Chapter 19 Preparation for War

"What do you want to do?" A team leader from the Hot Blood Alliance stood in front of the team. "Do you want to use force? Don't you want to see who is stopping you?"

"Don't get me wrong!" A player stood in front of the team. "We're not here to cause trouble!"

Feng Yin Piaomiao and I both rode our mounts to the front of the team. "Then what are you going to do? Why are you blocking the road?" Feng Yin Piaomiao asked in a calm tone, but with a sense of oppression.

"We want to ask if the Frost Rose Alliance will accept anyone."

Feng Yin Piaomiao looked at me: "I'm looking for you."

"You all want to join our guild?"

"Yes!" The people in front answered with certainty.

So dizzy! So many people want to join! I looked at the crowd and made a preliminary estimate. The number of people requesting to join was between 6,000 and 7,000, which is quite a lot. "Why do you want to join our guild?"

This time the opinions below are not unanimous.

"The president is awesome." "The equipment is awesome." "Unified mounts." "Strong." "Many pretty girls."

The more I listened, the more I became sweaty, even my mother-in-law came out! "this……!"

I was just about to explain that our guild's recruitment standards are very high and require layers of screening, but Su Mei next to me spoke up first. "Everyone, be quiet and listen to me."

"Little sister, who are you?" People from other guilds were surprised by Su Mei's sudden appearance. After all, such young members are indeed rare. "Do you mean what you say?"

I quickly explained: "This is the strategist of our guild. She advises the guild's actions. I am only responsible for the final decision."

"Isn't it? So young? My sister is still playing with dolls at this age!"

Su Mei said: "You don't care how old I am, as long as you know that I mean what I say. You gathered here just hoping to join our guild, but I tell you clearly that the Frost Rose Alliance does not recruit people directly."

As soon as Su Mei said she wouldn't accept anyone, everyone immediately became confused. After finally calming down again, Su Mei continued: "Pay attention to my wording. I just said that I won't accept people directly. I didn't say that our guild will not accept people."

"Then what exactly do you need to do to recruit people?"

Su Mei said: "Our guild plans to prepare a subordinate guild. In the future, the Frost Rose Alliance will recruit people from this subordinate guild. But because this is only a preliminary plan, the next things will take a certain amount of time to complete. If you want to join our guild, please wait for a while."

"..." There was chaos again below, but Su Mei explained for a long time and finally let everyone disperse.

After leaving the forest, the Hot Blood Alliance left first because they had other things to do, and we headed towards the teleportation array ourselves. I asked Su Mei next to me: "What do you mean by what you just said? You're not lying, are you? When will I build a subordinate guild?"

"It's not entirely a lie. I just have a preliminary plan. I hope I can apply to the system, but I don't know if it will pass. If possible, I hope to divide the guild into several levels so that it is easier to manage. In the future The development and expansion of the number of people in the guild is definitely needed, but the management power of our guild is too scattered, and everything must be handed over to the top management. This system is too chaotic. The reason why our guild can survive until now Most of the reason is that the NPCs in our guild have been helping to deal with the guild affairs. If you, a superman, hadn't found so many high-level NPCs, the guild's management system would have collapsed long ago."

"It does make sense. But what are you going to do about it?"

"My idea is to implement a hierarchical system, appropriately decentralize the power to handle events, and establish a work cycle at the grassroots level. Just like human nerve firing, some reflex arcs do not need to go through the brain. This is just This is a framework idea, but the specific handling method will have to wait until we return, and the most important thing is that the main system may not necessarily give us the right to change the guild structure at will. This needs to be applied for."

"Then you quickly make a plan, work out all the details, and then give me the plan and I will apply."

"OK."

Rose followed from behind and said: "Ziri, this domestic matter has been basically dealt with. Do we have to deal with foreign matters?"

"Yeah! Of course."

Rose took out a scroll and handed it to me. "But what to do with these things?"

I took the scroll and unfolded it while asking, "What is it?"

"Materials. What do you plan to do with the shipbuilding materials? I have seen the Light Alliance's compensation list. There is indeed a lot of building materials given to us, but they are all construction materials! Have you ever thought about how we will build ships? How much do we need for a new warship? It’s steel, we don’t even have iron ore, how can we make it?”

