Chapter 685 The Road to Blood

The loss of the Nephen Regiment is relatively lighter than the war damage of the Knights. 17 members of the Trident were killed, 15 of whom died in the missile fire bombing, and the rest died in Essien's counterattack before his death. More than 200 ordinary soldiers were killed and 300 wounded, which was only a minor injury for the Nepharmon. However, when I saw another set of numbers, zero eyelids jumped down heavily.

First of all, 50 missiles, each of which costs 500 gold coins, a total of 25,000 gold coins. Then there are the 15 electromagnetic bombs, which are more expensive than missiles. One is 800 gold coins, which adds up to 12,000. That is to say, zero used nearly 40,000 gold coins in these two attacks alone, which is not counting other ammunition consumption.

Most of the previous zero-participation wars were team operations. Later, he attacked the northwest tundra and participated as a soldier. Counting the war damage is not his task at all, so there is no concept. Now 40,000 gold coins have been destroyed in just a battle of 3,000 people. God knows how much the war of 10,000 people or even more than 100,000 will be spent.

"War is indeed a money-burning machine." He sighed.

Next is the harvest.

The strategic reserve of the fortress is sufficient. First of all, there are many reserves of food, purified water and synthetic food, which is enough for the two legions in the fortress and the whole slave camp to spend this winter. It can be seen that the Pope's Office invests a lot of money in Fort Cannon every year. No wonder Mamiro said that the two legions stationed in this fortress did not want to be transferred. Such conditions of Youwo are not available to other knights. As Mamiro said, the place where his legion is stationed is very sinister and the subsidy is low.

With these foods, there is no problem with the replenishment of the Nepami Group on land for the time being, and it is more than enough to add 3,000 to 5,000 people.

Then there is ammunition.

There are 100,000 ordinary rifle bullets, and special bullets include armor-breaking bullets, sniper bullets, * a total of 30,000. A total of 200 groups of fragments * 1,000, 500 infantry missiles, heavy artillery shells and turbine magazines. As for firearms, there are 500 dragon-gun machine guns, 50 anti-aircraft machine guns, 10 heavy guns, and 10 rotary machine guns for mecha. There are also a lot of reserves of ammunition and firearms.

Needless to say, the Shanghai Shentuan is basically used. The dragon machine gun is also a new era of firearms, with two modes of continuous shooting and sniper, using standard bullets. Switch the No. 2 magazine when you need to sniper, and you can switch to the sniper bullet battle. The power of the dragon gun is not comparable to those ordinary rifles used by the Nephen Regiment. Soldiers can be additionally improved by changing to this machine gun.

Of course, the dragon gun in the warehouse is obviously not enough. However, this is not a big problem. During the battlefield count, a batch of dragon guns and ammunition of the Knights were also recovered, some of which have been damaged, and the rest is enough to equip the existing soldiers of the Nepharmonic.

As for anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy guns, it is an additional gain, and the firepower of this batch of heavy weapons is strong. If it hadn't been for the Trident's raid on the fortress gate last night and destroyed these weapons. If you attack head-on, you don't know how many people will be lost in the face of these weapons. Even Franklin is unwilling to face the power of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy artillery, let alone ordinary soldiers.

After they are equipped, they can replace the damaged batch of fortresses. The wall was rebuilt in advance, and the damage of the wall was basically hopeless, and there was only one way to rebuild it. It is estimated that it will not be used in a short time, especially the five heavy guns. As for the anti-aircraft machine gun, it can be arranged at other commanding heights of the fortress and can provide strong fire support if necessary.

Most importantly, they move much more flexibly than the cannon.

The only thing that can't be used at all is the rotary cannons for the Paladin mecha, which are more ferocious than the machine guns used by Brown before, and it is not a weapon that can be used by manpower at all. If they can't be used, it doesn't mean that they are worthless. I don't think Ista may be interested in acquiring them. Then, after conversion, it is also an income.

A batch of special ammunition was also found in the warehouse, which was used by Essien's Round Table Knight. This batch of ammunition is not ready to be sold. Naturally, they have to be used on the captured round table knights.

The final harvest is crude oil. Hundreds of tons of crude oil are piled up in a whole crude oil warehouse, which are packed into more than 50 barrels and neatly discharged in the warehouse. After seeing this report, Zero couldn't help but be glad that the war last night did not affect the crude oil warehouse. Otherwise, the whole fortress will have to explode, and hundreds of tons of crude oil will be worth 500,000 gold coins according to the price of the western continent.

This is a large amount. With crude oil alone, you can earn zero. If other materials are included, at least one million gold coins will be received in this battle. However, the greatest wealth is not these, but the three oil well platforms under the control of the fortress. The three platforms produce nearly 100 tons of crude oil every month, so they control the fortress, and there is no need to do anything, and 500,000 gold coins are received every month.

I didn't have any idea about money before, because Beatrice was in charge of him. Now that everything is done, Zero finally has a more intuitive concept of wealth.

