Duke of Herrington

Chapter 113 The Beginning ([-]) The True Identity of Baron Tomato

Three hours later, reinforcements arrived
It took only half an hour to assemble and move supplies urgently, another half an hour to inspect vehicles and weapons, and it took 2 hours to go outside Heishui City.

After all, it is a heavy artillery, so you can't bump it!Even experienced drivers only dare to drive to 60 miles.

This kind of assembly speed is not bad according to the regulations, neither fast nor slow, it can be called quite satisfactory!Comply with regulations.

Seeing the trucks of the reinforcements parked in front of him, Ted put on his helmet and slapped Steve on the head who was dozing off: "The reinforcements are here, don't sleep! Get ready to watch the show!"

Feeling the roar from a distance, the soldiers of the assault platoon yawned and stood up, ready to welcome the reinforcements who came to support them!

With two infantry companies and one artillery company, there will not be many trucks to help out, at most 30 trucks.

But in fact, in order to allow the team to have the combat capability of being out of logistics in a short period of time, a total of 120 trucks came this time, filled with various weapons and ammunition, which seemed to be enough to arm a regiment!

After all the teams were assembled, Ted immediately ordered the troops to deploy the cannons, and the infantry company was deployed on the spot.

While everyone was making preparations, Ted called the artillery company commander and asked thoughtfully, "How much equipment and ammunition did you bring?"

Looking at the unloaded bullets and ammunition, the artillery company commander turned around, took out a notebook, took down a list from it, and read: "I didn't bring many bullets with .3006 with a base of 1200, That is [-] million rounds, ten trucks are filled, and the rest are filled with shells and spare parts, which can last for a long time~”

This way of reporting is considered normal, but Cannonball didn't say it in terms of base numbers, and it seemed that he deliberately avoided answering.

But these couldn't escape Ted's sensitive ears. He guessed that there should be something hidden here, so he quickly grabbed the company commander's hand, pulled him aside and asked, "You said bullets, why didn't you put the cannonballs on the ground?" Tell me the exact quantity? Could it be that you haven’t brought enough? I remember when I registered the ammunition and put it in the warehouse, there were quite a few!”

The company commander quickly waved his hand to signal Ted not to think about it: "Sir, it's actually not a problem, it's just that our military department was arguing over the question of 'how much ammunition base should be'! In the end, we didn't decide on a single gun. Ammunition base."

Based on years of military common sense, as well as his own ambition and strong productivity, Ted put his hand on the shoulder of the company commander and expressed his thoughts: "Set 350 rounds, tell the military department, and say it's me The marshal decided."

"But" the company commander was stunned. He raised his hand and gestured for a long time, but he didn't know what to say. He could only look at the list in front of him, and then stared at Ted with wide eyes.
Seeing such reactions, Ted thought he had said less?
But after thinking about it, even a wealthy old beauty would only have this number!And this is just the ammunition base of a gun. If it is added to an artillery company, it will be 3500 rounds!
What's more, marching and fighting is not just carrying a base number of shells, but logistical supplies are sent one after another to meet the offensive needs!
By this point, Ted might feel like he's out of the crowd again!So he put down his superior appearance, put on an approachable and kind face, and asked the grassroots officers what they thought: "Why, do you think this number is not enough? Should there be more?"

The company commander quickly waved his hand, he reached out to wipe off the sweat on his forehead, and threw out the contradiction: "No. Commander! We are all thinking. Is it 100 rounds? Or 50 rounds? It is the base number of ammunition for a gun. You have so much more at once.”

Hearing this explanation, Ted understood what these people were thinking!
They think that everyone is a regular army, just like the previous cold weapon era, ordinary soldiers don't need to wear full body armor, just use it
But Ted doesn't think so!As a leader who intends to take the route of elite soldiers, shells and ammunition must not be saved!In the era of cold weapons, everyone would have to be a knight in plate armor and push the opposite side!

The 120-man artillery company according to the northern standard is equipped with 10 105mm Krupp howitzers, 8 people per gun, and the rest as drivers and technicians. The number is just right!The ammunition is also determined based on precise calculations, 2000 rounds of high-explosive bombs, 1000 rounds of incendiary bombs, and finally a small amount of illumination bombs and 500 rounds of multi-functional bombs.

Not for anything else, just to show that I am arrogant and love soldiers like sons!