"Didn't the maps we got back from the Light Alliance last time contain resource distribution maps? Just look at where there are steel mines on them!"

"That's why I told you to get the ore."

"Why am I going again? I am also responsible for mining?"

"Originally it's not necessary, but if you want a battleship to be strong, you must have good materials. In reality, steel is smelted from iron ore into pig iron, and then some things are added and then purified and refined into steel. However, there is no suggestion of smelting in the game. Functionally, what is dug out is directly steel ore, and the ore is actually natural steel. After removing the connected stones, what is left is pure steel, which can be cast into shape after being melted."

"so what?"

"The resource distribution map shows that the best quality steel mine in China is in a forest rich in high-level bosses. Who are you looking for if you don't want to find it?"

"Did you bring the distribution map?"

"That thing is too precious. I dare not take it out of the library. You can go back and look at it!"

"Okay, let's go back quickly. We have to work hard for our next work."

After returning to the guild, everyone immediately started to go about their business, and I followed Rose to the guild library. Pull out the resource distribution map and get it from the map room. The so-called map room is a huge empty room with a complete map of the game in China painted on the floor. This map room is on the first floor above the library.

The maps of the League of Light are all book-type, which seems inconvenient. We used this atlas to find mineral locations on the map on the floor. But the map was so big that it took the two of us crawling on the ground for a long time to find the location.

"This is it."

"In the northwest!" I was completely stunned. Such an important resource was actually in the most deserted area!

Rose found the forest. "It's right here. It shouldn't be hard to find. Isn't it convenient to mine in the northwest?"

"That's right! By the way, are there reserves marked on the map?"

"There is no detailed record of reserves, only that it is a high-yielding mine, which not only has large reserves but is also easy to mine."

"Then why don't you come with me to see the scene?"

"What should we do with the guild?"

"Isn't there an eagle?"

"Okay then!" Rose stood up and said, "Aren't you going to take others with you?"

"We are just going to prospect, why do we need so many people?"

"Well, it's too late today. Please prepare for us to leave tomorrow morning."

"OK."

After Rose went offline, I went to the library and put the map of the target area into the map display on my left arm and scanned it. Although this was just a simplified map, it could also help us avoid detours. After handling these, Su Mei ran over, handed me a scroll and said: "This is the plan I made. It's too late today. I have to rest first. You can read it yourself!"

Put away Su Mei's blueprint and reach the guild's factory area from the teleportation array. Here Woma is bringing a large number of German girls to work on various war equipment. Woma ran over immediately when she saw me coming. "Is something wrong, President?"

"I want to know if the transnational teleportation array has been completed. I don't know what's going on with Tianyu City in Germany. I really want to build the teleportation array as soon as possible."

"The transnational teleportation array has been completed, but the materials are gone. Come with me."

Follow Woma into the warehouse where the finished products are stored. The first thing that came into view after the huge warehouse door tens of meters high slid open was a row of high-explosive cannons shining with silver light. There were more than twenty of them at the count, which was really scary. There are a large number of other types of cannons behind the City Break Run, the most numerous of which is a heavy cannon with a very long barrel. After Woma introduced it, I learned that the largest number of these were super cannons bought by Germany, new artillery developed by merging the unique technology of the Women's Federation with China's technology and pirates' cannon-making technology.

"What's the name of this thing?"

"gcs1 type."

"I mean the name, not the model."

"That's the name. g stands for German technology, c stands for Chinese technology, and s stands for pirate technology. Together they are gcs. This is the first practical model, so it is called gcs1 type."

"It's better to count this as a number. Let's give it another name."

"Then why don't you come up?" Woma was obviously not too interested in naming.

Actually, I'm not very good at naming names, otherwise my magic pets wouldn't all have strange names. "Then tell me about your sexual performance, and I'll see what you can call it."

"Yeah!" This is Woma's specialty. "This kind of artillery is a new technology that combines the best of various artillery technologies to make up for each other's shortcomings. The pirate's artillery is powerful, but its range and accuracy are poor. China's artillery has high accuracy and fast firing speed, but The firing range is very short. The German artillery has a long firing range, but its power is small and its accuracy is average. This gun combines the above advantages to make up for each other. The current artillery's firing range can reach 130 kilometers. The caliber of the artillery is 5 mm. In the case of a direct hit, a single shell can completely destroy a wooden-hulled warship. A light armored ship can only survive 5 rounds at most before sinking. When using armor-piercing projectiles, even city walls can be penetrated. However, because the caliber is too large, although An auxiliary loader was designed, but the 'firing' rate was still only two rounds per minute."

