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To tell you the truth, the Immortal Demon Lord took it for granted, the old magic guide battleships were all modified from the old soft-sailed brown-clothed battleships, and the speed was very slow, not even six knots, and the forbidden spell release platform was even slower because it was too huge, only three knots, while the new magic guide gun battleship was equipped with the latest magic energy propulsion system, and the speed reached a terrifying ten knots! Forcibly letting a bunch of slow ships sail in formation with a small group of fast ships, the result is naturally to drag the fast ones into slow ones, after all, the speed of the fleet is never determined by the fastest ships, but by the slowest ships! In the face of the Central Empire's Mediterranean Fleet, which can maintain a speed of eight knots all the time, this huge undead kingdom fleet with a speed of only three knots at the fastest speed may not even be able to find a shadow...

Utanif is very aware of this, but he is also very aware that the Undead Demon Lord has been a little mad by the continuous frustration, and if he still fights against the Undead Demon Lord at this time, even if he is right, the Undead Demon Lord will probably not spare him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Utaniv sighed secretly in his heart, nodded and said: "The living cannot be suffocated by urine, and the dead cannot be trapped by the coffin lid, Your Majesty's words are very reasonable, so do it!" ”

Seeing that Utaniv, the person in charge of the new warship, had no objections, the Undead Demon Lord did not delay any longer, and immediately issued an edict to confirm the matter.

After three days of competition, the commander of this huge avenging fleet was also decided, this person is also a lich, named Xerxes, whose past merits and achievements are comparable to that of Utaniv, who was the commander of the Expeditionary Fleet, and is also one of the favorite generals who are highly regarded by the Undead Demon Lord.

However, unlike Utaniv, this Lord Xerxes has always been a naval commander, and has never commanded an army, and the most famous battle he has commanded in his life is the naval battle that annihilated the pirate king Duncan Lew, and others like the annihilation of the Brown Imperial Navy fleet, personally beheading the Brown Imperial Navy Governor Mende or something, are just commonplace, it can be said that this person is very, oh no, it should be very awesome!

Sending Xerxes out of the horse also shows how much the Undead Demon Lord attaches importance to this battle!

It's just that Xerxes, who was assigned as the commander, was not at all satisfied with his fleet, as a veteran naval commander who had specialized in the navy for hundreds of years, how could he not see the difficulties in the mobility of his fleet? Leading this fleet to pursue the enemy fleet, Xerxes pessimistically believed that not to mention the battle, it is estimated that even the shadow of the enemy cannot be seen......

However, the king's command could not be disobeyed, and Xerxes agreed despite ten thousand reluctances.

Before the fleet departed, Utaniv approached Xerxes and advised him to put the preservation of the fleet in the first place, and not to send new battleships as much as possible to speed forward, so as not to be broken by the enemy one by one.

In fact, there is no need for Utaniv to say, Xerxes himself has a similar plan, so he agreed immediately.

In order to lure the Mediterranean fleet to take the bait, the undead kingdom once again assembled a troop transport fleet, which swaggered to the shore in the Western Continent as usual, picked up people, and then left. The Revenge Fleet is not far from this fleet twenty nautical miles away, waiting for the Mediterranean Fleet to take the bait.

The Mediterranean Fleet was used to being unscrupulous during this time, and sure enough, after receiving the news, it came to rob and kill, so the most comical scene in the history of naval warfare in this world unfolded, the Mediterranean Fleet only took five hours from the discovery of the Immortal Kingdom Troop Carrier Fleet to the complete destruction of it, and when the Revenge Fleet arrived at the battlefield, it was already eleven o'clock in the Chinese New Year's Eve, as early as three hours ago, the Mediterranean Fleet was eaten and wiped clean, swaggering away, and even the Troop Fleet was surrounded by a huge enemy fleet without noticing......

Xerxes was ridiculous and angry at this, and it was really just as he had expected, he didn't even see the shadow of the enemy!

The revenge fleet was disbanded as soon as it returned to the territory of the undead kingdom, and the undead lord who had come to his senses finally realized his mistake, and while he was ashamed, he also increased the construction of new magic guide battleships.

In the words of the Immortal Demon Lord - the navy of the world, the next time we meet, you will not want to run away again!

