Chapter 368 Battlefield (6)
Outside the west gate of Wolf Tooth Castle is a vast area, now covered with snow.
To be honest, the land in the Lanyin Corridor is very barren, with a per mu yield of less than 30% of ordinary farmland. Even so, compared with the gravel and permafrost in the plateau areas north and south of the Lanyin Corridor, this is also a "thick" and "covetable" 'fertile soil'!
The Principality of Canglang is crazily pioneering and farming in the Lanyin Corridor. With the extreme exploitation of a large number of slave blood and sweat, the production of the Principality of Canglang not only meets the needs of the Principality of Canglang itself, but also provides a considerable amount of food and supplies to the plateau empire.
On the flat snow, huge piles of straw were bulging on the edge of the field.
Some crows who were not afraid of the cold fell on the snow-covered straw pile, and their scarlet eyes stared straight at the large group of soldiers walking past the ground.
Gorkin's soldiers walked northwest along a highway. Deep trenches were dug out on both sides of the road. Every half a mile away, a sentry tower stood beside the road, building a small building with garrisons.
The convertible four-wheeler trekked hard on the road, and many locals from Wolf Tooth Castle drove their cars back to the city from outside. The cars were filled with freshly cut firewood and vegetable crops such as cabbage, potatoes, radish, and corn cobs transported from cellars outside the city.
Some big trucks are filled with baskets of frozen pears.
In this weather, being able to eat frozen pears in the Lanyin Corridor is not an enjoyment that ordinary people can hope for.
Like in the city, these locals who went out to work before dawn early in the morning were filled with strong malice when they looked at the Imperial soldiers when they walked.
"That's it... The Empire took back the Lanyin Corridor, but it might take decades to really recover it." Gorkin pointed to the busy locals on the road and sighed: "This is different from our Tulun Port. It's really different."
Qiao looked at the locals coldly and suddenly grinned.
He remembered the plan made by Salian... Last night, after seeing the terrible scars on Gorkin's body, he no longer had any pity for the poor people who would be massacred by the Imperial Army in the future.
The enemy deserves to die.
Only dead enemies are good enemies.
Any enemy who dares to hurt his relatives should send them to death as soon as possible.
Follow the road and turn into a fork with nearly a company of troops stationed at the intersection. He walked along the fork for three miles. When all the soldiers were sweating all over, the team arrived at a camp in the dense forest.
Three full regiments of imperial troops have gathered here.
A major general of the Imperial Army was waiting here with a group of officers? Gorkin jumped off the horse from afar and walked forward with a group of subordinate officers. He saluted the major general's "snap".
"General Zoron!"
Major General Zorun, Gorkin's direct superior, saluted Gorkin, and his eyes quickly swept over Joe behind Gorkin. He also had four secret guards with gloomy aura standing behind Joe.
He smiled and said, "Gorkin, I look forward to your next performance... These three full groups? Temporarily transferred? It is up to your command. You must lead them to familiarize themselves with new ordnances, arrange their defense lines, and prepare to face the invading enemy within one day."
He reached out and patted Gorkin on the shoulder. Zorren waved behind him? A colonel walked up with a small box. Zorren opened the box, took out a new colonel's epaulette, and quickly changed Gorkin to it.
"In addition, based on your accumulated military merits and the comprehensive assessment of your command over the years, you are specially awarded the rank of colonel. I hope you will not be arrogant or arrogant and continue to serve the empire."
Gorkin was obviously stunned for a moment.
He did know that his military merits had accumulated? It was almost at the critical point of promoting the colonel.
But as a school-level officer, even if you have achieved military merits? If you want to be promoted, various assessments, reviews, etc. are not a very simple thing. Faster? Three months? Slower, more than half a year, this is possible.
In particular, although Gorkin had a lot of military achievements, he did not participate in the army for a long time and had little qualifications... He was only seven years older than Qiao, and he was only in his early twenties. He was already the youngest lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Army.
Unexpectedly, he was so fast and so direct, and just replaced the colonel's epaulette.
"Yes, General, I will continue to fight bloody battles for the glory of the empire as always!" Gorkin saluted Major General Zoron again.
Major General Zorun looked at Qiao with a smile, nodded to him vigorously, and then left the place with a large group of entourages, leaving the entire camp to Gorkin, who had just been promoted.
There are some things that need not be said.
Lieutenant Colonel Gorkin, who was only a commander of the Imperial Army, had only 1,5600 people under his command.
But Colonel Gorkin, his military post will be promoted to brigade commander, and a brigade normally organized by the Imperial Army had more than 5,000 combat soldiers.
