Not long after Levi had dealt with Kevin, an overly conscious half-elf warlock, the steam locomotive finally stopped with an extremely short forward inertia, and several people on the car opened their worried eyes.

With a squeak, the car door was opened from the outside by the driver of George's house, and he bowed to everyone in the car:

"Sir, there are a few distinguished guests, the Shipyard of Jishui City has arrived, welcome to the port area. ”

Calvin nodded, raised his hand at Levi, and motioned for him, the boss, to ask first.

Li Wei naturally didn't care about these courtesies, and was the first to get out of the car, and the rest of the people followed him.

"Lord, lord, boss, master!"

Several different salutations rang out at the same time.

When he looked up, he saw Iggy, Fischer, and Holtz and others arriving as promised, waiting for Levi and them in front of the dock gate.

Levi gestured to them, but was surprised to see that Iggy, who had gone out for the first time in so many years, actually gave himself a metamorphosis technique, and even changed his race in a very simple and rude way.

His image at the moment is a lizardman in a suit with monocle glasses...

However, considering the deterrence and importance of his current situation in the dark region, especially in the city of Gerthorne, his whereabouts are indeed not suitable for leaking information.

The corners of Levi's mouth twitched when he saw Alley lying on his back like an octopus on Holtz's back, with his small mouth open and two tiger teeth embedded in his bleeding skull.

He looked at him with the gnoll leader's grievances as if to say, 'Master, can you get the little mistress down, if it weren't for my hard enough brain, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to see you', and ruthlessly gave him a 'Since you brought this troublemaker out, give me a good look, if something goes wrong, you can do it yourself', and went straight past everyone and strode into the noisy dock.

Commander Huo looked at Li Wei's distant back, and his eyes instantly looked like he was dead.

Whew... Crunch.

The little hostess lying on the back seemed to have dreamed of something delicious again, so she changed her angle and continued to speak.

A stream of scarlet blood flowed from his forehead to his cheek.

This terrifying picture suddenly frightened the passers-by around him, and they thought that the jackal was possessed by some demon, so they covered their mouths and quickly moved away from this terrible figure.

And for Holtz, the pain in his head is still a small matter.

The key thing is that he doesn't think that with his own ability, he can limit the little hostess who is about to wake up!

He still remembered that as early as forty-six years ago, he had just undergone the transformation of an Ultramarine, and he thought that he had no rival in the entire territory except for his master, Director Iggy, the psionic warlock Calvin, and the orc Derollo, who was also an Ultramarine!

But in a certain 'dog food battle' to play with the little hostess, just as he jumped up and was about to catch the Loes meat steak thrown by Remlu, he was kicked by Miss Alley in the air...

There was a click on the spot, and the whole wolf flew straight out of a hundred feet away, smashed several large pits in the ground one after another, and then embedded itself in the pit...

In the fog, it seems that they have dreamed of the scene of dog planing and swimming in the River Styx.

When he woke up again, he was already lying on the operating table in the magic laboratory...

After being watched by a group of mages in white coats with a kind of pity for the 'martyrs', Hotz no longer dared to take the little hostess seriously...

Nima!

Others want love when they play with Miss, and he Huo wants his life when he plays with Miss...

Thinking of the sad and desperate place, Holtz couldn't help but whimper like those wolfdogs with no bright future.

However, the people of Zelandia had long been accustomed to such a picture, and patted the shoulder of this Huo Da Commander with sympathy and followed.

The shipyard has apparently undergone several major renovations since it was taken over by Zeelandia, and now it has seven docks.

If it is placed in the past, it is the norm for the seven Zuotang docks here to start construction together.

However, because Levi needed to come to inspect it, the dockyard moved out several of the ships that were nearing completion, and instead docked several classic ships from the Northlands, which was equivalent to temporarily using the shipyard as a showroom.

Although it was the first time for Iggy to visit the shipyard, which had been acquired for many years, as a technician who always paid attention to the place, he knew the data here well, and accompanied by a shipyard manager, he introduced Levi in an orderly manner:

"Your Majesty Levi, the medium-sized galleon you see now, called Knao, was invented by the Amms more than forty years ago and used for ocean trade, generally with three masts and a tonnage ranging from 200 to 600 tons.

