Volume Four, Volume 50, Chapter 31, Time is like a Wheel
Time is like a wheel without brakes, it will never stop and wait for someone. The year 906 of the Black Iron Calendar has been a relatively peaceful year since Taixia entered the Holy War. In this year, Qianji Zhenjun killed a person in the battle of Weishui.
After the Demon Clan Knights and several Phantom Knights, the momentum of the Demon Clan's eastward advance was curbed. The armies of the human and demon tribes on the east and west banks of the Weishui River were relatively peaceful for the entire year and entered a state of confrontation. Small-scale conflicts occurred every day.
, the battle between the two ground armies in Helan Mountain has been in full swing, but overall, there are only a handful of battles involving more than a thousand knights.
This situation, compared to the previous two years, can only be described as calm.
The war on the Wei River has taken a break, but within Taixia, this year was the year when candle oil caused Taixia to have a fever. During this year, more than 16,000 new candle oil production bases were added in Taixia states.
In Taixia, both Xuanyuan Hill and various wealthy officials have great expectations and enthusiasm for candle oil. With candle oil production bases blooming everywhere, under the banner of fighting against the demons and defending Taixia
, the wave of new industry, represented by candle oil aircraft and various candle oil weapons, officially swept through Taixia. The whole of Taixia was like a machine that was suddenly started. After the candle oil was injected, it began to explode.
Huge energy.
In just one year, independent air cavalry regiments have been formed in each state in Taixia. The slower ones have set up their skeletons. Taixia's Upper Fourth Army has even begun to form a new fully mechanized regiment. Such a grand occasion
, perhaps only the several industrial revolutions of mankind before the Cataclysm can be compared with it. Whether it is Taixia's rune alchemists or traditional mechanical engineers, many people want to dig hard from the gold mine of candle oil.
With a hoe, everyone racked their brains to make various candle oil instruments or weapons. Under this situation, various candle oil weapons and candle oil machines sprung up in Taixia Prefecture, north and south of the Yangtze River.
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In just one year, the number of various dual-drive engines appearing in Taixia has increased to hundreds. A large number of candle oil engines with various displacements and models suitable for various needs have appeared. According to incomplete statistics,
, the types and numbers of various aircraft appearing in the Taixia sky have increased sharply from a few a year ago to hundreds. All kinds of aircraft have come, and even within many states, state troops of each state
Basically, they are equipped with various types of aircraft produced in the state. Taixia's Upper Fourth Army, which has a strong system and production capacity, has begun to independently develop new candle-oil aircraft and candle-oil weapons.
Under this circumstance, in order to unify the equipment and logistics supply system of the armies of various states, Xuanyuanqiu had to issue strict unified supply standards for candle oil weapons and equipment to the states and the Fourth Army. Those who did not meet this standard would be
Neither the army nor the upper four armies are allowed to purchase equipment.
The Zhulong Territory is the holy land of the air cavalry. No one will deny this. However, the industrial production capacity of Youzhou and the Zhulong Territory is completely incompetent in Taixia. Whatever the Zhulong Territory can produce, once it is taken out
, whether it is weapons or aircraft, it won't be long before the states, counties and families in Taixia with strong industrial production capabilities will have the same, or even better, and more colorful things.
The wave of candle oil is still in the ascendant. In addition to candle oil, this year, the states and counties in Taixia began to divide due to problems caused by food shortages. It can be said that there is a world of ice and fire.
In those prefectures and counties severely affected by food disasters, local governments have opened their warehouses to provide disaster relief. Officials in various places are overwhelmed. In other prefectures and counties, the food shortage that has lasted for two years has been alleviated. For example, in Youzhou
Places like Zhulongling had an unprecedented bumper harvest last year. Even the official fields in Ninghe County rented by Zhang Tie brought a bumper harvest to the attention of the entire Ninghe County. Ninghe County
The bumper harvest has further stabilized and alleviated the food shortage in Yanzhou. Now the entire Northeast Governor's Mansion, including those wealthy families, all have their eyes fixed on Zhulong Territory and Ninghe County, Zhulong Territory and Ninghe County.
Once there is a good harvest of grain, most of it will be snapped up at a high price by people sent by wealthy families from various states as seed grain before it is even put into storage.
The Northeast Governor's Palace was the first to recover from the food shortage that swept Taixia. For this reason, Cheng Honglie, the governor of the Northeast Governor's Palace, was awarded the Xuanyuan Hill and stood out among the other governor's offices in Taixia.
In the same year, the Zhang family of Huaiyuantang was in turmoil. After True Lord Qianji returned to Youzhou from Xuanyuan Hill after recovering from his injury, first the "disappearance" of True Lord Qianji caused an uproar in Taixia, and then
The Huaiyuantang family advocated that Taixuan "went into trouble while practicing martial arts and died violently." Later, the Huaiyuantang split, and the Zhang family of Jinwutang emerged from the Huaiyuantang. Then, Qianji Zhenjun obtained the Great Wilderness Cave in southern Xinjiang, and the three major sects of Taixia
Sending a black sect message to the Iron Dragon Sect caused a surge of public sentiment in the world.
