CIATB Chapter 1596 Fleet
Chapter 1596 Fleet
Chapter 1596 Fleet
"boom!"
The large wooden ship finally got out of the river and slowly sailed into the ocean.
The black hull lacks decoration, and the twisted and primitive wooden structure makes it doubtful whether it can adapt to the development of this era. But the roaring steering gear and auxiliary wheels provide it with powerful power.
Judging from the appearance alone, this is an old wooden sailing warship that has been enlarged ten times, and then the original sails have been stripped off and replaced with modern components.
Simple and crude, but quite cheap and effective.
"Boom!"
This is the thirteenth wooden log ship in the fleet. This wooden warship, which is behind the times in terms of speed and defense capabilities, is unexpectedly welcomed by the military districts and soldiers. It is not even limited to the Third Military District. Other military districts have also used it and applied to buy it.
This is true. Soldiers often refuse weapons and equipment that are harmful to their lives, but they have a very high opinion of this simple wooden warship.
"Their lower halves are solid, and those murlocs can't penetrate them."
"Even if they get close to the deck or the bottom of the ship, the plants attached to them will attack them. It's very effective."
"My side was actually pierced, but they healed themselves. And even if they can't heal, it's okay. They are multi-layered structures. Even if they are broken, they can still float on the water."
Ships made of wood and steel seem to have advantages in all aspects over iron ships, but in fact, it goes without saying what will happen if you throw wood and iron into the water. The wooden warship provided by Lu Ping'an is even more rudimentary. Most of its structure is even solid, which means that it is not afraid of the so-called penetration at all. Sinking it becomes extremely unrealistic, and it becomes a piece of rotten wood floating on the water at most.
This is not a good thing in naval battles that pursue maneuverability. The excessively large size and total mass will put heavy pressure on the power system. The reality of high consumption and lack of speed is a joke in modern naval battles. The fragile wooden structure also provides very weak protection for the crew.
But when the opponents are mainly marine creatures, those fishmen and sea beasts who are good at penetrating the ships of land creatures, this stupid and rough "floating cemetery ship" is extremely useful. Originally, this was used to ridicule its extremely ridiculous maneuverability and its own combat configuration, saying that once it was surrounded and suppressed, it could only be beaten to death. Now some soldiers ridicule themselves that "it is better to die in a tomb on the sea than sink to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish."
Lu Ping'an originally only planned to order ten ships for his base as a tool to use the power of his extraordinary gardener. This was already suspected of misusing public resources for personal gain. Judging from the data alone, these wooden arks were garbage among garbage, with high consumption, slow speed, and unadapted weapons.
However, this super-large log, which is a fusion of the genetic modules of "lamp tree" and "hibiscus wood", is called "Ark wood" by the people of Mercury 42. It has surging vitality and heat source, and can be fully used by gardeners. Lu Ping'an's reason for purchasing it is also justified.
For gardeners and animal trainers, with heat sources, life bases and water, there will be countless lives and countless weapons. If they are strong enough, they can even build a simple ecosystem on the Ark.
Those huge old ships covered with green vines, mosses and carnivorous plants look like floating ruins after a shipwreck, but they are the gardeners' "positions" at sea.
Even on the ocean, they can still serve as the best artificial islands. Lu Ping'an's team has even developed "parasitic plants" that can be used as food. This Ark Tree, which was originally used to save people and relocate, is also a sacred object blessed by the God of Salvation. It can float on the ocean for a long time and be self-sufficient.
As far as a combat warship is concerned, all of its attributes are extremely poor. Its maneuverability is completely unacceptable, and it lacks attack power without corresponding weapons and armaments. However, I never expected that after actual combat, it would become popular.
Just recently, Lu Ping'an's "family business" inexplicably received a large number of orders.
".It can only be said that the combat experience of Mercury 42 has come into play again. When a land creature fights a group of underwater amphibious creatures, what is needed is not the strong ships and powerful guns designed for surface warfare. In the past, human naval battles were all civil wars, and the goal was just to sink the opponent's ships and feed them."
The shipbuilding industry on Earth has obviously not experienced the test of foreign wars, and the threats it faces now are mostly underwater rather than on the water.
".A stable platform on the water, an unsinkable island, a defensive position that can be set up on the enemy's front line, a fortress where sailors can rotate and heal their wounds, is the ship that is most suitable for the battlefield."
At least judging from the feedback from other armies, these wooden ships that are not afraid of being sunk are actually more useful than iron ships. What is even more painful is not the ships themselves, but the naval guns and bombs that are the main weapons, which are extremely ineffective in underwater combat.
It really has come to the stage of underwater hand-to-hand combat again. Lu Ping'an will probably be in a much worse situation than Mercury 42. After all, there is no easy-to-obtain grace for underwater breathing in this world, and humans who go into the sea are much worse than the long-armed people and the fishmen.
“I understand the extremists a little bit.”
Those extremists, such as Shuichi and his companions, had also experienced the naval battle of Mercury 42, and they realized the absolute disadvantage in this regard earlier. If the navy of the old era of Earth went to war with the Octopus tribe, the outcome would definitely be annihilation.
Well, turning the ocean into a forbidden zone for life and forcing them to come up and fight on land is indeed the only solution.
Standing on the bridge, smelling the fishy sea breeze, Lu Ping'an sighed.
Not far away, there is a steel platform that is burning fiercely. It seems to be a drilling platform of a certain company. It is lucky enough to have been able to hold on until now, and it is also because outsiders may not understand the importance of those "black oil" to human beings.
“Everyday, it collapses too quickly”
Just one month after the war broke out, everything changed. The daily life that we were accustomed to became a memory of the past. When the country's form and economy changed towards a war form, all cultures, industries and even ordinary people's jobs naturally underwent obvious changes.
"Boom!"
A huge mushroom cloud slowly rose above the ocean not far away. This familiar yet unfamiliar scene made Lu Ping'an even more helpless.
It seemed like something had exploded not far away. Judging from the speed of the waves, it wasn't far away.
Was his ship completely destroyed? Or was the last resort to detonate a super-tonnage bomb? No matter which scenario it was, it was not good news for him now.
"Do you want to go take a look? They should be friendly forces."
Lu Ping'an looked back and saw that his combined fleet of 37 warships of various types was moving as slowly as a turtle (the Ark was too slow), and this time, Sakurajima was doomed to miss the rescue mission.
".Split into three ships."
Lu Ping'an gave an order that the combat power of the three ships themselves was not important, because now these ships were garrisoned by top-level combat forces.
After a slight diversion, most of the warships still headed northeast.
This time, it is said that Sakurajima sent out a series of messages asking for help.
"The threat they face is said to be at the level of destroying a country"
(End of this chapter)