In the last three months of the year 464, Federation warplanes searched for the first wave of base corps where Bai Liang had landed. The nuclear flashes flickered frequently, and the troops sent by Bai Liang had not yet achieved a firepower advantage, so they could only make up for themselves first.

Judging from this unserious situation in the early stage, this also gives the warlords around the world a false impression: the invasion of the White Men is nothing remarkable.

Yellowstone plate, southern Great Lakes.

The headquarters of the Spiritual Fire Corps, a series of sunken concrete trenches that are distributed in a straight line, are deeply 'carved' into the great plains.

This kind of defense is obviously built according to the base model of the burning wheel. The cement trench with a depth of 20 meters and a width of 30 meters has gates like a cave in Shaanxi. The tunnel behind these gates is an underground parking lot for tank corps.

In high-intensity warfare, tanks can quickly enter the trench through an open gate through a tunnel, and can rush to the battlefield through the trench's many ramp exits.

At this time, it is still unmanned motorcycles and four-wheel drive vehicles that patrol the surface from morning to night.

They walked over the metal bridges above the trenches, and they were very noisy.

This is the disadvantage of diesel fuel machinery, the smaller the volume, the greater the power of the mechanical power pack life shorter, which is irresistible in the properties of metal materials.

Therefore, security tasks such as patrols are carried out with lightly armored machinery.

Let's put it this way, a 30-ton light tank off-road, 1,000 kilometers will need to be overhauled, and a 1-ton motorcycle can run 30,000 kilometers to repair once.

So when there is no high-intensity conflict.

The commander of the Psychic Fire is very fond of things like motorcycles and four-wheel drives.

……

At this time, however, between the criss-crossed concrete tank trenches and the overpass, there was something very different in style.

Mechanical spiders, two meters tall and eight meters in diameter, are crawling in formation. The black and yellow stripes give people the impression of "poison" at first sight.

The Gauss weapon on the mechanical spider is a little less metallic gunpowder than the heavy machine gun on the Psychic Fire motorcycle, and it is more full of electronic fan.

This is the ordnance that Tielongji gave to Heshan.

Compared to the diesel ordnance of the combustion wheel, the ordnance supported by the Iron Dragon's Back is fully electric, and the mechanical sensitivity is higher (more expensive).

The underground workshop maintenance, the difference in painting style is greater.

The burning wheel is a rolling automated production line, and dozens of robotic arms are scanned by the laser, cutting the shell, disassembling the screws, and installing new modules, and the smell of metal is blowing on the face.

The primary units of this batch of Yellowstone can be soaked in the repair solution, and metal tentacles are inserted into their voids for maintenance.

From the point of view of combat power increase.

The military aid of the Iron Dragon Spine is a good thing for Heshan, and it is a panacea that can greatly improve the "skill" of the Soul Fire Legion.

Originally, the atomic core technology sent by the burning wheel could only be used to transport fuel. - Well, now, there is finally a charging corps that can be matched.

Heshan was originally polite to Tielongji. After receiving hundreds of nano-production capsules capable of producing this kind of mechanical spider, he began to call himself a subordinate, honoring Iron Dragon's Back as a general.

[Oh, such a transformation of Heshan cannot be regarded as servility. In this world, rich is the master. In the twenty-first century, whoever gave a million at once, was grateful for the existence of Daddy. 】

……

Iron Dragon's Spine provides class manufacturing technology, while Burning Wheel provides a technical team.

In the Soul Fire Underground Base, there is a total area of 3,000 square meters, a height of six meters, and a hall illuminated by 400 shadowless lamps at the top.

Heshan, who was dressed in the uniform of a military commander, was now in a hurry, following behind a technician sent by Ranlun.

This - Heshan's current performance is out of place.

In front of outsiders, the decency of the corps commander was not maintained. However, the technical helper sent by Ranlun now is not an outsider in Heshan's eyes, but the most self-contained.

Sixty square meters of dismantling platform side on the operating table.

Wei Shanqi operated the mechanical tweezers in the glass cover, disassembled the mechanical body of the composite material in front of him, and carried out multiple sets of precision operations.

When the waterjet sliced the internal crystal and the observation instrument took a detailed picture of its situation, Wei Shanqi exhaled a sigh of relief, and his fingers tapped quickly, transmitting the topological information to the database.

Heshan asked with a little concern: "Wei, it's done?" ”

Wei Shanqi slowly turned his head and admonished: "Xiaohe, you can get this technique, but you can't study it." ”

[In the high-energy culture cabin given by the Iron Dragon Spine, nerve chains can be grown like "creatures", as well as chips. Wei Shan Qi is now deciphering whether this cultivation tank can produce chips on its own, as well as high-tech components such as electrical control systems.

