Chapter 3702: Landmines

"Huh." The two crane planes flew by at low altitude, but this time they did not drop their bombs because their bombs had already been thrown. This time they were only intimidating the soldiers who loved them and completely disintegrating their fighting will from the air. In fact, the soldiers of Aiji had completely lost their resistance, because no one had ever attacked from the air, and the soldiers of Aiji had completely collapsed. They never thought that such a thing would happen. In their consciousness, the attacks launched in the air are all the anger of the gods in the sky. They will suffer unprecedented retribution. Under such intimidation, the Aiji soldiers collapsed first. Although their officers have organized resistance as much as possible, after all, they have had such a thing before, but the situation is that this kind of thing cannot last long, and this situation has directly led to a huge collapse of their situation.

"Quick, quick, attack, quick, organize, attack, it's now." Shahr couldn't wait to attack. He personally took his guard platoon to launch an offensive. The Aijiren had been attacked by the air and lost the confidence to resist, even though they were large in number, and under the threat of aerial bombardment, Aijiren had collapsed. This is when the sand castle is occupied.

"Sometimes, I can't believe it myself. Why didn't Aijiren resist? I just understand now." Li Lei said while looking at the collapsed Aiji Army with a telescope. They gave up their fortresses, gave up their positions, and they fled here frantically. For them, escape was the only thing they had to do.

"Sir." A lieutenant officer on the side looked at his officer in confusion.

"In war, sometimes courage is needed. Those who love a few people, we don’t need too powerful weapons to defeat them. Do you know why? Because they have no courage. They have lost the fortress to defend themselves bravely, even if It is the strongest fortress for them. They can't hold it if they lose their courage." Li Lei said. Soon, the sand castle was taken down by them. More than eight hundred cavalry soldiers defeated more than 10,000 Aiji soldiers. This is a miracle in the history of war, or in other words, this is the shame of Aiji. Because they were completely defeated without a fight.

Chu State. Pengcheng.

"Read the newspaper, read the newspaper. The natives of Myanmar are crazy. They burnt twelve large tea hills in Chu's plantation. The tea production has been reduced by 70% this year, and the loss is huge." A newsboy shouted loudly on the street. . Many people shook their heads after hearing such news. Said it was a pity, because if these teas are sold, they can make a lot of money.

"Damn it. These Burmese natives are really good. They attacked Chu's tea mountain and burned it. This is incredible. How much our tea has to lose." Chu people in a teahouse Hearing such news, one after another said. They are indignant at the natives of Burma. At the same time, I feel very sad for the losses caused by Chu State. After all, these tea leaves are replaced by funds. It is quite large, after all, Chu's large amount of fiscal revenue is maintained by these tea leaves.

"Yeah. But, these Burmese natives are like bugs. They are running around. It is difficult for our Chu army to deal with. This jungle warfare is difficult." Said a Chu countryman who thought he had studied military affairs.

"No, this jungle warfare is no better than other places for warfare. In other places, you can use this gun, artillery, and everything. In this jungle, it's hard for you to find people. Moreover, this bomb is a bomb. There are trees everywhere. I think it’s difficult, and our Chu army is not strong enough. It wasn’t just a few days ago that we recruited a brigade, but what is the use of a brigade. It’s useless at all.” Other Chu people said one after another. They seem to be the managers of this country. Desperate for this country.

Inside the Prime Minister's Office. Fan Zeng looked at a newspaper on his desk. The headline of the newspaper contained such news. The news came from a plantation in Burma, but the government did not get any relevant information report. Fan Zeng thought the news was false, but the reduction in tea production is an indisputable fact.

"Prime Minister." Chen Ping said when he came in and looked at Fan Zeng who said nothing.

"Prime Minister." Chen Ping said again.

"Oh. Chen Ping. I think that using a brigade for Myanmar is probably not enough. We may need more troops. Or more technical equipment can solve many problems. But, for a time, ours It is difficult to gather troops quickly. This. This is really a huge problem." When Fan Zeng read the newspaper, he was also anxious. Because of the state of Chu’s fiscal revenue, tea revenue occupies a large part, and Myanmar also occupies a certain degree of tea. The loss of Myanmar will aggravate the imbalance in the supply of tea, which means the government’s fiscal revenue. Income decreases. This is not good news for Fan Zeng. He felt that it was necessary to accept Chen Ping's suggestion and increase his troops.

