Wet and drenched, Andreev was carried onto the Zhiyuan by the hanging basket, his military uniform and leather robe were wet by the splashing sea water and humid morning mist, and Andreev's spine was cold when the cold sea breeze blew. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was not only the sea breeze that chilled him even more, but also the incomparably huge and powerful steel giant, with the elastic teak floor under its feet, and all the steel as far as the eye could see, the deck, the cannons, the main guns, the masts...... Even the parapets that kept sailors out of the sea were made of steel.

Humans are born with a sense of veneration for steel, which is an innate genetic code imprinted in the soul, and when primitive tribes armed with wooden clubs and stone axes first encounter civilized city-states armed with bronze daggers and spears, it is a dreamlike feeling of seeing gods.

When the barbarian peoples slaughtered the ancient empire, the armored jungle made of steel and the indestructible steel blade, the gap between civilization and barbarism may be between this inch of cold light.

For metal, especially steel, humans are obsessed with a sense of power in it, and thousands of years of precipitation have become a gene.

Andreev remembers very well that he was different from Vadim, who came to the Far East on a war horse from Central Asia, while Andreev came to China by ship from Europe.

He remembered very well that the entire Baltic Sea was full of sail warships in those days, and it was already worth cheering for the soldiers to meet a cruiser with a double battery. But when he reached the English Channel and saw the three-story battleships of the British Empire pressing down like a mountain, Andreev almost suffocated.

The sense of power, the sense of power that came to his face, at that moment he really felt that the sun never set on the empire was invincible.

That memory has followed him until now, and then when he came to East Asia, looking at the ridiculous broken wooden ships of the Qing Empire, the South Seas, Korea, and Japan, a sense of European superiority arose, and at that time he really thought that he had come to the Far East to liberate civilization and barbarism, and he did not have the slightest sense of invaders.

But today, a familiar feeling once again came to my heart, and the heavy feeling of depression was not from the sea battleship of the empire on which the sun never set, but this Zhiyuan from the Chinese.

No matter how much legendary information Andreev had received about the battleship, he certainly knew the legends of the Zhiyuan crossing the Atlantic and South America, but he had always thought that it was just a legend.

The Chinese have been good at trickery since ancient times, bragging is their specialty, of course, the Chinese themselves do not think that it is bragging, but a strategy, but in the hearts of soldiers like Andreev, any deceptive tactics are shameful, only strength is real.

Until the Zhiyuan was thrown into the battle of Vladivostok, the heavy shells exploded in the city, but in fact, it blew up the fragile pride in the hearts of the Tsarist Russian army.

They never imagined that the combat effectiveness of the Zhiyuan was so strong that it was not a legend but a fact at all.

And today, when Andreev personally boarded the world's first pure steel battleship, his three views were once again subverted. There was steel everywhere, and the heavy aura weighed down him and the soldiers and civilians around him.

The Gatling guns fixed on the battleship were rotating with their figures, the sailors behind the 57mm Hatch Chase rapid-fire guns were busy carrying out maintenance, and the running soldiers completely ignored these grandmothers Liu who walked into the Grand View Garden, they only had this war and the tasks they had just been assigned to them.

The heavily loaded sailors escorted them to the bow of the ship, where was Xiao Letian going to meet these unexpected guests, and when Andreev saw the main guns of the Zhiyuan for the first time, his last trace of pride and reserve was completely shattered at this moment.

The 210 caliber main guns were placed on the battleship, which was a feat that time that people did not expect, and most of the guns of this caliber were concentrated on the shore defense batteries, and no wooden-hulled battleship in the world could withstand the recoil of such a cannon.

In fact, even the pure steel keel of the Zhiyuan is very difficult to cope with such recoil, and the designed double-burst main gun is actually unable to do continuous firing at all, only a single shot at intervals, so the keel has the problem of rivets loosening.

Half a step beyond this era, you are a genius, one step beyond this era you are a madman. Xiao Lotian understood the shock in Andreev's eyes, and the feeling of being ahead of the times had completely defeated him.

No one can describe that feeling, but Xiao Lotian is easy to understand, because only Xiao Lotian understands that the appearance of the Zhiyuan is 24 years earlier than the real history, which means that the Zhiyuan has a 24-year technological generation gap with the era at that time.

What is the concept of a generation difference of 24 years? It seems that the number 24 is not very big, but Xiao Lotian can be compared with some things in his era.

Because Xiao Letian is in an era of technological explosion, for example, people's communication tool mobile phone, in 2014, Xiao Lotian crossed over, smart phones have begun to spread on a large scale, people can often see on the street with their fingers on the touch screen touching, either swiping Weibo or playing WeChat, but also cutting fruit.

But if you go forward 24 years at this point in time, that is, in 1990, if you could walk down the street with an Android touchscreen phone...... Please, I guess this gadget in your hand can alarm the NSA.

In the 1990s, there weren't even BB machines, and if you could pick up a mobile phone on the street, people would look at you like an alien.

The same principle applies to people of this era, Andreev, who is accustomed to seeing sail warships and wooden-hulled ships, suddenly encountered this kind of dream battleship with advanced black technology, he was completely convinced, a sense of depression completely crushed him, and all the negotiations organized along the way were completely speechless at the moment.

"This officer, this gentleman, hey...... Are you listening to me?This officer, what is the matter with you coming to me?" Xiao Letian looked at Andreev's eyes a little sluggish, just stared at the twin 210 caliber main gun dumbfounded, he knew that this Grandma Liu had been shocked.

"What do you feel? This is a naval cannon developed by Krupp with 300 engineers and the elites of six industries...... Doesn't it feel powerful?"

"Yes...... Yes...... Oh, I'm sorry! I'm rude......" It was only at this moment that Andreev woke up from his dream, and when he looked at the Chinese in front of him who was wearing a general's dress, he knew that this was the main Xiao Letian, and quickly raised his hand to salute.

"Tsarist Russian Far Eastern Army, 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 1st Army...... Battalion Andrév salutes the Prime Minister!"

"Take a break! You shouldn't salute me first, on this battleship, I am not the most noble one!" After speaking, Xiao Letian flashed, and Zaichun, dressed in a dragon robe behind him, appeared in front of Andreev.