In addition to thick armor, the Xingye is now equipped with special armor materials made from Spectral Claw monsters and scrap crystals.
This special material was originally intended to be installed on the Earth, and it has passed high-intensity testing. In theory, it can withstand attacks from the Spectral Claws and Bloodclaws without any problem.
But without actual combat, no one knows whether this thing can really withstand the attacks of those monsters.
How many attacks can it withstand?
Therefore, this trip can be regarded as a disguised field test.
The most important thing is that the beast tide is coming. Zheng Beibei has designed some detection equipment and will put it into the open sea.
If the warship can be driven to the open sea, of course the farther the better, then more open sea conditions can be obtained.
Most importantly, it helps to understand the approximate size of the next beast wave.
This test can even verify whether Ning Yi can reach the Anse Islands directly if he takes this battleship.
You must know that it is only a few hundred kilometers from here to the open sea, but if you want to take a warship to reach the Anzhi Islands, it will be tens of thousands of kilometers.
Of course, Ning Yi's plan did not include taking a battleship to the Anse Islands. After all, this was too risky.
After the renovation, the Xingye number is now streamlined in terms of personnel.
The main weapons and equipment are not used, and more than fifty people can make the warship operate at full speed.
After screening, the Xingye, carrying more than 100 people, set off from Beiling Port.
In addition to the sailors, there are more than thirty formal warriors. These are all experienced warriors, with good water resistance and basically above the yellow level. Even if the battleship is really damaged or sunk, they can swim back.
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As for the family members, I didn’t bring them with me.
Even Lin Yun stayed at home.
But there is one exception, and that is Yang Yu.
This girl strongly requested Ning Yi to take her with him, saying that she wanted to see how arrogant the Ghostclaw monsters on the sea were so that she could gain experience.
Ning Yi couldn't defeat her. Besides, her cultivation level was already near the middle stage of Qing level, so it would be difficult for the Red Demon Dragon to defeat her, so taking her there wouldn't have any impact.
Moreover, her right to speak is stronger than Ning Yi's.
Departing from Beiling Port, the battleship left the port not long after.
After more than ten nautical miles, looking back, the separation wall under construction still looks very eye-catching.
From a distance, the winding gray-white separation wall looks like a jade belt floating on the sea, with no end in sight.
This should be the greatest man-made structure in human history.
Such a huge project would not have been able to achieve such results in just half a year if it hadn't been for the urgency of the Ghostclaw monster.
According to predictions, the next beast wave will be less than a month away.
So this voyage, to be honest, is the most dangerous.
Because if the prediction is wrong, then they will just catch up with the beast tide, and they will be right on the muzzle of the gun.
By then, no matter how powerful the battleship is, it will be torn to pieces.
However, it has now sailed more than ten nautical miles. The sonar detector mounted on the battleship has detected the surrounding signals. It is quite calm. When it deviates from the position of Linglan Island, it is the appearance of thirty-four Spectral Claw Monsters.
Of course, this is already relatively intensive.
In today's sea area, the Q value has reached 037, and the Spectral Claw monster seems particularly violent.
Although it had only sailed a dozen sea miles, it had already been attacked by two Spectral Claw monsters.
Xingye also tried his best, netting a Ghostclaw monster and beheading one. It didn't take much effort.
The quality of the net was much better than before. Although the ghost claw monster trapped in the net struggled desperately, it was still unable to escape in the end.
Then a heavy-duty, high-speed giant drill aimed at the vital part of the Spectral Claw monster. It penetrated directly and killed the Spectral Claw monster.
Then the Ghostclaw was caught, and then several sailors started the crane, peeled off the net tied to the body of the Ghostclaw, dug out the crystals from its body, and then reinstalled the net and launched it into the water.
The ghostclaw corpse was thrown directly back into the sea.
The whole process only takes about ten minutes.
Then sailing out further, at a position of about thirty nautical miles, the Spectral Claw monsters became denser.
Soon, groups of ghostclaw monsters began to besiege the battleship.
However, after the modification of the Xingye, the low-water rear deck is almost ten meters above the sea level. The Spectral Claw monster is basically out of reach, and even if it jumps, it cannot jump up. At this time, the armor capability of the Xingye began to be tested.