Not to mention how the Undead Demon Lord was ruthless in his heart, just to mention the Central Empire, Buchen was idle one day and controlled Zhizi to go to the territory of the Immortal Kingdom to investigate, and found something that shocked him - the Immortal Kingdom has recently created a new type of magic guide warship, which is actually a huge sea monster that uses a hybrid of magic energy and sails, and can reach a speed of ten knots!

This is the first time that the Central Empire has discovered a new type of warship in the Immortal Kingdom, and the direct consequence is that the construction of all sail battleships has been stopped, in order to effectively deal with the enemy's new weapons, the Imperial Equipment Department and the Imperial Military Shipyard have finally begun to build steam-powered ironclad warships!

Buchen was very concerned about this matter, and took out a lot of technical information of steam battleships in his previous life for his subordinates' reference, from the power system to the optical ranging equipment, the artillery itself, and the hydraulic control system, etc., everything is available.

At this time, with the unremitting efforts of Buchen, the industrial technology of the Central Empire had developed to the level before the first industrial revolution in the previous life, and with the addition of these black materials, experimental steamboat steam engines were soon manufactured.

Although this kind of steam engine was not practical at all because of the problems caused by the seedlings, it was not practical at all, but after a good start, the development of the steam engine was still on the fast track, and it only took two years to come out with a steam engine that could drive a 2,000-ton ironclad warship at a speed of 15 knots.

For the Central Empire, the hull construction of the ironclad battleship is not a problem at all, but the lack of the steam engine ~ power system is just a matter of time, after a major breakthrough in the steam engine, the advent of the steam ironclad ship is only a matter of time!

Another problem that hindered the development of steam ironclad ships, the development of breech guns and bump fuses also came to an end without opening the golden finger, and just like that, in August of the year 4869 of the Guangming calendar, the construction of the world's first righteous ironclad battleship began!

Because the breech artillery technology is not very mature, this battleship did not dare to use a ship gun of too large caliber, and was only equipped with four turrets with two batteries of 152 caliber, and the turret layout is very mature battleship, which is the layout of the first two and the second rear.

The diameter of the cannon is forty times the current limit, so the range of this cannon is not far, only less than nine kilometers, but even so, it is already a very perverted range for this world!

Because the enemy's warships are still using wooden shells, armor-piercing shells are not taken into account, and the ironclad ship will still use white phosphorus incendiary shells as the main shells.

In terms of armor, it reached the level of the light cruisers of World War II in the previous life, and there was 60 mm of homogeneous steel armor at the thickest part of the waterline armor belt, and the exterior was polished into a mirror state in order to effectively fight the magic guide cannon.

While the entire Imperial Navy was eagerly awaiting the advent of this warship, the war in the Mediterranean Sea had also developed to the most intense stage, although the Mediterranean Fleet had been pursuing an island strategy of avoiding reality and attacking the false in recent years, but in the case of more and more new magic cannon battleships joining the war, their speed advantage gradually ceased to exist, and in June 4869 of the Bright Calendar, the first real maritime war broke out!

Although the Mediterranean Fleet fought very bravely, under the enemy's strong firepower and speed, it still ended in hatred, and after paying the heavy price of one-third of the ship's sinking in World War II, it was lucky to escape from the battlefield by nightfall.

At this point, the sea dominance of the Mediterranean returned to the hands of the immortal kingdom.

It's just that everyone in the empire knows that this is only temporary!

In order to seize the right to control the sea in one fell swoop, Buchen allocated a one-time allocation to build 20 ironclad warships, because it was only more than 2,000 tons, and the technical problems were not big, almost the entire shipyard in the four towns of Osan received orders, regardless of whether the shipyard was a state-owned enterprise or a private enterprise.

Half a year later, in March 4870, like dumplings, twenty ironclad ships were launched and outfitted at almost the same time, shaking the entire empire!

Buchen personally attended the launching ceremony of the lead ship of this class, the Hikoshu, and personally defined the battleship as a light cruiser at the ceremony.

Also shocked by this news was the Undead Kingdom, under the death order of the Undead Demon Lord, the new level used more power magic energy to propulse, and the design work of the new magic guide battleship with enchanted steel armor immediately began.

It's just that the monarchs and ministers of the Immortal Kingdom don't know that the ministers will no longer give them a chance to give their new warships born!

In October 4870 of the Guangming calendar, just three months after the navy received the new warship, Buchen issued an order to attack the mainland of the Immortal Kingdom!