Starting from Zero

"President, our side is ready and ready to fire at any time." Sophie sent me a newsletter after the fleet was ready.

"You are now the commander of the fleet. I'm just here temporarily as a scout. If you have any decision, you can do it yourself, don't ask me."

"Okay, then "Sophie didn't be polite with me either, and directly accepted my suggestion, and then began to command the fleet operations.

Because the distance between the two sides is still relatively far, Sophie did not let the fleet cross in pursuit of the maximum firepower density, but still let the fleet maintain the current course and speed. After all the battleships indicated that they had completed their preparations, Sophie immediately ordered the Kristina’s No. 1 main turret to conduct a calibration.

"The firing order is confirmed for the No. 1 main turret. Load a new standard round, and fire immediately."

As the order is issued, the autoloader in the turret rolls immediately When I got up, a small-looking shell was pushed out of the loader, and then followed the slide into the conveyor belt behind the barrel, and then a mechanical arm pushed the shell on the conveyor belt into the front to open the gun. In the barrel of the door.

This shell is a calibrated guided bomb for calibration. Instead of using a liquefied magic crystal steam stick as an explosive, it is filled with a very powerful magic gel. This thing is the same as universal glue. No matter what solid matter is touched, it will immediately stick to it. It takes a very troublesome process to clean it up, and it is very time-consuming.

The function of this kind of gel is of course not to stick the enemy’s battleship somewhere to prevent it from moving. After all, sea water does not have the ability to fix it. Even if the gel covers the battleship, it’s impossible to make it. The opponent stopped moving forward.

There are actually three real functions of this gel. First, save costs.

The price of liquefied magic crystal steam is very expensive. Even if our guild’s artillery is highly accurate, it is unlikely that the first shot will be hit during the calibration process. Therefore, the first shell is almost 100% capable. Shot off. So, since the shells are destined not to hit the target, it is obviously unreasonable to continue to use the expensive liquefied magic crystal steam shells. Therefore, this super cheap gel has become the preferred ammunition. After all, compared to the liquefied magic crystal steam cannonball that costs several thousand crystal coins, this kind of cannonball cost less than ten crystal coins. It is too cheap.

In addition to the price advantage, this gel has another feature, that is, it has a strong shrinkage. This kind of special-purpose bullet for school shooting contains explosives, which can explode in the air. After the explosion, the formidable power released by the center charge will open the gel, but because of the super adhesive force of the gel, it will not be completely blown away. Instead, it will become a huge unfolded film covering it. When any point on this film touches the battleship, the other parts around will be quickly pulled onto the battleship and completely covered by the characteristics of the colloid itself. That is to say, as long as this gel touches one point, it will cover the entire battleship, so that it can guarantee the most effective hit.

Of course, light hits are useless, because besides being particularly difficult to clean, this kind of gel is itself non-toxic, non-corrosive, and third, it will not explode. Such a thing does not have much deterrence in itself. However, we also added some other things to the gel. This thing is a magic-enhanced crystal made from scraps produced during the production of magic crystal. Because this kind of crystal is originally made of scraps, the particles are very small, and after being uniformly added to the gel, it can be fixed in the middle without falling off. When the gel is covered on the battleship, these crystals will be glued together on the surface of the battleship, and because of the characteristics of the gel, the enemy needs to enter a dock to work for several days at least in order to get these crystals down. The above is basically impossible.

Originally, the battleship covered by some crystals is nothing at worst, but these crystals have very special abilities. Everyone knows that magic crystal this thing actually absorbs free magical energy in nature to replenish its own energy, but low-level magic crystals do not have the ability to self-charge. It's not that they can't absorb energy, but that they are not absorbing as fast as they are dissipating, so unless it is in a high-energy field, the total energy is always decreasing.

