A huge battleship like a mountain is sailing on the sea. This is an ultimate maritime weapon built by Cyric and comparable to the East Bay-class battleship.
The battleship is longer and wider than the Dongwan-class battleship, the caliber of the artillery is larger, and the speed... is of course slower. Mirage purchased this type of battleship to fight against the Dongwan-class battleships of the Tang Navy.
At this moment, sitting on this battleship is Kazuo Mirage, the commander of the Mirage Navy. This naval admiral had provoked Datang Group before, but he is still living a happy life.
But now there is a problem in front of him. His fleet cannot take care of the entire route from Beiyuan to Mirage Kingdom, so the Mirage Kingdom's transport ships have been losing a lot recently.
The three or four cruisers of the Tang Army fought alone and were active on this route. They hit and ran, leaving the Mirage Navy exhausted but unable to catch any Tang Navy warships.
Looking at the corpse of the sailor of the Mirage transport ship floating on the sea, the expression on the face of the Mirage man was extremely ugly.
He owns the largest battleship in the world, but his enemies are unwilling to fight an open battle with him.
"Do these bastards just hide and hide?" He stood on the bridge, watching his sailors dejectedly salvage the bodies from the sea, looking for the few pitiful survivors.
There are indeed survivors. Although this place is very close to the North Sea and the temperature of the sea water is very low, there are still people who can survive by chance.
It's just that there are very few people who are lucky enough to survive. Sometimes there are hundreds of corpses floating densely on the sea, and only a few people are still breathing when they are picked up.
This is far from the true number of losses in the Mirage: in fact, more army soldiers sank with the ship - not everyone in the island country can swim, and it is not unusual for the ship to sink to the bottom of the sea. Not to mention, if there are people carrying equipment when they fall into the water, it will sink faster.
The loss of people is secondary to the Mirage Kingdom. What makes the bosses feel sad is the loss of weapons and equipment that were produced with great difficulty.
As the transport ships were sunk one after another, hundreds of cannons of various types, tens of thousands of shells, and millions of bullets sank into the sea.
You must know that these arms were all planned to be transported to Beiyuan City to participate in the war, but now they have sunk into the bottomless sea and will never see the light of day again.
The true number of losses has not yet been calculated. Simply calculating the total number of troops and munitions offshore and subtracting the portion received by Beiyuan City, a rough calculation has already made the navy's senior officials furious.
There is nothing they can do, they themselves cannot stand the loss. The army generals yelled at the meeting that the navy was harming the country, making the navy's top brass unable to hold their heads high.
As a front-line combat commander, Mirage Kazuo has been desperately searching for the main force of the Tang Navy in preparation for a decisive battle.
He believed that only by destroying the main fleet of the Tang Army could it be possible to protect the entire route and no longer have to worry about harassment by enemy warships.
It's just that recently, he led the Mirage Navy fleet, bumping around like a headless fly on the sea, and couldn't find any Tang Army warships at all.
The opponent's speed was higher than theirs, and they all acted alone, which caused the Mirage Navy to also waste a lot of fuel and time.
Just when Mirage Kazuo was angrily thinking about sinking the Tang Army's warship again in his mind, a subordinate brought good news.
"General! We found some survivors!" An officer pushed the drowning man, who was still wearing wet clothes, to the front with excitement on his face.
"They went south! I saw it very clearly!" After the goblin who fell into the water saw the man from Mirage, he immediately said: "They are all a group of devils! A group of devils!"
Almost all the survivors found would say this, because the other party did not accept surrender or take prisoners, but simply attacked and hit and ran.
Only a group of helpless poor people were left floating on the sea, either drowned, frozen to death, or directly eaten by sharks... It was simply miserable.
"South?...South." Mirage Yizuo frowned, rubbed his chin, and carefully considered the enemy's movements.
Before, he asked a survivor who fell into the water, and the other person swore that he saw the enemy ship heading north. As a result, now he heard another statement, saying that the enemy ships were heading south.
His fleet has been chasing the opponent's warship for three days. In the past three days, the opponent has changed its direction several times, and this time it was the most exaggerated.
"Have they returned to the southern route again?" the adjutant said to Mirage Kazuo.
Mirage Kazuo shook his head and said: "If the calculation is correct, the opponent's warships do not have much supplies left. This time, heading south, perhaps really heading south to leave the war zone and return to supply supplies."
