Take a commercial airship. Airships designed to carry guests are rare in the empire. Although the ticket per person is expensive, compared to the consumption of the airship itself, no matter what size it is,
and levels, it is not a cost-effective deal. The generally adopted method is to mainly carry various commercial goods, supplemented by passenger navigation.
The battle front we went to this time was specifically chosen based on the location of Messelia. We not only considered the convenience of the itinerary, the number of events that occurred on the front, but also the number of people dispatched by hostile countries to the front.
One of the benchmarks. There is some pressure on the current Cassia. After all, it is the first time to go there. Even in the military school, he is well-trained and has a strong ability to withstand various emergencies. But now
The situation is not much different from the first time I went to Gerun Oasis to perform a mission. At least the mood is somewhat similar.
It is a front that is closely adjacent to the territory of the Far Sea Commonwealth, and the direction is towards the north. When we set off, the sky in Mesalia was already filled with black clouds. Shortly after the airship took off, through the room,
Through the round window, you can see that a layer of mottled ice has formed on the bronze iron sheet.
The altitude was reached in a short period of time after the airship shook violently. When we reached the high altitude, below was a layer of clouds that looked like a new continent. The long-lost sunshine in winter could be seen through the window at this time, and the clouds were also covered by
Dye it brightly.
Cassia just sat by the window and read the borrowed books. From time to time, she looked outside at the scenery that had not changed much for a long time. The sky was still a deep blue, really like a silent lake, as if it could absorb and swallow up everything.
Average.
It is a deep blue sky, one of the currently forbidden areas for human beings. It is shrouded by strong and irregular airflow all year round. A cruiser-level airship can survive in it for only more than a minute, and this still makes it difficult to survive.
The result of overloading the steam furnace and other values. Time stayed for a long time, and when the various stresses accumulated on the airship reached the critical point, they exploded in an instant, making a body long
It is not difficult for a cruiser-level commercial airship that exceeds 400 meters to turn into debris all over the sky.
Cassia knows all this, and she got it all from the book. It was an experiment by scientists, airship tests of various levels, and the overcontrol aspect seemed to rely on some trained death row prisoners. Because the sky in the deep blue sky
Due to special weather conditions, radio signals will be greatly interfered with. Except for its own internal circuits, external signals are no longer capable of receiving them.
In the end, without exception, the book did not include military use in the calculation. The final introduction to military airships was just a sentence saying that they could barely sail in the low-level deep blue field, and that was it.
What is the difference between commercial and military use? Cassia still doesn't have a specific concept in his head. Maybe it's because he has never seen a military airship before.
When I returned to Manoma from the Maria region, I took a ride on a modified airship used by the Webley Company to transport arms. Although in appearance, all the airships in the empire were unavoidably overly bloated and had a lifting device installed.
The positions are mostly the same, but on Webley's airship, you can still see the shadow of some steel plates that were later welded on. It seems to be the location of the dismantled gun barrel, or it may be the most common weapon of the airship.
——Aerial bomb launchers. There are a lot of them. For an airship, it is definitely a design that is completely disproportionate to its size. It is covered with its entire body. A single salvo will definitely cover the firepower.
It is a visible terror.
There are only three days of sailing in the sky. The further north you go, the closer you are to the Far Sea Commonwealth, the more obvious changes there are in the generally cold climate of the empire. Although the temperature has not skyrocketed by more than ten degrees.
, but most of the snow clouds that have been gathering in the sky have disappeared here.
Cassia remembered that during the three days, this kind of commercial airship occasionally flew low, and at that time you could see a patch of white below. There were many areas with heavy snow, but as time went by, this phenomenon gradually became
Missing.
By the time Cassia got off the airship and hurriedly caught up with the high-speed train schedule, most of the regional weather had stopped snowing. The temperature was still cold, but the sky remained clear, and there were rare signs of snow.
.The falling white snowflakes are a relatively rare thing for people who live close to the Far Sea Commonwealth.
If it weren't for the fact that many mountains of varying heights existed at the intersection between the Empire and the Far Sea Commonwealth, the hot wind brought here from the central ocean current belt would have eroded more areas of the Empire.
The next three days of the journey were all taken by different high-speed trains. It was already very close to the battle line. The three-day sailing distance of the airship was not comparable to that of the high-speed train. It was just that the closer it was to the battle line, the more it traveled.
Location, many commercial equipment no longer want to do business in the past. Even though there is a long stretch of desolate area that is specially isolated between the living area and the front line, there are still only the empire's railway tracks laid here without counting the cost.
On the one hand, it is used for civilian purposes, but more importantly, it is used as an exclusive railway line for the imperial military. Machine parts and ammunition are mostly transported by railway lines during peacetime. It only takes one imperial train to go back and forth, and it can often be
It has been supported for a long time, as long as the senior officials in the military department do not have a particularly big appetite.
There are no lights on the horizon at night. Here, when the distance between the location and the battle line exceeds a certain value, the population begins to decrease step by step. It is difficult for a large aggregate city to appear here.
, the population is completely insufficient to support such construction and consumption.
On the last day, the outside of the high-speed train was almost desolate. It was all covered with weeds that had been turned gray and yellow by the winter frost. Bare groves often appeared on both sides of the railway, and rivers were covered with gravel.
On the contrary, it has become more common. The terrain has begun to show signs of change here. A few earth bags of different sizes have begun to bulge on the ground, and more and more exposed rocks have appeared. The soil layer seems to have become thinner. This is
At the penultimate station, after the high-speed train stopped for repairs, Cassia got off the train and saw what he saw. The station seemed to be being rebuilt, and many hanging towers were built on the side of the old station. It was somewhat similar to the station in the center of the empire.
It’s different. Most of the stations here are open-air. Only the platforms for transporting goods have iron canopies.