The ocean has always been extremely mysterious to the humans on the Celestial Crystal Continent.

The reason is very simple, that is, the number of demon beasts in the ocean far exceeds that on land.

There are countless monsters in the coastline alone, although the strength of these monsters is generally low, and they can't even get out of the water for a long time.

It doesn't last long in freshwater, but it still has a huge impact on human exploration of the ocean.

From the golden retriever, I know that the demon beasts in the ocean actually don't interact with the land demon beasts at all, and it is very likely that the outer heaven demon clan has given it other tasks, as for what the task is, even the demon dragon does not know.

If it is related to the Outer Demons, it must be harmful to humans, so the exploration of the ocean must be carried out.

The first step in exploring the oceans is to clear the coastline, build giant docks, and produce warships.

Otherwise, this first step will not be carried out.

After the Chinese Empire annexed the Tang Dynasty, it immediately sent the Cangjiang fleet into the sea.

As a result, as soon as they entered the ocean, countless fish monsters began to attack the fleet.

The way these monsters attack is very simple, it is to collide, constantly impact.

Although the Cangjiang Fleet is a fleet made of steel, it can't stand the number of fish monsters.

The entire fish carcass at the mouth of the sea was almost thickened, and the number of monsters did not decrease in any way, and one battleship was lost, and the crew was basically buried immediately when they fell into the water.

The more than 300 crew members, except for a few monks who were already able to fly with edgeworth, were basically all killed.

The Cangjiang fleet had no choice but to transfer the fleet back and wait for the naval headquarters to figure out a way.

This was the first defeat of the Chinese Empire since its founding. Shang Weiyang didn't think that the demon beasts in the sea were so strong.

This made Shang Weiyang even more curious about what unspeakable secrets of the Outer Demons were in the sea, and why he bothered so much to defend the human race from entering the sea.

In fact, although there are more demon beasts on the sea than on land, their strength is generally low, and their intelligence is also very low, and most of them rely on instinct to do things.

The Cangjiang Fleet, although it is still the king and hegemon in the inland rivers, cannot form a scale in the ocean.

Compared to the tank units of the army and the aircraft units of the navy, the navy is honestly too chilling.

There are only more than fifty assembled ships with a displacement of 100 tons.

In fact, this kind of ship can only bully and bully the broken wooden ships of other countries, and even the marine police ships of the previous life are stronger than this.

And it is simply impossible to expect such a ship to deal with the almost boundless monster beasts in the sea.

This is also considered to be the Chinese Empire's dominance in the inland rivers for a long time, resulting in arrogance, which led to this incident.

Therefore, building stronger warships with a larger displacement has become the top priority of the Huaxia Navy at present.

However, there were no such large docks in the inland rivers, and there were no deep ports that could accommodate such warships, so docks had to be built along the coast.

This has become a dead circle that the Chinese fleet cannot be solved, without a strong fleet there is no way to clean up the coastline, and there is no way to build a dock without cleaning the coastline.

Under such circumstances, the Huaxia Fleet had no choice but to turn to the headquarters of the Military Commission.

"As you may have known, the first attempt to explore the ocean failed.

Judging from the video materials sent back, the main reason is that there are too many demon beasts, and our own warship technology is not good.

So now we have to find a way to clear out a port and build a large dock. Otherwise, we will never be able to set foot in the ocean, and we don't know what the conspiracy of the Outer Demon Clan is.

If you have any ideas, let's brainstorm them. ”

At the meeting of the Military Commission, Shang Weiyang told the matter.

However, unlike previous combat meetings, everyone was full of passion, and everyone had their own ideas and tactics.

This time, everyone was frowning, looking at the information in their hands and thinking.

In fact, Shang Weiyang also knew that this was embarrassing for them, after all, the high-level leaders of the Military Commission of the Chinese Empire were basically from the army, and they really didn't know much about water warfare.

"If only there were mines in this water, and a hundred thousand unbelieving demon beasts could be buried. An army officer grumbled.

"What did you just say again?" happened to be heard by Shang Weiyang. He immediately thought of a way.

The officer was taken aback by Shang Weiyang's sudden question, and hurriedly said, "If only I could lay mines......

"That's right, if you can lay mines on land, why can't you lay mines in the water?"

"Mines, but the monsters in the water not only swim on the surface of the sea, they can also dive underwater. ”

"Then let's arrange three-dimensional mines, and arrange a few more, this kind of thing should not be a problem technically.

