Chapter 36: The Skills of the Einsatzgruppen
In the blink of an eye, the day has come to leave Carman City. Unlike the storms of Cancun City, the Grand Duke's trust in Farsher changed qualitatively after that night, but it was not a guarantee of his ability to control the situation after he returned to power. As a result, the Grand Governor signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with Carman City in his personal capacity, which was as follows:
1. The city of Carmen is under the protection of the Metropolitan Governor, who is obliged to come to the aid of any targeted attack on the city.
2. The Metropolitan Governor does not interfere in the internal affairs of the city of Carman, the city has absolute autonomy, and the lord of the city is the supreme administrator of the city.
3. The army recruited 2,000 soldiers from the city of Carman to supplement the force, mainly engineers, who were mainly responsible for construction work related to the war and enjoyed the allowance of their duties.
4. Those who have signed the seal of the Lord of Carman City will automatically receive the privilege of clearing the Lich Pool and the Fly Village, which will not be attacked but will require a fee.
5. During the war, the city of Kaman was required to pay the army a total of two thousand dengaba or its equivalent in food, clothing, building materials, etc., per year.
The Metropolitan Governor and Fasher signed the documents in duplicate, Zhou Yu carefully looked at them twice, handed them to Ellavila, and let the two daughters keep them, and they didn't know when they would take them out to settle old accounts with these old immortals.
Zhou Yu was really not used to any farewell scenes, especially the elders of Kaman City did not trust him very much, so in the early morning when it was a little chilly, the moon was setting, and the sun was not ploughing, he quietly set off with the army. After walking for miles, he looked back melancholy at the city of Carman, which was still asleep in the mist, and said in his heart: Good luck, Fasher; Good luck, people of Carman City. I hope that when we meet again, Zi You'an is, and I smile.
"Governor, how do you distribute the two thousand sappers?" Bai Qi and Zhang Xianzhong and the others rode side by side and asked with concern. These veterans are also accustomed to sand crocodiles on their backs.
Zhou Yu broke off the legs and wings of a chicken, stuffed them into the four mouths of Xiaosha riding under his crotch one by one, watched it gnaw with satisfaction, and replied very comfortably: "First of all, I will propose a thousand five, and every group of three hundred people will be divided into five battalions, specializing in digging ditches, repairing bridges, building ladders, and building ships." The remaining 500 men formed the Einsatzgruppen. He was accustomed to riding on the sand, and the big dog's back was wide and comfortable enough to sit on a huge fur padded leather couch.
"What is the Einsatzgruppen?" Bai Qi and Zhang Xianzhong glanced at each other and asked in unison.
"The Einsatzgruppen, the Einsatzgruppen is that you don't move, I'll kill you 100,000 why!" The Metropolitan Governor said and pulled off the chicken butt and slapped it on the face. Lao Bai's body is so vigorous, his crotch is clamped and accelerated, and he dodges away, but it is Zhang Xianzhong next to him who is unlucky, and he is stunned.
In modern warfare, the importance of the engineer is self-evident, and how to make good use of the construction fortifications, turn the disadvantage into an advantage, turn the disadvantage into an advantage, and turn the defeat into a victory, is a great learning. Kaman City is born with craftsmen, skilled craftsmen, and famous craftsmen, and if this Einsatzgruppen is slightly integrated and trained, combined with some offensive weapons with the characteristics of modern warfare, it may become a wonder army.
"Bang Shuai, you call that newcomer to me to take a look!" The newcomer mentioned by the Metropolitan Governor was Hugh Jack, the commander of the two thousand engineers.
"The last general, Hugh Jack, meets the Grand Governor!" Without a cup of tea, a middle-aged man in his early forties who was not good-looking ran over from the team, trotting parallel to Zhou Yu.
The Governor took a closer look at this man, who was a little short, but very sturdy, with a beard that he couldn't take care of, and even looked a little sloppy, and what was even more interesting was that he also wore a pullover metal eye patch, which was a one-eyed dragon. It's hard to imagine that this is the commander of 2,000 men.
"I said Hugh Jackman!" The Metropolitan Governor swallowed and foamed at the mouth.
"Uh, Grand Duke, it's Hugh Jack!" The man nodded and said.
"Oh, Jack the Ripper. You see, you can promise whatever I tell you, and that's it. A big man, mother-in-law's. It's called Jack the Ripper! The Grand Governor glared at him with feigned anger.
"Uh, yes, yes! I'll do whatever the Governor tells me, little Jack the Ripper, follow the Governor's orders! "That man is very well-behaved and sensible.
"Well, that's right. When you go out, the most important thing is a rational word. Reason travels all over the world, you see I am the most reasonable person! The sound of the mountain beating on the chest of the Metropolitan Governor, and the faces of the generals next to him were full of black lines.
