However, the subsequent tests were not as simple as controlling the drone, because even if it is a flying battleship, the inside is either hot or cold, and the requirements for endurance and physical fitness are very high.

This airship tentatively named "Throne of the Sky" adopts welding instead of the common riveting technology on land cruisers. At the same time, it is different from the carbon material main structure of land cruisers. It uses a lightweight alloy keel, although there is no carbon The material is so light that the original plan of only 2900 tons has doubled its weight, and 4 propellers have become 16, but it is not as flammable as carbon materials.

In order to further increase the buoyancy of the air, on the back of the ship, that is, where the deck is, there are airbags filled with helium one by one. The balance is adjusted by adjusting the airbags and propulsion power to prevent this thing from rolling up in the storm.

The missiles are set at the same position as the torpedo tubes at the bow of the ship. The current preset tactic is to launch heavy missiles to plow the ground first, destroying the enemy's heavy air defense measures, and then the heavy artillery on both sides destroy other air defense areas, and cooperate with the ground troops to advance layer by layer. After arriving at the target, release the two-winged gliding bomber, spread out to the two wings, destroy a larger position area, and completely tear the enemy's defense line.

The same is true when attacking a city. First the missile destroys the mobility, then strikes horizontally, bombards the periphery of the city with a glider, and then enters, using heavy artillery to provide artillery fire support. Compared with artillery units, this kind of aerial gunship is easier to counterattack. It can suppress the enemy's artillery fire, and it is also easier to avoid - it only needs to increase the output power and increase the altitude to avoid the artillery shells.

Institute, "How's the situation?"

"The current measurement result is that the source stone power can drive Boss Xia's jump engine. In theory, we may have built a small spaceship."

"Actually?" asked the doctor.

"Actually, the flight altitude of this thing can't be too high. Simply put, the fuel can't push it out of the atmosphere and reach the orbital speed." Of course, it's really like going to see the land of Terra. It can be pushed straight up and down to the sky, Then it will fall until the fuel is exhausted, and it is more difficult to fly in a low-gravity environment.

"So, in fact, that engine only provides us with partial anti-gravity weight loss and a deflection shield. The good news is that some of the opponent's anti-aircraft heavy artillery will be useless, and the increased gravity effect will make the shells stronger. Fast on them, but, the bad news is, that shield doesn't work well against spell cannons."

Kelsey flipped through the report and said that in order to complete the project within one year, all the subsystems were tested and manufactured separately. As for whether they can be used together in the end, everyone has no idea, especially Lao Xia's plug-in expired. After that, there will be no chance of compensation if something goes wrong.

"However, if you change it again, you can go to space, right?"

"Yes, but Boss Xia's manufacturing equipment license has expired." Kelsey shrugged. okay?"

"If it's used for war, it's not good. However, I think it's worth it to train designers and workers. Even though it's expensive, not very useful, and has a long battery life, it also gives us an important opportunity to get in touch with this kind of super power. Opportunities for high-end technology”

This is what the doctor thinks about this ship. Even if it can’t fly at all in the end, it’s worth wasting so much manpower and material resources—because you can really get in touch with this kind of interstellar technology and ancestor technology, and realize that you are in the end. Where is the gap? This is much higher than the value of the ship itself.

Chapter 49 The Standoff Period

Two years have passed since the start of the war, and the battle between Ursus and Columbia has not yet been decided. The two sides have been fighting in the Xuehe Plain for several months. In the occupied area, however, more Colombians continued to pour into the remaining Sami land, and the two sides left more than [-] corpses on the plain.

"Almost every inch of the ground is soaked in the stench of corpses and blood," this is how the Ursus reporter described the situation on the battlefield.

On the Eastern Front, Letania's defeat in Kazdel forced their troops to attack the area of ​​Eastern Ursas to slow down and rehabilitate, and some of them were sent back home.

In the central area, Casimir launched a fierce attack on the lost land, but it was useless. Countless knights fell on the battlefield, and they failed to break through the enemy-occupied city defense zone. The new equipment of Ursus caused Casimir knights However, Casimir did not lose more land.

The Ursas also felt very troublesome and troublesome about their cannons. Kazdel explained that they did not sell any arms to Casimir. These cannons were sold during the pre-war economic cooperation period. Due to the lack of evidence and the need for Kazdel to contain Victoria and Letania in the south, Ursas reluctantly accepted this statement.

Of course, because of this, Kazdel could not provide more arms to Casimir, otherwise, it would be a real tear, so the world war on Terra gradually entered the confrontation period from the fierce battle period, and everyone was unable to advance or open the war. The situation, from the triumphant progress at the beginning, has become the current state of competing for endurance and will.

