It was indeed difficult for a brigade of 300 men to build a camp for 4,000 to 5,000 people in just over ten days. Fortunately, Qin Mo was understanding and generous; otherwise, he would have suffered a lot.

Although Johor Bahru Port is not large, its infrastructure is complete. The two concrete piers were built to standard by people brought in by Qiao Erlang and can accommodate six fast transport ships at the same time.

"Your Highness, is this all the people you brought this time?"

"Yeah! This time they're probably going to go into the desert to wipe out the enemy. Having more people isn't necessarily a good thing!"

"Your Highness is right, Your Highness is wise!"

Qiao Erlang looked at the marines disembarking. No matter how he counted them, there weren't enough for a whole regiment. But Qin Mo said that fewer people made things easier, and he couldn't say much. The fewer people there were, the less logistical pressure he, as the director of the office, would have, which was a good thing.

But when the artillery brigade of the 7th Marine Regiment disembarked, Qiao Erlang couldn't help but ask again, "Your Highness, these cannons... why do they look so strange? And are they six-pound cannons? Why aren't they twenty-four-pound cannons?"

"Why is this a six-pounder? This isn't the kind of six-pounder we used to use; this is the Second Battalion Commander's Italian gun..."

Qin Mo almost couldn't stop talking once he got into it. After the mass production technology of smokeless gunpowder was solved, another important technology, the "trigger fuse," was also conquered by the Da Yuan Gun and Cannon Research Institute. Then Qin Mo gave the design sketches and technical requirements. Qin Mo's students spent a year finally developing a 57mm caliber light infantry gun.

When Qin Mo first saw this infantry gun, which had been modified and drastically changed, she blurted out, "Isn't this someone's Italian cannon?"