Chapter 88: development of

Although the sea route is a strategic resource transportation route, it is very important, but Chris still can only let his naval officers control wind-powered sailboats to fight. It's not that his technology is not up to the level of manufacturing steel battleships, but that he really doesn't have so many resources to use.

Steel has now gone from being a not-so-scarce resource to a strategically scarce resource that needs to be strictly controlled. Not to mention making warships for the navy that cost countless steels, even equipping the navy with 60 cannons is a difficult task.

In the first plan, Desaier, who was based in Serris City, even planned to equip each warship with only two cannons to cope with the task. Chris rejected it, and then gritted his teeth and opened a 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 a 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 begun to be put into use, and more steam engines are occupied by thermal power plants, so there is no need for naval warships 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. Almost all the top executives of Ailan Hill have rolled up their sleeves and grouped together. Those who curse the street are all Gurrody. A big man like Enns, who are those navy staff who have no names and no surnames?

The steel hull could not be made because of lack of iron, and the power system could not get the machine because of the lack of platoon. So the navy's steel battleship plan was put on hold indefinitely, and the traditional shipbuilding technology can still be used to make sailboats from wood. .

After all, although everyone knows that the navy is also very important, the navy is obviously not in the main combat direction. The decision-making makers including Chris can only forget about the expansion plan of the navy and devote all their minds to the defense of the Holy Demon Empire. .

Even so, the development of the Navy is actually very fast. What Chris brings is the best design of sailing boats evolved over a century of earth civilization. The prosperity of Europe was originally built on sailing boats, and those famous sailing boats are naturally more advanced.

After these warships are equipped with modern artillery, how powerful they are, it needs to be tested in actual combat. The current Ailan Hill has no intention to test the power of the navy, they are frantically expanding their ground forces.

Actual combat is the best way to test the troops. After the test of the war, the senior officials of Ailan Hill have realized that the second-line garrison regiment equipped solely with rifles is vulnerable when facing the attacks of the Holy Demon Empire alone. .

Therefore, increasing the proportion of heavy weapons in the army has become the top priority of Allan Hill's army reform. Chris ordered all the original garrison regiments to be upgraded to the main regiment, which must be equipped with sufficient anti-aircraft firepower before they can be used for combat.

Under this order, all the arsenals of Ailan Hill were in full-power production, and 30 mm dual-purpose guns with a caliber of 30 mm were pushed out of the production workshop.

As the most important node and industrial town of Allan Hill, Serris's defense system has been completely separated from the original city defense. The air defense system of the entire industrial zone is a super fortification based on a completely new design.

Dozens of defensive towers were built around the industrial area and castle of Ailan Hill. These defensive towers are just like small castles. The lower part can be used as a gun tower, and the upper platform is 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 there are 3 anti-aircraft guns that can fire and attack in any direction.

At the same time, in the center of the five-pointed star, there is also a rotatable device deployed to install large-caliber anti-aircraft guns that have not yet been put into production, or to install a newly produced night air defense auxiliary weapon: searchlight!

According to regulations, two adjacent air defense towers must have a searchlight installed. These searchlights are uniformly powered by two power plants, one is dedicated for power supply, and the other can be used as a switchover backup.

At the same time, around these high air defense towers, there are also machine gun bunkers that can lift the top cover, equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns. These machine guns are all mounted on a fixed frame, which can shoot in the air or attack the ground.

It can be said that Serris’s current defense system is already the most powerful defense of the Mortal Empire. If Ildo was not attacking Maricha (it should be called Dragonfall now) but Serris, he might be wiped out in the first round of dive.

Although, because of the production volume, many air defense towers do not have so many 30mm air defense guns installed, this defense system has already begun to take shape, and it can definitely be said to be very powerful.

Because of the fear of Seris being attacked by the Holy Demon Empire, the anti-aircraft guns produced in the past ten days have been strengthened here. Including the anti-aircraft artillery unit of the training regiment deployed in the field, there are also at least ten field anti-aircraft artillery carriages strengthened, and the firepower is much stronger than that of Fallen Dragon City.

In addition, the 1st regiment that is returning to the division, there are more than 60 anti-aircraft guns near Seris, 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 dispatched 50 or more dragon knights, this kind of air defense force would appear to be a little weak." On the way back, Chris worriedly analyzed the regiment leader Walter.

Walter doesn't care much about this situation. In his opinion, if you can defeat the Magic Empire twice, you can defeat them three or four times: "Your Majesty, it depends on the reaction of the Magic Empire."

"If they counterattack immediately and throw in 50 dragon knights or more at once, then we are really under a lot of pressure." Walter rode on the horse and answered Chris: "But every day they slow down, our odds of winning One more point."

His confidence is not without reason, because Seris is producing more anti-aircraft guns every day. As the production capacity increases, the production speed of anti-aircraft guns will only get faster and faster. If the Holy Demon Empire delays for a few more days, Ailan Hill will be sure to increase the number of existing anti-aircraft guns by dozens or even hundreds.

At that time, even if part of it is divided, Serris will have at least 20 or 30 more anti-aircraft artillery, which does not count the increase in the number of machine guns. At that time, the power of this already very complete air defense system will increase exponentially, and the pressure on the Dragon Knight will be even greater.

If it can't be attacked for a long time, and it will last a few days, Serris will have more anti-aircraft artillery, and then it will enter a vicious circle. The dragon knight's loss will become greater and greater, and finally it will be completely passive.

"Then let's see, those **** guys of the Holy Demon Empire, what extent are they going to expand this war to." Chris pulled the reins of his war horse, and said thoughtfully.

At this moment, in the wilderness within Ailan Hill, a giant steel beast uttered a long cry. The train carried two full ships of natural rubber, as well as sea salt and other industrial products produced in Dukou City, dashing across the wilderness, stopping the work of the civilians on both sides of the railroad tracks, and looking at it with curious eyes. The scene of the past.

A train skin quickly moved forward under the traction of the front of the train, and black soot gushed out 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, and it can carry more things than a carriage. What's more terrifying is that it can continue to work without sleep.

Because multiple locomotives are produced at the same time, this two-way railway built in advance can also be transported by multiple cars at the same time. This kind of transportation efficiency is dozens of times and hundreds of times that of the original carriage.

With this transportation line, the parts produced by the Meyn factory and the daily necessities produced by Ferry City can be transported to the city of Serris at an extremely low cost. The collaboration between the cities has begun to become frequent, and the production speed has become faster. Up.

"That thing is called a train. The workers who laid the railway said a few days ago, they said that there would be a train passing by, and the speed is terrifying." A farmer waved his **** in his hand, showing off his vast knowledge to his fellow townspeople. .

In fact, he still didn't know why the train moved, nor did he know how much cargo was loaded in the carriage behind the thing. However, in terms of volume, this kind of thing called a train is already a very shocking new thing.

All the way roared, the train from Mayne to Serris only took half a day. After all, the locomotive Chris directly produced was not the original locomotive design.

This kind of train is at least the level before World War I and is already a very practical design. With the transportation capacity provided by these trains, Ailan Hill's transportation capacity has surpassed all countries and embarked on a shortcut to development.

"It's so big! It's so loud! It must be a lot of luck." Hearing the farmers around him showing off, the working ordinary farmer nodded and followed in admiration.

"That's not it, I heard that with this thing, we only need one day to go to Ferry City in the future!" said the first to show off the farmer who lowered his head and continued to work without raising his head.

"This year's harvest is much better than last year... I heard that the price of food has risen again?" The farmers who no longer care about trains talked about issues they care more about. Anyway, for them, no matter how fast the train is, it is not as encouraging as the price increase of food...