12: Chapter 12: Overcoming the Energy Crisis and Heading to the New Base

Accelerating the speed of technological research?

This is a good thing at any time.

Technological research is closely related to territory development and unit enhancement.

Higher technological levels often mean better development and stronger combat power.

Therefore, technological research is very important in every stage of territory development.

And besides requiring command points, research also takes a certain amount of time.

Accelerating research speed means shortening time, which means increasing the rate of territory development.

Su Yang accepted the Insect Swarm Heart, turning his attention to the event triggered this time.

Unlike the incentive event triggered last time, this is clearly a negative event.

Gaze of the Abyss: The Insect Swarm will increase the frequency of attacks on the affiliated territory.

However, it is not necessarily entirely a bad event.

Although the territory will suffer a devastating blow if the defense is not in place.

But if the defense is in place, no matter how frequent the Insect Swarm's attacks are, they are just giving away command points for free.

From now on, the base's defensive facilities must be put on the agenda.

Besides the Insect Swarm Heart, the most abundant drop from this battle is the command points drop.

The Insect Swarm dropped a total of 1420 command points, and the Insect Extermination Expert achievement reward is 500 points.

A total of 1920 points, nearly two thousand command points!

With this amount of command points, the base's development can be sped up significantly.

A normal start only has one thousand command points, and Su Yang has already obtained over 4000 command points so far.

Must seize this opportunity to widen the gap with other lords.

After checking the battle gains, Su Yang returned to the ground.

There lay the most important harvest of this battle—the coal mine.

Looking at the pitch-black exposed coal mine on the ground.

Su Yang did not feel any disgust; instead, his eyes lit up as if he had seen a Treasure Trove.

In his past life, he might not have even glanced at these things, but now they are life-saving resources!

Su Yang walked on the vein, occasionally kicking it to feel the firmness of the coal seam.

Now he only has two mining machines, so the site selection must be perfect.

After exploring for a while, Su Yang locked onto an area far away from the insect nest.

Then he took out the blueprint and placed the first mining machine.

Detecting mining machine facilities, Great Qin Heavy Industry trait triggered.

【Mining Machine】 >>> 【Steam-powered Mining Machine】

The heavy industry trait was triggered again, and Su Yang looked shocked.

What effects will this Steam-powered Mining Machine have?

The sound of mechanical gears colliding rang out, and the garage-sized power mining machine was built.

Like other upgraded buildings in the territory, the power mining machine also has a bronze frame, with steam providing power.

Bang——————

Driven by steam, the mechanical arm smashed into the vein and started working.

【Successfully built Steam-powered Mining Machine】

【Mining machine base output: 30 units of coal resources/day】

【Environmental bonus: Rich surrounding coal resources, increasing production by 5 units per day】

【Civilization trait bonus: Great Qin craftsmanship makes the mining machine operate efficiently: increasing production by 15 units per day】

【Output after mining machine bonus: 50 units of coal resources/day】

Su Yang looked at the mining machine panel with great joy.

As expected of Great Qin, the craftsmanship alone increased the output by 15 units, which is equivalent to half of the base output.

Moreover, the mining machine also received the environmental bonus, bringing the total daily output to 50 units.

Most importantly, the power mining machine is a fully automatic mining machine and does not require workers to operate.

Almost all other civilizations' early-stage mines require units to operate.

This effect of the power mining machine will save Su Yang a lot of labor in the early stage.

Armored Elite Soldiers need to consume 1 unit of fuel resources and 1 unit of concentrated water to refuel once.

The high-pressure water pump has been built, with a daily output of 100 units of water.

2 units of water can be compressed into 1 unit of concentrated water in the liquid compressor.

Converted, the concentrated water is also 50 units per day.

If the Armored Elite Soldiers keep moving, the energy can last for 6 hours.

Combat and high-speed movement will accelerate this process.

Currently, Su Yang's team has 17 Armored Elite Soldiers.

50 units of storage can support the whole army to refuel three times.

If the Insect Swarm conducts an all-day siege, at least there is no need to worry about energy.

Of course, if there are no special circumstances and the soldiers operate in a normal state, the energy reserves are more than enough.

Watching the rumbling mining machine, Su Yang was very satisfied.

Next, he placed a second Steam-powered Mining Machine on the bare ground not far from the coal mine.

This mining machine is mainly used for excavating stone resources; stone is an important resource for building city walls and various defensive facilities in the early stage.

After various bonuses, the stone mining machine's output is 100 units of stone resources/day.

According to the information Su Yang knows, this stone excavation speed is definitely not slow, and can even be comparable to some modern civilizations.

The biggest contributor to this is the Great Qin civilization trait.

The bonus of excellent craftsmanship allows all facilities to have efficiency beyond normal levels.

Around the coal mine and stone mine, Su Yang also built a solid resource warehouse.

Thus, a mining site with production facilities and storage facilities was built.

The most troublesome energy problem in the early stage was perfectly solved.

Next is to get the base development on the right track.

For a base, the most important thing must be production capacity and technological level.

However, considering Su Yang's current situation, base defense must be put first.

First, he broke the novice protection early and cannot develop carefree for a week like other lords.

In addition, he was also marked, and the Insect Swarm's attacks might come faster and harder than expected.

Therefore, before actually starting development, he must first make a series of defensive plans for the base.

Speaking of defense, the distance between the Main Base and the mining site is the first problem.

The distance between the two is about ten minutes for the Armored Elite Soldiers, which can be shortened to four minutes at full speed.

This time is not long, but if attacked, they certainly cannot arrive in time.

And defending in two places in the early stage will consume a lot of energy.

So Su Yang's choice is to move.

The Main Base and facilities like the Imperial Armor Camp can be retrieved into the backpack and then released.

He intends to move the lords residence and the series of buildings built previously to the mining site area for replanning.

The selection of the base's location is very important. Many lords will relocate after the novice protection period ends to choose a territory more suitable for their own civilization.

Because Su Yang broke the novice protection early, he can select the territory location in advance.

This will undoubtedly put him one step ahead of other lords.

After the relocation is completed, it will be time to build the defensive facilities for the new base.

Currently, the only defensive facilities Su Yang can build are walls and watchtowers.

The walls are stone walls, each segment is three meters high and one meter long.

Building it costs 1 unit of stone resource.

The watchtower is a building that provides a reconnaissance range for the garrison, and building it requires 5 units of stone resources.

According to the current stone production capacity, 100 meters of wall can be built in one day, and a square of 25×25 area can be enclosed.

After estimating the total area of the buildings he currently has, Su Yang decided to enclose a 50×50 meter square area.

And build four watchtowers at the four corners of the wall for reconnaissance and defense.

In this way, the stone resources from more than two days of stone mine operation will be enough to enclose the wall.

After waiting a while at the mining site, Su Yang left four Elite Soldiers and led the other soldiers back to the residence for relocation work.

Early the next morning, when the sunlight dispersed the fluorescence in the dense forest.

Su Yang completed the relocation of the new base.