Chapter 880: 10. The State Burns (7)

The double-edged cigar scissors made of sterling silver are put into the pocket, and the long cedar matches are smooth, the sulfur smell dissipates in the air, the bright flame roasts the rotating cigar, and the fragrance slowly fills the mouth, Claus. Captain Staufenberg spit out smoke with satisfaction. The service personnel on the side quickly removed the wine glass and the blue butterfly brandy. The captain held a cigar and wrote a book on his combat log.
Now Charlemagne and Alfheim are in a strange state that the Alfheim media calls "no war on the Western Front". The defense forces are not interested in attacking, Charlemagne has no strength to attack, and the two sides are separated by trench chickens. The sound of dogs heard each other, nothing happened to shoot artillery. Under the weird tacit understanding, the two sides were at peace. Just because of the economic and technological gap, the gap in the quality of life between the two sides has become prominent.
Charlemagne couldn't say that he didn't pay attention to logistics. After suffering a few times, the Army was not unconcerned about rational management and improving transportation efficiency. The problem is that there was no training course for military staff in the military, and there was no military station section under the Army Logistics Department. There was only a transportation section. In the past, transportation logistics was all outsourced to the consortium, and if it was not possible, it would be "on the spot." Today, starting from scratch, there is no experience, and secondly, there are not so many transport equipments available for dispatch. Although the garrison station and transportation system were implemented, it just continued to apply the previous train + carriage transportation method. With the help of the inside line of operations, it can finally guarantee the supply of ammunition on the front line, so as not to starve the officers and soldiers. The taste... Anyway, the wheat bread and potatoes are mixed together to make wartime bread that can't eat dead. The biscuit bubbles can also be swallowed. When dry, it can also be used as a file. The corned beef that has been put in for more than ten years can also be used as a cultural relic. .
The days of the Defence Army soldiers are much better than those of Charlemagne who crouched in the trenches with their rotten teeth. Not only has the mechanized rapid transportation system code-named "Red Ball" and complete logistics scheduling, more professional nutritionists are involved in formulating recipes, and the nutrition and portions are full. Here is an example of a 12-in-1 k-ration ration widely distributed by the Army, which includes 12 servings of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including butter, biscuits, cheese, granulated sugar, jam, instant coffee, chocolate, chewing gum, milk flakes, and beef Canned food, canned ham, canned luncheon meat, corkscrew, table spoon, napkins, matches, cigarettes. The latest type of "ready-to-eat food (m.r.e)" can allow soldiers on the front line to eat hot food anytime and anywhere, which is a revolution in the history of military rations.
The only problem is... those rations are appointed by the consul.
This alone offsets almost all advantages. Not to mention the chefs who promoted the consular menu of the consul-they succeeded in amplifying the nightmare on the tip of their tongue.
Biscuit fried luncheon meat, fish head fried luncheon meat, potato steamed luncheon meat, curry cooked luncheon meat, pickled cucumber stewed luncheon meat... The cooking soldiers do their best to challenge the lower limit of their careers, combining luncheon meat with various The ingredients are combined in every way that can be imagined, like chemists synthesizing new chemicals to carry out experiments continuously, and then posing a suspicious passion, poisoning already with various strange and horrifying compounds. Tormented fellow robes.
In theory, the officer is also a member of the army of victims. Even if you are a general, the treatment at the dinner table is not much different from that of the soldiers. However, if their family background is solid and they can afford to open the small stove, they will be able to escape the bitter sea of ​​dark cooking.
Captain Klaus Staufenberg is one of those who can afford to open a small stove.
Klaus Philip Maria Justinian Schenk Stauffenberger-the long full name indicates the captain’s distinguished family history, and the hereditary
Expert (k)
title in the name speaks bluntly about the family Former noble status. It is just that the nobles officially recognized are only the twelve families of the council. If you want to restore the "graf" and "von" in the past surname, you can only make merits that are enough to be recognized- That is military merit, and at least it is equivalent to the military merit awarded to the Knights Cross Medal.
