Tales of Soldier - Chapter 176

[Chapter 176]

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“Hehe, you know the goods, the main gun of this fortress was directly removed from Wei Wuxing’s main gun.” Chen Kang turned his head when he heard this voice, and it was Tang Long who was wiping sweat. He couldn’t help bowing to Tang Long and said with a smile, “This saves a lot of money and time.”

Tang Long exclaimed: “Yes, the Ministry of Finance predicts that manufacturing this main gun will cost nearly one trillion, and it will take five years and five million engineers. But now it only takes a few months to adjust the installation, you Tell me how much manpower and material resources you save.” Tang Long certainly knew that he could assemble and complete this big project in such a short time, all because of the help of the 900,000 robots removed from the Beluga battleship. As for those who drive the Beluga battleship now, they are all humans.

“I don’t know what else Tang Long has installed on this fort besides this main gun?” Chen Kang started to attack from the side. He is going to detect the situation clearly. If Tang Long has a device that can make this metal ball jump, he will find a way to get it. You must know that although this kind of fortress is a little smaller, it is still a fortress. As long as space jumps can be performed, one such fortress can be sold for a price equivalent to tens of thousands of warships.

“Well, in addition to this immobile main gun with a diameter of 50 kilometers, it is also equipped with 30,000 fortress guns with a diameter of 30 meters that can be moved anywhere in the entire fortress. There is also a structure that wraps the entire fortress and is divided into 100 layers, each layer thick. A kilometer of protective armor with a total thickness of 100 kilometers. In addition, there is a giant protective shield with a strength of 3 million degrees, covering the entire fortress. It can be said that it is definitely a perfect combination of shield and spear.” Tang Long said proudly.

“Oh, it looks like the main gun is exposed to 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. The launch port left by the thick armor outside the gun said worriedly.

Tang Long said proudly: “Haha, don’t worry, the hundred layers of protective armor wrap the entire fortress. Each layer 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 of. Usually nothing happens, these metal blocks are tightly glued together. When the fort cannon is to be fired or the landing port is opened, the metal blocks will be removed enough vacancies. The metal blocks of the entire fortress are free Therefore, except for the position of the main gun in the center of the fortress, artillery fire and missiles can be fired anywhere, and warships can also be entered anywhere. That is to say, the fortress is covered with launch ports and landing ports! Why? Like, great, right?”

“It’s amazing, it’s really amazing!” Chen Kang had already seen the structure of those diamond-shaped metal blocks when Tang Long was explaining, and also clearly saw the various passages and facilities in this fortress extending in all directions. Of course, he understood what Tang Long said. To put it simply, in addition to being able to fire fortress guns in any direction, this fortress can also release and receive warships and fighter jets in any direction. During fierce battles, the wounded warships can pass directly through the fort and hide behind the fortress to recuperate, and the warships hiding behind the fortress can also pass directly through the fortress to attack the enemy. If this fortress was bigger, it would be absolutely flawless. It’s a pity that such a small fortress, after installing so many fortress cannons and building channels extending in all directions, can no longer build other facilities except for the necessary energy storage system and energy manufacturing plant. If a maintenance factory, a military production factory, a food production factory, and a soldier’s residential area 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 lay down the warships stationed there, which is a great flaw.

Chen Kang made a fuss after the praise, saying: “But it’s too small, if it can be expanded…” He told Tang Long what he thought just now.

Tang Long shook his head helplessly after hearing this: “Hey, you think I don’t want this, but those jumping devices and engines can only drive such a large fortress, so I can’t do anything about it. But this fortress isn’t as good as you think. No more warships, tell you, there can be a group of a hundred beluga warships in here!” After speaking of this, Tang Long became complacent again. the parking stand, so of course he was proud of it.

Although Chen Kang sighed in his heart what effect these 100 warships could have, he still seized the opportunity immediately and quietly raised the idea of obtaining the jumping device: “Oh, our company’s technological strength is good, we may Can help you solve this problem, of course, the premise is that you have to analyze 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 which, Tang Long changed the subject and asked, “By the way, what’s the matter with you? , have those 2,000 X-Warships and 40,000 advanced transport ships arrived?”