This period will last for 2 to 3 years depending on the number and conditions of the participating countries. Next, when one of them shows signs of failure first, the war will enter the final decisive period. At that time, basically the outcome There is no suspenseful garbage time, when it will end depends on what price the winner is prepared to bear and what kind of victory he wants to achieve.

After the two-year war, Longmen's economy appeared to be extremely depressed, the securities market had long been closed, and international trade had become dispensable. The only thing that could persist was that a few large groups continued their business in Longmen.

Black Steel sells weapons and equipment to Kosiche through Longmen, as well as mercenaries. Of course, it doesn’t just sell these things to Kosiche. Letania, the Gaul Restoration Force, and even Kazdel have theirs. figure.

Similarly, Raytheon Industry and Rein Life became more and more active. The large number of origin stone weapons and magic weapons made the chances of ore disease rise rapidly, and Rein Life certainly would not miss this opportunity.

In addition to ore disease inhibitors, there are also various commonly used drugs on the battlefield, anesthetics, stimulants and emergency medicines are the main business of Rein Life, but unfortunately, this business has been greatly impacted by the Xia Group.

Except for a few high-tech pharmaceutical products, the other party does not have many high-tech pharmaceutical products, but they only highlight a large amount of tubes with saturated curative effects—all of them are veterinary drugs—but, for military doctors on the battlefield, they prefer Xia’s Group’s products. medicines.

Although it is more dangerous, the curative effect is rough and the dosage is sufficient. As for the danger and toxicity, when it is used on the battlefield, no one cares about these two at all. As long as the toxicity does not poison people to death on the spot, it can be used. But it's dead, even if it's a poisonous side effect to blind your eyes, at least you can save your life and go back. The soldiers on the front line still understand which is more important.

In addition, the largest trade in Longmen at present is the most unlikely "grain trade" during the war. The disaster caused by Haisi is a heavy blow to Dayan's agricultural production. There are still a large number of sea monsters in the southern region. During the campaign, Dayan's repeated siege and mobilization of soldiers and horses from various towns further increased the consumption of money and food that was not abundant.

Even if those gentry are hoarding, they must have food to buy. They can't turn money into food. In this case, buying food from outside has become Dayan's first choice.

"A total of 2 tons of wheat flour will be shipped tomorrow." The clerk of the Xia Group glanced at the Dayan official in front of him, tore off a bill of lading and threw it on the counter, "Go over there to pay the bill", this time , the officials of Dayan are not as arrogant as before, because the emperor said, either you come back with food, or you come back with a head.

Haisi's invasion was certainly a tragedy and a disaster, but relying on the decisive granting of land and rewards, coupled with the severe disasters in the southern elite land, the rich and powerful gentry everywhere are waiting for the rice grain purchased from outside to save their lives. Naturally, at this juncture, No one would send an ignorant stunned young man to do something, and no one would stop the emperor from killing people to vent his anger at this time.

Of course, those grain merchants who monopolize grain and those people behind them have the courage to make troubles. However, this time, Old Wei is not so easy to talk about. Before these people make trouble, he directly reported an embassy fire ——The emperor also acquiesced in this matter, and now the "talents" who are carefully selected are here.

It has to be said that there was no transition from extreme arrogance to extreme humbleness, which made the staff in the office a little uncomfortable. However, since Dayan took the money to buy food, it was easy to say.

Compared with the relatively humble procurement team from Dayan, the treatment of the buyers sent by Yuegang is much better. After all, both parties are old customers who often do some "big deals", so there is no need to be humble at the trading counter Instead, you can enter the VIP room of the big family to talk.

"Why is this?" The manager frowned. "It shouldn't be. You didn't just buy this before. It stands to reason that there should be more of you now."

"This...is not close at hand." If it was before, then of course it would be easy to deal with. Find a few warships in good condition in the fleet and "scrape" them, and the money will be there, and Kazdel will also I am very happy to receive this kind of stock, and for the workers in the shipyard who have been out of pay for several years, they are also happy to directly send food and pork as wages on the fleet.

And the guarding eunuch also has a routine tribute, the shipyard has orders, the fleet has new ships, Kazdale has the spot and the market, officials at all levels also have a share of profits, and even the prefect of Yuegang has political achievements—it can be said Everyone is happy, the only problem is that the fleet is almost disabled now, and it is impossible to sell ships.

The production capacity of the shipyard also needs to meet the recovery of the fleet's combat power in the first place, including recruiting recruits, training recruits, and distributing pensions to soldiers who died in battle, etc. The small coffers saved by the Yuegang fleet before are almost clean. Naturally, it seems picky.

"If you don't have enough money, you shouldn't be doing this. Add more, if you are like this, I will not be able to explain it when I go back!" They came to buy with great fanfare, but in the end they didn't buy as much as the ones on the trading counter in front. How embarrassing is this? ?

