Struggle in the Steam Age

"I may need to trouble you a little more in the next few days." After learning from various channels that the war is getting closer and closer to him, Lawrence earnestly begged the little doll.

"If you are free these days, try to run as many times as possible to bring more supplies, especially weapons and ammunition."

"Haven't we already stocked up a lot?" Nora nodded habitually after hearing what Lawrence said, and then asked a little puzzled.

"Before, we dug several underground storage depots and filled them with ammunition. Wouldn't so much ammunition be enough for war?"

"I hope it will be enough, but the actual situation is often worse than we imagined." Lawrence sighed helplessly, and then said.

"At least from the news I've received recently, it can be inferred that the wilderness race is preparing for a large-scale attack, and in that attack, the interception of transportation lines should be regarded as a routine operation."

"After all, compared to the fortification zone of the transportation node like Pine Valley where we are now, those communication lines without protection should be more vulnerable to attack. If the leaders of the wilderness races are not brainwashed , I believe they will definitely focus on those traffic lines.”

"You're right." The little puppet said after snapping its fingers, "Cutting off the communication line can reduce the supply of various supplies to our side and reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield. It is better to attack these lines of communication, which are weaker in terms of force, than to fight head-to-head on the battlefield."

"It should be like this." After the little doll said so, Lawrence added.

"After finding a way to cut off the communication line, the opponent will probably send some people to entangle our main force. Then concentrate a group of elites to attack the communication line nodes like Pine Valley."

"Compared with those roads, it is more difficult to attack a material distribution center like Pine Tree Valley. But as long as any one is broken, it will be a big gain for those wilderness races."

Speaking of which, Lawrenceton. "For example, our Pine Valley area doesn't have a lot of weapons and ammunition because it is not the material transfer station closest to the front line, but it has a lot of food and medicine. At the same time, there are important field hospitals—"

"So we do need some additional weapons and equipment." Nora said something at this time.

"I have seen the weapons and ammunition collected by the headquarters in Pine Tree Valley, mainly ammunition for some front-line heavy artillery and some explosives. There are basically no weapons and ammunition suitable for our guard troops here."

"So this is indeed a big problem. One of the biggest troubles in modern warfare comes from the consumption of ammunition." Lawrence nodded and said.

"For example, when a breech-loading gun replaces a front-loading gun, what kind of battlefield can a soldier fire at least three times the original amount of ammunition. If you consider the existence of something similar to a hand-cranked machine gun, the ammunition for a war The volume is likely to reach five times that of the past."

"Considering that once the war breaks out, it is very easy for us to be cut off the line of communication and fall into an isolated state. We must store enough ammunition to deal with the next situation. So I hope you can give us the guns and weapons before the war breaks out. Mortars prepare 10-15 base ammunition."

"Understood." Nora nodded and said. "The good news is that it is not very difficult to do so, because according to the information I have inquired before, since the current situation command has decided to stop sending ordinary troops for fire reconnaissance operations, there should not be too many wounded during this period .”

"It's indeed good news, but on the other hand, if those ordinary troops are unable to conduct forward fire reconnaissance, it means that the plan of the wild beasts living in the wilderness has reached a critical moment, otherwise they will not hesitate as much as they do now. The cost prevents us from going out to reconnaissance," Lawrence added.

"At least when I chatted with those officers in the past few days, I learned that although we couldn't go too far in those fire reconnaissance, the casualties of the other party were much higher than ours because they needed to stop at any cost. So we all believed Such casualties should not be sustained for too long."

"In other words, I don't have much time left." Nora's face turned serious after hearing what Lawrence said. "I get it, and I'll do my best to transport those things during this time."

"Thank you very much." After hearing Nora's assurance, Lawrence nodded seriously to the little doll, and then urged. "By the way, when transporting supplies, the bullets and mortar shells are transported first, followed by mines and barbed wire. The rest are placed last."

"Understood, then I'm leaving now." Nora nodded heavily, then flew into the air and flew towards the St. John's Fort outside the Bianda Mountain Range.

Because she realized that now is the time to do her best to prepare, and one more flight can accumulate more winning chips for everyone.

So in the next few days, Nora devoted her time and energy to the transportation work 24 hours a day whenever she was free. The army on the Pine Tree Valley also started large-scale construction work based on Lieutenant Colonel Chen and his combat engineers as the core, and built various fortifications at various points around the entire valley.

Although the meter rail has been extended to Pine Valley during this period, since most of the transportation capacity is used to protect the front line, places like Pine Valley can only obtain a small amount of other materials besides daily supplies. It is simply impossible to build reinforced concrete fortifications like some key points on the front line.

But this does not mean that the defenders of Pine Tree Valley have no way to build the fortifications they need. Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Chen and his combat engineers from the Republic of New Island, they quickly gathered materials around the valley. Various fortifications have been built in many strategic locations.

This valley was actually just an unnamed valley on the target route before. The reason it was named Pine Tree Valley was because after the vanguard arrived here, they found that there were many pine trees growing in the valley.

In the subsequent construction, the trees they cut down can just be used as construction materials. In addition, with the consent of the headquarters, they also used some explosives to obtain stones on the mountain.

With sufficient raw materials and professional guidance, they quickly fortified the entire Pine Valley area in just two weeks.

"Lieutenant Colonel Chen, is it too expensive for us to consume so many materials to build here?" Lawrence asked Lieutenant Colonel Chen during lunch that day.

"Of course, I know that ordinary money is the least important thing in the Civilization Expedition. But if it's purely for defense, we don't need to spend so much money to build those fortifications according to the permanent fortification standards."

"You're right, Colonel August. If it was just a temporary defense, I certainly wouldn't have spent so much resources building these obviously over-standard buildings." Listening to Lawrence's question, Lieutenant Colonel Chen swallowed his mouth said after the big mouthful of sandwich.

"I did this partly because there are enough resources here for me to consume, and when facing the enemy, the stronger the fortifications, the better."

"On the other hand, because Pine Valley will become an important maintenance area and transfer station on the railway line across the Great Mountains in the future, some of the buildings we are building now can actually be converted into permanent buildings in the future. Therefore, it takes more time to build The next few costs are not a waste."

"So that's the case." Lawrence nodded with a clear expression. He finally knew why in many places why people would spare no expense to build buildings.