Despite the loud voices of these countries, in fact the one at the front is still Qi, who is preparing for war.
The Qi State was not as corrupt as the Zheng State. While they relied on the power of the Tang Dynasty to realize their own industrialization, they also absorbed many Cyric technologies.
Moreover, the top leaders of this country clearly felt the threat of the impending war. They are trying their best to gather their troops and then build as many fortifications as possible on the border.
In order to withstand the pressure of the Tang Kingdom, King Jiang Xian of Qi State sent all three of his most valued sons to lead troops respectively to block the army of the Tang Kingdom that might move north.
In order to help the Qi State, Cyric sent a large military advisory group to help the three princes of the Qi State and train the new army to set up defense lines.
The entire defense line runs through the Tang-Qi border, extending from the seaside to the mountains near the border of the Dahua Empire. In order to dig this defense line, Qi State used 300,000 laborers, and they have been busy from six months ago to today.
At the beginning, the entire defense line was required to build at least four machine gun bunkers per kilometer as fire support.
But after it was built, Datang was not ready for war, so Qi continued to frantically strengthen this line of defense, and finally increased the number of bunkers per kilometer to 9!
In other words, most defense lines have about one machine gun bunker every 100 meters. Some are reinforced with wooden sandbags and soil, and some are even made of concrete.
The trenches on both sides of most machine gun bunkers were reinforced with wood. Some underground bunkers were built between the trenches, and hidden camps were even dug out specifically for garrisoning troops.
In order to support this carefully arranged defense line, Qi State purchased a large number of imitation Maxim machine guns manufactured by Cyric, further increasing the firepower density of the machine guns.
The three princes each led 150,000 troops and deployed them on three sections of the defense line. They stayed in their position without moving, and they still had a large number of reserves in their hands.
According to Cyric's experience in the battle between Dorne and Goblins, the Tang Kingdom's attack may use more artillery and good armored vehicles.
Combined with the analysis of the Mark1 tank launched by the Datang Group, Cyric's military advisers are certain that the Kingdom of Datang has more advanced tanks to break through Qi's defense line.
In order to prevent the defense line from being breached, Qi State used almost all the anti-tank technologies that Cyric could come up with.
First, on some main positions, Qi State deployed some anti-tank guns modified from anti-aircraft guns provided by Cyric - this experience obviously came from Dorne.
Secondly, Cyric also deployed mines with more explosives in some areas, specifically designed to blow up vehicles. This is almost the world's first anti-tank mine that has been put into actual combat on a large scale.
Then, for the sake of insurance, Qi also dug anti-tank trenches at the front of some positions and buried some stone piers as obstacles. This also summarized the experience and lessons of Dorne's anti-tank operations.
Finally, in some steep areas, Qi State also laid barbed wire and other obstacles to block the rapid passage of troops from the Tang Kingdom.
In order to support this line of defense and ensure that the line of defense was foolproof, Qi State also deployed two thousand cannons of various calibers behind the line of defense. The largest caliber even reached 350 mm. These are heavy artillery produced by Cyric.
This is also an improvement made after summarizing the experience of the Goblin War. Cyric believes that only with strong enough artillery suppression can it stop the advancement of enemy tanks.
The Great China Empire and Mirage are also providing more artillery shells for Qi's artillery. With the support of Cyric, these two countries have established a modern military industry system, and there is still no problem in producing artillery shells.
With enough artillery shells, Qi State is still very confident in blocking the attack of the Tang Kingdom.
After preparing the defense, Cyric is thinking about creating some killer weapons for Qi! Transporting tanks all the way to Qi might be beyond our reach, so Cyric provided Qi with a sufficient number of airships!
After helping Qi establish an airship inflatable factory and build airship base facilities, Cyric provided Qi with 70 airships almost free of charge to form an air force.
With these airships, the Qi Air Force believed that it could find an opportunity to paralyze the forward combat readiness facilities built by the Tang State near the border within a few days after the war began.
Moreover, Cyric promised that if Qi could delay the Tang army's attack, Cyric could then build factories in the Dahua Empire to produce tanks and other heavy weapons and equipment, helping Qi turn defeat into victory!
Encouraged by many promises, the whole country of Qi attached great importance to this war and was very optimistic. They believe that with nearly 500,000 troops deployed on the border, the offensive may not be enough, but the defense is definitely sufficient.
As long as the Tang army dares to come, they will definitely hit their heads and blood on this solid defense line in the south of Qi State! At that time, after the Tang army is unable to attack, Qi will definitely win the final victory with the support of the Great China Empire and the support of the whole world.
