406. Chapter 406: Gliding

The efficiency of electromagnetic catapult gliding technology is amazingly high, higher than that of railways, highways, and airplanes, because of two points, first: it only needs to overcome air resistance, and the ground resistance is zero; Second: it does not need to carry fuel, so it is free from the waste of fuel weight.

For ground vehicles, it also omits about 3. 14 times the path, which is pi, is also the approximate number of the ratio of the meandering river to the distance in a straight line. Railways have long been the king of land freight, but the cost performance of using electromagnetic catapult gliders far exceeds that of railways.

Once again, the Tang Emperor was ambitious and prepared to build a high-speed and low-cost logistics network that would connect the entire United Nations. For every 100,000 people in the town built a jump center, in the territory of the United Nations 7. Among the 800 million people, there will be 7,800, and then depending on the size of the cargo volume, the number of bombers will be configured, and there will be more than n in metropolises like Beijing, San Francisco, and Munich, and one in small towns, and one will be used in all directions.

The investment cost of each node is 1,000 euros, a total of 7.8 million euros, and each glider makes an average of 10 jumps per package, so the daily capacity is 2,400 packages, because it can hold 1,000 one-kilogram packages at a time. The entire people of the United Nations have one per person per day, there are seven. With 800 million parcels, to achieve such a huge capacity, 42 gliders per jump point are needed, for a total of 320,000 planes.

The cost of these 320,000 gliders is not high, only 5 euros each, a total of 1.6 million euros. So the total investment in this project is 9.6 million euros. What are the benefits? 7。 800 million parcels, five euros per thousand, 3.9 million euros per day.

A thousand packages only charge so much money for the annual rent of five bicycles, so it is cheap, the delivery speed is 300 kilometers per hour, and the average delivery of each package is between two hours, so it is high-speed, cheap and fast, and theoretically invincible, so it is crazy to grab 7. 800 million orders are also possible.

With such a good logistics network, almost all the goods in the store can be shipped free of charge. This network involves difficult problems such as air traffic control and the location of the jump center, which cannot be done without government support, so it can only be deployed within the 31 member states of the United Nations, and the Entente countries will not see the possibility of copycat for decades.

In the past, the Wind Bird Express monopolized the postal service in the city, and the future catapult glider system will monopolize the intercity postal service. The straight-line distance between Beijing and Tianjin is just over 100 kilometers, and residents living in Beijing can order authentic Tianjin Goubuli buns on the store, which is only 20 minutes slower than what you can book in Beijing, which is definitely within the threshold of most people's patience.

Residents living in Yantai and Dalian can buy Seoul kimchi on the store, and it will arrive within two hours, have you ever seen such exaggerated international logistics? They are separated by the Bohai Sea, however, this is not a problem, in order to develop such a two-hour economic circle, the Tang Emperor can use the original sea supply station technology to build a transit station on the sea, completely ignoring the storage of the sea.

In the same way, although Shanghai was surrounded by the Qing Dynasty, the catapult logistics network could pass in a straight line in the East China Sea, and it was only 500 kilometers from Yantai to Shanghai. Shanghai was surrounded by the Qing Dynasty, but it was directly connected to Taipei, 700 kilometers away, via the Guò sea hopping point.

The Japanese were besieged and surrendered in the Philippines, and in the unfounded Taiwan Province, they were defeated by the Windsor Army using the same strategy, and withdrew from the island, in order to get a complete Pacific island chain surrounded by the Qing Dynasty, the Ryukyu Islands were also planned by the Tang Emperor, however, the unconvinced Japanese navy will be heavily arrayed in the Ryukyus, trying to fight again.

When I arrived in Taipei, it was only 800 kilometers away from Hong Kong, and it was still connected to Guò by sea, and the magical catapult logistics network connected the Chinese Federation in freight, from Beijing to Guangdong, without hindrance. Hong Kong is a very interesting place, nominally a British colony, but the Windsor consortium is huge, and it has almost not officially announced its repossession, in fact, Hong Kong's economy and politics have been completely controlled by Windsor, and they are too lazy to officially take it back.

In order to draw a clear line with the hopeless Allied powers, the citizens of Hong Kong did not like to call themselves British, but "Hong Kongers". Hong Kong passports can pass through the 31 member states of the United Nations, but they cannot wander among the members of the Entente, so in this respect, Hong Kong is in fact part of Windsor's sphere of influence.

Tainan to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is less than 900 kilometers and a three-hour economic circle. Manila to Saigon, Vietnam, 1600 kilometers, 5 hours economic circle. The ambitious Vietnamese colonial government, with the support of the Windsor Empire, had gradually taken control of the whole of Vietnam, becoming a new frontier ruled by the French and the pro-Windsor native Vietnamese.

Vietnam has a population of 10 million, which is not small, and it is on the same level as Brazil.

Saigon to Singapore is 1000 kilometers and a three-hour economic circle. Even the 2,800-kilometer distance from Singapore to Kolkata can be regarded as a 9-hour economic circle. 300 km/h is quite powerful.

Many generals with war experience believe that war is about logistics, and the appearance of Boss Tang, a logistics weapon that can be instantly converted into civilian and military use, has caused a slight panic among the Entente. They originally thought that the Windsor consortium was just rich and could fight to the same level, but now this logistics technology is 18 times stronger than the Entente countries at the same cost.

