Revised Edition Volume 18 The End of the World Chapter 3 Nagano Raiders (I)
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Nagano Island.
"Why is this ......happening?"
Mei Weifeng groaned and opened his diary. Outside the tent, it was raining heavily, and the air was so humid that the diary was already a little moldy. The pen touches the diary and the ink spreads along the wet paper fibers, leaving blurred words. After briefly jotting down what had happened today, Mei Weifeng turned his diary to the page he had written down when he first arrived in Nagano Island at the end of May. The page was so blurry that it was almost illegible, but because he had read it countless times, he remembered it clearly even if he didn't turn it:
"A plan has been made to use the Pyro to burn the forest to open the way, and strive to enter the territory of the Wood Elves as soon as possible to get in touch with them. Unfortunately, it suddenly rained, and I hope it will end sooner. β
"It's been raining for fifty days, and it's not over yet!" Mei Weifeng shook his fat huge body in the tent where no one was there and yelled at the sky: "Are you playing with me or what, bastard!" β
Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps trampling the mud outside. Mei Weifeng immediately withdrew his frenzied trembling arm and regained the dignity of the commander of the first division. A herald opened the curtain and came in, gave a lazy military salute and said, "Report to the division commander, the right left front encountered the Feria soldiers." The special service company directly under Regiment B happened to be there and repelled them. ...... in battle"
I don't know how many times I've heard this kind of report these days, Mei Weifeng interrupted the herald angrily: "Less nonsense, how many killed?" β
"Three."
"How many dead and wounded did we have?"
"Eight dead, seventeen wounded."
"It's another loss-making deal." Mei Weifeng paced back and forth in the tent for several steps, and suddenly jumped up and threw his military hat on the ground: "After going to this ghost island, Lao Tzu has not earned a penny, this ghost sky is like a leak, and all the Pyro soldiers have become waste!" o~solemioοΌ It rained all day, and my underwear was so wet that I couldn't find a pair to wear! β
The herald looked at the frantic division commander, and was so stunned that he couldn't speak for a while, and after a while he remembered something, he hurriedly took out a telegram in his bag and said: "Division commander, Flle is calling, and you are promoted to commander of the Second Army." β
"When did you get the Second Army?" Mei Weifeng snatched the message and looked at it carefully. However, the message was an absolutely formulaic appointment document, 90 per cent of which was empty rhetoric, and not a single useful word could be found outside of it. Mei Weifeng studied carefully for a long time, put down the telegram and sighed: "Finally started the reorganization, we, the old army of Furle, have always wanted to maintain the old interests and establishment by virtue of the merit of guarding the base area, it seems that the disadvantage of Nagano Island finally gave Jiang Xu an excuse to reorganize us, and this also promoted me to be the commander of the army, didn't it make me angry?" Hmph, I think when Captain Simba was in Folle, Jiang Xu, the bastard, didn't know where to fool around, mother's, the slut who came from behind, the slut! I don't know how proud I am now!! β
Mei Weifeng, who was trapped in the rainforest and went crazy, vented his dissatisfaction and completely forgot the existence of the herald NPC. When he suddenly realized it, he finally felt that he was too out of shape in front of his subordinates, and hurriedly waved his hand: "What are you still standing here for?" Go and do your thing! β
"Yes!" The herald said this, but his legs and feet did not move. Mei Weifeng sensed that he seemed to have something to say, and asked, "What do you want to say?" β
"Commander...... No, now it's the commander. In the eyes of his subordinates, Jiang Xu couldn't help but look at the face of Commander Xin and rashly move our old army who were born and died and made great achievements, even if the battle here was unfavorable, after all, there was no loss of troops, it was just an excuse. I am afraid that the reorganization could not have been carried out without the approval of the general. β
Mei Weifeng lowered his head and thought about it, and said in a loud voice: "You're right, you can go." β
"Commander, there is one more thing ...... subordinates"
"Say!"
Only then did the herald carefully pull out another telegram from his bag: "Commander Jiang has already arrived at Nagano Island with the First and Fourth Armies. β
Mei Weifeng took it with half a doubt, and the message was not false at all, but the arrival time turned out to be three hours later. At this time, his troops are messy, how can he see people, but he still delays time for this bastard! Suddenly, his heart was on fire, but his face remained unchanged and asked: "I can't remember you newcomers, your surname is Bu?" β
"Yes, the military commander, his subordinate is called Bu Mingming, a native of Songhu City, and you are a fellow countryman with the military commander. The subordinates came out to serve as soldiers after graduating from college, and they are quite insightful about military strategy. β
"Well, since you have been promoted to military commander, the people around you should be promoted. You should go to the advance company of Regiment A this afternoon to report. β
"Oh, my subordinates are recruits who have just been added, and I don't really understand what level it is?"
