Chapter 1167: 1168 old horse

Chapter 1167: 1168 old horse

 Chapter 1167 1168 Lao Ma

It is true that the Mirage Kingdom does not even have enough artillery shells, because some places have more stockpiles and some places have less stockpiles, so it is not that the total number is insufficient, but that there is a shortage in local areas.

The direction of Dingcheng has always been the focus of the attack by the orc troops, so the amount of artillery shells consumed is very large. The fierce attacks for several days have allowed the Mirage to use up most of the artillery shells in reserve.

 The remaining shells should be used with caution, so it would be redundant to throw precious shells at the lost position.

Shanlu, who captured this fighter plane, immediately ordered two more regiments of troops to be pressed towards Dingcheng, continuing to put pressure on the goblin defenders.

On the rugged road, a mirage goblin led a thin war horse and walked forward listlessly. He is a transport soldier, responsible for transporting supplies to Dingcheng.

  Similar work used to be done by train. Unfortunately, trains can no longer approach the direction of Dingcheng. The Tang Empire used H-6 bombers to blow up the railway, and they would come to make up for the damage regularly. The Mirage Kingdom was no longer able to repair it.

The railways are blocked, and trains cannot easily drive out during the day, so we have to rely on other transportation methods. Cars are obviously not suitable, because cars consume precious gasoline, so cattle and horses have become the only alternative.

 Fortunately, the Mirage itself is not highly mechanized, and there are still a lot of war horses and oxen left, so it is still possible to improvise some.

The Mirage soldier in front of him was a farmer before he was captured to join the army. He could raise horses, and what he was holding behind him was his most valuable property, a horse he raised.

 This horse has been with him for three years, and he is even more attentive to it than to his wife. In the farming world, labor such as cattle and horses are more valuable than women.

In order to save horsepower, the goblin even carried two cannonballs on his horse's back. These 100mm-caliber cannonballs were very heavy, and walking several kilometers behind him was really torturous.

There is a cloth bag hanging on the horse's back. Three artillery shells of the same caliber are installed on both sides of the bag. In this way, one person and one horse can carry 8 artillery shells at a time, plus a small amount of lighter items, such as clothes. Class, that's all the horses can transport.

 This is a mode of transportation gradually invented by the Mirage during the war: personal transportation. Collect supplies from the rear, most of which are weapons and equipment that are of little use after being taken away by individuals, and then find a way to transport them to the front line.

In this way, those who receive supplies on the front line only need to exchange stamped bills for these weapons. In this way, it can be broken into parts and ammunition and weapons and equipment can be sent to the location.

 Why not use a carriage? Because it takes time to make a carriage, and the carriage is also easy to be discovered and attacked by enemy air units, making it difficult to hide.

 Another reason is that a large number of horse-drawn carriages have been gathered together to transport materials that they dare not leave to individuals. These supplies can only be handed over to dedicated logistics supply troops for transportation. If they are given to individuals, they will definitely be lost.

Similar supplies include rice, flour, medicine, etc. These things are useful to ordinary people. As long as you dare to let people take these things and walk away by themselves, they will dare to take these things to other places...

Therefore, the materials transported by individuals are basically artillery shells, bullets, and a small number of heavy machine guns: such things cannot be used by individuals, and they cannot be exchanged for anything if they are taken away, and no one dares to take them.

This goblin was walking on the side of the road like this. This was not the first day he had walked this road, and it was not the first time he had done such a job.

Although he has a unit and is issued a helmet, in fact people like him are not trusted. If he hadn't known how to raise horses and had horses at home, he would probably have died somewhere.

 He has a military uniform, a steel helmet, and even a pistol and two rounds of ammunition: these equipment are so that he can intimidate the villagers passing by the village and protect his belongings.

 To put it bluntly, it is just a piece of tiger skin, used to scare the villagers in the mountains. Why not give more? Because even Cyric's flintlocks were not in sufficient quantity.

 That’s right! The Mirage State distributed the old Cyric flintlocks that had been eliminated for more than ten years that had been piled up in the warehouse and had not had time to be destroyed to the soldiers who were delivering supplies.

 After all, all the good weapons were sent to the front line, and some Cyric flintlock rifles were also distributed to the front line soldiers as bayonet weapons. The rest of these things were used by the delivery people for self-defense.

After all, he is also a soldier, and he is also responsible for the relatively important task of transporting supplies. It is unreasonable not to give him a weapon for self-defense.

