Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 424 The Shadow of War
Wang Cangsheng was not moved by Zheng Qingwu's words, but he said earnestly: "Soldiers, the great affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must be investigated."

"Therefore, the classics are based on five things, and they are collated for calculation, and their emotions are sought: one is called Dao, two is called heaven, third is called earth, fourth is called generals, and fifth is called law."

The old man's ancient prose that dropped the book bag made Zheng Qingwu, Wu Tie, Lu Yuan and others scratch their heads, wondering what it meant.

Lu Yao said to Zhong Cheng: "You should say a few words!"

Among all the people, Zhong Cheng is not only the president of the Ancient People's Association, but also has the most right to speak about the war.

Zhong Cheng is not only an authority on weapon design and manufacturing, but also has a past experience that these people who have been living in peaceful times do not have.

"Old Wang is very right. We must be extremely cautious when dealing with wars. We are not afraid of wars, but we should not take the initiative to provoke wars."

"However, it is essential to be prepared for war. Knowing the enemy is the only way to win every battle. Director Zheng only mentioned our military strength, but do you know what the other party is like?"

"Are they just a bunch of unarmed politicians who can only shout slogans, and now they have washed their necks and waited for us to deal with them?"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed in good faith.

Zheng Qingwu scratched his head embarrassingly, and said: "I think they just took over the equipment of the former American Federation's Jupiter-Saturn Defense Force. There are at most a few hundred space fighters, which should be vulnerable."

Lu Yao sneered and said, "Do you think they are all fools? They dare to make trouble without any certainty?"

Wu Tie said hesitantly: "Maybe, they want to blackmail us with the people, just want to win some benefits."

Lu Yuan agreed: "If we don't use force, won't we play into their arms?"

Lu Yao was also in trouble for a while, and looked at Zhong Cheng again.

Zhong Cheng said in a deep voice: "So we have to make two-handed preparations. While preparing for the negotiation, we should also find ways to find out their truth and find out what their hole cards are."

Shi Hanxing interjected, "Do they want to rely on the genetic warriors of Xingwang Company?"

"Gene warrior?"

Zheng Qingwu said disdainfully: "If it was three years ago, I would still be worried. Now the fighters we select in the Dream World are not much worse than genetic fighters."

"Besides, how many genetic warriors are there? According to the information given by Orlando, there are no more than 5 people, and most of them are under the control of mutual aid associations. How big a wave can they cause?"

Everyone nodded, thinking that Zheng Qingwu was right this time, and the genetic warriors were nothing to worry about, only the number of Jupiter and Saturn space battleships and ordinary mech warriors was enough.

However, everyone is not too worried about competing with Red Star Company in heavy industry.

In the past few years, Red Star Corporation has built the first space fleet for the Asian Federation. Due to the unification of human society, subsequent construction projects have been suspended.

After discussing with everyone, they decided to wait for the results of the negotiations with Brinton before discussing whether to restart military production.

With a solution to the matter, Zhong Cheng had no intention of staying in Haicheng for a long time, and rushed back to Beishan the next day.

When he got home, he found that Zhong Yi, Zhou Long, and Liu Jiang had already returned to the army.

After such a big thing happened, all active-duty soldiers were recalled to the army. If the situation continues to deteriorate, the possibility of recalling the reserve service cannot be ruled out.

Ye Wenxin was very worried about this, and when she saw Zhong Cheng, she quickly asked Zhong Yi if there was a possibility of joining the war.

Zhong Cheng told her not to worry about it, Zhong Yi was with the Earth Defense Force, and the only ones who could fight now were the defense forces stationed in the defense line of the asteroid belt and the space fleet, and the possibility of a real fight was not high.

Because there were already news reports in the morning, Brinton agreed to negotiate with the Federation, and would personally lead a delegation from the Jupiter-Saturn region to Haicheng for negotiations, and declared that they would arrive on Earth no later than July 7.

This news completely reassured the top management of the Human Federation. As long as they are willing to talk about it, there is no big deal.

Now the high level of the Federation is already discussing how much autonomy can be given to the Jupiter-Saturn region, Zhong Cheng refused to go to Haicheng to attend the meeting.

He has no interest in this kind of bargaining.

After returning to Beishan, Zhong Cheng contacted Qin Wenyu to learn about the manufacturing technology of genetic warriors again.

Qin Wenyu is now very proficient in genetic modification technology through his research on Alicia.

She told Zhong Cheng with certainty that a genetic warrior is not a Chinese cabbage, and a genetic warrior as powerful as Alicia is one in a million.

Because human genes cannot withstand such a huge transformation, there is a high probability of failure even in the manufacture of ordinary genetic warriors, and the number of genetic warriors cannot be too large.

Unless Xingwang Company has a biological gene that is much more evolved than humans, and this creature must have an abnormally developed nervous system.

The genetic collapse is mainly because the nervous system of the genetically modified person cannot control a stronger physical fitness.

But human beings are the species with the most powerful nervous system known in this world. Creatures that are much stronger than humans may only exist outside the solar system.

Qin Wenyu's promise did not completely dispel Zhong Cheng's worries. He always felt that there were many mysteries on Jupiter and Saturn, and something must have been deliberately concealed.

Judging from the current situation, Orlando and even Hans are fine, but the showy Robin hasn't been seen in public for several years.

According to Orlando, Robin is actually the actual person in charge of the Mutual Aid Society in Jupiter and Saturn in the past few years. Now that such a big thing happened, how could he not move at all.

Back then on the moon, Robin dared to use mech warriors to assassinate him. This is a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

Unlike other people's optimism, Zhong Cheng felt the shadow of war hanging over the solar system.

Zhong Cheng was in a restless mood, so he simply called Zhao Wei and Jiang Yan to inspect the military production of Red Star Company.

After Lu Yao came to power, after some twists and turns, he lifted the ban on the military production and scientific research projects of Red Star Company.

Although the orders are mainly for space battleships, the production lines of mech manufacturing, space fighters, laser cannons, electromagnetic guns, etc. have also resumed a small amount of production.

Zhao Wei and Jiang Yan took the lead and organized a strong research and development team, successfully developed a series of space warships, and built them in the starship bases of Tiangong City and Yinghuo City.

Because Jiang Yan devoted his energy to the research and development of space warships, Jiang Yan's improvement of the White Tiger Mech was considered a success, but Zhong Cheng was not satisfied with the development of anti-mech individual weapons.

At present, the main way to deal with mecha fighters is to rely on large electromagnetic guns and the Taiyi alloy weapons of mecha fighters. The newly developed individual Gauss rifle can't do enough damage to mechas as Zhong Cheng wants.

On the contrary, the majestic laser cannons on the earth are far less powerful than kinetic energy weapons such as electromagnetic guns in the space combat environment.

Two factors limit the use of laser cannons in space combat.

Fighting in space, the range of engagement can be extended to hundreds of thousands of kilometers or even tens of thousands of kilometers, and the beam of the laser cannon increases with the distance, and the diffraction is very serious.

At a distance of 100 kilometers, the power of a heavy laser cannon is only equivalent to a bright searchlight.

On the other hand, laser cannons require a lot of electricity, so they generate a lot of heat, and powerful laser cannons require huge heat sinks to work.

This makes the already troublesome internal heat dissipation problem even worse for space battleships fighting in a vacuum.

(End of this chapter)