Chapter 739 Chapter 1715 Cold Iron

Chapter 739 17.15 Cold Iron

In the 3233rd year of the Fire Mark Calendar, there was a backlash against Iron Star in the Sky Empire. If Enma hadn't quickly resolved the foreign enemies in the north, the enemies inside would have jumped out and tore at Iron Star together with the outsiders.

At this time, not only the conservatives inside the empire wanted to bite Iron Star, but the cities occupied by the reformists in the south had also reached their limit. These former revolutionary comrades now shook hands with the conservatives of the empire in parliament under the so-called "reconciliationism" and reached the so-called "new acquisition" economic bill for rural areas.

This bill is to forcibly determine that the "new currency" is legal tender, which means that the agricultural tickets and work tickets inside Iron Star are illegal. And this new legal tender has no collateral and is destined to become a gold yuan coupon.

The postman pointed out sharply in the newspaper: the capital groups in big cities no longer distinguish between "progress" and "perversion". They have all completed the "progress" that they claim on the surface, and the "perversion" in essence.

In the Sky Duma Federation, the grain collection troops in various large cities have been assembled with money. They will always be used. If they don't have to go out, it's not good to stay in the city.

And when the grain collection teams from these cities counterattacked in the south, Tiexing was always one step ahead of them.

On February 12, Tiexing held an "Agricultural Economic Conference" in the southern rural areas.

At this time, Tiexing's cadre organization in the entire southern empire was as many as 4.5 million people.

The most basic structure of this organization in the countryside is the "Statistics Office", and almost every town has such an organization. The rural cadres inside may lack culture, but they are definitely both civil and military. The civil ones can hold straw to count the population and provide teaching, and the military ones can respond to the call, sit on tractors, carry guns, and carry mortars to defend the fruits of the revolution.

You know, when blocking the Anglo Corps in the north, these militias often fought with a dozen regiments and a column, with tens of thousands of people.

This is the first time in thousands of years on the entire Wanlun continent that the organization of rural areas has exceeded that of urban areas.

Wei Keng: Cities are more concentrated than rural areas, and have a natural organizational advantage. However, it is precisely because cities are too concentrated that they are more difficult to recover from ideological corruption than rural areas. From an ecological perspective, the more complex and large systems, such as forests, are more stable when fighting risks, but they are difficult to recover after being destroyed.

On March 1, the grain collection team in Bohang City, the largest city in the south, was destroyed. More than 5,000 grain collectors were all tried. The leaders were publicly tried and shot, and the rest were sentenced to labor reform for three months to five years.

On March 4, the "so-called farmer's united committee" authorized by the gentlemen of the Bill City Council went from being in the limelight to being condemned by everyone. This grain collection team, which was led by landlords who fled to the city and led by mutual aid associations, was completely destroyed in three months of action. Six thousand people were arrested.

On March 5, in Buffet City, the grain collection team under the "agricultural procurement group" set up by the reformists was also completely destroyed. Four thousand people were arrested, and sporadic organizers fled back to the city.

…

On April 1, Orr, as the commander of the third column, was no longer a company-level commander. Instead, he was one of the members of the second batch of hero units newly born in Iron Star.

He was assigned a land frigate-level vehicle with a tonnage of 320 tons and eight rubber wheels. In addition to a "shooter" loaded with armored shells, its main firepower was the artillery deployment system of the rear propeller helicopter platform. Because of his love for artillery, he was specially admitted to the relevant major and studied the machinery in this area.

He obtained the right to lead troops, and the land frigate he was in was equipped with three helicopters. The task of these three helicopters was to deploy 200mm caliber propeller missile rockets.

After the helicopter took off from Orr's "big eight-wheel" platform, it quickly obtained the azimuth information of the surrounding ten kilometers.

Then this "air turret" would fly to some areas suitable for artillery, and this unmanned helicopter would unfold the mechanical intelligent block turret of the rocket launcher hanging below (this turret can automatically rotate and adjust the angle).

The rocket launcher fired shells, and the first stage was to accelerate for ten seconds by relying on the tail rocket.

