Chapter 404: Chapter 403: Offshore Crisis
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After the hot air balloon flew at high altitude for more than two hours, Murong Shan began to control the hot air balloon to land slowly.
However, there are many people around who are excited and want to ride and experience it.
The people were so enthusiastic that Xiaozhu Xiaoyue was a little scared and had to ask Zhang Hao for instructions. Zhang Hao nodded, but after the experiment just now, the hot air balloon can only carry five people at a time, and one person needs to be left to control the hot air balloon, so it can only carry four passengers at a time.
Zhang Hao smiled faintly as he watched the crowd scrambling to be the first. This hot air balloon was originally intended for public use.
In this world of practice, the military value of hot air balloons is temporarily difficult to reflect, with slow speed and almost no defense. In contrast, the commercial prospects are greater.
Of course, Zhang Hao doesn’t mind selling hot air balloons to other countries for military use—as long as you buy them, we can produce them and take care of the training.
Zhang Hao watched it for a while and then left with Zhou Xueyao. There are more things to do. Now that the hot air balloon was successful, Zhang Hao didn't need to worry about the airship. The internal combustion engine is also entering the final stage of testing, and the power system of the airship is also easy to solve.
And even if there is no internal combustion engine, there is no problem. The speed of the airship is slow, and the air resistance is relatively small. It can be propelled by spells or formations—perhaps even faster than the internal combustion engine.
Because of the above reasons, Zhang Hao is not prepared to use hot air balloons as military equipment. However, the original plan of hot air balloon research was to explore the high altitude, and above the altitude of 20,000 feet, the aura began to thin out.
Zhang Hao and the elites of the Dayang Group are eager to understand—this is also one of the focuses of the next step. Only by figuring out what aura is, can we practice better, especially better understand what kind of realm is in the stage of transforming gods, and what kind of existence is in the spirit of the spirit!
After Zhang Hao and Zhou Xueyao returned, Zhou Xueyao went straight to her research base. Today, Fairy Zhou has built the framework of the periodic table of elements—maybe it is not perfect, and Zhou Xueyao is eager to know what the world is made of.
And the brand-new field of chemistry, combined with her own knowledge of alchemy, etc., also made Zhou Xueyao more excited. She faintly felt that she seemed to have touched the core of this world.
Scientific research, especially the kind of research that progresses rapidly and keeps getting closer to the original, is addictive!
The exploration of the origin of the world and the pursuit of truth are the most fascinating.
Zhang Hao inspected the production base, port, etc., and everything satisfied Zhang Hao.
Today's port is already bustling. Although Xuanzhen Sect lost four steel warships and Dayang Group sold two more to the Land of Canglan, there are still seven steel warships passing through the port.
However, in the past three months, due to the need to build a new dock and so on, Dayang Group has not produced new warships. However, in the dock, there are already five 10,000-ton (Iron Duke) warships entering the outfitting stage. It is expected that Dayang Group will be able to add another five steel warships within a month at most.
However, these five steel warships have already been booked. Dayang Group has two, Xuanzhenjiao has two, and Liu Xinyu has one.
In addition, there is a 20,000-ton battleship in production.
Liu Xinyu paid with the wealth he collected from various countries, etc.; Xuanzhen Sect was at a disadvantage. The three steel warships that had been lost had to be paid out of their own pockets. That is to say, of the 10 warships originally reserved by Xuanzhen Sect, now there are only 7 places left.
Three months have passed, and Xuanzhen Sect is still in distress—the impact of what happened at the beginning is so great that now the technology is blooming everywhere, and there are Xiaoyao sects. The advantage that Xuanzhen Sect had suddenly appeared before suddenly disappeared.
But all of this has nothing to do with Zhang Hao, at least Zhang Hao doesn't care about these things now. Anyway, the benefits of belonging to Dayang Group have already been obtained.
Recently, the western industry and commerce in Fertile Land Continent has exploded, but if they want to develop industry and commerce quickly, they need to purchase machinery and equipment from Dayang Group, especially machine tools. Although it is just a simple machine tool, it is not easy to do well. In particular, the Lingshi-driven steam turbines that must be used for machine tools are still only produced by Dayang Group.
