Chapter 1550 New Combination
"Your Majesty, the latest report sent back by Colonel Bai Tu of the front-line fleet!"
By the time Zhou Xu received the latest report from Bai Tu, it was already late winter.
Looking through the content, he could only say that this situation was indeed a bit beyond his expectations. There was even a big gossip in it that made Zhou Xu feel like he was reading gossip news.
Zhou Xu was in a pretty good mood throughout the whole process of reading Bai Tu's report.
In Bai Tu, Zhou Xu truly fully realized the benefits of having a capable general.
From the outbreak of the war with the Patton Empire to now, he basically didn't have to worry about the whole thing.
The only thing he needed to do was to read the reports sent back by the other party, then approve some applications for the transfer of supplies, equipment and troops, and by the way, deal with the prisoners of war and spoils sent back by Bai Tu.
In Zhou Xu's opinion, the number of prisoners of war was not actually that large, and that little bit of labor could be directly placed on the volcanic island.
After all, compared with land warfare, the number of troops deployed in naval warfare is limited. At the current stage of naval warfare, the main cost is on the warships.
Under this premise, the loss of warships will be relatively large.
Take the battle in Bai Tu's report for example. Although they had the upper hand in the overall situation due to the advantage of the ironclad ship No. 001.
But after all, the ironclad ship No. 001 could not engage in a firefight with dozens of Patton warships at the same time.
Therefore, in the latest naval battle, six speedboats of their Great Zhou fleet were still severely damaged in the battle, causing a large amount of seawater to flow back into the cabins. There was no time to repair them, resulting in the sinking of the ships.
Each of these warships is not cheap to build, so this is definitely not a small loss.
Fortunately, they also seized nine clippers from Patton's fleet. These nine clippers were all damaged to some extent, but they could still be used after repairs.
In addition, Bai Tu also got two small communication cubes.
According to the information provided by Jabar and Hans, there should be four small communication cubes in their main fleet.
However, the battle situation was chaotic at the time, and the whereabouts of the other two small communication cubes were unknown. They were most likely sunk to the bottom of the sea.
If Bai Tu were to look for it, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
When encountering such a thing, you can only keep calm and accept reality.
Zhou Xu was not bothered by this matter.
Ever since the small communication cube was handed to him, he has been studying it.
The mantra inscription engraved on it is actually not complicated. As for the material, at present, any material with the "energy storage" property will do.
As for this characteristic, the best material at present is undoubtedly mithril.
But as of now, there should be no mithril in the raw materials of the small communication cube he has.
This should be the result of using other materials with the same properties.
According to Zhou Xu's idea, this material could not be rarer than mithril. In other words, there must be a low-end version of mithril, but they haven't found it yet.
In addition to these, Bai Tu also obtained a set of fighting skills from Hans, who was transformed into an undead.
It is somewhat different from Harald’s previous torrent of fighting spirit, and it can provide them with multiple reference samples for related research in the Great Zhou.
At the same time, he also obtained the mantra spell of "Giant Wave Rush" and three mantra characters from Jabbar.
Considering the possibility that the spell "Giant Wave" might be used in the future, Bai Tu stayed at the front line for the time being, just in case.
The other three mantra characters followed the report and were sent back to Zhou Xu first.
At the end of the report, Bai Tu gave a brief explanation of his next ideas and thoughts, which Zhou Xu thought was fine.
He also gave the green light to Bai Tu's related applications and gave enough trust to his capable subordinates.
"By the way, will the second steam ironclad ship be launched next month?"
In the Qinzheng Hall, Zhou Xu asked while looking at Li Bowen. He remembered that the report was reviewed by Li Bowen at that time.
After all, it's just a simple periodic progress report and doesn't have much importance.
Faced with the question, Li Bowen, who had just finished reviewing the document two days ago, did not need to open it to confirm and just nodded.
"Yes, your majesty."
"Pass on my order. Contact Volcano Island as quickly as possible and inform Bai Tu of the news. Tell him to wait until the second steam ironclad ship is completed before launching follow-up operations."
This action will definitely slow down Bai Tu's efficiency, but compared with the advantages that the second steam ironclad ship can bring, this little time is nothing.
According to the report sent back by Bai Tu, in the previous battle, the Patton Empire not only lost its main fleet, but also lost a royal wizard at the Saint Realm level and an Imperial Navy Marshal with the strength of the Vajra Realm.
This loss cannot be recovered in just one or two months.
Not to mention that they have the trump card of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in their hand. According to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he is confident that he can persuade Patton III to give up resistance and surrender.
After making this simple arrangement, Zhou Xu turned his attention to the box beside him. He opened the box and saw three faint light spots, as small as rice grains, lying quietly inside.
Needless to say, these are the three mantra characters that Bai Tu sent back.
System prompt: Congratulations to 'Zhou Xu' for obtaining the mantra character 'Water'.
System prompt: Congratulations to 'Zhou Xu' for obtaining the mantra character 'Rain'.
System prompt: Congratulations to 'Zhou Xu' for obtaining the mantra character 'Vortex'.
Following three system prompts, Zhou Xu was stunned.
He already had the mantra for the word "rain", which he had combined into a mantra for the spell of "praying for rain". Currently, he had given it to the Ministry of Agriculture. Occasionally, when it did not rain for a long time, they would use this method to make "artificial rain".
The mantra of the word "water" can be directly combined with the mantra of the word "rain" to form the phrase "rainwater", but Zhou Xu couldn't think of any use for it for the time being.
But it was the last word "vortex" that made him perk up.
As soon as this mantra character entered his body, it immediately joined together with another incompatible mantra character in his body to form the word "vortex".
After having company, these two loner guys suddenly became cheerful, and their compatibility with other people's truths was immediately improved, as if they were gradually integrating into the group.
Zhou Xu didn't even need to think about it, he could directly determine that this phrase could form a mantra combination of 'flame vortex' and 'water vortex' to form an effective spell attack!
When he thought of this, Zhou Xu couldn't wait to give it a try!
He left as soon as he said he would, and after quickly arranging his work at hand, Zhou Xu turned around and came to his own testing field...
(End of this chapter)
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