Chapter 730 Chapter 17.07 The War Won in the Agricultural Areas
October 20th. Zhang Ke, wearing blue work clothes, is responsible for the feeding work on the plasticizing production line. A large amount of plasticizing materials are being produced in the central industrial furnace. Some of these materials will be processed into snakeskin bags and three-color cloth.
, some will be converted to the production of chemical fibers, and some will be used as rocket casings for military use.
Zhangke is recording data on his notebook, while in the reactor, during the linking process of the industrial furnace tower, the chemical reactions are continuously controlled by the quantum information in the ether.
At the same time, this industrial production process also condensed in his spirit. This feeling of slowly growing knowledge allowed him to accumulate new knowledge.
After Zhang Ke finished recording, he looked at the iron star on the industrial tower and remained silent. This iron star was far more shining than any knowledge carrier he had received in the past.
Zhang Ke couldn't help but recall the curse message.
Comments from the bosses at Compass Tower: "This evil spirit has been implanted in your soul like a parasitic beast. While our methods are killing it, it is also consuming your mental energy and will eventually drag you into the trap."
destroy."
Among several people, Zhang Ke was the most affected by the evil spirit. Before coming here, he had already felt that his sanity had been eaten away to a great extent, and the evil spirit had become one with him. But now, his spirit
The extremely difficult thing in my heart was suddenly expelled, which actually meant that a large piece of my old spirit was cut out.
If this kind of mental loss occurs in other places besides Iron Star, Zhang Ke will inevitably collapse and jump into the sea.
Now Zhang Ke pressed his heart, and he understood that the "cut out part" of his soul could now have a heavy faith to rely on.
This belief is the belief that human beings try to get rid of pressure and pursue the confidence to stand straight. This is far more solid than the mysterious charm hiding in the shadow of the light of the gods, and can become a mental shield.
A few dozen days ago, he regarded the "forbidden law" here as a forbidden area that could not be touched, but now, Zhang Ke silently said: "May this (iron star) shine."
No matter how strong the spiritual power of evil spirits is, it is still a mistake (the more wrong knowledge, the more reactionary). The pervading mortal effect here allows the souls who have gone astray to change their minds, abandon those evil defilements, and recover towards normality.
…Being sure that you are doing the right thing is a good spiritual medicine…
In mid-October, the war situation in the north took a fundamental turn.
The Anglo side was shocked when they learned that their intervention force had been cut off, and immediately decided to send a note to the Sky Empire, asking the Sky Empire to mobilize their troops to go north and join forces for a joint suppression campaign.
A full month after Langston's setback, Molten Steel Tower City is still standing on the northern land. On the defense tower position that was damaged by artillery fire, the engineering team that was repairing the defense tower continued to pile up cement and steel modules. Not only was it not destroyed or collapsed
, instead it became thicker and bolder.
After the White Wings Knights failed to attack, the winter of October arrived. At this time, frost had already appeared in the northern part of the Sky Empire. Every morning on the armored vehicles of the Anglo Intervention Army, there was wet ice on the vehicle body.
Faced with the city at the front that cannot be conquered for a long time and the defensive tower positions suddenly appearing on the main railway line at the rear, His Royal Highness the Anglo Prince doesn't know what to do now.
In the early stage, he cursed the Iron Star Mud Legs who did not dare to come out for a decisive battle. Now they have gathered on its rear with heavy armored troops. They have established an encirclement posture. Such an encirclement is flexible. Once the Anglians counterattack along the railway line,
, immediately retreated to the rear defense tower position.
Once they bypassed the railway line and took a detour from the flanks, the heavy armored group led by Enma immediately cut through the rear of the Anglo.
Because any mechanized force will inevitably be unable to assemble after leaving the railway line, resulting in a stretched phenomenon.
On the morning of the 16th and the afternoon of the 17th, Enma cut off Lance's tail twice. The first wave was a knight and two energy destroyers, and the second wave was two airships and two missile tanks. Both.
It's total annihilation.
Enma led sixteen armored units to deal with the scattered armored forces of Anglo, and they were all defeated within two hours, and all suffered zero battle losses.
The Anglo army was like brown candy. It was first stuck to the defensive position of Molten Steel Tower City, and then was beaten to pieces again and again by the heavy armored troops of the rebel army.
After consecutive days of defeat, Lance's total strength has dropped from 32 armored units at the beginning to 24, while the total strength of the Peasant and Industrial Army has reached 50, even though there are gaps in technology, arms, and decisive battle situations.
Already beneficial to the Iron Star Corps.
... Enma's name has now appeared more and more in the highest military centers of England and been discussed...
What's even more terrible for the Anglos is that the agricultural and industrial army always relies on supplies.
Even if the "heavy infantry" level tank is penetrated by the armor on the front line and the power pack is damaged, as long as it returns to the Molten Steel Tower City base, the robotic arm will be like a knife disemboweling a living organism, and the entire land cruiser will be deployed.
parts, replaced with a new armor, and renovated the internal industrial system to return to the battlefield.
