From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 250 The giant sea beast on the drawing

The hot air balloon manned high-altitude experiment was successfully concluded, but this was not enough to satisfy several researchers. What they wanted was a flight attendant platform with a larger load capacity that could fly higher and farther;

Therefore, after sorting out the existing knowledge and theories, a long-distance airship plan composed of light gas, special skin, concentrated liquid energy pool, and propeller came into their vision, and they were ambitious.

started corresponding exploration.

After physical and mathematical calculations, they believe that such an airship can even rise to an altitude of thousands or tens of thousands of meters. Perhaps its flight speed cannot be fast, but after adding some just-in-case weapon systems and high-altitude life gas supply,

It should be able to meet many short-term needs;

For example, transporting a certain amount of supplies to the north, or establishing a high-altitude science laboratory. Nesta naturally nodded and agreed to this plan.

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About two months have passed since the last time we paid attention to the water weapons platform. When the days advanced to around August of the 54th year of the Rune Calendar, good news finally came from the deep-water port terminal.

Nesta was cultivating omnipotent cells in the meditation room at the moment. He suddenly felt the infrasound fluctuations around him, and detected the certain wave frequency related to the 'Great Speaker' within the fluctuations;

So he quit meditation and started casting sound spells to receive infrasound signals more accurately;

At the same time, the brain also begins to automatically translate the signal

'Your Excellency, the Speaker, the first-generation gunboat has completed the combination of power and attack. I hope you can come and inspect it.'

The same message was repeated continuously, and when Nesta replied, "Understood, let's go now," he repeated it four or five times before stopping.

Nesta therefore ended his practice and got up to go to the deep water port to have a look with his own eyes.

One end of the totem contact period is connected to the wall through vines, and the other end is a structure similar to the telephone microphone in the previous life. The upper part is the earpiece and the lower part is the microphone. The related totems of vibration to voice and voice to vibration are integrated inside;

When Nesta picked it up and activated it with the miniature totem engraved on his fingernails, an extremely clear voice came to his ears.

"Hmph~"

"Your Majesty the Speaker, we have arrived." The driver in charge reminded outside.

"However, this problem can be partially circumvented by increasing the steering elevation angle of the gun barrel and designing the steering action. Although some totems need to be added, and the difficulty of operation and manufacturing will also increase slightly, it can also increase more attacks accordingly.

force."

Jiuya is a true junior. He can't be as shameless as Funa in front of Nesta, so he seemed a little nervous when he was interrupted before;

Now that he had received Nesta's approval, he coughed lightly, then gathered his words and said slowly,

"The reason why 'high-pressure boiler' and 'steam engine' are prefixed with 'half-magic' is because when designing both, they adopted the method of totem reinforcement to exchange for more energy within a limited weight and volume.

Higher efficiency when doing big jobs, and the idea of ​​safe critical thresholds.”

"Okay, I'll take the back door and slowly modify it. Zhuya first talks about the power design."

"It has been simulated in a meditation space, modeled in reality, and tested on small-tonnage ships, and the results are all good."

"Don't be fooled by them! These two bad guys have no good intentions!!" Freya grabbed Nesta's arm from the side and said angrily.

"Then please wait a moment."

"Tsk, then why didn't you take it out earlier?"

The first one to notice him was naturally Freya. This girl seemed to have matured a little in more than two months, but after meeting Nesta, she still showed the joy in her character without restraint.

He waved his hand from afar and jumped towards me.

At this time, Funa's desire to explain has been raised to the extreme, and it seems that he has already laid out a set of corresponding explanation ideas, so Nesta followed his wishes and prepared to follow Funa's ideas.

Nesta listened to the liaison officer opposite and then responded,

"I understand. I'll leave now. Please help me prepare a dedicated bus. Thank you."

"This is the core of the 'center', which integrates many different functional areas such as the 'sound analysis room', the 'damage control room', the 'shelling and loading control room', and the 'power control room'. They are organized through the totem structure.

Connected to the hull, the functional areas corresponding to each room can be directly controlled;"

"Hey, let me continue. We have designed the four most important system modules for it, namely the 'central system', 'attack system', 'power system', and 'warehousing system';"

After hearing this, Nesta interrupted Funa's gushing first and gave his own suggestions.

As for this suggestion, although it was not 'astonishing' to serious researchers, it could still be regarded as a valuable 'three-dimensional combat idea', so it was quickly written down by Funya and other researchers.

