In the workshop of a factory in Tongcheng, Tang State, a technician was debugging a device that was larger than a computer case.
He is very serious, and the gears in this device are pressed one after another, and they are so dense and complicated that it makes people collapse. The entire device is sophisticated and complex, and every detail shines with industrial brilliance.
This is a mechanical gyroscope correction device that can adjust the rotation of the gear driven by the motor according to the rotation of the gyroscope, and is used to drive the operation of some key parts.
The entire device is very complex and so precise that it requires specialized workers to carefully adjust it with a magnifying glass.
"It's too exaggerated. The accuracy of this thing is beyond our understanding." An engineer looked at the equipment in front of him and said to his companion who had just taken back the screwdriver in his hand.
The companion lifted the magnifying glass over his eyes, raised his head and said with a smile: "You know what this thing does, so you should understand its precise requirements."
"I just wonder how such a terrible weapon could appear in this world." The engineer carefully fastened the cover on one side of the device, and then began to tighten the screws on the frame with a gentle technique.
"It's nothing. 1,700 kilometers is not a short distance. If you want something to fly that far without a driver, you can't do it without precision." The engineer with a magnifying glass on his head smiled. The screwdriver is placed in the box next to it.
Lying in the middle of the factory is a huge tube covered with canvas, with four sharp wings protruding from the tail.
Yes, this thing is a missile, and it is also the first ballistic missile in the world that may participate in actual combat!
In order to make this thing fly, Datang Group's chemical factory has been constantly investing in new production technologies, and has been piling up the technology to a height high enough to produce rocket launch fuel.
Although it is still quite difficult to produce these very unstable chemicals, Tang Guo finally obtained some nitric acid and undimethylhydrazine that were enough to launch a rocket into the sky by hand-making them in a chemical laboratory.
These things are either highly corrosive or highly toxic. In short, they are all life-threatening things. If these things are poured into the interior of the missile, the entire missile's specially treated body will only have a lifespan of two or three hours.
Therefore, the projectiles placed in this factory are empty, and everything must be ready before starting operations.
In order to ensure that this high-quality replica of the DF-3 could successfully fly a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers and deliver a gift to Emperor Zhao Kai of the Great China Empire, the engineers of the Tang State made efforts far beyond imagination.
They must ensure that their inertial guidance system remains in reliable working condition, control the missile at an altitude of more than 100 kilometers, and fly at 4 to 6 times the speed of sound until it hits the target.
The good news is that the target to be hit is more than ten kilometers wide and more than ten kilometers long, so huge that it can't be seen at a glance.
The bad news is that the target is almost 1,700 kilometers away from their launch site, and there is no way to verify the measurement of the actual flight trajectory.
"Didn't an experimental rocket launch a few days ago?" Seeing that the equipment was debugged, the two started chatting again.
"Well, I participated in the experiment. There were no problems with the overall operation of the rocket, and the final landing point was within the design range." The engineer, who took off his gloves and threw them on the table, nodded and replied with a magnifying glass on his head.
As he spoke, he took off the magnifying glass and placed it on his workbench: "It flew 300 kilometers and the deviation was controlled within 210 meters."
"Isn't this pretty good? If the distance is six times, and the deviation is about six times, it is just less than 1,300 meters, which fully meets the data requirements." The colleague rubbed the few hair on his head and complained: "Why We still need to improve the accuracy.”
"In the past fifteen tests, nine failed. This thing is all produced by hand. The randomness is too high, which makes people feel uneasy." Apparently the engineers with better skills also have very backward hairlines. He grabbed his water glass and took a sip before answering.
Frankly speaking, with the current processing accuracy, it is indeed a bit reluctant to build a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers.
However, the imperial capital of the Dahua Empire is about 1,500 kilometers away from the border of Tang State. This distance can no longer guarantee the safety of bombing by the Flying Fortress.
Therefore, if Tang Mo wanted to give Zhao Kai a big gift, he could only think of a better way: having missiles that would never return was obviously a good choice.
Originally, Tang State's technological accumulation made it easy to produce relatively simple V2 rockets. However, the V2 rockets were too small, with a range of only more than 300 kilometers, and could not meet Tang Mo's needs to attack the capital of the Dahua Empire.
Therefore, Tang State's technical department had to start with strategic ballistic missiles that were more difficult and technologically advanced, and copied the DF-3 missiles with a similar range.
