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Chapter 643 Chapter 643 Lost Supplies

No matter how insane a person is, he still needs some face, although in most cases, for a person who is really insane, the pursuit of face will be twisted in a very strange direction.

For example, in ancient times, if a king always felt that he owed you something, then you were basically not far away from having your family ransacked and your family wiped out.

His Royal Highness the Second Prince of Qi has now also entered into this despicable vicious circle of self-consistent moral logic.

He felt that none of this was his fault, and none of this was the fault of the mirage people.All the difficulties he is facing now are actually because his father refused to promote him and trust him, and handed over the whole country of Qi to him.

As for blaming Tang Guo, he resisted in his heart and dared not.Because the Tang Kingdom was too powerful, so powerful that no one from Mirage could beat it, and so powerful that he didn't even dare to think of blaming him.

Sound weird?Very strange indeed.It's just that Jiang Zhi himself thinks so, no matter how strange it is, this is his true inner thought.

He didn't ask how his subjects were slaughtered, and he didn't dare to ask how his country was destroyed by Tang.

What he blames the most now is actually his older brothers and younger brothers, his dead father, and those ministers who delayed him and prevented him from taking power...

The killing outside has been going on for several days, in fact, the whole Beiyuan City has become a ghost town.The number of Qi people has dropped sharply, the streets are full of wounded people from Mirage, and the Tang army is close at hand. Jiang Zhi seems to have seen his own doom.

The last few times he applied to Mirage Saburo to go to Mirage, he was not approved: because Mirage Saburo knew that the route to Mirage had become no longer so safe.

Today, it's not that they don't want to leave, but that they can't leave even if they want to.Except for the supplies that can be received occasionally every day, that transportation line no longer has the ability to support the entire Beiyuan City.

Mibu Saburo, who has been guarding the outskirts of the port area lately, has been sensitively aware that the supplies he can receive are rapidly decreasing day by day.

Before, they could barely replenish supplies to Beiyuan City against the harassment of Tang warships, but now there are fewer and fewer transport ships that can reach Beiyuan City.

Most of the transport ships can only calculate the time to arrive at the nearby waters at night, and then leave quickly before dawn.Because of the fear of those planes flying in the sky, the whole resupply process was in fear.

What made Miwu Saburo even more depressed was that with the destruction of Beiyuan City's port and the blockade of Beiyuan City, various materials that had been stored before, especially those that were not so important before, began to be in short supply.

For example, coal and fuel oil, which were originally stored in the port area for those small supply ships and stationed guard warships, have now been destroyed or exhausted.

The loss of these fuels has made it impossible for the already seriously insufficient number of transport ships, especially small transport ships with insufficient voyages, to continue to perform transportation tasks.

There is no way, if you drive past, you will not be able to drive back, so you can only rely on large ships to perform transportation supplementary tasks.

But Beiyuan City's port was attacked, and the conspicuous pier was seriously damaged. Even with desperate repairs, it still couldn't be restored to the level where large transport ships could dock immediately.

So at this time, Mirage's maritime supply fell into an ironic contradiction: only large ships can carry out transportation tasks, but the docks can only allow small ships to dock.

As a result, not only was half of the capacity lost due to the inability to use small ships, but the unloading process of larger ships was also difficult due to the constraints of port terminals.

A few days ago, Mirage Saburo discovered that heavy artillery vehicles and other equipment could no longer be unloaded and landed, and the unloading of shells had become very cumbersome, and the efficiency was so low that it was hopeless.

Some ships can only transfer a hundred or ten rounds of shells to small boats by hanging ropes in one night, and then these small boats will send these shells ashore.

But after such a troublesome mess all night, the shells transported are barely enough for an artillery company to consume for a day, how can we prevent Saburo Mirage from collapsing?
After summing up the experience and lessons, the transport ships of Mirage Kingdom will not load tens of thousands of shells and head to Beiyuan City, because they will have to return if they can't finish unloading.

