Chapter 695: Griffin Plague (1)
"It's March......... Is it? I don't know how Lu Dao's son and Yue'er are now? "Standing behind an acropolis that is completely different from the battle on the front line of the Maginot Line, although most of it is still covered with snow, but some of it has begun to recover, and the emerald green light grass and bright delicate flowers have begun to break through the ground on the hills, Sun Lin began to think about the only two family members who can be regarded as his own in this otherworldly world, the slightly vicissitudes of life and the support of Sun Lin's appearance and surrounding scenery, This makes this great emperor of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets look more like a wanderer who has been away for many years, rather than an iron-blooded butcher who has been fighting outside for many years.
Now, it has been 4 months since the initial battle between the Great Empire of the Sun and the Great Empire of Divine Light, during which the Great Empire of Divine Light and the Great Empire of the Sun have lost each other, and the same two sides have also received each other's goods, if you look at the situation of the battle and all aspects, it is really difficult to say who won and who lost this great war so far: first of all, in terms of casualties, the Great Empire of the Sun and the Great Empire of the Sun has lost more than 100,000 elite professional level in the process of fighting with the Great Empire of Divine Light, That is, at least the soldiers who are at least the lower level of the Silver Star to the upper level of the Silver Star, and even the primary level of the Golden Star.
Regarding the seemingly terrifying number of soldiers killed, Sun Lin in addition to sighing more agreed with the situation of why such a number appeared: Although the army of the sun never sets has been winning, this does not mean that the army of the sun does not set is an invincible army, and it can be seen from the situation of many forces before the sun never sets that the army of the sun does not set that most of the victories won by the army are not complete victories but tragic victories, otherwise how can it be that every time the army of the sun does not set conquer an empire, They all have to pay for tens of thousands of lives of soldiers whose sun never sets.
On the other hand, on the side of the Holy Light Empire, the overall situation may be even more tragic than that of the Sun Never Sets Empire: the Guardian Knights, one of the four major guardian legions of the Holy Light Empire. After being completely surrounded by the cavalry army of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, although they forcibly broke through and fled to the relatively safe uninhabited area of the southern coastal area of the Central Continent (there is a desertified area between the Blackstone Dwarf Kingdom and the Machine Empire, and only cavalry can move forward here), they also lost nearly half of their soldiers, and in terms of infantry troops, the soldiers of the Holy Light Great Empire also lost as many as 150,000 soldiers, of which 2/5 of the soldiers were killed in the Upper Maginot Line or other areas, Including the sailors of the Holy Light Empire who were lost in the naval battle, the rest of the nearly 100,000 troops died in the area of the Lower Maginot Line guarded by Sun Lin, but it is worth mentioning that so many of the Divine Light Empire's foot troops died in battle. Only one-third of the soldiers are the regular troops of the Holy Light Empire, that is, the apologists, red-clothed swordsmen and the like, and the rest are members of the Pilgrimage Corps of the Holy Light Empire, so many second-line troops consume more than 100,000 regular troops on the side of the Sunset Empire, which makes Sun Lin feel scared for a while and worry at the same time. If the Griffon Empire's army were to join the battlefield, it would make a difference in how much the sun never set on the empire.
Secondly, in terms of ordnance. Of course, it can also be said that the warships equipped by the navies of the two sides. The sun never sets has the upper hand with the unimaginable but inevitable advantage: after nearly 4 months, including the subsequent confrontation between the navy of the Holy Light Empire and the garrison of the Maginot Line, although the current side of the Holy Light Empire still claims to be 6 fleets, in fact, the total strength of the real warships of the Holy Light Empire is no longer enough than the number of its original 4 full fleets, and the number of losses is 300. Nearly 80% of the ships of the Great Empire of Divine Light, which is equivalent to the number of two fleets, were sunk in the confrontation with the fleet that never sets. The rest of the Great Empire ships of the Holy Light were sunk in a confrontation with the war equipment of the Lower Maginot Line.
And what needs to be said here is that these sunken warships are only those regular warships in the fleet of the Holy Light Empire, that is, the Patton frigate, the Holy Light Ship, the Pilgrim Battleship and the like, and those ships of the Holy Light Great Empire that are similar to the Bakpo armed transport ship or the rest of the irregular warships are not counted. Even the transport warships that were sunk in the sea supply lines of the Holy Light Empire that had been transformed into guerrilla fleets in the sea were not counted, and if you really want to teach these ships to be sunk by the sea clan troops invited by the sun that never sets or the sun never sets, then the number of losses of the Holy Light Empire warships is not only 300, but 500, 600 or even 700 or 800.
