---- early August of the 54th year of the rune calendar (every 10th day is a decade, and each month is divided into 40 days), the temporary gunboat plan was officially decided

The previous ugly scheme had been modified to change the original single-barreled gunboat into a five-barreled gunboat, and it looked much more pleasing to the eye after the stupid thick chimney was removed;

The ship's totemic applications are only in the skeleton structure (to protect against its own salvo), the main gun, and the fire control and loading system, and the rest is all made of ordinary materials.

The ordinary materials on the hull are very easy to manufacture, whether it is raw material production or subsequent processing, there are many factories in China that can easily complete it;

The rest of the totem components, although the various requirements at the time of manufacturing will be high, but they also have their own solutions.....

--- mid-August, the selection of upstream factories was completed and the production line began to be adjusted;

As far as the skeleton is concerned, because the magic plants can be fused with each other with the 'totem welding gun' in the later stage, it is not necessary to make the entire large piece at the same time;

At the time of manufacturing, a complete totemic structure can be divided into small branches, which can then be individually inscribed on small parts;

These small parts will be sent to the upper factory for the next stage of processing, and after one or several steps into 'ribs', 'gun body fixing plates' and other skeleton components, and finally sent to the final assembly plant to complete the final integration.

The manufacturing of the reactor can also be roughly divided into the above steps, each type of silo branch is handed over to a few factories to do, and then sent to the gun factory for assembly, and then sent to the final assembly plant to complete the 'ship'.

Under this arrangement, while the witch doctors were spending their time on the construction of the final assembly plant, that is, the shipyard and related equipment, many of the factories assigned to the work by the private sector were already in production.

----- late August (31-40), the upstream plant completed the inspection of the production line and started mass production.

In early October ------, the witch doctors completed the design and construction of eight dry docks and corresponding totemic construction machinery.

About a month and a half, the witch doctors had completed eight dry docks along the shores of the deep-water harbor that had been left with room for future expansion;

The parts manufactured by the upstream processing plants have become large pieces, which are piled up in the shipyard warehouses in different categories;

As a result, the 'final assembly' work and assembly verification work were immediately and seamlessly connected.

The eight dry docks specially built by the witch doctors are semi-open structures 80 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 35 meters deep, and are naturally a combination of mechanical engineering and totemic equipment;

At this time, all eight dockyards had already begun the assembly of their first gunboats.....

In the dock, there are five large cranes spanning the left and right on the top, there are slightly smaller multi-functional arms on the wall, and the ground is a construction platform that can be adjusted in height;

A technician is holding a totem engineering instrument with a root at the end and a 'multi-function arm' connected to it, processing large workpieces fixed by large and small cranes.

There were no sparks, no dazzling light, and after being swept by the functional area at the front end of the totem siege machine, the intersection of the two large workpieces began to assemble with each other very abruptly, and in a short time, it was no longer obvious that they were still in a state of separation from each other.

The technician then returned the 'welding gun' to the side of the multi-purpose arm, and in turn took out another similar object from it and aimed it at the area that had been put together.

"Are you ready?" His fingers were on the verge of activating the lines, and he asked somewhere before he actually pressed it.

"We're ready here, let's get started." After a slight delay, a sound came from somewhere in the multi-arm structure.

"Okay, you can take a closer look." With that, the technician's finger pressed the start button....

At this time, the body of the totem construction machinery had a slight vibration transmitted to the hands of the technician, but the more specific reaction was almost impossible to observe;

If someone who doesn't understand is present at the scene, you may think that he is pretending at this time....

However, the serious expression on the technician's face is very convincing, and his hands are stable and long-lasting, and it seems that he is indeed carrying out some kind of important work.

On the other side, there is a 'Technical Analysis Center' located in the dockyard room, where several engineers are carefully studying something with headphones and drawings in hand;

Judging from the contrast between the outside and the inside, what they are doing at this time seems to echo the technician in the dockyard operation room?

In fact, it is true that one of the items they are inspecting at this time is the "plan" and "variable" when manually operating the "integration of large items";

For example, the fit of the totem branch after the combination of large workpieces....

There is one point that it is relatively inconvenient to build a ship by assembling parts;

That is, when the totems on each workpiece intersect with each other, there may be a 'natural' or 'acquired' mismatch effect.

