Chapter 764 Chapter 17.35 (Part 2) The fate of being manipulated
In June of Fire Emblem Calendar 3248, Vern was also developing new military technology accordingly.
At the same time, in Cyrol in the south, eight tracks, ten meters wide and five meters high, like a land fortress, drove from Verre into this powerful country in the southeastern sea area.
This train brought the latest experimental military equipment. The air-cushion equipment slowly moved the fifty-meter-long and thirty-meter-high metal container to the grassy battlefield. It was packed with black military partitions.
Such packaging looks very oppressive.
Verle takes the route of super heavy-duty platforms, that is, "big is beautiful, more is better",
The black metal container plates were opened on all sides like flowers, revealing a new mobile fortress exuding metal aura. This is a larger version of the Land Cruiser. On its shell, in addition to the updated rotating turret, the secondary battery systems on both sides have also been upgraded.
It has been strengthened and a lot of radar equipment has been added to enhance communication with the outside world.
The rise of Iron Star has brought technological leaps and brought about sudden changes in the military affairs of various countries in Wanlun Continent. Military experts in Vern unanimously believe that the traditional heavily armored "Land Cruiser" needs light armored mechanized cover.
...Verle's continental army doctrine, attitude towards new gadgets in the new military revolution, everything must be centered on the old...
The Versans believe that the Army needs a rapid-fire mechanical armor with a tonnage of about 20 tons and a caliber of 30 mm, and another single-turret tank with a tonnage of 50 tons and a 120 mm armor-piercing firepower.
Land Cruiser Auxiliary.
Of course, if a large number of such light vehicles are equipped as the main land cruiser, steam power is not suitable, and a new "hydrocarbon combustion refrigerant engine" needs to be developed to drive. (The steam engine starts too slowly, and it was OK for logistics transportation in the past.
, but now the emphasis is on interspersion and rapid assault.)
Such military changes made "fuel" begin to become a very important strategic material.
Ver's side is taking the technical route of "petrochemical mining". Survey ships and geological teams enter the Wanlun Continental Bay and the old continent lake basin. Once the pipe is plunged, they can harvest a lot of light minerals.
Oil.
The abundant fuel allowed Ver to quickly pack all the original infantry groups into light armored vehicles and maneuver together with the Land Cruiser.
...Under the cover of information in the past, oil was the saliva of demons in hell in the past. Under the influence of gods, it has not been recognized on a large scale until now...
In this era, Iron Star, which also attached great importance to light mechanization, mass-produced "hydrocarbon fuel" earlier than Ver.
"Fuel" production capacity is mainly based on the coal chemical industry in cities. A considerable part of it is the hydrogenation of biomass fuel at industrial sites in rural areas.
The advantage of "crop straw conversion" is that it is easy to obtain materials and does not require transportation. The disadvantage is that the quality of oil products is uneven. Each biofuel station can only sell it in the hometown area, but this industry has a huge problem.
This is just like household solar power panels in the 21st century. It is self-sufficient. The excess electricity is integrated into the power grid to generate asset appreciation. This mainly relies on private consumption for self-use, and there is no "investment appreciation" effect. Because it cannot be like stock real estate
For value-added, this type of industry is the most lacking in financing and can only rely on industrial purchasing power, which 90% of the domestic population has.
However, under the Matthew Effect, capital is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and more than 90% of the population has no purchasing power.
Ninety percent of the capital is in the hands of a few people, who will only invest in "value-added" projects instead of being used for the development of "industrial consumption" by the majority. Therefore, under the "free economy", this kind of scattered industry will eventually shrink due to the depression of the capital cycle and the market shrinkage
And completely finished.
The rural areas of Sky Iron Star have "economic autonomy". In the past few decades, they have completed capital accumulation and undertaken a large number of terminal industrial manufacturing.
The cadres of the Agricultural Youth Association in various rural areas are very sensitive to idle resources. They do not want the straw and corn cobs grown in the fields to go to waste, so they have protected the fuel production capacity as an important asset.
From the current cost point of view, the cost of ocean mining is at least 20% less than that of chemical synthesis. The Sirol area has the largest "ancient closed ocean formation", which stores a large amount of oil. Mining and processing from the ground is far more efficient than coal.
The chemical industry chain is much shorter.
However, Ver is destined to be more dependent on overseas colonies, and its military strategy has to develop in the direction of "offensive" and "intervention". Iron Star's strategy can be slightly more independent.
