Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0096 Scam
"What did you show to the dragon knight just now?" Apprentice William asked curiously when he saw his teacher walking back to him.
He just saw his mentor, Franzberg, take out something that looked very mysterious. So when he saw his mentor coming back, the first question he wanted to ask was this.
"What are you talking about?" Franzberg took out the slightly shiny cylinder that he had just shown to Irdo from his robe, handed it to his apprentice, and placed it on the palm of the other's outstretched hand.
William looked at the metal cylinder on his palm that was emitting a faint magical aura, and asked in confusion: "Teacher... why did you inject magical aura into a standard weight in the laboratory?"
Yes, Franzberg did not make any high-end magic bearings at all. Because he had not yet found a way to retain magic in an object for a long time, the magic bearing only existed in Franzberg's theory.
In the mortal realm, the so-called forbidden magic area, Franzberg was unable to complete his experiment because the magical aura was too scarce. Chris also made many suggestions for improving his experiment, which made him realize his limitations.
Chris does not want products that combine magic and industry to only be used in the magic field. Chris hopes that magic and industry can work everywhere. He believes that this is the significance of products that combine magic and industry.
It is also because of this that Frundsberg did not produce any bearings that would not wear out for ten years. He used something that was still within the theoretical scope of the blueprint to deceive the poor dragon knight Ildo.
However, the 78-year-old old man did not feel guilty about his behavior at all, because in his opinion, it was only a matter of time before the bearing in the lie was researched out.
"Will those dragon knights retreat like this?" William looked at Irdo who was dragging the corpse away. He still couldn't believe that his teacher had just used a weight to trick a group of dragon knights from the Holy Demon Empire away.
If the enemy goes back at this time, they will have to face more artillery fire from Ailan Hill. Ailan Hill is producing more anti-aircraft guns every day. It takes at least ten days for the dragon knight to fly back and forth. With this time as a buffer, Ailan Hill's chances of winning will be even greater.
"If we don't leave, will we be wiped out if we stay here ?" Frunzberg is a high-level magician, and he has too much information and secrets. He knows clearly that the Holy Demon Empire is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and he also knows that Ailan Hill is rising.
The Seris air defense battle, which had reached a climax at the beginning, ended in a whimper. The dragon knights, who had mobilized a large number of troops and attacked fiercely, finally left in disgrace and silence.
The civilians of Ailan Hill came out of their basements and houses, curiously walked to the bodies of the dragons, and looked closely at the dragons they had seen for the first time in their lives. Although they were just corpses, the citizens still looked at them with great interest.
The army dragged most of the dragon bodies back to the experimental field to test the damage of various weapons to dragons. The remaining two dragon bodies were exhibited in the suburbs of Seris City to announce another victory of Ailan Hill over the Holy Demon Empire.
At the combat meeting a day later, Chris was the first to speak up and raised the problems facing his side in this war: "It seems that we have won, but in fact our advantage is not as great as we imagined."
He asked questions one by one, making the ministers attending the meeting a little nervous: "On the one hand, our ammunition reserves are running low after a series of fierce battles. If we want to support a larger-scale war, we have to expand more arsenals."
Modern warfare is fought with logistical supplies. Originally, there were a lot of ammunition in reserve, but most of it was consumed in battles such as the Battle of Seris City, the Battle of Dragonfall City, the Battle of Bud, and the Siege of Wallavo.
The remaining ammunition was not enough to sustain another war. Ailanhill needed some time to recuperate and digest the rich territories they had seized from the Alante Empire.
"On the other hand, the tactics formulated by the Holy Demon Empire are not correct because they don't understand us. It is just a key to our victory!" After talking about the issue of ammunition, Chris started talking about the opponent's tactics.
Before the war, Chris also waited for a technical consultant, Franzberg. He had a certain understanding of the Holy Demon Empire, otherwise he would not have taken such a big risk to rashly go to war with the Alante Empire.
"Unfortunately, we won't be so lucky next time. The other side will send out dragon knights to harass our villages and towns." Chris felt a headache when he mentioned the dragon knight harassment tactics that actually appeared in the Maritsa area.
