The terrain is not conducive to large-scale battles. The only ones that can be dispatched are the air force and the paratroopers who are not yet mature enough. They can only continue to wait and see when new information is collected.
Obviously if this continues, it will just be a slow death, so we have to try to adjust the balance of power.
The current population of the Phoenix Kingdom is just over one million, with a labor force of less than 600,000. Even if it can exceed 3 million within ten years through self-protection and accepting refugees, it will still be a small number.
No matter how low the proportion of the agricultural population is, it cannot change the problem of insufficient upper limit for a one-million-level labor force.
Therefore, it is necessary to drive the integration of external forces.
Naturally, increasing the power outside the country may backfire on oneself, but compared with the unlimited fecundity and bestiality of the low-level demons, increasing the overall power of the exile is less harmful.
To integrate overseas forces, we still need to rely on the aircraft manufacturing industry.
In the floating island mode, mages who are less than the fourth level are basically useless. If the fourth level does not focus on spells and enchantments, they are useless. On the A floating island, you can only guard the A floating island for the rest of your life, waiting for the demons to attack. Although it is possible to be taken flying by an expert in places where airports are not established, this form of movement cannot be popularized and can only benefit a very small number of low-level mages at most.
Judging from actual experience, for example, during the escape of the original Pettus City refugees, the three-ring mage played a great role, at least buying time for large-scale transfer and rescue.
The war may be more intense in the later period, and the survival rate of mages will also decrease, but as long as there are numbers, they are definitely still useful.
The focus is still on those who have four rings but cannot fly. Giving them a cheap means of moving across floating islands can really effectively change the frontline battle situation.
The ability to fly at the fourth level is achieved by a compound or combination spell of enchantment and conjuration. If it is a fifth-level spell, only one of them can fly. However, if the fourth-level spell is not available, you must be able to master both, which is a bit difficult.
Divided into seven major departments: Conjuration, Creation, Summoning, Illusion, Prophecy, Evocation, and Change, the chance that the four rings can be found in both Conjuration and Enchantment is really low, even if Conjuration is the foundation of all magic. , there are still more than 80% of the fourth-level magicians who don't know the third-level conjuration at all. Even if it is reduced to the second-level conjuration, this number is still 60%.
The group that contributed the most was the magicians.
Magicians are utilitarian mages. Compared with the purpose of learning that mages pursue knowledge, magicians care more about "how long it takes and what intensity it can achieve." This utilitarian purpose also causes magicians to be very partial to science.
Take the Phoenix Kingdom's registered mages and the information obtained from the previous capture of Fatel's Fourth Legion as an example.
Since magician is a derogatory term used by serious magicians to refer to a certain group of people, magicians do not call themselves magicians, so they are all counted as magicians in the statistics of the kingdom, and the data should be flattened.
According to the overall statistics, 39% of fourth-level mages can master second-level conjuration, 45% can master second-level enchantment, and 23% can master both.
Information from the prisoners of the Fourth Legion shows that in the Fatel Royal Army system, less than 20% can conjure, and only more than 10% can enchant!
The source of this difference is the utilitarian nature of magicians. In order to improve learning efficiency, they do not have time to waste time in too many factions. Most magicians specialize in plasticity, and only one or two auxiliary factions will be added after the fourth ring. Used to cross the minimum knowledge threshold for learning five-ring magic.
As for the mages taught by the serious master-disciple model, they must be exposed to the second-level knowledge of at least three to four factions before they become teachers. The immortality species is even more outrageous. They will try their best to learn everything below the third-level.
Of course, a mage's time is not unlimited, and learning knowledge does not mean learning spells. The two need to be distinguished, but with a foundation, it will be much easier to achieve short-term flight after the fourth ring.
It can be seen from the two data that among the fourth-ring mages who cannot actually fly, there are many guys who specialize in the energy evocation system. It is undoubtedly a waste of resources to scatter these guys who are naturally more suitable for fighting on various floating islands.
Even if he is neither of the two, he may be a type that specializes in summoning and illusion, which is still useful on the front line.
In short, Wang Qi only did one thing, liberalizing the foreign trade license for aircraft.
The two aircraft factories of Hongshi and Pangxun were established not long ago, and because the plates had already cracked when construction began, the development of mass production capabilities was restricted.
