The stumped limbs and arms blown out by the artillery are also more pleasing to the eye than the ones chopped off by myself. At least they will not be sprayed with blood plasma, and they will not smell the stench of blood and internal organs.The veteran picked up the broken arm, took off the bracelet, and threw the rest out of the trench,

"I said, stop shouting, you are going to use your voice to deceive the enemy, is there a hidden artillery here?" The veteran grabbed the recruit by his collar and threw him to the ground.

"I, I want to go home, I don't want to fight, I don't want to!"

"Crash another one." Another veteran kicked the guy twice, "Listen, boy, if you don't want to be hung on a wooden frame by those black dogs, you'd better stop talking about this kind of bullshit, who the hell wants to fight? !” Alexai was picked up and stuffed into the corner of the trench.

"Come on, drink some, pour down a glass of water of life, and you won't be afraid of anything, Ulla!" Someone poured a mouthful of spicy liquid into his mouth, "Pfft, cough cough, what is this!?" This is not at all liquor.

"It's a waste of things. It's not easy to get something like this on the battlefield." The veteran looked at the liquid on the ground regretfully.

"Mix the vehicle antifreeze with water, and add a few drops of medical alcohol." The veteran shook the jug, took a small sip, and then let out a mouthful of foul air, "It's really exciting." As for the problem of poisoning and blinding eyes , for these people who may be blown into the sky by enemy artillery fire at any time, it has the same meaning as farting.

There are no atheists in the so-called foxholes, alcohol, tobacco and religion, you always find one so that you will not become a lunatic running around in this seemingly endless shelling, and then be killed by black dogs or the enemy Fire took away.

"Drink a sip in a day, and now it's the amount." The flagon in the veteran's hand was taken away by his comrades, and he took a sip, "Boy, I remember you said that you seem to be an artist?"

"I, I was a trainee in an opera troupe"

"Oh, let's sing a few lines and have some fun" Veterans are only fear-numbing, not fear-free, so they need some diversion and distraction, too.

"Now, now?" Alexai was taken aback.

"Otherwise? Go to the sky and sing to the bitch of the goddess of death, and see if she will let you come back?"

"But I..." Alexey finally cleared his throat and began to sing. To be honest, his voice was trembling and out of tune. look.

Until a shell fell into this trench, neither the singing nor the beat of the veterans stopped abruptly, leaving only the silence of death and the scattered mud smoking thickly.

Chapter 12

The offensive and defensive battle around the Sami capital city lasted for No. 14 days. The suburban towns and villages have been completely razed, and there are hardly any traces of buildings, only the craters and scorched earth left by the shells, dense source stone spells With the consumption of origin stones, this place was also hit by a small-scale natural disaster.

The snow storm left large clusters of Originium clusters in the city and suburbs, which stopped the fierce battle between the two sides for a whole day to deal with the issue of these Originium clusters.

For a complete city, natural disasters will destroy 90% of the city's production and residential functions, but for a city that has evolved into a meat grinder and a strategic stronghold, the only thing a small-scale natural disaster can do is to force everyone Get into a shelter underground or deep on deck.

However, in order to further avoid being disrupted by natural disasters, both sides chose a good day, temporarily ceased fighting, replenished ammunition supplies, replenished soldiers, and waited for the clouds in the sky to disperse.

In the past Terra, there has never been such an intense and long-term large-scale battle. Most of the battles are concentrated on battleships or driving gangs in the core city. The fierce frontal conflict will only last for a few hours before ending. .

Whether it is the spells of warlocks, or the weapons and devices that use the origin stone system, they will not be used on such a large scale, for a long time, and intensively. Therefore, in the past on Terra, wars have never caused natural disasters.

But now, this perception has been rewritten, and both sides need to revise their strategies and re-understand natural disasters, the origin stone product that accompanies the history and growth of Terra people.

The mess left by the snow storm is still continuing. The continuous low temperature and fine snow caused the offensive side to suffer considerable non-combat casualties, and the rear was completely unprepared for natural disasters. uniform, in the midst of winter-like temperatures in unwarmed trenches and muddy emplacement holes.

