On the southern front of the Kingdom of Shaoze and the northern front of the Kingdom of Langya, Nangong Zhi stood on a high ground on his own front, frowning and looking to the south.
The war has been going on for almost twenty days, but there is no glimmer of victory at this time. Moreover, this confrontation makes it impossible for either side to stop.
A quick victory is no longer possible. Now...it seems that there is no better way than to continue the stalemate!
After watching for a long time, Nangong Zhi found the generals on the front line and asked about the war weapons and other conditions of both sides. But after a while, Nangong Zhi's expression became serious.
Now, the main offensive weapons of both sides are artillery; the main defensive weapons are ballistae, sky-sealing and earth-sealing formations, and barriers.
Because Nangong Zhi directly purchased a lot of artillery and related technologies from Dayang Group, the artillery range of Shaoze Country can reach 20 kilometers.
An attack distance of 20 kilometers was beyond the imagination of Nangong Zhi in the past. In the past, even the most long-range attack was only one or two kilometers - no matter how far the attack was, it could be reached, but the power would not be enough to break the defense.
However, the Langya Kingdom is not bad either; to be more precise, it is the ‘Langya Kingdom with the support of the Xiaoyao Sect’, which is also developing very well. The artillery produced by the Langya Kingdom has also reached a range of 20 kilometers!
Fang Rong came over and said to Nangong Zhi: "General, according to our intelligence, Langya Country now has a 'Lingbo Group'. This Lingbo Group provides Langya Country with technologies including artillery, machine tools, welding and other technologies."
"Lingbo Group?" Nangong Zhi frowned, "Like Dayang Group is to Qixia Country?"
"Almost! But this Lingbo Group is completely supported by the Xiaoyao Sect. Its boss is called 'Wang Ruiyang', and this general should have an impression.
This man purchased two battleships from Dayang Group and joined the Xiaoyao Sect directly. These two battleships are now the Hailong and Hague of Langya Kingdom."
Nangong Zhi's face suddenly darkened, "There is something fishy about the transaction between Dayang Group and Wang Ruiyang! I don't believe that Wang Ruiyang in the past could take out so much wealth in one go, and I don't believe that Dayang Group didn't realize it. This is more like a conspiracy.
A premeditated transaction.”
Fang Rong smiled helplessly: "General, it's useless to say this. Our top priority is to change the situation of the war."
Nangong Zhi looked at the artillery shells flying in the sky and the defensive barriers on both sides, feeling a little helpless: "I can't think of any solution for the moment. The war is like this... ugh!"
Nangong Zhi regretted a little, why he wanted to attack Langya Kingdom in a rush, and why he didn't expect that technological progress would bring such changes to the war.
Even if you can't think of it, you should still think that the advancement and development of technology will inevitably lead to some unexpected changes in war. But... it's too late to say anything.
Fang Rong thought for a while and said: "General, maybe... Dayang Group will have a solution!"
Nangong Zhi's eyes suddenly became sharp, and after a while he said slowly: "Then you go to Dayang Group, visit Zhang Hao in person, and ask about the situation. In addition, you have to observe Zhang Hao carefully and read all his expressions carefully.
If Zhang Hao really knows everything, then this friend... we have to be careful."
"Understood." Fang Rong said goodbye to Nangong Zhi and set off immediately.
Nangong Zhi continued to observe the battle line. There was a scream in the sky, which was the sound of artillery shells shuttling back and forth. It was terrifying and harsh. The artillery shells shuttled through the air at several times the speed of sound, and a faint red light could be faintly seen on the surface of the artillery shells - that was the artillery shells.
The speed is too fast, which is caused by friction with the air. This phenomenon has been accepted and understood by everyone.
The shells continued to fall, densely packed in some places and sparse in others.
The artillery from Shaoze's country also continued to attack, and the shells were either scattered or concentrated.
The sound of explosions and artillery fire echoed between the sky and the earth. There were craters everywhere on the ground.
