Chapter 774： 774: Armored Ship

Jenny knelt in front of Aslan, he looked up at Aslan, the superior in front of him was too young to speak.

He waved his hand, and the soldiers who escorted him back respectfully took a step back.

"You are not a pirate from the northern continent! Why are you here?"

Jenny had a beard-faced face and couldn't see his appearance. He glanced at the glamorous young woman sitting next to him. There was a flash of enthusiasm in his eyes, but when he saw Aslan's majestic gaze, he immediately lowered his head and said respectfully. .

"We escaped from the southern part of the mainland, and the magic capital is cleaning up coastal islands and pirates."

"Let me just say it! The pirates here have been cleaned up by me, and all the pirates that can escape have gone to the far north." Aslan smiled and said to the Duke of Medea.

"The monitoring of the territorial waters is not strong enough! The navy must continue to expand." Duke Medea said coldly.

Before she was outside, she always looked like that glamorous iceberg beauty.

After hearing her words, Jenny couldn't help but shiver.

He was really cold, and when Duke Medea said this, he also moved the surrounding water element.

In fact, not just him, even the ordinary soldiers around him felt cold.

Aslan rubbed his temples with a headache. It was really difficult to rely on the existing navy.

The Kingdom of Cleveland has not developed a navy for many years. In Duke Walker's place, in order to reduce military expenditures, the navy was directly abolished.

"Why does the Magic City encircle you? I remember that the Magic City does not have too strong naval power?" Aslan asked curiously.

Jenny's eyes started to roll around, obviously he was making a bad idea.

Without a word, an officer next to him raised the **** of his rifle and smashed it into Jenny's face.

"Be more disciplined and don't make bad ideas."

Half of Jenny's face is swollen. It's not that he is not a great swordsman. The **** of the gun just made him faint.

He lowered his head, scanned the officer vaguely, and whispered.

"Your Excellency, this matter contains a major secret, there are too many people here."

"Ha!" Aslan couldn't help but laugh, waved and said, "You all retreat."

He wanted to see what else this guy could do.

"Sir, can I come closer?" Jenny asked in a low voice.

Aslan nodded, with a charming smile on his lips.

Jenny looked terrified with this smile.

When he was less than one meter away from Aslan, under Aslan's playful gaze, the string in his heart broke completely, and the last trace of killing intent disappeared without a trace. He squatted to the ground and said softly: " It's a visitor from another world. I got news that it seemed that a force called Gonzal had occupied a certain island, which led to the crusade of the Magic City. I heard that the Free Magic Alliance suffered heavy losses in that battle."

"Oh!" Aslan nodded, patted Jenny on the shoulder, and asked, "Are you familiar with the waters in the southern part of the mainland?"

Jenny was agitated and nodded quickly.

"It has been in the southern waters of the mainland for more than ten years, and at most it has more than a dozen warships."

Aslan's eyes began to flicker, and Duke Medea immediately guessed what Aslan was making another bad idea.

Nuomili waved his hand to get Jenny down, ready to save his life.

Back in the captain's office, Gwennaville handed a copy of the combat data to Aslan.

"Dad, this is the data from the first battle of the Billy-class frigate, not bad." Gwennaville said with a little excitement.

Aslan glanced at it, nodded and said, "It's not bad, but now the Imperial Navy is waiting to be thriving. Pirates do not happen occasionally. Moreover, the capital of magic vigorously develops the navy, and the navy can't be dragged."

Gwennaville's small face wrinkled tightly, and his small mouth could not help but rise.

"Steel battleship is impossible." In the end, Gwennaville only gave such an answer.

"What about the ironclad ship?" Aslan asked tentatively.

"Is there a difference?" Gwennaville asked, so he didn't know.

The Duke of Medea and Nomiri also looked at Aslan with suspicious eyes.

Obviously, they all regard the Billy-class frigate and the ironclad as the same type of warship.

"Iron-clad ships, also called armored ships, were early steam warships covered with hard iron or steel armor. Because wooden warships were unable to withstand the bombardment of increasingly powerful artillery shells, iron-clad ships came into being."

"From the perspective of Blue Star's history, in November 2859, the world's first main iron-clad battleship Fa Cai, led by the navy of the Economic Union, set sail for the first time. The Royal Erez Navy has planned to develop armored warships since 2856, in 2857. The draft armored frigate was successfully drawn up, but in early 2859 the Royal Navy chose to build two armored frigates, and in 1861 it decided to develop into a fully armored fleet."

"During the Blue Star World War, after the first battle between the iron armored ships, the sailing era was unarmored, that is, the battleships with wooden hulls in the mainland were obviously weak. The iron armored ships replaced them and became the most powerful ship in water warfare. "

"The focus is on armored ships, acting as an over-warship of our existing navy." Aslan's last sentence aggravated his tone.

Gwynnaville blinked and asked, "Dad, what you said is still a wooden shell warship with a layer of armor attached to it."

Aslan snapped his fingers to indicate that the answer was correct.

The Duke of Medea and Nuomiri fell into contemplation at the same time.

"The magic engine is still used, coupled with the turret structure, it does make a difference, but such a warship is very disadvantaged by the Blue Star artillery!" Gwennaville reminded.

Aslan nodded and said: "Yes, but it is enough to bully the existing continental warships, and the main force is to train naval forces, and the main force is still steel warships."

Gwynnaville understood thoroughly, and began to silently calculate how long it would take for the craftsman on hand to produce a first-hand armored ship.

It is produced with industrial equipment and the steel keel is customized in advance. In fact, the workers mainly assemble it.

It's just that the layout of the turret and the layout of the magic turbine need to be redesigned.

"Dad, I estimated, rebuild the shipyard and send all the old shipbuilders to build armored ships. A thousand-ton armored ship only takes 50 days at most, and with the craftsmen and equipment we have on hand, Enough for ten armored ships to start construction at the same time." Gwennaville exclaimed excitedly.

"Very good, just do it like this, mainly high-speed ships, the main gun can also be replaced with three-base gunpowder-based naval guns." Aslan said the requirements of excessive warships.

Gwennaville nodded quickly, and took out a notebook to write it down.

The three-base gunpowder is a smokeless gunpowder improved from explosive crystals. Both its power and kinetic energy are better than the original double-base gunpowder, and it has been put into large-scale production.