.One Hundred and Eighty, one tragedy after another

One Hundred and Eighty, One Tragedy, One Tragedy

"...Tsk tsk, a giant panda and a big bear... Our legion now has two mascots."

The two bear underwear flags, which were embarrassing and magical, were distributed, and then, in the expressions of soldiers being dull or bowing their heads to cover their faces, they successively raised the flagpole and floated over the military camp, like a sloppy girl dormitory with underwear hanging everywhere...

Looking at such a frustrating scene, Renee, who was watching the fun with a small pink parasol, couldn't help but mutter to her boyfriend.

"...It's a pity that our army is no longer as good as before. It's not the unlucky bear brigade composed of armored bears, nor has it ever owned the legendary Kung Fu Panda... I really miss those armored bears that can roll in the oak barrels and charge. They may still live as usual in the forest of the Thirteen State Colonial of Xinnaserier, freely dig their honeycombs and catch fish..."

"…This…Dear, you seem to imagine their fate so beautifully."

Feili touched her nose awkwardly, "... As far as I know, when the Empire and the Elves signed a peace agreement, and the Thirteen State Colonial Alliance was announced to be disbanded on the spot by the rear parliament, many of the "armored bears" were shot and peeled and replaced by unemployed militia... So, dear Renee, if you still miss them in your heart, you may only go to the reception room of the wealthy businessmen in Port Emon to search, and maybe you can still see their heads on the walls and their fur on the sofa..."

"...Hmm, I seem to have some memories."

Renee was stunned for a moment, then her face became a little dim, "...I really don't know what the militiamen were thinking. They actually attacked their bloody companions for a few small amounts of money. I was too rude..."

"...The problem is that these hateful people are pitiful. At that time, the aftermath policy of the relevant authorities was too absurd. They were first owed military pay, and then were brutally laid off their employees in the battlefield... It was said that it was the crime committed by the state legislature. They actually laid off their troops on the front line of the Arctic Port in the snow and ice, allowing tens of thousands of soldiers to fend for themselves in empty hands, thousands of miles away from their hometowns."

Feili shook her head and sighed, "...Stop talking about them, even us are like this? The day before yesterday, she was a powerful war hero. When she woke up, she turned into a powerless and powerless unemployed vagrant democratic regime to kill donkeys. It was so fast. If she hadn't been lucky enough to hold the super thick legs of His Highness the Magic Goddess, you might have to go back to Port Emmon to continue opening your weapon store. I can only build an alchemy workshop next to you, and make everything in your store for consignment..."

"...Well...that life may be boring, but it sounds quite warm. Unfortunately, I am a pastor serving the goddess of strategy. I can't quit the thrill of fighting on the battlefield and fighting in blood..."

Renee first tilted her head cutely, then she stuck out her tongue playfully, then brought her words back to the point, "But to be honest, compared with the genuine deputy commander of the corps who are gifted with divine power and able to throw the dragon around, the personal strength of our acting second deputy commander is really not enough. Apart from the panda burning incense** that can barely be used in the cigarette can, it seems that there is only the shameless Nohara Liu's butt kendo... In fact, she actually inserted the hilt of the sword in that place... Tsk tsk, perhaps only the Kuroshima family, who has been playing with chrysanthemums for generations, is willing to practice such perverted kung fu..."

Speaking of this, even Renee's generousness, she couldn't help but blush slightly, and spit on the ground with a tangled and melancholy expression, "...I really don't know if he and Captain Nohara who taught him were troubled by himself like this, why didn't he get hemorrhoids in his anus...When we are building a group or a 'murder' training base? Alas~~~~ Even if we get a team of real pandas or black bears, there is no such shame."

——Hey, just wearing this embarrassing and magical double bear underwear flag, I have already lost my face clean, okay?

Although she wanted to complain like this in her heart, as a man's duty, Feili patted the vampire girlfriend's shoulder with a serious face and comforted her softly, "Don't worry, my dear, although there are many difficulties at the moment, there will be pandas and bears. These are small things that don't worry too much... Alas~ I just don't know if the fleet will have it?"

When she thought of this topic, Feili's mood immediately became heavier. She couldn't help but turn her face with melancholy and anxiety, and looked up at the south of the water and sky, the vast sea level, and only a few small fishing boats floating with the waves...

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In the afternoon of the same day, at the end of Kamakura Wakamiya Avenue, the temporary marina at Hihamabe Beach

Major General Ferry Taylor and most of the middle and senior officers of the Giant Bear Legion were all standing on the wooden trestle that was rushed out, quietly waiting for the Far East Fleet of the Naserel Empire with forty sailing warships, as well as the merchant fleet that should be even larger in scale, to come from Osaka Port, thousands of miles away from the west.

Although Admiral Gallus Duheden Perry had unfortunately died in Nara, the Buddhist holy land of Nara, and could not even recover the complete corpse, the elite fleet under his command, which was invincible in the eastern seas, is still intact in Osaka Harbour.

