May 3rd, 1625, 7:28pm.

Just as General Lucien commanded his flagship to attack the "Sea Palace", the communications corps sent him bad news: the Imperial cruiser "Indomitable" had just touched a mine, causing a magic crystal boiler to explode, directly tearing a huge gap in the bottom of the battleship.

The tragically disemboweled, the "Indomitable", became the first imperial main warship to sink since the outbreak of the Battle of the Golden Horn, and it quickly sank to the bottom of the sea in front of General Lucien's eyes, and countless black spots were faintly visible in the churning waves, all of which were sailors on the "Indomitable" who were forced to abandon ship and jump into the sea.

General Lucien hurriedly ordered the auxiliary lifeboats to go to the rescue, and immediately realized that it was difficult for the lifeboats lacking armor protection to get close to the center of the battlefield where the artillery was intertwined, and that the barbaric rebels in the Far East might not abide by the knightly creed on the battlefield, and might instead regard the lifeboats flying the humanitarian flag as a target for shelling that was both easy to bully and used to vent their anger. To this end, he issued a supplementary order, requiring the Imperial Navy to quickly send a squadron to the sinking sea of the "Indomitable" to rescue the struggling Imperial sailors from the air.

General Lucien thought that he had handled the incident properly, but the successive bad news caused him to sweat on his forehead and gradually lose his composure.

At 7:34 a.m., the "Dreadnought" sent a message, also claiming that it had unfortunately hit a mine, and the hull had been seriously tilted, and not only could it not hold on to the battle, but it could not even withdraw from the battlefield.

Just five minutes after the "Dreadnought" struck the mine, Doom finally found General Lucien as well, and a sudden roar came from under his feet, throwing him high and hitting his head against the ceiling, and his head was bleeding and his eyes were black. After being unconscious for an unknown amount of time, General Lucien suddenly woke up, wiped the blood covering his eyes, and saw that the bridge command hall was already a mess. He struggled to his feet, doing everything he could to quell the chaos on board, only to learn after a while that the "Charlemagne" had just hit a mine, that a huge wound had broken on the port side, that the hull had fallen into the water and tilted, and that within a few minutes of his coma, the speed had dropped to less than 10 knots.

A cold current rushed from the soles of his feet to the tips of his hair, and General Lucien almost lost his breath. In the more than 30 years he has been in the army, he has never experienced, or even heard of, such a strange thing: In an open sea area that is under his constant supervision, there are so many mines that his main warships have lost their combat effectiveness when they hit mines one after another.

The fact that a line of tethered mines could be placed in open water with high winds and rough seas was considered impossible at the time, but a succession of mine-strikes proved that this was no coincidence. General Lucien's first thought was the Far Eastern diving mechs that had sneakily wandered near the Imperial fleet before, and suspected that these diving mechs had left a large number of "drifting mines" when they were driven away, and only then were they pushed by the current into the warring seas, causing great trouble to the Imperial Navy.

However, this does not explain the fact that these mysterious mines are placed in more numbers and have a larger radius of activity, ignoring them, and specifically touching the main warships of the Empire. Otherwise, how can it be explained that the ships of the Far East, which are also fighting in these waters, have not suffered the same trouble?

Was this a stroke of luck or something else?

Countless questions sprung up in General Lucien's mind, making him feel uncontrollable fear. Even as the commander of the navy, he lost his composure, not to mention the generals and officers and men under his command, who were all in a panic.

By this time night had fallen, and the sea shrouded in night seemed deeper, more mysterious, and more dangerous than usual. The darkness of the night further deepened the fear of the entire Imperial Navy sailors aboard the Charles the Great about the unknown threat from below the surface.

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What is the mysterious weapon that inflicts fatal damage on Imperial warships one after another and turns the tide of the battlefield on the battlefield?

The answer lies beneath the warring waters. About two nautical miles behind the Imperial fleet, ten yards below the surface of the water, lurked a mecha unit, which was none other than the Second Submersible Squadron of the Far East Navy led by Viktoria himself. The mysterious weapon that inflicted heavy damage on the "Crown Prince Frank", "Indomitable", "Dreadnought" and "Charlemagne" was the huge barrel-shaped device carried by Viktoria and one hundred and four armored knights.

This kind of naval warfare weapon secretly developed by the Far Eastern military had a very awkward name at the beginning of the project -- "Far East Type 1625 inflatable self-propelled water bomb." Due to the lengthy and awkward words, the military personnel involved in the development and testing of the weapon later changed to the abbreviation named for it by His Royal Highness the Regent - "Magic Torpedo"!

The invention of the magic torpedo seems to be a fortuitous event, but in fact, there are intricate and inevitable factors behind it. As early as eight years ago, when Roland went north to visit Baiou Harbor and witnessed the "Yangbo Mecha" for the first time, Morozov, the "Father of Far Eastern Mechan Armor", who was the director of the Baiou Harbor Mecha Research Institute at the time, was exploring the weapon issue of the "Yangbo Mecha".

At that time, the design of the "Yangbo Mecha" was already very perfect, in addition to the power pickaxe and power drill used to destroy enemy ships, it was also equipped with a large saber for melee combat and a magic crystal cannon for shooting. However, during the actual combat tests, Morozov found a very serious problem: the bullets fired by the machine gun were affected by the resistance of the seawater, the range was greatly shortened, and the accuracy and lethality were far less than expected.

To solve this dilemma, Morozov racked his brains and finally came up with an expedient solution to equip the cannon with bullets cast from "pearl steel". Pearl steel is a special metal found off the coast of the North Sea, with magical supernatural properties, which allow it to make bullets or arrows that can greatly reduce the drag experienced when fired in water, thus maintaining good range and accuracy. However, pearl steel is scarce and much more expensive than ordinary steel, and the cost of making bullets from this precious metal is undoubtedly very high.

In addition to this, Morozov also took into account another problem: the caliber of the magic crystal cannon was too small, and even bullets made of expensive pearl steel could not effectively kill ironclad battleships. If the Imperial Navy is wary of the Yamabo Mecha and drops depth charges as soon as it detects that the Yamabo Mono is approaching, it will be difficult for the Yamabo Mono to get close to the enemy ship, and then it will not be able to use the power pickaxe and power drill to destroy the hull, and the situation will become very awkward.

To solve this dilemma, Morozov needed to equip the Yanbo Mecha with a more destructive weapon that could strike at enemy ships from a greater distance.

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