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This is neither in line with the speed of industrial growth nor with the laws of economic development. No scholar or theory can explain an economic model that includes "variables from outer space." Therefore, under simple propaganda and manipulation—

The most plausible explanation is that the Sarkaz people used some kind of conspiracy to harvest and plunder their wealth.

They believe that there is no other way to explain the speed at which the other party's assets have increased.

At the same time, it can also satisfy their national pride. Otherwise, if the wealth was really created by the Sarkaz themselves, wouldn't that mean that the other side is the chosen one and their own people are just inferior beings?

Just like why the US is so convinced we stole their technology, their public understanding of us was actually limited to the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, at most the Cold War era. Their logic cannot explain why a country they always considered backward and uncivilized could suddenly become like this overnight. The only explanation they can accept is cheating, using despicable means to steal their achievements.

With this propaganda, the situation on the eastern front became very clear: almost all the countries were anti-Sarkaz. Da Yan and Lungmen remained neutral as always, Ursus, though barely an ally, was too far away, and Iberia had no time to help at all.

Moreover, this "ally" of Ursus only maintained economic cooperation and a certain degree of tacit understanding; it was far from being a true ally.

If we had to name an ally, Syracuse would be one, but the problem is that no one can trust Syracuse's fighting strength; they'd be lucky if they didn't become a liability. Therefore, Kazdel desperately needs a more steadfast and powerful ally.

The ideal target is Glassval, provided they achieve independence. The next best target is Rembiton, provided that Rembiton's guild forces take control. Otherwise, there's really nothing to talk about with those big mine owners and slaveholders.

Finally, there's the Great Yan, but their attitude is quite subtle. They are unwilling to build closer relationships with other countries than just trade, well, not counting tribute and vassalage.

"Are these Victorias just standing there watching?" Looking out from the watchtower, the Victoria fleet across the way resembled a city of flags, with its overlapping cannons like clusters of spikes, a truly awe-inspiring sight. But when they looked back at their own fleet, it was a completely different story.

The cruisers from the Great Yan had already had very few cannons, which were mostly dismantled and replaced with a bunch of mysterious and impressive devices. Only the two turrets at the front and rear, with a total of four main guns, were left, along with a bunch of small water pipes on the sides that looked very unsafe.

As for the two large armored ships and the largest flagship, the Rhodes Island, not a single naval gun could be seen. It's understandable that the Rhodes Island was a hospital ship. However, the two expensive armored ships were identical.

"There's absolutely no way to win!" The difference in strength was just too great, and the Victorians on the other side shared a similar opinion.

“Those four Great Yan warships require special attention. The Sarkaz have clearly improved their main guns, seemingly preparing them as weapons for a decisive blow.”

Compared to others, Victoria's fleet commander could obviously tell that the four main cannons were the Great Yan Divine Light Cannons, and that those random devices were probably just things to enhance their power.

It's important to know that if this weapon system is equipped with sufficient facilities and its power is increased, it can vaporize nearly 10% of the structure of a mobile city's core area with a single shot. It is one of the few weapons that can completely destroy a mobile warship within a few rounds of fire.

However, its heat generation and rate of fire were very poor, and its fragile and massive gun body moved very slowly. This led the Great Yan to usually use it as a coastal defense gun, and the shipborne version had long been phased out.

Compared to the shore-based version, it sacrifices power and accuracy, and does not achieve the ideal rate of fire and firing range, but instead greatly increases the warship's power load.

The ship had to choose between firing and moving, and even needed to install a large number of heat dissipation modules on its hull, which were its vulnerabilities. Soon, the Great Yan stopped using this weapon.

However, regardless of the circumstances, this was indeed a major threat to Victoria's warships, and the Sarkaz seemed to have chosen to completely sacrifice all the advantages of the ship's cannons and restore their power.

“We must pay special attention to them. They only need one salvo to destroy one of our large armored ships. That’s probably what those Sarkaz are aiming for.”

The so-called decisive weapons are nothing more than the last straw when all hope is lost, as the hard gap between the two sides in terms of tonnage and combat power is difficult to bridge.

"Those large warships appear to be some kind of drone cargo ships. Fortunately, we have increased our air defense capabilities. Otherwise, the minions in those fleets would have had a hard time surviving."

