Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 429429Production can’t keep up

“Master, Dongwan Island is already ours.” Opening the door, Le Fu walked up to Tang Mo and reported excitedly.

 The troops of the 1st Division have captured Dongwan Island, controlled the two most important cities on the island, and wiped out all the Mirage defenders.

Tang Mo nodded. He was more concerned about how many casualties his troops had paid for this improvised war: "How about the losses?"

 Although Loew was also very distressed, compared with the results of the battle, such losses seemed to be insignificant. So he said excitedly: "Seven of our troops were killed, 29 were injured, and two Wolf-class cruisers were injured."

Hearing these figures, Tang Mo was somewhat relieved - such losses can be said to be very small.

So, he began to care about the situation on Dongwan Island and asked, "How is the situation over there?"

“According to the locals, there are two coal mines and one iron mine on Dongwan Island. They are both good and high-yield mines. We can set up an iron plant there and also replenish coal.” Leo immediately added.

 The resources on Dongwan Island are not actually rich. There is no oil, but there is plenty of coal and iron ore. These minerals are very valuable and can be used to make up for some of Datang Group's military expenditures.

Moreover, if the mining is good, factories and some processing companies can be built here to prepare for the entire army to land in Zheng.

 At least, this place must have the ability to repair heavy weapons and equipment, produce enough weapons and ammunition, and be able to threaten Zheng's coastline with thousands of ships at any time.

 Hence, the transformation of Dongwan Island must be completed as soon as possible—this is related to the strategic execution of Datang Group and is a top priority.

Sure enough, after hearing that there was some infrastructure on the island, Tang Mo nodded with satisfaction again: "Very good."

He looked down upon the blacksmith workshops and mines on the island, but with the strength of Datang Group, it was very easy to quickly transform these basic industrial facilities.

"According to the plan, we are already transporting mining equipment to Dongwan Island, as well as the necessary materials for building the port." Leo added: "The equipment is already being dispatched and shipped, and will be sent to Dongwan Island soon."

Loew also added: "Nearly all of the 20,000 goblins captured can be used to mine coal and iron ore, solving our problem of insufficient numbers on Dongwan Island."

 Because of the goblin massacre on Dongwan Island, Tang Mo did not intend to return or release these goblin captives. They will work as miners until they die, and will be used as consumables until the last person is left!

This is the most merciful way to deal with them. According to Leo's idea, it is not impossible to bury all these goblins.

Therefore, Leo sighed with emotion: "The 20,000 people can be said to be a timely help. The following three regiments are about to arrive in Dongwan. Once they arrive there, there will be no problems with the defense of Dongwan Island."

Tang Mo doesn’t care about the defense issues on the island. Enemy forces that can defeat the Datang Group’s troops have not appeared yet.

If a group of goblins could defeat the Tang army with flintlocks, then the goblin race would have ruled the world long ago.

"Don't be careless! This is the starting point of our struggle for hegemony!" Although Tang Mo was not very familiar with this national expansion strategy, he had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

 When Zhuge Liang came out, Jingzhou was the most important part of the unified hegemony planned for Liu Bei. So when Liu Bei lost Jingzhou, the entire Shuhan Group fell into a strategic passive position.

Tang Mo didn’t want to encounter problems like Liu Bei’s at the critical moment, so he carefully reminded his subordinates not to follow Guan Yu’s old path.

Lew didn't know who Guan Yu was, but he knew that Tang Mo's orders were above all else, so he immediately solemnly promised: "I understand! I will remind the 1st Division and the follow-up troops to be careful."

In fact, unlike the Shu Han who lost Jingzhou, Dongwan Island is not that easy for Datang Group to lose: because Tang Mo’s direction of increasing troops is actually Dongwan Island.

In a month, the combat troops of the Datang Group stationed on Dongwan Island will exceed 3 divisions and exceed 30,000 people. A force of this size will easily have no problems.

What's more, in at most two months, the urgently built Yucheng-class battleship will be launched for testing. Datang Group's navy has reached a new level, and its combat effectiveness is completely unmatched by the navies of other countries.

Hence, Datang Group is unlikely to be careless and lose East Bay, but it is possible to be careless and lose Bunas! So Tang Mo held Beiling's troops in place and had no intention of mobilizing any soldiers.

The purpose of doing this is to guard his own backyard and let the madmen who covet his wealth consider whether he has the ability to attack Bunas.

