Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 16581659Another son

　　When Frank woke up from the hospital bed, he found that one of his arms was missing. He stroked the gauze wrapped around the wound with his other hand, his whole body a little dull.

 Before he was shot, he was still a complete human being...or a complete elf, but now he has become a disabled person.

I originally thought that no one would care about a wounded person like him in that situation and place, but later after Tang Jun discovered him, he was sent to the hospital in the rear for treatment.

 Honestly speaking, the drugs used here are actually not very good. The reason why he survived is entirely because Frank is in good health and has a hard life.

 At least two-thirds of the drugs consumed to treat the coalition soldiers were seized items. The quality of these items was only so high, and the Tang army themselves would never use them.

Otherwise, the medical supplies hoarded by the dwarves will be wasted and simply distributed to treat civilians and captives.

Because too many were seized, these drugs have not been used up until now. Most prisoner of war hospitals in the rear are still using similar things.

However, these supplies will one day be used up, so Tang Jun is thinking of ways to help the local dwarves resume their production.

 The first is some products that can help the front line, such as gauze mass-produced by textile factories, and some simple tools.

Since the power plants have been restored after repairs by the Tang Army, and the Tang State has also sent newer and more advanced power generation equipment from China to expand these power plants, the dwarf industrial production in the northern occupied area has recovered very quickly.

The textile mills in Everwinter City have resumed production, as well as the chemical factories and oil refineries here.

In the past, this was the most important port for exporting industrial products to the Tang Empire. The infrastructure was already very good, and the post-war recovery was also very fast.

After losing so many industrial cities, port cities, and mining areas, it will be difficult for the dwarven industry not to be affected.

In fact, the attack by the Tang Army has caused serious problems in the dwarf industrial system. The destroyed factories were only part of them, and the other part were the important mineral veins in the north.

The northern part of the area controlled by the dwarves is cold and has many mountains, making it unsuitable for farming. However, correspondingly, these places are relatively rich in minerals and have a large amount of ore production capacity.

The Tang Army captured the northern part of the Ice Empire, which was equivalent to capturing a large number of mines. These ores could no longer be transported to industrial cities such as Ironforge, and those industrial productions no longer had the raw materials to support their operations.

On the contrary, as long as it recovers, these ores can feed back the industrial production of the Tang Empire, allowing ships returning to the Western Continent to transport some goods, thus reducing transportation costs.

Most of these mines have ceased production now, and the workers in the mines have either been taken away to work as laborers or are unemployed and have no livelihood at home. The war destroyed the transportation lines, and these mines could no longer maintain production, so they looked very depressed and life was very bleak.

The Tang State has begun to dispatch some officials from the country to restore production, allowing these areas to gradually recover from the war. It doesn't matter if there is no way to process the produced ore. It can be transported directly to Yongdong Port by rail, where it can be directly shipped to the Western Continent and processed there.

To be honest, the living conditions of the dwarves in the areas occupied by the Tang Kingdom are much better than those in the areas controlled by the Ice Empire. They don't have to worry about plane bombings or being forcibly recruited into the army. In some areas, they can even receive some relief supplies.

The dwarf civilians in the areas controlled by the Ice Empire not only have to worry about dying from stray bullets or bombings, they are also very likely to be forcibly recruited into the army, and they are even more likely to be robbed and killed...

Frank didn’t know whether he should be depressed about becoming disabled or grateful that he was still alive. Anyway, he knew that he probably wouldn't die. At least his old mother in Rewind Port didn't have to bear the pain of both sons dying on the battlefield.

 He could feel the pain in his wound, and it felt really, really bad. But when he saw his compatriot in the bed next door who had no legs, he really couldn't say that he was the unluckiest one.

After being awake for a while, he saw the wounded man who had lost his eyes lying on the bed further away, he also saw the man who had lost an arm and a leg, and he also saw the poor guy like him who was missing an arm. .

 The war did not bring even a little benefit to the people lying here. All that was left to them was a life that would never be complete again.

"Your newspaper." A few greasy newspapers that had been read countless times were thrown next to the pillow, and a dwarf aunt who was helping here walked over without looking back.

She didn't care at all whether any of these prisoners were illiterate, nor did she care whether these prisoners were in the mood to read newspapers for entertainment. This was her job, and she just had to finish it.

  "Our Bombers Air Attack Rewind Port" This was the headline in the newspaper more than ten days ago, but it still attracted Frank's attention. He didn't know that Saint Lo had been lost, so he was a little confused when he saw the news.

Then he started to worry again, because his mother was still in Rewind Port, and he really didn't want to see the news that his home was bombed.

But he had no choice but to stare blankly at the newspaper that had been touched by countless people, reading over and over every word he recognized on it.

It is true that he does not know many words, but he can roughly understand some of the content above, but he still really wants to see some of the content he wants to see from those unfamiliar or familiar words.

Except for the Tang Empire, the literacy rate of civilians in other countries is generally not high. Like the people of the Tang Empire, there are even fewer people who listen to the radio and watch TV every day to learn about national affairs.

 Fortunately, Frank is an elf who has gone to school for several years. He knows a lot of words and is considered a talent. If he hadn't been able to read, he wouldn't have been assigned to work at the battalion headquarters, and he wouldn't have had his arm blown off by a cannonball—perhaps, he would have had his head shattered by a bullet, crushed into a patty by a tank, or beaten by a cannonball. Fly a leg...

 Looking at what happened ten days ago, Frank temporarily forgot about his still painful arm. Until later, he actually fell asleep in the pain, with the greasy smelly newspaper covering his face, and he still slept unconsciously.