Maybe it was a deliberate show-off, or maybe it was an unintentional move, after Lorraine and the naval officers of the Elven Kingdom sat down, the war fortress did not fly directly towards the mothership, but rose sharply, rising to a height of a full three hundred meters, and then stopped.

Before he could fully recover from the oppression of the rapid ascension, Parno, the deputy commander of the Elven Kingdom's naval fleet, looked down through the narrow window of the war fortress, and just glanced at it, and couldn't help but hold his breath for a moment.

I saw that above the vast sea, the warships were like clouds, and the sails were like forests.

Countless warships covered the entire surface of the sea like a dense school of fish.

The battleships at the front had already sunk below the horizon, and behind, there were still battleships pouring out of the strait, appearing in their sight, giving people the feeling that they were endless, and they didn't know how many warships were hidden under the horizon.

Of the 3,000 warships, the warships of the Elven Kingdom were only a small fraction of them.

This kind of overwhelming and mighty scene is extremely difficult to see in the elven fleet. In fact, there has never been such a large fleet in the history of mankind.

Because he was on the battleship Ark Royal, as far as the eye could see, there were all his own ships all around, and all the golden rose banners of the Elven Kingdom were fluttering on the mast of Rulin.

It will give them the illusion that the ships in the distance are also their ships, and it will invisibly make people feel a kind of pride and arrogance.

Now, from a high vantage point, you can clearly distinguish the nationality of the ship by the flag on the ship.

Naturally, it is possible to know what proportion they occupy.

Parno suddenly felt sweat run down his forehead: he was so arrogant before. The Elven Kingdom has poured all its strength into the country, but it has only cobbled together its own fleet.

Although the five fleets of the Elven Kingdom are each large, they need to defend the territorial waters and maritime trade routes of the Elven Kingdom.

Being able to draw out these seven hundred warships and the same number of transport ships is already the greatest ability of the Elven Kingdom.

And the human fleet is four times the size of their elven kingdom task force~!

Not to mention the Neyan Fleet, an elite and powerful fleet equipped with the best artillery of our time and powered by a magical steam engine, it can be called the most advanced warship of this era.

The idea that I used to think that the fleet of the Elven Kingdom was unparalleled in the world, even if the human race was united, there was no need to be afraid, was really a toad sitting in the well and watching the sky.

Parno couldn't help but look a little embarrassed, and turned his head away, not wanting to see the smug face of Lord Lorraine.

As if to make it easier for them to see clearly, the war fortress hovered in the sky for a while, and then slowly flew down, and under the command of several guides, landed firmly on the deck of the mothership.

As soon as the captain opened the hatch, Parno and other officers eagerly squeezed down from the war fortress and jumped onto the deck of the aircraft carrier.

As soon as their feet touched the deck of the huge home carrier, they were stunned.

This ship is stable, it's really stable.

On the Ark Royal, you can still feel the shaking of the waves, but on this huge battleship, you can't feel it at all, as if it were a piece of six lands.

But on the other hand, it seems like it's the way it should be.

After all, such a large ship can easily crush all the wind and waves, except in the case of extremely bad storms, this huge warship is not afraid of undulating waves.

Everyone froze, and then looked up, and saw that the whole deck was flat, neat and smooth. You can see the stern of the ship from the ship at a glance.

Unlike other warships of this era, there was almost no superstructure on the deck.

Only on the right side of the middle of the ship is a three-story conning tower, which is like a flat pillar and not very wide, saving as much space as possible on the deck.

At the top of the command tower, a golden eagle flag with a red background of the Ruman Empire was waving in the wind, hunting and flying, looking domineering.

Behind the ship, billowing black smoke erupted like an active volcano.

It's still far away, and you can smell the choking smell of soot in the air.

Lorraine slowly walked down the fortress of war, stepped on the deck and took a deep breath, looking at his huge aircraft carrier with some emotion and pride.

secretly said in his heart: We can afford to play aircraft carriers, and we can learn from the Mi Guoyan in the future and play hooligans all over the world.

This huge ship was not originally built as an aircraft carrier, and when this ship was built, Lorraine did not have a plan to build an aircraft carrier, because there was no war fortress suitable for carrier-based aircraft at that time, and after the idea of miniaturization of war fortress was put forward, the idea of an aircraft carrier popped into Lord Lorraine's mind.

The ship was originally intended to be a large coal carrier.

Due to the war, there was a huge demand for steel, so all the steel mills in Nai'an were running at full capacity, working at full capacity around the clock.

Although the situation of making money makes Lei Erye almost crazy. But he couldn't ignore the fact that the steel industry has a huge demand for coal, especially high-quality coal.

However, the coal in Nai An is far from keeping up with the demand, and the railway capacity cannot be satisfied, so it can only be solved by importing a large number of guò.

With a wave of his hand, Leo Lei, the president of Feiying Iron and Steel Company, placed a large order with Feiying Shipping Company, and asked for the construction of three large-tonnage coal carriers at a time to solve the problem of coal transportation.

In addition, the construction of a special coal wharf and railway was started, and the coal unloaded at the wharf could be transported directly into the steel plant, which can be called a sign of the industrial age.

