Cross's anger was far from gone, but he did not deny that Oka was not wrong in his judgment, they were both smart dwarves, but the lieutenant general and the marshal considered different levels of strategy, and Cross could only obey the battle situation.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Cross asked unhappily:

"When will reinforcements arrive?"

"I have ordered Kusa to send half of the warships back to the west coast of the peninsula to transport reinforcements, thirty-five days at the earliest, and no more than fifty days at the latest."

"Fifty days!" Hearing Fifty Days, Cross was angry again: "Do you know how many reinforcements the alien beasts will bring from the inland in fifty days, they have horses, a large number of horses, and we don't know how big they are, how big this continent is, if we encounter such alien animals, we will be dragged down." ”

"So, we should all bless it, there won't be too many of these well-armed alien animals."

"But they have industrial capacity, and it's a strong industrial capacity. You should see, what kind of weapons they use, hell, why our scientists and engineers can't design weapons like theirs. Come on, get something in."

Close angrily called out to his guards and carried some of the captured equipment of the Salty Army into Okka's office.

Examining the equipment on the ground, Kao picked up one of the submachine guns and said:

"Are these their weapons?"

"Be careful, these weapons are not powerful, don't aim the muzzle at me!" Cross slapped the muzzle of Okka's gun and continued, "You are holding a weapon that can fire continuously, and the ammunition can hold thirty rounds, and this rifle that can hold ten rounds is even more terrifying in power and range, even comparable to our rifles.

And they also have machine guns, which only need to pull the trigger to continue firing, and use fabric as a feeding vehicle, while our best repeating guns have to be hand-cranked, with compressed gas cylinders, and all of their guns are rifled, while our rifles are still smoothbore.

It's ridiculous that we've been confronted with an unprecedented exotic animal. ”

Cross grumbled, and Oka looked at the pile of weapons in front of him with a solemn face, and he had a faint sense of ominousness. While thinking, Cross took out an army-green cylindrical iron can, on which were capitalized "Braised Beef" in four Chinese languages.

"Do you know what this is?"

Oca dragged his chin and stared for a moment what he thought was a bomb, and he said:

"Is it some new type of bomb?"

At this time, Cross said angrily:

"No, it's food, and they put it all in tin cans. According to my technologist, the food that is sealed can be stored for much longer, and it contains beef and beef broth. ”

Oka was taken aback when he heard the news, and he hurriedly said:

"Won't it rust!"

"If it will rust, you can open it yourself and see for yourself."

Cross's voice fell, and Oka motioned to the adjutant for the giant soldier to open the can with a knife, and when he looked down, it was indeed beef, and he was even more shocked when he tasted it.

If efficient logistics support is to solve the problem of basic food and ammunition supply, then this kind of military food not only solves the problem of eating, but also has a good color, flavor and taste.

"It's unbelievable!"

"Yes, our warriors are fighting them with weapons that are more backward than the alien animals, and what our scientists and engineers are doing, it's been three years, and our weapons still haven't improved substantially, and we need more advanced weapons to defeat them."

"It's difficult, and as far as I've learned, our scientists have figured out the ingredients of their gunpowder and explosives, but they haven't been able to get the chemical processes needed to produce them, which makes our replication work.

The only ones that can be copied at the moment are their primers and grenades, the latest grenades will arrive next year, and their primers will not change the effectiveness of our weapons in the short term.

You can rest for a while, send these weapons to the repair department, and we will soon figure out how these weapons work and send them back as soon as possible, maybe it will help us. ”

Oka pinned his hopes on researching the automatic weapons of the Xianjun Army to improve the power of his own equipment, but due to the disadvantages of black powder, it was difficult to use black powder to implement air-conductive automatic weapons.

In the blink of an eye, in September, Yongping's Liang army and Yuke reinforced Cuicheng and Jinye, and the defense lines of the two places were strengthened, and at the same time, Sun Guo's reinforcements went north day and night to reinforce the battlefield, so that the coalition army had an absolute advantage in terms of strength.

At the suggestion of Bai Liyan, the allied forces of Tianyun and Jinye switched to active defense. At the same time, the military operations on the Changsun Peninsula were affected by the Liang battlefield, and its western front was slow to quickly converge with the eastern front interspersed troops, closing the northern battlefield, making the situation on the peninsula stalemate.

On 17 September, the first batch of artillery shells and supplementary artillery of the Xian army arrived in Yongping, and six days later, the eighth town of Zhoukong and 20,000 additional recruits and officers arrived by car, along with more ammunition supplies.

In the headquarters of Yongping City, Bailiyan poured Zhou Kong a glass of water and handed it to her:

"How's the situation on the road, are you still adapting?"

"It's not as comfortable as riding a horse, but it's still fast to ride, and I can't imagine it was sixteen years ago."

