"Hehe, you're right. The main cannon of this fortress was directly removed from Wei Wuxing's main cannon." Chen Kang turned his head when he heard this voice, and saw that it was Tang Long who was wiping his sweat. Can't help bowing to Tang Long in a hurry, and said with a smile: "This will save a lot of money and time."
Tang Long sighed: "Yes, the Ministry of Finance predicts that the manufacture of this main gun will take nearly a trillion trillion, and it will take five years and five million engineers. But now it only takes a few months to adjust and install it. You Tell me how much manpower and material resources are saved." Of course, Tang Long knew that the assembly and completion of this large project in such a short period of time was all due to the help of the 900,000 robots that were removed from the Beluga battleship. As for the current pilots of the white whale battleship, they are all humans.
"I don't know what else Mr. Tang Long installed on this fort besides the main cannon?" Chen Kang began to attack from the side. He was going to investigate the situation clearly, and if Tang Long had a device that could make this metal ball jump, he would find a way to get it. You must know that although this kind of fortress is a bit small, it is still a fortress. As long as it can jump in space, one of this kind of fortress can be sold for the price equivalent to tens of thousands of warships.
"Well, in addition to this 50-kilometer-diameter main gun that cannot be moved, it is also equipped with 30,000 fortress guns that can move arbitrarily across the entire fort with a diameter of 30 meters. There is also a structure that wraps the entire fortress, which is divided into 100 layers. One kilometer has a total thickness of 100 kilometers of protective armor. In addition, there is a giant protective shield covering the entire fortress with a strength of 3 million degrees. It can be said that it is definitely a perfect combination of shield and spear." Tang Long said proudly.
"Oh, the main gun seems to be exposed outside the protective armor, right? If so, as long as a missile hits the muzzle, the main gun will be useless." Chen Kang glanced at the main gun. Said worriedly behind the launch port left by the thick protective armor outside the cannon.
Tang Long said triumphantly: "Haha, don't worry, the one hundred layers of protective armor wrap the entire fortress. Each of the hundred layers of protective armor is made of countless diamond-shaped metal blocks of more than 30 square meters It is made up. Usually there is nothing wrong, these metal blocks are tightly bonded together. When the fortress gun is fired or the landing port is opened, these metal blocks will move enough space. The metal blocks of the entire fortress can be free Move, so except for the position of the main gun in the center of the fortress, artillery fire and missiles can be fired from any place, and warships can also enter anywhere. In other words, this fortress is full of launch ports and landing ports! How? So, great, right?"
"It's amazing, it's really amazing!" When Tang Long was explaining, Chen Kang had already seen the structure of those diamond-shaped metal blocks, and also clearly saw the various passages and facilities extending in all directions in this fortress. Of course, he also understood what Tang Long said. To put it simply, in addition to firing fortress guns in any direction, this fortress can also release and receive warships and fighter planes in any direction. During fierce battles, wounded battleships can go directly through the fortress to hide behind to recuperate, and warships hiding behind the fortress can also go directly through the fortress to assault the enemy. If this fortress were bigger, it would be absolutely flawless. It's a pity that such a small fortress, after installing so many fortress guns and building passages extending in all directions, apart from building the necessary energy storage system and energy manufacturing plant, there is no other facilities to be built. If equipment such as maintenance plants, military production plants, food production plants, and soldiers' housing areas can be built in the fortress, the fortress will be able to carry out fierce battles for a long time. And the most important thing is that this fortress will not be able to put down the warships stationed there, which is a huge flaw.
Chen Kang was praising that he made a good point later, and said: "But it's too small, if it can be enlarged..." He told Tang Long what he thought just now.
After hearing this, Tang Long shook his head helplessly: "Hey, you think I don't want to do this, but those jumping devices and engines can only drive such a big fortress, so I can't do anything about it. But this fortress is not as open as you think. Not a single battleship, let me tell you, a brigade of 100 beluga warships can be accommodated here!" After talking about this, Tang Long became proud again, it was because he was digging around, and finally got it out. The parking platform, so of course he is proud of it.
Although Chen Kang lamented in his heart what effect these hundred warships could have, he still seized this opportunity immediately and secretly brought up the idea of obtaining the jumping device: "Oh, our company's technological strength is good, we may To be able to help you solve this problem, of course, the premise is that you have analyzed the jumping device of your fortress."
Tang Long glanced at Chen Kang and said with a smile: "No need, no one can solve this problem except the creator of this device." Speaking of this, Tang Long changed the subject and asked: "By the way, what's the matter with you?" , have the 2,000 X battleships and 40,000 advanced transport ships arrived?"
