The Bajas Empire still firmly controls all the port docks and the territory with the richest strategic resources in the Old Kingdom. It also maintains smooth trade routes and hires nearby dwarves and giants to quickly expand its navy.
Three of the warships were purchased directly from Titania. After necessary technical analysis, evaluation and drawings were made, they were directly put into active service.
At the same time, following the previous experience of the ghost ship being infiltrated and defected by the "Blood Chain God Group", they "picked up" the undead collective control center technology that the fairies did not want, and then recruited ship girls who were loyal enough to serve as the center. Although once the ship
If something goes wrong with my mother, the result will be the same, but at least it will be safer than before.
Marquis Gucimonte took the opportunity to use his connections to bring the sect developed by his daughter into his own hands, and by virtue of the fact that there were many girls with passable qualifications among them, they joined the navy.
But those who bear the brunt are naturally those girls who are not high in status, not very important, and have noble status or connections.
After all, it is something under testing. Although there have been no major accidents in new technologies put into use in history, no one can guarantee the eventuality, right? If there is no problem, they can be replaced and relegated to the second line when upgrading in the future.
After a girl becomes a ship girl, she will integrate her life into the collection of ghost ships. She does not have the immortality of the undead, and her life status is mostly disconnected from her own body and becomes closely related to the status of the ghost ship itself.
Girls do not have the right to refuse. Fortunately, the empire and the Fairy Temple have been engaged in human body modification for a long time, and their resistance is very weak. Moreover, as an inevitable "welfare" - eternal youth, no matter what era it is,
Young girls are very attractive.
Kris, Yua, and Nila, who were insignificant but not a hindrance in the original Fundirete faction, have now become the first batch of leading ship girls.
In addition, there are fifteen people who are the first batch of ship girls with them, corresponding to each ghost battleship arrayed around them.
For the weapons on the ship, the thirteen accompanying ships adopted the original technology; the five newly put into production with brand-new technology are Kris, Yua, Nila and two others.
It is equipped with steam engines powered by high-heat elemental creatures captured from the lava of the dwarf country. However, the functions of these steam engines have changed. The ghost ship does not need a power device, so the second-level thunder system is connected in series through a spell that converts internal energy into magic power.
It is an electromagnetic gun that generates magic power, supply output and consumption, but is still easier to manufacture than the Demon Cannon.
Even so, the capacity of the huge ship can only supply two 540mm electromagnetic guns firing at a rate of two rounds every ten minutes; in addition, the main guns were also forced to be reduced to ten. Excluding the bow electromagnetic guns, the number of front and rear main guns was
It was originally cut in half; but because the production of tanks was very small, secondary weapons were added to both sides of the battleship to prevent the enemy from getting too close.
The total number of main weapons has been reduced, but a function has been added, which is also the reason why they suddenly appeared in front of the Bajas border wall: the huge ship body cannot be hidden or eliminated, but it can allow the ship girl as the center to use summoning magic
Performing remote summons. Hiding a dozen people in front of ordinary lookout posts and patrols can obviously be done very easily with second-level magic.
before the attack begins.
Among them, Chrissy, Yuya, and Nila, who were the leading trio, looked at the city wall and started discussing——
"Ke-chan, I think we don't actually need to use risky tactics like approaching and then appearing suddenly to make a surprise attack or using the ship itself to crush the city wall, right?"
"This is the admiral's tactic... What do you think, Yuya?"
"We don't know how quickly they can teleport armored turrets into battle, but our original cannon technology is almost the same, right? In this way, wouldn't the latest electromagnetic cannon be able to attack unilaterally outside their range?"
"...It seems good, let's give it a try. This kind of small change in the bombardment sequence does not require special request."
"It would be exciting if the fairies' violent method of propelling cannonballs by explosions was also used."
"Don't think too far, it's too dangerous. I heard that it's difficult to balance the strength of the barrel with the amount of magic data as a large wand. Unless it is all forged with metals above orichalcum, the wall of the tube will be thickened, and the empire will not be able to consume it.
Just pay this much."
"Can't they be separated? The wand is a wand, and the barrel is a barrel."
"...The military doesn't seem to have such plans."
"Stop chatting, now, the battle begins."
Then there was a scene where the battle ended the moment it started.
The secondary physical damage to the city wall caused by the electromagnetic gun's aftermath of the 540mm diameter projectile was far beyond their expectations.
All the deliberate attempts to gain an advantage by sneak attack seem to have turned into a joke of "competing wits with the air".
The carrier is the ghost ship of the dead, and they can sense any life within the fog range they can expand.
While the fleet was waiting for new orders and slowly approached the remains of the city wall to capture prisoners, Nila said to Chris: "It feels like everyone in this small fortress was shocked to death even if it was not directly affected by the attack and aftermath.
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"...It seems so."
"………………"
The atmosphere was a bit heavy. They had experienced some training and some actual combat, but they killed so many lives unilaterally and instantly. For the daughters who were just waiting to get married or get a position that would bring honor to the family before the empire was divided, it was still a big deal.
Too heavy.
"Bang bang." Chris mustered up the energy to open the communication card to the open line, tapped it twice, and said: "I understand everyone's mood, but this is better than the casualties and pain suffered by our family and the tax-paying people.
Well. Since these people are on the side against us, they must be prepared to die."
She didn't believe the second half of the sentence herself. She could easily understand it by putting herself in someone else's shoes, but she could only ignore it at this time.
After a while, new orders were issued from above.
As the flagship of the fleet, Chris took a breath of cold air when she received the instruction.
"The Admiral has conveyed the instructions from the Imperial High Command," Chris declared solemnly to the fleet. "Now that we know that electromagnetic cannons can unilaterally destroy the opponent's defenses, we will go east along the border wall and destroy all armored turrets with electromagnetic cannons."
Finally, use artillery fire to annihilate all armies and even militiamen that may resist along the way. Force their transcendants to leave the imperial capital as much as possible to meet us. This will increase the chance of victory for the army to regain Owentar."
"Excuse me...militiamen...how to distinguish them?" Nila asked.
According to available intelligence, there are some villages and towns near the border wall. The principality government has strengthened the defense capabilities of these places, with the purpose of allowing the residents of the villages and towns to take up arms and join the war as combatants when necessary, regardless of their combat effectiveness.