Lu Luxiu took Qin Chuan to Steam City early in the morning.

Today's Steam City has a new thing that has just completed the final experiment to show Lelouch, the Magic Academy has spent a lot of financial and material resources of the empire to get sufficient development, but to be honest, the cost of the Magic Academy is still too far from the Steam City, after all, the Magic Academy is currently almost all concentrated on the high-end, and there are few inventions that can be popularized and applied in a large area, but the Steam City is different, almost any invention in the Steam City can bring earth-shaking changes to Middle-earth, and now the dwarves of the Sacred Mountains have even begun to develop their own steam engines, and it is said that the effect is still very good。

Therefore, in order to maintain the advantage of science and technology, Lelouch has invested a lot in Steam City, which can be seen from the last word of Steam City and the Academy of Magic Sciences, one is a city and the other is just an academy.

With the large-scale application of steam engines in Steam City, the Middle-earth civilization under the leadership of Lelouch has completely embarked on a completely different path of scientific and technological development from the earth, and the earth is constantly pursuing miniaturization and cheapness, but Lelouch is indeed completely different, but replaced by giant and efficient, and the price is difficult to be cheap because of the existence of the Magic Academy, so it is simply to continuously improve the combat power after meeting the needs of mass production.

Miniaturization is also in constant pursuit.

The current Steam City is a huge city covering an area of a hundred football fields, and there are no less than ten satellite cities around him, they form a whole existence, and the connection between them is not even an ordinary road but a kind of light rail railway dedicated to them, and only these railways can allow them to quickly transport all kinds of large-scale devices to all corners.

Today's Steam City is very lively, although Lelouch has not seen the new product he is about to see, but the people of Steam City have seen it many times, after all, the experiment of new things cannot avoid the eyes on the ground, uh, yes, this time the new thing is a new air and space unit, a new thing with extremely simple scientific principles.

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment, it will fly over immediately, because the volume is too big for Steam City to fit at all, so it has to fly directly from the production workshop under the sheltered mountain range. ”

A great engineer of the Steam City diligently explained to Lelouch that Lelouch waved his hand at all, for good things Lelouch never minded waiting longer, and soon, as countless humans below began to point loudly at the distance of the sky, a behemoth far beyond the imagination of the world slowly flew over from the sky, his size was so large that it was like a cloud directly blocking a large amount of sunlight, casting his intimidating shadow on the ground.

It's a huge airship!!

An airship that far surpassed any of the largest airships in Lelouch's memory, and was countless times larger.

"The length of this airship is about two thousand meters, the width is six hundred meters, most of which are airbag compartments, but the area that can be used for personnel movement is also at least five football fields, in addition to the external platform below, there is also a completely sealed central cabin inside the airbag compartment, which can be used as a living area, a material area, and even a garrison area. ”

The big engineer showed off the terrifying data of this airship, in fact, Lelouch has always wondered, since he has the ability to make things huge enough, and the combat effect is also very good, but why must it be small? Although small means cheap, but big also means absolute power, uh, yes, Lelouch has always been a strict giant ship cannon party.

More is good, big is justice, so at the request of Lelouch, this Middle-earth airship has a jaw-dropping volume.

"The gas inside the airbag is helium, which is blessed with active wind magic energy, although helium is more expensive, but it is safer, and with the blessing of wind magic, his lifting force is extremely strong, and it can drag the most weight for us in the smallest volume. ”

"How much does such an airship cost?"

"It's about 50 million silver coins, and with the streamlining of production, the price may drop to about 48 million. ”

Fifty million silver coins for an airship like this seems to be too expensive, even Lelouch frowned a little, he thought for a while and said: "Let them start to perform combat acts, I want to see how his actual combat ability is!"

Got Lelouxiu's instructions, the airship that communicated through the lights in the distance did not dare to slack off, and immediately began to act, at the beginning of the design, Lelouxiu's positioning of the airship was a combined version of the aircraft carrier battleship, in order to create such a powerful unit, Lelouch also ordered not to care about money, but now the cost of 50 million makes Lelouch inevitably regret a little, now it is to see if this huge airship can be worthy of his cost.

The firepower of the airship first shown, on the mount compartment below, the dense artillery was pushed out, these cannons may be the first batch of magic artillery, the muzzle of each cannon has a magic array determined after a hundred tests, to ensure that every shot can make the cannonball get magic blessing, in fact, Lelouch has always thought that it is best to use the magic cannon, and the energy crystal is used as a cannonball, but this requirement seems to be too difficult, and the current magic academy and steam city have racked their brains and have not found any possible theoretical basis。

Although it's no problem to let him explode, but the power is too small, and it is really not proportional to the cost he pays, so the current airship is still mainly loaded with enchanted artillery, and the kinetic energy of these cannons is strengthened again under the enchantment, and the kinetic energy of the stage plus the latest enchanted gunpowder, the explosion power is still not to be underestimated.

There were a total of thirty enchanted guns on the airship, and they were deployed on both sides of the bay compartment in two layers, like ocean battleships in the Age of Sails, but this time they were flying in the air, and as the guns were pushed out, it was only less than two minutes later, the first salvo showed his strong power, and the dense black smoke instantly made up for the surroundings of the airship, and with the red light of the moment of flames, the dense cannonballs flew towards their targets with a whistling sound, causing a violent explosion on the ground.

This bombing capability is terrifying, but unfortunately these bombings can only be used on the ground, what if there is an air threat? Of course, the designers of the steam city will not be so stupid to forget the threat in the air, ten dragon vulture knights appeared in the air with water guns, they simulated the local air units around the airship to start attacking, and at the top of the airship front and tail, as well as the front and rear of the most marginal position on both sides, there are six semicircular iron-clad warehouses in six positions, and there are two slender cannons stretched out in which cabin, this is an ordinary powder gun, but there are also grenades, and the rear is extremely troublesome to reload, but it can shoot a hundred rounds of super cartridges at a turn, and behind the two barrels are two cartridges, a total of two white rounds of ammunition, which was enough for them to exert no weak firepower in the air, at this time, ten dragon vulture knights appeared in the air, and the six empty cannons immediately began to counterattack.

