It is true that the tour is not in the vertical area of the '張', but goes to the horizontal place below.

To be precise: I went to Xia Hong Island first, explained the things on the island, and after further delegating power to Yu Qian, he took Lu Boya and other students to the south.

As a crossroads of maritime traffic, Xiahong Island is an economic development center. However, it is not suitable as a regional administrative center, this region is too far away from other regions. Before the Internet age, geographical barriers were all the time, and people on islands were less concerned about the outside world than cities on land when they were rich. And when the outside world is in trouble, it is naturally difficult to trust the central government in the island. (The thirteen states of the founding of the United States were instigated by a group of businessmen to turn against England.) ）

Therefore, now this "fundamental place" in the eyes of the outside world was originally to be handed over to Yu Qian, and Yu Qian, who seems to be very happy, may have taken on the role of a housekeeper. However, she didn't notice that Lu Boya's eyes flashed with pity when she looked at her.

……

At present, Xia Hong Island still has a historical problem, that is, half of the area is now in the hands of the Floating Family.

Although the population, economy, industry and military of both sides are not at the same level now, he is stuck in that land and the nearby sea. This makes the development of Ranlun Xia Hongdao always vacant a link.

This trip is here to solve this problem. Of course, this war is not on the island, because the enemy on the island is no longer worthy of fighting with the Burning Wheel, and the mainland of the Floating Sky Family is 'Boom'.

In fact, the main reason for Ranlun's southward departure this time is not to settle hatred with the air, but to expand business cooperation through abnormal negotiation means.

Since the 107th year of the Holy Gu Calendar, since Ranlun took over the Luqiao area, it has formed an output advantage in the scale of many low-end industries. In the industrial product industry chain, upstream and downstream are equally important. But for those in power, it is better to control a little upstream.

If strategic thinking is limited to Xia Hong Island, then it must be to grasp the core components, and then use the financial model to control the industrial chain of downstream industries. This is the thinking of island nations colonizing the world in history.

The tour is definitely not limited by history, the downstream industry is difficult to grasp, and it has to be grasped, and no matter how difficult it is for a big government, it has to be built. Even if the price is severe, even if the war is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Therefore, if you fight directly on the southern land, you will fight ...... Persuade the Floating Family. As for the floating bait, which connected families can be hooked, as many as they can be hooked, they will be persuaded as much as they want. - Because the purpose is to break up the feudal alliance relationship.

On July 14th, when Jue Hotaru was fighting in the north.

The Burning Ship has completed its landing on the southern coastline, and the lightning has taken the Iron Reef Harbor of the Floating Family. Subsequently, the armored forces began to move all the way west along the coastline.

During the landing operation, several new tank units appeared:

1. Tonnage 120 tons, with four tracks. The tank charges with all its might, and can easily knock over a large truck on Earth as easily as a brick hitting a tin lunch box.

The most distinctive, two 125mm 52x caliber rifled guns were deployed on the turret. This was strongly proposed by Lu Boya, and she specially came up with the corresponding automatic ammunition feeding system.

This student is so keen on developing this super tank, and it is not easy to dismiss it. Of course, its name gives Zeyo some weird familiarity - Tianqi Chongtan.

The entire tank is smooth and angular from the turret to the body, and complex fire control equipment is deployed on it. Due to the instability of processing, the first batch of production quantities was 28 vehicles. But this amount, in this war, the number is certainly enough.

This time, there are a total of seven Tianqi Heavy Tanks, 53 armored bull tanks that can be mass-produced, and hundreds of all-terrain four-wheel drive vehicles.

2. And it was the Thunderbird air defense vehicle that made a good start in the landing battle. This is a combat vehicle with seven rounds of missiles. No, as soon as I landed, I encountered the signature class of the floating family, the suspended biological airship.

Twenty-ton Thunderbirds turned their tracks, just around the periphery. In the face of such a slow-moving flying object, six missiles swept over (at first there were more than 30 missiles, but later it was found that there was a surplus of firepower, and the hit rate of two missiles was almost 100 percent)......

Under the caress of the fragments, the metal shell on the outside of the Floating Family Airship was all shattered on the spot, revealing many tentacles inside. Of course, the airbag was also punctured by the fragments of the warhead and lost its lift.

The airboat landed with a thud. Judging by the scale of the explosion that fell to the ground, it seems that the airboat was carrying quite a few bombs. It's a pity that these "eggs" were not thrown.

……

After the successful landing of the first wave of troops.

Lu Boya, who was wearing the exoskeleton armor of the information machine, looked at the land in the south like cheese and covered with the entrance of the cave through the live broadcast of the information screen transmitted by the sky reconnaissance plane, and exhaled deeply. Then he took out the harmonica from his pocket, nodded and played a song.

On the rock crystal star.

The northern temperate oceanic climate is occupied by various ant towers; On the coastline of the southern core economic zone, there are oasis corridors.

To the south, there are plenty of dense sand dunes and underground caves. The caves were excavated by desert worms, and these Gu worms occupy valuable groundwater resources. Even surface rivers have to take a large part of their water each year through the caves in the riverbed.

