Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 393 393 Amazing deal

Tang Mo did not show his most advanced automatic weapons at the expo. The machine guns he exhibited were still the mature Maxim series.

This makes his automatic weapons not so amazing, so the limelight is completely overshadowed by the 280mm cannon.

But everyone knows that today's weapons have changed the mode of warfare, and no one can say for sure what the future war will look like.

Back then, to train a soldier, you only needed to get a military uniform, issue a musket, and then fire a few shots.Nowadays, it costs more to train a soldier.

Steel helmets have gradually attracted the attention of troops from various countries. Although they are still not fully popularized, more and more countries can equip their soldiers with steel helmets.

Coupled with the gradual spread of copper-cased fixed-loaded ammunition, all soldiers need to be equipped with ammunition-carrying equipment on their sides.

The bayonet rucksacks are becoming more and more formal, and the soldiers' boots are even exquisite-under the constant stimulation of the Datang Group, sending a soldier to the battlefield is no longer an easy task.

The cold winter is no longer a reason for not being able to fight, so cotton coats and even charcoal for heating have become necessities for troops.

In order to support a unit in front-line operations, more and more logistics support personnel and even logistics support equipment are needed.

There is no way, when a country has the ability to fight in winter, all countries have to seriously consider the risk of being invaded by their opponents in winter.

Ever since, everyone is desperately increasing their logistics supply capabilities, and the size of the troops has further increased. The old system can no longer meet the current combat needs.

In the past, a battalion of troops only needed a few horse-drawn carts to transport supplies, but now a battalion of troops needed dozens or even hundreds of horse-drawn carts to barely suffice.

The newly added machine gun needs to be transported by horse-drawn carriage, because there is no way for soldiers to carry things like the Maxim machine gun.

In order to supply the terrible consumption of machine guns, there were not enough vehicles to transport ammunition in the past, and more were needed.

Soldiers' weapons are more advanced, and rifles fire faster and are easier to reload, so more bullets are consumed.

The added cannon is heavier and larger, so a carriage can no longer be towed at all, and only two carriages can be connected in series to tow a cannon.

With the addition of so many carriages and carriage drivers, people eat horse chews, which naturally consumes more food and supplies, so more vehicles have to be added to make up for this increased consumption.

So the vicious circle continued like this, adding cars and vehicles for transporting gasoline... Then everyone discovered that in order to meet the logistical supplies of a battalion, almost 200 people, 100 horses, and at least 20 cars were added.

This is not as simple as an ordinary increase of 200 people, but an increase of 200 high-quality personnel who need training, skills and literacy!
You said that there are more than 20 cars in a battalion, why should there be several technicians to repair cars?Or throw the car away when it breaks down?impossible?

Horse raising, coachman, this is a craft in the past, and it is not something that can be done by just finding a few illiterate farmers.

With so many people added, is it necessary to set up officers to manage these people?Don't these officers also need to be literate and capable?

Just stacking buffs like this, and at the end of the stack, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that the current troop composition, the ratio of combatants to other personnel is almost 1:1.

That is to say, a battalion of 500 people was basically reduced to about 1000 people.

Obviously, this is not worth it!It is necessary to reduce the size of logistics supply and support troops to a certain extent, so that the ratio of troops can be kept within a reasonable range, in order to achieve the optimal state.

Therefore, everyone began to carry out military reforms in unison—the battalions and legions in the past were gradually eliminated, and commanders began to use a more reasonable modern military structure.

Battalions were promoted to regiments to maintain basic independent combat capability.The legion was expanded into a division, and the division was equipped with supporting firepower such as large-caliber artillery.

Looking at it from another perspective, it probably means that the establishment of the battalion has not changed, but more logistics supply units have been added at the regiment level, plus small and medium-caliber support firepower, and larger caliber artillery has been equipped at the division level.

Because the advocates of this type of military reform are basically students who graduated from the Datang Military Academy, the plans they gave are also highly unified: countries such as Susas, Lyons, and Dorn have very similar military formations.

Classes and platoons adopt a three-three system, with 12 people in one class, 3 people in three classes in one row, 40 people in three teams in one company, and 3 people in three companies in one battalion.

The extra people at each level are management personnel, logistics support personnel, clerks, and communication soldiers.

Similarly, a regiment has 3 battalions under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of 2000 people.A division has 4 regiments under its jurisdiction, one of which is a logistics support regiment, equipped with artillery, cars, carriages and other equipment, and does not directly participate in battles.

Calculated in this way, the total strength of a division exceeds 8000, which is more than the strength of the original five legions.

But the ammunition delivery capability of this army is stronger than the original 10 or even 20 legions.

In fact, most of the reorganized troops have not yet reached this scale. Nowadays, the basic number of division-level units in various countries is around 6000. In fact, the lack of reorganization is very serious.

On the one hand, it is because the war has not yet broken out, and the troops are not in a hurry to replenish their full strength to participate in the war.On the other hand, it is also because the lack of technical positions is really not easy to fill.

Not all countries have a large number of college graduates like Tang Mo to fill the vacancies in the army, so they can only wait, or find some people for intensive training.

Whether it is establishing a school for training, or recruiting into the army for a little bit of training, the speed cannot be too fast, so most of the division-level units in various countries are actually short-staffed.

In order to make these missing divisions have basic combat effectiveness as much as possible, it is necessary to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment, and first enrich the combat part.Therefore, at this expo, although Tang Mo did not bring out more new weapons, arms purchases from various countries are still booming.

Moreover, today's arms business is no longer limited to weapons such as guns and ammunition.

For example, in order to support its huge military reform plan, Donne purchased 1200 trucks and 200 cars in one go, and this purchase is only a phased one.

Because Dawn had been buying trucks from the Datang Group before, and he had no intention of stopping.

