Chapter Seventy-Four: The Far East

Gangzi's main purpose in coming to the Emerald World this time is to dig people up, and the druids, a race with strong melee ability, must have taken some away, but Rasf's identity is too special, and he was afraid that he would not obey discipline in the future, so he deliberately suppressed his arrogance, so that he knew who had the final say on the "Flying Henan People".

Now Lasf really doesn't have the momentum of "I join you to see you" when he first came, and he began to follow Gangzi step by step to faithfully complete his role as a guard.

However, Gangzi was not satisfied with a druid, he asked Lass to select 50 powerful druids from the druid race to become a member of the "Flying Henan", and form a "beast attack group", which was responsible for the broadside battles and land battles that might occur in the future. As the leader of the druids, it is not difficult to pick 50 druids with strong combat ability.

The war between the elven kingdom and the orc kingdom has also gradually come to an end in the nearly year's fighting, and the elves who control the sea area can land on the coast of the orc kingdom anytime and anywhere to attack their weakly defended areas. After the loss of 70,000 orc soldiers, the orc kingdom was a heavy blow to the national strength, and in addition, to maintain the orc's rule over the various grassland races, the army was already tight. They had begun to be gradually expelled from the coastal lands by the elven army, and even the Orcs had to move their capital to avoid the bombardment of the elven fleet.

In the battle on land, the elven army joined by the druid attacked the forest and advanced the battle line ten miles outside the forest to prevent the enemy from destroying the elven forest in the future.

The Orcs were defeated by the elves in front of them, and rebellions broke out in the rear, and those races that had been enslaved by the Orcs took up their weapons to resist the tyranny of the Orc Kingdom. In particular, the orc kingdom was forced to move the capital by the elves, which revealed the fatigue of the orcs, so the minotaurs, jackals, and lizardmen all established their own kingdoms. The reign of the orcs is shaky.

Finally, the Orc Kingdom, under the pressure of being embattled, sent a letter of peace to the Elven Kingdom.

At this time, Gangzi also clapped his hands to complete the transformation design drawings of the "Flying Henan People".

Since the World Tree is willing to provide its own branches as materials for the transformation of the "Flying Henan People", Gangzi is even more bold in this transformation.

re-laying of watertight compartments below the waterline; The original two-story artillery deck was increased to three. In this way, the number of side guns was increased to 60, and the amount of firepower was greatly increased.

In addition, Gangzi promised that Joy Joyce and Mark Brooke would board the "Flying Henanese". Then the gun emplacements needed by the Treants must also be increased. The bow and stern of the ship needed to be extended outward, so Gangzi changed the structure of the stern building and the weight matching of the hull according to the design of the "Jungle Corner", and simply integrated the front and rear gun emplacements into the hull of the "Flying Henan".

Due to the addition of a deck to the "Flying Henan", its hull is even taller, and when the elevator is lowered to the lower end of the gun emplacement, the canopy of the treemen will all enter the lower deck of the hull. Gangzi's design is based on the more intense naval battles on the main map, unlike the orc javelin. The artillery attack will cause a lot of damage to the Treants, and the losses of the Treants are irreplaceable, so the two Treants will be closely protected in case of crisis.

In Gangzi's pen drawings, the "Flying Henan People" has changed a lot, the water building is higher, and the hull has become longer, which corresponds to the increase in weight, and those need a power system that can be called "Flying Henan People" to run. Gangzi originally tended to replace soft sails with hard sails, but soft sails are the symbol of Western sailing ships, and hard sails are a new type of oriental sail mode with the emergence of Gangzi series of hard sail warships. Gangzi was not sure whether this cross-system transformation would have an impact on the promotion of the "Flying Henan People", so he continued to retain its original power system and increased its height.

Of course, Gangzi also has its own unique transformation of the power system of the "Flying Henan People". With the addition of the aft deck, he shifted the center mainsail and the rear mainsail backwards in terms of counterweight, so that the center mainsail was separated from the foresail, and then he erected a sub-mast on each side of the center of the two mainsails near the side of the ship, equipped with rigid sails. The rigid sail has very good maneuverability, its sail surface is spread out on the mast, and the whole can be offset outboard, and the sail surface above the deck is very small, and most of the sail surface is spread outboard.

That's the case. Two stiff sails are raised by adjusting its stress surfaces. Not only can they withstand the wind themselves, but they can also redirect the wind and make it all work on the foresail. Sea voyages. Two Treants can be raised to the upper deck when the wind is downwind, and the Flying Henan Man will have the equivalent of 7 sails to power it; And when the wind is headwind, put down the tree man, and the adjustment with two hard sails can also be called the "flying Henan man" to drive a good speed.

After repeated calculations and considerations by Gangzi, it was true that there were no omissions in the transformation drawings of the "Flying Henan People", and the "Flying Henan People" was driven into the Elf Shipyard, and the superstructure and hull deck were all stripped away, leaving only the skeleton.

Since the wood is used for the transformation of wood, the branches of the World Tree are agreed between Gangzi and the World Tree. His request to collect suitable wood from the World Tree was approved by the Elven Council and the Treant Council. Thick branches of the World Tree were sawn down by the climbing druids and transported to the docks of the Elven Shipyard.