"Ah, it hasn't arrived yet, but it will arrive either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Looking at Tang Long's appearance, Chen Kang knew that Tang Long didn't want to talk about the jumping device. It seemed that he had to find another opportunity. He pretended to remember something and said: "By the way, you gave us the Beluga warship last time, but you didn't give us the original control system of the Beluga warship. Now we are in trouble, because the system we developed is not the same as the Beluga warship. The whale warships are not in harmony, and they can hardly exert 20% of the power of the white whale warships."
"Oh, what was sold to you at the beginning was only the Beluga warship, and you didn't say that you want the supporting system of the Beluga warship." Tang Long said indifferently, digging his ears.
Chen Kang knew that Tang Long would not agree if he had no interest, so he said directly: "Our company is willing to exchange this system with you with 3,000 X battleships with the same configuration as before, and 60,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies. "Of course he directly stated his bottom line, and this is not a business that needs to be bargained. If Tang Long directly gave him that system for free, he would still be distressed, because there is no excuse to help Tang Long increase his military strength.
Tang Long's saliva immediately flowed down: "3,000 remodeled X battleships and 60,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies?" But he quickly recovered his normal expression and said: "Okay! I will change it with you! I will Go to the Beluga battleship and copy a copy of the system. But this time we hand in the system with one hand and hand in the warship with the other. If you don’t see the warship, you don’t hand in the system!” Tang Long, an idiot, doesn’t know the value of this system at all. After installing the system, Tang Long's future enemies will be as tough as him, and it will be impossible to win easily like now. However, according to Tang Long's personality, I'm afraid Tang Xing will be forced to manufacture a new type of warship for him.
Chen Kang nodded hurriedly and said, "No problem, I'll let the company deliver the warship." Although Chen Kang didn't get the information on the fortress's jumping device, he completed the task assigned by the general manager. He also heaved a sigh of relief, anyway, he has plenty of time, and he will always find a chance to get this jumping device.
I don’t know if Chen Kang Company is too eager or what. One week after the 2,000 remodeled X battleships and 40,000 high-level transport ships arrived at Zhongzhou Star, 3,000 remodeled X battleships and 60,000 high-level transport ships It also arrived at Zhongzhou Star. Tang Long, who handed over the information of the Beluga Whale system, did not appear as he was drooling at these warships last time, but stayed in the port frowning.
And the members of Datang's military department, like their supreme commander, looked at these warships with a sad face. It can be said that almost all the military and political personnel present looked at those warships with a sad face.
If you have bright eyes, you can be very surprised to find that Sally standing behind Tang Long has become a brigadier general, and the three brigadier generals behind her have become majors. As for Yuna, who was standing on the other side of Tang Long, the badge of the prince on her chest turned into the badge of a first-class marquis. Most of the government officials behind her were viscounts and barons. None left.
"The composition of the battleship soldiers has been disrupted and reorganized, right?" Tang Long asked Sally.
"Yes, my lord, the barely qualified 20 million Earth Star soldiers have been reorganized from the original soldiers." Sally replied.
"How is their combat effectiveness?" Tang Long continued to ask.
"Training needs to be strengthened to keep up with the original combat effectiveness." Sally said helplessly, if it wasn't for preventing the soldiers from the planet Earth from making trouble, she wouldn't have carried out this kind of reorganization that weakened the combat effectiveness. But if you don't do this, even if the Earth Star soldiers don't make trouble, the fleet composed entirely of Earth Star soldiers will be vulnerable, after all, they have never fought warship battles at all.
"En." Tang Long thought for a while, turned around and ordered: "Zhang Guanhua, Major Li Jiamin, go up and receive your troops." Hearing this order, Zhang Guanhua and the two standing behind Sally immediately threw away the old man who looked like a dead man. With a father-like expression, he changed into an excited expression and answered yes loudly, and excitedly took his men down to receive his thousand warships.
Seeing these soldiers running towards the landing craft excitedly, Tang Long sighed helplessly and said to Sally: "Order the captains to receive the 3,000 warships." Sally saluted Tang Long, she knew that Tang Long Why did Long sigh? There are only two brigadier generals and three majors in an army of tens of millions of people. A brigadier general commanded all ground troops and police forces, and a brigadier general commanded 6,000 warships. This is nothing, but the three majors each command a thousand warships, and the commander of a brigade is a lieutenant. Not long ago, Tang Long set the officer ranks required for warships, and now he can only lower the rank requirements by three levels to appoint officers.
