The next moment, Jiang Qian's words changed sharply

"Although this battle was won, the armpit fleet was still rampant, and the destruction of Guangxin City, the price was not small, if the armpit people continue to attack in the future, what should Yongxing Hou prepare."

"King Qiqi, from next year, the industry of Xianguo will be successively transferred to wartime production, and at the same time, the armpit people have suffered two setbacks in the North Sea, the casualties are not insignificant, and the ships have been seriously damaged, which has dampened the speed of their dispatch of troops and logistics transfer, so at least in the first half of next year, Xianguo will still have a chance to breathe. Therefore, a large number of arms production will begin next year, which will be enough to resist its recurrence. ”

"So very good, recently the princes have asked the widow for the method of defending against the enemy and the new type of arms, Aiqing thinks, how to deal with the widow."

"Back to the king, it depends on what the princes want. The minister intends to transfer some technology in exchange for the support of the princes and the return of money, but it is not a crisis to our country, and I wonder if this condition can be accepted by the king. ”

"As long as the core secrets of the Xianguo are not leaked to outsiders, it doesn't hurt for the widow to agree."

"That being the case, the minister drew up a list as soon as possible to provide good advice to the king. In addition, the minister suggested that a railway bridge be built on the Sishui River to prepare in advance for the future deployment of troops in the Central Plains together with the two counties of Ganfu and Dekang. The minister judged that the armpit people were constrained by the vast land of the Central Plains and the strength of our country, and the casualties increased sharply in a short period of time, and most of them wanted to adjust their strategy and seek other methods, so the situation may tend to ease next year.

At the same time, it is located in the northern hemisphere, and it takes more than half a year to repair and replenish supplies from the mainland, so after suffering losses, it does not dare to use troops on a large scale in the Central Plains when the troops are insufficient, but will consolidate the territory it occupies and wait for reinforcements to accumulate more strength.

Therefore, China should seize the time to build the country, and the railway will be basically opened up to Wanchuan in Shangguan in Ganfu at the end of next year and the beginning of the next year, and the railway bridge must be built in advance so that it can be connected with the railway as soon as possible and facilitate the transfer of troops in the Central Plains. ”

"Is it feasible to build a mile-long iron bridge on the Sishui River? That's no better than the two iron bridges in Yongxing. ”

"The king can rest assured that in the past three years, Xianguo has successively built 13 large and small railway bridges, seven of which have been completed, six are under construction, and it is expected that four will be completed in the first half of next year, and five more will be built. Although the Sishui River is several times wider, the principle and the method of construction are mostly the same, and there is not much obstacle. ”

"How much steel does it take, and how many years will it take."

"The minister has calculated, conservatively requires 60 million to 70 million catties of steel and a large amount of concrete, and the construction period is three years."

"So much, is there enough steel in my country?"

"It's tighter, but after the completion of the million-pound iron furnace in the second half of next year, China's annual output of steel will reach 90,000 catties. If it is tight, several more 400,000 jin iron furnaces and one million jin iron furnace can be built at the same time next year, which can increase the iron and steel output of Xianguo to 250,000 jin within three years. ”

Bailiyan originally claimed Jiangquan City and its dependent territories from Wei Guo in order to build a railway bridge between Jiangquan and Ganfu County.

The shortest water area between the two counties of Dekang and Ganfu is located on both sides of Hukou Bay, but the side of Ganfu County east of Hukou Bay is a wetland tidal flat that is several miles wide, the geological conditions are too poor, the construction difficulty and economic cost are too great, only the Jiangquan City territory to the two banks of Ganfu County, the distance is moderate, the geological structure on both sides of the bank is relatively safe, and it is convenient for the construction of railway bridges

After the acquisition of Jiangquan City, in 651 and 652 years, the geological exploration and construction plan design was carried out on both sides of the strait, once the Sishui River railway bridge was opened, the manpower and material resources of the core area of the Central Plains will continue to enter the Xianguo, laying the foundation for the unification of the Central Plains.

War waits for no one, and at the end of December, the princes of various countries changed their previous anxiety and panic, and the atmosphere began to be optimistic.