The construction of the three three-masted elven treemen battleships has been called the elven shipyard has a certain amount of experience in the construction of three-masted battleships, and the branches of the world tree are extremely affinity for the forces of nature, and the elves can cut and shape them at will to change its arc. The dwarves were also requisitioned into the Elven Shipyard by Gangzi in order to craft Liuding and various iron parts for shipbuilding at any time. There were also a large number of tree men who came to help, among which Joey and Mark were the most active, and the two of them lived directly next to the "Flying Henan People", specializing in the handling of materials and tools.

With the collaboration of elves, dwarves, druids, and treants, the new "Flying Henanese" quickly took shape.

In addition to staring at the short-range construction of warships every day, Gangzi also launched his own human trafficking plan.

Although the "Flying Henan" is still under construction, in Gangzi's design drawings, the cabin of the "Flying Henan" can accommodate up to 500 sailors, and if you add the cargo hold and ammunition compartment, you can take more spirits with you. It's just that this would make the hull space too crowded. When sailing at sea, the squeezed space is not a good thing for passengers.

The number of crew members is located at 500, of which the Black Sail Sailor occupies 20 places. Rasf's druids took up 50 places, leaving 430. Gangzi is ready to recruit all of them into elves. In this case, it is assigned to various shipyards for rib processing; the cultivation of firewood in the islands of Jihuo and the Applegas Islands; The repair of the capital ship should be barely enough, and by the way, two warships under the command of the elves will be assigned to Bucknar and Kristol.

In this way, 430 elves are still a bit tight, but the "Flying Henan People" can hold so much, so try to be as careful as possible.

The return of the morning glory elves after their travels has brought earth-shaking changes to the elven kingdom. This ocean has been incorporated into the territory of the Elven Kingdom. So this time, when Gangzi proposed to take more elves away, the elf king happily unified his request.

"The elves who go with the 'Flying Henan' this time are better to be a whole family, I have a very large closed archipelago territory, and they can build an elven village there, so that they don't have to go through the pain of parting and waiting."

"You're right, you've been gone for more than 20 years, it's been too long."

"I want to recruit a few elven magicians in the Elven Magic Association and set up an elven magic branch in my territory."

"You mean the little tricks invented by the young elves? They did come up with a few very interesting and useful spells, but trying to blow the enemy down with the wind was far less quick than with a bow and arrow. If anyone wants to go with you, I don't have any problems here. ”

"And Rasph is leaving with me this time, as you must know."

The Elven King let out a sigh: "Although it is the Elves who know that something is wrong. But it is indeed the best option for the elven kingdom to leave for a while, and when he comes to lead the druids again next time, the elves and druids will definitely be like brothers. ”

With the support of the elf king, Gangzi's recruitment of elves is very smooth, and there are elves who like to stick to the rules and settle for the status quo, and there are also elves who like to take risks and have the courage to explore. So the 430 elves requested by Gangzi were quickly recruited and handed over to the morning glory elves for sailing training.

And the new "Flying Henan People" finally showed its proper appearance after half a year of construction and outfitting.

The total length of the ship is 55 meters, and the total length of the front and rear spinnakers reaches 80 meters; The three-tier artillery deck has sixty gun emplacements and two other treant batteries. Moved in by the ancient tree planters Joy Joyce and Mark Brooke, the overall artillery delivery capacity was equivalent to that of a British second-class warship with 80 guns.

The livery of the new "Flying Henan" also adheres to the usual style of elven warships. Exquisite. On the walls of the ship, the elves depict Gangzi's contribution to the elven kingdom in the form of a mural: a group of canoes broken by a chain of boats. The bow gun of the "Flying Henan" fired a salvo, the water column splashed, and the boats shattered; the Elven King City under the shroud of the World Tree; Unicorn Lake's Treant Thrower Boot Camp; "Horn of the Jungle"; the fourth naval battle between the elves and the orcs; Elves, Treants, and Druids under the World Tree. Other places, including the galley and cargo hold, became a place for the elves to show off their talents.

And Gangzi is more concerned about whether the soul of the "Flying Henan People" has been stimulated. However, when he landed on the bridge, he was not prompted.

Alas...... The rules of the two worlds are different, and there is no such thing as attribute in the Emerald World, but I can still feel that the "Flying Henan People" is different from before, and there is a force flowing throughout the hull, which is the same feeling as in the Black Pearl. It is certain that the transformation of the "Flying Henan People" is very successful, otherwise I am sorry for the World Tree, which is a unique and highly matched ship building material of the "Flying Henan People", but the specific attributes of the soul of the "Flying Henan People" can only be viewed when you return to the main map.

I'm really looking forward to it.

However, because it was built by hand, the "Flying Henan" also needed more responsible and repeated sea surveys to determine that it had the ability to sail and fight.

The "Flying Henan People" entered the sea survey stage, and its successful transformation also aroused Gangzi's greater ambition - a giant treasure ship.

