Starting from Zero

"You really didn't expect that people at this level will still get seasick. It's an eye-opener." Sophie looked towards the outside of the ship in surprise, and then suddenly said : "By the way, Christina, if you really can't do it, you can just fly. You won't get airsick, right?"

"Of course not."

"Then it won't happen. Yes. You can fly up when we test, and just look at us outside."

"There is nothing wrong with this." Kristina could only agree after she finished speaking. Gave this suggestion.

Because testing this kind of extreme acceleration and extreme deceleration has already turned, it will have a great impact on the people in the ship, so Sophie first notified it by broadcasting, and then waited a few minutes before starting test. According to this plan, after we finish testing our navigation capabilities, we will probably just enter the island group where artillery testing can be carried out.

Preparation time passed quickly, Kristina voluntarily ran outside to release her long spear and flew into the sky, while the battleship Kristina and the surrounding battleships were all separated by a large distance. . This time, it’s not just the Kristina ship that is going to be tested. The surrounding escort battleships are actually all cutting-edge battleships. They are all going to sea for the first time, so the test is carried out by the entire fleet at the same time. All battleships are tested independently and do not require unified command. Of course, for the sake of safety, the distance between everyone should be as wide as possible. After all, battleship is not like a car. This thing is a shocking momentum when turning, so there is no way to deal with emergencies in a short time.

After the fleet dispersed, the crew in the ship almost completed the preparation work, and then with Sophie's order, our Kristina entered the test procedure.

"Attention to all members of the Kristina, the power system test is now beginning. The first project, the acceleration capability test. The ship is now anchored and enters a static state."

After ordering the next generation, the Kristina immediately lowered its anchor, and then the battleship taxied for a short distance on the sea and then stopped. After all, we lowered the speed in advance to test. After the hull stabilized, Sophie immediately ordered: "Put away the anchor."

"Put away the anchor." Repeated sharply.

After a series of commands were delivered, the anchor was pulled out of the water, and then the battleship began to float slowly along the ocean current. Sophie shouted at this time: "At this time, pay attention to the engine. Six cars enter five, full speed."

"Six cars enter five, full speed." The battleship driver immediately turned the two thrust levers around him Retreated to the bottom, and then saw the tail section of the Kristina suddenly sprayed a large circle of white waves, the bow of the entire battleship suddenly tilted upwards a little, and the entire battleship began to accelerate forward. Flee.

As the speed increased, the seawater on both sides of the battleship gradually formed a white track, and the bow part of the battleship was tilted up high, and it felt like the water was about to emerge. However, this situation gradually eases as the speed increases. The balance system of the battleship itself will also adjust this imbalance. After all, such a sailing posture is actually very bad for the main keel of the battleship, which may cause the keel to suffer. Excessive force. Although it will not break the battleship hull at one time, a long time will cause metal fatigue on the battleship keel, and eventually the hull will break.

As the sailing time increased, the speed of the battleship gradually stabilized, and the speed of the final test was as high as 60 knots. This speed is not too exaggerated. Although it is already very fast, after all, there are small boats that can exceed this speed. It is really scary that such a big battleship can reach this speed.

The difference from the battleship here is that the smaller battleships around have already completed their power tests ahead of time. Large-scale battleships may be stronger in power, but because of their greater weight and volume, the sailing ability is still far behind the surrounding boats under the resistance of water.

After testing the acceleration ability, it is the extreme turning experiment. This experiment is to conduct a turning test under extreme speed to see how the hull is tilted. Every battleship has a rolling critical point. Once the hull inclination exceeds this range, the hull may overturn. Therefore, the battleship needs to always pay attention to the inclination angle when turning. Once the critical threshold is reached, the course must be corrected in time to let the ship. Turn your body back to normal, otherwise the boat will capsize. However, although this critical point can be calculated by mathematical formulas, you will still not be able to grasp the actual data without actually testing it, so we better need to do some testing.

This kind of extreme sailing test is dangerous, but because the battleship is very large, the probability of overturning is actually not great. Our test is only a step by step test, so the risk is Much lower.

As Sophie’s test began, the helmsman of the battleship suddenly pulled the steering wheel to the right to the end, the battleship began to twist to the right with a bang, and we immediately felt that we were being thrown to the right. The trend on the left side of the hull, fortunately, we have known this situation before, so everyone found a place to fix themselves.

In fact, in the cockpit of this kind of battleship, there are seat belts at various operating positions, even if some positions are operated standing up, they are protected by safety ropes. So except for me, a visitor who needs to hold something by himself, everyone else is very relaxed.

The steering ability of the battleship is very good. I feel that the deck under my feet has tilted more than four or five degrees, but the battleship didn’t mean to turn over at all. It still turned very steadily until it tilted laterally. The battleship began to lose its center of gravity when it reached fifty degrees. However, the helmsman who had been prepared immediately killed the steering wheel, and at the same time, he was prepared to fire an empty bag on the naval gun on the left side of the hull. Bullets, this is equivalent to using a cannon to do a reverse thrust, directly righting the battleship.

Because we prepared well and quickly obtained stable data of battleship, we can know what proportion of the steering angle is safe to know when making emergency avoidance in the future.

After testing the steering performance here, the next step should be to test the ultimate deceleration effect. This should be a test to turn the propeller over without dropping the anchor. However, this test seems to be impossible today, because when we were ready to do the deceleration test, we were afraid of seasickness before. Kristina who flew out suddenly flew back, and at the same time activated the communicator.

"President, I found a little situation here."

"What's the situation?"

"There seems to be a very large fleet ahead. "

"Fleet?" After hearing what Kristina said, Sophie asked in surprise: "Did you see what country's fleet it is?"

replied: "I don't know, I just saw a large number of ships from a distance, and I hurried back to tell you."

