Chapter 460: 460 Vulnerable Industries
Chapter 460460 Vulnerable Industries
Datang Group is working hard to build Dongwan Island and turn it into a modern industrial base. Other countries in the world are not idle either. They are also working hard to build their own industrial cities and improve their industrial strength.
Industrial cities began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain. The population of these cities generally exceeded 200,000. According to previous standards, they could be regarded as megacities.
But now, the population in these places is still increasing, attracting the surrounding labor force.
The scale of the car-producing factories in Gobol and Binghan is so large that you can’t even see the end at a glance. These production workshops that work around the clock supply tens of thousands of cars to all over the world.
The automobile factories in Yucheng and Longdao are larger and can produce tens of thousands of vehicles of various types every month, including civilian transport trucks, cars, military trucks, jeeps, etc.
The reason for such unscrupulous production is that in the Nanla Empire, Ice Kingdom, Susas Kingdom, Pinewood Kingdom, and Gales Kingdom, larger-scale oil fields have been put into production, and the scale of refineries is also constantly expanding. .
In the past, strategic locations were often passes and transportation hubs. Although these places had strategic value, their number was ultimately limited.
Nowadays, various countries have discovered that there are more and more strategic locations within their own borders, and each one is more important than the last!
Oil fields are very profitable, and there are many types of oil field equipment that are expensive, so oil fields and nearby refineries must not be lost.
By the same token, power plants built at a large cost cannot be ignored, because they must provide power for oil field production and also provide energy for industrial cities.
Besides, what steel mills, military factories, vehicle factories, machinery factories ... which one does not provide countless jobs, the equipment is expensive as gold, and it cannot be ignored?
Even the railways and highways are like blood vessels and cannot be damaged easily! Because even if just one railway is destroyed, there will be problems with the mobilization of materials, the supply of food to the city and the raw materials to ensure industrial production will be cut off, and the huge industrial city will fall into chaos.
Even the most inconspicuous water supply plants, sewer systems, and modern hospitals are important facilities that keep the city running.
Modern cities are more fragile, and the modern industrial system is more vulnerable to war, which brings a new problem to rulers of various countries: how to protect it all!
In the process of industrial modernization, all countries have reaped the dividends of industrialization. They have more taxes, more abundant materials produced, and people's quality of life has indeed improved.
These countries have more money and are more powerful, so they are able to spend huge sums of money to purchase whatever they want: equipment, weapons, medicines...
The good news is that industrialization has liberated more people, provided more funds to various countries, and also given these countries the ability to manufacture weapons.
Since then, it has become possible to arm more armies, and each country has the ability to form more troops to protect increasingly vulnerable cities and industrial facilities.
A few years ago, the war between the two kingdoms was considered large-scale, with 20,000 to 30,000 troops involved.
Because logistical supply capabilities are limited, each country only has so many troops, and its reserves of weapons and ammunition are only so large, so the troops that can be mobilized are only of that size.
But now, each country has hundreds of thousands of armies, and the simple army structures of the past, so-called legions and battalions, have completely failed to keep up with the times.
Since then, the graduates who studied under the Datang Group Military Academy have spread more advanced military structures to all parts of the world.
The system of military divisions, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, and platoon has begun to become popular. Armies from various countries have organized their own armies according to this system and arranged them to the corps level in one fell swoop.
In confusion, military commanders from various countries were forced to accept and get used to the emergence of some messy special services one after another, and the ownership of various new units became a confusing matter.
For example, for the newly emerged airship troops, the distribution of command rights in each country is completely different. Some are directly owned by the monarch, some are assigned to military commanders, and some have established air forces.
Let’s take the anti-aircraft artillery unit as another example. God knows whether these anti-aircraft artillery units should be under the command of the army or a defense air force should be established for unified deployment!
Don’t think that these things that seem to be taken for granted today are so simple, because in this era everyone is exploring new tactics and methods of warfare, and no one knows the correct answer!
The good news is not that there is nothing: as time goes by, many countries have the ability to produce a variety of weapons, and at least in terms of traditional army weapons, the proliferation of technology is obvious to all.
Countries are beginning to be able to produce machine guns and rifles, and pistols are no exception. Many countries can also produce their own cannons and supporting shells, and the weapons of various countries have begun to become more diverse.
Before, because everyone could only purchase weapons, the caliber was actually very uniform. Basically, they all have a caliber of 7.92 mm. Whether it is the K3 rifle of the Datang Group or the Cyric Type 1 of the Cyric Consortium, they are all the same.