At this time, Lord Lorraine also began to worry about the affairs of the aircraft carrier, and seeing this situation, he immediately had an idea, waved his pen, and unceremoniously snatched it over, and changed two of them into aircraft carriers.

And now only one of them has been completed, and the other is about to be completed, as long as it undergoes sea trials, it will be put into use immediately, and the supporting three or five squadron flight units are already training.

For this matter, Lei Erye did not lack opinions, clamoring that this is a political axe to suppress the enterprise exhibition by administrative means, which is unfair and immoral.

It wasn't until Catherine promised to waive his personal income tax for another three years that he gave up. However, Chairman Leo's condition of not doing homework was firmly vetoed.

Although the ship was converted from a coal carrier, the standard displacement of this ship of 8,000 tons, the original full load displacement of 15,000 tons, after being changed to an aircraft carrier, was partially refitted, and the full load displacement was reduced to 13,000 tons.

Even so, it is unique in the world. It can be called the storage of the Big Mac.

Lorraine stamped the plank under his feet vigorously, and then proudly introduced the crowd: "Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to this ship. ”

Parno wanted to see the markings on the hull when he was on the Ark Royal, and immediately said, "Endeavour?"

Lorraine smiled for a moment, then said, "You can say the same. I prefer to call it 'Enterprise' though.

The hull is a steel frame wooden shell structure, with a total length of 165 meters, a width of 21 meters, and a draft of ...... Ha, this is a confidential number, so I can't tell you.

In terms of power, there are four high-power steam boilers, and when running at full power, the fastest flight can reach 15 knots.

Nearly forty medium-sized war bastions, as well as more than twenty light war bastions, can be parked in the hangars on and below deck.

If the upper deck were completely emptied, four more heavy war bastions could be parked, and of course, I was referring to the stupid black and thick model produced by the Maple Leaf Danlin. ”

Everyone couldn't help but smile slightly, showing a knowing smile.

In order to pursue practical surnames and combat effectiveness, the war fortress of Maple Leaf Danlin is not too particular about its appearance.

And there is a lot of mesh grid armor on the outside, although it will be fine to take a few shots in battle, but the war fortress covered with grid armor gives people the feeling that it is really ugly.

Especially judging from the elves' elegant and literary aesthetics, it's just a bubble of vulgar stinky shit.

Some people even mentioned that yì refused their orders for the batch war fortress of the Maple Leaf Danlin, until the arrogant Maple Leaf Danlin people changed their appearance to be a little more visible.

And from another aspect, the war fortress built by Maple Leaf Danlin is simply a bottomless pit in terms of energy consumption because of its large size, heavy armor, and large number of equipped artillery.

It was just when I was on the defensive, but it was a little better.

If it was a cross-sea expedition and flew over the whole process, the magic crystals consumed alone would be enough to give the three deans a headache, which would be an eye-popping astronomical amount.

At the same time, the fear of the High Priest of the Dead deepened.

He is an out-and-out big dog, and he can actually send three hundred war fortresses to fly across the sea at a time, and he will continue to fight in the human big 6.

How many magic crystals does he have to accumulate in normal times~!

From this alone, it can be known that in the past thousand years, the undead race has really not been idle.

However, in the face of the bottomless pit of energy consumption in the war fortress, the Maple Leaf Danlin Academy also came up with an excellent way - to load the war fortress with a transport ship. Each transport ship carries one or two war fortresses.

Although the ship was a little smaller, it was difficult for a large war fortress to land once it was flying, and it was typical to kill or bury it. But despite this, they can proudly claim that they have aircraft carriers.

It is precisely because they smashed their own signboard that everyone looked down on the aircraft carrier of Maple Leaf Danlin at the beginning, and naturally they looked down on the tactic of using ships to carry war fortresses, thinking that it was useless.

It wasn't until now, as soon as Lord Luo's aircraft carrier came out, that they began to look at this out-of-the-box weapon again.

At this time, another gust of wind blew from behind, and the soot that blew immediately behind rolled upside down, and everyone who choked coughed and was discouraged.

Lorraine couldn't help sweating, and quickly explained: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The design of the ship's chimney is somewhat unreasonable.

The second ship has already started to be improved, and when it comes out, it will be much better. ”

Everyone couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all scolded in their hearts: this is really a big dog, a mothership is enough to scare the big guy's pants, this bastard actually has one, and everyone will not live in the future?

At this point, Lorraine continued: "But, then again, this smoke is also good. The sea is vast, there are no coordinates, there is no navigation or anything, the war fortress flies out, and it is easy to get lost.

With this black smoke floating into the air, they could easily find their way home from a distance of 180 miles.

You say yes? haha, hahahaha."

The lord is a civilized person, and he is a little embarrassed to make the working environment on the deck very bad for such a large-scale discharge of pollution.

And the people next to them listened to Lorraine's words, but they couldn't help but be silent for a while, and even a little inferior: Will the war fortress still be lost on the sea?

This kind of high-tech thing is unheard of for them at all, just like a poor Hanako listening to two big dogs arguing, tiger whip and Indian divine oil, which one has a better effect in bed fighting.

