The purchase of the armored train was completed and Tang Zheng boarded the train.
The conductor is already waiting at the front of the car, with twenty crew members behind him.
"Conductor Sunan, report to the general!"
A young man in his twenties and seventies reported saluting Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng returned the greeting, "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, and it should indeed have a name.
Tang Zheng thought for a while: "This train is as majestic as an armored dragon, let's call it the Light-Chasing Dragon."
"Thank you General for the name."
As Tang Zheng finished naming, the words "Light-Chasing Dragon" appeared on the front of the train.
Sunan led Tang Zheng to check the situation on the train.
The first and second are the artillery trains. The 203mm caliber howitzer is almost the peak caliber of the howitzer, and its power is astonishing.
The 25mm chain-mounted cannon is enough to destroy any uninvited passengers who want to get close to the train.
The missile compartments in the third and fourth sections are even more powerful weapons for long-range combat, and the rocket nests are also better. The surface-to-surface missiles are enough to hit targets five hundred kilometers away.
However, it is currently impossible to achieve such a long-range strike because the coverage range of the vehicle-mounted radar is not enough. Unless it is within the radar range of the base, free strikes can be achieved.
Anti-aircraft missiles can even deal with incoming enemies from the air, ensuring the all-round safety of trains.
The five carriages at the back can carry tanks or soldiers. The Gatling guns on those trains are anti-zombie and anti-personnel artifacts.
Tang Zheng inspected the fifth carriage, which is a carriage that integrates dining car, bathroom, and leisure space. It is divided into two parts: ordinary area and luxury area.
Tang Zheng came to the luxury area and sat for a while. He felt that it was very comfortable to sit here. The large bed specially prepared for him and able to accommodate three people was also very comfortable.
It's just that Tang Zheng doesn't think that this big bed can be fully utilized.
I don’t know what’s wrong with girls nowadays. They have really bad taste. No one is actively pursuing a handsome guy like me who has a lot of weapons.
This armored train was purely designed for combat. Tang Zheng felt that he needed some other vehicles.
So he spent another 600,000 gold to buy a passenger car and a freight train.
Passenger cars can transport a large number of troops, and trucks can carry a large number of tanks and can also pull cargo back.
These three freight trains will be on standby at Zhuguang Railway Station and can set off at any time when needed.
The railway station, railway tracks, and three freight trains cost Tang Zheng a total of 3.1 million.
With about 12 million left in hand, Tang Zheng decided to continue to increase his troops.
First, he wants to expand the size of the armored force.
At present, it has two armored battalions, each battalion has thirty tanks, including twenty light tanks and ten main battle tanks.
This scale was not enough, so Tang Zheng directly added forty main battle tanks, twenty for each armored battalion.
In this way, each armored battalion has fifty tanks, including thirty main battle tanks, forming a powerful strike group.
For a main battle vehicle worth 70,000 gold, forty vehicles would be worth 2.8 million.
Including a group of 1,500 tank soldiers, the total is 60,000 gold, totaling 2.86 million.
After the tank replenishment was completed, Tang Zheng continued to replenish the self-propelled artillery.
This kind of artillery was easy to move and performed well in the war against the Alliance. Tang Zheng originally had ten of them, but they were far from enough.
Thirty self-propelled artillery pieces were replenished at one time, each worth 30,000 gold, for a total of 900,000 gold.
Including thirty artillery combat groups, one group of two thousand gold, a total of 60,000 gold, totaling 960,000.
After purchasing the self-propelled artillery, continue purchasing the Apache helicopter.
There are ten original ones, ten more will be added, and with the crew, the total will be another 1.03 million.
After buying these two units, I still have 8 million gold left in my hand.
Tang Zheng originally planned to purchase an An-124 large transport aircraft, but this type of aircraft could not take off without an airport, so he had to give up temporarily.
He now has twenty transport aircraft, which is the foundation of the Army Aviation Regiment. Tang Zheng decided to start adding paratroopers.
Paratroopers can carry out long-range airdrops and carry out strikes behind enemy lines, making their movements very convenient.
A paratrooper costs 500 gold, and with a 10-gold parachute bag and some other firearms and equipment, a paratrooper costs 650 gold.
Tang Zheng purchased 1,500 paratroopers at one time, totaling five companies.
Nine hundred and seventy-five thousand gold.
Tang Zheng still had about seven million gold in hand, so he began to increase the number of ordinary soldiers this time.
None of Tang Zheng's infantry battalions are currently full strength. Even the city guard battalion, which has been expanding these days, actually has a total number of only two thousand.
The remaining field battalions only have five companies of 1,500 men.
Even the fifth battalion is still just a company and no longer has any advantage in the mercenary world.
Then, Tang Zheng increased the number of field battalions from one to four, and each battalion continued to add three ordinary companies, bringing the pure combat troops of each field battalion to 2,400.
A battalion has eight companies, which has also broken the empire's military system. Generally, the empire's royal troops only have three companies in a battalion, and it is not a reinforced company with a large number of people like Tang Zheng.
