Chapter 273: No Eternal Friends
"What does the life or death of those puppet soldiers have to do with me?"
He is well versed in the philosophy of human nature when a night owl enters the house and does not come for anything, not to mention that Luo Zhengdao does not think that the evil warlock with a vicious temperament will have any thoughts of a prodigal son, his plan must be to reap enough benefits for himself first, as for whether it is harmful to others and benefiting himself, it must be decided temporarily according to the actual situation. Therefore, Luo Zhengdao set the tone of the discussion with one mouth to prevent his subordinates from going astray.
There is no lower limit to Najaf Needham's various undisciplined practices, and everyone present has at least heard of it even if they have not seen it, but despite this, the so-called piece of toilet paper can also be used to wipe the buttocks, although Najaf is not a good partner to work with, it cannot be said that it is illogical to use him.
Immediately, Brando Scarlet got up and said:
"Your Highness, the goblins may think that the puppet army has signs of mutiny, and they are ready to borrow His Highness's hand to eradicate these unstable factors, don't you feel it?"
Fort Chopin, who was also a descendant, hated the evil sorcerer even more, and he interrupted Brando's speech in the middle of the speech, ignoring the face of his colleagues, and interjected eagerly:
"Your Highness, Najaf is a cold-blooded and ruthless viper, and it is extremely dangerous to be involved with him."
Vina Dubov observed the change in Luo Zhengdao's expression and said:
"You can't say that, anyone is useful, even a poisonous snake can be used to guard the treasure chest, can it? Your Highness! ”
Listening to his subordinates discussing countermeasures, Luo Zhengdao was silent, he personally hated that evil warlock to the extreme, why didn't he want to be happy with revenge, and decisively chopped Najaf's guy with a knife, completely ending the grievances and entanglements between them? The problem is that now Luo Zhengdao must first ensure the interests of the organization, even as the supreme leader of the human exile restoration movement, his behavior is not in line with the best interests of the organization, and he will inevitably be counterattacked. Before the crossing, the affairs of politics were only on paper, at most Luo Zhengdao, who was at the level of the keyboard politics, had been crawling and rolling in the treacherous new world for a few years, and he really learned and put the knowledge on paper into practice, and he realized what a cruel game politics was.
In a word, the first thing that political participants should do is to punish their hearts, always deny all the thoughts that arise from their own hearts and instincts, and carefully weigh right and wrong, and the yardstick is only the pros and cons of gains and losses. No matter what time and place, we must control our personal feelings, and we must never confuse personal feelings with official duties, which is the most basic requirement for politicians.
The half-elf beauty sitting next to her quietly moved her body, she leaned closer to Luo Zhengdao's ear, and said in a low voice:
"Will, you don't really want to work with Najaf, do you?"
Hearing the sound, Luo Zhengdao, whose eyes swept the entire room, paused for a moment at this time, and then said:
"There are no eternal enemies and no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests. Whether or not to cooperate with Najaf depends on whether the cooperation will bring us benefits, and if the answer is in our interests, then why reject him? ”
"That's a cold thing to say, but you've matured, Will."
In times of precarious war, when people tend to follow a strong leader, ruthlessness is no longer a pejorative term, even for elected leaders in Old World history. For example, Churchill, the wartime prime minister elected by the John Bull family during World War II, in order to keep the top-secret information that deciphered the German code, stubbornly held the news and did not evacuate the local residents, and watched Hans Cat's bomber blow up Coventry into a sea of ruins and fire. Of course, when the war crisis passed, Churchill was kicked out of 10 Downing Street by the voters, and the choice he made was undoubtedly the right one in the long run, but it was also extremely ruthless, and it is difficult to say who will win the war without it, which is a paradox.
Whether Najaf was a humanitarian or not, Luo Zhengdao did not know the answer, but he was sure of one thing, this careerist never did anything superfluous. It would be of great benefit to Najaf to save the puppet army that was about to be thrown out as cannon fodder by the goblins, otherwise he would not have done anything.
Although seeing that the evil warlock was extremely unpleasant, Luo Zhengdao didn't mind stabbing him eight times when he seized the opportunity, and it was still necessary to use each other to solve the trouble of the human puppet army, so after some correspondence and negotiations, a temporary cooperation agreement was reached. A rough summary of the content roughly limits the cooperative relationship between the two sides to deal with the puppet army issue, and after the plan is completed, everyone will break up peacefully, and there will be no dispute over who owes whom, nor the possibility of improving relations in this regard.
The main source of the human puppet army is the private soldiers of the human family who surrendered to the goblins and a small number of prisoners of war, and the goblin military department originally believed that the use of the puppet army could reduce the need for the goblin regular army, which was very good for making up for the lack of goblin population.
