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Chapter 685: The shocking underwater cemetery!
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"well!"
After sighing, Liu Dong shook his head regretfully...≦
Although this battleship is good, apart from the fact that the ship has some value, there are not many valuable works of art on board, so it is really not worth his while.
But just when Liu Dong walked forward less than 20 meters on the seabed, another sunken ship appeared. Compared with the sunken ship just now, the one just discovered was also a battleship, but it should be a double-decker third-level battleship, fully loaded
Above 1000 tons.
However, this ship was even worse than the one at the beginning. Two of the three masts were broken, and the hull on the right side was almost broken into two pieces.
"Oh my god, what is going on?" After walking forward for more than 20 meters, Liu Dong's mouth grew bigger and bigger, his face full of shock.
Because within the scope of his relic Yuan Guang's exploration, a third, fourth, or even hundreds of sunken ships appeared. The seabed with a radius of one kilometer was like a cemetery, filled with the wreckage of battleships from the age of sail.
Especially in the center of these battleship wreckage, there is a huge super sailing battleship.
Liu Dong made a 'visual inspection' and found that the length of this sailing warship reached 60 meters, the width reached 18 meters, seven decks, three artillery decks, and a height of about 8 meters. Although Liu Dong did not know much about the data of the sailing warship.
, but based on a simple estimate, the displacement of this battleship should be no less than 3,500 tons. If fully loaded, it would probably be no less than 6,000 tons.
There is no doubt that it is the pinnacle first-class battleship in the age of sailing, and it has reached the ultimate level of sailing battleship.
Moreover, this battleship also has a beautiful bow portrait, which looks like the god of the sea, Poseidon!
His trident is so famous that even Liu Dong is very familiar with it, and there are also complicated sculptures on the tail keel of the ship. Although there are not as many as the Vasa in Stockholm, there are still more than two hundred!
Liu Dong really couldn't figure out why European emperors liked to put so many tricks on their battleships. Apart from decoration, they were completely useless in war.
However, in this way, the artistic value of this battleship has suddenly increased many times.
Of course, the wreckage of this first-class sailing battleship is not the only one in this shipwreck cemetery. Judging from the remaining hulls, there are four other battleships of the same class here, but only this one is the most complete one.
ship!
The others either had their hulls broken or had several big holes in their sides. Only this one had no obvious scars on its body. Liu Dong even wondered how it sank!
Judging from the inscription on the navigational clock, this battleship belongs to the Russians, and its name is ‘Peter the Great’!
"If my guess is correct, this should be the battlefield of the 'Battle of Svenksang'!" Liu Dong thought to himself.
If you want to find a sunken ship, you naturally need to have a basic understanding of the sunken ships there, so before coming out this time, Liu Dong had already collected information about the shipwreck from all parties. Although it was only the simplest information, it was enough for Liu Dong.
As long as he knows the approximate sea area where the sunken ship is located, he can find the location of the sunken ship.
Of course, in addition to well-known treasure ships such as the Ross, Bismarck, Lady Acatto, and Spanish gold ships, Liu Dong focused on understanding the major maritime wars that have occurred in the world for a long time, although there may not be many on the battleships.
Gold and silver treasures.
But if it is really salvaged, the tableware, a small amount of gold and silver coins, weapons and ammunition, porcelain, armor, etc. will also be a considerable fortune.
Moreover, Liu Dong also plans to build a shipwreck museum, and sailing battleships are naturally indispensable.
So, naturally, he also learned about the largest naval battle that took place on the Baltic Sea in the 18th century - the Battle of Svensksan!
This naval battle was a battle between the Russian Empire and Sweden for control of the Baltic Sea. On July 9, 1790, Sweden dispatched 195 naval warships to fight against 140 Russian naval warships. The war lasted for nearly two days, and the Russian army suffered 64 losses in attack.
warships and 7,500 casualties. The Swedish army only lost 4 warships and 300 men.
With the failure of the Russian naval battle, the Slavs' dream of dominating the Baltic Sea was shattered, causing Russia to begin to expand to the Far East. Although Sweden was victorious, its sailing fleet suffered heavy losses in several previous small battles. The gap in national power caused Russia to gradually expand in the 19th century.
Begins to dominate the Baltic Sea.
Liu Dong also didn’t expect that he would bump into the remains of the ‘Battle of Svensk Sang’ on the seabed.
But now that we have found this place, there is no reason to return empty-handed. Even if the battleships that were broken into two parts have no salvage value, Liu Dong doesn't mind taking advantage of them. After all, no matter how broken the battleships are, there are still many people on the cannons.
