Chapter 346 The river is blocked
“[Wesson collar swears]!”
Metzger looked at the sky that should have been lit and cursed.
Unfortunately, the tail of the rainy season suddenly grew longer, the dark clouds became thicker and thicker, and silent thunder came from the distance.
Heavy rain will not only bring difficulties to the march, but if the rain continues, it will also affect subsequent airdrop supplies.
Metzger said to Hozenplotz, "Force the march and get to the destination as soon as possible. Is there any problem?"
He was confident that his soldiers would carry out the forced march, but the militiamen and guides were afraid It's a little difficult.
Huo Zhenplozi also looked at the sky and said: "If it's okay just for today, eat one more brick biscuit later, eat a piece of candy and drink some water every hour, otherwise you will have no energy later."
Metzger nodded. There are related courses in the military academy. It is the same as what Hozenplotz said. It is said that he absorbed his experience when escaping and Duke Wesson (being chased) when he ran for a long time. experience.
Hoffman also said: "I have been exercising in the gym over the years and run the canal once a month. Now I have no problem running for a whole day."
Nowadays, leisurely people in Wesson imitate Frederick's example of jogging along the 10-kilometer-long Carolina Canal. Some people run from beginning to end, and some run two or three times back and forth.
Hoffman's physical fitness does not reach the ranks of extraordinary saints, but he can still run 20 kilometers once a month.
Metzger smiled and said: "The least thing I worry about is you. If you don't have the strength, you will be a raisin long ago."
A few people nearby knew that Hoffman had four wives. Everyone laughed, and the person involved was very proud.
The team quickly finished cleaning up. They ate the herbal tea they made last night and ate brick biscuits. They then wrapped the supplies in tarps and put their raincoats where they were most easily accessible.
Brick biscuits are compressed biscuits. Frederick originally gave the most common formula of flour, salt, sugar, oil and milk powder. Later, researchers added strange things such as insect powder, tea powder, carrot powder, etc. Finally, The color of the product is similar to the red bricks used to build the house.
There are tricks to eating raw brick biscuits. When they are still large at first, you cannot confront them head-on. You have to scrape them off with your front teeth until they are thin before you can chew them.
When the team set off, rain began to fall from the sky, and soon the raindrops began to fall.
The rain is very annoying. Wearing a raincoat makes me feel hot, but not wearing a raincoat makes me wet.
We just don’t wear any clothes at all and dry our clothes when we get to the place so that the things we carry on our backs don’t get wet.
The mountain road began to become slippery, so Hozenpoloz had people cut nearby suitable branches to use as crutches, which reduced the number of people who fell.
The journey was uneventful, and the team arrived at their destination around six o'clock in the afternoon.
The mountains on both sides of the valley are more than 200 meters high and relatively steep. There is a path opened by smugglers on one side of the mountainside, which is now overgrown with weeds.
At the bottom of the valley is a small river about four lanes wide. The water is turbid and fast, and fish jump out of the water from time to time.
There is no bridge across the river here, but it’s not a big problem.
A 50mm caliber light mortar was set up on the hillside. A special short javelin was put into the barrel. The head of the gun was a three-pronged claw, and a not-too-thick hemp rope was tied in the ring at the tail.
With the sound of the jet canister, the javelin flew with the rope to the opposite side of the mountain more than 100 meters away, and the target was a thick tree.
The gun tip fell to the ground grazing the tree trunk. The people on the opposite side pulled at it, and the claws on the gun tip tightly grasped the thick branches.
The simple zip line was set up, and the soldier with the lightest weight slid across the opposite side, relying on the traction of this hemp rope to pull the thicker rope, and before dark, two more heavy-duty zip lines were set up. zip line.
Hozhenpouloz led the militiamen to pitch tents, build drainage ditches, dig toilets in suitable places on the mountain, and cut down trees on the top of the mountain to create an open space for airdropping supplies.
