Starting From Zero

Chapter 92 Accident

The so-called original plan is actually a disguised plan! I opened the space door in advance and brought out all my troops. Their mission is not to sail a boat or fight, but to pretend to increase their numbers! I asked all the sailors in charge of the artillery to be in position, so that they could fire as soon as they received the order. All the cannons are loaded with shells. If the British really dare to fire, the fleet can fire back immediately as long as I give the order.

Except for the artillery positions and necessary navigation sailors, the rest of the sailors were summoned and sent aboard the Noah, while the cavalry were assigned to each warship. My idea is to have the cavalry stand in a row on the side of the battleship. The neat equipment and military appearance can make the British mistakenly think that our sailors are very powerful. In fact, they have no idea that these are not sailors. The sailors who were sent aboard the Noah were busy and pretentious on it, just to make the British think that the Noah was capable of combat! In order to 'force' the real me, Amynis was also transferred to Noah to help create the illusion! The British would not have thought that Noah was an empty shell. We have such a big warship, so they should not dare to take action!

The fleet slowly entered the strait. On the sea next to us, the British Imperial Fleet was neatly arranged, and the scene was very spectacular. Ariana came back and reported that the depth of the seabed was more than 300 meters, which was enough to pass through. Moreover, the Noah now only had one outer shell, and its actual draft was only a little more than half of what it was when fully loaded! Seeing the battleship approaching, the British people nearby ran onto the deck and looked at this big guy in surprise. They have never seen such a large sea fortress!

When the Biling passed through the narrowest part of the Strait of Gibraltar, the British warship next to it suddenly made a loud noise. I am all too familiar with that sound. It was the sound of artillery fire. The British fired! But I soon realized that it was no ordinary artillery piece, because no battleship was hit! boom! Another sound! This time I saw it clearly. It was the sound of gunfire from the battleship next to us. Judging from the rhythm, it should be a salute! Scared me! Fortunately, those who operate the artillery are NPCs. If the players had been there just now, someone would have been unable to help but fight back!

When our fleet passed by the British fleet, all the dark knights followed my request and raised their swords in front of them with the sword tips pointing upward to perform a knightly salute to the opposite side. I do this not because I respect the British, but because I want them to know that these are excellent knights. It is just another way for me to show my strength!

When the leading battleship Bi Ling passed through the strait, the warships that guided us also left the queue and returned to the British fleet queue. I stood on the bow of the ship and gave a knightly salute to the opposite side, and maintained this posture until the following fleet followed. come out.

After the Bi Ling left the strait, it did not continue forward but stopped in the open sea and watched the fleet pass. I didn't want any accidents to happen. After the fleet had basically passed, only the Noah was left behind. This big guy occupied almost half of the strait. In addition, it had no power of its own and was always being blown by the wind, making it impossible to stabilize.

The fleet had to slow down to a snail's pace, and most of the battleships were assigned to pull on both sides to control its direction respectively to prevent it from tilting to one side! It was going well, and Noah had already passed a third of the way when a strong wind suddenly blew from the sea. King Chuang shouted at that time: "Not good!"

The north wind blew the warship to the south of the strait. At this time, the distance between Noah and the cliff on the coast was only more than 500 meters. For ordinary warships, this distance was enough to turn around, but for Noah, this was completely uncontrollable. distance! Everyone, including the British, watched helplessly as Noah crashed into the southern cliff. The British on the cliff were so frightened that they jumped out of the fort and ran back!

boom! squeak……! A dull crash was followed by the harsh sound of metal rubbing against the rock. The weird metal twisting sound coupled with the sound of waves being squeezed out of the rock and the sound of the rock crushing together formed a shocking sound. Noah himself was not injured by the impact. Its shell is more than 3 meters thick. Rocks cannot damage such thick metal! But the British fort on the south bank suffered. To be precise, it was the cliff under the fort that suffered. Because the cliff where the fort is located is actually a piece of land protruding from the interior, the support is not very strong. Of course, this is only for Noah. An ordinary warship will not have much impact on the rock even if it crashes itself! But Noah is different, it's too big and too thick! This impact almost cut off half of the cliff from the land. The entire cliff extending inland was cut off over a hundred meters long, and the falling rocks piled up a slope!