Generally speaking, the former is more due to errors in the upstream production end, while the latter is the product of operations in the final assembly process.

In the upstream, the production end of the parts has gone through more than a month of running-in, and each part has made an adjustment in the process regardless of its own specifications or the inscription of the branch totem;

Although it cannot be said that there will be no substandard products at all, the probability of occurrence has been compressed to a relatively low point.

But on the side of final assembly, the ship in front of me is the first product in the real sense of the whole shipyard, and almost all the processes are still in the process of conversion from 'drawings' to 'plans' to 'reality';

Therefore, repeated failures and adjustments are the main theme of this stage.....

Basically, when each shipyard has completed the assembly of its own first ship, the various processes can be truly determined and carried over to the subsequent products.

Just now, the information at the intersection of large artifacts has entered their ears after multiple amplification, and has been detected by an engineer as an 'error';

This error may not affect the totem effect in a short period of time, but after repeated shelling, it may eventually be damaged prematurely, so that the pressure that should be borne by it is transferred to other totem artifacts, so that the life of the entire skeleton is shortened.

"Pause, wait for me to record... 12.13 workpiece 1-3-5 intersection.... Such an operation is risky...."

"Alright, go ahead."

"Understood, hard work~" The technician's somewhat distorted voice came from the equipment on the side...

----- late October;

This kind of work lasted about 25 days, and the eight dry docks successively completed the first phase of the 'engineering exploration' task, and marked and solved the problems found in the process one by one;

After that, a seminar was held with the participation of all the engineers and technicians of the eight dockyards, and a guiding plan such as the '420.5 Gunboat Final Assembly Manual' was produced.

---- early December;

Immediately afterwards, each dock entered the assembly of the second ship '420·5', and due to the previous accumulation and the determination of the construction process, the final assembly period has been shortened to 1 ship / 16 days at this time;

When this speed was maintained to the third and fourth ships, the construction period began to be gradually compressed because of the skill of the technicians themselves;

----- late December;

The construction period has been reduced to 1 ship/12 days, which is 8 ships/12 days for eight docks;

The reduction of the construction period has reached the highest point that can be achieved with the existing technology, and the production efficiency of each shipyard has basically been determined.

------- late January;

The time given by the council was coming to an end, and by this time the deep-water port of the Eighth Dockyard had delivered a sufficiently good answer;

In the past few months, the dockyards have produced a total of 60 '420·5 gunboats', which have successfully completed and exceeded the production tasks assigned by the council.

The galleys and tugs, nutrient and cannonball supply vessels that are used to support them are either produced by existing ships or by other private shipyards, and they are also completed within the time limit, or the corresponding numbers are mobilized.

After that, the stockpiles of newly built shells were loaded onto ships, and the nutrient supplies produced by the nutrient concentrate manufacturing plant were loaded onto ships, and together with the gunboats that were prepared, a large fleet was formed to begin acclimatization training in the lower reaches of the Heihe River.

Considering the long-range attack power of the High Salamanders, and even other volcanic salamander species, Nesta didn't want to keep too many of his compatriots in these unarmored sea forces;

Therefore, in order to minimize the number of operators required for the ship, the layout and tactical arrangement of the gunboat were adjusted several times during the sea trial.

First, simplify operations;

The five guns on each ship will be loaded and aimed simultaneously, and they will attack the same target at the same time, thus simplifying the loading system and the firing boundary adjustment system to the greatest extent.

secondly, separate the point of attack from the point of operation;

The simplified operating system will be separated from the hull and placed on another small boat 100 meters away via a 'totem command wire', at the cost of a delay in command transmission for a certain period of time, allowing the operator to avoid counterattacks from the salamander species.

Thirdly, the sonic function of intercepting the enemy was abolished, the artillery positions were dispersed, and the firing positions after deployment were abandoned and readjusted;

The gunboats were arranged in a formation of three ships in a formation and scattered within the firing range;

Tasks such as searching for enemies and shooting coordination are handed over to the witch doctor, and the operator only needs to adjust the shooting elements according to the instructions, and then complete the attack;

In this way, it only takes a single-digit ordinary witch doctor to use his brain power to accomplish this task;

In addition, these gunboats will become truly one-off products, no longer evading the expected counterattack of the volcanic salamanders;

In this way, the galley tugboat, which requires more operators to drive, can evacuate directly after sending the gunboat to the deployment point, without having to risk being attacked.