Metzger led the men to the steepest point on the opposite side of the valley, and the soldiers began to get busy.
A few people hung ropes and used engineer shovels to dig holes on the hillside. They dug to a depth of two meters and did not stop until the groundwater almost submerged people.
Metzger was fiddling with five calf-thick metal tubes, which contained magic scrolls that he couldn't afford to buy even with his annual income. This was the key to their collapse. The soldiers came to report that the holes had been dug. The five holes were arranged two up and three down, about fifty meters apart, and the depth was about two meters.
Metzger twisted the lid of the metal cylinder one after another until there was a "snap" inside, and then threw it into the hole himself.
From now on, they have two hours to evacuate.
The rain began to lighten and stopped when Metzger led the men back to the camp.
A bonfire has been lit in the camp, and Metzger arranged for the sentry to dry his clothes first and go on duty. Over there, Hozenplotz and the militiamen had already started cooking dinner.
It rained all day today, and many small streams appeared on the hillside. Huo Zhenpuloz asked someone to fetch water in a pot, added alum powder, stirred the sediment, and poured the supernatant into another into the pot, finally put something like a plate into the pot and take two steps back.
Alum cannot completely remove bacteria and viruses in water, and in the end, necromantic magic must be used to sterilize it.
I don’t pay much attention to eating in the wild. Everything is stewed in one pot. Today’s share of brick biscuits, concentrated soup packets, dehydrated vegetables and diced meat are all thrown into the pot, plus a tablespoon of lard, half After many hours, I got a pot of weird-tasting paste.
While eating, Metzger asked Hoffman: "Can you eat it?"
Hoffman said with a smile: "The spoonful of oil in the pot was enough for my whole family. I’ve been eating for two months, what’s not to be satisfied with?”
Metzger said with a smirk, “I was worried that you wouldn’t be able to get used to it, so I brought extra delicious food.”
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Hoffman was just about to be polite when he noticed that all the soldiers next to him were pale and their eating movements had slowed down a bit.
He immediately understood what Metzger had brought, and hurriedly shook his head and said: "No, you can enjoy it yourself."
Hozhenplotz asked in a persuasive manner: "What are you talking about?"
Metzger smiled and said: "Dried meat."
Huo Zhenplotz had a question mark in his head, what is so scary about dried meat, could it be...
" Human flesh?" He looked cautious.
"Get out!" Metzger laughed and scolded, "What do you think I am?"
"Dried insects, the kind used to make rich and strong powder, do you want to eat them?"
Huo Zhenploz shook his head quickly and said, "No, when I was a kid and I first escaped to the mountains, I spent that time digging for bugs in the dead wood and covering myself with mud to find food in the honeycombs."
Hoff. Man immediately said: "The white bugs in the rotten wood are skewered with branches and roasted, and they are very fragrant!"
At this moment, there was a sound like ordinary thunder in the distance, and Metzger looked at it. He looked at his pocket watch and nodded.
The mud swamp technique in the previously placed metal cylinder was activated on time, and the soil within a radius of more than thirty meters turned into mud and flowed into the river.
The steep hillside is missing a large piece at the foot of the mountain. The soil filled with water is heavier than before. Without support, it will immediately slide, carrying trees and stones to the bottom of the valley.
After dinner, Metzger led people to the top of the mountain with lights on. Under the moonlight that had just emerged from the clouds, hundreds of meters of river were blocked, and the blockage was more than three meters above the water. .
Don’t worry about overflowing the embankment. After the river water rises by more than one meter, it will flow upstream from a tributary upstream and then flow away from other rivers.
The news of the successful blocking of the river reached Frederick at the headquarters immediately through the communicator.
At the same time, the main force of the outflank arrived at the predetermined position under the leadership of Eugene, and the main force of the Principality of Franconia and the Regens Alliance were surrounded.
Frederick ordered the second phase of the battle to begin.
(End of this chapter)