Thinking of this incident, Sally couldn't help but sigh, and couldn't help thinking of what happened when her group had a meeting in the capital of Zhongzhou Star a few days ago: "Three thousand remodeled X battleships? Sixty thousand advanced transport ships full of supplies ? My lord, is this true? Why is Chen Kang willing to give us so many warships?" Yuna asked nervously. Although she was very happy to get a large amount of supplies, she was not willing to pay too much for Tang Long.
"It's nothing, it's just exchanged for the control system of the Beluga warship." Tang Long said with a cheerful smile.
"My lord, by doing this, Chen Kang's company can actually produce the white whale warship. If he sells it to our enemy, it will be a major blow to us!" Sally immediately stood up and said nervously.
"Hehe, don't be nervous, they promise they won't sell it to our enemies." Tang Long comforted.
"But they only promise not to sell it to forces in the Wuchao galaxy. I believe the Lord's purpose is not limited to the Wuchao galaxy, right?" Fei Li, who is in charge of the law, reminded. Under the influence of everyone, she also began to call Tang Long the Lord.
"It doesn't matter, even if they sell the Beluga Whale to the forces of the Chaos Galaxy, it doesn't matter, because we will soon have a mobile fortress that can jump through space, has strong firepower and strong defense! Even if they have the Beluga Whale The battleship, under the attack of this fortress, will be finished!" Tang Long said nonchalantly.
Hearing Tang Long's words, the people present looked at Tang Long and Sally with both excitement and doubt. They didn't believe what Tang Long said was true until Sally nodded in approval. It's not that they don't believe in Tang Long, but that they don't believe that there is a device that can make the behemoth of the fortress jump in space. Of course, they didn't ask too much. It's not surprising that Tang Long, who is taken care of by those two mysterious sisters, has such a device.
"My lord, no matter what conditions Chen Kang asks for this jumping device, you can't give it to him. This is our important trump card!" Ling Li, a beauty in charge of the intelligence department, suddenly stood up and said to Tang Long.
"Yes! You can't just give away this trump card after seeing a few battleships!" Elsie also jumped up and shouted.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him nervously, Tang Long hurriedly nodded in agreement with everyone's request, then curled his lips and muttered: "Really, I won't be so greedy that I don't care about the general situation. How could it be possible to exchange a trump card for a battleship? And we are now There are enough warships, if there are more, there will be no manpower to open them."
Hearing Tang Long's muttering, Sally immediately said: "Yes, my lord, counting the warships and transport ships that have not yet arrived, we now have a thousand Beluga warships, and the full staffing requires 5 million soldiers. It doesn't matter if you deduct some 3 million members are needed. The 6,000 remodeled X warships are even more exaggerated, requiring a full 30 million soldiers. Even if the unimportant members are reduced, about 20 million are needed. And the 120,000 high-level transport ships We need 12 million soldiers, which cannot be cut. Adding in 30 million necessary maintenance and logistics personnel, the fleet alone needs 65 million personnel. Coupled with the violent institutions such as ground forces and police forces, we Armed personnel will need an astonishing number of two to three billion. You need to know our population..." Sally was dumbfounded when she said this, although she knew that there were more than 8 billion people in the Central State Star Region including the Earth Star, but how many people are there now? After entering the six planets of the Li family, I don't know how many people there are.
Li Wu, Minister of State Affairs, continued: "There are about 8 billion people in the Zhongzhou star field, and about 5 billion people in the six planets of the Li family. Our current total population is about 13.1 billion."
Yuna interjected and said, "Oh, I used to think the population was small, but now with such a large population, not only have to pay the salaries of military and political personnel, but also need to pay a large amount of pensions for those defeated army personnel in order to ensure law and order and buy people's hearts. The cost of the transport ship. As for the expenses of building enterprises, factories and military factories, there are countless expenses. Now the funds of our Ministry of Finance have begun to tighten up. If it is not because of the honorary title of the lord, which arouses the enthusiasm of businessmen, I am afraid Our finances are already in the red.”
"It's so bad? How many people are there in our army now?" Tang Long asked in surprise. He didn't understand financial matters, and he didn't bother to take care of them, so he didn't care much about Yuna's words, anyway, Yuna would solve them. What he cares about is the army, because this is the job he is familiar with.
