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The thirty heavy warships of the North Sea Garrison Fleet took the lead, lined up abreast across the broad sea. The other medium warships scattered around them like a school of sharks, racing back and forth over the waves with their absolute advantage in speed. Their enormous magical energy furnaces began operating at full power, and white spray several yards high burst from the sterns of the heavy warships, driving the massive vessels straight into the enemy dragon boats.
Of the thirty heavy warships under Navy's command, twenty had just been purchased from the Longshan Family's newly built shipyard. Aside from the Light of the Empire, which was nearly four hundred meters long and had a wooden hull clad in alloy armor, the other nineteen new-style warships were all around three hundred meters long, every one of them armored ironclads sheathed in alloy plating.
The remaining ten original heavy warships of the North Sea Garrison Fleet were around two hundred meters long, built entirely from thick ironwood, reinforced with steel armor at crucial points, and protected by defensive magic arrays.
Compared with the enemy dragon boats, the warships under Navy's command were longer, sturdier, and heavier. When he ordered them to ram the dragon boats head-on, it was like thirty massive humpback whales charging at fifty-odd hairtail fish. The stark visual contrast was suffocating.
The enemy's shipbuilding techniques were abysmal. Their dragon boats were essentially oversized dugout canoes. Although the largest of them reached around two hundred meters in length, even those were at most ten meters wide, leaving extremely limited room for sailors and soldiers.
Moreover, their hulls were light and thin, making it impossible to add many defensive magic arrays. The hulls themselves could