Chapter 585: The Day of Departure

Chapter 585: The Day of Departure

Three days later, 1,500 soldiers who carried out the tooth extraction operation boarded a ship and set off for the first looting target: Chishui City.

At the same time, in accordance with the policy set at the strategy meeting, other soldiers of the First Army also escorted ammunition and food to the northern border one after another. Wanhe, and finally arrived at Yougu Town.

In order to cope with such a large-scale march deployment, Roland rented 30 sailboats from the Margaery Chamber of Commerce, in addition to putting all the paddle steamers in Neverwinter into the mission, to transport war supplies.

In this way, he could send 3,000 soldiers and corresponding artillery ammunition to the northern border within a month, that is, before July. In later generations, the transshipment scale of thousands of people may be completed in three or four inland river passenger ships, but in this era, it is already an incredible pioneering work.

When enough God's Stones of Retaliation are obtained in the tooth extraction operation, the vanguard will also go to the northern border. In the end, Yougu Town will gather an army of 4,500 people to force the church to form a group in Cold Wind Ridge.

Of course, there are not no contingency plans. One situation is that the church dispatched extraordinarily quickly, for example, let a small part of the God's Punishment Army go all the way south along the Impassable Mountains and arrive at Neverwinter City without any logistics and light equipment. Another situation is that the enemy abandons the holy city and enters the kingdom from the junction of Dawn and Graycastle.

The 500 people staying in Neverwinter City were to guard against the former, and they could always gain a certain advantage in the defense of the city, especially with the support of the 152mm fortress artillery. The latter is a lose-lose situation, the first army has to turn to a war of attrition, the church will lose the holy city of Hermes, their faith and status will be severely damaged, and Graycastle will also lose a large number of people.

Fortunately, the chance of the second situation happening is very small. Without the holy city, the church has completely lost its foundation, and Graycastle still has a chance to revive after losing its population. As long as the pope is not mad, he will not use this suicide method of combat.

Also leaving with the first convoy was Edith Kant, the Pearl of the Northland.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will write to my father and ask him to take out half of the food stored in the Northland for the soldiers to use. The lord of Yougu Town will fully cooperate with all the requirements of the First Army."

"Aren't you going back to the North?" Roland asked.

"Compared with going home, I want to follow the First Army to participate in all the battles that will follow." Edith stood on the side of the ship and raised her hands and raised her long hair, then stroked her chest in salute, "My brother will be entrusted to you."

"I'll take care of him."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, then, I will wait for you in Yougu Town—when the real big battle comes."

After the ship left, Nightingale's dissatisfied voice echoed in Roland's ears, "Tsk tsk, it's clearly a life-and-death war, yet she said it was like dating a lover."

"Ahem... is there any?"

"Can't you see? That movement of raising her hair... and there's no strong wind right now, so it's just unnecessary." Nightingale snorted coldly, "Of course, it doesn't rule out that she's already used to making such gestures towards men, it's already an instinct gone."

"Are you still worried about that letter?" Roland shook his head dumbfoundingly. "It's impossible to say. By the way, is what she said reliable?"

Nightingale replied reluctantly, "Basically there is no problem, at least when expressing loyalty and talking about those battle plans, they are telling the truth."

"That's enough," Roland exhaled, "Let's go back to the castle."

During this period of time, although Neverwinter City is facing the pressure brought by the war, there is also a lot of good news—the projects planned during the Demon Moon have been completed one after another, and the infrastructure construction has ushered in a stage of blowout results.

The most important thing is that the western region finally obtained its own outlet to the sea.

After getting the news, Roland notified the Ministry of Construction as soon as possible, and soon there will be a number of houses, warehouses and temporary docks on the shallows. With a natural deep-water port as the foundation, larger sea-going ships can also be built—but considering that Anna has already focused on military production, these ship-building plans have to be postponed until after the war is over.

And the supporting hub project - Highway 67 has also started construction. It starts from the Chishui River Bridge and connects the factory area with the southern shoal. The construction team is the original team of Wanguo Avenue. At the same time, Roland fulfilled his promise. Nearly half of the outstanding workers obtained the official resident status of Neverwinter and issued ID cards.

In addition, the first coke oven in Beiposhan was put into production.

To be precise, it could have started to operate earlier, but it has been stumbled during the trial period. For example, the air in the furnace was not evacuated when the furnace was first started, which caused the coal used for dry distillation to burn directly; lead to coking failure. Later, there was also a serious accident in which the exhaust pipe was blocked by smoke and dust, and the flame suddenly burst out of the furnace when the coke was released. Fortunately, with the help of Axia's playback ability, the causes of these accidents were quickly found out, and a series of improvements were made. A new batch of coke ovens is also under construction.

In addition to infrastructure, military production has also ushered in a breakthrough.

The howitzer that can add an important weight to the war has finally been successfully trial-produced.

Although limited by the volume of the whole shell and the charge of the warhead is limited, it can still cause a fatal blow to the enemy within a radius of ten meters. After adding fragments, this distance can be doubled.

It is conceivable that if several 152mm artillery pieces with a range of nearly ten kilometers are put on the battlefield, they can cross the preset position and directly attack the enemy's rear—people in this era have never experienced the horror of the king of war, the shock wave of howitzers And fragments are absolutely devastating to a group of enemies without any cover.

It's a pity that such a heavy thing can only be transported by Hummingbird, and in the absence of hard roads, only two doors can be deployed at a time.

Even so, Roland was unwilling to give up such powerful firepower.

News of the successful operation of a schematic model of a steam turbine was less important by comparison.

After all, whether it is a new type of steamship or thermal power generation, there is not enough manpower to develop it for the time being. In a sense, Neverwinter had already entered into a wartime system from the moment it received the information from the Kingdom of Dawn, and all plans had to give way to war, and Anna was no exception.

Now her daily work is to process shells and fuzes in the morning, and cut key parts needed for heavy machine guns in the afternoon.

The arsenal even produces bullets and revolver rifles in three shifts. Thanks to Miyue and Candle, all kinds of machine tools can run at full capacity without major problems.

Shortly after returning to the office, the flying courier delivered a secret letter from the fjord.

This is...Tilly gave an answer?

Roland quickly opened the note and quickly scanned the contents of the letter. After pondering for a while, he asked Nightingale to find Maggie.

"Take Sylvie and catch up with the departing fleet, and let Iffy do what the letter says."

"Goo!"

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