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This is not easy."Mingwei Signal" was installed behind the two-story cannon windows. A total of forty-six heavy side artillery were erected, but there was no oar. The rigid sails hanging on the mainmast and bowsprit were just The little brother who messes with the steam engine, even if it is full and the wind is down, don't even think about moving out of the berth for 500 years.There is no way, large battleships can never escape the "bulky" attribute. In the war-torn Henghai Eight Kingdoms, the situation will get worse and worse over time:

After the official service, the "Mingwei Xianxin" only fought for 9 months at sea, but the cypress hull was already scarred. The original dark brown hull was now covered with patches on the east and west.Some patches are freshly painted light-colored wooden boards, but the key parts such as the gun windows, paddle wheels, fore and stern towers are all made of iron plates.To make matters worse, in order to prevent ship maggots, when the "Mingwei Xianxin" was docked for repairs before, it also covered the waterline with copper.The originally big warship was greatly overweight after being so tossed, and the sturdy body was unfamiliar with sumo wrestlers......

Suo Zhongwu saw with his own eyes that in order to serve this flagship, the entire fleet gave way in advance at night and cleared a spacious waterway in the harbor.Hundreds of trackers chanted and turned the winches, and it took a full quarter of an hour on both sides of the berth to move the bow to the right direction.However, the "Mingwei Xianxin" still had to wait for her next time, because her four boilers had just ignited and it was too early to heat up.

Suo Kui didn't seem to worry about these, and he looked calm.When the tracker was busy, he leisurely walked to the top of the bridge, drank hot tea while standing in the open-air command post, and chatted and laughed happily with the captain of Linyuanzhou's native place.As a follower, Suo Zhongwu also had to stay in the same place, but he had no interest in talking nonsense. He kept staring at the two chimneys behind the bridge, tapping his fingers on the chart table subconsciously.

The two large cylinders with black top and gray bottom, first came out little by little water vapor, thin and thin, which made people anxious to see, it turned into soot after a long time, and it looked like an old man coughing intermittently.The paddle wheels on both sides have been moving a long time ago. First they creaked and rattled, and then began to slowly turn, the large wet web slapped against the water, smashing the floating oil flowers one after another.

The port staff did not delay, and hurriedly sent the only steam tug.The little guy looked very new, his newly painted white paint shining, but the crew was sophisticated, and in a blink of an eye he connected the iron chain to the bow bollard of the big ship.Next, it slammed vigorously in the front, and the yellow chimney spewed out bursts of sparks; the four rowing boats pushed the roof at the back, and the captain hit the tail of the Mingwei Xianxin. Sounds, while still not forgetting to point the ship to change its rudder direction......

Drag in the front, pull in the back, and strenuously move forward along the open waterway. After half an hour, the "Mingwei Xianxin" finally reached the breakwater.To the east, the Helicopter peninsula stretches all the way to the dam, like a natural fortification, almost covered with fragmented stones, mixed with salt-tolerant shrubs that never fall in autumn; on the north side, the masonry lighthouse stands alone on the reef. Above, the waves slapped against the black pedestal, without exception, breaking into tiny white foam.

After arriving here, the boiler of "Mingwei Xianxin" finally had enough temperature.A large amount of black smoke rose, and the circling seagulls were immediately startled away, and the movable web opened the gray-blue sea surface, splashing large areas of fishy salt water.So the tugboat departed, and even though the giant ship wailed its whistle to leave the port, the group of warships at the back could finally no longer be suffocated.

The 3,100-ton paddle-wheel airship mothership "Guangde Hongyi" had already been ignited while waiting.She no longer needs a tug, and can sail purely on her own power, but because the pilot boat leading the way is too slow, it still takes more than a quarter of an hour to get out of the breakwater.

Further behind, is a series of sailing warships.Although they are low in technology, their sailors are very skilled. The three battleships were built in the Mixed One War. From the captain to the chicken feeding and hired workers, they were all veterans, and the ship was driven steadily and quickly.Of course, in addition to the human factor, the weather finally reached out. The lazy sun pierced out the clouds and used the heat to build up its vigor, blowing the hard sails.

Headed by the first-class battleship "War Drum Dongfeng", twelve sailing warships lined up a long snake formation and sailed out of the military port spectacularly accompanied by a pilot boat.They first merged with the paddle wheel battleship, then collectively turned right at two compass points (22.5 degrees), adjusted their formation again in the northwest of the lighthouse, and officially sailed into the dangerous deep sea with beautiful and practical double columns.

Although it was during the day, the lighthouse still lit the whale oil headlights, focusing the light through the concave copper mirror, and blessing the Mingwei Xianxin.Coastal defense forts on the Helicopter Peninsula, such as East Point and Jianjiao, also sounded salutes to pay tribute to the fleet.Following Suokui's order, the fourteen warships also hung up signal flags one after another, making bold words to the port of Shangyi and even the entire Linyuan Prefecture:

This battle must be won.Two journeys back and forth, there must be a tailwind!

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The land was soon left behind.Looking around, there is only the jewel blue sea.The warship is floating on the water, constantly shaking, or horizontally swaying, or longitudinally bumping.The bow split the waves, and the white track was immediately muddled by the paddle wheels, leaving an unusually wide and chaotic wake on the stern.

Many sea creatures jumped out of the water, turning the track into an extremely lively track.Some small fishes and shrimps were simply stunned by the current, but the larger predators took the opportunity to get together to eat:

Dolphins will certainly not be absent. They are as good at this way as their counterparts on earth, jumping happily in the water; the local winged squid, rammed by the high-efficiency water jet engine, will stretch out and shrink the tentacles. Only the unlucky one was recruited; the half-man long sacred thief are sinister and cunning thieves. They stalked on their discolored skin, snatched them from the big hunter’s mouth and ran away. They did not forget to arrange the pigment cells before leaving. Deliberately demonstrate to the victim with a series of flashes......

The track of the giant ship has thus become a buffet table for hunters.Many creatures shuttled from ship to ship, constantly screaming triumphantly.Suo Zhongwu stood in the open-air command post, only hating that the location was too high to see clearly, but Lao Kui had no interest in these scenery, which was even worse than burning a piano and cooking a crane.

He pretended that it was something like that, with a chart in his left hand and a technical manual in his right. He talked endlessly with the captain about specific tactics. Even if he stopped talking occasionally, he ordered his nephew to carry things.