Because he seized many enemy ships from the rebellious vassal states and pirates, and received collective allegiance from the Candle Fort Fleet (that is, the southern faction fleet carrying the soul warlock General Robert and the former Imperial Guards officers and soldiers), the number of warships under Admiral Perry increased instead of decreasing after the war started, reaching as many as forty ships, with nearly 5,000 sailors and more than 1,000 guns under his command. There is no match for the entire Far East waters.

This powerful naval force and hundreds of large ocean-going merchant ships gathered in Osaka Port are currently all extremely coveted targets by Feiri.

——Because besides shipping, he could not think of any other way to solve the logistics supply problem of 15,000 troops.

On the earliest colonial battlefield of the New Neseril Thirteen State colonial battlefield, since they were in the local area, there were stations and warehouses along the way, and a labor force with more than the army was mobilized, so the logistics supply of the colonial coalition was maintained. Moreover, at that time, Feili was just a mere school official, and his status was still low and he was only responsible for actual military operations. The logistics supply was the Supreme Commander worried about... although the solution was not very good.

In the subsequent expedition to the Mazka continent, although the giant bear army fought from the desert to the plateau and then to the tropical rainforest, and finally entered the delta port along the river. It seemed to have a wide range of activities, but it has never been far away from the floating mobile fortress and logistics warehouse of Xiangrui. Therefore, in addition to the headache of filling the cargo hold of Xiangrui, it has never really considered the problem of logistics transportation lines.

But at this moment, he had to worry about how to maintain a logistics supply line with sufficient logistics volume.

Previously, the troops sent to conquer Hiroshiro Tosho Palace and the attack on the Jiafei Mountains were all "small" operations, which were only thousands, hundreds of people, and a distance of only a hundred miles. Relying on the remaining dozen iron cockroaches on the Xiangrui, a batch of carriages collected on the spot, as well as the space bags and space rings carried by Feili, can basically solve the problem of food and ammunition transportation.

But now that we have to mobilize 15,000 troops to fight, the logistics problems of so many people will become a tragedy.

First of all, just eating, even according to the tragic super-sweet standard of Japan's island country for "foot light", each person has one liter (.5 kilograms) of white rice, one spoonful of salt, and two spoonfuls of miso every day, and there is no other side food. Then, 15,000 people consume 150 stones of white rice, ten stones of salt, and twenty stones of miso every day, which is equivalent to twenty-seven tons, and 30 to 50 carriages are required to be transported. Each pack horse has to eat at least two kilograms of beans and ten kilograms of hay every day under the high-intensity physical consumption of carriages... These beans are basically transported by the carriage itself, and even hay is not collected everywhere. Some of them must be brought on the carriage...

Secondly, in terms of military rations, if each soldier brings his own twenty rice balls according to Japanese conventions, it can save about ten days of transportation of rations (but the price is to increase the weight of a soldier by a single person by nearly 20 kilograms, greatly accelerating the physical consumption, and the daily marching mileage is greatly shortened). However, the entire army currently has more than 50 light and heavy field artillery pieces. These artillery and the ammunition and supplies equipped with need to be pulled by the horse's animal power (pulling with cattle is too slow and cannot keep up with the speed). In addition to the little ammunition carried by each person, the legion's baggage team must also drag on more base lead ammunition boxes and powder barrels. In addition, there are tents for camping, shovels for digging fortifications, cooking utensils for cooking, herbs and medical equipment for treating injuries... All of them will expand to a very large number.

Finally, since the horses produced in the Japanese island country were simply a tragedy, the carriages were not widely used. So far, even Miss Mitsui Ryuki took the lead in donating her own luxury private carriage, the Giant Bear Legion has only collected more than 200 carriages.

According to the marching journey from Kamakura to Sanhe and Tohokawa, the Tohoku Kingdom front, the marching distance of about ten days, just carrying 15,000 people to run a one-way ration (about 300 to 400 tons) is seriously beyond the ability of this small transport team, and this does not count the remaining ammunition, quilts, tents, cooking utensils and tools... In fact, just dragging field artillery and shells and gunpowder, it will take most of the existing horses and iron golems in the army.

As for the space rings and space bags owned by Feili and a few military magicians, although it is quite spacious for individuals or adventure teams, the size of the materials that can be packed is very limited for an army of tens of thousands. According to Feili's calculations, since many rare alchemy materials that cannot be separated from their bodies for a moment have been stuffed into it, even if the remaining spaces are used to fill the food, it will be only three or five tons, which is not enough for 15,000 people to eat for a meal.

In these days, in order to transport the 100,000 stones (5,000 tons) of grain stored in Kamakura as soon as possible, Feiri had to pay out of his own pocket with a bitter face, consuming a lot of mitril silver, gold and precious gems plundered from the Mazka continent, and set up a large portal between the two cities (you don’t have to worry about space radiation when transporting goods, you can work hard), so that you can successfully transport such a huge amount of grain. Otherwise, if he had only rely on his baggage transport team, he would have to travel back and forth on the bumpy mountain road between Kamakura and Kamakura for several months.

But this luxury method cannot be used frequently - the cost of casting catalyst alone is several times more expensive than this 100,000 stone of grain, and many casting materials are also scarce products that are priceless and unmarketable. They cannot be consumed in such places at will unless they are absolutely necessary.

