Chapter 1001: The Battle for the Tower (35)
"I hope you didn't expect us to have a warm, harmonious, and touching exchange of heartfelt words like a real teacher-student, or father-son, before you started this topic."
Schiller put down the dishes again, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said, "If you want to feel this way, I suggest you go to Harvey or Gordon, they are two good fathers to the naked eye."
"Do you know why every conversation between the two of us ends in a very unpleasant atmosphere?" Schiller asked a question and then answered himself, "Because you are equally suspicious of everyone in this world, including me, and I hate everyone in this world, including you, equally."
"So......" Batman said slowly, "if I no longer doubt everyone in this world, will you stop hating everyone in this world?"
"What did you say?" Schiller's eyes narrowed, and suddenly, Batman saw that he showed another maniacal smile, but soon, Schiller stretched out his hands and pulled the corners of his mouth down, and he shook his head vigorously.
"Damn it!" Schiller cursed, and then he muttered to himself, "Do you really believe it? Do you think Batman will not suspect others? No longer so serious...... No...... You're smiling really ugly......
Schiller was like fighting with the air, and with a "bang", the knife fell to the ground, and Schiller gritted his teeth and said to the demon next to him, "Claude! Get him out! Throw it out of the castle!"
The strong demon dodged towards Batman, who didn't want to clash with him, so he stood up and walked towards the outside of the castle.
As he was about to leave the castle, he saw Schiller bend down, pick up his knife, and begin to devour the food on his plate like a man who has been hungry for a long time.
Batman knew that this was not normal, but he knew that he could no longer irritate Schiller, so he left with a heart full of concern, and then approached Alfred to ask him what he thought of the structure and structure of the mine.
"Professor Schiller and you have a discussion about ***? I think he should tell you that you're a capitalist, so whatever you do to lead the mines, you're exploiting these slaves."
As soon as Alfred spoke, Batman was a little surprised, but what he said next surprised Batman even more.
"You think, I'm going to tell you, that you should now relinquish your leadership, let all the demons vote, and exercise their people's interests, and do the same when it comes to the leadership of other departments."
"But, Batman, in those theoretical books you've read, you should have been told that everything must be based on the actual situation, and you can't sit on the ground and dream about it, and you can't just do it."
"You can't take the Soviet system directly, and you can't take a certain system and apply it to the current situation...... What is the situation now?"
Alfred asked himself, "We are still in Belier's territory, and in less than three days, news of the mine incident will reach his ears, and Belel has an elite army that is even more elite than the demon army of the corrupt general."
"Even if it takes a while for him to send a large army here, it is still a matter of life and death for us and all the slaves here, and you must make sure that we survive before we can talk about anything else."
"There is no time left for you to educate the people, select talents, organize elections, and arrange departments, and we can't even call it a phased victory now, but only a half-step out of the quagmire."
"You should have read in the history books that in the beginning, you don't have to pursue too much procedural justice, survival is the most important thing, if someone at this time tells you that your procedure is unjust, so everything is meaningless, then you should give him a punch."
"There is nothing more meaningful than living."
Seeing Batman's expression, Alfred smiled and said, "You're surprised? As I have said a long time ago, we are not the extreme fanatics you think, and in fact, our cause would not have been possible if we did not know how to make decisive trade-offs and be flexible."
"So, you can play to your heart's content
If you give up your leadership position now and don't give up your ability, then all our previous efforts will be in vain."
After listening to Alfred's words, Batman stood in place and nodded, he had to admit that he still had some stereotypes against the KGB, after all, he was a native American, and no matter how wise and sober he was, it was inevitable that he would be affected by some influences.
Batman gently stroked the edge of his cloak with one hand, and then he spoke, "In my discussion with Schiller, I mentioned one of the best ways to unleash the potential of war in a short period of time, and I think he may be referring to a planned economy, do you think it can be practiced here?"
Alfred shook his head and said: "It's not as simple as you think, the Soviet model can succeed because the international is the blood vessel, the industrial production of various countries provides the blood for the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union is the heart, constantly digesting and converting this blood, turning it into nutrition, and then sending it back to lead everyone forward."
"However, this model also laid hidden dangers for later generations...... Of course, let's not mention these things for now, if we want to apply this model, the premise is that the volume must be large enough, and we are ...... now."
"So, back to that question, we have to win the battle before we can expand the size, but to win the battle, we have to expand the size......" Batman was silent for a moment, as if thinking.
