After Suhlen came to this world, he experimented with making gunpowder, but to his disappointment, gunpowder couldn't explode at all. Cannons could only stay on the drawing board.
Suhlen heard that the mountain dwarves had something similar to gunpowder, which was used to split rocks and excavate mineral deposits, but the material was very expensive. The dwarves called this gunpowder-like thing fire crystal powder, and the main material was a kind of fire crystal stone.
After the Fire Crystal Stone was ground and mixed with several other materials, it would produce an effect similar to that of gunpowder. However, this kind of thing was much more expensive than gunpowder. Even in the Southern Seas, there were very few ships equipped with this kind of Fire Crystal Powder weapon. Su Lun intended to build some Fire Crystal Cannons and install them on his warships.
The first batch of marines trained by Barbossa returned to Deepwater City. Although this batch of marines had only been trained for three months, their strength had reached the requirements. After all, in order to train qualified marines as soon as possible, Barbossa directly took these people on the ocean voyage.
If Suhlen hadn't prepared a lot of underwater breathing potions for them, half of this batch of marines would have died. After three months of intensive training, these people had experienced the baptism of several storms on the ocean. Under such cruel conditions, these people's level naturally improved rapidly.
This training method was basically to directly let the recruits take weapons to the battlefield and let the battlefield educate them. This method was cruel, but as long as they survived, they would soon transform into elites. However, this situation usually happened among pirates.
Pirates didn't give you time to train and adapt. They fought and sailed again and again. Pirates trained in this way could compete with marines on the sea.
Although underwater breathing potions and other protective measures had been prepared, there were still a few deaths in this batch of marines. This was something that couldn't be helped.
After the first batch of marines, Deepwater City's first warship could be used. The next batch of marines would be trained in the navy camp. The training cycle of the navy camp was nine months. Although it seemed to be a long time, it was several times faster than the training of marines in other countries.
It took at least two years for a marine to become proficient in operating a warship from a recruit. Compared with them, Suhlen only needed nine months, which was more than twice as fast.
After checking the marines, Suhlen was satisfied with them, and then announced that their salary would be increased. Those who unfortunately died in the training would be compensated according to the standards of martyrs, and various supplies would be given to them by Northern Town City.
After hearing that they had passed the test, all the soldiers cheered excitedly. These soldiers directly received citizenship in Northern Town City, and their families also received land and houses. Suhlen was very generous to the army.
After the completion of the training, Suhlen gave the marines a few days off, and then waited until the construction of the new warship was completed to officially establish the navy.. Barbossa was the Deepwater city's navy.
Deepwater City now had two ships, one was a training warship, and the other was an armed merchant ship. These two ships would not join the navy. After all, these two ships were the practice works of Deepwater City's shipyard, and there were many problems in them. Of course, these problems were not serious, and it was not a problem to use them as merchant ships, but it was not possible to use them as warships.
Suhlen's Deepwater City Navy was about 2,500 people, with 15 to 20 main warships, as well as a number of scout ships and supply ships. Such a fleet was naturally incomparable to the navies of the southern countries, but the combat effectiveness of the Deepwater City Navy was not weak.
Although the navies of the southern countries were powerful, few of their ships were built with iron oak wood. Iron oak wood had a very good firepower, and the hull was very hard. After installing a ram, it could easily destroy a ship made of teak at full speed.
Even in his previous life, the ram was not completely retired from the stage of battle until the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The reason was that the ram was very powerful. Many times, when there were naval battles at sea, both sides would fire hundreds of shells, and the result would be that although the two ships would be damaged, there would still be no signs of sinking. However, a weapon like the ram could kill the enemy in one hit.
Such a powerful weapon was the trump card of naval pirates. As long as it was hit, it could easily create a huge hole in the side of the ship, and seawater would immediately gush in. It would not take long for the ship to sink.
In contrast, the fire crystal cannon's power was very limited. After all, the fire crystal cannon's hit rate was not high, and on the sea, the hit rate was even worse. In the era of navigation in his previous life, artillery battles were completely done when two warships were side by side, relying on numbers to solve the problem of hit rate. This required a lot of money.
Suhlen planned to equip some fire crystal cannons, and at the same time prepare to study alchemy cannons. Alchemy cannons had been produced for a long time, but there was also a problem, and that was that the operators were wizards. Suhlen wanted to let Hathaway modify the alchemy cannons to see if they could be used by ordinary people. If the modification was successful, then the army of Deepwater City would be able to sweep the sea.