Just imagine, before going to war, order the artillery to bomb comfortably for a few hours, and then eat the perfect sugar-colored sweet and sour pork fried by the cooking class. After the shelling, let the infantry and heavy machine guns fight in the trenches for a while The target, finally, let the commando carry the submachine gun to harvest the corn
"Perfect!"

Using equipment crushing to reduce dimensionality is much easier than using brains.
As a qualified successor of a certain country and a certain doctrine, there is a kind of cancer that has already entered the bone marrow and cannot be cured!
That is the lack of firepower phobia!If you suffer from this disease, as long as the ammunition depot is not full, you will panic!If you want to slow down the symptoms of this disease, you can only produce shells endlessly, and pile up the outside of the warehouse!
In addition, there is another saying that always alerts Ted: if you are poor, you will intersperse with tactics, and if you are rich, you will bombard him!Things that can be solved with cannons must be solved with cannons. If it is not resolved, then another round of bombing will be done. If not, then the whole day will be bombarded until it is solved!
Beside him, the pile of ammunition boxes is not pride, but a sense of security!The cannons sounded one after another, like the sounds of nature, and like divine punishment, bringing devastating disaster to the enemy!

But 3500 rounds as an ammunition base is not the limit of the artillery company. The accompanying two infantry companies are also equipped with 2mm and 60mm mortars. The amount of ammunition they carry is another long list of numbers.
After careful consideration, Ted came back to his senses, and told the artillery company commander: "Listen to me, the base number is set at this much, stop arguing, go get ready! Get ready to blast directly, but avoid those pretending A cage for people, they are innocent, the people outside deserve to die"

After listening to the order from the supreme command, he crossed out the number of shells on the list and changed it to 'The base number of shells and ammunition: 30! ': "No problem, look, sir! We've had a lot of training this time, and it's a breeze to do this!"

Looking at the ammunition base of 30, Ted instantly became confident!That's more than 1 shells!No wonder 120 trucks are loaded!

"Cough cough. Go! I'll wait for your good news! You bomb for 2 hours first, and then decide whether to continue bombing after seeing the situation!"

On the head of the east city of Heishui City, the fire that had been caused by incendiary bombs had stopped, and half of the mountain of corpses that had been piled up ten meters high had been burned down!
Now it is only five meters high, and there is almost no threat to the city!
But just when everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the cannibals attacked again!

This time, because the fire had just scorched the mountain of corpses, the human flesh was already cooked through!

While rushing, they picked up the corpses of their companions and ate them to replenish their energy!

This... can also be regarded as their implementation of the initial belief that 'death must be a full ghost'

On the city wall, seeing the tide of cannibals rushing over again, Baron Tomato held onto the stone bricks on the city wall and tremblingly said: "They are coming again, how many supplies do we have?"

"It's only enough to last for 2 days after returning to the adults. After that, I can only choose to demolish the houses to replenish the war equipment."

Fortunately, there are indeed quite a few private houses in the city. If they are demolished, they can hold up for a while.

As soon as the voice fell, only the sound of '嗖' pierced the air one after another and passed into the ear
Just when everyone was guessing what it was, a roar that was louder than the previous explosion exploded in front of them again!

"Damn it!" Baron Tomato leaned down and hid behind the city wall, only showing half of his head to observe, and swears: "Blyat! What the hell is this!"

Because the pile of corpses was going to be blasted away, the 105mm high-explosive bomb directly hit the pile of corpses not far away!The resulting shock wave even reached the guards on the city wall.

Seeing that the lord felt unwell, the guards quickly came up to help them walk back: "My lord, we will stay here, you should go to the back to rest!"

At the same time, Baron Tomato noticed the loud noise from the firing of the cannon mixed with the sound of the explosion.

"This voice, from the east?"

He ignored the soldiers' support, but ran along the city wall to the northeast of the city.
"This"

When he came to the northeastern part of the city, he finally found out the direction of the sound.

According to his own racial talent, he quickly locked the specific position. In addition, he also saw a thin layer of smoke!

Although this group of people was well concealed, they were still spotted by the keen Baron Tomato!
"What is this thing? It's so powerful, it's even more powerful than kerosene? And it can hit so far!"

In the distance, Ted jumped off the roof of the car and said to the artillerymen: "Good job, just bomb at the current frequency! When their attack stops, we will go up and observe the situation!"

Just as he was about to cook himself a tomato pasta for lunch, he noticed that some of the infantry around him seemed to be fishing
After setting up the mortar, they stopped moving or firing, but just sat there in a daze.

"Hey! Why don't you fire? Just let those big guys shoot?"

