Chapter 79: The Sunfish Warship
The water leak in the early morning plucked the vocal apparatus, and again and again, on the soft couch, several Ani women fell on it drunkly, and Wen Ruomina leaned sideways and hugged the little sunfish that had just woken up. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The girl was still sleeping delicately, and after the little sunfish opened her eyelashes, she looked at the beautiful girl in her arms with a smug face.
"Go to the Seleucian military port at once. Wen Ruominna, you also have to see the world, and see what the battle equipment that I can easily get a reward of 800 gold coins looks like. In front of the closet, the little sunfish stood in front of the bronze long-legged mirror, and Wen Ruomina and the other three were dressing her in an orderly manner, this time in a crimson women's tunic and a light and timeless pendant—after all, in the military port, Agnes was reluctant to show the rebellious appearance of yesterday.
After the second hour of the morning, at the rocky hillside of the Seleucian military port, sailors with banners lined up in a grand procession, where Samuelfa and Andreev were already standing in mighty armor and looking down at the military port.
The military port of Seleucia, not far from the western part of the Acropolis, was surrounded on three sides by rocky hills and large reefs, and on the outer side a wide breakwater was built, leaving an entrance of about eighty-five anachits in the middle of the embankment, which could effectively protect against the wind and waves, and over the breakwater, on the left was a long pier with several lifting equipment, with high steps leading to the Grand Bazaar of Akum; On the right is a military dock with a dock, which contains a medium-sized shipyard with passages and separate bastions connected to the acropolis.
The little sunfish and his party passed through the Haiphong Fortress Road of the Acropolis, and Wen Ruomina looked at the towering Acropolis tower next to her with curious eyes across the battlement, "I used to live here. Agnes said ostentatiously, pointing to the top of her head.
When they walked through the independent coastal defense fortress of about 300 feet, they passed the horizontal descending steps, and went down the low stone fort in the direction of the rock mountain, Wen Ruominna saw that the stone fort was made of solid masonry on all sides, the top layer was made of wood and tiles, and several iron and copper pipes stretched out, facing the breakwater over there, what was this? I don't have time to think about it.
On the platform in front of the stone fort stood a small Corinthian-style kiosk with a red top, the same color as the canopy behind Agnes. Surrounded by sailors with flags, yellow-black rocks, and some evergreen short pines and wild olive trees, and looking further along the coast, you can still see the faint figure of a windmill tower.
When Agnes's red umbrella lid came to the pavilion, those big people really came out to greet her cordially, and it seemed that they were really on an equal footing, "He is worthy of being the imperial ink official of this kingdom." Wen Ruomina thought with admiration as she hid behind Agnes's seat.
"It's an Adigai woman." Andreev had sharp eyes and asked at the little sunfish, "How can it be next to you?" ”
"Hey..... That's right, after immediately trying to make this battle tool, His Royal Highness the Great Lord Patron also asked me to go to the Khitan Snow Workshop in the Mute River Valley, in order to try out another kind of war tool. This girl was a slave of the Ordnance Division, and was specially assigned to me during this period to take care of the living and diet. The little sunfish was a little flustered and justified himself.
"And such a good thing?" Andreev looked at the chief of the Ordnance Division in bewilderment.
And the other party always looked at the military port below with great interest, and did not pay any attention to Andreev's questions.
"It's out, it's out!" Samuelfa shouted excitedly, and everyone's attention was quickly drawn to it.
Along this rocky cliff, you can clearly see the "semi-circular area" enclosed by the breakwater of the military port.
On the slipway of the military dockyard, which was covered by pillars and sheds, a ship sailed out of the waves without passing through the slipway, and the ship almost swept out of the shed, and it looked extraordinarily tall, and Wen Ruominna, who lived in the north of the Yukxing Sea, had never seen such a ship at all - most of the Viking-style longships in the north, although they were sturdy and flexible, suitable for navigation near and far, but only single-decked, and the technology was difficult for outsiders to understand (Viking ships have always been simple but not simple, they can only be unique and cannot be passed on), Otherwise, they are the simple ships of the Slavs, but today's ships are different from them.
"This is my invention, I used to try to make small wheeled boats in the fishing village of the imperial capital, and now it is large!" Agnes under the red umbrella is full of ambition, and this is also intended to be said to show off to her new love.
The strange ship that came out of the dock below, with its bow cocked as it was traditionally, with two ram bars, about sixty feet long, and a two-story wooden building was built on the deck, which was the most unique feature, with cedar shields erected on both sides of the wooden building, and a shooting hole densely chiseled in the middle, in which thirty Maldians were operating fire arrows, crossbow arrows, and handcuff rockets, and various archery weapons protruding from the shooting holes, and the shouts were incessant—what surprised Wen Ruomina even more was that although the ship had no oars, it was moving like flying, The waves from the back of the boat rippled like a stirring, and in a blink of an eye they reached the entrance and exit of the breakwater, and then turned with great agility and rushed out.
"There's four sets of wheels in there, and there's a rotating rudder, and it's shielded by a baffle, so of course you can't see it." Agnes explained smugly, and then, feeling that both Andreev and Samuelfa were looking at her curiously, she felt that she could not get carried away too much, so she coughed lightly and turned to them, as if she had said to them.
Here, Andreev waved his hand, and several sailors held the light hoop iron pipe that Wen Ruomina was very curious about just now, grasped it in his arms with a wooden handle, and "sprayed" it into the air a few times, shooting out colorful smoke and sparks, with a terrifying loud sound.
It almost didn't intimidate Wen Ruomina.
This was the signal for the shooting drill of the car and ship, so the Maldeites in the shipyard responded in unison, and all kinds of powerful rockets were shot out of the shooting hole on one side of the floor, with smoke tracks like countless threads, flying far away before falling into the sea, stirring up thick smoke.
Then, a flying bronze clam at the bow of the ship roared angrily at the sea directly in front of it, shooting an even more powerful rocket, which continued to explode in mid-air.
Finally, there were two "water light artillery carts" with pivots on the top floor of the ship, and several Maldeites controlled the rotation angle of it, and threw the iron fire into left and right sides at the same time, and exploded more than a hundred feet away, bursting into flames on both sides of the ship.
Wen Ruomina looked stupid.
"It was a success." Samuelfa commented with satisfaction that the light vessel was simple to make, wheel-driven inside, more efficient and faster than the oars, and had guards on the outside to prevent the enemy from destroying it with a radius hook and a long sickle. In addition, there is a wooden building on the deck, and it is equipped with Khitan fire weapons, which have a more powerful range and power than traditional Roman fire weapons.
"I have to remind you that this ship can only be built so big, and it can only be used for offshore shallow sea defense warfare. Otherwise, it will be too heavy and tall, and once it encounters strong waves and winds on the sea, it will capsize very quickly. Also, it can't be allowed to fight on mud and tidal flats, so it must be used in conjunction with a light Panphelian long paddle boat to be most effective. Agnes then modestly points out the shortcomings of the Sunfish Warship. (To be continued.) )