Finally, the nutrient supply sinks into the shallow sea;

Since the movement of the gunboats is no longer considered, in order to avoid the embarrassing situation that the gunboats are still there, but the nutrient ships are sunk, so that the shelling cannot be completed efficiently, the nutrient supplies will be loaded into large boxes and sunk into the sea;

The galleys that were previously used for transport can also be evacuated from the battlefield after completing this task, thus further reducing the risk to the transport ship's crew.

Of course, the nutrient supply box in the sinking sea must be connected by the gunboat's nutrient root system to ensure the attack ability and speed.

This part is a targeted adjustment of sea forces, and the means of attack on the road have also been arranged accordingly during this time.

First of all, because of the breakthrough in 'nutrient' technology, in addition to the 'high-energy concentrate' that needs to be consumed when displacing (more efficient energy supply is required to control the mechanical movement of magic plants, for example, the eight jointed limbs of the armor-breaker can only achieve the designed travel speed if they contain the 'high-energy nutrients' of the cave wolf cell sap), and also have a separate reserve of 'low-energy concentrate', which is dedicated to the supply of energy for shelling, armor, damage management, etc.

This arrangement not only reduces the consumption of Cave Wolf cell fluid, but also allows the 'Armorbreaker I' and 'Bombarder I' to gain a higher rate of fire and the ability to attack while traveling.

Secondly, the construction of three track lines from the main part to the volcanic group was completed, and in addition to this, three heavy tracks of the arc-shaped facies volcanic group, each with a length of 100 kilometers, were constructed.

These three laps of track have been specially strengthened enough to withstand the tearing of the chassis when the 420mm railgun is fired;

In this way, the Bombardarder 1 railgun with an optimized skeleton can start from the headquarters and go directly to the firing range, and then carry out multi-point firing along the connected lateral tracks, taking into account its own safety to the greatest extent.

Thirdly, the 'Shooting Zhuyuan Adjustment Office' was set up by the witch doctor himself;

When attacking from the sea, it is necessary to consider the scattered arrangement of the shelling positions, as well as the possible high-speed movement ability of the target itself;

When attacking from the road, the 'target' and 'artillery position' will move in both directions during the battle.

Therefore, whether it is 'sea-to-land' or 'land-to-land', the firing boundary adjustment data required during shelling will inevitably be a changeable and huge amount of calculation;

In contrast, if the Witch Doctor were to directly control the calculation and release of the Shooting Element adjustment, the efficiency it would have achieved would far outweigh the process of Sound Monitoring Tree-Analyst-Shelling Position, which prompted Nesta to make such adjustments.

Of course, this style of command will only be used in military operations of great significance such as 'catching the higher salamanders', and will not become a conventional means of opposing the enemy.

Again, the adjustment of the ancient tree of war;

The previous 'whole bioenergy' operation mode has been changed, and a nutrient reserve box has been configured outside the body, thereby increasing the movement speed and artillery attack speed;

The outer armor based on the three-dimensional totem inscription has been strengthened, and the protection of the 'inner body' has been emphasized;

Gave up melee weapons, strengthened vine binding, and obtained four 203mm face-piercing cannons.

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Finally, strengthen the 'trap' and divert casualties;

Based on the accidental result of the failure of the 'Activation Armor', the 'Manipulable Spell Plant' that had already been introduced had reached 40,000 after several years of continuous production and cultivation, and had spread throughout the volcanic complex, turning it from barren to full of green.

These spell plants have a 'cockpit' that can be easily controlled by the warrior, and will be a predetermined aid in this battle.

However, the operators inside the trees will face huge risks, and the Republic's current 'population' base makes the top brass a little reluctant to take risks;

Therefore, the idea of 'can you recruit hornhoof vassals for a fee' appeared in the selection list, and was discussed and approved by the Rune Council.

The implementation of this plan was divided into two phases that could be carried out simultaneously.....