Sally said: "At present, we have about 40 million soldiers in warship driving, maintenance, and logistics, plus the Earth Star soldiers, and there is a shortage of 25 million people. However, most of the shortage is logistics maintenance personnel. This aspect can be improved from Recruit from the general public. As long as there is some training, I dare not say that I am proficient in logistics maintenance, but I should be able to barely maintain the logistics system. The more serious ones are the members of advanced transport ships. Our current personnel can only be satisfied with about 20,000 advanced transport ships. The operation of the transport ship. That is to say, among the 120,000 transport ships, 100,000 will be put into storage due to insufficient personnel." Speaking of this, he glanced at Jess and motioned for her to continue.
The Minister of Security in charge of homeland security, Jess, immediately went on to say: "As for the ground troops and the police force, not only are there not a shortage of personnel, but there are too many. The main reason is that there are a large number of such personnel on the occupied planets. Although it is possible to send more of them People who have just surrendered still need to go through a period of training before they can qualify."
Tang Long nodded and said: "Well, we don't need so many transport ships to operate for the time being, 20,000 high-level transport ships are enough, and the rest of the inventory can be stocked. Now the number of our battleships can make 1,000 white whale warships Is it capable of fighting against 6,000 X-ships?" Speaking of this, Tang Long looked at Sally and waited for her answer.
Sally nodded and said: "Barely, after deducting the logistics system personnel, it is just barely enough to make these 7,000 warships operate, but the combat power is definitely not enough. This is mainly due to the fact that those soldiers on Earth who have never fought warship battles accounted for it." half of the soldiers, and in order not to allow them to take advantage of numbers, we will reorganize them and all the battleships. Of course, although the lord's Beluga battleship is temporarily driven by soldiers, but after the robots complete After the fortress, they will be transferred away, and the piloting rights of the beluga warships will be returned to the robots, so that the combat effectiveness of the thousand beluga warships of the lord will not decrease."
Speaking of this, Sally stopped and sighed before continuing: "There is another important question. According to the military system proposed by the lord, only brigadier generals and above can serve as commanders of 1,000 warships. Now we have 7 brigades of 1,000 ships , The White Whale brigade is the lord's personal guard, and the first, second, and third brigades are also served by three brigadier generals including Liu Yihui. The officer system of these four brigades has been perfected, and even if there are insufficient troops, it is enough to make the brigades operate. But In the remaining three brigades, there are no senior generals at all except for some mid-level and low-level officers, so they can only rely on the brigade to form the organization. Such 300 brigades without the control of upper-level officers have no combat effectiveness at all. Therefore, here, The subordinate hopes that the lord can promote a group of officers to serve as the commanders of these three brigades."
"Oh, is there anyone to choose?" Tang Long asked, and then he remembered that his army didn't have any senior officers, and it seemed that he had to promote a group of personnel.
Sally nodded, took out a document and handed it over.
Tang Long looked at the document, and then sighed: "Although the military achievements of these people have not yet reached the level of promotion, in order to make the brigade work, they can only be promoted in advance. What do you think?"
When everyone nodded in agreement, the door of the conference hall was knocked a few times, and then the guard shouted loudly: "My lord, Miss Xingling is here." Originally, these guards were calling someone to have an audience, but after knowing that Xingling was After Tang Long's sister, they changed their name to Jialai.
"Oh, please." Tang Long hurriedly stood up. He hadn't seen Xingling for a while, and he even asked Xingling to set up a promotion system for him. It wasn't that Tang Long didn't want to meet Xing Ling, but that Xing Ling, who got the task of installing Datang's central computer, had been immersed in this task since the day Tang Xing left, and outsiders could hardly find her.
Wearing a loose blue overalls, with her hair tied up in a mess with a rope, Xing Ling walked in quickly with a red face. When she saw Tang Long, she immediately rushed forward happily and said, "Brother, the central computer has been completed, the planets in the star field of Zhongzhou have been connected together, and the social management service system can be activated at any time. And you asked me to get it The promotion system has also been completed, and the government military personnel information has also been entered, as long as you need it, this system can be activated immediately." After speaking, he handed Tang Long a magnetic card that recorded the central computer activation information and those system homepages.
Tang Long, who was fascinated by Xing Ling's youthful and beautiful appearance, took a while to wake up from this beauty. He said hurriedly: "Ah, thank you sister, we will call people to hold a celebration for the start-up of the central computer." Busy took the magnetic card.
"Is there a celebration? Then I won't go, what else can my sister help with?" Xing Ling looked at Tang Long with bright eyes.
