Chapter 184 Doubling Troop Strength

  The purchase of the armored train was completed, and Tang Zheng boarded the train.

  The conductor is already waiting here at the front of the train, with twenty flight attendants behind him.

   "Train conductor Su Nan, report to the general!"

  A young man in his twenties, saluted and reported to Tang Zheng.

  Tang Zheng replied, "Does our train have a name?"

   "Report to the general, there is no name yet, the general can name the train."

   This is the first battle train of the Light Chasing Army. It really should have a more appropriate name.

   Tang Zheng thought for a while: "This train is as majestic as an armored dragon, so let's call it the Chasing Light Dragon."

   "Thank you general for naming."

  After Tang Zheng finished naming, the words Chasing Light Dragon appeared on the front of the train.

  Su Nan led Tang Zheng to check the situation on the train.

  The first and second is the artillery train. The 203mm caliber howitzer is almost the peak caliber of the howitzer, and its power is amazing.

  The 25mm chain cannon is also enough to destroy all uninvited passengers who want to approach the train.

  The missile carriages in the third and fourth sections are even more powerful weapons for long-range combat, and the rocket pods are also better. The ground-to-ground missiles are enough to strike targets 500 kilometers away.

   But at present, it is not possible to achieve such a long-distance strike, because the coverage of the vehicle radar is not enough, unless it is within the radar range of the base, free strikes can be achieved.

   Anti-aircraft missiles can deal with enemies coming from the air and ensure the safety of the train in all directions.

  The five trains behind can carry chariots as well as soldiers. The Gatling machine guns on those trains are anti-zombie and anti-personnel artifacts.

   Tang Zheng focused on inspecting the fifth carriage, which is a carriage integrating dining car, bathroom, and leisure space, divided into two parts: ordinary area and luxury area.

   Tang Zheng came to the luxury area and sat for a while, feeling very comfortable sitting here, the big bed specially prepared for him, which can accommodate three people to rest is also very comfortable.

   It's just that Tang Zheng didn't think that this big bed could be fully utilized.

  Girls nowadays don't know what's wrong, their eyesight is really bad, and no one actively pursues such a handsome guy with a heavy hand.

  This armored train was born purely for combat, Tang Zheng felt that he still needed some other vehicles.

  So he spent another 600,000 gold to buy a passenger car and a freight car respectively.

  Passengers can carry a large number of troops, and trucks can carry a large number of chariots, and they can also pull goods back.

   These three freight trains will be on standby at Zhuguang Railway Station first, and they can leave at any time when needed.

  The train station, railroad tracks, and three freight trains cost Tang Zheng 3.1 million in total.

  With about 12 million left in his hand, Tang Zheng decided to continue increasing his troops.

   First, he wants to increase the size of the armored force.

   Currently he has two armored battalions, one battalion has thirty tanks, including twenty light tanks and ten main battle tanks.

  This scale is not enough, Tang Zheng directly added forty main battle tanks, twenty for each armored battalion.

  In this way, each armored battalion has fifty tanks, of which the number of main battle tanks has reached thirty, forming a powerful strike group.

   In the main battle of 70,000 gold cars, forty cars are 2.8 million.

  Adding a group of 1500 tank soldiers, a total of 60,000 gold, a total of 2.86 million.

  After the tanks were replenished, Tang Zheng continued to replenish the self-propelled artillery.

  In the war against the alliance, this kind of artillery was easy to move and performed well. Tang Zheng had ten, which was far from enough.

   Thirty self-propelled artillery pieces were added at one time, each with 30,000 gold, for a total of 900,000 gold.

  Add 30 artillery battle groups, one group of 2,000 gold, a total of 60,000 gold, totaling 960,000.

   After purchasing the self-propelled artillery, continue to purchase the Apache helicopter.

  Original ten planes, ten more planes were added, with the crew, another 1.03 million.

   After buying these two arms, I still have 8 million gold left in my hand.

   Tang Zheng originally planned to purchase the An-124 large transport aircraft, but this type of aircraft cannot take off without an airport, so he can only give up temporarily.

  He now has twenty transport planes, this is the background of the Army Aviation Regiment, Tang Zheng decided to start increasing the paratroopers.

  Paratroopers can carry out long-range airdrops and carry out strikes behind enemy lines, which is very convenient to operate.

  A paratrooper costs 500 gold, with a 10 gold parachute bag, plus some other firearms and equipment, the price of a paratrooper is 650 gold.

   Tang Zheng purchased 1,500 paratroopers at one time, a total of five companies.

  975,000 gold.

  With about seven million gold in hand, Tang Zheng began to increase the number of ordinary soldiers this time.

  All of Tang Zheng's infantry battalions are currently not fully staffed, and even the city guard battalion, which is constantly expanding these days, actually has a total number of 2,000.

  The rest of the field battalions have only five companies with 1,500 people.

  Even the Fifth Battalion is currently only one company, and it no longer has much advantage in the mercenary world.

   Next, Tang Zheng moved from the first battalion to the fourth battalion in the field, adding three ordinary companies to each battalion, so that the pure combat troops of each field battalion reached 2400 people.

  One battalion has eight companies, which has already broken the military system of the empire. Generally, a battalion of the royal army of the empire has only three companies, and it's not a reinforced company like Tang Zheng's with an overwhelming number of people.

