From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 252 The Curtain Opens (Give Counting Tickets)

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In early August of the 54th year of the Rune Calendar (every 10 days is one day, and each month is divided into four days), the temporary gunboat plan was officially finalized

The previous ugly plan has been improved to some extent, turning the original single-barreled gunboat into a five-barreled gunboat, and it looks much more pleasing to the eye after the stupid and thick chimney is removed;

The totem application of this ship only lies in the skeleton structure (to prevent self-fire), the main gun, and the fire control and loading system. The rest are all made of ordinary materials.

Ordinary materials on the hull are easy to manufacture. Whether it is raw material production or subsequent processing, there are many domestic factories that can easily complete it;

As for the remaining totem components, although the various demands during manufacturing will be high, they also have their own solutions.——

In mid-August, the selection of upstream factories was completed and production line adjustments began;

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

During manufacturing, a complete totem structure can be divided into small branches, and then individually engraved on small parts;

These small parts will be sent to the superior factory for the next stage of processing. After one or several steps, they will become "ribs", "gun body fixing plates" and other frame components, and finally sent to the assembly plant for final completion.

Integrate.

The manufacturing of reaction chambers can be roughly divided into the above-mentioned steps. Each type of chamber body branch is handed over to certain factories to be made, and then sent to the gun factory for assembly, and then sent to the final assembly plant to complete the 'shipping'.

Under this arrangement, while the witch doctors were spending time building the final assembly plant, that is, the dock and related equipment, many private factories assigned to work had already begun production.

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At the end of August (31st to 40th), the upstream factory completed the production line inspection and started mass production.

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In early October, the witch doctors concentrated on completing the design and construction of eight dry docks and corresponding totem engineering machinery.

Time went back about a month and a half, and the witch doctors had already completed eight dry docks along the deep-water port, leaving room for future expansion;

The parts manufactured by the upstream processing plants have become large pieces and are piled up in the shipyard warehouse in categories;

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

Of course, this command method will only be used in significant military operations such as 'capturing advanced salamanders', and will not become a routine means of fighting the enemy.

At the same time, a list of totem industrial products with optional items such as 'Music Player', 'Bread Oven', 'Super Luxurious Palace-style Totem Building', etc. was sent to the plateau city-state for its senior officials to choose.

After they have made a 'demonstration', they are still considering whether to promote it among the private sector;

As for the promised weapons, the relevant research institute submitted a heavily weakened '8mm single-shot slow-fire gun' that can cause damage to horn-hoofed species, but cannot penetrate the troll's skull and chest and back muscles.

Through decision-making, it becomes the only weapon that can be provided to the top brass of the Hornhoof species.

On the other side, there is a "technical analysis center room" located in the dock room. At this time, several engineers are wearing headphones and holding drawings in their hands to study something seriously;

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

In fact, this is indeed the case. One of the items they are checking at this time is the 'plan' and 'variables' when manually operating the 'large-scale fusion';

For example, the fit of totem branches after large workpieces are combined.

One thing about building a ship by assembling parts is relatively inconvenient;

At this time, there are more than 40,000 controllable plants in the volcano base, and the number of warriors hired by the Hornhoof species is obviously not enough to fully utilize them;

Therefore, after the military held a small meeting, in order to ensure the success rate of the capture operation, they decided to recruit 15,000 troll warriors from the private sector to control the remaining plants.

Second, Nesta was promoted to the third level in the 46th year of the Rune Calendar. After that, he fully liberalized the 'second level' promotion method. As a result, in the past nine years, he had the highest qualifications and completed the accumulated experience.

23 witch doctors successfully upgraded themselves to the second level and completed the complete elves transformation;

Although there is the word "war" in the name of the more than 300 "war witch" elves, most of them are still doing research in various fields at this time, except for Cui Wenli and a few others who originally worked in the ruling government or led the army.