Because of the technical difficulty, this missile has shortened its body, reduced its range as much as possible, and set its range at a very appropriate 1,700 kilometers, which is considered a tailor-made design.
This reduces the difficulty of attack accuracy, and theoretically can control the error within seven or eight kilometers.
In other words, if the most central point of the capital of the Dahua Empire is targeted, there is a high probability that this missile can land in the capital city of the Dahua Empire.
When such poor attack accuracy was placed in front of Tang Mo, he even wanted to cancel this unreliable attack plan.
In his impression, the attack accuracy of the DF-3 missile is about 1 km to 2 km, and it is very easy to hit a city-level target.
Anyway, he didn't want to blow up Zhao Kai to death at once, so even without the mushroom bomb, he didn't think there was any problem with the attack accuracy of 1 to 2 kilometers.
But the attack accuracy calculated by his scientists, engineers and technicians was "ten kilometers" that made him dumbfounded!
This kind of attack accuracy means that even if the target is a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands or millions, it is possible to miss...
Tang Mo thought of the man with a mustache between his lips and nostrils again. He felt that his missile plan and Desan's v2 fireworks plan were simply two different things.
In World War II, Tokusan launched a total of more than 18,000 V-shaped missiles, and achieved the "brilliant" result of killing more than 30,000 people... This can no longer be described as eye-catching. He simply killed a hundred enemies and suffered a loss of three thousand. act of genius.
Tang Mo felt that if he used the DF missile currently developed to attack the capital of Dahua, he would be no different from Mr. Adolf.
But in recent days, the plan that had been abandoned has seen some light: before, Tang Mo was not prepared to use this secret weapon in this war against the Great China Empire, but now Tang Mo is planning to use this thing Scare Zhao Kai and let Zhao Kai end this war as soon as possible.
To put it bluntly, it was a bluff, allowing Zhao Kai to feel the pressure of the capital being attacked and make up his mind to quickly admit defeat and seek peace.
We definitely can't afford to throw them on a large scale, but there is no problem if we throw one or two. So Tang Mo began to think of ways to help his engineers improve the attack accuracy of missiles.
Unfortunately, the method of hand-rolling missiles in the laboratory can barely produce missiles with updated technology, but it cannot guarantee the quality of these missiles.
The previous experimental model, which was a pure v2 copy, provided Tang Mo's engineering team with almost no experimental data for reference.
Some missiles crashed after flying more than 100 kilometers, and the attack error of some missiles was as exaggerated as ten kilometers, which was simply terrible.
These data are almost random. Occasionally, a missile will completely meet the design requirements, perfectly execute the operation instructions, and land near the attack target.
But the exact same experimental product will also have an error of five kilometers and completely miss the target!
You know, this is an experimental product with a range of only 300 kilometers, but what is really going to be launched into the Dahua Empire is a big guy with a range of 1,700 kilometers!
No one can guarantee whether a combat-type missile can fly 1,700 kilometers carrying 1,500 kilograms of explosives and accurately land on the roof of some unlucky person in the imperial capital of China.
Therefore, for the sake of caution, Datang Group's engineers and technicians were divided into two completely different teams, and two identical DF-3 missiles were produced in the Tongcheng and Nanye factories respectively.
As for why the first combat-type missile is called DF-3, it is because of His Majesty the King's strange weapon naming method. Anyway, everyone is used to those weird and baseless weapon names.
In short, the world's first ballistic missile that is about to be put into actual combat is not called West Wind, South Wind, or North Wind, but it is called Dongfeng, and it is the third generation...
"The next round of experiments is the second-generation test product, which is DF-2, with a range of 1,000 kilometers. It will be tested three times in total. If the experimental data proves that our inertial guidance equipment is reliable, it will be possible to continue..." Two people As he spoke, he walked to the huge missile body covered with canvas.
"I can't believe it. If someone told me ten years ago that there would be such a thing, I might have laughed at him as a lunatic." He reached out and touched the canvas covering the missile body, and participated in the research and development of such cutting-edge technology. The engineer sighed.
This may be the first time that the entire world has the means to attack targets more than 1,000 kilometers away. With this weapon, the imperial city more than 1,000 kilometers away from the border will no longer be safe.
At this moment, the aborigines of this world still don't know that in Tang Mo's mind, the ultimate form of this weapon is actually to be used with a brand new super weapon.
Once the two become one, a whole new chapter can begin.