As a result, when industry and commerce broke out everywhere, Dayang Group's orders also piled up a bit, and orders for key equipment such as machine tools had been scheduled until the end of the year. Even so, orders are still increasing.
Especially the standards of Dayang Group are spreading rapidly.
Dayang Group used a technology leak to cultivate the market. Maybe someone has already discovered Dayang Group's conspiracy, but it's useless.
The technology has been leaked, the market has matured, and it is too late to say anything.
After Zhang Hao inspected the port, he was about to leave. But at this moment, a few battleships floated towards the sea in the distance, in the south.
To be exact, there were three ships, and Zhang Hao could tell at a glance that they belonged to the Dayang Group.
Zhang Hao frowned immediately—the battleship only set out 8 days ago and sailed south. According to the past situation, it would take at least 20 days to return. Why are you back so early?
And there were four warships when they set off, and there were only three ships left when they came back. The Zhiyuan battleship, the smallest, with a displacement of 4,000 tons, disappeared.
A master flew from the battleship, and soon came to the port, and saw Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao also saw each other and knew each other (Zhang Hao knew almost all the Nascent Soul Stages of Dayang Group). Seeing the other party's hurried and embarrassed look, Zhang Hao frowned, "Ma Rong, what's going on?"
Ma Rong opened his mouth, looked around, and said in a low voice: "We encountered mirage dragons again. This time, five mirage dragons gathered, all of them were in the stage of transformation. The Zhiyuan sank.
We shot almost all the shells. But mirage dragons have learned to be smart, and they hide in the deep sea, and we can hardly do anything about them. "
Zhang Hao's pupils contracted: "What I was worried about finally happened. How is the person?"
Zhang Hao didn't ask the battleship, but a person. Warmth flashed in Ma Rong's eyes. One of the big reasons why they were willing to serve under Zhang Hao as the Nascent Soul Stage was that Zhang Hao did have an admirable side. In the event of an accident, don't ask about the loss, etc., but first ask about the person.
It seems like a simple thing, but the impact on the opponent is immeasurable.
Ma Rong continued in a low voice: "A dozen ordinary sailors were lost. The rest are fine."
Zhang Hao sighed: "Don't say anything about this matter for the time being, there is no need to create tension. You let everyone go to the shore first and let everyone rest first.
Wait another month or so, wait for our new warships to be launched, and go kill them! "
In the past, Zhang Hao, Dayang Group and Mirage Group have always maintained a tacit agreement - not to attack each other. Unexpectedly, after a few months, these beasts could not bear it anymore.
After a short pause, Zhang Hao asked again, "Where is Fu Yun who is on board this time?"
"A battleship was pulled by a mirage dragon. The leak was serious. The keel on the left side was twisted. It was all supported by Senior Fu Yun. The other two battleships were also damaged."
Zhang Hao took a deep breath, "Let the battleship go directly to the dock, and don't dock at the port."
After a while, the shore was still noisy. Although Zhang Hao didn't want to say anything, the three warships were so big that they couldn't hide them at all. Especially when the distance is close, everyone can even see the destroyed superstructure and the sunken armored side of the ship.
A look, that is, a war broke out. And this kind of fighting is obviously different from explosions. Someone shouted on the spot: I met a sea monster!
The family members of some crew members tensed up even more.
The battleship did not dock, and went directly into the dock. The newly expanded dock is very large, with five large berths - 30,000-ton class, and five small ship berths - 10,000-ton class.
Zhang Hao personally inspected the situation of the battleship. For the first battleship, almost a quarter of the middle and left sides were sunken. Of the seven keels at the bottom of the ship, one and two on the left side were broken and twisted. Fortunately, the main keel is fine.
On the outside of the battleship, you can still see the traces of the mirage dragon's tail, with the imprint of scales. What Zhang Hao saw was secretly dumbfounded. These sea monsters are really powerful and terrifying. Zhang Hao is very clear about the hardness of the steel. To be able to leave such a mark on the steel, this mirage dragon... I am afraid it is not the state of the late stage of transformation?
Fu Yun finally came out, his face pale, "The mirage dragon attacking us this time is about 150 meters long, and only a large number of depth charges can stop it."
Looking at the battleship, Zhang Hao spoke calmly: "Everyone, take a month's rest first, and try to restore the incident as much as possible. Next time, let's go to slay the dragon!"