In the Tower of Babel, in Cotton Jack's office, there is a screen that is always on, and the data on it is the data of various battles in the current conflict of all dukedoms.

Weapons consumption, personnel losses, judgment of the merits of the situation, etc.

Cottonjack was busy with his business, and only occasionally paid attention to the data. Since the appearance of the Ten Thousand Realms Passage, Xiahe's main army has not been reduced, but the noble army has lost more than a thousand people.

This time, the loss of two squadrons at once was the biggest defeat.

The rest of the casualties were not as serious as this one. The people who were injured before could still be rescued, but the people killed by the dragon could not even collect their bones.

Legends are very busy, and often have to rush out to face the legends from the other world.

In many encounters, the noble legions have also taken out some otherworldly powerhouses, including Legends, by virtue of their equipment and numerical superiority. Asra Academy's various testing equipment is now being given to the noble legion for them to test in battle to see if it is suitable.

Xiahe's main army finally doesn't do this kind of work now.

Such a test itself has certain risks, such as your equipment, what you bring to you, does not match expectations, and may even have the opposite effect.

Such a result will be fatal.

However, for the noble legion, these test weapons are cheaper than their own use, and they often have miraculous effects, so the nobles are not averse to helping the academy to combat test the equipment.

At least twenty otherworldly legends have died under a variety of bizarre weapons.

Even if there is a factor suppressed by the laws of the world, it is enough to show that these equipment are still quite effective.

The old-fashioned robot is indeed not cost-effective, and there are many losses. And the new scorpion-shaped mechanical warriors have already been bought by the noble legion, even if they are expensive, the level is not high.

Actual combat has proved that this scorpion-shaped robot warrior has really strong attack power and good survivability.

Because it's a low shape, it can dodge a lot of attacks.

The best thing about scorpion robots is that they have good magic resistance. No matter how heavy your metal armor is, if you don't have magic resistance, you can be pierced and hit the core.

And the robots that Xia He built before usually have similar magic resistance above level 20.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Cotton Jack withdrew his gaze from the screen.

Xia He appeared in his room, found a chair and sat down, and said, "In April, it is necessary to launch a general attack on Duke Zhesu's territory. ”

"Isn't there an army of county kings?"

"The Merriffin family, preparing a new fleet, is provided by a second-level academy. ”

"Academy, you're going to war?"

"It's one of the Nine Academies testing my reaction to see if I'm going to spread the war to all classes. ”

"What are you going to do, sir?"

"It's just a battleship, just blow it all up. I look at how much the people in the nine colleges can provide. ”

"It's a production task again, isn't it? Cotton Jack smiled, there have been so many and heavy tasks like this lately. If it weren't for everyone thinking that they could make more money and pay back, he didn't know if it would be completed.

"Yes, this time I need a floating gunboat that doesn't care about its own survivability, but can unleash a powerful attack. It is not driven by a human and is fully automatic. Drawings give you, something more extreme, but not expensive. ”

Cottonjack nodded, and opened the phantom array in the room, a long, narrow gunboat, showing an anatomical drawing.

"This ...... It's not cheap, is it?"

"The cost is about the same as a floating fish, it's just unarmoured. ”

"It's okay, anyway, if you fly high, except for the legend, other professionals can't deal with it. Cotton Jack saw the crux of the matter.

This thing costs 20,000 gold coins, but it is extremely lethal, and it is made for surface warships.

Because there is no pilot, there is no need to think about the ride feeling, like in a flying battleship, all the structures to protect the crew can be eliminated, and only power and weapons remain.

In interstellar warfare, similar things are often arranged in the millions of them in a galaxy. The enemy can only clear as a minesweeper, otherwise it is possible to damage a large battleship after such a gunboat. Medium ships were heavily damaged, small ships were destroyed.

Cotton Jack calculated, it is not difficult to make such flying gunboats, and the number of which the Duke wants is not much, that is, less than two hundred.

Although it is close to the cost of four million gold coins, if you can sink the enemy's fleet, it will save even more gold coins.

This gunboat has only one main cannon, no other weapons, the internal structure is designed around this main cannon, it can fire large magic projectiles, fire downward at a high altitude, can penetrate magic armor, there is a calculation structure inside the projectile, and it must explode after penetrating deep into the interior of large equipment.

After exploding, in addition to the shockwave and fragments, there is also magic fire damage, which is equivalent to shattering Hell. This thing can't be extinguished until the energy is exhausted.

