Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 216 Iris

Wutou Island.

The Jialan Territory has not yet been officially disclosed to the outside world.

Today is exceptionally clear and cloudless. White seagulls soar in the sky, leisurely looking for the white light rolling in the sea. That is the fish swarming under the sea, which is their favorite food.

The warm sea breeze blows from the east with the preheating of the sun, taking away the last coldness of winter and ushering the entire Jiland into the spring of the new year.

Huang Jiang was not in a hurry to summon Veneto and Richelieu.Before that, he needed to solve the supply problem for the ship girls to go on the expedition.

As the territory gradually expanded, resources could no longer be stored in one place, so corresponding resource warehouses were built on Iris Island and Wutou Island.However, Huang Jiang came to Wutou Island not for this matter, but for the mothership.

Huang Jiang cannot tolerate being under the control of others.After expanding out from Jialan, the enemies they faced changed from the only one on Iris Island to the enemies on Violet Island in the east and Edelweiss Island in the south.

To get rid of this situation, the mothership is an indispensable weapon.It allows the ship girls to leave the island for long-range strikes.

However, Huang Jiang is actually a little curious about this. When he is active in the game, he does not often fight defensive battles near the port area. Instead, he wanders around the world and does not see any resource supply problems.

"Huh? Commander, have you forgotten?" Hood was a little surprised when he heard this question. "The coalition government and the Governor's Office have built complete resource supply stations around the world. When we go on an expedition, we always supply nearby, and There are also backup supply equipment deep below. Even if the island is destroyed by the deep sea, we can activate the backup supply station underneath through special instructions for supply."

"So good?" Huang Jiang praised.

"The supply stations are all connected to the Internet. All resources consumed by the ship girls will be recorded and borne by the admiral." Fubuki said softly.

"I remember that during the Intrepid Sea, the commander owed a huge amount of debt for U96." Hood said, "At that time, the mailbox in the port area was filled with reminder letters every day."

Huang Jiang came back to his senses and looked at the quiet harbor.

Two silver-white resource ships docked at the dock of Wutou Island.Workers wearing yellow helmets are wiping off the rust on its surface.Huang Jiang wore a safety helmet and looked at the reconstruction drawings in his hands.

Nikola has improved the shipboard generator on the Gloria, making it smaller but able to provide more stable high-voltage current. At the same time, it can bear more than five pieces of armed repair equipment with the smallest possible body.

"How is the renovation of the Iris going?" Huang Jiang asked Stoll on the side.

Half a month after leaving Gloria Island, he returned to Gloria Island with a group of old guys. Under Huang Jiang's instructions, he built a temporary dock on Wutou Island near the Deep Sea Grand Canyon to rebuild the Iris. .

Originally, Stoll planned to focus on researching marine gas turbines, but there was a shortage of people on the Huangjiang side. In order to repay the large sum of money provided by Huangjiang, he went into battle himself.

Stoll is indeed a master shipbuilder. After he joined, the originally stagnant reconstruction work of the Iris broke through many bottlenecks.

First, he replaced the originally planned steel deck with a lighter wooden deck, allowing the Iris to carry an additional refurbishment equipment.

He then asked him to re-plan the structure of the Iris, and changed the original way of placing the repair equipment in the open air based on the style of the Gloria to having an elevator sink below the deck. When the ship girls came to replenish the ship, they would then lift the repair equipment through the elevator. supply.In this way, the mirage's attack on the mothership during the battle can be effectively prevented to destroy the repair equipment on the ship.

This is an old and expensive thing.

"What is this?" Huang Jiang glanced at a machine next to him. "This is used to fill the oil and gas pipelines with carbon dioxide." Stoll took a look and introduced, "This can effectively prevent the explosion during battle from igniting the oil and gas in the pipelines and causing a big explosion in the hull."

"Oh." Huang Jiang nodded and looked at the renovation equipment being hoisted above.

The renovation equipment on the Iris are all brand-new equipment purchased by Huang Jiang on Haiwu. It can be said that he spent a lot of money to build such a warship to ensure the combat capabilities of the ship girls.

Five pieces of refurbishment equipment are worth 200 million soles, which is equivalent to [-] spar when converted into spar. Huangjiang can summon ten ship girls. Whether it is to form a battle artillery team or an aircraft carrier bombing team, it is completely useless. questionable.

The Iris spent all Huang Jiang's wealth in the past year, and even tried to raise funds other than selling bonds to barely be able to afford such consumption.

So how do the big guys on Earth build ships like water?He almost died just by rebuilding a ship. If the funds for summoning ship girls were not provided separately, he might not even have the funds to replenish ship girls now.

"When will the Iris be ready for trial sailing?" Huang Jiang looked at the Iris in front of him like a girl in a boudoir.

"At the end of May," Stoll replied.

"Is it so fast?" Huang Jiang said in surprise. In his impression, the wartime shipbuilding speed was as fast as dumplings, and it would take several months. It has only been less than a week since the Iris was rebuilt, and it will be full by the end of May. Just three months.

"Most of the structure of the hull does not need to be modified. The resource ship itself is equivalent to an empty shell for us. We only need to put things inside." Stoll said.

"Actually, I'm also surprised by this speed." After a moment of silence, Stoll continued.

"How to say?"

Stoll laughed and said: "These old guys of mine, all of them have been in the shipbuilding industry for decades. I have never seen them work so seriously."

“Is shipbuilding difficult?”

Stoll shook his head and said: "If there is no ideal, it is still very comfortable to eat and wait for death. The resource ships and fishing boats alone can keep us full. But we are all from the Blue Flower Dan Shipyard back then. How can future generations indulge in such a career without pursuit?"

"Blue Flower Dan Shipyard?" Huang Jiang's expression was stern and he was in awe.

This is a shipyard that has disappeared into the long river of history.As the last producer of armored gunships in the Federation, it went completely bankrupt 50 years ago.

The Azure Federation originally had its own military industry. When the Mirage invaded, these old-fashioned guns were too cumbersome to deal with the Mirage. At that time, the Blue Flower Dan shipyard first proposed to build a multi-turret with all-round capabilities. The azimuth strike battleship - this is probably the predecessor of the battleship in this world.

Then the sea spirit came and directly destroyed the federal military industry.

The gun was reduced to a hunting tool and collection for the nobles. It could only be used for offense if it fell into the hands of a gangster, while the artillery went directly into the museum.

After all, no matter how much your weapons develop, they will definitely not be as useful as Sea Soul.

(End of this chapter)