Having no choice but to bring it, and having too much to carry, the goblin soldier put the broken gun, two rounds of bullets, and some gunpowder that might have been damp and caked in the duffel bag carried by his old horse.

When he was really in trouble, he felt that the hatchet hanging on his waist was more effective than the fire stick: even if he had time to reload, it was still questionable whether the thing could ring. This thing is not as useful as a kettle. Obviously, a military kettle is much more considerate to a soldier on the road than a gun that cannot fire.

In fact, no one bothered him. There was no use in taking back a few cannonballs from ordinary people. Even if they did meet a robber, they would not want those cannonballs because they were interested in the hatchet on his waist. The odds are even higher with kettles.

Moreover, the current situation is that the civilians in the Mirage Kingdom have already run away when they see those in military uniforms. They are all afraid that they will be arrested and sent to the front line. How can they dare to bring bad luck to the soldiers?

 So he didn't even see a single person along the way, neither soldiers nor civilians.

Frankly speaking, walking on such a road is quite boring, and carrying heavy ammunition is not comfortable, so such work is very boring.

Maybe it’s good to find such a job. After all, this is a war period. If you don’t want to die, you will have to endure all kinds of grievances.

While walking, he saw a car that was destroyed on the road. This car has been abandoned here for who knows how long, and it is already covered in rust.

Many parts on the truck have been dismantled and taken away, and the remaining parts are awkwardly left there. It is probably too late to recycle them.

The Mirage is indeed very short of steel, but not many people dare to approach these destroyed cars. At first, some tow trucks were indeed found to get these cars away, but later the tow trucks began to be lost and the troops began to run out of fuel. Such complete vehicle recycling became rare.

However, people passing by will often search for some dismantling parts from these car wrecks and take them back to exchange for something.

This goblin soldier led his old horse to a position almost parallel to the abandoned and damaged car, and then he saw a bullet hole in the engine hood in front of the vehicle.

 The windshield of the cab has been broken, and some dark things can still be seen on it. The driver's seat itself was made of wood, with dried blood and some shards of glass on it.

The driver of the car has disappeared. It is estimated that someone helped collect the body. Some of the handrails of the car, including the steering wheel, have been removed.

The driver must be dead, otherwise there wouldn't be so much blood in the cab. And he left very peacefully, as you can tell by looking at the hole in the driver's seat.

It is estimated that a 20 mm caliber cannon penetrated the cab: the driver was broken into pieces on the spot, and the person in the co-pilot next to him was probably also dead. Some flying objects should have hit the unlucky guy.

If you are lucky, this unlucky guy should be able to save his life... But he has been hit, how can he be lucky? Thinking like this, the goblin soldier passed the car that was leaning and paralyzed on the road.

Along the way, there were many such cars, as well as some fragments of wooden carriages: broken wheels, and some broken boards and parts. Occasionally, you can see the corpse of a war horse, or a skeleton: the meat has rotted, and most of it has been torn away by animals or people before it rotted.

This is the disadvantage of carriage transportation. Even if an enemy plane is discovered, they will not have time to hide. However, the carriage also has an advantage, that is, a horse can transport ten times more materials, which greatly improves the efficiency.

Unfortunately, due to the plane blockade of the Tang Army and the Orcs, now we can only use horse-drawn carriages to deliver supplies to Dingcheng at night. During the day, these convoys will soon be discovered and attacked.

As mentioned before, this type of carriage usually transports grain. It is impossible to send regular troops to **** it without forming a team. Therefore, the size of the convoy cannot be small, and naturally it cannot leave during the day.

Therefore, although the efficiency of transportation is higher, there is no way to transport it during the day, and more soldiers are needed to guard it. In fact, it does not improve much when coming and going.

You can still see bullet holes on the bumpy roads, which were left by the Orcs' IL attack aircraft. The opponent would shoot close to the ground and sieve the targets it saw.

"Hurry up, old man..." The goblin pulled his horse. He didn't know if he had been depressed for a long time and started talking to his own horse.

 He ​​didn’t carry any disassembly tools, although many people who did the same job as him would make some tools themselves and then scavenge some parts from cars along the way. But he didn't bring it. He felt that carrying two shells was already heavy enough, and there was no need to increase his load for other things.

 Some of the surrounding trees have fallen down, because the bombing is likely to affect these trees. If you look down on this road from the sky, it is actually no different from the surface of the moon.

 (End of this chapter)