Although the low-level magic crystals such as white magic crystal have such characteristics that they can hardly be used again, we can make its scraps produce different effects. The shattered crystal fragments are small pieces of white magic crystal, so they will absorb energy the same as a large piece of white magic crystal. Moreover, the speed at which the white magic crystal absorbs energy is actually only related to the energy density of the surrounding area and its own surface area. Related, but the speed at which they lose energy depends entirely on their quality. Therefore, for white magic crystals, the larger the size, the faster the loss of magic power, because the ratio of their surface area to the total mass of the magic crystal inside is lower. On the contrary, the loss of magic power of a small piece of magic crystal will be much slower, even if the white magic crystal fragments are small enough, it can even reach a balance, so that its magic is always stable on a horizontal line without rising or falling.

The spar fragment we added to the gel is a stable magic crystal fragment that is small enough to achieve a balance between the absorption and loss of magic energy. This kind of fragments have a relatively large surface area relative to the internal volume, so they can absorb magic energy relatively fast, and because the internal absorption and dissipation speed is above a balance point, this magic The crystal fragment becomes a small magic field generator that constantly absorbs and releases magic energy.

When a mage uses magic, it can be sensed by other mages in advance. This is achieved by the fluctuation of magic power, and these magic crystal fragments that continuously absorb and release magic power are equal to the continuous release one by one. The small magic wave generator of magic wave, and the battleship of our guild is all equipped with special magic wave capture equipment. In other words, as long as the opponent's battleship is pasted by this magic crystal fragment, we can track and locate its exact location from far away.

Combining these things, you can know that our school shooting gel bomb is actually an automatic tracker. Although it can be cleaned up, it is extremely low-cost, and at least in this case. The enemy cannot be cleaned up in this battle. So, this thing can be said to be very useful.

Following Sophie’s order, the NPC gunner operating the electromagnetic railgun immediately pressed the switch next to it, indicating that the loading is completed, and then the battle under the bridge will only be those in the room. The operator began to adjust the angle and direction of the cannon according to the shooting parameters.

The Kristina obviously inherited the consistent design features of the guild’s large battleship, that is, all cannons have two operating systems, one is located inside the bridge and protected by heavy armor. Down. This is next to the communication room and is the core of the battleship. During normal battles, all the firepower on the battleship is uniformly controlled here. Of course, if this place is destroyed or there is a problem with the wiring, the personnel in the turret can also use manual operation.

Now the Kristina has not formally entered the war, so the operation system is naturally impossible. The combat command system is still in charge of the combat command center in Cambridge. With the green light indicating the completion of loading, the operator quickly adjusted the shooting parameters, and then directly pressed the launch button.

As the occurrence button was pressed, the bottom of the barrel of the electromagnetic cannon on the left side of the No. 1 turret suddenly lit up with a blue rune, following the blue rune line, it began to follow the barrel. The inner wall of the gun quickly spread forward, and finally stretched from the bottom of the barrel to the muzzle, and the densely packed blue rune was lit up. With the appearance of these runes, a Buzz~Buzz~ sound gradually appeared in the entire barrel, and there were a large number of arcs jumping and flickering in the inner wall of the barrel, as if it would erupt at any time.

This state speaking of which is complicated, in fact, it only takes more than a second before and after. When all the runes were all lit up, a green magic array was suddenly lit at the bottom of the cannonball, and the cannonball that had sunk in the lower part of the barrel suddenly floated, floating on the central axis of the barrel and trembling slowly. . After the cannonball was completely suspended in the air, the green at the bottom suddenly began to become brighter and brighter, and the cannonball began to rotate slowly in place and the speed was getting faster and faster. After two seconds, the suspended shell has entered the high-speed rotation state, and at this time, the blue rune inside the entire barrel suddenly flashed, and a large number of dazzling arcs appeared behind the projectile for an instant, and the projectile seemed to be at the same time. The avatar flashed out of a flash of lightning, and instantly flew over the fleet ahead over a distance of tens of kilometers.

Boom. After a not too strong explosion, the shell that appeared suddenly exploded directly in the air, and the scattered yellow gel suddenly opened and turned into a hole with a diameter of at least two more than a hundred meters. Net, while continuing to fly forward obliquely toward the sea at an angle of forty-five degrees.

