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Chapter 13 Logistics

The tracks of the steam cannon trucks ran through the traces on the mud, and the grass clippings and branches were deeply pressed into the ruts by the tracks. The friction between the balls and the weight of the steel bearings of the carrying gun car is the long sound of steel. Hundreds of cannon trucks moved slowly on the ground. The sound of steam, the footsteps of the legion, and the clanging sound of the collision between the heavy metal feet of the mechanical soldiers and the rocks, merged into this firearms, the war era, and the melody of war.

When other time travelers were given priority to the small troops to fight alone, the main legion followed by Ren Di attacked the city and captured the village. The main legion where Ren Di was located captured two power plants, one mine and two copycat cities along the way.

These areas are not without enemy protection, some are neutral areas, guarded by horse bandits or neutral workers and mechanical soldiers. When the army arrives, the Dilsians in these neutral areas often tempt the military power and money of Miana to surrender to Miana. They are also stubborn and determined to turn or have turned to the existence of Duke Silari and Governor Venucci.

White and yellow cannon flames ejected from the gun mouth, and heavy shells drew a graceful arc and fell into the target land. The bombarded robot instantly shattered into parts in the flames. The battle ended in just a minute. Miana's army occupied the power plant.

Ten minutes later, an airship slowly landed on the empty apron of the power plant. A large amount of supplies were transported, including food, weapons, and parts of steel cannon trucks.

Like on the earth, modern army relies on logistics supply. When the army of Miana swept across this land, the morale of the army needs to be replenished, and the loss of parts during the movement of steel cannon trucks needs to be replaced. This is no different from that on the earth. The difference is that the transportation supply line on the earth, which is mainly fixed on the earth, is not present in this world. In Vancia, material supply depends on airships.

Most airships need a tarmac for landing quickly. This apron does not occupy a straight runway that occupies a huge ground area like an airport, but is a steel rooftop towering forty meters. The airship has great buoyancy. Without external force, it will only land on the ground if it is not possible to release the precious helium of the airbag with a little bit. However, it is not like this for conventional airship landing rooftops. On the airship landing roof of the power plant, the supply airship with a load of 700 tons hangs down from the sky to form a thick noose. After the eight nooses are hanging down, they are on the steel winch powered by the steam engine where the staff on the apron are located. As the winch is driven by the huge force of the steam engine, the eight steel nooses pull the sky smoothly with absolute mechanical force. The huge airship in the sky is steadily parked on the platform on the top of the steel building.

Hundreds of tons of supplies landed, damaged, and seriously worn parts were hit by the airship. Ren Di slowly watched the airship take off again, and finally understood why every war on the land of Fanxi in the western continent had to seize the neutral zone.

The shutdown platform owned by this power plant was originally a product of trade with other regions. Now, small troops sent to fight to kill and seize the neutral zone, which is to replenish the platform for these airships.

Without these supplies, the army consisting of iron and steel, and the loss of soldiers marching with twenty kilograms of armored firearms is not a problem. If the steam cannon carts do not have enough parts to replace, they will probably be trapped due to mechanical problems if they walk less than a hundred kilometers. If the joint gears of the mechanical infantry are replaced from time to time, and the shells are regularly inlaid with anti-rust zinc, and electric sparks will probably appear in less than half a month of fighting.

If the war on earth was about the commanders of both sides of the logistics line racked their brains, and the Vasi Legion in this world was fighting around these points that could be replenished. The main legion did not stay for too long, but only left a small number of left-behind troops to hold on. When Ren Di left, the airships of this neutral location landed at a high frequency of half an hour, and Giacomo was determined to maintain this neutral location. In order to be able to hold on for a while when the enemy seized it.

The power plant, which was originally left with numerous traces by artillery bullets, became glamorous after welding steel plates transported from airships.

As for Ren Di's main force, there is already one military supply airship with a length of 300 meters and a width of 150 flat airbags above. This military airship with a load capacity of 4,000 tons has enough load capacity and is equipped with a set of self-landing equipment. The section where the sixty hanging steel cables land is connected to pile driving equipment. They can be fixed on the ground, and the capstan drop power that pulls the steel cables with steam power on the apron is on these heavy airships.