"Prime Minister, I think that if we increase our military strength now, it will be difficult to change the current situation for a while. First, we do not know the local indigenous people in Myanmar. Second, our military strength is dispatched in the past, and it is difficult to deploy for a while. Under the circumstances, the situation is difficult to change for a while. The third is that we may invest a lot of troops, which requires a process and time, which will cause us great disadvantage." Chen Ping said.

"That's it." Fan Zeng nodded. He is still a little worried. After all, the loss of tea, especially the loss of Chashan, may not be able to recover in a year. Fan Zeng is still very anxious, after all, this kind of thing is difficult to solve.

"Is there any other way? For example, we might solve this problem technically." Fan Zeng asked Chen Ping.

"This." Chen Ping doesn't know much about the military, and he is unlikely to know what advantage military technology has achieved in this blockade operation. Just then. Fan Zeng's assistant came in carefully. Fan Zeng signaled the other party to put down the report and leave. However, the assistant thought this was a very important report and reminded the Prime Minister to pay attention to this document. In desperation, Fan Zeng could only read the report quickly. However, this report gave Fan Zeng a great reminder.

"Look at this. This is a report from the Department of War. They believe that the main reason is that our defense is too weak. If we plant a large number of mines near the plantation, this situation will be very serious for us. It’s useful, but Chu’s ability to quickly produce landmines is not very good. I think this proposal is good.” Fan Zeng nodded and said. The plantation is difficult to relocate, and once it is burned down, it is difficult to recover in a short time. This is very fatal to the economy of Chu State. If such losses continue for a long time, Chu’s fiscal revenue will decrease a lot. However, if a large number of landmines are used for fixed defense, this may increase Chu’s defense power a lot. For Fan Zeng, this is the worst solution.

"Well. The landmine situation can indeed change this situation, which is equivalent to increasing the number of our sentries. However, I am worried that those indigenous people will adapt to landmine operations, or they will adopt some manual elimination methods to solve them. Moreover, there are environmental factors. The terrain there is extremely complex, many areas are in hilly areas, and the climate there is humid. I am worried that landmines will lose their effect. After all, this kind of thing is easy to happen." Chen Ping worried. Speaking of.

"Well. Maybe, these technical problems can be solved." Fan Zeng put the report aside and said.

"The problem is, Prime Minister, our industry cannot mass-produce such landmines. We can't even manufacture related artillery. Although the manufacturing cost of landmines is low and the technical difficulty is not great, this also requires research. In terms of time, it’s difficult for us to carry out relevant technical research. It takes time. But I think we can deal with some time.” Chen Ping said helplessly. He wanted to remind Fan Zeng to establish a series of industrial construction bases for Chu State. This is very important to Chu State.

"You are right. I plan to introduce related technology and production from Zhao Guo. Zhao Guo has a strong advantage in this respect. We can start such cooperation with Zhao Guo. After all, such cooperation is not for us. It is not a loss, not just that. I think it is very important to us. Therefore, I think it is very suitable for us to do this kind of work." Fan Zeng said.

"Of course. We also have to carry out relevant research ourselves. We introduce advanced technology and it is also a process of self-technical improvement." Fan Zeng explained. It seems that this is a shameful thing. In their view, the introduction of technology by Chu is not an embarrassing thing. After all, Zhao was also a big technology importer before, and now their situation has only undergone major changes. .

"Well, Prime Minister, I think that Chu is facing such a situation. We should wake up. Chu is still an agricultural country. It will be difficult to reverse the status of Chu in the future by relying solely on the export of tea, silk, and sugar. Yes, we cannot simply rely on this," Chen Ping said.

"What I want to say is that what we need in Chu State is industry instead of continuing to devote too much attention to agriculture. In this case, the impact will be very bad for us, which is extremely detrimental to us. Yes, so we can't do too much of things like this. We must develop our industries, such as the military industry. etc." Chen Ping said. Fan Zeng nodded, but it seemed difficult to do this.