1novels #324 - Response and preparation
#324 - Response and preparation
For this timeline, Ren Zhong had been secretly pushing preparations all along.
Although the trajectory of this timeline has changed slightly, with Dragon Country driving away the Japanese devils on its own, its strength is naturally countless times greater than in the original timeline of the main world.
However, in terms of the global landscape, there haven't been many changes. On the contrary, with Dragon Country's checks and balances and efforts, Rogue Eagle suffered fewer losses, and its national power is even stronger. At the end of the war, it possessed at least two-thirds of the world's naval power! Maybe even more!
At this time, Rogue Eagle's navy, relative to the entire Blue Star, was perhaps the strongest in its history!
In terms of destroyers alone, there were as many as 300: 156 Fletcher-class destroyers with a displacement of about 2,500 tons, 55 Sumner-class destroyers with a displacement of about 2,800 tons, and 96 Gearing-class destroyers with a displacement of about 3,500 tons!
In addition, there were 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 498 frigates, 203 submarines, and more than 50 aircraft carriers (including 15 large main aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, more than 30 escort carriers converted from cargo ships, and 11 large aircraft carriers under construction). The total strength of the navy reached 3.85 million, including 500,000 marines!
With such a massive navy, even if all the other countries in the world combined, they wouldn't be enough to fight it.
Rogue Eagle's army is no less impressive than its navy. After several years of explosive growth, it has tens of thousands of tanks and artillery pieces, and a total force of over ten million! Coupled with nearly 80,000 aircraft of various types of fighters and transport planes, Rogue Eagle's military strength is also at its peak in history compared to other countries.
Only someone like Ren Zhong has such strong confidence to win against a country with such a massive military force. In this period, there are really few who dare to say so decisively that they can win!
Chief of Staff Ye is the second person who firmly believes it.
Because he blindly believes in Ren Zhong.
The changes in the global landscape are not felt much by ordinary people. Right now, not many of them even have the shadow of war looming, and they are working hard on various construction sites.
But for Dragon Country's decision-makers, this decision is just as difficult as in the other timeline! Even more difficult, in fact.
After all, the domestic situation is developing very well now. It can be said to be the fastest development stage in five thousand years. Such a great situation will inevitably be interrupted once the war starts.
As the saying goes, those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who have something to lose. The current Republic is no longer barefoot. There are too many well-planned blueprints being drawn into reality one by one.
On the other hand, Rogue Eagle's strength is as strong as ever, fully deserving of the title of the two major superpowers on Blue Star, with tens of millions of field troops, tens of thousands of fighter jets, thousands of various warships! And Blue Star's current strongest industrial production capacity!
Its GDP accounts for 56% of the world's total, its industrial output value accounts for more than 40% of the world's total, and its gold reserves account for 75% of the world's total!
If we use volume to make a direct and forceful comparison of comprehensive strength, then Rogue Eagle's strength is like a basketball, while our current strength is only equivalent to a ping pong ball!
The disparity in comprehensive strength is so great!
If rational thinking is used to make decisions, few people can face off against Blue Star's superpower in this situation of such a huge disparity!
So when Chief of Staff Ye passed back Ren Zhong's firm opinion and recommendation for war preparations, the reactions of many people in the decision-making level were very different.
The vast majority felt that it was too early to express their position now. In fact, everyone really had no confidence in the face of the powerful Rogue Eagle!
So avoiding war is the best policy. Some even suggested that we try our best to keep a low profile and pretend not to see the trivial matters of our neighbors.
However, the chief, who held the final decision-making power, saw through the fog of history and understood the nature of this war very clearly!
This is a war to establish the nation!
And it is a decisive battle that must be fought!
The chief's views on the strategic level coincided with Ren Zhong's!
And it must be won!
Ren Zhong didn't care about the disputes in the court. He had his own channels to prepare for the work.
He was the earliest to research the evolution of this situation, so naturally he couldn't prepare nothing in this regard. But soon he encountered a problem.
"Mr. Ren, the three thousand tons of cotton we purchased are now stuck in the port and cannot be transported back!"
The person in charge of clothing anxiously found Ren Zhong to report.
