"Yes, if it rains, it rains, ghost weather." A few minutes later, Ramirez drenched a soup chicken, ran into the carriage, and was busy eating a piece of anti-radiation, drenched in acid rain is equivalent to several times the radiation in vain, scraping mud and saying: "Something happened at the intersection in front, it seems that a hibernating snow python woke up and bit two people to death, and now the mule and horse transport team and the mobile corps are fighting, and it is estimated that the time is over." ”

Simon naturally didn't care much, anyway, he was from Hydra, and all rations were treated preferentially according to the rank of lieutenant, and staying in the wasteland for a few months didn't mean that he missed the-pee-and-fart streets in Area F, if it was Area E, Area M would be about the same.

The convoy remained in a stalemate for more than half an hour before continuing to crawl slowly, but the winner of the battle was the mule and horse team, and the mobile regiment that had returned to the city with the wounded and sick in advance had to pinch their noses and drive down the roadbed, and let the horse pullers who were transporting supplies from the front line pass first.

The spring is muddy, the road surface is washed out, the mobile vehicles that the steel army is proud of are almost difficult to move an inch, soldiers in teams can be seen everywhere pushing the vehicles hard, the reindeer sleigh team is not easy to use, even the animal power is enough, the main livestock variant two-headed cattle have to reduce the load, the only one who can maintain normal speed is the mule and horse team, the mobile corps 30 kilometers per hour? Hey, it's summer! Thanks for being able to reach 5 kilometers per hour for infantry in the muddy season!

Simon's all-terrain vehicle broke down four or five times in one day, Simon didn't care if his fingers and toes were long or not, he went to help, listened to the engine idling, and didn't have to guess to know that Quartermaster Tie Qing's face was going to drip blood, and the mechanical wear and tear of this 100 kilometers was absolutely worth 1,000 kilometers in summer.

After some tossing, the mobile corps camped twenty kilometers outside the old city of Canton, and the instructions were one thing, but the big soldiers didn't care too much, and the temporary logs spread on the muddy ground were secretly moved back as firewood to make bonfires, and the officers also turned a blind eye, after all, if you don't burn wood, you have to burn gasoline.

As soon as Simon's crew had set up an alcohol stove and were about to get some hot soup to drink, a herald came to the door and invited Second Lieutenant Simon to dinner in the name of Captain Bernhard.

"Go, Chief, and bring a bottle of wine when you come back!" Marco shouted, but all he could see was the shadows of the campfire.

Bernhard is under the jurisdiction of the Iron Army's rangers, but the function of this ranger is actually to reconnoiter by force and search for hydrographic information, unlike the 71st Ranger Regiment in which Simon once served, which can not only complete small-scale infiltration special operations, but also can be used as ordinary infantry to enter the frontal large corps confrontation, of course, no commander is willing to consume the Ranger regiment easily.

The Iron and Steel Army has an establishment of 3,000 people, and has three mechanized joint battalions, one combat engineer battalion, and one assault battalion with all-terrain vehicles, tactical drones, and helicopters directly under the command. These 3,000 people are the most quintessential part of the Iron and Steel Army, if the officers are not citizens, they are also the first batch of children of military families, who have systematically studied the pre-war Allied military discipline

Have extremely high coordination skills.

The Iron Army is similar to the ancient Roman legions, the auxiliary soldiers are several times more than the legionnaires, the reserve communication platoon, the light artillery support company, the cavalry support company, the supply logistics company, the ranger reconnaissance company, the spy special platoon, all kinds of support units have reached as many as five or six thousand people, although there is not much difference in salary, but the difficulty of the auxiliary soldiers to obtain citizenship through the army is certainly much more difficult than that of regular soldiers. The valuable talents such as maintenance personnel and technicians drawn from the trade unions are assigned to the headquarters during wartime, and they are to stay according to their wishes in peacetime.

The Iron Army rarely goes out, and there are not many forces in the wasteland that are worth fighting in the Steel City, and it is okay to deal with the homeless groups and let the mercenaries in the city clean up, and they can also recruit auxiliary troops in an emergency, and the disobedient neutral city-states directly cut off the exchange of industrial products, no longer distribute food, or still have hard bones, just send rangers to take a helicopter to an armed coup d'état, and change a pro-northern regime, whoever rules the sky, who rules the ground, this is a cause and effect sentence.

"Come on! Hayes! I ran into an acquaintance in the convoy in the afternoon, who quietly sold me a few bottles of pure whiskey, so don't report me to the marryman. As soon as he saw Simon coming, Bernhard enthusiastically took Simon on the shoulder, waved away a few of his rangers, took the wine that was warm by the campfire, and poured two glasses of orange whiskey.