The Giant Treasure Ship belongs to the first-class warship, and for the Elven Shipyard that can carry out the transformation of the second-class warship, they should, maybe, and probably be competent for the construction of the giant treasure ship. Anyway, building a battleship by hand here does not consume blueprints. So Gangzi spent three months hand-drawing a set of drawings of the details of the giant treasure ship in his hand and handed them to the Elven Shipyard.

Participating in the transformation of a huge warship like the "Flying Henan People" has made the elf shipwrights like a dream, but they didn't expect Gangzi to come up with a bigger one, and it is not a transformation. From the initial laying of the keel to the final handing over of the ship to the elf shipyard, the elf shipwrights were all excited. "This will be a great ship, and we ask Admiral Gangzi to allow us to build both at the same time, one will be delivered to the Admiral when it is completed, and the other will be dedicated to our king."

Two ships built together? I didn't expect the elf boatmen to be more ambitious than my brother, yes!

So the elf shipyard was even more excited to devote itself to the construction of a giant treasure ship after the excitement of building the "Flying Henan People" had not passed.

It's just that the giant treasure ship was built from scratch, and the elven shipwrights were very cautious, and the construction speed was much slower. After Gangzi resided in the Emerald World for four years, the frame of the giant treasure ship had not yet been built. However, Gangzi could not wait for the completion of the giant treasure ship in the Emerald World, because the Hangzhou fleet of the ASEAN Association was about to lose its control of the Pacific Ocean.

In the Pacific War, the purpose of the ASEAN Association was the same as Gangzi's original proposal, to give up the South Pacific, which did not have much oil and water, firmly occupy the western half of the North Pacific, and control the theater of operations in the eastern half of the North Pacific. ”

In the place of battle. The war situation did develop according to the idea of the ASEAN, and the partial divisions led by the Black Pearl continued to appear in the coastal waters of Australia and the Americas, and none of the Western independence member organizations dared to send their own fleets to support the Seattle fleet. Therefore, the Seattle fleet is not much stronger than the Hangzhou fleet in terms of overall strength. In addition, the captains of the Hangzhou fleet are all old fritters who are used to naval battles with Han players as the main body, and the level of naval warfare is much higher than that of the captains of the Seattle fleet, who have not experienced a big war. Therefore, even though the Seattle fleet had the legendary battleship "The Flying Dutchman", it did not take much advantage of the Pacific War.

The Pacific Ocean was too big, and the stealthy "Flying Dutchman" was slow, and the Hangzhou fleet could calmly avoid the waters it affected and attack the leaks of the Seattle fleet.

Admiral Hugh Hobert, who did not dare to expose the "Flying Dutchman" to the sea at will in the war zone, could only drive the "Flying Dutchman" slowly, and at the same time urged his senior ship designer to quickly produce drawings of three-masted merchant ships and renovate more three-masted warships to expand his fleet.

And just two months after the stalemate between the two sides. The situation in the entire Asian sea changed abruptly, and Hugh Hobert saw the best opportunity to defeat the Hangzhou fleet.

Why was the Hangzhou fleet able to control the theater of operations in the waters on the side of the United States? It is because of the existence of Albatross Island. Albatross Island is different from a territory in that it is a fiefdom in the event of an attack from outside. It will attract a counterattack from the Han Navy, not to mention that Albatross Island itself is stationed with warships from the Han Qingzhou. Although there are only three three-masted warships, behind it are the Qingzhou Navy and even the Dahan Navy, and the Seattle fleet does not yet have the capital to fight with the navy of the same country.

The Hangzhou fleet of the Association took advantage of this, rooted the main force of the fleet near Albatross Island, and constantly sent a small fleet to infiltrate the eastern Pacific to break the battle with the Seattle fleet. If Hugh Hobert dares to use the Seattle fleet to encircle and suppress, the Hangzhou fleet will move forward as a whole and pull the Seattle fleet back.

Therefore, the battle in the Pacific Ocean has not occurred so far without a decisive battle of the capital ship group, and it has always been a small-scale melee with the brig-class warships as the main body, and this kind of battle has a great advantage over the Jimo fleet equipped with the Han five-class battleship, coupled with the skillful formation switching and cooperation of the Jimo fleet, in the battle in the Pacific, the ships of Xidu will basically retreat immediately when they see the hard sail battleships under the banner of the Jimo fleet.

In the Pacific War, the Han players were responsible for the offense, and other national organizations were responsible for the defense, and under the dispatch of the Hangzhou ASEAN Military and Political Command Center, the form was very favorable to the ASEAN. However, all these advantages were nullified by the appearance of a fleet.

In the "rise of the nation", Britain, which is recognized as the number one power on the sea, announced the establishment of the Far East Fleet, and the first fleet has arrived in Luzon, the Philippines, with a total of 10 second-class warships, 30 third-class warships, 70 fourth-class warships, and 500 other auxiliary warships and ships. The second fleet, which has also sailed out of the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean, is headed for the Philippines, which is the flagship of the British Far East Fleet

Led by the "King of the Seas", there was a fleet of three second-class warships, five third-class warships, and a large number of transport ships and auxiliary vessels. (To be continued)

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