Chapter 584, Army Upgrade
The gift points in Gu Hang's hand have now exceeded the 30 million mark.
There are still few people who can save their monthly gift points income. After all, it has only been a year since he last used up his gift points. His monthly fixed income has surged to 400,000 yuan, but in one year's time, it is only 4 million yuan.
There are not many other bits and pieces of battles in comparison. The biggest one is the battle of Beauvain, which was obtained by annihilating Alfonzo's fleet.
The gift point income from that battle was over 20 million.
If these 30 million points of gifts are used in a lottery...
But Gu Hang held back his hand.
It is true that extracting key technologies can significantly enhance the alliance's war potential.
Moreover, according to China Airlines' estimates, the alliance should have a stable period of two years.
This does not mean the war is over. For example, Huanyue, Wuqi-Wenqi line, Kalet-Caicedo line, and even the entire Proud Claw Star Territory still have some scattered wars.
The war will never stop.
But overall, the Alliance has been able to enjoy a period of general peace in the Proud Claw Star Territory.
This means that the alliance has a certain amount of time to digest the extracted technology.
However, Gu Hang still had to make up for the damage caused in the war first.
It can be predicted that there will be no shortage of wars in the future.
A lot of troops need to be filled.
The productivity of weapons and equipment must also be increased as much as possible.
Both directions require investing a large amount of gift points.
Of course, it won’t be all spent. Thirty million gift points are enough to supplement the three billion trained troops, so there is no need for so many.
In wars outside the homeland, troop strength is often not the key. Limited by the delivery capacity, if you really want to release hundreds of millions of troops to the battlefield, it is impossible and the risk is huge. A giant ship carrying a large number of troops and equipment will suffer huge losses if something happens on the way.
What's more, it's not easy to get so many ships.
When it comes to staff recruitment, Gu Hang’s priority is seafarers.
Those big ships that were captured were all big cannibals.
If the Emperor-class battleship is to be fully equipped with crew, marines, and servants, it should carry 800,000 people; the Retribution-class battleship should carry 500,000 people; and the battle barge should also carry at least 400,000 people. The Dragon Snake-class cruiser is a little less, and it costs 250,000.
After that, the alliance still has a considerable number of ships, which are expected to be completed. These ships also require a large number of qualified crew members.
These sailor needs will require a large number of relatively mature personnel from other ships to be assigned to key positions.
The Alliance Navy, that's a great place to join the military.
This is not just the alliance, but also the entire empire.
Navy men have a good working environment and are quite stable on ships. They don't have to be like the hard-working Army, who might have to endure a tough environment at some point.
Even the low-level servants of the Navy have one advantage compared to the low-level servants of the Army: they are less likely to be used as cannon fodder, and the mortality rate is greatly reduced.
As for the disadvantage, there is no place to run when the ship explodes, and every person in the ship dies.
But even when it comes to death, the lower-level servants of the Navy and the upper-level officers are all equal - if the starship explodes, everyone will die.
Death was relatively painless.
Better than the Army in all aspects.
Moreover, the alliance's navy is different from the empire's navy. It has an obvious advantage: there is a lot of room for promotion.
Normally, the Imperial Navy needs quite a lot of qualifications. The pit positions on the ship are destined to die one by one. The construction of a ship is a very long process. Within the fleet, there have been few new ships for a long time, and naturally there is no room for sailors to be promoted.
The difference between the alliance is that each of the major shipbuilding centers is operating at full capacity. The alliance's shipbuilding industry is not only developed, but the entire alliance society has pooled various resources to ensure the continued development of the shipbuilding industry as a priority.
This actually consumes a huge amount of resources. The shipbuilding industry has high labor costs and higher resource consumption.
For ordinary places, there is not enough shipbuilding technology on the one hand. Even if there is, most places actually have no way to start construction at full capacity: they cannot withstand the expense.
