Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 203 Chapter 203
When Augustin Leibert looked at the note in front of him depressedly, he finally recalled that he seemed to have really forgotten that he had a debt.

To be honest, he is the prime minister of the Yangmu Kingdom, covering the entire kingdom with one hand, with one person under ten thousand, so he never thought that one day someone would ask him for debts.

The speed of Augustine's rise was too fast, so fast that Raibert had an unreal and illusory feeling.He even thought that he had touched the threshold of the prime minister of the empire or even the emperor of the empire.

Such illusions, such castles in the air, made him forget that everything about him seemed to come from a distant place, from an unknown human being.

Now, the other party seemed to be asking for a debt, and he was calling to ask for a debt. This suddenly reminded him of many things, many, many things!

"My dear Augustine, it's useless for you to worry now, because our first fleet has already sailed towards the south water, and nothing can stop this naval battle." It's quite good, said Leibert with a smile.

His vizier has brought him one glorious victory after another, and his kingdom is now three times its original size!

Defeating the neighboring orcs allowed them to master a large number of pastures. They have more horses and more food, which can be used to expand outward.

After getting the support of the Cyric Consortium, they are almost invincible, and any stubborn country will be easily defeated by them.

What restricts these elves is that their weapon production speed cannot keep up with their expansion speed.

Ever since the defeat of the orcs, the Yangmu Kingdom has been short of metal, and the production of bullets cannot keep up with the consumption of the frontline troops.

This kind of thing makes everyone painful and happy, because they have never encountered such a good thing before-as long as their troops have materials to support the attack, they can win.

The problem seems to be very simple, they only need to desperately expand their production capacity, and the Augustine family did exactly that.

As a result, they did gain benefits—in the past six months, the Augustine family became rich, and the Yangmu Kingdom also expanded outwards, relying on the Augustine family's arms, and achieved a record of complete victory.

Even, they improved their weapons and came up with a bunch of weird and messy burst weapons, which are still very useful when fighting the enemy armed with Cyric flintlocks on the battlefield.

But the problem is not without it, that is, the expansion of production capacity is too extreme, and the downstream industry is a bit unable to keep up.

It is possible to directly start a blast furnace for steelmaking, but it is not known where the iron ore comes from.The elves really didn't expect to give priority to using steam engines to increase the productivity of the mine, because their other factories also needed steam engine equipment very much.

A bunch of factories scrambled for the steam engine, which caused the steam engine equipment to be unable to keep up with the output. The elves did not have a power system to balance the power generated by the steam engine, so they could only put a steam engine in every place that needed a steam engine. The efficiency is much worse than Tang Mo's power transmission.

The mines can only be honestly supported by miners. If there are not enough manpower, they will be forced to work overtime, and if there are not enough people, they will use slaves to mine. In short, the efficiency is extremely low.

Low efficiency leads to insufficient production capacity. The ultimate solution is to rely on the poplar kingdom's maritime fleet to purchase in large quantities from other countries.

Anyway, the annexation of neighboring countries robbed a lot of money, and they could also exploit the people in those occupied areas, so the Yangmu Kingdom was not short of money, and the purchase of metal ore was very smooth.

But the good times didn't last long, as the Datang Group and the Cyric Consortium joined the metal procurement team, the international iron ore price was immediately pushed to an astonishing level.

Seeing the division of the three families, Yangmu Kingdom's iron ore procurement can only barely maintain the current situation.

Unexpectedly, now, the lifeline at sea they depended on was cut off by a bastard who came to collect debts.

This is not a trivial matter, but a major event related to whether the entire poplar kingdom can continue to expand and whether it can stabilize the current situation.

What made Augustine Leibert even more depressed was that this war at sea seemed inevitable, because the most efficient communication system in the world was not in the Poplar Kingdom.

The emerging communication of the telegraph is still a super technology unique to the Datang Group, and all the command and dispatch of the Yangmu Kingdom can only be completed honestly by letters and envoys.

This has caused a lag in news, making it impossible for some decisions to be conveyed to those who execute the order.

When Augustine got the news from Nanshui, he also got the news from the Poplar Kingdom 1st Fleet moored at the Osa Naval Port.

The Yangmu Kingdom's First Fleet has 30 first-class warships, which can be said to be very large in scale.These expensive sea fortresses with more than 40 cannons per warship were the most powerful naval warfare weapons in the world before the emergence of the Datang Group.