Those who hold positions have shown no intention of abandoning their writing and joining the army, and the headquarters certainly has no plans to persuade them to leave their research positions;

As for the five hundred pure soldiers, the vast majority are active and non-active officers and non-commissioned officers, and a few are civilian 'people';

Those pure witch doctors who were promoted in a straight line or curved way were still in the Rune Council and leading various research institutes as always.

After that, the technician put the 'welding gun' back into the multifunctional arm aside, took out another similar object from it, and pointed it at the area that had been pieced together.

Therefore, whether it is 'sea to land' or 'land to land', the firing range adjustment data required during artillery bombardment will inevitably be a variable and huge amount of calculation;

Whether it is the inner circle controlled by the horned hoof species, or the outer circle controlled by the trolls during war, these plants serve as 'restrictions' in wartime, and there is no need to rush forward for melee combat;

Upstream, the parts production side has been running in for more than a month. Regardless of the specifications of each part or the inscription of the branch totem, adjustments have been made to the process for excellence;

"Okay, you should take a closer look." After saying this, the technician pressed the start button with his finger.

At this time, the body of the Totem Engineering Machinery felt a slight vibration transmitted to the technician's hands, but the more specific reaction was almost impossible to observe;

If someone who doesn't understand comes to the scene in person, they may think that he is pretending at this time.

However, the serious expression on the technician's face is very persuasive, and his hands maintain a steady and persistent scanning motion. It seems that he is indeed carrying out some kind of important work.

"On behalf of Army W, I issue a formal order. Non-active officers will return to the army immediately. All sergeants will end their leave and prepare for war. The horn-hoofed vassal army will begin preparations for war. Twenty thousand levied troops will begin preparations for war."

"I understand, thank you for your hard work~" The technician's slightly distorted voice came from the equipment on the side.——

late October;

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 totem equipment;

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

Inside the dock, there are five large cranes spanning the left and right sides on the top, slightly smaller multi-functional arms on the walls, and construction platforms on the ground that can adjust the height;

A skilled worker is holding a totem engineering instrument with a root at the end connected to a 'multifunctional arm', and is processing large workpieces fixed by large and small cranes.

Finally, strengthen the ‘trap’ and divert casualties;

An unexpected product caused by the failure of the 'activated armor', the 'controllable magic plants' that have been introduced before have been produced and cultivated for several years. At this time, the number has reached 40,000, and has been

It spreads across the entire volcano group, turning it from the original barrenness into the greenery it is today;

Soon after, lists and weapon samples were delivered, totem trees were planted, and 25,000 hired horn-hoof warriors took rail cars to the camp near the southern volcanoes, and received the corresponding totem depictions one after another.

Just like now, the information at the intersection of large workpieces entered their ears after multiple amplifications, and was detected by an engineer as an 'error';

This error may not affect the totem effect in a short period of time, but after repeated bombardments, it may eventually be damaged prematurely, thereby transferring the pressure that should have been borne by it to other totem workpieces, reducing the integrity of the entire skeleton.

Lifespan is shortened.

Among them, two thousand tree elves are concentrated in the Central School and study in the lower grades and middle grades according to their birth batch;

Three hundred and fifty such trees were made, of which three hundred were placed in the mercenary camp, and fifty were placed in the outer northern city of the northern plateau. The former were led by the officers of the headquarters for unified use, while the latter sent an envoy to inform,

Let them go to care on their own.

After exploring a series of totem engraving plans for trolls, elves, wind wolves, black saber-toothed beasts, etc., the department now has a complete set of totem engraving research plans for other flesh-and-blood races. Therefore, after several

After dissecting hundreds of living animals (their lives and health were preserved as much as possible during the process), he mastered the ability of diagonal hoof species to carve totems.

In this way, the two thousand tree-born elves from the two batches became one batch alone. Freya, Nesta and other four witch doctors who were the first to complete the elves transformation, and more than a dozen people who participated in the first phase of the experiment.