"Isn't that true? Even when I looked at this big guy in front of me, I couldn't believe that it could fly 1,700 kilometers and hit the capital of the Dahua Empire." Another engineer exclaimed excitedly.
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The cold water lapped at the deck, and a U-shaped submarine was rising and falling with the waves on the rough sea.
Leaning on the icy railing, the captain held a telescope and carefully searched for possible targets on the sea level.
"Captain! I think we've been fooled! There's no way there's an enemy warship in a place like this!" A sailor on the submarine, wearing a thick woolen coat, shouted loudly to the boat next to him amidst the noise of the waves. Chang shouted.
"Crash!" The waves carried by the sea breeze struck again, hitting the hull of the submarine and breaking into countless white water droplets, splashing everywhere.
"We may have sunk two transport ships in the south during this time." Another officer who came out to watch also complained.
Their submarines have been operating south of Dragon Island since the beginning of the war, and their attack targets are mainly transport ships on the route from Gobl to Dorne.
In a few months, they have sunk more than 50,000 tons of transport ships and fishing boats, which can be said to be a fruitful victory.
Unfortunately, they were transferred back to Dragon Island. After replenishing supplies, they were ordered to go north and move the supply base to Beiyuan City.
Compared with Long Island, the submarine supply facilities in Beiyuan City are really poor. Maintenance takes longer and the supply environment is not very good.
Even the temperature in Beiyuan City, which has entered autumn, is already very low. In addition, the economic conditions here are definitely not as good as Longdao. There are not many places for the officers and soldiers to relax when they rest.
What depresses the submarine officers and soldiers the most is that they originally thought they would continue to attack merchant transport ships in the area south of the Mirage Kingdom, but the actual mission was for them to go to the area north of the Mirage Kingdom to search for the elusive joint fleet.
The sea conditions in the northern sea area of Mirage are not good, the sea water is cold, the temperature is lower, and even icebergs occasionally appear. It's really hard for people to like this kind of shitty place where people are disgusted by dogs.
Compared with the southern sea area where the climate is warm and pleasant, and you can find attack targets casually, this place is simply an exiled area.
After wrapping his coat tightly and adjusting the scarf around his collar, the captain finally understood why they received such a lot of seemingly useless things before they left Beiyuan City.
Their boots are special rubber shoes that are waterproof and warm, completely different from the water shoes they were issued before. They had leather gloves, scarves and coats. As the captain, he also has his own leather jacket, which seems to be waterproof and warm.
Now it seems that these thoughtful things must have been proposed by the captain who has been here before on missions. People who have never been here will not think so carefully.
The submarine that fluctuates with the waves looks extremely small in the waves of this sea area, so it is not stable at all when sailing.
In order to save fuel and maintain a high speed, all submarines can only sail on the sea. The submarines of this era are not so much submarines as they are boats that can dive.
Even when attacking, if conditions permit, submarine commanders prefer to stay on the surface and fire. This is completely different from what most people think.
Only when facing enemy counter-submarine forces will submarines dive down to conceal themselves, similar to lying down and crawling. If you want to move quickly, it is more convenient to get up (float).
So even though it can dive to avoid turbulence, the submarine still floats on the sea on its way, like a small boat in the stormy waves.
"Search carefully! If you have time to complain, you might as well check the map again! There is no route here, we have to rely on ourselves for everything!" Looking down at the compass, the captain coughed and shouted loudly: "If you really feel uncomfortable, just get out. Go down and take your place! Come up with someone who is willing to come up!"
Sure enough, the few people standing on the enclosure no longer complained. They were much luckier than the people on duty below to be able to leave the small submarine interior and come out for some air.
The captain only knew that the mission ordered them to perform a search mission here, and did not know more details.
After the war started, all submarines received orders to search for the enemy's main fleet, so they were not surprised by this.
But what they didn't know was that there were actually 15 submarines sent to the northern waters of Mirage this time to carry out the order to search for the enemy fleet!
This number is almost all the submarines in the Tang Dynasty. Excluding fault repairs and maintenance, as well as submarines performing tasks in other sea areas, it is almost all the strength that can be assembled.
The intelligence department of the Tang Army seemed to be sure that the alliance's main fleet was hiding in the northern waters of the Mirage Kingdom, so it actually mobilized the submarine and started searching in the north.
In addition to 15 submarines, the Tang Navy also dispatched three destroyers, which was the largest force it could muster.