The modified Xingye has a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and the extra weight is basically due to the installation of a diesel engine and armor.
This weight and level of armor are all designed to deal with the presence of the Spectral Claw.
In order to test the attack capabilities of the Spectral Claw, they installed various pressure testing equipment and underwater cameras on the bottom and sides of the ship.
The anti-collision design on the Earth has also been removed. It is equivalent to a battleship that uses its own body to resist impact.
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In the main control room, Ning Yi was staring at the computer screen with some anticipation.
This is the picture from the underwater camera. At least three ghostclaw monsters have regarded the warship as a target and started to ram it.
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The attack of the ghost claw monster gradually increased from small to large. Finally, the impact force of a blood claw even reached 97045n. The entire battleship trembled and a slight shaking could be clearly felt.
But of course, such shaking was much smaller than the wind and waves they encountered.
After several attacks by those ghostclaw monsters, they found that the effect was not good and had to give up.
But as soon as it left, the underwater camera immediately discovered that even though it hit the thick armor, there were still dents at the impact location.
Of course, this kind of dent does not affect any performance and defense capabilities of the battleship at all.
The Xingye continued sailing to the open sea without hesitation.
Soon, they reached the sixty nautical mile limit.
At this time, the Spectral Claw monsters had begun to gather densely. Almost every five minutes, a Spectral Claw monster tried to attack the Xingye.
Collisions are also becoming more frequent.
If it were replaced by a commercial ship, I'm afraid it would be almost unbearable.
No wonder sea trade is almost cut off now.
On the other hand, the machine that hunted the Spectral Claw Monster also began to operate at full speed.
They mostly use high-intensity stabbing guns.
The end of the stabbing spear is made of yellow-grade crystal, and its hardness is extremely terrifying. In addition, it uses a catapult device to attack and is extremely powerful. Once the Spectral Claw monster is stabbed, there is almost no possibility of escaping.
Many ghostclaw monsters are still alive after being stabbed and dragged up. But they will soon be killed with other devices or killed by experienced veterans.
The warship had been out to sea for more than a hundred nautical miles, and they had already killed at least sixty Spectral Claw monsters.
The preliminary testing is basically completed.
They traveled at a speed of eighteen knots per hour for a total of six hours.
So far, it is an area with a relatively dense concentration of Spectral Claw monsters.
And it is already a hundred nautical miles away.
They suffered a total of eighty-three attacks.
Judging from the test results, the Xingye's defense capability was almost damaged by 3. Although this loss seems quite scary, it is already expected.
But the question now is whether the test should be terminated here.
Because it is already four o'clock in the afternoon, if we continue to sail to the open sea, then when we return, even if we return at the fastest speed of 28 knots, it will take four hours to reach Beiling Port.
It was already dark by then.
And if you want to continue driving to the open sea now, you have to consider returning at night.
In the original plan, there was no night flight today.
Instead, the drone was released at a location of 120 nautical miles and the detection equipment was released at a location of 300 nautical miles to observe the gathering of Spectral Claw monsters on the high seas 300 nautical miles away, so as to make the prediction of the beast tide more accurate.
Then the battleship began to return.
After all, flying at night is more dangerous.
But when they reached one hundred and twenty nautical miles, Ning Yi felt a little unwilling.
He first ordered the release of some of the drones to drop detection equipment. Then he thought for a moment that even if he returned now, it would be almost midnight when he arrived at the port, so he ordered to continue heading to the open sea.
The crew members on the ship also agreed with Ning Yi's decision.
For them, today's test seems to be going smoothly so far. They have even encountered attacks from Blood Claws many times, but there are no problems with the battleship.
Naturally, I wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to directly cross the two hundred nautical miles.
After all, many of them were sailors who were attacked on their last voyage, and they all felt sorry for their failure last time.
After everyone unanimously agreed, the warship released some drones to drop detection equipment, then increased its speed to 25 knots and continued moving forward.
At this time, the ghost claw monsters encountered became more frequent.
Arriving more than 150 nautical miles away, the warship could detect that the Ghostclaw was attacking the warship almost every minute.
The clanging sound is almost constant.
Judging from the footage captured by the underwater camera, the Ghostclaw monsters here are already densely packed. They are all gathering together like a school of sardines.