Tang Long, who was seen feeling uncomfortable, stammered and said: "My sister won't participate...then...then start the system immediately, you say help? Well... there are 6 planets we newly occupied in the Tianhe star field, please help my sister Establish a management system controlled by a central computer on these six planets." When he said these words, his eyes kept staring at Xing Ling, and he didn't know why, although he wanted to look away, but he didn't care. No matter what. Why is this plainly dressed Xing Ling prettier than the star Xing Ling? Why now I actually have the feeling that I wish I could stay by Xing Ling's side? Why didn't I feel this way at all before? Did Xing Ling change, or did he change himself
Xingling noticed that Tang Long was looking directly at him, his face flushed immediately, he lowered his head and hummed, turned and ran away. Seeing Tang Long's eyes following Xing Ling's back, all the strong women present couldn't help smiling knowingly. It seemed that their lord was really tempted. These strong women never thought about that idea at all. Even if they did, they just hoped to stay by the lord's side forever. Although no one here knew their past, they knew very well that they couldn't expect love.
Sally coughed dryly: "My lord, the promotion of those officers..."
"Oh, oh, I'm just..." Tang Long, who was blushing, had just said half a sentence, and he immediately stopped thinking of something. Seeing Tang Long's actions, all the girls looked at their lord, and they all knew that the lord must have thought of something important.
Tang Long said solemnly: "Now that the promotion system has been completed, let's use this system to promote officers, and we must expressly stipulate in the form of law that no one can promote talents privately. As long as this is implemented well, it will prevent us from Follow in the footsteps of Wanluo Federation's indiscriminate promotion."
Hearing this, all the women agreed. Although there is an urgent need for officers, it is still worthwhile if you can avoid the habit of promoting subordinates privately. Besides, now 3 X brigades and 1 white whale brigade are enough to resist any enemy's invasion, and the needs of officers are not very urgent.
Tang Long and the others didn't go anywhere, and directly inserted the magnetic card into the computer in the meeting room. After entering the intranet, they first activated the social management service system of the central computer, and then activated the promotion system. After the system was started, I browsed briefly and found that Tang Long and all other military and political personnel had been recorded.
"Huh? What's the sorting button for?" Tang Long muttered, and then he clicked the button without waiting for everyone to react, and the words "recalculate meritorious service" appeared on the screen immediately. When everyone was stunned, the words on the screen changed to "redistribute official ranks". After these words stayed for a few seconds, the refreshed rankings of government official ranks appeared in front of everyone.
Seeing the new ranking, everyone was stunned, because except for the "Supreme Commander-Tang Long" who ranked first, all the princes, dukes, and marquises below him were empty, and they were originally ranked second. Yuna, who was in the first place, has now become a first-class marquis, not only her, but the three princes including Elsie have also become first-class marquises. And Fei Li, who had just been promoted to the third-class duke, became the third-class earl. And those officials such as earls and marquises were reduced to viscounts and barons one after another, and what was even worse was that many people were directly reduced to lords.
"What... what's going on here?" Tang Long stared at the screen dumbfounded, and subconsciously clicked on the column of the army. The ranking here is even worse. Except for the "Supreme Commander-Tang Long" who ranked first, there is no change. Those school-level officers were all demoted to lieutenant-level officers, and the lieutenant-level officers were directly demoted to non-commissioned officers. In other words, at this moment, Tang Long had only five officers above the school level, and the rest were all officers below the lieutenant rank.
"What's going on here? Why are they all downgraded? How can we fight like this?" Tang Long croaked as he searched for the disk to find a way to restore it.
Everyone watched Tang Long fiddling with the magnetic card in a daze, but no one made a sound. They didn't expect that their meritorious deeds were only in this position in the calculation of the computer. Seeing everyone's expressions, Yuna, the elder sister, couldn't help smiling and said, "Oh, this computer is really accurate. I knew that my meritorious service was not enough to win a king, but I didn't expect to be able to get a first-class marquis. It's really earned!" Woolen cloth."
After hearing Yuna's words, everyone wondered if she was mad. At this time, Sally also smiled and patted her chest and said, "Yeah, I was always worried about being pointed at the spine while holding the rank of general, but now that I have the rank of brigadier general, I am not afraid anymore, because this is the most important thing." The rank I deserve for my military exploits."
The two eldest sisters spoke out, and the girls immediately came to their senses. They all knew that their contribution was not that great at all, and it was Tang Long's love for him that promoted him to such a high status. However, judging from the rankings, the contribution of my group is much higher than that of other officials. It seems that my contribution and ability are not inferior to others. Seeing this ranking, those who are not convinced should have nothing to say.
"Why do you say that? Once this ranking appears in front of everyone, it will cause chaos! Those officers, soldiers and officials will definitely cause trouble! No, I have to ask Xingling to restore this procedure to its original state!" Tang Long As he spoke, he wanted to go out, but he was held back by Yuna.