I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

I restrain myself only because I cannot beat you for the time being, and I do not restrain myself because I want to beat you.

If she is really pushed to the limit, she is capable of becoming the devil's advocate in the eyes of the Vatican.

Chapter 134: Shattered Statue

【shooting!】

Malone gave the order to fire, the turret operator pressed the switch, and the two 210mm guns roared like thunder. Four heavy armor-piercing shells were fired, and a few seconds later, the single 210 at the rear also fired two projectiles.

Thick white smoke spewed out of the gun barrel and spread into the middle of the battleship. Malone frowned slightly when seeing this scene. The wind was against the wind and the gun mist would obstruct the rangefinder's vision.

A few seconds later, several water columns exploded around the distant support fleet. The rangefinders and fire controllers recalculated the new ballistic coordinates based on the positions of the water columns, and the gunners urgently loaded the shells.

Several Ox- and Bear-Tribe Orcs who were carrying the main gun shells spewed out mist from their nostrils from time to time. It was obvious that the high-frequency fighting made them very tired.

Although there are backup loaders, the frequency of the battleship's firepower projection inevitably begins to decrease. This is also because the fleet does not like to fight high-intensity encounters. Loading shells is a life-threatening job.

However, although the frequency was lower, the hit rate did not decrease. The V-shaped array of the support fleet gave Malone an excellent opportunity to behead.

He ignored the third-class battleships on both sides of the front protrusion, and instead directed all his firepower to the flagship at the bottom of the V, making full use of the advantages of the long range and rate of fire of the federal artillery.

Through the interval shooting of the cruisers, the trajectory was continuously optimized and calculated, and the shooting became more and more accurate. Finally, 18 cruisers launched a salvo, and the saturation shooting covered the sea area around the flagship.

After the shells in the air fell into the sea, Malone put down the telescope.

At this time, all that was left at the location where the opponent's support fleet flagship was was the wreckage of raging fire and continuous small explosions.

The sinking of the flagship also caused chaos within the support fleet. For a moment, they didn't know whether to continue charging, wait for their teammates to catch up, or retreat.

The Vatican's main fleet in the bay has also reached its limit. Although most of the cruisers have been transferred away, the remaining torpedo boats can still support the required firepower density.

The super-heavy flagship "Goddess of Light" has been hit hard by the navy's main guns and is now in a semi-destroyed state.

The statue of a goddess standing tall in front of the main deck with her arms embracing the sea was also hit by a lucky grenade, which blew off her upper body on the spot, leaving only her two long legs on the boat.

The huge and numerous sails on the ship were basically burned out by the flames, leaving only bare wooden poles standing in place. The entire flagship had basically lost its power source.

The supporting fleet was not in a much better situation. After realizing that the Federal Navy was not easy to deal with, they turned around and exposed the densely packed gun muzzles on their sides, firing back at the Federal warships, but with little effect.

The special effects of the firing of a large number of artillery and magic crystal cannons were very explosive, but most of the shells fell into the water one kilometer away from the federal warships. The occasional few that were closer also flew 800 meters away from the fleet's sailing route.

It can be said that even if the visual effects are maxed out, it’s useless.

Malone was not at all surprised by this, and continued to calmly command his fleet to attack, achieving success from time to time.

Any artillery can always find a way to fire indirect fire shells. Even the 210mm main gun on the Federation cruiser is actually a flat-fire gun. It only has the effect of increasing the range of indirect fire after certain modifications.

But this has two prerequisites. First, the shells must have better propellant, which is the most direct way to increase the range and power.

The second is range finding and fire control. You have to know where the shells will go even if you shoot far. You have to find a way to limit the radius of the trajectory. If the dispersion is too high, who are you shooting for?

These two issues were exactly what the Holy See, which had just learned the technology of black powder and cast iron cannons, had not considered, and they did not even have such doubts at all.

Because their own magic alchemy technology creation, the medium and heavy magic cannon, its two bombardment methods, whether it is to create lava ball shells or to concentrate energy for a penetrating attack, are both flat shooting attack methods.

Elemental energy will have a spillover effect. The farther the target is, the lower the attack power of the energy cannon will be. Lava balls are also a type of magic, which requires the mage to aim and project.

You expect the mages to accurately strike a moving target several kilometers or dozens of kilometers away? So at the beginning they had no idea of ​​indirect fire to increase the range, let alone relevant technical reserves.

The effect of their bombardment was not even as threatening as those machines that flew from the fleet and carried out magical attacks in the air. At least they did not have to consider various complicated algorithms when attacking.

"Boom!"

A loud explosion sounded throughout the sea. Everyone turned around to look at the source of the sound. The flagship of the Holy See, the invincible "Goddess of Light", broke into two parts and floated on the sea, sinking and disappearing at a very fast speed.