The alliance's technical capabilities are sufficient, the alliance's dominance is strong enough, and it can integrate the power of multiple existing star regions. The economic foundation of the alliance's various industrial chains is also strong enough. In addition, during this period, the alliance can obtain With the full support of the entire Eastern Universe and even the surrounding Universe, we can gain enough in raw material trade.
In addition, the black box has dealt with some of the most difficult parts of shipbuilding, the huge energy consumption, the energy crystals produced by the Raging Owl Star, and the gradually expanding stellar energy plant, which continuously collects stellar energy and compresses it into energy crystal blocks... this This allows the alliance's shipbuilding industry to do its best.
Because of this, there are constantly new ships, coupled with captured enemy ships, the scale of the Alliance fleet is constantly expanding, and there are enough positions for sailors, giving them enough room for advancement.
Sailors have the opportunity to become leaders in their posts and become officers; junior officers can be promoted; officers have the opportunity to serve as captains of new ships...
Officers transferred from existing ships can basically be promoted to new ships; the vacant positions can also be promoted by others.
There is a wave of promotion opportunities, and the navy system is very happy.
As for the missing parts among lower-level officers and lower-level sailors, they still have to be made up.
Earlier, when the alliance's navy reached a certain level, the [Soldier Card] interface quietly unlocked the branch of sailor training. After the soldiers are required to reach T5 level, they can train qualified sailors at the cost of 1 gift point/10 people.
The shortage of less than 3 million sailors is a gift consumption of 300,000 points.
For the 30 million Gu Hang currently has, this is a small expense.
But in fact, Gu Hang didn't really intend to use the gift points to solve all problems.
No need.
The education system he has vigorously developed throughout the league should be effective.
The Wing Star's naval academy trains middle- and upper-level officers, and under his alliance system, military academies are opened everywhere, not only in the Pegasus sector, but throughout the entire alliance. The education system is a very important expense in the alliance. .
Gu Hang has always known that the talent problem can be partially solved by various capabilities of the system, even a key part, but it can never be the whole solution. When the scale of his rule expanded to more than two star regions, the population scale was hundreds of billions or trillions. A huge army, a huge number of engineers, a huge number of technical workers and management talents...
None of these can be solved entirely by relying on gift points.
No matter how many gift points he obtained in the war, he would never be able to cope with such a large territory and such a large population.
Fortunately, Gu Hang had already considered these issues. In the past, he had attached great importance to the alliance's education system. On the one hand, gift points were exchanged for a large amount of college buildings, which were located in various worlds within the alliance's territory. On the other hand, no matter how tight the alliance's budget was, Investment in education is always poking out as much as possible from the cracks. The education system, combined with Gu Hang's use of the [Hero] interface to inspire talents and the [Soldier Card] interface to train the backbone, is one of the important factors for the strong development of the alliance. It not only ensures that the alliance thrives in economic development, manufacturing, and overall management, but also reserves a large number of key talents in the military.
The Navy is just one of them.
A large number of qualified sailors are enough to fill the navy gap of several million.
What Gu Hang really wants to spend his gift points to solve is only part of it. He only planned about 60,000 gift points to train 600,000 sailors. For the remaining parts, the old ones are brought into the new ones, and the effect will not be much worse.
On the other hand, the Marine Corps needs more investment.
Although, in past naval battles, the alliance always jumped to the side of others. However, if you want to fight Tie Jia later, you must also consider in advance the matter of being jumped into the gang.
The reason why we have to spend so sparingly is because there is another big cost of gift points: the strengthening of front-line combat troops.
Of the shortage of more than two million sailors, almost half is reserved for the Marine Corps.
Gu Hang planned to raise the level of this army to a very high level.
In addition to a large number of sophisticated equipment suitable for combat inside the ship, the eliteness of the personnel cannot be ignored.
Gu Hang expected that these troops would be brought to the general T3 level of combat effectiveness.
The same process applies to the Marine Corps currently in the fleet.
Their main task is to carry out anti-boarding battles; when necessary, they can also be used as a boarding force or as airborne troops to support the ground.
