Chapter 88
My Empire Chapter 88
2020-11-03
Chapter 88 88 DevelopmentAlthough the sea route is a strategic resource transportation route and is very important, Chris still can only let his Marines battle on wind-powered sailboats. It's not that his technology is not up to the level of making steel battleships, but that he really doesn't have that many resources at his disposal.
Steel has now changed from a resource that is not a scarce resource to a strategically scarce resource that needs to be strictly controlled. Not to mention manufacturing a battleship that consumes countless steel for the navy, even equipping the navy with those 60 cannons is a daunting task.
The initial plan, Dez, who is based in Serris City, even planned to only equip each battleship with 2 cannons to deal with errands, but Chris rejected it, so he gritted his teeth and opened another production line dedicated to production. Naval Artillery.
The same is true for the power system. Although the steam engine has been miniaturized and can be assembled on the train, it is still in a state of short supply. Not only do trains need more locomotives, but factories also need more steam engines to expand their production capacity.
With the gradual increase in electricity consumption, more thermal power plants have begun to be put into use, and more steam engines are occupied by thermal power plants, so there is no such thing as a naval battleship, which has nothing to do with production and transportation. unit" to compete.
See how, for a few steam engines, the railway department, the power department and the factory are all about to break their heads, and countless Alanhill executives have almost rolled up their sleeves and formed a ball. A big guy like Gurlo Deans, how old are those anonymous staff officers in the Navy?
The steel hull could not be made due to lack of iron, and the power system could not get the machine because it could not be placed on the number, so the Navy's steel battleship plan was shelved indefinitely, and it was still only possible to use traditional shipbuilding. craft, using wood to make sailboats.
After all, although everyone knows that the navy is also very important, but now the navy is obviously not in the main combat direction, and decision-makers including Chris can only forget about the navy's expansion plan and put all their thoughts into it. On the defense of the Holy Demon Emperor.
Even so, the development of the Navy is actually very fast. What Chris brings is the best design of sailboats that have evolved over a century of Earth civilization - Europe's prosperity was originally built on sailboats, and those owned sailboats are naturally more advanced.
And how powerful these battleships are after they are equipped with modern artillery, they need to be tested in actual combat. Now Alanhill has no intention to test the strength of the navy, they are frantically expanding their ground troops.
Actual combat is the best way to test the troops. After the test of the war, the senior management of Alanhill has realized that the second-line garrison regiment equipped with rifles alone is facing the attack of the Holy Demon Emperor army alone. time is fragile.
Therefore, increasing the proportion of heavy weapons in the army has become the top priority of Alanhill's army reform. Chris ordered that all the original garrison regiments be upgraded to main regiments, which must be equipped with sufficient anti-aircraft firepower before they can be used for combat.
Under this order, all the arsenals in the entire Alanhill are producing at full capacity, and one after another 30mm caliber dual-purpose guns are pushed out of the production workshop.
As the most important node and industrial city in the entire Alanhill, Serris' defense system has been completely separated from the original city defense. The air defense system of the entire industrial area is a super fortification built on a completely new design.
Dozens of defensive towers have been erected around Alanhill's industrial estate and castle. These defense towers, like small castles, can be used as gun turrets below, and the platforms above are used to place anti-aircraft artillery.
Each defense tower is in the shape of a five-pointed star, and there is a 30mm high-level dual-purpose gun on each corner, which can ensure that there are 3 anti-aircraft guns that can fire in any direction.
At the same time, in the center of the five-pointed star, a rotatable device is also deployed to install a large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery that has not been put into production, or to install a newly produced night anti-aircraft auxiliary weapon: searchlight!
According to regulations, two adjacent anti-aircraft towers must have a searchlight installed. These searchlights are uniformly powered by two power plants, one for power supply, and one for switching backup.
At the same time, around these anti-aircraft towers, there are machine gun bunkers that can lift the top cover, equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns. These machine guns are mounted on a fixed rack and can fire both air and ground.
It can be said responsibly that Serris's current defense system is already the most powerful defense of the Mortal Empire. If Ildo attacked Serris instead of Maricha (now it should be called Falling Dragon City), he could be wiped out in the first round dive.
Although, because of the production, many 30mm anti-aircraft guns are not installed on many anti-aircraft towers, but this defense system has already begun to take shape, and it can definitely be said to be very powerful.
