Chapter 1982: Transporting the Flying Boat (1)
Of course, many of the things used for war have been unloaded, and the materials used for manufacturing are also poor, so they look similar to the appearance of war ships, but in fact, such transportation ships are far inferior to war ships.
This is also a matter of no choice, one is that the transportation of the flying boat needs to transport a large number of materials and personnel, so it first pays attention to the transportation volume, rather than the combat effectiveness that the war flying boat pays attention to.
Different needs will inevitably lead to many designs for transporting flying boats, which are completely different from war flying boats.
However, there are other benefits to this.
As we all know, there are a large number of Yuan Stone Cannons on the War Flying Boat, even Spirit Stone Cannons, as well as other powerful war weapons, etc., which are the main reasons why the price of the War Flying Boat is equal to the sky-high price.
The transportation of flying boats, because they do not need these things, so the manufacturing price is greatly reduced, and many countries can afford to build them.
The Great Qin Empire, as well as the surrounding large countries, have built some transportation war ships, oh no, they should be called transportation speedboats now.
A considerable part of these transport airboats are used by these countries to transport military materials.
The territorial scope of these countries is really too wide, such as the Great Qin Empire, his territorial scope is as large as more than 20 Huaxia, from east to west, it is as far as four or five hundred thousand miles, such a long distance, if you use ordinary means of transportation, the army on the border of the Great Qin Empire will definitely starve to death.
If you want to transport such a long distance, I believe it will take a year or two, or even more, and no army can endure such a long time.
Therefore, at that time, how to transport a large amount of military supplementary materials into the army has always been the most headache for those countries.
Even, because of this reason, many countries do not dare to expand after a certain stage of land expansion.
Because, they are worried that such a long distance, the cost of guarding, will directly drag down the entire country.
Such examples are not unprecedented, the Great Qin Empire has had such an experience before.
When the territory of the Great Qin Empire expanded to about seventy or eighty thousand li, the emperor at that time was an ambitious overlord, and he did not stop expanding, and continued to expand outward with his army.
In just ten years, more than a dozen small and medium-sized countries were annexed by the Great Qin Empire, and for a time, the territory of the Great Qin Empire expanded to 1230,000 li, so to speak, at that time, the Great Qin Empire was the most powerful country among the dozens of surrounding countries.
However, such a powerful country was almost destroyed by other countries in the next fifty years.
Why?
The reason is actually very simple, the replenishment of military materials for the border army is simply too difficult, too difficult.
At that time, the Great Qin Empire still used horse-drawn carriages and other means of transportation to transport military materials, even if it was an iron-hoofed horse, or a very fast divine horse such as the green horse, but this speed was still limited, and they could not be exercised like a train without sleep.
An iron-hoofed horse, if pulling the cargo, can only move at full speed for four or five hours at most, and when the time comes, the iron-hoof horse will have to rest, and if it wants to use it again, it will take at least two days or so.
Such a means of transportation, such a mode of transportation, of course, cannot transport materials to the border in a very short time.
Especially at that time, the scope of the Great Qin Empire was 1230,000 li, such a long distance, even if the transportation department of the Great Qin Empire used the method of exchanging horses instead of carriages, and constantly transporting supplies to the border, it would take at least more than half a year to transport the materials to the hands of the army.
It took more than half a year to be able to transport supplies to the army, and you said that with such transportation efficiency, how much combat effectiveness this army would have.
In addition, such a mode of transportation can be said to come every other month, plus the consumption and cost of the transport team on the road for more than half a year, hehe, in a powerful empire, it can't withstand such a bottomless pit.
This is still a time of peace, if it is wartime, hehe, such a consumption will increase several times, or even dozens of times, such a large consumption, where can the Great Qin Empire bear it.
I believe that even if it is replaced by the current rice country, it will not be able to bear such a huge consumption.
It was for this reason that the Great Qin Empire entered a period of 100 years of chaos, and was almost directly destroyed by dozens of surrounding countries.
Fortunately, at that time, a genius refiner of the Great Qin Empire created a war flying boat.
The Great Qin Empire is rich in all directions, and the manufacturing cost of the war flying boat is large, but the Great Qin Empire can still hold on to it by gritting its teeth, and at that time, it was in wartime, where would it care about the high cost of manufacturing the war flying boat, as long as it can defeat the enemy, no matter how big the consumption, the Great Qin Empire will not hesitate.