Because the shells appeared too suddenly, the fleet here was not prepared at all. The suddenly opened gel hit the stern of a battleship in less than a second, and then the remaining gel automatically contracted and covered the tail of the battleship due to the tension force, and not only successfully covered the stern of the battleship. , Actually entangled the propeller of this battleship in a crooked beating, the result is that the battleship began to slow down visible eye naked eye, and gradually began to leave the formation.

There was no semaphore communication in the fleet group below, but the fleet reacted. Several ships immediately began to leave the formation and the decelerating battleship formed a new formation, while the other battleships were Close together again to form a main fleet and continue to move forward.

Obviously, the other party has some means of communication that can replace semaphore to communicate. But think about it. Our guild’s crystal communicator has been in use for so long, and others must have discovered some useful communication technologies, but for the time being, it should be difficult to find a communication technology that is as flexible and changeable as ours. But the battleship this thing is large enough that even the bulky communication equipment should be able to be installed.

When the opponent just started to adjust the formation, I had already notified Sophie of the changes here. Of course, Sophie immediately began to give instructions to the ship.

The three front main turrets of the Kristina began to be replaced with liquefied magic crystal steam shells at the same time. Unlike the previous calibration projectile, which was obviously much smaller than the barrel, this time it was replaced with a real liquefied magic crystal steam projectile, which was at least seven or eight times larger than the previous projectile. The diameter of the previous artillery shell was only 30 centimeters. Although it was already very large in terms of artillery shells, it was still too small compared with this one-meter-6.5-caliber barrel. The liquefied magic crystal steam shells loaded this time are different. This is a regular large cloud explosive bomb used on capital ships. Each round has a diameter of more than 1.2 meters. The shell has no eggshell and propellant, just a warhead, and the length is more than two meters. Such a big shell weighs several tons, and it contains all liquefied magic crystal steam. You can imagine how big the formidable power of this thing is.

"Loading is complete." The battle command center did not launch immediately after receiving the notice, but directly asked Sophie in the bridge overhead.

Sophie did not hesitate and directly ordered the firing. The operator below immediately pressed the firing button, followed by the six sect master guns on the three turrets, firing at 0.5 second intervals. After the blue arcs fired by Six Paths, the fleet on the opposite side was almost at the same time. Shot.

The speed of the electromagnetic railgun is not a concept at all with ordinary artillery. The speed of the projectile is very amazing. Although it is incomparable with the speed of light, this speed is actually the limit on Earth.

Because I don’t know the formidable power of the shells for the time being, this time the Six Sect of the Kristina’s front main guns were all aimed at one target and fired. As a result, the six shells were almost indiscriminate. Hit the marked battleship.

Hovering over the enemy fleet, I first saw six relatively small explosions, and then I saw that the battleship suddenly turned into a vast expanse of white, which was a high-density liquefied magic crystal vapor. The diffused magic crystal steam cloud. Then, I saw the cloud-like thing suddenly flashed, and a circular swell on the sea spread out instantly, and the violent glare instantly made me have to block my eyes with my hand. When I looked down again, I saw a huge white mushroom cloud slowly rising into the sky. It was a cloud formed by vaporized seawater. Below, the battleship had only a little black metal fragments left. Slowly sinking.

There is no damage, no fracture, and no explosion. The explosive power of the liquefied magic crystal steam shell actually blasted the opponent's battleship directly into the seabed. I didn't even see how the opponent's battleship was damaged. This kind of formidable power can no longer be used hugely, this is simply frantic!

"President, how is the effect? ​​Did you hit it?" Because I hadn't reported the situation for a long time, Sophie couldn't help but started asking.

I recovered from the shock when I heard Sophie’s words, and then swallowed a little bit of saliva before starting to say: "Six shells made all the hits. As for formidable power... it’s almost like a small nuclear bomb. The opponent’s battleship was photographed directly into the seabed, and I didn’t even see how it sinks! This formidable power is really too terrifying. Just a second. I blinked my eyes and the entire battleship was gone!"< /p>

What surprised me was that Sophie was not too surprised by this result, but directly nodded and said: "It looks like I thought."

