into the collision excitation state.

So, it not only ensures the safety of the cannonball, but also gives it a huge explosive power.

After a pause, Rosen concluded: "The power of throwing and pyrotechnics is very amazing, so the power of the shells is also very amazing."

The knights listened carefully, and they were very curious, wondering what kind of "amazing" method it was.

At this time, the Banshee Queen had completely reached the predetermined position, the ship swung sideways, and all 15 side guns were aimed at the target one kilometer away.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry received the captain's request: "Lord, the Banshee Queen requests authorization to attack."

"Wait a moment."

Rosen raised his hand and signaled, and reminded: "Gentlemen, please pay attention, the movement will be a bit loud, don't be scared."

The knights were a little unconvinced. The distance was two kilometers, how loud could the movement be?

Some even questioned it.

"It's a bit far from the target ship. Can we reach it?"

"This target ship looks very solid, and real warships will activate pure water shields, which are the best defense against fire spells. At such a long distance, what can we do even if we can reach it?"

Lieutenant Colonel Harry on the side immediately explained: "Sir, please look carefully at the target ship. We not only wrapped a layer of iron sheets on the surface of the wood, but also activated the pure water shield, and the shield strength is as high as five rings!"

After saying this, all the knights squinted their eyes to observe with the Eagle Eye Technique.

Sure enough, they found that the surface of the target ship was wrapped with a thick layer of water light. Considering the Heart of the Ocean necklace given by the baron before, the claim of the five-ring pure water shield is still credible.

Sir Humphrey observed more carefully, and he directly confirmed: "It is indeed a very solid target ship, and its defense should not be lower than all the current mainstream ironclad warships."

Since everyone was ready, Rosen ordered to fire.

Ten seconds later, the Banshee Queen began to roar.

15 side-fire artillery burst out in sequence.

“Boom boom boom~~~”

The sound was like thunder that shook the sea, and flames shot out from one side of the ship like a giant palm that dispersed clouds. The target ship in the distance was instantly shrouded in flames and thick smoke.

Countless seagulls scattered in all directions on the beach, and birds in the mountains and forests also soared from far to near, as if disturbed by an invisible and terrifying force.

Just when the knights were puzzled, the shock wave of the artillery arrived!

Everyone felt that their bodies were shaken by violent sound waves. Not only were their internal organs affected, but they even had the illusion of losing their footing.

It was like being violently shaken by a giant's hand.

The knights couldn't help but let out a low cry, with a look of shock on their faces.

"The movement is so loud, it is indeed the flames and thunder!"

"Such a big movement must be extremely powerful!"

"Look at the target ship~Look at the target ship~~"

The wind was strong at sea, and the thick smoke from the gunpowder explosion was quickly blown away, revealing the true appearance of the target ship.

The iron-clad battleship that was extremely strong and majestic a moment ago was now riddled with holes and almost broken in two.

The solid iron armor defense and five-ring pure water shield had almost no defensive effect.

All the knights were stunned. You looked at me and I looked at you. They were silent for a while before anyone spoke.

"The power of this attack must reach the sixth level, right?"

"That must be the sixth ring. After all, the sixth ring is the ultimate in strength."

Sir Humphrey also followed the old line of thinking and asked: "Baron, the strength of this magic weapon is at the peak of the sixth ring, right?"

Rosen smiled and nodded: "It's almost the same. Not only is the intensity high, but the scale of the spell is huge, making the absolute power of the spell very astonishing."

"So far, no mortal has been able to withstand the artillery bombardment head-on, even if it is prepared in advance, it is useless."

Lieutenant Colonel Harry wanted to laugh when he heard the lord's answer, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.

‘What the lord said is really funny, hehe~~’

But he's not wrong, no one can confront him head-on.

These days, he has been testing the power of this new magic weapon.

The more he tested it, the more terrifying he felt about the power of this artillery.

He felt now that even a god would die on the spot if he took a hit.

But Rosen's very conservative answer had already shocked the Jazz to the extreme, and it felt like their world view was about to be subverted.

Because of the law of focusing on non-destruction, spell intensity is the most difficult attribute to break through. Now it has reached the sixth level, which is enough to easily tear apart the spell defenses of all sail warships in the world.