When the time comes, it will be directly airdropped to the designated sea area, and a piece of coastline will be blocked first. Shang Weiyang directly stated his opinion.

"I think so!"

"I thought I could give it a try. After Shang Weiyang finished speaking, most people had no opinion, and began to agree with this method.

After receiving the order, the Ordnance Group immediately organized researchers to begin studying Shang Weiyang's mine plan.

Facts have proved that Shang Weiyang's idea is not whimsical, and it is indeed possible to produce all kinds of floating mines at different water depths by controlling the atmospheric pressure.

Moreover, the designers of the Ordnance Group have also made a lot of improvements to Shang Weiyang's ideas.

For example, a more stable trigger mechanism for airdrops, and a mesh design for ocean currents.

In this way, in just three days, the Ordnance Group came up with a complete design plan.

A large-area mesh mine, in which mines of the same depth are netted on different nodes.

At that time, the fixed-point minelaying can be completed by throwing at a fixed point by several aircraft.

Experimental production was carried out immediately after the design was announced, and a week later, the first batch of experimental mines was successfully airdropped into the developed waters.

For a while, the demon beasts in this water area were blown up and the blood flowed like a river, and the entire water area was stained red with the blood of the demon beasts.

And since this time, this area has basically become a forbidden area for monsters, and few monsters come here.

There is no doubt that the experiment was a success.

As a result, the Ordnance Group began to produce mines at full capacity, so as to clear the ports where the Huaxia fleet could build large docks before.

As a result, within a radius of 100 kilometers at the mouth of the Cangjiang River, a large number of bombers are dropping mines every day.

In just one month, the Chinese Empire dropped millions of tons of mines and built a great wall on the water.

Although half of them were detonated by the demon beasts in the early stage, the basic problem was solved.

For a while, the demon beasts within 100 kilometers of the Cangjiang River estuary were completely isolated from the ocean, and the next thing was a large-scale cleanup.

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Without the endless monster replenishment in the ocean, the next cleanup work is much simpler.

Polymer explosives. Poison and other weapons of mass destruction quickly wiped out the demon beasts, and the rest could be completely disposed of by the Huaxia fleet itself.

In this way, it is the first time that human beings have set foot in the ocean, although it is only a hundred kilometers from the mouth of the sea.

The next thing to do is to look for deep water in this 100-kilometer area, and if it can't find it, it will need to further expand the area of coastline clearance.

Because of the long-term sediment impact at the mouth of the sea, the seabed is actually very shallow.

Fortunately, the Huaxia fleet was lucky to find a suitable deep-water port.

With a deep-water port, it is possible to build docks, build dockyards, and further build the Chinese Navy.

And Shang Weiyang knows that the navy is actually the most expensive and the most cutting-edge type of troops.

Even in Shang Weiyang's previous life, among the various science fiction works, the navy is the closest to the existence of the space fleet.

They are highly dependent on ship weapons, and the power of manpower in the sea and space will be infinitely reduced.

Even if there are monks on the Tianjing Continent, even if they are strong and have the support of ships, it is difficult to do whatever they want on the sea.

Because the ocean is so big, it is easy for the monks to run out of spiritual power, and when the spiritual power is exhausted and transferred into the vast sea, it is even more difficult to survive than to ascend to the sky.

So building the Navy is also an investment in the future.

The location of the deep-water port is called the starting point port, which means that this is the starting point of the Chinese Navy.

In order to build the starting port, Shang Weiyang can be said to have invested a huge amount of power, and even half of Li Feng's wealth obtained due to the victory of the war was invested.

However, this is also beneficial, not only to train a large number of port workers, but also to effectively solve the employment problem of the Tang Dynasty, which is currently in ruins.

A large number of workers began to undergo long-term training in welding, machinery, training and so on before the port was built.

This will be an intangible and huge wealth of the Chinese Empire in the future.

As time passed, the Chinese Empire began to invest more and more in military affairs.

The navy is looking to the future, while the land is looking to the present.

After essentially unifying the human world, the Chinese Empire began to burst out with unparalleled creativity.

Several major projects, and even merchants and businessmen have almost hollowed out the accumulation of many years of the Chinese Empire.

Even in the original Tang Dynasty and Qin Dynasty, the renminbi was reissued, and some interest rate differentials were obtained through the over-issuance of currency, coupled with the fact that the Chinese Empire itself was quite rich in taxes and state-owned chambers of commerce.