However, with the continuous development of the shape, the goblins began to realize that these puppet armies were no different from waste wood in other tasks than suppressing the slaves of the same clan, especially the internal contradictions of the puppet army, and I don't know how many black hands secretly infiltrated it. Assuming that at some point in the future, the Second Goblin Empire falls into a state of crisis and is too busy to take care of itself, and the unstable human puppet army is likely to fight back and put the goblin master to death, so they can't help but be nervous when they think about it
"Bravely move forward and be rewarded, retreat and run away to kill! Let's go! ”
The goblin commander who stopped on the deck roared and announced the beginning of the battle, just as the first rays of the morning sun had just hit the sparkling waters off the Funayama Islands, and thousands of goblin ships appeared in a neat row on the surface of the sea near the main mainland side of the archipelago.
The pirates had already learned of the imminent arrival of the enemy forces from the allies' intelligence channels, and the feeling of witnessing their approach was still very different from what they had imagined, and a tense atmosphere immediately swept over the watchtower, which was packed with spectators.
It was clear that it was to consume the strength of the human puppet army, and the goblins did not mean to pull their own fleet up to confront Luo Zhengdao's fleet at all, and immediately sent an astonishing number of fire attack ships. These ships range from small dhows that can accommodate only a few people, to dilapidated four-masted warships and giant galleys, and they use all the ships that the Second Goblin Empire can find, which is tantamount to throwing the battlefield away as a garbage disposal plant. Many of the ships that appeared today were scrapped at the shipbreaking yard waiting to be disposed of, but the military headquarters ordered them to be hastily repaired to a barely navigable state, and then they were loaded with flammable materials such as branches and hay and handed over to the death squad formed by the human puppet army, and forced to storm the Funayama Islands.
In the goblins' opinion, the best outcome of this offensive operation is to regain lost territory and drive out pirates, or ideally kill someone along the way. It doesn't hurt if the previous plan fails, consuming these unreliable human puppet armies can reduce hidden dangers in the future, no matter how you calculate this account, the goblins will definitely not lose money.
Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao took a step back and greeted:
"Send a signal, the fighter plane will be dispatched immediately, and first get the air supremacy in hand."
"Yes, Your Highness."
After nodding to Luo Zhengdao, Brando Scarlet said to the signal soldier:
"Notify the 1st Air Wing and strike immediately!"
The Goblin Navy, which has suffered from repeated air strikes in its confrontations with human exiles, has begun to learn from its rivals in developing their own aircraft carriers and air forces.
Although the homology of the rocket engine technology is not complicated for the goblins, the aerodynamic layout and control system of the aircraft copied from the old world by Luo Zhengdao has become a bottleneck that binds the goblin imitation aircraft, and the goblins try to build the aircraft according to the appearance sketches obtained from eyewitnesses, but the test results are not optimistic, and the necessary control equipment is lacking, and none of the aircraft can be lifted into the air. There is no way, the new product of the pirate fighter is not the same development path as the past aircraft of the new world, if the climbing technology tree does not light up all the pre-research and development projects and rashly play the big leap forward in technology, then the end is nothing more than to choose between cups and cutlery.
Seeing that the imitation route is blocked, the more traditional air cavalry comes in handy again, the planes on the aircraft-carrying ship can be folded and stored when not in use, and the flying monsters can't be folded, not only that, but they also have to eat, drink, and Lazar! As a result, the modified aircraft-carrying ships of the Goblin Navy can only carry one-third of the number of air cavalry equivalent to the number of Dawning-class aircraft carriers at the same tonnage level.
Pirate fighters can be modified by guò landing gear to choose land-based and sea-based two take-off and landing modes, the airfield on the Chuanshan Islands and the inland waters located a little further away can be used as take-off and landing sites, this battle from the beginning of the number of air forces, the Goblin Navy is absolutely inferior, the momentum is very bad!
"Sound the alarm, take off to meet the pirates, and ensure the safety of the fleet above the fleet."
At the same time, on his new flagship, the Black-billed Sparrow, he saw clearly the formation of pirate fighters that were killing with overwhelming force through the vision of the large artillery mirror, and Modo Blackwater reluctantly ordered his air cavalry to take off to intercept the enemy. If you can't effectively curb the air superiority of the pirates, no matter how many fires you put on the attack ships, they will be targets, and what is even more terrible is that if you don't make your own main fleet, you will also be unlucky.
"For humanity! Revive the Empire! ”
In the cabin of the pirate fighter in the lead, the captain of the flying wing shouted slogans, and then he pushed the joystick down and aimed the nose of the plane at the climbing goblin air cavalry and the mothership carrying them, and pressed the trigger as he entered range.
"Every day, every day......"
The initial stage of the pirate fighter equipped with air combat weapons is a light rotary gun, the range and power are very limited, Luo Zhengdao immediately put forward a new idea, Wake Reef Arsenal set up a project team to promote research and development, of which the earliest mass production of weapons is air-to-air rockets. As we all know, the primitive goblin rocket, which used the military technology of the Goblin First Empire, has always been known for its extremely poor accuracy, except for flying back directly to blow up their own position is a small probability event, and the rocket impact point that follows the law of Brownian motion is almost not predictable.