Warriors and war wizards, if you add them all up and do the calculation, you will know

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

The outer armor based on three-dimensional totem inscriptions has been strengthened and focused on protecting the 'inner body';

It gave up melee weapons, strengthened its vine binding ability, and obtained four 203mm face-piercing armor-piercing cannons.

"Are you ready?" He asked somewhere before actually pressing the button with his finger touching the activation pattern.

"Pause, wait for me to record it. No. 12·13 Artifact 1-3-5 Intersection Area. Such an operation is risky."

Tasks such as enemy detection and shooting coordination are left to the witch doctor. The operator only needs to adjust the shooting elements according to the instructions, and then complete the attack;

In this way, ordinary witch doctors in single digits can use their own brain power to complete this task;

Additionally, these gunships will become truly disposable, no longer having to dodge the expected volcanic salamander counterattacks;

"Yes!" The military representative stood up and accepted the order.

However, operators in those trees will face huge risks. The current population base of the Republic makes the top management somewhat reluctant to take risks;

In the small office, the relevant person in charge of the executive government and the relevant person in charge of the research institute, after explaining their respective reports, said this to the "seniors" across the table.

Thirdly, the ‘Shooting Zhuyuan Adjustment Office’ was established with the witch doctor personally in charge;

When attacking from the sea, it is necessary to consider the dispersed layout of artillery positions and the possible high-speed movement capabilities of the target itself;

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

Because of this, the Volcano Salamander and the Republic, two races that live on different planes, finally reached "peace" and lived "stablely" in their respective regions.

This arrangement not only reduces the consumption of cave wolf cell fluid, but also allows the 'Armor Breaker Type 1' and 'Bombarder Type 1' to gain a higher rate of fire and the ability to attack while traveling.

"Okay, continue."

While all this was proceeding in an orderly manner, good news from other levels also came one after another.

First, Big Tusk has finally completed the will integration of its new implant, and has begun to use the "external neural organs" to carry out the second step, integrating the core of the "living armor";

Secondly, the construction of three orbital lines starting from the headquarters and reaching the volcanoes has been completed, and in addition, three circles of arc-shaped heavy-duty tracks facing the volcanoes, each with a length of 100 kilometers, have been built;

These three circles of track have been specially reinforced and are enough to withstand the tearing of the chassis when the 420mm rail gun is fired;

In this way, the Bomber 1 rail gun with an optimized skeleton can start from its headquarters and reach the firing range directly, and then carry out multi-point shooting along the connected lateral tracks, "shooting one gun and changing the position", to maximize the accuracy of the attack.

Take into account your own safety.

When this speed was maintained until the third and fourth ships, the construction period began to be gradually compressed again due to the proficiency of the technicians themselves;

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Late December;

The construction period has been gradually compressed to 1 ship/12 days. In terms of eight shipyards, it is 8 ships/12 days;

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

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Late January;

The time given by the parliament is nearing the end, and by this time, the Eighth Deepwater Port Dockyard has already handed in a sufficiently good answer sheet;

In the past few months, various shipyards have produced a total of 60 "420·5 gunboats", which have been successfully completed and exceeded the production tasks assigned by the parliament.

First of all, due to the breakthrough of 'nutrient' technology, all land combat guns require a more efficient energy supply when controlling magic plants to make mechanical movements, in addition to the 'high-energy concentrated liquid' required for displacement, such as the eight armor breaker.

Each jointed limb can only achieve the designed travel speed if it contains the "high-energy nutrients" of the cell fluid of the burrow wolf.) It also reserves "low-energy concentrated fluid" to provide energy for bombardment, armor, damage control, etc.

After that, the stocked and newly-made artillery shells were loaded onto the ship, and the nutrient supplies produced by the nutrient concentrate manufacturing plant were loaded onto the ship. Together with the prepared gunboats, they formed a large fleet and began adaptive training in the lower reaches of the Heihe River.

Generally speaking, the former occurs more due to errors on the upstream production side, while the latter is an operational product during the final assembly process.

