Chapter 584, Army Upgrade

The grace points in Gu Hang's hand have now exceeded 30 million.

The monthly grace points income is still a small amount, after all, it has only been a year since he used up all the grace points. His monthly fixed income has surged to 400,000, but in a year, it is only 4 million.

The other scattered battles are not much in comparison. The largest amount is the Battle of Bowang, which annihilated the Alfonzo fleet.

The grace points income from that battle was directly more than 20 million.

If these 30 million grace points were used for lottery...

But Gu Hang held back.

It is true that extracting key technologies can significantly enhance the war potential of the alliance.

Moreover, according to Gu Hang's estimation, the alliance should have a two-year stable period.

This does not mean that the war has subsided. For example, there are still some scattered wars in Huanyue, Wuqi-Wenqi, Kalet-Caicedo, and even the entire Aozhua Star Region.

The war will not stop.

But in general, the alliance can enjoy a period of general peace in the Aozhua star field.

This means that the alliance has a certain amount of time to digest the extracted technology.

However, Gu Hang still has to make up for the damage in the war first.

It can be expected that there will be no less wars in the future.

A large number of troops need to be filled.

The productivity of weapons and equipment should also be pulled up as much as possible.

Both directions require a large amount of gift points.

Of course, they will definitely not be spent. Thirty million gift points are enough to replenish 3 billion trained troops, and there is no need for so many.

In wars outside the homeland, troops are often not the key. Limited by the delivery capacity, it is impossible to release hundreds of millions of troops on the battlefield, and the risk is huge. A giant belly carrying a large number of troops and equipment, if something happens on the road, it will be a huge loss.

What's more, it is not easy to get so many ships.

In terms of personnel replenishment, Gu Hang gives priority to seafarers.

Those captured large ships are all big "eaters".

If the Emperor-class battleship is to be fully staffed with crew, marines, and servants, it should be able to accommodate 800,000 people; the Retribution-class battleship should be able to accommodate 500,000 people; and the battle barge should be able to accommodate at least 400,000 people. The Dragon Snake-class cruiser should be able to accommodate less, but 250,000 people are also needed.

After that, the Alliance has a considerable number of ships that are expected to be completed. These ships also need a large number of qualified crew members.

These seafarers will require a large number of more mature personnel from other ships to serve as backbone positions.

The Alliance Navy is a good place to join the army.

It is not just the Alliance, but the entire empire.

The working environment of the navy masters is good, and they are quite stable on the ship. They don’t have to endure the harsh environment like the miserable army.

Even the bottom servants of the navy have an advantage compared to the bottom servants of the army: they are not easily used as cannon fodder, and the mortality rate is greatly reduced.

As for the disadvantage, when the ship explodes, there is no place to run, and one person dies and one person dies.

But even when it comes to death, the lower-level servants and upper-level officers of the navy are equal - if the starship explodes, everyone will die.

Death is relatively less painful.

It is superior to the army in all aspects.

Moreover, the navy of the alliance is different from the navy of the empire. It has an obvious advantage: there is a lot of room for promotion.

Normally, the navy of the empire needs to wait for seniority. The positions on the ship are fixed one by one. The construction of ships is a very long process. The fleet has not been replenished with new ships for a long time, so naturally there is no room for seamen to be promoted.

The difference of the alliance is that several major shipbuilding centers are all working at full capacity. The shipbuilding industry of the alliance is not only developed, but the entire alliance society has concentrated all kinds of resources to try to give priority to ensuring the continuous development of the shipbuilding industry.

This actually consumes a huge amount of resources. The labor cost of the shipbuilding industry is very high, and the resource consumption is even higher.

For ordinary places, there is not enough shipbuilding technology on the one hand, and even if there is, most places actually have no way to start working at full capacity: they can't bear the cost.

The alliance has sufficient technical capabilities and ruling power to integrate the power of multiple star fields. The economic foundation of the alliance's various industrial chains is also strong enough. In addition, during this period of time, the alliance can get strong support from the entire Eastern Universe and even the surrounding universes, and can obtain enough in the raw material trade.

In addition, the black box has handled some of the most difficult parts of shipbuilding, the huge energy consumption, the energy crystals produced by the Angry Owl Star, and the gradually expanding stellar energy plant, which continuously collects stellar energy and compresses it into energy crystals... This allows the alliance's shipbuilding industry to work at its best.

It is also because of this that there are constantly new ships and captured enemy ships. The size of the alliance fleet is constantly expanding, and there are enough positions to provide to seafarers, so that they have enough room for promotion.

Seafarers have the opportunity to become leaders in their positions and become officers; junior officers can move up; school officers have the opportunity to serve as captains of new ships...

Officers transferred from existing ships can basically be promoted to new ships; vacant positions can also be promoted by people.

There is a large wave of promotion opportunities, and the navy system is filled with jubilation.

As for the missing parts among lower-level officers and lower-level seamen, they still need to be made up.

Earlier, when the size of the alliance's navy reached a certain level, the [Soldier Card] interface quietly unlocked the branch of seaman training. After the soldiers reach the T5 level, they can train qualified seamen at the cost of 1 point of grace/10 people.

The shortage of seamen is less than 3 million, which is calculated as a consumption of 300,000 points of grace.

For the 30 million that Gu Hang currently has, this is a small expense.

But in fact, Gu Hang does not intend to really use grace points to solve all problems.

Nor is it necessary.

The education system he vigorously developed throughout the alliance should have an effect.