"What's going on? Don't worry, have a sip of water, and then tell me in detail," Ren Zhong looked at the person in charge and asked him to drink some water before speaking.
Ren Zhong's preparation was first in terms of clothing. Winter is coming, and winter clothing must be prepared in sufficient quantities! Ren Zhong will never allow the history of the Ice Sculpture Company to appear in this timeline!
But now the domestic frontier cotton fields have not yet been developed on a large scale, and the domestic cotton production cannot even meet the needs of the Chinese people at a normal level. Therefore, Ren Zhong asked people to purchase cotton from the Americas. As early as when the Northerners had just started, he had already explained this matter.
But it was still a step late.
Now Rogue Eagle has also regarded cotton as a strategic material and imposed a blockade, simultaneously blockading the two major cotton markets of North America and South America. Even those loaded with containers are now transported to ports for intermediate stops and supplies in the Pacific Ocean, but they have been notified that they cannot be shipped any further!
This immediately broke Ren Zhong's plan!
Cotton mills and clothing factories have already freed up production capacity, preparing to go all out to produce millions of thickened cotton clothes, but this has fallen through.
Ren Zhong frowned.
Rogue Eagle's blocking of the transportation of supplies at this time really hit his weak spot!
There are still more than two months before the Incheon Landing. Originally, he thought that when the cotton arrived, he could smoothly complete the production of cotton clothes and ensure that when winter came, the volunteer soldiers would have a warm, reinforced cotton coat to wear.
But now Rogue Eagle directly shattered Ren Zhong's fantasy, and the road of importing cotton from abroad is not feasible.
Although Ren Zhong also thought about going to find General Warren S., who is still alive, this matter flashed through his mind. Even standing in his own position, he had no reason to embarrass the other party.
This matter is too sensitive.
It may not only implicate the other party, but also fail to get it done.
Ren Zhong had to bring this problem back to the main world.
"Are you stupid! Isn't down jacket better? Why do you have to hang yourself on the tree of cotton clothes! Sheepskin coats can also do the trick. If there are many sheep, get sheepskin coats!"
A suggestion from a silly netizen made Ren Zhong's eyes light up!
Although the number of chickens, ducks, and geese in the Bright Sword world is far from comparable to that of the main world, Ren Zhong has indeed promoted these easily developed poultry. During the base area, this was already an important source for everyone to supplement their meat.
In addition, the grain production is now recovering to a self-sufficient level faster than in historical timelines. It is common for rural households to raise poultry in exchange for some oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar.
Duck down, goose down!
Now the production of nylon fabric has achieved large-scale production earlier than in history. This is Ren Zhong's trump card that he detonated in advance in the clothing industry, and it is also a key material for the large-scale export of clothing. Therefore, there is no shortage of down jacket fabrics, and they are basically ready-made. The next step is to collect and process enough duck down and goose down.
Of course, there is no way to do this in the Bright Sword world, but in the main world, Ren Zhong directly acquired a duck and goose down processing factory, copied the entire process flow and equipment situation, and began to frantically expand duck and goose down processing factories in the Bright Sword world, opening dozens of them in one go in the east, west, north, and south!
Under the coordination of Chief of Staff Ye, the adult ducks and geese were considered to have sacrificed themselves for the country this time. Under a call, every household with ducks and geese did not hesitate to slaughter them for meat, and then send the feathers to the township, concentrate them in the county for preliminary processing, and then send them to the province to be made into duck down and goose down!
Then they were sent to several large clothing factories to be processed into down snow suits samples provided by Ren Zhong, wind-resistant, cold-resistant, waterproof, and oil-proof, with 95% down filling!
Coupled with sheepskin gloves that can flexibly operate firearms, as well as sheepskin hats, leather boots, and warm down sleeping bags.
Chief of Staff Ye said it was good after trying on the new five-piece set of single-soldier warm down sheepskin!
Due to the complete production chain, nearly one million sets have been prepared for the secretly prepared volunteer soldiers before the turning point battle in the north estimated by Ren Zhong!
Then they were secretly stockpiled in several pre-selected cities in the north.
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