"Its main features are its large bow and stern, with a relatively large bow mast with sails suspended, which has better power and balance than ordinary boats. Although the speed and agility were not as fast as the early Clavel sailing ships, due to their large carrying capacity, they have become the mainstream merchant ships in Sword Bay during these decades of development. ”

Levi nodded slowly.

Although the two worlds are completely different, the nature of businessmen to pursue profits has prompted the development of seagoing ships in the same direction.

At the same time, Crane's significance as a warship is also epoch-making, with tall sides that increase the difficulty of traditional jumping white-knuckle combat, and the huge hull and multi-deck can be equipped with more ballistas to deal with the threat of pirates. ”

"Ballista?" Levi raised an eyebrow.

He was under the impression that although Corell's goblin explosives had been criticized, they still worked wonders when used on ships.

As Levi's confidant, Eagle naturally knew the direction of his doubts, but when he said this, Iggy's face also flashed with a slight discoloration, and explained:

"Traditional shipborne artillery has not been able to develop much due to the extremely unstable alchemy explosives, susceptibility to moisture, and the difficulty of controlling the demonization reaction, and the merchants are more willing to make contracts with traveling mages, especially the mages of the Plastic Energy School, and a few fireball spells can often inflict heavy damage on a pirate ship without a mage.

"In addition, forty-six years ago, after our Zelandia's Demon Splitter Repeater shined in the Endless Wilderness, there have been mages trying to imitate it.

"Among them, the most successful imitation is the ship-borne ballista.

"Because shipborne ballistae do not need to consider the technical problems and expensive costs brought about by miniaturization, and a fire-based plastic energy crossbow arrow, both in terms of accuracy and controllability, is much higher than the traditional goblin artillery.

"However, the ship-borne ballista is not as expensive as the goblin artillery, both in terms of logistics maintenance and the cost of enchanting crossbow arrows.

"Therefore, today's mainstream armed merchant ships are all two to three ship-borne ballistas, equipped with more than a dozen goblin artillery, and those that can be solved by goblin artillery generally do not use magic ballistas. ”

Levi couldn't help laughing, it turned out that their concept of Zelandia's long-range firepower suppression had begun to lead the trend in the Northlands?

And Iggy's calm scholarly mentality of always being humble and unrelenting also made Li Wei extremely admired.

"And what about the warships?

The crowd followed Eagle as they moved around and came to a larger sailing ship:

"Your Majesty, please see, the three-masted galleon on your left is the mainstream warship of Am's past, ranging from 700 to 850 tons, equipped with six ship-borne ballistae, 30 to 40 alchemy guns, and a range of about 1,200 feet. ”

Levi looked at this tall warship with three decks, and couldn't help but ask:

"Am's battleship, how did you get it?"

"The Luciferto people found a relationship with the Amm Navy, spent some money, and directly bought the 'decommissioned' battleship. Eagle said calmly.

Levi glanced at the Ammu galleon, which still had a slight smell of paint and was decommissioned from the factory, and was speechless for a moment.

For a while, I didn't know whether to praise Lucifer for being too charming, or if Amm was too rotten inside.

Even brand-new warships could be sold, and if it were in Zelandia, he thought he would be able to give Riccan a meal with the head of that goods.

I heard Eagle continue:

It is said that it was Tesel who first built this galleon for the purpose of ocean trade, and when Thassel used this fleet to bring back a steady stream of gold, spices, and various magical materials from the south, Am, who was more powerful and financial, began to imitate it on a large scale, and defeated Tesser's fleet in the Shining Sea, and took over their ocean-going business.

As you can see, the most distinctive feature of this type of warship is the "portholes" set up on the warship, these windows open on the side of the ship, and the window covers are opened with a hinge, so that it is easy to load and unload the ship through the window without having to lift it from the side of the ship.

Unfortunately, Luskan quickly followed this line of thought, and managed to fire the alchemy cannons and ballistas from the lower deck of the ship, and the broadside guns were thus introduced, and the load of the weapon was safely distributed at the lower end of the ship's center of gravity, so as to prevent the center of gravity from tipping over when a storm came.