After reading the report, Zero stood in front of a plasma board, which was a complete map of the Western Continent. This map is much more detailed than the one in Mr. X's hand. Zero's eyes fell on Fort Cannon, and then followed the bloody road to the Pope's Hall. On this 8,000-kilometer-long road, it has to pass through five surface cities controlled by the Pope's Hall and hundreds of small and medium-sized towns.

From the distribution of these cities, we can also see what kind of price the Pope's Hall paid all the way. I'm afraid that thousands of corpses are built on the foundation of each heavy city on the surface. This road runs almost through the whole continent, and every inch of land is stained with blood. No wonder the road is named the road stained with blood.

"Go and inform the regiment leader and them to come here for a meeting." Zero said to the soldiers outside the door.

After a while, all the core members and three leaders of the Poisan came in. Looking at their faces with excitement, it seems that these guys were still excited in the war last night. Only Franklin looked as usual, and the vice captain, who was full of confusion, was much calmer than others.

"Sit down, everyone." Zero said lightly, this is the command room, and usually only Essien and Lei Ming are active. There are very few chairs, but now there are enough chairs in the command room to share enough for everyone in the room at this moment.

Of course, Franklin doesn't have a chair. Even Essin's newly built big chair is not enough for a giant to stuff half of his buttocks, and Franklin can only sit cross-legged on the ground. Ling Chao showed an apologetic look and looked at other people: "Guys, how do you feel now?"

"Very good, but it's not enjoyable to kill. Boss, please leave me some hard opponents in the future. It's not at all to kill ordinary soldiers. Manshan laughed and said that if people who don't know him may be confused by the simple smile on Manshan's face, who knew that he killed people all the way last night. Under his giant rolling stone, I don't know how many knights of soldiers are dead.

Next, everyone expressed some of their feelings. Compared with the members who followed Zero early, Cinderila and the three of them were obviously much more excited. After all, this is the first real war they participated in, and it is inevitable that they are a little excited.

After they finished speaking, Ling stretched out his hand and said, "I can see that everyone is very happy. But don't be happy too early. If we only slapped the Pope's Hall last time we roared in the bay, then this battle of Cannon was to punch them directly. A slap naturally won't make you face, but if you punch it directly, it's not as simple as face. I believe this punch should hurt them, so the Pope's Hall will fight back soon.

"This is better. I can't wait for them to come back, and then we will beat those guys back fiercely." Manshan hit his fist and said excitedly.

"No, it's not that simple. You have to be mentally prepared. If you don't fight in the Pope's Hall this time, it will definitely be a pattern of death. Zero buckets of cold water poured down so that they wouldn't underestimate the counterattack of the Pope's Hall.

Zero went to the window, pointed to the bottom of the fortress and said, "Take a good look, this place can no longer be called a fortress. If the Pope's Hall is called now, do you feel sure to defeat them in such a place?

"We can rebuild the damaged city wall." Cindella Road.

"It's okay, but it takes time, and time is exactly where we have a headache." Zero smile said.

Feng said at this time, "Head, just say whatever you want!"

These old people who have been with Zero for a long time are well aware of Zero's style. He must have thought of countermeasures before convening a meeting. Ling smiled, walked back to the plasma board and said, "Naturally, we can't give up the Cannon Fortress like this. Instead, we have to rebuild it. It will be an important stronghold on this continent. In our hands, we want it not to fall again!"

"This is our due determination. If there is no stronghold, we will lose the space to advance and retreat. In that case, the huge thing of the papal chamber can't be knocked down at all. Then again, we can't just have determination. We still have to act. Zero stretched out his finger, pointed on the Cannon Fortress, then crossed the blood-stained road, and continued to stretch up to the Pope's Hall.

Everyone moved their eyes with his fingers. At first, everyone was confused and didn't understand what zero meant. But as his fingers crossed the bloody road and pointed straight to the Pope's Hall, everyone's eyes became hot. There seems to be a fire burning in my heart. With the movement of zero fingertips, the fire is burning more and more!

"From the moment you set foot on this land, I think you should have been enlightened. This road is never easy to walk. Every step in the direction of the Pope's Hall means blood and sacrifice. Zero looked carefully at everyone below and pointed hard: "This will be a blood-stained road. I don't know how many people will lie on the road forever when they reach the end. All I know is that every step on this road must be a huge blow to the Pope's Hall. And when we reach the end..."

With zero force in the city of New Rome: "The Pope's Hall will no longer exist!"

"They came from New Rome, and now we fight back from Fort Cannon!"

No one spoke, but the breathing became quiet and rapid. Zero plan can be said to be wild or stupid. Because he gave up the safer practice of devouring the papal chamber with guerrillas, and then kept shrinking and even finally eating the city of New Rome. Instead, it adopts the most radical and dangerous means. But it is undeniable that this is also a bloody strategy.

Fight back from the front, cross the enemy's body and go straight to the nest. Just thinking about it makes people excited.

