"If you want to build an army, you just need to find some people, issue a few guns, and teach them to fire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's also easy to build an air force, and as long as you can drive, you can fly a simpler plane anyway. In the past, pilots in wars were called up on an ad hoc basis.

But what about the Navy? Since BC, the navy has been a professional service, and the officers of the navy are all nobles in the army, honor and pride, and it is not so easy to start a ship. Rest assured, the Aurora Legion is not capable of coming against us. ”

George, the naval adviser from the Enclave, was so drunk that he pulled his crew to brag. He kept shouting about how rare his talent was, and how powerful it was to command even a fleet of armed speedboats.

But in reality, Mr. George's self-confidence is not really based on his own strength, but on the weakness of his opponents. Just when the Enclave decided to send Marshall and George's military advisors to the Caribbean to cause trouble for the Aurora Army, they also sent a number of intelligence officers to cross the sea to infiltrate Nassau disguised as refugees. Some of these people were caught, and some were lurking.

Mr. Wade is such an intelligence officer, when the nuclear bomb has not yet washed the ground, he entered the 'Aurora Army' as a refugee. As he was a mechanic, he was quickly put to good use and was included in the industrial revival program of the industrial director, Dr. Rezzo, working in the steel workshop.

And after the nuclear bomb washed the ground, Wade once felt that his espionage mission was over. But now he was activated by the Enclave on the radio and used to gather all the information about the Aurora Legion.

Lena. Fox acquired a lot of industrial equipment from the Newport News shipyard, which is now installed at the Nassau shipyard. When nuclear winter comes, the shipyard's task is simple - to produce small steamers in large quantities, the more the better.

"Using the power of the Aurora, the ship repair yard in Nassau set up smelting, casting and machining workshops with materials from a variety of scrap vehicles and boats. Their current products are twenty to one hundred horsepower steam engines and boilers, which are mainly used to generate electricity, heat and power ships.

Because of the simplicity of the technology, the output of these steam engines and boilers is not small. Nassau now has boilers installed in public places to heat and provide hot water. After half the population died, the number of people freezing to death in Nassau has been drastically reduced.

They have converted hundreds of small 500-ton steamers, and these light ships have become the main means of transportation for the 'Aurora Army' to obtain supplies from the outside world. Almost the entire Caribbean is their ships, which have few drawbacks except for their slow speed.

From the current information, the 'Aurora Legion' has a large number of merchant ships and a small number of warships, but they are all unable to operate due to lack of fuel. They also have an extreme shortage of naval personnel, with only a small number of former Cuban and United States Navy decommissioners.

The only thing that the Aurora Corps can sail freely is the Aurora itself, but if the Aurora leaves the city, the whole of Nassau will lose 99% of its power supply. The Aurora Legion can be said to be a giant with feet of clay, with tens of millions of tons of shipping capacity, but it cannot compete with us on the sea. ”

Mr. Wade's first report on the radio made the "Enclave" high-level feel very relieved, after all, the "Aurora Legion" can be said to be the only post-apocalyptic group in the entire world that has not been hit by a nuclear bomb, and everyone is worried about whether it still has a hidden trick?

Judging from the current situation, everyone's situation is not optimistic. The 'Enclave' itself has to face a devastated world, and if the 'Aurora Army's experience can be a little more miserable and more difficult, it will make the 'Enclave' feel better.

And the next series of actions of the 'Aurora Legion' also seem to verify their inability to seize control of the sea. After several raids by George of the Advisory Group on the city of Matanzas, the Aurora Legion did not use their few fuel reserves to dispatch regular warships.

"A professional navy needs professional personnel, and the 'Aurora Legion' must not even be able to get together the people to start a warship, so they can't do anything to harass us."

"Fortunately, the territory we control is large enough, and despite the huge losses, we can always find some surviving professionals."

"If a fleet of armed speedboats can cordon off this group, then our previous fears are too superfluous."

After Wade successively sent back to the 'Enclave' the number of personnel and specific strength of the 'Aurora Legion', the 'Aurora Legion', which controls a population of less than 500,000 and a backbone population of less than 50,000, and the core members of the organizational structure do not exceed 5,000, is considered to be an insignificant small organization.

Wade's work was also idle for a while, his daily work was to operate a rolling mill, although it was boring and boring, but he didn't have to worry about dying inexplicably if he had food and drink. Until one day he was asked to cold-roll a batch of steel plates with a thickness of fifteen millimeters.

yes...... how can you ask for a fifteen-millimeter-thick steel plate? Are our boilers going to be upgraded to armored boilers?

The design department's answer was: In the past, we made low-pressure boilers, but now we are ready to manufacture boilers with higher pressure and higher power.

Well, Wade didn't think much of it either. Anyway, the technology of the boiler has been studied for hundreds of years, and the technology tree is ready-made, and the low-pressure boiler must develop in the direction of the high-pressure boiler.

But not long after, Wade was asked to roll a batch of 100-millimeter-thick steel plates. He exclaimed again: our boiler has been upgraded again? But a hundred millimeters thick boiler steel is too outrageous, this kind of boiler is clumsy and heavy, no matter how high the pressure is, it can't be used?

But this time, the design department didn't explain, just asked Wade to roll. After all, he was just a worker in the smelting department, and there was no need for him to know many things.

However, this situation has already made Wade have a question in his mind - what is the purpose of such a thick steel plate? Ordinary ships don't need this stuff at all!

And the next day, Wade's mission changed again. The Nassau shipyard needed steel plates after 200 millimeters, and the quality requirements were very high. When all kinds of specifications come out, fools can see that this is by no means a boiler steel plate, this is an armor plate.

When the steel plate was being processed, Wade also deliberately took a look, which was to make a riveted turret!

What is the Aurora Army for? They're making more powerful coal-fired boilers, they're also making high-strength armor plates, and they're machining turrets, which looks like they're going to make a big move!

Everything was connected, and Wade was completely stunned - 'Aurora Legion', are you going against the sky? What age is this, actually engaged in such an old antique as a steam battleship! (To be continued.) )