417 Stealing
Just in the palace of Iran Hill, when a drinking banquet was going on, in a small town near the Gushan defense line on the front line of the distant puppet empire, a magician of the puppet empire helplessly threw the parts in his hand on the table.
Beside him was a puppet soldier next to him. These puppet soldiers are all damaged and no longer usable. They were transported back from the front lines, piled up here, and used as parts.
Golems are also worn out, and they can't move indefinitely. As the fighting on the Gushan front line became more and more intense, the loss of these puppets also increased.
There is no time to repair, there is no time to retreat, these golems can only be turned into parts reserves, which are placed here to repair other golems.
The magician looked helplessly at the puppet parts on the table in front of him, and complained depressedly: "The joints of these puppets are also worn out quite seriously, just find a good one to disassemble and replace it with other puppets, how many days can it be used?" ”
The other magician sitting across from him shook his head, took the obsolete magic crystal from a puppet that had been scrapped and was used as energy, threw it at his feet, and said comfortingly, "If it lasts for a few days, it will be a few days...... Now that it's all like this, what else can I do? ”
None of these puppets are new, and some of them can still find holes in their bodies that bullets have pierced. Some of the puppets still had shrapnel stuck in them, and some of them had been destroyed.
In the past, such puppets were directly scrapped, but now, the puppet empire, which has gradually lacked resources, has to recycle these things to support the front-line operations.
"It's time to eat." The complaining magician stretched his waist and stopped dismantling the remains of the puppets, and said, "Since yesterday, the food supply has been halved, how can people eat it?" Half of the dried vegetables! Half a loaf of bread! ”
"It's good to eat some, I heard that some troops don't even have anything to eat." Another magician, who had just walked into the room, put the remains of a puppet in his arms on the ground, and said with a sneer.
The comforting magician sitting across the table also smiled, "Yes, it's good to eat...... In the past few days, as soon as it was time to eat, Alan Hill began to shell the front line, we are a little better in the rear here, and the front line is not even comfortable eating! ”
As his words landed, a muffled sound was heard in the distance. It's like a thunderstorm in the sky, so stuffy that people can't help but panic.
Immediately afterwards, such explosions and thunders sounded one after another, and finally joined into one piece, and it was impossible to tell the number again.
"It was really on time, and the shelling began again." The magician who entered the house with the remains of the puppet sighed, turned around and walked back to the door.
The Gushan defensive line has held out until now, not so much as a defensive miracle of the puppet empire, but rather a deliberate effort by Iran Hill to compress his own losses.
They are replacing themselves with new units to train these soldiers and give them more combat experience, so that they can hone their ranks.
Under the influence of this tactic, the Gushan front withstood Iran Hill's attacks again and again, as if it really stood tall in the storm.
But everyone knows, at least the puppet Empire personnel on the Gushan defense line, know very well that the reason why they have not been wiped out is that Elanhill has not attacked with all his might.
Recently, the main forces of the Irlanhill Empire have been bypassing the Gushan defensive line and attacking further east and Trier. The puppet empire's defense line retreated again and again, and it can basically be described as a collapsed army.
Even the top brass of the puppet empire estimated that the front line would only last another 2 months at most, and now that more than ten days have passed, it is clear that the collapse has begun.
The time to support it for two months is not really to be able to hold the position for two months. In the early stages of a battle, there is often a stalemate of equal strength, and by the middle stage, a rout is inevitable.
Now, the front line of the puppet empire is already in the early stage of a rout. Almost all the troops were retreating, and only some of the fortresses and main positions were still in formation.
After a few more days, these recalcitrant troops were divided and surrounded, cut off from supply communications, and a huge collapse was logical.
Then, the remaining month is the "garbage time" when Iran Hill swept across the battlefield and annihilated the remaining puppet empire troops.
Of course, the puppet empire cannot sit still, and they are trying to shrink back the forces attacking the Norma Empire and the Eternal Empire, intending to establish a new line of defense along the east of the river and Trier.
It's a pity that because of the bombing of the air force of Iran Hill and the delay of Ellan Hill's troops, the retreat speed of these puppet troops is really a bit slow.
