The Creators: From Night City

The Arasaka was intended to be used as a cargo ship, but Jiang Bing felt that it was a waste of the ship's good foundation to only transport cargo, so he carried out drastic modifications while repairing it.

角落里的四座热成像追踪的MK-38 Mod3型25mm遥控机炮，船头船尾架设的四组6联装反舰导弹/防空导弹的通用垂直发射系统统统被保留，但是主甲板上搭载的6架荒坂的‘海夜叉’察打一体旋翼大型无人机则是挪到了船尾。

The vacant space was given to the largest thing ever cast by the "craftsman" Jiang Bing, the reinforced ship-borne Gustav cannon - "Peace".

Overall length of the gun: 64 meters

Width: 12 meters

Height: 16.6 meters

Weight: 2,929 tons

Gun caliber: 1200 mm

Gun length: 42 meters

Gun weight: 820 tons

Shooting angle: +53 degrees

Shell weight:

7 tons (conventional armor-piercing projectile)

75 tons (high explosive)

4.45 tons ('Sparkling' brand poison gas bomb)

8.42 tons (annihilation bomb, Monster Hunter World explosive filler)

Muzzle velocity:

720 m/s (armor-piercing projectile)

820 m/s (high-explosive shell)

890 m/s ('Sparkling' brand poison gas bomb)

690 m/s (annihilation bomb, Monster Hunter World explosive filler)

Standard maximum range: 110 km

A combination of phased array quantum radar (which can penetrate clouds and fog/electronic interference) and a high-energy laser spectrometer is used to provide auxiliary aiming for shooting. In this regard, Jiang Bing did not make many changes. The sensor array device that Arasaka equipped its ships with was considered a top-notch product in 2076.

The built-in radar and optical system can scan the terrain, atmospheric disturbances and electromagnetic environment of the target area in real time, and generate a sub-millimeter 3D terrain model. Although there is no satellite support for dynamic data updates, Jiang Bing has converted all six of Arasaka's "Sea Yasha" reconnaissance and strike integrated rotor large drones into high-altitude information support and reconnaissance integrated machines to provide real-time information guidance for the giant artillery via satellite.

Of course, the most technologically advanced part is that Jiang Bing spent a lot of money to install a small supercomputer from Raven Technology on the ship to serve as the global ballistic supercomputer center. Combined with the self-learning ballistic correction weak AI and gravity gradient compensation module, it can truly achieve the goal of hitting wherever it is pointed, with a drop difference of less than 20 centimeters.

Of course, compared to the original German army's big, black and thick iron lump, the "craftsmen" have a lot of high technology in their hands, so they will naturally add some small materials when designing it.

Thanks to the fact that the 'Umibozu' was powered by a nuclear power plant and had no energy source, Jiang Bing simply carried forward the electromagnetic acceleration technology obtained in the Death Space and applied it to the 'Peace'. Through special magnetic steel intelligent component shells and electromagnetic acceleration, the range of the ship's guns could be increased several times. Although Jiang Bing had not fired yet, the calculated maximum range could reach 970 kilometers.

What is this concept?

Equipped with a magnetohydrodynamic barrel stabilizer and a nano-ceramic smart ammunition adapter (a micro-MEMS (micro-electromechanical system) is integrated into the tail of each shell, which can fine-tune the tail fin posture based on real-time ballistic data after launch, and a micro-ramjet engine is combined to achieve terminal ballistic correction), "Peace" can hit Atlanta, the heart of the New America, with a single shot from outside the city of Saint Denis.

With it cruising in the surrounding waters, the coastal countries of North and South America are blessed.

Of course, this super-heavy cannon has long been eliminated in later generations because it is still too bulky. It has been replaced by more flexible and accurate long-range missiles.

Jiang Bing had considered long-range missiles, but developing them required the support of a huge foundational technology group and the assistance of a satellite group for positioning. At the same time, manufacturing, maintenance, storage, and operation were all very complicated tasks, so Jiang Bing temporarily put it at the back of the list.

But "Peace" is different. It is essentially a cannon and is relatively easy to maintain and use.