First, it was necessary to negotiate with the city-states of the hornhoofs and negotiate the cost of employment;

Hornhoofs do not have an exaggerated proportion of prime in their life stages like trolls and elves, and their juvenile, juvenile, middle-aged, and old life stages also occupy a relatively balanced proportion;

Therefore, although their total number of mouths is more than several times that of the Republic, the conversion ratio between the number of mouths and their combat strength is far lower than that of Trolls and Elves;

In addition, the city-states of the northern plateau also have their own stable needs....

So, after a comprehensive consideration, the council came up with the figure of '20,000' and considered it to be a more appropriate request;

In the course of the negotiations, although the parliament set the tone that 'the suzerainty shall have the right to transfer troops to the state', the support of the hornhoe species became a mandatory obligation;

But they did not talk about obligations and nothing else, and the negotiators made several promises to the top brass of the city-states.....

1. 'Guarantee the transfer of power and political resources to their three generations';

2. 'Give them the ability to operate totemic products';

3. 'Provide them with totemic products for life enjoyment';

4, 'Portable totemic weapons for the elite';

5. 'Continue to completely ban the flow of totemic weapons into the civilian population';

6. 'Paid employment and expenses are distributed by the city-state executives'.

After making these promises and signing the corresponding secret treaties, the headquarters successfully recruited more than 25,000 middle-aged hornhoe warriors in the northern highland city-states than planned, and within two months gathered all of them in the outer northern city, and then boarded the railcar to the south.....

second, based on anatomy and totemism, master the method of depicting totems for horned hoofs;

After exploring a series of totem carving schemes such as trolls, elves, wind wolves, and black blade-toothed beasts, the headquarters already has a complete set of totem inscription research plans for other flesh and blood races at this time, so after hundreds of living dissects (their lives and health will be preserved as much as possible in the process), they have mastered the ability to carve totems on the angular hoof.

This alone is not enough, 25,000 mercenary warriors and soldiers of various city-states need to be engraved with totems to control magic plants, and neither the military nor the ruling government wants to specially allocate forces to carry out this operation;

Therefore, the 'Totem Inscription Tree' has become the best choice....

All the technologies related to this are mature, and there are also special versions for monsters such as Trolls and Elves and Wind Wolves, so you only need to make some changes to the way they are executed, and add restrictive measures such as 'open the lid and burn', and you can have a special version of the horn hoof of the 'Totem Inscription Tree'.

Three hundred and fifty of these trees were made, of which 300 were placed in the mercenary camp and fifty were placed in the outer northern city of the northern plateau, the former being used uniformly under the leadership of the officers of the headquarters, and the latter sending messengers to inform them to go and take care of them on their own.

At the same time, there are 'music players', 'bread ovens', 'ultra-luxury palace-style totem buildings'... The list of totemic industrial products that can be selected by the high-level of the plateau city-state was sent to the high-level city-states, and after they made a 'demonstration', it is still being considered whether to promote it among the people;

In terms of the weapons that have been promised, the relevant research institute has submitted an '8mm single-shot slow-fire gun' that can kill the hornhoof, but cannot penetrate the troll's skull and chest and dorsal muscles, and through decision-making, it will become the only weapon that can be provided to the high-ranking of the hornhoof.

Soon after, lists and weapons samples were delivered, totem trees were planted, and 25,000 hired hornhoe warriors arrived at the camp near the southern volcanoes on the rail car, where they were successively portrayed as totems.

After that, they were sent to the base of the volcano in batches to begin training in the manipulation of 'magic plants'.

At this time, there were more than 40,000 manipulable plants of that kind at the base of the volcano, and the number of warriors hired by the horned hoofs species was obviously not enough to fully utilize them;

Therefore, after a small meeting, in order to ensure the success rate of the arrest operation, the military decided to recruit 15,000 troll warriors from the civilian sector to manipulate the remaining plants.

Of course, the 'preservation of the living forces' is still in the best interest, so they will have enough means of defense before they go to war, and the location will be on the periphery.

Whether it is the inner circle controlled by the hornhoofed species, or the outer circle controlled by the troll in wartime, these plants are 'restrictive' in wartime, and they do not need to rush up for hand-to-hand combat;

According to the analysis, most of the risks will be concentrated in the inner circle of the direct attack.....

