In Nagadai, the Tenth Experimental Brigade, which had arrived earlier, followed the orders of the military. Everyone and their supplies entered the designated airships. At the same time, all the airships docked in Nagadai's spaceport had to be tied to a designated location. Generally speaking, they were distributed around the periphery of the spaceport, leaving a relatively large space in the center so that the latecomers could instinctively dock at the center of the encirclement.
In the first row outside the center of the spaceport were the airships that contained the Tenth Experimental Brigade's soldiers. All the airships were kept activated so that when they received orders to move, they would immediately depart on the airship. When they received orders to attack, they would immediately leave the airship and surround the target.
And this time, the Empire had prepared more than one brigade for battle. There were also several airships with excellent attack capabilities and elevation limits that entered the clouds to ambush. As soon as the target appeared, they would immediately seal off the sky and ensure that the target could not escape.
However, this order from the Empire of Guevana was not taken seriously by the owners of the airships that had been requisitioned. If the Hyder Empire had built an airship legion, they would never have made such a mistake.
Whether it was in the sky, on the sea, or even on land, speed was everything. If the Sid's information was true, none of the owners believed that they could intercept the enemy.
When moving airships fired at each other, it was either close range or the experienced gunners who knew how to predict the enemy's speed. But the precondition for this was that the airships of both sides were not too far apart in speed. With the Sid's speed, the target would probably escape from the firing line in the time it took to aim and prepare to fire.
In fact, after this incident, the military of the Empire of Guevana had brought up the idea of building an airship legion for internal discussion. The reason this idea had been put on hold was that the technology of building airships was not as good as the Hyder Empire's. Secondly, there were not many materials suitable for building airships like the Hyder Empire's.
Regardless of the technical problems, building airships in the Empire of Guevana would cost much more than the Hyder Empire's airships. But these problems were no longer a problem after taking over the Sid.
The Empire of Guevana had suffered in this operation. As the enemy, they naturally understood the significance of Sid's speed advantage better than anyone else. They didn't even need to build it up to the size of an army. As long as they were able to transport a large group, it meant that they would be able to send the sharp blades of the Empire to any part of the battlefield at will. They would be able to enter and exit as quickly as possible, and before the enemy could react, they would be able to tear apart the battle lines at will.
Therefore, the young officers who were free began to discuss the usage of the airship fleet. At the same time, he was thinking about which brigade in the 1st Division to disband. He also wanted to move the 10th Experimental Brigade, which had only been established for about three years, forward a little.
From top to bottom, everyone's attitude was as if the Sid was already in the bag. This made the military affairs minister, who had returned to the military drawing room to wait, feel worried for no reason. Wasn't it a little too early for a group of young people who hadn't experienced any major setbacks to stay in such an important place?
In Nagadai City, the Transcendents of the Tenth Experimental Brigade gathered on the same airship. This airship could be considered the most luxurious and fastest among the ones that had been requisitioned. Due to military rules, they were not allowed to drink alcohol. However, they still brewed a large pot of refreshing tea to keep everyone in their best condition.
Their mission was to damage the airship to a limited extent so that the target could not take off again. Therefore, they all placed the most destructive weapons beside them and waited for the target to appear.
However, the waiting time was not so easy. Some impatient people were pacing back and forth in the airship, which annoyed the other passengers as well.
"Big Guy, stop it. You're making me dizzy, "someone said unhappily.
The person who was being complained about was also unhappy. "Why hasn't the target appeared yet? It's just a few kittens. Only the black dragon looks more troublesome. Isn't it better to finish the battle early and go back to rest early? "
"Be patient." The captain, who was also an Transcendent and a general, warned the juniors who had stepped into the same level as him. "Sometimes, the difference between the hunter and the prey lies in who has more patience."
"It's here!" The officer specially sent by the military drawing room to accompany the team, a young noble, suddenly shouted. He quickly operated the interface on the water mirror screen and said excitedly under the gaze of everyone in the airship, "The latest sighting of the Sid, Lebap City."
The Transcendents who had been waiting impatiently immediately shouted, "Great! Now that we know the target's location, let's set off immediately and surround them! "Although the voice was loud, there were few who responded. Sensing the abnormality, he looked at the confused expressions of the others and asked, "What's wrong with you guys? Why haven't you set off yet? "
Coughing to clear his throat, the captain of the Tenth Battalion asked the accompanying officer from the military drawing room, "Well, where is Lebap City? It doesn't seem to be a city near Nagaday. "
Equally dumbfounded was the accompanying officer who had been very excited at the beginning. The plans made by the military drawing room were very detailed. With Nagaday City as the center, more than a dozen cities around it that might be the target of the airship's stop had been made according to the distance.