“Ah, it hasn’t arrived yet, but it will arrive tomorrow or the day after.” Chen Kang knew from Tang Long’s appearance 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 battleship last time, but you didn’t give us the original control system of the Beluga battleship. Now we are in trouble, because the system we developed is incompatible with the white whale battleship. The Whale battleship is not harmonious, and it can hardly exert 20% of the power of the Beluga battleship.”

“Oh, the only thing that was sold to you at the time was the Beluga battleship, and you didn’t say that you wanted the supporting system of the Beluga battleship.” Tang Long dug his ears and said indifferently.

Chen Kang knew that Tang Long would not agree if he had no interest, so he said directly: “Our company is willing to replace this system with you with 3,000 X-warships with the same configuration as before, and 60,000 high-level transport ships full of supplies. “Of course he directly stated his bottom line, and this is not a business that needs to be negotiated. If Tang Long gave him that system for free, he would still be troubled, because there is no excuse to help Tang Long increase his military power.

Tang Long’s saliva immediately flowed down: “3,000 transformed X-warships and 60,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies?” But he quickly returned to his normal expression and said, “Okay! I’ll change it with you! I’ll do it here. Go to the Beluga battleship and copy a copy of the system. But this time we handed over the system to the warship with one hand, and we will not hand over the system if the warship is not seen!” Tang Long, an idiot, has no idea of the value of this system. If Chen Kang Company owns this system After the system is set, Tang Long’s future enemies will be as tough as him, and it is impossible to win as easily as he is now. But according to Tang Long’s character, I am afraid that Tang Xing will make him a new type of warship.

Chen Kang nodded hurriedly and said, “No problem, I’ll let the company deliver the warship.” Although Chen Kang didn’t get the information about the fortress jumping device, he completed the task given by the general manager. He also breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, there is time, and he will always find a chance to get this jumping device.

I don’t know if Chen Kang’s company is too eager or what. A week after the 2,000 converted X-warships and 40,000 advanced transport ships arrived at Zhongzhou Star, 3,000 converted X-warships and 60,000 advanced transport ships Also arrived in Zhongzhou Star. Tang Long, who handed over the information of the Beluga system, did not appear as if he was drooling when he looked at these battleships last time. Instead, he stayed in the port with a frown.

And the military members of Datang, like their supreme commander, looked at these battleships with a frown. It can be said that almost all the military and political personnel present were looking at those warships with a frown.

If everyone’s eyes are bright, they will be very surprised to find that Sally, who is standing behind Tang Long, has actually become a brigadier general, and the three brigadier generals behind her have become majors. On the other side of Tang Long, Yuna, the king badge on her chest turned into a first-class marquis badge, and most of the government officials behind her were viscount barons. There is none left.

“The composition of the battleship troop has been reorganized after being disrupted, right?” Tang Long asked Sally.

“Yes, my lord, the barely qualified 20 million earth star soldiers have been reorganized with the original soldiers.” Sally replied.

“How is their combat effectiveness?” Tang Long continued to ask.

“You need to strengthen training to keep up with the original combat effectiveness.” Sally said helplessly, if it were not for the chaos of the earth star soldiers, she would not have carried out such a reorganization that weakened the combat effectiveness. But if you don’t do it like this, even if the Earth Star soldiers don’t cause chaos, the fleet composed of all the Earth Star soldiers will be vulnerable. After all, they have never fought battleships at all.

“Yeah.” Tang Long thought for a moment and 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 he was dead. With a father-like expression, put on an excited look, he responded loudly, and excitedly took his subordinates to receive his thousand battleships.

Seeing these excited soldiers running towards the landing craft, Tang Long sighed helplessly and said to Sally, “Order the captains to receive those 3,000 warships.” Sally saluted Tang Long, she knew Tang Long Why did Long sigh? There are only two brigadier generals and three majors in an army of tens of millions of people. One brigadier general commands all ground forces and police forces, and one brigadier general commands 6,000 warships. This is nothing, but three majors each command a thousand ships, and the commander of a brigade is a lieutenant. Tang Long not long ago set the rank of officers required for warships, but now he can only lower the rank requirements of three levels to appoint officers.

