In addition to domesticating cattle and sheep and other orders, the basic economic model of nomadic peoples in the eastern continent also has another type of economic animal.

Everything still starts with a great locust plague. The terrible insect plague for the farming people is the key to survival for the nomadic peoples in the north.

The seedlings of the farming nation cannot withstand insect scourges, but the weeds on the pastures are eaten in winter and the spring breeze grows again. After the insect swarm is active on the Haobei Plateau for about one or two months, the temperature in the north drops, and these insects either die or go south.

When the temperature drops, these nomadic peoples dragged their tents with twenty horses, spreading large tents dozens of meters in places with many insects, and lit flames inside. As the temperature drops in the evening, a large number of insect swarms will tend to heat and drill into the tent. In the early morning, the shepherd extinguishes the flames in the account and releases cold air in, and batches of insects will freeze to death.

In this way, a large number of insects will be harvested in the morning for Yuanbi to eat.

Yuanbird - a huge bird with a height of three meters, which is very similar to the ostrich on the earth, but is omnivorous. Twenty thousand years ago, this creature was as big as a turkey. In summer, it feeds on rodents on forage and pastures. In autumn, it will eat a lot of insects, and then dig holes on the ground with its claws to hibernate. In 20,000 years, humans continue to breed and domesticate, which makes this creature grow to three meters high and has a gentle temperament. In winter, it eats a large number of insects, and the egg laying rate is extremely high, and Yuanbird eggs are also extremely nutritious.

At 7 a.m. on September 12, 664, at the Mohe Ferry at the Fortress at the Fortress Tower, Su Deng looked at Lu Ming’s fried eggs the size of a pizza in the plate and swallowed quietly.

Now Su Deng was embarrassed to let Lu Ming give control of his body's taste to himself. He could only watch Lu Ming pick up the cut eggs with chopsticks and chew them in small mouths while holding the newspaper. ——Su Deng: "I'm so angry."

Well, Su Deng could only turn his attention and look at the surrounding environment.

At the Mohe Ferry, a frontier military base built by Lu Ming in the spring of 664 of the Electrical Calendar. This is the area where three rivers meet. With the hulls of thousands of tons on the river channel, it leaned against the simple dock.

Although there are no permanent fortifications like cement city walls, a block of barriers piled up by sandbags, rows of barbed wire mesh, and interlaced five-meter high watchtower towers are enough to block cavalry assaults in the direction of the grassland.

The war positioning of the Tuobei Group at this time was very clear. The enemy was a nomadic army with low firepower, weak logistics, low organizational strength and low level of informatization. The strongholds should be built according to actual conditions.

To investigate the enemy's situation, you can use limited funds to arrange more advance bases near the river area within a limited time.

These bases store grain, ammunition and vehicle equipment, and are connected to each other by river channels.

The main transportation force in the river channel is a cement ship, that is, a hull composed of layers of steel wire mesh and a layer of cement. This hull has a considerable load and is cheap, and is a loyal and reliable "brother" of Tuobei Group.

[Before the army moves, food and grass will take the lead. Sometimes what determines the success or failure of a battle is the number of logistics, and the number of troops is the number of troops]

After this base is successfully established, it can support the strategic maneuvering of the light mechanized synthetic camp within a range of 400 kilometers.

A mechanical synthesis battalion of Tuobei Group has organized about 20 armored vehicles. The heaviest chariot is fifteen tons, and the lightest chariot is four tons and six wheeled jeep. These mechanical vehicles are definitely younger brothers in front of heavy chariots that are often more than 30 tons in the Heyuan battlefield, and grandpa is here.

The materials stockpiled at the Tuobei Forward Base were extremely abundant, and it was able to maintain the maneuver of thousands of cavalry on the grassland for two months. To prevent dysentery alone, each person had a daily purified water distribution of 40 kilograms.

War requires will, but purely will determinism is the Japanese horse manure in World War II. After all, people still have meat. Long-term work and labor consume a lot of energy.

Compressed biscuits, water, meat, hemostatic medicine, bandages, and alcohol fuel, these conventional supplies are naturally supplied beyond the standard.

Even as long as the frontline soldiers are in good condition and can complete their work efficiently, they want to eat self-heating hot pot outside the war zone after fighting, the Tuobei Logistics Department planned by Su Ding can be delivered.

A soldier who can maintain high morale for sixteen hours in one day is more efficient than a thirty energy-depressed soldiers with poor logistics.