At the same time, its existence is absolutely effective in deterring all coastal forces in the current era. There is no need to fire a shot. The existence of the huge gun body alone is enough to make most people who see it compromise on the spot and bring "peace".

This is also the original intention of Jiang Bing to name it "Peace".

It is still unknown whether "peace" can bring peace, but Zhu Changbian is very peaceful now.

He looked up at the huge monster, and at the muzzle that was big enough to fit ten of him, and the anxiety and panic in his heart miraculously disappeared.

No matter how powerful Alberto Fussard is, he'd better pray that Mr. Sabur doesn't use this thing against him.

"Let's go. You'll have plenty of time to appreciate the magnificent creation of the 'Black King' in the future." Feiying turned around as expected, and waved in front of Zhu Changbian with a sense of superiority, calling back the other's soul, completely unaware that he looked like this when he first met him.

The next time Zhu Changbian saw Mr. Sabul was in the spacious and luxurious reception room of the "Mortal World".

Jiang Bing was sitting at a rectangular table, drinking morning tea with a black man whom Zhu Changbian was very familiar with.

Although the other person had already put on a shirt, the large agate necklace on his chest, the lush beard, and the face that he had just seen allowed Zhu Changbian to easily say the other person's name.

The leader of the rebels - Hercule.

Chapter 498: Cannons are used for fighting

Of course, it was not until then that Zhu Changbian knew the other party's true identity, the leader of the Haitian pirates.

"sit down"

Jiang Bing put down the data tablet in his hand, reached out and patted the seat next to him, indicating that the [Anti-Entropy] hero in front of him could sit down at will.

But Zhu Changbian couldn't do as he was told. He was not stupid. He looked around and under the watchful eyes of the 'Black King's Apostles', he carefully chose a seat at the end of the long table, facing Heklier, who also looked very reserved.

Seeing the other party's timid behavior, Jiang Bing didn't bother about seating arrangements. Instead, he simply asked, "How did you handle things this time when you went back?"

"It's all done, boss." Zhu Changbian held the enamel teacup put down by the maid Margaret, and was so nervous that he couldn't taste the tea.

"Recently, the Boxer Rebellion has been going on in the north of the Qing Dynasty, and there has also been a drought. The situation in the south is a little better, but the foreigners are still very rampant. A large number of people can't make a living. Many people even sell their children and themselves just to have a full meal. They don't even have to pay money, as long as they are given food, crowds of people are willing to follow." Zhu Changbian thought of what he had seen and heard along the way, and couldn't help but feel sympathetic.

Jiang Bing had already anticipated the situation described by Zhu Changbian.

"I heard from Feiying that you brought back a group of fellow villagers this time?"

"Yes, sir. There were 57 of us when we set out. One died of illness on the way, and two ran away. We were almost there when the boat capsized. Out of more than 50 people, only these few are left."

Having said that, Zhu Changbian hurriedly asked for help.

"Boss, please save them. They have all been captured by the soldiers on the island. These foreigners are not good people. If we go too late, they might all die."

Jiang Bing signaled him to be patient. He had already made arrangements for the rescue. At this moment, the army of [Anti-Entropy] was advancing from the dock to the island in a carpet-like manner.

Originally, the 'Midgard' was going out just to rescue Zhu Changbian and to test the performance of the modified 'Midgard' and 'Peace'. However, after learning about the situation on Guarma Island, Jiang Bing made a prompt decision and prepared to bring it into the territory of [Anti-Entropy] as a supply port for [Anti-Entropy] in the Gulf of Mexico, expanding the strength of [Anti-Entropy] from the southwestern United States to the ocean.

And Hercule, the leader of the Haitian pirates, is obviously an excellent entry point.

After Zhu Changbian finished his report, he did not linger for a moment and followed the staff to further treat his injuries. Then he took a shower, took care of his personal hygiene, and lay down on the soft bed in the single room assigned to him and fell into a deep sleep.

His nerves had been tense for too long, and when he returned to a safe environment, he naturally needed a retaliatory sleep to make up for the loss.

The size of the "Earthly World" was so stable on the sea that he could hardly feel the shaking of the ship. Zhu Chang slept until noon before being woken up.

