Munitions Empire

Mirage Country Northern Island, the military base of the Great Tang Empire, is surrounded by a huge wall that divides the inner and outer worlds. Inside is called the Great Tang Empire Military Zone, outside is called the Goblin Autonomous Region.

Outside are low, old houses with rugged streets filled with goods and parked with various types of dilapidated cars.

Inside are tall buildings, nightlife, smooth streets, and all kinds of military vehicles, barracks, airports.

The construction team's bulldozers are repeatedly compacting the runway foundation; a few months ago, the Great Tang Empire had just expanded the oil depot here, boosting its fuel reserves to a staggering figure.

Additionally, the ammo depot and aircraft maintenance factory are also being expanded, though always quietly.

Now, it's finally the runway's turn, surrounded by high walls shielding the Goblins' view; the construction progress inside is completely invisible from the outside.

Even though there are tall buildings outside, the tall buildings within the military base obstruct much of the view. These buildings are family areas where the families of the soldiers stationed at the Northern Island military special zone of the Great Tang Empire reside.

It's more like a hotel than home, where family members can visit and stay nearby while soldiers and officers are stationed here. Once these soldiers retire or are redeployed, they must vacate and return these rooms.

Like a city, the military zone has its own shopping mall, entertainment facilities, schools, community...

Compared to the Lighthouse Country's military base in Neon Country, the Great Tang Empire is more extravagant and domineering: the Tang Army even has its own field area here, which prohibits any Mirage people's buildings and prohibits Mirage people from entering.

If any overstepping Mirage Country Goblins are found here, the Great Tang Empire patrol troops have the right to kill them. Everyone knows such terms are somewhat excessive, but wasn't it agreed upon when Mirage Country surrendered back then?

"The construction progress can't be accelerated anymore; we need to avoid raising dust and we can't let others discover we're rushing the work." The Engineer Corps Commander explained to the visiting Supreme Commander of the 9th Group Army, General Feng Kezhi.

He pointed to the distant runway and continued, "To allow large transport aircraft to take off and land, the runway has been extended by 350 meters."

This distance is already very long, aimed at allowing fully loaded Yinglong Fighter jets and H6 bombers to take off.

Fully loaded aircraft can't handle short takeoff and landing; they have to run a long distance to get enough speed and lift to gradually take off.

After all, aircraft nowadays easily weigh dozens of tons, even hundreds of tons; according to past sayings, they are typically brute force bricks flying.

"The docks are also being modified... throughput needs to increase fivefold... thus ensuring the supply of ammo and fuel." After speaking, the engineer pointed towards the distant port area.

Feng Kezhi nodded, the construction progress here isn't problematic, everything is proceeding as planned. With the continual improvement of facilities, the scale of this military base is already very large.

In necessary times, thousands of soldiers can be stationed here, equipped with armored corps, anti-aircraft missile units, among others, having even space to deploy an entire brigade of Scud missile units.

However, there are also many issues here, such as distance. Feng Kezhi isn't worried about any problems with his base itself, but indeed it's somewhat too far from the planned landing region.

"We don't have escort fighter jets that can cover such a distance, nearly 1000 kilometers, the J7 fighter cannot fully escort the H6." Feng Kezhi knows how far the Air Force can cover; stationed on the South Island, the Tang Army's J7 already cannot cover the Tang Army military base on the Northern Island.

No choice, it's the trait of short legs; it was destined during the design phase and cannot be changed.

After all, the J7 is derived from the Maoxiong's MiG-21 fighter jet, which in Maoxiong belongs to the "frontline fighter" category, emphasizing low cost and high yield, not following the elite troops route. Northern coarse grains may never become refined bran.

Even crazily modified into Seventeen Arhat, its short legs remain short, however powerful it still follows the narrow path of Yongchun with no broad open moves.

"No worries, General, we can solve the Air Force issues ourselves, you just need to finalize the landing plan of the 9th Group Army." Standing beside Feng Kezhi was Deputy Commander of the Tang Nation Air Force, Xiao Yun, whose opening words contained obvious meaning to Feng Kezhi.

Clearly, the Air Force has new fighter jets with presumably extensive range, capable of accompanying the H6 in combat... or at least protecting the H6 in the Steel Rampart region.

Damn, a fighter jet with a combat radius exceeding 1200 kilometers? The J7 without missiles carrying auxiliary fuel tanks might not be able to fly this far!

No wonder the runway length needs to be extended, possibly because the new fighter jets require longer takeoff distances, hence the urgent expansion work.

"Since you are confident, it makes things easier for me, the Dwarf's fortifications here are very sturdy, the 9th Group Army is already under great pressure." Feng Kezhi smiled at Xiao Yun, for whom he held deep respect despite Xiao Yun's young age as an Imperial Air Force Admiral.

No joke, the Air Force is essentially a technical branch, and Xiao Yun, as a technical officer, originates from a pilot, understands frontline pilots, and has received special training and individual tutorials with His Majesty The Emperor.

Such talents within the military are the top tier, with even a saying that these people are the future "reserve force" potentially becoming "backup players" for Imperial Marshal.

It's disingenuous to say there's no envy; Feng Kezhi very much wants to become an Imperial Marshal too. He looks at the Marshal's scepter with envy, but alas, his surrender status somewhat holds him back.

"The Air Force has equipped the H6 with a new type of bomb that can penetrate over 30 meters of complex soil terrain or penetrate over 15 meters thick concrete fortifications," Xiao Yun said to Feng Kezhi, "We can suppress the Dwarf's coastal defenses once the battle starts."

Certainly, the Great Tang Empire cannot be unprepared, watching various countries build all kinds of defensive installations on its coastline.

Tang Mo directly began mass-producing ground-penetrating bombs, intending to use these to destroy various countries' coastal defensive installations. Those fixed target coordinates have long been accurately detected by the Great Tang Empire, attacking these immovable structures is simply effortless for the Great Tang Empire Air Force!