Under the propaganda of the media of the Xianguo country, the apotheosis of the armpit man who kills him undead and invincible in battle has also been shattered, and almost any unrestricted means of life-seeking except for blunt injuries with a blade weapon can be killed.

After the crossbow improvement plan proposed by the Ligong faction was approved by Bailiyan, it began to be put into practice, and the first batch of modified crossbows were test-fired in the first month, and the effect was very satisfactory.

Due to the fact that in order to facilitate the production of large quantities and low cost, smoothbore barrels were used, but the effect of the barrage of dense firing was still good, such as the trench warfare in the alleys of the city, the density of firepower was not inferior to the armpit man

In response to the increasing money supply, the Yongxing Mint began to produce stamped square-hole copper coins in the first month of 654, which was more efficient, more economical in raw materials, and exquisite in workmanship.

Stamping copper coins continue to use bronze, rather than the previous gold, silver and copper alloy, to reduce the cost of precious metals, and secondly, it is more suitable for large-scale circulation, while the old version of gold, silver and copper treasure will continue to be produced by casting methods, the formula remains unchanged, and the exchange rate is still inconvenient to maintain the original floating mechanism.

The new stamped square-hole copper coins are exchanged for gold and silver Tongbao in the form of exchange rates, but they limit the consumption of stamped copper coins on scarce materials and scarce goods, and there are no restrictions on most livelihood commodities and bulk commodities.

At the same time, the military issued military stamps in the situation of paper money, and the garrisons in various places could go to the commodity stores in the main city and county capital of the county town where there were military supply stations to buy daily necessities and commodities, and foreign troops could use cash and spot commodities to buy military stamps from Xianguo for consumption, but the military stamps could not be used for market circulation.

However, Bailiyan still released some military tickets through the underworld, opened some openings, and acquiesced in the transactions of the underground market, so as to activate the economy and lay the foundation for the issuance of paper money in the future.

After the defeat in the Second Battle of Guangxin, the offensive of the Armpit people along the coast of the Changsun Peninsula was greatly weakened, and the loss of a large number of warships caused them to lose a considerable amount of carrying capacity, which seriously restricted their mobile strength.

At the same time, with the help of the salty fire and the military advisory group, the resistance was continuous, causing great resistance to the armpit people, forcing them to temporarily slow down their advance.

At this time, the muddy characteristics of Changsun Guo unexpectedly became a tactical advantage.

The eldest grandson Bujun has always been known for its lack of organization and discipline, and its lack of will to fight, and it basically fights if it can be beaten, runs away if it can't be beaten, and then stalks and steals chickens and dogs, and is quite lacking in fighting spirit.

However, the tactics of the armpit people are precisely to attract the main armed forces of the human beings with poor equipment and low physical fitness to come to the rescue by encircling the important town, so as to limit the annihilation of the human legion's vitality and organizational strength, but they unexpectedly ran into the soft nail of the eldest grandson.

Moreover, the common people of the whole country of Changsun have always fled when they heard the wind and did not drag the mud and water, and as soon as the army collapsed, the common people fled immediately.

So after the armpit people landed, they advanced very smoothly inland, and easily occupied the county town and the main city within a hundred miles of the coastal stronghold, but they couldn't catch many humans, and after the Changsun army was beaten, they didn't plan to fight back at all, so they simply fled for their lives.

On the contrary, the tropical jungle and the hot and humid climate of the equatorial region made them extremely unadaptable, and the obstacles of climate and terrain restricted the pace of their attack.

In addition, human tactics are "flexible", for most of the six months since the landing, in addition to the initial landing in Haitian County was relatively smooth, since the beginning of the naval battle in June, it has been like a plague god possessed, which makes the armpit people extremely annoyed.

At the beginning of February, Xiao Gongyi judged that the armpit people were very afraid of the Xianguo, so he planned to use heavy artillery to fire several tentative fires at the armpit fleet along the near shore, most of them because he was worried that the armpit fleet would appear like the Xianguo in the Liang State, and the armpit fleet entrenched in the coastal waters of Tianjin quickly withdrew from the coastal waters and continued to monitor the far seas, and at the same time sent reconnaissance detachments to search the West Sea in an attempt to find out the situation of the coastline of the Central Plains and the land in the West Sea.

