Heroes of Silver Moon

"The battleship starts cruising, searching for enemy ships!" Simon ordered with great interest.

"Yes!" The middle-aged sailor transformed into an alchemy puppet immediately beat his chest with his fists in salute, then ran to the rudder and began to control the warship.

The other sailors on the open deck also started to get busy.

Some climbed up to the observation deck, some began to control the sails, and some cleaned the deck there...

It looks like a real warship and sailor.

But Simon knew that they were just a group of puppets, and they were only brought to life with the blessing of alchemy techniques and phantom spells.

They also don't have real intelligence. Although they seem to be busy with their own business, it is actually the crystal ball that guides Simon's spiritual power to control these alchemy puppets.

The command given by Simon is like some kind of shortcut key for releasing skills in the game.

Even if he doesn't know how to control these alchemy puppets, as long as he gives an order, the crystal ball will guide his spiritual power to control the actions of these alchemy puppets.

Standing on the command podium at the stern, Simon closed his eyes, carefully scanning the warship with mental power, making sure he was as familiar with every place as possible.

This battleship, which looks like the Blue Star Sail battleship, was named Dreadnought by him. The source of the name is the most famous battleship in the Blue Star Sail era--Dreadnought-class battleship!

There are still many places in the model of the Dreadnought that have not been completed and have not been refined.

But the most important aspects, such as the basic structure of the hull, and 160 smoothbore guns on the left and right sides of the ship, are already ready for use.

In other words, the Dauntless model at this moment should be able to display 80% of the expected combat power.

Taking advantage of this simulated naval battle, you can just see the deficiencies.

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The sea battle sand table is not small, and from the perspective of proportional conversion, it is at least a medium-sized sea area.

The sea battle sand table is not big at the same time, because after only half an hour, the two warships searching for each other can already see each other's figure.

On the Dreadnought, Simon also found the warship controlled by Clifford through the call of the watchman, so he ordered enthusiastically: "The warships are lined up, and all the artillery starts to load. Listen to my order and then fire."

The origin of the name of the battleship is because the accuracy of smoothbore guns is not high, so the battleships can only be lined up, and the shooting tactics are used to fire shells.

And this kind of tactics can also maximize the power of the artillery loaded on the battleship.

With the knowledge on the Blue Star, the smoothbore artillery that Simon equips the Intrepid is almost the peak configuration of the smoothbore cannon.

There is a trigger machine that immediately ignites the gunpowder to launch the shell without using a fuse; there is a brake that reduces the recoil of the gun; there are even simple sights.

But even so, Simon still felt that it was not enough, so he frantically modified it, adding the mother-child cannon structure invented by Huaxia and Ming Dynasty.

The so-called sub-basket structure has a sub-barrel that is slightly smaller than the gun body and the upper part has been cut off. The gunner can load the shells and gunpowder into the sub-barrel in advance, and then load it from the rear of the gun.

After firing a cannonball, you can replace the next sub-cannon without reloading, and immediately launch the next cannonball, which can be called the prototype of a fixed-loaded cannonball, and the rate of firing cannonballs has increased several times.

Under normal circumstances, the firing rate of a smoothbore gun is one shell per minute, and this is still under the condition of the gunner's proficiency.

However, with the spontaneous engine and the sub-cannon structure, the firing rate of the smoothbore cannon can be at least doubled, reaching an astonishing two shells per minute.

Of course, the power of smokeless gunpowder is stronger than that of black gunpowder, so the gun body will definitely not be able to support such frequent firing of shells.

But it doesn't matter, the metal craft is not enough, alchemy and enchanting can make up for it.

In order to prevent the chamber from exploding, Simon applied three types of enchantments to each cannon: firmness, toughness, and fire resistance, which basically eliminated the possibility of exploding the chamber.

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On the warship model of the Valiant Singer, Clifford stood calmly. As an alchemist loyal to the royal family and the president of the Alchemy Union of the Silvermoon Kingdom, of course he also participated in the bidding for the warship.

However, unlike building a new warship, the cost is too huge, and Clifford prefers to refit the warship.

This modified heroic Singer is the result of his these days.

This simulated naval battle is not only a test of Simon's new warship, but also a test of his modified warship.

"The estimated distance is 3,000 meters, slow down, the attack circle will start to recharge, and the defense circle will be ready to activate!" Clifford was a little startled when he saw the Intrepid that suddenly lined up against them, but he still gave the order calmly.

This is the first time he has seen this type of engagement mode of a row of warships.

But no matter what whimsy that kid had, Clifford would let him know that his teacher was still his teacher after all!

"The estimated distance is 2,000 meters, the attack circle is fully charged, and the defense circle is ready to be activated at any time!" Sailor Hui, who was transformed into an alchemy puppet, reported.

Clifford's eyes were serious, and he said decisively: "Raise the sail fully, activate the water flow array and blast array, and charge at full speed!"

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"Captain Simon, it's 1,800 meters!" The lookout on the Intrepid was also estimating the distance between the two sides.

Simon nodded slightly, and ordered with some expectation: "At the enemy ship's side, fire with all your strength!"

After receiving the order, the sailors on the second, third, and open decks came to their positions one after another. They stuffed the sub-gun barrels that had already been filled into the gun body from the rear, and slammed the engine.

Then the engine rebounded and collided with the flint in the gun barrel, sparking a spark, and the smokeless powder in the sub-gun barrel was instantly ignited.

boom! boom! boom! The deafening sound of the guns sounded ~www.readwn.com~ Round shells with huge kinetic energy roared and flew towards the Valiant Singer, most of them landed on the water near the hull, but there were always some The shell was lucky and hit the hull straight.

A light blue mask wrapped the Valiant Singer and blocked the shells. This was the protective circle that Clifford had already prepared.

The roaring shells hit the mask, lost their kinetic energy and fell into the water. Although they failed to penetrate the protective circle, they still shocked him.

"Such a long attack distance!" Clifford was a little horrified.

Generally speaking, for warships, the attacking circle has the longest attack distance, but even for a seven-masted warship, the attacking distance of the attacking circle is only about 1,600 meters.

Because the principle of attacking the magic circle is guided by the mage's spiritual power, the attack distance is closely related to the mage's casting distance.

A master-level mage has a casting distance of 400 meters. The attack circle of the warship can only amplify it, but it cannot change its essence.

Therefore, unless it is a legendary shot, or draw a higher-level attack circle.

Otherwise, the attack distance of a general warship is 800 meters for a three-masted warship, 1,200 meters for a five-masted warship, and 1,600 meters for a seven-masted warship.

However, the above two solutions are basically similar to anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes. They are completely overkill, the cost is higher than the results, and they are destined not to be realized.

Therefore, even if other aspects are scum, Simon's new warship, at least in terms of attack distance, can completely crush other warships.

What's more, will the warship built by a genius like Simon be a piece of scum?

Clifford is looking forward to the next performance of the Intrepid...