Chapter 638: 638 Savage at heart
Chapter 638 638 Savage at heart
Huge battleships like mountains sail on the sea. This is an ultimate maritime weapon built by Cyric and comparable to the East Bay-class battleship.
The battleship is longer and wider than the Dongwan-class battleship, has a larger gun caliber, and is slower...of course. Mirage purchased this type of battleship to fight against the Dongwan-class battleships of the Tang Navy.
At this moment, sitting on this battleship is Kazuo Mirage, the commander of the Mirage Navy. This naval admiral had provoked Datang Group before, but he is still living a happy life.
But now there is a problem before him. His fleet cannot take care of the entire route from Beiyuan to Mirage Kingdom, so the transport ships of Mirage Kingdom have been lost a lot recently.
The three or four cruisers of the Tang Army fought alone and were active on this route. They engaged in hit-and-run operations, leaving the Mirage Navy exhausted but unable to capture any Tang Navy warships.
Looking at the bodies of the sailors of the Mirage transport ship floating on the sea, the expression on the face of the Mirage man was extremely ugly.
He owns the largest battleship in the world, but his enemies are unwilling to fight an upright battle with him.
“Are these **** just hiding?” He stood on the bridge, watching his sailors dejectedly salvaging bodies from the sea, looking for the few pitiful survivors.
There are indeed survivors. Although this place is very close to the North Sea and the temperature of the sea water is very low, there are still some people who can survive by chance.
It's just that there are very few people who are lucky to survive. Sometimes there are hundreds of corpses floating densely on the sea, and only a few people are still breathing when they are picked up.
This is far from the true number of losses in the Mirage: in fact, more army soldiers sank with the ship - not everyone in the island country can swim, and it is not unusual for the ship to sink to the bottom of the sea. Not to mention, if there are people carrying equipment when they fall into the water, it will sink faster.
The loss of people is secondary to the Mirage Kingdom. What hurts the big bosses is the loss of weapons and equipment that were produced with great difficulty.
As one transport ship after another was sunk, hundreds of cannons of various types, tens of thousands of shells, and millions of bullets sank into the sea.
You must know that these arms were all planned to be transported to Beiyuan City to participate in the war, but now they have sunk into the bottomless sea and will never see the light of day again.
The true number of losses has not yet been calculated. Simply calculating the total number of troops and munitions offshore, subtracting the portion received by Beiyuan City, a rough calculation has already made the navy's senior officials furious.
There is nothing they can do, they themselves cannot stand the loss. The army generals yelled at the meeting that the navy was harming the country, making the navy's top brass unable to hold their heads high.
As a front-line combat commander, Mirage Kazuo has been desperately searching for the main force of the Tang Navy to prepare for a decisive battle.
He believed that only by destroying the main fleet of the Tang Army could it be possible to protect the entire route and no longer have to worry about harassment by enemy warships.
It's just that recently he led the Mirage Navy fleet, bumping around like a headless fly on the sea, and couldn't find any Tang Army warships at all.
The opponent's speed is higher than theirs, and they all act alone, which makes the Mirage Navy also waste a lot of fuel and time.
Just when Mirage Kazuo was angrily thinking about sinking the Tang Army's warship again in his mind, a subordinate brought good news.
"General! We have found some survivors!" An officer pushed the drowning man who was still wearing wet clothes to the front with excitement on his face.
"They are going south! I can see it clearly!" After the drowned goblin saw the man from Mirage, he immediately said: "They are all a group of devils! A group of devils!"
Nearly all the survivors found will say this, because the other party does not accept surrender or take prisoners, but simply attacks and hits and runs.
Only a group of helpless poor people were left floating on the sea, either drowned, frozen to death, or directly eaten by sharks... It was simply miserable.
"South?...South." A man from Mirage frowned, rubbing his chin, thinking carefully about the enemy's movements.
Before, he asked a survivor who fell into the water, and the other person swore that he saw the enemy ship heading north. As a result, now he heard another statement, saying that the enemy ships were heading south.
His fleet has been chasing the opponent's warships for three days. In the past three days, the opponent has changed its direction several times, and this time it was the most exaggerated.
“They returned to the south route again?” the adjutant said to Mirage Kazuo.
Mirage Kazuo shook his head and said: "If the calculation is correct, the opponent's warships don't have much supplies left. This time, heading south, maybe really heading south to leave the war zone and return to supply supplies."