"You know Is this the result?"

Sophie admitted: "I have seen it when testing the artillery before. This situation is reasonable."

"Then you have to pay it again. Use six shells? Liquefied magic crystal steam does not cost money?"

"I don't know the actual combat effect, do you want to practice it."

"Then you have practiced it now. In the future, to deal with the enemy battleship, the most is a two-cannon salvo. Don’t play this kind of fire collection. It’s too wasteful of ammunition!"

"Good guild leader. Oh yeah, guild leader, I There is one more thing to report."

"What's the matter?"

"The designer of the Kristina said that our battleship has not yet gone through the command system under complicated naval battles. Test, so we may not attack again in a while."

"Don’t attack? You have to wait to be beaten?"

"No, we want to put the fleet Close the distance, and then engage in a mixed battle with multiple battleships."

"You decide this yourself, I said, I will make a temporary guest appearance, and you are the commander of the fleet."

"Oh, okay."

The so-called test command system is actually to let the battleship see if the command system is busy when the battleship is under attack. Because the battleship of this guild is an elite line, it has never suppressed the number of battleships of those first-line guilds. Although the battleships of our guilds are indeed large compared to those of small and medium-sized guilds, compared with the large guilds of the real maritime powers, our number of battleships is actually not dominant. Of course, the fact that the number is not dominant does not mean that our battle strength is not dominant.

Because the battleship of our Frost Rose League is all a unified command system, the effect of battle strength is far more effective than that of the enemy fleet. Moreover, our guild’s battleship has always been dominant in the artillery range, so we can usually fly a kite out of the enemy’s range, and then use cannonball rain to knock out the opponent’s battleship one by one. Anyway, the opponent's range can't reach us, but we can reach them, and their speed is not as fast as ours.

Because the guild's fleet has always used this tactical method of fighting more with less, our battle method has always been dependent on our command system. Command is a very important thing in over-the-horizon attacks and battles that win more with less. Therefore, our battleship must test whether this command system can adapt to the combat capabilities of the new battleship.

Because the fleet needs to be brought closer to test this command system, the two sides temporarily stopped fighting. Of course, to say that it was both sides means that we stopped the shelling, because the other side didn't even know where we were until now.

Although we don't know our exact location, the opponent was sunk a battleship after all, so the remaining battleships have all entered a snake-like maneuvering state. Although this navigation method will increase the voyage and slow down the ship’s speed, it is good for avoiding long-range strikes. After all, if the battleship is constantly snake-like, the course cannot be predicted, and if the shells fly for a long time, the probability of missed shots It will be greatly improved. Of course, the other party doesn't know that this is useless at all, because our battleship uses electromagnetic railguns. At this speed, at this distance, the shell will not exceed five seconds from leaving the muzzle to hitting the target. At the speed of the battleship in such a short time, it was really impossible to do anything, so they thought that their snake-like maneuver forced us to give up the long-range artillery, but in fact, we took the initiative to stop the artillery in order to test the command system.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, the opponent's watcher finally saw our fleet.

"Report, up ahead to find the target." On the flagship of the fleet, the watchman who was in charge of observing the enemy suddenly yelled.

Because the guild's fleet and the Japanese fleet have fought many large-scale naval battles before, guilds all over the world now pay more attention to our guild's fleet. For example, the top of the battleship of our guild is equipped with a large-caliber sighting device. It is simply impossible to keep it secret. After all, the thing is too big and can be seen directly from far away. Our battleship is swaying around the world again. Naturally, many people know that our battleship is equipped with this kind of sighting system.

Considering that there is no radar in the game, the effect of aerial reconnaissance is quite limited, so everyone knows the benefits of this type of sighting device. Since they know the benefits of this thing, other guilds are not stupid. Of course they will imitate it. It's just a pity, because the large-diameter lens used on the sighting device can't even be produced by Frost Rose League. It can only be produced from Iron Cross. Imported from the military, so those guilds actually couldn't make such a big sighting scope.

