Chapter 1369: Nightmare of the regular army

The constant friction between train wheels and railroad tracks bursts out countless sparks, and at the same time, a series of sharp "creaking" sounds are emitted.
The long train glided slowly on the track for a long distance, and finally stopped.
Immediately afterwards, the black and shiny locomotive suddenly made a chuckle, spewing out large groups of white steam, and the steam was like mist, which instantly enveloped the entire locomotive.
‘Di, di, di...’ The sharp whistle kept sounding.
Countless loud voices came immediately: "Get off all, fast, fast, get off all of you, boys, we are at the place, get off..."
The voice is extremely loud and simple in words. If you have stayed in a barracks, you will know that it is the unique voice of the sergeants in the army.
The doors of the freight car, which were made of wooden boards, were roughly opened, making a'crashing' sound.
The sun shone into the originally dark carriage, revealing the densely packed soldiers inside.
Like all people who took the train for the first time, they all had expressions of surprise and confusion on their faces.
Before they could fully react, the officers had jumped into the car, punching and kicking the soldiers.
Obviously this kind of violence is extremely convincing.
The soldiers woke up for the first time, then yelled, and jumped out of the car rolling.
Leaving the crowd abruptly, the winter wind blew, the soldiers could not help but shudder, and then wrapped their clothes tightly.
At this time, Grand Duke Julian also walked down from the first carriage.
Like all old-fashioned soldiers. I do not care what time. His clothes are neat and neat. The leather boots are shiny. However, after a long journey, he looked a little tired.
He stepped on the ground with his feet, the first action was to take a deep breath and raise his arms to make an expansion movement. At the same time, he secretly said in his heart: I swear, I will never take a train again~!
Rongma will be suave for a lifetime. The Grand Duke, who had long been used to marching long distances, found himself fainted by the train~!
There was no problem with the Grand Duke flying around in the war fortress, but in order to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, he sat in the carriage and ran all the way for thousands of miles, feeling tired and half dead.
The stomach was still cramping, dizzy, pale, and I had not had a good meal for several meals, and the wheels hit the rails with regular clacking noises. It makes people sleepy again.
Besides, this simple carriage is not comfortable at all.
Because of the needs of the war, Grand Duke Julian did not hang the luxurious palace-like Oriental train carriages of Lorraine. Those carriages not only had luxurious bedrooms, but also had bathrooms with 24-hour hot water. There is also a toilet with a gold flush toilet. In addition, there is an office and a bar.
The Grand Duke and his officers rode in ordinary green leather carriages.
In order to save costs, the carriages are all hurriedly nailed from top to bottom, which is extremely crude.
And in the middle of the carriage, there are only rows of wooden seats.
Grand Duke Julian's only favor as the commander-in-chief was that he laid a camp bed in the aisle in the middle of the carriage.
In this situation, sitting in the car for two days and one night was a hellish suffering for the grand prince who was no longer young.
When he spread his arms, he could even hear crackling noises coming from his bones.
The Grand Duke looked around, and in the carriage behind him, soldiers were jumping off the carriage one after another. Then move his hands and feet with a grin.
Not far away are hordes of railroad workers.
They shouted chants, carried the sleepers on their shoulders, and walked forward with heavy steps.
Although the weather was cold, they only wore a single coat. The thick cotton coat had been thrown away for a long time. Even so, every worker was sweating profusely from his hair. The steaming mist.
The Grand Duke couldn't help but nodded his head in admiration: It was with the work of these people day and night that the railway from Constantine to Ruman City was rapidly extending.
Surrounded by a bleak winter scene, grass leaves withered and trees withered. A small village across the sky in the distance.
I can still vaguely see that a few miles away, there are still a group of ordinary people gathering together, looking at this side curiously and timidly, and talking about each other from time to time.
The Grand Duke immediately smiled and waved to them. Since the opening of the train, there will always be a group of people who have never seen anything in the market looking at this new thing from a distance.