   There is still a fifth battalion, Tang Zheng will not favor one another, he must strengthen the fifth battalion's right to speak outside, so he is also directly assigned to the fifth battalion and seven companies!

  A total of 19 companies have been added, and another 2.47 million funds.

   After finishing all these, Tang Zheng's five field battalions have all reached the full state!

  Each battalion has eight companies, and there are also guard platoons, cooking platoons, and medical platoons. Together, they are fully staffed, and each battalion has as many as 2,500 people.

   After filling up the five battalions, the funds in Tang Zheng's hands plummeted to 4.5 million gold.

   Tang Zheng didn't stop yet, he expanded the troops directly under him to a battalion directly under him!

  Other field troops have their own missions. This directly subordinate unit will follow Tang Zheng in the northern and southern expeditions, and be under his direct daily command.

  But before the expansion, he found that the barracks were not enough.

  Tang Zheng had to suspend the construction and began to replenish the barracks. He originally had eight barracks that could accommodate 20,000 people.

  This time he added three more, and the capacity increased to 27,500 people.

   After purchasing the last barracks, he gave the authority to Michael of the Fifth Battalion to choose a place to set up camp so that the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion could have a shelter.

  The barracks are all set up, and the inner city is almost full.

Eleven barracks, two power plants, a railway station, a fresh water purification plant, an arsenal, a banknote printing factory, a combat command center, his own official residence, and even a buffer zone of one square kilometer, as well as cannons, etc. It is almost full, and there is not much space to continue to accommodate the building.

   But the overall situation is good, much more relaxed than the outer city.

  Continuing to storm the army, Tang Zheng expanded the troops directly under him to a full battalion.

  However, this battalion is not configured according to the configuration of field troops, but a mixed battalion.

  This battalion has only five companies, but each company has 500 people.

  The entire battalion is composed of elite four-star fighters, including almost all arms of the entire army.

  And the vehicles of this battalion are almost all composed of armored vehicles.

  Before Tang Zheng bought a large number of armored vehicles, but with the continuous expansion of tanks and self-propelled artillery, it was no longer suitable for armored vehicles to be installed in the armored battalion, so Tang Zheng simply assigned these vehicles to the battalion directly under him.

  Tang Zheng had a total of one hundred armored vehicles in his hands, and they were directly deployed to the battalion directly under his command. One armored vehicle can carry twenty-three people, and that's enough to carry 2,300 people.

   There are also one hundred Willys jeeps before, which are used to carry Gatling machine guns, and can also take two hundred people.

  For this battalion, Tang Zheng directly added 2,300 people to the field force, and the elite forces he mobilized cost about 1.2 million in total, because there are many high-level troops in it.

  For example, anti-aircraft infantry, Tang Zheng equipped every combat platoon, as well as snipers and flamethrower fighters, as well as a large number of scouts.

   It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this battalion directly under it can be called the champion of the entire army, and it is all composed of elite veterans.

   There are also a hundred armored vehicles as an assault force, as long as they do not appear in the situation of tank battles, they can adapt to any combat situation.

  After the replenishment of the directly subordinate battalions was completed, the funds in Tang Zheng's hands dropped to 2.5 million, and the four barracks just now also cost 800,000.

   Tang Zheng didn't stop until here, he added a hundred soldiers of various types to the armored train, including artillery and heavy machine gun groups, as well as scientific research soldiers, used to control those cannons, Gatling machine guns and missiles.

   Three more companies were added to the engineering unit, bringing the number of engineering units to as many as 1,500.

   Then the two departments of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Secret Service each added 300 people. There are not too many people in this special force.

   There is another branch of arms, and that is the air force ground support.

  Now the army aviation battalion has also formed a scale, and ground staff is also indispensable. Although there is no airport yet, the planes are now helicopters, and they are all parked in an open space in the inner city.

   Tang Zheng supplemented one hundred Air Force ground staff, also laying the foundation for future airport construction.

   After finishing all these, and spent a total of 800,000 gold, with only 1.7 million gold left in his hands, Tang Zheng finally stopped.

   At this time, the strength of his troops once again improved by leaps and bounds.

  Five fully staffed field battalions plus the directly subordinate battalion, the number is 15,000.

   There is also the Army Aviation Battalion, 1,500 paratroopers enlisted, dozens of aircraft pilots, and ground crews, the number also reached 1,800.

   There are 2,000 people in the city guard battalion and 1,500 engineers.

  The security company, the cooking company, and the medical company all add up to 900 people.

   There are more than 300 armored units and more than 500 artillery units.

   There are 300 people in the Secret Service, and 300 people in the Military Intelligence Bureau.

   There are other miscellaneous people, including armored train units, radar units, personnel in the combat command center, personnel in scientific research institutes, etc.

  The cumulative total has reached 23,500 people, which is directly doubled compared to before.

   There is still a shortfall of 6,500 people before the regiment is fully staffed.

   Tang Zheng didn't continue to rage, he still wanted to leave some room for personnel.

  The city guards and engineers are not fully staffed yet, and there is only a gap of 5,000 at most. He still has not purchased large transport planes, and has not added frogman troops, so there must be some room for this.

  Although the money was almost spent, Tang Zheng's heart was rarely fulfilled.

   With these elite troops, he will have a strong capital for his next expansion.

  (end of this chapter)