If you want to change the basic situation of the Southern Continent, you can only rely on large-scale infrastructure, and if you want to build infrastructure, you must first solve the nobles here.

The Float family is a very simple computer. Well, very simple opponents.

In this battle, they inflicted very little damage on the burning wheel, and the burning wheel did not even cause much damage to the local area; Took down three cities of the Floating Family.

The battle was well reached, and the tanks drove into the center of the city, with no bullet marks on the city's most vulnerable tower.

[The Floating Family needs to supply airships, so every important city has an iron tower. This made Lu Boya feel very good. 】

There is nothing to describe the course of the war, it was simply an armed parade.

But in hindsight, it is a matter of course. The Floating Family is the power of the Flying Locust Family with the support of the Imperial Capital; The checks and balances of the imperial capital are to provide industrial products such as ordnance. Now that the Northern War has begun, floating in the air, in fact, the local military reserves are simply not enough to fight a war with strong firepower. The industrial scale itself is also very small, after all, the oasis economy is very fragile.

The only result achieved by Tianqi Chongtan, who had high hopes from the staff of the Ranlunnan Expeditionary Corps, was to destroy several fortresses with armor fragmentation shells.

And all the large targets were basically killed by armored tanks, and even self-propelled guns did not have a chance to shoot.

Even in the reconnaissance unit, which was mainly based on four-wheel drive vehicles and motorcycles, the mortar in the jeep vehicle fired a few shots, and the officers in the Gu insect cluster in the south sent a surrender. - Compared with those nobles in the north, the nobles in the south were only unintimidated before the war.

In late July, the entire southern coastline of 1,200 kilometers was pierced by the Celestial Tour.

Floating, spiders, lizards, and the cities of the three big families were all breached. The other four families to the east were aware of the fighting power of the burning wheel on the land bridge in the north, so they expressed peace in advance.

Lu Boya: "You are really a model of peace! ”

……

August 4th.

That is, when Ju Hotaru completed his control of the territory of the Five Princes and began to move further south. Zeyu signed an agreement with these defeated families.

The envoys of these defeated families were very worried, because even the city was pierced by Zeyu, and it was possible to be directly destroyed in this troubled era. What to pay now?

And during the negotiations, a series of clauses relieved them. First of all, there was no reparation for defeat.

On the contrary, Zhouyou gave them three large families, as well as sixteen small families, a total of 130 million butterfly interest-free loans. It was required to hire an infrastructure team of fuel turbines to build a canal system in the southern ring belt.

This canal, which was planned by the Hong Leong Empire three hundred years ago, is also in initial operation. But then the Hong Leong Empire collapsed, the Golden Beetle Empire ascended to the throne, divided the southern lands, and the original Grand Canal project went bankrupt.

Zeyo decided to re-plan the resurrection of the Grand Canal, and the Ranlun was responsible for all the funds, and after the canal was completed, the profits were given to the local forces. (In the era of capital, in a zero-sum game, as long as a project occupies the largest share, it is a big win.) Because as the leader of the battle situation, the ability to borrow is higher than others, and the advantage of even one percent can be suddenly expanded tenfold, which can make other challengers give up automatically. ）

However, now, such a favorable plan and almost giving money for nothing made the negotiators of several families floating in disbelief and repeatedly asked whether it was true.

Of course, in the end, the tour of the universe still wanted a right, which was not important in the eyes of each family - the southern currency was unified with silver coins minted by the burning wheel. It is the only legal tender. What's this? The families felt that they could.

After talking about the economy, then all that remains is to cut the land.

Zeuyou asked for what he should have, and the other half of Xia Hong Island. This is also the fulfillment of a promise to the Flame Locust family.

The floating side hurriedly agreed to this request. In their opinion, the place on Xia Hong Island was just a step in the previous response to the Golden Beetle's royal checks and balances. Now that the golden beetle royal family is in chaos like that, the burning wheel is even more at the doorstep, so there is no need for me not to know each other.

Beyond that.

The southern boundary line of many lords in the southern continent was used as an example to include the development rights of a large area in the south. For these nobles, the area with many worm caves in the south is also not capable of development, since the powerful Burning Wheel wants it, then give it.

After September, when the flag of the king of the north was changed.

The Burning Wheel is developing into the desert cavern area that crisscrosses the southern caverns. Groups of expeditions, escorted by the Megalodon Drone Armour Corps, entered these caves and began to investigate.

……

The climate of the entire southern continent is very different from that of the north. It was very dry, and as soon as I left the shoreline, I noticed a sharp drop in air humidity.

Since the planet has been washed away by heavy rainstorms, 10,000 years have not yet passed. The desert in the south is the Gobi Desert formed by large chunks of rubble.

Underneath the Gobi Desert, there is a complex tunnel system.

In this underground world, Gu worms have evolved an astonishing diversity of species.

There are latent hunters here - for example, the fifty-kilogram Sword Mantis.

There is also a lurking raid assassin in the pond - Eight Tons Smash Malu.

