Struggle in the Steam Age

The ensuing battle was just as Lawrence expected. That night, the sahuagin assembled the only remaining elite troops that were left in the daytime human pursuit to try to carry out a night attack.

However, because of Lawrence's previous reminders, these Ratmen with equally excellent night combat capabilities issued a warning in advance, and then the entire fleet that was prepared together wiped out the vital force of this group of sahuagin.

Then, after a daytime chase, the fleet arrived at the lair of the sahuagin prince smoothly. After easily defeating the only garrison team, he tortured the captives with extraordinary power, 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 wiped out 1/5 of the strength of a sahuagin kingdom. This can be said to be the biggest victory of Star Sea against those aquatic wilderness races in the past ten years.

In addition, the Bofors factory engineers who were on board during this battle also had the opportunity to test a batch of new fuzes. For example, after leaving the offshore waters, in addition to attacking those giant sea beasts, the impact fuze of the hedgehog bomb seemed a bit out of date, so the engineers replaced it with a fixed-depth fuze and a timing fuze.

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

Because of the water flow, after these depth charges are launched into the water, they will collide and cause various problems. Therefore, the timing of the explosion was completely inconsistent, and because some bombs exploded early, the remaining bombs of the same batch were scattered everywhere, and they could not form enough lethality at all.

The fixed depth fuze is obviously better, but the cost of those fuzes is five or six times that of the touch fuze due to the finishing work required. When using it at the same time, the supernatural person needs to point out the specific location where the enemies gather more accurately.

So it is not as economical as the previous touch fuze. From an economic point of view, unless you encounter a large group of sahuagin, firing a round of hedgehog shells may not cover the cost in the end.

Fortunately, after summarizing the actual combat experience and accepting Lawrence's inspiration, they intend 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 depth-fixed fuze. But in this way, it may take several months for new products to leave the factory.

"Actually, this isn't a bad thing." Just after dinner in the afternoon when the fleet finished its final campaign against the sahuagin and began its return voyage, Nora, who received the investigation report, said to Lawrence, who was clearly distressed.

"Now we can take out the expensive version and cooperate with others, and then develop a cheaper version, and then use the upgraded version as the second round of money, that is, we can charge two copies for one thing."

"Sounds really good." Lawrence snapped his fingers after hearing Nora's words, and then said seriously. "However, how to solve the problem of locking the location of the opponent's aggregate? I don't think there is any force that can equip each ship with a spellcaster with underwater detection 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 find a way to invent some kind of sonar effect." The magic props are installed on those ships, at least compared with the ships, I think they should be willing to install some cheap magic props."

"That's right." Lawrence also reacted to Nora's reminder. "In addition to being equipped on military ships to detect monsters that may appear underwater, these sonars can also be installed on civilian ships to help those civilian ships avoid dangerous shoals and reef areas. Even if the cost is relatively high at the beginning, as long as the price is lower than the one requested If people cast spells, I think some special ships should be willing to spend money to buy."

The reason why Lawrence and Nora have such confidence is because they have mastered a lot of knowledge related to magic, and at the same time, they have reached a certain level of extraordinary level. Therefore, it is not too difficult for them to study a low-level magic, it is only a matter of time.

Over the next day or so, Lawrence attended several important gatherings in the morning and discussed some very important matters with a group of powerful officials on the island. During such discussions, Lawrence and the representatives of the New Island Republic's reinforcements reached several important economic cooperation agreement intentions.

These agreements involve the export of new weapons and the authorized production of new drugs, and there is only one reason why the representatives of the Republic of New State made such a request, that is, they have felt the excellence of those depth charges and various new drugs in battle before. performance, so I want to cooperate with Lawrence in this regard.

The reason why Lawrence brought so many things when he set off was to promote the new products on the island. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the White Eagle Federation, which was the original target, didn't discuss this issue with him. Instead, the unexpected New Island Republic sent an invitation for cooperation.

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

"I really don't understand why the White Eagle Federation is so unresponsive?" Looking at the negotiators of the New Island Republic who went to the conference room to negotiate with their retainers, Lawrence said to Nola beside him with some puzzlement, "Obviously they also Seeing the effect of these things, and being so close to them."

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

"Unlike the people sent by the New Island Republic who belong to the central government, the White Eagle Federation personnel that we have contacted recently are all a group of expatriates stationed on the island. It is not necessary for them to report these things upwards. There is not much benefit, but it will bring a series of troubles to themselves. Under such circumstances, they will naturally ignore us intentionally or unintentionally."

"It's about the same as I guessed." Lawrence shrugged a little helplessly. As long as it is an intelligent creature, the idea of ​​being lazy and avoiding trouble is definitely unavoidable. In places with stricter supervision, everyone will naturally follow the rules, but it is not so easy to say in places far away from the mainland. "But do they really think that I can't do anything about them?"

The reason why those people on the island dare to turn a blind eye to Lawrence is because he is now a nobleman of the Holy Visby Empire, and it can be said that his every move represents the Holy Visby Empire, so it is not good for some things within the Federation. Pointing fingers. But it wasn't an insoluble problem for Lawrence.

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

As a member of the Commonwealth of Scientific Associations, his papers are sure to receive the highest degree of attention. And in this paper, Lawrence revealed a new plan for coastal defense in the face of the attacks of those extraordinary aquatic creatures.

At that time, the White Eagle Federation will naturally take the initiative to find Lawrence and their business cooperation issues.