"Yes, in addition, through previous paper-and-pencil calculations, decades of continuous practical operations, and recent shelling tests, we have also concluded the impact of the hull shape on stability, and this impact will also further affect

Accuracy of shelling;”

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Entering the institute's campus, he went straight to Nesta at the port. From a distance, he saw Ship Ya, Mechanical Ya, Freya, and a research team composed of nearly a hundred scholars of all kinds. Their eyes were tightly focused on

Fixed on a weird boat in the middle of the river.

"Do you need me to wait for you?"

"Your Excellency, Speaker~"

"clear."

"After such a design, how many main guns can be deployed?"

After that, there is the supplement of Mechanical Fang (Masista),

"A charcoal high-pressure boiler and a compound-expansion steam engine. The former is arranged behind the hull, and the latter is placed horizontally in the lower space of the reaction chamber. They can provide about 12km of forward power per light hour and backward power of about 3km per light hour.

."

"Your Excellency, Speaker of the Grand Council, there is a signal from the Ship Research Institute"

The fingertips of the ship's teeth were pointed above the stern propeller, an obviously weird part. Judging from the structure shown on the drawing, it seemed to be a 'ship within a ship'?

Obviously, Fuanya wanted to tell it personally about this so-called 'proud work', so he didn't give too detailed annotations like other areas.

The configuration of the upper deck of the ship is very different from the battleship in Nesta's impression. Except for a solitary system at the stern marked with 'Infrasound Radar', there is no command tower and no chimney;

What you can see at a glance is a semi-submersible reaction chamber with a thick gun barrel, and a specially marked 'all-photosynthetic deck'.

Nesta agreed with this. Anyway, the 'high-energy concentrated liquid' has no shelf life. If it is only used during escape, the consumption will not be too high, and such a reserve can be fully afforded.

Unlike those battleships in his previous life that had to distinguish between hull and armor layers, the hull and armor of this semi-magical plant giant ship in the drawing are integrated inside and outside, and are both plant materials engraved with three-dimensional totems;

In addition to the lightness of the plant material itself, the conclusion drawn after calculation is:

"Your Excellency, Speaker of the Parliament, while maintaining such a volume, the empty weight of the ship without weapons and power systems will be reduced to a mere 35,000 tons;"

After seeing all the scholars finish recording, Nesta said again,

"There is also the power part. Looking at your ambitious plan, the power area is also full of totems for me, right? If there is no corresponding and sufficient reserve of 'low-energy concentrated liquid reserve', are you going to use your hands and feet to sail the ship?"

"This! This is the big ship of the future!"

"That's fine."

Nesta's eyes lit up when he heard this. He remembered that the battleships in his previous life often had more than a thousand men, but this guy in front of him, which seemed bigger than the Yamato, only needed 300 sergeants to operate it.

This is definitely good news.

Of course, this is just a calculation result for the time being, and the specific results will depend on the actual situation;

However, after all, the entire ship is made up of living magic plants, and many tasks can indeed be completed by controlling living bodies through totems, so what Funa said should have a high reference value.

While he was pondering this, Fuanya's explanation had not stopped yet, and he continued to say,

First of all, it was Funa (Funesta)’s response. He said,

"As you can see, the attack system is a 55L 520mm main gun. We changed the reaction chamber into a narrow oval shape and placed it horizontally on the deck in a semi-shallow manner, but the vertical diameter was compressed to 7 meters.

While the transverse diameter was compressed to 13 meters, the front and rear diameter exceeded 20 meters, occupying almost half of the deck space. Moreover, due to the deformation of the structure, the compression efficiency was greatly reduced, and the emission efficiency was 27 light points per shot."

"A bit useless?" Nesta added accurately.

"Well, that's good, keep talking."

The car body is pulled by a moose, and it is not transported on rails, but moves forward by the rotation of wheels on the ground;

The wheels are wrapped with a solid, rubber-like structure, and the running feel is quite similar to cars in previous generations.

This makes Nesta feel a sense of insecurity. He is always worried that after losing the totem, these big guys will face risks such as a 90% reduction in armor protection, complete failure of weapon systems, etc., and they will create coffins at sea.

But they looked really delicious, which was why even though he said he was 'sarcastic', he actually didn't really stop them.

"Okay, go ahead and let me hear what kind of monster you made for me."

