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"Ning Hai, where are Xingba now?" Lu Min softened his tone, looked at the tablet girl in front of him, and asked softly.

"The Admiral, they're on deck, do you need me to let me know?" Ning Hai put his hands in front of him and asked and confirmed quite seriously.

Lu Min shook his head, looked at the surrounding routes, and said casually, "Ning Hai, I'm not familiar with the road inside this ship, can you help take the road down?" ”

"No problem, Commander, Ning Hai will lead the way for you." Ning Hai nodded very seriously, then pointed in a direction with his finger, and began to lead the way in earnest.

Looking at Ning Hai's pace and his posture when walking, it perfectly interprets what a soldier is.

Although he was very serious and serious, Lu Min, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, could only sigh softly.

Following Ning Hai, who was walking ahead, he walked out of the power room, passed some roads and stairs, and came to the deck of this warship.

After reaching the deck, Lu Min took the opportunity to look at the entire deck, only to feel unusually empty.

Even Gan Ning, Tai Shici and others can directly see their figures.

Seeing this scene, Lu Min always felt a little strange.

Ganning stood at the edge of the deck, admiring the situation inside the dockyard, and it was a smile on his face.

"Ziyi, I think as the chief of the navy, I should find a different warship to use as a flagship, don't you think?" Gan Ning pressed his hand on the fence and said very seriously.

"Xingba, although that's what you say, you also have to consider the actual situation, the gap is too big." Tai Shici hurriedly shook his head, and did not agree with Gan Ning's proposal.

Not to mention the construction of a 40,000-ton steel battleship, even if it is the one under his feet, in Tai Shici's opinion, it is absolutely extravagant and wasteful.

The cost of its construction, even Tai Shici, who has always been wealthy, had to shake his head when he saw it.

"People have to have dreams, what if they come true, don't you say?" Gan Ning put his hands on the pole, looked sideways at Tai Shici, and said quite seriously.

"Every time you see a new big ship, that's basically what you say..."Tai Shici made his speechless debut.

Every time I see a better ship, I will show such an attitude, which is even more terrifying than thinking about it.

"But aren't we all successfully equipped? Presumably this time is the same. When Gan Ning heard this, he said even more excitedly, "As long as you keep thinking about better, then you will definitely be able to get better, why not use it?" ”

"I'm afraid it's really different this time, it's too expensive, it's hard to get back to the original..."Tai Shici said with a frown.

Needless to say, large fishing boats are essentially prepared for fishing, and combat is a part-time job.

Large wooden warships, although reinforced with steel, resulting in relatively high costs, but both in terms of practicality and cost, are within the acceptable range.

Even if there is loss and damage, it will not be too painful.

It's just 200 million dollars, and for a navy with deep pockets, it's all a small problem.

Relying on the stability brought by warships, as well as the deterrence of the sea, the entire coastline is shrouded in their shadow, and it is easy to return to the basics.

But steel battleships are different, and even after the Navy sees it, they have to be silent.

Even if there are other industries to support it, how young will it take to be able to take it back?

Unlike the one-time investment of other warships, this kind of warship is simply a continuous attrition.

The normal consumption of one day and one night is close to 20 tons of coal, close to the quotation of two tons of steel, that is, about 3 million yuan.

Going on an ocean, not to mention anything else, the money caused by this power consumption alone is enough to make Tai Shici's heart ache.

But if you drive for two months, you can buy a new warship, and the cost is too great.

Although many military items do not consider the cost factor, there is a reasonable range.

And the steel battleship under his feet is obviously not within this range, not to mention the other 40,000-ton steel battleship that has not yet started construction and only exists in the drawings.

Gan Ning listened to Tai Shici's explanation, fell into silence, and then nodded.

Dreams are dreams after all, reality is reality after all, and dreams will be defeated by reality.

"It's a pity, what a good ship." Gan Ning stroked the fence above the deck with his hand and said with emotion.

"The defense is really strong, just relying on our existing long-range attack weapons, I'm afraid we can't even penetrate it..."Tai Shici did not deny Gan Ning's point of view.

You get what you pay for, and it's so expensive to build, what's the point of building this thing without some unique abilities?

The weakest parts of the defense have more than 150 mm of steel plates, and in some fatal parts, more than 400 mm.

And behind the steel plate, where most people can reach it, a wooden board close to 100 mm was also placed to absorb the fluctuations of the shock and increase the resistance to blows.

But even with such a high level of defense, it is difficult to be accepted by the navy.

Even with this kind of defense, using a giant bed crossbow and replacing it with an armor-piercing crossbow arrow, it will not be able to cause penetration, and it is even a question of whether it can be hung on the surface of the ship.

"The defense is really good, it's this attack..."Gan Ning turned his head to look at the empty deck, and couldn't help but shake his head.

It is clear that this battleship has not yet installed any attack capabilities.

While there was plenty of room for this to load any kind of bed crossbow and trebuchet known to them, was it useful?

The attack power is far less than that of a defensive battleship, and it looks like a moving city wall no matter how you look at it.

"I just don't know what the follow-up arrangements will be..."Tai Shici also shook his head.

"This battleship was not ordered by our navy, so who ordered it?" Gan Ning suddenly recalled that their navy did not customize such a battleship.

And in the entire Liu Bei command, apart from them, no one else needs a warship, what is the significance of the purpose of that manufacturing?

"I heard that it seems to be an order from the government department to use the battleship for experiments and tests, but now it seems that it is estimated to have failed." Tai Shi Ci glanced at the battleship and said thoughtfully.

"Who mentioned this experiment, it feels like a waste..."Gan Ning said that he was very distressed, but there was a little color in his eyes.

Tai Shici shook his head when he saw this scene, and said slowly, "With our current strength, in the face of the Jiangdong Naval Army, there is no need for such a warship at all, this kind of warship is of little significance, it is a pure waste of steel, is there an opponent that we can't fight against on the sea?" (End of chapter)