beep--!

Accompanied by a long whistle, a huge black steel battleship suddenly appeared on the battlefield where the sail fleets of both sides were fighting.

In addition to the unexpected material.

The most striking feature of this battleship is that it completely lacks the standard features of ships of this era - towering masts and huge sails. Instead, it has a towering chimney with thick black smoke emitting from the bones.

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 base, can suddenly come up with weapons of this level? And the steam engine is no longer an auxiliary power, but directly removes all the sails in one step?!"

Of course, they loved to see the war between the two powerful neighbors, and the three of Ai Wen also wished they could beat the dog out of their heads as soon as possible, but this change was unexpected for them.

Go back and check your own equipment library as soon as possible.

The results are no surprise.

Including the prototype of the "Full Heavy Battleship", the "Equipment Knight", Falatis 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 Principality of Garriott has three [full heavy battleships] headed by the first [Dreadnought-class Pearl of the Black Sea], and none of them are missing.

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

Even the wealthy Phaletis and Garriott can only temporarily maintain the rate of one ship per year to stock up on weapons.

Moreover, in the era of technological explosion, weapons were updated at an extremely fast rate, and Ivan and Levina were not prepared to dig themselves a big hole that they could not climb out of.

As for the [steam ironclad], its cost is much lower and its power is much weaker than the [full heavy battleship], but it still has a huge advantage when dealing with ordinary sail battleships.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...

As soon as it came out of stealth, this [steam-powered ironclad] launched a swift and violent offensive against the Sark Empire's fleet.

The extremely sharp cone-shaped shells easily penetrated the thick hull of the Sark warship with an accuracy that conventional ship-based artillery could not imagine.

Far outside the range of conventional sailing battleships, it only fired four consecutive cannons to sink one of the opponent's main third-level ships.

In the eyes of Alvin and the three onlookers.

Compared with the mainstream sailing battleships of this era, this battleship not only used steam power, but also creatively used a design where the main weapons were accommodated in the turret on the upper part of the hull.

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

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

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

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

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

This design concept, which is in the same vein as the [Full Heavy Battleship Dreadnought Class], is not patented by Irwin and Watt, but an inevitable choice made by engineers as the battleship develops.

Because arranging a large number of broadside guns has no advantage over a small number of artillery arranged in a rotating turret.

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

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

Therefore, battleship engineers naturally began to shift from the pursuit of gun quantity to the pursuit of gun quality. Larger caliber, stronger shells, and stronger penetrating and killing effects!

It will also be the mainstream in the future era of "giant ships and cannons".

But Alvin still hasn't figured out how Atlan came up with such a thing?

There is no industrial foundation, no relevant technical personnel, and no consistent technical route. Could it be that it just jumped out of the cracks in the rocks?

Driven by a strong desire for knowledge.

Ivan simply gave up the indirect surveillance of the [Psychic Network], and instead used the [Insight Magic Eye] to activate remote viewing, looking directly from Long Island to the smoke-filled battlefield thousands of kilometers away.

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

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

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The [Magic Eye of Insight] also penetrated its steel body and saw the precise internal system.

Steam is not only used for power, but also for steering rudder systems, anchoring systems, rotating armor systems, loading ammunition, pumping water and lifting ship-based boats, harpoons, etc.

Some of them are also used on the [Full Heavy Battleship], but some of them make Aiwen feel completely new.

What? You said stealing technology is wrong?

Hey, can what a technician does be called stealing? This is called stealing!

"Well, the technology clearly looks very mature, it doesn't look like it was created on a whim by some genius.

But it’s really amazing to be able to achieve this level without any pre-requisite technology!”

In the trend that is rolling forward, there are people who lead the trend, and there are also people who are carried forward by the trend.

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

The world will not completely stagnate because of the lack of Memnon Watt or Alvin Garriott. It will only be delayed for tens or hundreds of years at most.

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

"This thing...is really more than that!"

[Power Core·Steam Ball]

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

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

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

The rotation speed is as high as more than 3,000 rpm, providing this battleship with a steady stream of surging power.

Looking at the [steam-powered ironclads] on the battlefield among the sailing battleship fleet that was an era behind the times, Ivan gradually fell into deep thought.

"The person who invented this ironclad ship...was not a human being!"

Since Watt was able to break through the knowledge and cognitive circle of all intelligent creatures and successfully become a "Crown Wizard", it is impossible for anyone else to be able to match him in "steam-powered machinery".

but.

As far as this ironclad ship is concerned, the weapon system, steel armor, ship-based artillery, etc. are fine, but the powerful [Power Core·Steam Ball] should never be the creation of human mechanical engineers.

Considering that the Kingdom of Atlan was the first place where demons appeared in the intelligence, and even demon gods descended, Ivan had every reason to suspect that this was "demonic technology" given to some Atlan people by the demon gods from the lower realms.

At least in the mysterious knowledge that Alvin possesses.

Among the seventy-two demon gods, the third-ranked demon god "Vashak"; the sixth-ranked "Waliver"; the ninth-ranked "Baimon"; and the twenty-fifth-ranked "Cassie Moral"

; "Bele" in the 28th place; "Gyalpo" in the 33rd place.

There are a total of six demon gods who have knowledge related to science or alchemy.

However, if you add in the "invisibility" ability that was not even noticed by the [Psychic Network] just now, this target can be narrowed down to the sixth, ninth, and twenty-fifth demon gods.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are multiple 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 cause trouble for them.

"MD, it's not difficult to figure out the intention of these demon gods to seek the vitality of the 'behind the door', but looking at it now, they are simply trying to steal business from us!"

Either from adventure, personal experience, or independent thinking, Alvin has gradually teased out a main line with a detached gaze.

The so-called "Renaissance", "Age of Discovery", "Steam Industrial Revolution", "Capital Flood"... everything is just a small tributary in the big trend.

The trend of "degenerative compensation" that runs through the entire Helage Star is the mainstream that has always accompanied this world.

When individual power weakens, scientific power makes up for it.

No matter who it is.

In this process, every beneficial promotion of "compensation" should be able to receive huge feedback from "The World Favors".

Maybe we can really go to the "behind the door" and embrace the true God's lap, and find a new way to "overcome the tribulation".
Chapter completed!