It was probably attracted by the lights and engine noise.
This density is so dense that it almost blocks the way forward.
However, the bow of the battleship uses a high-strength cone. The battleship moves forward at a speed of 25 knots. The ghostclaw monster cannot avoid it and is often knocked unconscious or even killed.
Soon after more than three hours, the Xingye approached the two hundred nautical mile line.
To Ning Yi's surprise, the number of Ghostclaw monsters slowly decreased at this time.
It seems that it is much sparser.
The intensity of attacks against battleships has also been reduced.
At about 250 nautical miles, the Spectral Claw monsters became even sparser, and sometimes not a single Spectral Claw monster could be detected for more than ten minutes.
It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and Lin Yun and others at home had already begun to call them back.
Ning Yi looked at the dark but eerily quiet sea level and felt uncertain, so he ordered the release of five drones and the release of twenty sonar detection devices so that the Nanling Intelligence Collection Center could collect ghost claws in this sea area.
Strange situation.
The flight speed of the drone was as high as 150 nautical miles, and Ning Yi and the others planned to extend the main detection range to 400 nautical miles, so after releasing the drone, Ning Yi and the others ordered the warship to prepare to return.
But less than half an hour after the warship turned around and returned, the drone responsible for reconnaissance and surveillance in the air sent back a warning message.
The Red Devil Dragon appeared, about 80 kilometers to the southeast, and there were quite a few of them. The feedback signal showed that there were at least ten of them.
At the flying speed of the Red Demonic Dragon, even if the battleship returns at full strength, there will only be about an hour left to the battleship.
If these red dragons come to attack the warship, then a conflict between the two sides is inevitable.
Of course, encountering the red demon dragon was already expected.
It's just that the number is slightly more.
"Get ready to fight." Ning Yi saw the detection results in the captain's room and gave a brief order.
The entire battleship immediately closed the open observation port, and the helicopter on the rear deck immediately closed the hatch in the hangar.
The smart weapon platforms deployed on the warships are also all on alert.
The Xingye is equipped with four sets of improved Phalanx air defense systems. Each Phalanx has a rate of fire of up to 500 rounds per minute and is equipped with a six-barreled automatic rotating cannon with a caliber of 25.
Even the Crimson Demonic Dragon would not be able to withstand such a terrifying bullet rain attack.
Moreover, in these weapon systems, the artillery shells have been specially modified, and all have high-strength warheads specially made of edge crystal materials.
If it is at close range, especially at a distance of fifty to one hundred meters, it can cause substantial damage to the Red Demon Dragon.
It is precisely because of these four air defense systems that Ning Yi and the others were not so afraid when they heard about the Red Demonic Dragon.
Of course, the price of this kind of system is too expensive, especially the cannonballs, each of which costs more than 400 meters of gold.
So even if the rate of fire was only 500 rounds per minute, Ning Yi and the others still felt distressed. If they fought for one minute, it would mean that 200,000 meters of gold were burned.
You must know that the real Phalanx has a rate of fire of up to 5,000 rounds per minute, but the rate of fire of this improved Phalanx is only one-tenth of the original rate of fire.
If four systems are started at the same time, eight million meters of gold will be gone within ten minutes.
Of course, if you kill a red demon dragon and the crystal is not damaged, you can actually get your money back.
But cannonballs are not that easy to make.
But no matter what, the four Phalanx formations on the Xingye at this moment are loaded with live ammunition, and there are still 10,000 rounds of ammunition in reserve.
These things are enough to crush more than ten red demon dragons.
With these preparations, Ning Yi is now waiting for the Red Demon Dragon's visit.
However, before the Red Demonic Dragon arrived, a new situation appeared first.
The control officer in the sonar control room reported that the detection instruments dropped on the seabed had returned images.
And I hope Ning Yi can go over and take a look.
Almost two-thirds of the detectors they dropped were killed by the Spectral Claw monster, and the remaining one-third successfully hit the bottom.
Ning Yi took a look, "Hey guys, the signal showed that the bottom of the sea was densely packed with Spectral Claw Monsters."
Like pebbles on the river beach.
This number is difficult to count for a while.
If these monsters float to the surface, it will be difficult for this battleship to carry them. To be continued.
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