Maybe it was a deliberate showoff, maybe it was an unintentional move, after Lorraine and the naval officers of the Elf Kingdom got on board, the war fortress did not fly directly towards the mothership.
Instead, it rose rapidly, reaching a height of three hundred meters, and then stopped.
Before he could fully recover from the rapidly rising sense of oppression, Parno, the deputy commander of the Elven Kingdom's naval fleet, looked down through the narrow window of the war fortress. With just one glance, he couldn't help but hold his breath.
On the vast sea, I saw warships like clouds and sails like forests.
Countless warships covered the entire sea surface like a dense shoal of fish.
The battleships at the front have already submerged below the horizon, but behind, there are still battleships pouring out of the strait continuously, appearing in their sight, giving people a feeling that they are endless. I don’t know if they are still below the sea level.
How many battleships are hidden.
Among the as many as 3,000 warships, the warships of the Elf Kingdom only accounted for a small part of them.
Such an overwhelming and majestic sight is extremely difficult to see from an elven fleet. In fact, such a huge fleet has never appeared in human history.
Because he was on the battleship Ark Royal, he looked around and saw his own ships all around, and all those floating on the forest-like masts were the golden rose flags of the Elf Kingdom.
It will give them the illusion that the ships in the distance are also their ships, which will invisibly make people feel arrogant and arrogant.
But now, from a high place, looking down from the air, you can clearly distinguish the nationality of the ship through the flags on the ship.
Of course we can know what proportion they occupy.
Parno suddenly felt sweat dripping from his forehead: He was so arrogant before. The Elf Kingdom devoted all its efforts to just piece together its own fleet.
Although each of the five fleets of the Elf Kingdom is large in size, they need to protect the Elf Kingdom's territorial waters and maritime trade lines.
Being able to mobilize these 700 battleships and an equal number of transport ships is already the greatest ability of the Elf Kingdom.
But the human fleet is four times the size of their Elf Kingdom task force~!
Not to mention the Naian Fleet, an elite and powerful fleet, equipped with the best artillery of the contemporary era and powered by magical steam engines, it can be said to be the most advanced warship of this era.
In the past, I always thought that the fleet of the Elf Kingdom was unparalleled in the world, and that even if humans united, they would not be afraid. As expected, it was just a toad sitting in a well looking at the sky.
Parno couldn't help but look a little embarrassed, and turned his head, not wanting to see Lord Lorraine's proud face.
As if to make it easier for them to see clearly, the war fortress hovered in the sky for a while, and then slowly flew down. Under the command of several guides, it landed steadily on the deck of the mothership.
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As soon as the captain opened the cabin door, Parno and other officers impatiently squeezed down from the war fortress and jumped onto the deck of the aircraft carrier.
As soon as their feet touched the deck of the huge carrier aircraft, they were stunned.
This ship is stable. It's so stable.
On the Ark Royal, you can still feel the shaking caused by the ups and downs of the waves. But on this huge battleship, you can't feel it at all, as if it was a piece of land.
But thinking about it on the other hand, this seems to be the right thing to do.
After all, such a big ship can easily crush all wind and waves. Unless it encounters an extremely bad storm, this huge warship is not afraid of the ups and downs of the waves.
Everyone calmed down, then looked up and saw that the entire deck was flat, neat and smooth. You could see from the bow to the stern at a glance.
Unlike other battleships of this era, there was almost no superstructure on the deck.
There is only a three-story-high conning tower on the right side of the middle of the ship. The conning tower is like a flat pillar and is not very wide to save space on the deck as much as possible.
At the top of the command tower, a red-backed golden eagle flag of the Ruman Empire fluttered in the wind, looking domineering.
From behind the ship, billowing black smoke was emitted outward, like an active volcano erupting.
Even though we were still far away, we could smell the choking smell of coal smoke in the air.
Lorraine walked slowly down the war fortress, stepped on the deck and took a deep breath, looking at his huge aircraft carrier with some emotion and pride.