When the soldiers saw Ted coming to ask questions, a squad leader stood up and answered truthfully: "Sir, we fired 20 rounds just now, and then the artillery changed to high-explosive steel balls. The company commander asked us to stop because in this situation Down-firing is superfluous and a waste of ammunition."

"Oh? Switch to high-explosive steel balls? That's really unnecessary. Once the gun goes down, everyone will become a hornet's nest." After saying this, Ted turned to the artillery company and ordered: "Change to high-explosive! Don't use strip steel." Beads! Give the mortar some training opportunities too! Don’t just take people’s heads! Give the training opportunities to other people too!”

"Yes! Sir!" The artillery company commander quickly erased the head count in the record, and signaled the artillerymen of the large howitzers to change shells
Next, the mixed firing of cannons and mortars fell on the cannibal's attack line one after another.

The cannibals rushed forward against the shells because their brains were swallowed by the virus. Even if the companions in front of them were blown to pieces, they would not stop their attack.

Only fire can stop them!Because the constant pain makes them pull back.

Therefore, Ted kept an eye out and did not let the troops use incendiary bombs, but only used high-explosive bombs to blast their faces!

The originally planned shelling for 2 hours did not cause a fatal blow to the cannibals, and each gun carried 3 bases of ammunition.
It's still the same saying, bring all the belts, there's no need to pull them back!

It's like live ammunition training.
Ever since, the bombardment was upgraded from 2 hours to 6 hours, from noon to dusk.

The residents in Heishui City, from the initial shock, then ran to the top of the city to watch, finally lost interest, and then went home to sleep.

Baron Tomato understood what was going on.

But he couldn't figure out who did it?

According to speculation, these people are definitely not bad people. After all, with such powerful weapons, it is a breeze to push Heishui City to the ground!
Now, instead of attacking Blackwater City, they helped themselves deal with the cannibals not far away!
In other words, they came here, they must have something to do with themselves!And these cannibals happened to delay his business!
"It has to be at least 1000 meters! How did they control this weapon? Could it be that they can see it directly? This is impossible, even for me! Vision and hearing are not so good!"

This touched the blind spot of knowledge, and no matter how hard Baron Tomato racked his brains, he couldn't figure out why.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after they come."

"boom!"

Outside the city, with the end of the final explosion, the six-hour shelling finally stopped.
"My God! It's finally over! My ears are almost deaf"

Baron Tomato took a bite of the tomato, stood up tremblingly, pressed his temples, trying to calm his mind down.

"Half a day! A whole half day! My God! I must ask what kind of weapon this is!"

He didn't even dare to touch his ears. When his fingers entered the ear holes, even a slight touch would hurt!

"Forget it, let the soldiers prepare to welcome this mysterious guest!"

On the artillery emplacement, Ted woke up Steve and the commandos.

"Hey, everyone, don't sleep! Pack up your things and we are ready to go! The infantry company and the artillery company are stationed here! The assault platoon comes with me!"

"Yes!"

According to the instructions, the commandos followed Ted into the previous two trucks and moved towards Blackwater City.

Just when the vehicle arrived at the bottom of the city, a burst of monkey cries resounded through the sky!
In the woods not far away, the last remaining group of cannibals rushed towards Ted with sticks and machetes without any tricks!

"Someone is coming, the number must be 2000, what should we do?" Steve took out his weapon, loaded a fifty-round drum, and waited for Ted's order.

At the same time, the city gate was also opened, and at least 1000 heavily armed and heavily armored soldiers walked out of it.

The leading captain strode out and made a gesture of invitation: "Gentlemen! Let's deal with the remaining forces outside the city, please enter the city quickly!"

Ted didn't pay attention to the words of the captain of the guard, and before the heavy armored guards in the city lined up, he asked the assault soldiers to load their drums and line up to meet the enemy.
"Everyone, put on the drums! We've taken care of the 200 million cannibals, not less than two thousand!"

After saying this, Ted turned his head to look at the captain of the heavy armor: "Are you the captain? It's none of your business here. Go tell Baron Tomato first, and say that Earl Herrington in the north has something to see." He! In the team, there is the Fifth Prince Steve! Let him prepare!"

According to the etiquette of the empire, when making an introduction, the person with high status must be reported first, but this is not a formal meeting, but a kind of private visit in a micro-service, so there is no need to make such a mobilization, and it is more convenient to register random.