Others, the swift swarm of hooligans, horny thorny steelback cockroaches.

……

In the 108th year of the Holy Gu calendar, August 14th.

Lu Boya formed the Shark Pioneer Expedition here.

The first base of the expedition was deployed in the eastern valley of the Gobi Desert.

This area is home to an extremely important water resource, and the flow of large rivers flowing from the southern plateau region has plummeted through the region.

After geological exploration, it is speculated that it has been infiltrated by underground caves, and it is not only the water source that has been lost, but also the extremely valuable soil resources. All of this seeps into the ocean through underground rivers.

The city plans to build a dam here, with plans to restore the area to a thriving industrial and agricultural base. Then it is necessary to find out how much of the dark river the worm has created in this underground for future engineering operations.

Now the high-tech expedition team sent by Lu Boya, which is passing through the most dangerous underground cave tunnel, has been attacked at this time.

A large number of Juggernaut mantises with perfect camouflage colors, jumping out of the moss-covered rock crevices.

These Gu worms popped out like bullet shrimps, knocking two kilograms of forelimbs into the megalodon mecha at twice the speed of sound.

The Megalodon mecha that was attacked by the surprise attack was knocked off at once, and of course, under the chain of bullets on the Megalodon pod, this Sword Saint Mantis family did not please and was almost completely destroyed.

On the surface, on the signal station next to the entrance to the sinkhole.

Lu Boya held on to his helmet and watched the blurry snowflake attack scene on the camera through the black and white screen. The troops were ordered to continue their exploration.

Didi, the communication rang.

Busy from his current work, Lu Boya yawned with his hands on his lips, tidied up his face, and opened the black-and-white call interface.

On the interface, it is the tour of the sky.

Zhou You put down the information and nodded at the camera: "Xiao Lu, the progress in the south is good, well, the old rule, you report first." ”

Lu Boya: "The air force system has been successfully deployed, the ground corps has been deployed, and there is no threat on the surface, but, commander, the underground situation is much more complicated than I imagined. ”

Zhou You: "You make a list of relevant material needs, I will prepare, by the way, do you think there can support the Great Migration Policy now?" ”

Lu Boya: "The temperature is right, and the water resources after the dam is completed, can make soilless farming flourish, and mining can also be exploited, but it is ......"

She stared at the underground information on the right side of the screen, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Commander, is it too early to plan and open up the living space of human beings now, it will take more than ten years to take effect." ”

This student, who can keep up with his strategic thinking, made Zhou You very pleased, and then explained very solemnly: "Don't think about it so much, we can't do some things now, because no one helped us lay a good foundation before, and now, we plant trees, and future generations will enjoy the shade." ”

When Lu Boya heard this, he nodded peacefully.

Zhou You: "Pay attention to the recording of species in the area, and also, what other industrial and mining industries are worth developing in that place besides agriculture?" ”

Lu Boya said silently in his heart: "Layout of national development? Are you testing me? Without waiting for Lu Boya to figure out how to answer.

Zhou You waved his hand: "Forget it, you establish a safe zone first, and I will go directly to it in three months, and after a good investigation, I will discuss the plan." ”

The center of civilization of Rock Crystal Star is undoubtedly the 'Boom' coastline area. But '??' In a large area of the north and south, it is not impossible to develop civilization without removing the Gu insect factor.

The key factor in the backwardness of the southern side of the "Boom" coastline is being on the verge of communication.

For example, the center of European civilization has always been inclined to the Mediterranean Sea in the early stage, and once the American continent was developed, Western Europe became the center of European civilization because of the exchange of waterways.

The same land in the Americas, which also lacks exchanges, has always been the edge of the world's island civilization, and it is only after the opening of the world's shipping routes that this rich region develops.

Now the industrial revolution is already underway on this planet, and the concept of "pioneering capitalism" has entered the world with those students who are thinking newly.

In order to expand more prosperity and intersection of this planet in the future, Zeusyou is preparing to deploy an economic circle in the southern continent.

However, this kind of planning will not be effective until a hundred years later. Now it's pure dedication, exhausting energy. - There is no reason for anyone living in the present day to do so.

Lu Boya looked at Zhou You and persuaded in a tactful tone: "Commander, the situation in the north is unstable, and there may be great changes in half a year, when were you?" ”

Zhou You rubbed his head when he heard this, and at the same time said helplessly: "Hey? Yes, it's rare that you care about the situation in the north. However, this will not be discussed for the time being, and in five days, we will attend a meeting of the General Staff together. ”

Lu Boya looked at Zhou You, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in response: "Received the task." ”

The communication hangs up.

Lu Boya exhaled, staring at the space on the side, her eyes stared at the empty screen on the side, her mouth opened and closed, obviously discussing something, but she couldn't hear any sound next to her.

After what seems to be a communication with an being.

Lu Boya spread out the map, stood up, pressed his palms on the edge of the table, propped himself up, and read the map. His gaze gradually shifted to the north, and he said with a little helplessness: "This planet is so sick thanks to the people who are willing to take charge of the starry sky. ”

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