In fact, he guessed correctly, because this Weigang-class cruiser really returned to replenish supplies. Although there are still many artillery shells that can continue to fight, its fuel and food carried are not enough.
The Tang Army warship, which had achieved the glorious record of sinking 7 transport ships of the Mirage Kingdom, was heading towards Linshui Port happily at this moment.
It has to be said that although Mirage Yinan has done many evil things, he is still a very professional naval general. With just some confessions, he almost caught up with the Tang Army's cruiser.
At the same time, at the port of Beiyuan City, Mirage Saburo was looking at the destroyed port in a daze.
The port in front of him had been bombarded for several days and had almost lost the ability to unload cargo. The other party doesn't seem to want this city at all, and they drop countless bombs every day.
The port terminal is unusable, and unloading troops has become a troublesome task. Many ships had to park far away, and then use sampans and boats to ferry them back and forth to bring reinforcements and equipment ashore.
In this way, soldiers, light weapons and ammunition are relatively easy to handle, but heavy weapons are basically impossible to send ashore.
At this moment, Mirage Takesaburo didn't bother to blame those bastards in the Navy for not showing him a way out, because his ports were destroyed, and there was no way he could pass the blame to the Navy no matter what.
"General, it seems that we have no way to obtain large-scale supplies anymore." An officer stood beside Mirage Takesaburo and reminded him.
"I know, now we can only rely on ourselves." Mirage Saburo sighed and said, "Soon, the ammunition reserve will be reduced."
"General, since we no longer have enough supplies, should we consider reducing the consumption of some supplies?" The officer continued with a cruel look on his face.
"Huh?" Mirage Wusaburo glanced at the other party and hummed.
"The two hundred thousand Qi people in the city consume a lot of food every day. They will compete with us for food, and they may lead the way to the Tang people and leak our defense secrets. They also need us to divide our troops to monitor and guard against... "The officer finished his thoughts in a jabbering voice, and then stopped.
Mirage Saburo nodded, already agreeing with the officer's idea from the bottom of his heart. They really shouldn't be wasting their troops and supplies, so it's time to lighten their burden.
So, he pretended to think for a moment, and then ordered: "Don't provoke a civil uprising, or it will cause trouble for us! Do it little by little, and try not to make a big fuss."
"Yes, General!" When the officer saw Mirage Takesaburo adopting his suggestion, the smile on his face was sinister: "I know what to do."
"Not only must we deal with the people who consume food, but we must also find ways to get food out of their hands!" Mirage Saburo followed up with another instruction.
In his opinion, Qi Ren's life is not valuable, so if he kills him, he will kill him, but those grains are his capital to continue to defend Beiyuan City, and he must collect and control them as much as possible in the palm of his hand. .
The officer who offered the advice immediately stood at attention, saluted, and responded again: "Yes, General! I understand."
Mirage Wusaburo waved his hand, indicating that the other party could go about their business, and then he continued to stand by the port with his guards, looking at the strong men of Qi who were repairing the dock, and thinking about whether to let these people go back.
Killing these people will definitely affect the progress of repairing the port terminal, and it will be even more difficult to capture so much free labor next time. So he hesitated, but this hesitation did not prove that he was still half human.
From this day on, the massacre in Beiyuan City began in a planned manner. Mirage soldiers attacked block by block, gathering civilians, and then brutally slaughtered them with bayonets.
They were unwilling to waste bullets, so in most cases they used bayonets to kill. However, as the resistance became more intense, more and more people knew the truth, and later they also used machine guns to participate in the massacre.
Records show that during the Battle of Beiyuan City, the Mirage people massacred more than 310,000 local civilians, almost killing all the Qi people in Beiyuan City.
After the war, another statistics showed that Beiyuan City, which originally had a population of nearly 400,000, after gathering surrounding towns and the defeated Qi army, ended up with less than 40,000 people left.
Only one-tenth of the survivors were left in the entire city, and the rest died of war, starvation, and massacre.
There was thick smoke everywhere in the city, and the Mirage troops who looted every neighborhood set fire to some buildings. They burned corpses and evidence of crimes, and were even able to prevent the possible spread of plague in the city.
What made them even more unexpected was that the diffuse smoke also obscured the field of vision and affected the bomb delivery accuracy of some Tang Army bombers...
As for this blood debt, Tang Mo must pay it back.
In his eyes, the goblins of the Mirage Kingdom no longer have any need to exist. They will definitely be wiped off the planet by the Tang Army without leaving any traces!