Their strong power is naturally blessed by the magic circle, which allows them to shoot a long distance, coupled with the detonation device of the grenade itself, so that a dense black barrage of prevention and control immediately appeared around the dragon vulture knight, and at a glance, it really has the appearance of a prevention and control artillery during the First World War, but his power is too far from those artillery, it just looks like it, but such a hollow cannon is used to hit the biological air of Middle-earth without losing it, but it is more than enough to rub it.

Under the bombardment of six anti-aircraft guns, the ten Drycosphons only left a trace of black on the most insignificant positions of the airship, which was insignificant for the huge airship, while the ten Dulture Knight were a remnant of black paint, announcing their 'death'.

The bombing ability and airing ability quickly reached Lelouch's approval, so the next step is to deal with local large-scale air units or precise support operations against the enemy, this kind of combat is generally handed over to the 'carrier-based aircraft' to complete, so of course the airship also has ' The existence of the carrier-based aircraft, on the side of the huge airbag of the airship, there is a steel plate that has been raised, and there are actually a large number of dragon vulture knights in it, if you walk in, you can see that there is a relatively narrow passage behind the side of this end that leads directly to the internal activity area.

The dragon vulture knights flew out of the cabin one after another after seeing the light, and the dragon vulture under their crotch flew out one after another, they continued to maintain the rhythm and flew out, like a well-defined ladder, they just simply circled in the air and then put on two simple formations from both sides of the airship to fly forward, and in front of them soon appeared as a target of ordinary steam airships, which is the kind of round airbag with a basket hanging under it.

They are extremely inexpensive and just right for targeting.

Two groups of twenty-two driffon knights roared towards the target, and soon behind them the second batch of vulture knights were ready, and as the cabin opened again, they then leaped out, such an airship could fit no less than fifty vulture knights, which was an exaggerated load, but it was just worthy of his huge size.

In fact, those targets quickly turned into a flame in the air under the siege of the first team of dragon vulture knights, and the dragon vulture knights behind them just came over to fight a scene, the whole acting appeared orderly, the division of labor was clear, and the airship as a mothership was also a complete supply platform, and the liquefied helium technology was also developing rapidly, and when the liquefied helium appeared, then these mothership-level airships could theoretically fly in the air as long as the supplies had been replenished, and their time in the air was much higher than that of the dragon that had been the longest。

The reason why Leluch wants the airship is also because Mordor has always relied on the existence of the Wyvern to firmly occupy the height advantage, relying on the height advantage, they can almost unimpeded to observe all the situations in the entire human activity area, these Wyvern sacrifices include both Karui people and people from the Great Shaman Alliance, but whether it is the people over there, they don't take the human air power in their eyes at all, or they don't take the human flight height in their eyes, in their opinion, the real high altitude has always been the world of their flying dragons.

But now, this undoubtedly needs to be rewritten.

After watching the whole thing, Lelouch nodded with satisfaction, the design of the entire airship is very reasonable, and the firepower is outstanding. The close defense is good, the number of carrier-based aircraft is not low, although the defense capability has not been tested, but at present, there may be a flying dragon sacrifice carrying fire oil bombs that can hurt the airship, this is not afraid, Lelouch cannot only have this kind of capital ship-level airship, there will definitely be a lot of auxiliary airships, for example, the kind of air defense cannon can be completely placed on a miniaturized airship, and the volume of the airship can be greatly reduced when only the empty cannon is loaded, and the cost can be reduced, becoming an excellent auxiliary airship。

Lelouch is not worried about this, after all, the capital ships have come out, and the auxiliary frigate technology such as air defense gunboats is not difficult, and it can be mass-produced by studying it casually, and the current situation and use may only need these capital ships and air defense gunboats, and the others do not have any special needs, at most there is a special supply ship, which is specially used to store materials and provide the possibility of expeditions for the airship fleet.

"Okay, 50 million is 50 million, such combat power is worth this price, and when the magic cannons are replaced in the back, these capital ships will be able to use cannons to deal with large units in the air, and it is still a little difficult to rely on the dragon vulture knight alone. ”

Lelouch is generally very satisfied with this kind of airship, and as for Frank, who came to see it together, his eyes were already red, for fear that Lelouch would think it was too expensive to purchase this weapon, and now he saw that Lelouch seemed to be able to accept it, and almost took a sip, as the direct commander of the current aerospace forces, Frank has almost been branded by the Air Force, and the former dragon vulture knight made him understand the romance of flying, but now that he sees this huge air capital ship, Frank finally knows what he wants, he wants these airships, not one, two, but the number that can fill the sky, he wants to make the imperial airship a boundless dark cloud that obscures the sun.

"First of all, ten such capital ships, thirty first defense gunboats, two supply ships, and in addition, to develop a transport room that can be produced cheaply and mass-produced, he does not need so much space like a supply ship, but at least he can carry at least a hundred people in the air for no less than three days. ”

After Lelouch finished the last sentence, he thought about it and added:

"If you develop the last one, then I will order five hundred ships in one go, and further expand the demand in the later stage according to the situation!"

"By the way, this airship doesn't have a name yet, if you want me to see it, just call him: ..."

"Alduin!"

Alduin-class capital ships!

Lelouch was very happy with the name Alduin, there is Zeppelin in the present world, Kirov in the virtual world, and Alduin in Middle-earth!

(End of chapter)