And those new resource countries, such as Sirol, which took off in the sudden wind, seem to have difficulty grasping their own positioning and are a bit drifting.
As for Verl, under the leadership of Poma, they began to make arrangements for Sirol.
The current world structure, when Osima is interfered by the sky.
Verle will essentially serve as Iron Star's strategic opponent and besiege Iron Star on the southern line.
Cyrol was also a member of the Thunder and Flash Alliance. One hundred and twenty years ago, under the arrangement of the Anglo, the southern coastline of the former Sky Empire was divided up. Cyrol is now actively in contact with Ver in an emergency.
...Boma, under the advice of the system, was good at dancing, but Wei Keng, who was hostile to the world, could not see through the fog in this area, but he had his own principles of understanding diplomacy...
After the end of modern times, the main world once divided diplomacy into two types.
1: The Eastern style evolved from the ancient tribute system and pursues regional stability and border stability.
2: The Western Marine System adopts a step-by-step approach and is only interested in profit.
Boma obviously learned the second way, putting his own interests first and calculating every step.
Of course, this is also the insecurity that Osima's sudden revolution gave the so-called "Wanlun Continent's First Army" after getting rid of the influence of Ver's intervention.
Verle's layout for Sirol was obviously very utilitarian. All the trends pointed directly to Iron Star, providing more than 20 land cruisers and a complete set of light machinery and equipment for maintenance support, and then obtaining oil exploration rights from the area.
...Petroleum interests will create economic and industrial miracles, and will also breed ambitions beyond one's ability in the local area...
On top of the high-rise buildings in Catal, a newly developed seaport city in Sirol in the past ten years.
An ancient hero "Ming Guang" (summoned a few years ago) with dark blue pupils and a military uniform looked at the city land cruiser driving into the center of the city and said leisurely: "Has today's times become like this?"
A thousand years ago, Cyrol was still one of the "major countries" in the continent.
The heavy tanks at that time were not as big as today's land cruisers. The past names of sword and shield soldier, archer, spearman, and knight were just used to classify the battlefield functions of each armored vehicle.
On this ancient battlefield where Mingguang stood, the fifty-ton steel monster he once led (a thousand years ago) was loaded with mechanical hoes and carried the "Longbow" of a two-hundred-millimeter-caliber mortar.
He reached the Windwhispering Plains of Osimar and almost carved the "Dark Moon Emblem" on the wall of Windwhispering City as a conqueror.
Ming Guang still vaguely remembered the burning clouds of steam burning in the military camp where he was at that time.
Mingguang, who was "unearthed" just a few years ago, reviewed the history after his death. As the times changed, Sirol declined and was unable to invest a lot of technical resources in nuclear engines and steel processing like those old industrial countries. In the following years,
Within a hundred years, Cyrol would inevitably fall behind in both ground heavy armor and aviation.
...Heroes are the "pillars" of an era, but heroes who do not belong to this era can only be regarded as "mud"...
After Mingguang came to the new era, he reluctantly adapted to this "super fearless" era on land, but the gods reminded him that technology had changed again.
However, in the current competition between great powers, Sirol, as a weak country, lacks the ability to invest resources in high-tech fields, and can only rely on flexible diplomacy to be good at it. Such a "weak, sunset" era is not a good time for talented people with clever words and tricks.
He could show off his talents, but as an ancient hero, Mingguang felt that this was a kind of tragedy.
Mingguang hopes that history will turn. According to international analysis, if Iron Star falls, Cyrol will have the opportunity to acquire talents and scientific equipment and rise again.
Therefore, at this stage, Mingguang believes that Cyrol should stand with Ver.
As for why Mingguang dared to think about something so inconsistent with "historical common sense"? That's because this place is under the light of "multiple planes" gods, and there are many "miracles" in history that do not follow common sense.
…The legend sung by the bards gradually became a script that the most elite people wanted to take in.…
In the arcane universe, the national destiny is driven by a few talented heroes, so when it rises rapidly, it will also fall rapidly. As long as the beliefs, economic wealth, engineer knowledge system, and even industrial equipment of a small number of people in a country are destroyed,
will be transferred to the new country.
For example, five thousand years ago, the light of civilization was in the south of Wanlun Continent, while the north was desolate. But two thousand years ago, Anglian was just a principality, belonging to a lord under the Verne feudal system.
Wei Keng read the history here and sighed: The country can be calculated, and its vitality can also be plundered by conspiracy.
And precisely because of this! This world has what is called "destiny".