The Victoria Fleet also studied those Sarkaz drones and found them to be very effective against small assault ships and other foot units.

However, for heavily armored ships, those grenade launchers and low-pressure guns, which are less than 40 mm thick, can only wash the deck.

While it would certainly cause considerable damage to the sailors, severely delay and hinder the efficiency of boarding operations, and make it difficult for warships to quickly complete a landing operation when they approach enemy mobile cities—that was all.

The inability to deal with capital ships means that their air platforms will soon be destroyed by the warships' guns.

Moreover, drones are much more consumable than artillery shells, so using this method to output mass and energy is not as efficient as directly firing artillery.

On the "Lushu" land cruiser imported by the Great Yan, or what the Great Yan calls a "fighting ship," technicians are conducting final calibration work on the two sets of "main guns." Contrary to the Victorian people's guess, the other party did not enhance the power of this thing at all, but sacrificed power to the maximum extent to achieve rate of fire and sensitivity.

"That's not how you use lasers!" This was Old Xia's first reaction after studying and playing with the laser cannon. "Who the hell would play with clustered lasers and try to achieve thermal ablation?"

Of course, it's pulsed lasers that create pulsed ion explosions! The principle is that the laser pulse rapidly vaporizes the surface of the target, and subsequent pulses continuously heat and impact this vaporized part, causing it to further ionize and form a continuous pulse explosion.

Its effect is similar to that of high-explosive shells, which can quickly destroy the opponent's armor. It is a powerful means to deal with those fools who like to use armor to withstand attacks. After Lao Xia's professional modification, these divine light cannons have completely changed their appearance.

While its power is significantly reduced compared to the original Great Flame, Old Xia not only changed its frequency from visible light to ultraviolet light but also put it in pulse excitation mode, making it effective at destroying enemy armor and defenses.

Of course, it causes less structural damage to land-based ships, but the problem is that it's not meant to be used against ships. "Who would use such a good wet-component laser to attack warships?" To attack warships, you'd need a nuclear-pumped graviton laser. "Of course, it's meant to be used as an air defense and interception weapon!"

"The wet components are functioning well, and multiple sets of gimbal optical measurement tests are normal." The pile of odds and ends consisted of various simplified wet components, such as optical probes resembling insect compound eyes, as well as a composite monitoring and ranging system composed of Originium modules and Old Xia's farm monitoring probes.

Together with a wet component fire control computing array that occupies nearly half of the ship's interior space, as well as a heat dissipation module, its purpose is to intercept any large projectiles launched by the Victoria.

Why is it that everyone else is using magic cannons, while the Victorians, after discovering the electromagnetic effect of Originium, want to develop an upgraded version of the electromagnetic crossbow, the shipborne electromagnetic projector?

These solid metal projectiles are perfect for intercepting lasers. They don't need to be completely burned; a side pulse explosion is enough to disrupt their trajectory.

With 2 ultra-high-frequency pulse beams per second, polarizing filters, and a high-precision reflection control system manufactured by Keshifu, it can lock onto and attack more than 650 targets within a 15-degree cone within one second. Of course, the power is very low, but it is sufficient as an interceptor of physical projectiles.

When Ke Shifu products are used in such ultra-precision equipment, no one will complain, because it was not designed for long-term use or use in harsh environments. As long as it does not malfunction within an hour after the start of the war and operates smoothly for more than one minute in total, every kinetic shell fired by Victoria's fleet will be deflected.

Even considering the engagement distance of fleet battles in Terra, this system can lock onto the enemy's gun muzzle and create a tiny pulse explosion on its side the instant the shell leaves the barrel. After that, it's unknown whether the tumbling armor-piercing rod will hit something friendly.

A total of 8 sets, or 16 groups, of such interception weapons are enough to show Victoria what an invisible iron curtain is all about.

Of course, if Victoria were to produce a guided projectile, it would be useless. This slight deflection is useful for solid kinetic energy projectiles that are greatly affected by airflow and vortices. For guided weapons, this deviation is sufficient for calibration.

In addition, these warships carried a large number of rockets. With armor-piercing turrets, they were more than capable of dealing with most small destroyers and frigates. The real anti-ship capabilities, however, depended on the three large ships behind them that didn't even have a single main gun.