The visitor was a crew member of the ship. He brought good news to the sleepy Zhu Changbian: the fellow villagers who were captured by the Cuban army had been rescued.

Zhu Changbian excitedly put on his new clothes and when he came to the deck, he happened to see the "Peace" naval gun preparing for its first firing.

Even though there are a lot of advanced mechanical assistance for loading and aiming, it is not easy for a guy this big to open fire.

For example, have you ever seen a cannonball the size of a family car?

Zhu Changbian witnessed with his own eyes how the gantry-like loading equipment dragged the shells out of the ammunition depot and completed the loading process along the slide rails with the assistance of the loading personnel.

"He's up, and seems to have recovered well." Boss Jiang was inspecting the status of the artillery group's equipment with a data tablet. He glanced at his employee who was standing there in a daze, and habitually expressed his concern.

"Boss, where are we going to attack?" Zhu Changbian's heart was already filled with curiosity. He really wanted to know what else existed that required the use of weapons of this scale.

"Alberto Fussal's retreating estate and the Brazilian military's self-confidence." Jiang Bing's words made Zhu Changbian confused.

After confirming with Eagle that all the captives, slaves and his own people on the island had been evacuated, the alarm was sounded and the deck was quickly cleared.

In order to provide a suitable target for the 'peace' test, Feiying took great pains to evacuate all the captives and slaves while preserving the integrity of the manor.

Even this was the result of his efforts to restrain his men's desire to kill. Several times, his men had already entered the manor, but they had to withdraw deliberately. When shooting, they even had to deliberately raise the muzzle a little to avoid killing Alberto Fussard and his lackeys.

This battle was more difficult than boarding the Umibozu. How could it be easy for him?

Jiang Bing was unaware of his top admiral's mumbling. After debugging all the procedures before firing, Hercule, who was captured after crashing into the "Mortal World" while escaping, and his deputy Baptiste were "politely" invited to the bridge.

Killing the chicken to scare the monkey will not work unless the monkey is in its place.

'Craftsman' I was wondering, how powerful is the wonder weapon that is made by piling up materials to the extreme?

It can be said that according to safety regulations, no one is allowed to be on the entire front deck when firing.

Because the target being hit is relatively close, there is no need to use the electromagnetic acceleration mode for the time being. After the hydraulic recoil system inside the gun group is activated, 30 carbon fiber damping rods are locked into the turret base one after another. After the buffer tank under the deck is injected with magnetorheological fluid to prepare for the recoil impact, the magnetorheological reverse thrust system at the tail of the gun barrel emits a low-frequency hum, which means that it is already operating at full power and can fire at any time.

Two 'Sea Yaksha' reconnaissance drones hovering high in the sky continued to assist in positioning and determining ballistic data. After tedious and lengthy pre-fire preparations, 'Peace' was finally able to open fire.

Jiang Bing pressed the button without hesitation.

The moment the shell was fired, an orange-red fireball with a diameter of forty to fifty meters erupted from the muzzle. The intense light that erupted instantly illuminated the entire sea area even during the day.

The combined effects of the gunpowder explosion and the expansion of the overpressured gas produced a roar of at least 185 decibels, resounding throughout the entire 'Midnight'.

Despite being equipped with a large number of recoil-absorbing devices, the moment the "Peace" opened fire, the 22-ton warship still shifted sideways by several meters, and the bow sank by one or two meters.

A large amount of recoil was transferred to the sea water, generating a huge circular wave with a diameter of 100 meters that spread out in all directions.

As for power.

The giant shell, glowing red due to friction with the air, was visible in the daytime like a meteor. After flying for several seconds, it fell not very accurately into the sugarcane plantation to the left of Alberto Fussard's estate.

The next second, everyone's eyes lit up physically.

Chapter 499: The Battle of Saint Denis is about to begin

Then, the ground suddenly rose high, and the hard soil was like parchment held together by invisible hands, full of wrinkles, and then stone "waves" emerged outward.

Flames gushed out from the cracks in the ground, and hundreds of tons of soil and rubble were thrown into the sky by the shock wave of the explosion, dispersing into a small mushroom cloud. A deep pit was blown out in the land within a radius of 100 meters, unfortunately affecting half of the manor, and a large number of buildings were razed to the ground in an instant.