The larger the aperture of the sighting lens, the more light it receives and the greater the ability to find the target at a greater distance. This principle is very simple, but the problem is that the grinding of lenses is a non-productive and high-precision work. So far, even our guild can only guarantee the production of sighting lenses with a diameter of less than two meters. No matter how large it is, it is pure It’s try one's luck. It’s not bad that ten lenses can produce one or two qualified ones. In contrast, the five-meter sighting scope of the Iron Crusade is like a cheating device. We can’t even think about how they made it. Other guilds are even more concerned with this thing. Helpless.

The fleet facing us is not actually a junk fleet. Their battleships are all equipped with advanced sighting systems, but unfortunately their sighting mirrors are much smaller in diameter than ours. As a cutting-edge battleship, the Kristina naturally uses a special sighting system, so it is equipped with a six-meter sighting scope. Even Ashford themselves can't guarantee the output of this thing, and the production of one is often accompanied by dozens or hundreds of waste products. So, the price of this thing is definitely startling heaven and earth, ghosts and gods weeping. However, because it is large enough, the observation distance of this thing is by no means comparable to that of the other side's observation system. However, the other party also has a sighting system after all, so they eventually found our fleet far enough away, but what they didn't know was that our fleet had actually been staring at them for a long time.

Upon reaching the report of one's watchman, a player in the opponent's flagship command room immediately shouted excitedly at the sighting equipment room window above his head: "Report the opponent's battleship parameters."

< p>"Calculate the parameters. The length of the opponent's battleship...Length..."

"How long? What are you stuttering?" The fleet commander below urged anxiously.

After the watchman swallowed his saliva, he calmed down a little and said: "The estimated length of the opponent's battleship is more than 950 meters, not more than 1,050 meters."

< p> "What?" The command room below was exclaimed. Although the battleship in the game can generally be made very large, this kind of data is still too scary. What is the concept of a thousand-meter battleship? That is simply a floating island! You know, even if the two aircraft carriers are connected end to end, they are not one kilometer long.

"Are you sure you didn't misread the ruler?" a commander asked loudly.

The watchman replied with certainty: "Yes, this is the data. Unless there is a problem with the equipment, the reading is absolutely fine."

After hearing this answer, the officer immediately turned to The commander of the fleet next to him said: "Haggs, I think 80% of the fleet we encountered this time is from the Frost Rose Alliance."

The commander named Haggs did not speak, but I walked directly to my command position, sat down and fastened my seat belt, and then said: "When we came out of the port, we knew what our purpose was. Now that we have met, don't you guys? Is stage fright going to happen? This battle will happen sooner or later. Why should you be timid just because it is a little earlier?"

Haggs’ words silenced everyone on the bridge, and a few seconds later one of them watched The guy who was not in a low position suddenly turned around and walked towards the door. At the same time, he said, "Haggs was right. We knew it when we came out. This time there will definitely be friction with the Chinese, so we and the Frost Rose Alliance Sooner or later, the fleet will have a battle. This time it is our latest battleship. Even if the performance of the battleship of the Frost Rose is higher, it will not be much more advanced than our fleet. And have you forgotten? The battleship of the Frost Rose is the best What he is good at is to conduct long-range artillery bombardment out of sight. Now that the opponent has entered our maximum range, we can already fight back. What can you hesitate about as a result of this?" After that guy finished speaking, he opened the door of Cambridge and walked away. After going out, he jumped directly from the spiral ladder and spread his wings and flew to a battleship next to him.

The remaining captains in the bridge here began to gradually recover from the fear of our Frost Rose League when they saw someone taking the lead. One of them said directly: "Everything is For the benefit, I will follow Haggs anyway. If any of you are afraid, just turn around and go back, but don’t come to talk to us about the distribution of benefits in the future."