“If you want to form an army, you just need to find some people, issue some guns, and teach them how to fire.
It is also easy to establish an air force. Anyway, as long as you can drive, you can fly simpler aircraft. Pilots in past wars were recruited temporarily.
But what about the navy? Since BC, the navy has been a professional service. The officers of the navy are nobles in the military. They are honor and pride. It is not that easy to sail a ship. Don't worry, the 'Aurora Legion' has no ability to come against us.
"
George, the naval consultant from the Enclave, was very drunk and kept bragging to his crew. He kept shouting about how rare his talent was, even if he was commanding a fleet of armed speedboats.
of strength.
But in fact, Mr. George's self-confidence is not really based on his own strength, but on the weakness of his opponent. Just when the 'Enclave' decided to send Marshall and George's military advisory team to the Caribbean to provide support to the 'Aurora Legion'
When they were causing trouble, they sent many intelligence officers to cross the sea and sneak into Nassau disguised as refugees. Some of these people were caught, and some lurked.
Mr. Wade is such an intelligence agent. Before the nuclear bombs cleared the ground, he entered the "Aurora Corps" as a refugee. Since he was a mechanic, he was quickly reused and entered the position of Industrial Director Rezzo.
The doctor's industrial revitalization plan, working in the steel workshop.
After the nuclear bomb wiped out the land, Wade once thought that his spy mission was over. But now he was activated by the Enclave using a radio to collect all intelligence about the Aurora Legion.
Lena Fox obtained a lot of industrial equipment from the Newport News Shipyard, and now these industrial equipment are installed at the Nassau Ship Repair Yard. When nuclear winter comes, the shipyard's task is simple-to modify large quantities of steam to produce steam.
Small steam wheels, the more the better.
"Utilizing the power of the Aurora, Nassau's ship repair yard established smelting, casting and machine shops, using materials from various scrap vehicles and ships. Their current products are steam engines and boilers of twenty to one hundred horsepower, mainly
Used to generate electricity, heating and ship power.
Because the technology is simple, the output of these steam engines and boilers is not small. Boilers are now installed in public places in Nassau for heating and providing hot water. After half of the population died, the number of people freezing to death in Nassau has been greatly reduced.
Already.
They have modified hundreds of 500-ton small steamers. These light ships have become the main means of transportation used by the 'Aurora Legion' to obtain supplies from the outside world. Almost the entire Caribbean is their ship. In addition to their speed, these ships
There are almost no shortcomings in being slow.
Judging from the current situation, the 'Aurora Legion' has a large number of merchant ships and a small number of warships, but they are unable to operate due to lack of fuel. They are also extremely short of naval personnel, with only a small number of retired personnel from the former Cuban Navy and the U.S. Navy.
The only thing in the 'Aurora Legion' that can sail freely is the 'Aurora' itself, but if the 'Aurora' starts to leave, the entire Nassau will lose 99% of its power supply. The 'Aurora Legion' can be said to be a giant with feet of clay.
We have tens of millions of tons of shipping capacity, but we can’t compete with us on the sea.”
The first report sent by Mr. Wade via radio reassured the top management of the Enclave. After all, the Aurora Legion is the only apocalyptic group in the world that has not been hit by nuclear bombs. Everyone is worried about whether it still has hidden agendas.
trick?
But judging from the current situation, everyone's situation is not optimistic. The Enclave itself has to face a devastated world. If the situation of the Aurora Legion can be more miserable and the difficulties can be more difficult, the Enclave will be
Feel better.
The next series of actions of the 'Aurora Legion' seemed to prove their inability to seize control of the ocean. After George from the advisory group harassed the city of Matanzas several times, the 'Aurora Legion' did not use their few fuel.
Reserve regular warships for dispatch.
"A professional navy needs professional personnel. The 'Aurora Legion' certainly doesn't have enough people to operate a warship, so they are completely powerless against our harassment."
"Fortunately, the area we control is large enough. Although we suffer huge losses, we can always find some professionals who survived."
"If only a fleet of armed speedboats can block this organization to death, then our previous worries will be too much."
After Wade successively sent back the number and specific strength comparisons of the 'Aurora Legion' to the 'Enclave', the controlled population was less than 500,000, the core population was less than 50,000, and the core members of the organizational structure could not accommodate more than 5,000.
The 'Aurora Legion' is considered a small and insignificant organization.
Wade's work was free for a while. His daily job was to operate a rolling mill. Although it was boring and boring, he had food and drink and didn't have to worry about dying inexplicably. Until one day he was asked to cold-roll a batch of 15mm.
Thickness of steel plate.
Yeah..., why do we need fifteen millimeter thick steel plates? Do our boilers need to be upgraded to armored boilers?
The answer from the design department is: In the past, we manufactured low-pressure boilers. Now we are preparing to manufacture boilers with higher pressure and higher power. We are worried that the materials are not up to standard, so we will try rolling them thicker.
Well, Wade didn't think much about it. Let's just roll it out. Anyway, boiler technology has been studied for hundreds of years, and the technology trees are all ready. To develop low-pressure boilers, we must develop in the direction of high-pressure boilers.
But not long after, Wade was asked to roll a batch of 100 mm thick steel plates. He exclaimed again: Our boiler has been upgraded again? But 100 mm thick boiler steel is too outrageous, isn't it?
The boiler is so bulky and heavy that it can’t be used even with high pressure?
But this time the design department didn't explain it, they just asked Wade to roll it. After all, he was just a worker in the smelting department, and there was no need to let him know many things.
However, this situation has made Wade have a question in his mind - what is such a thick steel plate used for? Ordinary ships cannot use this thing at all!
The next day, Wade's mission changed again. The Nassau ship repair yard needed steel plates with a thickness of 200 mm, and the quality requirements were very high. With the various specifications, a fool could tell that this was definitely not a boiler steel plate. This was
Armor plate.
When the steel plates were being processed, Wade took a special look and saw that they were making a riveted turret!
What is the 'Aurora Legion' doing? They are making more powerful coal-fired boilers, making high-strength armor plates, and processing turrets. It looks like they are making a big move!
Putting everything together, Wade was completely stunned - 'Aurora Legion', are you going to go against the grain? How old are you now, and you are actually building an antique like a steam battleship!