However, as time goes by, they have a group of skilled workers and equipment, and have the basic ability to increase production capacity.
Wang Qi asked the investigation team to go to two factories to get information.
This action is a characteristic of the Phoenix Kingdom. If you are turned away, the next ones to come are the Taxation Department and the Ministry of Industry.
The Social Investigation Bureau has been around for a long time, and everyone is used to similar situations. As long as it doesn't involve the manufacturer's core drawings and the like, it will usually produce whatever it wants.
Wang Qi does not need confidential information, he only needs to know the approximate production potential, existing products and research and development directions of these two factories.
Of the two factories, the Pangxun factory has the greater potential. After all, Pangxun in the north and south has a combined population of more than 300,000 people. After the naturalization process was started, more people have poured in, and there are sufficient labor resources. In addition, because he missed the opportunity to integrate the magic academy, the mage is also relatively free.
Hongshi's geographical restrictions prevent it from expanding the population. The aircraft factory is expected to only expand to a maximum of about 3,000 people, some of which will require support from small mountain towns. As for the people in Xincheng...as a matter of history, they will never go to Hongshi to work.
Three thousand people sounds like a lot, but you can't build an aircraft very quickly, and this number is potential. It currently only has more than a thousand people.
In terms of products, the two factories are already providing the aviation bureau with a series of wooden figures, and Blue Sky Heavy Industries has been able to break away from this and focus on the development of high-end goods.
In addition to the wooden man series, both factories also have their own experimental products and research directions.
Hongshi Factory relied on the relatively mature development system of Hongshi Magic Equipment Factory to create a prototype that Wang Qi thought was very weird.
The main body of the aircraft is a wedge-shaped box, which is similar in shape to an armored vehicle without wheels.
The main body is okay, mainly the wings. If you say it has wings, the wing area is less than 5 square meters. What is it enough for? For comparison, the wing area of the Tornado II model, which has a similar main body volume, is 17.6 square meters, while that of the Tornado III glide type is 24 square meters.
Moreover, the inclination angle of the wing shape is relatively large, and it is actually a forward-swept wing.
Wang Qi could guess just by looking at the appearance picture that this thing mostly uses magic to accelerate the airflow to fly, but he doesn't know exactly how it flies. Anyway, the wing-to-surface ratio must be very wasteful of magic power.
The research and development direction of the Red Stone Factory is similar to that of this weird aircraft.
In the information obtained by the Investigation Bureau, there are still distinctions in research and development directions.
One is similar to the existing prototype, which still uses a certain amount of aerodynamic force, but not much. The main goal is to achieve non-sensory riding comfort.
Another direction is to completely abandon aerodynamic force. This is still in the demonstration stage and only has one sentence.
I'm guessing, a magic cover will probably be used to achieve air stratification to reduce body resistance?
I don’t know if it will be useful. Everyone is new to the combination of magic and science, and Wang Qi is not easy to give random orders.
The direction of Pangxun Aircraft Factory is more realistic - and less useful.
Hot air balloon directions.
In Wang Qi's eyes, the hot air balloon should be the most powerful of all aircrafts, because where it flies, how fast it flies and even when it lands depends on God, and there are very few parts that can be controlled manually.
This thing is not something that people think will fall to the ground once the fire is turned off. If the terrain below is not suitable, the fire balloon will still fly to high places after turning off the fire, which is very painful.
Moreover, hot air balloons also pose safety risks. Due to their uncontrollable landing and high altitude, hot air balloons are more likely to be carried onto high-voltage power lines when landing than airplanes!
But there are no high-voltage wires overseas, so it doesn't hurt to use them. At least it's something that can be exported casually without worrying about it.
By the way, don’t look at the ugliness of the future of hot air balloons. This thing also has technical thresholds, and it cannot be done at a glance. After the accumulation of Pangxun Factory in the past two years, the lift-off load can only reach 220 kilograms...More It feels like a waste of resources.
Think about it and give a comment.
Hongshi Factory's special-shaped aircraft will be discussed after they pass the aviation bureau's acceptance. Others including hot-air balloons and wooden man gliding are allowed to be exported.
Effective immediately.
