Sending free aid to overseas countries is not a big deal. Referring to the expenditure of the Ganlin Plan, tens of millions is actually only three months' worth of funds, not counting remuneration in the form of food.
Phoenix Bank only considers one point, whether the money will be used directly to purchase its own products. If so, it should not be released, because it will cause order congestion and push up prices.
This money has the same nature as the Ganlin plan. It needs to be turned over through local labor. In terms of the shortest process, it needs to be converted into project expenses first, and then re-aggregated through the consumer market before it can be used as a trade channel.
Wang Qi ignored it and just took a look at the document. The entire process was customized by the Central Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The demons were not honest either. When the battle at Gate 1 was disrupted, Gate 4 also moved into action, conducting a directional range operation for the first time.
Those participating were still those dragon-shaped creatures, the density was higher and the direction was clearer.
The staff department was worried, but fortunately the construction in that area was OK and the damage was not serious.
Since Ongji's territory became a floating island, the power pattern has become more like that of the Eastern District. After one or more rounds of power struggles on a single floating island, the voice tends to be unified.
The areas threatened by Gate 4 are roughly divided into two categories: one is the original coastal plate, and the other is the grassland plate that goes deep inland.
The coastal plate here is different from the northern line of Wengji. Before the island became a floating island, the northern line was not adjacent to the open sea. There was a bathtub sea in the middle, that is, it was still connected to the open sea by a strait. The salinity of the water body was low, and the proportion of mountains in the surrounding areas was okay. There was no lack of it. freshwater.
The seaside area northwest of Wengji has a relatively flat terrain and poor water storage capacity. There are also fresh water resources, but they cannot support a relatively large city. Therefore, before the floating island, the population density here was very low.
For example, the grassland plate has a population density of 50,000 to 70,000 people per 10,000 square kilometers, the coastal plate in the northwest can only reach more than 100,000 people, and the northern line can reach 300,000 people. The population density of the plate near Luna River is even higher. Come twice as much.
A small population was a disadvantage before floating islandization, but not necessarily after floating islandization.
With fewer people, it is easier to organize migration. The original farmland in this direction is not very good, and most of the crops are silage. The little devil who sets fire from time to time also enhances his "persuasiveness". After reorganization, each sector focuses on holding one or two Just one point is enough. These points are usually next to freshwater lakes that appear due to environmental changes.
From a small town with thousands of people to a city with around 50,000 people, the normal historical process may take hundreds of years. Now with the help of the demons, urbanization can be considered completed.
However, this kind of city is still very different from an industrialized city. There are only a few places for people to live in the area surrounded by city walls. Large areas are still used for farming and animal husbandry, and herds of livestock are driven out of the city during the day.
In line with this ecology, the local city walls are also different, mostly with two layers: inner and outer.
There is no "gatehouse" structure on the outer layer, so the gates of the outer city wall can be made wide enough to facilitate the entry and exit of herds. But in this way, the function of the city wall is weakened, and the soldiers must return to the ground to reach the next section of the wall.
The result of the defects is that the outer city walls are generally short, only three to five meters. They are mostly made of rammed earth with an outer layer of stone. They can play a certain role in warning and daily defense, and are not very suitable for large-scale attacks. Enough to see.
The inner layer also has local characteristics. Its main body is not a city wall, but a turret. It is a building specially designed for the output of magic guns and mage stances. The limited modern weapons are concentrated in the turret for use. The city wall is still traditional. military force.
It is very difficult to deal with the demons using traditional military power used in human-to-human warfare. The main reason is that no one can afford to die on a floating island. If a few groups of soldiers die, the floating island will become a ration area for the demons.
In order to fight against the more powerful demon swarms under limited conditions, the local ordinary soldiers evolved into a unit of two people, with short-term conflict soldiers and crossbowmen.
Even the popularity of crossbows is a spillover effect from the Ruiweile industrial cluster.
The Ruiweile Industrial Cluster did not make weapons itself before obtaining the projectile authorization, but because the steel they needed increased year by year, the steel supply chain on the surrounding floating islands continued to develop. Recently, they were able to make some steel on their own floating islands, plus they could make steel from The Phoenix Kingdom imported braided steel wire ropes to make strings, and the Wengji royal family didn't care at all, so the crossbow-making industry gradually got on the right track.
There's even a magic crossbow among them!
Magic crossbows and magic firearms are completely different technical routes.
A magic gun is a device that uses magic to simulate electromagnetic acceleration. It has only one core, which gives the projectile a high enough speed before it leaves the gun chamber. Although it is "a moment" to the naked eye, it actually has to be divided into steps, especially the exit speed. The technical threshold for development beyond the speed of sound is quite high.
There will be more choices for magic crossbows. You can increase the kinetic energy through empowerment, and you can also add magic effects to the crossbow arrows. After all, the arrows are larger, and it will be easier to load magic on them.
The flaws are also quite obvious. The standard movement method of arrows is that the head and tail do not move, and the arrow body twists left and right. It is a ballistic self-stabilizing action just like the spin of the projectile. But this way of swinging left and right makes it almost impossible for the arrow to break the speed of sound. If it is changed to be as short as a projectile, it will somersault. The only way is to use magic to eliminate the resistance on its head.
Eliminating resistance is not an impossible problem for magic. If you are a killer, it will not be too slow to spend a month making a magic arrow. But when facing demons that often number in the thousands or even tens or millions, many methods can It was no longer useful, and my own solidified boundary layer projectile had been stuck here for a long time. In the end, I made it into a magic carrier and then temporarily enchanted it.
The magic arrows in the current equipment do not solve this problem. The maximum movement speed does not exceed 220 meters per second. It can maintain a speed of more than 100 meters per second at a distance of 200 meters. Due to the large weight of the crossbow arrow itself, the power is not bad. .
However, not everyone can use this kind of magic crossbow. Most of the powerful crossbows that are equipped with a large number of equipment only have a [piercing] effect. The main reason is that when these functions are added together, you will find that it is better to buy a foreign trade gun.
Foreign trade guns are limited by the total production volume, and everyone has to queue up to buy them. This allows the magic crossbow to survive, and it also solves many employment problems during the period of decline in local agriculture and animal husbandry.
In short, the area threatened by Gate 4 has spent a lot of money on equipment in recent years. A city of 50,000 people has at least two to three thousand magic firearms and crossbows.
The dragon-shaped creature at Gate 4 does not possess direct killing magic with a particularly long range, and its abilities and habits are not suitable for high-density cluster operations. Although maneuvering tactics under the floating island were also used, the results were very limited.
After going around, the situation at Gate 5 is unknown. There are no particularly high-end combat capabilities in the other gates. Even except for Gate 1, the main threats in the other three gates all come from non-intelligent species. The threats they can pose and damage can be restrained at a limited cost.
But it’s hard to say how good the situation is.
Not to mention that none of the really powerful guys ended up, even the high-intelligence intermediate demons can make good tactics.
The biggest flaw of the penal colony is not the difficulty in product supply caused by the uneven intelligence or body shape of the people, but the fact that the appearance of mixed-bloods is very different from the high-intelligence demons, so the demons can penetrate directly in the form of tourists. Enter the city.
When they want to cooperate internally and externally, they will test the local military discipline and regulations. It can even be said that apart from military regulations, there is no particularly good way to deal with it, unless they lock the city and wait to starve to death.
For the Phoenix Kingdom, external equipment support cannot stop.
Wang Qi has been thinking about the spread of magic gun technology recently.
There is basically no feasibility because most people are busy building insulation and grain production facilities. In addition, resisting the demons does not count, you must also consider whether there will be backlash in the future.
(End of chapter)
