Chapter 1712: 1713 Another scene
Chapter 17121713Another scene
"At least 10,000 people have frozen to death... I'm not kidding, General! Our civilians are starving!" The wrinkles on the face of the prime minister of the Ice Empire were distorted as he spoke, making him look even older: "If the people's hearts are Collapse, the army will also be unsustainable."
"I know everything you said, but there is no way now but to wait. Prime Minister, if the transport convoy delayed by the snowfall arrives, then I can order some troops to return some of the 'requisitioned' civilian clothing." Chief of Staff Larbu explained.
In fact, the number of civilians who froze to death in Ironforge City must be far more than 10,000, but no one is actually counting such numbers now, and it is meaningless to count them.
Thousands of people freeze to death here every year in peacetime, not to mention the current state of war? In fact, everyone knows that almost thousands of civilians die in the ruins and rubble every day.
Due to the snowfall, the transport convoy that was supposed to arrive on time was late, and there was no news at all about the transport convoy that was supposed to be late.
Everyone is waiting for the follow-up supplies. After these supplies are distributed, the next war can continue.
"Actually, Mr. Prime Minister, if the arms cannot be delivered on time and the problem you are worried about does not arise at all, we will be finished." Larbu even smiled when he said this, because he really began to feel that this The war is hopeless.
In the past, he was still somewhat delusional. At least when he was formulating a counterattack plan on the eastern front and letting Marshal Xieko launch an attack, he believed that they could rely on Ironforge to persist for at least a year.
But now, he has seen through: Xie Ke's counterattack did not happen at all. The Eastern Front Army is now lingering on the east side of the city. The Western Front Army has also been compressed to the edge of the city. Now the south of the city is in danger, and Ironforge may fall into the city at any time. Heavy siege.
If a city is really under siege, it cannot rely on street fighting to survive. Especially a city that is not prepared for war at all will collapse quickly.
According to the plan, this week they should receive 50,000 Mauser rifles, 10,000 street-fighting submachine guns, at least 7,000 rocket launchers, more than 100 cannons, more than 30,000 artillery shells, 1,000 vehicles, and 150 tanks. , more than 200 armored vehicles.
This is just a rough idea. In fact, the list also includes anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and other equipment, as well as communication radios, telephones and telephone lines, small power generation equipment...
In addition to these, there is also the most important thing, grenades! The dwarves need 70,000 grenades to ensure that they have sufficient firepower in street fighting and can fight the Tang army.
However, not enough of these supplies reached Ironforge at all, and not even one-third of them were satisfied overall! The dwarves only got 20,000 grenades, thousands of rifles, 900 submachine guns this week...
There is not a single tank, the number of armored vehicles is single digits, and the number of rocket launchers is closest to the requirement, only more than 3,000.
All supplies, including fuel, are in short supply, and the dwarves are fighting the most brutal war in the most straitened state. Sometimes they had to collect all the bullet casings and send them to a temporary handicraft workshop set up in the south of the city to reload some ammunition for emergency use.
There is no guarantee of the quality of such ammunition, and it can only be used to embolden new soldiers who have just entered the battlefield. Anyway, hundreds of new recruits are killed every day. It doesn't matter whether they have reloaded bullets or regular bullets in their magazines when they die. But as the war continues to develop, reloading bullets are not enough... After all, the shells can be picked up, and gunpowder must always be in reserve. Because the transportation of materials is not smooth, the scarce resource of gunpowder is gone.
Every day, Larbu, the poor chief of staff, receives countless calls, either from the Eastern Front Army or the Western Front Army. Both sides are urging logistics supplies, but Larbu has no extra supplies to allocate to them.
As the chief of staff, he now feels like a general in charge of the logistics department. He only worries about the trivial matters of logistics every day.
"What do you mean? You mean, in such a cold winter, we may collapse first?" the prime minister asked, looking at the chief of general staff.
Larbu snorted: "Master Prime Minister, hundreds of thousands of troops consume countless supplies every day. Even if this city is a treasure, it will be hollowed out one day... The less things are sent from the south, The more things we have to deal with within Ironforge."
After speaking, he sighed: "Isn't what you are worried about caused by us not having enough supplies?"
Without waiting for the prime minister to say anything more, he continued on by himself: "When the ammunition reserves are exhausted, the front will collapse soon, the troops in the city will be divided, and the chaos will last for a few days...and then , everything is over.”
"So, what you are worried about about the thoughts of the civilians is actually not important at all. Before that day comes, we will all become prisoners...or, corpses." He pointed at himself and looked away. The way everything looks.
“Your Majesty asked yesterday when we can drive the Tang people out of Ironforge.” The prime minister did not talk about the people’s concerns, nor did he ask about the war situation. He also never mentioned material supplies, but talked about the Ice Age.
The current state of Binghan I is much better than them, because His Majesty the Emperor has always felt that the arrival of winter has changed the situation of the war. He was planning some counterattack every day, and even imagined that the elves' troops on the Western Front had recaptured Saint Lo.
It would be great if you could always be so carefree as a human being, or it could be said that the Emperor has gone crazy. He automatically blocked out all unreasonable details and only subconsciously paid attention to those illusory lies.
"His palace may enter the range of the Tang Army's artillery at any time... He is still asking such questions. In a few days, or a week, the artillery shells fall on the palace, and we may not be able to hide anything." Larbu said helplessly Said to the prime minister.
If the Tang army really bombarded the palace of Ironforge every day, then all the so-called lies about the war situation would be self-defeating. No matter how hard he lied to himself, the door was bombed every day, Binghan I knew what the true state of the Ironforge battle was.
"Let's talk about it then... Maybe we can think about the feasibility of ending this war decently." The prime minister seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be saying these words to Larbu.
Lalb once had such an idea, but he knew that no matter what, his Majesty would not agree to such a thing.