Amidst all this uneasiness and restlessness, the year 906 of the Black Iron Calendar passed quietly, and the year 907 of the Black Iron Calendar came unstoppably.
On January 18th, just after the New Year, Xuanyuan Hill was still snowing heavily, and at the weapon testing ground in the Shence Army base of the Taixia Upper Fourth Army to the east of Xuanyuan Hill, Xuanyuan Changying and several members of the Upper Fourth Army
The commander-in-chief and a group of Taixia governors who had come to Xuanyuan Hill to report on their duties were sitting in a temporary awning built on a hilltop in the weapons testing site to protect them from the wind and snow, admiring His Highness the Crown Prince's performance.
Programs brought by Xia’s feudal officials
Xuanyuan Changying was currently wearing a prince's dragon robe and a cape with a firefox fur coat. He looked majestic in the wind and snow.
"Your Highness, here we come." Hearing the prompt from the commander of Shence Army beside him, Xuanyuan Changying picked up the telescope beside him and looked towards the northern sky. Some of the governors who were sitting in attendance were the same as Xuanyuan.
Like Changying, she picked up the telescope in front of her and looked over. Others, with strange lights flashing in their eyes, looked over together.
In the telescope in Xuanyuan Changying's hand, he could already see two rows of black spots appearing in the sky. They were flying over here in the wind and snow at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters. After waiting for a while, in the telescope,
The image became clearer, and the two rows of black spots in the sky could be seen, which were exactly two rows of aircraft flying in formation.
That is not an ordinary aircraft, and it is completely different from the earliest air cavalry aircraft produced by Zhulong. Compared with the aircraft already equipped by the air cavalry on the front line of the Wei River, the aircraft that appears in the sky at this moment is completely different.
A rack of behemoths.
Each aircraft in the sky is more than 70 meters long, with wings spread over 60 meters, and a height of more than 8 meters. Its body is wide, and four high-power engines are installed on each wing.
There are a total of eight planes in those two rows. They appear in the sky like two rows of big birds. They are more shocking than the airships. And there is no doubt that the speed of those planes is faster than the airships.
Faster.
Looking at the aircraft that was becoming more and more obvious in the sky, the expressions on the faces of the governors present changed somewhat. For these Taixia ministers, everyone had seen a lot of airships and airships.
It’s not unusual at all, but this is the first time for everyone to see such a big airplane.
The two rows of planes flew over the weapons test site in a short time. The roar of the huge engines came down from the sky, like several trains running in the sky. It was deafening. Then, under everyone's gaze,
In the middle, a warehouse suddenly opened under each plane, and then, bombs like raindrops fell from the eight large planes like eggs, falling into a valley with two mountains in front of everyone.
In an instant, a fire dragon appeared from scratch and swallowed up a valley covering an area of more than ten square kilometers in the blink of an eye.
The burning fire dragon melted the ice and snow and burned the earth red. Several steel supports erected in the valley also turned red and softened in the fire dragon, melting like candles. Moreover, as those flames burned, a wave of
Gray-black mist was emitted during the burning, covering the area around the valley.
Even though they were far apart, the burning fire dragon still made everyone sitting on the top of the mountain feel waves of overwhelming heat.
More than ten minutes later, when the fire dragon and the gray-black mist disappeared, the valley in front of everyone had turned into a charred, lifeless land.
Looking at such a scene, all the governors had a look of shock on their faces. Everyone understood the significance of those planes in the sky. Those planes had more bomb loads than heavy-duty airships. It was estimated that each plane could carry 50 bombs at a time.
They carry more than tons of ammunition, but their speed is many times faster than airships. Such aircraft are definitely weapons of war on the battlefield. An air strike can give a huge blow to the demon army on the ground.
No matter how fast the demon army on board can run, it will definitely not be as fast as this kind of aircraft. It can make up for the biggest shortcoming in airship air strikes. Even if it is not used for air strikes but for transportation, this large aircraft can also provide troops with
Logistics brings huge convenience.
But it was not over yet. After a while, following the reminder from a general in the Shence Army, everyone's eyes turned to the far end of the valley.
Right at the end, a square formation of forty strange-looking half-track heavy-duty trucks was approaching.
The reason why those heavy-duty trucks look weird is because they carry several rows of huge pipes on their backs.
When they were traveling more than thirty kilometers away from this valley, the forty strange-looking half-track heavy-duty trucks stopped together, and then, the rows of pipes on their backs began to rise.
Aimed at this valley.
After the tubes stopped rising and were quiet for half a minute, pieces of flames spurted out from the tubes. In the midst of the jetting flames, huge "rockets" fired faster than airplanes.
The speed was shot out by those huge tubes, and when it flew to this valley, it fell down. The valley, which had already been burned and was extremely hot, was once again enveloped in high-temperature flames.
"What do you think of these two sharp weapons?" Xuanyuan Changfeng put down the telescope in his hand and asked the important ministers with a smile.