Half a month passed quietly.

More than thirty nautical miles north of the Eighteenth Branch, on the deck of a large warship, more than a dozen scientific researchers in white coats were busy, and the most eye-catching thing was the two-unit giant gun on the bow deck.

gun.

Compared with those chubby front-loading smoothbore cannons in the pirate world, this giant cannon is obviously different, just like a rifled cannon.

Speaking of which, Li Yan really admires the scientists in the pirate world. It's only been half a month, okay?

In my previous life, even if I was given a guide on the direction of research, it would have taken at least several months to produce a finished product for testing...

"Major General, the preparations are complete and ready for testing!"

"Don't worry about me, just follow your steps to test, I'm just here to observe!"

"Yes, Major General!"

After saluting, Levin immediately began to direct.

"Load!"

When Levin's order was given, the scene that appeared also made Li Yan's mouth twitch slightly.

With such a big cannonball, a sailor held it with both hands and walked to the rear of the cannon, and it didn't seem to take any effort at all?

Well, the people in the pirate world are really awesome...

"Report, reloading completed!"

"Fill the propellant pack!"

"Report, the propellant pack is filled!"

"Close the breech!"

"The breech is closed!"

"The target is a 3,000-meter target ship on the port side, gunner takes aim!"

"Standard completed!"

As the gunner's aim was adjusted, the entire turret first slowly rotated to the left, and then one of the guns was raised upwards.

"Fire!"

boom...

With a loud noise, the shells quickly rotated and flew out of the gun barrel. At the same time, the recoil caused by the gun firing even shook the entire large warship to move more than ten meters laterally.

A few seconds later, when the cannonball fell, although it missed by tens of meters, the waves caused by the huge explosion directly overturned the small target ship dozens of meters away.

"Quick, conduct a comprehensive inspection, including warships!"

"Yes, Minister!"

Under Levin's command, all scientific researchers and sailors on the ship took action and inspected the test naval gun and the entire warship.

The result of this inspection is just as Li Yan thought just now. The cannon is very powerful, but compared with the smaller caliber secondary guns tested a few days ago, today's warships cannot withstand this huge cannon.

the power of.

Just one shot had already caused many cracks on the deck. If multiple salvos were fired, the warship would probably fall apart.

It seems that Levin still needs to work more on recoil. In addition, it is necessary to redesign the current warships. Then there is the issue of materials for building warships.

Otherwise, this gun can only be used as a shore defense gun on land and cannot be mounted on a ship at all.

After the test firing of this round, Levin no longer dared to conduct a second test firing, so he had to end the test early and return to the branch.

In fact, Lin Fan is not very anxious about the warship's main gun. After all, the secondary guns tested a few days ago are already much stronger than the naval guns currently equipped by the navy, both in terms of range and power.

Or the accuracy has been doubled several times.

As for this 3 or 4 hundred mm caliber cannon main gun, to be honest, there is no place for it at the moment.

after all...

Li Yan's current enemies are just pirates!

When he returned to the branch, looking at Levin who was a little depressed, Li Yan comforted him and told him not to be too impatient and to take it step by step!

And while Li Yan was quietly developing, something big happened in the new world.

As early as more than a month ago, a pirate alliance appeared in the new world. Although the Four Emperors were not involved, these pirate groups were also very powerful. Even the captain of the weakest pirate group had a bounty on his head.

Both reached 300 million Baileys.

The most important thing is that the Navy has obtained intelligence that the target of this pirate alliance is the Navy's last base in the new world, the G1 branch!

Once this place is breached, the navy will completely lose its foothold in the new world, and its impact will be huge.

Therefore, the headquarters directly dispatched two generals to deal with the Pirate Alliance, and mobilized a full 20,000 sailors from the headquarters and the branches of the Grand Line to reinforce. This was also Lieutenant General Jonathan who led thousands of elite G8 branches.

The reason for leaving.

Originally, everyone was fighting back and forth in this battle, and there was no winner for a while.

Although the two generals are very powerful, it is obvious that the dozens of New World pirate groups are not weak either. Even if they fight alone, no one can stop the generals, but several or even ten people can still contain them.

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After all, these are all famous pirate groups in the new world, and none of their captains are weak. They are not comparable to the supernovas in the first half of the paradise.

In ten days, the two sides fought three times in that sea area, each suffering considerable damage, until a reinforcement fleet from the navy arrived...

This fleet is actually not very large, with only one super warship and three large warships, and the total number of sailors is more than a thousand.

But the problem is, there is something special about the more than a thousand sailors here...

In addition to the 500 sailors on the Commander-in-Chief Peach Rabbit, the 1,000 sailors on the other three large warships were all temporarily selected by the headquarters.

They may not have strong fighting power, but they have one thing in common, that is...

They are all shooting masters!

In order to support this force, the Navy Headquarters also spent a lot of money, asking Vegapunk to rush out a thousand Corona 18s, costing more than 700 million beli.

Originally, according to the plan of the Warring States Period, it was planned to wait for the problem of mass production of materials to be solved before mass-producing equipment.

After all, it is too expensive to let the laboratory produce it.

But after seeing Corona's performance in the two battles in Demon Valley Town and the G8 branch, and the increasingly tense situation in the G1 branch, Sengoku changed his mind.

First produce a thousand guns, and then select a thousand sailors with strong shooting abilities from the headquarters to form a special experimental fleet.

As for the 500 in Taotu's hands, it was an unexpected surprise, and they paid for it at their own expense, without asking for a penny from the headquarters, right?

Therefore, after Taotu left the Eighteenth Branch, she received an order from the Warring States Period, asking her to go to the headquarters to join this special fleet, and then rush to the G1 branch for support. After all, the situation there seemed to be about to break out at any time.

And this is also the battle where Corona's Eighteenth Form is truly exposed in front of all pirates.

When four warships entered the battlefield, 1,500 Corona 18-style guns with an effective range set to be farther than the pirate ship's guns were unveiled.

After all, the front-loaded smoothbore cannons used can reach grandma's house at a distance of 2 or 3 hundred meters.

In addition to the mid-level and high-level combat power of the pirates, the lower-level combat power, which accounted for 90% of the number, was directly massacred unilaterally.

Even after Taotu arrived at the center of the battlefield, which was the area blocked by Aoki's ice, the sailors jumped off the warships one after another and headed towards the main battlefield.

Although the mid-level and high-level pirates were not too afraid of the Corona Eighteen Styles, they were still restrained.

As long as you are not of the natural type, you have to always be on guard against the sailors holding the Corona 18 style. If the bullets fly over and you don't dodge or use partial armaments for defense, you will still be injured or even injured.

Is it okay to throw away your life?

The originally stalemate on the battlefield soon became one-sided with the addition of these 1,500 Corona 18s.

After all, while guarding against black guns, you also have to deal with the navy's mid-level and high-level combat capabilities. This is simply impossible.

As for Akainu and Aokiji who noticed this, although they were a little shocked by the strength of Corona's Eighteenth Form, they did not miss the opportunity to fight because of this, and immediately ordered the navy to launch a full counterattack.

The pirates who saw that the situation was not good naturally wanted to escape, but the problem was that the entire sea area was frozen by Aokiji.

Except for those pirates with the ability to fly, no one else can escape at all.

Here I have to talk about Aokiji’s frozen fruit. On the sea, especially in large-scale legion operations, this guy’s fruit ability is simply a bug.

Until three hours later, except for a small number of pirates who escaped, the rest were either killed or captured. The navy won this crucial battle with minimal losses.

And the Corona Eighteen Styles that caused this result...
Chapter completed!