Frankly speaking, even if the Tang Navy tried its best, the number of warships and submarines they could mobilize was still too few for the sea area they wanted to search.
The good news is that two of the three destroyers are equipped with radars and have very strong search capabilities. The bad news is that the remaining submarines and destroyers rely on telescopes to find targets.
It's not a good job, boring, tedious, and not thrilling at all. Even to a certain extent, it is easy to break down.
When there is no battle, the officers and soldiers of submarines have a harder time than the sailors on real battleships. They have no portholes, almost no decks, and a pitifully small range of activities.
Fortunately, they are easier than Desan's submarine soldiers and will not be attacked by depth charges dropped by seaplanes that suddenly appear overhead.
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Sophia's car stopped at the entrance of a very ordinary manor. Her car door was opened by the bodyguard. She got out of the car and walked in alone.
The heavy door opened from the inside, and the three-story castle looked a bit old. The surrounding clearing was covered with rotting leaves.
When they saw Sophia, two women in black stood on the left and right sides of the corridor. They bowed their heads slightly and greeted her: "Ms. Sophia."
"Is she ready?" Sofia asked the two people behind her as she walked forward without looking back.
"Report to your lord, she is always ready." One of the women following Sophia replied.
Sofia said no more, walked straight to a door and stopped. The two women in black who were following her stepped forward and helped Sophia open the door.
The room was very luxuriously decorated, completely different from the decadent image outside the castle. There was a woman sitting in the room who was reading a book. When she heard the door being pushed open, she slowly raised her head.
The woman's face is very delicate and in a sense very beautiful. It's just that when this face appears here, it seems a bit too weird.
She looked exactly the same as Sophia, and she also had fiery red hair. The moment she raised her head and looked at Sophia, Sophia even thought she saw another version of herself.
But she knew that this woman was not her, but the daughter of a poor farmer who didn't even have a name.
"This is your chance to repay me." Sophia looked down at the woman sitting on the sofa and said in a cold tone.
"Thank you, sir, for taking care of me over the past ten years. What can I do for you?" The girl looked at Sophia's beautiful face and asked calmly.
"... Die for me." Sofia said the girl's ending coldly, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her.
Indeed, although a woman named Sophia was about to die, it was not her who died, and of course it had nothing to do with her.
"Okay, Lady Sophia." The girl showed a smile. She knew that all these years of prosperity and wealth were not without price. From the moment her parents got those gold coins, she was an item that only belonged to Sophia.
"Do you have any wishes? I can help you realize it." Sophia was silent for a few seconds and then asked again.
"Thank you, there is nothing else I need you to do." The girl thought seriously, bowed to Sofia, and then followed the two men in black out.
"Use a gun..." In order to make the gap between the body and herself smaller, Sophia chose a death method that might further damage the face.
The two women in black who closed the door for Sophia responded, and then followed "Sofia" out of the dilapidated castle.
"You drove me to death... The blood debt can only be repaid with blood!" Sophia knew that she might have to hide in this castle from now on, and her face became extremely ugly.
She walked to the door at the other end, opened the door herself, walked down the corridor step by step, and walked into another building. Here, her confidants are waiting for her, reporting to her on the transfer of property and hidden progress issues.
Faking death is not a simple matter. In order to preserve her massive wealth and still control enough capital for her revenge, Sophia must carefully transfer her assets.
Everything had to be done without anyone noticing, and then her body was delivered to Tang Mo. Only after completing all the steps could her death be truly "established".
This is a long process, but she still has a lot of time. The battle between Dahua and Tang for Fengjiang City will not end before winter, and this war will continue.
Everything is still under her control. The only variable is that Tang Mo has no evil intentions towards her. Tang Mo is really treating her as an opponent and using methods without mercy.
Thinking of this, her face became even more ugly. Against the backdrop of the candlelight on the backward chandelier, she actually became distorted, like a demon.
In order to keep it secret, everything here has not changed for more than ten years, and only a few people know that such a place exists. Only Sophia's most core subordinates knew that there was a substitute for Sophia here.
But now Sofia, who is used to those Tang products, finds this place uncomfortable.
If she hadn't been afraid of the Tang people's assassination, she wouldn't have replaced her with a substitute now... Thinking of all this, Sophia became even more angry. She grabbed a cup and threw it to the ground, making a series of crisp sounds in the empty room.