Because of the fear of Serris being attacked by the Holy Demon Emperor in retaliation, the anti-aircraft guns produced have been strengthened here in the past ten days. Including the anti-aircraft artillery unit of the teaching regiment arranged in the field, there are at least ten field anti-aircraft artillery enhancements, and the firepower is much stronger than that of Dragon City.
In addition to the 1st regiment that is returning to the division, there are more than 60 anti-aircraft guns near Serris alone, which is a very sincere air defense force. Chris believes that for this level of air defense, even if the opponent dispatches 30 Dragon Knights, they may not be able to get a bargain.
"But if the Holy Demon Emperor dispatches 50 or more Dragon Knights, such air defenses will be a little weak." On the way back, Chris analyzed the regiment leader Walter worriedly.
Walter doesn't care much about this situation. In his opinion, if you can beat Magic Empire twice, you can beat them three or four times: "Your Majesty, it depends on Magic Empire's reaction. .”
“If they counterattack immediately and put in 50 Dragon Knight or more at once, then we are really under a lot of pressure.” Walter rode on his horse and replied to Chris, “But they Every day we get slower, our odds increase by one point."
His confidence is not without reason, because Serris everyday all produces more anti-aircraft guns, and as production capacity increases, anti-aircraft guns The rate of production is only going to get faster. If the Holy Demon Emperor delayed for a few more days, Alanhill would be sure to increase the number of anti-aircraft guns by dozens or even hundreds.
At that time, even if part of it is divided, Serris' anti-aircraft artillery will be at least twenty or thirty more, not counting the increase in the number of machine guns. when the time comes the power of this already complete air defense system will be multiplied, and the pressure on Dragon Knight will be even greater.
If you can't attack it for a long time, and if it drags on for a few days, Serris will have more anti-aircraft artillery. When the time comes, it will enter a vicious circle, and the losses of the Dragon Knight troops will increase. In the end, I was completely passive.
"Then let's see, how far the damned guys in the Holy Demon Emperor country are going to expand this war." Chris pulled on the reins of his war horse, looking thoughtful. said.
At this moment, in the wilderness in Alanhill, a steel giant beast let out a long cry. The train, carrying two full ships of natural rubber, as well as sea salt and other industrial products produced in Ferry City, dashed across the wilderness, stopping the civilians on both sides of the rails from working, looking at it with curious eyes, which had never been seen before. past scene.
A train hulled forward rapidly under the traction of the front of the train, black soot spewed from the chimney of the train, spread out on the roof, and finally disappeared in the midair behind. It's faster than carry, carries more things than carry, and what's more terrifying is that it can work continuously without sleep.
Because multiple locomotives are produced at the same time, this pre-built two-way railway can also transport multiple vehicles at the same time. This transportation efficiency is dozens and hundreds of times that of the original carriage transportation.
With this transportation line, the parts produced by the Mayne factory and the daily necessities produced in Ferry City can be transported to Serris City at an extremely low cost - collaboration between cities has become frequent , the production speed has also become faster.
"That thing is called a train. The workers who built the railway said a few days ago. They said that there would be a train passing by at a terrifyingly fast speed." fellow countrymen to show off the breadth of their knowledge.
In fact, he didn't know why the train moved, or how much cargo was in the carriage that was being dragged behind the thing. However, in terms of size, this kind of thing called a train is already a very shocking new thing.
It roared all the way, it only takes half a day for this train to go from Main to Serris. After all, the locomotive that Chris made directly is not the design of the primordial locomotive.
This kind of train is at least pre-World War I level, and it is already a very practical design. With the capacity provided by these trains, Alanhill's transportation capacity has surpassed all countries and embarked on a shortcut to development.
"It's really loud! It's so loud, it must be able to transport a lot of things." Hearing the farmers around him showing off, the ordinary working farmer, nodded, followed in admiration.
"No, I heard that with this thing, we will only need one day to go to Ferry City!" The first bragging peasant who bowed his head and continued to work did not lift his head. said.
"This year's harvest is much better than last year...I heard that grain prices have risen again?" The farmers who no longer cared about trains talked about their more concerned issues. Anyway, for them, no matter how fast the train is, it is not as exciting as the increase in food prices...
(end of this chapter)