The Naval Academy of Feiyi Star trains middle and upper-level officers, and under his alliance system, military academies are everywhere, not only in the Tianma Star Region, but also 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 solved in part by the various capabilities of the system, even a key part, but it can never be all. When his ruling scale expanded to more than two star regions, the population scale was hundreds of billions and trillions. A huge army, a huge number of engineers, a huge number of technical workers, and management talents...

These could not be solved entirely by grace points.

No matter how many grace points he obtained in the war, it was impossible to cope with such a large territory and such a large population.

Fortunately, Gu Hang had considered these problems a long time ago. In the past, he attached great importance to the education system of the alliance. On the one hand, a large amount of grace points were exchanged for one academy building after another, so that it was located in various worlds within the territory of the alliance. On the other hand, even if the budget of the alliance was tight in all aspects, the investment in education was always squeezed out from the cracks.

The education system, combined with Gu Hang's use of the [Hero] interface to inspire talents and the use of the [Soldier Card] interface to train backbones, is one of the important factors for the strong development of the alliance. It not only ensures that the alliance is thriving in economic development, manufacturing, and overall management, but also reserves a large number of backbone talents in the military.

The navy is just one of them.

Many qualified crew members are enough to fill the gap of several million navy.

Gu Hang really needs to spend grace points to solve only part of it. He only planned about 60,000 grace points to train 600,000 seamen. The rest of the part, with the old bringing up the new, the effect will not be too bad.

The Marine Corps needs more investment.

Although, in the past naval battles, it was always the Alliance that jumped on others. However, when we go back to fight with Iron Armor, we have to consider the issue of being jumped on in advance.

The reason for being so frugal is that there is another big part of consuming grace points: strengthening the front-line combat forces.

Almost half of the gap of more than two million seamen is reserved for the Marine Corps.

Gu Hang intends to raise the level of this force to a very high level.

In addition to a large number of sophisticated equipment suitable for combat in ships, the elite level of personnel cannot be ignored.

Gu Hang expects to raise these troops to the general T3 level of combat effectiveness.

The same treatment is applied to the existing marines in the fleet.

Their main task is to carry out anti-boarding combat; when necessary, they can also serve as boarding forces or airborne troops to provide ground support.

The total planned size of the Alliance's marines, including new and old ships, is about three million people.

This is the cost of three million grace points.

But this is only part of it.

There are two other huge expenses, which are on the army and the space warriors.

In terms of the army, the formal forces of the Alliance Army are about 1.5 billion in size. In the Alliance system, these are equivalent to the Star Army under the Empire system, and can go out to fight, which is different from the Entente Army on the native planet of the direction.

For a long time, Gu Hang no longer trained every soldier of the Alliance Army with grace points, because he could not bear the cost. The proportion of soldiers who have been trained with grace points is now only about 30%.

In fact, this number is already quite exaggerated. The training cost of almost 500 million soldiers is more than 5 million grace points.

In terms of proportion, it is actually not bad.

The military academy of the Alliance does not only train naval officers, but also the army accounts for a larger proportion.

Moreover, the training system of the Alliance Army has been established long ago, which is basically similar to the system of the Empire: the elite are selected from the planetary defense forces.

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 compensated. A considerable number of them have reached this level.

Adding the 30% gift point training ratio, the overall proportion of soldiers above T5 also exceeds 60%. The quality of the entire Alliance Army can still reach the level of ordinary Star Army Corps.

Even more.

After all, in fact, only 30% of many Star Army Corps can meet the standard.

Such a Alliance Army can even match some well-known Star Army Corps.

Not to mention, the scale of 1.5 billion is even more terrifying.

And now, more than one billion armies are fighting in various places in the Proud Claw Star Region.

They are working hard to quell the wars in various places, ensuring that the hundreds of worlds in the Proud Claw star field can also be controlled, and then provide war resources to support this war. The temporary government agency of the alliance controls these hundreds of worlds with wartime strategies and the support of the army.

When the wars in these worlds are generally settled and new planetary defense forces are established, they will leave the planets.

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 plans to expand the size of the alliance army by another 500 million.

New soldiers will be recruited from the defense forces in the two major star fields of Menghe and Dragon Eagle. Gu Hang has prepared 2 million gift points for this purpose, and trained 200 million of them to ensure the quality rate of the new troops.

At the same time, feeling that the number of troops deployed is limited, Gu Hang has to increase the proportion of some elite troops. He plans to raise the one or two skeleton divisions equipped by each group army to the T4 level as the main force of each army.

The Alliance now has 2,000 armies, a total of 2,600 Skeleton Divisions, and a scale of 130 million. All of them are trained to T4, minus some of those who have grown up in training and war and have already reached this level, Gu Hang has to train 100 million of them to the T4 level.

This is the cost of 10 million grace points.

But it is worth it.

The Skeleton Division that has grown to this level will crush the Royal Princess Legion or the War Corps Auxiliary Army of the same size.

The core forces of some well-known Star Army are also at this level.

In addition, there is the Alliance's Glory Guards, which Gu Hang directly expanded from the current level of 10,000 to 50,000.

They will all be composed of at least T2, and a considerable number of T1 soldiers.

The Glory Guards of this size and average strength level are estimated to be able to wipe out two full-strength ordinary war groups in a head-on battle.

Space Marines are expensive and limited in number, so Gu Hang can only do this.

This is probably another 1.5 million grace points.

So far, Gu Hang has spent a total of 16.5 million grace points on the personnel of the navy and the army.

Half of the family wealth accumulated from the previous war was gone.

Gu Hang estimated that the demand for the army in the subsequent wars would not be small, but this 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 fight and even gain an advantage when encountering the enemy's elite troops.

Then, Gu Hang turned his attention to the space warriors.

He wanted to raise both the Phoenix and the Blood Shark.