Chapter 482 Turning Point (First Update)
It was an unprecedentedly huge airship.
It is called an airship, but in fact it is more like a hot air balloon. Under the giant airbag with a length of 4,700 meters and a diameter of 2,400 meters, a giant metal steel plate with a length and width of 600 meters is suspended by thousands of ropes.
Wooden boxes were piled on the metal plates, and a man who could only be seen through a telescope stood in the front, with his hands behind his back, facing the wind.
Everyone seemed to have lost their voices as if by the devil, staring at the "airship" flying towards them at an unscientific speed like wooden carvings or clay sculptures.
When it flew before their eyes, its shadow covered them. This huge creature was like a giant Kun, obscuring the entire sky.
At this moment, everyone truly felt how huge it was.
Without any movement, the airship began to descend on its own.
The shadows were approaching rapidly, and the oppressive feeling was as if the sky was falling.
With a bang, the metal plate fell to the ground.
The huge airbag also slowly descended, covering the more than 4,000 people present.
…
After working for a while, the more than 4,000 people brought by Li Linyue rolled up the huge airbag, untied thousands of ropes and gaskets used to share the pressure, and revealed the countless neatly stacked wooden boxes underneath.
It looked like the entire warehouse floor had been lifted up.
Li Linyue was speechless for a moment, and Ling beside her seemed to have her brain hollowed out. Only her silly brother rushed forward to hug the man, yelling and shouting, and wanted to kiss him a few times.
The man pushed hard with a look of disgust, but the silly brother held on tightly like a husky that hadn't seen its owner for ten years.
The two of them struggled for a long time before Li Linyue coughed and said, "Yuchen, come here."
Li Yuchen reluctantly let go of his good brother and returned to his sister.
Li Linyue took a step forward and looked at the man she had been thinking about day and night.
Although I have only met him once, his appearance has been deeply imprinted in my mind.
"Xiao Wen, you're here."
Li Linyue was surprised to find that she had only said such ordinary words as the opening remarks of their first formal face-to-face communication.
"Yes, I am here."
He just nodded casually, as if the two of them were already very familiar with each other.
really.
Li Linyue thought.
They are very familiar with each other, so familiar that the long phone conversations they have can be as long as a feast.
However, they were strangers, so strangers that this was their first face-to-face conversation.
This novel feeling impacted Li Linyue's heart, making her heart surge and full of thoughts.
Lin Wen didn't feel anything. The world would soon enter the Internet age. At that time, a new term called "face-to-face meeting" or "meeting in person" would be born.
This is what it describes.
"This is an 82mm light artillery shell with a killing radius of 24.8 meters, an effective range of 1,450 square meters, and a weight of 2.66 kilograms. A total of 51 million artillery shells are worth 51 billion imperial yuan."
Lin Wen said a lot, and the most important one was the last sentence.
This is the result of the hard work of five million workers. The cost alone exceeds 40 billion yuan, and the money earned is actually hard-earned money.
Free aid is impossible, it’s good that Lin Wen didn’t charge extra shipping fees.
For this transportation, all the thousands of paper puppet talismans that I had saved up with great difficulty last time were used up.
"Fifty million?"
Before Li Linyue could say anything, Ling beside her shouted first.
Her scream caused an instant sensation.
"Fifty million?"
"Is this fifty million shells?"
"OMG……"
Li Yuchen shouted excitedly, "Wenjun! I knew you were the best! Hahaha! You're worthy of being my good brother!"
Li Linyue was also in a trance for a moment. She originally thought that it might be hundreds of thousands or even a million pieces. The empire usually transported them in this quantity unit time and time again.
So she only brought four thousand people.
I never expected that he could transport 50 million coins at once.
Li Linyue was good at math, and she quickly calculated in her head that the net weight of the shells alone was over 130,000 tons.
Then add the wooden boxes, steel plates, ropes, and the weight of the airship...
Li Linyue felt dazzled. The empire's largest transport aircraft, the Swan-211 strategic transport aircraft, had a payload of only 250 tons.
This airship can carry more than the carrying capacity of 500 Swan-211 strategic transport aircraft.
This man...how did he do it?
Li Linyue looked at him and he looked at her.
He held out his hand, and she held out hers too.
"Write a receipt."
The atmosphere cracked.
Ling, who was standing by, was so angry that veins popped up on her forehead and she wanted to hit someone with a stick.
Li Linyue was also a little dissatisfied, so she wrote a receipt and put it into his pocket personally.
"Keep it safe!" she warned. "If the Imperial General Armaments Department tries to renege on their debt, this will be evidence."
Ling looked at the handwriting written by the princess, feeling jealous. "Don't try to cheat, kid. We will carefully check the quantity and quality of the shells."
Confidant Liu You looked at the several-kilometer-long airbag and sighed, "How did you make such a large airship? When an airship exceeds a certain size, the difficulty and unsafety of operation and control increase rapidly. This one of yours..."
