Warhammer Seal

Chapter 327
Maijia Village has a very good transportation advantage, and the empire has a good relationship with the electors of each province under Karl's governance.

Efforts to coordinate with each other reconstructed the empire's transportation network during the Sigmar period.

Every large city in the empire was built with wide roads, paved with stones and cleared the surrounding forests.

In addition to metropolises, many small cities located on major traffic routes have also built many roads.

These roads are conducive to the walking and transportation of caravans in normal times, ensuring the flow of commerce within the empire.

The empire is not Bretonnia. The agricultural tax can hardly support such a huge provincial army, and it is all subsidized by the commercial tax.

If ten gold coins are needed to support an imperial swordsman, eight of the gold coins are spent by the Merchant Association.

In addition, the construction of roads is also conducive to the mobilization and expedition of the imperial army.

If there were no such roads, every time the empire had an extra troop, there would always be some extra maintenance expenses. Of course, the quartermasters and low-level officers certainly knew where the money went.

Now that the roads are spread out, connecting the entire empire like blood vessels, the maintenance cost has been reduced a lot accordingly, and it has also brought many advantages to Wende's march.

Compared with commanding a large army to fight and kill the enemy, it is more difficult to command a large army of 3000 people to march.

A general who knows how to march is a good general.

Although it is now in the territory of the empire, Wende has already started the combat simulation, and sent scouts to scout the way ahead as planned, so as not to be ambushed by the beastmen lurking in the forest.

At the same time, during the march, the soldiers were constantly changed and trained to change formations, so as not to plunge themselves into complete passivity in the event of a long snake formation.

The food and feces of the soldiers have to be taught by themselves how to deal with them better.

Both of these aspects are easily overwhelmed by Nurgle. Food poisoning and inconvenient treatment of feces can cause half of the soldiers to lose their combat effectiveness, and at worst can wipe out the entire army.

If a person takes risks alone, the marching speed can reach 150 kilometers per day, and an army of 3000 people can walk [-] kilometers per day, which is considered elite.

Wende likes to switch the marching mode very much, either setting up camp, marching in a hurry, or returning to walking. The purpose of doing this is very simple. If an army is used to the training of marching in a hurry, it can subtly increase its marching speed.

Of course, in the end, I chose to take a boat from Talabheim to Port Baker.

Transporting soldiers by water is much more convenient than walking by land.

Port Baker, the northernmost city in the empire that can be transported by water, is very busy, receiving goods from Marienburg, grain from Altdorf, and gunpowder and guns from Nun City.

Walking to this port, you can already see the fortress wall in the north. It was built by the Arab architect war economist and guarded the north of the empire for two years.

But now, the city wall has begun to show cracks and damage. The stone bricks on the sentry tower have obviously been replaced three times, which is enough to show that the Norscans have even rushed to the city wall.

This is good news. For soldiers, a full year of training doesn't give them as much experience as a single day of combat.

Only soldiers who have killed people and seen blood are good soldiers.

It was Emperor Karl Franz who was guarding the city wall here. If this place fell, Baker Harbor, the only supply city, would also be burned down by the Norscans, which would put a strong logistical pressure on the imperial army.

Now it was finally Karl's turn to take a break. As the emperor and commander, he not only had to strategize in the command room, but also carried Gael Malaz himself to smash the heads of the Norscas when necessary.

Wende quickly handed over the defense of the entire city wall, and at the same time sent Miss Lamb to the hinterland of the Norscans for intelligence investigation.

Tigers need to use all their strength to fight rabbits, and they must not be taken lightly in the face of the Norsca.

The wind-up bomb launcher in the imperial sentry tower has been completely dismantled by Wende. This thing has a very slow rate of fire, and at the same time it cannot be aimed at the target at all, and its lethality is very limited.

Instead, of course, he likes the Hell Serial Jet Cannon, making sure that each sentry tower has two, even if a mammoth comes, it will have to be pierced and lie on the ground.

Snowflakes had already begun to fall north of the city wall, and it was only autumn.

The Norscan corpses were strewn all over the ground, and neither side had time to recover the corpses, but these corpses made Wende feel a little strange.

If it weren't for the craters formed by the artillery's test firing artillery, it would be impossible to see that the "corpses" were still moving towards the city wall in the snowy expanse.

As expected of the Norscans, lacking artillery support and long-range weapon support, it is not easy for them to get close to the city walls of the empire. They actually thought of a way to pretend that the corpse was close to the city walls.

Wende waited for two days with great interest, just to achieve the best artillery range.

A round of mortars shot up into the sky and poured towards the pile of corpses. Each shell was filled with all kinds of rust iron, and all the rust iron in it was scattered when it exploded. The Norscans lacked armor defense. , it only takes one shell to incapacitate a dozen men, most of whom will die of tetanus in a very short time.

"Hell bazooka, launch, new firing formula."

In Maijia Village, even through the joint efforts of Wen De and Xiang Lu, they failed to overcome the shortcoming of the poor accuracy of the Hellstorm bazooka. The only way to overcome such a shortcoming is also very simple.

"volley!"

A hell serial rocket launcher has nine warheads on it, and the artillerymen will reflect three by three according to the habit of artillerymen.

Arranged by Wende's new shooting attack formula, all nine warheads were fired at one time, a total of twenty rocket launchers, and a total of 180 random shells were poured into the Norscan positions, and the most explosive explosions erupted. The bright blood mist dyed the white ice and snow into a very comfortable crimson.

Seeing that the corpse camouflage plan failed, these Norscans stopped pretending and jumped up angrily, picked up the double axes they had hidden from the snowdrifts, called out the blessings of the chaos gods, and charged towards the city wall .

Wende, who was standing on the city wall, slowly raised the improved musket V that had been with him for a long time, and all the musketeers around put their muskets on the shooting racks reserved on the city wall.

"Three row shooting method, shooting countdown three, two, one."

A hundred muskets fired at the same time, and the lead bullets without any aim flew forward indiscriminately.

It is not easy to accurately aim at distant targets, but what if there are too many bullets?

The first [-] musketeers backed up and changed their ammunition immediately after finishing shooting, and the teammates around them who had changed their bullets repeatedly set up their guns and then fired directly without precise aiming, and then the last [-] musketeers fired.

Three hundred musketeers covering each other's shots can ensure that the bullets will never stop at all, and a Norse corpse can be found in every pile of bullets.

"Cease fire!"

Seeing that the enemy had been completely wiped out, only the wounded and surviving Norscans lying in the snow howling in pain, Wende waved the flag in his hand to ensure that everyone knew his next order.

"Attach the bayonet! Get out of the city wall!"

(End of this chapter)