"It's okay to be slower. Anyway, it has the advantage of 'shooting' range. I thought about it, let's borrow a ready-made name for this cannon. Let's call it 'Shenwu'. The Shenwu cannon sounds good. By the way, the British kind. What kind of warship is it? How many shells does it take to sink it?"

"The British Armada uses large ironclads, which are equivalent to heavy cruisers. It takes about 10 to 15 rounds to sink them."

"Do you want so much?"

"It's nothing. This is a naval gun anyway. We plan to make it into a turret and install it as a whole. If the steel quality is good, we can directly build a 5-gun turret. As long as three turrets fire in a salvo, they can sink a ship. But The burden of the 5-gun turret is very heavy, and if we don’t have high-quality steel, we will have to use the 3-gun battery.”

"I'll look for steel materials tomorrow. There's no problem with your 5-unit assembly design. How many have been built here?"

"There are 72 here, and 11 more have just been completed in the factory. But without a dock we can't build warships, so the cannons can only be piled here first."

"The dock will be built soon. You can finish the cannons first. By the way, haven't you built some small cannons? You can't just install one kind of cannon, right? What we want to build is a modern island-bridge-type warship, not that kind of It’s a wooden ship, so they can’t all use the same caliber of artillery, right?”

"Small artillery has been studied, but the current supply of steel is not enough for us to build so many kinds of artillery at the same time, so we want to complete the big ones first."

I nodded. "What about artillery shells? Have you studied artillery shells?"

"We now have 4 types of artillery shells. The first one is an armor-piercing projectile used to deal with city walls and battleships. It only has a small amount of gunpowder and is not very powerful but has good penetrating power. The second type is an armor-piercing projectile used to deal with personnel inside the battleship. An incendiary bomb will burn inside after penetrating the shell of a battleship. It is a good thing to deal with the towers and engine rooms of battleships. The third type is conventional artillery shells, which are specially used to deal with general battleships and coastal defense batteries. This is the one with the largest production volume. The fourth kind of artillery shells are high-explosive incendiary bombs used for beachhead suppression and urban destruction when close to the coast. This kind of artillery shells contain bullets and powder, which not only have great blasting power, but also have a light killing radius. They can deal with people and people without bunkers. People in ordinary buildings are most suitable.”

"What about the air?"

"We have already studied the rapid-fire ballista we bought from the Iron Crusaders. People in the guild have designed and modified it. Now we can make it fire small cannonballs. Here are the finished products ."

I was dumbfounded when I saw that rapid-fire cannon. The shape of that thing was just like a standard Gatling rotating machine gun, but it was much bigger than a Gatling machine gun. I wanted to take this thing. Unless you are a Titan more than twenty meters tall, you can grow things and go out to fight. This rapid-fire cannon has been processed into a turret. It is more than two meters high when placed on the ground, and the barrel is about three meters long.

"How much does this thing cost?"

"18 tubes!"

"What's the 'fire' speed? How powerful is it?"

"Of course the 'fire' speed cannot be the same as that of real weapons, but it can already reach a speed of 2 rounds per second. There are no missiles in this game, so it should be enough to hit those angels and the like. The power is slightly inferior. . It’s no problem to hit people directly, but you can block such shells with a thicker shield. If you shoot flatly, you can also suppress nearby ships, but ironclad ships can’t hit and can only bully wooden ships.”

"That's enough. This is a rapid-fire weapon for air interception and it is not used as an anti-tank gun."

"By the way, we still have this." Woma pulled down a piece of canvas next to it, and a cannon with a long barrel appeared there.

"Isn't this an anti-aircraft gun?"

"This is an anti-aircraft gun. It is a combination of the sniper gun and city-breaking gun you saw last time. The caliber is 75 mm, the range is up to 130 kilometers, and the rate of fire is per minute. 12 rounds, we designed it to deal with those flying creatures with relatively high defense, such as the armored flying dragon, which requires this thing."

"How is the power of these cannons calculated?"

