Chapter 345: Visiting the Steamship

The navy went to the shipyard to see the steel giant, stepped through the main entrance, paused in their steps, and was startled by the behemoth.

In the center of the dry dock, there is a steel bottom that is all steel, like a knife, a super large deck, and there is a steel plate shipbuilding on the ship, as well as a round iron cylinder behind the shipbuilding.

It was the chimney of a steamship, poking straight into the sky, reminding the orcs of the rows of chimneys in the industrial area, of the white and black smoke that flew high and turned diagonally.

They had imagined the whole body made of steel, but the imagination was the idea after all, and it was not as shocking as witnessing it with their own eyes.

"Good, big!"

Rhodes opened his mouth, big enough to swallow three eggs, and the oxtail behind him stood up and slapped Heinz beside him hard.

"It's amazing, it's really made of all steel!" The white-haired Heinz also wagged the cat's tail excitedly.

Captain Felton was even more excited than them, looking at the steel giant ship in front of him that was a hundred times and a thousand times bigger than him, his body trembled violently, and he was so excited that he had goosebumps all over his body, and shed hazy tears.

Behind him, orc adventurers of all races screamed, like cheerful children, discovering new big toys.

The adventurers watched for a few minutes, walked up to the boat and knocked around, the texture of the steel was strong and hard, and the sound was crisp and pleasant.

There are also people who watch the workers welding up close, and see that the steel bursts into a bubble and melts when it is touched by the welding gun.

Some orcs communicated with the painted orcs at close range, sniffed the paint barrel with their noses, and smelled a smell that they had not smelled before.

It is understood that the anti-corrosion paint is not the old version of the previous paint, but a new version, which was developed by the first chemical laboratory for steel walls.

The orcs found that everything on the steel ship was so new, and just standing on the steel deck, their body cells were active, and they wanted to sing a song about the might of Tomorrow City.

The great adventurer Felton, who is currently the captain of the First Navy of Tomorrow, turned around and found a problem, "Your Majesty Allen, this ship seems to have no sails?" ”

He wanted to say why there was no mast, knowing that the mast is the sign of a big ship, and the number of sails also proves the overall strength of the ship.

Not only was the captain confused, but the other crew members had long wanted to ask where the mast had gone, but they didn't dare to ask, they were all waiting for the captain to ask Allen.

Everyone looked at Allen in unison, they wanted to know the number of sails and the sail area of the big ship.

Alan pointed to the shipbuilding under construction, "This is a steel ship, not a wooden ship of the past, and you can't look at the emerging products with the eyes of the past." ”

"Without the sails and masts, we can look from the ship's floor, and with binoculars we can look no worse than a mast."

Allen's voice came to the ears of the orcs, and the adventurers listened to it, and they all fell silent, and nodded their heads slightly, thinking that Allen had a point.

Yes, this is a brand new ship, and you can't look at the new product with the eyes of the past.

"Steam-powered power, faster than a sail, I don't seem to see anything that can move a boat around." Captain Alton wondered.

He didn't question Allen, but he had no experience piloting a steamboat, and past experience became a limiting factor for his progress.

"Our warship uses a steam turbine to drive the propeller to generate travel power, which is much faster than the sail, and it has not yet been launched, and I don't know how fast it is, at least 25 knots (46.3 kilometers per hour)." Alan estimated.

By the way, for every nautical mile of the ship, the crew makes a knot at the lowered rope, so the "knot" is a common unit of ship speed in both Lionheart and neighboring countries.

The ship's steam engine uses a multi-stage reactionary steam turbine, with three cylinders: high, pressure, medium pressure and low pressure, which rotates the propeller to drive the whole ship to move forward rapidly, and the speed directly crushes the contemporary sail wooden ship.

The sail wooden ship of the Lionheart Country is similar to the Galen ship, and the normal speed is about nine knots (about 16.6 kilometers per hour), and the fast ship is not considered for the time being, because Alan is talking about warships here, and the clipper itself has given up a certain amount of combat power.

The captain was so shocked that his jaw closed when he heard the speed of twenty-five knots, "Lord Allen, are you really not joking, twenty-five knots per hour is more than twice as fast as a normal sailboat." ”

"I'm just saying that twenty-five is the base, but it's actually faster than you think." Alan chuckled and kept a bit of data.

Now that the steamship has not yet been built, it is difficult to determine its speed by identification, and only a vague minimum speed value is given, which is exactly the lowest value reported by Allen.

When the steel ship is officially completed, you will know how fast it will be when it is launched.

The orcs heard it faster, and their breathing became heavier.

"With this kind of divine ship in hand, what are the sea monsters afraid of?" The orcs fantasized about the steel giant ships appearing on the ocean, the cannons roaring, and the sea monsters were all repulsed.

"In the future, you will have the opportunity to sail your ships to neighboring countries, conquer the local diehards by force, free the slaves, and obtain more resources." Allen's ambitions are great, and the navy understands Allen's ambitions.

Neighbors? The ships of the neighboring countries are all wooden ships, and they can't stop a cannon in front of the steel giants!

Hiss.

The orcs gasped, Tomorrow City is really getting more and more perverted, and what country can stop it from rising now.

After the orcs were shocked, Alan selected a few people to go to the boiler room for on-site teaching.

A steamship needs all kinds of manpower, among which the orcs who burn the boiler must know how to operate and understand the principles of the machines inside, so as not to have an accident when the pressure bursts.

Alan taught carefully, and the adventurers listened attentively, and ten minutes passed in a flash.

In ten minutes, the orcs memorized the key points of boiler operation and understood the indicators of each table such as the pressure gauge.

"I'll send you an operating manual back, and I'd better take the time to memorize it."

"Yes, Your Majesty Allen!" The orc in the boiler room said seriously.

……

The steamship gave the navy a great encouragement and confidence in the upcoming expedition.

At the same time, May is coming.

The mushy rice of Tomorrow City is once again ripe and ripe, and the farmers are the busiest and happiest orcs.

Hybrid rice also ushered in the earliest ripening season of the year, and the orcs who rushed over from other towns walked to the avenue, saw the infinite golden face, smelled the fragrance of rice, and the whole person floated up.

"Is this the kingdom of the gods?" The outsider was stupid, and his mouth drooled.

Golden waves of rice stretch from the farmland to the paddy fields outside the city, and each rice plant bears full ears of rice.

And because of the high earing rate, each rice plant is top-heavy, bends down the rice waist deeply, and the low-hanging shape is like a hunchbacked old man, which makes the orcs amazed.

"It's a good harvest! Rice harvest! ”

"Agree with tomorrow!"

"Long live Your Majesty Allen!"

The sound of the harvest echoed over Tomorrow City.

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