There is no difference between people in this respect. To become a noble, in addition to being born in a noble family, the fastest and easiest way is to accumulate military power. As long as it is not hung up early, military power is sufficient, and at least there are always titles that cannot be hereditary. In order to get rich and promote his fortune, Charlemagne thought about the fact that the generals who had engaged in an accident or incident were as many as the crucian carp crossing the river. Those with "neck disease" in the defense army also caught a lot. The only difference between the two sides is the tightness of the Defense Force. There is a complete set of management and evaluation system, and there is no room for trouble.
Having said that, who didn't pursue it? To apply the motto of a dwarf emperor, "A soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier." The captain thought of himself as a qualified soldier, rejuvenated the country, revived the family, and hungered for promotion and medals-this is all normal. Now that we have finally waited for the war, there is nothing to blame for the war with a little luck and enjoyment.
The only problem is... this is a "meditation war", and it is not an easy task to grab military power.
Since the 15th of the month, the Defense Force and the Charlemagne Army confronted each other across the front, and the two sides declared no war. This delicate and paradoxical state has interesting and apt titles in all countries. "Sitting war" is a term used by the media of Alfheim; Charlemagne called "strange war" in order to match one after another "victory"; the duchy's statement is "boring war"; Albion compares The tongue is called "false war"; everyone's private consensus is that "there is no war on the Western Front."
If it were not for the Artillery of the Defence Force to send greetings across the border to the Charlemagne fellows at the other end of the trench every day like a clock, everyone would really think that the two sides were not fighting, but vacation camping. You should know that there are literary songs and dance performances at the grassroots level from time to time. Some soldiers who play a glorious tradition begin to set up vegetable gardens and table tennis tables behind the trenches. Looking at the vegetable gardens and breeding bases The generals were helpless as to where they got the goods. After all, this cost can be reflected. Even Channel 7 of the domestic TV station is a military. Agricultural channel. At the beginning, the Ministry of National Defense was listed under the Ministry of Agriculture. Isn’t it? drop……
This embarrassing state is precisely the result of the intention of the Defense Force. Although the number of the defense force is small, regardless of the quality of the soldiers, technical weapons, and operational thinking, they are far above the Charlieman Army. To put it bluntly, they can defeat Charlemagne's army in any state, even if Charlemagne's strength is twice that of the current one. The problem is after that-witnessed how Charlieman "did drown in the vast ocean of the people's war" over the years, even the most reckless impulsive young officers did not dare to say "A Charlie can win Charlieman" It’s enough to think about the endless security battles and quagmire to make them numb.
Captain Staufenberg had a deep and intuitive understanding of this. His Excellency observers sent by the General Staff to the front line these days have not only seen pictures of high morale and vigorous advancement, but also glimpsed the crisis hidden under the good appearance of the situation.
The core purpose of this campaign under the name "Self-Defense Counterattack" is not to capture as many cities as possible and to obtain many results, but to attract the vital forces of the Charlemagne army through a short-term campaign to form a "magnetic effect". Drive the Charlemagne army into the set battlefield and carry out the "Sickle Warfare". For this reason, the Defense Army did not intersect and divide after breaking through the Maginot line, nor did it expand the front of the front, but went west along the railway line, forming a long and narrow protrusion that approached Rudes.
The formation of protrusions has advantages and disadvantages for the defense forces. The advantage is that the protrusion can be used as an attacking position when attacking, and the left and right bows can be used to attack the enemy; the disadvantage is that the protrusion will be cut off from the root by the enemy because of the exposed left and right wings, thus falling into the enemy's siege. For Charlemagne, this protrusion is like a dagger against the throat, threatening their easy-to-defense capital at any time. They must do everything possible to eliminate this threat, and at the same time seize the opportunity to encircle and defend the defense forces that came out of the fortifications and end this war before the international form deteriorates further.
In order to break the current impasse, Charlemagne has made many attempts. In addition to the long-lived charge "overwhelming the steel cannonball", various destruction teams and squadrons are also looking for every opportunity to destroy the logistics system of the defense army, especially the railway system.
