As the only oil supplier on Blue Star, the Daheng Empire has made a lot of profits by exporting petroleum products around the world. These profits are used to purchase machinery and equipment and are finally used to improve domestic industry.
So far, although several countries have discovered oil one after another, the reserves of the several oil fields they discovered are too small. For example, the Kingdom of Krul found a small coastal oil field in the middle of their kingdom island, but the output was very small.
Even if it is fully exploited, the annual output of the local oil fields is estimated to be only a few hundred thousand barrels.
Another example is that in the four-nation alliance on the east coast of the Southern Continent, oil fields were also discovered, but the reserves were very small. However, a good oil field was found in the Orr Kingdom, with an estimated annual output of one million barrels. It is currently working with the Daheng Empire.
Oil companies are cooperating to prepare for extraction.
It has to be said that God was very generous to the Ores. After giving them a huge gold vein, it also gave them an oil field. Although the output is not large, it is estimated to have an annual output of one million tons of reserves, which is already
It is the third largest oil field in modern times. For a small country like the Orr Kingdom, it can become an oil exporter.
But in this way, they have become a meal for other big countries!
Both the Orissa Empire and the Krul Kingdom are trying their best to capture this small southern country.
The reason why we have to go to great lengths is because if the Orr Kingdom was easily captured, they would have been exterminated long ago.
Since they discovered gold mines more than a hundred years ago, they have always been the fat of neighboring countries. They have a very strong sense of self-preservation. They are the only country on Blue Star that has implemented a nationwide military service system!
Coupled with the huge gold mines that account for 40% of the world's gold production, they spend a lot of money to arm their army!
A small country with a population of about five million actually has a standing army and navy of 300,000 people, equipped with the most advanced army and navy weapons on the contemporary Blue Star.
The Army is equipped with all Daheng Army standard weapons, Luoan IV 11mm caliber barrel rifle, 75mm 27x field gun, a large number of 100mm howitzers, and 150mm howitzers.
And the firepower density is extremely high, even higher than that of the Daheng Army!
They directly assign twelve 150mm light howitzer battalions to the division-level troops!
The navy has a series of advanced battleships ordered from the Daheng Empire. There are as many as four second-class battleships, plus more than ten coastal defense armored ships and protective cruisers. Its naval strength is only greater than that of Ori in the southern continent.
The Sa Empire is worse. On a global scale, the Orr Navy can also enter the top ten ranks!
At the same time, they also have a complete mobilization system and a large amount of strategic reserve materials.
They can mobilize the total number of troops to more than 800,000 at any time!
Moreover, the domestic terrain is complex, with many mountainous and hilly areas, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
All of these factors lead to the Orr Kingdom appearing to be a small and broken country, but in reality it is a hard nut to crack.
At least in the past hundred years, no country has been able to conquer them!
However, as the industrial technology on Blue Star continues to advance, and weapons and equipment continue to innovate, becoming more and more powerful, and at the same time more and more expensive, the Kingdom of Orr is also feeling more and more danger!
This feeling was even more true after their oil field was discovered. The navy of the Kingdom of Krul arrived at the Kingdom of Orr three times in just three months in the name of escorting merchant fleets, and also came with the King-class battleship.
This is the most important weapon of the country.
Everyone on Blue Star knows what the Krul Kingdom wants to do, which is to annex the Orr Kingdom and thereby control the largest gold mine in the world.
By the way, control another oil field.
The current oil field is known as a liquid gold mine.
The large oil fields that have been discovered in the world are all in the Daheng Empire. The Krul Kingdom would not have the guts to land in the Daheng Empire to grab the oil fields.
But they are determined to win this oil field in the Orr Kingdom, which is expected to produce one million barrels of oil per year.
This is liquid gold, and besides kerosene, oil can be used for lighting and lubricating oil to lubricate mechanical equipment. Scientists from the King's Academy of Sciences in the Kingdom of Krul have discovered that after burning coal and simply refined heavy oil, they can produce a larger
of heat, thereby making the steam engine more powerful.
This heavy oil can even be used directly as fuel to boil water to produce steam, thereby driving the steam engine to generate power.
Although using heavy oil directly as fuel for shipboard steam engines is only an early stage theory and has not been put into practice yet, not even a test product, it is only a theoretical possibility, and it seems to have huge practical possibilities.
This is enough for the Kingdom of Krul to take it seriously.
What's more, even if this method is ultimately proven to be unavailable, the Kingdom of Krul must still have oil resources!
Just in case!
As the most powerful country in the world, the most basic awareness is to avoid being choked by the enemy at any time and under any circumstances, even if it is just a possibility, it is not allowed to happen.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Krul must have its own oil resources, and the reserves cannot be too small!
For this reason, they are looking for oil everywhere on the Kingdom Island, their base camp, and on the other hand, they are also looking for oil in the puppet countries or colonies they control on other continents.
Now, after the Orr Kingdom's oil fields were surveyed, they entered their field of vision.
When gold and oil come together!
The Kingdom of Krul really can't find any reason not to take action against the Kingdom of Orr!
The Orr Kingdom has clearly felt the hostility of the Krul Kingdom, which has led to the Krul Kingdom's navy increasing its activity in the southern region of the Southern Continent.
