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Chapter 677 Chapter 677 Good things from the neighbor's house

It's not just a group of aviation people who are studying and training desperately. In fact, in a certain unknown sea area, another group of people is also studying and training desperately.

They have almost become non-existent people, while piloting a ship that does not exist!This ship has not returned for a long time. It has been sailing on the sea, relying on a supply ship to replenish fuel and food at sea.

On deck, everyone had beards on their faces, they looked like Vikings, smelly and their fronts were stained with oil.

These sailors have been living on the sea for more than a month. They have exhausted their fuel and almost exhausted their daily necessities.

The transport ship that arrived was a supply ship specially modified for the submarine force. It replenished the submarine with diesel and various food, which was also part of the training and experiment.

The purpose of this trip is to test the combat limit of the submarine force at sea, and some technical personnel are also included in the training personnel.

In fact, due to the addition of some additional technicians, there are more personnel in the submarine than in reality, so the consumption is also greater than the actual situation.

However, for safety reasons, these personnel must still be carried, at least with their presence, the submarine will not be paralyzed at sea due to technical failures.

At this moment, this submarine is not the only submarine in Tang country. The second submarine has also been launched, and the third submarine has also entered service not long ago.

The other two submarines are responsible for training the crew, and at this time they are undergoing covert navigation training in the waters near Long Island.

Both submarines carry two groups of members, and each position has an apprentice, so that more qualified submarine officers and soldiers can be trained faster.

The training of submarine officers and soldiers was not so easy. Tang Mo strictly trained his submarine soldiers according to the German submarine training manual of World War II.

They had to be wronged to sleep in the place where the torpedoes should have been stored. Every corner in the submarine was transformed into a place for installing hammocks, and then double the number of people could be arranged to live there.

Each submarine carried only a few training torpedoes, and for safety, even some of the training torpedoes were not charged.

But the training was carried out under such difficult conditions. They avoided the fishing boats and freighters around them, and practiced their skills in a mysterious way, honing themselves into cold and dark assassins in the sea.

Yes, they are all assassins!They are often trained to track distant freighters at the depth of the periscope.

They will simulate seizing the torpedo launch position, then skillfully point their bows in the direction of the enemy ship, and then pretend to launch torpedoes to attack the opponent.

At night, these sailors would even come out of the water to secretly follow the freighters in the distance, watching these huge guys sail into Weigang or Longgang before giving up.

The training of the two submarines is very covert, but it cannot be said that it is completely flawless.At least many ships will report their various strange experiences to the Dragon Island Maritime Department after entering Long Island.

They claimed they were being followed by unknown ships, and even some blurry silhouettes were even captured on camera.

In fact, these outlines are not clearly visible at all, only a dark shadow can be vaguely seen on the moonlit sea.

It can be distinguished from the shadow that it is a huge object, which looks a bit like a whale, and is somewhat slender than a whale.

Most of these reports were prevaricated by the Tang State Maritime Affairs Department with reasons such as "whales" and "dolphins", but it was not easy to be fooled during the day.

Many sailors claimed to have seen a strange "shark fin". The thing looked like a pipe, and the speed was not fast.

However, most of these sailors only saw the pipe-like thing from a distance, so they were not sure whether they saw the shark fin or the dorsal fin of the dolphin.

Because from a certain angle, the fish fin is also a slender "straight line", which is very similar to a tube, so it makes sense.

But the explanation is the explanation, and the fooling is the fooling. The feeling of being followed is real.So some legends spread like wildfire, saying that there are sea monsters near Dragon Island.

The speaker didn't care, and the listener was interested. Many people began to associate the sea monster with the "flying dragon" on Dragon Island.

There were also rumors of the resurrection of the flying dragon on Long Island before, but it turned out that it was not a dragon, but the secret weapon plane of the Tang Kingdom.

Now there are rumors about sea monsters again, no matter how you think about it, people feel that this legend may also have a little bit of inextricable connection with the new weapons.

But speculation is guesswork after all, because there is no evidence, everyone can only guess, and they are constantly looking for evidence in the guesswork.

The factory on Long Island is working overtime day and night to produce obsolete aircraft products. The models include the three-engine and two-wing transport aircraft used by Tang Mo before, the three-engine and two-wing bomber, the two-wing fighter, and the two-wing trainer...

These planes were selling very well, continuously creating profits for Tang Mo.With the pilot training and the sale of these planes, Tang Mo earned another 20 million gold coins.

