Chapter 526: Magic and Machinery
Nan's visit caused Chen Jian this trouble, but Lianlang Jibao "Shigang was not affected too much by this, and various affairs continued in an orderly manner. Negan's situation has also become more and more favorable for the Alliance.
After Morrill showed a certain toughness, the negotiations with the Rigner pirates also made a breakthrough, and the pirate princess Katarina, who had hidden her identity to come to the city of Damokris to negotiate with the Alliance, finally made a concession and agreed to let the Rigner pirates withdraw from Negan according to the Alliance's timetable.
Katarina can't help it, what the Rigner pirates did in Negan, coupled with the alliance's fanning of the flames, makes the situation of the pirates in Negan now not optimistic, and the relocation work has made little progress because of the resistance of the Negans, and in some places there are large-scale violent rebellions under the organization of some well-intentioned people, and the situation will not be out of control at any time.
She knew that these must be the result of the alliance's secret operation, but she couldn't think about it, and at the same time, she didn't want to anger Chen Jian too much at this last moment, causing all her previous efforts to be in vain, so she had no choice but to give in.
So one autumn morning, the Rigner pirates, who had been in Negan's martial arts, began to withdraw from the many areas they had worked so hard to conquer, assembled towards the coast, and then left Negan by boat.
And before they left, the Alliance army took over a large area abandoned by the pirates on the back foot, and in the eyes of the uninformed, this situation naturally became a situation in which the Alliance army pressed the territory and the Ragner pirates fled.
As a result, the Alliance's momentum in Negan has risen again In a very short period of time, the four major lords of Negan have gone three out of four under the offensive of the Alliance. The rest was also in danger, and the menacing Rigner pirates retreated without a fight in front of the Alliance Army, such a brilliant record, even the Dragon Queen of the year, could not do it.
In addition, Chen Jian's style is completely different from that of the Dragon Queen back then, and everywhere the alliance army passes, it has brought good news and benevolence to the Negan people, and the Negan people have a good impression of the alliance and Chen Jian
Under such circumstances, more and more Negan lords gave up their stubborn resistance and began to surrender to the alliance like Jedter, but the last Negan lord Shilika seemed to be determined to resist to the end, and was still making the last struggle, he vigorously quelled the rebellions in his territory one after another, and at the same time contacted a group of Negan lords who thought the same as him, and finally formed a fairly stable alliance after several efforts, and actively strengthened the defense lines in various places, Prepare to fight to the death with the Alliance Army and Manerla, who is cooperating with the Alliance Army to flank him underground.
However, to the dismay of Helika and the Negan Lords, who were ready to resist, after taking over all of the Rigner pirates' territory, the Coalition Army did not launch a full-scale attack on Negan's Territory as they had imagined, but only deployed heavy forces in some strategic points.
Chen Jian thought very clearly, in the current situation, as long as it takes some time, Helika and they will be in chaos without a fight, and they can submit to the enemy's troops without a fight, of course Chen Jian does not want to fight, because fighting costs money and kills, and it costs a lot of money to dispatch the army. The underground terrain is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the loss of forcibly attacking the Alliance Army is definitely not enough, and the expansion of the Alliance Army is too fast, and he needs time to reintegrate the Alliance Army.
Therefore, Jian Chen made up his mind to drag the other party to death, if the other party couldn't help but take the initiative to attack. That's not bad, at least it can offset the advantage of the opponent's terrain, and he can strike backwards.
Although Lord Negan also knew about Jian Chen's intentions, there was nothing he could do. Because Chen Jian used Yang Mou at all this time, the Negan lords would not be dragged to death if they insisted on it, and they took the initiative to attack on two fronts and had no chance of winning, and they were almost angry and wanted to vomit blood.
At this time, Morriel persuaded Jian Chen, and then led an elite small army composed of black dragons, red dragons, Archdemon Kerrigan, and archangel warriors into Bairders and set out to find the location of the crystal dragon.
The exchange of technology with the Rigner pirates also took place in the city of Damocles at the same time, and the carefully modified aerial warships of the little Hesfa and Dominic were transported here and protected by the alliance forces, and then Katarina entered with a team of Rigner pirate technicians that she had carefully selected.
According to the agreement between the two parties, the pirate technicians will learn the method of piloting the air warship from the personnel sent by the alliance in the air battleship, as well as the key techniques of the air warship, on the other hand, in a certain sea area near the Solo Peninsula, a team of magicians sent by the alliance also arrived there at the same time, using the simple laboratory built by the pirates on the ship, to learn the art of making magic power from the alchemists sent by the pirates.