"Those highly mobile dragon knights will avoid our key defensive cities and concentrate on destroying villages and towns that are not defended by anti-aircraft guns." He said, looking at his men.
"If the other party adopts such tactics, how can we avoid losses? This is what we are going to discuss today." Having said that, his eyes lingered on Desel, Gurlo, Deans and Strid who had returned from the grassland, as if waiting for an answer.
At this stage, due to the lack of air combat power and the lack of good mobile air defense force options, Ailanhill is really helpless against the tactics of the Holy Demon Empire.
If we allow those dragon knights to destroy the village, then Ireland Hill's transportation will be paralyzed, and the production speed will naturally be unable to meet the demand due to material replenishment - for Ireland Hill, this is tantamount to a plan to wipe out the entire family.
"There is a solution to the problem of ammunition and weapons." Des crossed his arms and stared at the production report that Gullo gave him. He replied to Chris, "Starting next month, our arsenal in Tubao will also go into production. The output of ammunition can be almost doubled."
"That's good news." Chris nodded, looked at Smith and asked expectantly, "How's the progress on the gasoline engine? If we can come up with a new weapon system, then our disadvantage will no longer exist."
"We already have some experimental stuff, but we still need to do some debugging before we can mass produce it." Smith replied with some regret: "Even if we can mass produce it, our fuel reserves... won't last long."
Compared to World War II, when Ireland Hill was heavily dependent on oil resources, today's Ireland Hill is more like a country in the First World War era: the main energy comes from coal mines rather than oil fields, and the troops' mobility is limited, so fuel consumption is not so obvious.
In order to change this situation, Chris must find a large-scale oil field and do everything he can to put it into production. The current situation is that the nearest oil field known to Ailan Hill is in the Higgs Kingdom, which seems to be a country that is not easy to mess with!
"The good news is that a batch of magic ore has been delivered to Naaru! If the speed is fast enough, the Magic Orbs of Knowledge will be mass-produced within ten days. According to the great magician Franzberg, these ore can produce at least 10,000 Magic Orbs of Knowledge."
"I'm afraid our magic power is not enough to support the production of so many knowledge magic balls..." Frunzberg said with some regret: "I calculated that the current magic power is only enough to produce about 3,000 knowledge magic balls..."
"3,000 is already a lot! I can train at least 2,000 highly knowledgeable subordinates!" Chris was very satisfied and said with a smile: "With these people, maybe our chances of winning will be higher."
The benefits of the war have begun to emerge. With the magic concentrate, Chris is very excited about the speed of talent expansion in Ailan Hill. As long as his talent team gradually expands and accumulates, the development speed of industrial civilization will increase exponentially.
These high-tech talents trained by the Knowledge Magic Ball can be immediately arranged to more advanced factories to start making tanks and aircraft related production equipment. After they complete these equipment, Chris will have more means to fight against the dragon.
On the other hand, the huge war gains supplemented the originally fragile economy of Ailan Hill. The newly acquired land was enough to offset the population growth, not to mention that there were many valuable things on the territory of the Alan Empire.
"Send people to the Alante Empire to discuss the possibility of peace with them!" Chris thought about it and felt that he should take the initiative to end the war, or at least end the expansion war against the Mortal Empire.
"If we achieve peace with the Alante Empire, then we can at least withdraw a few regiments of troops from the southern border... these troops can protect more areas, right?" Without the strength to swallow up the Alante Empire in one gulp, Chris felt that being pragmatic and compromise and negotiation might be a better option.
"Because the border blocked by the war has brought us a lot of trouble! For example, the common people and heroes who came to the north to seek refuge with us had to stop and wait for the two armies to decide the outcome because of the tragic situation on the border."
In fact, it was more of a one-sided massacre than a battle. When the soldiers of Elashil raised their weapons, the fate of the soldiers of the Alante Empire seemed to be doomed.
"This is indeed a solution, but under the current circumstances, who is suitable to go to Alante?" Gurlo asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"I'll go! After all, I'm not the Foreign Minister." Strid, who had not spoken a word, looked at Chris and said word by word: "After the meeting, I will set off south."