Willing to collect.
But before harvesting the spoils of war, Mei Xue must be settled first!
So after digging 50 meters to reach 150 meters from the seabed, which was enough to ensure that the 8 cubic meters of space dug by Liu Dong would not collapse, Liu Dong replaced Mei Xue with an oxygen bottle and placed her there.
in.
Without the drag of Mei Xue, it would undoubtedly be much more convenient for Liu Dong to move alone. Within two minutes, Liu Dong had already arrived at the bottom of the sea. Except for some trouble when getting out of the water, Liu Dong did not find it too difficult.
"Damn, this seabed is too soft!"
Although my body can withstand the huge water pressure of the 200-meter-deep sea, the soil layer under my feet cannot withstand it.
Therefore, after arriving at the bottom of the sea, Liu Dong almost sank into the soft sand below his knees, and every step he took took several times more energy than usual.
Gritting his teeth and persisting for an hour, he finally collected all the nearly a hundred warships that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
These include 5 first-class sailing battleships, 8 second-class sailing battleships, 12 third-class sailing battleships, 19 fourth-class sailing battleships, 27 double-track single-deck battleships, and about 30 supply ships, which are of course also called armed merchant ships.
Can!
It was only then that Liu Dong became more and more aware of how lucky the existence of Mustard Seed Space was for him!
Including the five sunken ships that Liu Dong harvested before he left Amsterdam and encountered storms, he now has a total of 104 sunken ships in his hands, with at least 200,000 cubic meters of sunken ships in the mustard space that has reached 125 million cubic meters.
Not to mention a drop in Songhai, but it only occupies one 600th of the place!
Even if you include the hundreds of thousands of jadeite stones and numerous antiques and artworks that Liu Dong placed in it, it only occupies a very small corner of the Mustard Seed space, and more than 90% of the space is completely empty.
With it, Liu Dong may no longer need to think about what he can't carry with him!
An hour later, looking at the flat seabed, Liu Dong nodded with satisfaction. Then, he hurriedly drilled underground. In another twenty minutes, his breath-holding limit would be reached.
It is impossible to take out the oxygen bottle at this time, because the oxygen bottle cannot withstand such a large water pressure and can easily ignite spontaneously.
After spending a lot of effort to block the intrusion of the turbulent sea water, Liu Dong found Mei Xue. After taking a few breaths of oxygen, he began to identify the direction completely by feeling and continued on his way.
And just after Liu Dong hit the road happily, he didn't know that the storm he accidentally encountered saved him from a big trouble.
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In a luxurious manor on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the dark night did not cover up the existence of lights. However, in the dead of night, a 200-square-meter room on the second floor of the central villa in the manor was covered with exquisite oil paintings and elegant porcelain.
In the study room with bronze sculptures, behind the old, complicated and gorgeous desk, an old white man in his sixties was concentrating on looking at the things in his hands.
If Liu Dong were present, he would definitely find that the thing in the old man's hand was the yellow animal skin that he, Blind, and James obtained from the floating corpse on Kolga Island that day.
"Dong dong...!"
The rapid and rhythmic knocking on the door made the old man frown, and then put down the animal skin.
"Come in!"
Following the old man's words, a middle-aged white man in a black suit opened the door and walked in respectfully.
"Senior Karis!"
After nodding, the old man said directly: "Have you found any trace of those two Chinese?"
"Not yet. Since they disappeared in the storm area two hours ago, we have used various methods and have been unable to find them!" the middle-aged white man said respectfully.
"Aren't you a security positioning device on their yacht?" the old man frowned.
"Yes, but there was no news two hours ago. I think it must have been blocked!" the middle-aged white man said quickly.
"Do you think those two Chinese discovered your arrangement?"
"I'm not sure, but that signal transmitting device is the latest product that the organization helped us get from the Ministry of Defense. Even a storm at sea can't completely block it!"
After listening, the old white man thought for a while and nodded, "I understand, you go down first, and report to me as soon as you find the traces of the two Chinese!"
"Yes, respected Elder Karis!"
After the strong white man exited the door with a respectful expression, the old man picked up the animal skin on the table, looked at it for a few times, sighed, and put it aside.
"The treasure trove arranged by the Third Reich organized by 200 of Europe's most famous logicians and historians is indeed not easy to solve. If all the clues cannot be found, the 'Great Deutschland Treasure' is destined to be just a Luxi treasure."
It's just a joke by Hua, no wonder the old guys in the club are indifferent to it now!"
"...But I won't give up so easily. The Karis family needs these treasures to rise again!" The old man subconsciously clenched his fists.