Once both sides confirmed that they had mastered each other's skills, Catarina was able to leave in the air warship, and the Alliance mages returned, and finally the Rigna pirates ceded the waters south of Erathia to the Alliance. Xiao Lici's cooperation is secret. Shuang'an is not willing to make the crying public, and no one wants other forces to know that they have more and stronger technology.
For the time being, the two sides did not immediately discover the various tricks that the other party had done in this technology exchange, and the magicians of the alliance were inexplicably excited about the opportunity to learn the production of magic techniques, and there was not much research on alchemy, so they did not realize that the technology provided by the pirates was actually quite primitive and backward; The same is true of the Rigna pirates, the gorgeous and majestic appearance of the battleship in the sky is very confusing to them, and the fact that such a large battleship flies in the sky beyond their imagination has deeply shocked them, which directly leads them to have no doubts about the various mechanical devices that are cumbersome to the extraordinary degree of operation of this modified battleship, because they think that such an amazing masterpiece, of course, will be a little more complicated to operate, if it is simple, it will be a strange thing.
Even Katarina, after seeing it, felt that she seemed to be wrong to blame Jian Chen, and lived Chen Jian's belly as a gentleman with the heart of a villain, the other party was actually quite sincere in cooperation, and did not have any reservations about herself in the technology of the air battleship.
The halfling technicians carefully selected by the alliance are also very smart, and they don't talk about the details of the air battleship's inability to adjust the height, but keep emphasizing to the pirate technicians how important the buoyancy seal is to keep the air battleship flying, and at the same time, although they secretly laughed through their bellies, they all taught the pirates to use the complex devices they designed purely on the premise of operational difficulties and extreme practicality.
The biggest prank ever played on the continent of Erathia made it a thrill for the pirates to sail the air warship back to the Rigna Islands. There are many problems, and it directly leads to the fact that the air warships imitated by the pirates later are all clumsy and slow, not to mention the new air warships that surpass the alliance in performance, and even the air warships made by Bracada are much more advanced than them.
But this is all for later, Chen Jian received another good news at this time, with the cooperation of the Second Fleet, Tren tested Chen Jian's idea on a newly launched catamaran in the Evermont Islands and achieved success.
In this catamaran that huge. Covered with a thick layer of earth-inlaid deck, Tren successfully set up a magic seal, and then the catamaran sailed out of dock and sailed out to the open sea, after which Tren successfully used a one-way portal built on an island to teleport a small army of three hundred men to the warship anchored in the open sea, away from the original position quite away.
The perfect success of the experiment made the alliance magicians who participated in the research excited, and after proving that Jian Chen's idea was feasible, the second test began to be prepared in full swing, so the shipyard on the Solo Peninsula The unfinished catamaran warships received great attention from everyone, and the magicians led by Tren and Sylvia, who discovered the great significance, began to appear in the shipyard from time to time, and Sylvia even asked for an order from Jian Chen to personally supervise the production progress of the catamaran battleship.
The magician and the alliance technicians such as Little Hesfa also cooperated, and began to discuss how the magic portal could be built steadily on the ship, and minimize the impact that might be caused by the magic portal during the voyage, after the continuation of the sea dragon battleship, magic and machinery cooperated again, and the magicians and technicians got together in a heated discussion, research, and from time to time collided with sparks of inspiration, the magicians discovered that the original machinery is as complex and profound as magic, and the technicians also discovered that magic can be applied to machinery, There is such a huge plasticity.
No one realizes that a revolutionary change is taking place as a result, and no one realizes how significant the collaboration they begin today will have for future generations.
Soon after, a new blueprint for a fusion of magic and mechanics was created, and a catamaran with the highest level of completion was selected for experimentation. It was remodeled according to the needs of the blueprints, and under Sylvia's supervision, the shipyard worked overtime to catch up.
A few days later, a catamaran carrying the high hopes of everyone was completed and launched in the shipyard on the Solo Peninsula.
Escorted by the First Fleet, the catamaran sailed out to sea with mages such as Tren and technicians such as Little Hesfar.
"A new era is about to begin!" Sylvia watched Tren and Little Hesfa standing on the deck discussing something, and sighed a little, "I'm really lucky, I was born in such a big era that is full of surprises!" ”
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