This sudden incident left everyone at a loss! What I'm worried about is the attitude of the British. They were very tolerant even though they didn't fight with us. We actually demolished half of their proud forts! Originally, the forts on the north and south sides corresponded to each other, but now only the one on the north bank is left. Not only the forts, but also the cliffs are gone on the south bank!

Rose opened her mouth and held it in for a long time before she said, "Fortunately it's not the south wind!"

"Ah?" I didn't react for a moment!

Su Mei said: "What Sister Rose means is that if the south wind blows, not only will the forts on the north bank be destroyed, but the imperial fleet will probably also have to take in many battleships!"

makes sense! Noah is so big, if he suddenly rushes to the north bank, the warship parked there will definitely not have time to escape. Now that Noah has cut off even the cliffs, those warships will be completely crushed into discus! But even if only one hilltop is cut off, it's not a joke. The British probably won't give up!

Sure enough, the battleship that guided us just now came over, and the British came to settle accounts with me! The envoy ship slowly came closer, and Baha stood on the opposite battleship with a strange expression on his face!

"Mr. Ziri, I think you have to do something!" Baha pointed to the cliff without any nonsense and started asking for money!

"You know, this is a natural disaster, caused by force majeure. Logically speaking, even the insurance company will not pay compensation!" Although my words were euphemistic, my attitude was already clear!

Baha seemed a little angry. He gestured to the flag bearer, and the flag bearer turned around and shouted the flag. The British warship from Gibraltar immediately came over.

When I saw something was wrong, I quickly relaxed the atmosphere. "To be honest, I'm sorry too, but you know, it's impossible for us to bring that much money when we go out. It's simply impossible for you to ask us to compensate!"

Baha glanced at Noah, and I said before he could speak: "You are a sensible person, so don't talk about impossible things!"

"Hahahaha!" Baha glanced at Noah greedily and then turned his eyes back! "Stop pretending, I know that the ship is empty, there is nothing on it! Our fort cost more than 300 million pounds to build, you can exchange an empty shell for 300 million pounds without losing money!"

I was confused at that time. Baha knew that this ship was fake? But how do you know? He has a spy? impossible! Apart from the NPC, there are only a few of us on the ship!

Perhaps seeing my doubts, Baha said: "Don't be surprised, I am a battleship designer myself. This ship is obviously unfinished. Don't think you can deceive me by putting a few people on it!"

It turns out that this guy is a designer, no wonder we couldn’t fool him, and we actually hit the point of a gun!

"That big ship, plus your ship." The Baja lion opened his mouth! "Leave both ships and you can leave. We will still be friends!"

Damn it, friend? Only a ghost has a friend like you! "This is not good!"

"Fuck you turtle bastard, just beat me, I'm not afraid of you yellow-haired ghosts!" Big Pot Rice jumped up from behind, and at the same time, something flew past me and flew directly towards Baha's head. !

Bang! A round iron ball hit Baha's head and immediately knocked him upside down. What was thrown out of the big pot was a cannonball. It was stuck on the side of the ship when the Indonesians shelled us last time. It was dug out and not thrown away. I planned to keep it as a souvenir! The cannonballs used by the Indonesian warships were all solid iron balls, which hit Baja directly on the head. How powerful do you think they were?

"You... you..." Baha covered his head with one hand and was helped up by the person next to him. His face was covered with blood. It was really spectacular! "You want to fight, right? Okay! I'll go with..." A man ran next to him and said something in Baha's ear, interrupting Baha's words!

Behind me, Wuqing patted me on the shoulder and asked me to look back. "whats the matter?"

He pointed to the sea on the other side. What I saw when I turned around was a fleet, a very large fleet. Although I am almost certain that this fleet is no match for the imperial fleet, I believe that that fleet plus us should be able to draw a tie with the British!

"Who is that?" It would be terrible if it was British reinforcements!

Shura Ziyi came up and said, "Look at the flag!"

I immediately opened my star pupil and looked at the flag of the battleship over there. Flying on the tall mainmast was the eye-catching white cross flag with a black background. "Germans?" Could it be Ashford who sent someone to pick us up?