The simplified operating system will be separated from the hull and placed on another small boat a hundred meters away through the 'totem command transmission line', allowing the operator to avoid counterattacks from the salamander species at the expense of a certain delay in command transmission.

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Third, 34 witch doctors who were not talented enough chose the curve method of "implanting the spirit core-meditation integration-self spirit transformation" to complete the promotion to the second level and transform the body;

Of course, there are also 'unlucky guys' like Boat Ya and Mechanical Ya who have never had anything to do, so they can't take the time to retreat.

It has changed the previous "full bioenergy" operation mode and configured a nutrient reserve tank outside the body, thereby increasing the movement speed and bombardment speed;

Therefore, the ‘Totem Engraved Tree’ has become the best choice

All related technologies in this area have matured, and there are special versions for trolls and elves, as well as special versions for wind wolves and other warcraft. They only need to make some changes in their implementation methods and add "burn when opening the lid"

' and other restrictive measures, you can have a special version of the 'Totem Engraved Tree'.

Since the movement of the gunboat is no longer considered, in order to avoid the embarrassing situation where the gunboat is still there but the nutrient ship is sunk and the bombardment cannot be completed efficiently, the nutrient supplies will be put into large boxes and sunk into the sea;

The galleys previously used for transportation can also be evacuated from the battlefield after completing this task, thereby further reducing the risks faced by the crew of the transport ship;

Of course, Shenhai's nutrient supply tank must be connected to the gunboat's nutrient supply root system to ensure its attack capability and speed.

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

The gunboats form an array of three and spread out within the range;

Once again, adjustments to the Ancient Tree of War;

But they did not just talk about obligations and nothing else. The negotiators made several promises to the top officials of Zhucheng-state.

1. ‘Guarantee the transfer of power and political resources to their three generations of descendants’;

2. ‘Give them the ability to operate totem products’;

3. ‘Provide them with totem products for life enjoyment’;

4. ‘Provide portable totem weapons for the elite’;

5. ‘Continue to completely prohibit the flow of totem weapons into the private sector’;

6. ‘Paid employment and expenses shall be distributed by the city-state’s senior officials’.

The training lasted for about half a year. During this period, it even started as early as a year ago. Since the required information was obtained, this party has stopped using the cave wolf to 'seduce';

That is, when the totems on various workpieces intersect with each other, there may be an 'innate' or 'acquired' mismatch effect.

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

Basically, only after each shipyard has completed the actual assembly of its first ship, can the various processes be truly determined and continued into subsequent products.

The horned hoof species are not like the trolls and elves, which have an exaggerated proportion of the prime of life in their life stages. Their infancy, youth, middle age, and old age also occupy a relatively balanced proportion of each life stage;

Therefore, although their total population is several times that of the Republic, the conversion ratio between population and combat strength is far lower than that of the trolls and elves;

The galley tugboats, nutrient and artillery supply ships that matched them were either made from existing ships or produced by other private shipyards. They were also completed within the time limit, or corresponding quantities were mobilized.

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In addition, the city-states on the northern plateau also have their own needs for stability.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the Parliament came to the figure of 'twenty thousand' and believed that this was a more appropriate request;

Fourth, more than 300 scholars who were fed up with waiting indefinitely gave up the 'pure route' and chose the path based on Cui Wenli and Zhuo Erni, and were promoted to become a 'pure path' between warriors and witch doctors.

War Witch', and completed its own elfization.

Of course, at the same time, there are a larger number of scholars who are not willing to give up. They decide to stick to the "pure line" again, so they are still struggling in meditation.

"Then everyone, let us start taking action."

This part is a targeted adjustment of the maritime power, and the attack methods on the road are also laid out accordingly during this period.

These magic plants have a 'cockpit' inside them, which can be simply controlled by warriors, and will be planned to be a boost in this battle.

Of course, the 'preservation of vitality' is still the highest interest, so they will obtain sufficient defense means before rushing to the battlefield, and their arranged location will also be in the peripheral area.

Azshara, "I think it's time to start. It's been too long."