Amm soon followed Luskane's lead and built a warship about 100 feet long and 30 feet wide, called the Amm Marule, which was specially designed for naval warfare. Its hull tends to be elongated and narrow, with a low ramming angle above the waterline, which it can use to ram enemy ships.

"The initial phase of naval warfare was greatly extended with three masts and sails, a tower built into the bow and stern, a number of light guns above the waterline, and a row of large magic ballistas on the main hull.

"It is difficult to achieve a real victory in the battle if it is not possible to make a violent ram with the enemy ships, and if the soldiers board the enemy ships, as in the early naval battles, and engage in a hand-to-hand fight.

"But this new type of warship is not something we can get our hands on. ”

Eagle said with some regret.

Levi and the others almost burst out laughing.

Being able to buy a battleship directly already shows that the interior of Amm is very problematic.

If even the latest warships can be bought, then it means that Amm is not far from the country.

"At the same time," Ig continued, "Luskan soon realized that the use of broadside guns, especially magic ballistas, had the potential to change traditional naval tactics, and therefore paid more and more attention to the development of ships suitable for long-range guns rather than the capture of enemy ships, with the result that the ship's bow and stern towers became shorter, the ramming angles on the bow were quickly eliminated, and the proportion of heavy guns increased steadily.

However, Am's ship still retained the ramming horns on the bow, and the number of anti-personnel and the two types of artillery that destroyed the enemy ship continued to be balanced. Following the example of Luskan, they lowered the height of the bow tower, but the stern tower was still built high, and light artillery crews were placed on it that were difficult for the enemy to deal with.

This is the difference between the tactical theories of the navies of various countries.

But this trend took a major turn three years ago, when Luskan developed a deep-sea magic technology that allowed ships to dive directly below the surface.

"Because it is difficult to detect after diving to the surface, it also means that they can lie in ambush in advance and wait for an opportunity, and directly kill the 'prey' like a shark.

"This technology directly eliminated all the guns on such warships, and only a few magic ballistas remained.

And the most striking feature is its top-heavy and hideous corners. ”

"It's like... Such. ”

Eagle said, pointing to the wreck of a wrecked ship with only the front half of the body remaining.

And everyone looked at the hideous collision horn like a knight's spear, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Through the wreckage, Levi could still roughly determine that it was only the size of a two-masted galleon, but it seemed to have a kind of sail retraction device, and after diving underwater, it relied on another power.

"This Luskan pirate ship was provided by Kevin's apprentice, Captain Elisa.

"It's a pity that when this pirate ship was about to be captured, it directly detonated its magic power cabin, and only half of what was salvaged was left.

"Luskan seems to attach great importance to their new deep-sea magic technology, and even does not hesitate to use some kind of vicious contract to make the ship directly detonate when it is facing capture.

"So far, the entire Northland has not been able to capture a complete pirate ship.

"Thanks to the medium-sized pirate ships of Luskan, the trend of naval warfare in the Northlands seems to have returned to the earliest kinds, using ramming angles to inflict direct damage on targets, wielding spears and short sword jumpers, and using the most savage and bloody methods to bloody the entire ship.

It is precisely because of this that in the past few years, there have been more and more merchant ships that have mysteriously disappeared along the entire Jianwan line.

"The vast majority of them died at the hands of this deep-sea ghost pirate ship. ”

Hearing these words, everyone's faces couldn't help but sink.

"No wonder. Li Wei said suddenly.

Originally, he thought that when he came to the dockyard today, the first thing he would see would probably be a paddle steamer powered by a steam oven.

But the appearance of this kind of ghost ship, which is like a deep sea killer, is undoubtedly a greater threat to ships with more Achilles' heels such as paddle steamers.

It would be unwise to manufacture even more expensive paddle steamers on a large scale until there is a solution to this hidden danger.

Levi thought about it, and immediately looked around with a smile:

"Anyway, it's coming, why don't you take a vacation and go fishing in Sword Bay together?"

"Fishing?" Eagle didn't seem to be able to get back into his lord's paradoxical thinking loop in time.

"In addition, the news is that our ship is carrying all magic materials. Li Wei said.

"I see, I'll do it. Iggy immediately understood.

Everyone looked at each other, and their hearts couldn't help but mourn for three seconds for the fish that were wandering in Sword Bay.