"If we had known this was the result, why would we bother with Iran Hill?" Looking at the ruins in front of him, a magician complained to his companion in frustration.

They were ordered to take stock of the damage, and it turned out that the damage was really bigger than they had imagined.

It's been a month since the mine was hit by the nuclear bomb, but the reconstruction work has not yet begun.

Puppet soldiers can indeed help with labor, but in today's puppet empire, even puppet soldiers are already scarce materials.

No one, or all the high-ranking magicians of the puppet empire, had never considered such an outcome: the puppets they were proud of and had never run out of supply had begun to be in short supply.

The puppets on the front line need to be replenished, as do the puppets in the production department, and now, the puppets in these mines, the puppets that repair the mines, and the puppets that defend the mines - are all new demand gaps.

There is no way, because it is impossible to continue to produce puppets on a large scale, and it is necessary to constantly replenish the puppet soldiers lost on the front, and there are very few puppets that can be assigned to the rear.

As a last resort, the puppet empire has appropriated some of the puppet workers in the factory who are responsible for producing puppets to help in the mines - this is equivalent to reducing some of its own production capacity, which will definitely have an impact on the future.

However, the top brass of the puppet empire who rushed to the hospital in a hurry could no longer care about the follow-up problems. What they need to solve now is these damn problems in front of them.

Anyway, the production capacity cannot be guaranteed due to the lack of resource supply, so they simply began to embezzle the idle puppet workers in the puppet factories.

It's just that this kind of appropriation can only alleviate some local puppet force tension at most.

For example, in the heyday of the mine, there were more than 50,000 puppet miners, and more than 4,000 magicians and puppets used by senior commanders who were responsible for repairing the puppets.

Right now, there are just over 900 puppets here rebuilding the mine, and that's after the 200 new puppets that were assigned just a few days ago. The level of the magicians deployed later is not as good as that of the magicians stationed here before, and they can only barely repair some simple puppet failures.

As a result, the efficiency of the mine is extremely low, and the reconstruction of the mine in one month has only begun at the beginning, and the follow-up work is still complicated, and it is estimated that it will take another three months to resume production, and if the original production capacity is restored, one year may not be enough.

"It's a waste of time! When the place was almost rebuilt, Elanhill's army came to receive it. The leading magician threw away the sheepskin scroll in his hand and said to his colleagues with a wry smile.

The front line is in a hurry to replenish, but it has not been able to resume production here for a year and a half, and the relationship between supply and demand has been tense to this point, and the war machine of the puppet empire has obviously stopped working completely.

"Archmage Telavish's previous decisions have been questioned, and now he still insists on fighting Elanhill, which is not in the fundamental interests of the puppet empire." Another magician followed, "We have already lost, and if we continue to fight like this, we will only be completely destroyed." ”

His words made some of the magicians around him feel the same way, they had seen the power of the nuclear bomb with their own eyes, and now the place was full of devastation, and everyone was terrified of the super attack from thousands of miles away.

So, a magician nodded and said in agreement, "Yes! Whoever is the final victor between the demon and Iran Hill, we can't see it! Elle Hill will kill us before he wins, and even if the demon wins, it will be a year before we are destroyed. ”

Another magician who knew someone who had returned from the front line continued: "When Magister Dos came back from the front, he told me that he had seen the battle on the Gushan front with his own eyes...... Elanhill's floating battleship easily killed Magister Rudolph......"

Everyone talked to each other, and their faces became more and more ugly - they couldn't see any future, which made the magicians who once thought they were in charge of the future a little unbearable.

A little further down the road where they stood, the indefatigable puppet soldiers were still carrying stones and slag from the road. They don't lift their heads, and they are not interested in anything around them.

It's just that these puppets have better patterns on their bodies, and these rings represent a kind of identity - they were originally production puppets in the factory, and they were temporarily transferred to perform this kind of coolie task at this moment.

The strengthened and carved puppet palms, and the fingers on them that have been specially strengthened and refined to produce puppet soldiers, are now wasted on the rough work of carrying stones and building passageways.