In order to be foolproof, Tang Mo also created an artificial chaos for Sirik. Now Sofia is competing with several other directors for the inheritance of the Smiling Tiger, and also borrowed a large sum of money from Tang Mo, so she has no thoughts for a while. Come to worry about Tang Mo's territory.

After taking out so much insurance, Tang Mo had the confidence to send troops to occupy Dongwan Island, and then there was this grand occasion of robbing mirage countries all over the world. "The following 4th Division, 5th Division and 6th Division will all assemble to Dongwan Island as planned. Our shipyard is also working hard to produce more Liberty Ships." Loew reported to Datang The group's preparations for subsequent war.

 It is necessary to produce more freewheels. Datang Group needs more freewheels to ensure transportation between Long Island and Dongwan Island.

 At the same time, Datang Group also needs to ensure that it has enough ships that can be sold quickly in the future to occupy the ship buying and selling market.

 In short, no matter from any aspect, Datang Group should produce more ships and produce better ships.

Today's Datang ships are unprecedentedly large in scale, and the number of ship models they produce can be said to be increasing.

In addition to cargo-type free ships, Datang Ship also built passenger-type free ships, setting up routes from Everwinter City to Ossa, Ossa to Nanshui, Nanshui to Bunas, and Bunas to Rewind Port. A series of routes from Rewind Harbor to Neverwinter.

In addition, as the number of passenger ships increases and the shipping capacity becomes more and more abundant, Datang Group has also begun to consider setting up passenger routes from areas around the Endless Sea to Longdao.

However, due to security and confidentiality considerations, these routes have never been opened. The ships transporting personnel to Longdao are still under the jurisdiction of the Datang Group's intelligence department, and interrogation is still very strict.

 Even to this day, no country has a special envoy stationed in Long Island, and all our envoys only operate in Bunas.

Hearing Loew's report, Tang Mo was already imagining how spectacular it would be for the four divisions of 1456 to be stationed on Dongwan Island.

Leo explained again at this time: "These ships are used to fill the vacancies after the loss of Mirage's transport ships. The endless sea needs shipping capacity, so our profits are likely to reach a higher level."

 Now everyone is frantically building various types of transport ships, and even Cyric has received countless orders.

 The Mirage’s losses are visible to everyone, and everyone knows what will happen next. Then arrange it in advance and seize the lost share of Mirage as much as possible, and you can definitely make a lot of money.

 Everyone is not rich these days. If you have money, you have to buy new weapons and equipment and prepare for a new round of expansion war... Therefore, everyone wants to get involved in profitable transactions.

Datang Group has also recently been producing wooden iron-hulled boats that consume less steel, but most of them are offshore fishing boats and some communication speedboats and patrol boats.

These small boats are sold to the security forces of various countries, as well as fishermen and small businessmen. As for large ships, Datang Group has no plans to sell them on a large scale.

I have to regretfully admit that due to the bottleneck of production capacity, it seems unrealistic for Datang Group to make more money through shipbuilding.

Today's Datang ships can be said to be the largest in the world, but they still cannot meet the world's requirements for ships.

 There is no way, even China in the 21st century cannot produce enough ships for the whole world with the power of one country. Even at full capacity, China's shipyards can only meet about three-quarters of demand.

What's more, the scale of the Datang Group's shipbuilding factory is not that huge - it has started construction of two Yucheng-class battleships at the same time, and still maintains the production of ten Bunas-class ironclads and five Wolf-class cruisers, which has already covered almost half of the total. The world's top shipbuilders are occupied.

 In addition, Tang Mo was also rapidly building dozens of Liberty Ships at the same time—this production scale had already surpassed that of the British Empire in 1880.

 Today’s Datang Group is so huge that even Tang Mo was amazed. It’s actually not that easy to expand quickly anymore.

Because there are only so many talents and workers, even though Datang Group has been frantically cultivating talents and workers, the supply is still in short supply.

 There is an upper limit to how many people can be used to make up the numbers. With the technological advancement of the processing industry, the temporarily recruited labor force is increasingly unable to meet the requirements for operating new production equipment.

The reason is very simple. If you want a person to learn to use mechanical equipment to produce a simple part, as long as the person has an online IQ and studies for a few hours, he can almost start working.

But if you want to train a person to learn to use digital machine tools, it will definitely be more complicated. At least the person must understand some basic principles, be literate and have a certain learning foundation...

 So, ship buyers around the world now know that the ships of the Datang Group are the best ships in the world, but unfortunately they cannot be bought—the best ships that can be bought are produced by Cyric.

 (End of this chapter)