However, due to various strange reasons, sometimes the military rank is promoted and the military position is not promoted accordingly, which is also a common thing. Unlucky guys who have the rank of colonel but can only lead one regiment can only lead a regiment, which is also uncommon in the Imperial Army.
Now, in this camp, in addition to one of Gorkin's own regiments, there are three newly transferred troupes.
This means that if the next battle is fought well, Gorkin's brigade commander will be fine and there will be no mistakes.
"Gorkin, come on, let me tell you what good things are these new weapons." Qiao took off his winter coat with great enthusiasm, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his two plump and white arms.
"Haha, everyone, these are all good things. As long as these babies are used well, we can definitely beat ten, twenty, or even more at one."
With a foot from the camp, the warehouse built urgently was filled with large wooden boxes.
Qiao led Gorkin and the newly transferred officers of the three regiments to rush into the warehouse and opened the large wooden boxes one after another.
A quarter of an hour later, in the dense forest behind the camp, the new assault rifle was sounded with high-pitched, crisp and extremely penetrating gunshots. Then the roar of the large-caliber revolver shattered the tranquility of winter, and the explosion of the new grenade shocked countless cold birds in the dense forest...
Four full regiments, more than 6,000 officers and soldiers, went from morning to night to trouble. By the afternoon, the officers and soldiers were already familiar with the new types of weapons in their hands.
The four full regiments commanded by Gorkin, each soldier had an assault rifle numbered ‘ak’, and each was filled with thirty thirty round magazines.
In addition, each officer at the squad leader or above level has a large caliber revolver and an additional 100 large caliber pistol bullets.
Each platoon is equipped with six grenades, each of which is equipped with 100 new grenades, and 1,000 new grenades are available for backup.
Each company is equipped with three 15-millimeter air-cooled high-speed machine guns, and is equipped with bullets that are not enough to be prudent.
Each battalion is equipped with six 30-millimeter hand-cranked six-barrel cannons, and they are also equipped with enough shells.
Each regiment was furiously equipped with thirty-six 120 caliber mortars, and also with new powerful shells that were bad enough.
Gorkin, a newly formed reinforced brigade with four full regiments, directly assigned an artillery brigade by the front line command, which is equipped with twelve new howitzers with one or five caliber caliber.
In the evening, with the military order from the Front Command issued, the army commanded by Gorkin left the camp and entered the preset battlefield.
This is the southwestern suburb of Wolf Tooth Castle.
Trenches and barbed wire mesh crisscrossed, and the ground was covered with craters of all sizes.
In the newly built low bunkers, high-speed machine guns and large-caliber machine guns flashed coldly in the dark bunker mouth. Further behind, mortars and large-caliber howitzers have also been adjusted in advance to shoot the various units.
Three other teams of considerable size entered the battlefield at the same time as Gorkin's troops.
Salian mobilized all the power he could mobilize. When Qiao was still studying in the Military University for more than half a month, all the new ordnances he had made could only arm the army of less than 20,000 people.
Now all new ordnances have been sent, and less than 20,000 troops have already taken their positions on their respective positions.
Behind this preset line of defense is a large warehouse collected by the Lanyin Corridor Frontline Command, which is filled with weapons and supplies, grain, winter clothes, gunpowder, weapons, and even various drugs...
The most important thing is that it also reserves military pay for the front-line troops in the Lanyin Corridor in the next six months.
The front line of Lanyin Corridor has now built a million imperial army. The military pay of a million troops for half a year can be imagined how big it is.
For the always poor plateau empire, this frontline warehouse directly set up in Wolf Tooth Castle was a sweet bait that they could not refuse.
The night gradually fades.
Surprisingly, the cold wind stopped and no new snowflakes fell in the sky.
Not only that, the clouds in the sky are still thinner. In some places, the blue sky is exposed. You can see sparse stars showing shy faces from the cracks of the clouds.
In the bunker dug out from the side of a trench, the thick logs of thickness and thick rammed earth were clasped together to form a dome that made people feel very secure. In the bunker that was dozens of feet long and wide, Gorkin and a group of officers were studying the map around a square table.
Joe was curled up in the corner of the bunker, with a small alcohol stove in front of him stewed with a pony iron pot on it.
The butter melted in the pan and fryed two pork sausages squeaked.
The rich meaty smell filled the bunker. Qiao picked up the coffee cup and took a big sip, and looked at the small entrance and exit of the bunker.
"Hey, you all say those puppies will definitely come!"
Chapter completed!