The cold wind broke through the curtain that blocked the gate of the headquarters, and a cloud of fine snow poured in. A large piece of wood was burning in the heating stove in the corner, providing a little warmth for this reinforced semi-crypt space.

"Major Gehrman, you came at a really bad time." The commander stood in front of the wooden table covered with maps and put the cup in his hand on a corner, "There is no glory or victory here, only mud, corpse smell and death soaked A heap of rubbish, and we've got more mess than war right now, and I hope you didn't just bring a bunch of empty commendation papers or some other nonsensical award."

"That's why I came here." Major Gehrman, who was the special envoy of the emperor, also came with a supplementary troop and said, "I brought some ammunition and new weapons, and of course, what you need most, the explosive Open the artillery of the turtle shell on the opposite side."

The commander shrugged, noncommittal, "If you had come here two days ago, I would have warmly welcomed you, but what we need now is new thermal clothing, fuel, heating equipment and medicine, especially to deal with those damn saprophytic bacteria antibiotic spray!"

The attrition of soldiers due to severe skin diseases accounted for half of the non-combat attrition. The climate of Sami was wetter than that of Ursus. The two water systems flowed through and the basin structure made the humidity here much higher than that of Ursus.

After a natural disaster-level snow storm, there was continuous light rain and fog. They have not seen what the sun looks like for two consecutive days. What does this mean?

It means that the trenches will be very muddy, and it is difficult for the soldiers to dry their socks and trousers. Next, there will be festering in the feet, leg bends, perineum, etc., and then the saprophytic flora unique to Sami will be happy. grow on top.

More than once, nurses and doctors in field hospitals complained that they seemed to be picking mushrooms on a piece of rotten wood. They needed a lot of antibiotic sprays and fuel, and even needed to build a simple drying room.

"Sorry, capacity is limited, I can only bring this, and if we can take that city, I don't think there is any need for these things, we can live in their houses and warm them with Columbia heaters. "

"The premise is that we can really take it down. We have already left tens of thousands of corpses under this damn city. The next natural disaster caused us to drop another nearly [-] corpses, and we are adding new ones every day. dead, not by Colombian and Sami weapons, but by cold and germs."

The commander is very pessimistic about this. Regardless of the fact that the two armies have a combined size of at least 25 people, in fact, excluding logistics, transportation, civilians, and those who cannot charge with guns, such as artillery, warlocks, and drone operations In addition to special occupations such as military personnel and other special occupations, and after deducting the left-behind troops that must be left in the occupied areas, there are less than 6 people who can really go to the front with guns.

Now that nearly 1/3 of the available troops have been lost, the state where civilian officers and even nurses in the hospital take up crossbows and short knives to fight the enemy will never appear here, nor will it appear in this army .

On the contrary, after the cruel war made the Sami people completely give up hope, this phenomenon can be seen from the enemy. After all, they are the fighters who defend their homeland, and they are just invaders. The invaders will not have such firm determination. Will to fight.

The Soviet Union was like this. In the Soviet-Finnish War and the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union’s combat power and fighting will were completely in two states. It was replaced by Ursas like Tsarist Russia. It did not collapse on the spot is already a bonus brought about by occupying the initiative in the war , Let everyone believe that even if you can't beat, at least maintain the current state and return to Shihe Fortress for repairs.

With such hopes, the veterans and recruits managed to support them in the siege battle like a meat grinder. In fact, letting some well-performing troops withdraw to Stone River Fortress for repairs did make Ursas's army temporarily still. Maintained a little fighting morale. After all, they have a large number of people, and it is okay to take turns to consume them.

"Okay, what did you bring here, and how many reinforcements are there?" Anyway, having reinforcements and supplementary equipment can also boost morale a little bit, and the soldiers will feel that they have the opportunity to be replaced by the rear to repair , warming up by the fire in the warm fortress house, and then drinking a glass of potato spirit made by the northern farm.

"I brought two battalions of supplementary troops, both of which were newly formed, including a vehicle battalion and an artillery battalion."

"If you have a car, that's okay." The tank is easy to use at any time. Even if it is destroyed, it can also serve as a steel house to provide soldiers with a simple bunker or even a place to keep warm temporarily.

