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Black Snake was unwilling to fail and thought of a clever plan.

"Speak."

"In the south of Zhaoqing County, there is a territory called Wulong County, which has basically been captured by the Black Snake Guard. I suggest that we temporarily form an alliance with Wulong County, and teleport the army directly to the rear of the allied forces, so as to repay the other in the same way. ”

When Ouyang Shuo heard this, he glanced at the black snake in surprise, "Are you sure?" ”

It's okay to form an alliance, but I'm afraid that if the alliance fails, it will startle the snake. With the fall of Tianshuang County, the [Shanhai Alliance-Tianshuang Alliance] also disintegrated.

In Zhaoqing County, Shanhai City is now isolated.

"I'm willing to make a military order." Black Snake's tone was categorical.

"Okay, I'll give you two days."

With this opportunity, Ouyang Shuo still decided to take a risk. Although the Black Snake has a rough appearance, he is extremely delicate in his work, and since he dares to boast about Haikou, there is no problem.

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On 10 August, the army of the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate began to move.

In Shanhai City, under the leadership of Wang Feng and Zhao Kuo, three thousand Shenwuwei rushed to Beihai Port to assemble, and together with the first formation of the Beihai Bay Fleet, they went to Jiaozhou Port and attacked Yufo County.

The entire voyage, close to four thousand nautical miles, required at least ten days of sailing.

In Qiongzhou County, Sun Bin commanded the first division of the Huben Regiment and continued to sit in Qiongzhou to suppress the local resistance. The 2nd and 4th Divisions of the Huben immediately pulled out their camps, first rushed to Qiongshan Mansion, and then took a boat to cross the Qiongzhou Strait, landed in Leizhou County, and then passed through Leizhou County and went to Zhaoqing County to join the army.

The entire journey, more than 2,000 kilometers. Even if it was a rapid march, it would take the army at least twenty days to reach the battlefield. It can be seen from this that if there is no teleportation array, what kind of egg pain will be if there is no teleportation array.

In addition to reinforcing Zhaoqing County, the two divisions of the Huben Regiment were transferred this time, and there was also an intention.

The clean-up operation in Qiongzhou County is basically coming to an end. Next, it would be too wasteful to put such a formed legion as the Tiger Ben Legion in Qiongzhou County as a whole.

Ouyang Shuo planned that in the future, Fan Lihua would lead the first division of the Huben Legion and be stationed in Qiongzhou County for a long time, which would basically be foolproof. Don't forget, the Yashan fleet is still expanding, and the military strength of Qiongzhou County in the future will still be dominated by naval divisions.

On the island, the field army has the first division of the Huben Legion, and then cooperates with the Qiongzhou County Garrison Division, which is sufficient.

Taking this opportunity to gradually transfer the Tiger Ben Legion to the Lingnan battlefield was another intention of Ouyang Shuo. In the next step, whether it is to attack Chiyou City or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a large army is needed.

In addition, after Zhaoqing County was conquered, the eastern border also needed to garrison a large army.

At the same time, the first formation of the Yashan Fleet departed from Nanshan Port, joined the first formation of the North Bay Fleet at sea, and then went to Jiaozhou Port together.

For the first time, the two fleets assisted in the operation, and it happened to be a rehearsal at sea.

The only difference is the Praetorian Division.

As soon as the Praetorian Guard Division had completed its assembly, it received another military order to temporarily camp in the barracks.

Even if he raided the rear of the allied forces, Ouyang Shuo did not dare to press the second division and the fourth division of the Tiger Ben Legion together. The three divisions were active behind enemy lines, and if they could not get enough food and grass, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Such a heavy burden can only be handled by an ace division like the Praetorian Guard Division. Ouyang Shuo believed that even if there was no grain and grass to help, the Praetorian Guard Division would be able to solve the grain and grass problem on the spot.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first.

The War Readiness Administration's reserves of strategic materials have never been cut off. All provinces and counties have built special military granaries for hoarding military rations, which are guarded by local urban defense troops.

Therefore, wherever a large army marches within the territory, it can be supplied wherever it goes.

In this way, a lot of manpower and material resources are saved.

As the Battle of Zhaoqing unfolded, a large amount of grain and grass was transported to the front line under the dispatch of the War Readiness Administration.

Now that the situation of the war has changed, and the front line needs to increase troops, the grain and grass originally estimated are somewhat insufficient. Therefore, when the armies of all walks of life were mobilized, the War Readiness Administration had already begun a new round of grain and grass dispatch.

Ge Hongliang, director of the War Preparedness Administration, personally sat in Leizhou County to supervise the transportation of grain and grass.

In addition to grain and grass, there are also a large number of military materials such as weapons and equipment, arrows, and siege equipment. To this end, the War Readiness Administration has set up a general arsenal in each county, and then in the prefectures and counties, it has set up arsenals at each level.

Ordinary arrows will no longer be provided by the weapon workshops of Shanhai City, but by the weapon workshops of each county. You must know that after a big war, hundreds of thousands of arrows alone will be consumed.

If the battle is fought for a long time, it is normal to consume millions of arrows. Relying solely on the supply of Shanhai City, the cost of transportation alone exceeds the cost of the arrow itself.

Whether it is a large amount of grain and grass, or a large number of arrows and other military materials, the consumption can be real money. The cost of war on the territory's finances is unimaginable in other areas.

Ge Hongliang's hierarchical combat readiness system was praised by Ouyang Shuo.

