Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 222 The Crew on the Iris

Real battlefields are often ever-changing.

Especially naval battles.

You never know when the girl from Dahai, who can change her mood faster than turning the page of a book, will be in a good mood or get angry.Sometimes one second it was calm and the sea and the sky were vast, and the next second I had to scream and prepare to avoid the storm.Therefore, the sea trial of a ship must not be careless. It must take into account all possible sea conditions. Big waves, thunderstorms and storms all need to be taken into account. Of course, there is also heavy fog.

The Iris is the first supply ship in Gloria to carry five refurbishment equipment. Errors and loopholes are tolerable, but it is absolutely not allowed to knock the refurbishment equipment into the sea due to a bump in the car. A big accident, this is hundreds of thousands of soles all at once.

Huang Jiang is very concerned about the Iris, because its value is almost as high as half of Huang Jiang's fleet, which is definitely a pain for Huang Jiang now.

Therefore, Huang Jiang's sea trial requirement for the Iris is to adapt to all kinds of bad weather at sea as much as possible. If it is really impossible to guarantee the combat requirements, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the ship as much as possible.

As early as the design, Huang Jiang had already informed Stoll and others of a series of requirements.Although the federal warship industry has long been abandoned, the related technologies are still preserved through the inheritance of the most traditional craftsmen, from father to son, master to apprentice.The Iris does not have a combat module, but in terms of protection, it will make extensive use of armor technology left over from the Federation. Although the original planned loading capacity of six units was reduced to five, it greatly strengthened the Iris's protection against mirage bombardment.The weakest point of the entire ship is its deck. There is no good measure for this, and we can only rely on the repair ability of the damage control personnel.

As for the renovation equipment, Huang Jiang is actually not worried at all that it will be damaged by artillery fire.This is the first time Huang Jiang has purchased repair equipment from the Haiwu System. The instruction manual comes with it, and the instructions are naturally in Chinese.In the manual, Huang Jiang finally knew the performance requirements of these devices.He couldn't understand the other Huangjiang rivers, but there was one that he could still remember clearly.Whether it is the mobile deacon's mansion or the armed renovation equipment, they are all facilities used by an organization called the Star Alliance for interstellar colonization. The R&D personnel of the Star Alliance are probably former employees of the old Nokia. The astonishment intensified.To put it more intuitively, even if the planet is smashed, these devices can remain unscathed, and can float in space for dozens or hundreds of years without damage.

Huang Jiang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. Now even if William Potter ordered secret goods, it would be impossible to blow up his office.

The renovation equipment is naturally very strong, but its circuit is a very obvious weakness. Stoll paid special attention to this aspect when laying the circuit, so that all connected circuits are buried under the equipment, even if the deck is carpet-bombed, You can also hide under the "Nokia"s and remain unscathed.

What worries Huang Jiang most now is not the problem of the Iris itself, but the related personnel supporting the ship.The Jialan is a small ship and can temporarily hire a captain to sail it. Even so, the Jialan does not dare to sail out of the Jialan waters. After all, the captain is temporarily hired to work part-time, and he is not willing to die.The century-old navy is not called for nothing, and the crew cannot be replenished by catching strong men. Huangjiang has nothing to do about it. When the sea spirit comes, the Federation has abandoned the naval tradition that has been inherited for hundreds of years. The Federation's ships carry cannons. There are only a few ships in charge.

Therefore, Huangjiang had to adopt Thors' temporary plan.This decades-old sailor raised his arms and immediately summoned a group of sailors who had been with him through life and death.What these ruffians at sea are most afraid of is taking risks. Some of them even packed up and rolled to Carland without saying a word as soon as they heard that they could deal with mirages as crew members on the Carnival and the Iris.Some of them were already in their 60s and [-]s. Huangjiang originally did not want to use them, but they became lazy and insisted on boarding the ship.

Thors also proposed to Huang Jiang to keep these old people.Veteran sailors are a very cherished resource. Although their physical strength is no longer what it used to be, their rich experience is a valuable asset and can lead to a large number of outstanding crew members.Huang Jiang accepted Thors' proposal and assigned all the veteran sailors to the Jialan. The Jialan will also serve as Jialan's naval training ship and will be transferred to reserve service when the mothership reaches its size.What Huang Jiang didn't expect was that this group of old sailors were still young and eager to cause trouble. In the future, they would even use a single-barreled 381mm cannon pulled out from the museum to fire the Gloria in the battle against Mirage. Petit Veneto's name.

The people Towers introduced were never mediocre, not even this large group of sailors.Most of them are crew members who have worked with Thors. They have rich experience and integrity. Although some sailors are inherently glib, they are also rare good people among sailors.According to Toles, he also knew many more skilled sailors, but they had bad personalities and even committed evil deeds, making them unfit to teach students.

Among these people, the most precious are the three old captains.The oldest among them, Stoker, was 68 years old. Huang Jiang did not dare to let him drive the Iris to the front line, so he could only arrange him on the Gloriosa to teach the young people selected by Huang Jiang who were willing to go to the Mirage front line. Man's skill in sailing a ship.The most daring thing this old captain ever did was to attack a "tuna" with a swordfish speargun, and drag the poor mirage away for a day and a night, during which he relied on his excellent evasion skills to avoid it. The "Tuna" received most of the bombardment, and only one shot was hit on the port side, but it quickly balanced the hull through the water tank.The situation at that time was extremely dangerous. If the nearby sea spirit hadn't arrived in time, a whole boat of people might have been blown to pieces by the angry "tuna" after the boat ran out of oil.

Even so, Stoke's ship ran away and blew up the boiler, but the old man was free and easy, disbanded the fleet on the spot, retired and returned to his hometown.Because of this incident, Old Stoke and his fleet became famous in the entire sailing world. They became sailing stars in one fell swoop and received invitations from countless fleets. However, he remained unmoved until this time Thors invited he.

According to Thors, Stoker's entire family, his parents, wife, and three children were all killed by the mirage's fire. His hatred for the mirage can be said to be endless.

"At that time, the captain's face was very scary. If he didn't have a deadly weapon in his hand, I think he would definitely go up and fight that phantom." Thors said.

Most of the sailors who came to Jialan to support and join the fleet had a deep grudge against Mirage. These hot-blooded and upright men had always insisted on repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with hatred. In the past, if Mirage could not avenge him, he could only endure it. Now this is the case. If you have a good opportunity in front of you, you will naturally not give it up.

Of course, there are also some sailors who come here to pursue glory. They are all born adventurers, bold and forget their lives, and they dream of adding the mirage's name to the hunting list.

The trial of the Iris was naturally driven by the most experienced Stoke, and he was accompanied by a middle-aged man. He was also one of the three captains. He was Stoke's student and the scheduled captain of the Iris.

"You may begin now, Deacon." Stoker said kindly, holding his pipe in his mouth.

(End of this chapter)