Chapter 424: 424 heading north
Chapter 424 Chapter 424 Going North
The winner can always be proud. The 1st battalion commander glanced at Mirage Wuchun, who was following him carefully, and continued to move forward disdainfully.
He was not very familiar with things in the city, so he could only bring this captive officer with him so that he could introduce the basic situation in the city.
As we walked, the battalion commander became disgusted. He saw a row of corpses hanging from an archway on the street.
That was a row of corpses of Zheng people, all wearing military uniforms. It seemed that they had been hanging here for some time.
1The battalion commander paused, looked at Xiong Wuchun, and asked in a long voice: "I said, what does this mean?"
Mirage Wuchun cautiously raised his head and glanced at the hanging corpse, and hurriedly explained: "The Zheng people were dissatisfied with our army's occupation and attacked our patrolling soldiers in the middle of the night, so we killed some prisoners of war and hung them here to warn those Diehards…”
“That’s a good idea.” Battalion Commander 1 showed a fierce smile on his face: “I really should hang you up there!”
After he finished speaking, he looked at his adjutant: "Let the prisoners of war from the Mirage Kingdom put down the body and bury it properly."
The adjutant was stunned for a moment, then nodded, turned around and said, "Did you hear that?"
The officer behind him also nodded, and then trotted away.
1 The battalion commander looked again at Mirage Wuchun, who was getting more and more nervous, snorted and continued walking forward. How to deal with these prisoners, he must listen to the orders from above, not according to his own temper.
On the other side, after Bernard learned that the 2nd regiment had arrived at Fengshun City and the port had been captured, he immediately turned the transport fleet that had not yet finished unloading to Fengshun City.
There was no way. Unloading heavy weapons and equipment in the wilderness was too slow. They spent all their efforts to get half of the heavy equipment carried by the 1st Regiment ashore.
These equipment are not weapons such as artillery and machine guns. Most of these weapons have been sent ashore to participate in the battle due to combat needs.
The remaining equipment is very large and difficult to transport, and it is not easy to load and unload using a landing boat. It is really a problem.
Including transport carriages, cars, generators, large field tents, spare weapons and ammunition, etc.
The materials that arrived at Fengshun Port with the 2nd Regiment were more and more miscellaneous: these troops even brought cement and some steel bars to renovate and strengthen the port, repair port facilities, and expand port throughput...
The following fleets carried even more chaos. Some ships carried production machinery, large generators and boiler equipment, and they seemed to have developed in the direction of the production and construction corps.
These are all materials prepared to transform Fengshun City, or Dongwan Island, into an advance base. More than half of them are no longer prepared for the battle of Dongwan Island.
Because in Tang Mo's view, the battle of Dongwan Island, in which Datang Group's 1st Division fought against the troops stationed on the island of Mirage, was actually a trivial matter.
He did not think that the 1st Division would lose the battle at all, and he did not even think that the 1st Division would suffer heavy losses in this battle.
What's more, Datang Group regards Dongwan Island as a springboard to attack Zheng Guo, and the follow-up troops have also begun to move here.
According to Tang Mo's attack plan, Datang Group will accumulate up to 6 to 7 divisions on Dongwan Island in the future, with a total force of close to 100,000 people.
A large number of warships, air force airships and even fighter jets must also be deployed. How could a modern force of this size be defeated by an army that was even more backward than the Qing Dynasty?
Therefore, in Tang Mo's view, the most difficult thing in the battle of Dongwan Island is not to capture Dongwan Island, but how to build Dongwan Island as soon as possible.
Because of this, Tang Mo had already started thinking about transporting the subsequent construction teams to the island before the battle on Dongwan Island was completely over.
The civilians in Fengshun City were still quite wary of the unknown troops who invaded the city. Liu Zhu, who followed the troops all the way to Fengshun City, originally wanted to say goodbye to Cao Fei and go back, but when he saw the sky After the airship, I couldn’t bear to leave.
Even if he was just looking at it from a distance, he was full of curiosity about this huge Shark Kirov airship flying in the sky.
Having lived on Dongwan Island all his life, he has never seen such a huge machine flying in the sky. At this moment, he remembered Cao Fei's words again, and he looked forward to his future life a little more.
In the city, beside the archway across the street, a group of Mirage captives carrying ladders were busy. They were carrying down the mummies hanging on the archway. They were lying there one by one, with some tattered clothes covering them. .
There were some brave civilians watching all this. At that time, they dared not speak out about this kind of torture of prisoners. Now that they saw these corpses being untied, they felt an inexplicable sadness in their hearts.
Some people were sobbing softly, while others were just watching blankly. The whole city was submerged in a strange silence, and no sound could be heard.