Readiness for war is the lifeblood of war.

Ge Hongliang, the director of the War Preparedness Administration, undoubtedly made Ouyang Shuo very satisfied.

In the future, the military industry of Shanhai City will only be responsible for the production of high-end equipment, that is, Mingguang armor, Buren armor, etc., and others such as Tang knives, horse lances, arrows, etc., will all be completed by the workshops in each county.

In addition to the consideration of artisans, there is also the supply of iron ore.

In this fast mineral resource, Gaia's design is very realistic. A mine not only has a maximum reserve set, but also the difficulty of mining.

At the level of mining in ancient times, only a small part of the surface minerals could be mined. Minerals buried deep in the ground, if they are exploited at risk, will cost lives, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Of the two iron ore mines in the western suburbs of Shanhai City, the earliest one, the one explored at the village stage, has been exhausted and can no longer be mined, and is officially mothballed.

The second mine is also on the verge of depletion.

After a year and a half, the weapons and equipment manufactured by Shanhai City are too huge, and the consumption of iron ore is very amazing. In addition, it is a completed steel mill, and it is a large demand for iron ore.

Ouyang Shuo had calculated with mineral experts that the iron ore farms in the entire Lianzhou County would only last for about a year and a half at most with the current iron ore consumption rate in Shanhai City.

A year and a half later, Shanhai City will have an embarrassing situation of no iron ore available.

After getting the news, Ouyang Shuo panicked on the spot.

He didn't expect that after the grain, a new round of resource crisis hit the territory.

In his previous life, Ouyang Shuo was just an adventure player, and he still had some impressions of the rising price of food; But I don't pay much attention to the speed of iron ore.

I never thought that it would almost make a big mistake.

Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and it is still too late to remedy.

If it weren't for Shanhai City's exaggerated consumption of iron ore, it is estimated that this problem would not have been exposed so early, and by then, it would have been too late.

Ouyang Shuo was also a decisive man, and immediately ordered the mining rate of iron ore in Lianzhou County to be halved to ensure the iron ore reserves in the base camp.

After all, transporting iron ore from other places is a very costly task, and it is much more troublesome than transporting grain.

The sealing of the iron ore mine in Lianzhou County is only a symptom.

Ouyang Shuo then issued an edict, requiring all counties to immediately organize people to find out the reserves of iron ore and other mines in their counties, and report them to the War Readiness Bureau.

The good news is that more than a dozen large iron ore mines have been discovered in Qiongzhou County and Leizhou County.

Ouyang Shuo immediately ordered the two counties to increase iron ore mining, in addition to the consumption of their own counties, to intercept more than half of the iron ore, through the sea, transported to Shanhai City.

To this end, Ouyang Shuo also specially instructed the shipyard to build a special transport cargo ship. Compared with land transportation, sea transportation is much more convenient, and the transportation cost is relatively low, which is still within the affordable range.

As a result, the shortage of iron ore in Shanhaicheng has been slightly alleviated.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo still didn't dare to be careless.

It is foreseeable that with the expansion of the territory, the size of the army will inevitably expand, and the demand for weapons and equipment will only get higher and higher; Correspondingly, the consumption of iron ore will only increase.

In addition, we have to mention the No. 7 Institute.

The team of experts of the No. 7 Research Institute has expanded to hundreds of people. After the completion of the steelmaking plant, the research of steel accessories has entered the stage of tackling tough problems.

In the future, the manufacture of muskets, artillery, and even the construction of ironclad ships is possible, even inevitable. In that case, the demand for iron ore will be great, and it will be a bottomless pit.

Ouyang Shuo could not guarantee that the counties he would occupy in the future would have rich iron ore reserves. Therefore, the import of iron ore will become an inevitability.

Later, when the realms realized the iron ore shortage, it would be too late.

Shanhai City must be one step ahead.

Ouyang Shuo immediately instructed the Finance Bureau to allocate a special fund to the War Readiness Administration every month for the purchase of iron ore in the market. At the same time, it signed iron ore purchase agreements with major chambers of commerce.

From now on, Shanhai City will start hoarding iron ore.

To this end, Ouyang Shuo ordered the construction of dozens of large iron ore storage warehouses in the eastern suburbs of Shanhai City to store iron ore purchased from the market or chamber of commerce.

The purchase of iron ore is a large expense. In the market, one unit of iron ore now costs 120 copper coins, which is more than six times the price of grain.

If you purchase a large amount of money, you can imagine the burden on the territorial finances.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo must grit his teeth and unswervingly implement this strategy.

In addition to imports, there is actually another way, which is to plunder from the outside world. Not to mention other places, in the Southern Ocean, there is a huge island called Australia.

In reality, Australia is a major exporter of iron ore.

In the game, with Gaia's rigorous setting, the same must be true. As long as you occupy Australia, the entire territory, no matter how it expands, will have no worries about iron ore.

It's a pity that the current Shanhai City is still too weak and not enough to start a national war.

You know, after the game map is expanded tenfold, the whole of Australia, not so much an island, is more like a piece of land.

Not to mention, how Gaia set up Australia, Ouyang Shuo doesn't know, at least, it won't be a wild island like Qiongzhou Island.

If you want to capture Australia, you know how difficult it will be.

In the medium term, we can consider starting iron ore trade with Australia. The ultimate goal, of course, is to pocket the whole of Australia. (To be continued.) )