As the only oil supplier on the Blue Star, the Daheng Empire has made a lot of profits from the export of petroleum products around the world, which in turn is used to purchase machinery and equipment and finally used for domestic industrial upgrading.

So far, although several countries have also discovered oil, but they have discovered several oil reserves are too small, for example, the Kingdom of Krull found a small coastal oil field in the middle of their kingdom island, but the production is very small, even if it is fully exploited, according to the reserves of the local oil field The annual output is estimated to be only hundreds of thousands of barrels.

For example, in the four-nation alliance on the east coast of the South Continent, oil fields have also been discovered, but the reserves are also very small, but the Orr Kingdom has found a good oil field, which is expected to produce millions of barrels per year, and is recently cooperating with the oil company of the Daheng Empire to prepare for exploitation.

I have to say that God is still very generous to the Orr people, after giving them a huge gold vein, and then giving them an oil field, although the production is not large, but it is expected to produce millions of tons of reserves per year, which is already the third largest oil field in contemporary times, for such a small country as the Orr Kingdom, it can become an oil exporter.

It's just that in this way, they have also become a meal on the plate of other big countries!

Whether it is the Orissa Empire or the Krull Kingdom, they are all trying their best to take down this small southern country.

The reason why they had to go to great lengths was because if the Orr kingdom had been easily taken, they would have been wiped out long ago.

Since the discovery of gold mines more than a hundred years ago, they have always been the fat meat of the surrounding countries, and their sense of self-preservation is very strong, and they are the only country on the Blue Star that has achieved the universal military service system!

Add to that the huge gold mines, which account for 40% of the world's gold production, and they will not hesitate to arm their armies with heavy money!

A small broken country with a population of more than 5 million actually has a standing army and navy of 300,000 people, equipped with the most advanced army and naval weapons on the contemporary Blue Star.

The army is equipped with all the Daheng army-standard weapons, the Luo'an 4 11-mm caliber tube magazine rifle, the 75-mm 27-fold field gun, a large number of 100-mm howitzers, and 150-mm howitzers.

And the firepower density is extremely high, even higher than that of the Daheng Army!

They are directly attached to the battalion of twelve 150-mm light howitzers in the divisional troops!

The navy has a series of advanced battleships ordered from the Daheng Empire, there are as many as four second-class battleships, plus more than a dozen shore defense ironclad ships and protective cruisers, its naval strength is only a little worse than the Orissa Empire in the southern continent, and in the world, the Orr Navy can also enter the top ten!

At the same time, they also have a complete mobilization system and a large number of strategic reserves.

They can mobilize the total number of troops to more than 800,000 at any time!

Moreover, the terrain in the country is complex, with many mountainous and hilly areas, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

These are all caused by the fact that the Orr Kingdom may seem like a small broken country, but in fact it is a hard bone and not so easy to gnaw.

At least for more than a hundred years, no country has ever been able to conquer them!

However, with the continuous progress of industrial technology on the Blue Star and the continuous innovation of weapons and equipment, the power is getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, the consumption is getting bigger and bigger, and the Orr Kingdom is also feeling more and more danger!

This feeling was even more true after their oil fields were discovered, and the navy of the Krull Kingdom arrived in the Orr Kingdom three times in just three months in the name of escorting merchant fleets, and there were also King-class battleships, which were important weapons of the country.

What the Krull Kingdom wants to do, all the Blue Star people know, it is nothing more than wanting to annex the Orr Kingdom and thus control the world's largest gold mine.

By the way, take control of another oil field.

The current oil field is known as a liquid gold mine.

The big oil fields that have been discovered in this world are all in the Daheng Empire, and a hundred dares for the Krull Kingdom to land on the Daheng Empire to grab the oil fields.

But the Orr Kingdom's oil field, which is expected to produce one million barrels per year, is determined to be obtained.

This is liquid gold, and in addition to kerosene for lighting and lubricating oil for machinery and equipment, scientists from the King's Academy of Sciences in the Kingdom of Krull have discovered that mixing coal with simply refined heavy oil and burning it can produce a greater amount of heat, which in turn makes the steam engine more powerful.

It can even be used directly as fuel to boil water to produce steam, which can drive the steam engine to generate power.

Although the direct use of heavy oil as fuel for shipboard steam engines is only a preliminary theory, and there is no practice yet, not even an experimental product, but it is only this theoretical possibility, and it seems that it also has a huge practical possibility, which is enough to make the Krull Kingdom pay attention.

What's more, even if it turns out in the end that this method is not available, the Krull Kingdom must also have oil resources!

Just in case!

As the world's number one power, the least consciousness is to avoid being stuck by the enemy at any time and under any circumstances, even if it is just a possibility, it is not allowed to appear.

Therefore, the Krull Kingdom must have its own oil resources, and the reserves must not be too small!

To this end, they searched for oil on the island of their base kingdom, and on the other hand, they were also looking for oil in the puppet countries or colonies they controlled on other continents.

Now, after the oil fields of the Orr Kingdom have been surveyed, they have entered their field of vision.

When gold and oil come together!

The Krull Kingdom really can't find a reason not to do anything to the Orr Kingdom!

The Orr Kingdom has clearly felt the hostility of the Krull Kingdom, which has increased the activity of the Krull Kingdom Navy in the southern region of the Southern Continent.

