The purchase of the armored train was completed, and Tang Zheng boarded the train.

The conductor was already waiting at the front of the train, with twenty crew members behind him.

"Train Captain Sunan, report to the general!"

A twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young man saluted Tang Zheng and reported.

Tang Zheng returned the salute, "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 combat train of the Light Chaser Army, and it really should have a more appropriate 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 naming it."

As Tang Zheng finished naming, the words "Light Chasing Dragon" appeared at the front of the train.

Sunan led Tang Zheng to check the situation on the train.

The first and second are the artillery trains, and the howitzers of 203 mm caliber are almost the peak caliber of howitzers, and their power is amazing.

The 25 mm chain cannon is also enough to destroy all uninvited guests 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 nest is also better, and the ground-to-ground missiles are enough to hit targets 500 kilometers away.

But at the moment it is not possible to achieve such a long strike, because the coverage of the vehicle-mounted radar is insufficient, unless it is within the radar range of the base, and a free strike can be achieved.

Anti-aircraft missiles are even more capable of dealing with enemies attacking from the air and ensuring the all-round safety of the train.

The back five carriages can carry chariots and soldiers, and the Gatling guns carried by those trains are anti-zombie and anti-personnel artifacts.

Tang Zheng focused on inspecting the fifth carriage, which is a carriage integrating dining car, bathroom and leisure space, which is divided into two parts: ordinary area and luxury area.

Tang Zheng came to the luxury area and sat for a while, feeling very comfortable sitting here, and the big bed specially prepared for him that could accommodate three people to rest was also very comfortable.

It's just that Tang Zheng doesn't think that this big bed can be used 100%.

Today's girls don't know what's wrong, their vision is really poor, and no one takes the initiative to pursue such a handsome guy with a heavy army.

This armored train was born purely for battle, and Tang Zheng felt that he needed some other vehicles on his side.

So he spent another 600,000 gold to buy a passenger car and a truck.

Passenger cars can transport troops in large quantities, trucks can carry a large number of combat vehicles, and they can also pull goods back.

These three trucks are on standby here at the Zhuguang Railway Station, and when needed, they can set off at any time.

The railway station, the railroad tracks, and the three freight cars cost Tang Zheng a total of 3.1 million.

With about 12 million in his hand, Tang Zheng decided to continue to increase his troops.

First of all, he wanted to expand the size of the armored forces.

At the moment he has two armored battalions, one with thirty tanks, of which twenty are light tanks and ten are main battle tanks.

This scale was not enough, Tang Zheng directly added forty main battle tanks, and each armored battalion increased twenty vehicles.

So that each armored battalion had fifty tanks, of which the number of main battle tanks reached thirty, and a powerful strike group was already formed.

The main battle of 70,000 gold is 2.8 million.

plus a group of 1,500 tank soldiers, a total of 60,000 gold, a total of 2.86 million.

After the tank was replenished, Tang Zheng continued to replenish the self-propelled gun.

In the war against the alliance, this kind of artillery performed well because it was easy to move, and Tang Zheng originally had ten guns, which was far from enough.

Thirty self-propelled guns were replenished at one time, one for 30,000 gold, for a total of 900,000 gold.

Together with the thirty artillery battle groups, a group of 2,000 gold, a total of 60,000 gold, a total of 960,000.

Having finished the purchase of self-propelled guns, the purchase of Apache helicopters continued.

The original ten, and ten more, with the crew, are another one hundred and thirty thousand.

After buying these two classes, there are still eight million gold left in his hand.

Tang Zheng originally planned to buy an An-124 large transport plane, but this kind of aircraft could not take off without an airport, so he had to give up for the time being.

He now has twenty transport aircraft, which is the essence of the army aviation regiment, and Tang Zheng decided to start increasing the paratrooper unit.

Paratroopers can carry out long-range airdrops and strike behind enemy lines, which is very convenient for action.

A paratrooper costs 500 gold, with a 10 gold parachute bag, plus some other firearms, and a paratrooper sells for 650 gold.

Tang Zheng purchased 1,500 paratroopers at one time, a total of five companies.

Nine hundred and seventy-five thousand gold.

With about seven million gold in his hand, Tang Zheng began to increase the number of ordinary soldiers this time.

All of Tang Zheng's infantry battalions are not fully staffed at present, and even the city guard battalions that are expanding these days actually have a total number of two thousand.

The rest of the field battalions had only five companies of 1,500 people.

Even the fifth battalion is still only a company, and it no longer has any advantage in the mercenary world.

Then, Tang Zheng increased the first battalion to the fourth battalion, and each battalion continued to add three ordinary companies, so that the pure combat force of each field battalion reached 2,400 people.

One battalion has eight companies, which has also broken the military system of the empire, and the royal army of the general empire, there are only three companies in a battalion, and it is not a reinforced company like Tang Zheng.

There are also five battalions, Tang Zheng will not favor one over the other, he must enhance the right of the five battalions to speak outside, so he is also directly equipped with seven companies of the five battalions!

A total of 19 companies were added, and another 2.47 million yuan was raised.