But later, the Mosin-Nagant rifle produced by the Ice Kingdom adopted a brand-new 7.62mm caliber, which allowed many countries to see another possibility.
Since then, when countries produce their own rifles, they have made some efforts on the caliber: some people use 7.5 mm, and some people use 6.5 mm. The caliber of guns is not the hardest hit area. What is really shocking is the caliber of artillery! The artillery factories of various countries who let themselves go have developed cannons of various weird calibers after gradually losing their technical constraints.
Datang Group’s heavy 280 mm caliber siege artillery inspired other countries. Dorne’s arsenal subsequently launched a 300 mm caliber heavy artillery, which opened the eyes of other countries.
Although the transportation of this kind of artillery was a disaster, and although Dorn could only install this kind of artillery on the fortress to serve as fixed firepower, other countries still followed suit and regarded the caliber of the artillery as another form of national power competition. .
Subsequently, the arsenal of Soussas developed a cannon with a caliber of 310 mm. Transporting this cannon required a completely new idea: using a car to tow it in front, using oxen and horses to help on both sides, and another car behind it. push…
Then, under the "inspiration" of the Datang Group, various countries have turned their attention to railways: it is obvious that relying on cars and cattle and horses has an upper limit on transportation capacity, while railways and trains can raise this upper limit.
Following this, the artillery calibers of various countries that opened up their horizons became incomprehensible: First, the Nanla Empire developed a 400 mm caliber train gun. The Yangmu Kingdom followed closely and produced a 410 mm caliber train gun.
With this crazy development, the artillery caliber is about to break through the sky, approaching the 500 mm mark.
Large-caliber artillery is letting itself fly all the way, and small-caliber artillery is also constantly "tossing". In the past, Cyric has always used 130 caliber, and Datang Group has used 105 and 155 caliber. Nowadays, various countries have various artillery calibers, including 100 and 150 caliber. There are 110 and 152, 120 and 160, 95 and 145...
Anyway, purely from a purely verbal perspective, everyone has drawn a clear line between each other, and everyone looks unhappy when they look at it.
In short, the development of the petrochemical industry and the mining industry has become the cornerstone of industrial development in various countries around the world. The machinery and equipment working in open-pit mines where conditions permit are so huge that they are as high as several floors.
They are installed on rails of special width and work in circles along the mine to extract iron ore or coal.
Tall chimneys in factories in various countries are constantly smoking day and night, and many cities have been submerged in a choking fog.
In this way, half a year after Datang Group took over Dongwan Island, another huge industrial city appeared, and its name was Lanes.
As a brand-new city built with the help of Datang Group, it has a complete sewer and water supply system, and electricity supply facilities that far exceed specifications. Buildings with more than seven floors can be seen everywhere, and the spacious streets are all made of asphalt.
There are all facilities such as schools and hospitals here, including cinemas, opera houses, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, casinos and brothels...
Similarly, on the outskirts of the city, there are even more factories of all kinds, which seem to be no less impressive than those in Bunas a few years ago.
With the construction of the city, the population here has already exceeded 300,000. Everyone knows that there will be no problem in the population here exceeding 500,000 in a few years.
On the broadest street in Lanes, which is the core area of Central Street, is a newly designed magnificent palace.
Wright VII finally got his wish on this day. Amidst the congratulatory applause of envoys from various countries, he proclaimed himself King Lynes I and ascended the throne as emperor.
The celebration ceremony was extremely grand. Datang Group also sent a troop to participate in the military parade. Dozens of phalanxes passed by the military parade viewing platform one after another. The phalanx of Datang Group’s security forces marching in Chinese goose-step was the most eye-catching.
Tang Mo fulfilled his promise. He provided more armored vehicles, cars and artillery for the military parade, which gave Lions I enough face.
The Nanla Empire was also given enough face. The Nanla Emperor sent his prince to attend the ceremony and announced on the spot that he recognized the Lines Empire.
Following the announcement by Dorne, Sussus, Gareth, Poplar, Pinewood, Ice and other countries that they recognized the Lions Empire, Lions I became the first emperor to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor according to video records.
From now on, the name of the Kingdom of Wright will be changed to the Empire of Lines. And Wright VII was also replaced by Lions I on this day.
A new empire was born.
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There will be an update tomorrow, everyone go to bed early, good night.
(End of this chapter)