867 War Preparation (2/2)
”The last batch of survivors have already made their way. If they didn't stop at the halfway point, they're now estimated to be in Hanzhong. According to the information gathered by the pilots, the Northern Alliance Area has a combat capability between 100,000 and 300,000 soldiers, equipped with pre-war armor and air defense vehicles.”
”100,000 to 300,000? The margin of error is that big?” Jiang Chen was surprised.
”Our planes can't get too close. They used air-defense missiles to force away our fighters.” Han Junhua gently swiped on the holographic map and opened a window in front of Jiang Chen. ”The red zone box was the no-fly zone delineated by the air defense missile.”
From Hanzhong to Ankang, they were all enveloped in the air defense missile warning zone of the Northern Alliance Area.
”I still don't understand why they're migrating. If they're expanding, why should they abandon their base in Lanzhou?” Jiang Chen looked at the mark on the map in Hanzhong and he couldn't be any more clueless.
According to merchants from the Northern Alliance Area, it seemed that the military organization named the gendarmerie had political power and implemented a similar military-political-management model as the NAC.
Not only that, but over the past 20 years, the local survivors already developed a large number of farmland and settlements, planted mutated fruits, shell bullets, and a genetically modified plant that resembled potatoes with a poorer taste.
[From this point of view, they shouldn't be facing a severe survival crisis.]
[But why are they so fixated to the south?]
”The specific reasons are only clear to them. There isn't much opportunity for merchants from the Northern Alliance Area to come into contact with survivors. All trade is done directly with the gendarmerie. They don't trust outsiders very much. We have no way of communicating with them.” Han Junhua shook her head.
”If we go to war, who do you think has better odds?” Jiang Chen spoke after a moment of thought.
”They have a large amount of PAC pre-war marine equipment, but we have the resources advantage.” Here, Han Junhua's beautiful eyebrows wrinkled slightly. She put her hand against her chin, deep in thought before she finally replied, ”Perhaps it'll be a brutal battle, but we're unlikely to lose.”
Even if they used five Tigers IIs to take down one Wanderer Tank, the odds of winning would still tilt toward NAC. As long as the Type-50 Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon could rip through their armor, Jiang Chen felt there was no reason to make him lose.
However, there was one point Han Junhua didn't consider. NAC wasn't only advantaged in terms of resources, but it was backed by a world of resources. The assembly plant of the kinetic skeleton had been completed on Ange Island. Within a few months, Jiang Chen could bring over tens of thousands of kinetic skeletons to equip every NAC soldier.
Even now, the monthly production of the K1 Kinetic Skeleton on Sixth Street didn't exceed 500.
After considering Han Junhua's opinions, Jiang Chen revised the conscription bill. From next month until March next year, two thousand people were to be recruited each month from the NAC jurisdiction to train at Fishbone base.
At the same time, the three major corps were expanded to three armies containing division-size combat groups. Each division had 2,000 personnel with no upper limit on the number of divisions in each army. With the current force, each army was formed by only four divisions. Based on the number of soldiers now, there was still a large discrepancy between NAC and the Northern Alliance Area 's power.
But victory was never decided by the number of people alone.
If they compared industrial and logistics capabilities, then even ten Northern Alliances would be no match against the invincible NAC.