Li Yao has been in the empire for a long time, and he has a deep understanding of the various types of main warships that the empire relies on to dominate the star sea. He knows that two or three hundred years ago, the imperial military had a short period of "resurrection of cannon and giant ship doctrine". .
Originally, as the design of crystal armor and the maintenance technology of giant soldiers are more and more developed today, the combat capability of individual soldiers is getting stronger and stronger, and warships are more and more inclined to combine firepower output platforms and comprehensive supply platforms, rather than vanguards facing each other. .
A hundred or so masters, wearing crystal armor armed to the teeth, break into the enemy's starship, and it is possible to reimburse a starship costing billions or even tens of billions, and even if they cannot destroy the opponent's starship, Our own side lost at most a hundred or so masters—these masters can always fight off a lot of opponents before they die.
Under such a cost-effective disadvantage, it is obviously uneconomical to spend a lot of military expenses to build a larger-scale starship-it is better to invest resources in the construction of the crystal armor battle group, as well as the repair and imitation of the giant god soldiers.
However, the technology of crystal armor and giant god soldiers is developing, as is the firepower output of starships, psychic shields, and unmanned operation technology. The "big gun ship" has always been the dream of soldiers. The crystal brain and spirit net technology have been developed to the extreme. Combat puppets, various forms of drones, and remote-controlled space mines can gather into a surging flood. Coupled with a sufficient number of naval guns, they can destroy all enemies, including The most powerful crystal armor and giant soldiers are included!
"The Colossus is by no means invincible, as long as there are enough combat puppets and drones, and the firepower output by the naval guns is strong enough to form a continuous and impenetrable fire net, the Colossus will definitely be defeated!
"If it cannot be defeated, it is because there are not enough battle puppets and turrets, and the fire net is not dense enough. If one hundred thousand turrets can be piled up on a starship, what kind of enemy cannot be destroyed?"
This was the argument of some cannon and giant ship advocates at that time.
And they are not just talking about it, they have also carried out theoretical calculations and tests for decades in the most authoritative military laboratory in the empire, and they have proved their point of view in countless tests on the virtual battlefield—equipment Hundreds of thousands of psychic puppets and drones, and the "super arsenal ship" equipped with at least 10,000 heavy naval guns, did beat ordinary giant soldiers to shame, even if the virtual index of these giant soldiers was adjusted High enough to reach the level controlled by the God Transformation Boss, it is also difficult to break through the intercepting fire net of the 'super arsenal ship'.
Such a result cannot but make the imperial military tempted.
After all, the core cockpit of the Colossus, that is, the research and development technology of the "Lingfu", has not yet been mastered by the empire. If it blows up, this Giant God Soldier will be completely scrapped.
It is not known how long the war between the Empire and the Holy League will last. If it continues for another thousand years, one giant soldier of the Empire will die and one less, and the Holy League, which has a large number of prehistoric heritages, obviously has a higher level than the Empire. Excellent giant weapon maintenance and imitation technology.
It would be very embarrassing if at the end of the battle, all the giant god soldiers on the empire's side were exhausted, but there were still some giant god soldiers left in the holy alliance.
It is precisely because of such concerns, and stimulated by the "perfect performance" of the virtual war in the laboratory, that the imperial military launched a super arsenal ship construction plan. The new super warship is called "King Kong"!
The size, space, and firepower of the Kongo-class super arsenal ship are more than ten times that of the largest arsenal ship built by the empire in the past. In fact, it is more like a combination of an arsenal ship, a comprehensive supply ship, and even a star battle fort.
In the original design idea, the military would cram at least 30,000 turrets of various types, hundreds of the most advanced array-type fire control chips, and more than Half a million battle puppets and drones make them the "perfect battleship, the doomsday battleship, the ultimate battleship that can end all wars" that the designer boasted to the Senate!
Is the actual combat effectiveness of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship as amazing as the designers and contractors boasted, capable of hoisting and fighting giant soldiers
This question is destined to remain an unsolved mystery forever.
Perhaps, assuming that these King Kong-class super arsenal ships can really be built according to the highest standards, they can indeed sweep thousands of troops, be invincible, blow up the giant soldiers, and end all wars.
But before that, it ends first, the finances of the empire.
The entire construction process of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is a very old-fashioned and sad story.
