In addition to domesticating artiodactyls such as cattle and sheep, the basic economic model of the nomadic peoples in the northern part of the Eastern Continent also has another economic animal.

Everything still has to start with the locust plague, a terrible insect plague for the farming people, and the key to the survival of the nomadic people in the north.

The seedlings of the farming people can not withstand the insect plague and gnaw, but the wild grass in the pasture is eaten in the winter and the spring breeze blows and grows again, and the insect swarm is active in the Haobei Plateau for about a month or two, and the temperature in the north drops, and these insects either die or go south.

And when the temperature drops, these nomads drag their tents with twenty horses, spread out a large tent of dozens of meters in a place where there are many insects, and light a fire inside, because the temperature drops in the evening, a large number of insect swarms will tend to heat and drill into this tent. In the early hours of the morning, the shepherd extinguishes the flames in the tent, and at the same time lets in the cold air, and batches of insects will freeze to death.

In this way, a large number of insects will be harvested in the morning for the yuan bird to eat.

Metabird – a huge three-meter-tall bird, much like the ostriches of the Earth, but omnivorous. Twenty thousand years ago, the creature was the size of a turkey, feeding on pastures and pasture rodents in the summer, eating insects in abundance in the fall, and then burrowing in the ground with its claws to hibernate. Over the course of 20,000 years, humans have continued to breed and domesticate this creature to a height of three meters and have a docile temperament. Moreover, eating a large number of insects in winter has a very high egg production rate, and the nutritional value of Yuan bird eggs is also extremely high.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of September 12, 664, at the Mohe ferry, on the tower of the bunker city, Su Ying (Guangling) looked at the pizza-sized omelette on Lu Ming's dinner plate, and quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

And now Su Ming was embarrassed to let Lu Ming give up the taste control of his body to him, so he could only watch Lu Ming hold the newspaper while picking up the cut egg pieces with chopsticks and chewing them in small bites. - Su Ying: "It's so angry. ”

Well, Su Ying could only divert his attention and look at his surroundings.

Mohe Ferry, a frontier military base built by Lü Ming in the spring of 664 in the Electric Calendar, is the area where three rivers meet, and the thousand-ton hulls of ships on the river lean against the improvised docks.

Although there were no permanent fortifications like concrete walls, a wall of sandbags, rows of barbed wire, and staggered five-meter-high watchtowers were enough to hold back cavalry assaults in the direction of the steppe.

At this time, the Tuobei group's war orientation was very clear, and the enemy was a nomadic army with low firepower, weak logistics, low organizational strength, and a low degree of informationization, and the stronghold should be built according to the actual situation.

To find out the enemy's situation, it is possible to use limited funds to deploy more forward bases near the riverside area in a limited time.

These bases store food, ammunition and vehicle equipment. They are connected by rivers.

The main force of transportation in the river is the cement ship, that is, the hull composed of layers of steel wire mesh and a layer of cement. This kind of hull has a considerable carrying capacity and is cheap, and it is a loyal and reliable 'brother' of Tuobei Group.

[The army has not moved, the grain and grass go first, and sometimes the success or failure of the battle is determined by the number of logistics first, followed by the number of troops]

After the successful establishment of this base, it will be able to support the strategic maneuver of the light mechanized composite battalion within a range of 400 kilometers.

A mechanized composite battalion of the Tuobei Group has more than 20 armored vehicles, the heaviest tank is 15 tons, and the lightest tank is a four-ton six-wheeled jeep. These mechanical vehicles are definitely younger brothers in front of the heavy chariots of more than 30 tons on the Heyuan battlefield, and here is the grandfather.

The materials hoarded at the Tuobei advance base were extremely abundant, and they were fully capable of maintaining thousands of cavalry on the grassland for two months. To prevent dysentery alone, a daily ration of purified water per person reached 40 kilograms.

War requires will, but pure volitional determinism is the Japanese horse manure of World War II. After all, people are still long, and working for a long time consumes a lot of energy.

Compressed biscuits, water, meat, hemostats, bandages, and alcohol fuel, these regular supplies are naturally beyond the standard supply.

Even as long as the front-line soldiers are in good condition and can complete their work efficiently, and they want to eat self-heating hot pot outside the war zone after the battle, the logistics department of Tuobei planned by Su Ying can send it.

A soldier who can maintain a high morale for sixteen hours in a day is more efficient than thirty discouraged soldiers with poor logistics.

In this kind of intervention war, the side being interfered with has all kinds of complicated division of forces, so it is not necessary to have many soldiers, and the military force must be sharp as a sharp knife, and it cannot be worn out and consumed in this sand table.

