Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 1099 1100 Complex landing materials

“According to the past process, we should continue to transport soldiers to the shore now.” On a transport ship, a sailor looked at the busy beach in the distance and said to his companions.

 Their transport ship has a displacement of about 12,000 tons, which is already a very huge ship. But in the fleet, compared with the more than 30,000-ton transport ships around it, it is a complete cutie.

The materials this ship is responsible for transporting are actually very interesting. They are not grains and rice, nor artillery shells, nor soldiers... It transports cement for road construction and some construction machinery.

The huge crane on the ship is transporting the cement in the net bag to a small transport boat. Due to the draft, the ship cannot approach the coast at all.

Although the Tang Empire has begun to popularize container transport ships, traditional transport ships still occupy a huge transportation market.

 The unused transport ships of Datang Group will appear on the second-hand market. These ships, which have only been used for about ten years, are still very new, so many buyers are willing to pay for them.

Often some shipping companies affiliated with the Egret Group or other groups controlled by the Tang Empire can purchase such ships, and then let these inefficient ships continue to use their waste.

  It takes time for new things to become popular, and old things that are eliminated by new technologies may not go to the grave immediately. They will continue to be used until the end of time.

Think about it, a Mosin-Nagant rifle had better alternatives around 1950, but some countries were still using it until 1980... This is the real world, a very cruel world.

When you laugh at the backwardness of your country's individual soldiers and equipment, half of the armies of countries in the world still hold weapons from the World War II era. When you laugh at your country for not being able to build the most advanced jet engines, you never thought that there are no more than 5 countries in the world that can independently build excellent jet engines...

On the beach in the distance, a floating dock that can dock ships has been built, but now it is not long enough and big enough, so it cannot dock large ships.

 Some small transport ships with relatively shallow drafts can now unload cargo on the floating docks. The soldiers who have just landed have become dock workers and are busy unloading the cargo on the shore.

 As more and more troops came ashore, the materials and equipment sent to the coast became more and more diverse. The materials needed by the landing troops were so complicated that they even had a batch of specially customized folding tables, chairs, and camp beds.

Relying on a reinforced concrete bunker, the Tang Army built a huge field hospital with more than 300 beds and even two specialized operating rooms! It has a full set of equipment and even disinfection equipment.

 All beds for the wounded have bottle holders and folding stools that serve as bedside tables. In order to make them more comfortable, there is a special ship to transport drawing books, books and mahjong cards for the landing troops.

 In order to restore the abandoned airport on the island to a usable condition as soon as possible, the air force's dedicated transport ships are also speeding up their unloading. They occupied a floating dock and transported some special vehicles and some special equipment ashore.

 Jet transfer is not a small project. Before letting the plane fly from point A to point B, the airport at point B needs to have a lot of preparation work.

For example, it is necessary to arrange the arrival of ground staff who are familiar with jet aircraft in advance, prepare special tools and special maintenance equipment for them, build an engine maintenance workshop in a dust-free environment, and prepare a large amount of special engine oil and cables...

This is not over yet. In order to command these jet fighters, the airport needs to build a complete set of command and communication equipment, including a more advanced high-frequency radio system and lay out more complex and sophisticated cables. In addition, special equipment such as radars for dispatching and warning radars must be set up.

 The runways used by jet fighters are also more complex than those used by piston propeller fighters. Under extreme circumstances, piston fighters can take off and land on flat grass, but jet fighters must need a hard ground runway.

As fighter jets become more and more advanced, the supporting facilities they require become more and more complex, and it becomes a huge problem to deliver these equipment that the mirage country does not have ashore.

For the Tang Army who landed, this was just the beginning: the high-grade aviation fuel the Tang Army needed had to be transported from the mainland. If the Mirage was to fortify its walls and clear the country, almost all fuel consumables would have to be transported from the mainland. .

Many people from the Tang Dynasty who came here discovered at this time that many countries in the world are completely incomparable to their country.

The roads here are terrible, and the towns and villages here look like the villages and towns of Qi State and Zheng State more than ten years ago.

Frankly speaking, in order to be able to assemble a decent fleet, the economy of Mirage has been dragged down a bit miserably: except for a few railways, there are only a handful of modern buildings here.