On the contrary, the White Wings Knights' retreat was cut off. In the magnificent mechanical reflection of the etheric world, there was already sluggishness and jerkiness. When the mechanical gears rotated, cracks flashed, and the riveted armor also creaked.
, like a door blown by the strong wind.
On the 23rd, Lance, who was in the steel cockpit, now looked haggard. Although he was located at the center of a powerful land fleet cluster, he was facing the smoke and dust from all directions in the distance, and he was surrounded by grass and trees.
But what frightens the young Anglo general the most is not the heavy armor of the rebels, but the ubiquitous commandos and the excavation of tunnels that are approaching step by step.
Under the light of Anglo's latest searchlight.
Over at the Iron Star camp, a four- to five-ton diesel tunnel excavator was digging the soil quickly on the battlefield like a marmot. A one-meter-thick drill bit was crushing the soil in front, and two sets of excavator shovels on the side were like swinging shovels.
The soil at the bottom of the ten-meter-deep pit is thrown outward,
In the middle and rear of the tunnel, batches of thick pipes with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a length of 6 meters are on standby. These can eject the 500-kilogram warhead to the east and west 600 meters away, even if it is the Anglo's several hundred tons.
If the armor is hit by a shot at a position of 20 meters, it will also produce a "shock and stun" effect. The shock wave will tunnel into the steel, affecting combatants.
Lance stood up in the cockpit, looked at the battle map, and looked at the encirclement that was gradually forming. He clicked and dropped his pencil: "Damn, coming here was a mistake. What kind of brains do those idiots in the Sky Empire have?
, let such people be able to rebel!"
…The autumn wind is getting colder and colder, and some migratory birds will never have the chance to go home this year…
The northern campaign is in full swing and completing its final stage. The conditions for a great annihilation are already being formed. The Anglians are urging the Sky Empire to attack. However, in the performance of the Peasants' Youth Congress, there is no joy at all about "an imminent major victory". Instead, it is tepid.
Huo told them that "the war has not stopped yet" and "we are still fighting an arduous and arduous battle". These are "ongoing" speeches.
[Bai Linglu commented on this: "The closer to the stage of victory, the more he can stay calm."]
Enma's restraint prevented external observers like the Sky Empire from feeling the signs of a "sudden change in the battle situation" and left them in a state of "waiting and watching".
The elite observers of the Sky Empire concluded that the war situation between Iron Star and the Anglo Intervention Force was still based on the situation of the last war, which meant that they would go through a "long tug-of-war."
There are two main reasons why the imperial nobles are so conservative now.
First: After experiencing the "Battle of Blue Birch Bay", the Imperial Army in the north was really frightened. It went from the extreme of quick victory to the conservative extreme of waiting for foreign intervention forces to solve the problem. For the generals of the Sky Empire
, three consecutive imperial armies, including Minlar, were defeated. The northern troops were already insufficient. If the intervention failed, if another army was lost, the rebel army would be able to attack the imperial capital.
The life-saving nobles of the empire really do not dare to take this risk. They will not provide the northern army of the empire with transportation equipment for long-distance operations northward. At most, they will close the door tightly.
In fact, the worries of the imperial nobles are right. Because Enma has indeed prepared troops to defend against the imperial army's attack. Now it has fifty heavily armored general regiments, and there is no full army. It is because they are afraid of the sudden attack of the Anglos.
After a miracle occurred and Yu could not be taken down in a short period of time, problems arose. At that time, the empire's bargain-hunting legions moved northward, and the peasant and industrial army did not have the strategic mobility to deal with it.
Second: The Restoration Faction in the South of the Empire. This group of loudmouths has indeed attracted most of the Empire's attention when they claim credit.
Since the princess was intercepted, the entire royal family has been worried that their glory will be dishonored. Except for His Majesty the Emperor, the princes of the royal family have expressed secretly and openly that the princess is flawless and cannot be tarnished (that is, committing suicide).
The gang boss was afraid, so the "miserable" plot appeared.
They were afraid because that was what they had done to the ladies of the rebel army.
Oh, their worries are unnecessary. Her Highness the Princess has been protected by Ludis at this time. The difference between the two camps seems to add spice to the romance.
Just like some love stories sung by bards, a transcendent love affair emerged between the devil and the holy priest.
...Under the original arrangement of fate, there was a love triangle, but Enma was very busy...
The perspective shifts from flowers, gems, exquisitely carved walls and palace stairs back to the countryside.
Some Wei Keng holding grass roots in his mouth is sitting in a tractor doing ordinary and enthusiastic work.
In October, the autumn harvest began. A large number of agricultural motorcycles began to travel throughout the Sky Empire. When the wheat ears began to be harvested, the war seemed to have stopped suddenly.
