Chapter 957 Long-term Strategic Planning

"System, exchange for another 6 tons of combat supplies according to the last ratio!"

In the end, Gu Chengyuan chose the most conservative way to use the newly arrived system money.

First, we need to ensure that there are no problems with combat supplies and development funds. As for what kind of troops will be needed later, it depends on the feedback from intelligence work.

Because the main problem that will be faced next will definitely be the resolution of the energy crisis. As for whether to go north or south, as mentioned above, it depends on the actual situation.

In this regard, Gu Chengyuan naturally prefers to go north, because the distance is closer, the environment is more familiar, the oil production is large, and the infrastructure construction in Zhou State is better. Many of them are ready-made and not so troublesome.

However, it would be very troublesome to go south to Southeast Asia. Not to mention the long distance, the land route is often four or five thousand kilometers. In the end times, the maintenance cost of the transportation route is also high. At least seven or eight brigade-level troops would be required to be responsible for security.

The investment is high, but the key is that the output is small. For example, the Yenangyaung oil field in Myanmar, which is the closest to Yeshi and the only one that can be reached by land, is nearly 4000 kilometers away from Yeshi, but its peak annual output is only 17.5 tons.

But this is already an important economic pillar of Myanmar, with annual output accounting for 42% of Myanmar's total onshore crude oil production.

When Gu Chengyuan read these, he felt helpless and amused. At this moment, the meaning of a small country was truly embodied.

With this level of national strength, if you give him an army for free, he won't even be able to meet the fuel consumption...

Of course, Southeast Asia is not all garbage, there are still good things, such as the White Tiger Oilfield, Big Bear Oilfield, Blue Dragon Oilfield, White Rhino Oilfield, etc. in Dai Viet, with an annual output of over 500 million tons, and the straight-line distance from the night market is about 3000 kilometers.

The only downside is that the oil fields are all offshore, and transportation is easily disturbed by sea beasts...

Gu Chengyuan had heard about how the Southern War Zone was tormented by sea beasts, so the Central Plains War Zone subconsciously had great vigilance against sea beasts...

The reason why there has been no idea of developing a navy is that the problem of sea beasts cannot be solved.

You know, according to the Southern Theater, these things are equivalent to machine guns, fish and small submarines in the sea...

The wolf pack tactics used by Germany in those days made the British Empire extremely anxious, and even with the development of technology today, anti-submarine issues are still a major issue in naval operations!

Especially in this apocalyptic era, with the frequent appearance of various mutated marine creatures, they can basically be regarded as countless biological submarines.

No matter how big your aircraft carrier or destroyer is, or how powerful its firepower is, if countless mutated marine creatures attack your lower body, can you bear it? You can't just fire missiles and explosives at your own crotch, right?

You have to know that there is not much in the sea except for the marine life. A random school of shrimps or fish may have hundreds of millions or even billions of individuals, so many that they are impossible to count!

Even if these creatures are only slightly mutated and strengthened, their numbers alone can overwhelm the fleet!

So at that moment, even though he knew that Dai Viet had a large amount of offshore oil, Gu Chengyuan had to suppress his restlessness and wait for the intelligence system to be improved.

"I hope the mutated marine life won't be so violent. Otherwise, not only will the importance of the navy be greatly reduced in the future...but the world island will also really have to be divided into plates..."

'However, it is extremely beneficial to the Air Force and the Army, and even an epic enhancement, because by that time, I am afraid that only the Air Force can cross the ocean and the Army will be the main battlefield! '

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Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan became more and more eager to go to the Western Theater, because there was the "Eurasian Railway" connecting Central Asia...

If we can control...protect the territory of the Western Theater, our troops will be able to enter the heart of Asia and Europe through the railway, and enter the fertile Central Asian region...

hiss~

Just thinking about such a bright future, Gu Chengyuan couldn't help but feel excited!

The center of the Zhou Dynasty in the end times is in the Western War Zone! And the center of the world in the end times is in Central Asia!

If you master the former, you can control the country; if you master the latter, you can control the world!

"Guihong, notify General Zhang Zhenguo, the commander of the railway troops in the theater, to come see me!"

"Yes!"

...

half an hour later

Boom!Boom!Boom!

"report!"

Hearing the knock on the office door, Gu Chengyuan, who had been waiting for a long time, turned around and looked towards the door.

"Enter!"

Lieutenant General Zhang Zhenguo, commander of the theater railway troops, opened the door and saluted:

\"Commander, you're looking for me?\"

After the previous conversation, he was less reserved, but still maintained a standard military posture.

"Come, Zhenguo, sit down! Guangqiang, serve the tea!" Gu Chengyuan greeted with a smile as he sat back on the sofa.

"Yes!"

After the two of them sat down on the sofa in the reception area of the office, Zhang Zhenguo couldn't help but say: "Please ask the chief to instruct on the task."

Hearing this, Gu Chengyuan tapped the armrest of the sofa with his fingers and said:

"I asked you to come here this time mainly because I want to learn about the current development of the railway troops, especially the opening of the 'Yenan Transport Line'!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhenguo immediately stood up with a serious face, tugged at his clothes and straightened them, and then began to report:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, since the implementation of the 'Yenan Transport Line' development plan two months ago, the railway troops have invested a total of:

3 Railway Infantry Brigades (5000 men at full strength)

3000 railway-related technicians (including bridge/tunnel repair/signaling professionals)

4 12000-person construction divisions ( people each)

At the same time, the 1nd Medium Combined Brigade and the 2st Special Operations Brigade of the 1st Army were also assigned as mobile forces.

"The development plan has now reached the 'Yeshi Station→Liuzhou Hub Section' and the 'Liuzhou South Marshalling Yard→Litang Strategic Node', with a total of over 1500 kilometers of restored railway mileage!"

"There is only the last 600 kilometers left to connect with the railway section under the Southern Theater Command, the 'Litang-Luchuan section'. At present, the entire 'Yeyu Transport Line' project has entered the final sprint stage!"

"In addition, the railway troops also built along the railway:

100 reinforced concrete structure outposts (classroom/reinforced concrete/shooting range covering track embankment)

100 semi-underground bunker-type reinforced concrete small fortress (class/anti-bombardment structure/equipped with heavy machine gun position)

14 medium-sized node bases (company level/including railway repair platoon/armored assault vehicle group)

2 battle hubs: Litang East Station (stationed by the 2nd Medium Combined Brigade) and Liuwandashan Defense Belt (stationed by the 1st Special Operations Brigade)

1 5-ton arsenal (Litang)"

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