Simon unbuttoned the wind and discipline button, waved his hand, took the bottle and poured it sharply, blinked half a bottle into his stomach, and said: "In my time, I drank like this." ”

Bernhard immediately laughed, and blew on the bottle of good wine for a few hundred dollars, regardless of the fact that it was a few hundred dollars in his hand. "The cheap snow python chopped my head with a knife, and it was really not worth it to invite those cheap chain dogs, so I called you to chat, where did we talk last time? Navy or Air Force. ”

"Air Force." Simon chewed the snake meat, sprinkled a little salt, drank a spoonful of soup and rushed down to his stomach, recalling: "At that time, when the war just started, the alliance had more than 10,000 fighters, about 3,000 all-domain fighters, and they were also powered by shaped energy engines. ”

Bernhard sighed slightly, smacked the wine bottle, looked at the starry sky and said: "If we had a thousand global fighters, the entire East Coast would be ours, and we wouldn't be fighting you to the death like this, oh, the latest command battle report, we have pushed the battle line to the old city of Morganton, if it weren't for the snowmelt hindering the logistics, otherwise we could kill Harrisburg in one go!" ”

Simon didn't surprise the progress of the Iron Army this month, Harrisburg was raided by Hydra and spread all over the East Coast wasteland, four of the five lift roads were blown up, all the peripheral radar facilities were destroyed, the shelter factory suffered heavy losses, the transfer capacity was very limited, there was no time to look west, there was no headquarters

support, the remnants of the Dragon Demon Knight, the Redemption Knight, and the Gun and Fire Knights were crushed.

"Well played, it looks like we can sit at the negotiating table in the summer, get out of the of the cross tax." Simon replied, Bernhard expressed his deep understanding, leaned over and whispered, "I also heard that Harrisburg defected to the General to the Iron City!" Sold out Harrisburg! Now live in Zone M, protected by Hydra for the time being! ”

"Hydra?" Simon's heartstrings tightened, and he said casually: "What about the Thirteen Councils?" I can still tell who's in charge. ”

Bernhard threw a few logs into the campfire, his eyes burning, and said, "You may not know this, that Major General Bertrand intends to join Hydra and declare that a secret piece of information will be handed over to Hydra first." ”

PS: The Special Resident Law of the Steel City (the resident verification process mentioned in Chapters 48 and 49) makes the proportion of the population of the Steel City young and middle-aged people account for the vast majority, and the proportion of the total population of 200,000 is very small. (In peacetime in modern countries, the proportion of military personnel in the population does not exceed 1%, 0.18% in Japan, 0.5% in the USA, 0.8% in RUS, JPN Jurisprudence should be 0, but it is actually 0.29%, and NK is 4.3%)

The 3,000-man establishment of the Iron and Steel Army is a standing army, and the auxiliary corps is recruited during wartime and converted into a reserve army with production tasks in peacetime, accounting for 5% of the total population of the Iron and Steel City, while the urban security team is equal to the militia police firefighters, and is not included in the regular army, nor is it out of production, and the number of the Black Wall Army remains below 500 people. To sum up, the proportion of the military in Steel City fluctuates between 4% and 7% of the population. The proportion of military spending in GDP will also fluctuate with the downsizing or expansion of the armed forces, but it will remain at 7 to 10 percent all year round. (During the Cold War, the US military accounted for about 7% of GNP, and the USSR reached 15% at its peak.)

Considering that in the post-nuclear period, all forces must be able to fight at any time and send troops at any time, this mobilization ratio is not very high. The heavy industry in the steel city is only relatively developed after the war, and it is not worth mentioning compared to the pre-war period, and the basic production capacity is mostly large, so it is difficult to feed back the light industry, and it will be supplemented from the northern industrial zone and the Montenegro Free Zone (Interstate 77).

In this case, the wartime system of the Iron and Steel City is certainly much stricter than the wartime economy of modern countries, and the residents do not enjoy the ability and right to consume luxury goods, and the Iron and Steel City is always in a state of partial mobilization, so that it can be switched to the wartime system or even general mobilization at any time. Under the wartime system, consumer goods generally accounted for 15 to 20 percent of industry, and general mobilization could be reduced to less than 10 percent.

The Crusader Harrisburg Headquarters mentions in chapters 209 to 217 that the military is in charge of the ZF, there are no civilians, all men are soldiers, ready for war at all times, there is no private economy, another system and economy in the wasteland, and military control shelters. Poseidon is similar, but with many differences.

The author himself will slowly spread out these basic settings in the fourth volume in the dialogue of the characters, and strive to be realistic, if there is any mistake, please correct it.

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