Especially for outlaws like Manshan, this almost crazy strategy is the most appetizing for people like him.

" boss, just order it. Let's clean up the guys and go on the road now!" Although he knew it was impossible, Manshan still said hehe and had a good time.

Unexpectedly, Zero nodded and said, "I have this intention. You take 200 soldiers with you and go out with me in the afternoon."

Manshan was stunned and said, "Are you going to fight a war so soon?"

"It's just a little fight." Zero smiled faintly and looked at the map on the plasma board. On the map, starting from Cannon, cutting into the blood-stained road and walking about 100 kilometers, where there are two towns. Zero stretched out his hand and gently circled the two towns with his fingers.

Fort Cannon does not have the conditions for self-sufficiency. Its slave camp is more for the oil well platform, the wood mine of the Emerald Forest and the cloud iron mine at the foot of the Eternal Mountains. As for drinking clean water and synthetic food, they naturally have to be imported from other cities, and there are two towns less than 100 kilometers away from the blood-stained road, which are likely to be the supply points of the fortress.

If you also circle them into the sphere of influence, then daily life is not a problem. What's more, the gate and outer walls of the fortress have been demolished, so it is necessary to establish some sentries appropriately. Ling didn't want to wait for the Pope's Hall to hit the old nest to find the enemy's trace, so he asked Manshan to arrange manpower. There will definitely be troops stationed in the town. Zero is not in mind. The only worry is that the people in the town have run away, so that the empty equipment and no human resources can also operate.

In the next morning, zero performance of efficient office efficiency. Orders were issued in his hands, even if he had to go back to the Pope's Hall in the wildest way. Zero was not arrogant enough to think that such a big thing could be done with this power now. When the direction is set, then the details must be carefully considered and then put into action to successfully reach the end.

To win this war, soldiers alone are not enough. Zero also needs a base that can provide logistics. This base is undoubtedly Cannon. The wood ore iron ore and oil well platform under Cannon's control can produce a large amount of resources every month. These resources can be exchanged for the materials or gold coins needed through Ista, which is the capital needed to maintain the war.

Now there is no shortage of zero-handed soldiers, and what is missing are workers. So his first order was to recruit workers, first of all, the slaves who ran away last night. Zero believed that they were still hiding in the Emerald Forest, so he asked Cinderella to arrange some people to look for these slaves in the forest. The conditions of Zero's opening were very attractive. All those who want to come back can get rid of their status as slaves, and they will be workers in the fortress. In addition to providing them with accommodation and food, Zero will also settle their wages.

Such as not to mention wages, food and water alone are enough to attract these slaves back. Without these things, let alone winter, I'm afraid they can't even survive this autumn.

But these slaves alone are not enough. They can only maintain the usual work of the fortress. After reading some information in the fortress, Zero knew that the mineral deposits of wood ore and cloud iron are actually very rich, but their value is not as big as that of crude oil. Half of the slave camp of the fortress served oil wells, and the rest was assigned to the construction sites of wood mines and cloud iron mines.

The fortress obviously made a special assessment of wood ore and iron ore. From this information, it is not difficult to see that 4,000 slaves have not reached the average daily production level of these two industries. Essien looks down on them because crude oil alone produces a value that reaches the sum of the other two mining industries. But for Zero, no matter how much money he has, he won't feel enough.

The more wealth accumulated, the less time the war will take. Wars have always been piled up with money, and Zero decided to use all the wasted resources. If you want to do this, you need to increase workers and food accordingly.

The slaves recruited from the Emerald Forest are the first workers, and the second group of workers can go to the outer island to recruit. This work is carried out together with the recruitment of new soldiers. There will be casualties in the war, and soldiers are also a consumable. At present, the soldiers of the Guanghai God Regiment are definitely not enough to open up the whole blood-stained road, so the recruitment of new soldiers is also imperative.

Zero has seen the difficulties of living on the outer islands in the western continent. For Rome, these people living on the outer islands have nothing to do with them, and naturally there will be no corresponding supplies and relief. These people will be the object of zero-focus absorption, and the recruitment of workers and recruits can be held at the same time, and then classified according to the quality and career orientation of personnel.

Next, fate has to be called. Billy and Ji Ya will be indispensable and important people. They are not active in the battlefield, but in the base. Zero needs Billy and his technical team to check all the operating tools, including oil wells, and see if they can be modified to improve the efficiency of the operation. As for Ji Ya, she may have to integrate with some female soldiers into a field medical team to ensure the survival rate of soldiers to a greater extent.

One more thing needs to be given to Ji Ya, that is Lei Ming's body. The war-dead legion commander did not have half of the evolution point left for zero. He believed that there should be major secrets on this corpse to be dug.

came down one morning, and the zero brain was running at a high speed almost all the time. After all the orders were issued, he was relieved. Looking at the stack of materials and reports on the table, he suddenly missed the days when he was still a wilderness mercenary.

Although the days at that time were hard, they were relatively simple.