Munitions Empire-Chapter 985 - : 907 Ugly Ghosts and Child Laborers

Chapter 985: 907 Ugly Ghosts and Child Laborers

It must be said, the Tang Empire has quite a few novel gadgets. When the assembled orcs saw a helicopter land in front of them, they were completely dumbfounded.

Originally quite hideous, many of them had been prisoners of war on the battlefield. They had served as soldiers, and indeed played with guns — Shireck Flintlock Guns.

Now, when they saw the UH-1 helicopter, they finally realized that they might never be able to defeat the Tang Empire in their lifetimes.

This type of aircraft, which can take off and land vertically, demonstrated its exceptional special capabilities before loading several orcs and flying over to the other side of the mountain range.

Crossing the high mountains and steep ridges, they could reach the northern battle zone of Shanping directly, which was also the fastest method to transport the orcs who were “Mercenaries” within the Tang Empire to the Dahua Empire frontline.

Despite being very expensive and indeed testing the number of helicopters, this move deliberately helped to rapidly enhance the frontline strength of Fengjiang’s troops.

The aim of these orc troops was very clear: they were to help Fengjiang’s troops quickly capture Shanping, sparing no expense!

As long as they could complete their mission, Imperial Concubine Yue’er of the Dahua Empire, who was also an orc, promised them that they could be freed from slavery and no longer need to work unpaid for the Tang Empire.

Upon hearing this news, all the orcs were greatly excited, believing this to be an opportunity bestowed by the Orc God for their happiness.

To seize such an opportunity, these orcs quickly started eager registrations. Without even two days of training, they volunteered to advance to the frontline.

The situation was similar with the goblins; despite years of torment, the number of goblin slaves within the Tang Empire had greatly reduced, the original hundreds of thousands of slaves actually dwindled nearly to one tenth, but the remaining goblins still crazily signed up to reduce their sentences.

In these goblins’ view, the mortality rate of fighting on the frontline was somewhat lower than mining in the Tang Empire’s mines. Moreover, since they heard they could be freed from slavery merely by agreeing, this was undeniably a huge temptation.

You must understand, these goblins were serving sentences for the massacres in Zheng Country and Qi Country, normally they would not hope to be freed from slavery for another twenty years.

But now, the civil war in the Dahua Empire had given them a chance to be freed from slavery early, how could this not make them overjoyed?

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Shen Wuxiong, a general from Mirage Country, even volunteered eagerly, planning to go to the frontline to help the lords of the Tang Empire expand their territory. Seeing the one-meter forty-five tall goblin general, Tang Mo finally somewhat maliciously agreed to this mighty general’s request.

On Yue’er’s side, an orc general named Shan Lu was also selected, meaning majestic like a mountain range — true to his name, he was a two-meter tall tribal commander, fierce with a green face, sharp teeth, bald head, and uniquely ugly with just one eye.

This guy lost one eye in combat, he was ferocious, and also a leader among the orc slaves within the Tang Empire.

Upon hearing he could fight for Tang Country, this commander immediately expressed his willingness to battle for the Tang Empire, and eventually secured the position of the overall commander of the orc mercenaries.

In fact, within one day, the Tang Empire had sent approximately 1500 orc warriors to the frontline.

These unarmed soldiers received weaponry in the southern part of Fengjiang that excited them: including M35 standard Steel Helmets, Dahua military uniforms, and early model tactical harnesses from Tang Country.

Additionally, they received military boots and supplies exceeding their daily provisions by ten times, weapons were Shireck Type 1 bolt-action rifles which many orcs were equipped with before being captured.

Nearly without any training, these orcs who were originally prisoners immediately threw themselves into combat. Their will to attack was much stronger than Fengjiang’s defending troops.

Soon, Dahua’s defending troops stationed north of Shanping found that the tactics of the opposing force attacking them had changed.

Under the cover of several Dahua Type 1 Tanks, hundreds of Fengjiang soldiers launched an attack. After taking two cannon shots, these soldiers did not retreat but, under the tank’s cover, approached the Dahua Empire’s defense line.

At first, Dahua’s defending troops didn’t take it seriously: they had seen strong opponents before, so they did not panic.

After destroying two Type 1 Tanks, Dahua’s troops stationed in the positions finally realized something was wrong: generally, after having two tanks destroyed, Fengjiang’s troops would likely not continue to attack.

But today, this troop not only did not retreat, but instead continued to fiercely attack, braving casualties to storm the defense line and then engaging in close combat with Da…

The Orcs’ weakness is their inferior weaponry compared to humans, and their tactical arrangements are not as good as those of Qin Country, mostly due to logistical problems caused by relying on the desert.