Especially this year, Kazdale has a bumper harvest. After deducting the necessary reserves, industrial production, and consumption, there are at least 200 million tons of wheat and other grains of equal weight waiting to be sold, let alone various vegetables with a larger output. However, this year The output of meat products in China has decreased a lot compared with last year.

Because most of the pastures are concentrated in the north, most of them were destroyed by the war, and many pastures also chose to breed war horses instead of meat animals, which caused the price of Kazdale's meat to rise rapidly, and had to be put into combat storage to stabilize the price.

In other words, after nearly two years of fighting, Letania finally got rid of the opponent's combat readiness inventory, which is really a gratifying thing.

Their enemies have finally entered the rationing system of indulgences such as meat, sugar, and tea, and have begun to enter the state of war reserve storage. However, there is currently no restriction on the purchase of staple foods, and there are even million-ton specifications for export.

Therefore, no matter how Letania communicates with Wei, the latter does not agree to sanction Kazdel and freeze their assets—nonsense, your enemy still has food exports, who do you think will think you can win? ?

"Then add some vegetables or something... there can be no more, unless you agree to pay on credit." "That must be impossible. We are willing to accept bartering, which is already the biggest VIP discount."

"Then... wait, do you want a steel mill?"

"Ok?"

"A Longgang steel smelting plant."

"Oh? Are you going to sell?" The manager immediately sat up straight. This is a big deal.

"To be precise, part of the shares are sold at a price, do you accept it?"

"How many shares?"

"17%, and I can sign a priority supply agreement with you!"

"Let me ask for instructions." The manager felt that he could not take charge of this business by himself, so he had to ask the boss for instructions.

"Okay, let them increase the shareholding to 21% and we will do it. I have investigated that the steel factory is not the most advanced, but the scale is not bad. Governor Shi's shareholding in Yuegang is about 40%. We want 21% % just do this business, so that we can ensure that we have enough voice in it, and in addition, we need a part of the management rights of the steel mill, if they agree, the deal will be done.”

"What if they refuse?" Little Tiger thought for a while, and then said to his opponent, "If they refuse, remove them from the VIP customer list, and then we will talk to Dayan about the acquisition. Be more sober." What they are selling is Dayan's assets, and what they are taking is their own benefits, so they are of course extremely sober.

"This, this condition, I need to think about it." It cannot be said that it is impossible to accept, but it has indeed broken the bottom line, and it needs to be reconsidered and calculated.

"Okay, but you don't have much time, because the Dayan court is also buying grain, and they might be willing to pay a higher price." This is indeed a powerful threat, and everyone is from Dayan and understands it Yes, those on the other side are going back to get promoted in order to purchase more food, what can't they sell?Not to mention that there is a hospitality fee of up to 3 million Longmen coins here.

"Purchasing the assets of Dayan, um, we can indeed try it, as an attempt for us to enter the Dayan market." After receiving his wife's report, Lao Xia thought for a while and added, "Purchase their alloy, chemical and Advanced optical technology factories and laboratories, as long as they are willing to sell, they will accept it, and it is best to bypass the imperial court of Dayan and discuss with those direct holders."

"I think so too." Little Tiger nodded, her thoughts were similar to Lao Xia's. Of course, the details might be a little more detailed, but generally speaking, it had the same meaning.

In the end, the Xia Group purchased 50% of the shares of Yuegang Steel Plant at a price of 21 tons of wheat, and obtained limited management rights. However, the relevant technologies are still in the hands of the other party. Not a problem at all.

Master Nian has Longgang's technology here, but Kazdel can't build such a large-scale steel plant in a short period of time, and Lao Xia can't be said to be very proficient in this traditional metallurgical industry, but he can only Said he didn't know anything.

In this way, most of the material problems of the Sky Throne and the Kazdale Shipyard have been solved. Dayan has a full set of materials and steel technology and manufacturing processes at all levels for land ships, as well as a group of qualified workers and engineers. The equipment is also ready-made. of.

If another shipyard is purchased, or even simply poached to evacuate the workers and engineers, then Kazdel can have Terra's shipbuilding capacity, not to mention the best, but at least the third, which can be built on a small scale. Produce land ships to make up for their own shortcomings in super-heavy units.

Letania strongly condemned Dayan and Longmen's actions, however, Dayan's diplomatic strategy has always been "none of your shit" and "none of my shit", and he was unmoved at all, even the emperor watched Lai After Tania's envoy's protest letter, he threw it aside and turned around to ask if it was feasible to use part of the factory to compensate for this huge purchase order.

In order to fight against the messy ghosts and monsters around, Dayan has a large number of armament workshops and supporting industrial zones across the country. However, due to the slack in armaments, most of them are not well managed, no one is willing to take over, and even become financial black holes.