Countless materials were sent to Tang as compensation items, including grain, iron ore, copper ore, tin ore, saltpeter, nickel ore, and countless slaves.

But now these things have become highways, railways, locomotives, and various weapons and equipment.

Over the past few months, countries have successively paid more than half of the payment for the goods, and have also taken away many new technologies from Tang Mo.

With raw materials, the development of Tang country will be faster.Tang Mo didn't lack technology in the first place, but now that he had labor and raw materials, the speed of construction was astonishingly fast.

Recently, Tang Mo has been busy equipping his troops with brand new Type 56 assault rifles, and at the same time equipping them with M113 armored reconnaissance vehicles and Lion armored reconnaissance vehicles.

Of course, there are also the Bumblebee 155mm caliber self-propelled howitzer, and the famous No. 4 tank and No. 4 assault gun.

There are many more aircraft, including a large number of transport aircraft and bombers.The Tang Army's fighter force has always been small in scale, and the number of butcher fighters has been hovering around 300, and there has not been much growth.

These heavy weapons and equipment are waiting to be deployed on a large scale. The troops need a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and at the same time, they have gradually become gold-swallowing behemoths with great appetites.

Any reloaded unit needs a lot of material support, especially fuel.Now that an armored division of the Tang Army is in operation, the fuel consumption is almost equal to that of three motorized infantry divisions.

In order to feed these oil tigers, Tang Mo had to import a large amount of fuel from Chu State and the Ice Cold Empire at a very high price to make up for the incremental gap consumed by himself.

Tang Country's main oil producing area is Longdao. Although the production capacity is high, the transportation is actually very inconvenient.So Tang Mo really wanted to find a stable source of oil that could continue to supply oil.

Chu State is obviously a good choice. As long as this country is swallowed up, Tang State will almost complete its strategic goal in terms of oil self-sufficiency.

It's a pity that Tang Mo can't directly declare war on Chu State now. Although he has technical advantages, his military strength is really stretched.

The vast territory of the Qi State forced him to waste his troops stationed on these newly acquired lands. Although his regular army had expanded to hundreds of thousands, one-third of them became new garrison troops.

It seems that there are not many more troops that can be used for attack than before the outbreak of the Tang Qi War, but the strength of Chu State is much more than previously estimated.

When attacking Chu State, you must pay attention to strategy. Compared with Qi State, which has mostly plains, Chu State has more mountains, and armored forces do not seem to have much effect in fighting.

According to Loew's advice from the staff, if the Tang army wants to attack Chu, they must train at least 30 infantry and be prepared to lose more than 10 soldiers.

This estimate is slightly pessimistic, but the actual results are actually similar.In the early stage of the war, the Tang army may be quite smooth, and it is even expected to capture the capital of Chu State within two months.

But then there will be a situation where a large number of Chu troops retreat to the mountains and harass the Tang troops.The war will be protracted, and the loss of the Tang army may be three times that of Mieqi!
The rolling hills need to be captured by the soldiers of the Tang army in the most primitive way. It is estimated that every inch of the land will be soaked in blood.

But for Tang Mo, what he pays will bring rewards. The mountainous terrain of Chu State not only has an oil field with rich reserves, but also countless mineral deposits.

Steel, copper, nickel... and even rare earths, as well as uranium that Tang Mo will definitely use in the future, probably have a lot.

It can be said that the occupation of Chu State is enough for Tang Mo's Datang Kingdom to complete the internal cycle and become a completely self-sufficient country.

At that time, no matter what kind of opponent he faces, Tang Mo can deal with it calmly.He can even close the door and develop alone, pushing technology to the point where others can't catch up.

It is regrettable that the Dahua Empire cannot continue to watch Tang Mo expand, and Zhao Kai will never sit back and watch the Chu Kingdom be annexed.

Therefore, declaring war on the Chu State is roughly equivalent to declaring war on the Dahua Empire, which made Tang Mo have to seriously consider whether he himself has the ability to start a war on both sides.

This is not an easy question to answer. Even if his elite troops are capable of defeating the troops of the Chu State or the Great Hua Empire, their strategic passiveness will drag down the strategic reserves of the Tang Army.

The possibility of him being caught in a two-front battle and depleting his strategic reserves of fuel in the two-front battle is not something he wants to face.

(End of this chapter)