Chapter XVII: The Clouds of War
During their studies on Russ, Kabayashi and Kapok regularly compiled the industrial and technical information they learned or could understand, and then passed it on to the Song King of Princess City of the Prairie through the space sheriff of the seventh space.
The King of Songs is worthy of the title of "the smartest king" of the prairie, and he leads his disciples and grandchildren to find ways to turn the technical information obtained into real industrial products.
As a result, in the last 20 years, the industry of the prairie has developed very rapidly, and the singer has successively manufactured generators and steam turbines, as well as telegraphs and telephones for long-distance communication. In recent years, power machinery has gradually been popularized and applied in many fields such as mineral smelting and metal casting in the prairie.
With a power machine that cannot be compared with manpower, in order to deal with the possibility of invasion of the steppe at any time, the singer first applied the fruits of the industrial revolution to military equipment. He used the technical information from Russ to create highly effective gunpowder, and then produced gunpowder guns that were more powerful than ever before.
In order to break the blockade of the sea by the undersea people, the King of Songs began to design and manufacture steel warships that used steam turbines as power plants after developing gunpowder guns.
Although there were five kingdoms in the Prairie, since the time of King Hal, the Singing Kingdom has been the political center of the Grasslands, and major disputes between countries will eventually be reconciled by the Singing King, so there has been no large-scale civil war in the Grasslands for nearly 100 years.
Since the emergence of the so-called Kraken more than forty years ago, the Prairie people have been under an external threat, and the other four kingdoms have relied more on the Goyin Nation to lead the way against future invasions of the Seamen.
The Industrial Revolution initiated by the King of Songs brought the human society of the steppes into a new period of historical development, and at the same time, because of the widespread use of manufacturing machinery and gunpowder guns in the grasslands, the Kingdom of Singing gained a lot of wealth, which in turn was used to build factories to manufacture civilian and military motor vehicles.
Because of the large size and inconvenience of the steam turbine engine, it is not practical to equip the steam turbine engine on a land-moving vehicle, except for its practical use on large ships. As a result, Goon has started to develop an internal combustion engine a few years ago using foreign technology, and has made significant progress.
Therefore, when Kabayashi and Zhen'er and Kapok Zi returned to the savannah from Rasxing, they were pleasantly surprised to see that the industrial revolution led by the King of Songs had achieved a series of results.
However, they soon discovered that due to the lack of advanced manufacturing tools and the lack of mastery of certain key technologies, the internal combustion engine made by Goon King was still large and energy-intensive, and the motor vehicle equipped with such an engine could run slower than a horse-drawn carriage.
However, the King of Songs and all the prairie people are optimistic that the three princes and princesses who have returned from the world will soon solve the technical problems they face. Because they brought back advanced tools for metal material processing, and mastered more advanced machinery manufacturing technology.
Shortly after Kabayashi arrived at the castle with his uncle King Gran from Gran Island, King Singing and King Miyu immediately summoned the other three kings and their advisors to a meeting.
After discussing the contents of the letter and the information held by the steppe people themselves, everyone believed that the information provided by the Eastern Alliance of the Seamen should be true, and it was best to agree with their suggestions in the current situation, and finally the meeting decided to agree to sign a peace agreement with the Eastern Alliance of the Underwater World, and decided to form an expeditionary force as soon as possible to assist the Xizhou people in resisting the invasion of the genetic people according to the suggestion put forward by Shanglin.
The day-to-day work of the expeditionary force's preparatory headquarters was handled by Kabayashi, Kapok, and Yagu, and major decisions were made after discussion with the five reigning kings of the steppe.
At this time, Uebayashi and Zhen'er were in the office of a military factory instructing a group of technicians to make final revisions to the design drawings of an internal combustion engine. Subsequently, work on the serial production of new internal combustion engines will be in full swing.
Located on the border between the Ukan and Miyu countries, this military factory is surrounded by rolling hills flanked on either side by troops sent by the King of Kayin and the Miyu King. If the seamen invade the savannah, this will be the main battlefield for the two countries to fight the invaders together.