It's distressing to watch, but this distress is helpless - in the past month, the puppet empire has produced only more than 90,000 new puppets, which is not enough to replenish the needs of new recruits on the front line.

As a result, 60,000 puppet soldiers were taken from the front, and the remaining 30,000 were distributed to factories, cities, mines and other places, and more than 3,000 were used to extinguish forest fires.

As a result, more than 200 puppets are evenly distributed in a mine, which can be described as a drop in the bucket.

"There are about 300 puppets to be assigned next month, and things will get better......" The young and immature face of the magician in charge of the mine was full of tiredness.

He had just been redeployed and was only 25 years old. The magicians who were more qualified than him had already been sent to the front, and now most of the work in the rear was handled by such young low-level magicians.

These magicians have no experience, so they waste more time. They have made the grassroots operation of the puppet empire even more sluggish, but there is no better option for the puppet empire than them.

In fact, it is almost the same as drinking water to quench thirst, and the level of magicians who are temporarily replenished to the front line is quite reluctant, but then there will be a fault line in talents, and the development of the country will be seriously affected.

"Next month...... I guess in about ten days, Ellen Hill will be crossing the Mullen River. The magician who had come to check on the progress of the mine's restoration sneered and interrupted the young magician: "Even if you resume production here in five days, we won't have time to restore production capacity to the level before the bombing. ”

Many people are well aware that in fact the functioning of the puppet empire has been completely destroyed by an unprecedented scale of bombing.

Not only was production cut off, but the bombing also destroyed the supply nodes that the puppet empire relied on to survive. These supply depots provide the energy needed for the puppet empire's Centipede City to move constantly, as well as the means of production for the puppets produced by these mobile cities.

Now, with the spread of the wildfires and the bombing of Alan Hill, more than half of the supply depots along the route have been destroyed, and except for Brokland, which has always been well stocked, it is difficult for the other cities to even move, let alone produce.

The cities of the puppet empire, which had lost the ability to move, were immediately targeted by Alan Hill, and even ordinary bombardment would have cost these vulnerable cities a lot.

Coupled with the destruction of roads and timber resources by bushfires, the entire northeastern puppet empire has fallen into desperate chaos, not to mention resuming production, and even barely surviving has become a problem.

In this case, it was only a matter of time before Iran Hill crossed the Malen River and entered the hinterland of the puppet empire. If not, the entire northeast region of the puppet empire will change its flag and become the occupation area of Irlanhill within ten days.

Once the Maren River is lost, this vital line of defense, no one knows how long the puppet empire can hold on.

By that time, the puppet empire had already been defeated, and no matter how much the production capacity of these mines in the southwest was restored, it could no longer influence the tide of the war.

"Shall we ...... What is the reason for such a hurry? Have our efforts been in vain? The young magician, the 25-year-old head of the mine, asked with a puzzled face.

"Child, there's never ......a mistake in trying," the magician who came to check stretched out his hand, patted the young man on the shoulder twice, and looked into the distance: "What we are doing now, even if we can win a glimmer of hope for the survival of a puppet empire's civilians, it is not in vain!" ”

"Oh no!" As soon as he had finished speaking, a magician ran in in a panic, gasping for breath as soon as he ran into the makeshift tent.

Obviously, he came on a run this way, and he didn't bother to rest at all. One piece of news can make a magician so out of shape, it seems that things are definitely not small.

The mage who came to inspect the restoration of mine production had a solemn expression, and his first reaction was that maybe something was wrong with the defense line of the Malen River.

When he thought about this, his face turned pale involuntarily. Although he had already thought of this situation, when he faced such a situation, it still made his whole body tremble - he had thought that the defense line of the Malen River would be breached, but he had never thought that it would be so fast.

Even if he felt that the puppet empire was hopeless, when the moment when his motherland was really going to perish, he still felt the unwillingness and pain from the bottom of his heart.

However, the words spoken by the magician who broke in made the grief and indignation in his heart be forced back again.

I heard the magician panting and shouting, "Oh no! Big things are wrong! The twelve major mobile cities have united to declare their independence from the rule of the puppet empire, and are ready to unilaterally negotiate peace with Ellan Hill and Griken! ”