The 1st Fleet at the Osa Naval Port has no reason to avoid the battle, so when they ask for help from Nanshui, they will definitely send the fleet south.

And the size of this fleet will definitely not be too small, because Nanshui must have sent news that two warships were sunk at the same time.

Therefore, maybe there will be 10 warships going south to join the battle. It is estimated that the warship of the Datang Group that came to collect debts must be sunk.

In other words, at this very moment, the battleship of the Datang Group might have already been sunk.

Thinking of this, Augustine Leibert had to sigh again. He originally planned to hedge his bets, but recently, his own side has made rapid progress, and he has forgotten such things as riding on the wall. .

After all, my place is in full swing, and although the foreshadowing of betting on both sides has been completed, I still trust my side more or less.

But with the expansion of the Yangmu Kingdom and the continuous arrival of information, he has actually heard about the rising Datang Group.

A new weapons and arms group that can compete with Cyric is already an existence that the Augustine family has to deal with carefully.

What made him even more worried was that if his side sank the battleship of the Datang Group, would the relationship between the two sides be really forged.

He has even started to seriously consider whether he should pay back the 10 gold coins he owed Tang Mo, and then say sorry or something, and turn hostility into friendship...

It's a pity what he doesn't know is that now his money may have exceeded the 1000 million gold coin mark, and it may not be enough to repay the entire Augustine family.

Having said that, the main reason for his depression now is that it was too late to send a messenger to have a good talk with the people on the ship that came to collect the debt.

Because he could no longer catch up with the fleet going south, nor could he get his men to arrive in Nanshui in time, so he had to communicate with the people on the provocative warship.

"I really don't know, you have a debt relationship with the Datang Group that you can always hear people mentioning recently." The king of the Yangmu Kingdom looked at his most capable subordinate and said: "It seems that the situation is irreparable. yes?"

Lei Bote lowered his head and replied with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid that's the case, so I plan to send a team of envoys to the Wright Kingdom to have a good talk with the owner of the Datang Group. After all, it's just a business, and there is no deep hatred ..."

"We sank one of their ships, and they sank at least 30 of our cargo ships! This is already hatred." The king of the Poplar Kingdom interrupted Rapper's words angrily.

If a kingdom is blocked by people, and it sinks so many ships and still maintains restraint, then there is basically no need to mention blood and backbone.

This is simply pushing the nose on the face, it is simply a declaration of war!Therefore, as the king of the Yangmu Kingdom, Yangmu XI did not intend to just let it go.

While in Bunas, Tang Mo was looking at all the materials about the Augustine family in the Poplar Kingdom. There was a thick stack, which looked very comprehensive.

"You really don't worry, can it be possible to challenge a country with a battleship?" John asked nervously standing in front of him.

"Why worry?" Tang Mo looked at John standing in front of him with a strange look, and asked with a smile.

His battleship has an absolute advantage in terms of speed, firepower and protection. If it can be sunk, then the Poplar Kingdom would have ruled the world long ago
Even if the opponent concentrates its superior forces and surrounds it from all sides, that ironclad warship can calmly break through, kill through the opponent's encirclement circle, and even sink all the enemy ships surrounding it in turn.

And he also has the advantage of communication, he can command that warship at any time, which is a condition that the enemy does not have.In terms of battlefield coordination, if he said that he scored 80 points here, the opponent may only have less than 10 points at most.

Once something goes wrong, he can directly order the battleship to return, which is much, much faster than sending a letter.

What's more...he still has two ironclad ships!If one fails, then he can mobilize three warships, completely preventing Pianfan from the Yangmu Kingdom from going to sea!
So Tang Mo didn't care about the battle situation at all, but teased John: "How many fathers do you have? The first time you introduced yourself, you said that your father's name was Tural... Then you said your father Daddy's Williams..."

"That..." John blushed immediately. Back then, he ran the train with his mouth full and didn't reveal his true identity, but now Tang Mo investigated him thoroughly.

Tang Mo continued to tease John: "Later, I did some research. The current head of the Augustine family is Leibert. Which one do you think is your real father?"

"Well, I lied to you before...I didn't expect to have such a deep connection with you." John admitted his previous lie with some embarrassment.

Tang Mo pointed to Rappert on the investigation report, and asked curiously, "Then is he your real father?"

"..." John looked at Tang Mo speechlessly, feeling powerless as if he wanted to beat someone up, but didn't dare at all.
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Finally, the update is completed, and I am no longer in debt!Hey Hey!

(End of this chapter)