And the sun never sets on the side of the loss of even 100 warships, and these sunken warships also include those guarding the great river basin of the Upper Maginot Line, such as arrow fort ships, armed warships and other river-type warships, of course, this will definitely not include those improved Greek fire warships used as sunset kamikaze drones (equivalent to a thousand fire ships without paddle wheel facilities, as for the so-called sunset kamikaze drones, that is the Xiyi clan after being eroded by the culture of the Sunset Empire, Some radicals who are loyal to the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, this kind of people simply love and hate for Sun Lin, love because their loyalty to the Great Empire on which the sun never sets is absolutely true, and even more loyal to the Great Empire than the people on whom the sun never sets, and hate because they are extremely radical in their handling of things, and many times they will do something incomprehensible, Sun Lin actually doesn't like this kind of person who completely abandons his own national culture, so the mortality rate of this kind of person in the navy is as high as 70% of the fleet of 1,000 fireships, and even the fleet of bursting ships with a mortality rate of up to 99.999%)
The last and most important thing is the comparison between logistics and domestic development: the continuous operation of the war machine is a bottomless pit for a country that can eventually swallow the country, and in the Yuan Shi Lu world, many powerful empires are destroyed one after another because of the continuation of the war machine, as a famous person in the Yuan Shi Lu world once said: "The premise of waging war is money, money!" More money! "This is because money is not only the lubricant for the whole equipment of war, but it is also exchanged for all the necessities that make the machinery of war carry.
In terms of the sun never setting, although the reason why the sun never sets on the great empire is due to the comprehensive confrontation between the external and the central continent and the central region, many things are lost on the bright side, such as the reason why the sun does not set and the central continent is in full confrontation. The market opened up by the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets in this region has been completely abolished, and for example, because the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets is now at odds with the Great Empire of Divine Light and the Great Empire of Griffin, under such circumstances, many of the forces that are taken care of, influenced, and secretly controlled by these two great forces have begun to more or less politically, sanctioning the trade industry on which the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets depends, especially the commercial guilds that the Great Empire of the Sun Does Not Set have been regarded as supported on the surface. As a result, the benefits of the empire's trade revenues during the 10th year of the new calendar began to dwindle and become out of control, and it was clear that these forces had already tasted the sweetness of the trade taxes imposed on the guilds that never set on the sun.
But it doesn't matter if the sun never sets, because after so many years of sinking. In addition, the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets has obtained the heritage contained in dozens of powerful forces during the years of conquest, including the heritage of the powerful Atlanta Empire, so that the land transportation foundation of the Great Empire has been fully built, so the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets has begun to change from foreign trade to domestic trade: when the Great Empire of the Sun never sets conquers various regions. In order to ensure that those land snakes would not hinder the advance of the Great Empire, the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets slaughtered many members of the powerful aristocratic class in the process of conquering the region. But they did not slaughter the so-called rich people of the major powers. Therefore, at present, 90% of the territories owned by the Sun Never Set Empire are still alive and well, and they are still relying on the channel of the Sun Never Set Empire to gain a few pounds.
Of course, it is impossible for the Great Empire where the sun never sets to make this group of guys so strong, and in Sun Lin's words, fattening these guys is to get more oil and water from these guys' bodies when the time comes to slaughter. And now the sun never sets, the empire has begun to give birth to butcher knives to these fat pigs that have been raised by themselves............
In addition, although trade was banned on the surface, it was really because of this situation that the smuggling industry in the foreign trade industry of the empire on which the sun never set began to develop rapidly: after all, the overall era of the King Continent was the middle of the Middle Ages. At this time, compared with the postmodern laws of the original world, many powerful laws are like comparing the essays of primary school students with the essays of graduate students, so the sanctions of various countries against the commercial guilds supported by the great empire on which the sun never sets have actually led to serious violations of the interests of the aristocratic class within many powerful forces, after all, the reason why the commercial guilds of the great empire can bloom everywhere in the territory of the powerful forces of the king continent is that they are formed by attracting local magnates and local snakes to form a joint venture.
Before the destruction of the country, all the magnates hope is that they can obtain more benefits, so after tasting the sweetness of the luxury goods produced by the resale of the sun never sets empire, the powerful magnates of all power have voluntarily opened their own smuggling channels to make up for the agreement between themselves and the business alliance of the sun never sets empire, it is estimated that this is the so-called "there is a policy and a countermeasure", and after such a situation occurs, in fact, the loss of the sun does not set in foreign trade has been made up, Coupled with the fact that the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets began to sharpen its knives to those who were previously captive by the Great Empire of the Sun, in fact, the income of the Great Empire in the trade industry not only did not decrease, but began to grow again.