After Lu Ming finished eating a hearty breakfast, he took out a soft paper and wiped his mouth, and then said, "Recently, the people below have been a little irritable. ”

Su Ying glanced at the clean dinner plate: "Oh, it's all pressed, it's impossible to match military prostitutes, soldiers must be tenacious and persistent, they must control their personal lives." After the war, give them a holiday to go back to ask their wives to start a family, and they must not be allowed to waste their military salaries. Once a soldier develops the habit of profligacy, it means that he can be bought by outside interests. ”

Lu Ming raised his hand: "Okay, stop, I've already arranged for them to repair the fortifications to consume their energy, but it's not a problem to go on like this?" When exactly are we going to war? If it drags on like this, morale will be lost. ”

Su Ying watched Lu Ming open the map again: "Times have changed, and blood is no longer the most important factor. The war machine requires precise coordination, the army needs to be calm and calm to complete the task, and you are the commander-in-chief, so you must avoid being swayed by emotions when thinking about the war situation. ”

[Ten hours later, at another base of the Tuobei Group along the river]

Commander Song Tianbiao looked at the large map taken by the remote-controlled drone and stepped on his leather boots on the ground.

As an officer, he wears a combat uniform, but the mud of such a delicate thing as a combat uniform cannot be touched, and the excessively cold temperature can also cause malfunctions. Therefore, it is standard to wear leather boots over the mechanical suit and wear an overcoat.

Song Tianbiao: "Is this a war or a road?" ”

The traditional civilization area of the Eastern Continent has a very high density of various road facilities for thousands of years during the industrial revolution. Military operations can be quickly interspersed with these lines of communication.

And this kind of war of conquest outside the territory has not been experienced by Song Tianbiao, a 'traditional' soldier.

Song Tianbiao's complaint was quickly refuted by Zhang Da yawning next to him: "If you really want to fight, no problem, apply to the lord (Lu Ming) for a batch of pack horse logistics facilities, don't take a car, and go directly with the cavalry to fight." I think it's good to build roads now. ”

Song Tianbiao: "Do you think I can't win?" ”

With the current industrial equipment of the Tuobei Group, the soldiers in each stronghold are generally equipped with exoskeleton armor and bulletproof ceramic plates. And the firearm can be aimed accurately.

In comparison, the guns of the local nomads are still old-fashioned firearms, and after dozens of days of skirmishes, most of the rifling is almost smoothed, and the effective range is very low.

The Sisi officer on the side, Zhang Da shook his head and said, "The general is sitting here personally, doesn't he want to deal with the enemy as soon as possible?" It is clear that our army is looking for opportunities. ”

Song Tianbiao gritted his teeth and said, "Hold here all day." Build roads, build ships, and then pull barbed wire. Then I drove the jeep on patrol, and I was almost an ant. You say nomads will make a fool of themselves to hit our base? Will you ride a horse to intercept our mech? Although our chariot has thin steel plates, the bullets can still be blocked, and it is also equipped with recoilless artillery. ”

With a click, the communicator in their ears flickered, and the two immediately put on their eyepieces.

Lu Ming's avatar appeared in front of the two, and the two immediately stood straight and saluted. A military map also appears on the screen interface in the eyepiece, and the location of each ground military team is marked on the map in the unit of communication nodes.

……

Lu Ming, who was on the command boat at the Mohe ferry, was in the operation room, and with the data link, Lu Ming raised his head and looked at the two people on the screen, nodded and said, "You are all on duty, well, very good!" ”

In order to prevent the army from being lazy like the allied forces in the war of Sisi's annihilation.

The system that Su Ying formulated for Lu Ming's troops in non-war times was the regular reporting and censorship system. Eight times a day, the person in charge of duty must report the situation of the army once every three hours at a fixed point.

Of course, it's on red alert now. The armed forces must implement the system of dual leadership, reporting once an hour, and the higher authorities must be at their posts at all times; if they are found to be absent once, the entire unit will circulate a notice of criticism, and if it is found twice in a row, the leaders of the unit and the relevant responsible persons will be immediately removed from their posts.

Therefore, the entire army remained in the state before the battle, did not slack off because of the long wait, and always maintained a high degree of vigilance under a certain amount of pressure.

Lu Ming nodded to the two of them: "Okay, pay attention, there is a large-scale cluster in the direction of ten o'clock in the north of you, get ready." ”

[Su Ying's plan for Lu Ming was to directly attack the nomadic alliance in winter, but the intervention of the Hela people was more active than Su Ying expected]

One hundred and seventy kilometers east of the Mohe crossing, an enemy situation appeared, which was a military force composed of a group of mechanical pack horses.