It turns out that advanced chips can be debugged in these culture tanks and can also be used. However, the chip cannot be upgraded, and there is no way to check whether there are malicious vulnerabilities inside. This is equivalent to getting a seed, you can plant it, but you can't breed it, and you don't know how to fertilize it to increase production. 】

When Heshan heard this, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, just get it, the preliminary technology tree given by the burning wheel can't be mastered, let alone this." Heshan stretched out his hand and patted the spider robot on his left.

Heshan also wants to use high-tech components, and has no ambition to innovate.

Of course, Wei Shanqi immediately reminded him: the parts that cannot be developed and used directly are by no means prostitutes. - The interior is full of loopholes, and the chip supplier will strangle your intelligent troops at any time.

When Heshan heard this, he smiled: "Then double sets of chips." His response plan is obviously to get a chip system from the side of the burning wheel to fill the risk of the Iron Dragon Spine chip system.

The number of Heshan is quite a bit of a backup posture of GPS and Beidou dual systems in some Middle Eastern countries.

But Wei Shanqi frowned. The dual system of electronic equipment only reduces the risk of 'being directly paralyzed'. However, the risk of 'leakage' in the war is still unavoidable, and it will even bring unnecessary security risks to the entire underground tunnel system.

But in reality, Weishan Qi really thinks too much. At this time, the Soul Fire Corps really hadn't reached the point where it would cost the Federation effort.

[The torrential rain is gradually subduing, the waves are gradually surging, and the earth that was originally connected has become a broken island. The sea of clouds rolled, and the clear sky was revealed in an instant, but it was the same sky as the stars and the sun, and the blue sky did not exist. 】

The year 465 of the Chaos Era.

Fang Star Military Forces:

1. Ground mobile bases with independent energy and campaign-level manufacturing capabilities: Burning Turbine now supports seventy-eight, and Fangxing supports four hundred and eighty-seven, of which the North Family supports one hundred and twenty-four. The technology of the Burning Wheel Military Mobile Base is slightly inferior to that of the Federation, but in terms of the number of military groups, the Burning Wheel is the second largest unit. (The industrial output is not that it cannot continue to be a violent army, but that it is necessary to give Luo Tian's military group a safe attitude.) ）

2. Energy consumption: The gas turbine used 12 times more electricity than the Phoenix-Star Federation in 462. In terms of the consumption of basic building materials such as steel and cement, the fuel turbine has achieved 20 times that of the Federation.

3. At the level of industrial population: In the archives of the Ranlun, there are 68 million laborers and 740,000 engineers.

The Fangxing Federation has a population of 350 million, but 60% of them are mechanical dolls, and the technical mechanical puppets of the same level of knowledge are about 24 million. But the hopes of the two blocs are different, and the scale is different.

However, in the eyes of the world, the shortcomings of the Burning Wheel side are very obvious - there is no space fleet.

……

In terms of the space fleet, it has to look at the forces outside the stars.

In March 465, the second battle of the Orbit between Bai Li and Fang Ming began.

The battleships of the White Planet and the aircraft carrier battle group of the Federation have been changing formations for several more months.

Due to the armament characteristics of the battleship formation, it was necessary to seize the T-face, and it was very difficult to grasp the absolute initiative in the war. So this time, it was the Federation's aircraft carrier group that took the lead.

In space, groups of warplanes began to bombard the edge of the battle plane.

The mech-embedded fighters split into two teams, one strafing the fleet's interceptor fire, while the other swooped through the fleet array and swooped into the star, nuclear flashes flashing in space. In the outer layer of the White Lithium Star, the counterattack line of floating cannons connected in a line was torn apart.

The Eight-Petal Flower Federation has a chance to give the Airborne Forces access to the White Wing. It's a pity that ,—— Bai Xingxing's star surface defense system is better than that of the cracked Fang Xing. Fang Xingxing's wave of parachute troops, which were dominated by mechanical puppets, did not quickly spread on the surface of the White Celestial Star, and were restrained by enemy forces in all directions, and they did not have any effect at all.

The Senate of the Eight-Petal Flower Federation did not have much strategic expectations for this attack. There is no airdrop of regular generals at all, and the strategic purpose is to instigate another grass revolution on the White Celestial Star.

This shows how unreliable the dominant strategy of engaging in political power struggle is.

The calculation of power struggles is often how to make the most profits and lose less, while the strategic decisive battle must find the right time and be very bold and devote all determination.

White Pound Palace.

