Infrastructure Throne

The nights in late autumn are getting colder every day.

The battle against Beiyuan by the Alliance of Cities in the North has attracted worldwide attention.

All the forces in the mainland thought that this would be a one-sided war without any suspense. The only thing worth paying attention to was how long the Beiyuan Kingdom could last before surrendering.

Unexpectedly, this war has embarked on a road that has surprised everyone from the very beginning.

The Mansi Legion suffered a sneak attack on the Western Front. The coach Noria lost the first battle. The majestic [-] Knight Legion, like a fruit "peeled" by Beiyuan, grinds a little bit on the long front, the deeper the Northland, The greater the battle damage.

Even before the soldiers approached the city of Yuanliu, more than one-fifth of the soldiers had been lost. Under tremendous pressure, Noria had to order the whole army to return to the city of Rafi and hold on to the city, waiting for the Mansi allies to increase their reinforcements.

After a good expedition, it was just a passive defense.

The city of Lafayette, which is suffering from an increasingly empty grain storehouse, requires the city lord to personally lobby the nobles from all walks of life to donate money and grain every day to maintain the food and drink of the [-] Mansi army. Life just got worse.

Temporarily suppressing the Western Front, Yan Zui, who sits in the center of the headquarters, once again turned his attention to the Eastern Front.

The study of gunpowder and firearms in the Great Xia Kingdom is more in-depth than that of the Mansi Allies. This 5-man army, in addition to the combination of cavalry, infantry, archers and shieldmen in the cold weapon era, unexpectedly has a group of as many as Thousands of firearms.

However, unlike the musket infantry that has been popularized in Beiyuan Kingdom, the firearms used by Daxia musketeers are extremely primitive. In addition to a small number of arquebus guns with extremely poor accuracy, more soldiers have cylindrical long metal tubes without triggers and handles. firearm.

Although it is not at the same level as Beiyuan Kingdom's standard firearms, it has a real long-range thermal weapon for individual soldiers, which can already cause damage to Beiyuan's forward guerrilla army.

With the same tactics, when fighting on the Eastern Front, the loss rate has increased significantly compared to that on the Western Front.

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The battlefield on the eastern front was different from the western front. Gu Ban, the young general of the Great Xia Legion, did not intend to go straight to Huanglong. Instead, he chose to occupy a small city on the edge of Beiyuan as a supply base, and then move forward little by little.

Only two months ago due to bankruptcy, he withdrew from the Zhucheng Alliance and took refuge in Linfeng City, a small city in Beiyuan, which was the best goal.

Gu Ban and his staff expected that within such a short period of time, it would be impossible for Beiyuan to transform a small earthen city that was leaking everywhere into an impenetrable one. The greatest possibility was to shrink the front line and abandon Linfeng City.

In the early stage, the combat effectiveness of Beiyuan guerrillas was seriously underestimated, which led to the continuous destruction of small groups of hundreds of people.

Strike In order to deal with Beiyuan's irritating guerrilla tactics, Gu Ban had to send a large number of firecrackers and cavalry to act together. Each team had no less than a thousand people to search for the enemy's traces scattered all over the field.

But in this way, the speed of the march was greatly slowed down, causing the daily food consumption to become a major concern for Gu Ban.

The nearest city in the Zhucheng Alliance that can provide supplies is more than 60 kilometers away from them, and it will take at least seven or eight days by foot, even without the harassment of Beiyuan guerrillas.

Gu Ban sent a number of people to escort the grain and grass with the army every day, and he simply ignored the enemy and rushed to Linfeng City with all his strength.

As long as Linfeng City is captured as soon as possible, there will be a granary immediately, and a knife can be stabbed in Beiyuan's heart, threatening Beiyuan's capital at all times!

By the time the Great Xia Army rushed to the vicinity of Linfeng City, Beiyuan had cut six or seven thousand of this 5-strong army, which was not much better than the Mansi Army on the western front.

But looking at the "Linfeng City" in front of him, the entire Great Xia Legion was dumbfounded——

The bare ruins, the quiet atmosphere, the desolate suburbs, the harvested wheat fields, not to mention the granary, not even a hair left for them!

The whole Linfeng City is like a dead city, without a single family. The most amazing thing is - even the low city wall was flattened by Beiyuan engineering soldiers driving an excavator!

There is only a bare shell left, and the scattered dilapidated houses in the city can be seen at a glance.

What kind of supply base, what kind of granary, what kind of knife, all gone in a blink of an eye!

