Realm of Power

blue sky,

In the late autumn season, the space is spotless,

The crystal clear clouds lightly cover the sky with a thin layer of sand.

On the beautiful and clear Satsuma Ri River, the river is like scales and merchant ships are like weaving.

The white sails are like clouds flowing between the sky and the earth, especially gorgeous.

Three Samorian warships with pointed heads and multiple oars "pounced", splitting the rapids in front of them, and looked like three flexible eels with smooth bodies in the rolling white waves.

I saw three Kraken warships from the Samor Navy! The merchant fleets along the way consciously gave way to the main river channels.

"Turn right rudder 6 degrees! Slow down three knots! Lower the second-story auxiliary jib!" A merchant ship captain pulled the rudder hard with both hands. "Creak" The huge merchant ship's hull swayed and turned to the edge, and the river surface squeezed by the ship's hull whitecaps rolling

"Papa" the water waves surged over from the river dam, and a fierce impact hit the left string of the ship's edge, causing the merchant ship to shake for a while.

"What's going on! Didn't you say lower the jib?" the captain at the console at the rear of the ship roared, but the sailors in front of him looked at him dumbfounded.

"Ship! What a big ship!" A sailor pointed in the direction behind the captain with a horrified expression.

"What's going on?" The merchant ship captain turned his head curiously, and his face turned pale with fright.

He saw a huge triangular sharp bow, like a legendary giant sea monster, emerging from the waves behind him,

The huge hull shredded the waves on the river and passed rapidly from the right side of the merchant ship.

The metallic luster of the thick baffles covering the sides shone coldly in the sunlight. It turned out to be a giant warship with iron armor on the surface.

The five giant square sails on the tall five-story mast were blown up by the wind. The rapid speed of more than thirty knots dwarfed the big-bellied merchant ships around it.

Just the squeezing waves made the merchant ship shake, and in the blink of an eye, it exceeded half of the ship's hull.

On this huge warship, an engineer from the Dillens family introduced to the fat man in a lively manner, "Grand Duke, this is the final version of the Samor Navy ship, the Kraken!

Its body design adopts the latest giant ship construction technology of Maritime Dillens, with five four-corner main sails, eighteen-section auxiliary jib sails, and the forty wood pulp specially requested by the adults.

Because of the rapid water flow characteristics of the inland rivers in the south, we designed the bottom of the boat into a triangular hull with a deeper draft but a narrow front.

This allows the Kraken-class battleship to break through the rapids of the inland river and move at high speed with the help of the wind.

Of course, this is only a medium-sized battleship after all.

There is still a certain distance between the hull and carrying capacity of the Dylans Fury-class giant battleships that originally roamed the sea.

But if the 10 Thor Straight-shooting Type 2s in the gun bay and the various repair materials loaded in the gun bay are unloaded,

The carrying capacity of the Kraken can even surpass the main troop carrier on the sea of ​​Dylans, reaching the requirement of 450-500 soldiers stipulated by the Grand Duke.

It’s just that the construction is more time-consuming, and we can only build 6 ships a year. This is the limit of our Dylans Shipyard!

After saying this, Engineer Dylans rolled up the careful drawings in his hands.

This is the most high-end construction sketch of Dylans, which contains decades of hard work and ambition of the people of Sea Dylans.

"Yes, as long as we can make it, everything else will be easy." The fat man nodded with satisfaction and asked enthusiastically,

The river breeze mixed with water vapor hit his face, but this could not dampen the fat man's enthusiasm.

"If I double the size of the shipyard and guarantee your funding and material needs,

How many ships can you reach at most? "

"I'm sorry Grand Duke, we can only express regret for your request and generosity,

It’s not just scale that limits the speed of manufacturing, it’s also skilled craftsmen!

We in Dylans only have 5,000 skilled shipbuilders, which is the result of our decades of training. If you really want to equip the Samor Navy with 30 Krakens in the short term,

"Then there's only one way?" Engineer Dylans whispered solemnly.

"Oh? What can I do?" the fat man asked curiously

Engineer Dylans looked at both sides cautiously. It wasn't until the fat man waved the guards back that he said in a deep voice in the fat man's ear with a serious face.

"The Hulin tribe, the former enemies of our Sea Dillens! In the entire south, they are the only ones with the strength to build the Kraken.

If the Grand Duke could get the Hurin tribe to provide the same number of craftsmen,

I believe, 2 years, only 2 years,

The tyrannical fleet composed of forty Samorian Kraken is determined to be the nightmare of all sea enemies! "

"Ask craftsmen from the Hulin tribe! This is not easy!" The fat man frowned when he heard this. He did not ask further, but fell into silence for a moment.

Kraken!

The latest main battleship of the Samor Navy,

Thinking that Samor was about to have an official naval battleship, Fatty felt an uncontrollable excitement in his heart.

but,

Meager quantity is the deadlock of the Samor Navy!

Compared with the Hulin clan, a sea wolf group that frequently dispatches dozens of warships, and the main navies of other kingdoms, the Samor navy is still too young.

The relationship between the Hulin tribe and Samor is as close as a glue.

However, it is almost impossible for the Hulin tribe, which has always been conservative to the outside world, to agree to this proposal that may threaten their maritime dominance.