As soon as this decision was made, the civil recruitment began, and the same batches were sent to the base of the volcano for adaptive maneuvering training.

The training lasted for about half a year, during which time, and even a year earlier, because they had the information they needed, so they had stopped using the wolf to 'seduce';

As a result, the volcanic salamander and the Republic, two races living on different planes, have finally reached a 'peace' and live 'peacefully' in their respective regions.

While all this is going on in an orderly manner, good news from other levels is also coming....

First, the giant tooth has finally completed the will integration of its new implant, and has begun to use the 'external nerve organ' to carry out the second step, the integration of the core of the 'living armor';

Second, Nesta was promoted to the third order in the 46th year of the rune calendar, and since then he has fully released the promotion method of the 'second order', and thus, in the nine years before and after, the 23 witch doctors with the highest qualifications and completed the accumulation have successfully promoted themselves to the second order and completed the complete elves;

Thirdly, 34 witch doctors with insufficient talent have chosen the curve method of 'implanting the elven nucleus - meditative integration - self-elvedom' to complete the promotion of the second order and the transformation of the body;

Of course, there are also 'unlucky people' like ship teeth and machine teeth, who have never been idle at hand from beginning to end, so they have not been able to find time for retreat.

Fourth, more than 300 scholars who had had had enough of waiting indefinitely gave up the 'pure route' and chose the path based on Cui Wenli and Zhuo Erling, and were promoted to become 'war witches' between warriors and witch doctors, and completed their own elves....

At the same time, of course, there are many more scholars who are not willing to give up, and who have decided to stick to the 'pure route' a little longer, and are therefore still struggling with meditation.

Fifth, more than 500 warriors who took the 'pure path' appeared one after another, and each completed the promotion of professional level and life level, becoming the first batch of successful people of the 'National Sublimation Plan'.

In this way, if you add up the 2,000 tree elves in the two batches before and after, Freya and Nesta, who were the first to complete the elve, and more than a dozen warriors and war witches who participated in the first phase of the experiment, it can be seen that it is cost-effective...

The Republic, which has a total population of nearly 70,000, now has nearly 3,000 elves.

Among them, 2,000 tree elves are concentrated in the central school, and they are studied in the lower and middle grades according to their birth batches;

The more than 300 'war witch' elves, although there is a word 'war' in their names, except for a few people such as Cui Wenli who were originally working in the government or leading the army, most of them are still working in various research institutes at this time and have not shown any intention of abandoning their pen and joining the army, and the headquarters certainly has no plan to persuade them to leave their research posts;

The vast majority of the 500 pure soldiers are officers and non-commissioned officers on active duty and non-active duty, and a few are civilian 'personalities';

The pure witch doctors who have risen through the ranks in a straight line or in a curve are as always in the Rune Council and leading the various research institutes.

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"Your Excellency, this is the result of this so far.....

The small office, the person in charge of the ruling government and the person in charge of the research institute, after expounding their respective reports, said this to several 'elders' across the table.

The three witch doctors who were in the 'retreat' to attack the third order temporarily came out of the level, listened to various reports with Nesta, and were discussing the follow-up at this time.

Aisara, "I feel like it's time to start... It's been a long time coming. ”

"Indeed, it won't help to wait any longer. ”

Fangs, "I think so too." ”

"So guys, let's get started...."

Finally, Nesta concludes,

"On behalf of the Corps, I issue an official order that non-active duty officers should immediately return to the unit, and that all non-commissioned officers should end their leave and prepare for battle; The Hornhoof vassal army began to prepare for battle; 20,000 conscripts began to prepare for battle. ”

"Yes!" Representatives of the military stood up and were ordered.

"On behalf of the Rune Council, I issue an order that all witch doctors assigned to the war mission immediately cease their research work and enter the land and sea artillery bombardment command center to stand by."

"Understood!" The representative of the witch doctor said.

"Very well, from now until the end of the operation, all affairs will be arranged with the higher salamander as the first goal."

"Understood!" The trolls and elves responded.

It was the end of June of Rune 55, after more gunboats, more land guns had been produced, and a series of preparations had been completed;

This has been coordinated for more than ten years, during which the 'High Salamander Capture Project', which has been repeatedly interrupted by various 'accidents', has finally slowly kicked off.....