Thinking of this incident, Sally sighed and couldn’t help thinking of what happened when her group held a meeting in the Star Capital of Zhongzhou a few days ago:

“Three thousand transformed 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 She was happy to get a large amount of supplies, but she also didn’t want Tang Long to pay too much.

“It’s nothing, it’s just exchanged for the control system of the Beluga battleship.” Tang Long smiled happily.

“My lord, in this way, Chen Kang’s company can actually produce the Beluga battleship. If he sells it to our enemy, it will be a major blow to us!” Sally stood up immediately and said nervously.

“Hehe, don’t be nervous, they promise not to sell it to our enemies.” Tang Long comforted.

“But they only promise not to sell to the forces of the Chaos-free Galaxy. I believe that the Lord’s purpose will not be limited to the Chaos-free Galaxy, right?” Feili, who is in charge of the law, reminded. Under the influence of everyone, she also began to call Tang Long the master.

“It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter even if they sell the Beluga battleship to the forces of the chaos galaxy, because it won’t take long for us to have a mobile fortress that can jump in space, has powerful firepower and strong defense! Even if they have Beluga The battleship, under the attack of this fortress, will also be finished!” Tang Long said nonchalantly.

Hearing Tang Long’s words, the people present looked at Tang Long and Sally with excitement and doubt, until Sally nodded in approval, they believed that what Tang Long said was true. It’s not that they don’t believe in Tang Long, but they don’t believe that there is a device that can make the giant fortress jump in space. Of course, they didn’t ask too much. It’s not surprising that Tang Long, who was taken care of by the two mysterious sisters, has such a device.

“My lord, no matter what conditions Chen Kang sets out, you can’t give this jumping device to him. This is our important trump card!” Ling Li, the beauty who mastered the intelligence department, suddenly stood up and said to Tang Long.

“Yes! You can’t give this ace away after seeing a few battleships!” Elsie also jumped up and shouted.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him nervously, Tang Long hurriedly nodded to agree to everyone’s request, and then pouted and muttered: “Really, I won’t be greedy enough to ignore the general situation, how can I use the ace to change the battleship? And we are now There are enough battleships, and if there are more, there will be no one to open.”

Sally, who heard Tang Long’s murmur, immediately said: “Yes, lord, we now have a thousand beluga battleships, including those battleships and transport ships that have not yet arrived, and the full staffing needs 5 million soldiers. It doesn’t matter if you deduct some. 6,000 transformed X-warships, the full manpower is even more exaggerated, requiring a full 30 million soldiers. Even if the unimportant members are cut, it will still need about 20 million. And the 120,000 advanced transport ships In addition, 12 million troops are needed, which cannot be cut. With the necessary maintenance, logistics and other staff of 30 million, the fleet alone needs 65 million personnel. In addition to the violent agencies such as the ground force and the police force, we The staggering number of 2-3 billion armed personnel will be needed. You must know our population…” Sally was speechless, although she knew that there were more than 8 billion people in the Central State Star Region, including Earth Star, but now With six more planets in the Li family, I don’t know how many people there are.

Minister of State Li Wu said, “There are 8 billion people in the Central State Star Region, and 5 billion people in the six planets of the Li family. Our total population is now about 13.1 billion.”

Yuna interjected: “Oh, I used to think that the population was small, but now there are so many people, not only have to pay the salaries of military and political personnel, but also in order to ensure public security and buy people’s hearts, they need to pay a large number of pensions for the defeated army personnel, and they also need to pay for the maintenance of warships. The cost of transport ships. As for the construction of enterprise factories and military factories, there are countless expenses. Now the funds of our Ministry of Finance have begun to tighten. If it is not because the lord’s honorary title is released, the businessman’s enthusiasm for doing business would be aroused. We are already running a deficit.”

“So bad? How many people are in our army now?” Tang Long asked in surprise. He didn’t understand financial matters, and he didn’t bother to care about it, so he didn’t care much about Yuna’s words, and Yuna would solve it anyway. What he cares about is the military, because this is the job he is familiar with.