His Majesty the Emperor was covered in armor and floated in the information hall to link war data. After watching the fall of the white light be contained, the emperor raised his hand, aimed at his own battlefleet column in space a light second away, and waved his hand to order.

……

April 2nd.

The battleship formation of the White Men also freed up their hands and completed the cover of the shelling. In the array of the White Star Fleet, rows of long strips and clusters of starlight of different sizes flew out.

Row upon row were the destroyers advancing by the White Men men. The warships swept over the atmosphere of Fang Xing like a sieve, and a large magnetic pulse swept through with a nuclear explosion.

Clusters of large starlight are the base of the White Purple People. Spread his wings and slowly descended from the gloomy atmosphere dragging tongues of fire in tow.

The clusters of small starlight are the trajectories of the landing module of the landing weapon spewing light blue flames and sliding on the stars.

After these landing capsules landed, they immediately dispersed the six-legged armored robots inside and ran rampant on the ground. The advent of this wave of white people has changed the beacon area of Fangxing from the original points to globalization again.

The large and small forces that were originally thriving on Fang Xing began to face severe tests. Of course, at first they were ambitious, thinking that they could do a lot in this invasion. After all, that's how the burning wheel rose back then.

But when they really began to face the high-tech landing corps of Bai Liangxing, they suddenly found that they were still naïve.

……

June 11, 465 A.D., 7:34 AM.

Heshan's eyes widened angrily, looking at the information interface in front of him.

On the information interface: Under the gloomy sky, a mechanical six-legged giant twenty meters tall and weighing at least one hundred tons walks on the ground with a shimmering energy shield.

At the beginning of the incident, Heshan immediately ordered his own mechanized troops to assemble and quickly intercept this enemy army.

How proactive these young Purists were, even refusing military aid from the Burning Wheel.

But now—

On the battlefield, the second-level units produced by this batch of white librium began to have the barrels behind them on their shoulders, and under the energy supply of the dragon's heart, the ionization of the muzzle of the guns continued to flicker. A string of warheads with a speed of more than 3,000 meters per second turned these iron cars, which were only 30 or 40 tons, into a pile of metal garbage.

The cannons carried by the Soul Fire Legion chariots only shot clusters of metallic sparks on the front of these white mechas, which were very beautiful, but they were all ricochets. As for the missiles that were issued, due to the insufficient density of the salvo, they hit the energy shield outside in twos and threes and exploded in advance. The white mecha was like a bath in fire, undamaged.

Just as ten years ago, the young people of the Burning Wheel were taught a hard lesson. Today's overconfident junkies are not immune to beatings.

These young officers of the Soul Fire Legion have been thriving and invincible since they started their troops, and now they have personally experienced what is called the technological generation gap.

At this time, Heshan could not just retreat.

Because this White Bolt landing site is close to the important main base of the Psychic Fire Legion, a large number of Psychic Fire's energy stations, scientific research bases, and ammunition depots are stored here. If the front is abandoned, the losses are huge.

But if you are directly tough, the disappearing friendly markers on the strategic map indicate the result.

……

The Soul Fire Legion is limited by the Burning Wheel in terms of energy and limited by the Federation in terms of military technology.

In the past six months, in order to make up for his own weakness, Heshan has also found the surrounding areas, recovered a large number of warlords who are called allies but are actually minions, and formed an 'independent alliance'.

Heh, this alliance is naturally based on the Federation and Burning Wheel, in order to be strong. It's just that this thing he did is just metaphysics after all.

On other screens, the warlord allies who had just worshiped a few months ago had a dusty face (the black ash was not stuck with the sweat stains, it was obviously smeared temporarily, and it was mostly seen in film and television dramas where actresses dressed as beggars) opened their mouths, asking for resources like fledglings begging for food. Heshan's mood was angry and helpless, and he still wanted to find Ran Lun and the Federation to hug his thighs.

In the underground battle hall.

Heshan faced the white corps on the map, which were getting closer and closer to his base.

After pacing three laps, his steps revealed impetuousness, and the hesitation of wanting to gamble and worrying about the consequences.

A minute later.

The young warlord finally gave the order to his own troops on the front line to withdraw in the direction of the east. — and a little further to the east is the base of the Burning Wheel.

Here's a simple explanation: in a real-time strategy game, enemy A's troops are channeled to 'player' B's home.

But the question is, the burning wheel is not computer AI, and what are the political consequences of this kind of disaster now?

Heshan dialed the phone of Ranlun, reported his situation here in the most difficult (miserable) voice, and sought support from Ranlun.

The sky is falling, and tall people can't squat.