"This thing of yours seems to be a hedgehog bomb?" Seeing Lawrence instructing the book charm to draw more and more detailed pictures on the paper, the little puppet quickly figured out what Lawrence's drawing was. " But we currently don’t have many ships that can carry this weapon system, and even if we build it, only a few of our steam sailing ships can be equipped with it.”
"Who told you that I can only put them on the boat?" Lawrence smiled and said. "These things can actually be used for coastal defense, although it is difficult to cause damage to those large sea beasts due to the amount of internal charges. , but in fact, those large sea monsters will basically not approach shallow waters such as islands, because the water depth here will make them lose mobility. The water monsters that can reach shallow waters are mainly those fish-men who are famous for their numbers."
"I understand." Nora also reacted at this time. "Underwater explosions will produce huge shock waves, causing serious damage to all creatures in the water. And those fish people whose quality is worse than humans on average will easily They were wiped out in batches by these depth charges."
"That's it." Lawrence said, taking out a map of New Sauer Port and the surrounding sea areas from his space bag and pointing at it. "Every time there is a large-scale sea monster attack, there will always be a precursor. That period of time is enough for us to kill all the coastal residents. With the personnel withdrawing from the point, except for the New Sauer Port where we are now and a few seaside towns, other places can be completely abandoned."
"Under the premise of this kind of strategic defense, we can concentrate as much firepower as possible to make up for the lack of manpower. And if you look at the seawater contours on the map, you will find that basically all of these coastal towns except for important main waterways The water depth in most other areas is relatively shallow.”
"We don't have to worry about the defense of the main channel. After all, the previous defenses were almost all facing this direction. A large number of manpower and firepower will be concentrated here during wartime." Lawrence pointed to the waterway entering the harbor from New Sauer Port and said. "And this kind of bomb is mainly used for positions on both sides of the harbor that lack enough manpower to garrison."
"Under such a premise, depth bombs such as hedgehog bombs that use impact fuses are very suitable." Lawrence said, picking up a drawn bomb body pattern from Shu Mei. "The fuses of depth bombs are divided into three parts. There are two types, among which the water pressure fuze is much more expensive than the impact fuze. If it is in the open sea, considering the effective killing, we can only use the water pressure fuze. But now with the water depth of 5-6 meters in other areas, even if these bombs fall The explosion after reaching the bottom of the sea will also cause fatal damage to a large number of murlocs."
"What's even better is that this thing can also make us a lot of money." Saifeier said as if something suddenly occurred to him at this time. "At least the water depth in cities like Huguang City near the lakeshore is not deep, but every year there will be Areas experiencing large-scale murloc raids will definitely need this kind of weapon."
For Lawrence and others, another advantage of using this kind of weapon in defensive warfare is that it does not need to be equipped with additional detection equipment. Because the water depth here is too shallow, those small sea beasts or fish-men basically cannot attack when attacking. It is possible to hide one's whereabouts, and the outpost on the mountain can easily observe the signs of attack by the monsters with the naked eye.
In addition, Lawrence also purchased a batch of sonar reels for underwater reconnaissance and distributed them to the Coast Patrol for coastal defense. Although sonar has not been invented in the world now, it can be used as a way to extend its scope of activities into the water.
The mages below invented a lot of magic for underwater reconnaissance. The effects of these spells are no worse than the sonar in Lawrence's previous life.
Of course, this kind of magic is very effective in solving problems. The disadvantages are the same as other magic props. They are all expensive and require operators. At least such a scroll that can be used for less than one minute costs only
It requires one year's salary of an ordinary worker, and users are also required to receive relevant training.
Fortunately, this place is far away from both the land and the deep sea, so there are not many monsters visiting this place. Therefore, the frequency of use of special reconnaissance scrolls on the island is not high. At least the magic on the island has been around for such a long time.
The scrolls all cost zero.
But this unmanned ship incident reminded him that the sea is not only vast but also interconnected. Therefore, there is a certain probability that dangerous sea beasts will come to this island. Although everything went smoothly in the previous period,
For Lawrence, this is no reason to slack off in this regard.
But everything was quiet for a while. He just heard from his father that the church's joint investigation team successfully found the specific location where all the people on the previous boat disappeared, and confirmed through sacrifice that the culprit was a huge
, a whale with a thick layer of scales on its body.
It's just that because the whale has some kind of special bloodline related to the ocean and the water elemental world, the church cannot track the whale in the ocean. Since they really lack enough power to search in such a large ocean
Where did that fish go, so what each church can do now is to pass this information to the surrounding forces and put it on the wanted list within each church.
So in this calm, Lawrence ushered in the transport ship transporting new weapons. This ship departed directly from Huguang City. In addition to 30 sets of Hedgehog bomb systems and ten supporting sets of each set, Lawrence
In addition to the basic ammunition, there is also a technical staff of more than a dozen people, led by a dwarf with brown-red hair.
"You should be His Excellency Earl Sauer. Nice to meet you." Obviously, this dwarf should be the leader of this team. So after getting off the boat, he walked directly towards Lawrence and the others, because in this formal
Lawrence habitually wore a formal suit for the occasion, so the dwarf recognized Lawrence's identity at first sight.
"Welcome, welcome to New Sauer Island." After all, this is his subordinate, so Lawrence will naturally come out to greet him in person. After a few simple greetings, he figured out that the dwarf's name was Adolf Beaufort.
S. Volcano was Laurence's partner Eugene Bofors. Another cousin of Volcano, he had previously opened a steam engine repair shop. Later, after Lawrence saved the factory, he was recruited into the factory due to lack of manpower.
, is now the chief engineer of the repair department.
"Four of the engineers this time will immigrate to this island." The dwarf named Adolf said, "And in addition to the anti-submarine bomb mortars you ordered, we also transported a batch of meter-gauge mortars.
Tracks, these are one of the additions to this transaction.”
"Meter rail, this gift should be very expensive, right?" Lawrence seemed a little nervous when he heard about the rail. Even if the meter rail in this world is only used for tracks inside factories or mines, not everyone can afford it.
.At least Lawrence feels that construction of the island's track system may be several years away.
"It's actually very cheap. You know a while ago our factory annexed several factories when it expanded. And these rails are the unnecessary parts removed from those factories." The dwarf Adolf said. "My cousin thinks
You may need it here, so you asked me to send it over. And to be honest, because the locomotives on these tracks have other uses, so I only sent some tracks and trolleys."
"That's enough." Lawrence nodded after knowing that this section of meter track was only two or three kilometers long. "Anyway, there are many horses and cattle on the island, and the small carriages used on this meter track can still be pulled.
It is movable, not to mention that these tracks can only be laid for a short distance, so there is no need to consider the endurance of the beasts of burden."