Eventually, the nutrient supply sinks into the shallow sea;

Coarse Tooth said, "Indeed, waiting any longer will not help."

This alone is not enough. 25,000 mercenary warriors and city-state warriors all need to be engraved with totems that control magical plants. Neither the military nor the ruling government wants to allocate forces to perform this operation;

According to analysis, it can be concluded that most of the risks will be concentrated in the inner circle facing the attack.

After making such a decision, the recruitment of civilians began immediately, and batches were sent to the volcano base for adaptive control training.

Considering the long-range attack power of advanced salamanders and even other volcanic salamander species, Nesta does not want to retain too many compatriots among these sea forces that do not even have armor;

Therefore, in order to minimize the number of operators required by the ship, the layout and tactical arrangements of the gunboats were adjusted several times during the trial voyage.

Fangs, "I think so."

Thirdly, the sonic enemy-finding function was banned, the artillery array was dispersed, and the adjustment of firing positions after deployment was abandoned;

During the negotiations, although the Parliament set the tone that "the suzerain country has the right to mobilize troops from the subordinate states", it made the support of the Hornhoof species a must;

Therefore, the idea of ​​‘whether it is possible to recruit horn-hoofed vassals for a fee’ appeared in the selection list and was discussed and approved by the Rune Council.

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

This kind of work lasted for about 25 days. After that, the eight dry docks successively completed the first phase of the "engineering exploration" task, and marked and solved the problems discovered during the process one by one;

Afterwards, a seminar was held with the participation of all engineers and technicians from the eight shipyards, and a guiding plan such as the '420·5 Gunboat Assembly Manual' was produced.

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Early December;

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

After making these commitments and signing corresponding secret treaties, the headquarters successfully recruited 25,000 more prime-age horn-hoofed warriors than planned in the city-states on the northern plateau, and within two months

He gathered them all in the outer north city, then got on the rail car and headed south.

Second, based on anatomy and totemology, master the method of carving totems for horn-hoofed species;

In comparison, if the witch doctor directly controls the calculation and release of adjustments to the shooting elements, the efficiency that can be achieved will far exceed the process of audio monitoring tree-analyst-artillery position, which prompted Ness

The tower made such adjustments.

Secondly, separate attack points and operation points;

Finally, Nesta concluded,

This plan is divided into two phases that can be carried out simultaneously.

First, it is necessary to negotiate with the horn-hoofed city-states to negotiate the employment price;

First, simplify the operation;

The five guns on each ship will complete loading and aiming simultaneously, and attack the same target together, thus simplifying the loading system and firing range adjustment system to the greatest extent.

There were no sparks or dazzling light. After being swept by the functional area at the front of the totem siege equipment, the intersection of the two large workpieces suddenly began to fit together, and within a short period of time, they began to join together again.

It's not obvious that they were separated from each other before.

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

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

But on the final assembly side, the ship in front of us is the first product in the real sense of the entire shipyard. Almost all processes are still in the process of conversion from 'drawings' to 'plans' to 'reality';

Fifth, more than 500 warriors who followed the 'pure path' appeared one after another, each completed their professional level and life level promotion, and became the first batch of winners of the 'National Ascension Plan'.

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

"The preparations are complete here, let's get started." After a slight delay, a voice came from somewhere in the structure of the multi-function arm.

"On behalf of the Rune Council, I issue an order that all witch doctors assigned to war tasks immediately stop their research work and enter the land and sea bombardment command center to be on standby."

"Understood!" said the witch doctor representative.

"Very good. From now on until the end of the operation, all arrangements will be made with High Salamander as the first target."

"Understood!" the trolls and elves responded.

It was the end of June in the 55th year of the Rune Calendar, after more gunboats and more land combat guns were produced, and a series of preparatory matters were completed;

The "Advanced Salamander Capture Plan", which has been planned for more than ten years and was repeatedly interrupted by various "accidents", has finally slowly begun.

Give me some monthly passes~

(End of chapter)