Chapter 2015: Trench Warfare (I)
"Then you can't just cut them all down like that! After all, in this way, those who don't know the truth will probably think that you are a tyrant, which will hinder our Blue Dragon Empire's ability to attract talents in the future! Su Li listened to Guo Dafu's explanation and said with a sigh.
"Tyrant! Those guys can scold if they want! But I believe that most people should understand, after all, the eyes of the masses are bright! Whether I did this right or wrong is something that everyone knows! ”
And just when Guo Dafu and Su Li were talking, the guards came to report, saying that Ma Wanfu had come over again.
So Guo Dafu called a team of soldiers to come in, carried away the bodies of these imperial relatives, and then cleaned up the living room, which made people take Ma Wanfu to the living room to meet.
And before Ma Wanfu entered the door, he saw the dozen or so corpses dragged out by the guards, and finally felt for the first time the absolute right of an emperor to kill and take away, thinking that this is still the Qinglong Empire after all, and he still has to be careful in the future! Avoid one who accidentally angered the Emperor of the Blue Dragon Empire and then got cut down like those unlucky people who didn't know their identities.
And this time he came to Guo Dafu for a very simple purpose, that is, he wanted to ask when he could go to the Central Continent for investigation.
If it was before the transport fleet was not attacked, Guo Dafu would definitely let Ma Wanfu take the ship of the next transport fleet to the Central Continent.
But the attack of the Hanhai Empire not long ago made Guo Dafu discover that the Blue Dragon Empire does not have absolute dominance on the sea now, and it is still possible for one to overturn if he is not careful.
In addition, the speed of the transport fleet is not fast, it will take at least half a month to set off from Roaring Island to the Central Continent, and if something happens, it will take even longer.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Guo Dafu decided that he would personally take the other party and a few of his retinues to the Central Continent tomorrow, with him as a bodyguard, unless he encountered a beast emperor-level fierce beast, Ma Wanfu's safety could definitely be guaranteed.
Ma Wanfu was also very happy when he learned that he could leave tomorrow and that the other party would personally escort him to the Central Continent, and then he said goodbye to Guo Dafu and went back to prepare.
Guo Dafu, on the other hand, called Dr. Zhang to discuss with him how to develop the modified beast used in underwater combat.
At the same time, the war front line of the Blue Dragon Empire and the Golden Eagle Empire in the Central Continent, because Guo Dafu decisively shrank the defense line and troops some time ago, and turned from offensive to defensive, so in the face of the large-scale counteroffensive of the Golden Eagle Empire, he did not suffer much loss, but held the defense line steadily, taking the opportunity to eliminate many soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire.
Seeing that it was unable to break through the opponent's defense line for a while, the Golden Eagle Empire turned to use those cannon fodder beasts to continuously impact its risks and slowly consume the opponent's troops and ammunition in order to prevent its soldiers from continuing to die in vain.
As a result, the two sides have been in a stalemate on the front line for a while, and now he has been promoted to the battalion commander's Wu Da Sledgehammer, and today it is his turn to take his soldiers to the front line to guard.
Since the small number of elite troops they were on the front line had already been reequipped with bolt-action rifles, their defensive battle this time was a trench warfare, and the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire dug trenches crisscrossing each other on the front line. Further afield, there are several barbed wire fences with spikes on them.
As for the trees and weeds around the position, they have already been cleared, making it impossible for the enemy to carry out a surprise attack, after all, after the trees and weeds have been cleared, there will be a bare plain between the front of the two sides, once it appears on this bare flat land, it will inevitably be quickly discovered by the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire.
What's more, on those barbed wires, many soldiers also hung some bells and empty tin cans. If the enemy on the opposite side tries to destroy the barbed wire, it is likely that the bells and empty cans on the barbed wire will expose themselves.
The Golden Eagle Empire, which has never encountered this style of play, also organized a large-scale attack of troops at the beginning, and the result can be imagined, with more than 500,000 soldiers killed and wounded in just two days, and this is all calculated as those recorded soldiers, those people and cannon fodder beasts are not counted!
It is said that Agukos couldn't believe it when he first saw this casualty figure, after all, a whole army of 500,000 people, even if it was a herd of pigs, let the enemy catch it for two days!
He then went to the front line and witnessed the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire hiding in the trenches, using machine guns and artillery to sweep down the charging soldiers like wheat harvests.
After that, Agukoth finally learned to do his best, and instead of launching large-scale offensives, he began to conduct a series of small-scale offsets, mostly at night and in foggy weather.
But even so, after more than a week of stalemate, the Golden Eagle Empire still lost more than 70,000 soldiers one after another, and as for the casualties of those fierce beasts and cannon fodder, no one is in the mood to count them at all.
The same is true for the Blue Dragon Empire, for those enemy beasts and cannon fodder, they don't bother to count how many they kill every day, but they will regularly send soldiers to burn those corpses, so as not to cause plague or something like that because there are too many corpses.