Bai Liyan smiled, and he said:

"Yes, it's sixteen years in a flash, and no one thought that there would be today." After some gossip, Baili Yan turned around and asked: "What was the situation in the country when you came, and has the situation along the way changed?" ”

"It's strange to say, when I left, I heard that the malignant pneumonia has weakened greatly, and the number of sick people has been greatly reduced.

"yes......"

Baili Yan twisted her white short beard and thought, and asked Wildland secretly:

"Wild, is this situation a malignant pneumonia that has been suppressed?"

"It's hard to say, but after more than ten months of infection and spread, spanning two summers, it cannot be ruled out that after the pathogen was widely combined with local microorganisms, some local microorganisms have mutated, which has curbed the development of pathogens to a certain extent.

Or the pathogen is killed and mutated in large numbers in two summers, and at the same time, the native microorganisms and the human immune system interact with each other to produce resistant substances, which in turn inhibits the wanton epidemic of pathogens in nature.

However, mere restriction cannot fundamentally solve the pathogen that has been introduced, let alone prevent its mutation. But all in all, if there is a change in the microbial world that benefits humans, it is generally good. ”

"I hope so......"

At this time, Zhou Kong had already drunk the tea, and seeing that Bailiyan was still in a daze, she was a little impatient, she said:

"When I came, I heard that Liang County suffered a lot of casualties in the first battle, but why didn't I hear how many monsters were killed?"

"That's right, the battle report was not finished when you boarded the train in Ganfu, and the situation was a little complicated. Some of the armpit men died for two days, and on the third day they were able to crawl out of the ground, so the results of the battle could not be counted for a while. ”

Up to today, 4,705 corpses have been killed and left behind, 3,827 have been captured due to wounds, and more than 400 have been captured due to wounds.

Axillary people rely on their strong physiology to heal and resurrect themselves after muscle tissue decay, depending on the total amount of stem cells in their bodies and their survival strategies.

They can control the secretion and acquisition of stem cells, and at the same time, they can force themselves to enter a shallow dormant state after a serious injury, as long as the basic physiological integrity of the organs, brain and central nervous system is ensured, even if the limbs are decayed, they can heal and repair themselves under the action of bud cells.

Due to the special situation, it is very difficult to count after the war, as the commander of an army, he cannot use the approximate number to prevaricate the military department and the monarch, and the number of enemies killed must be accurate to a single digit.

In addition, the coalition forces paid the price of 23,400 men to hold Liang County, killing and wounding more than 8,500 armpit people.

But on the surface, the casualty exchange ratio reached three to one, and it was still a defensive battle, the enemy attacked and defended, if it was an attack, it was impossible to imagine what casualties would be.

When such a result spreads, it is bound to shake the country, fluctuate people's minds, and have a negative impact on the work of employing and conscripting troops on a larger scale in the future.

In the previous battle, the Yuke and Liang armies fought in turn, and the casualties of the Yuke were between five and six to one, and the Liang army was between eight and nine to one.

Jinye, Tianyungang, Liangxian Liangjun, and Yuke have suffered more than 260,000 casualties since May, and according to this exchange ratio, at most more than 30,000 prisoners have been killed, and those who fled back are counted among them, that is, more than 40,000 people.

260,000 to 40,000, such a disparity in casualties, no vassal state at the moment can afford to lose 260,000 in three or five months.

Of course, a significant number of these casualties are wounded, and with timely treatment and adequate medicine, the vast majority of them can survive or even return to combat.

After listening to Bailiyan's detailed description, Zhou Kong was pessimistic and said:

"After such a long war, the Central Plains will collapse."

Indeed, knowing that he had suffered huge casualties, he still attacked Liang State, which shows that he was still trying to lure the elite of the Central Plains to destroy them, and then attacked on a large scale. However, the Liang State is located in the key areas of land and water, but it cannot be abandoned, if the Liang State is lost, the countries of the West Sea will definitely not be able to keep it. For the time being, we can only take one step at a time, and look at another way out while fighting.

You have been tired for days, first stay in my tent and rest for a day, and then I will send military attaches from Jiang Jie and Mo Yunfeng to your camp to preach some tactics and drill tactics to facilitate the next battle. ”

Soon after the fierce battle in Liangxian County ended, the battalions found that the white-knuckle battle in the position was indeed still used for spears, horse lances, hook and sickle halberds, and long-edged barrels, and armpit rifles and pistols, and the ammunition reloading was small, and the inconvenience of loading restricted its firing efficiency.

Therefore, the armpit is loaded with ammunition before launching a charge, and when the soldiers of the first and second waves of attack enter the effective firing range, they slow down the pace of attack and accompany the fire, and cooperate with the long, medium and near artillery behind them to suppress the firepower, until they rush into our position and start a white-knuckle battle. Since the Xian army was suppressed by its artillery, it was often easy to succeed in the first and second waves of attacks.

After that, the reinforcements of the third, fourth, and even more waves were based on the advance of attacking our position, so the subsequent waves were all loaded with ammunition of infantry, and after they entered the position, the chamber was filled with ammunition.

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