Chapter 720: Griffin Plague (26)
That's right, as a one-time combat ship, in order to reduce the military department's expenditure on building a blasting ship as much as possible, the sun never sets on the griffin battleship is equipped with equipment that has been eliminated from the previous thousand fire ships as much as possible, such as the paddle wheel device on the explosion ship is dismantled and reinstalled from the thousand fire ship that cannot participate in the war, and the only combat equipment on the explosion ship that is serious to ordinary people is either the old Greek fire jet device, or the product of re-piecing together the parts of the broken Greek fire jet device.
But this does not mean that the so-called explosive ship is a garbage ship, in fact, the blasting ship is in many ways the use of various excellent parts above the previous damaged Xiyi warship, resulting in its comprehensive ability to become stronger than that of the thousand fire ship after being pieced together (here it refers to the ability of the battleship alone, and does not include the sailors on the explosive ship and the combat equipment in the eyes of the world on the explosive ship), and the explosive ship is not all rags, for example, in order to make the explosive ship explode at the fastest speed in a short time, A special steam engine was also specially installed on the blasting ship.
The research and development project of the steam engine has gathered the most outstanding craftsmen in the Sunset Empire, and these craftsmen are not only the craftsmen of the Sunset Nation and the Mo Forging Clan, but also the craftsmen of other human races, and even the goblin craftsmen who surrendered to the Sunset Empire before have joined the research of the steam engine.
However, the things made by the goblins, as long as those who have known the goblin clan know that they are big, and everything developed has the characteristics of "instability", so when the goblins showed the steam device they had researched to the upper echelons of the Quartermaster Department, everyone saw a giant steam engine that was extremely large in size and extremely powerful but seemed to explode at any moment.
Obviously, this giant steam engine was a failure of the development of the Sunset Steam Device, but this failure was not destroyed. Instead, he was dragged back to the R&D center of the Quartermaster Department by the senior management of the Quartermaster Department, and was borrowed by many master craftsmen who developed steam devices: the high-level of the Quartermaster Department did this for two reasons, one is that the senior management of the Quartermaster Department of the Quartermaster Department took a fancy to the powerful power generated by this giant steam engine, and if this giant and unstable steam engine device was turned into a giant and stable steam engine device, then this giant steam engine would make a qualitative leap in the productivity of various industries in the empire; Second, in the opinion of some craftsmen, the fundamental reason why this giant steam device is in an unstable state is because it is too large, if this giant steam device is reduced. In this case, the steam device developed by the goblins will become a steam device that produces a huge amount of power and is in a stable state.
So in the final analysis, the high-level leaders of the Quartermaster Department of the Sunset Quartermaster Department all took a fancy to the strong power of this giant and unstable steam device, and in order to make this powerful steam engine become the backbone of the production industry of the Sunset Empire, the Quartermaster Department of the Sunset Quartermaster Department spent energy on researching this giant steam engine. However, the efforts of the Quartermaster Service proved to be in vain. Because the sun does not set, one party is helpless to find. If you want to make the instability of this giant steam device disappear, it is necessary to replace the steel raw materials used to make some parts of this giant steam device, and use it to maintain the full operation of the giant steam device with stronger hardness, which is obviously impossible to do with the steel materials forged by the Great Empire of the Sun (Dwarven steel can indeed reach the hardness required by the giant steam device, but unfortunately the melting point of dwarven steel is too low to withstand the blowing of hot steam for a long time). Dwarven steel is unlikely to be needed for a giant steam device), and similarly, if you want to make such a large or medium steam device, you also need a steel material that is stronger than steel. For example, alloys that are commonly used in modern times.
However, the efforts of the Quartermaster Department are not completely in vain, because although the sun does not set on this giant steam device to be miniaturized, but this giant steam device is made to a minimum: although the unstable giant steam device after the minimization will also have the possibility of explosion after a certain period of operation, but the possibility of this explosion is slow, it can be completely done by stopping the operation of this mini-talk small steam device to let it enter a stable state, of course, it can also be done by pouring cold seawater, After all, all the steam devices produced by the Great Empire at the moment are all the steam devices that were connected by iron boxes and pipes in the early days.
The difference between this miniature steam device and the ordinary steam device equipped with the Xiyi battleship is that this mini steam device has two abilities that ordinary steam devices cannot possess under the condition of instability: first, although this mini steam device is smaller than the ordinary steam device in size, its operation starting speed, that is, the time between the time when the steam device is opened and expires for full operation, is almost less than half of the time consumed by the ordinary steam device; Second, the speed of the mini steam device is several times faster than that of the ordinary steam device, of course, if it is said in professional terms, this is the so-called load operation, and this load operation will bring two effects, one is to make the blast ship move faster than the Hawker assault ship when moving forward, and the second point is that the long-term overload operation causes the mini steam device to smoke or even fire, and it is very likely to ignite the black powder accumulated on the explosive ship. Let the entire exploding ship produce an explosion.
But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that under the overload of this mini-steam device, the Xiyi Demolition Ship finally crashed into the hull of the Turtle Shell Battleship under the frightened and puzzled eyes of the griffin sailors in the Turtle Shell Battleship, and at the same time, the fire folds in the hands of the crazy Xiyi warriors on the Demolition Ship have been lit by the fire folds in the hands of those crazy Xiyi warriors on the Turtle Shell Battleship. He threw the torch in his hand at the haystack used by the demolition ship to light the black powder keg.
And then, when the brittle hull of the blast ship hit the hull of the turtle shell warship, causing cracks and shatters to appear in a large area of the hull of the blast ship, a thrust that was estimated to make the war beasts feel terrifying was also transmitted from inside the explosion ship, and the incomparably hot fireball began to spread wildly outward, swallowing all the areas where the fire ball passed. (To be continued......)