Xia Hexin said that the war mode of this universe is too backward. If it were the Shenzhou Empire, it would send powerful warships to transport all the troops to the preset location at one time. No matter how the enemy intercepts, he has the means to deal with it. The small warships that escort the ship are just like their own Fire Raven series.

If the enemy wants to win, he must invest more money and technology, and the war will ultimately compete with who can afford it.

The Shenzhou Empire is rich, and there are people in the universe where he is located, if he wants to fight for his family property, no one can fight for Shenzhou. Behind Shen Zhou, there is still the Nine Great Avenue Palace, and there is no lack of high-level power.

Fighting a war is to rely on upright crushing, I have the skills, why should I play naval warfare with you.

Xia He himself does not build sea ships now, and either relies on chariots to travel, or uses large airships to transport, and in the future, star warships may be used to transport large troops.

If you want to stop me, you have to build more and stronger fleets.

The question is, did you make it?

Now Xia He has started to sell flying battleships because flying battleships are definitely not the opponents of the Fire Raven series. Although he has a lot of his own equipment, he doesn't have to worry, someone will take over in the future.

As long as the technology is more advanced than others, someone will buy it.

Xia He said to Cotton Jack: "I know that you have been a little worried recently, afraid that we will not be able to defeat so many enemies. ”

"Where there is. ”

Xia He pointed to the screen on the table, and Cotton Jack didn't refute. He was worried that the dukedom, though the army was strong and well-armed. But there are too many enemies. There are so many nobles, every big noble, behind them are several or even a dozen worlds as support.

There may not be many troops in this world, because other people's elite troops are placed in another world.

Now that the empire is in civil turmoil, and no one listens to the rules of the royal family, then it is logical for these elite troops to be transferred back.

No matter how elite the troops are, they will get tired and will be dragged down when they face too many enemies.

Xia Hedao: "They have more people than us, more money than us, but they don't have as much technology as us." You see, I sell technology, open a magic academy, train soldiers to become professionals, and make them incur huge debts, and now as long as I take care of food, I don't have to worry about running out of soldiers. ”

Cotton Jack laughed again, this method is really good.

The duke needs professional soldiers, so it trains professional soldiers, and then these professional people owe the duke a lot of money. What kind of cycle is this?

It's like I want to eat meat, so I find someone to raise pigs. But people don't have piglets and no feed, so they can only ask me to borrow money, and after borrowing the money, I opened a pig farm. In order to pay it back, you have to give me the pig.

Moreover, the duke cultivates professionals, which is a matter of being willing to fight and suffer, and there is no compulsion.

But everyone thinks that the duke is so generous that he allows money to be owed on credit for so long.

Since the dukedom began to train professionals, the loyalty of the duke's people has been on the rise. Many people, even when they reach the age of retirement, will be willing to die for the duke.

"You see, I need gold, so I borrow money from the princess. Then the money is kept for internal circulation for ourselves, and we dedicate resources to build the Tenth Magic Academy. What did you find?"

"Gold, it's useless, those minerals, factories, are the most important. ”

"No, gold is useful, it's an equivalent barter that will make your people trust you. Do you know why the empire controls prices?"

Cotton Jack said, "Make gold look valuable?"

"Yes, let gold appear valuable, and the people's hearts will be stable. The aristocrats had a lot of money, and the royal family had a lot of gold, which was reassuring. But what really determines the power of the empire is the hidden alchemy factories, the huge legions hidden in other worlds. ”

"But everyone else has it. ”

"It's not as good as mine, you look at my gunboat, you can build one for 20,000 gold coins, this is because the existing technology is not good, if I find good materials, it can be cheap." In addition, the so-called price, such as the small furnace inside, will be converted into thousands of gold coins. The main gun materials are the price of tens of thousands of gold coins, but the real cost of making these is the personnel consumption of the alchemy factory, salaries and the like. ”

"We have people, technology, mines, and we don't need to buy anything outside, so our gold isn't that valuable for war, right?"

"It's not just gold, our weapons are cheaper than other people's, and we can restrain the enemy, that's the key. So Jack, don't think so much and concentrate on directing the war. ”

"I have a question. ”

"Say it. ”

"You're going to war, I can understand it, you want to unify the world. But many nobles don't have this desire, so why should they go to war?"

Xia He smiled: "Anyway, there is always a war, who would think so much." You said that the demons are coming, and we don't want to fight, is it possible? There are so many worlds, if you don't conquer them, others will conquer you. How did we humans develop? It's not that we've killed the elves. ”

Jack was speechless, and Xia Daodao: "You can't say, why did the elves enslave humans in the first place, right?"

"I didn't mean that, and you know, I want to be a big pirate, not a pacifist. ”