Chapter 575: Turning Point of the War (Subscription Request)
After dealing with Ferro Farnsworth, the King of the Evil Eye, Roy couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, because the most important piece of the puzzle in his plan was finally complete.
In fact, when he first heard about the Magic Eye Network, the words "satellite navigation" flashed through his mind.
I vaguely realized that this was an important boost to the development of magic technology.
It's not that he hasn't thought about independent research and development. However, after gaining a deeper understanding of the combination of the magic eye and the magic mirror, he realized that this was not an easy task.
Ordinary magic eyes and magic mirrors are at most like a filming drone hanging in the air, which is far from being a "satellite".
Therefore, he tried every possible means to contact the King of Evil Eyes through various channels.
For this meeting, he even asked Deep Blue to prepare several negotiation plans.
A lot of effort was put into technology applications, future prospects, moral supremacy, promotion and development, etc. Several PPTs were prepared just to convince the King of the Magic Eye.
Fortunately, although this wizard was a powerful one, he was still within the normal range, and Luo Yi's strategy worked.
In the end, the two parties completed the "mutual holding of shares", which can be regarded as binding their interests.
Of course, this was only an approval of the general direction. They also conducted in-depth consultations on the details and finally signed a contract.
The contract stipulates that the King of the Magic Eye, Ferro Farnsworth, will open up secondary permissions of the Magic Eye network to Loy, and have control rights second only to him.
You can perform any operations except the Continental War.
Lloyd helped Philo Farnsworth launch, expand, and perfect the use of the Magic Eye Network.
The two parties reached an offensive and defensive alliance in the form of a contract and were not allowed to harm each other in any form.
This is a brief summary. A real contract is of course much more rigorous, just like legal text.
On Loy's side, he invited many magicians, including the legendary wizard Venus and His Majesty Cicero Griffith, to make meticulous revisions.
And His Majesty Ferro Farnsworth, the King of the Evil Eye, also examined and discussed every word.
Contracts can even be considered a discipline in the magic world, and are extremely rigorous knowledge that magicians who reach high positions must master.
It took seven or eight days of repeated revisions before both parties signed their names, leaving a spiritual imprint.
It was obvious that after the contract was actually signed, both Ferro Farnsworth and Roy breathed a sigh of relief.
There are contractual constraints, and it cannot be said that it is completely impossible to regret, but as long as the benefits are not exaggerated, no one wants to challenge the fair rules of the plane's pan-consciousness.
That can be fatal!
Of course, this is just the beginning.
There is still a huge gap between the Magic Eye Network and the 'satellite' that Loyi needs, so the Ninth Mage Tower, also known as the Ferro Mage Tower, has to start various new research projects.
For example, a comprehensive scan of the terrain is performed and then converted into longitude and latitude data to facilitate positioning.
For example, increasing the speed of information dissemination and reducing delays and unexpected interference.
Another example is increasing the efficiency of data storage and information processing to ensure that there will be no overload when there is too much content in the later stage.
There are also improvements in positioning accuracy, breaking through cloud and magnetic field interference, improving detection efficiency, human-computer information interaction, and so on...
In a word, if you want to complete so many projects with Magic Eye Network, you must keep improving!
promote!
Improve again!
Therefore, for a long time, Ferro Farnsworth had to stay in the Ferro Mage Tower in the 'Holy Dragon Demiplane'.
He also has his own laboratory, which is also in his own demiplane.
However, in order to match the many projects in Flower Territory, he had to set up a laboratory nearby in Flower Territory and call all his assistants over.
Only in this way can communication and experiments be facilitated!
It must be said that the addition of this person has caused a sharp increase in the number of high-level mages in the Flower Territory.
Technical matters were naturally handled by Philo Farnsworth.
Luo Yi, on the other hand, focused on the plan he wrote himself. Although he praised it to the skies and made it seem within reach, what was the reality?
PPT is just PPT, and it is not easy to implement it.
Not to mention anything else, just the promotion of film and television culture will face numerous problems.
For example, we need to enrich the program, shoot videos, develop a cheap magic mirror, and find a profit model...
None of these can be achieved overnight.
Luo Yi thought about it for many days before deciding to proceed in three steps.
The first step is filming.
He planned to find some well-known myths and heroic stories from the long history of the Old World, and then find a reliable team to shoot them.
The vacant space in the relocated industrial area can be converted into a photography studio.
