In the Apocalypse, Hoarding Supplies with the System's Hundredfold Critical Hits

As Li Ming's markets and hospitals expanded, so did the strength of his forces.

Li Ming was well aware of the importance of the military in the post-apocalyptic world, especially after the complete collapse of the imperial government. Violence was the only order in this new era.

Therefore, Li Ming's troop size also increased significantly. In total, Li Ming's regular army had expanded to about 600,000 soldiers.

They formed approximately 8 heavy combined arms brigades, 30 medium combined arms brigades, and 40 light combined arms brigades.

In addition to these main combined arms brigade units, Li Ming also formed a new type of larger-scale organization, the combined arms division, which were special units.

Each division had approximately 14,000 soldiers, and about 5 combined arms divisions were formed. These divisions were all medium combined arms divisions, mainly equipped with wheeled armored vehicles.

The emphasis was on the balance between mobility and firepower.

Besides these 600,000 main force troops, there were also about 600,000 local troops, which were mainly light infantry regiments of 3,000 soldiers each.

The light infantry regiments were mainly motorized, equipped with various all-terrain military trucks.

Now, the organization of these light infantry regiments had been basically finalized. Each infantry regiment had 5 infantry battalions, each with about 400 soldiers. In addition to the five infantry battalions, there was also a reconnaissance battalion, a fire support battalion, plus the regimental headquarters' direct hospital, staff office, logistics office, and other personnel.

In total, a light infantry regiment had about 3,000 soldiers. It could be said that the combat capability of such a light infantry regiment was very strong.

In addition to these troops, Li Ming's forces also had their own air force and army aviation units.

Each secondary base area had a strategic bomber squadron, with a standard complement of 24 strategic bombers, and a fighter squadron, with 64 ordinary Falcon heavy fighters seized from the Tianying Empire. There was also a stealth fighter squadron, with 36 Sea Eagle stealth fighters.

In addition, each secondary base also had a heavy transport helicopter regiment, with 72 heavy transport helicopters, plus an army aviation regiment, equipped with 64 heavy armed helicopters that had been modified and upgraded by Li Ming.

As for Li Ming's headquarters, the strength of the Marga base was even more formidable, with an army aviation brigade equipped with 148 armed helicopters and 108 transport helicopters.

The air force consisted of 36 stealth strategic bombers and 36 ordinary strategic bombers, plus an air force unit composed of 180 Phantom stealth fighters, making its combat power extremely strong.

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One day, Li Ming was organizing his army's structure when suddenly the system's voice sounded.

"Ding, detected that the super-giant transport aircraft developed by the host has been successfully put into production, rewarding the host with one paratrooper battalion per day, which the host can designate to be dropped at any location!"

"Ding, detected that the host has fully acquired the ability to independently research and produce weapons and equipment, rewarding the host with a set of cold fusion battery technology blueprints and data."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully surviving one year in the apocalypse, rewarding the host with a set of high-performance flight backpack technology data blueprints."

"Ding, detected that the host has successfully survived one year in the apocalypse, rewarding the host with a global mineral resource distribution map, which the host can read on the system interface."

The system's voice rang three times before Li Ming reacted. In a flash, a year had passed!

The time had come to November 2026 of the Solar Calendar. He hadn't expected time to pass so quickly. His power had expanded from just the Marga base to a total of one level-three base, 30 level-two bases, and 170 level-one bases throughout the empire.

To develop to this extent, it only took Li Ming one year to develop so quickly, which was really unexpected.

Even he himself didn't expect that his wholehearted development could progress so quickly.

The garrison in Li Ming's level-two bases was generally composed of several combined arms brigades or combined arms divisions as the main force, plus light infantry regiments guarding the markets outside.

The garrison in the general level-one bases was mainly composed of light infantry regiments, plus various paratroopers airdropped from the outside as the main force to maintain治安(public order).

After all, now he could airdrop a paratrooper battalion every day, and the number of his troops would further increase!

With the surge in his military strength, many of Li Ming's plans were about to be put on the agenda.

The first plan was to establish new bases abroad to exploit mineral resources.

The second plan was the doomsday plan, which was to prepare to build bases similar to Noah's Ark.

Of course, for now, it was clear that the first plan was easier to achieve and was also a very necessary thing to do.

Soon Li Ming began to make selections on the system's mineral resource distribution map. He wanted to airdrop the paratrooper battalion there to establish a new base.

Along with the paratrooper battalion, he also airdropped interdimensional pockets via global strategic drones.

These airdropped interdimensional pockets contained excavator robots and a base vehicle, in addition to a large amount of survival supplies and weapons and ammunition.

With the mass production of solid-state batteries, Li Ming began to apply solid-state batteries to his drone force first, greatly improving the range and other capabilities of the drones.

This also enabled many of the drones developed by Li Ming to have the ability to strike and fly to any region in the world.

Soon Li Ming took the lead in deploying the first paratrooper battalion to the TianTuo Kingdom region, which had large oil reserves. It was basically impossible to exploit oil in extremely cold periods, only Li Ming's multi-functional mining vehicles could do it.

Soon, in an oil-producing area of the TianTuo Kingdom, a paratrooper battalion was airdropped. About two hours later, a large drone landed in front of them, and many interdimensional pockets were taken down by the paratrooper battalion.

Then they began to take out the excavation robots and began to build an underground base.

Time passed quickly. In these seven days, Li Ming would airdrop paratroopers all over the world every day, and then establish underground bases on the spot. After about a month, Li Ming's bases around the world had begun to get on track.

At the same time, high-tech mines were also established. Each mine was equipped with two mining vehicles, and each mining vehicle had its own armed forces.

"System, these mining vehicles have their own armed forces?" Li Ming was also surprised.

"Ding, host, this is a multi-functional time-space amphibious armed mining vehicle. The armed level of each mining vehicle includes........"