 Completely different from here, Chang'an, Linshui, Tongcheng in the Tang Dynasty...these places have as many high-rise buildings as forests. In the Tang Empire, people were accustomed to the absence of city walls in the suburbs, to roads everywhere, to buildings with dozens of floors, and to those advertising signs that looked pretty and delicious.

After arriving in the Mirage Kingdom, many Tang people finally understood that neon lights and countless chimneys, women's red lips and stockings, lingering cigarettes and suits and leather shoes, cars and hurried crowds on both sides of the road... none of these are taken for granted. It exists.

 There are no tens of thousands of orc workers here, nor are there any railways or airports built by these workers. There is no endless factory here, and of course there is no familiar and irritating roar of machinery.

“Be careful! Don’t drop this thing into the sea! You can’t use this thing after you fish it up!” Leaning on the railing, the sailor shouted to the people on the small transport boat below the ship’s side.

 The person below gives a thumbs up to the person above to show that he already knows. Their boat was relatively small, so it rocked up and down with the waves.

 The sea breeze in January is still cold, but sailors who have been at sea for many years have become accustomed to this climate. From time to time, two formations of pirate fighter jets flew overhead. They were the patrol fighter formations.

 This morning, an aircraft carrier and several destroyers armed with anti-ship missiles left the formation. They were ordered to return to Beiyuan Port for supplies and troubleshooting.

That aircraft carrier took away all the malfunctioning carrier-based aircraft of the naval aviation force, and at the same time, it also took away about 500 wounded people.

As the war continued, a steady stream of ships sailed from Beiyuan Port to the South Island, and there were also Tang Army ships from the South Island heading to Beiyuan or Linshui.

 Huge amounts of supplies are concentrating on the South Island, including some carefully selected orc laborers. These people are not brought here to fight, but to work.

Rather than saying that the battle on the South Island is more important, it is better to say that the infrastructure construction on the South Island is more important to the Tang Army: without modern system support, the combat efficiency of the Tang Army will also be greatly affected.

"I should go back." On the beach, Shan Lu said with some regret as he watched Tang Jun's supplies come ashore in piles.

Several of his companions have returned to Beiyuan with the ship, where they are responsible for mobilizing 10,000 orc laborers to build their "hometown" on the South Island.

"It doesn't matter, there are already orcs on board. When you get here, you have to play your role. I hope... they are as brave as they were in Fengjiang and as hard-working as they were in the Tang Empire." Lu Qianshan smiled. He said to his orc friend.

"Believe me, General, if anyone dares to hold back, I will break his neck and throw him into the sea!" Shanlu said sternly.

Lu Qianshan laughed even louder: "General Shanlu, you have to know that everyone who travels across the ocean to come here must play a role. It is easy for you to kill an orc, but the Tang Empire transports an orc here... the cost Not low.”

"I understand! Your Majesty General! I will let every orc who comes here play a role. They must pick up weapons and become warriors, and put down weapons and become workers! If necessary, we will fight for the Tang Empire until Die!" Shan Lu nodded, understanding what Lu Qianshan meant.

 An oil tanker belonging to the Air Force drove past the two people, with a slogan prohibiting fireworks written in big and scary letters on it.

 Dozens of similar trucks have appeared on the beach, and there are also many passenger trucks with Air Force logos spray-painted on them. Farther away, self-propelled artillery modified from the chassis of the No. 4 tank were lined up in a line and were being counted by dedicated personnel.

In addition to these, the Tang Army also built various facilities on the abandoned positions of the Mirage troops: including oil storage areas, arsenals, and even a new warning radar station.

The new radar that was sent ashore is not large in size, and the antenna is not particularly eye-catching. But its performance is not low, and it is no worse than the large radars purchased by other countries.

With this thing, it will not be easy for the Mirage aircraft from the northern part of the South Island to get close to the landing area of ​​the Tang Army. However, it will take some time to set up this radar station, after all, the supporting facilities are still under construction!

That's right, Tang Jun has not seen the power plant in Mirage until now, which shows that Tang Jun can only build power generation facilities by himself...

 In fact, the Mirage Kingdom has two power plants on the South Island, and one of them is even a hydropower station on the upper reaches of the Danan River... Unfortunately, these places are still in the hands of the Mirage Kingdom.

 (End of this chapter)