Yagu hurriedly walked into the office and said to Shanglin: "Shanglin, Zhen'er, my father's people have sent a letter from the governor of the sea people, and the gene people have done something in Xizhou!" Take a look! ”
Kabayashi took the letter from Agu's hand and unfolded it, only to see that it read:
"Respect the five kings of the steppe, respect the two princes of Shanglin and Kapok. Our Eastern Alliance intelligence officers have just learned that the Western Alliance has learned that our Eastern Underwater World has entered into a peaceful coexistence agreement with you prairie people. The Western Conference was very disappointed with this, and they had expected us to fight each other first, so that they could easily profit from it when we both lost.
Moreover, it is very likely that the Undersea Western Alliance has already spied on your return to the savannah from the starry world, so their leaders are not only disappointed but also restless, they know very well that your return will bring back the unparalleled science and technology of the starry world, as long as you are given enough time, the performance and combat effectiveness of the savannah's military equipment will far surpass that of the underwater world.
Therefore, they must become stronger in your steppes and realize their dream of dominating the land, and they have decided to immediately implement the strategic plan to occupy the continent of the Western Continent.
As the first step to occupy the Xizhou Continent, they will gather 50,000 genetic soldiers scattered on hundreds of islands to first capture Xitian Island, the largest large island outside the Xizhou Continent. According to our intelligence, there are about 50,000 Xizhou people living on this island. Because the islanders are extremely weak militarily, the genetic people will easily occupy this large island.
According to their strategic plan, most of these islanders will be wiped out, leaving only the young and able-bodied people to serve the genetic people as laborers.
The strategic goal of the Gene People in occupying Xitian Island is to establish a logistics supply base for weapons, equipment, and daily necessities as soon as possible, and to train the Gene People's army in the combat capability of the Gene People army on land. base
We estimate that the Gene Man can complete the above two goals within half a year, which means that within half a year, the Gene Man will launch a full-scale war against the Western Continent.
In the last letter, you said that once the genetic people launch a war of aggression against the Western Continent, the Prairie people will do their best to support the Western Continent people against the invaders, and we in the Eastern Alliance Underwater World highly appreciate this, because the success or failure of the war in the Western Continent will determine the future fate of mankind in our planetary world.
Compared to the four million people of your steppes, our people on land and sea are limited in number and military strength, and although we have made chariots that move on land and ground, they are also limited in number. Moreover, we, the countries of the Eastern Alliance, do not want a large-scale civil war with the Western Submarine Alliance at the moment, so our support for the landers of the Western Continent will be limited.
But we will do our best to support your actions in the following ways: First, because we know more about the Gene People and their weapons and equipment than you do, we will do everything we can to provide you with the Gene People's operational information. Secondly, we will escort you all the way across the sea when your expeditionary fleet is on its way to Xizhou.
Considering that the strait between Chizhou and Xizhou is located in the border area of our two alliances in the east and west, and your fleet crossing this strait into the continent of Xizhou will be attacked by the Western Alliance forces at any time, so we will send heavy troops to deploy in that area, and after your expeditionary force to Xizhou begins, we must work closely to prevent your expeditionary force from being blocked by the Western Alliance forces in the Xizhou and Chizhou straits, because in that case, Your expeditionary force may be wiped out by the Eastern Alliance before it enters the Western Continent to join the war.
In view of the approaching war in Xizhou, our Eastern Seabed Alliance will dispatch a sea and land army to train in the Qiandao Sea area of Qizhou, and if the situation in Xizhou is very unfavorable to you, we can provide you with the necessary support in the shortest possible time.
Please inform us of your strategic plan as soon as possible, so that we can take effective action in advance so that we can unite to thwart the Genetics' attempt to occupy the continent. ”
The people in the house quietly watched Shanglin finish reading the letter, Shanglin handed the letter to Zhen'er after reading it, and he said to the technicians in the house in a calm tone: "The undersea gene people have started a war, their first step will be to capture a large island off the coast of Xizhou, they will launch a full-scale attack on the Xizhou continent within half a year, there is not much time left for us, you immediately go back and convey the order to your respective team, from today onwards, everyone will work overtime for four hours a day, and the daily salary will be doubled." ”
The technicians quickly leave after receiving instructions, leaving only Agu in Kabayashi and Zhen'er's office.
Kabayashi asked Yagu: "Big cousin, where is the kapok?" ”
"He taught three apprentices to drive outside the factory." Agu Road.
"Get him here! We must immediately send someone to the West Continent to spread the message that the Gene People are about to go to war. Kabayashi said.