Because of the production of horses, Susas did not purchase as many military vehicles as Dorn, but the quantity was still scary-this time they purchased 700 trucks and 300 cars to equip the troops.

At the same time, these two countries also purchased grenade production lines and rifle production lines at this exposition.

The two countries also imitated the style of Datang Group and designed their own military uniforms, military boots, hats and individual equipment.

Seeing his employees busy downstairs, Tang Mo estimated that the total price of arms sold by the Datang Group at this fair should be more than 2000 million gold coins.

This is already a considerable number, if you add cars and medicines, the number will become even more alarming.

The ice cream on the plate had already started to melt, and the whole exposition had reached its climax.People are frantically throwing gold coins here, as if things are so cheap here!In fact, the goods here are actually very expensive, but you can't buy them elsewhere.

Tang Mo handed the plate in his hand to Harry. Harry bowed his head and reported a figure in Tang Mo's ear. This was the total price of the contract they had just signed.

Hearing a number that satisfied him, Tang Mo nodded slightly, the smile on his face became more amiable, and he said to Wright VII who was enjoying ice cream: "Tomorrow's racing competition, you must come and see it. What you miss will definitely surprise you.”

Wright VII put down the plate in his hand, nodded his head as a matter of course and said, "Of course, I have no doubts about this now! I believe that Mr. Tang's tricks must be exciting enough!"

"Your Majesty, you are flattering me." Tang Mo said modestly.

In the exhibition hall, people who got the news gathered around, and an auction of two Burnas-class ironclad ships started like this.

Donne, who valued naval construction, took the lead in bidding and set the price at an exaggerated price of 300 million gold coins per warship.

Then there was a representative of the Nanla Empire who offered a high price of 350 million gold coins for a warship, but this record still only lasted for a short time.

Before the representatives of the Nanla Empire had time to be happy, the already high price they offered was surpassed by others.

In order to obtain these two new battleships, the Frozen Kingdom directly offered 400 million gold coins, and then sat back in their seats triumphantly.

Soon, the elf of the Pinewood Kingdom, who was determined to win, gave an exaggerated price of 500 million gold coins for a battleship. All the military representatives present at the exhibition looked at this elf in disbelief, and did not say anything for a long time. In a word.

In fact, this price has exceeded the value of the battleship itself too much, so many people retreated in spite of the difficulties and gave up the bidding this time.

As a result, it was no surprise that the two Burnas-class ironclad warships were finally sold to the Pinewood Kingdom at a price of 500 million gold coins per warship.

They hope to have their own voice in the endless sea in the future, so they are naturally keen to buy advanced warships.

They didn't have a Burnas-class battleship before, but now they bought two at one go, making them a very important sea force in the northern part of the endless sea.

With these two ironclad warships, they also have the capital to compete with the Yangmu Kingdom in the northern part of the endless sea.

At this moment, the Yangmu Kingdom has two Bunas-class warships, and the Pinewood Kingdom has two ships—the two sides have the same top combat power, which helps the Pinewood Kingdom to stabilize its coastal defense to a certain extent.

Tang Mo's side is actually earning a lot of money: this is not hundreds of thousands of gold coins, or tens of thousands of gold coins, it's a full 1000 million gold coins, and even Harry can't look directly at the crazy amount from this group of sparkles.

When this number was announced, everyone present exclaimed.After all, in this world, there is no weaponry with such a high price.

"What's the noise outside?" You Lin curiously asked what happened outside while eating the ice cream.

"It's nothing, just now we had two warships, and they sold them for a sky-high price of 1000 million gold coins." Tang Mo replied very casually.

His words made the Emperor Wright VII of Lyons slightly startled, and then His Majesty realized that he seemed to have never seen so much money.

That's more than 1000 million gold coins!As long as he can get it, he can almost repay the loan from Datang Group.

"Now our sales are almost..." Tang Mo said while sticking to You Lin's ear, and said a figure.

You Lin's eyes widened, and it was hard for her to believe that in just one morning, Datang Group had already earned 2750 million gold coins!
It's a pity that this commercial secret cannot be told to King Wright VII, because Tang Mo knows the truth about not revealing money.

But this still made Tang Mo feel less accomplished, because he couldn't show off his success in front of King Wright.

People are very superficial. If you can't show off when you win, what's the difference from Jinyi Yexing?Isn't that a waste of money?
Wright VII tried his best, but he only overheard the previous words, but he didn't hear clearly the latter number that he was very concerned about.

But he guessed more or less by guessing that Tang Mo's current income should be at least 1500 million or more.

After all, he had heard about the sale of two warships for 1000 million gold coins just now, and with the rest, the gold coins Tang Mo got should have exceeded 1500 million gold coins.

"So many?" You Lin couldn't believe it.

"It's really not too little, but we have a lot of things to sell this afternoon, and the final total transaction price is estimated to be higher." Tang Mo couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

Anyone who makes a business on the scale of Tang Mo can enjoy himself for a while without any scruples.He can now be said to be a world arms dealer, owning countless factories and employing a large number of workers.

His factory chimney is connected all the way from Bunas to Yucheng, and then extends all the way from Yucheng to Ice Crystal City.

In addition to the factory extending from Ice Crystal City all the way to Wolf City, the scale of the entire industry has become daunting.

The self-conscious Wright VII knew that Tang Mo couldn't be with him all the time today, and he was here to delay Tang Mo from discussing the company's secrets with his subordinates, so he got up and said goodbye: "Don't bother Mr. Tang, I'll go down to see the excitement .”

Tang Mo also got up and saw him off: "It's okay! I don't want to disturb... I... see you off! Your Majesty!"
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Friends of the Dragon Boat Festival have a meal today, but I came back late, and there are few updates today, so I will make up for it later... sorry.

(End of this chapter)