More importantly, the Kingdom of Krul increased the number of troops stationed in the Kingdom of Natal and the Principality of Bird, and began to recruit and train locals to form more so-called standing armies of the Kingdom.
Although these two places are named as kingdoms or principalities, in fact, these two areas are one and they are both colonies of the Kingdom of Krul.
The ruler of the Principality of Bird, Duke Bird, is actually the successive crown princes of the Kingdom of Krul.
Fortunately, the Natal Kingdom still retains its local royal family, but the prime minister of the kingdom is the governor of the Kingdom of Krul in the Southern Continent. At the same time, this governor also serves as the prime minister of the Principality of Bird.
The governor of the Southern Continent of the Kingdom of Krul, who had three functions integrated into one, and the Governor's Office established from it, was actually the actual person in charge of the government affairs of the Kingdom of Natal and the Principality of Bird.
The Kingdom of Krul originally had thousands of soldiers and a large fleet stationed in this area, but now the Kingdom of Krul continues to increase its troops to this area and begins to recruit and train locals.
Build a larger army.
Their intention is very obvious, they are trying to launch a war of conquest against the Orr Kingdom again!
For this reason, the Orr Kingdom is also very tense. On the one hand, it is trying to express goodwill to the Krul Kingdom. On the other hand, it is running between several powerful countries, especially the Orissa Empire, the Daheng Empire, and the Garfield Empire.
The first-class powers in the three surrounding areas of the Asian Empire tried to mediate through diplomatic channels.
Finally:
Prepare for war!
Since the discovery of gold one hundred and thirty years ago, the Orians have experienced a total of thirteen invasions, averaging once every ten years, the last two of which were by the Kruls!
The reason why the Orr Kingdom still exists!
That's because in more than ten wars against aggression, they have never been defeated!
This time, they believe they will not fail!
In order to prepare for war, the Orr Kingdom urgently approached the Daheng Empire to discuss arms procurement.
Daheng Empire has always been very polite and friendly to the golden Orr guests, as if I will give them whatever they want. If you are a brother, don't be polite to me, you can take anything!
They also patted their chests a lot. The only other thing we have in Daheng is that we have a lot of war guys!
Want army equipment? Regardless of rifles or artillery, even machine guns that could not be exported before can now be sold. As for artillery shells and bullets, not to mention, there are as many as you want.
Let’s not just sell this gun on a small scale. Let’s calculate it by the ton. It won’t be a problem for me to get you a few thousand tons. No matter how much it is, you can get it together.
Do you need it urgently? Must it be in stock?
What's this? We are all good brothers. Come on, I'll take you to the factory warehouse to get it. Look, here are just a thousand tons of guns and ammunition. What, it's not enough. Don't be afraid. Next door is our army's strategic reserve warehouse. This is
Once upon a time, I will open your eyes.
See, tens of thousands of tons of good stuff, feel free to take your pick!
The army has enough equipment, but it also needs navy warships!
There must be no problem, there must be no problem!
What, you guys can’t wait for the new ships. You want us to have them in stock at the same price as new ones. This must be possible!
We two brothers have been good friends for hundreds of years. For the sake of our brothers, you will take away a few of our active battleships, such as the second-class battleship Pingbo.
If you don't mind, you can also take away a few pre-unification cruisers. We are all good brothers, so you can just give them some scrap metal money.
What, not enough?
Moreover, these ships are a bit small, and the guns are a bit short? Can we add some bigger ones?
The big brother of the Daheng Empire was in a dilemma: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to give it, it's just that I only have a few big ships on hand. These few ready-made ships have to deal with that little brat in Orissa in the south. How about you wait?"
Wait, wait a few months and I will build those boats and give them to you."
What, cucumber vegetables will be cold in a few months, you can’t wait!
He also said that he was a brother and had to go to all the troubles, so he had to help no matter what!
Damn, since you said so, it won’t work if you don’t help!
Finally, Big Brother Daheng closed his eyes, pointed at the two unified-class second-class battleships in the military port and shouted: "Brothers, take them all...take them all..."
In the end, it didn't take long for the two brothers to reach an agreement on the general matters of the emergency arms trade. Of course, the more detailed matters still required higher-level people to negotiate in person. In the end, it was decided that an old friend of the Daheng Empire and a good brother of Lin Ziran would be appointed
, the Crown Prince of Orr, Holibart, came personally to discuss.
In order to ensure safety, the Daheng Empire Navy even went to great lengths to dispatch the armored cruiser Chongke and the cruiser Zhenbei to conduct an ocean voyage training. On the way back, they passed through the port of the Orr Kingdom for supplies.
But no one knew that when the two Daheng battleships returned home, the Crown Prince of the Orr Kingdom, Holibart, had already boarded the Chunk armored cruiser.
Accompanying him on board the ship were funds prepared for emergency ordnance purchase!
Orr's procurement has always been about delivering gold with one hand!
This time they brought a full two hundred tons of gold!
This made the Daheng people who came to secretly pick him up dumbfounded...
However, this amount of gold that makes outsiders crazy is less than the annual gold production of the Orr Kingdom.
In the sixth year of Qian Sheng, the gold output of the Orr Kingdom reached more than 200 tons, accounting for 40% of global production.
Why have the Orians never been defeated in any war against invasion in history?