Chapter 685: Shocking Undersea Graveyard!
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Chapter 685: Shocking Undersea Graveyard!
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"Alas!"
After sighing, Liu Dong shook his head regretfully.
Although this battleship is good, except that this ship still has some value, there are not a few works of art on board that are of great value, and it is really not worth his trip.
However, just as Liu Dong walked less than twenty meters forward on the bottom of the sea, another shipwreck appeared, compared to the shipwreck just now, the one just discovered was also a battleship, but it should belong to a three-level battleship with a double deck, with a full load of more than 1,000 tons.
However, this one was even worse than the one at the beginning, with two of the three masts broken, and the hull on the right side almost broken in two.
"My God, what's going on?" After walking forward for more than twenty meters, Liu Dong's mouth grew bigger and bigger, and his face was full of shock.
Because within the scope of his relics Yuanguang's exploration, a third, fourth, and even hundreds of shipwrecks appeared, and the bottom of the sea within a radius of thousands of kilometers was like a cemetery, piled with the wreckage of battleships of the 6▽ era of sails.
Especially in the middle of the wreckage of these battleships, there is a huge super sail battleship.
Liu Dong 'visually inspected' it, and the length of this sail battleship reached 60 meters, the width reached 18 meters, and it had seven decks and three artillery decks, with a height of about 8 meters. Although Liu Dong didn't know much about the number of sail warships, a simple estimate of the displacement of this battleship should be no less than 3,500 tons. If fully loaded. I'm afraid it's no less than 6,000 tons.
No doubt. It was the pinnacle of the Sail Age, and it had reached the pinnacle of the Sail Battleship.
And this battleship also has a beautiful bow portrait, and the image should be Poseidon, the god of the sea!
His trident is so famous that even Liu Dong is very familiar with it, and there are also intricate sculptures on the tail keel of the ship, although there are not as many as the Stockholm Vassa, but there are more than two hundred!
Liu Dong really couldn't figure out why the emperors of Europe liked to do so many tricks on their warships. They are of no use in war, except for decoration.
However, in this way, the artistic value of this battleship has increased many times at once.
Of course, the wreckage of this first-class sail battleship is not the only one in this shipwreck graveyard, judging from the remaining hull, there are four other battleships of the same class here, but this is the only one that is the most intact!
The others either broke the hull or cracked a few big holes in the side of the ship, only this one, there were no obvious scars on the body, Liu Dong wondered how it sank!
Judging by the inscription of the nautical bell. This battleship belonged to the Russians, and the name of the ship was 'Peter the Great'!
"If I'm not mistaken. This should be the battlefield of the 'Battle of Svensk'!" Liu Dong said secretly in his heart.
If you want to find the shipwreck, you naturally have to have a basic understanding of the shipwreck there, so before coming out this time, Liu Dong had already collected the shipwreck information from all parties, although it was only the simplest information, but it was enough for Liu Dong. As long as he knew the general area of the wreck, he would be able to find the location of the wreck.
Of course, in addition to the well-known treasure ships such as the Ross, the Bismarck, the Lady Acato, and the Spanish gold ship, Liu Dong also focused on the important naval wars that had occurred in the world for a long time, although there may not be much gold and silver treasure on the warships.
But if it is really salvaged, the tableware, a small amount of gold and silver coins, weapons and ammunition, porcelain, armor, etc. are also a lot of wealth.
Moreover, Liu Dong also plans to build a shipwreck museum, and the sail battleship is naturally indispensable.
So, naturally, he also learned about the largest naval battle that took place in the Baltic Sea in the 18th century - the Battle of Svensksan!
On July 9, 1790, the Swedish side dispatched 195 naval warships to meet 140 Russian naval warships, and the war lasted for nearly two days, the Russian army attacked and lost 64 warships and 7,500 casualties, while the Swiss army only lost 4 warships and 300 people.
With the defeat of the Russian naval war, the Slavs' dreams of dominating the Baltic Sea were shattered, and Russia began to expand into the Far East. Sweden was victorious, but the sail fleet suffered heavy losses in several previous minor battles. The disparity in national power led Russia to gradually dominate the Baltic Sea in the 19th century.
Liu Dong didn't expect that he would collide at the bottom of the sea, and he actually hit the remains of the battlefield of the 'Svensk Naval Battle'.
But since he found here, there is naturally no reason to return empty-handed, even if those battleships that are broken in two have no salvage value, but Liu Dong doesn't mind taking the sheep by the hand, after all, no matter how broken the battleship, there are still many people who are willing to collect the guns on it.
But when harvesting the spoils, you must first settle Mei Xue!
