Chapter Forty-Nine: A New March
"Nothing interesting. But this stability is bigger than you think. But it's actually quite simple. The professor shook his teacup and met Ramah's gaze to give the answer.
"As long as there is an environment where people work hard without starving, with dignity, and can live like an individual, then we call it stability — well, it's very unremarkable, right?"
"Oh, I roughly get it. Are you making the people of Elta what you want them to be, allowing them to survive within your 'stable' structure? ”
"Roughly, that's right. At the very least, they lived as human beings - not the Church of the Two Moons, or the livestock under the control of the Elta Empire. The professor pouted, and there were some things below that he could not say—fortunately, the cold dishes had also been delivered, and he was very cleverly relieved.
"Hey, hey......" Here Cierta untied a few sets in a row, and his face was radiant - Ofer Mondridge was still lying sick on the bed.
His condition has improved compared to the most serious time, but it is impossible for him to recover from this accumulated illness without a healthy body.
On a hot day, Efel Mondridge was wrapped in a quilt and shrunk on the bed to cover his sweat, and his body was hot for a while and cold for a while, which was naturally uncomfortable.
Naturally, there was Lucha on the front line of the Western Expeditionary Army, but the coordination orders in the rear were all out of order. In the past few days, Offy Mondrich has slept more and woken up less, and has to eat and go to the toilet for a few hours of waking hours, and has very little time to run government affairs. In recent days, almost all of the reviews have been dictated by Elena while he is awake.
Don't look at the position of the director of the Western Expeditionary Army, he can rest assured that anyone who works in the heart of the Lancas Bimonthly Church can rest assured, but this is in Elta, and he will inevitably bow to everything.
The training of the Magic Spear Force was still leaky without him, and the material supplies were also arranged in advance by Eufe Mondridge to arrive in turn. This brand new unit is his killer weapon, and even when he is sick, he is the first to make arrangements here.
Inferior to the Forces nouvelles is the issue of trade. The plenipotentiary Allena is a woman after all, and her wrists are not as strong as his, and her position is not very stable - Hilzi has already spread the word that Uffey Mondridge is in a hurry, because his main palace has returned to this city, that is, the day when the harem is on fire is only two weeks away.
So Elena was naturally swept away by the businessman. However, Ofe Mondridge didn't care about this little detail, and it had to be cleared in time. It is not always a matter for merchants from afar to dry, although it is a very rare thing to dry for ten days and half a month in the business time of the bi-monthly world—correspondingly, the settlement of all cash goods at a time given by these merchants is also a great preferential condition.
This is also the charm of Chinese products. If it is an ordinary cargo, it is normal to pay a part of the cash and borrow a part of the loan in the name of the Chamber of Commerce. However, after all, Ofe Mondridge was born halfway, and he had to be thinner and couldn't withstand such a toss. Fortunately, the goods he produced were indeed first-class good things, and everyone was vying to buy them, so this condition was naturally nothing.
When Ofy Mondrich woke up every day, he could always hear Elena excitedly showing off what she had negotiated with a big merchant like a first-year elementary school student who had gone home, how much she had killed, what conditions she had reached on the basis of what Offy Mondrich had given, and which big merchant had a miserable look on her face...... Hearing that Ofer Mondrich was also full of bitterness on the sickbed, he couldn't speak, and he had to praise this businessman well.
It's clear anyway, and it's far more reassuring to hand it over to someone else than to hand it over to a lover who has a physical relationship with him in front of him. Since it's all cleared, why bother to make yourself unhappy for the benefit of Yicheng? Orfe Mondridge could only comfort himself with such a method of spiritual victory.
The two major weapons of military innovation and commerce that he relied on, one was still able to be grasped, and the other was crumbling, and as for the copper coin plan of the southern city union, and what supply ships had unloaded at which port a few days ago, he had no control at all, and he couldn't control it.
The front line of the Western Expeditionary Army was defeated without any contact with the enemy's main force on the ground, and a bunch of rotten things such as the Vejeri merchant group and the appearance of elves, he didn't have time to know at all. The long-distance message delay problem that he has always criticized has helped him at this time. If Ofer Mondridge had suddenly received the news that the mage's troops had not come into contact with the enemy troops but had been routed by the air force, and had jumped off the building by Vejerry in the following three days, the elves had to jump up and vomit blood.
After the Western Expeditionary Army was driven out of the front line and stationed in their positions, these frightened magicians retreated as far as fifty kilometers at one point, almost reaching the limit of their physical strength. Although there were still a lot of weapons in the front-line positions, even if there were mountains of gold and silver, the frightened magician troops did not dare to move any further.