Baha on the opposite side also finished talking to his subordinates. He shouted at me loudly: "Remember that our affairs are not over yet!" After saying this, he was helped into the cabin by his subordinates without waiting for my reply. The envoy ship immediately turned around and returned to the fleet, and the entire imperial fleet retreated to the strait to maintain combat alert!

The German fleet on the opposite side did not come over but stopped in the distant sea. The flagman reported: "They said it was the Seawolf fleet of the German Iron Cross Army and asked us if we were a fleet from China!"

"Answer them yes!"

The flagman reported again: "They want us to get closer!"

"Tell them we will be there immediately!" He turned to the first mate and said, "Order the fleet to leave the strait quickly and join the German fleet!"

I don’t even know how to describe my emotions now. If I weren’t afraid of being regarded as gay, I would have wanted to rush over and kiss Ashford!

The fleet quickly pulled Noah out, and then quickly moved towards the German fleet. The British have been watching us from behind but they just don't dare to take action. They also know that there is no point in fighting with us and dying together!

After the fleets of both sides approached, a large warship in the Sea Wolf fleet took the initiative to approach. Several people jumped from the battleship onto the Biling. Five people came, only one of whom I knew, Messet, and the other four were all followers at first glance!

"Hello! President Ziri!" Messet took the initiative to shake my hand.

"Hello! I'm so excited to see you. If you had been a little later we would have started a fight with the British!"

"I know!" Messet's words shocked me. "The president had long guessed that something was going to happen to you in Gibraltar, so he sent us here to pick you up! In fact, I set off as soon as our meeting ended that day. If I hadn't fought with the French on the way, I should have arrived a long time ago!"

"Isn't President Ashford here?"

"There are a lot of things going on in the meeting, so I'm the only one here. But when you arrive in Hong Kong, the president will come to pick you up personally!"

"By the way, do you have a steel cable?"

"Yes, yes, why do you need the steel cable?"

"It's not that thing at the back!" I pointed at Noah. "I accidentally hit the cliff of Gibraltar just now and broke a lot of the traction rope!"

"Why is this thing here?" Messet was not as surprised as others.

"have you seen?"

She shook her head. "At first, an NPC asked us for 3 billion crystal coins and said he could build us a super battleship. We didn't coax him away as a madman. Later we heard that he had gone to the pirates and had completed a sample. How? Is it in your hands?"

"We killed those pirates on the way here, and we brought back this thing and the designer!"

"Do you really believe it?"

"What?"

"Forget it! I can't tell you exactly. I'll introduce you to someone knowledgeable when I get back!"

After mixing with the German fleet, we quickly left this sea area. Because the lineup after the two fleets were mixed was quite terrifying, and there was an artificial island in the middle, we did not encounter any interception along the way. The French fleet finally ran out. It seemed that they wanted to seek payment from the German fleet, but they circled around us for a few times and then left!

We finally arrived at the coast of Germany at around 10 a.m. Beijing time on the 19th. It was still dark here and the moon was still hanging diagonally in the sky! This time is still early morning in Germany, the time when the number of people online is the smallest. Messet notified Ashford when we arrived, so the Iron Crusaders' city had made preparations in advance. In the dim morning light a brightly lit harbor appeared on the shore ahead of us.

"This is Dorut Port!" Messet said: "Actually, it is not a port! The real city is behind it, but it is relatively close to Dorut City, so we call it Dorut Port. . The port was originally a natural depression. We expanded and flattened the coast, and later built docks and other things, and finally it became what it is now! In terms of area, this may be the largest port in the world!"

I shook my head: "My city has a bigger port than yours!"

"impossible?"

"Really! But ours is an inner harbor and the entrance is relatively narrow, unlike yours which is wider!"

The fleet is getting closer and closer to the coast. I sent Auntina into the sea to check the water depth. Who knows how deep it is here? Monsters like Noah cannot approach the coast at all! Finally, Noah anchored on the sea three kilometers away from the port. In order to secure it, we even left dozens of boats to tow it. This guy didn’t even have an anchor chain, no matter what, it would definitely wash ashore! In this way, we all set a safe distance in advance. As long as it does not wash up to two kilometers beyond the coastline, it will not be stranded!