Around the end of the first month, Bailiyan received feedback from various places one after another, and it was estimated that the armpit fleet that invaded the waters off the Central Plains last year should have reached more than 1,200 ships at its peak.

Among them, about 60 percent of the small ships between 6,000 and 9,000 stones, 20 percent of the ships between 10,000 and 18,000 stones, and the rest are large ships and fortress ships of more than 20,000 stones, and ironclad ships account for only a fraction.

By the end of last year, only 3,670 warships had been sunk, damaged, or captured by the Xian army, accounting for more than a quarter of them.

However, Xianguo also paid a heavy price for this, dozens of ships were sunk, Guangxin City was destroyed, and Jinye City was destroyed, and the coastal town of Changsun fell, and the economic losses alone were more than five to six times that of the armpit people, and the population loss amounted to hundreds of thousands or more.

Between January and June 654, the industry of Xianguo successively switched to wartime production, and after 653 years of patience and expansion of production, industrial production capacity increased significantly.

Wanchuan Muyang thermal power stations have been built and connected to the grid for power generation, the country's major cities connected to the telephone and telegraph network, and by the county government for the exchange of base stations, began to build the county telephone network, at the same time, at the request of the princes of various countries, Xianguo began to lay telephone lines to various countries, the construction of corresponding supporting transformer stations and infrastructure.

In February, Xianguo held a technical conference to negotiate transfer agreements with various countries on the production of wooden-handled grenades and 10,000 jin of 10,000-jin smelting furnace sanitation and epidemic prevention, and in the same month a preliminary agreement was reached that Xianguo would open a joint army academy in Shaoping City, Xianxian County, and the princes would send military attachés and talented personnel to the academy for training and to learn modern warfare ideas and advanced skills.

In March, Yongxing City's first experimental hard-shelled airboat was completed, with a lift of only 21 stones, the airbag uses helium mined in the Dongyuan helium field as the gas source, and the lower end is hoisted with a metal pod, using a six-cylinder diesel and propeller machine as the power, and the maximum speed reaches only 32 miles per hour.

After more than two months of testing and refinement, two lift-force 50-stone airboats were built in August, but they were still limited to test data collection and local applications.

Bailiyan's goal is to build an air boat with a lift of 100 to 150 stone next year, using four or six six-cylinder engines as power, and the speed should be more than 40 kilometers per hour, which will be used for the construction of the Sishui River cross-river railway, and also for air vigilance and reconnaissance, air raids, the erection of wires and cables, and the dispatch of special equipment.

Due to the small load, the personnel pod under the airbag will occupy more payload, and the initial construction and use cost will not be cheap, so the cost of simple transportation and replenishment will be high.

Cross-sea expeditions are not only about weapons and equipment, but also about logistics, and because they involve dissemination, they will inevitably be directly linked to the capacity of ships.

The more ships, the greater the total tonnage, the higher the total volume of transport, the more cargo troops can be transported, and vice versa.

Therefore, the more ships are sunk, the more the enemy loses more transport power.

Therefore, whether it was the unrestricted submarine warfare of World War I or the wolf pack tactics of World War II, it was not the Allied transport ships that were hit, but the capacity.

At the same time, if the tonnage sunk per month exceeds the tonnage of shipbuilding per month, it can force the side of the expedition to weaken the force of the expedition or even withdraw from the war altogether.

Therefore, sinking more ships can minimize the strength and speed of the enemy's cross-sea expeditions.

In 1784, the French Robert brothers built the first hydrogen airboat, and in the sixties of the nineteenth century, with the rapid development and popularization of internal combustion engine electricity, hard-shelled airboats began to appear.

The first 20 years of the 20 th century were the peak period of the development of air boats, and in the 80 years between then and the 21 st century, due to technical and conceptual constraints, there was no qualitative development of the functions of air boats.

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