Treants are the main attack firepower of the Brig Elven Treant Battleship, so the protection of the Treants is the top priority of the ship's defense system. The Brig Treant Battleship had a semi-open turret, the Treants were rooted in the dirt below the gun emplacement, and the trunk was protected by removable iron shields that stood tall on all sides, with which the orcs' bows and crossbows and javelins would not do them much damage.

However, the trouble caused by the presence of the protective plate is that it blocks the view of the treemen, who cannot see anything outside, and if they want to accurately drop the cannonballs at the target, they must have the assistance of the elven gunner.

"Note that the No. 1 gun position is now 3 degrees south-east to 8 degrees, the wind force is level 3, the speed of the ship is four knots, and the target is 15 degrees on the starboard side." The genie responsible for providing the data reports aloud the results of its own measurements.

The first gun position is also the bow gun position, and the gun commander immediately calculates it after getting the data.

"Target horizontally 15 degrees to starboard."

The inside of the turret guard has been prepared with various scales, and there is also a movable ruler. The elf in charge of guiding the Treant pushes the ruler down 15 degrees to starboard and opens the observation door.

"Launch angle 43 degrees, power 15." The gun commander continued to talk about the data he calculated. ＄

The wizard pushes the vernier on the ruler down at an angle of 43 degrees and gives the gunner a signal to finish.

The gunner is the spirit who directs the treeman to shoot the cannonballs, and because of the power of the treeman's throwing, the gunner must have mastered the marksmanship. They pressed their hands on the treeman, using their senses and eyes to accurately grasp the changes in the treeman's strength, and then gave the firing command at the moment closest to the gunner's throwing power, and also to ensure the angle and direction of the cannonball.

"Ready!"

The gunner pressed his hand to the tree man and gave the command.

The cannonball is 12 pounds in the cannonball, which is the best weight for the young tree planter, and the cannonball is oval, with grooves on it so that the treeman can hold on tightly and not easily loosen. One shell was removed. Another shell rolled out of the shell box, and in this way the Treant captured five shells at once.

"Accelerate!"

The cane of the Treant began to spin over the canopy to accelerate the cannonball, while adjusting the angle and force of its throw according to the gunner's instructions.

Five rattans with five cannonballs whizzing and spinning in the sky, ordinary people can't see their tracks at all, but the elf with master archery has such eyesight, he feels the power of the tree man, looks at the spinning cannonballs, and after entering the best condition, gives the order to fire.

"Launch! Launch! Divergent! Launch! Launch! ”

The tree man in the first gun position played very well this time, and his strength remained stable. With the gunner's successive firing commands, five shells flew out in a line.

Guide the elves to immediately climb to the observation port and observe the results in their eyes.

"Off, the horizontal angle is trimmed to 17 degrees on the starboard side, and the launch angle is trimmed to 45 degrees, and the power remains the same." The guide elf changed the ruler and said to the gunner, "One shot of the test shot is enough, five rounds are too wasteful, Carl you should follow the rules and save the cannonballs to save the physical strength of the treeman."

The gunner made an unambiguous gesture to the guide elf: "According to the regulations, communication between us should be through gestures. Because all kinds of noise in actual combat will cause errors in our oral communication, gestures are the fastest and most intuitive. ”

"You two don't talk nonsense, hurry up and fire the shells, the second battery has already sent out a second test firing. And it's so accurate, I don't want to type it into them and have them take away the first gun position. ”

"Okay, head!"

On the bridge of the ship No. 1. Gangzi observes the effect of the attack on the front and rear batteries through a telescope. To be honest, the current results are very unsatisfactory, and the combination of training on land with good results becomes a big failure when it reaches the bumpy sea target. Shoot accurately. There are very few shells that can hit the bull's-eye.

"We still need to conduct more artillery training at sea, maybe we can build some battery boats before the final formation of the two-masted elven treeman battleship, and conduct artillery training in a simulated sea wave environment in the lake."

Gangzi secretly thought to himself that many other nautical projects can also carry out adaptation training for rivers and lakes first.

"Okay, this time we are here to test the impact of the shelling on the hull structure, the precision shelling is still left to the future training subjects, and the high-intensity rapid-fire shelling will be carried out below, and the sailors in the cabin will pay attention to the bulkheads around you, and immediately notify the gunner to terminate the launch as soon as there is a situation, and prepare to protect the tree man from abandoning the ship."

Although the shells fired by the battery had begun to approach the target thanks to the efforts of the artillery crew, Gangzi still stopped the precision shelling, as he said, their purpose this time was to test the battleship.

With the order of Gangzi was given, the artillery group entered a state of rapid fire. The purpose of rapid-fire artillery is to suppress the fire, which does not require too good accuracy, only to throw shells vigorously into the target area.

The No. 1 ship is constantly moving, the position of the target is constantly changing, and the gun commander is constantly updating the shelling data, guiding the elf to change the ruler. After the gunner guides the tree man to the correct angle and strength, he will let the tree man play on his own, guiding the elf to constantly use gestures to inform the gunner of the deviation of the landing point, and if the deviation is too large, the gunner will re-correct the tree man.