"It's a direct close encounter with the Feria soldiers, and it's easy to get battle merits. Didn't Jiang Xu formulate a very complicated lifting clause? To put it simply, if you cut off the head of a Feria's soldier and return it to the public, you will be a non-commissioned officer, and you will be very fast. Mei Weifeng patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Young man, there is something that is best done in one go." When you get to the front line, always make sure that the gun is not left with you, there are bullets in the magazine, and don't wait for the Feria soldiers to rush in front of you before looking for the bullet box. This is the advice given to you by your teacher, and you will definitely benefit from it for the rest of your life. β
Three hours later, Jiang Xu's army landed on time. Mei Weifeng completely abandoned the face of scolding the slut, greeted Jiang Xu with a smile on his face, and blamed himself repeatedly: "The subordinates are not effective in their labor, but they are not effective, and they actually let the commander go out in person, and they have a great responsibility for delaying the strategy formulated by the commander, why are you promoting your subordinates to army commanders at this moment, I am really panicking." β
Jiang Xu smiled slightly: "My commander does not have an actual war zone or military region, and his identity is the same as that of all army commanders, but he is ordered by the general to temporarily control you, and they are all comrades-in-arms under the command of Commander-in-Chief Simba, so there is no need to be polite." Commander Mei annihilated hundreds of thousands of the Feria's army with the power of a reinforced division when he was in Luhejiao, and made immortal feats, and the team is also a first-class ace in the firearms army. β
Mei Weifeng said dejectedly: "Commander Jiang, don't mention the past again, I'm ashamed to death here!" According to the Third Fleet, there were only a thousand Feria soldiers on Nagano Island, and they landed at about the same time as us. If it is in Luhejiao, this person is not enough for us to fight for ten minutes! But in the past two months of fighting, we have lost every battle, although we have nominally won, and only we know the suffering. This kind of pouring rain all day long not only makes it difficult to move an inch, but also the loss of ordnance is also very serious, and the combat effectiveness of our division is rapidly decreasing, and now it is no longer the glory of the past. β
Jiang Xu smiled: "The coast of Nagano Island is full of alpine jungles, and this is not a place where the guards of a heavy firepower stronghold like the Luhejiao Garrison Division can give full play to their strengths. I suggest that you attack here first, but I also have the idea of underestimating the enemy, thinking that the native wood elves of Nagano Island do not have much combat power, even if some Feria soldiers are brought. But now that Feria has clearly taken control of Nagano Island as the next strategic goal, they landed about 5,000 people on the north shore of Nagano Island yesterday, and there are reinforcements to continue to reinforce today, I don't know how many troops will be placed here. Commander Mei, you can lead the team back, and I will take over the battle here. β
"No, how can you go back like this!" Mei Weifeng's blood suddenly rushed, and his face was blood-red: "Commander, do you look down on me Mei?" Those Ferian thieves are just running fast in the jungle, and as soon as the day is clear, I will set fire to the whole island and see if they can win my people if they are in a confrontation head-on! β
"Hey, Commander Mei, you're too impulsive. This is the order of the great general. The fighting on Nagano Island is likely to escalate on a large scale, and the Folle base must not be lost. The general thinks that it is very reassuring to transfer Commander Mei back to Luhejiao to strengthen his defenses, do you say? β
"That's just as well." Mei Weifeng gradually calmed down, feeling that he would not lose face by doing so, and after all, it was the battlefield he was best at, so he agreed. Although the order to withdraw the troops was given, packing up and boarding the ship was not so fast, so the two continued to sit down and exchange the situation on Nagano Island, Mei Weifeng was quick to talk, but it didn't take long to explain the situation to Jiang Xu clearly, and suddenly became annoyed and said: "We are tossing and turning here, and we don't see some air force to help!" In many cases, with the help of a frigate, the Feria army would never be able to escape! β
"Commander Mei, our army depends on our army's own, don't count on the Space Force." Jiang Xu shook his head and said, "The rear still has to transport troops over in a steady stream, how many ships do you say are needed?" We used three fleets of 110,000 men this time. In the future, there will be tens or millions of them, and those fleets will be busy enough just to run on the road, so how can they care about helping us fight? Fortunately, the general formulated a strategy to accommodate the natives to fight, otherwise the deployment of five million to ten million troops according to the original plan would have been a matter of the Year of the Monkey and the month of the Monkey! β
"Then I don't understand it anymore!" Mei Weifeng sneered and said, "Isn't it just transporting troops?" Just build a few thousand transport ships. My family is a shipyard and knows these things very well! As long as the platform built by a ready-made large transport ship, plus some jumping devices and safety devices, the cost is less than a few tenths of a warship of the same tonnage, and it will probably reach a ratio of one thousandth compared to the modern class......"
Jiang Xu smiled slightly and said, "Can that kind of thing fight?" β
"Of course not, but it's enough."
Jiang Xu raised his head to the sky and sighed: "If you can't fight and it's just for transportation, who wants to spend money to build?" But who wants their own expensive combat power to be too damaged when covering a ground attack? For a long time, no matter how much of that stuff was built, it would only be used as a transport ship, and we would have to rely on ourselves. That's it, that's all I have to say. β
"I still don't understand."