Due to a lack of reliable flight control and manufacturing capabilities, the attack and maneuver radii of large fighter jets and attack aircraft are pitifully small. On Earth, such carrier-based aircraft would be enough to be taken down by battleships with their main guns before an aircraft carrier could even launch its planes.

A flight radius of 28 kilometers has practically sealed the fate of the aircraft carrier school of thought.

However, Terra lacks such long-range naval guns, resulting in engagements within 10 kilometers. Aircraft still have a slight advantage, but now with four more armed escorts, they can further sacrifice flight radius to achieve maximum bombing efficiency.

Moreover, land-based ships are far less agile and faster than naval warships.

Therefore, in the end, the doctor used the most foolish method—ultra-low-precision carpet bombing, instead of using aerial bombs, he used automatic mine-laying devices and time/pressure dual-fuse mines.

It can not only block enemy fleet attacks, but also block enemy ground force attacks, killing two birds with one stone.

Moreover, this way the aircraft doesn't need to lower its altitude, which greatly reduces the mental stress on aviation astronauts.

To this day, no one, including Lao Xia, has been able to solve the problem of dive attacks, let alone dive attacks against dense anti-aircraft fire.

A control team consists of three people. If even one person fails to overcome their biological instincts and becomes mentally disconnected from the others, the aircraft will immediately go out of control.

Simple dive flight has solved a small part of the problem, but there's nothing that can be done about dive flight under fire; this is the instinct of a warlock as a living being.

Unless their frontal lobes are cut off, completely eliminating their emotions and mental fluctuations, they can not calmly dive down in the face of intense artillery fire.

It's important to understand that this is different from a pilot operating an aircraft. No matter how excited or terrified a pilot is, as long as they grip the control stick and slam on the rudder pedals, they can launch a perfect dive attack. But you can't operate an aircraft through a warlock's mental link.

Fear, excitement, tension, and even the instinctive conditioned reflex of being hit by artillery fire as if on the scene, as well as the impact of shrapnel hitting the aircraft and being collected by vibration sensors and synchronized to the warlock, can all cause the aircraft to lose control.

The larger the aircraft, the more sorcerers and people are needed, and the higher the precision required for the amplitude of mental shock. A drone operated by a single person can dive as long as it overcomes some instinctive reactions.

But that size is only good for bombing armored vehicles and infantry; to use it against a warship is as ridiculous as sinking a warship with a mortar.

However, this problem does not exist for horizontal bombing. As long as the three people in the control group are fine, the two people in the bombing group are even less likely to have any problems, since they have a lower mental load to begin with.

"So, is there absolutely no way? I was hoping to fly around in the sky someday."

Yelena, with a candy in her mouth, watched Old Xia, who had entered "retired cadre mode" and was playing with his little daughter. Now that most agricultural projects were on the right track, and he didn't want to get involved in the war, he was naturally living like a retired cadre.

"Yes, we're letting the wet computer learn on its own. Eyjafjalla is working on that. You can ask her how it's going when you have time."

Xia Qiu has demonstrated intelligence beyond that of ordinary people. He can now understand most of the written language and perform simple calculations, which is simply unimaginable for the Terrans.

"Once this machine learning process is complete, the biological flight control chip can be continuously copied and replicated. As for when it will learn—that depends on luck. This really can only rely on the wonders of nature..."

"Can't it be edited manually?"

"Sure, but I don't know how," Old Xia shrugged. He was just in the retro rocket club and only responsible for making engines. You'd have to ask the senior next door who studied that for the flight control program.

For example, if you ask Lin Ye, the younger brother next door, to come over, he can write eight different ones for you in a week, and he can even solve the path point determination for industrial drones and agricultural drones in one go.

"Therefore, we can only conduct simulated biological learning now, just like how birds can fly."

"Why can that bird fly?" Xia Qiu asked in her childish voice.

"Why would it grow wings if it can't fly?"

"Oh—" she said, looking like she understood but not quite, and then continued to fiddle with the educational toy in her hands.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: No Talking While Eating

Chapter 28

Developing aircraft in Terra is a very strange thing, especially if a conventional engine uses an air intake structure.

Whether it's a piston or a conventional jet engine, both will be damaged by inhaling high-altitude Originium particles.