However, it was a different story when the Dahua Military first encountered the Orc troops; they not only underestimated the Orcs’ combat capabilities but overestimated their own courage.

“Demons!” During a bayonet fight face-to-face with an Orc soldier, a Dahua soldier finally got a clear view of the faces of these “Fengjiang troops.” He was terrified by their horrendously ugly faces, his legs gave out, and he collapsed into the trench.

He screamed just as the Orc soldier stabbed him through with a bayonet, and soon after, the Dahua defense line began to waver.

After deploying two Orc battalions and breaching the enemy’s first line of defense, the Fengjiang Army then sent in more tanks, covering the main troops as they launched another attack.

This battle went very smoothly; the first defense line of the Dahua Empire was breached, and the Fengjiang Army pushed forward about 10 kilometers until they hit the Dahua Army’s second defense line and stopped.

Zhao Zheng, who personally went to Shanping to supervise the battle, was overwhelmed by a barrage of news: he received information that some civilians had seen tadpole-like planes flying over the mountains from the Great Tang Empire to the Dahua Empire.

Zhao Zheng didn’t find the news particularly shocking: the fact that Great Tang’s planes didn’t bomb directly above his head was already showing face to the Dahua Empire. Some planes helping Fengjiang transport weapons and ammunition was nothing significant.

Another piece of bad news, however, grabbed his attention: the Fengjiang Army had launched another attack, breaking through one of his front-line defenses.

“The telegram from the front line says that some extremely fierce Orcs appeared on the battlefield. Our army was momentarily disorganized, which is why we lost the defense position.” The reporting officer provided some details.

When he reported this, it had been three days since the Orc Mercenaries had breached the Dahua Empire’s defense line; Dahua had been investigating this matter over the past two days.

Eventually, the situation was basically clarified: Fengjiang had somehow recruited a group of Orcs to help in the battle— the Great Tang Empire had not joined the war; everything was still within an acceptable range.

A slightly concerned Zhao Zheng asked, “Are we sure it’s not the Tang country’s army?”

“There are no Orcs in the Tang military, and the weapons these Orcs were holding are not the Tang country’s Type 56 assault rifles, but Shireck Model 1 bolt-action rifles, the same as ours,” the officer explained.

Zhao Zheng nodded, feeling that everything was still under his control: as long as the Great Tang Empire remained out of the conflict, there couldn’t be a fundamental change on the battlefield.

As long as he held Shanping, even if the northern outer defenses were completely lost, as long as Shanping was under his control, he would be worry-free.

Anyway, the main attack wasn’t directed at his side, Zhao Chen and Hezhe would soon make progress, and then these Fengjiang forces moving south, along with the Orc monsters, would all have to return to defend Fengjiang!

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but sneer: “Order the Armored Corps to be deployed on both sides of Shanping! After the vanguard troops delay the enemy’s attack, retreat to the well-constructed defense lines in the north of Shanping! We will wait at ease for Fengjiang’s rebels to come and die!”

He planned to rely on Shanping, to extend Fengjiang’s supply lines, and to wage a war of attrition in the most advantageous location, pushing the logistics pressure onto Fengjiang.

In reality, this was also an act of desperation: as everyone knew that Fengjiang’s supply was strong due to the transportation support from the Great Tang Empire, Dahua was sure to be at a disadvantage if it didn’t find a way to offset some of that.

Exploit your strengths and avoid weaknesses; Dahua had an advantage in armor, so Zhao Zheng felt that defending Shanping was absolutely no problem: even if Great Tang supported Fengjiang, they surely couldn’t send over Panther Tanks, could they?

As long as the heavy weapons of the Dahua Empire appeared on the battlefield, the guarantee of the Great Tang Empire not joining the war would become a lie.

Of course, even though this lie was exposed, the Dahua Empire didn’t really have anything on the Great Tang Empire. But constantly contradicting oneself does affect one’s reputation.

Take a certain beacon for example; its recurrent self-contradicting has made life difficult for many who previously parroted nonsensical rhetoric, resulting in a torrent of complaints: previously, it was all about how the beacon was right and did well, but now all they can say are contemptible things like “we cannot compare our worst with the beacon’s.”

“Yes, sir!” Upon hearing Zhao Zheng’s command, his subordinate immediately went to convey his orders— a month after the civil war broke out within the Dahua Empire, the sides remained deadlocked, with neither having hopes of victory.

However, by the end of the month, many ugly Orc soldiers suddenly appeared on the Fengjiang side, followed by the presence of many “child soldiers.”

Ironically, despite being referred to as “ugly monsters” or “child laborers,” their combat capabilities seemed to be somewhat stronger than those of the Dahua Army…

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Not feeling up to it… two updates for now, will see if more can be done tomorrow.