This army of Earth World War I technology has a different logistics system than the earth. The fans of the two wings of the airship in the sky, moving forward with the movement of the main legion. The war has been going on in Dilsey for a month, and the servants here in Miana have exceeded 17,000, occupying four city-states, one of which has two palace areas for elite scholars and advanced workers.

With the recruitment of the main legion of Miana, it also reached ninety-seven combat squads. The so-called combat squad is the smallest unit that can be directly commanded by Giacomo. Ninety fire# gunmen are a combat squad, ten mechanical soldiers are also a combat squad, ten steam cannon vehicles, thirty cavalry, etc. are all a combat unit.

This huge main legion, led by the supply airship, faced the city-state, and the enemy forces controlled the city-state. The area of ​​the march gradually rose into the city-state area controlled by the enemy. Along the way, several enemy troops were annihilated. Of course, these troops were mainly low-value targets such as fire#spikes and cavalry. The enemy's real heavy equipment, heavy artillery, mechanical spiders, like the governor mecha soldiers with two legs, and other elite troops, have been causing serious casualties to the foreign troops in Miana during field battles.

The small troops in Miana suffered a loss in such small-scale battles. In the city-state areas controlled by Miana, this small troops with severe reduction in tasks ran back to replenish their equipment and colonial soldiers. The two sides were in a battle to consume, and the cruelty of the war made the rookies who joined the army more likely to die.

This can be seen from the situation of the time travelers in this world that the Inoue team was well preserved, and the colonial army under Andrew almost died. However, he still commanded the army himself. As for Ren Di, who was mixed in the main legion, it goes without saying that.

As for other time travelers who are relatively low, they are fighting head-on with their opponents on the battlefield. If you don’t fight, the enemy will save you and kill you. If you want to escape, your own military corps will shoot you. There is no human grudge. Many people die, and those who are not dead make the cruelty of the war realistic.

In Qianmura, a young Japanese with tattoos on his arms, Ren Di often had an indifferent and unconscious temperament like a hot-blooded college protagonist in his face. Ten days ago, when Ren Di saw him again, he no longer had a harsh expression on his face. His messy hair, his eyes were filled with numbness and inexplicable melancholy.

Everyone has grown up, and those who do not want to grow have died in war. Traveling from peaceful times to the world of war is not romantic, but lost. Only those who survived from war years know how precious peace is.

Under the protection of the main force, the days of safe war quickly passed away. Ren Di began to independently lead the troops, two teams of artillery, three teams of mechanical soldiers, and a total of five combat units. The degree of mechanization was extremely high.

The Battle of Dilsey Plains was in the fourth month. Miana had already taken strategic initiative, but this strategic initiative was indeed related to the strategic node where Ren Di was located.

Ren Di has stayed for a month seven kilometers away from the big city-state controlled by the Governor. Speaking of the world's city-state, it must not be compared with the big cities on the earth with millions of people in length and width of ten kilometers. The city-state covers an area of ​​no more than one kilometer in radius. This area can only be considered a district composed of three streets according to the standards of the 21st century.

The most obvious sign of ancient cities on Earth is that they surround a circle of city walls. The characteristics of the city-state in this world are towering chimneys, as huge chimneys as the earth's thermal power plants. Unlike the chimneys of the earth's thermal power plants, the chimneys of this city-state are even taller and have pure metal structures.

The chimneys of small city-states are only fifty meters, the chimneys of large city-states are seventy meters, and the chimneys of prosperous city-states are more than one hundred meters. Rendi now looks out to the city-state seven kilometers away, which is a prosperous city-state. This city-state is the administrative center of Silari in the Dilsey Plain.