I thought to myself: We are already good at playing tricks. From now on, we can imitate the Americans and act like gangsters all over the world.
In fact, this huge ship was not originally built as an aircraft carrier. When the ship was built, Lorraine had no plans to build an aircraft carrier because there was no war fortress suitable for carrier-based aircraft at that time.
After the idea of miniaturizing the war fortress was raised, Lord Lorraine came up with the idea of an aircraft carrier.
The original purpose of this ship was as a large coal ship.
Due to the war, there was a huge demand for steel. Therefore, all the steel plants in Nai'an were operating at full capacity and producing at full capacity around the clock.
Although the daily profits made Lei Erye almost crazy with joy, he could not ignore one problem. The steel industry had a huge demand for coal, especially high-quality coal.
However, Nai'an's coal is far from keeping up with demand, and the railway's transportation capacity cannot meet the demand. Therefore, the problem can only be solved through large-scale imports.
Leo Lei, the president of Feiying Steel Company, waved his hand and placed a large order with Feiying Shipping Company. He also requested the construction of three large-tonnage coal ships at one time to solve the problem of coal.
Transportation issues.
And the construction of supporting special coal wharves and railways has begun. Coal unloaded at the wharf can be directly transported to the steel plant, which can be called a symbol of the industrial era.
At this time, Lord Lorraine also began to worry about the aircraft carriers. Seeing this situation, he immediately had an idea and with a stroke of his pen, he snatched them over without politeness and turned two of them into aircraft carriers.
But now only one of them has been completed, and the other one is almost completed. Once it passes sea trials, it can be put into use immediately. The supporting three or five squadrons of flying units are already training.
Mr. Lei has been making a lot of noise about this matter, claiming that this is the government using administrative means to suppress the development of enterprises. It is an unfair and immoral act.
It wasn't until Catherine promised to exempt him from personal income tax for another three years that he gave up. However, Chairman Leo's condition that he not do homework was firmly rejected.
Although the ship was converted from a coal ship, the ship's standard displacement was 8,000 tons. The original full-load displacement was 15,000 tons. After being converted into an aircraft carrier, it underwent partial modifications. The full-load displacement was reduced to 13,000 tons.
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Even so, looking at the whole world, it is unique. It can be called a giant.
Lorraine stamped the wooden board under her feet vigorously, and then proudly introduced to everyone: "Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce this ship to you."
Parno wanted to see the logo on the hull when he was on the Ark Royal, and immediately said: "Endeavor?"
Lorraine smiled and then said: "You can say that. But I prefer to call it 'Enterprise'.
The hull is a steel frame wooden shell structure, with a total length of 165 meters, a width of 21 meters, and a draft... Ha. This is a confidential piece of equipment, so I can't tell you.
In terms of power, there are four high-power steam boilers. If operated at full power, the fastest speed can reach 15 knots.
The hangars on the deck and below can fully accommodate nearly forty medium-sized war fortresses and more than twenty light war fortresses.
If the upper deck is completely emptied, four more heavy-duty war fortresses can be parked. Of course, I am referring to the silly, big, black and thick models produced by Maple Leaf Danlin."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but smile, showing a knowing smile.
Maple Leaf Danlin's war fortress pursues practicality, combat effectiveness, and the ability to survive in aerial combat, so its appearance is not too particular.
Moreover, a large amount of mesh-like grid armor is installed on the outside. Although it will be fine if it takes a few shots in battle, the war fortress covered with grid armor gives people the impression that it is really ugly.
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Especially judging from the elegance and literary aesthetics of the elves, it is simply a piece of vulgar and stinky shit.
Some people even suggested rejecting their first batch of war fortress orders in Maple Leaf Danlin, until the arrogant Maple Leaf Danlin people changed their appearance to be slightly more visible.