"You can get the lethality by multiplying the power of the cannonball by the power ratio of the artillery. I've done the calculations. The Shenwu Cannon basically kills instantly. Even if you have a magic pet to share your life, you can only block one shot at most. If you don't replenish your health, the second shot will definitely kill you. , even the giant dragon can be killed instantly with a single shot. Artillery with a caliber between 300 mm and 100 mm can basically kill anyone within the effective blast radius as long as the defense is not too high. The caliber is from 100 mm to 60 mm. Weapons with a diameter of less than 60 mm must hit directly to kill people in seconds. If they are blown up, they are usually only injured. Weapons below 60 mm need multiple hits. Those gunpowder guns with calibers smaller than 1 mm are even worse, and are only more powerful than bows and arrows. Not at all, no sexual harm."

"I thought the musketeers were awesome!"

"If the musketeers were good, everyone wouldn't practice bows and arrows instead of muskets. However, if you can use magic crystal guns, it would be good to practice musketeers. Unfortunately, magic crystal guns are expensive and unavailable, and even if ordinary people have guns, you can't afford them. Magic crystal. That thing is a money-burning expert, even more expensive than a mage."

"I understand. You should continue to speed up the construction of various artillery now. Once I solve the problem of the dock and steel, we can start construction. By the way, these cannons have forgotten the teleportation array. Take me to see it."

"This way." I followed Woma into the depths of the warehouse. "This is it."

In front of him were twelve giant columns lying in two piles in the corner of the warehouse. These columns have the same shape and are more than 100 meters high. It looks so thick that two people can probably hug it. The base of the column is not round but a regular hexagon, which means the column has 6 sides. The sides of these pillars are covered with densely packed magic runes and various strange shapes written in inscriptions.

"Isn't it a teleportation array? Why is it like this?"

"This! This is how the drawings of the transnational teleportation array are drawn, and this is how we build it."

"Then how to teleport?"

"This is simple." Woma walked to the side, where there were two identical boxes. Open one of the boxes and inside there are 6 shining magic crystals and 6 giant rubies the size of basketballs. "These 12 columns are in two groups. These 6 columns are erected in a certain order to form a regular hexagon. There is a 10-meter-long part below the column that must be buried in the ground. There are strict regulations on the placement angle and spacing of each column. , don't even think about teleporting if it's just one millimeter away. After inserting it, put the magic crystal into the groove on the top of the pillar, and then put the ruby ​​on top of the magic crystal to start. The instructions say that in these 6 The area in the hexagon between the pillars is equivalent to the teleportation space, and you can teleport when you enter it. Put six of them in Essinger and the other six in Tianyu City, and you can teleport."

"How big is the teleportation area?"

"The height of the pillar is 110 meters, and 10 meters have to be buried in the ground, so the highest transmission object cannot be higher than 100 meters."

"That's nothing. The complete dragon, including head and tail, is only about 100 meters. There is nothing that high that needs to be teleported."

"The side length of a hexagon composed of six columns is required to be 500 meters. It seems that everything I can think of can be teleported in such a large space."

"Then let's put these six up first, and I'll send people to Tianyu City for the other six."

"Don't you have a super space of your own? Just put it in and fly there by yourself faster!"

"But I have other things that I can't get away from!"

"That's it!"

"I will let the Bi Ling make a trip. It will only take five or six days. It will be very fast."

"Okay! But you'd better pay attention to collecting materials. Building this kind of transnational teleportation array requires a material called black jade. These 12 rods have used up all the black jade we can collect. We only have There are cities in two countries, so you are only allowed to build one transnational teleportation array, but there is no guarantee whether you will occupy a city in a third country in the future, so you may need a third teleportation array. You'd better collect it in advance. Otherwise we won’t be able to build it!”

"Okay, I've written it down. You go and do your work. I'll put up these six pillars. By the way, I'll find someone who knows how to install them to direct them."

I summoned my giant familiars to help move the pillars to the square next to the port, and seven or eight German mm also came to direct the measurement of angles and distances. After measuring the location, I let the crystal beetles gnaw out a 10-meter-deep hole in the ground, then 'inserted' the pillar into it, and then asked them to fill the hole with the quick-drying cement they secreted. After it dried, it was completely fixed. , so convenient.