Naval warfare in conventional mode has a clear set of standard routines, relying on artillery for long-range combat and relying on fire for medium and short ranges. Guns and crossbows, and finally boarding the boat and jumping the gang are the real knives. Hand-to-hand combat with guns.

Under actual combat conditions, the chances of a white-knuckle battle between the navy and the navy are very small, and even if they do, they mostly use short weapons. Long-pole weapons such as spears and tomahawks, which were commonly used in the army, and heavy armor-piercing weapons such as chains and maces, were too cumbersome and cumbersome in naval warfare to easily stumble over the sail rope system.

Although the current situation is slightly different, for example, Luo Zhengdao's imitation of the old-world weaponry can fire fifteen rounds in one minute. Guns and pump-action shotguns with a faster rate of fire roughly equaled the level of individual equipment before the outbreak of World War I, but to say that out of the range of naval guns, the mere act of queuing to shoot rarely bulldozed the Second Goblin Empire and crushed millions of troops, including the large number of air cavalry they possessed, was still out of touch with reality, and pirates who were absolutely inferior in all aspects would inevitably suffer a big loss. It is conceivable that if you continue to develop according to the conventional route, there is no hope of defeating the army of millions of goblins in the short term, and this matter can be thought through with your knees.

Fighting a war on the main continent is not as simple as fighting a naval battle with a goblin, where you can bully goblins as much as you can on the surface of the sea. When it comes to down-to-earth, the goblin army is worthy of the name of the strongest army in the New World, and it is likely that there is no one, and the strength of the two sides will have to be reestimated.

In the two Dongning offensive and defensive battles, the human army could only defeat the goblin army by relying on the superiority of sea and air forces, and the results were limited to defeating and repelling the enemy, not to mention any great victories. If Luo Zhengdao really pulled his army to the inland area of the main continent, which was neither near the sea nor along the rivers and lakes, and fought with the goblins again, the consequences were estimated to be more than lucky.

Faced with an uncertain future, Luo Zhengdao, who can't play any new tricks, can only turn to the black technology manifestation, similar to this dilemma, naturally he has to win by surprise, and the black technology beyond ordinary people's thinking has become a lifeline for him.

Electromagnetic railgun! This thing rests in the old world, and it is also a very high-end and high-grade next-generation weapon, a super-dominating bald eagle has to be celebrated with great fanfare when it installs an electromagnetic catapult on the aircraft carrier Ford, and the launch of the new destroyer with an electromagnetic cannon also has to be publicized in a big book. Considering the difficulties in all aspects, the possibility of a fully practical electromagnetic gun appearing in the first half of the 21st century is not high, and the usable but unreliable weapons are very painful. However, borrowing along this line of thought in the new world, it is much less difficult to implement than in the old world, because there is magic here!

Isn't there such a classic line in Xu Laowei's martial arts movie that says, you have a cannon, do I have magic skills? The developers of the New World are more constrained by the level of thinking and consciousness than by the insurmountable practical obstacles in technology.

Of course, Luo Zhengdao is not so naïve as a foot pot chicken, he fantasizes all day long about relying on one or two decisive battle weapons to fight the world, no matter how powerful the weapon is, it is also a tool, and it is the user of the tool who really determines the outcome of the victory.

The primary goal of developing a hack weapon is to scare the goblins, and if your opponent knows that you have the power to make him pay a terrible price, he will not hesitate to shrink when he thinks about going to war with you. Friction and armed conflict in various regions, religious contradictions, ethnicity. The fact that the Third World War in the old world was still delayed more than half a century after the end of World War II is undoubtedly due to the fact that mushroom bombs have shocked the world and made outstanding contributions to the maintenance of world peace.

Who would want to fight a war with no winners? Maybe the pessimistic and misanthropic cultists who are determined to commit suicide will, but the nuclear button is not in their hands. Those who control the nuclear weapons are living a very nourishing life, they are in a happy mood and live happily, they do not have any self-destructive misanthropic tendencies, in this case, the imaginary World War III can only be a legend.

Putting aside whether the old and new worlds can copy the experience, as an ordinary military fan, Luo Zhengdao's knowledge reserve must be limited, and he can't build nuclear weapons. Even if he put the mountain of uranium ore in front of him, he didn't recognize what it was, and he thought it was a pile of rotten stones!

The idea of developing a nuclear bomb in the new world is a bit unreliable, which means that Luo Zhengdao can only consider other projects to fight for peace and take advantage of his brains, and he ordered a series of top-secret research projects shortly after the recovery of Qiongzhou. From the steam engine codenamed Project 1, to the improved microbial production of saltpeter by Project 6, and the extended sub-project of making maroon gunpowder, there are other research topics after the double digits, and there are many crazy projects that will be regarded as crazy by the public. This is also a helpless thing, the country's overall strength is insufficient can only be made up for by ingenuity, no matter how strange or unbelievable the research project, as long as there are predictable good prospects, then it can be funded.