However, it still could not stop the funds of the Chinese Empire's treasury from declining from moment to moment.

The reason is that the stalls of the entire human world are too big now, and the railway network that connects various places alone costs a lot.

There are also various power stations, telegraph lines, broadcasting stations.

Huaxia City also has research institutions in various institutions of higher learning, and the annual R&D expenditure is also astronomical.

Against this backdrop, inflation is still inevitable, even if the Workers' Party government carries out various regulations.

And although the people's support for the Workers' Party is very high, there are still some different noises.

Shang Weiyang knew that such internal contradictions had to be resolved, either by stopping the use of money, reducing the financial pressure on the government, and naturally reducing the burden on the people.

Another way is to divert attention from the outside.

And Shang Weiyang will never choose the first option, which will only plunge mankind into a crisis in future wars.

Therefore, for the sake of the stability of the human world, which has become more united, Shang Weiyang can only choose the second option.

When the Bull Demon God returned to the White Snake Sect, the Golden Retriever received instructions from Shang Zuo to delay the demon beasts' plan to fully occupy the remaining Han Dynasty.

And now, whether it is for the interests of the Chinese Empire or the situation, the Golden Retriever is almost unable to hold it.

The occupation of the remaining land of the Han Dynasty by demon beasts has become a sure thing!

Finally, at the end of the eighth year of AD, the golden retriever returned to the Han Dynasty with the demon gods of the White Snake Sect to join Liu Junluo.

And Liu Junluo also returned to the Demon Country as soon as possible, and began to lead a billion vanguard demon beast troops to attack the Han Dynasty.

Because the army of the Han Dynasty had already withdrawn the defense line of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range.

The demon beast swept through the entire Han Dynasty like a flood.

There is no doubt that this is a great catastrophe, and countless human beings have lost their lives under the claws and bloody mouths of demon beasts.

The soldiers who were originally brainwashed by Liu Junluo have also become the focus of the cleanup of the demon beasts.

Hundreds of millions of victims have crossed the border into the Chinese Empire to seek refuge, but more humans have greeted them with either death or slavery to the monsters.

This incident can be said to have quickly shocked the entire human world, and the demon beasts, a mortal enemy that can never be avoided, finally leaked their fangs.

The propaganda work of the Chinese Empire began to run in full force.

Shang Weiyang immediately announced that the Chinese Empire had entered a state of war, followed by Cao Fan, who also announced that the Qin Dynasty had entered a state of war.

The 100,000 Great Mountains also sent people to the White Snake Sect to check on them as soon as possible, but the result was obviously that they were extremely disappointed, and all the demon beasts fled under the cover of the Golden Retriever.

Seeing that the war between humans and demon beasts was about to break out in advance, the demon beasts were very smart not to attack.

It's just that the Han Dynasty is occupied, and it is no longer attacking.

In fact, this should be expected by Shang Weiyang, after all, both the Chinese Empire and the Qin State now have a large number of fortifications made of steel and concrete.

And now the human race has basically been replaced with the advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire.

In this way, the demon beast stopped after actually occupying the Han Dynasty, and of course, there are still some merits of the Golden Retriever and the Bat Demon God in recent years.

And the Eastern Han Province has also become the first line of resistance to the demon beasts, countless materials have been transported here, tanks, planes, oil refineries, cement factories are at full speed to prepare for war.

After this incident, almost all humans realized that the demon beast was immortal.

So in the wartime state, even if the standard of living has dropped a lot, no one says much.

The people who fled from the Han Dynasty were also quickly attracted by Shang Weiyang into various factories, and a large number of them became cheap laborers.

With this cheap labor, the cost of various large-scale projects is more than half.

At this point, the human world can be regarded as truly controlled by the Chinese Empire.

And there is only one year left before the full-scale invasion of the demon beasts.

The information that Shang Weiyang provided to the 100,000 mountains was no longer questioned.

And the 100,000 Mountains also began to send people to ask Shang Weiyang to cooperate with them to do a good job in the defense of demon beasts, and asked all the powerhouses of the Huaxia Empire to enter the 100,000 Mountains and obey the unified command.

Shang Weiyang refused without hesitation, now it is so important to transform into a god powerhouse, unless he is stupid, he will listen to the hundred thousand mountains.