And from another aspect, the war fortress built by Maple Leaf Danlin is simply a bottomless pit in terms of energy consumption due to its large size, heavy armor, and large number of artillery equipment.
In the past, when I was just on defense, it was a little better.
If it were a cross-sea expedition and the whole journey was flown over, the magic crystals consumed alone would be enough to give the three deans a headache. That would be an astronomical figure that would make people staggering.
At the same time, everyone's fear of the undead high priest also deepened.
He is an out-and-out tycoon. He can actually send 300 war fortresses across the sea at one time and continue fighting on the human continent.
How many magic crystals does he usually have to accumulate~!
From this alone, we can know that the undead tribe has really not been idle in the past thousand years.
However, faced with the bottomless pit-like energy consumption of war fortresses, Maple Leaf Danlin Academy also came up with an excellent way to load war fortresses on transport ships. Each transport ship carries one or two war fortresses.
Although the ship is a bit small, it is difficult to land a large war fortress once it takes off. It is a typical case of killing but not burying. But despite this, they can proudly claim that they own an aircraft carrier.
It was precisely because they had smashed their own sign that everyone looked down on Maple Leaf Danlin's aircraft carrier at the beginning. Naturally, they also looked down on the tactic of using ships to carry war fortresses, thinking it was useless.
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It was only now that Sir Luo's aircraft carrier appeared that they began to re-examine this super weapon that was born out of the blue.
At this time, another gust of wind blew from behind, and the soot from behind was immediately rolled back, causing everyone to cough and look disgraced.
Lorraine couldn't help but sweat profusely, and quickly explained: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The chimney design of this ship is a bit unreasonable.
The second ship has already started to be improved, and when it comes out, it will be much better."
Everyone couldn't help but look at each other and cursed in their hearts: This is really his grandma's big dog. One mothership is enough to scare everyone's pants. This bastard actually has one. From now on, everyone
Are you still alive?
At this time, I heard Lorraine continue to say: "But, having said that, the smoke is also good. There is a vast area on the sea, there are no coordinates, and there is no navigation or anything. The war fortress has flown out, and it is easy to get lost.
With the black smoke floating in the sky, they could easily find their way home even though they were a hundred and eighty miles away.
Do you think so? Haha, hahahaha."
Sir Alex is a civilized man. He feels a little embarrassed about such a large-scale discharge of pollution, which makes the working environment on the deck very bad.
After listening to Lorraine's words, the people nearby couldn't help being silent for a while, and even felt a little inferior: Will the war fortress be lost on the sea?
They have never heard of such high-tech things, just like a poor beggar listening to two wealthy men debating which one is more effective in bed fighting, tiger penis or Indian magic oil.
The elves were silent for a while, and Parno said slowly: "Sir, with all due respect. This mothership looks good, but the cost-efficiency ratio is really bad. A war fortress. Just the energy consumed every day.
How many are there?
In addition, personnel training, ammunition supply, etc., and for these war fortresses, you also specially built this giant ship.
In order to cover this giant ship, several battleships were specially dispatched to escort it..."
As he spoke, he pointed at the battleships scattered around the aircraft carrier and said, "Sir, am I right? Are they specifically escorting this aircraft carrier?"
Lorraine couldn't help but glance at him in surprise: I thought this guy was just a bag of straw, but I didn't expect that there was some stuff in his belly.
Just by walking around here, you can tell so many things. It seems that these bastards are not to be underestimated~!
He nodded immediately and said: "Yes, you are right, their mission is to escort to prevent the enemy from getting close to them in naval battles.
Although this ship is large, it is also very weak in terms of defense."
Parno immediately laughed and said: "Sire, how much will it cost to equip your fleet? Several million, or tens of millions?"
This cost-efficiency ratio is really bad. With so much money, it is possible to build ten first-class battleships. A single salvo can fire five to six hundred rounds, and the enemy can be completely submerged in a sea of fire with artillery.
Therefore, giant ships and artillery are the right direction for future development.
