Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 625625Industrial Layout

The recent armored units of the Tang Army were quite boring. They lost the opportunity to quickly penetrate and advance forward by leaps and bounds. They could only follow the infantry, squeezing forward bit by bit, and attacking bit by bit.

This is completely inconsistent with their previous tactics, and it also makes them a little at a loss: they prefer the feeling of running forward unrestrainedly, and are not very interested in covering infantry.

From this point of view, equipping infantry with assault guns is actually a relief for armored forces, which can free them from the heavy burden of supporting infantry.

Moreover, the senior commanders and generals of the Tang Army were not willing to lose their tank troops in tough battles. They preferred to let these armored troops run like cavalry, defeating the enemy at lightning speed, and encircling and destroying the opponent.

Therefore, at Loew's suggestion, both Tiger and Redman withdrew their armored units. Both the 1st Armored Division and the 4th Armored Division began to rest and replenish, and the main offensive tasks were handed over to cheaper infantry. .

On the other hand, in order to reduce infantry casualties and experiment with new weapons and equipment, the main offensive force can only be handed over to troops equipped with assault guns.

 The Air Force is consciously hoarding fuel, saving ammunition, and reducing the number of aircraft takeoffs because the factories in the rear have reduced part of their production capacity due to expansion.

In addition, the Air Force had to mobilize some troops to defend the coast, which directly led to a sharp decrease in the number of air force bombings on the Tang Army's front line and a sharp drop in support density.

 As a result, the Tang Army's attack speed slowed down, which was in line with the strategic thinking of continuing to lure the enemy.

 It seems that this situation gave the Mirage and other countries an illusion. They thought that the Tang army was beginning to lose its ability to succeed.

There are fewer and fewer aircraft, the armored troops are almost invisible, and more and more tanks without turrets are appearing. These phenomena all indicate that the Tang army is beginning to weaken!

For everyone, this kind of news is undoubtedly exciting. This is also another reason why Mirage Kingdom has been increasing its troops in Beiyuan City.

 In fact, the purpose of the Tang State to reduce frontline investment and slow down the offensive was to induce the Mirage to continue to increase its troops in Beiyuan City, and on the other hand to reallocate resources and improve the domestic industrial production environment.

Alice has recently been reorganizing Tang's domestic production capacity, which is also something that must be done: many new factories need to be put into production, and mature workers need to be mobilized to support them, which will inevitably reduce the production capacity of some existing factories.

Although Datang Group’s apprenticeship system has made up for the problem of worker shortage to the greatest extent, the construction of new factories will still inevitably affect the production of old factories.

There is no way around this: the industrial development of the entire country cannot be stopped, and if more factories are needed, existing human resources must be allocated rationally.

 Anpu is recently building a new production line to produce an armored vehicle called Type 113. The structure of this fully tracked armored personnel carrier is not complicated and the price is quite cheap. It is presumably a good thing that can be used to equip troops on a large scale in the future.

 In order to support this new factory, 100 technical workers had to be transferred from the tractor factory and the No. 4 tank chassis production factory to support it.

The new factory is being built under the leadership of Parker, and it is also a new project personally approved by His Majesty the King. Naturally, everyone from top to bottom attaches great importance to it.

 Another project, also located in Copper City like the tank factory for convenience, is to produce a brand new wheeled armored vehicle for the army.

Tang Mo was careless and named this project Cougar, but there is no place in the world called America.

 Then he used ten times more effort to explain to the confused engineers and military commanders what a puma was.

His drawings of this thing may not have been so time-consuming and laborious: in the end, the new wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle was renamed Lion, which is simple and easy to understand.

But then some rigorous ministers found a city called America, which means beautiful sandbank. The city is on the edge of a desert, which fits the naming criteria.

It's a pity that the city is on the border of Qin State, one hundred and eighty thousand miles away from Tang State. It can't be said that it has nothing to do with it, but it can be regarded as out of reach.

However, from a certain perspective, this seems to reveal the huge ambition buried deep in His Majesty's heart - it is almost the same as Liu Bei naming his child Fengchan.

As for the fact that there are no lions near America, everyone selectively ignored it. Two or three days later, with the start of construction of the Lion armored vehicle production plant, this matter disappeared.

In addition to the two new equipment production factories that have been put into operation, Alice is also trying her best to transfer the immigrants on Dragon Island to Linshui Dongwan and other places.

Although Longdao is the place with the highest level of industry and the most intensive industry in the Tang Kingdom, it is actually inconvenient to gather so many factories here.

 Apart from aircraft manufacturing plants, oil fields that cannot be changed, and shipyards, this place is actually not suitable for producing anything else.