He choked, trying to find a more accurate description. "This... uh... simple airship is two hundred times larger than the Empire's largest airship, and has a carrying capacity over two hundred times greater. It can actually fly over a thousand kilometers stably. I can't believe it. It's a miracle."
The little princess Li Qingyue, who came with her sister, curiously fiddled with the white paper stuck on the airbag, and unexpectedly found that there was a piece of such white paper every few dozen meters on the airbag.
"What's this for?" she asked curiously, looking at Lin Wen. "Big Brother."
Liu Youxin sighed that the little princess was so smart that she knew not to call him brother-in-law in public but to call him big brother instead.
Lin Wen casually said, "This is the talisman paper that controls them. It can bring the airbags to life in a limited way, allowing them to automatically adjust the force applied to their positions, release accumulated static electricity, and automatically inhale or exhale, causing the airship to rise or descend."
Li Yuchen studied it curiously. "Isn't this just a blank piece of paper? Could it be hiding some secret?"
Li Linyue pulled her silly brother away from the airbag. "I can actually coax you with words that can coax a child."
Li Yuchen retorted unconvincedly, "Wenjun never lies!"
"Shut up!"
There were more than a million wooden boxes on the steel plates, each containing fifty shells and weighing one hundred and thirty kilograms.
There are five wooden boxes stacked in a row, totaling 200,000 rows, distributed on this 600X600 steel plate.
This amount of transport was not enough with only 4,000 people, and the carriages and trains prepared in advance were far from up to standard. Li Linyue immediately reported the situation to her father and requested the Marshal's Headquarters to send someone to take over.
Li Longxing almost thought he had misheard. He confirmed it three times before he believed that his good son-in-law had transported 50 million artillery shells in one day.
This huge surprise even made Li Longxing a little overwhelmed, so much so that he was a little incoherent when talking to Lin Wen.
"Let's get married today, and Lin Yue will sleep with you tonight..."
Lin Wen ignored his nonsense and only emphasized that they had to pay, and it would be even better if they could give some shipping costs.
This gadget is simple in theory, but the difficulty of actually implementing it is far greater than Lin Wen imagined. Just using the [Object Control Technique] to maintain its stability has exhausted Lin Wen's energy.
The flowers and fruits were almost eaten up, leaving only one "Panlong Fruit", one "Fire Dragon Fruit", and one "Fairy Flower".
Fortunately, Lin Wen has accumulated a lot of good fortune, so he can change his luck again when the time comes.
Now [Tao Ruo You Qing] has also been strengthened, so you won't get useless and rubbish luck anymore. The worst that can happen is flowers and fruits.
Lin Wen has not used the enhanced [Body of Destiny] yet, and the twenty-one-day cooldown period has not yet expired.
Lin Wen is looking forward to obtaining the Super Destiny Star.
After delivering the goods, Lin Wen went back on the pretext of being busy with affairs in Changshan County.
Li Linyue also understood that Changshan County was not only undergoing large-scale development, but was also at the forefront of the confrontation with Yu Zhongxian, so there must be a lot of things to do.
There was not much communication between the two sides, they just said goodbye and parted ways.
Li Linyue was also busy with her work, and she liked this natural attitude very much, as if they had been a boyfriend and girlfriend who had been together for a long time, or an old couple who had lived together for a long time, and had a familiar tacit understanding.
The marshal's men arrived quickly, driving thousands of trucks.
Tens of thousands of people got off trucks and began carrying artillery shells.
Li Linyue specifically ordered Liu You to lead people to supervise, and Ling was responsible for guarding their statisticians to prevent anyone from playing tricks.
Not a penny of my husband's money can be lost.
These are the exact words Li Linyue told her personal maid.
Ling looked unhappy, but still carried out His Highness's orders meticulously.
On the way back, Li Yuchen kept bragging about his and Lin Wen's heroic deeds, and Li Linyue did not interrupt him for the first time.
She found she enjoyed hearing this.
Even though I know that many of them are fake.
Marshal's Headquarters.
Fu Wenyu and his trusted accomplices looked as grim as they could be.
"The Papal States has lost over a million men in just a few days, yet achieved very little."
"Internal instability has already begun. I told that idiot Mo Zhai not to exaggerate. If they suffer a setback, those cannon fodder will realize that the pre-war promises were not fulfilled, and the army's morale will be shaken."
"He thinks his Burning Heaven Cult is omnipotent. Even though the untouchables are brainless idiots, the lie of sending them to their deaths cannot be shattered."
"What should we do now? The Great Elder's investigation team has also arrived. It would be very dangerous for us to pass on any more information."
Fu Wenyu gritted his teeth and said, "Wait! We still have some cards up our sleeves, and Chief Yu also has many tricks up his sleeve that he hasn't used yet."
"How long do we have to wait? I feel uncomfortable seeing that bitch acting so arrogantly."
"Be patient." Fu Wenyu smiled grimly, "It won't be long before we can strip her naked and trample her on the ground."