The chimneys as tall as the Empire State Building are surrounded by areas of community sizes. Some areas are fifty meters high and more than twenty floors. Just like department stores, you can see department stores such as clothing, hardware, fruits, and grains from one layer to another. This is a commercial area, and some areas are like cylindrical buildings. At the top of the building, an extra-large-caliber rotating mortar can fire shells at areas 400 meters away. This is a military area. There are also palace areas with huge moderate and rotating celestial models as the surface of the building, and industrial areas that emit noisy gear rotation noise.

These areas are crowded together, and it is not that the industrial parks on the earth are spread out on the ground. On the one hand, the world is too easy to make steel, and there is enough steel to build such a high-strength and compact building structure. On the other hand, the large chimney in the city-state uses DC power to supply energy to the city-state, and the DC power transmission distance is short. It once restricted the popularization of earth's electricity.

So many steel buildings, when gathered together, look like a small steel hill from a distance. They are very spectacular and shocking. Around the city-state stands tall turrets and other defensive buildings, as well as airship landing buildings, turret refineries, and huge steam gears are precisely combined into mechanical and computer futures exchanges.

A month ago, when the main force followed by Ren Di arrived at a neutral mine seven kilometers away from the city-state, it was directly stationed for five days. A steam fortress that was thirty meters high, a length of 100 meters wide, and almost two office buildings were put together and rose from the ground. Under the protection of the army, many airships airlifted a large amount of metal materials, and built this fortress that could be loaded automatically by steam equipment to the fortress fortress. It faced this prosperous city-state.

The internal boiler of the steam fort burned for 24 hours, providing power for the entire fortress. With the support of the fortress, a Pentagon-shaped steam fortress with a scientific research institute as the core was also built two kilometers away. Combined with the fort barracks and flight platforms, the refinery foundry camera that produced the mechanical legion was built here, and it became a stable front in twenty days. However, after all this was completed, General Kalini stayed here, and Ren Di was also left here. The main force began to leave.

"Boom boom boom boom" The continuous sound of gunfire sounded. After so long he arrived in this world, Ren Di had become accustomed to such a loud noise. The powerful counterthrust of the gunfire made the eight-ton gunfire tremble. The shells drew a graceful arc and fell into the artillery tower in the distance. Flames bloomed around the artillery tower. Of course, there were three bright artillery shells exploding flames in the turret, and the steel turret was bent and deformed under the flame shock wave.

Standing on the robot backpack, Ren Di nodded with satisfaction when he saw the results of his army, and looked at another direction in the distance. In that direction, he found that the enemy cavalry who were bombarded were rushing towards here.

Ren Di, who had finished a round of artillery fire, was determined to stop when he was ready. The carriage carriage turned and quickly retreated towards his fortress. Heavy artillery vehicles could never run through the light cavalry, but the cavalry could never reach this five hundred meters of pursuit distance. Ten minutes later, the self-propelled artillery troops commanded by Ren Di retreated near the fortress. With the protection of his own cavalry and infantry and the fire support of the steam fortress, the cavalry had no chance.

Ren Di, whose face was pale on the tall mechanical soldiers, looked at the nine hundred cavalrymen who were speeding behind him and hesitated seven hundred meters away. Ren Di knew that the army commanded by General Calini had carried out harassment operations on the enemy's city-state in the other direction.

Kalini's mission is to nail the enemy's city-state opposite, and the tasks assigned by Kalini to Rendi are formulated around this strategic goal. Every day during the day, Rendi will lead his mechanized troops to move five kilometers to destroy the outer buildings of the city-state. The opposite side chases more than ten cavalry units, 300 meters of cavalry, and retreat. If it is less than three hundred meters, it will send a signal to the infantry in the rear to support and carry out an annihilation battle.

This piecemeal of important defensive buildings around this prosperous city-state, and the economic buildings have become a piece of rubble. The annihilated enemy has reached thirteen combat units, restraining more than fifty combat units. The effect of this is that the number of harassing troops encountered by Miana has become disadvantageous in the entire Dilsey Plain. The battle between the two sides is concentrated on the battlefield where the two fortresses of Miana and the prosperous city-state are confronting each other.
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