Chapter 382: Spy
"If you want to build an army, you just need to find some people, issue a few guns, and teach them how to fire.
It is also easy to organize an air force. Anyway, as long as you know how to drive, you can fly a simpler plane. Pilots in past wars were conscripted on a temporary basis.
But what about the navy? Since BC, the navy has been a professional military branch. The officers of the navy are all nobles in the army, and they are honor and pride. It is not so easy to start a ship. Don't worry, the 'Aurora Legion' has no ability to come against us. "
George, the naval advisor from the Enclave, was so drunk that he pulled his crew to brag. He kept yelling about how rare his talent was, how powerful even commanding a fleet of armed speedboats was.
But in fact, Mr. George's self-confidence is not really based on his own strength, but on the weakness of his opponent. Just when the "Enclave" decided to send Marshall and George's military advisory group to the Caribbean Sea to make trouble for the "Aurora Legion", they also sent many intelligence personnel to sneak into Nassau across the sea pretending to be refugees. Some of these people were caught, and some lurked.
Mr. Wade is such an intelligence officer. Before the nuclear bomb was wiped out, he entered the "Aurora Legion" as a refugee. Because he was a mechanic, he was quickly reused and entered the industrial revitalization plan of Dr. Lei Zuo, the industrial director, to work in the steel workshop.
After the nuclear bomb wiped out the ground, Wade once felt that his espionage mission was over. But now he is activated by the radio station of the "Enclave" to collect all information about the "Aurora Legion".
Lena Fox obtained a lot of industrial equipment from the Newport News Shipyard, and now these industrial equipment are installed in the Nassau Shipyard. When the nuclear winter comes, the task of the shipyard is very simple - to modify and produce steam steamers in large quantities, the more the better.
"Using the power of the 'Aurora', Nassau's ship repair yard established smelting, casting and machining workshops, and the materials came from various scrap vehicles and ships. Their current products are steam engines and boilers of twenty to one hundred horsepower, mainly Used for power generation, heating and ship propulsion.
Because of the simple technology, the output of these steam engines and boilers is not small. Boilers are now installed in public places in Nassau for heating and hot water. After killing half its population, Nassau's death rate has dropped dramatically.
They have refitted hundreds of 500-ton small steamers, and these lightweight ships have become the main means of transportation used by the "Aurora Legion" to obtain external supplies. The entire Caribbean Sea is almost full of their ships, and these ships have almost no shortcomings except slow speed.
Judging from the current situation, the "Aurora Legion" has a large number of merchant ships and a small number of warships, but they are all unable to start due to lack of fuel. Their naval personnel is also extremely scarce, with only a small number of former Cuban Navy and US Navy retirees.
The only thing in the 'Aurora Legion' that can sail freely is the 'Aurora' itself, but if the 'Aurora' starts to leave, the entire Nassau will lose 99% of its power supply. The "Aurora Legion" can be said to be a giant with mud feet, with a shipping capacity of tens of millions of tons, but it cannot fight us on the sea. "
Mr. Wade's first radio report reassured the "Enclave" executives. After all, the "Aurora Legion" can be said to be the only doomsday group in the entire world that has not been hit by a nuclear bomb. trick?
But judging from the current situation, everyone's situation is not optimistic. The 'Enclave' itself has to face a devastated world. If the experience of the 'Aurora Legion' can be a little more miserable and the difficulties can be a little bit more, it will make the 'Enclave' feel better.
And the subsequent series of actions of the "Aurora Legion" also seemed to verify their inability to seize control of the ocean. After George of the Advisory Group harassed the city of Matanzas several times, the 'Aurora Legion' did not use their few fuel reserves to dispatch regular warships.
"A professional navy needs professional personnel, and the 'Aurora Legion' must not even have enough people to operate a warship.
So they can't do anything about our harassment. "
"Fortunately, the area we control is large enough. Although we have suffered huge losses, we can always find some surviving professionals."
"If only a fleet of armed speedboats can block this organization to death, then our previous worries are too much."
After Wade successively sent back the number of personnel of the 'Aurora Legion' and the comparison of their specific strengths to the 'Enclave', the controlled population was less than 500,000, the core population was less than 50,000, and the core members within the organizational structure could not live beyond 5,000. The 'Aurora Legion' was considered a small, insignificant organization.
Wade's job was also free for a while. His daily job was to operate a rolling mill. Although it was boring and boring, he could eat and drink without worrying about dying inexplicably. Until one day he was asked to cold roll a batch of 15mm thick steel plates.
Yeah... why do you need a 15mm thick steel plate? Are our boilers going to be upgraded to armored boilers?
The answer from the design department is: In the past, we manufactured low-pressure boilers. Now we are planning to manufacture boilers with higher pressure and higher power. We are worried that the materials will not pass the standard, so try rolling them thicker.
Well, Wade didn't think much of it either. Just roll it, anyway, boiler technology has been researched for hundreds of years, and the technology trees are all ready-made, and the low-pressure boiler must be developed in the direction of high-pressure boilers.
But not long after, Wade was asked to roll a batch of 100mm thick steel plates. He exclaimed again: Our boiler has been upgraded again? But boiler steel with a thickness of 100 millimeters is too outrageous. This kind of boiler is clumsy and heavy, and it can’t be used even under high pressure?
But this time the design department didn't explain, just asked Wade to roll it. After all, he is just a worker in the smelting department, and there is no need for him to know many things.
However, this situation has caused Wade to have a question in his heart - what is such a thick steel plate used for? Ordinary ships can't use this thing at all!
On the next day, Wade's mission changed again. Nassau ship repair yard needs steel plates after 200 mm, and has high quality requirements. When the various specifications come out, a fool can see that this is by no means a boiler plate, this is an armor plate.
When the steel plate was being processed, Wade took a special look at it, and it was sure that he was making a riveted turret!
What is the 'Aurora Legion' doing? They are manufacturing more powerful coal-fired boilers, high-strength armor plates, and turrets. No matter how you look at it, it seems like a big move!
When everything was connected, Wade was completely stunned—"Aurora Legion", are you going against the sky? What age is this, to engage in such old antiques as steam battleships! (To be continued.)