"Including two Titan-class tanks purchased from Kazdel, they are really big guys!" The real big guys, but they look very petite in a group of land cruisers and large assault boats, but they can't stand this one. The power system of the thing is big enough.

"This thing... I remember... Forget it" The commander threw away the bad memories of the past from his mind. As a legion stationed in the north, he often fought with those private soldiers on the farm It's not the first day of being blown out of your wits by a Titan chariot.

"As for the artillery, I brought a new type of high-pressure artillery made by Fort St. Jun, which requires six warlocks to operate. The shells are also brand new. It can definitely level all obstacles in front of you with ease."

"I hope so." The new weapons are already difficult to make a final decision in this battle, not to mention, more warlocks and more origin stone bombs mean that natural disasters are more likely to erupt.

At the same time, on the battlefield, Titan's power furnace exudes warm air waves. The smart technical officer took out the waste heat from Titan's thermal furnace that was not shut down, so that the entire wooden maintenance station and the temporary field medical center next to it could be exhausted. Shrouded in a layer of heating, this finally saved the wounded from suffering in the cold.

Because Terra's heating furnace doesn't need warlocks to operate, it only needs to replenish source stones, and on the battlefield where natural disasters have ravaged, there are many kinds of source stone clusters and source stones, just put in two, you can Can keep warm all day.

Compared with its performance on the battlefield, its mechanical device and heat furnace, which are hated by the Kazdel people, were welcomed by the Ursus people one step earlier. Compared with being difficult to repair and freezing to death, the former is easier to accept anyway. a little.

On the other side, the situation of Sami and the Colombian coalition forces is much better, because after all, this is their city. They dug out last winter's clothes from the ruins and collapsed warehouses, and the city was not destroyed by artillery fire and natural disasters. The generator cabin and backup power station also provide them with considerable warmth.

Most importantly, Sammy's sewers and plumbing systems below decks also make excellent heating shelters due to the problem of waste heat emission.

Almost all Colombians have learned in a short time the Sami mouse-catching tricks and how to start a fire with scrap iron sheets, discarded synthetic jade coils and fragmented carbon material construction waste.

Of course, the stinky dried fish, a Sami specialty that was hated by everyone at the beginning, is not so unbearable. In other words, in the bunker full of foot odor and sewer smell, the sense of smell has been completely numb to the point where you can’t smell the smelly dried fish. Taste it.

Sami's stinky dried fish is not stinky at the beginning, it is even quite fragrant when it is smoked out, but after a period of time, it will become something like a saber, and it is estimated to be chopped with the Ursas Neither will be at a disadvantage.

Before eating, you need to wrap it in a paper bag and bury it in the soil to absorb the moisture of the soil to soften it before you can eat it. But in that case, the saprophytic bacteria will spread all over the surface of the dried fish, making it more bloated than the original. When you need to use a knife to scrape off the surface layer.

And this way of eating was also introduced by the Sami guerrillas and the Civil Guard. Under normal circumstances, smoked dried fish can be eaten only by steaming it in a pan. It is famous for its fragrance, spicy and delicious taste.Just lighting a fire, making smoke and steaming fish on the battlefield is like saying loudly to the Ursus artillery: There are dozens of heroes here who are preparing to eat, hurry up and play some lively percussion music for them!

Therefore, front-line soldiers can only get cold, hard dried smoked fish that can be used to kill people if necessary. At first, they can be heated with pipes. Later, as the logistics and storage became more and more difficult, many dried fish were crushed. The process of turning into dried stinky fish was completed under the ruins.

"Actually, we use this thing for hunting," said the young Sami sniper, holding the stinky dried fish in his hand. "This smell can attract wild beasts dozens of miles away, and the smell can greatly cover us up." Body odor, and here, there is a new use."

What he was talking about was the main source of protein for the Colombians and the Sami Resistance Army—rats. Rats are very sensitive to rancid smells, and they can quickly reach a deal of exchanging rotten meat for fresh meat by using dried stinky fish.