The total planned size of the Alliance's Marine Corps, including new ships plus old ships, is approximately three million men.
This is the cost of three million gift points.
But that's only part of it.
There are two huge expenses, which are on the army and the Space Marines.
As for the army, the official force of the Alliance Army is about 1.5 billion in size. In the alliance system, these are equivalent to the Astra Militarum under the empire system. They can go out to fight, which is different from the local Allied Forces on the Azimuth Planet.
For a long time, Gu Hang has stopped training every Alliance Army soldier with gift points, unable to withstand the expense. The proportion of soldiers inside who have been trained with gift points is now only about 30%.
In fact, this number is quite exaggerated. The training cost of almost 500 million soldiers is more than 5 million gift points.
In terms of proportions, it's actually pretty good.
The alliance's military schools not only train naval officers, but also the army.
What's more, the Alliance army's training system has already been established, which is basically similar to the Empire's system: elites are selected from the Planetary Defense Force.
Their quality is already very high. Although not all of them can reach the T5 level, the difference is not so big that it cannot be made up. A considerable number of them have reached this level.
Coupled with the 30% gift point training ratio, the overall proportion of soldiers above T5 exceeds 60%. The quality of the entire Alliance Army can still reach the level of the average Astra Militarum legion.
Even more than that.
After all, many Astra Militarum legions actually only meet 30% of the standards.
The level of such an alliance army can even compete with some well-known Astra Militarum legions.
Not to mention, the scale of 1.5 billion is even more terrifying.
Now, more than a billion armies are fighting everywhere in the Proud Claw Star Territory.
They are working hard to calm down the wars everywhere, ensuring that hundreds of worlds in the Proud Claw Star Territory can also be controlled, and then provide war resources to support this war. The Alliance's provisional government agencies, with wartime tactics and the support of the Army, control these hundreds of worlds.
When the wars in these worlds are generally put down and new planetary defense forces are established, they will leave each planet.
In the future, it is estimated that the demand for the Army will not decrease. Even considering the long-term confrontation with the Iron Armor War, more may be needed.
Gu Hang is preparing to expand the size of the Alliance Army by another 500 million.
New soldiers were recruited from the defense forces in the two star regions of Menghe and Longying. Gu Hang prepared 2 million gift points for this purpose and trained 200 million of them to ensure the high-quality rate of the new troops.
At the same time, feeling that the number of troops to be deployed was limited, Gu Hang had to increase the proportion of some elite troops. He planned to bring the one to two skeleton divisions equipped by each group army to the T4 level and serve as the main force of each army.
The alliance now has 2,000 army groups, a total of 2,600 skeleton divisions, and a scale of 130 million. After all are trained to T4, excluding those who grew up in training and war and have already reached this level, Gu Hang still has to train 100 million of them to T4 level.
This is the cost of 10 million gift points.
But it's worth it.
The Skeleton Division that has grown to this point will be crushed against the Queen's Legion or the Auxiliary Army of the same size.
The core units of some well-known Astra Militarum are only at this level.
In addition, Gu Hang directly expanded the alliance's Glory Guards from the current level of 10,000 people to 50,000 people.
They will all be composed of at least T2, and a fair number of T1 level soldiers.
The Glory Guards of this size and average strength are expected to be able to destroy two full-strength ordinary battle groups in a frontal battle.
Space warriors were expensive and limited in number, so this was all Gu Hang could do.
This is probably another 1.5 million gift points spent.
So far, Gu Hang has spent a total of 16.5 million gift points on navy and army personnel.
Half of the money saved from the battle was gone.
Gu Hang predicts that the demand for the army will not be small in the subsequent war, but this whole wave should be enough to cope with it.
The overall strength of the alliance army will be very clearly improved after this.
Even the most ordinary army group can defeat or even gain an advantage when encountering the enemy's elite troops.
Then, Gu Hang turned his attention to the Space Marines.
He wants to raise both phoenix and blood shark.
(End of chapter)