After stopping Freya's sophistry, Nesta stepped forward and came to the research team.

"Your Excellency the Speaker of Parliament"

In addition, more directions of use can be extended from this. For example, Funa thought of the ‘submarine’ previously.

No one at the scene disturbed him at this time. Even Freya, who had always been the most naughty, did not express dissatisfaction either because there were many elves present or for other reasons.

"Then we designed the hull as it is today - a curved waistline on the inside and a stubby shape with a wider hull."

Nesta stopped their actions, took Freya out and spun her around, then put her down, touched her head and said gently,

"The front and center area is about 70 meters long, with a low width of 50 meters and a top width of 25 meters, which is enough to support 3-3-2-2, a total of 10 main guns;"

"Haha~'Half Magic Blast Furnace', 'Half Magic Steam Engine', it's true." Nesta shook her head, already anticipating this result.

"Hehe. I'll tell you about the power part later. I'll talk about the rest first."

"Haha~ Hello, little guys."

"Well, building the first one will take more time and requires the cooperation of many witch doctors. Take out the broken one first, so that you can have a comparison in your mind."

Before he could go out, the 'totem communicator' in the meditation room also vibrated, and Nesta turned around to pick it up.

"For example, the 'high-pressure boiler' was changed from 'charcoal to boil water' to 'totem heating'. The structure is divided into 'armored protective outer wall', 'heating interlayer', 'thermal conductive metal', and 'pressurized inner wall'

, the functions of each part basically match their names;”

"With this hull shape and this little weight, what terrifying usable tonnage will we get?"

"Yes, it is very necessary. If the cell fluid of the cave wolf is gone, it can be squeezed again. If it is alive and dead, it is dead. Yes, we cannot save this aspect."

"I kept in mind what you said - 'preserving vitality is the top priority', so when designing the 'center' I specifically studied how to preserve 'vitality';"

"Don't just express your feelings blindly, be specific."

"In the design, it is planned to equip a total of 13 'half-tech high-pressure boilers' and 7 'half-tech compound-expansion steam engines', if there is room for the transformation of 'turbines';"

"Well, you're right."

"Let's take a look at the 'Centre' first. This is the proud work of all the designers of our research institute. It is the soul area of ​​the entire ship and contains more than just a 'command system'."

Nesta nodded noncommittally and continued to listen to their explanation.

"The hull is too light and the internal space is too closed. High-density ballast metal needs to be placed at the bottom, and the required charcoal and boiler water must be supplied by additional transport ships."

When he had no choice but to control the commuter cabin directly to the ground by communicating with a voice that looked like Freya, the moose car directly outside the square to the deep-water port was ready.

After her actions, the other researchers turned around and looked over, and were also ready to greet her.

"Forehead"

"Okay, let's go take a look."

Looking from a distance, a chimney with black smoke was placed at the bottom, and at the front was a semi-submersible reaction chamber with a thick and long muzzle. It seemed to be a 560mm or 520mm gun with a diameter of 55 times;

The ship is only about 50 meters long, but its widest point reaches 20 meters, and its draft is about several meters deep. It looks like an ugly fat dumpling.

"Although the power system as a whole still boils water, there is no open flame, no exhaust gas, higher space utilization, and higher heat utilization. It will be more efficient and safer than before."

"Introduction?" After a few glances, he said to the two witch doctors next to him.

"The good news is that as long as it does not directly use plants for mechanical movement like a self-propelled chariot, when the light is started and the totem is maintained, it only requires a 'low-energy concentrate' without adding the cave wolf cell fluid."

After thanking and saying goodbye, Nesta, who had been naked during the previous practice, first picked up some clothes from the hanger that were more decent and could at least cover her body and put them on before leaving the meditation room.

"Okay, okay, then look here." Chuanya suppressed his expectations for the time being, pointed to the bow of the ship and continued to introduce,

"Using a four-axis transmission, the maximum main engine output power reaches 16,300 moose power, and the reverse speed is 4,500 moose power. It is expected that the maximum speed under non-cruising conditions can be close to 40km per light hour."

What appears on paper is a truly giant ship with a length of over 300 meters, a width of over 55 meters, and a depth of 30 meters.

"Good guy, I'm not afraid that the span is too big and I will bend my waist." Nesta secretly smacked his tongue. Under the expectant gazes of Funa and other researchers, he carefully looked at the structure on the drawing, as well as the more important items.