Compared to the Ursas, the Sami and Colombians are less stressed in terms of warmth, but more stressed in terms of food, Ursas is almost under siege, which means that Colombian supplies are difficult Can be sent into the city.

Compared with the food that needs to be consumed every day, the consumption rate of other supplies is not very fast. After all, the staff needs to be used hundreds of times before it may be scrapped, and the turret is blown up faster than the shells are used up. The capacitors and various parts of the electromagnetic crossbow can also be repaired by dismantling other electrical appliances and messy devices from the ruins, and the crossbow can be made by yourself by finding a piece of iron sheet.

However, there is really no way for food. Those solid dried fish are the only food that can be supplied at present. The bombing of Ursas destroyed a considerable part of the warehouse, and a large amount of food was buried under the ruins. Not only is it troublesome to dig out , even if it is dug out, there is a question mark whether it can be eaten.

Especially after the ravages of natural disasters, snowmelt water seeped into the ruins, it is estimated that all the food such as flour inside was scrapped, and it is estimated that canned food and canned food can still be dug out to eat.

It's just that the amount and the calories consumed by the labor invested are almost unequal. Even so, Sami organized some citizens to dig out the materials buried under the ruins and distribute them. Compared with those who can eat bread with sawdust As far as Ursas was concerned, there were almost no sawdust in Sami city.

Because of the price of mobile city blocks and land costs, most of the storage materials are located on the edge of the city and in the suburbs, which also means that the warehouses that store the food and vegetables consumed by the entire city were blown up as soon as the war started up.

Not to mention, the fighting that took place in the spring itself was a huge pressure on Sami, because in one winter, most of the food and other materials stored in the city had already been consumed, and most of Sami's farms and agricultural production bases were in the Near Ursus.

Now they are completely dependent on agricultural products imported from Colombia. It has to be said that this war is a life-saving shot for Colombia. Colombian farmers who were almost bankrupt during the economic crisis and depression finally found a place to dump these products.

As for whether the Sami people could not raise so much money after the war, it is another matter. At least for now, the money is provided by the Colombian government, and Colombia’s money comes from the sale of war bonds. The bond's income guarantee comes from the post-war Sami and Ursas compensation dividends-it's hard to say whether they can pay the compensation.

As for the economy of Ursus, it is even worse. However, the emperor himself is going to drive those nobles and warlords to death, so there is no problem with making things worse. Anyway, no matter which side it is, ordinary citizens and lower-class people When people look at it, the difference is only the difference between being a valuable tool pawn or a bunch of waste.

Consuming population and plundering wealth, the final effect and purpose are the same. As for how many Ursas people will die needlessly in the trenches, how many Ursas villages will be in this official looting Bankruptcy is not something that the emperor or any noble warlords consider.

For the emperor, he has a lot of supplies in his hands, and he only needs to expand the army to reduce turmoil, because as long as young and middle-aged men and strong women are recruited into his new army to eat, then the remaining old people, children and women I can't make a fuss. 【Old Wisdom of the Great Song Dynasty】

This is really the ultimate way to get close to the peasant uprising. As long as you are as rich as Song Dynasty or have enough food and grass, you can extinguish the peasant uprising so easily - everyone will be drawn into the army to eat, so that the rebellion lacks combat power Young men can't fight, and then they are dragged to the battlefield and sent away.

As long as people die almost, the land will be vacated, and the vacated land can be used to place people of their own power. As for the further land annexation caused by it, that is a later story.

And besides these rebellious bottom-level people can be dealt with in this way, the unreliable noble private troops and warlord troops that have been brought over can also be dealt with in this way, and the only price is a significant drop in population. For Ursus, there is no pressure.

Anyway, the wailing and the stench of corpses in the trenches on the front line will not float into the palace of Fort St. Jun, and it will not make the emperor sleep well or eat well. Human lives are not even as good as the figures on the report at this time. After all, the numbers still need to be glanced at, right, but these young Ursas who died in the trenches are not even interesting.

Who would bring up this matter at such a time to upset everyone?The ministers won't, the bureaucrats won't, the nobles are busy with the storms caused by the economic crisis, and even those people on the northern farms won't - of course, they won't mention it because they are constantly concealing and absorbing those deserters As the human resource of the farm, naturally he would not publicize what he was doing.