Although the number of warships on Paddlefish Island is still a bit small, only five, this ship can run fast, hit hard, and can hit so far, it is simply the nemesis of sailing warships.

But after all, the number is still a little small.

Although it brought great confidence to the knights, they were still a little worried.

Sir Humphrey asked: "Baron, are five ships really enough?"

He immediately added: "The one heading north this time is the First Storm Fleet, which has assembled a total of 20 warships, three of which are giant storm ships of more than 1,000 tons."

The Storm Ship is the largest ship in Weilan, with an unladen displacement of 1,200 tons. There are also 800-ton Tornado ships and 500-ton Wave ships below.

As for Chenxi City, there are only three fleets in total, and now one-third of the force has arrived. It can’t be said that we don’t pay enough attention to Paddlefish Island.

Naturally, Rosen also knew this information. He observed the faces of the knights and found that the knights from poor counties had firm faces, which showed that they had made up their minds to follow. However, the knights from rich counties, such as Alpine County and Shire County, had stern expressions on their faces. But there was still hesitation.

Because northern counties are generally poor, most of the knights have been convinced by the new battleships.

Then the purpose of this display has been achieved.

So, he smiled and said: "In addition to the battleships, we have also formulated detailed tactics and are confident enough to defeat the Storm Fleet at sea."

After saying this, he looked at the various knights in the northern county.

"The problem is that once the island-wide lords meeting is launched, the Duke will definitely declare the northern county to be rebellious and send troops to attack it."

"So, is Northern County confident that it can defeat the Duke's army on land?"

Upon hearing this, the knights subconsciously wanted to say yes, but when the words came to their lips, they couldn't spit them out.

Because of guilty conscience.

Although historically, the army of the northern county was indeed very capable and could often defeat the army of the southern county. However, as times changed, the northern county became poorer and poorer, and the southern county became richer and richer.

When a place is poor, the army's equipment and training will be poor. Of course, Nanfang County's military training is also poor, but that can't stop people from having good equipment.

Occasionally there are some conflicts between counties, especially between the north and the south, and small frictions are constant.

But the Northern County clearly feels that it is gradually beginning to lose the advantage of the Southern County.

If you can't beat someone on the battlefield, you won't be able to be tough with your mouth.

The silence of the knights was entirely expected by Rosen.

Because the Island Intelligence Bureau has already figured out the details of the 25th County of Weilan.

In fact, Rosen understood their power even better than the county earls, and saw the ebb and flow of power between the North and the South on a higher level.

Weilan Island has many plains in the south and mountains in the north.

Economic development in the plains is good, but defense is difficult. The high mountain economy is difficult to develop, but easy to defend and difficult to attack. And because of historical reasons, the two sides in the South have long been dissatisfied, so there is a vague dividing line for the balance of power.

But as the south becomes richer, more populous, and has a large number of high-end magic equipment supported by Aaron, this power dividing line is gradually moving northward.

If there is no interference, the Northern County will sooner or later be completely swallowed up by the Southern County, and the Weilan Giant Island will completely become Aaron's puppet.

But the Northern County is Rosen's current base, and the earls are currently the strongest force in the Northern County.

So he has to cover the earls.

Of course, it's just a cover. He won't let the Northern County collapse, nor will he let the Northern County kill all around.

Because he wants the entire Weilan Giant Island, not just the Northern County.

Facing the silence of the knights, Rosen said loudly: "Dear brave gentlemen, we in the north are not short of brave warriors, but we lack powerful weapons and equipment."

This has been a fact for a long time, and all the knights nodded.

Rosen raised his hand to take a lightning torrent crossbow handed over by Lieutenant Colonel Harry, walked to the edge of the observation deck on the top of the mountain, pulled the trigger at the distant air, and kept shooting left and right.

'歘~歘~歘~歘~~'

The lightning torrent gushed out, and the continuous electric light illuminated the eyes of every northern knight.

The terrifying lightning flash lasted for a full minute before stopping. Then Rosen held the steaming lightning crossbow in one hand and turned to look at the knights of the Northern County.

"The Lightning Torrent Crossbow, which can spray 300 intermediate lightning balls per minute with a range of 400 meters, is a new weapon on the battlefield. One costs only 1,500 Oggs."

"Want a batch, knights?!"