However, not all the harvested wheat flows to the big cities. As the statistics of the warehouses are completed and monitored by all parties, agricultural bills begin to be issued this year. The price of goods on the market proves that the ceasefire within the empire is not the benevolence of the empire.
But the empire is timid.
According to the experience of modern times, whether it is directly confiscating land or redeeming it, if a traditional agricultural country wants to progress to an industrial country, the countryside must make changes.
"Fairness" is the basis of "law", "law" is the basis of "governance", and "governance" is the cornerstone of "mobilization power" in war.
The Nongqing Action seemed to have dealt a severe blow to the gentry in rural areas at first.
But as this year began, it was the city's big businessmen who gradually discovered that they were the group most affected.
…In the tide of change, any class will be eliminated from the old and the new.…
When the return movement launched by the empire failed, the new manorial class quickly replaced the old empire landowners who were ignorant of current affairs.
With the Agricultural Youth League regaining the "dominance of agricultural products", the land conflict has been alleviated. In other words, in the old days, all capital in rural areas was plundered by big cities.
Under fair trade, the only thing that cannot be plundered in rural areas is "land", because this requires someone to take real care of it. Due to the lack of capital, rural areas have remained feudalized for a long time.
What is "capital"? "Capital" is the power that convinces people to follow.
"Capital" is the power of a man from the city who goes to the countryside to throw a civilized stick, so that the young men can carry him away.
"Capital" is the charm of a little scholar in the city who can use some random cloth and comb his hair in a small part to make the country girl more willing to smile and talk.
Capital is the intangible value that makes you believe that foreign things are better than domestic ones, that new gadgets in the city are better than local goods in the countryside, and then make you willing to make exchanges at the scissor gap.
…There are conflicts in any society, but the class with more capital is more capable of resolving conflicts.…
When capital remains in the countryside, food, raw materials, and labor force will remain in the countryside to add value to production, thereby generating more "capital."
For example, now, the villages under the governance of the Agricultural Youth Association are far better fed than the cities, and there are new things that are not available in the cities, such as processed "dried mountain products", "freeze-dried", and sausages.
A basket of mulberries can no longer be easily exchanged for a bowl in the city. This is rural capital accumulation.
Enma did not carry out complete land equalization in the countryside of the Sky Empire, but he was still able to achieve social progress in the countryside by controlling urban and rural channels and depriving the old manor owner group of its right to speak.
Under Iron Star's economic strategy, land is no longer the largest capital in the countryside. Those who hold farmland have become ordinary people who supply raw materials. Any piece of land left unused will even have to pay heavy taxes.
The new forces after the reform can firmly grasp the dominance of rural "manpower, raw materials and channels".
… Enma: The countryside should be simple and honest? That’s because you city dwellers habitually regard the village as a fool.…
So this year, when dealers from major cities in the empire went to the countryside to collect grain and tried to exchange hot water bottles and small mirrors for sufficient agricultural products, oh, they found that their goods were not so popular.
And the well-connected people they want to collect grain from have also said that they want nothing but hard currency such as "fertilizer" and "fuel".
They can only buy grain from the Agricultural Youth Association, and the Agricultural Youth Association directly raises the commercial price to nine-tenths of the urban price. As for previous years, these grain collectors tripled the price in the name of "transportation loss".
Enter the city.
As for this time, the Agricultural Youth League: I want to buy it or not.
As for the losses in the "transportation link", the Agricultural Youth Association can transport it by itself, why not let the country people come to the city to sell it? Then you will not be able to buy anything. Because all channels into the city are controlled.
...Iron Star now seems to be fighting the Anglos alone, but in fact it has mobilized greater economic power than the upper echelons of the empire...
The Agricultural Youth Association specially built a new railway platform to transport truckloads of industrial products from the north directly to the south. They then exchanged them for agricultural stamps in batches. This batch of materials was in turn used to support the agricultural and industrial armies in their foreign operations.
Grain, agricultural and sideline products, processed coats, and even agricultural workers continued to go north after the busy farming season. The rebel army became stronger and stronger in the counterattack against the Anglo.
And he took the initiative in transactions with the imperial cities, and a large amount of gold coins flowed back from the cities to the countryside.
The finances of the Sky Empire are very strange. There are peasants and soldiers in the north causing trouble, but taxes are rising instead!
At the transportation stations responsible for transporting supplies for the Agricultural Youth Association in these big cities, money is being made every day, and the Sky Empire's finances are returning to its glory, which makes the top aristocratic bureaucrats in the imperial capital even feel that "the empire can take a breath of relief, and then it can continue to fight against rust."
Rusty Iron Fist".
However, only some sober people in the empire know that major cities in the entire empire no longer recognize imperial banknotes, and inflation is extremely serious, and instead recognize silver and farm notes issued by the Iron Star local base.
In the city under the "control" of the empire, the factories seemed to be running rumblingly every day, but outside the city they were surrounded by the Rural Iron Star Brigade, and a large amount of supplies left the city every day and flowed silently into the Iron Star Rebel Army.