(The new book is delayed, I have a headache)
(I should find a reader to lock me in a dark room, chain me up, and force me to write a certain amount of words every day. If I don't, they'll whip me with a small leather whip until I cry out in pain. That should boost my efficiency...)
"If you're sure you don't need to rest, then let's start working," Jiang Ye pushed the plate aside, revealing the screen of his desk. "Honestly, you've drunk so much and now you're working, I feel guilty."
"If you feel guilty, Commander, you can invite me for drinks more often," Hua Qing smiled and took a storage device from his pocket, placing it on the screen.
The moment it was placed, the screen sensed the storage device, highlighted it with a virtual circle, and prompted whether to receive the file.
Jiang Ye clicked yes, and immediately a large amount of weapon information popped up.
"I'll introduce them to you one by one. There aren't many finalized plans this time, so it won't take long," Hua Qing said.
"Alright," Jiang Ye nodded.
"The first weapon is an automatic search and attack cyclone-generating spaceship. The scientific name is too cumbersome, so in the military, they're called Typhoon ships." Hua Qing sat opposite the desk and reached out to tap the screen, bringing up the blueprints.
Jiang Ye frowned slightly.
"The principle behind these Typhoon ships is actually very simple. It's a highly intelligent spaceship, with both unmanned and manned versions," Hua Qing said. "It can cruise rapidly in orbit around a planet, using high speed to evade firepower, while simultaneously collecting atmospheric data of the entire planet to find typhoon locations."
"It sounds like a weather satellite," Jiang Ye said.
"It's very similar, but satellites are only responsible for observation, while Typhoon ships can attack," Hua Qing said. "The ship carries cyclone bombs. Once thrown into the designated position, they can cause powerful airflow changes. As long as these cyclone bombs are thrown accurately and at the right time, they can utilize the target planet's airflow to generate powerful typhoons, thereby striking the enemy."
"The principle is similar to the legend of the butterfly effect, where a butterfly's wings can stir up winds thousands of kilometers away. The Typhoon ship's cyclone bombs are the butterfly's wings. The cyclone bombs don't directly create a super typhoon through brute force, but rather guide and release energy naturally present in the target planet's atmosphere. It's a process of borrowing force to strike. For example, if a place is just short of forming a typhoon, the cyclone bomb provides that last bit. Or if a typhoon was not going to pass a certain location, the cyclone bomb guides it to change direction. This relies on the Typhoon ship's precise calculations and massive information collection."
"It sounds rather mystical," Jiang Ye chuckled. "I thought advanced weapons would be of the carpet-bombing variety, but instead, it's about creating typhoons."
"There are carpet-bombing types too, but they are too cumbersome and crude. These Typhoon ships are very economical. Once the industrial chain is established, a small unmanned Typhoon ship only costs four billion, and its maintenance costs are also extremely low. Each cyclone bomb costs only fifty million, but the destruction it brings can be quite immense."
"How immense?" Jiang Ye asked.
"That depends on the target planet's atmospheric environment. The more prone a planet is to generating large typhoons, the greater the power," Hua Qing said. "For example, on Jiang Ye Star, just one Typhoon ship, by dropping a dozen cyclone bombs, can create a super typhoon with speeds exceeding six hundred kilometers per hour, capable of generating giant waves at least thirty meters high in coastal areas."
"For how long?"
"Under normal circumstances, it can be continuous."
Jiang Ye, who had been maintaining a calm expression, suddenly changed his demeanor upon hearing this.
A fierce typhoon, while destroying many coastal facilities and causing significant casualties, was generally not as powerful as carpet bombing.
However, hundreds or thousands of continuous typhoons would have a terrifying effect.
What kind of city could withstand non-stop super typhoons year-round?
Speeds of over six hundred kilometers per hour, over a hundred meters per second, such gales couldn't be dealt with by simply sticking tape on windows. Parked cars on the road could be flipped over directly, and large trees would be uprooted like green onions. Not to mention people; anyone daring to leave a building would be blown to the rooftop within seconds, effectively taking off in place.
Low-end firepower would be directly blown off course by the gales. Any technology that was slightly less advanced might even lose its anti-air capabilities within this storm net.
With continuous typhoons, cities would be destroyed inch by inch, windows shattering, houses collapsing, cities with tens of millions of inhabitants flattened as if erased from a painting. The debris of the city, the stones on the desolate land, would be swept inland by the gale. Countless remnants in the wind would shoot into the bodies of living beings along the way like bullets, creating scenes of bodies littered everywhere as if after machine-gun fire, shattered corpses flying into the sky and continuing their advance.
It was absolutely a weapon of mass destruction!
The most terrifying thing was that it was also very cheap.
For a few billion, the price of an ordinary small warship, one could become an apocalypse-bringing spaceship, destroying enemy economies worth hundreds of billions or even trillions.
Jiang Ye had commanded many wars, and he knew very well that sometimes wars were not fought with weapons or courage, but with money.
Earlier, during the final encirclement of the exiled star, Jiang Ye had suggested to Cen Ye Meng the tactic of raining down rockets.
The Jiang Ye Star forces had rocket artillery units, and each long-range, self-targeting rocket cost only nine thousand yuan.
However, the defending forces within the exiled star's encirclement needed to intercept these rockets with anti-aircraft missiles that cost over a hundred thousand yuan each.
The Jiang Ye Star army would unleash thousands of rockets like rain every day, directly bankrupting the exiled star's defenders. After all, intercepting one rocket meant a loss of over ninety thousand yuan, and not intercepting them was not an option either. If they didn't intercept thousands of rockets daily, they would be devastated within days.
Inflicting ten thousand damage on the enemy while sustaining one thousand of their own, the Jiang Ye Star army had enjoyed a very satisfying battle at that time.
Therefore, money was a very important war metric.
From this perspective, Jiang Ye seemed to understand why Typhoon ships were considered advanced weapons by the military... they were truly cost-effective!
"There have been many successful combat examples of Typhoon ships, and they have mostly achieved great victories," Hua Qing tapped on the screen. "Most planets capable of supporting life have an atmosphere, because the planet's gravity, if slightly larger, can easily hold onto gases. Therefore, Typhoon ships have a very wide range of battlefields. Even if a planet lacks an atmosphere, an artificial atmosphere can be quickly created at a low cost. After its creation, Typhoon ships can be deployed, making warfare quite economical."
Various images appeared on the screen.
Some were satellite images from aerial photography, with surging winds and waves sweeping across entire continents, changing the color of the land as if the very topsoil had been stripped away.
Others were on-site photos taken by landing troops, showing collapsed city ruins, sticky alien corpses, and the air still hazy with yellow dust from sandstorms.