Hugh Jack couldn't see that Zhou Yu was joking, and laughed out loud in a hurry, the favorite of the people in the army is this kind of commander who has no frame and loves to fight, and what he hates the most is the weak scholar who talks on paper and is gentle and elegant.
"Jack, what is the most important thing in your opinion that this march is fighting?" The Metropolitan Governor threw out such a sentence for no reason.
Unexpectedly, this Hugh Jack looked mediocre, and he was missing an eye, and he answered these things on the battlefield unequivocally: "I was born and raised in Carman City since I was a child, and I joined the army at the age of eighteen for twenty-two years, and I have participated in more than 100 battles large and small, and I have seen more life and death in this sword and sword. Therefore, the most important thing in marching and fighting according to the humble position is to preserve strength. “
"Oh? It's fresh, let's listen to it, how to preserve strength? The Metropolitan Governor was very interested, got down from Xiaosha, and walked side by side with him, and Tuda Jalang and others around him also got off one after another, and involuntarily surrounded him.
"The so-called preservation of strength has three meanings. First, when the enemy and our forces are equal, it is necessary to give full play to the momentum before the battle, arrange traps, build fortifications, and build equipment, so that our army can have a definite aim and be prepared to fight when facing each other and tough, use technology to consume the enemy, and save more troops to be used in the short-handed battles behind, so as to win the battle. ”
"Second, when the enemy is weak and we are strong, we must think of ways to use the minimum number of troops, material resources, and immediate combat strength to destroy the enemy, and to preserve superior forces to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, the reserve forces from fighting guerrillas, or the civilian rebellion."
"Third, when the enemy is strong and we are weak, we should try to avoid a head-on encounter with the enemy's main force, hide if we can, and save the country by attacking the east and west if we can't, and save the country by curve, and save our strength as much as possible and wait for rescue, or, or wait for the sky to open! Hey! Speaking of the back, Hugh Jack scratched his scalp in embarrassment.
"Dwarf oil, good? Listen, Jack's point of view is quite insightful, and I have been taught by the generals! The Governor said, and folded his hands. He has always been eager for talent, and for talented people, Zhou Yu has never been afraid to ask questions shamelessly.
"The Metropolitan Governor is serious, Hugh Jack admires the Metropolitan Governor's personality and immortal exploits, and it is a small honor to be able to fight side by side with you."
"False name, false name! Ha ha! The Governor made a gesture of brushing his beard, and suddenly found that he had no beautiful hair, and coughed busily.
"By the way, old Jack, I have a question!"
"It's okay to ask!"
"Is your wife's name Rouss?"
"Huh? Belch... “
After a period of frolic and frolicking, a huge abyss appeared in front of him.
"Report to the Governor, there is no road ahead. We've got to take a detour! Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly ran over to report.
"Who led the way? Old white, old white? The Governor shouted at the back of the line. When he set off, Bai Qi said that he knew the way, and he led the team to the front. It's good, it's a ditch.
"You—Didn't you say you knew the way?" The Governor raised his waist and eyes with his sword.
"Yes! I remember coming this way ... Bai Qi pretended to be contemplative.
"Forget it, don't worry about it, a few dei and a few dei. Wrap around, right? The Grand Governor shrugged.
"Tell the Metropolitan Governor, I don't know, I don't know if I can let the last general give it a try." Zhou Yu was about to shout at the large army to make a detour, when Hugh Jack ran over and said breathlessly.
"Oh? Let you try? How to try it? Zhou Yuqi said.
"The Metropolitan Governor asked the last general to choose the five hundred rangers, and the last general has already been selected. Let's try their quality and see if we can help the army move forward. ”
"You mean ... So in the past? The Governor made an incredulous gesture of straight passing.
"Exactly!" Hugh Jack clasped his hands.
Zhou Yu turned his head sideways and looked at Zhang Xianzhong on the left, and then at Bai Qi on the right. The three of them opened their mouths wide and nodded.
The Grand Governor and the others didn't know much about the craftsmanship and skills of the Kamans, only that they were good at building construction, and so many soldiers had to perform the strange skills of climbing the Grand Canyon in front of everyone, and he was looking forward to it. Although there is no heat and magma in Death Canyon here, it is up to them to see how the 100-meter-wide Qianren Gully becomes a thoroughfare.
After the Governor gave the order, he found a tall sand mound, sat cross-legged on it, and put his hands on the pergola to watch the performance of the Einsatzgruppen.
At first, a dozen soldiers quickly ran to the edge of the cliff and used a special wooden tool to calculate the angle, which Zhou Yu thought might be some kind of scale. After a while, the group of soldiers changed to a fan-shaped ruler with an arc. Good guys, aren't you panicking to sleep with so many rulers in your pockets?
Afterwards, more than two dozen soldiers came and took out a bunch of things from their carry-on backpacks, such as wooden planks, wooden boxes, wooden shelves, shovels, iron rods, and iron bows, and placed them on the ground in different categories.