"You don't need to think about it so much, just fight your own battle." Jiang Xu patted Mei Weifeng's shoulder and said, "By the way, there is new news for you." The rear, having received the news of our seizure of Selmo and the news of the inside of Feria, was already in full swing to massively expand the Nebuchu Front. The Ovimas shogunate has suspended the shipbuilding plan and invested a lot of manpower and funds to build a modern high-tech mechanized army. β
"Hehe, wouldn't you know if there was a chance to compete in martial arts?" Mei Weifeng laughed: "After the big event is decided, we suggest that the general contact that side for a martial arts competition, whether it is a mule or a horse to pull over for a walk, you will know as soon as you walk!" β
Jiang Xu also laughed loudly: "If there is really a competition, just a competition, that's great, haha!" β
The strategic deployment for the attack on Nagano Island was decided in mid-May. After pacifying the whole island of Selmo, I left Hongda and part of the Blackwater Feria Army (later reorganized into the Third Army), and the rest of the men drove to the Fellle base area. Immediately after arriving at the base, a military meeting was held, at which Shizumi recounted his experiences since the Dark Side War.
At that time, the situation in Nebuchu was rapidly deteriorating, and the soldiers of the 3,000 Swordsmen could not return home, and they could no longer get in touch with the fortress of Furle and the Gonggong Fortress due to radio damage, so under her leadership, they traveled to all corners of the land of Nebuchu, and carried out activities in the native-controlled areas quite frequently, forming friendships with some tribes. Of course, she has not been touring in the areas controlled by the indigenous, but has spent more time leading her team to go deep into the hinterland of Feria and slaughter civilians in villages and towns where there is no large-scale garrison, burning food and machinery, and beheading more than 400,000 people in total.
After she reported this number, everyone didn't believe it, and she didn't make it up much, so she laughed it off. It's just that when I heard it, my heart suddenly became cold, and I deeply realized that war is generally cruel to both the enemy and usβshe will not fabricate the record, and she does not deny the massacre of civilians. Since she said that she had killed 400,000, it was not at all true that her swordsman regiment had beheaded more than 100 heads per person.
After Dai Jiangnan's victory, Jingwei sent two groups of messengers to Ferle to report the news. However, the road was difficult and difficult, and both groups of people failed to complete their mission. So she set out on the road herself, and after walking about 10,000 kilometers of hardships, she finally arrived at the south coast of the Mascu continent, which was close to Fellle. However, at this time, the compass was lost - I always knew that she was road blind, this woman could go around the shopping mall dozens of times and remember where the most expensive and beautiful items were, and walked down the street but could not figure out the east, south, north, south, north, south. Without a compass, Jing Wei swam in the sea, and his luck was extremely bad and he encountered a huge underwater monster in the sea. By this time she was so sleepy and exhausted that she fainted to death after a beating, washed thousands of kilometers by the current, and woke up to find that she had been locked up in the Cellmore prison. Details of how the Sermoferians tortured her need not be said.
She brought us a detailed picture of the indigenous peoples of the planet Nebuchu, which had a significant impact on my change of strategic deployment. Since it is true that indigenous people are widely available, and the places they occupy are rich in resources, it is also effective to reduce the pressure on the rear by using local materials to feed the war. On more than one occasion, Titus and Tan Kang had sent me bitter telegrams, suggesting that I try to reduce the scale of the war as much as possible, otherwise the military economy would go bankrupt, and later even proposed a partial decommissioning of the military to restore economic vitality. I can ignore these suggestions for a while, but I can't ignore them forever, maybe now is the opportunity.
Shizuki proposes that we attack Nagano Island first. The reason is that although she has never been there, she has learned from the Ice Elves of the island of Eslanta in the north that Nagano Island is very rich and prosperous. Nagano Island is located northeast of Fellle, closer to the "easy war" region of the Masku continent than Fellle, and capturing it will naturally give Feria a greater threat while strengthening his own strength. Moreover, it is said that the indigenous wood elves there have a thriving population, which is enough to meet the needs of conscription for a considerable period of time. However, Nagano Island has a special geographical climate, surrounded by mountains and dense jungles, and even Feria has never effectively controlled the area. If it weren't for the human invasion, I'm afraid Feria wouldn't have thought of sending people to that place to suffer in two or three hundred years.
At the meeting, a plan was made to attack Nagano Island. Jiang Xu suggested that the Luhejiao garrison, which was known for its strong firepower and rich experience, be sent to occupy Nagano Island, and I agreed in passing. Unexpectedly, after the meeting ended, Jing Wei whispered something unexpected to Mei Weifeng:
"It's a good place for men."
The tone of this sentence is ambiguous, and it is really appetizing. It's just that the meeting has been announced at this time, and the few people around Mei Weifeng who heard it were really embarrassed to pull Jingwei back and listen to her gossip slowly, so they only watched her leave with a blank stomach and questions. Mei Weifeng listened to it, thinking that he would be able to find out if he took down Nagano Island in three or two clicks, but who knew that he hadn't even picked up a single indigenous hair after nearly two months. When he returned to Fellle with a disgraced face, he forgot to tell Jiang Xu about it. (To be continued.) )