Chapter 730 Chapter 1707 The War Won by the Agricultural Area

Chapter 730 Chapter 17.07 The War Won in the Agricultural Areas

October 20th. Zhang Ke, who is wearing blue overalls, is responsible for the feeding work on the plasticizing production line. A large amount of plasticizing materials are being produced in the central industrial furnace. Some of these materials will be processed into snakeskin bags and three-color cloth, and some will be converted into Chemical fibers are produced, and some are used in military applications as rocket casings.

Zhangke is recording data on his notebook, while in the reactor, during the connection process of the industrial furnace tower, the chemical reactions are continuously controlled by the quantum information in the ether.

At the same time, this industrial production process also condensed in his spirit. This feeling of slowly growing knowledge gave him new accumulation.

After Zhang Ke finished recording, he looked at the iron star on the industrial tower and remained silent. This iron star shines far brighter than any knowledge carrier he has received in the past.

Zhang Ke couldn't help but recall the curse message.

Comments from the bosses at the Compass Tower: "This evil spirit has been implanted in your soul like a parasitic beast. While our methods are killing it, it is also consuming your mental energy and will eventually drag you into the trap." destroy."

Among several people, Zhang Ke was the highest in the process of being infected by evil spirits. Before coming here, he had already felt that his sanity had been eaten away to a great extent, and the evil spirits had become one with him. But now, the extremely difficult thing in his spirit was suddenly expelled. In fact, a large piece of his old spirit was cut out.

If this kind of mental loss occurs in other places besides Iron Star, Zhang Ke will inevitably collapse and jump into the sea.

Now Zhang Ke pressed his heart, and he understood that the "cut out part" of his soul could now have a heavy faith to rely on.

This belief is that human beings try to get rid of coercion and pursue the confidence to stand tall. This is far more solid than the mysterious charm hiding in the shadow of the light of the gods, and can become a mental shield.

A few dozen days ago, he regarded the "forbidden law" here as a forbidden area that could not be touched, but now, Zhang Ke silently said: "May this (iron star) shine."

No matter how strong the spiritual power of evil spirits is, it is still wrong (the more wrong knowledge there is, the more reactionary it will be). The pervasive mortal effect here allows those who have gone astray to change their minds, abandon those evil defilements, and return to normalcy.

…Being sure you’re doing the right thing is a great spiritual medicine…

In mid-October, the war situation in the north underwent a fundamental reversal.

The Anglo side was shocked when they learned that their intervention force had been cut off. They immediately decided to send a note to the Sky Empire and asked the Sky Empire to mobilize their troops to go north and join forces for a joint suppression campaign.

A full month after Langston's setback, Molten Steel Tower City is still standing on the northern land. On the defense tower position that was damaged by artillery fire, the engineering team who was repairing the defense tower continued to pile up cement and steel modules. Not only was it not destroyed or collapsed , instead it became thicker and bolder.

After the attack of the White Winged Knights failed, winter arrived in October, and frost had already appeared in the north of the Sky Empire. Every morning on the armored vehicles of the Anglo-Intervention Force, ice would appear on the armored vehicles.

Faced with the city at the front that cannot be conquered for a long time and the defense tower position that suddenly appeared on the main railway line at the rear, His Royal Highness the Anglo Prince doesn't know what to do now.

The Iron Star Mud Legs, who he had cursed earlier and did not dare to come out for a decisive battle, have now gathered behind them with heavily armored troops. An encirclement posture was set up. Such an encirclement was flexible. Once the Anglos counterattacked along the railway line, they would immediately retreat to the rear defense tower positions.

Once they bypassed the railway line and took a detour from the flanks, the heavy armored group led by Enma immediately cut through the rear of the Anglo.

Because any mechanized force will inevitably be unable to assemble after leaving the railway line, resulting in the phenomenon of elongation.

On the morning of the 16th and the afternoon of the 17th, Enma cut off Lance's tail twice. The first wave was a knight and two energy destroyers, and the second wave was two airships and two missile tanks. All were wiped out.

Enma led sixteen armored units to deal with the scattered armored forces of Anglo, and they were all defeated within two hours. And all with zero battle losses.

The Anglo army was like brown candy. It was first stuck to the defensive position of Molten Steel Tower City, and then was beaten to pieces again and again by the heavy armored troops of the rebel army.

After consecutive days of defeats, Lance's total strength has dropped from 32 armored units at the beginning to 24, while the total strength of the Peasant and Industrial Army has reached 50, even though there are gaps in technology, arms, and decisive battle situations. Already in favor of the Iron Star Corps.

... Enma's name has now appeared more and more in the highest military centers of England and been discussed...

What's even more terrible for the Anglos is that the agricultural and industrial army always relies on supplies.

Even if the "heavy infantry" level tank is penetrated by the armor on the front line and the power pack is damaged, as long as it returns to the Molten Steel Tower City base, the robotic arm will be like a knife disemboweling an organism, and the entire land cruiser will be deployed. parts, replaced with a new suit of armor, and renovated the internal industrial system to return to the battlefield.