Since the rise of the internal combustion engine, biological machinery has not completely disappeared, and the heavy bipedal mecha has been completely replaced by the heavy internal combustion engine tank, but the small mechanical pack horse still has the meaning of existence.

Now the Hella people bring this mechanical pack horse, by eating sugar artificial food to obtain power, with biological muscles as the power, torsion metal springs to absorb the shock of the torso, the pulling force is two to three times that of the best pulling horses, can tow two to three tons of supplies. And the consumption of organic matter is a quarter of that of the horse.

Because the biological muscles of mechanical pack horses are amphibian thermophothermic constitutions similar to crocodiles, when the temperature drops, the consumption becomes very small, and after the heating wire is rapidly heated, the muscle activity will be quickly restored.

This is more suitable for carrying horses than horses with a constant temperature physique. Of course, bio-automatons are clearly not a technology that nomads can have.

When Lu Ming saw this scene, she couldn't help but be surprised: What the hell is this? ”

And after the front-line scouts brought back the news, Su Ying couldn't help but sigh at the changes in this world's technology.

……

The commander of the Hela expedition was Akira, the Governor of the Far East appointed by the Parliament. Last year, he learned from the nomads of the Haobei Plateau that the countries of the Eastern Continent had once again deployed their military forces to the Sanjiang Plain on the east side of the Haobei Plateau.

The Governor didn't care about it at first, but as Lu Ming continued to expand over the past year, he built a forward base along the upper reaches of the river in the spring of this year, and the Governor took it seriously.

After determining that this military force in the eastern continent seemed to be expanding on a large scale in the east, he set out from the Red Tower Fortress and personally moved to the vicinity of Beihai with 5,700 mechanical horses and 6,000 troops.

Now sitting in a lightly armored car, he is watching the smoke and dust raised by the jeep dozens of kilometers away through the falconry, which is the patrol unit of the Tuobei group.

As the governor of the Far East, Akira actually didn't want to fight this war, because he knew the military strength of the countries of the Eastern Continent, and this was not a war that the barren northern ice fields could meddle in.

For a long time, the Hella people also supported some nomadic leaders, sent some guns, and acted as mediators in the steppe, and had no intention of continuing to go south to provoke war.

After removing the long-range look, Akira jumped out of the armored car and onto the side of the automaton.

The automaton's metal shell is covered with a thick layer of wool for warmth, and the wool has many pockets.

Akira opened a pocket, took out a glass bottle of high-strength spirits, and took a sip to refresh herself. In the cold wind, the governor of Hela heard sniffs behind him. Behind him, a group of nomadic chieftains apparently smelled the smell of wine, causing cravings.

Seeing the leader of these nomads, Akira was also very troubled.

The illiteracy rate of these nomads is too high, and they are obviously ignorant but sometimes very shrewd.

These herders cut the tarpaulin with knives to make water bladders and drink antifreeze at the same time.

So much so that Akira simply couldn't let his army and the herdsmen fight together,

In fact, the so-called joint operations are in charge of command, transportation and logistics, and the herdsmen act as cannon fodder.

……

This ignorant behavior of herdsmen, education is useless, education is half a jar of water, there is no reward and punishment system constraints, it will only make them feel that this thing is like this, according to their own simple understanding, and act more boldly.

After all, some mechanical failures cannot be detected in the short term, for example, when adding nutrient blocks to the mechanical beast, you can dilute it with a little deduction and pour it into the digestive tract of the mechanical beast, and it is impossible to find out whether the amount is less. If the herdsmen knew the details of the mechanical beasts, eighty percent of them would dismantle things from the mechanical beasts more secretly.

In this case, it will not take more than ten days for the biological muscles of the mechanical beast to age rapidly.

In order to ensure the combat capability of his own army, Akira could only strictly separate the herdsmen from his own army. And intimidate the herdsmen with superstition: every mechanical beast has a sealed mech, and if it displeases the mech, it must be reopened with the blood of the person who offended the meksh. This scared the herdsmen away like ghosts.

Well, separating the herdsmen from their own army is also to clarify the responsibilities of the soldiers of their own army, and if these herdsmen are not separated, it is difficult to find out who secretly drank the antifreeze from the mechanical pack horses!

Now, Akira casually handed the half-drunk soju to the tribal leader on the side, who took a sip and gave Akira a warm hug.

The commander of the Hela people smiled and nodded, signaling that his alliance with the tribes of the Haobei Plain was unbreakable, and he would work together to deal with the Donglu people who invaded the north.

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