"Hey! Let's think of other ways to deal with this matter!" The fat man waved Engineer Dylans down and rubbed his temples in pain.

The fat man has been very busy recently. His slightly thin face has a hint of paleness, and he looks at the end of the river with complicated eyes.

Fatty specially issued a transfer order this time to transfer the only Kraken in official service from the southern port, and boarded the ship in person at the pier in the outer suburbs of Cresdo.

All the way down the river to verify the combat performance of the Kraken traveling in the inland river,

From the perspective of adaptability to inland waterways, in addition to being too large and inflexible in rotation, Fatty is quite satisfied with the performance of this Kraken.

This was not originally designed for inland waterways

The battlefield of the Kraken should be the vast sea!

The long and narrow hull design of 35 meters long and 10 meters wide allows the Kraken to have dual functions at sea and inland rivers.

The most advanced five-mast propulsion auxiliary sail design, and forty oars extending from both sides, can still travel at high speed on the inland river even when the wind speed is not strong.

It is covered with iron armor on the outside, and the internal gun compartment is equipped with ten powerful Thor curve cannons.

It has a good balance between attack and defense.

It can definitely become a transport dual-purpose attack ship, but the number is too small.

Including the three Krakens still being built at Dillens Shipyard in the south, the Samor Navy only has 4 ships in total.

Fatty knew that such a quantity would only be enough for general coastal patrol tasks at most.

Whether you want to become a fleet that spans vast sea areas, or achieve the mobile strategic mobilization capability of transporting over 10,000 troops,

There is still quite a distance,

"Maybe I was too hasty!" The fat man sighed and looked away from the river in the distance. In the distance, he could vaguely see a Samor military dock.

"Woo!" The bugle sounded on the pier, and three Samor warships responsible for opening the way escorted the large Kraken into the port.

"Creak" The sea monster's huge body made a squeezing sound against the stone stairs at the pier, and "crack" the wide baffle fell from the side of the ship and hit the embankment along the river.

"salute!"

"Pa!" The Samor soldiers standing along the river all stood up straight.

"Grand Duke!" Lidakus, who was in charge of picking up the ship, came from the front in a hurry and walked to the exit of the ship's side.

Just waiting for the fat man's figure to appear on the side of the ship,

"This is something urgently sent from the Duke of Zhivadin's Palace." Lidakus stepped forward quickly and handed the thing in his hand to the fat man.

It was a silver Arc Moon coat of arms, with three crystal clear sky blue diamonds inlaid on the edge of the Arc Moon coat of arms.

"The silver-moon and three-star coat of arms of the Kugit Royal Court?"

When the fat man saw what Lidakus was holding, his originally excited expression dimmed a bit. After a while, he said in a concentrated voice.

"I expected that they would send people again, but I didn't expect that they would come so quickly. It seems that Turga's situation is not optimistic! Who is coming this time?"

"It is said that the person coming this time is a member of the Kugit royal family, well...! Lidakus hesitated for a while, staring at the fat man with strange eyes.

"It's a woman, a very beautiful woman! Miss Mao Mo Naqing of the Mao Mo family personally escorted her!"

"Maomona Qing?" When the fat man heard the name, his face was obviously stunned, and a beautiful and delicate woman flashed in his mind.

It seems that the three conditions for specifically disgusting the Momo family have come into effect.

Thinking of the deflated expression of the old fox, the fat man showed a strange smile.

The Maomo family still gave in, and they also felt bad about themselves. Without the Maomo family's obstruction, the problem in the west would not be a problem!

"Haha! It seems that old fox Mao Mo is nothing more than that." The fat man smiled and wanted to continue teasing.

However, Lidakus' next words made the fat man's smile freeze again, turning into a strange embarrassment on his face.

"Sir, this time Maomo Naqing personally brought 1.5 million compensation from the Maomo family!"

"What!" These words made the fat man feel depressed and had the urge to flatter others! He glared at Lidakus angrily and found that this guy was looking at him with a sneer on his face.

No matter how you look at it, ridicule is greater than flattery.

"Next time you say something like this, I will make you become two different people!" The fat man could only cover up his gaffe with an angry curse.

I can't help but feel a little admiration for Mao Modaine's sophisticated methods. He is indeed a man who has matured with age.

Sending Zhivadin with people and money not only showed the sincerity of the Maumo family, but also forced the fat man to make an unavoidable choice.

The fat man found out awkwardly,

No matter which one you choose, the Maumo family is a winner!

What a headache! There was a faint bitterness in the fat man's mouth

Choose money! Then Samor will definitely send troops to help the Maomo family stabilize the west.

Choosing people, the marriage relationship between the Maomo family and Samoor will definitely make the Maomo family's position more stable.

Mao Monaqing, who has the dual identity of co-leader of the Western Alliance and the Snow Mountain Tribe, will inevitably become an indispensable member of the new power core structure of Wikiia.

This old man who has been lurking in the west seems to be looking at himself with his bright and cunning eyes.

Fatty felt that this difficult situation had been laid out when he decided to enter the west.

"Old fox! You didn't play according to the rules and used the honey trap with all the sugar-coated bullets." The fat man cursed inwardly in annoyance, "Be careful, I eat the beauty and the sugar-coated bullets. I'll send you the bullets back!"