It is obviously a good deal to exchange these assets that outsiders seem to be valuable, but whose family members know what is going on, into real money and the most scarce food at this time, especially now that the quality of military supplies in many factories is serious. Unqualified, the emperor has already abolished part of it, concentrating financial resources on a few military factories that can still maintain quality and scale.

Not only can it reduce financial expenses, but it can also straighten out the chaotic military situation in Dayan, especially when it turns out that many of them can only be used for everyone's enjoyment during exercises and military parades, and are useless on the battlefield Things that need to be scrapped.

The military factories and supporting factories that produce them need to be dealt with separately. Whether it is demolished or laid off, it will cause a large number of unemployed people and additional financial expenses. This behavior of Yuegang made him see some kind of ......Chance?

"This is one of your largest shipyards?" When Dayan was willing to transfer a super-large shipyard north of Longmen and the supporting weapon factory at a very favorable price, the little tiger once thought that Emperor Dayan was Didn't he ejaculate all the things in his head last night when he was hehehe with Concubine Bin.

This is a super-large manufacturing area that can build the specifications of Rhodes Island, with a length of 830 meters and a width of more than 200 meters. It is written as "capital ship" and pronounced "mobile fortress". You transfer this important weapon of the country, The only reasonable explanation is that all the brains were shot out.

As a result... the dilapidated factory area is still acceptable. After all, Kazdel continues to shine in factories that are even dilapidated than this; workers who have nothing to do, like street sluts, are also acceptable. At worst, they will be fired, and only the backbone technology will be retained. Personnel, let your own workers come, even this is a good thing.

The lack of maintenance of the equipment is no problem. The most important thing Kazdale lacks is mechanical maintenance personnel, which are all thanks to the guest masters. Staying in the Kazdale Armored Battalion for three years is like going to study a master’s degree in mechanical maintenance— —Most of those who can’t learn how to practice are dead or changed jobs.

However, grass has grown in your shipbuilding canals, and it can be seen from the workshop of your supporting factory that it has been specially cleaned for inspection, but more than half of your equipment has been damaged, and all the valuable parts inside have been stolen!

Also, your steelmaking furnace has not been opened for many years, and the ashes of the furnace are about to turn into fossils. The price of reburning this thing is even more expensive than the price you sell it for.

Not to mention engineers, the old craftsmen have already been wiped out by those gentry, they also have their own factories, need these technicians, and the rest are some empty-paid, fake names, and I don’t know where the managers can find them Beggars and hooligans came to fill up the number of people, so as not to be too ugly when the expedition team came.

"The cutter head is gone, the processing materials are gone, the warehouse is full of garbage, two furnaces have collapsed, the cutting and welding equipment is gone..."

"What about people?"

"It's gone too. It's on the list, but I can't find anyone. Should we still buy it?"

"Buy!" The little tiger gritted his teeth, as long as there is such a hole, is he still worried about not having any radishes?At worst, go straight to the "headhunter", which is the kind of professional poaching. Compared with benefits, what fool would dare to compare with Kazdel's Xia Group?Even Rhodes Island dare not!

"However, what about those bad tricks?"

"Are we missing killers, dead soldiers, or not enough mercenaries?" Little Tiger looked curiously at the guide or translator from Yuegang who came with him, "How many divisions do they have?"

"But this is Great Flame after all!"

"But this is all Sarkaz!"

"..." The scene suddenly became quiet, and the meaning was very clear. This is Dayan, not your territory. It is not so easy to send troops to use violence, and the other party's answer is more righteous, this is all Sarkaz.

Sarkaz mercenaries and horse bandits are well known on Terra. You were robbed by a large group of Sarkaz raiders on horseback. Is this some Terran news?Of course not, and even if you run into a bunch of Sarkaz mercenaries or looters, it's news that nothing came back alive.

"The frontier is fighting so hard, it's normal for a small group of Sarkaz routs to loot the town~ Don't you know what the rout looks like?"

"..." I just know that I have nothing to say!

Chapter 50 Shipyard

Dayan, the newly listed "Zhulu Shipyard".

The name comes from the "Zhulu" colony, which is the birthplace of Lao Xia, an oceanic island planet whose main products are ultra-pure water and molten salt working fluids, as well as bacteria, fish, organic fertilizers and messy products, which are relatively common The Covenant Light Industry planet.

The resident population is less than 200 million, and they all live on a large island and the surrounding artificial island city. Later, Lao Xia and the others moved to a nearby space city because of business, and engaged in car repair... er , working in small and medium spaceship repair shops.

"You guys go to logistics to get paid"

"Thank you, shopkeeper!" Those young people with hippie smiles nodded with a smile. They didn't expect to start sending out money as soon as they changed their employers.

"Then you don't come here tomorrow, you are all fired." Suddenly, there was silence in the unloading square of the factory, and the other party seemed to have not expected this result at all. A little benefit, otherwise, they may not be enough to succeed, but they are more than enough to fail.

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