However, I believe that after they get used to it, they will no longer be so brutal and inhumane to watch the train forcefully.
He shook his head vigorously, threw those irrelevant thoughts out of his mind, and then turned around, facing the iron wheel, pulled open... Pulled open the pants, and then just let out the water.
With his lead, no matter whether it was an officer or a soldier next to him, they stopped twitching, and immediately they opened their pants and sat in the car for such a long time. Although it was not very hard, everyone had a big bubble of urine. .
On the edge of the railway, ten thousand urinations were made, which was spectacular.
The workers nearby looked at it, and couldn't help but cursed a few times with a smile.
The supervisor of the construction site also felt extremely troubled, but he did not dare to step forward to stop it. Those soldiers are fierce and evil, and if one is wrong, they will beat people. Not to mention, the boss and his father took the lead in this matter. Therefore, he can only open one eye and close one eye, just as invisible.
The Grand Duke finished his official business, then turned around and saw the surprised expressions on the faces of the young staff officers next to him. He laughed twice and said, "Where are we?"
The staff officer next to him immediately sent the map to him, and then pointed out a location, saying: "My lord, we have just passed Luoshengbao, thirty miles west of the city.
Four hundred miles ahead, Ruman City is. If you are marching in a hurry, you can arrive in three days. "
Grand Duke Julian exhaled a mouthful of white smoke, and said, "It's finally here. Pass the order and let the little rascals cheer up.
We can't be compared to that stinky boy Lorraine. "
"Yes~!" The officer promised loudly. Waving his arms. He shouted at the team: "Go."
The soldiers immediately carried backpacks. Carrying weapons, and then lined up, strode westward along the railway line.
At this time, an attendant brought the Duke's horse.
The Aberdeen war horse also held back on the train for a few days, which was extremely uncomfortable. Suddenly seeing his master, he was extremely excited and kept jumping and hissing.
Upon seeing this, the Grand Duke couldn't help laughing. Then he stretched out his hand, patted the horse's neck vigorously, and jumped up quickly.
Just a flick of the rein, the war horse screamed, and then rushed out.
The Grand Duke sat on the horse, facing the bitter cold wind, and closed his eyes intoxicated. This kind of galloping can make him feel comfortable.
Two miles ahead, the black rails disappeared, leaving only the pavement paved with gravel.
A few miles ahead. Even the base road disappeared, and the leveled land stretched straight forward.
Densely packed railway workers on both sides are transporting materials.
"Your Royal Highness. Your Royal Highness~!" Da Gongyi ran happily, and then there was a nervous call from the guards behind him, and dozens of cavalry rushed desperately.
Grand Duke Julian stopped his horse, smiled cheerfully, and said, "You are too slow."
The guards and generals rushed forward, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and said, "Your Highness, it is too dangerous for you to leave the team alone."
"What are you afraid of, I am in my own country, surrounded by my own citizens." The Grand Duke Julian said indifferently.
"After all, it is a time of war." The subordinates earnestly advised.
Grand Duke Julian curled his lips and said, "It's really annoying to be so slow."
The surrounding men couldn't laugh or cry, and secretly said in their hearts: You are the one who wants to take the train, and you are the one who is too slow. I had known that borrowing a war fort from Nian would not be enough.
However, the uncle declared that he wanted to maintain the style of sharing ups and downs with the soldiers, and they dared not say much.
"That boy Lorraine won, and now the whole world is watching us." Grand Duke Julian looked unwilling.
The generals beside them sighed almost at the same time. They are now under great pressure.
An veteran hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Highness, will the enemy appear in the place we have delineated?"
"Yes," Grand Duke Julian said with certainty: "It will definitely be."
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The commander of the Semitic North Route Army, General Orlandini raised his binoculars and looked at a group of people galloping eastward.
They were all covered in colorful clothes, and they looked similar to the surrounding environment, lying on horsebacks and running wildly.
A group of Semitic cavalry behind was in hot pursuit. Seeing that they were too far away from the group, the Semitic cavalry gradually stopped and watched the group of knights go away.