The brigade entered the port. From a distance, they saw a neat infantry formation standing on the shore. The one at the front was Ashford. This guy's equipment was a bit strange. He didn't know what his occupation was. Although he was wearing heavy armor, There was no weapon in his hand, probably because it wasn't a battle so he didn't take it out!

The Bi Ling slowly came to a stop in the port. As soon as the spiral staircase was lowered, I was the first to go down. Before disembarking, I put away all the magic pets, leaving only four human pets as well as Yeying, Bailang, Phantom and Xiaofeng. It would be inconvenient to bring too many magic pets! In addition, I have all the demon spirit knights by my side. They can still be of great use at critical moments!

"Finally I see you!" Ashford came over and shook my hand politely.

The two of us introduced the main people we brought. It was better that there were not many people on my side, but there were a lot of veterans, captains, directors and the like on his side. I only remembered a few. Main person!

After the introduction, we followed Ashford into the Dorut City behind us. We originally thought he was going to take us to the Council Hall, but we didn't expect that what we entered was the Teleportation Hall! After listening to Ashford's explanation, I realized that Dorut is not the main city of the Iron Crusaders at all. The Iron Crusaders have nine cities, the largest of which is called Iron Castle. It is said to be rich in metal ore, so it has Famous!

After entering the Iron Castle, I learned something about style! The urban design of Iron Castle is so stylish! The whole city is like a factory, with metal smelting and processing plants everywhere, and almost all the shops are related to metal processing! What a terrifying technical style!

In fact, although the Iron Castle looks like a factory, it is not "chaotic". On the contrary, it is quite neat. To be precise, it should be called regular! The whole city has an industrial feel, all the lines are straight, and all the buildings and objects are angular! Germans have integrated their enthusiasm for technology and love for discipline into their lives. Even the cities are so regular! From the outside, the shops in the city look exactly the same except for the signboards! If you don’t know, some people may believe it if they say this is a military camp!

Following Ashford on the road, I felt that the city of Iron Castle was like a city of craftsmen. Although there are not as many dwarves here as in the Craftsman City in China, the industrialization here is far greater than that in the Craftsman City!

Ashford suddenly pointed to a tall building next to him and said: "This is our Magic Crystal Power Research Institute! The floating technology was developed here!"

"Oh?" I couldn't help but take a few more glances at this ordinary-looking building. "Can I take a tour?"

"Yes, yes, but not now! Let's complete the deal first!"

"That's fine!"

After arriving at the Yizheng Hall, I discovered that there are really big differences between Eastern and Western cultures. Our government hall is in the main hall, which is very similar to the emperor's hall in the past. The difference is that there are two rows of chairs facing each other on both sides. People who come to discuss can sit on them and talk, and the middle of the room is free! But the Iron Crusaders' political hall is a completely different story. This design is closer to a modern business conference room, with an extra-long table in the middle of the room and a circle of chairs around it. When discussing things, the president sits at the head of the table, and other people sit on both sides. When negotiating, one side sits on one side like we do now!

We have already obtained the secret gunpowder technique from the NPC, and it has been kept in the captain's cabin of the Bi Ling. Of course, Essinger also has a backup! I took the scroll with me when I just got off the ship, and now I took it out and put it on the table.

On the opposite side, Ashford also took out three scrolls from his arms, and each one was much larger than mine. I guess the aircraft must record more things!

We pushed the scroll towards each other and unfolded it to read. To be honest, I can't understand this thing at all. It's full of magic circle patterns and some messy structural diagrams. But I brought Luzo here. This guy specializes in these things. As an NPC designer, he can understand these things!

Luzo carefully opened all three scrolls and looked at them, then nodded towards me. "It is indeed a flying power device!"

I took the scroll back and pushed it back to Ashford. He also read our scroll and returned it. Items cannot be given directly to players in different guilds without trading. We just inspected each other's goods. Now open the transaction column, he put the three scrolls on it, I put my scrolls, clicked to agree to the transaction and then the items were exchanged, the transaction was OK!

Ashford stood up and shook hands with me: "Okay, now I can take you to see the institute!"

I quickly stood up and followed. The research institute represents technology! Maybe you can find some good technology and buy it back by the way!

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