In Dongwan City, Mirage Martial Bear walked around anxiously in his headquarters. He already knew the news about the fall of Fengshun City.
Because the fleet stationed in the port of Fengshun City had already received news before the entire army was annihilated, reporting that the defenders had surrendered and that they were being flanked.
Mirage Martial Bear actually doesn't care about the remaining fleet in Fengshun City. What he cares about is the shocking news sent by the fleet: the enemy has a machine that can fly in the sky. It is huge. Like a shark.
This kind of war machine flying in the sky made Mirage Wuxiong feel unprecedented pressure: because he was too familiar with these things, Mirage State defeated Zheng State and captured Dongwan Island with the help of new weapons.
This time, the enemy has taken out weapons flying in the sky. Doesn’t the Mirage also face the risk of defeat?
Thinking of this, Mirage Wuxiong became extremely anxious, so he could only walk in circles like this, making Mirage Wenmao next to him equally upset.
"General! You, you have to think of a way! Once Fengshun City is lost, the enemy will soon point their finger at us!" Mirage Wenmao is a civil servant. What he fears most is that Dongwan City has become a battlefield.
Originally, the Mirage Kingdom occupied Dongwan Island, and Mirage Wenmao desperately fought for the opportunity to make money here. Who would have thought that such a lucrative position would turn into a hot potato.
Earlier, which of the islands that occupied Zheng was not rich in oil and water? Who among the officials dispatched to these places did not make a lot of money?
But who would have thought, it was his turn to be rich in literature, and his life suddenly became miserable. An island as big as Dongwan Island was about to be lost...
"What can I do? Huh?" Mirage Wuxiong frowned and looked at Mirage Wenmao: "I have sent out the telegram asking for help, and I have done everything I can do. What do you think I can do? ?”
He has actually done everything he can: there are 30,000 troops on the island, and now one-third has been lost.
At present, almost all the troops he can assemble are near Dongwan City. With 20,000 troops standing firm in the city, all that was left was to leave it to fate.
The Mirage State is not particularly poorly informed, at least it is much better than their old rival Zheng State. After hearing Mirage Martial Bear's report, he immediately judged some basic situations.
The invading enemy troops must be equipped with new bolt-action rifles and even so-called heavy machine guns that Cyric can also produce.
These weapons and equipment are expensive. Although their performance is good, the mirage country really does not have the extra funds to install them on a large scale.
But the war has broken out, and Mirage had to bite the bullet and re-order a large number of new weapons from Cyric in order to protect Dongwan Island and preserve the fruits of its victory.
On the one hand, the senior officials of Mirage Kingdom told Mirage Wuxiong about the new weapons, telling him not to be afraid and to resolutely defend Dongwan City at all costs.
On the other hand, the top leaders of the Mirage Kingdom also assured Mirage Wuxiong that reinforcements equipped with new weapons would be shipped to Dongwan Island later to reassure him.
With these two protections, Mirage Martial Bear finally felt confident, and then he continued to mobilize his troops and prepared to fight to the death in Dongwan City regardless of the cost.
But after all, Mirage Wuxiong had no combat experience with new weapons, and he didn't know how to dig trenches and other tactics, so he didn't make good use of the precious waiting time.
There is no way around this. After all, even if he knows this tactic, the 20,000 fusiliers in his hands cannot rely on trenches to fight, right?
New tactics are created by new weapons. It is impossible to use new tactics in combat with old weapons.
Do you think that if a second-generation or third-generation aircraft breaks through defenses like the F22, will it die miserably? Are you talking about whether it is possible to successfully intercept the DF-17 with standard type 2 missiles?
So, Mirage Bear gathered his troops and set up camp, just like a fool, waiting for his reinforcements and the arrival of the enemy...
On the other side, the troops of the 1st and 2nd regiments have begun to prepare and assemble, heading north along the road towards Dongwan City.
Three days have passed since the 1st Regiment landed on Dongwan Island, and according to their current marching speed, it is estimated that it will take another three days to reach Dongwan Port.
Sadly, the airship unit that was originally planned to follow the battle had to stay put and was unable to participate in the battle due to problems such as malfunctions and insufficient filling gas.
However, the navy is as stable as ever - after Fengshun City replenished the coal reserves of the Mirage Navy, the Datang Group's naval fleet went north as planned to search for the remaining fleet of the Mirage Navy and start a decisive battle.
As for the Mirage Navy, a reinforcement fleet is also moving south to reinforce Dongwan Island. This fleet consists of 15 paddle-wheel warships as the main force, and it also brings along almost all the sailing warships that can be found.
The commander of this fleet is the man from the sea who had previously attacked the Datang Group's merchant fleet.
(End of this chapter)