Looking at the scene in front of him, Gu Ban Youruo felt as if he was being dumped into a basin of ice water, his heart full of anticipation kept sinking, his limbs seemed to be filled with lead, stiff and heavy.

"Damn Bei Yuan, you are really cruel!"

After cursing, Gu Ban had no choice but to order the whole army to return and continue on their way. The rations they carried would soon be exhausted. At that time, Beiyuan didn't even need to harass him anymore. He could keep his side alive just by waiting. sleepy.

Just at this time, a sudden change occurred!

In the originally dead and empty city, suddenly, dense gunshots came to mind, and they fired wildly. The muzzle protruding from an unknown corner was aimed at the formation of the Great Xia Army, and the howling shells exploded in the crowd one after another.

Debris and debris were flying all over the sky, the earth trembled, dust and gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield in an instant, and there were screams and shouts of killing.

The empty city on the opposite side is full of bunkers, but our side is forced to be exposed to the open wilderness. This is almost a one-sided strangulation!A strangling of dozens of enemies with a few people!

In a panic, Gu Ban ordered the entire line to retreat, and the thousand guerrillas in Beiyuan's ambush in Linfeng City immediately launched a charge. After dropping thousands of corpses, Gu Ban's remnant soldiers managed to escape.

When they fled back to the supply city of the Zhucheng Alliance, there were only more than 3 people left in this army, and the loss was as high as [-]%!

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Underground Bastion Command.

The structure here is solid and simple, a few wooden tables, a few maps, and thick information stacked on the table, which can be burned at any time if the situation changes.

The kerosene lamps on the walls illuminate the stern faces.

Xiao Meng frowned: "Master Marshal, our army was forced to divide into two groups, and the combat power was divided into two. The number is already at a disadvantage. If the Eastern Front does not achieve a decisive victory, it will be detrimental to our army. .”

"A small city like Linfeng City has a small population. We can relocate all the residents and rebuild it in the future, but other cities can't."

Teng Changqing scratched his head and scratched his head: "That freshly baked steel guy from the armament factory, why not release it, it will definitely surprise the enemies on the Eastern Front!"

Yan Zui was holding a vermilion pen in his hand, and he was writing something salsa on the battle report. Hearing this, he raised his head and shook his head slowly: "That is our last trump card. The current production is limited, so we can't use it easily. Besides..."

He lowered his head and sipped his hot tea: "The [-] troops of Manxi and Daxia are only used to throw stones and ask for directions. Even if they are completely destroyed in the north, they will not be able to hurt the opponent, but will anger the two empires."

Xiao Meng: "What do you mean? They will continue to increase their troops?"

Yan Zui's attitude is resolute: "It will definitely. Unless the enemy completely loses confidence in defeating Beiyuan, and the loss is too great for him to bear, otherwise, this will be a long-term war of attrition that keeps adding fuel."

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As if to confirm Yan Zui's assertion, after the battle report from the front was sent back to the Zhucheng Alliance and the two empires, they received completely different reactions.

City Lord Moon couldn't believe it. The Imperial Legion, which had a huge advantage, retreated to the front line without even a decent battle!

There was a penetrating dead silence in the meeting hall of the Zhucheng Alliance, and the nobles began to be afraid. If this continues, what they will get is a nightmare worse than surrender. The imperial army can pat their butts and leave, but they have to stay in the Northland and wait for the North Yuan's revenge!

And the reaction of the two empires was more simple and rude-increasing troops!reinforce!Increase grain!

As the most powerful force in the mainland, he was defeated one after another in front of a small kingdom that had risen only a few years ago?What a shame!

It won't be long before such a victory will become a big joke, spreading throughout the entire continent, making the imperial family unable to hold their heads up!

Relying on their huge heritage and accumulation, the two empires are not afraid of any war of attrition at all. Even if they know that the Beiyuan Kingdom is a hole, they still have the strength and confidence to fill it up!

No one expected the war that started in autumn to last for three months.

Manxi and Daxia continued to send reinforcements to the east and west fronts. There was an endless supply of food, grass and weapons. The reinforcements were 15, 20, [-]... Such a terrifying number of troops has already accounted for half of Beiyuan's total population.

If every soldier stood hand in hand on the Beiyuan border, they could even encircle Beiyuan Kingdom.

This kind of military power is enough to destroy any small and medium-sized kingdom in the Dawn Continent.

Once the empire's powerful war machine is launched, the pressure on Beiyuan's army will suddenly increase!