At the beginning, everyone's threshold was very low, so it didn't matter if it was a little simple, it could still attract people.
As the number of films increases and becomes richer and richer, we will naturally pursue excellence.
Of course, a movie alone, at most two or three hours, is not enough to meet the needs of the program.
So, in the second step, Loy sent people to negotiate with those large song and dance troupes and opera houses to purchase the broadcasting rights for a certain amount of money.
It can be recorded with a photo stone, and then broadcast and performed through the Magic Eye Network!
This can also expand the audience of the chorus and opera, which is a win-win situation.
As for the third step, it is to pay to watch.
Naturally, Loy had no right to touch Ferro Farnsworth’s previous battlefield live broadcast, nor would he touch it.
However, the new programs that are launched later will form a new channel, which Luo Yi named the Flower Channel, and its logo is a roaring lion.
Programs are played here twelve hours a day, ranging from movies to musicals, from music to science programs, from history to geographical landscapes.
Roy first set a monthly fee of about ten gold tyres per month.
Of course, this is just the initial stage. When the magic mirror becomes more and more popular and the program reserves are rich, he will lower the fee or even make it free.
At that time, we can transition to a new stage based mainly on advertising fees.
However, those who can obtain the magic mirror from Ferro Farnsworth are all legendary powerful people, and their number is very small.
Although they have money, it is just that little, so their income is naturally limited.
At this stage, there is even a high probability that Luo Yi will lose money.
Therefore, Roy would open cinemas in various places to increase revenue through box office sales.
In each cinema, he would also open a free flower channel to attract people to watch, and set up a magic mirror sales counter to carry out promotional activities.
In short, the only time to make money is to expand the film and television culture industry.
He knew better than anyone that as a new type of entertainment industry, audio-visual feast was definitely a huge market and there was no shortage of money to be made.
It is worth mentioning that Loy helped solve the problem of the raw materials for the magic eyes, which was Ferro Farnsworth’s biggest headache, and the source of the giant beast’s eyeballs.
Giant beasts on land are still relatively rare. Even if they exist, they are hidden in deep mountains, forests and dangerous places.
The real largest number of them are found in the endless ocean.
But even Ferro Farnsworth couldn't run to the bottom of the sea and slaughter those deep-sea monsters in large numbers.
The sea tribe is not without strong people, so it is even more impossible for him to be so unscrupulous.
But Ferro Farnsworth can't do that. If the sea people kill each other, no one will care.
Loy contacted the Siren King Alexios and the Naga Prince Eros, and purchased the eyeballs of the sea monsters from them.
Not to mention the Siren Tribe, as for the Naga Empire, they specialize in raising giant sea beasts as mounts and meat, and have a complete industrial chain.
It would be most convenient to obtain the giant beast's eyes, which are full of magical power, from them.
For both parties, it is just a new trade item.
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Here, Loyi was busy developing demiplanes and iterative updates of the magic technology that advanced by leaps and bounds.
Meanwhile, the war between the Empire and the Alliance finally reached its most important turning point.
First, at the battlefield of Verdun, the empire used almost all the means they could.
Fighters, bombers, pyro soldiers, poison gas bombs, magic tanks, super heavy field artillery, extraordinary assault teams...
In order to destroy Verdun, they even followed the example of the Allied Forces, started a blood sacrifice, and summoned the legions of the abyss and hell!
In order to increase the combat effectiveness and survival rate of soldiers, they dared to use all kinds of potions with huge side effects directly and in large doses.
The coalition forces really tried their best to hold on.
The third-level extraordinary people have become consumables, and countless families have fallen because of this.
The death caused by the fourth-level natural disaster must also be calculated on a daily basis!
It’s not about counting the days when there will be deaths from natural disasters, but the days when there won’t be any!
As for legends, since Loyi started it, there have been more than five legends who died with names on the battlefield of Verdun.
Resurrection spell is useless!
It can be said that the reason why the coalition forces were able to hold on was largely because these strong men were added to the battlefield.
When the 'Loki Potion' became popular, and with sufficient arms provided by the Glorious Empire, the coalition forces finally made up for the gap on the mortal battlefield.
With enough field artillery, we can fight against the Empire. One round from you, one round from me, turning the battlefield into a bloody ruin.
Enough soldiers, holding magical firearms, launched charges again and again in order to seize or recapture the position.