The defensive barriers on both sides are like layers of water film, covering their respective battle lines. The defensive barriers are usually two layers and can almost block most of the shells. If there are still shells penetrating, there is nothing you can do.
The amount of spiritual stones consumed by the two layers of barrier is already a bit unbearable - this defensive barrier is not just one point, but spreads for dozens or hundreds of miles.
In front of the battle formation, there is a small team composed of Jin Danqi. They lead the sky-sealing and earth-sealing formation, looking for opportunities to attack. But in fact, there are only a handful of teams from both sides that dare to make sneak attacks now.
In the high air, there are Nascent Soul Stage soldiers from both sides, and war observers are responsible for guiding the artillery shells.
At this point in the war, it was a complete failure for the Shaoze Kingdom. They were no longer able to attack. The development of industrialization made the war more beneficial to the defenders in a short period of time. The great formation of sealing the sky and locking the earth, cooperated with
The dense crossbows and crazy artillery, coupled with the more than ten kilometers of no-man's land between the two sides, made the attack an almost impossible task.
Nangong Zhi looked at it for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly and stepped back. With the current situation of the war here, he really had nothing to do and was helpless.
Back at the rear, Nangong Zhi looked at the war intelligence of the Canglan Kingdom again, and found that they were still in a stalemate, and even seemed to be losing ground.
The Country of Canglan has three steel warships, but the desperate situation of Langya Country broke out and it actually built a technologically mature black iron warship. Now, the black iron warships in service in Langya Country have a displacement of 5,000 to 6,000 tons;
Langya Kingdom is already accelerating its research on 10,000-ton battleships.
The situation is getting worse and worse.
As the sea power retreats, the military pressure on the land from the country of Canglan is also increasing.
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At this time, on the front line of Canglan Kingdom, Zhennan General Cui Yan also frowned deeply. The pressure of the war on Cui Yan was now much greater than Nangong Zhi had expected.
Nangong Zhi finally unified the Kingdom of Shaoze by himself, and it can be said that his power is unparalleled. But it is different here in the Kingdom of Canglan. Since the war has started, there have been more and more opposition voices in the country.
In a war with no hope of victory, it is normal for there to be opposition. Many people in the country said: The area occupied now is enough, let's consolidate the occupied area first. Be careful of biting off more than you can chew.
But Cui Yan really wanted to scold his mother - the war has reached this point, and the Xuanzhen Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect are vaguely involved behind the scenes. How can it be stopped just by saying it stops!
But now the war is really unsustainable.
As the main combatant, Left Prime Minister Huang Shaoxian also stayed on the front line as a supervisor. He also understood the situation here.
A new battle report was sent. After hearing it, Huang Shaoxian said with emotion: "Our rapid advance before was due to the assistance of sea power. Now that the sea is struggling, the front line may not be able to stop it."
Cui Yan gritted his teeth and said: "We must resist! We must not let Langya Kingdom see the possibility of victory, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable."
A military advisor nearby analyzed: "It's not difficult to block it on land, just learn from Langya Kingdom. The difficulty is at sea.
We now only have three steel warships in total, and the rest are wooden warships. If we want to block the black iron warships of Langya Kingdom, it is simply not enough.
The Langya Kingdom has more wooden warships and better quality. This is beyond our comparison.
We need a warship that can compete with the Black Iron Warship. This kind of warship can at least surpass the warships of the Langya Kingdom. The number must be sufficient and the cost must be very low!"
Everyone frowned and thought for a long time, but finally couldn't think of a better way.
"Ask the Dayang Group? Anyway, since we are not making a deal, there is no need to inform His Majesty." In the end, Huang Shaoxian only thought of this method.
Cui Yan thought for a while and nodded. He looked at the military advisor next to him: "Wang Duan, you should go to Dayang Group. It would be best to meet Zhang Hao."
"Yes." Wang Duan set off immediately. Neither Cui Yan nor Huang Shaoxian could do without him for the time being, and only Wang Duan was considered important enough, at least not to make Dayang Group feel despised.