A guerrilla army of 2000 or even thousands of people, in the face of an overly large number of enemies, is no longer able to do much damage. Instead, they are dangerously and dangerously surrounded by the enemy from time to time.

The eastern and western fronts were forced to keep shrinking in the empire's crowd-crushing tactics.

Just when the legions of the two empires were about to close together to complete the double-teaming of Beiyuan, and wiped out Beiyuan's remaining tens of thousands of remnants in one fell swoop, steel huts with strange shapes suddenly appeared on the battlefield!

The whole body of the two-meter-high hut is made of poured steel. There are several black windows on the front, back, left, and right sides, and a faint gun barrel protrudes. Two constantly rotating tracks support the "iron house" forward like wheels.

They look huge, cumbersome, and slow, but they are cold, strong, and indestructible.

These behemoths, named "tanks" by Shen Qingze himself, appeared on the battlefield like real gods of death, savagely entering the enemy's position.

Not afraid of bows and arrows, swords and guns, not even fire, not afraid of water, they are like moving steel fortresses, surrounded by thousands of enemy troops, harvesting the lives of the enemies almost recklessly!

Such a ruthless war harvester completely surpassed the upper limit of everyone's cognition. In front of them, the crowd tactics lost all advantages and functions in an instant, and the Eastern and Western Empires were suddenly stunned!

Facing the seemingly flawless steel armor, the only thing the Imperial Legion was lucky about was that there were not too many of them. All they could do was fill the lives of their soldiers. After sacrificing hundreds or even thousands of people, they could barely Smash a Beiyuan tank.

New battle reports from the front line were sent to the imperial palace one after another. Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops, Bei Yuan still stood firm and never showed any signs of defeat!

Soon, the upper echelons of the empire realized inconceivably that if they continued to spend like this, they would be the first to lose it!

The two fronts in the east and west require double the supply of food and grass. The northern land is vast and sparsely populated. The Zhucheng Alliance has long been unable to afford food and drink for hundreds of thousands of troops, and can only rely on the delivery of food and grass within the empire.

The waterway is impassable. Beiyuan's steel fleet dominates the river, and the land road can always be attacked by guerrillas.

While maintaining the war, Beiyuan can also rely on its powerful steel fleet to come and go freely in the Beiyuan Canal, and always maintain business contacts with the Blue Sky Merchant Alliance.

Even more frightening is Beiyuan's strong industrial production capacity.

The artillery and firearms equipped by the Eastern and Western Empires required a large number of experienced craftsmen to build them by hand day and night. Even if the craftsmen from all over the country were forcibly summoned, the firearms produced every month were pitifully small, and the supplies could not cover the consumption at all.

And Beiyuan's armament factory has long been a steam-powered assembly line process. Under full power, the monthly limit production capacity is several times the sum of the eastern and western empires!

If one tank is destroyed, Beiyuan can quickly produce two, if one field gun is scrapped, ten can be built in half a month, and if ten guns are lost, one can be transported to the front line on the same day, bullets, shells and other consumables, It is even more astronomical.

In such a war, numbers have gradually lost their meaning.

As the battle line stretched and time passed, the firearms, weapons, and soldiers of the two empires were fighting less and less, but they found out in despair that Beiyuan's tanks and guns were fighting more and more!

Such a tenacious and mighty Beiyuan Kingdom used war for the first time to show the horror of industrial mass production in front of the world!

The upper echelon of the imperial family, who had made a menacing expedition to the north at the beginning, has really fallen into a difficult situation:

If you continue to join the war, it is very likely that you will all be buried in the Beiyuan Meat Grinder, and your vitality will be severely damaged in the end; but if you stop at this time, even if you can stop the loss, the cost of sinking in the early stage will be unrewarded, and you still cannot escape the fate of fiasco .

In the shadow of increasingly diminishing hope of victory, the remaining 30 troops of the two empires finally pushed to the front line in one go, reaching the last line of defense in Beiyuan.

Once the line of defense is successfully torn, the Imperial Legion will drive straight into Yuanliu City. On the contrary, Beiyuan Kingdom will use this battle to complete its rise, step on the head of the old empire, truly stand on the Dawn Continent, and become the well-deserved overlord!

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In the cold north, the first rain in early winter came quietly.

When the soldiers who couldn't stand the severe cold were shivering, in the distant Grand Canyon, more wind and snow covered the wilderness and forests, and even the lake was covered with thick ice.

The food was getting less and less day by day, and the major orc tribes recovered from the melee and hunger, and began to turn their attention to the warm south again, just around the corner.