The closer cities had more time and could carry more equipment and make sufficient preparations before the battle. The available attack plans included waiting for the enemy to rest in the hotel, surrounding them, and attacking at night. The farther cities had less time, but they could still make the minimum preparations and plan.
However … Lebap City was not included in these cities. The reason was simple, because Lebap City was not near the Abel Mountains at all, so it was not a city of the Abel Line. After crossing the mountains and flying northwest for a few days, they would arrive at a barren city on the edge of the desert. This was a place that everyone had only found after searching for a long time on the map of the Earthly Kingdom.
Then, everyone who was paying attention to the Sid's movements, whether in the military drawing room in the capital of the empire, on the airship in Nagaday City, or in the military camp in Haris City, all collapsed. Of course, there were also people who laughed.
It would take at least ten days to travel from Basra City to Lebap City on an ordinary airship. This meant that the Sid's speed was even faster than it had shown the day before. They had also completely deviated from the direction of the Holy City of Mages, Estari, and were heading to a place that was completely out of reach. How could the young noble officers in the military library not be driven mad by this situation?
It was like the rules on a chessboard: the pawn could only move forward one square, and could not change direction. However, the idiot opposite them, who did not know how to play chess, had flipped the chessboard. There were no squares, and the only pawn in his hand could move wherever it wanted. It was extremely capricious.
However, if they really paid attention to this group of people's information and seriously considered and analyzed it, the Sid's movements would not be surprising.
First of all, although the original appearance could not be seen, the Sid was not a newly built airship. It was a modified version of the goblin airship, the Hindenburg. The original Hindenburg used a large gas balloon to provide buoyancy, and the goblin's fuel engine as the propulsion mechanism.
The modified Sid had abandoned the balloon, and the buoyancy was provided by better magical devices. However, the fuel engine design was still retained, although it had been modified to the point where it could not be seen. Of course, this was from the perspective of the natives of the Lost Lands. For someone else, he was just using the mature engine design of Earth.
Since the engine was still the primary propulsion force of the Sid, and a secondary source of power, he had to replenish the fuel. In the Lost Lands, the crude oil that had been extracted was provided to the fractionation tower inside the airship to be refined.
Crude oil was not completely useless in the Lost Lands. At least as a weapon of war, it could create flames that were difficult to put out. Therefore, in the "land of death where black water overflowed," there were still people who collected crude oil in small amounts. However, there was only one place in the Empire that produced large amounts of crude oil, and that was the autonomous city where the goblin clans gathered — Lebap.
This used to be the capital of the Goblin Empire, and it used to be a rich and fertile land, a paradise that everyone yearned for. As for why it had become a desert today, it was actually the same reason as the desertification on Earth. Without proper soil conservation, overexploitation, and treating natural resources as inexhaustible and inexhaustible, nothing would be left in the end, only dead silence.
However, according to the legends of the Lost Lands, it was because the goblins were too good at causing trouble. They blew up everywhere, and in the end, not even a blade of grass grew, turning the place into a desert. Actually, if one thought about it seriously, it made sense.
Although there was nothing left in this place, the black water that would emerge from the sand had become the thing that the goblins who stayed behind most often came into contact with and studied. For them, of course, they wanted to develop the use of the black water so that they could exchange it for necessities.
In fact, the goblins were living a very miserable life. The Goblin Empire's combat power was once unparalleled in the Lost Lands. In Lin's opinion, the goblins had many weapons that were ahead of their time, even if they did not consider the fact that they had explosives.
However, the countries on Earth that could afford modern warfare were all industrial nations. They relied on their strong industrial foundations and the natural resources they produced to be able to do whatever they wanted. The Goblin Empire, on the other hand, did not have such foundations. That was why they were as dazzling as fireworks, and then they were finished in three seconds.
The goblins had once wanted to escape this barren land. Only a very small number of them missed the glory of the Goblin Empire and stayed here. However, they lost their resources and a large amount of technology due to the explosions. In the end, they were no match for the other Homo sapiens who were expanding their territory and were chased back, or they left this land of traditional civilization and entered the wilderness of the past.
After that, they went through several eras where different races were the main characters, as well as the dark era where the Demon King Tikal reigned, and then they entered the current era where humans were the main characters. When the Guevana Alliance was established, the goblins paid a considerable price to become a member of the Hundred Races Alliance.
As for Lebap City, the other races did not want to take it. That was why the goblins kept it as the last memory of the Empire's glory. That was why the goblins were full of grievances when they talked about this city …
How did it feel to be poor and unlucky while guarding an oil field? A certain transmigrator could not imagine.
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