In addition, although the empire of the sun never sets has exhausted all of its income for nearly one year and invested all of its income in the construction of the Lower Maginot Line, which is equivalent to stopping the development of all walks of life in the empire for nearly a year, after the start of the war, the finances of the empire began to invest financial resources in the construction of various regions, in addition, although the sun never sets because of the construction of the Upper Maginot Line and the Lower Maginot Line, the king's inland sea trade industry between the western regions of the Central Continent and the northwest region of the Central Continent was completely destroyed. However, with the completion of the construction of the industrial areas and agricultural areas circled by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Great Empire and began to invest in crazy development and production (the funds invested in each project include not only the capital investment during the construction, but also the capital investment in the starting areas after the construction, so these areas can still start to develop with the assistance of the Great Empire that has no funds for nearly 1 year)
On the other hand, on the side of the Divine Light Empire, although this huge and ancient Midcontinent Central Continent has the heritage left by the Human Alliance 10,000 years ago, it has been said before that the operation of the war machinery is like a bottomless pit that devours the vitality of a powerful force, although the Divine Light Empire is now on the surface, its logistics are fully capable of supplying the Divine Light Empire to fight for a few more years (these were forced out in the battle with the Celestial Dragon Empire and the Griffin Empire). But there is only so much land in the middle of the Middle Continent, what kind of development has the Divine Light Empire had developed the domestic productive forces? The logistical consumption of the Great Empire of Divine Light is ultimately that amount, so as long as the sun does not set on the earth, then the continuous consumption will make the termites on the scaffold that supports the whole of the Great Empire of Divine Light become more and more numerous, and eventually cause this scaffold to be completely destroyed in the prolongation of the delay of the Great Empire of the Sunset.
Of course, according to Zao Sun Lin's words, the possibility of completing this step is very slim, because: "You must know that our Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets is not only facing the Great Empire of Divine Light, but also the Great Griffin Empire in the middle of the Middle Continent, and now, the fleet of the Great Griffin Empire has set off!" ”
Ace Support Ship: A light warship of the Griffon Empire. It is a light battleship with two sails, and unlike the Beagle Battleship of the Holy Light Empire, the Ace Support Ship is the same as the Hawk Assault Ship of the Sunset Empire in terms of weapon configuration design and storage, which is installed in the inner decks on both sides of the battleship's hull, and is equipped with the same weapons as the Sunset Hawk Assault Ship before it was equipped with artillery. On each side of the hull are four semi-mechanized ballistas: this semi-mechanized ballista, like the Sunset Scorpion Crossbow, is a small ballista, with high accuracy, high penetration and long strike range. Of course, since the Griffin Empire does not have lens technology. There is no unique sight possessed by the Sunset Empire, so the weakness in accuracy results in the lethality of this semi-mechanized ballista called the Poison Bee Crossbow is not stronger than the most sophisticated naval battle scorpion crossbow of the Sunset Empire, but this semi-mechanized Poison Bee Crossbow has an extremely perverted ability: autoloading. It is said that a long time ago, when the Human Alliance was at its most prosperous, it mastered a mechanical technique that used the force of recoil to make the device return to its original point, and this technology was originally used in agriculture and product processing industries, and was eventually acquired and used in the war equipment of the Griffin Empire. In such a situation, the counterweight trebuchet projectile handle that fires a javelin or a counterweight trebuchet that throws boulders can be reloaded after use, which means that the sailors on the Griffin Empire's side only need to reload the ammunition into the crossbow trough after waiting for a few seconds, so the Griffon Empire's war equipment is extremely terrifying in terms of rate of fire, and can even be described by the word ghost animal.
Snooker Battleship: Almost identical to the Canadian Battleship in terms of ship shape. The two vehicles on the hull each have 18 semi-mechanized ballistas used to place the bee mechanical crossbow, but unlike the Canadian battleship, because the Canadian battleship absorbed the shipbuilding technology of the Atlanta Imperial warship and combined it with the shipbuilding technology of the original world, the space for the Canadian battleship to defend the No. 1 gun is actually not large, which also leads to the fact that the Canadian battleship only needs 3 sails and a smaller hull body, which can reach a faster speed than ordinary medium warships, and the snooker battleship is different, The snooker battleship does not have the shipbuilding technology that combines the shipbuilding technology of the original world and the shipbuilding technology of the Atlanta Empire, so the snooker battleship is half a circle larger than the Canadian battleship in terms of volume, and it has to have one more in the number of sails to maintain the basic movement speed of the medium-sized battleship that the snooker medium-sized battleship must have, it is worth mentioning that due to the design of the snooker battleship in terms of hull design, the stern part of the snooker battleship will be larger, so the tail of the snooker battleship is equipped with a semi-mechanized torsion trebuchet, Prevent the boat from pursuing its own tail by throwing gravel, and incidentally kill and injure the enemy sailors who stay in the small boat that can pursue its tail, of course, due to the accuracy of the torsion trebuchet, under normal circumstances, when the snooker warship is in the fleet, the semi-mechanized torsion trebuchet at the tail of the snooker warship is sealed by ropes.
Sharp Knife Battleship: It is very similar to the body of the ancient Roman era in terms of shape, with a rectangular warship body and a ramming angle like a Mitsubishi cone, plus 5 sails, although it is a medium-sized warship like a snooker battleship, but it almost has the speed of a light warship in the process of moving forward in a straight line, and its head is similar to the iron head design of the medium and heavy warships of the Holy Light Empire in terms of design, and the biggest flaw of this kind of warship is that it is very troublesome and slow when turningBecause of this, the Griffin Empire installed 25 semi-mechanized bee crossbows on each side of the hull of the Sharp Knife Battleship. (To be continued......)