In the northwest, the main force of the puppet forces that occupied the capital of the Eternal Empire is still fighting hard around the capital of the Eternal Empire, Karan Miks.
The puppet troops attacking Normagas, the capital of the Norma Empire, to the east were also bitten by the 5th Army Group of Bourjos, and could only retreat at a rate of several kilometers a day, basically no different from standing still.
The unfavorable situation of the puppet empire, of course, cannot deceive these parties on the front line, and these magicians on the front line have already seen that the battle situation is very unfavorable.
Earlier, there was still enough food to supply every day, but more than ten days ago, such supplies could not be done.
The new puppets in the rear cannot replenish the front line, and the losses of the puppets on the front line are getting bigger and bigger. This happens continuously, and the fool knows that the situation is not good.
"When is the end...... "The magician sitting at the table shook his head pessimistically and resumed his work.
He didn't want to go to the front line to fight, it was actually very good to find such a job to dismantle the puppet, he had seen with his own eyes what those battle mages who came back from the front line looked like they were.
The men were dusty and exhausted, many of them were still wounded and ashen - they didn't need to ask to know that they were defeated, and they were badly defeated.
Magicians who come back with complete or minor injuries are considered lucky, and many magicians go to the front and never return. There are also some magicians who, although they have returned, have some of them remained on the battlefield forever.
The magicians with broken arms and legs screamed and were sent back to the rear hospital, because of the poor sanitary conditions, very few of these magicians survived, and most of them died of wound infection.
Those who survived were also tortured, and in the end they were left with a lifelong disability, and life is not as good as death, and the ending may not be better than death.
The magician who wanted to leave stopped, pushed open the door with his hand still on the door, and encouraged his companions, "The troops attacking the Norma Empire are trying to find a way to retreat, but they are retreating slowly...... We are here to meet them. ”
"Pick them up? Who's going to pick us up? Putting the elbow joint of a puppet soldier in the spare parts box, along with the other elbow joints, the magician who had been working shook his head and asked helplessly.
This war has been fought so far, and everyone actually doesn't care about the outcome anymore. What they care about is whether they will live to see this ending......
The magician standing in the doorway shook his head, and this time he really pushed the door open and walked out. On the opposite side of the house, a puppet tank with branches stuck in it is parked.
After being bombed for so long, the puppet empire's air defense consciousness, or desire to survive, is already very strong. They invented all sorts of disguises, but the results were mediocre.
It's been days since the puppet tank, disguised as a tree, was sent here because of a malfunction, and because there were no suitable parts, it had to stop there and not move.
Everyone actually knows in their hearts that if they are abandoned there for two more days, this puppet tank, which was only a little broken, will be completely scrapped.
The moment the magician walked out of the room, a large-caliber cannonball whizzed and crashed into the dirt road in front of him, and then a huge explosion enveloped him.
Before the occupants of the room realized what was happening, an indestructible shockwave toppled down the walls of the room and smashed the walls of the room, sending the remains of the puppets and several mages flying away.
One of the farthest magicians subconsciously used the magic defense barrier, but before he could finish casting the spell, he was pierced through his body by countless sharp puppet parts.
Farther away, several magicians saw that the village had been hit by a cannonball, and threw down their work and ran away, but they did not dare to stay until they confirmed that only one such shell had fallen in the village, and then they hurried back to save people.
In fact, there is nothing to be saved, the house has long been gone, and the people in this room at that time have been buried under the rubble, and they have finally been dug up, and they have no breath.
The magician at the door couldn't even find the bones. Where he stood, there was only a round, more than ten meters in diameter crater.
"A 283 mm caliber railway cannon shell from Iran Hill...... This is old equipment, and Alan Hill doesn't use it much, so I guess this time, I just want to clean up the ammunition in stock. An officer of the puppet empire, looking down at the crater under his feet, said calmly: "These people are just unlucky...... The opponent may just enter the wrong aiming parameters......"
"Three magicians died...... I have another report to write. The senior magician in charge of directing these magicians stood aside, not knowing whether he was saddened by the deaths of a few people, or if he was saddened that he had to write a lot more reports.
However, the other magicians had a little bit of joy in their hearts, because they might have a little more dinner today......