The sailors in the cabin stared nervously at the wall of the ship, the heavy tree man itself exerted a lot of pressure on the hull, and the centrifugal force generated when the battery fired the shells would be a great burden to the hull, especially in the case of rapid fire, as the designer Gangzi could not guarantee that the hull would be intact under this twisted force.

All of the shells carried by the Brig Treant Battleship One were fired by the Treants, and this long and vigorous throwing motion was also a great drain on the strong Treants, whose leaves wilted and their branches shrivelled in a very bad condition.

After confirming the safety of the treeman's surroundings, the elves who had been prepared immediately carried buckets to water him, and the fertilizer rich in organic nutrients prepared by Gangzi was also dumped into the tree pit of the gun position.

Seeing the rapid recovery of the tree-man who was desperately absorbing water and nutrients, Gangzi gave the order to return to the sea, "The hull has not sunk is already a good start." ”

The rapid-fire artillery bombardment brought strong pressure, and finally the No. 1 ship began to enter the water, and the elves who were waiting for it urgently drained the water and repaired the hull, and finally made the No. 1 ship survive the danger without danger.

Returning to Elf Harbor, the No. 1 ship was towed into the dock for repair and reinforcement, and in Gangzi's plan, the No. 1 ship needed to undergo multiple sea tests to find more flaws. However, through today's various inspection indicators, the No. 1 ship should not be in too serious danger. Gangzi did not have time to waste time on the sea tests of the No. 1 ship. So he gave Christol the task of testing, and he began to design the two-masted elven treeman battleship based on the problems found in the test of the first ship.

"The acceleration process of the cannonballs of the elven treant battleship should be clearly stipulated that it must be rotated clockwise, so that the bottom of the turret can be constructed with directional reaction force to divide the pressure, and the centrifugal force will be distributed to the entire hull to bear it."

"The shelling ruler should be changed from a plane to a three-dimensional one, so that the angle is more intuitive."

"Using the branches of the Treant as the pillar to add a periscope for the Treant and the Gunner Elf, that is, the Gunner, so that both the Treant and the Gunner Elf are involved in the visual attack, it should increase the hit rate."

"The position of the sails should also be modified, and the turret should have a pedestal for raising and landing, so that the treants can be raised when traveling downwind, and their canopy can be used to withstand the wind to power the ship."

"Use the canopy of treants to increase power. Then the stress structure of the turret also needs to be changed again. ”

……

Gangzi locked himself in a treehouse to design the two-masted elven treeman battleship No. 2, while constantly revising the hull of No. 2 ship based on the data of ship No. 1 sent by Christol.

After Gangzi confirmed the design plan of the No. 2 ship, more than a month passed.

Throw the drawings to the Elven Shipyard, and the Elven Shipwrights immediately lay the keel for the second ship. Because of the experience of building the No. 1 ship, the construction speed of the No. 2 ship was very fast, and the main body of the No. 2 ship was completed in only two months.

One day, after inspecting the installation progress of the interior of the second ship, he was blocked by Joey and Mark.

"Lord Gangzi, is this a fast-moving battleship that can make the tree people ask the earth to move quickly?" Joey asked very politely as he bent down to Gangzi.

Without waiting for Gangzi to answer, Mark said impatiently: "This must be the battleship that the two children said." Hearing them say that the experience of sailing is really envious of us, if it wasn't for the two of us guarding the World Tree, we would have come here a long time ago. Lord Gangzi, the next time you go to sea, you must call the two of us brothers on board. What strength those two little children can have, it's up to me to throw it farther than to throw it. ”

Looking at the appearance of Mark shaking the canopy, Gangzi smiled: "Tree people need any ruler to fire cannonballs, and the firing angle of our battleship is 100 degrees on the left and right. So when you want to get on the ship, when you can check the number to 100. ”

"Ah...... I'll give it a try! 1、2、3、8、5、7、6、4……”

Ignoring Mark, who had already been knocked down by the numbers, Gangzi said to Joey, "This is indeed a battleship that can make the Tree Man move around the sea at will. However, this is only a brig, and its load and hull space are not enough to carry an adult treeman. ”

"Is that so?" Hearing Gangzi's answer, Joey's voice looked very regretful, he looked at the second ship of the two-masted elven treant battleship moored on the sea, and muttered, "How nice it would be if I met you when I was a young man!" ”

Joey Joyce is an outlier in the Treant race, and when all the Treants were accustomed to taking root and sleeping and enjoying the sun, he began to try to walk, although each time he walked on the ground, his rhizome suffered a great loss, but when he recovered from his injuries, he continued this bold and dangerous attempt, hoping to see a wider world. But he could not escape the iron laws imposed on the Treants by the gods of nature.

This time, when he knew that the two young tree planters had already made many voyages on Gangzi's battleship, he immediately pulled Mark after handing over the garrison mission and volunteered to become a tree man thrower on the gun emplacement on the second ship of the Brig Elf Tree Man battleship.

However, he did not expect his weight and volume to cut off his dream of going to a distant place, and he had to give up his dream and spend his life in vain within the scope of the world.