Chapter 13 Can't think of a title, how about calling it excessive?

"Bombardment!" There was another round of artillery fire, densely packed orbital shells fell, buildings and city blocks trembled under the artillery fire, even the alloy-cast pipes and steel beams collapsed little by little in the violent explosion, carbon The wreckage of buildings made of materials blazed in the fire.

The black and gray burning ashes fell like a heavy snow, filling everyone's nose with a terrible smell of scorching and death, and the poisonous burning smoke shrouded every street and building wreckage.

The shelling that lasted for three days and three nights made every Sami and Colombian soldier seem to be struggling in purgatory. Water, food, and sleep became luxuries. Hundreds of thousands of shells almost flattened the entire upper structure of the city, exposing the city below. Jagged skeletons with pipes, cabins and collapsed sewers protected by them.

Finally, the shelling stopped, and the Ursus almost fired the last shell that could be sent to the front line. Almost every Ursus general believed that the enemy had collectively ascended to heaven amidst the unprecedented shelling intensity.

"Ulla!" Ursas's assault ship carried a new round of assault troops and rushed towards the city. This time, they were not hindered any more, and the springboard was successfully placed on the side of the city. The Ursus assault soldiers stepped over the remnants of the position with scimitars and old crossbows, and ran towards the core city.

"哗啦啦~哒!" A nightmarish sound sounded, followed by the dull chug sound, the arrows passing by at high speed directly shredded the Ursus soldiers in the front row, however, more Ursus soldiers After all, set foot on the mobile city.

The surviving defenders had difficulty organizing a large-scale defense. After dropping thousands of corpses again, the Ursas finally occupied the Sami capital city-state.

However, they imagined that after occupying the enemy's capital, the war would end immediately and everyone could go home to rest. The Sami government-in-exile who fled to Colombia called on every Sami to take up arms against Ursas brutal rule.

To the west and south of the Sami capital, more Sami towns are scrambling to fight to the last inch.

However, now Ursus has no extra propulsion capacity, and the two groups are almost completely disabled. However, they did obtain the agricultural output area in the east of Sami, which can be used as a stronghold and a frontline repair area.

After all, the Ursas-Sami war ended on official documents. Although the towns in the southwest are still resisting, although every mountain forest and every snowdrift may make a Sami language sound, after all, it is not Then there is massive resistance and fighting.

This war is nothing more than the prelude to the world war, just like Germany blitzed Poland, it is just the beginning, not the end.

It was just that before the real war broke out, there was still a very short rest period. Colombia returned to its own country and prepared for war. Destructive capabilities of city blocks suppressed by ranged attacks.

The battlefield will inevitably extend to the suburbs outside the city, and in the trench warfare in the suburbs, the trenches and various cement fixed fortifications showed extremely tenacious vitality, which made Colombia not give the Ursas people any support in the initial bombardment. cause too many casualties.

Columbia's automatic rapid-fire weapon array fully embodies that without trenches and geotechnical excavation operations, the intensive charge in the past is no different from death. Ursus used the life of a division to prove that flesh and blood cannot match steel Torrent against.

Small anti-vehicle weapons, simple and easy-to-deploy mines, fast barricades for gang defense and various high-speed automatic weapons have all become the key points of the war, and Kazdel is known to be clearly ahead of all in this regard the front of the person.

In the northern farm, the Sami guerrillas did not fight in the Sami forests according to the ideas of the Ursas headquarters. Their supplies and materials had already been exhausted. Came to the place called "Northern Principality" by the Ursas.

That's right, as a cooperation agreement with Kazdel, and also as a fig leaf, the emperor, with the mentality of bearing the burden of humiliation, designated the farm area as an independent principality, which nominally belonged to the Grand Duke of Black Snake.

This is also a kind of exchange, because since the Principality of Black Snake is in the north, the rich territory close to Dayan naturally needs to be spit out. Of course, as if this Principality belongs to Kosiche in name, the territory close to Dayan It only belongs to the emperor in name.

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