That is the human guerrilla.
Orlandini gritted his teeth and cursed fiercely: "A group of mice, have the ability to fight it upright."
The officer ran over quickly, saluted, and said, "Six scouts are killed in action."
Orlandini waved his hand weakly and said, "Forget it, ignore them, continue marching."
After going deep into the north of Ruman, Orlandini found that the road was getting worse and worse.
The precious Ruman northern map in his hand is full of errors.
The most outrageous thing is that according to the map, he originally intended to bypass a big swamp, but he didn't expect to plunge into a swamp instead.
The guerrillas of the Ruman Empire were almost like ghosts in the woods and river nets. The scouts were so scared that they would never be able to return as long as they were three or five miles away from the main force.
When Orlandini sent a division to clean up, he caught nothing but a few wild boars. Instead, he caught countless traps and damaged dozens of people.
Orlandini complained to the Lich who was passing information back and forth in a rage. A few days later, the Lich brought back news that this was originally not a swamp. Two hundred years ago, a river suddenly changed its course and turned it into a swamp and forest.
It took more than ten days for the army to roll out of this boundless swamp.
In addition, none of the bridges on the river are marked on the map.
It was clearly marked as a shoal and a place where you could wade, but it became a torrent, and Orandini had to send people up and down the river to find a suitable place to cross the river.
Orlandini wanted to tear up this yellow map several times and put it into the mouth of the lich.
After the commotion, the army formed a long line. Go south again.
The Semi soldiers who were back on the road appeared cautious. His eyes widened and looked around. There was a little wind and grass, and immediately shouted.
The official roads of the Ruman Empire were very well repaired. When he first set foot on this road, Orandini praised this high-quality road.
But at this moment, the soldiers walking on the flat road were all worried and looked at their feet carefully, as if they were about to see flowers from the cracks in the slabs.
A few tens of meters away from the main unit, the soldiers who explored the path suddenly raised the red flag in their hands and shook them, then circled a place and set up a striking warning sign.
The soldiers behind immediately became nervous. Because they know that it is a trap set up by humans.
They dug a hole on the official road in front of the army, then buried it with explosives and detonated it when the Semitic army passed by.
The Semites didn't even know where they were hiding. The guerrillas had wires and detonators provided by the Alchemy Research Institute, and some were time bombs.
The pits are usually filled with dozens of kilograms of explosives, and the Semitic soldiers in dense formations suffered heavy casualties in the explosion. Each time dozens of people were killed and hundreds of people were injured.
This is another great artifact of guerrilla warfare. Roadside bombs.
After eating dozens of roadside bombs, the Semi soldiers finally realized that there was an ambush on the road.
But if you don't take the road, then go there?
This is not light and simple. Except for three or five people traveling, it doesn't matter if you take the trail.
It is the army of nearly 400,000 people, the dense flow of people and the huge amount of heavy vehicles, which require a wide road to pass quickly.
This is the same as the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the resistance has been burying bombs on the side of the road, the US Army has to patrol and clean up again and again. For this reason, a large number of soldiers have been lost because the army’s mobility and deployment rely on these roads. That is the lifeline.
For Orlandini, who is racing against time, the casualties of dozens of people are irrelevant, and they are insignificant compared to the army.
If he doesn't take the road, he will be caught in the trap of mankind, and he can afford this loss.
But the soldiers are unwilling.
The final compromise is to send dozens of sharp-eyed and careful observations in front to serve as minesweepers.
After all, the road where the explosives are buried is different from the surroundings. If you are careful, you can tell, but this is a dangerous job.
Sometimes roadside bombs bomb their deminers.
The minesweepers who opened the way in front of the army have been replaced by more than a dozen batches, and the people in front of them have been killed.
In desperation, the officers had no choice but to organize the soldiers to draw a lot of life and death. Whoever draws it will be unlucky and open the way in front of the army. Everyone knows that this is a never-to-go life. When the whole army restricts food, only they are open to eat and drink. .