This account is calculated in this way, in the place where the train is connected, the speed of the Allied railways is 50 kilometers per hour, and the speed of Windsor is 300 kilometers per hour, which is 6 times, and it is a straight line, and if you count pi, it is about 18 times. For example, if the Windsor Army and the Entente Army have the same strength in a certain battlefield to fight a decisive battle, at the same time, the firepower of both sides is positively correlated with the logistics ability, and the Windsor Army can use bullets and shells to suppress the other side with 18 times the strength, which is ......

That's not right, because ...... Take the upcoming Battle for the Ryukyus, for example, once the supply lines of the Japanese army are cut off, the firepower of the Windsor army becomes infinitely large times that of the Japanese army, because the other side is zero.

Alas, it's a pity that we finally have to fight against the Allies on their own soil, and it's still Japan, which Downing admires so much, but ...... Even Britain is fighting, there is nothing that can't be done. It is better to fight Japan than to fight Britain, and the fourth princess of Britain is still hiding in Prince Gong's mansion with her child.

The Tang Emperor also planned to repeat the old tactics against Japan, so that the secession law was divided, and Britain had Ireland and Japan had it. In the Tokugawa shogunate era, the full name of the shogun was "Seiyi Shogun", this Yi refers to Ezo, the old name of Hokkaido, not too old, when we Tang Emperor guided the establishment of the Japanese Federation, the name of Ezo was abolished, and Japan's first first-class administrative district with the name of "Dao" was established in Ezo.

Recently, Lin Fei has been a little suspicious of the relationship between Tang Ning and Louise, because Louise is Governor Lin's best friend, no matter what the excuse, the girlfriend's wife has been staying in Beijing, which must not be right. In order to divert Linfield's attention, the Emperor was ready to give her a heavy task that she would definitely like to be able to keep her busy to death, and command the joint **** to attack the Japanese mainland from Hokkaido.

Downing also gave Linfield the title of General of Zhengyi. If there is still one place in Japan willing to submit to the Tang Emperor, it is probably Hokkaido, because he vigorously developed Sapporo, so that it was once more developed than any other place in Japan, and many Hokkaido people benefited from the Emperor's Sapporo factory.

Moreover, the Ezo people here are not the same people as the Japanese at all, but are the same as the indigenous people of Sakhalin and Chiba Islands. The Soviet Union's Kamchatka, which shares the continental shelf with the Chiba Islands, has a large number of Ezo people, who can act as joint **** thugs, and recently Comrade Marx has been recruiting thugs for the Windsor Empire in Kamchatka.

Before our female general had time to establish a special attack force behind enemy lines in Hokkaido, the Japanese side had already recruited a large number of troops to Tsushima Island between the Korean Peninsula and Kyushu Island, and it seemed that they wanted to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao, because the Japanese army already felt that it was inferior to the Windsor army in logistics, so it was better to fight a dozen in Goryeo nearby.

The Japanese should think about what the Tang Emperor's electromagnetic catapult glider capable of spanning 50 kilometers can do, of course, the glider is loaded with a bombshell. Yeosu-gun, Goryeo, is less than 90 kilometers from the farthest point of Tsushima Island, and if you halve the one-ton standard, you can load a half-ton super cannonball directly from Yeosu to any location on Tsushima Island, which is the same size as a 14-inch cannonball.

The power of the 14-inch gun was capable of sinking the largest battleship, that is, it could blow up anything, and when it was discovered that the Japanese Navy had deployed thousands of fighters on Tsushima Island, the military engineer completed the task of transforming the civilian logistics glider system into an ultra-long-range cannon within a week.

Unfortunately, time was short, and by the time the Japanese army chose to attack, General Lin had only saved up 28 gliding guns. After receiving the information of the invasion of the enemy planes, these 28 glider guns immediately bombarded the opponent's runway, which was the fatal flaw of the fixed-wing fighter invented by the Japanese army, and General Lin grasped it very well.

As long as the runway is damaged, it will be difficult for the opponent's fighters to take off and land, on the contrary, the Goryeo Army is all planes that can take off and land vertically, and it will be quite unfavorable to the Japanese army.

You think, the glider can accurately land on the sea jump station, you can imagine how accurate it is, there is no problem at all at 80 or 90 kilometers, there is satellite navigation, 10 meters of error, the use of giant shells makes up for this error.

The flywheel takes a minute to recharge, so the rate of fire of the glider cannon is one shot per minute, that is, one salvo per minute, which is already a terrifying level.

In order to confuse the enemy, there were only 100 fighters on the Yeosu front, and 300 in Busan. The Japanese thought that this time they would be able to beat up the Goryeo sticks. The vanguard of the Japanese army dispatched 100 fighters and slaughtered the city of Pusan.

After this vanguard was discovered, 28 glider cannons immediately began to fire, and one after another never-before-seen battlefield suicide gliders soared into the air with a murderous aura.

Whether the Japanese army's runway can be used or not depends on how big the crater is after being bombed, and the big crater made by these 14-inch shells can almost fill the entire small Japanese plane.

At most, the Japanese army took off 150 fighters, and the rest were either blown to pieces or surrounded by huge craters, and the supreme commander of the Japanese army did not know where the guns came from until the final martyrdom.

The 150 Japanese fighters that had already taken off had to face the 300 inclined twincopters in Busan, because the command center on Tsushima Island was stunned, so they did not know that they were all the fighters, this time with one enemy and two against two, and they also lost their rear intelligence command