Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0058: The Army Heading South
The next second, flames and shock waves expanded from his crotch, lifting him up into the sky. His eyes instantly went dark, and there was only a roar in his ears.
The explosion seemed to sound the clarion call for the Irish Hill Grenadiers to attack. As huge black smoke rose into the sky, countless Irish Hill soldiers wearing M42 helmets, holding their weapons, crossed the piles of corpses of Alante soldiers.
"Long live Ailanhill!" A few seconds later, a lieutenant of Ailanhill holding a pistol stepped on the charred and broken body of General Alante, looked at the door of the city lord's mansion that had been broken open, and ordered his men.
"Charge!" Following his order, countless soldiers holding rifles rushed into the gate of the City Lord's Mansion. Soon, the green flag of Alante flying over the City Lord's Mansion was thrown off the roof, and the black golden eagle flag of Elanhill was hung on the towering flagpole by the soldiers.
The Elanhill officer wearing leather boots looked at the decoration of the city lord's mansion, which was more luxurious than the castle of their Grand Duke Chris, and walked to the front of Adam, the lord of Naru City, surrounded by soldiers.
"I... am Adam, the mayor of the Alante Empire! I am a noble! I demand noble treatment!" Adam, who already knew that his situation was hopeless, looked at the Elanhill soldiers in front of him who were "so poor that they didn't even have armor" and shouted, "I am willing to pay the ransom for myself!"
"Hahahaha!" The man who came to Adam with a pistol was a battalion commander of Ireland Hill. He couldn't help laughing after hearing Adam's nonsense, making the atmosphere in the City Lord's Mansion very cheerful.
Then, the battalion commander looked at Adam, the chubby Lord of the Alante Empire, and pointed his pistol at him: "Excuse me, according to General Wageron's order, Adam, the Lord of Naru City, has committed a heinous crime and must be executed."
Having said this, the battalion commander ignored Adam, who was already shaking like a sieve. He pulled the trigger of his pistol, and the bullet flew out of the muzzle and pierced the forehead of City Lord Adam. The sound of the gunshot echoed in the empty hall of the City Lord's Mansion, like a death knell, one after another: "Bang..."
Outside the city of Naru, Wageron dismounted and threw the whip in his hand to his new adjutant. His former adjutant, Kolya, had become a commander in a certain direction.
He looked at a very special toy in front of him and said with great interest: "With this thing, can we send news from the front line back to the rear?"
"Come on! Pedal harder! Faster!" Several non-commissioned officers gathered around the iron frame and encouraged the four sweaty soldiers, saying, "There's a response over there! We succeeded!"
Yes , this is the legendary human-powered generator, a device similar to a spinning bike that generates electricity by pedaling. On the other side of this device is a radio transmitter.
"Got it! Got it! Send a message quickly! Send back the news that Naaru has been captured! Quick!" Several officers in the command center saw the power pointer on the machine begin to tremble, and they immediately became alert and urged the mechanic.
The mechanic immediately began tapping the firing pin in front of him, sending out the message that had already been shortened to the point where it couldn't be shortened any further: "Conquer Naru!"
At almost the same time, in the distant city of Seris, a dozen alchemists were using test tubes to mix a new type of synthetic rubber. Their experiments were very careful, and Chris, who was in charge of supervising these experimenters, was constantly looking through the experimental reports in his mind, hoping to get more useful information.
The magic ball of knowledge brought by the great magician Frunzberg helped Chris train a dozen "artificial travelers" who could help him complete some tasks. However, these people are still in the experimental stage of debugging the knowledge in their minds. Once they are ready, the expansion speed of industrial civilization may increase by more than ten times.
William is now trying to record the method of making the Knowledge Magic Ball, which is his most important task recently. Another auxiliary task he needs to do is to orally tell some secrets of the Holy Demon Empire.
As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy ensures victory in a hundred battles. Chris must fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of the Magic Empire in order to prescribe the right remedy and seize the initiative when facing the Magic Empire's army in the future.
Frunzberg is currently researching a new type of machine. According to him, he should try to combine magic with the machine to make it work better. Unfortunately, his research direction has been basically wrong recently, and Chris can't give him any clear guidance in this regard.