After all these are done, Tang Zheng's five field battalions have all reached full strength!

Each battalion has eight companies, in addition to guard platoons, cooking platoons, medical platoons, etc., which together are directly full of strength, and each battalion has reached as many as 2,500 people.

The five battalions were fully established, and the funds in Tang Zheng's hands plummeted to 4.5 million gold.

In this way, Tang Zheng has not stopped, and he has expanded the directly subordinate troops to a directly subordinate battalion!

The other field units have their own tasks, and this directly subordinate unit will follow Tang Zheng to fight in the south and the north, and will be under his direct daily command.

But before the expansion, he found that the barracks were not enough.

Tang Zheng had to suspend construction and begin to replenish the barracks, which he originally had eight barracks that could accommodate 20,000 people.

This time he added three, bringing the capacity to twenty-seven thousand five hundred.

After the purchase of the last barracks, he gave the authority to Michael of the fifth battalion, and asked him to choose a place to camp so that the soldiers of the fifth battalion would have a place to live.

The barracks were all placed, and the inner city was almost full.

Eleven barracks, two power plants, a railway station, a freshwater purification plant, an arsenal, a banknote printing factory, an operational command center, their own official residence, and even a one-square-kilometer buffer zone, as well as giant artillery, etc., are almost full, and there is not much space to continue to accommodate buildings.

However, overall it is okay, and it is much more relaxed than that of the outer city.

Continuing to fight the army, Tang Zheng expanded his direct troops to a full battalion.

However, this battalion is not based on the configuration of field troops, but a mixed battalion.

The battalion had only five companies, but each company had five hundred men.

The entire battalion is composed of elite four-star soldiers, including almost all branches of the army.

And the vehicles of this battalion are almost exclusively made up of armored vehicles.

Tang Zheng had purchased a large number of armored vehicles before, but despite the continuous expansion of tanks and self-propelled guns, it was no longer suitable for armored vehicles to be installed in armored battalions, so Tang Zheng simply assigned these vehicles to his direct battalions.

Tang Zheng has a total of 100 armored vehicles in his hands, which are directly installed in the battalion directly under him, and one armored car can carry 2300 people.

There were also a hundred Willis jeeps from before, which were used to carry Gatling guns, which could also carry two hundred people.

In this battalion, Tang Zheng directly supplemented the elite forces of 2,300 people to the field troops, and spent a total of about 1.2 million yuan, because there were many high-level troops in it.

For example, the air defense infantry, Tang Zheng is equipped with every combat platoon, as well as snipers and flamethrower fighters, as well as a large number of scouts.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this directly subordinate battalion can be called the crown of the whole army, and all of them are composed of elite veterans.

There are also a hundred armored vehicles as an assault force, which can be adapted to any combat situation as long as they do not appear in the case of tank battles.

When the directly subordinate battalions were replenished, the funds in Tang Zheng's hands dropped to 2.5 million, and the four barracks just now also spent 800,000 yuan.

At this point, Tang Zheng did not stop, and he added a hundred soldiers of various types to the armored train, including artillery and heavy machine gun crews, as well as scientific research soldiers, which were used to control those cannons, Gatling machine guns, and missiles.

Three more companies were added to the engineering unit, bringing the number of engineer units to 1,500.

Then the two departments of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Special Service were each supplemented with 300 people, and this special force is not too many people at all.

There is another branch of the army, and that is the ground support of the Air Force.

Now the army aviation battalion has also formed a scale, and ground crews are also indispensable, although there is no airfield, but now the planes are all helicopters, all parked in an open space in the inner city.

Tang Zheng added 100 ground crew members of the Air Force, which also laid the foundation for the future construction of the airport.

After doing this, he spent a total of 800,000 gold, and there was only 1.7 million left in his hand, and Tang Zheng could be regarded as stopping.

At this time, the strength of his troops once again increased by leaps and bounds.

The number of five full-fledged field battalions, plus the battalions directly under them, is 15,000.

There was also the army aviation battalion, 1,000 paratroopers enlisted, pilots of dozens of aircraft, and ground crews, the number of which also reached 1,08.

There were 2,000 men in the city guard battalion and 1,500 in the engineer troops.

The guard company, the cooking company, and the medical company, these add up to 900 people.

There are more than 300 armored troops and more than 500 artillery units.

There are 300 people on the secret service side, and there are 300 people in the Military Intelligence Agency.

There are other miscellaneous things, including personnel of armored train units, radar units, operational command centers, personnel of scientific research institutes, etc.

The cumulative number of people has reached 23,500, which is directly double compared with before.

There is still a gap of 6,500 people before the whole regiment is full.

Tang Zheng did not continue to fight violently, he still had to leave some personnel space.

The city guards and sappers are not yet full, at most there is a shortage of 5,000 people, he still has large transport planes that have not been purchased, and there are frogman troops that have not been added, so there must be a little space.

Although the money was almost spent, Tang Zheng's heart was rarely fulfilled.

With these elite troops, his next expansion will also have a strong capital.

(End of chapter)