Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 531: Final battle

The rest of the battle was as expected by Lawrence. That night, the Shahua murlocs assembled the only elite force left in the pursuit of humans during the day to try to carry out a night attack.

However, because of Lawrence and the others' previous reminders, these rats, who were equally capable of night combat, issued a warning in advance, and then the entire fleet that was prepared to destroy the viable power of this batch of Sahua murlocs.

Then after a daytime hunt, the fleet successfully came to the den of the Shahua murloc prince. After easily defeating the only garrison team, he tortured the prisoners with extraordinary power, and then took away all the wealth in the lair and returned victoriously.

In this expedition, the total number of casualties in the entire fleet was only more than 70 people. But they can be said to have basically eliminated one-fifth of the strength of a Sahua murloc kingdom. This can be said to be the biggest victory for those aquatic wilderness races in the Star Sea in the past ten years.

In addition, the Bofors factory engineers who were with the ship during the battle also had the opportunity to test a batch of new fuzes. For example, after leaving the offshore waters, the impact fuze of hedgehog bombs other than the giant sea beasts seemed a bit out of date, so the engineers replaced fixed-depth fuses and timed fuzes.

As a result, after a series of battles in the pursuit, the engineers found that both fuzes had certain problems. Among them, the timing fuze has the biggest problem.

Because of the water current, these depth charges will collide after they are launched, resulting in various problems. Therefore, the time of the explosion is completely inconsistent, and because some bombs exploded early, the remaining bombs of the same batch are floating everywhere, which is not enough to form enough lethality~lightnovelpub.net~Welfare] Give you a cash Red envelope! Follow the vx public [Book Friends Base Camp] to receive it!

The fixed-depth fuze is obviously better, but the cost of those fuzes is five or six times that of the impact fuze due to the need for finishing. When used at the same time, it is necessary for the transcendent to accurately point out the specific location where the enemy gathers.

Therefore, it is not as economical as the previous bumper fuze. From an economic point of view, unless you encounter a large group of Sahua murlocs, firing a round of hedgehogs may not recover the cost in the end.

Fortunately, after summarizing the actual combat experience and accepting Lawrence's inspiration, they plan to replace those expensive springs that require special treatment with cheap springs, and at the same time re-change the design to reduce the accuracy requirements of each part. Strive to reduce the cost of this kind of fixed-depth fuze. However, it may take several months for new products to leave the factory.

"Actually, this is not a bad thing." Just after dinner on the afternoon that the fleet ended its final clearance of the Sahua murlocs and began to return, Nora, who received the investigation report, said to Lawrence, who was obviously a bit distressed.

"We can now come up with the expensive version and cooperate with others, and then develop cheaper varieties and then use the upgrade name for the second round of money, that is, one thing can receive two shares."

"Sounds really good." Lawrence snapped his fingers when Nara said this, and then said seriously. "But how to fix the position of the opponent's group? I don't think there are any forces that can equip each ship with a spellcaster with underwater reconnaissance capabilities."

"This is indeed a problem, but it is not unsolvable." Nora thought for a while and said, "I think you should know that sound waves are the best way to detect underwater targets, so we can think of ways to invent some kind of sonar effect. The magic props of the people are installed on those ships, at least compared with the ships, some cheap magic props I think they should be willing to install.”

"Yes." Lawrence also reacted when Nara reminded him. "In addition to being equipped on warships to detect monsters that may appear underwater, these sonars can also be installed on civilian ships to help those civilian ships avoid dangerous shallows and reef areas. Even if the initial cost is relatively high, but as long as the price is lower than the price, please If people cast spells, I think some special ships should be willing to spend money to buy them."

The reason why Lawrence and Nora have such confidence is because they both master a large amount of knowledge related to magic, and at the same time they have reached a certain level of transcendent level. Therefore, it is not too difficult for them to study a low-level magic, it is just a matter of time.

Over the next day or so, Lawrence attended several important gatherings in the morning and discussed some very important things with a group of powerful officials on the island. During such discussions, Lawrence and the representatives of the reinforcements of the Newland Republic reached several important economic cooperation agreements.

These agreements involve the export of new types of weapons and the authorized production of new types of drugs. The representatives of the Republic of New South Wales made such a request for only one reason, and that is that they have felt the excellence of depth charges and various new drugs in the battle. Performance, so I want to cooperate with Lawrence in this regard.

Lawrence brought so many things with him when he set off. An important purpose was to promote the new products on the island. But what he didn't expect was that the White Eagle Federation, who had originally planned the goal, did not discuss this issue with him. Instead, the unexpected Xinzhou Republic sent an invitation for cooperation.

Lawrence told them that the cooperation of new weapons needs to inform the Holy Visby Empire, so it may take a day or two to make a final decision. But he can now agree to cooperate with the new drug. So soon Lawrence's professionals began a new round of negotiations on the transfer of new pharmaceutical production technology.

"I really don't understand why the White Eagle Federation is so slow to respond?" Seeing the negotiators of the Republic of New China who went to the conference room to negotiate with his servants, Lawrence said to Nora next to him with some confusion, "Obviously they too I saw the effects of these things, and I still have such a close relationship with them."

"Maybe because this is the most remote overseas territory of the Federation." Nora thought for a while and said.

“It’s not like the people sent by the Xinzhou Republic who are affiliated with the central government. The White Eagle Federation personnel that we have recently contacted are all expatriates who are stationed on the island. There is not much benefit, but they will bring themselves a series of troubles. Under such circumstances, they will naturally ignore us intentionally or unintentionally."

"Similar to what I guessed~lightnovelpub.net~ Lawrence shrugged a little helplessly. As long as it is an intelligent creature, the idea of ​​being lazy and afraid of trouble is definitely unavoidable. In places with stricter supervision, everyone will naturally. Naturally they will follow the rules, but it is not easy to talk about places like this far away from the mainland. "But they really think that I can't help them. "

Those people on the island dared to ignore Lawrence because he is now a nobleman of the Holy Visby Empire. It can be said that every move represents the Holy Visby Empire, so it’s not good to deal with some things within the Federation. Point your finger. But it is not an insolvable problem for Lawrence.

After the battle, Lawrence wrote a report on the war with the help of Shumei. And it specifically points out the effects of depth charges in the battle, and the good effects on various wounds in the test before the new medicines after the battle. Then it was mailed to the Federal Science Association of the White Eagle Federation.

As a member of the Federal Science Association, his papers will certainly receive the highest degree of attention. In this paper, Lawrence revealed a new plan for coastal defense in the face of attacks by aquatic transcendent creatures. It can be said that it is full of dry goods and should be able to be made public in a short time.

At that time, the White Eagle Federation will naturally take the initiative to approach Lawrence and their business cooperation in this area.