Chapter 140: Plundering Japan's Resources

"Commander, Miss Sha Junyi has boarded the 201 cruiser with Long, Takashi and the Great General, and set off for Tokyo."

In the study of the manor, the housekeeper stood respectfully in front of Fan Yize and reported.

Fan Yize didn't raise his head, and nodded lightly, indicating that he knew. Always focus on the map of the occupied area in front of you.

The occupation of Tokyo was completed, and the base began to have a large-scale construction site in this world.

It has been almost two years since they came to this world, and the Red Police Corps has finally gained a foothold in this world.

If the previous occupation of Southeast Asia was just to pave the way for future strategy and make it easier for the Red Guard Corps to open up the pattern in this world, at that time it was equivalent to planting a fruit tree and gradually flowering.

Now, after the full occupation of Tokyo, this fruit tree has not only flourished, but the flowers have also borne fruit, and although the fruit is still very green, it is an excellent start.

During this period, although Japan's resources were still not much, they were enough to meet the requirements of the next stage of the Red Guard's struggle for hegemony.

Ore refineries are located all over the resource veins around Tokyo, and under the detection of the base, many deep ore veins that even later generations of technology cannot detect, are clearly presented on the map.

Beneath the mountains around Tokyo, Tokyo Bay, and even Japan's continental plate deep into the Pacific Ocean, as long as there are resources, they cannot escape the detection of the base.

After the Second and Third Divisions defeated the Japanese Fourth Army, Fan Yize began the construction plan of the ore refining plant, and now, dozens of ore refining plants have been built under this land.

The capital income of the base has also increased from 300,000 yuan per day to 1 million per day.

In the current base, a thousand barracks are all recruiting soldiers, and a thousand soldiers are called out every day, plus the matching weapons and equipment, the needs of the soldiers alone and the funds consumed every day account for half of the income.

Moreover, the proportion of capital expenditure for the consumption of weapons and equipment on the battlefield is as high as 25 percent.

The Red Guard Corps, which pursues superior firepower, consumes ten times more than the enemy in every war.

But it was also because of the more powerful firepower that the Japanese paid extremely heavy casualties in every war.

And the rest of the money every day is also used to produce artillery or expand the size of the navy.

It is also because of the support of so much money that the Red Police Corps was able to form the strength of the Fourth Army in less than three months.

In nearly 100 days, the Fourth Army Corps was not complete in terms of strength or structure, and although the total strength reached 80,000, the actual combat strength was only four divisions, with more than 60,000 troops.

The rest were engineering troops, and the Fourth Army was mainly engaged in capture and construction at this stage, especially for the construction of Tokyo, leaving only three divisions of troops fighting outside in Tokyo, except for an engineer division and a defensive infantry division in Tokyo.

The ruins of Tokyo, in the busy work of the engineer division, are only part of the area that has been organized, and the port of Tokyo, which is mainly organized, has also been partially repaired, and the fleet can be refueled in Tokyo Bay.

And these fuels are all transported from the East Indies to Japan, but fortunately, the fleet does not need to carry out long-distance operations at present, and the fuel supply can be easily satisfied.

During these three months, Fan Yize did not expand the Fourth Fleet of the Navy, but strengthened the combat capability of the First Fleet.

The navy, which was originally left in the East Indies, was reorganized into a garrison fleet, and it still had the original number of warships, and it did not increase or decrease.

The strengthened First Fleet was supplemented by two Dreadnought first-class battleships and supporting cruisers and destroyers, so that the Red Guard Regiment now had ten first-class battleships, forty armored cruisers, eighty destroyers, and various small gunboats and auxiliary vessels, all of which totaled more than four hundred.

In terms of total tonnage, the total tonnage of the Red Alert Navy has exceeded the million ton level.

Although the total tonnage of warships of more than 2 million tons is a little less than that of the current German Navy, it has exceeded the strength of about 800,000 tons of the United States.

What's more, the warships owned by the Red Alert Navy are all the most advanced warships, even if it is the total tonnage of two million in Britain, in front of the million tons of the Red Alert Navy, the combat strength is much inferior.

The reason why Fan Yize did not build battleships on a large scale is that one of the reasons for funding has been limited, and the other is because the Red Alert Navy does not need so many battleships at all.

Increasing the number of cruisers to 40 and destroyers to 80, accounting for the two largest warships in the fleet, Fan Yize believes that even in the future World War II, these two warships still have a certain combat capability, and if they build a little more, they will not be wasted.

What's more, at this stage, whether it is fighting against Japan or Russia, the main task of the fleet is blockade, and it has avoided the main Japanese battlefield in the coastal areas, and the battleships have no place to play at all.

It is better to use cruisers and destroyers for practical purposes, and the construction and development of warships is determined in accordance with the needs of the current and next stages, combined with the overall consideration of economic income.

It's not that you can build whatever you like, not to mention that the current combat strength of the Navy can already faintly dominate the world.

Exceeding the need for use equals waste.

"The resources are still far from enough, and the minerals of Siberia must be obtained as soon as possible."

Fan Yize's fingers tapped on the table, the fastest way to connect to Siberia is to fully occupy Kyushu Island, and Hokkaido is in the bag.

As long as Japan is fully occupied, it will be able to connect not only with Siberia but also with the East Indies, and then all the resources of the East Indies will be able to be absorbed at will.

It is also important to note that the Russians are not resigned to defeat, and the longer they get away, the more Russian forces they gather in the Far East.

It may not even take a year for more sections of the Far Eastern Railway to be opened to traffic, although it will take at least five or six years to build the entire Far Eastern Railway, but as long as the permafrost sections of the Belarusian Railway are opened to traffic, Russia will be able to shorten the time from Europe to the Far East.

The Russians have understood their intentions, and in the past three months, they have mobilized 60,000 troops to the Far East, and if it were not for the arrival of winter, I am afraid that next month, they would be able to transport 30,000 soldiers to the Far East.