Chapter 224 The war begins

The emergence of new artillery weapons cannot actually completely solve the weapons problem of the troops.

The flight test of the paper rockets was quickly carried out. Obviously, in this world without aerodynamics, it is too difficult to control the flight trajectory of the rockets. Long distances are only suitable for attacking large clusters.

The flying speed of the paper shell wind bomb is also unsatisfactory. It is probably only slightly stronger than the paper airplane. The gem impact fuse can barely be called reliable.

However, paper rockets do not produce many fragments when they explode, and their power is inferior to that of orthodox rockets.

Under such circumstances, rocket launchers still cannot replace the role of traditional artillery on the battlefield, especially this time the opponent is the undead, so Ikot attaches great importance to large-caliber weapons that can cause effective damage to the undead.

The production tasks of 75mm artillery and 120mm mortars have been expanded again. Ikert plans to expand the artillery to a terrifying force of 12 45mm artillery, 6 75mm artillery and 6 120mm mortars.

This can be said to be quite a powerful force for two thousand magic rifle rats.

Even if such a scale of artillery was placed on Blue Star, it would still be a huge number that could only be deployed by ten thousand infantry.

But such powerful artillery does not come without a price.

"Lord, although artillery of this size will definitely be very powerful once it is built, we must first equip each cannon with at least two to four jackals, as well as four to five artillerymen and a fifty-man transport team.

Team.

But the key point is that these are cannonballs, not bullets. The smallest cannonballs are much heavier than bullets. This is a huge challenge to Windsor's productivity.

Relaxed, Ictor spent money to recruit several earth mages to cooperate with Sirolman in the construction. Under the cover of the hunters, he began to dig tunnels and ammunition storage points.

It's a pity that this road will not last long after all, but it is still quite good to use it at critical moments.

Artillery and infantry, it seems, you can only choose one or the other.

The entire camp was visibly weakened, and the camp commander had to replace the water source further away and set up troop monitoring.

For large orders, it's easy to say that they can be delivered within one month. You can also contact us for gun parts. We will order more in the future. Come back to the factory often!

The generosity of the Skullie clan really made Iket realize what industrial production is. This is when orders need to be queued. Otherwise, with the Skullie clan's production capacity, thousands of steel pipes are only a day's output.

Moreover, artillery can be produced quickly by casting, as long as the raw materials are in place, but the magic rifle territory currently only has a forging process that wastes time and effort.

Oh, isn't this Qiao Qiao? He just came to us a few days ago and bought a lot of industrial machinery. How about it? Did your factory produce anything?

Nothing! That's great! Ahem, what I mean is, this is such a shame, you want to order barrels and bayonets?

Not only that, we must also activate production capacity and prepare more than one hundred rounds of ammunition for all cannons. If you follow your planned mortar usage, you will need to prepare one hundred rounds of grenades for each cannon.

Steel may be precious to the territory, but to Skaven society, which has long entered the industrial age, it is just something that can be seen everywhere.

Poisons from the Pestilence Clan were also sprinkled into enemy camps.

"Suffer the Ledley clan one more time!"

At first, the troops thought this was just a common acclimatization. After all, humans who came here across the world have suffered a lot.

However, when the Ratmen poisoned a new water source through the tunnel, killing 20 junior human officers again, the commander realized that this was a premeditated attack.

The dedication of the Laidley clan made Ictor feel what it means to feel at ease, and at the same time, he also experienced the joy of fishing in a colony and sustainability.

With the industrial support of the Skry clan, the strategic problem of Ikot's two-pronged attack has been basically solved. The next step is to wait for the troops to be armed and prepare to violently blast into the earth hole.

Then some ratmen were mobilized to collect all unused steel and lead products in the clan to ensure a sufficient supply of minerals for Windsor every month.

So Ictor carefully observed and found that the current miserable situation of the Laidley clan was still not at the limit of the clan, and it was far from the limit of Qiaoqiao's management.

The simplest way to solve the problem of raw material sources is to directly purchase steel scraps from rat society.

Good guy, no wonder colonialism is so prosperous. There are really many benefits to squeezing outsiders emotionally.

This time, the Scully clan felt that they had caught a big fool, so they turned their attitude towards the Laidley clan and labeled them as "big dogs".

Not only that, the smart Qiaoqiao also purchased a rat trin to suppress the resistance within the clan.

On the first day after the poisoning alone, about 30 human officers were poisoned to death in the camp. If it weren't for the presence of extraordinary military doctors, another hundred ordinary humans suffering from diarrhea would have been taken away directly.

The difficulty raised by Virgil is actually easy to solve.

Virgil reminded that as the saying goes, war is fought with production capacity. A group of well-trained artillery can fire two to three artillery shells a minute. In a battle where the sky is often at the mercy of the sky, a hundred artillery shells can only sustain one.

For many hours, it was impossible to fire at all times!

Virgil's estimate is actually conservative. If you want to fight a successful battle, you must at least stock up on 200 rounds of artillery shells for one artillery. Since the territory needs to build an artillery brigade of 24 artillery pieces, it is very difficult to stock up on more than 5,000 rounds of artillery shells.

Normal things.

But Ictor chose to have them all.

In fact, it is simply unrealistic for the territory to produce so many shells on its own, as the raw materials are not enough.

After preliminary exploration, the hunters discovered that this unit seemed to be a lone force, so they began to disrupt their positions early, which helped reduce their combat effectiveness.

An instruction across time and space was quickly conveyed. The clan leader Qiao Qiao thought for a few seconds before deciding to send people to purchase scrap steel on a large scale.

This is much faster than extracting low-content iron ore.

So Ictor waved his hand and gave the slave rat another hard time! Let the clan speed up the excavation of dimension stones and free up a sum of money to order a batch of steel pipes and bayonets from the Skryre clan's factory.

Not to mention the cost of rocket shells, maybe our industrial production capacity can still be reached with grit, but then we won’t be able to make a single gun!”

Not to mention they are hidden so deep underground.

The entire army began to be alert. After all, in the past, they only regarded the creatures here as uncivilized natives and would not have the courage to attack them.

This act of poisoning undoubtedly made him realize that the attacker must be some kind of intelligent creature.

Companies were sent out one by one and began to search for traces of rat men in the caves, but apart from some inexplicable caves and hollows, nothing more was found.

They tried to send reconnaissance teams upwards, but without exception, Ikot sent ratmen to ambush them and eliminate them completely.

This will be a war.
Chapter completed!