Warlord: King of All Clans

Seeing Master Virgil, Leo walked up and asked curiously: "What made you so angry?"

Virgil was furious and pointed at the only senior shipwright in Isembol. "None of the craftsmen in your river bay are useful! The shipbuilding technology this guy knows is still from 200 years ago. You really should let him go to the shipbuilding union in the imperial capital for further study for a few years!"

The shipyard's shipwright supervisor lowered his head and thought to himself, you think too highly of me. Our skills were all taught by our master and we have never been to school.

Reading? I can’t read at all!

Leo had no choice but to comfort her, "Isn't River Bay just starting out? They're waiting for you to teach them! With a master here, why would we need to go somewhere else for further study?"

The hot-tempered Virgil calmed down a little after being flattered by Leo, and began to teach the shipwrights how to modify the ship.

He was originally researching his own Alchemical Golem control module in the atrium, but last year, Fisa and Leo swindled his first-generation control module away and modified it on the steam tank.

This is equivalent to installing the electronic control motherboard of a modern tank on a first-generation tractor. Only one thousandth of it actually works, but it still makes the steam tank move.

Various similar incidents kept happening in Hewan, and were called "Hewan Strange Phenomenon" by the intellectuals in Hewan.

Hewan's knowledge system is not like the outside world, which is built up slowly from the foundation, but is combined from both ends to the middle. The collision of high-tech and low-level craftsmen has formed countless strange creations.

After the core module was stolen, Virgil reacted but wasn't too angry.

His module must undergo various field tests. It cannot fail after being installed on the Alchemy Golem and going to the battlefield.

So it doesn't matter if it is stuffed into a steam tank and abused, since the first generation machine is still far from a finished product.

As for the second-generation module, it has been shelved due to lack of research funds and materials.

Master Virgil had no choice but to continue working in River Bay to pay off his debts, so he was assigned by Leo to this new shipyard to build the first steamship in River Bay.

With the goblin master on the battlefield, Leo didn't bother with the paddle wheel device and went straight to the propeller.

He also let Valeri, the chief industrial director of River Bend, work directly with Virgil, and assigned the top team of craftsmen and ironworks to him as an aid.

Virgil was originally the master designer of alchemical airships in the Free State of the Islands and had presided over the construction of nearly five alchemical airships.

In addition to its small number of alchemical airships representing the most advanced technology, the Free State of the Islands is also the most developed shipbuilding center in the entire continent.

The shipbuilding masters here may not necessarily be able to build alchemical airships, but every alchemical airship master was definitely a shipbuilding master before.

It is completely easy to let a shipbuilding master from an archipelago free state come to a small place in the north to study and transform small merchant ships.

The only drawback is that the boatman at hand is not very useful.

When Virgil was building the alchemical airship, such a shipbuilder was not even qualified to work as a handyman in the factory.

Leo's requirements have never been high. He didn't ask for an ironclad ship or something right away. He only wanted a few armed merchant ships that were powered by a combination of steam and sails and oars, able to move freely in windless weather and withstand the recoil of river bay artillery.

Only half of Hewan's steel production is used for military purposes. Even with the ironclad ship technology, there is not enough steel to manufacture it.

This time, when he marched east to the city of Abrox, he planned to sail south and use the Anzeno River for logistics.

But the people of Count Freilov's territory are all landlubbers. The only city by the river, Isenbol, has a river channel of only one or two hundred meters. The navy formed here has basically no water combat capability and can only provide transportation capacity.

The Beboos family has occupied the upper and middle reaches of the north bank of the Anzeno River for nearly a hundred years and has an inland navy second only to the Duke's Palace. Leo does not want to be ambushed by them on the way and die unjustly.

Virgil easily designed several plans for the transformation of armed merchant ships, but they could not be put into practice due to the shipwright's skills and the industrial capacity of the river bay.

It was not until the beginning of this spring that the team of shipbuilders had almost gotten used to each other and actually started to transform the first armed merchant ship.

Looking at the two-masted sailboat below, Virgil said, "It's pitiful that you, Isembol, don't even have the ability to manufacture a small boat like this and need to go to Anhurst to buy it."

Leo was not embarrassed at all. This was already a big ship in Isenbor. No matter how big it was, it couldn't go around in the narrow river. He just asked with interest, "How is it going?"

"What could possibly be the problem?" Virgil said confidently, "Once this one is launched and inspected, we can rebuild another one in half a month."

"After a year or so, the boat builders will be familiar with dismantling boats and will be able to start making their own boats."

Leo was more concerned about its armed forces, "Where are the artillery?"

"This sailing ship is equipped with a 10,000-man cannon at the bow, three 1,000-man cannon on each side, and a 1,000-man cannon at the stern."

"However, because so many compartments have been added, and the fuel and ammunition compartments have been deducted, the cargo capacity will be reduced by half."

Leo was excited. "Very good. What I want is its self-defense capability, not its cargo carrying capacity. As for carrying people and cargo, how is the progress of the cement barge?"

The goblin master Virgil rolled his eyes and said, "I am not responsible for such low-level things. Go find Valeri."

After saying that, he stopped chatting with Leo, walked down the dock, and got into the armed merchant ship that was being renovated. In a blink of an eye, he heard a burst of scolding from inside.

Ivan stopped and watched for a long time, then reluctantly caught up with Leo and asked excitedly: "Is this the one I'm going to take on this expedition? It won't blow me up, will it?"

Leo was very familiar with the structure of the armed merchant ship. He nodded and said, "Impossible. The steam boiler room is at the stern and you are at the bow. The bomb cannot reach you."

Without waiting for Ivan to be reassured, Leo continued, "But if the steam engine really explodes, the ship will definitely sink. By the way, can you swim?"

Ivan was stunned and asked, "Is it too late to learn now?"

After Ivan's unremitting efforts, he finally transferred from the commander of the River Bay Infantry Regiment to the commander of the River Bay Musket Regiment, and also participated in this expedition.

He was only the commander of the Second Regiment, a musket regiment reorganized from the River Bend Infantry Regiment, and the team members were still his veteran subordinates.

Together with Basarov's musket regiment, there were now two reorganized musket regiments in the river bend.

One musketeer regiment has fifteen thousand men, and two of them have three thousand.

Together with an artillery regiment of one thousand people and a special forces regiment of two thousand people, the Earl's full-strength army was formed for this expedition.

The two walked for about ten minutes, left the modified dock, and arrived at the other side of the shipyard, which was a cement factory near the water.

This is also part of the shipyard, but in another department.

River Bay Cement Ship Construction Department!