So after digging fifty meters down and reaching a distance of 150 meters from the bottom of the sea, which was enough to ensure that the 8 cubic meters of space dug out by Liu Dong would not collapse, Liu Dong changed Mei Xue with an oxygen cylinder and put her inside.
Without the drag of Mei Xue, it is undoubtedly much more convenient for Liu Dong to act alone, only two minutes before and after, Liu Dong has already come to the bottom of the sea, except for some trouble when he comes out of the water, it does not make Liu Dong feel too difficult.
"Damn, this bottom is too soft!"
Although his body can withstand the huge water pressure at a depth of 200 meters, the soil layer under his feet cannot withstand it.
Therefore, after coming to the bottom of the sea, Liu Dong almost fell into the soft mud and sand below the knees, and every step he took consumed several times more strength than usual.
Gritting his teeth, he persevered for an hour, and finally put away all the nearly 100 battleships that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
These include 5 1st Rank Sail Battleships, 8 2nd Rank Sail Battleships, 12 3rd Rank Sail Battleships, 19 4th Rank Sail Battleships, 27 Double-Track Single-Deck Battleships, and about 30 supply ships, of course, it can also be called armed merchant ships!
It was only then that Liu Dong became more and more aware of how fortunate the existence of the mustard seed space was for him!
Coupled with Liu Dong's departure from Amsterdam to the 5 shipwrecks harvested before the wind and waves, there are now a total of 104 shipwrecks in his hands, covering an area of at least 200,000 cubic meters, not to mention a drop in the mustard seed space that has reached 125 million cubic meters, but it only accounts for one-600th of it!
Even if you add the hundreds of thousands of jadeite rough stones that Liu Dong put in it, and many antiques and artworks, it only occupies a small corner of the mustard seed space, and more than 90% of the space is empty.
With it, Liu Dong may not need to think about what he can't carry with him!
An hour later, looking at the already flat seabed, Liu Dong nodded with satisfaction. Then, he hurriedly drilled into the ground, and in another twenty minutes his breath was about to reach the limit.
At this time, it is impossible to take out the oxygen cylinder, because the oxygen cylinder cannot withstand such a large water pressure and is easy to spontaneously combust.
After a lot of effort to block the influx of the turbulent seawater, Liu Dong found Mei Xue, and after taking a few breaths of oxygen, he began to discern the direction completely by feeling and continued to hurry.
And just after Liu Dong was in a happy mood on the road, he didn't know that the storm he inadvertently encountered saved him from a big trouble.
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In a luxurious manor on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the night does not hide the storage of lights, but in the dead of night, on the second floor of the central villa of the manor, an area of 200 square meters, the surrounding walls are covered with exquisite oil paintings, surrounded by elegant porcelain and bronze sculptures in the study, behind the old and intricate and gorgeous desk, a white man in his sixties is intently looking at the things in his hands.
If Liu Dong was present, then he would definitely find out that the thing in the old man's hand was the yellow animal skin that he had obtained from the floating corpse on Corga Island that day with Blind and James.
"Knock knock ......!"
The quick and rhythmic knock on the door made the old man frown, and then put the hide down.
"Come in!"
Following the old man's words, a middle-aged white man in a black suit pushed the door respectfully and walked in.
"Elder Karis!"
After nodding, the old man said directly: "Have you found the traces of those two Chinese?"
"Not yet, we've used all sorts of tricks since they disappeared into the storm zone two hours ago, and we haven't been able to find them!" said the middle-aged white man respectfully.
"Aren't you on their yacht security locators?" said the old man with a frown.
"Yes, but there was no news two hours ago, and I think it should have been blocked!" said the middle-aged white man quickly.
"Do you think those two Chinese discovered your arrangement?"
"I'm not sure, but that signal transmitter is the latest product that the organization helped us get from the Department of Defense, and even a storm at sea can't completely block it!"
After listening, the white old man nodded after thinking for a while, "I know, you go down first, and report to me immediately after finding the traces of those two Chinese!"
"Yes, Honorable Elder Karris!"
After the white strong man walked out of the door with a respectful expression, the old man picked up the animal skin on the table and looked at it a few times, sighed, and put it aside.
"The treasure arranged by the 200 most famous logicians and historians in Europe organized by the Third Reich is really not so simple to unravel, if you can't find all the clues, the 'Great German Treasure' is destined to be just a joke by Lucihua, and it's no wonder that those old guys in the club are indifferent until now!"
“…… But I won't give up so lightly, the resurgence of the Karis family needs these treasures!" the old man subconsciously clenched his fists.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)