Label.

After seeing these little guys, Nesta seemed quite happy. He nodded to the adults and touched the heads of the little guys one by one. Then he came to the two leaders and stared at them as well.

to the ship on the river.

"Then there is the 50 meters at the back of the deck. Because the central cabin is located here, the underground totem layout is extremely complicated, and there are also requirements for the layout of the audio transceiver on the deck, so it is also planned to install anti-aircraft and offshore weapons;"

The ship is not as big as expected. In addition to appearing as a 'ship' as a whole, it looks like an enlarged surface version of the 'Armorbreaker 1' self-propelled combat vehicle.

Furthermore, these two types of large-caliber guns are immature, and the efficiency of the reaction chambers they require is too low. Therefore, the reduced shooting efficiency is not directly proportional to the increased attack power.

The explanation came to an abrupt end, and Funa seemed to have forgotten what he was doing. As he spoke, he picked up his notebook and pen and started writing as if there was no 'person' beside him.

"In terms of the main gun diameter, the 70L can apply the gas blast thrust to the maximum efficiency, but the 29.4-meter barrel length, coupled with the 9-meter reaction chamber diameter, will reduce the number of main guns to a certain extent;"

"Understood, cough cough"

"How should I put it? A little bit." Fuan Ya scratched his head, awkwardly wondering how to describe it.

"Little traitor~" Hearing this, Funa stopped dawdling. After pretending to glare at Freya, he first cast a spell to create a large table in front of him, then took out a folded table from his arms.

Several layers of drawings were spread out and displayed.

"We have calculated that only 300 sergeants are needed to operate the ship most efficiently. Of course, totem control is high-precision work, and necessary training is indispensable."

"Although the remaining 50 meters of the bow and the deck are in the shape of a triangle with a base of 25 meters, the space inside the hull is not large. If you have to squeeze it, you can squeeze in three doors, but you can actually replace it with some small-caliber ones.

Against air, offshore, and even undersea weapons;"

"Why is it designed like this?" Nesta vaguely felt that he had seen such a design in his previous life, but his memory was a bit fuzzy.

"Such a design layout has two benefits. First, it further saves displacement and improves utilization; second, the bulbous bow, combined with the excellent linear design of the hull, can improve the ship's drag reduction performance and provide the same power supply.

Under the premise, it can show a much higher speed than other ship types.”

"The middle part is a nearly rectangular elliptical hull, the second front part is a trapezoid with a wide rear and narrow front, the frontmost part is a sharply narrowed bow, and the rearmost part is a slowly narrowing large triangle, with propeller blades installed below."

"So, after comprehensively considering factors such as rate of fire, range, power, bomb weight, and even manufacturing convenience, we believe that the same 420mm main gun as the Bomber 1 should be used;"

"That's good, but don't you think that attacks in these directions should be handed over to specialized ships? There are more than 200 small cannons in total, and the reaction chamber space and ammunition storage space required will add up to a lot.

A respectable number, right?”

"The last one is below the waterline. Considering that we may face attacks from ocean monsters in the future, we have added measures to attack the seabed and adopted a design that can fully retract the hull and install a waterproof partition. A total of 150 30mm doors

Underwater rapid-fire guns, 60 60mm underwater rapid-fire guns, 15 203mm underwater armor-piercing heavy guns;"

"Your Majesty the Speaker, look at this~"

After a while, Funa, who had recorded his inspiration, finally seemed to remember where this place was and what he was doing, so he immediately put away his paper and pen. While begging Nesta for mercy with a smile, he glanced apologetically and waited quietly for nearly ten lights.

divided researchers.

"Look at the result, the armor structure that is completely independent of the hull is only the initial insurance. We plan to equip the 'core' with the turbine power system that is being studied. When it is necessary to abandon the ship, the emergency separation system can be activated and the

The 'center' originally designed as a ship can be pushed to the surface of the sea to escape alone. If necessary, some rapid-fire cannons can be installed. In the future, we can also design a 'submersible ship' that can completely submerge into the bottom of the sea. Wait, this is good.

Write it down, write it down."

"It looks beautiful and simple, but why don't you see the chimney?"

