C1375 Huge military expenses (1/2)

The line for the delivery of supplies was getting longer and longer. From afar, it looked like a long dragon that could be seen day and night.

In fact, the best way to transport supplies from the Ryukyu's main island to the Tangwan Mountain was to have the ship docked in the inner village of Si Ma Village and take the nearest and also the best Mount Pan mountain path to head up the mountain.

However, the strait was currently filled with water mines, and there were also a few stranded enemy battleships in the reef area outside of Sihu Village. There were about a thousand Russian Army s supporting the warships in a last-ditch effort, so Sihu Village had already lost its role as a supply center.

All the supplies had to be disembarked from the west and east shores of the island, and had to go through countless manpower to reach the mountain.

Xiao Letian stood on top of the mountain rock and used his binoculars to survey the scene in front of him. He let out a long sigh and said, ”If you want to maintain this thirty thousand strong army's battle here, you need to have at least fifty thousand worth of support and support. The cost per day is not less than four hundred thousand silver coins! And this is only a siege! ”

”If it's a battle of the same level as before, the military expenditure per day would be at least 2 million silver taels …” This was war! This is burning money! ”

After putting down the telescope, Xiao Letian directly asked Wang Huaiyuan who was behind him without turning his head back, ”Do you have any statistics? How much have we spent so far? ”

Wang Huaiyuan said with a bitter face, ”There are no recent data. Three days ago, our detailed statistics were released, and in order for this ambush to go from the early preparations to the enemy officially taking part in the main battlefield, we had already spent thirteen million silver coins. Just the cost of expanding the Tangwan Mountain's fortress was half …”

”We've already used up half of our ammunition in the last few days' war, especially our artillery shells. Not to mention rifles, bullets, explosives, medical products, food … Of course, there are also the water mines, the expenses of Zhiyuan Warship, as well as the purchase of fishing boats and merchant ships from the outside world for use in the sinking of the sea … ”

”Just the expenses for the past few days alone, I can't pay you without seven million silver taels!” Sigh … ”This battle, locking the enemy's cage was practically made of pure silver, spending too much money …”

Even though Xiao Letian was rich and overbearing, when he heard this number, he still could not help but sigh and shake his head.

”My Prime Minister! That's another account, okay? ”The money over there is spent like flowing water. Dragon Lord wants 100,000 strands of fur, the cost of importing a strand of fur is around 70 Silver Yuan, and the cost of manufacturing it ourselves is also around 50 Silver Yuan …”

”Just the cost of the Dragon Lord's rifles is over seven million Dragon Mark Silver Dollars. What about bullets? Let alone anything else, I don't think that we will have much left of the thirty million that Prime Minister prepared for this Dragon Lord … ”

If you don't take charge, you don't know how expensive Chai Mi is! The more he calculated, the more frightened he became. War was a gold-eating monster; no matter what kind of mental preparation Xiao Letian had made in advance, he would still suck in a breath of cold air when he saw the true numbers in front of him.

”We can't continue fighting like this. From now on, we have to control the fierce battles in the Tangwan Mountain. All strategies are focused on besieging them. As long as the enemies don't go crazy, we can't allow them to use any large scale attacks …” We need to save some supplies for the Far East! ”

What Xiao Letian said was not wrong, more money, less money was only one aspect of the problem that everyone was facing. Another important factor was that money might not necessarily be able to buy things.

On the surface, both Tanggu and Ryukyu looked like they had a production line for Mauser's rifle, but everyone was well aware that these two production lines were actually just assembly plants.

Gun stock, trigger, bayonet, strap... Some of the external equipment could be produced by the Chinese, but the barrels and needles could not be produced by the Chinese until now.