Chapter 437: The Great Driving Array
Xiang Ningxuan smiled and said, "Oh, Your Majesty, it should be our ship." ”
Jean nodded, and said to the officer, "Don't panic, it's our ally's warship, send someone to pick them up and bring them into port." ”
A few people were chatting while waiting at the dock.
Todge curiously pointed to the fighter jets hovering in the sky and asked, "What kind of plane is that?" It's a noisy sound. ”
"That's our fighter jet, which brings a sonic boom when flying at supersonic speeds, that's this rumbling sound."
"Wow, you're saying the plane flies faster than it sounds. You made it? Todge excitedly said, "Oh my God, it looks like you're better at engineering than Nomorigan." ”
Jean also said: "Yes! I've seen the gnome helicopters on the Skyfire, and they're like toys compared to the helicopters you're riding. ”
Xiang Ningxuan didn't bother to explain to them the difference between industry and engineering on the earth.
Truth be told, Azeroth's engineering is still very well developed. For example, the Skyfire is equivalent to an air carrier.
So far, only aircraft carriers have been built on the earth, and there are no air carriers. It's not that there can't be an air carrier on the earth, but it's really that a big ship flying in the sky is just a target, and one or two missiles can shoot it down.
The biggest drawback of engineering is the production system. Engineering products are produced in a workshop, and they are completely incomparable with the large machine industry on the earth. It's just that, because of the use of some magic techniques, there are often some engineering artifacts that look amazing. It's just that these things are all handmade, the quality is unstable, and they can't be mass-produced.
And industrial products don't seem to be a big deal, but the products of the machine industry have a strict quality management system and standardized production industry, which is cheap, large-scale, excellent in quality and stable in performance.
Don't even think that engineering can build robots, and the main force of human land warfare is still tanks. In fact, it's not that humans can't build combat robots, it's mainly that sophisticated robots may not be able to beat bulky tanks.
And in shipbuilding technology, engineering can't make such big guys at all, they can only make certain modifications to ships. The Skyfire is an engineered ship, and it still looks like a normal ship, but with four engines added to allow it to fly. It looks similar to the S.H.I.E.L.D. air carrier in "The Avengers". It looks tall, but it's actually a big target, and if you're not careful, you'll be knocked down. Such a battleship can only be seen in movies and games, and whoever designs such a battleship in reality is definitely in the brain!
In the minds of the Gilneys, a battleship of two or three thousand tons is considered a large warship, so when a large missile destroyer of six or seven thousand tons appeared in the port, the scene was in chaos.
From a distance, it doesn't seem like much, but as long as they get closer, with Gilneth's warship merchant ship as a foil, people realize that the human warship in the New World is so huge.
This silvery-white giant battleship completely refreshes the three perceptions of the people of Gilneis: the all-metal body looks indestructible; It's just that such a large and heavy battleship can still drive fast; The lines of the hull are full of strength and beauty; The strange things installed on the high ship island make people unaware when they look at it; There is also the slender gun in the bow of the ship, which is N times more advanced than Gilnis's stupid black and thick cannons.
"Ahh It's really a majestic battleship, but the guns are a little less. Why don't you install a couple of larger guns? Darius Crolley asked.
"......" How did Xiang Ningxuan answer, the bow gun on the destroyer was the least powerful weapon except for the close defense system. The real weapons of mass destruction are the dozens of vertical launch systems and phased array radars on the battleship, but in the apocalyptic environment, these two most important weapons cannot be used. Instead, the bow gun became the most powerful weapon on board.
He could only flicker: "This is just a destroyer, not a battleship specializing in artillery battles, one gun is enough." Don't underestimate this cannon, it has a rate of fire ten times that of your cannon, and its power and range are far beyond your imagination. ”
"If you have a chance, you have to see and learn."
The destroyers and frigates did not dock, they went around the harbor and escorted several transport ships to the dock to unload.
The first batch of aid was just over 200 tons of food, more as a symbol. However, because the port of Gilneth City did not have the corresponding unloading equipment, it had to rely on manpower to move down, and it would take a while to unload the goods.
When those furry and powerful werewolves came on board the ship, they also aroused great interest among the officers and men of the navy.
Xiang Ningxuan didn't wait for the unloading of the goods, so he went back to the palace with Jean and the others first.
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The negotiations went smoothly, there was a big drive to suppress the array, and there was grain as bait, and Gilneth did not dare to ask for too much price; And Xiang Ningxuan also hoped that the werewolf troops would join the battle as soon as possible, and the offer was also very generous. The two sides hit it off and soon signed an employment agreement: Xiang Ningxuan would pay 50,000 tons of grain as a reward within half a year, hire 12,000 werewolf warriors in Gilneth to fight for three years, and Xiang Ningxuan would provide the loss of weapons and equipment, food, clothing, housing and transportation during the employment period.
The first vanguard army will be ready to leave early tomorrow morning, while the main army will leave the territory of Gilneth within a week.
After the military conditions were negotiated, there were political and economic negotiations. This Xiang Ningxuan was too lazy to participate, and the negotiator Sheng Yi was fully responsible for the negotiations in this regard.
Xiang Ningxuan didn't even attend the banquet in the palace, and went directly to Asha Moore Manor and found the blue dragon who was studying magic. A lot of generous conditions were promised to get Countess Asha Moore to agree to go to the Primal Chaos Laboratory.
Last time, when Xiang Ningxuan went to visit the Primal Chaos Laboratory, he saw that their slogan was "Use scientific methods to study magic, and use magic technology to promote science." ”
The "scientific method of studying magic" has been proven, and those scientists who have switched to the study of magic have made rapid progress, completing the mage apprenticeship course in just two or three months. And in Azeroth, even a magical genius like Gianna would take years. Araki admits that he has nothing left to teach, and the rest is left to the people to study on their own.
"Advancing science with magical technology" has also been widely used. The Primal Chaos Laboratory has long been exploring the application of magic technology to modern industrial products. The communication device that communicates with Sijiu City is such a product. In addition, projects such as controllable nuclear fusion, rune chips, and life engineering will also use magic technology to overcome scientific research difficulties.
It's just that although Huang Yibo and others work very hard and make rapid progress, the magic foundation is too weak, and the current magic technology is still very limited, which is not enough to provide magical support for so many scientific research projects.
Therefore, Xiang Ningxuan would dig up the blue dragon Asha Moore as the embodiment of magic at all costs.