Lord of Industrialization

[Wesson collar swears]!

Metzger looked at the sky that was supposed to be lit and cursed.

Unfortunately, the tail of the rainy season suddenly grew longer, the dark clouds became thicker and thicker, and silent thunder came from the distance.

Heavy rain will not only bring difficulties to the march, but if the rain continues, it will also affect subsequent airdrops of supplies.

Metzger said to Hozenplots, Force the march and get to your destination as soon as possible. Is there any problem?

He is confident that his soldiers can carry out a forced march, but the militiamen and guides may have some difficulties.

Huo Zhenplozi also looked at the sky and said: If it's okay just for today, eat one more brick biscuit later, eat a piece of candy and drink some water every hour, otherwise I won't have the energy later.

Metzger nodded. There are related courses in the military academy. It is the same as what Hozenplotz said. It is said that he absorbed his experience when escaping for his life and Duke Wesson's (being chased) long-distance running experience.

I've been working out in the gym over the years and running the canal once a month, and now I can run all day long, Hoffman said.

Nowadays, leisurely people in Wesson imitate Frederick's example of jogging along the 10-kilometer-long Carolina Canal. Some people run from beginning to end, and some run two or three times back and forth.

Hoffman's physical fitness does not reach the ranks of extraordinary saints, but he can still run 20 kilometers once a month.

Metzger smiled and said: The least thing I worry about is you. If you don't have the strength, you will be a raisin.

Several people nearby who knew that Hoffman had four wives laughed, and the person involved was very proud.

The team quickly finished cleaning up, ate the herbal tea they made last night and ate brick biscuits, then wrapped the supplies in tarps and put their raincoats where they were most easily accessible.

Brick biscuits are compressed biscuits. Frederick originally gave the most common formula of flour, salt, sugar, oil and milk powder. Later, researchers added strange things such as insect powder, tea powder, carrot powder, etc. Finally, The color of the product is similar to the red bricks used to build the house.

There are tricks to eating raw brick biscuits. When they are still large at first, you can't go head-on with them. You have to scrape them off with your front teeth until they are thin before you can chew them.

When the team set off, raindrops began to fall from the sky, and soon the raindrops began to fall.

The rain is very annoying. Wearing a raincoat makes me feel hot, but without a raincoat I feel wet.

Everyone just doesn't wear them. We dry our clothes when we get to the place so that the things we carry on our backs don't get wet.

The mountain road began to become slippery, so Hojenpouloz had people cut nearby suitable branches to use as crutches, which reduced the number of people who fell.

The journey was uneventful, and the team arrived at their destination around 6 p.m.

The mountains on both sides of the valley are more than 200 meters high and relatively steep. There is a path opened by smugglers on one side of the mountainside, which is now overgrown with weeds.

At the bottom of the valley is a small river about four lanes wide. The water is turbid and fast, and fish jump out of the water from time to time.

There is no bridge across the river here, but that's not a big problem.

A 50mm caliber light mortar was set up on the hillside. A special short javelin was put into the barrel. The head of the gun was a three-pronged claw, and a not-too-thick hemp rope was tied in the ring at the tail.

As the jet tank made a sound, the javelin flew with the rope to the opposite side of the mountain more than 100 meters away. The target was a thick tree.

The gun tip fell to the ground while grazing the tree trunk. The people on the opposite side pulled at it, and the claws on the gun tip tightly grasped the thick branches.

The simple zip line was set up, and the soldier with the lightest weight slid across the opposite side, relying on the traction of this hemp rope to pull the thicker rope, and set up two zip lines with a larger load capacity before dark.

Hozhenpouloz led the militiamen to pitch tents, build drainage ditches, dig toilets in suitable places on the mountain, and cut down trees on the top of the mountain to create an open space for airdropping supplies.

Metzger led the men to the steepest point on the opposite side of the valley, and the soldiers began to get busy.

Several people hung ropes and used engineer shovels to dig holes on the hillside. They dug to a depth of two meters and did not stop until the groundwater almost submerged people.

Metzger fiddled with five calf-thick metal tubes, which contained magic scrolls that he could not afford to buy with his annual income. This was the key to their collapse.

The soldiers came to report that the holes had been dug. The five holes were arranged two up and three down, about fifty meters apart, and the depth was about two meters.

Metzger twisted the lid of the metal cylinder one after another until there was a snap inside, and threw it into the hole himself.

From now on, they have two hours to evacuate.

The rain began to lighten and stopped when Metzger led the men back to camp.

A bonfire had been lit in the camp, and Metzger arranged for the sentries to dry their clothes first and go on duty. Over there, Hozenplotz and the militiamen had already started cooking dinner.

It rained all day today, and many small streams appeared on the hillside. Huo Zhenpuloz asked someone to fetch water in a pot, added alum powder, stirred the sediment, poured the supernatant into another pot, and finally poured it into another pot. Put something like a plate into the pot and take two steps back.

Alum cannot 100% remove bacteria and viruses from water, and in the end, necromantic magic must be used to sterilize them.

I don’t pay much attention to eating in the wild. Everything is stewed in one pot. Today’s share of brick biscuits, concentrated soup packets, dehydrated vegetables and diced meat are all thrown into the pot, plus a tablespoon of lard, half After many hours, I got a pot of weird-tasting paste.

While eating, Metzger asked Hoffman: Can you eat it?

Hoffman said with a smile: The spoonful of oil in the pot was enough to feed my family for two months. What else can I be dissatisfied with?

Metzger smiled evilly and said, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to eat it, so I brought extra delicious food.

Just as Hoffman was about to be polite, he noticed that all the soldiers next to him were pale and their eating movements had slowed down a bit.

He immediately understood what Metzger had brought, and hurriedly shook his head and said, No, you can enjoy it yourself.

Huo Zhenplozi asked: What are you talking about?

Metzger smiled and said, Jerky.

Huo Zhenplozi had a question mark in his head. What's so scary about dried meat? Is it...

Human flesh? He looked cautious.

Get out! Metzger scolded with a smile, What do you think I am?

Dried insects, the kind used to make Fuqiang powder, do you want to eat them?

Huo Zhenplozi shook his head quickly and said, No, when I was a kid, I just escaped to the mountains and spent that time digging for worms in the dead wood and covering my body with mud to find food in the honeycombs.

Hoffman immediately said: The white bugs in the deadwood are delicious when they are skewered on twigs and roasted!

At this moment, there was a sound like ordinary thunder in the distance. Metzger looked at his pocket watch and nodded.

The mud swamp technique in the previously placed metal cylinder was activated on time, and the soil within a radius of more than thirty meters turned into mud and flowed into the river.

The steep hillside is missing a large piece at the foot of the mountain, and the soil filled with water is heavier than before. Without support, it will immediately slide, carrying trees and stones to the bottom of the valley.

After dinner, Metzger led his men to the top of the mountain with lights on. Under the moonlight that had just emerged from the clouds, hundreds of meters of river were blocked, and the blockage was more than three meters above the water.

There is no need to worry about overflowing the embankment. After the river water rises by more than one meter, it will flow upstream from a tributary in the upper reaches and then flow away from other rivers.

The news of the successful blocking of the river reached Frederick at the headquarters immediately through the communicator.

At the same time, the main force of the outflank arrived at the predetermined position under the leadership of Eugene, and the main force of the Principality of Franconia and the Regens Alliance were surrounded.

Frederick ordered the second phase of the battle to begin.