In this way, a steady stream of war flying boats were created, and in the end, the Great Qin Empire not only repelled the siege of dozens of surrounding countries, but even counterattacked back in the end, not only recovering the previous territory, but also destroying more than a dozen surrounding countries, expanding the territory to a size of 167000 li.
It's just that this time the Great Qin Empire did not blindly expand its territory, but first carefully guarded it until it completely digested these territories, and then peeked into the surrounding territories.
In addition, this hundred-year melee has also completely made the war flying boat famous all over the world, and the Great Qin Empire has taken a fancy to its powerful transportation capacity.
The speed of the war flying boat is extremely fast, and if it is the fastest, it is about the same as the speed of the current combat effectiveness, and the speed of thousands of kilometers per hour makes the distance of more than 100,000 miles no longer a moat.
Coupled with the fact that the war flying boat can carry thousands of tons and even more supply materials, it made the Great Qin Empire determined to establish a strategic //sex/transport force with the war flying boat as a means of transportation.
However, the manufacturing price of a war flying boat is really too great, if the transportation flying boats of the Great Qin Empire are all war flying boats, then the Great Qin Empire cannot afford it.
Therefore, soon, those genius refiners of the Great Qin Empire immediately improved the war flying boat, removed the war weapons on it, expanded the space, and created a strategic //sex//transport flying boat with a speed that was half slower than the war flying boat, but the transportation volume directly reached three or four thousand tons.
With such a powerful strategy, the army of the Great Qin Empire no longer has to be afraid of the lack of supply materials, nor does it have to be afraid of the continuous extension and expansion of the battle line, because, no matter how far away it is, the Great Qin Empire can send supplies in time.
It was precisely by relying on these transport flying boats that the Great Qin Empire became stronger and stronger, and in the next few thousand years, it directly annexed forty or fifty surrounding countries, making his territory reach about 500,000 li now, and it was an absolute power.
With the continuous enhancement of the national strength of the Great Qin Empire, the transportation flying boat, which used to belong only to the army, is now gradually used in civilian transportation by the Great Qin Empire.
Someone here asked, since the transport flying boat is so powerful, then why is there no such transport flying boat in the Chu country where Lin Ze is now.
The reason is actually very simple, that is, the blockade of such a powerful country as the Great Qin Empire, and the fact that the Chu State itself is not in urgent need of such a transport flying boat.
The territory of Chu is really far worse than that of the Great Qin Empire, from east to west, that is, a range of about 14,500 li, such a range is enough to use iron hoof horses and the like.
Also, although the manufacturing price of the transport flying boat is much lower than that of the war flying boat, this price is not affordable by ordinary people, and the royal family of Chu can afford such a price, but at most, it can buy four or five ships, and if it is more, it will not be able to afford it.
Four or five transport flying boats, hehe, where can such a number withstand the transportation of supplies and materials for the millions of troops of the Chu State.
In the end, the royal family of Chu did not buy much transport flying boats, but it was still for their own safety and the needs of the royal family's rights.
As we all know, the transport airboat is actually improved from the war flyboat, and many of the facilities in it are actually exactly the same as the war flyboat, just kicking out the war weapons, but the installation space actually still exists.
In this way, once someone with a heart prepares those weapons, and then directly modifies the transport ship, then this transport ship will immediately become a war ship with explosive combat effectiveness.
It doesn't matter if a transport ship enters Kyoto, but if a transport ship that has been modified and has combat effectiveness comparable to a war ship enters Kyoto, what impact do you think it will have at that time?!
As long as this person with a heart pinched the time of the last dynasty and drove the war flying boat to the palace, hehe, when the time comes, the entire court of Chu will be destroyed on the war flying boat.
The court of Chu, including the emperor, is not very strong, except for those top generals, as well as the offerings in the palace, the strength is below the grandmaster, and even the strength of most civil officials is below the day after tomorrow.
With such strength, how can it block the attack of the war flying boat.
Such an example has not appeared before.
In the Later Tang Kingdom around the Chu State, such a thing happened.
Three hundred years ago, the strength of the Later Tang Kingdom soared, and there was an emperor with a hegemonic heart, so dozens of transport flying boats were directly purchased.
It's a pity that just when the emperor of the Later Tang State had been carefully preparing for ten years and was about to expand outward, the Chu State and the surrounding countries secretly united and made an alliance with the fifth son of the emperor of the Later Tang Kingdom, a very ambitious guy, to help him ascend to the throne.