The purchase of thermal weapons in the city of Mara also stemmed from the opening of the shipping lane. [Full text reading]

Since the first 10,000-ton ship arrived at the port 1,500 kilometers away in the most primitive way six months ago, the troops departing from Mara City have been supplied three times as much.

Compared with the land transportation of other city-states, the loss of sea transportation is almost only about 3 percent, which is due to the unfamiliarity of the route and the installation of weapons.

With such conditions, in the choice of long-range weapons, the advantages and disadvantages of thermal weapons and bows and arrows and javelins are clear. Not to mention anything else, heavy machine gunners can shoot tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition in a battle, and even if the archers in the Western Continent are strong, they are less than a hundred arrows. Not to mention the javelinmen, who were consumed before they ran out of stamina.

On the one hand, heavy machine guns and automatic rifles also have an advantage in range.

All kinds of conditions are not reflected when there are few people, in large-scale wars, light infantry assault and light infantry strikes are throughout, although these soldiers with very thin armor are consumables, but also have the advantage of low cost and large numbers, without large-scale reduction measures, they will cause losses to heavy infantry and cavalry, and then affect the battle of the Temple Knights and Knights of the Arts. In the past, the common practice was ballista catapults and javelin bows and arrows, and then the trend of light cavalry into battle, after Mara City was equipped with a few heavy machine guns earlier, the front line was as steady as a dragon mountain, especially against the group charge The effect is obvious, if there are restrictions, it is also the logistical pressure that makes them unable to continue to expand due to logistical pressure.

Now, more than 2,000 kilometers of supply lines have become hundreds of kilometers, and it is a way of shipping, not to mention the knights of other city-states, Mara City is the first to change to an all-heat weapon.

In this, there is also Chen Yi's support and acquiescence. Compared with the self-sufficient economic warfare system, Chen Yi prefers that they get used to the use of hot weapons.

The production of modern weapons is not simple, as long as the people of the Western Continent are accustomed to it, it is inseparable from the Xijiang city-state. The cost of such economic control is much lower than that of political control and control by force.

Mo Shaoqiu only sells arms, and he can't wait to be full of wolf smoke, seeing that Chen Yi agrees to sell to the natives, where will he object, and he left in high spirits.

Liu Xinyu waited for a while, walked out of the office, and said with a smile: "The Mo family must be happy this time, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse." ”

"It doesn't hurt your bones." Chen Yi smiled, his eyes looking at the middle.

In fact, not only the Mo family is happy, but also domestic and foreign arms companies and businessmen are happy.

Light weapons have always been the most sold material, and the profit of a single piece cannot be compared with that of missile warships, and the total number of them cannot be enough.

The Mo family's large-scale purchases have made this situation even more important.

200,000 pistols may be worth only a few tens of millions, but 200,000 automatic weapons, 20,000 heavy machine guns, and tens of millions of boxes of ammunition make many people happy. This is a real production task, which brings not only the final profit, but also the income of the entire industrial chain.

Not to mention the military factories that are almost starving to death at home, the small arms companies abroad that are dying of starvation are also celebrating.

Then, the number grew bigger and bigger, and soon it turned into jealousy.

The Mo family almost monopolized the fire industry of the Western Army, which was the reward given by Chen Yi to the Mo family, which was the result of political fattening. This reward was not remarkable in the early days, and it was similar to what other families received, but now, when the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Mara city-state changed their outfits as a whole, and when some similar city-states also asked for a change of clothes, and the losses on the battlefield were getting bigger and bigger, the return was ten times higher than before, and many people were unwilling.

Even at the committee, Liu put forward his opinions.

Chen Yi has always been very silent.

The absence of comment is, to some extent, an evaluation.

Correspondingly, Mo Shaoqiu suddenly had a sense of crisis.

He decided to make as much money as he could.

As a result, more ships of munitions began to be loaded from the port and transported to the port 1,500 kilometers away.

There, the ever-expanding docks began to accommodate more and more cargo ships, and the familiarity of the shipping channels made transportation faster and faster.

Correspondingly, the performance of the Water Dragon Temple in the war is also getting better and better.

It would have been almost unthinkable for a trained heavy machine gunner, with only one or two skilled knight guards, to wipe out piles of heavy infantry.

The enemy's light cavalry often had to charge the light infantry group in advance, and then fall under the attack of the heavy machine gunners, and finally the dragoon cavalry regiment composed of fighting knights entered the field in advance, which made the war return to cold weapon combat, and at the same time surrendered the initiative of the war.

According to what Chen Yi knew from Mara City, the war was likely to end in two or three years.

If it is true, this will be the first temple war in thousands of years to end in ten years, and the gods of the Water Dragon Temple have already begun to prepare sacrifices impatiently. The gentlemen of the city-state of Xijiang were relatively calm, and they were all waiting for domestic discussions about whether or not to participate in the Temple War, even though they had actually participated in the war.