Therefore, in the absence of railways, unless you brutally rob a large amount of civilian food, burn and kill all the way, or rely on the pre-store of troops stations along the way, it is almost impossible to rely solely on land supply lines to maintain a long-distance expedition of tens of thousands of troops... Of course, it is not impossible to do this, but the price will inevitably be too high to make people crazy-transporters who have to collect several times or even dozens of times the combat force.

According to the archives left by the Edo Shogunate, there seems to be no grain storage in the remaining strongholds such as Shunfu Castle and Odawara Castle in the west, so it cannot serve as a military station. Kofu Castle is remote and is inconvenient to transport and difficult to transport. Therefore, the grain storage in the city has not been called for many years, and has accumulated as much as 100,000 stones.

Junfu Castle, Odawara Castle and Okazaki Castle are all located on the thoroughfare of Tokaido. Even if there is some grain reserves, they were consumed and consumed by the frequent passing troops of various vassals during the previous war against the Changzhou Rebellion.

As for letting the army plunder along the way... first, it was too late to go up, second, it was too unpleasant to be famous, and then it was too robbed - didn't you see famine everywhere now?

However, since the battlefield and marching routes this time are in the coastal areas, if a maritime fleet can be organized and the army can be driven on the dock, then all the logistical problems can be easily solved.

The transportation volume of three to four hundred tons of military rations requires hundreds of carriages to pull, and the horses pulling the carriages themselves have to eat a lot of beans and hay. However, if they are transported by sailboats, they can only be loaded with a large ship. If more than a dozen ships can be obtained, almost all military supplies can be loaded on the ship. If the weather is calm, you can even prepare food on the ship and transport it on a small sampan when you are resting, so that the soldiers can avoid the hard work of picking firewood and cooking on the stove after a day of trekking, so as to ensure their full rest.

In addition, the transport fleet is different from the convoy, and generally does not fall behind because of the heavy load - ships can sail 24 hours a day, while the army usually only marchs for up to 0 hours a day. If there are more, they will not be able to walk the next day.

In fact, Feili planned to arrange logistics like this from the beginning, but the problem is... except for the main engine and transmission system that has not been repaired and cannot move for the time being, he has no large sailing ship in his hand.

——The catastrophe caused by the fall of the Yokohama Concession not only destroyed most of the urban buildings and claimed tens of thousands of lives, but also caused all the ships in the Yokohama Port to sank to the bottom of the sea in fragments. In the end, the wreckage of the Floating City simply filled out a large area of ​​the port area, and the merchant ships originally anchored at Edo Port burned all the fires in the previous Burning City.

Therefore, he had to put his hopes entirely on the Osaka Port in the west, which was lonely in the heart of the enemy's army in Gyeonggi, and wanted to draw part of the naval fleet and merchant fleet over there to provide sea transportation and fire cover for the Giant Bear Legion... Unfortunately, basically the same as before the Yokohama Concession, all the orders he issued to the Far East Fleet were ignored and boycotted by the other party, which was basically the same as the sea.

Although Major General Ferry Taylor was the highest rank of the entire Far East after Admiral Perry died in the battle, he should automatically succeed Admiral Perry, take over all the armed forces in the war zone, and also received the support of the local highest civilian official (Minister Zena) and the leader of the Allied Powers (Ryuki Mitsui), but he was still unable to be recognized by the various departments of the Far East Fleet, which were seriously warlordized.

——Thinking about it, these people have been born and died in a foreign country in the Far East for 30 years. They finally managed to build a foundation and regarded all this as private property. Now they finally survived until Admiral Perry died. After mourning, everyone was ready to give credit and qualifications one by one, intending to compete for the next one. Now a young boy who jumped out of some corner was riding on his head, and he also gave orders in a big way... Who can convince him?

But once they resisted negatively, Feili and the Giant Bear Legion, which was about to fight the imperial court's eastern expedition, were about to sit on wax.

On this issue of life and death, Minister Zena and Ryuhime Mitsui also tried their best to cooperate. They sent out various magical messaging and did not know how many seals were sent. Many groups of envoys took risks on small fishing boats and crossed the sea to Osaka Port to do their work. They also received strong support from the former head coach of the Edo Shogunate, the father of Miss Ryuhime Mitsui, and the Excellency Mitsui Ginji. All kinds of soft and hard-working methods, and the methods of coercion and inducement were used to the extreme. Finally, under the real threat of the dead lips and cold teeth, this persuasion work was partially successful...

Note that it was only a tragic success

The specific reflection at this moment was when Feiri heard that the Osaka fleet had finally arrived at the Kamakura coast and brought the entire leadership team to the dock to greet him, but was poured with a scoop of cold water by the harsh reality that was completely inconsistent with the idea.

"...one, two, three, four... what's behind? Why is there nothing behind? My eyes are not blurred, why are there only four warships in total? Where are the remaining thirty-six warships going? Ahhhhh?"

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ps: Unit conversion: one liter.5 kg; one liter ten liters 5 kg; one stone ten liters 50 kg; one four liters 0 kg.
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