Alchemy cannons used mana, and directly injected mana into them to form a spell attack similar to a fireball spell. However, not long after this alchemy cannon was developed, it was thrown into a corner. The main reason was that wizards could already use fireballs, so why would they use alchemy cannons to attack? As a result, this alchemy cannon directly became a joke among wizards.
Suhlen helplessly shook his head about this idea of alchemy cannons. This thing had been going in the wrong direction from the beginning. He should have made alchemy cannons that ordinary people could use, not wizards.
The blueprint of this alchemy cannon was collected in some wizard books as a negative example. Hathaway naturally knew about it, but it was not easy to modify it into a magic tool that could be used by ordinary people. The magic tools that wizards made were basically for wizards to use, and they rarely considered the use of ordinary people.
However, it was not impossible. After all, some magic tools that could be triggered could be used by ordinary people.
If alchemy cannons could be successfully made, Suhlen planned to replace the ballistas on the magic ship with alchemy cannons. The ballistas on the magic ship had a range of 500 meters, and their shooting accuracy was very accurate. After the ballistas were modified with fire oil, the burning effect was very good. One salvo could set the ship on fire.
However, compared to alchemy cannons, it was still a lot less powerful. Suhlen was very clear about the power of fireballs. It was very threatening to wooden ships. A few fireballs could easily send a ship to the bottom of the sea.
Suhlen summoned the magic ship Raging Dragon. During this time, the ship had been sleeping at the bottom of the sea to accumulate energy. Now that the ship's energy was full, Suhlen planned to take this magic ship to the Eastern Continent.
This time, Suhlen had prepared a large amount of resources for the trip to the Eastern Continent. At the same time, he would also take two merchant ships to form a fleet.
The Raging Dragon had been tested a few times. No matter if it was sailing speed or defense, there were no problems. Under the curious gazes of the navy on the shore, the Raging Dragon slowly entered the port. The Raging Dragon was bigger than a warship or an armed merchant ship.
Also, the Raging Dragon had cast a space spell, so the ship had a lot of space. It could carry a lot of goods. A lot of alchemy runes were added during the process of making the Raging Dragon. According to Hathaway's estimation, the ship's maximum speed could reach 80 nautical miles per hour.
However, because the energy supply system was not mature, the Raging Dragon's current energy was charged by a magic circle. Usually, it needed to collect energy. Of course, wizards could also inject mana or place magic stones to extract energy, but the cost would be much higher.
After collecting energy, the ship could sail at full speed for about a day. If it used cruising speed, the Raging Dragon could sail for about a month. Of course, if it only relied on sail power, it could sail at sea for a year if there was no war.
Suhlen boarded the Raging Dragon. There were also some merchants and scholars who were familiar with the Eastern Continent. Suhlen was mainly going to do business this time. He did not want to cause any trouble. He wanted to open up a new channel to make money.
The Western Continent was located in the north of the planet. It was quite a distance away from the Eastern Continent. In the southeast of the Western Continent, there was another continent near the equator.
On the magic ship.
The scholars who were familiar with the Eastern Continent were introducing the environment of the Eastern Continent to the merchants. There were a lot of poisonous creatures on this continent, so after arriving there, they must not eat anything in the wild. At the same time, they also talked about the local customs of the Eastern Continent.
The proportion of poisonous creatures in the entire Eastern Continent was close to one-tenth. That was to say, one in ten species of creatures was poisonous. Therefore, the intelligent species of the entire Eastern Continent had gained additional poison resistance over the long period of biological evolution.
Then, because the Eastern Continent was closer to the south, the environment there was hotter, and the climate changed more dramatically than here. It might be sunny in the morning, but it might become stormy in the afternoon. It was somewhat similar to a tropical rainforest.
In addition to these, the Eastern Continent was also rich in products. Many specialties were completely unavailable in the Western Continent. In addition to these, the Eastern Continent was also the birthplace of the monks. Because of the serious accidents in the era of the Arcane Empire, there were many ancient evil creatures that were sealed on this continent. These evil creatures were basically suppressed by the monks' monasteries.
Suhlen was also very interested in these evil creatures. However, in this long time, many of them had been suppressed and killed. Maybe he could kill a few to earn some experience.
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