Chapter 238: 238 I am also helpless
Chapter 238 238 I am also helpless
"Oh, everything here is really annoying. The bugs here are much bigger than those in my hometown!" He cut off a vine with the machete in his hand, and a soldier from the Talon Kingdom walked forward. While complaining.
It is not an easy task to drive in such an unlucky place. Everything here is still in a primitive and undeveloped state. It is definitely very difficult to find a road.
Another soldier crushed a passing bug and cursed with the same disgust: "Damn it, we've been walking for a day and a night, and we haven't caught the **** who shot, nor have we found a decent road...Here Is there really a town?"
They have been walking in this forest for a day and a night. Before they reach their destination, dozens of them have lost their way and disappeared in this large forest full of mystery.
The plan to sneak attack on that **** town whose name I don’t know seems to be bankrupt, or it can only be completed by the navy’s warships.
What they have to do now is to get there as soon as possible so that they can replenish and replenish their troops and have some fun in the new town.
There must be a lot of women in a small town, right? Or boys too, in short they are not picky eaters.
In addition, there must be gold coins and some treasures in the town, and there may even be a rich noble.
As long as you search a lot, you can always find a way to make a fortune. Coupled with the rewards of opening up the land, their trip this time was considered worthwhile.
Thinking of this, they moved forward a little faster. Howson stood in what was barely a clearing, overseeing his troops as they meandered through the jungle.
This was completely inconsistent with his plan, because he was not prepared to fight a non-existent enemy on Dragon Island.
His troops only carried a small amount of supplies, not much ammunition, and because they had traveled across the ocean, they did not even carry cannons.
These soldiers who had already gone into battle lightly did not even carry tents, so they rushed into the forest in a daze.
Then, these soldiers of the Talon Kingdom were taught a lesson by nature. They slept overnight in the jungle without any camping equipment.
They lost three soldiers this night, and seven or eight soldiers were missing. In addition to the stragglers and strays along the way, they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and there were only about thirty people missing.
Coupled with the 20 soldiers who stayed to watch the landing site, Hausen's offensive force had less than 450 soldiers left.
"Sir! Sir!" Just as the troops were struggling to advance slowly and slowly in the forest, Haosen's adjutant walked up behind his commander, his face full of surprise and nervousness.
Seeing the expression of his men, Haosen also realized something, but he still continued to ask: "What's wrong?"
The adjutant gave up the road and led Haosen to the bank of a small river along a temporarily opened path.
The view here is relatively open and the terrain is high. You can see the forest on the other side of the river. The adjutant pointed not far away and said to Haosen: "You, you'd better come over and take a look at this."
"Huh?" Haosen looked at the adjutant's fingers, and then saw a sight that surprised him.
He couldn't even believe his eyes, and couldn't believe that what he saw was real: "What is this?"
When he saw the chimneys of the oil refinery on Long Island connected one after another, with black smoke billowing at the end of the forest on the other side of the river, he was completely stunned.
He never expected to see a factory here, a factory that had no idea what it was used for.
In the Talon Kingdom, there are naturally factories, or in their hometown, such factories are called workshops.
And there are not many types of workshops that emit black smoke and produce non-stop day and night. Most of them are Cyric's arsenals!
As an officer, he had never seen such a large-scale workshop, so he immediately re-evaluated the so-called small town on the island.
"Are you kidding? There are at least a thousand workers in such a workshop..." the adjutant standing behind him muttered in a low voice: "If you include small towns, they might have 2,000 or even 3,000 workers..."
"Maybe they have a lot of troops." For the first time, Haosen doubted his own judgment. He doubted whether he had the strength to control the entire island immediately.
The number of troops defending so many chimneys is estimated to be at least 300. In a fight with such troops, even if his troops win, it may not be a tragic victory.
Now he had only one advantage, and that was the possibility that his troops had not yet been discovered, and that no one knew of their arrival.
Moreover, the navy's warships must have arrived here before them, so the other party must have focused all their attention on the sea.
Perhaps the town has succeeded. The battleships have destroyed the enemy's port, the enemy's fleet has been destroyed, and all the troops on the shore have been mobilized near the coastline. There is a possibility that as long as he launches an attack, the opponent will be attacked from two sides and collapse in an instant, and then he will be able to win the battle.