Countless soldiers of the Holy See stared in amazement as the sea water swallowed up the giant ship with an elegant hull painted in platinum and slowly disappeared on the sea. Through the two legs, it seemed that they could still see the glory and splendor of the giant ship in the past.

Now all that remains are the shattered statues and the huge, broken emblem, as well as the loyal believers howling in the vortex formed by the rapidly sinking ship.

This giant ship, which was built with all its might during the heyday of the Holy See, witnessed the glory of the Holy See. Countless believers were proud to step onto her deck. Now, she will lead her devout believers to be buried in the sea.

The remaining ships of the Vatican's main fleet raised the white flag. Seeing that the situation was not good, the supporting fleet on the other side turned around and tried to escape, but was chased and bombarded by the squadron led by Malone.

The cruiser that faces the enemy head-on also has two main turrets and four 152mm rapid-fire guns that can attack the enemy. Exposing your butt is simply a sign of wanting to die.

The fate of this support fleet was even more tragic than that of the main ship that was blocked in the port.

Among the more than 200 warships, only the low-level 100-ton ships and a few third-level battleships hiding in the rear were able to escape, while all the first- and second-level battleships were sunk in the vast ocean.

Malone was a tough guy through and through. He had no habit of taking prisoners. Besides, such a broken ship could not be taken away at sea and was of no use to the Federation. It would be easier to just sink it, and he wouldn't have to provide food.

Doolittle of the main fleet also chose the same approach, but he did not execute the Vatican soldiers with cannon fire. Instead, he asked the officers and soldiers on the torpedo boat to guide these people back to the ruined port and land to wait to be captured.

After the magic crystal cannon was removed from the ship, it was directly towed to the open sea and sunk.

Medea has been consciously expanding her shipyards. Even though the shipping capacity pressure brought by trade is extremely high, she has not agreed to purchase ships from other countries. Instead, she has placed orders to expand her shipyards and let her own shipyards take the orders.

However, the reason why they dare to do this is mainly because the Seris Federation, which has a mature supporting industrial system, can lower the prices of industrial products to the point where competitors can't help but jump off the building, and they can do so without worrying about losing orders.

The rewards are also rich. A large number of workers with shipbuilding experience are the Federation’s most valuable asset and an indispensable part of maintaining the shipbuilding industry.

It is easy to make better, bigger and more powerful industrial machines, but it is not so easy to retain skilled workers.

With the current shipbuilding capabilities of the Federation, not to mention the production of 10,000-ton ships, even civilian ships of 3,000 to 5,000 tons can be launched in batches, so these wooden sailboats are of no use except taking up space.

Chapter 135: The happy oil of the Holy See, the evil spirit in the fire.

The Federal Navy engaged in a fierce artillery battle with the Vatican Navy at sea, and the army soldiers in the Kingdom of Palia were also not idle.

The tank division heading to the royal capital is still on the way, and another troop marching to occupy the city of Kaluka has already arrived at the foot of the city.

There is a Type B division of the Holy See stationed here to garrison. Apart from anything else, the morale of the Holy See soldiers is the second highest that Media has ever seen, second only to the soldiers of the Seris Federation.

According to front-line commanders, they launched a long and large-scale artillery bombardment on the city, and each tentative charge failed to make much progress.

Media did not have a good solution to this problem at first, but after the Federal Navy telegraphed that it had won the naval battle, they were immediately transferred to Kaluka by Media.

The 210mm naval gun is good at hitting ships, and it is also good at hitting people and fortifications.

Near the Kaluka coastline, the federal fleet launched a large-scale bombardment on the city of Kaluka. A large number of heavy grenades were poured on the city defenses, blowing up most of the city walls.

What followed was that the bombers launched a large-scale bombing of the defenders' fortifications outside the city, repeatedly plowing the ground to open an attack channel for the Federal Army.

At the same time, the army's own field artillery continued to extend the bombardment line, blocking the support line of the defenders in the city on the battlefield, and the triple bombing assisted in the storming of Kaluka City.

Tanks and heavy armored soldiers were responsible for clearing the way, while anti-aircraft infantry fighting vehicles and ordinary soldiers were responsible for occupying the area, giving the enemy little chance to struggle and annihilating them.

However, the losses this time were also very serious. The Vatican army, which refused to surrender, put up an extremely fierce resistance in the city. Street fighting was exactly the type of warfare that the Seris Federation disliked the most, and a large number of soldiers were killed in sneak attacks.

When it comes to the problem of street fighting, Medea is at a loss. Street fighting has given countless military experts a headache. Apart from fighting the enemy head-on, the only option left is to raze the enemy's city to the ground.

When it comes to contact encounters, the physical fitness of federal soldiers becomes the biggest constraint, so the question returns to the starting point: when will the body be completely deconstructed so that it can be mass-produced?

It cannot be done for the time being. If we produce it by copying the model, there will be no problem, but this is not suitable for the physique of the federal baby. Whether it is the sense of control or the positioning of the body, the two sides have different understandings of it.