"What is this for?" Zhang Xianzhong put his face to the face of the Metropolitan Governor and asked in surprise.
"How do I know? Alas - go away, how many days have you not brushed your teeth? The Metropolitan Governor pushed his old oily face aside and looked nervously at the performance venue.
A pile of iron and wooden frames that looked chaotic came and three soldiers came and chiseled and made a bench. Zhou Yu rubbed his eyes vigorously, yes, it was a bench.
"Didn't I say Old Jack, you're making furniture here? If you don't give me two TV cabinets and a whole kitchen today, you see if I can beat you to death! ”
Old Jack turned his head and didn't speak, he smiled with an eyepatch, and Zhou Yu's goosebumps fell to the ground when he laughed.
Just as Zhou Yu was angrily scolding him, one soldier put his backpack on his back, and the other two tied two knots on him, patted him on the back, and the man walked up quickly and stood on the bench.
There was a snap, and the huge sound of the bow shook the ears of the people in front of them. I saw that the backpack soldier was ejected twenty or thirty meters high with a whoosh, and drew a parabola and flew to the opposite side of the abyss.
Am I, aren't you? Zhou Yu stood up in disbelief, walked to the edge of the cliff in broken steps, and looked at the trapeze.
"He, he, him!" He pointed to the mass.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Old Jack was still grinning.
"Oh, yes, yes? I mean, he can't fly that far! Your uncle's! Zhou Yu looked at the angle and strength of his ejection, at most he could fly forty meters, and fifty meters would be dead. It's a hundred meters wide between the two shores!
"Look, look, look!" The one-eyed dragon smiled and pointed into the air. I saw that the flying man dragged it in his hand, and the sackcloth backpack behind him quickly bounced away. It turned out that it was not a backpack, but two folded and polished cowhides like silkworm wings, controlled by a machine spring and made of stainless steel. When the hides were unfurled, the flying man turned from a worm into a butterfly.
"Grandma's, is there really a set?" Zhou Yuyang put his hand on Hugh Jack's shoulder to see what else the flying man performed.
As he spoke, the flyer had flown to the opposite side, and he closed his wings a few times in a row, and the wings changed from large to medium, from medium to small, and the groove was still with a gear, so you guys were amazing, huh? Zhou Yu rubbed his chin and watched him slowly fall to the ground. After landing, the man took the hammer out of his pocket for a moment, found a place, removed the two ropes from his waist, and embedded the iron drill into the ground with a clang.
Good fellows, one succeeds, a swarm of locusts flies. More than a dozen trapeze artists popped out of the fluttering edges, and most of the governor's heads looked like rattles. The soldiers pulled the rope hard, and it turned out that behind the rope was a huge iron rope, the thickness of an arm. I really don't know where they hid these iron cables during this rapid march.
In addition to the soldiers on this side, the other more than 400 soldiers quickly took off the huge cloth backpacks they were carrying, and worked in groups of five. Zhou Yu only saw them hammering and chiseling, but he didn't know what to do.
"Most of the governors don't know that the sappers under the last general carry with them twenty denier necessary materials, these things are strategic materials that are more important than lives, and they are the capital of the Kamans to fight." Hugh Jack said indifferently.
Twenty denier, that's forty kilograms. Zhou Yu smashed his tongue.
"These materials include iron cables, iron rings, bow springs, machine brackets, hemp ropes, hammers, etc., and can also be used locally if needed. When the Kamans fight, it's important to use tools and teamwork. With that, he pointed to the field.
It turned out that these iron cables and hemp ropes were all assembled by the soldiers by connecting them one by one. A cluster of soldiers shouted a trumpet to send the iron cables, and hundreds of other soldiers hammered and chiseled something also took on the appearance, which turned out to be long wooden boxes, some of which resembled sleepers under the rails of a train. The soldiers then filled it with sand, wedged it into an iron ring, threaded it one by one through two iron cables, and sent it through on a kind of pulley.
In less than an hour, a chain bridge was built. Standing majestically in the vast yellow sand, it is amazing. Zhou Yuqi's is not that they can do this, but that all these materials are so well prepared, so unified in action, without delay, well-trained, and they are like an alternative tiger and wolf army.
Walking on it, I didn't feel shaky at all, and my feet were solid and steady. Zhou Yu was very satisfied, and his approving eyes made Hugh Jack's old face red. What surprised him even more was that the last members of the Einsatzgruppen who crossed the bridge collected and unloaded while retreating. When the last man had crossed the bridge, everything had been broken into pieces and disassembled, and everyone took their own numbered iron, wood, and tools, and marched in a neat line.
I'll you, you cow, okay? This time it was really an eye-opener, Zhou Yu met with Bai Qi and Zhang Xianzhong, and gave them a thumbs up.