It could be an exothermic reaction, causing abnormal pressure build-up and deflagration inside the combustion chamber, directly destroying the piston or turbine; or it could be an absorbing reaction, causing a sharp drop in combustion efficiency, resulting in the engine either stopping or stalling.

Using a wet component Originium electric engine could circumvent this problem. However, the enormous wet component incubation chamber and the inherently heavy weight of the Originium engine resulted in an alarmingly low payload for the aircraft, limiting its flight speed.

If a high-speed Originium engine is used, then the number of engines will require the number of warlocks to operate them.

If you put all the warlocks on board, and provide them with operating space, necessary high-altitude oxygen supply, insulation, and other measures, the plane still won't have much payload capacity.

It can carry attack drones, but the total weight of those attack drones, including their explosive charge and the drones themselves, is only a few kilograms, at most no more than 10 kilograms. This is enough to accurately eliminate enemy strongpoints on the ground, but it is completely insufficient to attack warships.

What's even more troublesome is that although Terra lacks fighter jets and other aircraft, it does have some low-altitude aircraft such as helicopters. With the use of various auxiliary drones, they have a certain level of air defense awareness and anti-aircraft firepower. This means that if the flight altitude is too low and the speed is too slow, it will be taken out by anti-aircraft firepower.

Most importantly, if local engine technology is to carry people, the size of the aircraft cannot be small. Single-person fighter jets and dive bombers are impossible, and large bombers that can fly and carry bombs simply cannot perform dive bombing. At least, without more advanced flight control, the pilot cannot lift such a heavy object with his superhuman strength.

On the other hand, since dive bombing is not required, there is no difference between using a warlock for remote control and using a pilot. In fact, it can save the weight requirement of an operating group of 5 warlocks totaling more than 300 kilograms, and optimize the available space in the cabin and the size of the aircraft.

As for the range, it's the same. While the warlock pilots are no longer limited by the remote control radius, their own maximum operating time cannot be improved. This engine is essentially a specially shaped staff.

It's equivalent to continuous spellcasting. If it's remotely controlled, multiple operation groups can be quickly switched to take over. However, it's impossible for a person on an airplane to change consumables like "Warlock" in time and space.

And frankly speaking, pilots are expensive, and this isn't America on Earth with hundreds of flying clubs where you could just grab a farmer and have him fly a propeller plane—

Training to fly pesticides and conduct sightseeing trips can be completed in just a few months—but flying a plane to dive and bomb a hedgehog-like warship...

Putting aside the issue of aircraft, by the time they had trained pilots to fly dive attack aircraft, the war would almost be over.

In contrast, it would be strange if the Sarkaz didn't make use of their abundant warlock resources.

Even if they could barely manage to create a wooden and steel wire biplane attack aircraft, the doctor wouldn't dare send them to the battlefield. The technology in Terra is quite bizarre. Even if Da Yan couldn't produce a high-frequency laser pulse like Lao Xia, they could still quickly miniaturize the Divine Light Cannon to destroy wooden aircraft.

Victoria's electromagnetic weapons might be somewhat comical when dealing with super-large armored units.

However, the high-energy kinetic energy arrow shot can still be used to hit the wooden Swordfish that cannot dive at a large angle. Not to mention that the bomb load of such an early attack aircraft can at most injure, but it is impossible to kill it.

In other words, carrier-based aircraft that want to attack land-based ships must have a speed of over 450 kilometers per hour and a dive angle of over 75 degrees, almost vertical, to penetrate their relatively weak horizontal armor. The aerial bombs they carry, considering azide charges, must also weigh over 550 pounds.

At the same time, the machine must be fully armored, and the outer shell and interior need to be equipped with Originium Force Field Suppressors to avoid being affected by certain wide-area spell effect fields. Remember those staffs with "freezing" function?

Furthermore, even for a single-person operated aircraft, it is necessary to prepare 2-3 backup casters to replace the operator of the Originium engine, or to prepare a wet component system with a volume of more than 2.5 cubic meters.

Putting everything else aside, just look at the size of that row of Odin and Master Cars to know what the consequences are of using a wet-part engine, adding more water to the flour, and adding more flour to the water.

Well, in a sense, Terra's landships might have been designed in this way.