Munitions Empire

At the Laines Empire's highest military conference, the Empire Navy's Supreme Commander, Blomayer, intertwined his fingers, pondering how to present his battle plan.

Targeting the Great Tang Empire to exploit opportunities for greater benefits is a long-held development plan of Leines I. From Brunas' experience, researching the Great Tang Empire's technology is clearly a shortcut.

Relying on the various industrial facilities left by the Great Tang Empire in Brunas, the Laines Empire has firmly secured its position as the world's second technical power.

Don't laugh, just from the experience and manufacturing technology, the workers who did not follow the Great Tang Group's departure, and the machinery in Brunas, have left Laines Empire with a lot of technical heritage.

With this heritage, the engines of the Laines Empire are still the third-best, after the Great Tang Empire and Shireck.

Moreover, in terms of steel, wood processing, etc., the Laines Empire also inherited technology from the Great Tang Group, making it more economically prosperous than other countries.

Therefore, many policymakers both high and low in Laines regard imitating the Great Tang Empire, learning from the Great Tang Empire, duplicating the Great Tang Empire... even seizing from the Great Tang Empire again, as a necessary step for their rise.

Back then, they drove Tang Mo's Great Tang Group away, so when the Great Tang Empire rose in the Western Continent, they couldn't continue to intervene.

Now the opportunity arises, as leaked Great Tang Empire modern military technology grants countries farther and more powerful power projection capabilities. This gives the Laines Empire's ambitions for Dragon Island a bit of theoretical basis.

With naval and air superiority as a premise, Laines Empire confidently believes it is capable of deploying over 100,000 troops to Dragon Island in one go.

If these troops can seize control of Dragon Island, then all the Great Tang Group's technology and infrastructure, as well as industrial facilities on Dragon Island, will become the foundation of another rise for the Laines Empire!

Think about it, that's a huge oil base! Those are two massive industrial cities that the Great Tang Empire has managed for over ten years! That's the biggest island in the Endless Sea and the most advanced naval and air force base!

With all these, Laines Empire would certainly be the future leader of the Eastern Continent, a giant empire on par with the Great Qin Empire that annexed the Great Tang Empire!

Even... if the Great Tang Empire is willing to cede Dragon Island and transfer all advanced technology, then Laines Empire could even switch sides in a critical moment, selling out Qin Country...

In summary, the idea is very promising, and as long as executed correctly, everyone in the Laines Empire believes they could extract sufficient benefits in the next war.

As a veteran, Blomayer is very competent, having led extensive reforms after taking charge of the Laines Empire's Navy, enhancing its combat capability.

In the last anti-Tang war, Laines Empire's battleships suffered heavy losses from the Great Tang Empire's submarine attacks.

Thus, the relatively thinly capitalized Laines Empire Navy initiated a new round of shipbuilding plans: reinforcing with 3 new battleships and focusing construction efforts on cruisers.

Blomayer knows that competing with the abundant southern ports of the Dorne Empire has little chance, so he transformed the Laines Empire Navy into a commerce-raiding force.

Once the war breaks out, the numerous cruisers can disperse, raid Dorne's vulnerable supply lines, attack coastal regions, creating numerous troubles.

But who knew that the war between the Laines Empire and the Dorne Empire wouldn't break out, instead, it seems likely to start with the Great Tang Empire.

Facing the powerful Great Tang Empire Navy, Laines Empire's navy has almost no hope: counting at best, after the war starts, Laines Empire could only assemble 5 carriers with varying performance, along with 6 battleships and over 40 cruisers.

This lineup only slightly surpasses Qin Country's navy, with nearly no chance against the Great Tang Empire Navy in direct confrontation.

Hence, Blomayer meticulously crafted a battle plan, preparing to present it at this operational conference.

"Army's landing requires at least 3,000 transport ships, if the Navy can ensure the safety of these ships, then the Army is confident of defeating the Great Tang Empire's defense troops on Dragon Island." The Army general said confidently, rooted in disbelief that the Navy could accomplish this large-scale cross-sea landing transport.

This is a cleverly subtle blame-shifting, anyways, if the Navy can't do it, the Army might as well boast greatly since the landing plan doesn't need to be carried out anyway, right?

The Army's landing plan involves transporting 120,000 troops to Dragon Island at a time, along with at least 300 tanks, which is practically impossible.

With the terrifying national power of the Great Tang Empire, even the Mirage Country's landing only involved transporting less than 200,000 people and a few hundred tanks. Even if Laines Empire's Navy doubles in size, they can't ensure the transport fleet's safe trip without obstruction.

Ridiculous, when is the Great Tang Empire's fleet like those Mirage Country wastes, losing maritime dominance just like that?

Even if the Great Tang Empire retains only half of its fleet, combined with submarines... Laines Empire's landing fleet can't smoothly complete the Dragon Island landing plan without losses.

Listening to the Army generals claiming, "If I can be invincible in the world, I can defeat the Tang Army," Leines I felt inexplicably irked.

If he had the capability to heavily damage the Great Tang Empire's Navy, would he be waiting till today? Oh, after all this, I should have gone and defeated the Invincible East before coming back to learn, huh?

"Your Majesty, why not listen to the Navy's opinion?" Feeling that the Army generals were getting more and more outrageous, Laines' Prime Minister whispered a suggestion.

Leines I found it reasonable, thus he looked towards his closely appointed naval confidant, Blomayer.

Knowing it was time for him to perform, Blomayer softly coughed before taking over the Army generals' topic and said: "Recently, the Navy is considering a much bolder plan.

"In direct confrontation, the naval fleet can't be assured of defeating the Great Tang Empire's main fleet... but we can think from a different perspective." Blomayer paused briefly, seeing everyone turning towards him, he then continued: "What if we could launch a stealth attack on Dragon Island while the Great Tang Empire is unprepared?"