A week later, Roland received two good news.
First, Iron Axe used napalm to give the devil a head-on blow with extremely limited power, slowing the enemy's advance in the north.
In the letter, the commander-in-chief described in detail the scene of the new weapon when it exploded, which can be said to be even more surprising than the results obtained by the test. In fact, the use of flames to stifle the devil appeared as early as the first Battle of Divine Will. At that time, humans had repeatedly circled behind the enemy and ignited the forest, causing wildfires that would not go out for several days, causing red fog on the front lines. Unable to gather, they all achieved good results in the end.
Because of this, the devil who has learned his lesson will destroy forests, grasslands, and even farmland in a targeted manner, so as not to interrupt the supply. At the same time, even if they are in the red fog-covered area, they will establish small stone tower camps similar to outposts, just in case. As long as there is red fog stored in the camp, even if there is a fire behind them, they can persist until the fire is extinguished.
There is no doubt that Iron Axe and the General Staff were inspired by the above battles, and planned this battle of burning the city.
The advantage of napalm is that it has its own fuel, even an open space can cause a raging fire, and it is extremely difficult to put out by water. But no one thought that the flames didn't burn for long, but instead caused a deflagration that covered the whole city.
It would be great if Axia could restore the situation at the scene. Roland thought with regret. If he could find out the reason, he would be able to use incendiary bombs in a targeted manner to deal a devastating blow to the devil in the future.
Unfortunately, according to the time, Fang City should have been re-engulfed by the red mist, and it is impossible to sneak in again.
In addition, Roland felt distressed that he used up more than 500 barrels of napalm at one time. After all, it is good to say that oil crops can increase production as long as more human resources are invested. The key is to make rubber worm mucus have affinity for animal blood. There is no other way than to accumulate it slowly by the Ministry of Agriculture.
However, the immigrants brought back by the victory were more important than anything else. Roland not only encouraged Iron Axe in his reply, but also granted more than 100 barrels of newly produced napalm to the front line.
The second good news is that the "Tianhuo" assembly plant finally ushered in the successful rollout of the first biplane.
After he got the news from Anna, he rushed to the factory site with Tilly as soon as possible.
This brand-new factory building was built in the same period as the Aerial Knight Academy. Compared with the steam engine factory built with masonry two or three years ago, it has taken into account the various needs of high-end manufacturing from the beginning of its design. The frame of the steel structure makes its interior With a very open space, it can assemble and repair more than ten aircraft at the same time, and the lighting fixtures are hung all over the ceiling. With a bright and clean terrazzo floor, it can be described as magnificent.
Even when Tilly approached the factory gate, she couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration.
If it were someone who didn't know the inside story, it would not be surprising to regard this place as a palace.
In terms of personnel and equipment, Roland has also invested a lot of money. Not to mention the most experienced managers and workers drawn from various workshops, all processing equipment adopts the third-generation machine tools driven by electricity to meet the needs of cutting-edge production. . This makes it also the number one power consumer in the industrial area. If there is no Miyue instrument, if you want to make it run at full capacity, you can only suspend the power supply of other factories.
It can be said that the achievements and accumulation of Neverwinter in the past five years are fully reflected in this new factory.
Roland even heard from Barov that Neverwinter was proud to work here.
According to the plan, when the new factory is officially put into operation, each of its stations will undertake a special assembly task. From the first station to the last, it is basically the whole process of the aircraft's gradual forming. The body starts from riveting, pressing the wings, loading the parts, until the skin is attached and tested at the factory.
But now, the factory is far from the ideal state. Except for the "Tianhuo" that is undergoing painting work, the other stations are empty except for the station closest to the factory exit.
"How, trouble with production?" Roland walked over to Anna.
"There are too many," Anna shook her head. "You don't know how many parts and materials the workers scrapped in order to make this qualified product."
Looking at the helpless look of the other party, he couldn't help laughing.
As early as when he made this decision, Roland anticipated the difficulty of new materials and new installation techniques. It was almost impossible to understand in a short period of time. This was after he tried every means to reduce the difficulty. case.
For example, the joint part of the aircraft adopts a new single-sided riveting technology. For this reason, he specially opened a production line, which is specially used to manufacture all kinds of core and blind rivets required for biplanes. Compared with traditional double-sided rivets, this kind of connection that can be fixed by tapping or core pulling has lower requirements on workers and is more convenient to install.
In addition, he also draws on the experience of later model assembly, and while all the parts are fixedly numbered, each assembly step is expressed in the form of a legend. And set a fool interface on some confusing parts to further reduce the possibility of wrong installation due to carelessness.
Even so, in the past half a month, the workers have only tossed out one finished product, and the difficulty can be imagined.
"Then did you play in person?" Tilly suddenly asked.
"It's not..." Anna shrugged her shoulders. Only in front of a few people would she show such an "unsteady" demeanor, "Roland asked me to only be in charge of commanding, and no matter what troubles they encounter, they must be resolved by themselves. , although several times I almost couldn't help it."
Tilly laughed, "So you're actually quite happy, right? Because after all, one of them was a success."
Anna couldn't help but raised the corner of her mouth, "I knew I couldn't hide it from you."
"If there is the first one, there will be the second one. After all the workers get started, I think there will be more qualified planes soon." Tilly paused for a while, then turned to look at Roland, "If It would be better if you compliment her more."
"I didn't count on him," Anna curled her lips.
"Eh?" Roland looked blank, what happened? Isn't it talking about aircraft production, how did it turn to him
At this moment, a personal guard ran over, "Your Majesty, all the preparations for the first Skyfire have been completed, and the celebration ceremony can begin at any time."
Roland turned his attention back to the biplane, and saw two newly painted logos on the light gray fuselage. One was the royal coat of arms of Greycastle, and the other was the one with the spear raised and the wings outstretched. knight. The whole body looks majestic, but I always feel that something is missing...
He pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized, stretched out his hand and waved, "Put on the ribbon!"
Soon, bright red satin was hung on the plane, and a big red flower was also worn on the propeller of the nose.
That's right, he nodded with satisfaction, this is the perfect factory state of the Skyfire.
Then there were speeches, ribbon-cutting and group photos. Roland, Anna, Tilly... and all the heroes and workers who had participated in the design and manufacture of the aircraft stood together, behind which was a brand-new biplane numbered 001 with a red ribbon.
"Watch me here... One, two, three!"
Soraya summoned the magic pen and recorded this historic picture.