Lynn received the telegram and merely replied: "Read. Conduct the war according to the manual. Rest and refit, then continue the offensive."
"Continue testing the enemy's emerging combat strength. Stay vigilant. Tactically, take the enemy seriously; strategically, despise the enemy."
"It generally poses no major threat. Just keep an eye on the enemy's Elite force."
Those weapons only showed that the enemy had leveled up.
But behind Lynn, industrialization was still charging ahead like mad.
(His rear) was producing weapons with every ounce of strength.
Lynn had long accepted that his enemy was not the sort to pursue advanced weapons, but a highly pragmatic and clever foe.
That Bald Head's army had Krupp Mountain Guns but did not produce them, had mortars but did not produce them, had Hanyang Rifles but did not improve them.
They specialized in wasting money. If they put all the money spent buying Mauser 1924 Rifles and Production Lines into the Hanyang Rifle, output could multiply severalfold.
Or if they concentrated their production capacity on mortars, which were simple and easy to make, things would be completely different.
Seamless steel pipes were easy to produce. So long as they had qualified steel, all they needed to do was drill holes. And if that truly did not work, could they not use bronze?
Black powder for propulsion—what had the old 12-pound Napoleon Muzzle-loading Cannon fired?
Iron balls.
With a few modifications, they could even use their Muzzle-loading Cannon technology to make mortars—Flying Thunder Cannons. That would have been fine too.
Quantity was also a kind of quality.
They were playing the numbers game as though Lynn himself did not know how to do the same.
His new 75mm Alloy Steel cannon was like the Soviet ZiS-3 76mm gun, hampered by shells still made of carbon steel.