After flying high enough into the sky, the fairing opened and the propeller unfolded, and at the same time, air was poured into the air intake to ignite the gas engine and drive the propeller to rotate.

Ole's skill was to activate the "space transmission" ability inherited from Enma after firing the artillery, and retrieve the rocket base of the extended-range warhead that he fired, and retract it into the "recovery warehouse" inside his land frigate.

In the metal cockpit of the land frigate, the "recovered rocket engine" would be cooled and reassembled into new shells. Wait until the helicopter returns to continue loading.

... The tactic of drones hanging artillery is the way mountain artillery in the second half of the 21st century in the main world played...

Ole's helicopter can deploy fifteen launch tubes to multiple positions within a five-kilometer range within an hour, each firing eight 200mm caliber rockets.

It takes twenty minutes for Ole to recall these launch tubes, and the automatic loading system in the vehicle body is reloaded in half an hour. This is his skill, "Iron Hail".

So strictly speaking, Orr can fire a regimental-level artillery salvo in two hours. (An artillery regiment has only 40 to 50 guns.) Orr's vehicle is loaded with enough ammunition to release six rounds of "Iron Hail".

This skill of his is obviously related to space twisting.

This is the bloodline influence of ‘Enma’. Of course, Wei Keng also gained a lot of experience in the process of penetrating the Western Front.

…For Orr, his uncle is now something big. …

In this battle to deal with the counterattack of the southern asset areas against the rural and rural areas, the hail of steel he fell hit from the grain collection team to the train stations in the big cities, which was like a thunderous impact.

It's just that this kind of "bullying newbies" and interfering with the urban faction's combat operations to collect resources is very attractive to hatred.

No, he has received warnings from some veterans of the "revolutionary" uprising in the big city groups in the south, ordering him not to attack the acquisition team again, otherwise the "Duma Government" will send troops to annihilate him. .

As for him, when he saw these warnings, he didn't laugh, but the corners of his mouth also grinned.

Orr looked at the dimly lit Braun City in the distance and whispered: "If you can suppress me, will you still send me a warning letter?"

Orr opened the latest Nongqing newspaper, and it was clear that the postman had drafted a new title: "Peace? Or is it still sucking blood under the guise of peace!"

…When “resistance” becomes a matter of course, the fire has been raging…

That night, Orr came to a market area controlled by the Agricultural Youth Association and met a person.

This is a buyer sent by the imperial royal family. For this lady named "Seagate" who was older than him, Orr couldn't help but be attracted by her temperament, but for now he suppressed his thoughts.

According to the records of the Disciplinary Committee and other representatives of the Peasants and Youth Association attending the meeting, Orr said to the messenger: "Your Excellency, you can go back. Regarding the supplies you want, I can promise to prepare a batch for you, but regarding the customs in Braun City You have to tell us the tax settlement date.”

Seagate: "General, I am happy to cooperate with you. However, your dangerous stance makes me feel that the transaction with you may not be long-term."

Orr: ‘That’s none of your business. Maybe the next delivery location to you will be directly in the city. ’ (Iron Star now has plans to capture some big cities in the south.)

...For Seagate, once upon a time, it was disdainful to think about these opponents with clay feet, but now they have to face who is right and who is wrong. …

The greatest success of the Agricultural Youth League in carrying out reforms is that a wave of young people who have been in the city and soldiers who have experienced frontier battles return to the countryside with knowledge and organizations, helping the entire rural and rural areas understand the "regional accumulation" "capital" concept.

People in agricultural areas suddenly found out. In the past, as a country boy, I really suffered a lot. Why do we just use money printed by others and city people? Aren’t the agricultural products, agricultural and sideline products in our own warehouses, and the corresponding food stamps, oil stamps, sugar stamps, non-staple food stamps, and discounted commodity stamps also money?

So why do we need to exchange a lot of agricultural products for a small amount of imperial banknotes, and the imperial banknotes can only be exchanged for a small amount of fertilizers, tools, and pesticides?

