Not long after Levi had just dealt with Kevin, the overly enlightened half-elf warlock, with a very short moment of forward inertia, the steam locomotive finally stopped, and several people on the car also opened their groggy eyes.

With a creak, the car door was opened by the driver of the George family from the outside, and he bowed to everyone in the car:

"Sir, there are several distinguished guests. The Jishui City Shipyard has arrived. Welcome to the port area."

Calvin nodded and raised his hand to Levi, signaling his boss to please go first.

Li Wei naturally didn't care about these etiquettes and was the first to get out of the car, and then everyone else followed him and filed out.

"Lord/Boss/Master!"

Several different titles rang out at the same time.

When I looked up, I saw Iger, Fisher, Hoz and others arriving as promised and waiting for Levi and the others in front of the dock gate.

Levi nodded to them, but was surprised to see that Ige, who was traveling for the first time in so many years, actually gave himself a nesting doll transformation technique, and it was so simple and crude that he even changed his race.

His current image is that of a lizard man wearing a suit and monolithic nose glasses...

However, considering his current intimidating power and importance in the Dark Territory, especially in Gelthorne City, it is really not appropriate for his whereabouts to be leaked.

Just when he glanced at everyone one by one, he saw Ai lying on Hodes's back like an octopus, with his small mouth open and two tiger teeth embedded in his bleeding head.

After Li Wei, the corners of Li Wei's mouth twitched.

He looked at the Jackal leader with a resentful and aggrieved look that seemed to say, "Master, can you get the little mistress down? If my head wasn't so hard, I might not even be able to see you," I gave him a heartless look.

With a look that said, "Since you brought this troublemaker out, you should take a good look at it. If something goes wrong, you can figure it out yourself." He walked straight past the crowd and strode into the bustling dock.

Commander Huo looked at Li Wei's retreating back, his eyes instantly looked like he was dead.

Ouch...crunch.

The little hostess lying behind seemed to be dreaming about some delicious food again, so she changed her angle and continued to eat.

A stream of scarlet blood suddenly flowed from his forehead to his cheek.

This horrifying scene immediately frightened the passers-by around them. They thought the jackal was possessed by some demon, so they all covered their mouths and quickly moved away from the terrifying pair.

For Hotz, the pain in his head was nothing.

The key thing is that he doesn't think that with his own ability, he can restrain the little mistress who is about to wake up!

He still remembers that as early as forty-six years ago, when he had just undergone the transformation of the Ultramarines, he thought that the entire territory except for the owner, the director of Ig, the psionic warlock Calvin and the orc Dro who was also an Ultramarine at the time

Lu, Hotz is no longer invincible!

But during a certain "Dog Food Battle" where he was playing with his mistress, just when he jumped up and was about to catch the Los Steak thrown by Remulu, he was kicked in the air by Miss Alley on the spot.

On my old waist...

There was a click on the spot, and the whole wolf flew hundreds of feet away. After making several large holes in the ground, the whole wolf was embedded in the mine...

In my mist, I seemed to have dreamed of swimming with dogs in the River Styx.

When he woke up again, he was already lying on the operating table in the magic laboratory...

After being looked at by a group of mages in white coats with pity for 'martyrs', Hotz no longer dared to be serious with the little mistress...

Damn it!

What other people want from playing with the young lady is love, but what Huo Moulang wants from playing with the young lady is his life...

Thinking of the sadness and despair, Hotz couldn't help but howl like one of those wolfdogs with a bright future.

However, everyone in Zeelandia had long been accustomed to such scenes, and they patted Commander Huo on the shoulder sympathetically and followed him.

This shipyard has obviously undergone several major renovations since it was taken over by Zeelandia, and now seven docks have been built.

If things were normal, it would be normal for the seven ponds and docks here to start construction at the same time.

However, because Levi needed to come for inspection, the shipyard moved several of the ships that were almost completed first, and instead docked several classic ships from the Northland countries, which was equivalent to temporarily decommissioning the shipyard.

As a showroom.

Although it was also the first time for Iger to come to this shipyard that had been acquired for many years, as a technician who always pays attention to this place, he knew the data here very well. Accompanied by a shipyard director, he went out in an orderly manner

Xu introduced Li Wei:

"Your Majesty Levis, the medium-sized sailing ship you are seeing now is called Knaou. It was invented by the Amn people more than forty years ago and used as a sailing ship for ocean-going trade. It usually has three masts and a tonnage of about

They range from 200 to 600 tons. Once they appeared, they were sought after throughout the North.

"Its main feature is its huge forecastle and stern, with a horizontal sail hung on the relatively huge bowsprit. It has better power and balance than ordinary ships. Although its speed and flexibility are not as good as the early Clavel sailing ships

, but due to its advantage of large carrying capacity, it has become the mainstream merchant ship on the Sword Coast in the past few decades."

Levi nodded slowly.

Although the two worlds are completely different, the profit-seeking nature of businessmen has led to a convergence in the development direction of sea-going ships.