Sally said: “At present, there are more than 40 million soldiers in our battleship driving, maintenance, and logistics, plus the earth star soldiers, and there is a shortage of 25 million. However, most of this gap is logistics maintenance personnel. Recruited from the public. As long as you get some training, you can’t say that you are proficient in logistics and maintenance, but you 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 ships. The operation of transport ships. In other words, out of the 120,000 transport ships, 100,000 will be stored due to lack of personnel.” Having said that, he glanced at Jess and motioned her to continue.

The Minister of Security in charge of homeland security, Jess, immediately continued: “As for the ground forces and police forces, there are not only too many personnel, but there are too many personnel, mainly because there are a large number of such personnel on the occupied planet. Although they can be increased Those who have just surrendered have to go through a period of training to be eligible.”

Tang Long nodded and said: “Well, we don’t need so many transport ships to operate for the time being. We only need to have 20,000 high-level transport ships, and other stocks should be in stock. Now our battleships can make one thousand Beluga battleships. Are you capable of fighting with the six thousand X battleships?” Speaking of which, Tang Long looked at Sally and waited for her answer.

Sally nodded and said, “It’s okay. After deducting the personnel of the logistics system, I was just barely able to make these 7,000 warships operate, but the combat power is absolutely insufficient. This is mainly because those soldiers on Earth who have never fought a warship battle accounted for them. half of the soldiers, and in order not to let them take advantage of the number of people, we will reorganize them and all the battleship soldiers. Of course, although the lord’s Beluga battleship is temporarily piloted by soldiers, it will be completed by the robot. After the fortress, they will be transferred away, and the control of the Beluga battleship will be returned to the robot, so that the combat effectiveness of the lord’s thousand Beluga battleships will not be reduced.”

Speaking of this, Sally stopped and sighed before continuing: “There is another important issue. According to the military system proposed by the lord, only a brigadier general or above can serve as the commander of a thousand warships. Now we have 7 thousand ships brigade. , The Beluga Brigade is the main 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 soldiers, it is enough to keep the brigade running. But In the remaining three brigades, except for some middle and low-level officers, there are no senior generals at all, so they can only rely on the brigade to form the formation. Such 300 brigade without the control of upper-level officers have no combat effectiveness at all. Therefore, here, My subordinates hope that the lord can promote a group of officers to serve as commanders of these three brigades.”

“Oh, is there anyone to choose?” Tang Long asked, and then he remembered that there are no senior officers in his army, and it seems that he needs to promote a group of personnel.

Sally nodded, took out a document and handed it over.

Tang Long looked at the document and sighed: “Although the military merit of these people has not reached the level of promotion, but in order to make the brigade run, 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 guards shouted: “My lord, Miss Xingling is here.” Originally, these guards were calling so-and-so for an audience, but when they knew that Xingling was After Tang Long’s elder sister, they changed their name to Jia arrived.

“Oh, please.” Tang Long hurriedly stood up, he hadn’t seen Xingling in all this time, and even asking Xingling to set up a promotion system for himself was a message from someone. It’s not that Tang Long didn’t want to meet Xingling, but Xingling was given the task of installing Datang Central Computer. Since the day Tang Xing left, he has been immersed in this task, and outsiders can hardly find her.

Wearing a large blue overalls, his hair was tied into a ball with a rope at will, and Xingling walked in quickly with a red face. When she saw Tang Long, she immediately rushed over and said happily: “Brother, the central computer has been completed, the planets in the star field of Zhongzhou have been connected, and the social management service system can be activated at any time. And please ask 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, the system can be activated immediately.” After speaking, he handed Tang Long a magnetic card that recorded the central computer startup information and those system homepages.

Tang Long, who was fascinated by his youthful appearance, took a while to wake up from this beauty. He was busy saying, “Ah, thank you sister, we will convene the staff to hold the celebration of the activation of the central computer.” Busy took the magnetic card.

“Holding a celebration? Then I won’t go to participate, what else can my sister help?” Xing Ling said, looking at Tang Long with bright eyes.

Tang Long, who was seen to be uncomfortable, stammered: “Sister won’t participate… Then… let’s start the system immediately, you say help? Well… There are 6 newly occupied planets in the Tianhe Star Region, Please trouble my sister to establish a management system controlled by a central computer on these 6 planets.” When he said these words, he kept staring at the stars, and he didn’t know why, although he wanted to take his eyes away, But it can’t be done anyway. Why is this star in ordinary clothes better than the star when he is a star? Why does he feel like he wants to stay by Xingling’s side now? Why didn’t I feel this way before? Did the stars change, or did you change yourself?

