Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 429 429 Production Can't Keep Up

"Master, Dongwan Island is already ours." Pushing open the door, Loew 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 suffered in this impromptu war: "How about the loss?"

Although Loew was also very distressed, compared with the results of the battle, such a loss seemed to be insignificant at all.So he said excitedly: "Our army killed 7 people, 29 were injured, and two wolf-class cruisers were injured."

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

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

"According to the locals, Dongwan Island has two coal mines and one iron mine, both of which are good high-yield mines. We can set up an iron factory there and replenish coal." Li Ao immediately added.

The resources on Dongwan Island are actually not rich. There is no oil, but there are plenty of coal and iron ore.These minerals are very valuable, and can be regarded as making up for some of the military expenditure of the Datang Group.

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

At least, it must have the ability to repair heavy weapons and equipment, produce enough weapons and ammunition, and be able to threaten the coastline of Zheng State at any time.

Therefore, the transformation of Dongwan Island must be completed as soon as possible - this is related to the implementation of Datang Group's strategy and is the top priority.

Sure enough, after hearing that the island had some infrastructure, Tang Mo nodded in satisfaction again: "Very good."

He doesn't like the blacksmith workshops and mines on the island, but with the strength of the Datang Group, it is 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 the construction of the port." Li Ao added: "The equipment is already being dispatched and shipped, and it will be sent to Dongwan Island soon."

Loew also added: "The 2 captive goblins can almost be used to mine coal and iron ore, and solve the problem of our insufficient number of people on Dongwan Island."

Because of the goblin's massacre on Dongwan Island, Tang Mo didn't plan to return or release these goblin captives.They'll all work till they die as miners, and wear out as consumables to the last man left!
This is already the most merciful way to deal with them. According to Leo's thinking, it is not impossible to bury all these goblins.

Therefore, Li Ao said with emotion: "These 20,000 people can be said to be timely help, and the follow-up 3 regiments are about to arrive in Dongwan. Once they arrive there, there will be no problem with the defense of Dongwan Island."

Tang Mo didn't care about the island's defenses. The enemy army that could defeat the Datang Group's troops hadn't appeared yet.

If a group of goblins could defeat Datang's troops with flintlock guns, 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 is not very familiar with this kind of national expansion strategy, he has read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

When Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, Jingzhou was the most important part of the unified hegemony planned for Liu Bei.So when Liu Bei lost Jingzhou, the entire Shuhan Group was completely passive strategically.

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

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

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

In a month's time, the Datang Group's combat troops stationed on Dongwan Island will have more than 3 divisions and more than 3 people. Troops of this size will easily have no problems.

What's more, in at most two months, the rushed-built Yucheng-class battleship will be launched into the water for testing. The Datang Group's navy has reached a new level, and its combat effectiveness is no longer comparable to that of other countries' navies.

Therefore, Datang Group is unlikely to miss Dongwan carelessly, but it is possible to miss Bunas carelessly!So Tang Mo held Beiling's troops where they were, and didn't intend to mobilize any soldiers.

The purpose of doing this is to guard his own backyard, and let those lunatics who covet his wealth carefully weigh whether he has the ability to attack Bunas.

In order to be safe, Tang Mo also created an artificial chaos for Cyric. Now Sophia is competing with several other directors for the inheritance of Smiley Tiger, and she also borrowed a large sum of money from Tang Mo, so she didn't think about it for a while. Come to miss Tang Mo's territory.

After paying so much insurance, Tang Mo now had the confidence to send troops to occupy Dongwan Island, and only then did he have the grand occasion of looting the mirage country from all over the world.

"The subsequent 4th Division, 5th Division and 6th Division will gather at Dongwan Island as planned. Our shipyard is also working hard to produce more Liberty Ships." Loew reported to Datang The group's follow-up war preparations.

It is right to produce more free ships, and Datang Group needs more free ships to ensure the 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 market for buying and selling ships.

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

Today's Datang Ships has an unprecedented scale, and it can be said that there are more and more types of ships it produces.

In addition to the cargo-type Liberty Ship, Datang Shipbuilding also built a passenger-type Liberty Ship, setting up Eternal Winter City to Osa, Osa to Nanshui, Nanshui to Bunas, Bunas to Refeng Harbor, A series of routes from Hot Wind Harbor to Neverwinter City.

In addition, with more and more passenger ships and more and more abundant transportation capacity, Datang Group has also begun to consider setting up passenger routes from the surrounding areas of the Endless Sea to Long Island.

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

Even to this day, none of the countries have special envoys stationed in Long Island, and everyone's envoys are only active in Bunas.

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

Li Ao explained again at this time: "These ships are used to fill the vacancy after the loss of the Mirage transport ship. The endless sea needs transport capacity, so our profit is likely to rise to a higher level."

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

Mirage's loss was seen by everyone, and everyone knew what would happen next.Then make arrangements in advance and try to seize the lost share of Mirage Kingdom as much as possible, and you can definitely make a lot of money.

Everyone is not rich these days, and if they have money, they still need to buy new weapons and equipment, and prepare for a new round of expansion wars...so everyone wants to get involved in profitable business.

Datang Group has recently also produced wooden iron-hulled boats that do not take up so much steel, but most of them are offshore fishing boats and some communication speedboats and patrol boats.

These small boats are sold to the police 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 admit with regret that due to the bottleneck of production capacity, it seems unrealistic for Datang Group to make more money through shipbuilding.

Today's Datang ship is already the largest in the world, but it still cannot meet the world's requirements for ships.

There is no way, even in the 21st century China, it is impossible to produce enough ships for the whole world with the power of one country.Even at full capacity, Huaxia's shipyards can only meet about three-quarters of the demand.

What's more, the scale of Datang Group's shipbuilding factory is not that large. At the same time, the construction of two Yucheng-class battleships has started, and the production of ten Burnas-class ironclad ships and five Wolf-class cruisers has been almost half. All of the world's top shipbuilders are occupied.

Coupled with the fact that Tang Mo was still building dozens of Liberty Ships at a rapid pace—this kind of production scale had already surpassed the British Empire in 1880.

Today's Datang Group is so huge that even Tang Mo is amazed.It is not so easy to expand quickly.

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

There is also an upper limit for Latin men 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 how to use mechanical equipment to produce a simple part, then 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 how to use a digital machine tool, it must be more complicated. At least this person must understand some basic principles, be literate and have a certain learning foundation...

Therefore, ship buyers in the world now know that the ships of 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)