After all, Chris was in charge of industrial civilization, and he knew nothing about magic. So he could easily draw a design for a car, but he knew nothing about a car powered by magic.
"Huh..." An alchemist, or now he should be called a chemist, put down the test tube in his hand and let out a long breath, completing his experiment: an artificial rubber with good elasticity and not easy to age was born. This is a special material required by Chris.
With this material, Chris will miniaturize his internal combustion engine and start working on the gasoline engine: in his opinion, only by developing a means of transportation such as a car can his combat troops assemble and move more quickly.
If we take into account the economic benefits of automobiles in transportation, the changes that this means of transportation has brought to Ireland Hill will be obvious. After all, laying railways takes time, but cars do not - as long as the roads are not too bumpy, cars can make do.
"We started laying the railway in three sections, and in each section, we built tracks from both sides to the middle. The speed is actually very fast." This was Des's railway work report to him yesterday. It is expected that this new railway will be completed and open to traffic within 70 days and will become the main artery of Ireland Hill.
If the war had not broken out suddenly, the railway would not have been built at such a fast speed. Because more materials needed to be mobilized, Chris ordered to speed up road construction across the country.
What's more interesting is that in addition to the railway from Ferry City to Seris and then to Tubao, the railway from Hanhai to Beijun is also being built at the same time. This construction speed is really jaw-dropping - because no one would build a railway like this, it's like a joke.
Even the most rational people would think about whether they would lose money if the railway could not meet the use requirements when building a railway. However, Chris did not have to think about such boring questions. He already knew the answer and invested 120,000 enthusiasm from the beginning to build a railway whose future no one knew.
Only Chris, who has a golden finger, dares to use this construction model. He started investing in the construction of the railway before the locomotive was produced! Now, a railway nearly 100 kilometers long is about to be completed, and Chris's locomotive is still being assembled and tested in the factory...
Now, the monarch of Elanhill was thinking about whether he should start construction immediately to build a railway from the city of Seris to the city of Naru - to facilitate him to transport troops to the front line quickly and join the war.
"Dangdangdang..." Just as he was daydreaming and his thoughts were drawn to the distant war front, the door of the laboratory was knocked from outside. After getting permission, an officer pushed the door open and walked into the laboratory, standing behind Chris.
"Your Majesty! News just came back from the front line that our army has won a great victory. The first phase of the attack target, Naru City, is already under our control." Seeing Chris stop the work in his hands, the officer immediately lowered his head and the latest news he had just received from the front line.
"Oh? Naru has been captured?" Chris was also excited to hear the news. He put down the things in his hand and took the telegram from the front line from the officer.
This thing can be said to be extremely precious, because it was the first time in actual combat that humans used a telegraph to convey the news of victory, and the battle situation on the front line was transmitted back to the rear hundreds of miles away in just a few minutes.
"Conquer Naru..." Chris smiled as he read the brief sentence in the telegram: "Well done! Spread the news! Then order the soldiers to spread the news of victory in the city and the factory area! This is a victory for all the people of Ailan Hill! This is a victory for all of us!"
At the same time, on the front line, Wageron did not have a happy expression. He frowned slightly, a little unsure whether he should continue to attack southwards and eastwards, or should stay where he was.
The previous attack speed was too fast, and everything went too smoothly, which was a bit confusing for him: if he attacked further south, his troops would have to rush towards "Bud" and "Maricha" respectively, and including Naaru would mean that he would disperse his already precious troops.
If the eastern city of "Wolavo" and the roads and land connecting these cities are included, then Ailan Hill's attack force is almost completely dispersed. Wagron is the front-line commander of this battle. He has only 12 regiments and 5 less than full division combat forces under his command.
The current situation is that the two divisions heading south are not main divisions and are not fully staffed. They are the 5th Division commanded by Kolya in the Bud direction and the 6th Division commanded by Burjos in the Maritsa direction.
The troops attacking eastward were the 4th Division commanded by Modler, the general reserve was the 3rd Division commanded by Wilkes, and the 2nd Division commanded by Wageron...Except for the reserve 3rd Division and the 3 regiments under the 2nd Division, the remaining troops were composed of 2 regiments, and the manpower was actually not sufficient.