Smart farmers still seem to understand what the imperial economists said in the past.

But now there is no need to "understand" the principles of the urban faction. Now that food stamps are exchanged for more industrial products such as fertilizers, fuel, machinery parts, etc., they understand what interests they want to defend.

[Wei Keng: Farmers are not stupid. Two thousand years ago in ancient times, in China, if you carried an iron pot and a coat on your back to the plateau, you could exchange an iron pot and a coat for a yak. ​​After 2008, with the opening of the highest altitude railway in the world Later, if you ask a herdsman to change it like this again, they will give you a blank look. 】

Now these imperial grain collection teams want to exchange so-called imperial banknotes for agricultural products again.

In the Nongxiang District, both ordinary working farmers and large growers are united around the Iron Star Nongxiang Organization.

At this time, people from the imperial city faction were still looking at the rural and rural areas with a superior gaze. Stubbornly believe that your purchase was justified!

Economists one after another forcefully believe that the rural areas have suffered brainwashing, and it must be Tie Xing who is deceiving the ignorant villagers and violating the national policy of Duma governance.

..."People who live a bad life think the world is wrong." This is more applicable to people who claim to have drunk ink. …

In April, prices in major cities in the empire further skyrocketed. The Duma government was miserable in the face of external demands for compensation and raw materials, as well as the suspension of production in most of the factories in the areas under actual control.

These idealistic reformists still fail to recognize their mistakes. When reading about the resistance in rural areas, the well-dressed people in these salons felt incredible that "the empire had spent money to purchase supplies, but was resisted by the rebellious people in the countryside." This is like "those of them in the city It’s the same as the middle-class and noble people are willing to trade equally with gold coins, but they are unreasonably slapped and rejected by the country people.”

Having too high a self-esteem and taking one's "speciality" as a matter of course that the world should take care of it, it is easy to feel that one's "dignity" has been offended.

All high-end newspapers in the empire were angry at the despicable role Iron Star played in such an incident.

Of course, city newspapers can only be angry at the moment, but they are unable to put their anger into action.

…Those who call themselves “intellectuals” are most reluctant to admit their mistakes and are always waiting for others to admit their mistakes. …

Because in March, Iron Star and the Thunder Flash Alliance clashed again. In the position surrounding "Kaidi" City, Iron Star was determined not to give in. The Thunder and Flash Alliance formed a legion of sixty land cruisers and launched another attack, but at the cost of losing 12 land units, they were devastated on the spot.

On March 25, General Bess of Iron Star led six assault artillery units to the city of Wind Language and responded to the Thunder Flash Alliance with artillery fire. If the war continued, it would be a revolution that spread across the continent.

The Iron Star Farmers' Association has now been implemented in the south of Oshima.

Bess's artillery directly collapsed eight ancient buildings in Wind Language City that were more than 300 years old. The damage was not great, but the Wind Language Alliance activated the wartime system, and everyone hid in the air-raid shelter wearing gas masks.

When the main force of Oshima had to return to support, Bess had already escaped (he left directly from the north line without using Wei Keng's collective teleportation).

From now on, Iron Star has two lines that can be inserted to the north of Oshima. And Cadi City is the reason why it can stand firm and fight a protracted war after inserting to the north of Oshima. In other words, as long as Cadi City is in the hands of Iron Star, the huge static defense system deployed by the entire Thunder Flash Alliance on the eastern line will be scrapped if large-scale adjustments are not made.

Now the Kingdom of Oshima has no funds to rebuild the defense line. To be precise, the current royal power group of Oshima has no funds.

The funds are all in the hands of the current large commercial groups. To reset the static defense system, it is necessary to rebuild at least 500 kilometers of permanent fortress group fortifications. Such consumption is equivalent to twice the compensation for the defeat of the Sky Empire!

The upper group of Oshima has not won the war, but has to force its domestic commercial capital groups to raise this money, which is basically impossible. So they can only mobilize the existing troops to confront Iron Star again, hoping to use diplomatic pressure to force Iron Star to make concessions.