Perhaps the idea of "firepower is paramount, drones are invincible" is not wrong, but the designer's idea is too advanced and too ambitious. The designer greatly overestimated the development speed of the imperial crystal brain level, and underestimated the tens of thousands. The technical difficulty of integrating the turrets into one, or in other words, in order for the Senate to approve the construction plan of the super battleship as soon as possible, from the designer to the largest arms contractors in the empire, to the stakeholders inside the Senate, all showed With a strong spirit of optimism in cultivation, he turned a blind eye to "small difficulties", and threw out a budget that was by no means cheap, but he could bear it with gritted teeth, and a combat power that could be formed within twenty years at most. A firm guarantee.
The Senate at that time agreed to this plan, and a total of sixteen "King Kong-class super arsenal ships" were constructed in the dock at the same time. This construction lasted... a whole hundred years.
During this period, not to mention the natural disasters and man-made disasters caused by various technical problems, the upgrade of crystal brain and battle puppet technology has repeatedly overturned the original design, and the original plan and budget have long been thrown into the corner of the waste. In the wastebasket, the new construction cost was increased one by one, and in the end, the construction cost of each King Kong-class super arsenal ship reached more than twenty times the initial budget!
No matter how "military" the real human empire is, no matter how much the Senate desires the birth of a super battleship, it will collapse in the face of such a budget and the long-awaited completion time.
"The King Kong-class super arsenal ship is the most powerful doomsday battleship in history, but it belongs to the Holy League! It is just lying motionless in the dock, and it will destroy the entire empire!"
Many veterans of the empire pounded on the table and roared.
But besides roaring, they have nothing to do. There are already astronomical resources invested in this plan, so it is not necessary to sell the sixteen unfinished King Kong-class super arsenal ships as scrap metal now, right
What's more, the fertile water does not flow to outsiders, and the astronomical amount of resource investment will not disappear out of thin air. If it flows back and forth, isn't it flowing into the hands of stakeholders, large and small
Even these veterans who blew their beards and stared, pounded the table and roared, may not have benefited from it secretly!
In this way, the construction plan of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship became a never-ending black hole, which dragged down the Imperial Army enough for a whole hundred years—the Holy League could take advantage of the vacancy, defeat the Black Wind Fleet, and occupy the entire empire. It is hard to say that the five heavy industry worlds have nothing to do with the weakening of this plan. Even the economic crisis after the war was so serious that the King Kong-class super arsenal ship has a small contribution!
When the war of the Holy League's invasion of the Black Wind Five Realms broke out, all parties in the empire finally could not bear the endless delays, and the relevant contractors seemed to feel that many people would lose their heads if this continued. Sixteen King Kong-class super The Arsenal ship finally entered service.
However, due to the raging battles on the front lines and the serious lack of budget, the final construction of the sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships has not been completed, which is equivalent to "premature babies" with congenital deficiencies. It is not their fault that the six super warships cannot exert their theoretically extreme combat effectiveness, but a matter of time and funding. If they are given another 30 to 50 years and two to three times the funding, the King Kong-class super arsenal ship will definitely It can blow up all giant soldiers!
Even the designers and builders are so lacking in confidence, the performance of these sixteen huge "premature babies" can be imagined.
On the real battlefield, they completely lost the halo of destroying everything on the virtual battlefield, but exposed their clumsy and fragile weaknesses to the naked eye, and because the cost was too expensive, the four major elector families were reluctant to let these super arsenals The warships were thrown into the fiercest battlefield, and after only two of them were seriously injured by the Holy League, the remaining fourteen super arsenal warships fled back to their home port in a hurry.
The King Kong-class super arsenal ship has completely become a joke. In the next hundred years, the empire's "big gun ship doctrine" disappeared, and no new super battleships were refined, and the daily maintenance cost of sixteen "premature King Kong" is astronomical. Numbers, even the four major elector families can't bear it, how can they be dragged into the dock to complete the real construction
Therefore, today, a hundred years later, they are still premature babies who can only exert 30% of their combat power. They were abandoned by the most elite super-class fleets of the four major elector families. Instead, they were assigned to the main fleet of the next level, with them as the core The "Eight King Kongs" were created and put on the battlefield to wipe out the reformers.
"I know that the evaluation of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is not very high, but it is caused by various factors. In fact, even unfinished premature babies can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness. As long as they are determined to fight to the death, they It can still make any enemy fearful."
Jin Yuyan smiled wryly, "Poor performance on the battlefield against the Holy League does not mean that they will be merciful to our escort fleet. You just tried your best to temporarily deceive so many immortal cultivators. Dao 10,000, these sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships are the "Dinghaishenzhen" of the coalition forces of the four major families. If they can't completely defeat them on the battlefield, no one will easily defect and join us.
"So, 'Black Wind King Li Yao', how are you going to change the next trick? Where is your so-called 'Black Wind Fleet'?"