 Because no matter what is produced here, it needs to be transported across the ocean to other places, and the cost remains high. What is even more depressing is that this kind of transportation sometimes means a reduction in timeliness: tanks produced in Copper City can be sent to the front line to participate in the battle in one week, while tanks produced on Long Island can take a month to reach the water.

 For the Tang Kingdom, which was in urgent need of large-scale production capacity, this was absolutely intolerable. That's why Alice helped Tang Mo to optimize the industrial structure as much as possible.

  She wants to build more factories in Linshui and Tongcheng Dongwan and other places to replace Longdao and become the new industrial core of the Tang Kingdom.

 Even, she has begun to transfer the production of Tang Army's 105mm caliber artillery shells to Qi Wangcheng Industrial Zone.

It has now been renamed Pingning and has become the largest industrial base in the northern part of the Tang Kingdom. Under Alice's plan, it will not only produce one-third of the aerial bombs and artillery shells required by the Tang Army in the future, but also be responsible for the production of cars and trains.

In the near future, the civilian ship production factory of the Tang Kingdom will be located in Bac Yuan, automobile production in Binh Ninh, light industry in Nanye and Luo Town, armored vehicle and artillery production in Anpu, and tank and steel production in Tongcheng , warship manufacturing was placed in Linshui Dongwan, submarine manufacturing and aircraft manufacturing were located in Longdao.

 The capital Chang'an will exist as a political center rather than an industrial center. Its role is more of a symbol, symbolizing the royal family of the Tang Dynasty.

 The main reason why he was able to do this was that the victory at Longdao gave Tang Mo enough confidence: his navy could move northward, which meant that new forces that had not participated in the war could be put into subsequent operations.

Tang Mo’s calculation was to hand over the subsequent task of cutting off the enemy’s maritime support lines and encircling Beiyuan City to the naval fleet that had not participated in the war. This would minimize casualties and reduce the pressure of the battle.

 He has confidence in his fleet, or in other words, he has great confidence in the Dongwan-class battleships. As long as these warships arrive on the battlefield, the situation can fundamentally change.

As a result, the logistical supplies of the Mirage Army will be completely cut off, and the Mirage ground troops trapped in Beiyuan City will be in a desperate situation.

Tang Mo has been thinking about at least 100,000 Mirage prisoners in Beiyuan City all this time! With these coolie workers, Tang Mo can start the next development plan, lay two new railways, and build a large number of factories.

 Anyway, these workers are free of charge and do not need to worry about life and death. If the mirage country wants to ask for peace, they will have to pay compensation, which is another additional income.

 In short, Tang Mo is already thinking about the aftermath of dividing the dividends after the war, and he no longer needs to focus on the current war situation.

Datang Group did not slow down its growth because of the war, but actually accelerated it greatly.

The Cyric advisers who stationed in the Ice Empire finally saw a lot of junk from the front lines of the Qi-Tang War.

As expected, most of the equipment actually has nothing to show, and their understanding of these weapons and equipment is too shallow.

The whole world is actually being dragged forward by the Tang Dynasty’s industrial production concept. It can’t be plagiarized, let alone learn to understand and transcend.

Tang Mo was able to come up with a mature metal formula that had been verified by countless experiments and practices, but Cyric's technicians could only experiment repeatedly with the same formula, walking through the old path of earth civilization.

This is the gap between the two sides. The more sophisticated and complex the technology, the more so: when Tang Mo comes up with more advanced things, maybe these Cyric engineers who are still thinking about the old technology will not even look at it. I can't even understand it.

“Damn it, can’t they get some finished products?” A Cyric adviser complained irritably, throwing a piece of rotten iron on the table.

  What do you think he could see when looking at the severely distorted remains of a machine gun? The parts inside this thing are severely deformed, and a large part is missing...

"Stop complaining! It's great to be able to get these things." A dwarf belonging to the Cyric Consortium advised without raising his head: "You know, the Tang Kingdom has not retreated since the war began. One step ahead!”

"They have always been on the offensive. Even if they discard damaged equipment, they are behind them and will not fall into our hands! The only things we have are the people below who worked hard to get them." He put down his hands. He picked up a paratrooper helmet with blood stains on it, sighed and explained.

“Let’s go and take a look at that thing called an airplane and see if it can inspire some ideas.” Another Cyric engineer on the side suggested impatiently.

He came all the way from Bunas to the Ice Empire just to see the wreckage of the plane...

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 I have something to do today, so I can't make up for it. I will make up for it tomorrow.

 (End of this chapter)