…Due to the strong military capabilities of Enma, now Iron Star’s voice to the outside world is more and more “iron-blooded strong voice”…

As for Anglo, after re-breaking through the Yuzui Port, it also stopped interfering in the northern line of the Sky Empire, and began to intervene in the southern line of the Sky Empire from the southern line, which is now the sea area on the right corner of the "T" continent. In other words, it is to speed up the time to support the southern reformists and Iron Star in internal struggle. Of course, this support is to sell the surplus military supplies from the last war and provide military personnel to help the reformists train the army.

But the problem now is that the Sky Duma government's current base, many cities in the south have lost the ability to collect supplies from the controlled areas. Now everything is in short supply, food, fuel, steel... on the contrary, weapons are the least in short supply. Because there is no army at all.

And Anglo now has no spot food, fuel, and steel. This disagreement led Anglo to face the Sky Duma group reformists who were begging for food, and said in an extremely insulting tone: "Are you a new cabinet that actually gained power, or a street performance with an office sign?"

... For the gods, they want to connect Wei Keng's individual with some noble classes, but Wei Keng always brings the soil...

In the city of Braun, Princess Cheryl is now wearing slightly simple clothes (also precious silk) to meet Seagate.

For Princess Cheryl, the current slight decline of the royal family has not completely reduced her life to an uncomfortable level. In fact, it has reduced her many constraints on royal etiquette.

After the team that was originally heading to Anglo was intercepted by Ludis, the princess was placed under house arrest by the reformists, and Seagate became an important channel for Shirley to understand the outside world.

In various literary works, the fallen princesses often have some "civilian" friends.

After listening to Seagate's description of the current situation in the empire's countryside, Shirley seemed very emotional: "The people of Iron Star are fighting for the injustice of rural farmers, right?"

Seagate paused: "To some extent, this is true, but this is not an empire problem. Now the city generally does not understand the countryside. The taxes and funds that the empire has always used for purchasing agricultural areas have been heavily deducted by merchants, and only one-third is delivered to the countryside. And with such a small amount of money, it is obviously impossible for the countryside to complete the purchase of necessities such as fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in a reduction in production in the agricultural area. The city's collection of grain has further impoverished the countryside."

What Seagate said: This is the exploitation of greedy merchants, leading to a major uprising in the agricultural area.

But Xue Lisi, who was at the top of the empire, knew that the royal family and business were inextricably linked, and several princes in the empire had rapidly accumulated assets during the war, which was obviously not clean.

Xue Lisi raised her hand and made a circle, and put it in front of her eyes. Through this frame, she looked at the city outside the window: "So far, no one in the empire should have seen General Enma."

The entire empire is now curious about "Enma".

Xue Lisi learned from the communication between her subordinates and Ludis's subordinates that she was robbed, and it was Ludis who executed it, but Enma was the mastermind behind it. And when she fell, Enma should still be nearby, and immediately returned to the north after confirming that she was captured.

Her Royal Highness still had some confidence in herself, but she became a captive, and that person was not even interested in looking at her "trophy", which still made Her Royal Highness feel a little bit worried.

And Enma's series of achievements in recent years also made the princess feel that her Ludis was very anxious.

Narrator: If a young general of the Empire could break through the defense line of the Lightning Alliance three years ago, then the marriage of Her Royal Highness would be certain.

Seagate hesitated for a moment, and finally told Princess Xuelisi: "Your Highness, Enma is a very, very young man, younger than Ludis. If I am not mistaken, he is no more than 30 years old now."

The princess looked at her: "Have you seen him?"

Seagate: "During the Swan City Rebellion (Iron Star calls it the Great Uprising), I led the Dragon Blood Military Police to attack the core area of ​​the rebels there, but at that time, I was trapped by the encirclement he designed, so I was captured."

Cherish looked at her and said with a smile: "You are really wronged to lose to a hero who is about to become famous. By the way, did you meet him after you were captured? He is very young, um, what do you think of him?"

Seagate: "He is a piece of cold steel."