On the contrary, the White Wings Knights' retreat was cut off. In the magnificent mechanical reflection of the etheric world, there was already sluggishness and jerkiness. When the mechanical gears rotated, cracks flashed, and the riveted armor also creaked. , like a door blown by the strong wind.

On the 23rd, Lance in the steel cockpit now looked haggard. Although he was in the center of a powerful land fleet, he was already wary of the smoke and dust in all directions in the distance.

But what frightened the young Anglo general the most was not the heavy armor of the rebels, but the ubiquitous commandos. And the tunnel excavation that was now approaching step by step.

Under the illumination of Anglo's latest searchlight.

In the Iron Star camp, a four- or five-ton diesel tunnel excavator was digging the soil quickly on the battlefield like a groundhog. A one-meter-thick drill bit was crushing the soil in front, and two sets of excavator shovels on the side were like swinging shovels, throwing the soil at the bottom of the ten-meter-deep pit outward.

In the middle and back of the tunnel, batches of thick pipes with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a length of 6 meters were on standby at any time. These could project a 500-kilogram warhead to a distance of 600 meters. Even if the Anglo heavy armor weighing hundreds of tons was hit by a bullet at a distance of 20 meters, it would produce a "concussion and dizziness" effect. The shock wave would tunnel into the steel and affect the combatants.

Lance stood up in the cockpit, looking at the battle map and the encirclement that was gradually forming. He broke his pencil: "Damn, coming here was a mistake. What kind of brains do those idiots in the Sky Empire have to allow such people to rebel!"

…The autumn wind is getting colder and colder, and some migratory birds will never have the chance to go home this year...

The northern campaign is completing the final stage in full swing, and the conditions for a large annihilation are already in place. The Anglos are urging the Sky Empire to attack, but in the performance of the Agricultural Youth Association, there is no joy of "imminent major victory". Instead, they are telling the "war has not stopped" and "we are still fighting hard and arduously" in a lukewarm manner. These "ongoing" speeches.

[Bai Linglu commented on this: "The closer he gets to the stage of victory, the more he can keep his composure."]

Enma's restraint makes external observers of the Sky Empire unable to feel the signs of "sudden changes in the war situation". They are in a state of "waiting and watching".

The elite observers of the Sky Empire still based their observations and conclusions on the war between Iron Star and the Anglo Intervention Army on the situation of the last war, that is, it would take a "long tug-of-war".

The imperial nobles are so conservative now, mainly for two reasons.

First: After the "Battle of Blue Birch Bay", the northern imperial army was really scared of being cheated, and went from the extreme of quick victory to the conservative extreme of waiting for foreign intervention to solve the problem. For the generals of the Sky Empire, three consecutive imperial armies including Minlar were defeated, and the northern troops were originally insufficient. If the intervention failed, and another troop was lost, the rebels could directly attack the imperial capital.

The nobles of the empire who cherished their lives really did not dare to take this risk. They would not provide the northern imperial army with transportation equipment for long-distance operations in the north, and at most they would close the door.

In fact, the worries of the imperial nobles were right. Because Enma did prepare troops to defend against the attack of the imperial army. Now, with 50 heavily armored general corps, they didn't press on with all their troops because they were afraid that Anglo-Saxon would suddenly have a miracle, and if they couldn't take it down in a short time, there would be complications. At that time, the empire's cheap army would go north, and the peasant and worker army would have no strategic mobile force to deal with it.

Second: The Southern Restoration Faction of the Empire. When this group of mouth cannons was clamoring for credit, it did involve most of the empire's attention.

Since the princess was intercepted, the entire royal family was worried that their honor would be humiliated. Except for His Majesty the Emperor, the princes of the royal family said openly and secretly that the princess was flawless and could not be defiled (that is, she committed suicide). The big guys in the core of the empire were afraid that a "miserable" plot would emerge.

They were afraid because they had done this to the ladies of the rebel army.

Oh, their worries were unnecessary. At this time, Her Royal Highness the Princess had been protected by Ludis. The difference in their camps seemed to add a touch of romance.

Just like some love stories sung by bards, there is a cross-border love affair between the demon king and the sacred priest.

…Under the original arrangement of fate, there is a love triangle, but Enma is very busy. …

The perspective shifts from flowers, gems, and beautifully carved walls and palace stairs back to the countryside.

Some Wei Keng, holding grass roots in his mouth, is sitting in a tractor doing ordinary and enthusiastic work.

In October, the autumn harvest began. A large number of agricultural locomotives began to move again throughout the Sky Empire. When the wheat ears began to be harvested, the war seemed to stop all of a sudden.

However, not all the harvested wheat flowed to big cities. With the completion of the statistics of the number of public warehouses and after supervision by all parties, agricultural bills began to be issued this year. The price of goods on the market proves that the ceasefire in the empire is not the kindness of the empire, but the empire is scared.