The elves were silent for a while, and Parno said slowly: "Sir, with all due respect, this mothership looks good, but the cost-effectiveness ratio is really too bad. How much energy does a war fortress consume every day alone?

In addition to this, personnel training, ammunition replenishment...... And so on and so forth, and for the sake of these war bastions, you also built this giant ship.

In order to cover this huge ship, several battleships were specially sent to escort it......"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the battleships scattered around the aircraft carrier, and said, "Sir, am I right? Are they deliberately escorting this aircraft carrier?"

Lorraine couldn't help but look at him in surprise: he thought this was just a straw bag, but he didn't expect that there was still some material in his stomach.

Just by going around here, you can say so many ways, it seems that these puppies should not be underestimated~!

He nodded and said, "Yes, you are right, their mission is to escort ships to prevent the enemy from getting close to them in naval battles."

Although the ship was large, it was also very weak in defense. ”

Parno immediately laughed and said, "Sir, how much will it cost to equip your fleet? millions, or tens of millions?"

This cost-effectiveness ratio is really too bad. With so much money, it is completely possible to build ten first-class battleships, with five or six hundred shells in a single salvo, and completely drown the enemy in the sea of fire with artillery.

Therefore, the giant ship cannon is the right direction for the future.

Moreover, the sea area that ten battleships can control must be wider than that of one aircraft carrier. ”

Lorraine looked sideways at him, and then said thoughtfully, "You may have a point, right? Who knows? After all, no one can predict the future." ”

After speaking, he put his hands behind his back, raised his head, looked at the blue sky, and let out a long sigh, showing a look of embarrassment.

After all, it is difficult to get back to the preconceived ideas and opinions.

Even in the last life of Lord Lorraine, the debate between aircraft carriers and battleships went on for twenty years before it was proven by actual combat. The samurai of the Bigfoot Basin Country also used to create monsters like Yamato and Musashi.

Parno immediately laughed, then bowed slightly, and said politely: "Sir, you apologize, I just have a little shallow opinion." It's still very immature, haha, hahahaha......"

Although he said modestly, the smug look on his face couldn't be concealed.

This is not surprising, and Lorraine, the dignified god of war, is recognized as the number one warrior in the world. In front of him, no matter how self-righteous and narcissistic these elves were, they had to admit that the Lord was much more powerful than them, and there were many people who took Lord Luo as their goal.

Not to mention that he abducted Princess Lulu, the national idol of the Elven Kingdom.

And now, Lord Luo who can say that he is poor in reasoning, which shows that he is powerful.

At the same time, these young Zhuang officers also strengthened their determination to display the line of giant ships and artillery.

The reason is very simple, if a military strategist like Lord Luo is speechless, it naturally fully reveals the far-sightedness and foresight of the Elf King [***].

Many years later, the Elven Kingdom broke out in a rebellion, united with [***] to ignore international norms, ignore the sovereignty of the Elven Kingdom, shout the slogan of defending human rights, and brazenly send troops to intervene.

At that time, they had been immersed in the cannon of the giant ship, and when they faced the task force composed of many aircraft carriers in Naian, they realized: LGBD~!

At this time, the elves consciously refuted Lord Luo in words, and they were naturally very happy, although they visited the aircraft carrier, but because of their preconceived impressions, they were also very picky about this aircraft carrier, and they felt that this was not good, and that was not good.

Even most of the ships came out to talk about things.

What kind of boat is too big, there is not a little bit of wave shaking What is on such a boat, it can only raise a large group of young master cakes, and it is definitely impossible to cultivate brave and resolute sea men who dare to fight the wind and waves.

Although the lord didn't have any good intentions, he deliberately dug a pit for them, so he put his mentality more rightly, but Rao is like this, and the words of those elves still made the lord's nose almost crooked.

Without a word for the next few days, the fleet headed all the way west.

Although the ocean is vast and vast, the smugglers of the past have all familiarized themselves with the routes. Since thousands of years ago, there have been countless smugglers who have the audacity to make money in rudimentary ships, risking their lives and lives, galloping into the ocean and making huge profits between two big six.

Later, the Flying Eagle multinational tractor monopoly group also participated.

Under the support of Adlen, Fiona, and Deibole, the scale of smuggling was greatly expanded, and countless small smugglers were swallowed up in the middle, forming a complete industrial chain.

Coupled with the use of sextants and watches, navigation is much easier than before. Even some captains, after pouring too much cat urine, dared to pat their chests to assure them that they could drive across the ocean with their eyes closed.

And now with these experienced captains leading the way, the rest of the ships don't have to worry, just follow along.

In the middle of the ocean, there are also many small islands scattered around, so that they can dock to replenish fresh water.

Twenty days later, on the 18th day of October in the year 836 of the Julian calendar, they crossed the center line of the ocean and galloped into the sphere of influence of the Semitic Great 6.

At this time, the warships sounded their air whistles and horns one after another to celebrate.

The voices came together and became a huge sound, like the trumpet of the god of war, which resounded through the heavens and the earth, and then spread far away under the blowing of the sea breeze......

(To be continued) q