I heard that two nobles came to visit, and one of them was a prince!Although this prince has no influence, he is still a member of the royal family: "I'll go right away! Please wait a moment, my lords!"

As soon as the words fell, the cannibals rushing from afar rushed to 500 meters away!

The phantom at this distance, coupled with the backdrop of the dusk, combined with their hysterical laughter, made the commandos present feel numb and uncomfortable.

On the contrary, the heavy armored guards on the side seemed to have gotten used to it after so many days of brainwashing.
"Everyone! Cross fire, don't hold down the trigger and let go, fight for a bullet to destroy an enemy!"

Hearing Ted's high request, Steve rolled his eyes fiercely, and raised his eyebrows: "You're not mistaken, are you? This is a submachine gun! How can one bullet kill an enemy?"

Ted chuckled and responded, "Don't argue with me about this! I mean fight for it! Just listen to it and it's over, there's no need to be serious!"

"Oh!"

300 meter.
200 meter.
After the cannibals entered the effective range of their guns, Ted yelled, "Fire at will!"

With one order, more than 30 fires from Thomson even illuminated the path ahead!And the ogres rushing to the forefront also fell to the ground.

After they died, the inertia made them rush to the street, and the dog gnawed on the ground and dragged for ten meters before stopping!
Even if the person in front fell down, the ones behind would not slow down, some were tripped, and some rushed out!

Such a scene is very similar to the grandpas and aunts who are about to rush into the discount mall. Even if the people in front of them fall down, they have to step on them and rush in in order to grab the cheapest eggs.

It is also because of this chaotic and disorderly suicide charge that the soldiers have enough time to shoot.

The person in front fell down and tripped the cannibal behind. Even if he didn't fall, his body would be torn apart by the flying bullets.

The enemies who originally had a certain impact ran slower and slower under the obstacles of corpses all over the ground.

Their impact was finally exhausted by the buffer zone filled with corpses!
More than 2000 cannibals turned into a pile of carrion corpses in just 10 minutes.

After Ted confirmed that there were no survivors, he ordered the soldiers to throw incendiary bombs forward again to make up the knife
At this time, the heavy armored soldiers standing aside were all stunned in place, looking at me and seeing you at a loss!
It seemed that their arrival was completely superfluous, like clowns, contracting all the embarrassment.

"Let's go, take us to find your Tomato Baron! We are here to help! No malice!"

"My lord, no problem! This way please"

Boarded the truck, followed the road, and under the guidance of the leading deputy captain, the group stopped in front of the City Lord's Mansion.
Now, the outside world is more dangerous, there are refugees and bandits everywhere, and the caravans can't get through or get in, so Ted and the soldiers work as merchants, carrying goods for short-distance trade.

This time, they introduced the goods in Valentine to Baron Tomato: "Everyone! Bring our special products and expand foreign trade by the way!"

"Yes, sir!"

But after this time, there will be no major troubles in the short term
It's just that those people locked in the cage are considered a small trouble. They don't eat people and won't be killed by Ted.

In terms of numbers, maybe a million people, and that's the real problem!
Because of the war, but also because of the nobles' wanton wealth collection and malicious hoarding of food!Their original stable life was disrupted, and now.No amount of remedial action was taken.
But Ted's brain and previous plans were not built!

Since we want to promote the Sun God Sect, starting with this group of people is the best choice!

The pain of their displacement, the misery of being displaced, all the disasters and pains encountered on the road!All can be dumped on the inactive God!
Get 'em done with cheap turkey burgers, fries and coke!after!In the name of the Sun God, these ignorant believers can be accepted!

No matter how sincere their previous beliefs were, driven by their stomachs and intimidated by cannibals not long ago, they would be misled by Ted to give up their belief in God and dedicate their sincerity to the Sun God Sect !

It has never been a peaceful and prosperous age that promotes the growth of religion!This period of war and chaos is the breeding ground for religion.

Now is the right time!
When everyone was starving to death, a man bathed in the holy light stood up!he!Standing on a white-painted truck, one by one, the burgers inside were distributed to the hungry victims.
Even non-religious people, in order to eat the meal in front of them, fill their stomachs!At this moment, he also had to shout 'Allah' to the sun god!
In the auditorium, Baron Tomato couldn't hold a dinner according to the specifications because of insufficient supplies, but this was exactly what Ted wanted~!

"You two are laughing. Our strategic granary is in the barren hills 20 kilometers to the north. Now there is no way to go there to get food. We can only use these to entertain the two of you first."

