Eighty-Eight Development
Although the sea route is a very important transportation route for strategic resources, Chris still can only let his sailors fight on wind-powered sailboats. It's not that his technology can't reach the level of making steel battleships, but that he really doesn't have that many resources to use.
Steel has now changed from a resource that is not scarce to a strategically scarce resource that requires strict control. Not to mention manufacturing warships that cost countless steel for the navy, even equipping the navy with those 60 cannons is a daunting task.
The initial plan, Des, who is based in Serris City, even planned to equip each battleship with only 2 cannons to cope with the errands, but Chris rejected it, so he gritted his teeth and opened another production line dedicated to the production of 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 also begun to be put into use, and more steam engines are occupied by thermal power plants, so there is no need for naval battleships such as "units that have nothing to do with production and transportation" to compete.
Don't you see, for the sake of a few steam engines, the railway department, the power department, and the factory are about to break their heads. Countless high-level executives in Alan Hill have almost rolled up their sleeves and formed a ball. Those who scolded the streets were Gurrodi. For a boss like Ence, how old are the anonymous staff officers of the Navy?
The steel hull could not be made due to the lack of iron, and the power system could not get the machine because it could not be arranged on the number, so the navy's steel warship plan was shelved indefinitely, and it was still only possible to use traditional shipbuilding techniques to make sailboats out of wood. .
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 minds on defending the Holy Devil Empire. .
Even so, the development of the Navy is actually very fast. What Chris brought is the optimal design of sailboats derived from the centuries of evolution of the earth's civilization - Europe's prosperity was originally built on sailboats, and those famous sailboats are naturally more advanced.
And how powerful these warships are after they are equipped with modern artillery, they need to be tested in actual combat. At present, Ailan Hill has no intention to test the strength of the navy, and they are frantically expanding their ground troops.
Actual combat is the best way to test the troops. After the test of the war, the executives of Ailan Hill have realized that the second-line garrison regiment equipped with rifles alone is vulnerable when facing the attack of the Holy Demon Empire alone. .
Therefore, increasing the proportion of heavy weapons in the army has become the top priority of the reform of the Alan Hill army. Chris ordered that all the original garrison regiments be upgraded to main regiments, which must be equipped with enough anti-aircraft firepower before they can be used for combat.
Under this order, all the arsenals in Ireland Hill were producing at full capacity, pushing one 30mm caliber high-level dual-purpose gun one after another out of the production workshop.
As the most important node and industrial city in the whole of Ireland Hill, Seris' 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 were erected around Ireland Hill'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 defensive tower is in the shape of a five-pointed star, and each corner has a 30mm high-level dual-purpose gun, which can ensure that 3 anti-aircraft guns can fire in any direction.
At the same time, in the center of this five-pointed star, a rotatable device is also deployed to install large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery that has not yet been put into production.
Or install a newly produced auxiliary weapon for night anti-aircraft: the searchlight!
According to regulations, two adjacent air defense 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 and are 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 Sirius' current defense system is already the most powerful defense of the Mortal Empire. If Ildo attacked not Maricha (now called Dragon City) but Serris, he would have been wiped out in the first dive.
Although, because of the output, many anti-aircraft towers do not have so many 30mm anti-aircraft guns installed, but this defense system has already taken shape, and it can definitely be said to be very powerful.
Because of the fear that Serris would be attacked by the Holy Devil Empire in revenge, 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 carriages that have been strengthened, and the firepower is much stronger than that of the 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 with 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 Empire 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 he can defeat the Magic Empire twice, he can defeat them three or four times: "Your Majesty, it depends on the reaction of the Magic Empire."
"If they counterattack immediately and put in 50 Dragon Knights or even more troops at once, then we are really under a lot of pressure." Walter rode on the warhorse and replied to Chris: "But every day they slow down, our odds of winning One more point."
His confidence is not without reason, as Serris is producing more anti-aircraft guns every day, and the production rate of anti-aircraft guns will only get faster as capacity increases. If the Holy Devil Empire delays for a few more days, Ailan Hill will 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, and this is not counting the increase in the number of machine guns. At that time, the power of this already very complete air defense system will be multiplied, and the pressure on the Dragon Knight will be even greater.
If it cannot be attacked for a long time, and if it drags on for a few more days, Seris will have more anti-aircraft artillery, and then it will enter a vicious circle, the losses of the Dragon Knight troops will increase, and finally they will be completely passive.
"Then let's see, how far the damned guys of the Holy Demon Empire are going to expand this war." Chris said thoughtfully while pulling the reins of his war horse.
At this moment, in the wilderness in Alan Hill, a giant steel 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.
Pulled by the front of the train, a train moved forward rapidly, black soot spewed from the chimney of the train, spread out on the roof, and finally disappeared in the air behind him. It is faster than a carriage, can carry more things than a carriage, and what is even scarier is that it can continue to work without sleep.
Because multiple locomotives were 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 of times and hundreds of times that of the original carriage.
With this transportation line, the parts produced by the Mayne factory and the daily necessities produced in Ferry City can be transported to Seris City at an extremely low cost-cooperation between cities has become frequent and 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 there would be a train passing by at a terrifyingly fast speed." A farmer waved his hoe and showed off his extensive knowledge to his fellow villagers. .
In fact, he didn't know why the train was moving, or how much cargo was in the carriage being dragged behind the thing. However, in terms of size, this kind of thing called a train is already a very shocking new thing.
Roaring all the way, it only takes half a day for this train to go from Maine to Serris. After all, the locomotive that Chris made directly is not the design of the original locomotive.
This kind of train is at least the level before World War I, and it is already a very practical design. With the transportation capacity provided by these trains, the transportation capacity of Ireland Hill has surpassed all countries and embarked on a shortcut of development.
"It's really big! It's so loud, it must be able to transport a lot of things." Hearing the farmers around him showing off, the working ordinary farmer nodded and praised.
"No, I heard that with this thing, we will only need one day to go to Ferry City in the future!" The peasant who was the first to show off who bowed his head and continued to work said without raising his head.
"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 issues they were more concerned about. Anyway, for them, no matter how fast the train is, it is not as exciting as the increase in food prices...