There is also the Fifth Battalion, and Tang Zheng will not favor one over the other. He must strengthen the Fifth Battalion’s voice outside, so he also directly equips the Seven Companies of the Fifth Battalion!
A total of nineteen companies were added, with another 2.47 million in funds.
After all these are completed, Tang Zheng's five field battalions have all reached full strength!
Each battalion has eight companies, as well as guard platoons, cooking platoons, medical platoons, etc. Together, they are fully staffed, and each battalion has as many as 2,500 men.
After the five battalions were fully staffed, Tang Zheng's funds plummeted to 4.5 million gold.
Tang Zheng hasn't stopped yet. He has also expanded his directly affiliated troops to a directly affiliated battalion!
Other field troops have their own tasks. This directly-affiliated unit will follow Tang Zheng on his expeditions to the north and south, and will be directly commanded by him on a daily basis.
But before the expansion, he found that the barracks was actually not enough.
Tang Zheng had to suspend construction and start replenishing barracks. He originally had eight barracks, which could accommodate 20,000 people.
This time he added three more, increasing the capacity to 27,500 people.
After he completed the purchase of the last barracks, he gave the authority to Michael of the 5th Battalion and asked him to choose a place to camp so that the soldiers of the 5th Battalion could have a place to stay.
After all the barracks have been set up, the inner city is almost full.
Eleven barracks, two power plants, a train station, a fresh water purification plant, an arsenal, a banknote printing plant, a combat command center, his own official residence, and even a one-square-kilometer buffer zone, giant artillery, etc.
It is almost full and there is not much space left to accommodate the building.
But overall it's pretty good, much more relaxed than in the outer city.
Continuing the violent attack, Tang Zheng expanded the troops directly under him to a full battalion.
However, this battalion is not configured according to the field force, but is a mixed battalion.
This battalion has only five companies, but each company has 500 men.
The entire battalion is composed of elite four-star soldiers, including almost all branches of the army.
Moreover, the vehicles of this battalion are almost exclusively composed of armored vehicles.
Tang Zheng purchased a large number of armored vehicles before, but despite the continuous expansion of tanks and self-propelled artillery, it was no longer suitable for armored vehicles to be installed in armored battalions. Tang Zheng simply assigned these vehicles to directly affiliated battalions.
Tang Zheng had a total of one hundred armored vehicles in hand, which were directly installed in the direct battalion. One armored vehicle can carry twenty-three people, which means it can carry 2,300 people.
There are also the previous 100 Willys jeeps, which were used to carry Gatling guns and could also carry 200 people.
For this battalion, Tang Zheng directly added 2,300 people to the field troops. The elite forces mobilized cost a total of about 1.2 million in funds, because there were many high-level arms in it.
For example, Tang Zheng equipped each combat platoon with anti-aircraft infantry, as well as snipers and flamethrower warriors, as well as a large number of scouts.
It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this directly affiliated battalion is the best in the entire army, and they are all composed of elite veterans.
There are also a hundred armored vehicles as an assault force, which can adapt to any battlefield as long as they are not used in situations like tank battles.
After the direct battalions were replenished, Tang Zheng's funds dropped to 2.5 million, and the four barracks just cost 800,000.
Tang Zheng didn't stop at this point. He added another hundred soldiers of various types to the armored train, including artillery and heavy machine gun teams, as well as scientific research troops to control the cannons, Gatling guns and missiles.
Three more companies were added to the engineering force, bringing the number of engineers to 1,500.
Then the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Special Service Department each added 300 people. For this kind of special force, there are never too many people.
There is another branch of service, that is the air force ground service.
Now that the Army Aviation Camp has grown in size, ground staff are 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 added one hundred air force ground staff to lay the foundation for future airport construction.
After doing all this and spending a total of 800,000 gold, with only 1.7 million left in hand, Tang Zheng finally stopped.
At this time, the strength of his troops once again improved by leaps and bounds.
Five full field battalions plus the direct battalion, the number of people is 15,000.
There is also the Army Aviation Battalion, with 1,500 paratroopers enlisted, dozens of aircraft pilots, and ground crews, totaling 1,800 people.
There are 2,000 people in the city guard camp and 1,500 people in the engineering corps.
The guard company, cooking company, and medical company totaled 900 people.
There are more than 300 armored troops and more than 500 artillery troops.
There are three hundred people on the Secret Service side, and there are also three hundred people on the Military Intelligence Bureau.
There are also miscellaneous others, including armored train units, radar units, combat command center personnel, scientific research institute personnel, etc.
The cumulative total has reached 23,500 people, which is directly doubled compared to before.
Before the entire regiment is fully staffed, there is still a gap of 6,500 people.
Tang Zheng did not continue to rush troops, he still wanted to leave some personnel space.
The city guards and engineers are not yet fully staffed, there is only a shortfall of 5,000 people at most. He still has large transport aircraft that he has not purchased, and frogmen that he has not added yet. This needs to leave some space.
Although the money was almost spent, Tang Zheng felt a rare sense of contentment.
With these elite troops, he will have strong capital for his next expansion.