Moreover, the sea area that ten battleships can control must be wider than that of one aircraft carrier."
Lorraine looked at him sideways, and then said thoughtfully: "Maybe what you said makes sense? Who knows? After all, no one can predict the future."
After saying that, he put his hands behind his back, raised his head, looked at the blue sky, and let out a long sigh, showing a sigh of relief.
After all, it is difficult to change the inherent thoughts and opinions.
Even in Lord Lorraine's previous life, the debate between aircraft carriers and battleships went on for twenty years before it was proven in actual combat. The samurai of the Bigfoot Basin country once created monsters like Yamato and Musashi.
Parno immediately laughed, then bowed slightly and said politely: "Sir, you're sorry, I'm just a superficial person. I'm still very immature, haha, hahahaha..."
Although he said he was modest, the proud look on his face could not be concealed.
This is not surprising, and Lorraine is the majestic Flying Eagle God of War, and is universally recognized as the number one warrior. In front of him, no matter how self-righteous, narcissistic and perverted these elves are in front of him, they have to admit that Jue
He is much more powerful than them, and many people regard Sir Luo as their goal to surpass.
Not to mention that he abducted Princess Lulu, the national idol of the Elf Kingdom.
But now, all Sir Luo can say is weak, which shows how powerful he is.
At the same time, these young officers also strengthened their determination to develop the line of giant ship and artillery doctrine.
The reason is very simple. To make a military strategist like Lord Luo speechless, it naturally fully reveals the far-sightedness and far-sightedness of the soldiers of the Elf Kingdom.
Many years later, an anti-government rebellion broke out in the Elf Kingdom. The United Nations forces ignored international norms and the sovereignty of the Elf Kingdom, shouting slogans to safeguard human rights, and brazenly sent troops to intervene.
Until that time, they had been immersed in developing giant ships and cannons. When they faced a task force composed of multiple aircraft carriers in Naian, they realized: mlgbd~! They were fooled by that cunning bastard again~!
At this time, the elves consciously refuted Lord Luo verbally, and were naturally very happy. Although they visited the aircraft carrier, they were also very picky about the aircraft carrier due to their preconceived impressions, and they felt that this was not the case.
Okay, that's not good either.
Even the captain of the ship came out to talk about it.
The ship is too big, and there is no rocking of the waves at all. On such a ship, it can only breed a bunch of young masters, but it will definitely not breed brave and resolute men at sea who dare to fight the wind and waves.
Although the prince didn't have any good intentions and dug a hole for them, so his attitude was relatively correct, but even so, the words of those elves still made the prince's nose almost crooked with anger.
There was no talk for the next few days as the fleet headed westward.
Although this ocean is vast and vast, the previous smugglers have all mastered the routes. Since a thousand years ago, there have been countless daring smugglers who wanted to make a fortune, driving simple ships and risking their lives.
He sailed across the ocean to make huge profits between two continents.
Later, the Flying Eagle Transnational Tractor Monopoly Group also joined in.
Under the management of Adelin, Fiona, and Deipole, the scale of smuggling has been greatly expanded, and countless small smugglers have been absorbed in the process, forming a complete industrial chain.
Coupled with the use of navigation instruments such as sextants and watches, navigation has become much simpler than before. Some captains even dare to pat their chests and guarantee that they can sail across the ocean with their eyes closed after drinking too much cat urine.
But now that these experienced captains are leading the way, the other ships don't have to worry, they just need to follow suit.
There are also many small islands scattered in the ocean, allowing them to stop and replenish fresh water.
Twenty days later, on October 18, 836 of the Julian calendar, they crossed the center line of the ocean and entered the sphere of influence of the Semitic continent.
At this time, each warship sounded the air horn and blew the horn in celebration.
The sounds gathered together and turned into a huge sound, like the horn of the God of War, resounding throughout the world, and then spread far away by the sea breeze... (To be continued...)
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