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The test of the Arctic Ocean battleship was perfect. Dayang Group's rich technical background and experienced engineers, coupled with the half-year design and construction time, made the battleship even more perfect - this was the longest construction time among all steel battleships in the past.
longest.
However, no matter how perfect the test was, engineers carefully checked every corner after the test, especially the power system.
But Zhang Hao has already begun preparations for a new "Arctic Ocean Fleet".
The Ocean Group's fleet was finally divided into two, establishing the Atlantic Fleet and the Arctic Ocean Fleet respectively.
The Atlantic Fleet will continue the previous mission, etc. The person in charge is Zhao Yuhang; Fu Yun, who is in the stage of becoming a god, will follow the ship.
The Arctic Ocean Fleet uses the Arctic Ocean as its flagship, and the person in charge is Dugu Junjie. Chen Yansong, who is in the stage of becoming a god, is with the ship.
Because in the past six months, Dayang Group has successively launched 40 warships. In addition to some of them being handed over to Xuanzhen Sect and Qixia Kingdom, several were sold to Tianmo Sect and Red Lotus Sect. The rest are all within Dayang Group, a total of 24
ship.
After careful consideration, the fleet is divided as follows:
Atlantic Fleet: Atlantic Fleet: 14 Zhenyuan class, 14 Iron Duke class battleships;
Arctic Ocean Fleet: 1 Arctic Ocean + 4 Zhenyuan class ships + 2 Iron Duke class battleships.
Now, there are five Zhenyuan-class ships and five Iron Duke-class ships in the dock, which will be completed within 20 days. The number of battleships of the Ocean Group is a bit too many - they don't have too many masters, and they don't have enough manpower. The navigation lines and ports
Wait, it's already saturated.
Thinking of this, Zhang Hao immediately ordered: After the new steel battleship is launched, all efforts should be made to develop fast, ultra-large displacement battleships. For example, 40,000-ton warships. The construction of the rest of the warships, except for the 30,000-ton class, will be suspended; steel, etc., will be used.
to other areas.
In his spare time, Zhang Hao opened a battleship form and began to make calculations.
As of now, among the warships built by the Ocean Group, except for two that have sunk, they are now running rampant on the sea.
There are two ships from the Langya Kingdom and three ships from the Canglan Kingdom, all of which are 10,000-ton class and Iron Duke class.
In addition, the Demon Sect purchased a 10,000-ton vessel, and the Red Lotus Sect purchased two 10,000-ton vessels and one 20,000-ton vessel.
The Pearl Fleet of the Kingdom of Qixia: 3 Zhenyuan class ships and 6 Iron Duke class ships.
The additional warships added by Weihai Fleet and Pearl Fleet have also come at a huge price. Although the two fleets have made a lot of money from business recently, they still have to pay a lot of extra costs if they want to purchase new warships.
Fortunately, in Qixia Country, the Queen is planning to donate a piece of land to Dayang Group to offset the cost.
The Xuanzhen Sect was in dire straits. They paid a lot for their Nascent Soul Stage places, and even gave away many precious elixirs, core materials, formations, cultivation techniques, etc.
After sorting out all the information, Zhang Hao knocked on the table: "The market for battleships is temporarily saturated. Even if other countries want to buy it, they will not sell it to them.
That West Kunlun may be the next market, and the warships that are about to be launched in the dock may be sold to them. But we must be cautious. We don’t know anything about this West Kunlun for the time being.
Forget it, let’s not think about it for now. Anyway, when the warship is launched, many countries will come to buy it. High-tech products have always been a seller’s market!”
Zhang Hao sorted out all the information and was about to leave the office. But at this moment, a guard came in and reported: Fang Rong, the envoy from the Kingdom of Shaoze, and Wang Rui, the envoy from the Kingdom of Canglan, arrived together.
Ask for a visit.
"Why did they come to visit?" Zhang Hao was a little curious.
When they met, Fang Rong was probably a little familiar with Zhang Hao, so the guy opened his mouth and said: "Mr. Zhang, we have met you. We are here to ask for help."