It was useless for those who were drawn to cry and cry, and finally gave up on themselves, drunk and dreaming all day.
What the Semi people hate most is the rain. The rain will wash away the traces of the bombs on the roadside, and the minesweeping team will not be able to see it.
Whenever a rainy day or a rainy day has just passed, it is the time when Semi soldiers are most afraid.
Fortunately, the weather has been good in recent days, with only a few light snowfalls.
The roadside bomb on the dry ground was clear at a glance, and the bomb was buried rather rough. Obviously, it was done in storage, and the traces of the surrounding loess were very obvious.
The army walked off the official road, detoured from both sides, avoiding roadside bombs far away.
Just when they just relaxed...
"Boom~!"
With a loud noise, two groups of fire suddenly exploded in the crowd on both sides of the official road.
The violent explosion lifted the mud and rushed into the sky tens of meters, sandwiching the bodies and limbs of countless Semi soldiers, and then scattered like a meteor shower.
Black smoke enveloped a range of tens of meters. The mud and stumps crackled down.
Black smoke rose slowly, forming two mushroom clouds in mid-air, exposing the soldiers who had just been shrouded in them.
Hundreds of people lay down around the bomb on the roadside, and the clothes on the body that were close by were gone, only the charred corpse was left, the body twisted into an incredible shape.
Someone in the back screamed in pain while holding the broken limb, rolling around on the ground.
The surrounding Semitic soldiers did not go up to the rescue, but ran back all of a sudden, trying to hide as far as possible.
The smell of gunpowder, burnt smell and blood wafted everywhere.
The smoke slowly dissipated, exposing two large pits several meters in diameter on the left and the right, and gray smoke was still slowly emitting from them.
The humans deliberately planted a bomb for them to discover, forcing the Semites to detour, and burying two more powerful bombs in the soil on both sides of the official road they must pass.
Orlandini licked his dry lips, his heart pounding wildly, these two explosions were unwilling to him, he could even feel the choking heat waves rushing through when the explosions occurred.
If the enemy had a little more patience and waited a few more minutes, he might have won the biggest victory since the beginning of the war and killed the Semitic commander with a roadside bomb.
Hundreds of wounded soldiers lay near the explosion point, actively supporting each other to get up from the ground, limping back.
Even if he couldn't walk, he screamed and crawled on the ground, moving out a little bit, dragging a long blood mark on the ground.
The remaining immobile wailed on the ground, shouting: "Help me."
"Come and save us."
"Please, save me."
But the soldiers behind were indifferent.
Cunning and insidious humans like to plant bombs near the bombing point ~ EbookFREE.me~ and detonate them again when the Semitic soldiers flock to the rescue, killing and wounding the Semitic soldiers for the second time.
After a few times, no one dared to go to the rescue.
The Semitic army immediately ran a few hundred meters more, passing through the harvested fields far away from here.
As for the wounded soldiers, except for those who can climb out of the danger zone by themselves, everyone else is left to their fate, anyway, taking them is a burden.
The tragic calls of the wounded soldiers spread far in the cold wind, and all the Semi soldiers who heard them had ugly faces, and human methods became more cunning. Even mine clearance is no longer safe, and they are likely to be in the future. one of them.
Orlandini glanced at the vicinity of the bombing pit from a distance, pursing his mouth tightly, his heart filled with helplessness and anger.
Vantino's failure has already reached his ears, and humans have spread the news to the entire army by throwing leaflets.
Now everyone of the Semitic soldiers knows that the western front army suffered a big loss in the hands of Lorraine, the navy was wiped out, and the infantry it carried suffered heavy losses.
Only them are left.
Orlandini realized that this war might not go as he thought, but fortunately, the enemy he faced has not changed.
And the failure of the Semi in Vatican is not a good thing for him, so that the high priest will put all his power on him, the war fortress, the lich, the dark wizard...
As long as Ruman City is taken, he will become the well-deserved No. 1 Semitic. (To be continued.)