As soon as Wu Dahammer entered the position with his soldiers today, he found that there were a lot of fierce beast corpses on the front position, which seemed to have been shot by his own soldiers last night.
The corpses of these fierce beasts were stacked on top of each other, and many of them even fell not far in front of the trenches, and the smell of corpses clearly drifted close to everyone's noses, making some recruits so disgusted that they almost vomited the breakfast they had just eaten.
So Wu Da Sledgehammer decided to find a time today to lead his soldiers to clean up the corpses of those fierce beasts, but in order to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to attack, he was going to let his scouts go to reconnoiter in advance, and only after confirming that the enemy really had no intention of mobilizing troops to launch an attack would he start cleaning up the corpses of those fierce beasts.
And just as he was enduring the smell of corpses and inspecting the position, a gunshot suddenly came into his ears, and Wu Da Sledgehammer turned his head to look and found that it was one of his soldiers named Guan Damu who had shot him.
This guy has a very peculiar appearance, his right eye is about a third larger than his left eye, which makes him look very ugly, but perhaps because of his talent in his right eye, this guy's right eye is very powerful, and he can see clearly even at night from a few hundred meters away.
Relying on this outstanding strength, Guan Damu became the best marksman in the entire regiment, and often sniped the enemy from a distance.
Just now, it seemed that the other party had found an opportunity and shot the enemy, but I don't know if it was hit.
After the inspection of the black sledgehammer was completed, Guan Damu took the initiative to find him and reported to him: "Battalion commander, the enemy on the opposite side is a little abnormal today!" I've found a couple of guys who look at me from time to time, and one of them was shot in the head by me when he came out to look around, but that didn't scare the other party, it looks like these guys are trying to make a big move again! ”
"Hmmm! I know, I'll let the regimental headquarters send scouts to reconnoitre, you can find one more soldier with good marksmanship, continue to keep an eye on me, and if those enemies still dare to come forward, then give me cold shots, and try to hinder the progress of their observations! After listening to the report of his subordinates, Wu Da Hammer also responded immediately.
Compared with before, Wu Da Hammer has really grown a lot now, not only relying on the literacy classes in the army to know a lot of words, but also learning a lot of military skills that an officer should master.
In the army of the Blue Dragon Empire, there are still many officers like him who have grown up little by little while fighting and learning, after all, the lack of talent has always been the biggest shortcoming of the Blue Dragon Empire.
Especially in the army, with the continuous expansion of the army, the hundreds of veterans recruited by Su Li before have long been insufficient, so naturally they can only dig talents from other players and natives.
Fortunately, thanks to the previous series of wars, the Blue Dragon Empire relied on all kinds of new weapons to fight smoothly, so it also gave Wu Da Hammer and them enough time to grow.
As for now, this battle is not as easy to fight as before, because the black sledgehammer and they suddenly found that those shameless people of the Golden Eagle Empire actually gave a lot of weapons and troops of the Qinglong Empire to the copycat, like what kind of muskets and artillery, and now there are them on the other side. Even the hoplites, chariots, and airships came out of the opposite side as a non-pulling cottage, and then because the troops on the opposite side were far more than their own, the two sides would be at a stalemate here for a while.
However, Wu Dazhui also heard that the rear is trying to find a way to mobilize troops from all over to reinforce it, and at the same time, the latest batch of transport fleets is also about to arrive, which is said to have a lot of new equipment, including a new equipment called tanks, which will be equipped with his troops.
This new weapon, called the tank, is said to be a very special combat vehicle, not only large in size, strong in armor, but also loaded with artillery and machine guns, the weapon is a movable war fortress, the thought of his unit is about to be equipped with this powerful new weapon, Wu Da Sledgehammer is very excited.
He believed that the day when reinforcements and new weapons arrived would be the day when his side launched a counterattack.
Previously, because of the lack of troops, the opposing Golden Eagle Empire troops had been allowed to shoot so many times, and this time they were finally going to give the other party a heavy punch.
Soon, there were noises outside from time to time, obviously Guan Damu was leading the marksmen in the army with good marksmanship to snipe and kill those enemy soldiers who dared to probe.
At this point, the opposite side can be said to be helpless, and it is difficult to even return fire, after all, the opposite side does not have a rear-loading rifle with extremely high accuracy at a distance of several hundred meters.
As for the flintlock rifles imitated on the other side, the accuracy is not even as good as the original version of the Blue Dragon Empire, and basically there is not much accuracy at all beyond thirty meters. In comparison, bows and arrows are still used.
However, an elite archer who can shoot arrows hundreds of meters away, there are not many in the Golden Eagle Empire on the opposite side, and after shooting against their own snipers for a few days and losing dozens of people, the opposite side will stop this futile action, and let their own snipers snipe at will.
But this time it did seem to be different, shortly after they opened fire, a whizzing sound of feathered arrows also broke through the air, and was thrown from the enemy position a few hundred meters away, and a soldier was unsuspected, and was hit by an arrow in the face on the spot, and before he could even scream, he died with a whimper.