The troops occupied the first-line strongholds almost without hindrance. The infantry unit that arrived first by river found the remains of a magic powder explosion canister under the corner of the wall in the building that had been radioactively exploding and showing obvious signs of martyrdom at the stronghold next to the river.
When gunboats bombarded the two-story brick house, a 122 grenade hit the upper floor, blowing most of the walls on the second floor away. At the same time, the shock wave also caused the bricks, floor slabs, and wooden beams to lose their balance and slam heavily on the first floor.
Originally, the place where the magic powder mines were assembled was already empty, but the twenty or thirty finished magic powder mines that had not yet had time to be transferred were placed on the frame table. They were not afraid of falling, and they also used springs to set the force of the trigger, but the force of the huge hardwood floor slab falling had long exceeded the set weight.
The mines inevitably exploded almost instantaneously at the same time. The slabs that had tended to be stable were torn apart in an instant, and the masonry flew sideways. The surrounding wooden buildings were even blown away by the wind, and the traces of sand and stone spread were spectacular in the air.
The gunboat howitzer gunner for unknown reasons was extremely sure that this was not his masterpiece. The explosion was almost equivalent to the amount of ammunition detonation of an infantry fighting vehicle, and the missile weapons on the gunboat were already focused on controlling collateral damage - not to mention that the captain glanced at the screen, and all the missiles were still sitting on the pylons.
After the unknown crew members handed over the video, they had the action of going straight to the scene of the explosion as soon as the unit landed. The first retired PLA sappers proved to be the right choice - metal detectors helped them find the springs left behind in the corners, as well as the timer.
Sappers wearing explosive ordnance disposal suits worked in groups of several people to carefully remove the wreckage from the covered ground one by one with demolition tools, and only the timer and spring could not solve the mystery of the explosives.
Outside the temporary blockade, the Elta soldiers, led by officers, demolished the old buildings, set up temporary dormitory tents, and unfurled cooking trucks, water purifiers, temporary toilets, and command posts......
These soldiers, who were still crawling around a month ago, and were still digging in the soil half a year ago, have a deep understanding of the many things that happened to the yellow officers.
For example, the magicians of the Western Expeditionary Army are also considered to be the old men of the army, and they still use the wells in the village of Elta. When the soldiers who had just landed were thirsty and wanted to go to the well to get a bowl of water, they would immediately be stopped by the veterans with yellow armbands. Qualified companies will dig deep wells and then soften the well water and send it to the boiler - directly into the boiler, and after a long time, the scale will explode sooner or later.
Companies that don't have the conditions have to make do with river water or general well water first, but they also have to let the chemical soldiers do a test before using it. No one can be sure whether the Western Expeditionary Army will throw corpses into the wells or even poison them before they break up. However, if the well water treated with alum and water purifier passes through the boiler again, no matter how tenacious the organic toxins are, it will have already decomposed.
And that's not all. Every time a soldier searches a building that appears to be in good condition, he must register what he sees, even if it is a wooden stick. There are also buildings that have a lot of use, although there are very few, and the chemical defense soldiers in gel suits have to spray them with a strange-smelling disinfectant, sprinkle them with strange powder, and then close the doors for a long time before they can start to be decorated.
With sharp, personal pickaxes and sapper shovels—one of the compulsory subjects of the Elta Army's individual soldiers—fortifications—and unstoppable explosives, the dilapidated mud huts of the former stronghold were used to reinforce the façade in a matter of hours.
And the cooking class that has already started a stall here can easily get firewood. Although it was explicitly stipulated in the army that local requisition or collection should only be considered after the food was cut out, the ban did not include firewood that could be picked up. The positions here are close to the river banks, and it is fairly easy to get supplies—even meat. The old landing craft brought in from China also had freezers, perfect for transporting troop supplies in the river, and there were anti-aircraft machine guns on board - always ready to give a few eyes to the unsightly ones in enemy-occupied territory.
In the cooking cart here, the smell of braised pork is already wafting up. The cooking class was also pancakes, and the soldiers who were busy landing from early morning to noon were also lying under the awning in groups, wiping the fine sweat on their heads and waiting for the meal bell to be opened.
And the former PLA sappers on the other side have a solemn face. Whether it's plastic explosives, traditional TNT, or RDX, they can all be instantly recognized by the twist - the floor of the brick building is cleared, the well-preserved basement entrance is presented to them, and the basement is filled with springs, timers, wooden cylinders that have never appeared on the first floor, wooden cylinder covers, and barrels of magic powder that have been opened.