Feeling Joey's obvious downturn, Gangzi hurriedly said: "A brig-class sailing ship will definitely not be able to bear the weight of you and Mark, but a three-masted sailing ship can. ”

Hearing Gangzi's words, Joey's leaves turned up: "Really? ”

"Of course, the Brig Treant is just the beginning, and we need to build bigger ships, like the Flying Henan. Only a three-masted battleship is called the strongest warship in the ocean, and the firepower necessary for a three-masted battleship can only be provided by an adult tree. ”

"That's right," Joey's emotions have been mobilized by Gangzi, "as the most powerful warrior in the Treant Clan, we should board the most powerful battleship, only a battleship like the 'Flying Henan People' can carry my strong physique, may I ask Lord Gangzi, when will the construction of such a three-masted battleship begin?" ”

"Ah...... This one? The Three-masted Elven Treant is still in my head, but you can rest assured that the Brig will be finalized as soon as the Breech Treant is finalized. The Three-Mared Elven Treant Battleship is a natural thing, so you might as well participate in the simulated sea shell throwing training in Unicorn Lake in your spare time, so that when the Three-masted Elven Treant Battleship is built, we will give priority to selecting the best trained Treants to be stationed on the ship. ”

Joey said happily, "Is it the training camp in Unicorn Lake?" I know there, and now I'm going to report there with Mark, and we're going to be the best Treant Thrower and the first to be stationed on the Three-Mared Elven Treant Battleship. ”

Gangzi pointed to Mark, who was still struggling with numbers, and said, "If you want to practice the score to count to 100, it is the most basic." ”

Joey grabbed Mark and walked in the direction of Unicorn Lake: "Don't worry, I'll tell him to count to 1000." ”

Sending off Joey and Mark as two tree men, Gangzi returns to his treehouse, takes out a blank drawing, and then uses various ruler tools to draw on it. Soon a sketch of the outline appeared on the drawing, which was a concept of a three-masted battleship, the "Three-masted Elven Treant Battleship".

The Three-Mared Elven Treant Battleship was not made up by Gangzi to deceive Joey, and he did have the idea of building such a capital ship in his head. The current two-masted elven treant battleship No. 2 has entered the final stage of armament. It will be tested at sea in the near future. As his designer, Gangzi was very confident that the second ship would pass the test and become the base model of the Brig Elven Treant Battleship.

With the experience in the design and construction of the two-masted elven treeman battleship, the three-masted elven treeman battleship has a solid foundation. Based on the turret system of the two-masted Elven Treant Battleship, the design of the Three-masted Elven Treant Battleship was not a difficult task. In addition, Gangzi also needs the Elven Shipyard to have experience in producing three-masted warships. Only by understanding the manufacture of three-masted warships can the three-masted warships be transformed.

The soul of the "Flying Henan People" has been found, and the World Tree has also agreed to use its own branches as a material for transformation. It is impossible to find a better transformation material than the World Tree in the Overworld Gangzi, so the transformation of the "Flying Henan Man" must be carried out here. There is only one chance to be promoted to the Legend class, and Gangzi does not dare to hand over such an important transformation to a group of shipwrights who have no experience in building three-masted warships.

As Gangzi had predicted, the sea survey of the two-masted Elven Treant Battleship No. 2 was very successful, with almost no flaws.

Christol, who was in charge of the second ship's testing, was full of praise for the ship: "It's a great battleship, although the hull has been narrowed, but there is no gun interior space but it has increased and it is more comfortable, which is very suitable for elves to live in." My lord, your gun frame design is really wonderful, the extreme shooting in two nautical miles makes the tree man and the gunner adapt to it and can hit a very high hit rate, I like in terms of firepower, the effective damage that two tree people can play can be compared to the effective damage of fifteen 12-pound guns, and the 200-degree angle of fire of the tree man turret is also greater than that of the ship gun with a very small angle of fire, the brig elf tree man battleship can attack the enemy at any angle, this is a great battleship, I really want to be his captain. ”

"Since you want to be the captain, then the second ship will be handed over to you, give him a name." Gangzi, who was still working on the drawings, said casually after putting up with Christol's noise.

"What's it called...... Yes! My lord, you just said that you would give me the second ship? I heard you right, can you talk about it again? ”

Christol asked, surprised, a little unconvinced of his ears.

"Of course you heard it wrong."

"Ah......h

"The second ship belongs to the Elven Navy, it must not be given to you, I just appointed you as the captain of the second ship, you can't really be your warship and drive out casually."

"Hahaha," Christol laughed when he realized he had been tricked by Gangzi, "thank you so much, my lord!" I will now go to say goodbye to my father, and to my mother and Elizabeth, who may help me come up with an imposing name for my warship. ”

Christol ran out of the treehouse screaming, laughing happily all the way.

Gangzi shook his head, "Young man, you are just impetuous, and you want to get the first brig battleship back then, but you are very calm...... I want to cry, damn Liang Hong, one of my brother's brigs was shamelessly deceived by him. ”

Liang Hong, who was far away in Anne County, Applegas Islands, in the Overworld, sneezed inexplicably, he rubbed his nose and asked Casey in front of him, "What you said is too unbelievable, and I don't recommend you to make such a dangerous attempt." (To be continued.) )

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