The crops in the sugarcane plantations within a thousand meters were all uprooted by the sudden hurricane. Thousands of tons of dust raised by the explosion continued to rise into the sky, forming a precipitation cloud hundreds of meters high, causing the Cuban warships that came to the rescue to retreat frantically from a long distance.

"Missed?"

Jiang Bing was not surprised by this. After all, this was the first time that "Peace" fired, and it was normal to miss the target without any data.

The display of the global ballistic supercomputing center flashed codes like a waterfall, and it was rapidly collecting, organizing, and analyzing massive amounts of ballistic data, and optimizing subsequent shooting trajectories.

With the operation of mechanical loading equipment, the second giant shell was quickly loaded into the barrel.

The trajectory correction weak AI controlled the gun to make slight adjustments to its position. After it was finished, Jiang Bing pressed the fire button again without hesitation.

Amidst the violent tremors, another daytime meteor flew out, and this time the shell hit the center of the manor accurately, completely destroying the manor where no one had survived.

Jiang Bing looked at the real-time bird's-eye view sent back from the sky by 'Sea Yaksha' and finally smiled with satisfaction.

Everyone on the bridge was in shock, unable to extricate themselves, because at this moment, on the large screen inside the bridge that was used to display the bird's-eye view, the original quaint manor with Spanish architectural style had disappeared, and only a charred circle remained on the original site of the building, as if God had just taken a burning Cuban cigar from the corner of his mouth and used the cigarette butt to burn all the vitality of this land.

The 'craftsman' expressed satisfaction with his work.

He planned to find some open space in Heimer after returning and build a few gates. If necessary, he could use Heimer to tear the space apart and give the enemy a few small shocking blows in "trans-time and space" and "beyond visual range".

Heklier and his crew were escorted to the island by a team of 'Black King's Apostles'. They would witness the power of the bombardment once again so that the recruitment of [Anti-Entropy] could proceed smoothly.

[Anti-Entropy] We don't need them to be convinced, we just need to win their hearts, not their hearts. This is the advantage of a big system.

The "Midgard" will stay in the Gulf of Mexico for a few days to deter evildoers and prepare for the anti-entropy maritime expansion.

But the most important thing at the moment is to capture the excellent port city of Saint Denis.

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Zhu Changbian sat in the bed of a cart pulled by a four-wheeled tractor (a simple tractor developed by "craftsmen" to meet the needs of agricultural traction) and rushed all the way on the road of Gusli Farm.

It is said to be running at full speed, but even if the accelerator is stepped on all the way, the speed of this single-cylinder diesel engine can only reach 30 to 40 kilometers per hour.

But this did not prevent the farmers in Douli, who had never even ridden a horse, from watching the show in wonder.

Compared to the villagers who found everything strange, like Granny Liu when she entered the Grand View Garden, Zhu Changbian just felt that his three views were a little confused.

In the distance, thick smoke billowed from the land. That was the oil refinery's continued operation, producing the fuel needed for the group and mechanized planting operations of the original Guthrie Farm, the newly developed Emerald Farm, Shuangdie Mountain Farm, Caddimore Farm, and Cumberland Farm.

Further east of Grizzly, in the originally uninhabited wilderness, the Moonstone area where Zhu Changbian once built the railway, a large number of long or rectangular buildings have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. These buildings either have no windows or only have small high windows, and the roofs are all equipped with ventilation systems.

Next to the building are several large cylindrical gas centrifuges, as well as densely packed cooling towers, substations, water treatment plants, and other supporting structures, which look similar to ordinary chemical plants.

However, the significant difference from ordinary factories is that these factories are heavily guarded and a large number of autonomous defense towers are on standby around the clock.

This is a newly built nuclear material purification plant, but it has not been put into use yet, and is just waiting for the nuclear raw materials to be in place.

Of course, there are still pedestrians riding horses on the newly built cement road, and cowboys grazing on horseback can be seen in the fields to the southwest.

This semi-modern scene, which was neither new nor old, dazzled the people sitting in the queue of cars.