Chapter 2542 New Year
Throughout the winter, both the northern and southern fronts of the Creation Kingdom were resting and recuperating. In the south, the spreading plague was spreading in the northern area of St. Bikoya. People fled from their homes and houses. St. Bikoya The situation in the army was even more serious, resulting in Anwuhou and Yanlong not carrying out any offensive military operations throughout the winter.
And Fried took this opportunity to integrate the resources in the occupied area, rest and reorganize the troops while also making good repairs. In the past few months, the pharmaceutical factory has been working day and night, stocking up on medicines, jointly expanding the small private forging workshops, and turning them into four large weapons and armor factories. An arsenal specializing in the construction of war equipment has also been built.
The factory's equipment drawings were brought from Bell Mountain City. All the equipment can be cast according to the drawings. The difficulty is sourcing the raw materials for processing and smelting. Saint Bikoya is in the north, that is, in the southern region of Vulcan. There are no smelting plants and corresponding skilled workers. The most important foundries and smelting plants are in Bell Mountain City and the areas south of it. In the past, the supply of weapons to frontline soldiers was limited. It is transferred through mountain cities and sent to various border passes and towers. The wilderness area in the Vulkan area is relatively large. Not only is the supply of wood types and quantities limited, but there are no large mineral deposits to be discovered. There are only a few quarries.
The royal power started a war in both the Holy and Demon realms at the same time. There were vast forests in the Demon Moon territory to the north of Vulkan, and the uninhabited area to the east. There were also minerals in the Demon Moon territory. Although there was a large exodus of people after the Battle of Anmosiddu, many people stayed, including many workers in smelting and casting. They became the basic conditions for the southern factories to start production.
In addition, before the official Eastern Expedition of the Creation War, through the occupation of the desert area east of the west coast, especially the occupation of the two mineral-producing countries of Hasbont and Toliba, the Yellow River east of Sand Dune Town A rich variety of mineral deposits were discovered in the sand path area, giving the Creation Kingship an endless supply of arms resources.
In fact, the Creation Kingdom has been preparing and cultivating talents in all aspects for more than ten years before they decided to start the war. However, they must be on Creation Island. There are no minerals that can be developed on the island. But it is also extremely limited, so it has always been a shortcoming in mineral exploration, mining, smelting and other aspects. Therefore, at the beginning of occupying the west coast, we paid special attention to people in this area. By this time, a steady stream of ordnance supplies was being transported to the royal power army in Saint Vicoia through the desert corridor opened by Fried.
The transportation army traveling through the desert is mainly composed of camels, desert doodles and desert rock tortoises. Camels and desert doodles are used to transport water and food, while desert rock tortoises are used to carry heavy military supplies. These three creatures are all native desert species and can be tamed. When the manufacturing techniques and recipes for spiked shield breastplates, molten iron helmets, and tear steel cans were distributed to various arsenals, boxes of high-quality ordnance were transported through the Freed Corridor to the Saint Vicoia battlefield to be resupplied to the Creation Kingship. Pirate Army and West Coast Army.
The Thorn Shield Breastplate is a sturdy sleeveless breastplate with convex breasts. The armor is covered with steel cones 12 to 5 centimeters long. The protective strength of this breastplate itself is very impressive, and it is very suitable for light and heavy loads. Infantry fighting in close combat. After the machine builder Jin En improved the forging process and raw material formula, the cost was greatly reduced. The three precious materials in the raw material formula were replaced with cheaper materials that were more easily obtained. It has become a primary treasure that can be mass-produced and has a high yield rate.
The molten iron helmet is a barrel helmet craft formula obtained by the Holy Emperor in the Sand Temple. In the past, Glonus conquered the east and west, not only because his army was brave and good, but also because he had excellent armor weapons that could be mass-produced. This molten iron helmet is one of the weapon formulas that the Holy Emperor took out from the Sand Temple. Glonas can put this thing in it, which shows that he attaches great importance to military equipment.
Because the thorn breastplate was successfully improved, after Jin En obtained the formula, he focused on the restoration and production of the helmet. Head protection is the most important on the battlefield. However, the molten iron helmet he created was not the finished product according to the original formula. Due to the differences in ancient and modern craftsmanship, some technical details were not restored perfectly. Even so, the molten iron helmet still has considerable strength and can be widely used as a helmet for heavy infantry and cavalry.
The Tearing Steel Tank is also a helmet mainly made of steel. It is modified from the cappucci pig face helmet. It is said to be an improvement, but in fact it is a simplification. The original complex helmet structure was transformed into a two-stage structure with a conical top and a neck guard. Because the shape resembles a crude silver soup can, it was used for the final tempering with Shark Tears, so it was called It's called a tear steel tank. This helmet is Jin En's inspiration from the craftsmanship of casting molten iron helmets, and he modified King Quan's standard helmet to make it lighter. This helmet is light, has good protection, and has certain magical abilities. It is suitable for light infantry, knights and magicians. The tear steel tank barely reaches the level of primary treasure. The production cycle is one-half that of the spiked shield breastplate and less than one-third that of the molten iron helmet. As long as there are enough Shark Tears, several factories can easily produce tens of thousands of them. Such a helmet comes out. With these weapons and equipment replenished and the war-damaged warcraft guardians replenished, the New Year Offensive is ready to go. At this time, a treasure was delivered to the southern front of the royal power-the Horn of the Sand God.
When the new battle began, Anwu Hou Yanlong was not unprepared. He mobilized the rainforest army and several elite troops to form strongholds along the two wings of Bell Mountain City, stationed at various important roads, and They stepped up efforts to recapture several towns, and then densely set up sentinel posts, each with 12 to 18 people. They were all light cavalry and empty cavalry, with six shifts a day, each shift lasting four hours, for patrolling in the air and in the wilderness. It can detect the movements of all aspects of the royal army in real time.
The idea is good, the plague is unfortunate. Patrol scouts infected with the disease were unable to complete 24-hour reconnaissance, and some sentries were even paralyzed. There was a great epidemic in the army, and Hou Yanlong of Anwu was also infected with Huo's disease. Fortunately, he received symptomatic treatment and controlled the disease in time, and slowly recovered after careful treatment. However, symptomatic treatment is not a specific medicine. Symptomatic treatment of each infected person requires a large amount of medical resources. This is destined to only a small number of senior military officers be able to receive proper treatment, but even so, it may not be able to be cured well.
This time, when Fried commanded the three legions on the left, center and right to march, the war was one-sided. Saint Vicoia's army was on the verge of collapse and had no combat effectiveness at all. At the most outrageous moment, a small group of fifty people The detachment chased after the five thousand troops, and the area previously recovered by Saint Vicoia once again fell into the hands of the Creation King.
With the unfavorable situation of the war, the pressure from the royal capital finally came to bear on Yanlong. Although the king had promised not to interfere with his military deployment, all the land was lost in just a few days. , there was a lot of criticism among the ministers. Minister Grancher strongly advocated the removal of Yanlong's unified command of the army.
King Zarbog withstood the criticism and still allowed him to take charge of the military, but asked him to achieve some achievements immediately to appease the criticism of the ministers. But this is not something he can do just because he wants to. If he can still command the army, he is already in charge of the army. If it had been anyone else, without his reputation, the entire army would have collapsed long ago amid the epidemic.
Yanlong is not someone who just sits there and waits for death, he must do something in the face of adversity.
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(End of this chapter)