After assuming a lot of possibilities, he felt that the attack should be launched on time - this is also the reason why most commanders launch inexplicable suicide attacks in an era of poor information.
According to the agreement, several armies separated to attack together, but in the end only one army arrived on time. The commander did not know that the other armies were overdue, so he launched his own attack and was easily defeated by the superior enemy.
By the time other troops arrived on the battlefield, the troops that launched the attack in advance had long been annihilated by the enemy.
The current situation is like this. Haosen has no idea what is going on, and he does not dare to easily change the battle plan he has drawn up before, so he can only honestly execute it in accordance with the battle plan he has drawn up before.
So, he issued an attack order and asked all soldiers to prepare as soon as possible and prepare to attack those seemingly advanced facilities.
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Hand in front of Haosen, there is indeed the oil refinery of Datang Group. The gasoline and other products it produces every day supply the daily consumption of about 2,000 cars in Longdao and Bunas.
In terms of scale alone, this may be the largest oil refining base in the world today, and its technology is also the most advanced.
Even, Tang Mo has a small plastic workshop here, which is used to produce some petroleum extension products to meet many needs.
It is an important production base of Datang Group, so it is also a key defense target of Datang Group. On weekdays, two companies of troops are stationed here, and now they have all entered their own defensive positions.
In fact, compared with the defensive bunkers built previously in Bunas, the defenses here are very crude.
Datang Group's defense forces only built defense lines on the surrounding highlands and arranged for people to be stationed there, which was considered to have completed the defense.
After all, there are no foreign enemies to invade here on weekdays. The most important thing the defenders do is to drive away some wild beasts that accidentally break into the factory area.
Furthermore, since we don’t know when we will continue to expand the factory, building outer fortifications is a complete waste of time.
Before the cement solidifies, factories may have to occupy the land of these fortifications to expand their factories.
Therefore, Roger agreed with Tiger’s method of saving human resources and raw materials—building trenches and simply setting up some firepower points.
They feel that as long as they discover an enemy invasion and let their fleet destroy the enemy's maritime power, they can ensure the safety of Dragon Island. Building defenses inside the island is a complete waste of time.
A soldier on duty on the position walked behind his comrade who was about to change the guard, and leaned his rifle against the edge of the trench: "How is it? Is there anything going on?"
“I didn’t see a single thing...” the soldier on duty complained as he put down the telescope in his hand and rubbed his sore eyes.
He handed the latest binoculars to his companions who came to change shifts, and then said with a look of disdain: "Maybe they didn't come at all, maybe they were lost...or maybe they went to other defense lines...Anyway, they were late. "
According to the standard marching speed of the Datang Group, they should have seen the enemy more than five hours ago. But the enemy they obviously overestimated seemed to have no way of reaching the marching speed of Datang Group's security forces.
It's okay now, it's already noon, and the opponent hasn't appeared yet. They don't even know if the opponent has taken the wrong path.
"Hey! Look! Birds!" Before the new soldier took the telescope and picked it up, he saw a swarm of birds in the jungle.
He picked up the telescope and looked at the edge of the forest that was still smoking in the distance and had been burned down seven or eight days ago. The Datang Group has been continuously clearing land. They are burning down forests one by one, and then turning them into factory land or farmland.
At the end of the black and gray land, a soldier carrying a weapon walked out of the bushes. Then, a second person walked out from behind the soldier, a third person... a fourth person...
These people stood by the woods, waiting for more people to come out of the woods, and then they formed a team by the woods, seeming to be preparing to attack.
The soldiers of the Datang Group's security forces stationed in the trenches have entered a state of combat readiness at this moment. They are leaning in the hidden trenches, observing the unknown enemy in the distance through the gaps between the weeds.
"Just a few people?" Seeing that he could no longer wait for the enemy's follow-up troops, the leading company commander looked at his deputy in embarrassment.
His deputy looked at the Maxim heavy machine gun beside him, as well as the two shooters, plus and minus, and made an expression of "I am also helpless": "The message does say... there are less than 500 of them."
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Long Ling stayed up late at night and wrote very slowly. Let’s read the second chapter tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)