In fact, he guessed it right, because the Weigang-class cruiser really returned to replenish supplies. Although there are still many artillery shells that can continue to fight, its fuel and the food it carries are not enough.
This Tang Army warship, which has achieved the glorious record of sinking 7 transport ships of the Mirage Kingdom, is happily heading towards Linshui Port at this moment. It has to be said that although Mirage has done many evil things, he is still a very professional naval general. With just some oral confessions, he almost caught up with the Tang Army's cruiser.
At the same time, at the port of Beiyuan City, Mirage Musaburo was looking at the destroyed port in a daze.
The port in front of him had been bombarded continuously for several days and had almost lost the ability to unload cargo. The other party doesn't seem to want this city at all, and they drop countless bombs every day.
The port terminal is out of use, and unloading troops has become a troublesome task. Many ships had to park far away, and then use sampans and boats to ferry them back and forth to bring reinforcements and equipment ashore.
In this way, soldiers, light weapons and ammunition are relatively easy to handle, but heavy weapons are basically impossible to send ashore.
At this moment, Mirage Takesaburo didn't bother to blame those **** in the Navy for not showing him a way out, because his ports were destroyed, and there was no way he could pass the blame to the Navy no matter what.
"General, it seems that we can no longer obtain large-scale supplies." An officer stood beside Mirage Musaburo and reminded him.
"I know, now we can only rely on ourselves." Mirage Saburo sighed and said, "Soon, the ammunition reserve will be reduced."
"General, since we no longer have enough supplies, should we consider reducing the consumption of some supplies?" The officer continued with a cruel look on his face.
"Huh?" Mirage Wusaburo glanced at the other party and hummed.
"The 200,000 Qi people in the city consume a lot of food every day. They will compete with us for food, and may lead the way to the Tang people and leak our defense secrets. We also need to divide our troops to monitor and guard against..." The officer finished speaking his thoughts and then stopped.
Mirage Musaburo nodded, already agreeing with the officer's idea from the bottom of his heart. They really shouldn't be wasting their troops and supplies, so it's time to lighten their burden.
So, he pretended to think for a moment, and then ordered: "Don't stir up a civil uprising, or it will cause us trouble! Do it little by little, and try not to make it big."
"Yes, General!" When the officer saw Mirage Takesaburo adopting his advice, the smile on his face was sinister: "I know what to do."
“Not only must we deal with the people who consume food, but we must also find ways to get food out of their hands!” Mimu Saburo followed up with another instruction.
In his opinion, Qi Ren's life is not valuable, so if he kills him, he will kill him, but those grains are his capital to continue to defend Beiyuan City, and he must collect and control them as much as possible in the palm of his hand. .
The officer who offered the advice immediately stood at attention and saluted, and responded again: "Yes, General! I understand."
Mirage Saburo waved his hand, indicating that the other party could go about their business. Then he and his guards continued to stand at the port, looking at the Qi men who were repairing the dock, and thinking about whether to let these people go back.
Killing these people will definitely affect the progress of repairing the port terminals, and it will be even more difficult to capture so much free labor next time. So he hesitated, but this hesitation did not prove that he was still half human.
From this day on, the massacre in Beiyuan City began in a planned manner. Mirage soldiers attacked block by block, gathering civilians, and then brutally slaughtered them with bayonets.
They were unwilling to waste bullets, so in most cases they used bayonets to kill people. However, as the resistance became more and more fierce, more and more people knew the truth, and later they also used machine guns to participate in the massacre.
Records show that during the Battle of Beiyuan City, the Mirage people massacred more than 310,000 local civilians, almost killing all the Qi people in Beiyuan City.
After the end of the war, another statistics showed that Beiyuan City, which originally had a population of nearly 400,000, after including the surrounding towns and the defeated Qi army, ended up with less than 40,000 people left.
Only one-tenth of the survivors were left in the entire city, and the rest died of war, starvation, and massacre.
The city was filled with thick smoke, and the Mirage troops who looted every neighborhood set fire to some buildings. They burned corpses and evidence of crimes, and were even able to prevent the plague that might spread in the city.
What surprised them even more was that the dense smoke also obscured the field of vision and affected the bomb-dropping accuracy of some Tang Army bombers...
As for this blood debt, Tang Mo must pay it back.
In his eyes, the goblins of the Mirage Kingdom no longer have any need to exist. They will definitely be wiped off the planet by the Tang Army without leaving any traces!
(End of this chapter)