Simply put, the main continent's positioning of the machine is more of a jack of all trades, taking into account range output while also having single-unit combat effectiveness and strong life-saving capabilities.

In Medea's opinion, this falls into the category of being good at everything but good at nothing, with a large number of useless and bloated designs, and federal scientists are unable to eliminate the useless things for the time being.

Most of the Federation's soldiers are still ordinary humans. Unlike magicians who can flexibly change their fighting styles according to needs, they need specialized designs to magnify their advantages and reduce their weaknesses, that is, to specialize in different types of troops.

Currently, the Federation's machines can only be roughly distinguished by the weapons they are equipped with.

The prerequisite for deconstructing and optimizing is that you must understand the function of each inscription and the combined effect of these inscriptions, so as to disassemble and optimize them.

In this regard, the federation is still in its infancy and can only understand the more basic principles. It will take time to deeply learn and analyze them.

However, street fighting reminded her of trench warfare in her previous life, and trench warfare required specialized weapons or a type of military force to attack soldiers in tunnels.

That is the battlefield Satan fire-breathing soldier~

The manufacture of flamethrowers is very simple for the current industry of the Seris Federation. It is nothing more than a fuel tank, a high-pressure gas tank, a hose nozzle and a nozzle.

However, it will take some time to develop the fuel. The reason why flamethrowers are so terrifying is that the damage caused by napalm accounts for a large proportion.

It is a thousand degree high temperature, lasts forever, and has adhesion. Once it touches something, it will not stop until it burns through the bones. It is called Satan's saliva, and is even more cruel than white phosphorus.

But the preparation of napalm is not an easy task. Although it is called napalm, it is actually neither solid nor liquid. It is like a lump of jelly, which is where the thickener comes into play.

The preparation of the thickener requires a special metal salt made from palmitic acid extracted from palm oil, and then aluminum cyclopentaneate is added to gasoline as an emulsifier and white phosphorus to form this viscous gel.

It is not that liquid gasoline cannot be used, but gasoline is a volatile substance that is dangerous and unstable.

Napalm is very stable and can withstand storage and transportation. Its lethality is more than ten times that of gasoline.

The more she thought about it, the brighter Medea's purple pupils became. Why didn't she think of this thing at the beginning? This is Taijun... No! It's the Church's Happy Oil!

It has a temperature of thousands of degrees and consumes oxygen to produce poisonous gas. It has high viscosity and adhesion, a long burning time, and its semi-liquid state can flow into various gaps to kill.

Isn't this a special attack on the Vatican soldiers who like to charge forward shouting "Long live the goddess"?

One fire from the flamethrower is enough for him to scream "Long live the goddess" for five to ten seconds before he ascends to heaven to see the goddess. Anyway, there is no Geneva Convention in this world.

The federal chemical department did it as soon as they thought of it. They quickly prepared various chemical products needed for thickeners under the one-way hook of Media. The prices were not expensive and they could be quickly mass-produced.

The manufacture of a container spray gun is extremely simple, but the protection of the tank is more troublesome. Once a flamethrower appears on the battlefield.

The first few times the opponents may not understand, it’s no big deal, but once you taste the sweetness of napalm, you will never forget it for the rest of your life.

In a sense, napalm is the ultimate death of carbon-based creatures, and the way they die is even more cruel than slow slicing.

I guess in the future, if there is a forbidden spell, people would want to smash it on the flamethrower's face, and he would be 100% the target of concentrated fire, so the protection must be perfect.

The solution given by Medea is to make three different specifications of flamethrower equipment.

At the same time, the magic engine is miniaturized, retaining only the most basic shield function on the fuel backpack, which is only effective for the backpack components, and the soldiers must be strong and able to equip heavy armor.

This type of flamethrower will be deployed to a 50-man platoon-level unit as a basic combat unit.

The second type is equipped by soldiers wearing the body. All kinds of weapons are cancelled, and larger flamethrower tanks and double shield generators are used as insurance, which can be used as heavy firepower.

According to Medea's calculations, as long as the flamethrower soldiers can withstand the attack of the captain-level machine and launch their own counterattack, all beings will be equal on the spot under the thousand-degree high temperature with the addition of white phosphorus and thermite.

You have to know that the body is not completely sealed! Otherwise, where does the oxygen supply come from? The danger of a high-pressure oxygen tank is many times more dangerous than opening an air intake.

The ultimate is naturally the flamethrower tank. The modified large secondary-boost flamethrower barrel is fully capable of spraying napalm hundreds of meters away, which is no different from being hit head-on by alien acid.

Chapter 136 Hellfire

After Kaluka was occupied by Seris, a large number of containers were lifted in via transport airships, which basically contained cement powder and other materials.

In the next half month, Kaluka's troops will build a large fortification with explosion-proof walls to prepare for the use of follow-up troops.