I heard Ige continue to introduce: "At the same time, the significance of Knaou as a warship is also epoch-making. The tall ship side increases the difficulty of traditional hand-to-hand combat. The huge hull and multi-layer deck can be equipped with more

of ballistae to deal with the threat of pirates."

"Ballista?" Li Wei raised his eyebrows.

In his impression, although Corell's goblin explosives have been criticized, they still have miraculous effects when used to dock ships.

As Levi's confidant, Iger naturally knew the direction of his doubts. Just saying this, Iger's face flashed with a strange color and explained:

"Traditional ship-based artillery has not been able to develop much due to the extremely unstable alchemical explosives, susceptibility to moisture, and difficulty in controlling the demonization reaction. Merchants are more willing to make contracts with traveling mages, especially mages of the Evocation School.

A few fireball spells can often cause serious damage to a pirate ship without a mage accompanying it.

"In addition, forty-six years ago, after our Zelandia's Demon-Splitting Repeater became so popular in the Endless Wilderness, mages successively tried to imitate it.

“The most successfully imitated among them is the ship-borne ballista.

"Since ship-based crossbows do not need to consider the technical problems and expensive costs caused by miniaturization, a fire-type energy-shaping crossbow is much higher than traditional goblin artillery, both in terms of accuracy and controllability.

"However, ship-borne ballistae is not as expensive as goblin artillery, both in terms of logistical maintenance and the cost of enchanting the crossbow bolts.

"So today's mainstream armed merchant ships have two to three ship-borne ballistae, coupled with more than a dozen goblin cannons. If the problem can be solved with goblin artillery, magic ballistae will generally not be used."

Levi couldn't help but laugh. It turns out that Zelandia's concept of long-range fire suppression has begun to lead the trend in Northland?

And Ige's calm scholar's mentality, who is always humble and never takes credit, is also very appreciated by Li Wei.

"What about the warships? What's the firepower of the warships?" Li Wei asked.

Everyone moved with Ige and came to a larger sailboat:

"Your Majesty Levis, please see, the three-masted sailing ship on your left is the mainstream warship of Amn in the past, ranging from 700 to 850 tons, equipped with six ship-borne ballistae, 30 to 40 alchemical cannons, and a range of

It reaches about 1,200 feet."

Li Wei looked at this tall warship with three decks and couldn't help but asked in wonder:

"Amn's battleship? How did you get it?"

"Lucifer asked people to find connections with the Amn Navy, spent some money, and directly bought a 'decommissioned' warship." Iger said very calmly.

Levi took a look at the Amn galleon, which still had some paint smell left and had been retired from the factory, and was speechless.

For a moment, I didn’t know whether to praise Lucifer for being too charming or because Amn was too rotten inside.

Even a brand new warship can be sold. If this was placed in Zeelandia, he felt that he would probably be able to use that guy's head to give Alica a meal.

I heard Ige continue to introduce:

"It is said that Tethyr was the first to build this kind of large sailing ship. Its purpose was to conduct ocean trade. Tethyr used this fleet to continuously transport large amounts of gold, spices and various magic materials back from the south.

Later, Amn, which had stronger national and financial resources, began large-scale counterfeiting, defeated Tethyr's fleet in the Sea of ​​Glory, and took over their ocean-going business.

"As you can see, the most distinctive feature of this warship is the "portholes" set up on the warship. These windows on the side of the ship have window covers that can be opened with hinges. In this way, there is no need to hoist from the side of the ship through the window.

It is easy to load and unload cargo to the ship.

"But it is a pity that Luskan also quickly followed this idea and directly tried to make the alchemy cannon and ballistae fire from the lower deck of the ship. The broadside gun was announced from then on, and it happened to make the weapon

The load is safely distributed under the center of gravity of the ship, which can well prevent rollover accidents when the storm comes.

"And Amn soon followed Luskan's lead and built a warship about 100 feet long and 30 feet wide, called the Amn Galleon. It was specially designed for naval combat. Its

The hull tends to be long and narrow, with a low ramming angle above the waterline, which is used to ram enemy ships.

"This kind of warship has three masts with horizontal sails on it, a ship building at the bow and stern, many light cannons on the hull above the waterline, and a row of large magic ballistae on the main hull. In this way, naval battles

The initial stage is greatly extended.

"If you cannot violently ram the enemy ship and have soldiers board the enemy ship for a hand-to-hand fight like in early naval battles, then it will be difficult to achieve a real victory in the battle.

"But this new type of warship is not something we can get."

Ige seemed a little regretful.

Levi and the others almost laughed out loud.

Being able to directly buy battleships already shows that Amn has serious internal problems.

If even the latest warships can be purchased, then it means that Amn is not far from being destroyed.

Iger continued: "At the same time, Luskan also quickly learned that the application of broadside cannons, especially magic ballistae, is likely to change traditional naval tactics, so he is paying more and more attention to the development of weapons suitable for equipping long-range cannons.
To be continued...