A week later, Roland received two pieces of good news.
First, Iron Axe used the napalm to give the demons a head-on blow, which temporarily slowed down the demons' advance in the north.
In the letter, the commander-in-chief described the explosion of the new weapon in detail, which was even more amazing than the experimental results. In fact, the use of fire to restrain demons had been used as early as the first Battle of Divine Will. At that time, human beings had set the forests behind the demons on fire many times and caused forest fires that lasted for several days, so that the Red Mist could not gather at the frontline.
Because of this, the demons learned their lesson and destroyed forests, grasslands, and even farmlands in order to prevent the demons' supplies from being interrupted. At the same time, even if they were in the area covered by the Red Mist, they would set up small stone tower camps similar to outposts, just in case. As long as there was Red Mist in the camps, even if there was a fire in the rear, the demons could hold on until the fire was put out.
There was no doubt that Iron Axe and the General Staff had been inspired by the above examples, which was why they had planned this siege.
The advantage of napalm was that it carried its own fuel, which could cause a raging fire even in an open space, and it was extremely difficult to put out with water. However, no one had expected that the fire would not last long, and it would cause a deflagration that covered the whole city.
"If only I could ask Summer to reconstruct the scene," Roland thought regretfully. If he could find out the cause, he would be able to use napalm to deal a devastating blow to the demons in the future.
Unfortunately, according to the time, the Tusk City should have been swallowed by the Red Mist again, so it was impossible to sneak in again.
Moreover, Roland was quite distressed to use up more than 500 barrels of napalm at one time. After all, the production of oil could be increased as long as more manpower was invested. The key was that the rubber worm's mucus had an affinity with animal blood, which could only be slowly accumulated by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Nevertheless, the victory was more important than anything else. In his reply, Roland not only encouraged Iron Axe, but also distributed more than 100 barrels of napalm to the frontline.
The second piece of good news was that the assembly factory of "Fire of Heaven" finally had its first biplane successfully rolled off the production line.
After he got the news from Anna, he immediately rushed to the factory site with Tilly.
This brand-new factory was built at the same time as the Air Knight Academy. Compared to the steam engine factory built with bricks and stones two or three years ago, this new factory was designed to take into account the needs of high-end manufacturing. The steel structure made it have a very wide space inside, which could be used to assemble and repair more than ten aircrafts at the same time. Lighting lamps hung all over the ceiling. Coupled with the bright and clean terrazzo floor, it could be described as magnificent.
Even Tilly couldn't help but exclaim when she approached the factory gate.
If it was someone who didn't know the inside story, it wouldn't be strange to think that this place was a palace.
In terms of personnel and equipment, Roland had also put in a lot of effort. Not only did he transfer the most experienced managers and workers from various workshops, he also used the third generation of machine tools that were driven by electricity to meet the needs of cutting-edge production. This made it the largest power consumer in the industrial area. If not for the appearance of the Mystery Moon instrument, he would have had to suspend the power supply of other factories to make it run at full capacity.
It could be said that the achievements and accumulation of Neverwinter in the past five years were all reflected in this new factory.
Roland even heard from Barov that the people of Neverwinter were proud to work in this factory.
According to the plan, when the new factory was officially put into operation, each of its workstations would undertake a specialized assembly task. From the first workstation to the last, it basically involved the whole process of the aircraft's gradual formation — the body of the aircraft would start from the riveting of the skeleton, attaching the wings, loading the spare parts, pasting the skin, and finally leaving the factory for testing.
But now, the factory was far from reaching the ideal state. Apart from the workstation closest to the exit of the factory, where a "Fire of Heaven" was being painted, the other workstations were empty.
"How is it? Did the production run into trouble?" Roland walked to Anna.
"Too many to count." Anna shook her head. "You don't know how many spare parts and materials the workers have scrapped in order to make this qualified product."
Looking at her helpless expression, he could not help but laugh.
When he first made this decision, Roland had already anticipated the difficulties — it was almost impossible to master new materials and new installation techniques in a short period of time, and this was under the circumstance that he had tried his best to reduce the difficulty.
For example, the joint parts of the aircraft used a new single-sided riveting technology. For this purpose, he specially set up a production line specifically for the production of various types of core rivets and core pulling rivets required for the biplane. Compared to the traditional double-sided rivets, this kind of joint could be fixed with only a knock or core pulling. It had lower requirements for the workers and was more convenient to install.
In addition, he also used the experience of model assembly in the later generations for reference. While fixing all the parts with a fixed number, he expressed each assembly step in the form of a diagram. Furthermore, he set up a fool's interface on some easily confused parts to further reduce the possibility of carelessness leading to the wrong installation.
Even so, in nearly half a month, the workers only managed to produce a finished product. One could imagine the difficulty.
"So did you personally participate?" Tilly suddenly asked.
"Not really …" Anna shrugged. She would only reveal this "unsteady" demeanor in front of a few people. "Roland asked me to only be responsible for commanding. No matter what trouble they encountered, I had to let them solve it themselves. Although there were several times when I almost couldn't control myself."
Tilly laughed. "So you're actually very happy, aren't you? Because one of them was successful. "
Anna could not help but smile. "I knew I couldn't hide it from you."
"If there's one, there will be a second one. When all the workers get started, I think there will soon be more qualified aircraft." Speaking of this, Tilly paused, turned her head and glanced at Roland. "It would be even better if you praised her at this time."
"I didn't count on him." Anna curled her lips.
"Eh?" Roland was confused. What was going on? Weren't they discussing the production of the aircraft? Why did the topic change to him?
At this moment, a personal guard ran over. "Your Majesty, all the factory preparations for the first 'Fire of Heaven' have been completed. The celebration ceremony can begin at any time."
Roland shifted his attention back to the biplane. He saw two newly painted symbols on the light gray fuselage. One was the royal coat of arms of Graycastle, and the other was a Knight holding a spear and spreading his wings. The entire aircraft looked majestic, but he felt that something was missing …
He pondered for a moment, then came to a sudden realization. He waved his hand and said, "Attach the ribbon!"
Soon, the bright red ribbon was attached to the aircraft, and a large red flower was attached to the propeller at the nose of the aircraft.
That's right. He nodded in satisfaction. This was the perfect condition for the 'Fire of Heaven' to leave the factory.
Following that was a speech, ribbon-cutting, and a group photo. Roland, Anna, Tilly … and all the contributors and workers who had participated in the design and manufacture of the aircraft stood together. Behind them was the brand new red biplane numbered 001.
"Look at me here … One, two, three!"
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