All totem operations cannot be created out of thin air. When they are on the ground, they can rely on the root system to absorb nutrients. The protective layer and weapon system do not have the risk of complete failure;

"As you said, 'We have a small population and a small number of soldiers, so we must use the fewest sergeants to complete the most work as much as possible.' And with this arrangement, all systems of the giant ship have achieved remote control and semi-automatic operation.

, we can complete all operations within the hub.”

"Haha~" Nesta smiled and touched her head. Although her eyes were still staring at the broken boat on the river, she asked,

"Slick guy"

After that, his voice sounded again,

"We plan to reserve a part of the 'high-energy concentrated liquid' prepared from the cell fluid of the cave wolf in the center. It will not be used during normal times, but in the event of an emergency escape, it can be used to enhance the operating efficiency of each totem component, thereby increasing the escape rate."

Looking at the 'center' designed by the research institute, Nesta found that it was small but well-equipped. Since the whole ship was expected to have only 300 sergeants, this method of escape was undoubtedly very promising;

"Oh? Such a detailed conclusion, has it been verified?"

Due to differences in the principle of signal transmission by totems, it is still not as timely as the phone calls in the previous life. After he finished saying this, it took a while before a response came from the receiver.

"Understood, I will inform you to prepare a car for you."

"The bow is designed in a deep vertical mode near the waterline, with an increased forward tilt angle at the upper part, and the front end below the waterline is a spherical bow;"

The introduction of Funa finally came to the weapon system at this time

He first expressed his bitterness, saying that he originally wanted to use a 520mm or even a 560mm rifled gun, but the size of the reaction chamber was too large. After retaining the necessary power and storage space, even the super ship on the drawing was equipped with

Not many cannons;

"The little guy who hasn't made any progress."

However, the depth of the sea, which can range from hundreds to thousands of meters, and the barren conditions that can exist in some areas, mean that the energy liquid carried on the ship must be used as a supplement to activate a series of totems on the ship;

"Look here." Chuan Ya said, pointing to the widest area in the rear middle of the hull, which occupies about two-fifths of the deck area.

"If a semi-submersible layout is adopted and arranged in three staggered rows, a total of 30 main guns can be deployed in an area 130 meters long and 50-55 meters wide;"

"Okay, don't play the trick of suppressing first and then promoting. Come up with your real follow-up plan. I will approve it if it is appropriate."

"They are all barrel designs that can change the shooting angle at a large angle. Overall, there is no blind spot for underwater attacks."

After Nesta said thank you and got out of the car, the driver asked again,

His voice was a little excited, and he stared at the ship-shaped object composed of complex lines and data marks on the drawing and said,

"In addition, the activation of reaction chamber weapons requires special energy, and the activation of armor protection also requires special energy. How much reserve space for 'low energy concentrate' are you planning to leave?"

‘Sure enough, it’s another totem monster that lies down without energy’

It's not that he doesn't like the 'half-spell', it's actually that the energy problem is really a big trouble and hidden danger at this stage;

The deep-water port is not far from the headquarters and is connected by complete and smooth roads. At the high speed of the moose, we arrived in about fifteen minutes.

"Cannonballs can be stored on their own in a limited space. Since the rate of fire is so slow, there is no need to store much. However, the energy required to operate the reaction chamber during launch and the energy required to reinforce the totem of the hull require the root system to be extended to a dedicated

It can only be obtained from the 'energy ship'"

Among the relatively calm voices of the witch doctors and scholars, there are also more than a dozen slightly childish voices mixed in. They are middle-grade students at the Central School, and most of them are as talented as ordinary people and waist high.

The elf should be Pearson, the engine research organizing committee member who is here for a visit or internship today.

After understanding his big plan, Nesta lowered his head and looked at the drawings on the case.

It has to be said that what the boat fang has done is indeed a big project. Compared with the idea in the drawing, the guy floating on the river now seems to be as different as the difference between an ax and a pistol.

Nesta instinctively cursed in her heart, but then she thought about it, weren't those coal-burning and charcoal-burning ships in the previous life the same thing?

After thinking about this, he became more accepting of these things, and turned to care about the energy reserve within the ship.

I want to write a plot.

However, technological progress and the development of weapons cannot be stopped as soon as they are written. By the time they react, it will already be like this

When I write this kind of thing, I always want to make it clearer and clearer, but unconsciously it seems that the writing is too detailed, and you must be tired of reading it.

You must be self-disciplined next time, you must be self-disciplined, and you must advance in other aspects.

(End of chapter)