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Harry pinched the telegram from Copper City and rubbed his brows depressedly. This message was sent to him by Tang Mo, and the content was very direct, ordering him to organize the evacuation of Bunas and abandon the industrial zone at the critical moment.
Although the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty put forward a tough posture to attack Qi State, in fact, the problem of insufficient military strength was still serious.
In the direction of Bunas, the Tang Army only had one division of garrison troops. Whether it could withstand the attack of the Lains Empire was still a question.
The pressure on Beiling is also great. In the direction of Ice Crystal City, Beiling's three divisions have to face threats from Susas and Lines, and they cannot mobilize any troops at all.
Now that Dorn has had unwanted thoughts, Tang Mo also knows that his side may not be able to continue to control Rewind Port and Neverwinter with a small number of garrison troops.
Without these two places, Tang Mo's rubber supply became a problem. Fortunately, he had a lot of reserves before, otherwise he would really have been passive.
The problem is that reserves are reserves. If the war cannot be won quickly, the reserves will eventually be exhausted. Now all the pressure is on the side of the main force of the Tang Army. Only if they can quickly defeat the Qi State can the Tang State turn around.
In the same way, the Poplar Kingdom jumping out at this time is nothing more than the idea of moving Osa Port. Without Osa's Tang Mo, the supply of rare metals will also be reduced.
The good news is that there are also rare metal deposits near Tongcheng, and the large land of Zheng State also provides a lot of strategic resources, which gives Tang Mo some room for maneuver.
Finally, knowing that there was no need to put on a show, Tang Mo returned to Chang'an, took command of the central command, and declared a national emergency.
Next came the time for a war of words, with each country taking turns to warn Tang Mo not to act too arrogantly and resort to force.
I hope Tang Mo can focus on the overall situation, maintain precious peace, and not make the situation more tense.
Seeing the condemnations and warnings from these countries, Tang Mo almost thought that these countries were really on the side of justice.
In fact, while Tang Mo was plotting against the Qi Kingdom, the Dahua Empire and the Lains Empire were also plotting against the Tang Dynasty. Neither of them were good people, so why did he become a bastard while those others became saints?
Tang Mo, who found it boring and funny, didn't pay any attention to these talkative contestants and always expressed his position with actions.
After the 30,000 troops from the Great China Empire arrived at the border, Tang Mo immediately announced a military exercise involving 10,000 people near the border.
On the fifth day after Tang Mo returned to Chang'an, the Lions Empire announced that it would gradually ban the currency issued by the Datang Group and would instead use the "Lians Gold Dollar" as its national currency in the future.
Things have developed to this point, and it has obviously reached the point where they will fight to the death. King Laines I inspected the property of Simone, the finance minister, and Simone's family was attacked on the way to Jade City.
If the gangsters affiliated with the Datang Group hadn't sacrificed dozens of people to cover the journey, Simeone's family might have died near the border.
The smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger. The prime minister of the Kingdom of Susas suddenly died of illness. The prime minister's grandson-in-law, who was also the actual leader of the kingdom's reform, disappeared. The prime minister's granddaughter and three children also disappeared at the same time. This made King Susas furious.
Susas announced that the prime minister was poisoned and assassinated by a spy, and Sussus must find the murderer. It looked like he was just about to put the shit basin on the head of the prime minister's son-in-law.
At this moment, the wind direction suddenly changed again. The actual controller of Northridge, Countess Alice, suddenly issued a decree and began to officially move the population of Northridge to Bunas.
As long as they are willing to leave, regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, they will leave their homeland of Beiling and move to Bunas - this is almost tantamount to a blatant betrayal of the Reins Empire.
As a result, King Laines I and King Sussus received a telegram from Northridge at almost the same time, stating that as long as they were willing to let them go, the Earl of Northridge promised not to damage Northridge's industrial facilities.
The next great migration of nearly a million people began like this. Out of their trust in their count and their longing for a better future life, many civilians in Beiling joined the migration without hesitation.
In just a few days, the farmhouse city in Beiling was almost half empty! Countess Alice also kept her promise and did not destroy any industrial facilities in Northridge.
At the same time that the civilians of North Ridge began to migrate, the civilians of Osa Port, Rewind Port, Neverwinter City, Bunas, and Jade City also began to migrate.
The Tang Kingdom used almost all its transportation capacity to continuously transport the population from these places to Long Island. Even warships were used as transport ships for this reason.
While the Tang Kingdom Navy was constantly transporting civilians, the warships ordered by the Mirage Navy from Sirik were delivered to the port.