Human life is the least valuable consumable here!
They also found a way to restrain the magic tanks that gave the coalition the most headaches.
It is obviously impossible to use tanks against tanks. It is not that the coalition forces did not form a research team, but that there is not enough time.
So, they chose a different approach and developed an anti-tank explosive bomb!
This is a combination of magic cannonballs and magic. It has the appearance of a cannonball and is filled with enough series of magic scrolls.
After being launched, it can generate huge high temperatures and shock waves, which can melt and burn even magic tanks with incredibly thick armor.
However, after the actual test firing, the coalition forces found that although the power could destroy tanks, it had to hit the target.
With the tank's weight and defense, even if it just explodes next to you, you can still run at full speed and escape directly.
The cost of this kind of anti-tank explosive bomb is extremely high. It can be said that a huge amount of resources is consumed to make each one.
It is obviously impossible to cover the fire with the same firepower as ordinary artillery shells and slowly advance the barrage.
So, this anti-tank explosive bomb is useful, but it doesn’t seem to be that useful!
Until the coalition forces developed a second use, the human bomb!
That is, a soldier would hold the anti-tank explosive bomb, crawl under the tank, pull the fuse, and die together.
This was a crazy tactic, but the coalition used this madness to stop the empire's advance.
As the saying goes, the first push is strong, the second will weaken, and the third will be exhausted!
After several months of siege, the morale of the Empire was inevitably low. It was not until October 21, 316 in the New God Calendar that the coalition forces launched a large-scale counterattack.
This time, they gathered more powerful men, more field artillery, and more troops, and launched a desperate counterattack.
This was also the first large-scale counterattack organized by the Allied forces since the Battle of Verdun.
The Empire was not careful for a moment and lost the defense lines that they had already occupied again and again.
Even in the later stages, they fought back, took back the advantage, and fought back and forth, but it was obvious that they were losing their advantage bit by bit.
It was not until December 18, 316 of the New God Calendar that the Allied forces finally completely recaptured the five lines of defense in Verdun and pushed the battlefield back to the original line.
At this point, the empire was no longer able to organize a large-scale war on the battlefield of Verdun.
The Battle of Verdun also became the longest war of attrition since the war began.
The coalition forces deployed nearly 66 divisions, while the Empire also deployed 46 divisions, with more than two million people deployed to the battlefield. Nearly one-third of them suffered casualties, totaling 700,000 people.
This battle, called the "Verdun meat grinder" by later scholars, is also recognized as the turning point of this world war.
At this point, the empire began to decline.
As for the other battle, the Battle of the Somme ended earlier, with the outcome decided on November 18, 316 of the New Divine Calendar.
The coalition forces won this battle.
After continuous fighting and investment of a large number of powerful people, they finally recovered 180 square kilometers of territory.
This was also the first time since the war began, which greatly boosted the morale of the coalition forces.
Of course, both sides suffered heavy losses!
Moreover, because this was the main battlefield where the Kingdom of Sardinia provided support, there was even a horrific 57,000 casualties in one day.
It can be said that although the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia was weak, it really shed its last drop of blood here.
Moreover, because there were too many deaths, it was impossible to count them after the war, and the data provided by the Empire and the Allied Forces were distorted.
Only a certain scholar gave a seemingly plausible result based on data such as the area of the battlefield, the thickness of the corpses, etc.
In this battle, the three parties together lost at least 1.3 million troops, which was even more tragic than the Battle of Verdun!
At this time, Luo Yi had already taken over part of the authority of the Magic Eye Network. With some curiosity, he actually scanned the battlefield from a high vantage point.
Then, he saw corpses covering the ground and all the buildings in ruins.
The Somme River was covered with broken limbs and the flowing water was bright red.
This scene is like hell!
At just one glance, Luo Yi seemed to see the wailing of countless dead souls, covering the entire sky.
The ferryman of the Styx seemed to have crashed and was completely unable to handle the situation.
The tributaries of the River Styx were filled with floating souls. They stretched out their hands, their souls squeezing against each other, and they screamed hysterically.
At this moment, Loy even felt that this might be Nesriel's purpose.
What is the invasion of the abyss and hell?
It's nothing compared to the horror of human beings killing each other!
At this moment, Luo Yi even felt great sorrow.
PS: After sorting out my thoughts, I suddenly realized that this book has entered its later stages.
(End of this chapter)
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