More importantly, the Kingdom of Krull increased the number of garrisons in the Kingdom of Natre and the Duchy of Bird, and began to recruit and train locals to form more so-called Kingdom Standing Army.

And these two places, although they both bear the name of kingdoms or principalities, in fact the two regions are one and one of the colonies of the Kingdom of Krull.

The ruler of the Duchy of Bird, also known as the Duke of Bird, is actually the successive crown princes of the Kingdom of Krull.

The Kingdom of Natel is okay, the local royal family is still retained, but the prime minister of the kingdom is the governor of the Kingdom of Krull in the southern continent, and this governor is also the prime minister of the Duchy of Bird.

The Governor's Office, which was established as the Governor of the Southern Continent of the Krull Kingdom and the Principality of Bird, was actually the actual head of government affairs of the Kingdom of Natel and the Duchy of Bird.

The Krull Kingdom had thousands of soldiers and a sizable fleet stationed in the region, but now the Krull Kingdom continued to increase its forces in the region, and began to recruit and train locals to form a larger army.

Their intentions are clear, they are trying to start another war of conquest against the kingdom of Orr!

For this reason, the Orr Kingdom is also very nervous, on the one hand, trying to release goodwill to the Krull Kingdom, and on the other hand, it is running between several powerful countries, especially the Orissa Empire, the Great Heng Empire, and the Gafia Empire, the three first-class powers in the surrounding areas, trying to regulate through diplomatic channels.

Finally, there are:

Prepare for battle!

Since the discovery of gold one hundred and thirty years ago, the Orrs have experienced a total of thirteen invasions, large and small, an average of once every ten years, the most recent two of which were Krull!

The reason why the Orr Kingdom still exists!

That's because they have never lost more than a dozen wars against aggression!

This time, they believe they won't fail either!

In order to prepare for the war, the Orr Kingdom urgently approached the Daheng Empire to discuss the procurement of armaments.

The Daheng Empire has always been very polite and friendly to Huang Cancan's Orle guests, I will give you whatever you want, don't be polite to me if you are a brother, you can take anything!

There are many people who pat their chests, and there are many other guys in our Daheng who are fighting!

Want army equipment? It doesn't matter if it's a rifle or an artillery, even a machine gun that couldn't be exported before can now be sold, not to mention shells and bullets, that's how many or how many you want.

Let's not sell this gun, let's count it by the ton, it's not a problem for my brother to get you a few thousand tons, and you can make up for it no matter how much you have.

In a hurry? , must be in stock?

What's this, everyone is a good brother, come, I'll take you to the factory warehouse to get it, you see, this is a thousand tons of guns and ammunition, what, it's not enough, don't be afraid, next door is the strategic reserve warehouse of our army, this time brother will open your eyes.

See no, tens of thousands of tons of good goods, just pick and take!

The army has enough equipment, and the navy warships are needed!

It must be no problem, it must be no problem!

What, you can't wait for the new ship, you want us to have the spot on hand, and you can go according to the price of the new cargo, this must be possible!

Who is with whom of our brothers, we have been good brothers for hundreds of years, and this time, for the sake of the brothers' face, you will take away a few of our active battleships, such as the second-class battleship Pingbo.

If you don't dislike it, a few pre-reunification cruisers can also be taken away, everyone is a good brother, you just look at it and give some scrap iron money.

What, not enough?

And these ships are a little smaller, and the guns are a little shorter? Can you add some more big guys!

The big brother of the Great Heng Empire was embarrassed: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to give it, it's just that I only have a few big ones on hand, and these few ready-made ships have to deal with the little deflated three in Olisa in the south, or you wait, I'll build those ships for you in a few months." ”

What, the cucumber dish will be cold in a few months, you can't wait!

He also said that he was a brother who wanted to stick a knife in both ribs, and he had to help him no matter what!

Ma Dan, since you have said so, this will not work if you don't help!

In the end, Big Brother Daheng closed his eyes, pointed to the two Unity-class second-class battleships in the military port and shouted: "It's the brothers who take them all...... Take all ......."

In the end, it didn't take long for the two brothers to negotiate the general matters of the emergency ordnance trade, of course, more detailed things still need to be negotiated by people at a higher level in person, and it was finally determined that an old friend of the Daheng Empire, Lin Ziran's good brother, and Hollibart, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, came to negotiate in person.

In order to ensure safety, the Daheng Imperial Navy even took great pains to send the armored cruiser Chongke and the cruiser Zhenbei to conduct an ocean-going voyage training, and the return journey passed through the port of the Orr Kingdom for replenishment.

But no one knew that when the two Daheng warships returned home, the crown prince of the Orr Kingdom, Hollybat, had already boarded the armored cruiser Chongke.

And with him on board was the funds that were prepared for emergency ordnance purchases!

Orr people have always delivered gold with one hand and one hand over gold!

This time they brought a full 200 tons of gold!

This made the Daheng people who came to pick up people secretly dumbfounded......

However, the gold that makes outsiders crazy is less than the gold production of the Orr Kingdom in a year.

In the sixth year of the reign of Qiansheng, the gold output of the Orr Kingdom reached more than 200 tons, accounting for 40% of the world's output.

Why have the Orns never been defeated in the history of resistance to invasion?

Here's why!