"A fleet of unknown nationality?" Sophie quickly walked to the front of the chart and looked at it. Look, and frowned: "It's weird, this area should be our sphere of influence! How come there is a fleet of laymen?" After thinking for a while, Sophie immediately gave a large order to the people around him: "Send immediately Pilot ship, let’s check the enemy’s situation."

"But Captain, we don’t have a pilot ship!"

Sophie was taken aback when she heard this. The reaction came yelled: "Oops! I forgot that this is a fleet that is changing defenses!"

The fleet that is changing defenses is not a complete fleet, because a fleet usually does not change all defenses suddenly, but half and half. The change of support. The Kristina that came this time actually took the surrounding battleships to replace the capital ship in the fleet that is performing missions in the Sea Territory near Indonesia, and when the time comes the auxiliary ship there The mission will still continue, that is, the two fleets will be merged into one, but the original capital ship will be replaced.

Because it is just a replacement fleet to replace battleships, there is simply no auxiliary battleship in this fleet now. Don’t look at our large and small battleships. In fact, these are all battleships with the smallest tonnage. All of them are of the same class as fast cruisers. The battleship of this level is of course impossible to be used as a pilot ship.

In fact, the battleship of the pilot ship, although originally meant to be a battleship as a forward to explore the way, is a temporary name, but it is not a temporary name in our Frost Rose fleet. , But the name of a special battleship.

In our guild, there is a battleship classification called pilot ships, which is the same as destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. It is an independent ship type.

The main role of this type of pilot ship is to detect the front enemy, so they are characterized by extremely fast speed, can easily catch up and approach the enemy fleet, and can easily run away at the appropriate time. Let the opponent have no intention of chasing at all.

To do this, the pilot ship must be fast, incomparable fast, so fast that people can't have the courage to chase it, because that speed is completely desperate.

In addition to being fast, the pilot ship has another characteristic, that is, it is small.

Although it is said to be small, but also not the level of torpedo boats. The pilot ship is called a ship, and naturally it will not be of the level of a boat. However, in fact, the tonnage of the pilot ship has just reached the minimum requirement of the battleship level. This miniaturized battleship usually uses a three-body structure and is equipped with hydrofoils. On the one hand, it can reduce the cross-sectional area of ​​the hull to increase stability, so that the pilot ship can make unimaginable turning movements. On the other hand, this three-body structure The structure also allows the pilot ship to run faster and more stable.

The pilot ship itself is actually only very weakly armed, and the weapons and equipment on it can barely beat wooden ships. There is no chance of winning in the ordinary iron-clad ships, because they are not used directly. Fighting.

The front and rear decks of the pilot ship are empty. There are no weapons on it, only small artillery cannons are installed on both sides of the stern, while a large observation is installed in the empty space in the middle of the battleship. Room, this thing is equivalent to the integration of the radar guidance system, the communication system, and the satellite navigation system in reality.

With these advanced instruments, the pilot ship can immediately guide its fleet to conduct an over-the-horizon attack from outside the line of sight after discovering the target, and the enemy can only see the target at this time. That's it. But relying on that terrifying flexibility and speed, it is actually very difficult to hit it, and if it is pursued, let alone, it is basically a dream. Of course, although the pilot ship is rarely hit, the feeling of dancing in the enemy's gunfire is actually quite exciting. So Sophie himself said before that in order to be the captain of a battleship, he must first serve on the pilot ship, because this kind of battleship is really the best tool for training players' psychological quality.

Although the pilot ship is very good, the technical difficulty of this thing itself is also very high, so don’t look at the size of this thing, in fact, the difficulty of manufacturing and the price are very exaggerated, so our fleet is actually not There are not many pilot ships, and generally there are only two or three ships in a fleet.

Because there are very few pilot ships, this time Kristina came out to change defense and simply did not bring a pilot ship. As a result, it is necessary to use it now that I remember that there is simply no pilot ship in the fleet.

"I forgot about this kind of thing." Sophie was a little angry and hammered herself, but she didn't panic. After all, she was also a qualified captain trained on the pilot ship. She can still handle things.

"Send two players and ride a long spear to take a look." Sophie said.

"Wait a minute." I stopped by Yan Yan when he was about to send the order. "Don't worry about it. Anyway, Christina and I have nothing to do in the fleet. Leave this to us."

"Ah? President, you want to be a scout for me? I'm not too embarrassed!" Sophie said so, but her face didn't mean the slightest sorry, it was completely polite.

I didn't care about this with her at all, so I walked to the door and opened the door. In fact, Sophie is not a bad person, and most of the reasons why she joked with me politely. She basically belongs to that kind of more casual personality, so even with us, the leaders of the guild are not serious.

After I left Cambridge, I jumped directly from the escalator. A bird appeared to catch me and climbed directly to catch up with Christina, who was hovering in the sky. I summoned directly: "The two of us will go over and take a closer look. The fleet has to be prepared to complete the reorganization. It will not help us to stay here."

"Okay. I don't want to sit on the boat either." Kristina heard that it was relaxed instead of staying on the boat.

At the speed of long spear, this distance is not a distance at all. We quickly saw the fleet that Kristina had discovered before. Not to mention, the scale of this fleet is really not small. We just drilled out of the clouds and saw a large black spot on the sea below almost driving in the direction of the Kristina.

"Damn, look at this angle, simply can't avoid it! I hope it's not the enemy!" As I said, I asked Asuka to lower the altitude to look at the other's flag, but I didn't have time yet. Give the order, the following will fire first. A large swath of white light bombs flew up from the battleship group and flew straight towards us.