Chapter 58 Coal Liquefaction Technology
Zhuang Yichen sat on the roof of the Frost City Lord's Mansion, listening to a heavy howitzer with a caliber of 370 mm roaring across the sky in the distance, and the explosion sounded in the middle of the army of sunken demons.
Large-caliber rocket artillery also requires the manufacture of rocket engines, electronic ignition and a series of maintenance facilities. And large-caliber howitzers do not need such trouble at all. Weapons that are simple and practical, easy to maintain and manufacture will always be the backbone of war. And this point in the last days has become the first requirement for the choice of weapons.
Half of the City Lord's Mansion had been razed to the ground by a heavy howitzer, but this kind of building condensed by earth magic was strong enough, so under the terrifying impact, even half of it was left.
There were no undead guards in Frost City at all, and in addition to Kyoto, the remaining three base areas that launched a major counteroffensive at this time were also not idle. In the entire earth plane, the North American battlefield also completed the industrial application of controlled nuclear fusion in Huaxia not long ago, followed by the successful establishment of a nuclear fusion reactor.
The entire Earth plane is carrying out a major counteroffensive, but the undead still did not shrink their forces and turned from attack to defense, but even more frantically mobilized all their forces to deal with the military's counterattack.
No matter how you look at it, such a move carries a hysterical madness. Zhuang Yichen's gaze looked through the thick gray radiation dust cloud, and looked at an undead spirit who was standing above the sky at this time.
He was sitting on top of a frost bone dragon that shone as bright as white jade, looking at the battlefield below.
By Zhuang Yichen's side, four large laser cannons locked the muzzles on him, and after the battlefield, hundreds of large-caliber electromagnetic railgun positions were rapidly being established.
It was precisely because of this deterrent power that the undead did not dare to act rashly, but just hid behind the radiation dust cloud from afar, and looked unwillingly at the army of necromancers that were falling in pieces below.
Zhuang Yichen's gaze collided lightly with him through the distant space, and then retracted his gaze. He tossed an emerald green orb that he had been playing with gently upwards, and then retracted it into the storage space.
The emerald green orb with the shape of almost a perfect sphere was a magic crystal, a magic crystal of the Fallen Demon Mother. After the capture of Frost City, a Fallen Demon camp in Frost City was destroyed. This Sinking Demon Camp is the largest Sinking Demon Camp for the undead on the outskirts of Kyoto. The Mother Queen of the Fallen Demon in the camp is constantly laying eggs every day, and this camp produces tens of thousands of new Sinking Demons every month.
The camp of the Fallen Demon, the Crypt Spider Cave, the lair of the Invisible Banshee and the Demon Dragon. These are all built up by the undead at great cost, and it is precisely because of the existence of these nests that the undead will have a steady stream of troops to join the battlefield. These are the true roots of the undead, and the destruction of a super-large sunken demon camp is already a heavy loss for the undead.
After capturing Frost City, the military did not stop marching. On September 15, after clearing out some of the small demonic creature nests around Frost City, the military once again set its sights on Shanxi, which borders Yuanshou Province.
After the successful operation of nuclear fusion reactors, electricity has become the main source of human energy, but this does not mean that fossil fuels such as petroleum have lost their use.
Electric motors still can't completely replace high-powered internal combustion engines. There is a serious shortage of aviation kerosene, and Kyoto's air force has long been in an embarrassing situation where it is unable to go to the sky due to lack of fuel, and oil is still a much-needed resource in Kyoto.
Shanxi, which borders Yuanshou Province, accounts for the vast majority of the country's coal resources. As long as Shanxi is recovered, coal liquefaction technology can be used to extract fuel from Shanxi's abundant coal resources to solve this problem. And with the infinite amount of electricity generated by nuclear fusion, the coal-to-oil conversion process can already ignore the cost of the conversion process.
Ploughed under the military's artillery fire, the tank clusters once again extended and rapidly advanced with the artillery fire. The Necro Heavy Cavalry had no chance to continue to show the military their razor-sharp swords and swift speed when charging with all their might, when they were covered in indiscriminate artillery fire and blasted into scattered pieces of bones.
The momentum of the offensive was unstoppable, and in just over a month, the military had advanced the defensive line along the Yellow River.
After occupying the entire territory of Shanxi, the pace of the military's major counteroffensive finally came to a temporary halt. And the undead are also under a series of blows, and reluctantly admit a reality, that is, on the earth plane at this time, the undead no longer have any advantage over humans.
In the counteroffensive to regain Shanxi, except for the desperate resistance of the necromantic army in the first three days, the remaining days were all on the way to advance. As the lair of the demon clan established by the undead was uprooted little by little, the word insufficient force also appeared in the dictionary of the undead for the first time.
Accustomed to the situation of an endless army of necromancers crushing their opponents in numbers, suddenly facing such a situation at this time, the undead were also a little overwhelmed for a while.
When it comes to the art of war, even on the battlefields of the Eternal Continent, the undead who have fought with the Cult of Light for thousands of years cannot be compared to humans. Looking at the history of human evolution in the entire earthly plane, in a sense, it is an epic and magnificent history of war.
The theory of war, the art of killing. These things have been developed to the extreme on the terrestrial plane. In comparison, relying only on numbers to crush the undead is really naïve and not worth mentioning.
In the battle to regain Shanxi Province, the undead still did not strike. At this time, the Huaxia battlefield is no longer a forbidden spell that can reverse the situation.
After the great counteroffensive was suspended, time also came to the end of the year of the Dark Age. From the April Fool's Offensive in the first year of the Dark Age to this time, after more than a year of the most difficult and lengthy time, humanity has finally tilted the scales of this war to its side.
The cold winter is even more bitter, especially after the sun is obscured by a large part of the gray fog. It's just that such a long and harsh winter is no longer a test for human beings. With an endless supply of energy, such a small thing as heating is really not worth mentioning.
The snow is falling, and thousands of miles are covered in silver. Zhuang Yichen led Niuniu to stand on the top of a hill, looking at the Sanmenxia Dam not far away, revealing a slightly undulating silhouette in a patch of silver.
It's still a long way from Yuanshou Province, and it hasn't been affected by the nuclear bomb, so the clouds of radiation dust in the sky are much thinner. Correspondingly, the fluttering snowflakes are also much cleaner.