"It's like this in the beginning, every country in the world like the Soviet Union has a history of struggle." Alfred looked at Batman and said, "The next few days are bound to be difficult, but remember that sentence? You're not fighting alone."
Batman looked up at the distant sky, and he thought, perhaps, in his life, there will never be such a precious opportunity for him to let go in such a large-scale war and use his strategic mind to the extreme.
Even a small step forward is an added bonus for him, so why not give it a go?
Back in the mines, Batman first approached Merkel and began to arrange the problem of production, there are no smelters in the mines, but there are some smelting furnaces used to smelt production tools.
The smelting furnace uses magma as an energy source, and it is also very efficient, so Batman does not need to start from scratch, but the difficulty is that the smelting furnace only has tools such as pickaxes or molds for minecart parts, and what Batman needs now is equipment and weapons.
In other words, they had to start from scratch to study the mineral ratio of equipment smelting, and the enchantment of weapons.
But fortunately, the army led by General Rotten Heart was not completely wiped out. Many demon soldiers were captured, and they also expressed their willingness to fight for Batman, and the armor and weapons on their bodies can provide a certain reference.
Batman leads the formation of a scientific research team, the main members of which are Merkel, the magicians in the original General Rotten Heart's troops, and the soldiers of the logistics management department, whose main task is to use the original equipment and use the minerals already in the mine to forge armor that belongs to the mine army.
Batman's scientific research ability does not need to be talked about, but the research is going very smoothly, and there are other reasons, such as the Seven Hills Mine is the second largest mine in the Belle Territory, but in fact, the variety of minerals is the first.
And, after all, General Rotten Heart is the cousin of the Empress, although in recent years. He has never participated in any large-scale wars, but the quality of the soldiers under his command is relatively high, and the magicians are also quite smart, and a few of them can be thoroughly penetrated, which greatly saves Batman's energy.
Soon, a simple equipment casting production line was opened, mining, transportation, and smelting, all in one go.
And Batman has also improved the original ecology in the mine, regardless of civilians, workers, and soldiers, everyone is a part of the assembly line, everyone has to participate in production, everyone has to participate in training, and everyone is trying to survive.
In terms of military training, Merkel has always been in charge, and Batman no longer uses the old-style demon army system, that is, the big demons in the army are heavy soldiers, wearing heavy armor, and the small demons are small soldiers, wearing light armor, although this classification method is convenient, but there is actually a big problem.
Batman took the present
At the same time, the formation of the army has been improved to a certain extent, and the demons are distinguished by their functions, and different races will appear in different camps with different numbers due to their functional differences.
For example, in a light infantry battalion, there will be more small-sized demons, but there will also be mass-sized demons, in the camp station, the larger demons are responsible for defending, transporting, and building fortifications, and once they are in a rush battle, the smaller demons will fight.
Of course, due to the different marching speeds of various demons, in a team, it often happens that the vanguard troops have already arrived, and the follow-up troops have not even completed a third, in order to make up for this gap, Batman can only start thinking about making troop carriers.
He also has a ready-made reference, and the minecart that travels through the mine is a good object of study.
In the human world, it is normal to build in front and in the rear, but because of the physical fitness of human beings and the limitations of the times, it is difficult to connect all the occupied areas by railroad after occupying a certain place, and there are not so many materials and workers, nor is there much need.
But in Hell, this kind of railway network has a basis for implementation, on the one hand, Batman occupies a mine, and the last thing that the mine lacks is the minerals to smelt the rails or build the minecarts.
On the other hand, the demons need less resources to maintain their physiological needs, and their strength is relatively large, simply put, they work fast, and as long as they are deployed in a proper way, the speed of infrastructure construction is very amazing.
Of course, the vast majority of demon lords use portals to transfer troops, and the mages on Batman's side will use portals, but portals require a lot of materials, and they can't make them together for the time being, even if they can get them together, the consumption is relatively large, and Batman doesn't have so much money.
Moreover, the railway network with reasonable planning and a high degree of construction is not necessarily worse than the portal, after all, the portal is a one-time and consumes a lot of materials, and it has to be prepared many days in advance.
Even if his family is as big as a family, 80% of the material traffic in his territory is camels of special races, for example, the huge sandworm in the mine is a kind of camel demon.
Batman naturally didn't forget about these sandworms, and when he was preparing to deal with General Rotten Heart, he had carefully thought about the strategy of dealing with this group of bugs.
However, before General Rotten Heart could exert his strength, he went to help Schiller, so Batman picked up a whole team of sandworms in vain.
And this really helped him a lot in the early battles.