With the idea of planting widely and reaping the harvest slightly, Luo Zhengdao was not afraid of what those engineers and naturalists would come up with, as long as a few of these projects could succeed, it would be cost-effective for all the others to fail.

It is said that in the old world, a boss who was interested in network technology went to the talent market, and when he faced the programmer ape who came to apply, he said confidently: "Lao Tzu has a belly of inspiration, and now he is short of a few programmers." ”

The above example is used to make people laugh and cry, just to prove that many things are easier for laymen to think than for insiders, and can even be called naïve, and when others agitate, or even without agitation, they inflate themselves to a hilarious level. As a non-famous bald comedian said, everyone can speak, why should I pay to listen to you? If you can't think about the most basic questions, you won't need to study other problems because you're stupid.

Copying the development of the old world's tech tree route, these strange research projects are not promising in the future, and their success must rely on cooperation with the alchemy and arcane systems of the new world, and this grafting process is also full of uncertainties.

For example, the creation of an electromagnet that can drive an electromagnetic cannon is enough for a relatively wealthy country to scratch its head, and this project involves many disciplines such as materials science and electromagnetism, and it is not enough to know how to succeed, and the problems involved behind it are even more difficult than directly answering the questions. Just as people have heard the rhetoric "Give me a fulcrum, and I can pry the earth", in fact, it is far more difficult to make this strange fulcrum that can withstand the mass of the planet and that stick of the same incredible length than it is to pry the earth itself.

Walking in the empty test site with the project leader, Luo Zhengdao asked seemingly casually at this time:

"Are you sure?"

He has witnessed too many failures with his own eyes, and no matter how bold the project leader is, he will not dare to say anything full, and immediately replied in a low-key manner:

"Your Majesty, we have improved the equipment according to your requirements, and the preparations have been completed, and we hope that this test will be successful."

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao, who is very familiar with paperwork, of course understands that this is looking for an excuse for failure in advance, but fortunately, he doesn't care how many failures he experiences, and those who can't accept failure are too fragile and don't deserve the joy of success at all. At this time, Luo Zhengdao smiled indifferently, turned around and greeted the people who were traveling with him, and said:

"Well, I hope so, let's sit down!"

The weapons test site is located on a wasteland in the interior of Qiongzhou, and from a high vantage point overlooking the area, there is hardly much vegetation to be seen, only large patches of bare brownish-red soil that indicate the horrific violence that the area has suffered. The empty shooting range in this area has been used to test many practical and impractical new weapons and equipment, such as today's test, which was not very optimistic in advance. Although Luo Zhengdao has never made a public statement, his subordinates all know that R&D projects numbered above double digits are all weird things that are boundless, far less reliable than single-digit projects. For these wonders, it is reasonable to encounter failure, and success is called surprising.

Although everyone knows that it is unreliable, His Majesty's order must still be resolutely carried out, and the electromagnetic cannon, or magnetic railgun, which has undergone the latest revision of the design drawing, was unloaded by a group of technicians and assembled on the spot.

It was conceivable that five load-carrying four-wheeled carriages were used to carry the detachable parts of this huge weapon, and the bulkiness was one of the drawbacks that had to be tolerated, given that simply reducing the size would only increase the difficulty and cost of manufacturing the parts unnecessarily.

Seeing this strangely shaped cannon assembled, its huge volume like an iron giant poked into the open space and felt oppressive, covering an area not inferior to a small apartment. Compared with this all-metal warhead that can fire 1,000 pounds and has a theoretical range of more than 500 miles, the original cannons of the New World are scum! The only premise is that it works as expected, and if the answer is no, all the advantages mentioned above are in vain.

"Your Majesty, is the presentation ready to begin?"

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao looked at the cannon, or the magnetic catapult platform, nodded cautiously and said:

"Well, let's start charging!"

The plane structure of the new world is undoubtedly more suitable for the application of long-range weapons such as electromagnetic guns than the earth of the old world, and without the nasty thing of the earth surface to interfere with aiming and shooting, all targets within the gunner's field of vision are objects that can be hit, basically speaking, the eyes can see and can hit. If this weapon of mass destruction were to be fired on a high mountain, the range of the shells would also be doubled, and the argument that a single cannon would erode dozens of miles would not be a literary exaggeration and rhetorical device of an ignorant literati.

"Charge complete!"

The signal soldier on the rostrum interpreted the flag from afar, he turned around and shouted loudly, Luo Zhengdao waved his hand calmly, and said:

"Order everyone to retreat to safety and activate the timer."