It is 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, and at the same time they are piloting and controlling 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 the deck, all the people had beards. They looked like Vikings. They were full of smell and had oil stains on their fronts.
These sailors have been living on the sea for more than a month. They have exhausted their fuel and almost all 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 foods. This was also part of this training and experiment.
The purpose of this trip is to test the combat limits of the submarine force at sea, and the training personnel also include some technical personnel.
In fact, due to the addition of some additional technicians, there are more people in the submarine than actually, 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 no longer the only submarine in the Tang Dynasty. The second submarine has also been launched, and the third submarine has been commissioned not long ago.
The other two submarines are responsible for training crew members, and are conducting covert navigation training in the waters near Long Island at this time.
Both submarines carry two groups of members, with an apprentice in each position, so that more qualified submarine officers and soldiers can be trained faster.
The training of submarine officers and soldiers is not that easy. Tang Mo strictly trained his submarine soldiers according to the German submarine training manual of World War II.
They had to sleep in the place where the torpedoes were supposed to be stored. Every corner of the submarine was transformed into a place for installing hammocks, and then as many people as possible were accommodated.
Each submarine only carries a few training torpedoes, and some of the training torpedoes are even uncharged for safety reasons.
But the training still started under such difficult conditions. They avoided the surrounding fishing boats and cargo ships, practiced their skills elusively, and trained themselves into the cold and dark assassins in the sea.
Yes, they are all assassins! Their regular training is to track distant freighters at periscope depth.
They will simulate seizing a torpedo launching position, then skillfully aim their bow in the direction of the enemy ship, and then pretend to launch a torpedo to attack the opponent.
At night, these sailors would even come out of the water to secretly follow cargo ships 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 to be completely flawless. At least many ships will report their various strange experiences to the Long Island Maritime Department after entering Long Island.
They claimed that they were being followed by unknown ships, and even took some pictures of the outline of the lake with their cameras.
In fact, these outlines are not clearly visible at all. You can only vaguely see a dark shadow on the moonlit sea.
You can tell from the shadow that it is a huge object that looks a bit like a whale, but is more or less slender than a whale.
Most of these reports were excused by the Tang Maritime Department with excuses such as "whales" and "dolphins", but it was not easy to deal with them during the day.
Many sailors claim to have seen a strange "shark fin", which looks like a pipe, is not very fast, and looks weird and weird.
However, most of these sailors only saw the tube-like thing from a distance, so they were not sure whether they saw a shark fin or a dolphin's dorsal fin.
Because when viewed from a certain angle, the fin is also an elongated "straight line" and looks very similar to a tube, so it makes sense.
But explanations are explanations, lake lanes are lake lanes, and the feeling of being followed is real. So some legends spread like this, saying that there are sea monsters near Long Island.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. Many people began to connect the sea monster with the "flying dragon" on Dragon Island.
There were rumors about the resurrection of the flying dragon on Dragon Island before, but it turned out that it was not a dragon, but a secret weapon aircraft of the Tang Dynasty.
Now there are rumors about sea monsters. No matter how you think about it, it makes people think that this legend may be inextricably linked to new weapons.
But guessing is just guessing after all, because there is no evidence, so everyone can only guess, and keep looking for evidence while guessing.
The factory in Longdao is working overtime day and night to produce outdated aircraft products, including the three-engine bi-wing transport aircraft used by Tang Mo before, the three-engine bi-wing bombers, bi-wing fighter jets, bi-wing trainer aircraft...
These planes sold very well, continuously creating profits for Tang Mo. Through pilot training and selling these planes, Tang Mo earned more than 120 million gold coins.
Countless supplies were sent to the Tang State as compensation, including grain, iron ore, copper ore, tin ore, saltpeter, nickel ore, and countless slaves.
And now these things have become highways, railways, locomotives, and all kinds of weapons and equipment.
In the past few months, various countries have successively paid more than half of the payment, and also taken away many new technologies from Tang Mo.
With raw materials, Tang State developed faster. Tang Mo had no shortage of technology to begin with, but now that he had labor force and raw materials, the construction speed was staggeringly fast.
Recently, Tang Mo has been busy equipping his troops with brand new Type 56 assault rifles, and at the same time, he also needs to equip the troops with m113 armored reconnaissance vehicles and Lion armored reconnaissance vehicles.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, there are also the Wildbee 155 mm caliber self-propelled howitzer, and the famous Panzer 4 tank and Panzer 4 assault gun.
There are more and more aircraft, including a large number of transport aircraft and bombers. The Tang Army's fighter force has always been small in size, and the number of Butcher fighters has always been around 300, without much growth.
These heavy weapons and equipment are waiting for large-scale deployment. The army needs a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and at the same time, it has gradually turned into a gold-swallowing behemoth with an excellent appetite.
Any heavy-armed force requires a large amount of material support, especially fuel. Now when an armored division of the Tang Army moves into action, the fuel consumption is almost equal to the consumption 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 Binghan Empire at extremely high prices to make up for the incremental gap in his single consumption.
The main oil producing area of Tang State is Long Island. Although the production capacity is high, transportation is actually very inconvenient. So Tang Mo actually wants to find a stable source of oil that can continue to supply oil.
Chu State is obviously a good choice. As long as it devours this country, Tang State will almost achieve its strategic goal in terms of oil self-sufficiency.
It is a pity that Tang Mo cannot directly declare war on Chu State now. Although he has technological advantages, his military strength is really limited.
The vast territory of Qi State forced him to waste his troops on garrisoning these newly acquired lands. Although his regular army had expanded to hundreds of thousands, one-third of it had become new garrison troops.
It seems that the number of troops that can actually be used for the attack is not much greater than before the Battle of Tang and Qi broke out, but the strength of Chu's troops is much greater than previously estimated.
Attacking the Chu State must focus on strategy. Unlike the Qi State whose territory is mostly plains, the Chu State has more mountains, so armored forces do not seem to have much effect in the attack.
According to the staff opinion given by Loew, if the Tang army wanted to attack Chu, it must train at least 300,000 infantry and be prepared to lose more than 100,000 people.
This estimate is a bit pessimistic, but the actual results are actually similar. The Tang army may go smoothly in the early stage of the war, and it is even expected that the capital of Chu can be captured within two months.
But then there will be a situation where a large number of Chu troops retreat into the mountains and harass the Tang army. The war will be protracted, and the losses of the Tang army may be three times that of the Qi army!
All the rolling mountains need to be conquered by the soldiers of the Tang Army using the most primitive methods. By then, every inch of the land will be soaked in blood.
However, for Tang Mo, if you put in the effort, you will be rewarded. The mountainous terrain of Chu State not only has a rich oil field, but also countless mineral deposits.
There is probably a lot of steel, copper, nickel...even rare earths, and uranium that Tang Mo will definitely use in the future.
It can be said that the occupation of Chu State was enough for Tang Mo's Tang Kingdom to complete its internal cycle and become a completely self-sufficient country.
No matter what kind of opponent he faces, Tang Mo will be able to deal with it calmly. He can even close the door and develop alone, pushing technology to a level that is beyond the reach of others.
It is regrettable that the Dahua Empire can no longer continue to watch Tang Mo expand, and Zhao Kai will never sit back and watch Chu State be annexed.
Therefore, declaring war on the Chu State was probably equivalent to declaring war on the Great China Empire, which forced Tang Mo to seriously consider whether he had the ability to wage 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 Chu or the Great China Empire, their strategic passivity will drag down the Tang army's strategic reserves.
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He may be trapped in a two-front war and exhaust his strategic oil reserves in a two-front war. This is not what he wants to face.