According to the experience of the recent ancient times, whether it is direct confiscation of land or redemption, traditional agricultural countries want to progress to industrial countries. The countryside must make changes.

"Fairness" is the basis of "law", "law" is the basis of "governance", and "governance" is the cornerstone of "mobilization" in war.

The Rural Youth Movement seemed to have dealt a severe blow to the gentry in the countryside at the beginning.

But as this year began, it was the big businessmen in the city who gradually discovered that they were the group most affected.

…In the tide of change, any class will be eliminated by the old. …

When the return to the countryside movement initiated by the empire failed, the new manor class quickly replaced those old landlords of the empire who were ignorant of the times.

After the Afghan Youth Association took back the "dominance of agricultural products", the land conflict was eased. In other words, in the old days, all the capital of rural areas was plundered by big cities. Under this unfair trade, the only thing that big cities could not plunder from rural areas was "land", because it needed someone to actually watch over it. Due to the lack of capital, rural areas have long remained in feudalism.

What is "capital"? "Capital" is the power that makes people believe and follow.

"Capital" is the power that the masters from the city can swing their civilized sticks in the countryside and make the young men carry them.

"Capital" is the charm that the young scholars in the city can make the young girls in the countryside more willing to smile and talk by just taking some cloth and combing their hair in a small side part.

Capital is the intangible value that makes you believe that foreign things are better than domestic ones, and that new things in the city are more fragrant than local products in the countryside, and then make you willing to exchange under the scissors gap.

…There are contradictions in any society, but the class with more capital is more capable of resolving contradictions. …

When capital stays in the countryside, food, raw materials, and labor will stay in the countryside to increase production value, thereby generating more "capital".

For example, now, the countryside under the governance of the Agricultural Youth Association is much more well-fed than the city, and has new things that are not available in the city, such as processed "dried mountain products", "freeze-dried", and sausages.

When a basket of mulberries is no longer easily exchanged for a bowl in the city. This is the accumulation of rural capital.

Enma did not carry out a thorough land equalization in the countryside of the Sky Empire, but he was still able to control the urban and rural channels and deprive the old manor owner group of their right to speak, thus completing the social progress of the countryside.

Under the economic strategy of Tiexing, land is no longer the largest capital in the countryside. The part of people who control the farmland has become ordinary people who supply raw materials. Any piece of land left uncultivated will even be subject to heavy taxes.

The new forces after the reform can firmly grasp the dominance of "manpower, raw materials, and channels" in the countryside.

…Enma: The countryside should be simple? That's because you city people habitually treat the village as a fool. …

So this year, when merchants from major cities in the empire went to the countryside to collect grain, they tried to exchange enough agricultural products with thermoses and small mirrors, but found that their goods were not so popular.

And the big connections they wanted to collect grain from also said that they didn't want anything except hard currency such as "fertilizer" and "fuel".

They could only buy grain from the Agricultural Youth Association, and the Agricultural Youth Association directly raised the commercial price to nine-tenths of the city price. As for previous years, these grain collectors tripled the price to send it to the city in the name of "transportation loss".

As for this time, the Agricultural Youth Association: Buy it if you want.

As for the loss in the "transportation link", the Agricultural Youth Association can transport it by itself. What, don't let the country people come to the city to sell? Then you can't buy anything. Because all the channels to the city are controlled.

…Iron Star now seems to be fighting the Anglos alone, but in fact it has mobilized a greater force than the upper echelons of the empire in terms of economy...

The Agricultural Youth Association specially built a new railway platform to transport truckloads of industrial products from the north directly to the south. Then they exchanged them for agricultural tickets in batches. This batch of materials was used to support the agricultural and industrial army in foreign wars.

Food, agricultural and sideline products, processed coats, and even agricultural workers went north continuously after the busy farming season. The rebels became stronger and stronger in the counterattack against Anglo-Anglo.

And they took the initiative in the transactions with the imperial cities. A large number of gold coins flowed back from the cities to the countryside.

The finances of the Sky Empire are very strange. There are peasants making trouble in the north, but the tax revenue has increased!

These big cities are responsible for the transportation of materials for the Agricultural Youth Association, making a fortune every day. The financial situation of the Sky Empire has returned to the past, and the top noble bureaucrats in the imperial capital even feel that "the empire has taken a breath and can continue to fight with rusty iron fists next."

However, only some sober people in the empire know that the major cities in the entire empire no longer recognize the imperial banknotes, and inflation is extremely serious. Instead, they recognize silver and agricultural tickets issued by the local base of Iron Star.

In the cities under the "control" of the empire, the factories seem to be running rumblingly every day, but outside the cities are surrounded by the Rural Iron Star Brigade, and large amounts of supplies leave the city every day and quietly flow into the hands of the Iron Star rebels.