Since most of the mechanized troops are still standing by in the Ardennes forest, the defense force's transportation force in the protrusion is mainly railway + motorized transportation. Fortunately, the troops deployed along the railway and the transportation distance was relatively short, but this does not mean that the pressure will also be reduced.
In order to gain momentum, Charlemagne was given enough pressure to rally the troops to make a fatal blow. The Defense Force thoroughly demonstrated what it means to wash the ground with shells. Many front-line commanders even shouted "the ammunition has no upper limit" rhetoric, and some areas fired up to 250 rounds per gun per day. Under normal circumstances, each gun should be controlled below 120 rounds per day, which shows that the consumption is fierce.
Behind the violent shelling is high-intensity consumption. Without sufficient industrial production capacity and transportation systems, there is no shell for squandering. Cannons without shells are not as good as fire sticks. Other technical weapons need maintenance and replacement parts to continue Operation. In this kind of high-intensity battle, if a certain link breaks in the production and transportation process, the chain reaction will be turned into a huge chaos that affects the entire battlefield.
Charlemagne had a deep understanding of this. After suffering a variety of confusion, the Charlemagne Army stalemate in the frontal battlefield and placed the hope of opening the situation on the opponent’s transportation line. They tried to interact with the enemy battlefield with the frontal battlefield. The model made the defense army exhausted and regained the initiative on the battlefield.
The figure of "Railway Guerrilla" was active everywhere for a while. The Charlemagne had a limited frontal combat level, and turned to the rear to kill the black hand and shoot the black gun. If it were not for the Defense Force to lay out its troops early to clean up and disperse the soldiers, there are also armored trains and specially modified Leopard-style chariot patrols on the railway line, I am afraid that the railway would have been picked up and even the sleepers were not left. In this way, the Defence Army was still undisturbed. Every day, the telephone line was cut off, the signal soldiers who went out to overhaul the line were attacked, and the incident on the railway was even worse. Privately, the General Staff and the Logistics Department are instructing the technical department to develop a new type of armored train code-named "Armite City". With heavy armor and powerful firepower, those guerrillas who are like zombies and who are invincible and intrepid are swept away.
It was already troublesome to keep a few main railway lines alone. Captain Staufenberg shuddered at the thought of sweeping around and extinguishing fires after occupying the entire territory of Charlemagne.
In addition to completely annihilating the armed forces of Charlemagne, it is also necessary to systematically colonize and control the occupied area to fundamentally eliminate the resistance forces.
The young captain was holding a cigar and left the words on the combat log. As he raised words to further elaborate his thoughts, there was a noise from the window. The handsome face with a wrinkled handsome face was interrupted and looked out of the window.
Corporal Hans Harmank swallowed hard, and Dr. Sigud Knibel in the back seat looked helpless.
Two young elves in armored soldier uniforms sat on the sdkfz.2 special vehicle, the so-called "tracked motorcycle (lirad)". This peculiar vehicle called "Centaur" by the soldiers looks like a motorcycle from the front and a small tractor from the back, a bit similar to "three bouncers" and "small walking tractors". Because off-road maneuverability and driving stability are better than ordinary motorcycles, it is widely used in troops for field maneuvers, which can be regarded as a supplement to motorized troops. In addition to regular military missions and duties, soldiers are sometimes used to drive girls in the name of "driving training."
At the moment, these two are not coming out to find flowers and ask Liu. Now it is the time of war. It is not a joke to come out and mess with the chain dog of the gendarmerie.
They belonged to the 656th Heavy Armored Fighter Regiment 654th Armored Fighting Battalion Battalion, Corporal Hammank was the battalion cashier, and Dr. Knibel was a battalion military doctor.
Speaking of the 654th heavy armored battalion to which they belong, it is a long-established unit of the defense force. Its history can be called the epitome of the history of the development of the defense force destroyer tanks. From the early stage, the mule pulled the 37 knocker to run around the exercise field, to the earliest trial type "squirrel" destroyer equipped with a track tractor chassis of 88㎜ anti-aircraft gun mount for testing, and then to the equipment transition. The "elephant" type destroyer explored the tactics of the destroyer until the earliest equipped with the mass production "Cheetah" destroyer. The development and evolution of this unit is enough to leave its own chapter in the "History of the Development of the Armored Forces of the Defence Army" nicknamed "Animal World".