Ted waved his hand, indicating that the soldiers who followed would put the two boxes they brought on the empty seats on the table.

"It's okay, cough cough, let's not talk about polite words, the main purpose will be discussed last, let's talk about the things I brought first, and I~ I am also a businessman, I want to do a business with you! Please see"

With that said, Ted took out a glass can of tomato pasta sauce from the box, and twisted off the lid!

"Bang~"

The moment the lid of the can was opened, a rich and mellow tomato smell quickly spread until it filled the entire reception hall!

And the blood of Baron Tomato, at this moment!Also forced to wake up!He calmed his beating heart, straightened the neckline of his clothes, so as not to look excited: "This smell? Is it tomato? But the smell is stronger!"

Ted nodded, motioning to the people beside him to pass the opened spaghetti sauce to Baron Tomato in front of him!
"This is concentrated, one can is about the nutrition of 16 to 22 large tomatoes! The can in front of you is about 20!" At this point, Ted put down the water glass, continued to joke with a smile: " I didn't expect Baron Tomato to be so obsessed with tomatoes, he really deserves his reputation!"

Although it was a joke, the careful Ted found something was wrong!

Normal people will not behave like this even if they love tomatoes!It's like when a man sees a beautiful woman, he will indeed drool, but he will wait until he gets home, and then do what he likes to do, instead of on the street!
But Baron Tomato in front of him, with his sharp eyes, seemed to have an ancient call from his blood, and it was about to burst out!

Even if people in this world are all white-skinned, but under the temptation of tomatoes, Baron Tomato's skin is so white that it oozes
"Shall I try it first?"

"Please~"

When Baron Tomato opened his mouth wide, Ted found that the teeth in his mouth seemed not quite right
At the same time, the system issued a warning to Ted!
"Didi! A dark creature has been detected! Please be careful, the host!"

"Dark creatures!?" Ted whispered in his heart, and then turned on the scanning function of the system.
[Target: Baron Tomato, name: Benwest Lu.]

[Race: Vampire! 】

"blyat!"

Ted cursed fiercely in his heart!The sudden situation made him completely at a loss as to how to deal with this matter next?

"I helped a man-eating vampire? Even if it was unintentional, it's tantamount to collaborating!"

Judging from his impressions, Ted couldn't think of even a little beautiful legend about them!
This group of vampires, no matter what time and place they are in, are not good things. It is one thing to be honest, but it is unacceptable to just suck human blood!

[Didi!Note: This branch of vampires evolved from fruit bats, and their ancestors are one of the largest bats—flying foxes. The source of power is not blood, but lycopene]

"Pfft."

Seeing this commentary, Ted almost laughed, but he is professionally trained!Can hold back.

"Since the source of power is lycopene, the reaction to seeing concentrated pasta sauce without blood sucking can be explained!"

There was no need to talk about things, but after learning that these vampires don't suck blood, a turning point appeared.
The tomato baron in front of him, if he wants to become strong and powerful, he must eat a lot of food containing lycopene!

But even if you only eat tomatoes, you can eat 20 a day!It is only a drop in the bucket for awakening power.
And the ketchup they made was not a success, and a lot of tomatoes were wasted!The effect can only reach one-eighth of the product in Ted's hands at most. Due to the lack of productivity, they did not continue to do so.

According to the inscription on the stone tablet, in order to obtain the power to awaken the ancestors, they need a long-lost concentrated tomato sauce!One bite is equivalent to eating 20 tomatoes raw!
According to calculations, they need to eat a full 100 tomatoes every day to gain the power of a vampire!But their stomachs are not that big, such a request cannot be fulfilled at all!
but!With this amazing ketchup, you only need five bites a day to maintain your strength!

When Ted just came back to his senses, he found that Baron Tomato was drinking the spaghetti sauce in the jar in the most elegant way!

Seeing this, Steve was stunned, and he kindly reminded: "Um, that's for eating with noodles, not for drinking."

Tomato Baron didn't feel embarrassed, but played the specialty of 'Tomato Baron'!

He smiled and picked up the scarf to wipe off the remaining juice on his mouth, pretending to be in tears, and said slowly with gratitude: "I didn't expect Earl Herrington to make such an outstanding tomato product! I was moved! Because Tomato Baron is my title and a gift from my ancestors! Looking at such excellent tomato food, I can’t help but feel ashamed.”

After speaking, he lowered his head and covered his face with tears again.
In such a situation, Steve could only keep silent and wait for Ted to deal with the next thing.

(End of this chapter)