In fighting this kind of war of interference, the interfered side has various and complex divisions of forces, so it does not necessarily require a large number of troops. Military forces, as sharp knives, must be sharp and cannot be worn and consumed in this sand table.

After Lu Ming finished the hearty breakfast, he pulled out the soft soft paper and wiped his mouth, then said, "The people below are a little annoyed recently."

Su Deng glanced at the clean meal plate: "Oh, it's all over it. It's impossible to get married to a military prostitute. If soldiers want to be tenacious and persevere, they must control their personal lives. After the war, they will go back for their wives and get married and start a family. They must never let them squander military pay. Once the soldiers develop the habit of squandering, it means they can be bought by external interests."

Lu Ming raised his hand: "Okay, stop, I have arranged for them to repair fortifications and spend their energy, but it's not a problem to continue like this? When will we start the war? If we drag on like this, our morale will be eroded."

Su Deng looked at Lu Ming and opened the map again: "Times have changed, and blood and energy are no longer the most important factor. War machines need precise cooperation, the army must complete tasks calmly, and you are the commander, so you must avoid being influenced by emotions when thinking about the situation of the war."

【Ten hours later, another stronghold in Yanhe Tuobei Group】

Commander Song Tianbiao looked at the large map taken by the remote-controlled drone and stepped on his leather boots on the ground.

As an officer, he wore a war uniform, but the sophisticated war uniforms were not able to be stained with mud, and excessively cold temperatures could also cause malfunctions. Therefore, it is standard for mechanical suits to wear leather boots and coats.

Song Tianbiao: "Is this a war or a road construction?"

In the traditional civilization area of ​​the Eastern Continent, the industrial revolution has extremely high density of various road facilities for thousands of years. Military operations can rely on these transportation lines to quickly intersperse.

As for this kind of war that conquered the outside world, Song Tianbiao, a "traditional" soldier, had never experienced it.

Song Tianbiao's complaint was quickly refuted by Zhang Da next to him: "If you really want to fight, no problem, apply for a batch of pack horse logistics facilities from your lord, don't take a car, and take the cavalry troops to fight directly. I think the road construction is good now."

Song Tianbiao: "Do you think I can't win?"

With the current industrial equipment of the Tuobei Group, soldiers in various strongholds are generally equipped with exoskeleton armor and bulletproof ceramic plates. The guns can be precisely aimed.

In comparison, the firearms of local nomads are still old-fashioned firearms. After decades of small-scale firefighting, most of the rifles were almost flattened, and the effective range was very low.

Officer Sisi, who was standing beside him, shook his head and said, "The General himself is here. Don't he want to solve the enemy as soon as possible? It is obvious that our army is looking for opportunities."

Song Tianbiao gritted his teeth and said, "I'll hold it in here all day long. I build roads, build ships, and then pull barbed wire. Then I drive a jeep to patrol. I'm almost an ant. Do you think nomads will be foolish to hit our base? Will they intercept our mechanical troops on horseback? Although our chariots are thin in steel, bullets can still be blocked. They are also equipped with recoilless cannons. Are you looking for death when riding a horse?"

With a click, the communicator flashed in their ears, and they immediately put on their eyepieces.

Lu Ming's avatar appeared in front of the two, and the two immediately stood upright and saluted. A military map also appeared on the screen interface in the eyepiece, and the map marked the locations of each ground military squad in units of communication nodes.

...

Lu Ming, who was on the command ship at Mohe Ferry, was operating the room. When he was connected to the data link, Lu Ming looked up at the two people on the screen, nodded and said, "You are all on duty, well, very good!"

In order to prevent the army from becoming lazy as in the battle of Sisi's destruction of the country.

The system that Su Ding set for Lu Ming's troops during non-war times is a regular reporting and review system. Eight times a day, the person in charge of duty must communicate at a fixed location every three hours to report the military situation.

Of course, it is now in a red alert state. The army must implement the dual-leader system, report it once an hour, and the superiors must be on duty at any time when they check. If they are not present once, the entire army will report criticism. If it is twice in a row, the position of the leader of the army and the relevant responsible persons will be immediately revoked.

Therefore, the entire army remained in this state before the war, and did not slacken due to long-term waiting. They always remained highly vigilant under certain pressure.

Lu Ming nodded to the two of them: "Okay, please note that there is a large-scale cluster in the north at 10 o'clock, be prepared."

[The plan Su Ding made for Lu Ming was to directly attack the nomadic alliance in winter, but the intervention of the Hela people was more active than Su Ding expected]

An enemy situation appeared 170 kilometers east of the Mohe Ferry, which was a military force composed of a group of mechanical pack horses.