Over the weekend, just as the fleet chartered by the Mo family expanded to 10 ships, Haizi's discussion finally ended.

"The Commander-in-Chief has decided not to get involved in the Temple War." Chen Zhongguo's time to convey his opinions to Chen Yi was serious, and he couldn't tell whether it was good or bad in his tone, and said calmly: "In addition, for the sake of compensation, China is ready to send a professional team to plan the launch of satellites on the western continent. ”

"Satellites?"

"It is convenient for the positioning of the ship, and it can also be used to observe the situation on the battlefield." Chen Yi raised his eyebrows, smiled, and said, "They really think that the Western Continent can launch a satellite up?" Forget it, let them try. ”

There are dragons in the Western Continent, and the dragons that 1 small lizards turn into dragons do not fly too high, but even the powerful magic knights can reach the height of the stratosphere, and it seems that it is not too surprising for a strong dragon to reach an alien orbit outside the planet.

At the banquet, Chen Yi could sometimes feel the origin energy in the sky.

I believe that the wonders on the battlefield of the temple will inevitably attract the attention of the dragons.

It's a pity that no one can really guess the dragon's thoughts.

Two days apart, the team launching the satellite arrived at the passage pier.

The leader is still Director Lin Junren, who is now almost the most direct channel for the high-level to the Western Continent. The entire satellite team consists of more than 170 people, with an additional security team of more than 40 people.

A martial arts student in charge of loading and unloading was quite interested in the rocket, and said with a smile: "My dream when I was a child was to invent rockets. ”

Another martial arts hall student ran to the assembled satellite and said with a smile: "I'm small."

The dream of the time is to invent satellites, and we are a natural pair! ”

The lieutenant colonel in charge of the nursing looked uncomfortable when he heard this, and interrupted the two of them, "When you were young, rockets and satellites had already been invented, don't do anything, hurry up and load it into the car." The current martial arts students don't pay attention to the innocence of the officers or anything, "Oops" laughed and said: "If you don't use your hands and feet, how can you load and unload." "With a crane, of course!"

"We're all hand-packed here, look at it." The trainees greeted two people as they spoke, as if they were moving a table, one person on both sides lifted one foot, and the satellite was carried onto the ship's take-off and landing pad with the help of the middle.

The team of scientists who were chatting was also stunned, and a young man exclaimed: "Our satellite has 1.8 tons, how did they do it?" The literary stevedore turned around and replied in a deep voice: "With perseverance and a dream heart, you can also be a stevedore one day." ，…

In the martial arts hall, stevedores are indeed high-end occupations, and now the outer hall has begun to teach vindictive-level students, and the prerequisite for signing up is to have worked as a channel stevedore.

After a short silence, a scientist suddenly said in shock: "Outer bone equipment, it must be external bone equipment!" ”

"Where did you see the outer skeleton?" "That is to transform the body, the inner skeleton." "Like Wolverine?"

"Almost, iron gold, maybe a little crow. Look at the metal dock over there, what is so much crow gold for? It's amazing. ”

In the midst of the scientists' irrational discussion, a magic knight passed by and lifted the hundred-ton graded rocket cart onto the deck of the large ship.

The discussion came to an abrupt end, and a certain girl who was listening to the Meifei dance just now asked hesitantly: "Is this ............... a plan?" ”

We have been answering in no uncertain terms.

Due to the addition of the satellite detachment, the passage was delayed by a day. The speed of unloading was not affected much.

On the day they arrived on the Western Continent, the satellite team entered into an intense calculation and installation, but in the end, they could only choose the launch base 50 kilometers east of the Xijiang City-State.

This made many old scientists angry, but under the persuasion of Lin Junren, the rocket launcher was still erected on time.

Then there was the long wait.

Two weeks later, the first launch began.

More than 40 security personnel, as well as two inspection teams from the martial arts hall, blocked the rudimentary launch site.

Mo Shaoqiu came to "watch the fireworks" in high spirits, and also commented: "Was the Cuban launch site so dilapidated back then? ”

"People call it camouflage, but why don't we use cement to get the ground right?" What is more than Mo Shaoqiu's boring family is that such an interesting thing as launching a rocket has attracted at least 20 people to watch.

Chen Yi, who was surrounded in the middle, was quite adaptable to this kind of conversation, and smiled meaningfully: "Temporary things are not worth wasting cement." ”

The countdown begins immediately.

The rocket, weighing more than 100 tons, rose into the air amid cheers and flames, and then quickly disappeared behind the white clouds.

At the same time, Chen Yi also felt the surge of a huge amount of origin energy.

Almost 10 or more Knights of Divine Skill floated up from the ground.

"What is this!" The white coat, which was monitoring the screen, also suddenly screamed.

A looming line completely blocked the way of the rocket, and it seemed that the two must collide.

Chen Yi pursed his lips and said coldly: "It's another giant dragon." ”！。