Xing Ling found Tang Long’s eyes staring straight at him, his face immediately flushed red, he lowered his head and turned around and ran away. The strong women present saw that Tang Long’s eyes had been following Xingling’s back, and couldn’t help showing a knowing smile, it seemed that their protagonist was really tempted. Their group of strong women never thought about that idea at all, even if they did, they just hope to stay by the Lord’s side forever. Although no one here knows their past, they know very well that they are a person who can’t expect love.

Sally coughed: “My lord, the promotion of those officers…”

“Oh, oh, I’m here…” Tang Long, who was flushed with red face, just said a half-sentence, and he immediately thought of something and stopped. Seeing Tang Long’s actions, all the women looked at their lord, and they all knew that the lord must be thinking of something important.

Tang Long said solemnly: “Since the promotion system has been completed, let’s use this system to promote officers, and we must expressly stipulate that no one can promote talents privately in the form of law. As long as this is implemented well, we will be able to avoid us. Follow the footsteps of Wanluo Federation’s random promotion of people.”

Hearing this, all the women agreed that although officers are urgently needed now, it would be worthwhile to avoid the habit of privately promoting subordinates. Besides, now 3 X Brigades and 1 Beluga Brigade are enough to resist any enemy invasion, and the needs of officers are not very urgent.

Tang Long and the others did not go anywhere. They directly inserted the magnetic card into the computer in the conference 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 including Tang Long, all other military and political personnel were recorded.

“Huh? What is this sorting button for?” Tang Long muttered, and then clicked the button before everyone could react, and the words “Recalculate Merit” immediately appeared on the screen. When everyone was stunned, the words on the screen changed to “Reassign official titles”. After these words stayed for a few seconds, the re-refreshed government official rankings appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing this new ranking, everyone was stunned, because except for the “Supreme Commander-Tang Long” who was in the top position, all the princes, dukes, and marquises below him were empty. The second Yuna has now become a first-class marquis. Not only her, but Elsie and other three princes have also become first-class marquis. And Feili, who had just been promoted to the third-class duke, became a third-class earl. And those officials, such as earls and marquis, were downgraded to viscounts and barons, and even worse, many people were directly downgraded to lords.

“This… what’s going on?” Tang Long stared at the screen in astonishment, and clicked on the army’s column subconsciously with his finger. The ranking here is even worse. Except for the top-ranked “Supreme Commander – Tang Long”, which has not changed, the generals like Shari and Jess were actually downgraded to brigadier generals, while the three brigadier generals Liu Yihui were downgraded to majors. All the school-level officers were demoted to lieutenant-rank officers, and the lieutenant-rank 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 level.

“What’s going on here? How could it be all downgraded? How can we fight like this?” Tang Long croaked as he searched for the disk to find a way to recover.

Everyone stared blankly at Tang Long fiddling with the magnetic card, but no one made a sound. They didn’t expect that their merits would only be in this position in the calculation of the computer. Seeing everyone’s expressions, Yuna couldn’t help but smile and said: “Oh, this computer is really accurate, I knew for a long time that my merits were not enough to get the king, but I didn’t expect to get a first-class marquis, really earned Woolen cloth.”

Hearing Yuna’s words, everyone wondered if she was crazy. At this time, Sally also smiled and patted her chest and said, “Yeah, I have always been worried about being scolded by someone behind my back for wearing the rank of admiral, but now I am not afraid of getting this rank of brigadier general, because this The military rank I should get for my military exploits.”

The two eldest sisters spoke up, and the girls immediately woke up. They all knew that their credit was not that great at all, and it was Tang Long who took care of himself to promote himself to such a high status. However, from the ranking point of view, the credit of my group is much higher than that of other officials. It seems that the credit that I have made and my ability are not lower than others. Seeing this ranking, those guys 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 make trouble! No, I have to ask Xingling to restore the program to its original state!” Tang Long As he spoke, he wanted to leave, but Yuna stopped him.