In the dark room, everyone laughed sinisterly.
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Large conference room.
Imperial Marshal Shang Lianshan said, "Your Majesty, a total of 51 million, all of which are shells for light artillery."
Li Longxing was in high spirits, proud of his capable son-in-law.
"I said this guy is pretty good."
Shang Lianshan asked in a low voice, "Is Lin Yue's marriage settled?"
Li Longxing nodded secretly.
Shang Lianshan sighed deliberately: "It seems that there is no hope for my good-for-nothing son."
Li Longxing patted his shoulder vigorously and said with a smile: "Don't worry, in ten years, the little princess will have grown up."
"Will you be a bootlicker for another ten years and watch the little princess marry someone else?" Shang Lianshan said with a squint.
"Maybe there's a chance."
"Bullshit, you said the same thing ten years ago."
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking nonsense and talk about business."
Shang Lianshan turned serious. "Your Majesty, even though we have 50 million artillery shells, we won't be able to sustain the force for long given our current consumption. Furthermore, we only have light artillery shells, not heavy ones. The pressure on us is still enormous."
Li Longxing nodded slightly: "We need to switch to a more economical method. We can't use artillery fire to clean up the place anymore."
He sighed deeply, "The empire has been accumulating military supplies for such a long time. I thought I could have a good time, but I didn't expect it to be over in just a few days."
Shang Lianshan laughed and said, "Isn't a man's pleasure always short-lived?"
"That's just you."
The two chatted and laughed for a while, then began to rearrange tactics and firepower distribution.
The principle of the new tactics was to have an ammunition supply of three million shells a day, and they could only be fired when the enemy was visible.
Don't use artillery if you can use machine guns or rifles.
The position can be abandoned, and space can be used to consume the enemy's manpower while preserving one's own manpower.
This tactic is called the spring tactic, and every step back is like a spring being compressed.
When compressed to its limit, the spring strikes back with unprecedented force.
As expected, this tactic was severely criticized by the Marshal's Headquarters, and Fu Wenyu even called it treason.
Many neutral generals were also shaken because Fu Wenyu warned that this tactic would seriously undermine morale and cause soldiers to defect or even rebel.
"We are conserving our manpower. This is a tactic..."
Fu Wenyu sneered, "It is an honor for soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the empire. You are a complete coward."
Executive Staff Officer Guo Feng retorted, "It's better than those guys who, under the pretext of fighting for the empire, let others sacrifice themselves while they hide in the back and enjoy themselves!"
Fu Wenyu was so angry that his face turned purple. He pointed at Guo Feng's nose and shouted, "How dare you insult the Imperial Marshal? You, a mere staff officer, actually dare to slander the Imperial Marshal! Come! Drag him out and execute him immediately!"
Li Longxing took the opportunity to leave, "Wenyu, don't be angry. He said it wasn't you, but some despicable and shameless villains, cowards, dogs, garbage, and feces."
Fu Wenyu's face was about to crack. This was clearly someone pointing at his nose and scolding him, and he couldn't refute it.
"Everyone."
Li Longxing turned around, facing all the generals, raised his head and said loudly: "Of course, the imperial soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice, but they are afraid of meaningless sacrifice. It is the wrong decision of the marshals that makes their sacrifice worthless."
"The Papal States treats their soldiers not as human beings, but as cannon fodder to consume our ammunition. Should we do the same?"
"We are a noble empire, not the despicable, shameless, ignorant and backward Papal States."
These words touched the hearts of many people. Most of the empire's generals were neutral. Although there were factions, victory was in the interests of the majority.
The Empire has always despised the Papal States and naturally would not go along with it.
"Everyone, please believe me, the Emperor of the Empire will definitely lead you to true victory."
There was a less than enthusiastic response in the conference room. After all, the Central Army was not part of the Imperial Faction.
But everyone chose to vote with their feet.
The spring tactic was adopted.
The night before the execution, the executive staff officer, Guo Feng, came to visit and said, "Your Majesty, I think when we evacuate any position, it would be best to leave some leaflets behind. In addition to exposing Mo Zhai's nature of using their lives to gain power, they should also list our casualties."
Shang Lianshan looked at him with interest, "Xiao Guo, what do you mean?"
Guo Feng replied, "Mo Zhai gathered his soldiers through deception and lies, and victory is what keeps them motivated. Their morale has been crushed by days of defeat, and when they capture our positions, they will inevitably make a big propaganda drive to restore morale. We will use this method to counter his propaganda, telling them that what you have lost in exchange for your lives are only our artillery shells; we have lost no soldiers."
Shang Lianshan laughed after hearing this and said, "Great! Xiao Guo, you're really thoughtful. Let's do it this way."
In the following days, the Imperial Army on the Western Front retreated more than ten kilometers and lost hundreds of positions, but its own losses were minimal.
The Papal States suffered heavy losses, and although their propaganda was thunderous, their morale was becoming increasingly low.
(End of this chapter)
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