Since the rise of internal combustion engines, biomechanical machinery has not completely left the market. The heavy bipedal mecha has been completely replaced by heavy internal combustion engine tanks, but small mechanical pack horses still have meaning.

The mechanical pack horses brought by the Hela people now obtain power by eating sugar artificial foods. They use biological muscles as power. The torsion metal springs dampen the torso. The pulling force is two to three times that of the best pulling horse, and can drag two to three tons of materials. The consumption of organic matter is one-quarter of the pulling horse.

Because the biological muscles of mechanical pack horses are amphibians that are similar to crocodiles, the consumption becomes very small when the temperature drops, and after the electric heating wire is rapidly heated, muscle activity will quickly recover.

This is more suitable for carrying horses with constant temperature constitution. Of course, biomechanical beasts are obviously not a technology that nomadic peoples can possess.

When Lu Ming saw this scene, he couldn't help but be surprised: What is this thing?"

After the front-line scouts brought back the news, Su Deng couldn't help but be amazed at the changes in technology in this world.

...

The commander of the Hela expeditionary force this time was Akira, who was appointed by the parliament as the governor of the Far East. Last year, he learned from the nomads of the Haobei Plateau that the kingdom of the East Continent once again deployed military forces to the Sanjiang Plain on the east side of the Haobei Plateau.

The Governor did not care at first, but with Lu Ming's continuous expansion over the past year, he developed along the upstream of the river in the spring of this year and built a forward base. The Governor attached great importance to this.

After confirming that the military force in the Eastern Continent seemed to be expanding in the east, he set out from the Red Tower Fortress and personally brought 5,700 mechanical horses and 6,000 troops to the near North Sea.

Now sitting on a light armored vehicle, he was watching the smoke and dust rising from the jeep dozens of kilometers away by training the hawks. The convoy was the patrol force of the Tuobei Group.

As the governor of the Far East, Akira actually did not want to fight this war, because he knew the military strength of the countries in the Eastern Land, and this was not a war that could be intervened in the barren northern ice fields.

For a long time, the Hela people supported the leaders of some nomadic peoples and sent some guns and cannons to act as mediators on the grassland, without any intention of continuing to move south to provoke war.

After removing the Yuanwang Surgery, Akira jumped out of the armored vehicle and came to the mechanical beast beside him.

The mechanical beast's metal shell is covered with thick wool velvet for warmth, and this wool has many pockets.

Akira opened a pocket, took out a glass bottle of high-concentration spirits and took a sip, refreshing herself. In the cold wind, the Governor Hela heard the sound of sniffing behind him. A group of nomadic leaders behind him obviously smelled the scent of the wine, which aroused greed.

Akira also had a headache when she saw the leader of these nomads.

The illiteracy rate of these nomadic people is too high, and they are obviously ignorant but sometimes very smart.

These herdsmen used knives to cut the matte cloth outside the mechanical beast, making it into a water bag, and at the same time secretly drank antifreeze.

So much so that Akira could not allow his army and herdsmen to fight in cooperation,

The so-called joint combat is actually the command of its own army, transportation logistics, and the herdsmen act as cannon fodder.

...

Education for herdsmen is useless in ignorant behavior. Education is half a jar of water, and there is no restraint of reward and punishment system. It will only make them follow their simple understanding, think that this thing is the case and act bolder.

After all, some mechanical failures cannot be detected in the short term. For example, when adding nutrient blocks to the mechanical beast, you can deduct a little bit and dilute it. If you pour it into the digestive tract of the mechanical beast, you will not be able to find out whether the amount is small. If the herdsmen understand the background of the mechanical beast, they will probably dismantle things from the mechanical beast more secretly.

In this case, the biological muscles of the mechanical beast will age quickly in less than ten days.

In order to ensure the combat capability of his army, Akira could only strictly separate the herdsmen from his army. He also used superstition to intimidate the herdsmen: every mechanical beast has a sealed Ji God. If Ji God is displeased, he must re-consecrate Ji God with the blood of those who violate Ji God. This scares the herdsmen to avoid it.

Well, separating the herdsmen from their own army is also to clarify the responsibilities of their own army soldiers. If these herdsmen are not separated, it will be difficult to find out who secretly drank the antifreeze of the mechanical pack horse!

Now, Akira handed the half-drinked soju to the tribe leader next to him, who took a sip and then gave Akira a warm bear hug.
Chapter completed!