As a member of the veteran army, military doctors and corporals are full of pride and honor, and they are bound by strict regulations whenever and wherever possible, and are proud of it. But now these two are staring at a car of live birds, their green eyes flashing like foxes circling the chicken coop.
This must not be regarded as poor performance. Anyone who has eaten "a certain type of suspected meat" for a week and dark dishes comparable to Albian cuisine will be extremely eager to eat "real food". Changed to similar situations in other military units, I haven't said anything about the chicken pick bayonet, and even pulled the car back to the Mississippi barracks. If the owner dared to resist or fled, there would be a bullet bayonet dinner. In the eyes of Charlemagne, the defense army, which does not steal, rob or chase women, is not like an army, but it is somewhat similar to the knights in ancient legends.
In fact, the main reason for the Defense Force is for political propaganda. The comparison with the Charlemagne Army highlights the legitimacy of this battle, strives for identity as much as possible, and reduces the resistance of the people in the occupied area. Anyway, the logistics warehouse is full of various canned foods, and instead of spending money after the expiration date and polluting the environment, it is better to send it to the front. Not only to prevent soldiers from looting homes, but also to ensure the safety of food sources, why not do it? As for whether front-line soldiers can accept the taste of terror... this is a secondary question.
It is conceivable that soldiers who have been traumatized by dark cooking will always seize every opportunity to improve their meals. The above is also aware of this, and it is unstoppable horizontally, and simply subsidizes room and board subsidies to the following, as long as there is no robbery, and food safety is guaranteed, as you please.
This should actually be a moral policy. The problem is that the subsidies issued are not gold marks, but military marks.
As early as before the war, the Logistics Department of the General Staff Department specially printed a batch of military marks, ready to purchase materials for use in the occupied area. Unlike military tickets, military marks are guaranteed in kind, but not precious metals, but industrial products produced by Yalfheim.
On the surface, this is no different from the ordinary mark. However, please note that military marks cannot be exchanged for precious metals, and can only buy products from Yalfheim. Yalfheim, which controls the quantity and value of commodities at the source, can freely determine the value of military marks~www.mtlnovel .com~ On the contrary, the occupied area can only provide low-cost industrial raw materials and agricultural products to offset. In addition to safeguarding foreign exchange and precious metal reserves, Yalfheim also received a lot of additional differences as dividends. The people of the occupied area holding military marks were tied to the chariots of the elf camp. Only Yalfheim continued Existence and continuous production of various commodities, the military mark in their hands can continue to maintain value, can be used to exchange various commodities, otherwise it is a pile of waste paper.
The people of Charlemagne may not be smart enough, but they are by no means a fool. Before the war is unclear, for survival guarantee and self-esteem, they cannot be enthusiastic about such military tickets that are not military tickets. They prefer to trade things for things rather than accept military marks that are unclear how valuable they are. The businessmen who did not escape were willing to collect military marks. In the eyes of the consortium, they were not as good as ants. They annoyed the sharp-eared uncles and asked them to perform in a hundred poses in a minute. "Good friends, hand in hand, everyone together. Go jumping." However, their supply of goods was cut off, and they had to give priority to meeting the needs of the ranks of military officers. The general soldiers could not buy much goods at all, which made the defense soldiers very depressed.
Corporal and military doctors fully experienced this depression, with a lot of money in their pockets, a plate of fried chicken, roasted chicken, stewed chicken, chicken platter, boiled eggs... just in front of them, but they bought Nope. I can only watch the nearby villagers surround the chicken coop and pick out the fattest chickens.
This is a kind of torture.
"Gentlemen."
As Harmank swallowed and reluctantly started to start the engine, the chicken-selling villager squeezed a slit from the crowd around the chicken coop, and her lovely face showed a warm smile.
"Do you want to buy it?"
In the ears of Corporal Hammank and Dr. Knibel, it was a devilish sweet invitation. (To be continued.)