You can't drive back more than 200 kilometers before dawn the next day, and drive back the next day to continue unloading the shells, right?Not to mention the waste of fuel, it is also a serious waste of transport capacity.

Therefore, the mirage can only change the structure of the goods shipped in the transport ship: transport some small things as much as possible, so as to facilitate transshipment at sea and improve efficiency.

In the end, they found out that it is the most convenient to transport as many people as possible: it is the most economical and convenient for soldiers to carry ammunition for light weapons on board.

So before they knew it, Mirage sent another 5 Mirage soldiers to Beiyuan City, and brought back about 3 wounded.

The reason why more people were sent than picked up was that, on the one hand, the importance of unloading was higher, so more time could only be used for unloading, and the time for the wounded to board the ship was compressed.On the other hand, it is because these returning ships will more or less carry some private goods.

The looted things must be transported back to Mirage Kingdom, which is the core national policy: Mirage Kingdom is using the power of the whole country to carry out this war. If there is no return, how can they continue to persevere?

Part of these plundered supplies will be handed over to Cyric to continue purchasing weapons and equipment and repay previous debts, and some will be distributed to the families of the dead to comfort their emotions.

Of course, there is still a large part of the cake for the nobles, and they will continue to support this war with these benefits.Even the king of Mirage took his part of the cake.

As for those dead goblin civilians, to the mirage country, they are just numbers.Aren't people just something to be consumed?
"People from the Tang Dynasty still refuse to talk to us?" Sanwu Sanlang sat in the office he snatched, looked at the receipt list in his hand, and asked Miwenxi on the side impatiently.

Mian Wenxi shook her head, and replied absent-mindedly: "The other party does not accept any form of peace talks, and the conditions offered by Tang diplomats are simply unacceptable."

His answer seemed to be very contradictory. On the one hand, he said that the Tang people did not give the Mirage people a chance to talk about peace.

Mirage Saburo could still hear the flavor: that is, the conditions offered by the Tang people were absolutely too harsh, making everyone in Mirage feel that the other party did not want to negotiate at all, but was planning to continue the war.

"What exactly do they want?" Mirage Saburo asked curiously.

Mian Wenxi sighed, and fulfilled Miwu Saburo's wish of gossip: "Pay 1 million gold coins, 30 slaves, and punish war criminals..."

"War criminal?" Saburo Mirage was taken aback for a moment, as if he was paying extra attention to this matter.

Mirage nodded and said: "Yes, criminal! Tang people believe that it is our mirage who started the war rashly, and during the war, our generals committed massacres and must be punished."

"Ha!" Mirage Saburo sneered.

What a person has done, no matter how perfect the cover-up is, he himself is very clear.Sanwu Mirage doesn't have dual personalities that shield each other, so he naturally knows what happened in Beiyuan City recently.

These things were planned by him alone, and continued with his acquiescence.If there are really war criminals in Mirage, Saburo Mirage is definitely one of them.

It's just that he never felt that there was anything wrong with him, because all the choices he made were for the sake of the mirage army in Beiyuan City.

As the encirclement around Beiyuan City shrinks and becomes tighter, and as the port of Beiyuan City is destroyed, the food and ammunition in the entire Beiyuan City will become less and less.

In this case, massacring civilians to save supplies for the army is obviously the best choice.What's more, the mirage army bloodbathed and expanded the occupied land in order to immigrate and control the area. The tradition of controlling the area is almost known to everyone.

This is what Mirage did on Dongwan Island before, and now they continue to do this in Beiyuan City, which is obviously not surprising.

"We all know that if you really give the Tang people hundreds of thousands of slaves, their development speed will become faster. In addition to the [-] million gold coins we can't afford, we can't accept any of these conditions." Mirage Wenxi continued.

"Indeed!" Mirage Saburo agreed, "So we have only one option left, to fight to the death here!"

"I will not let a single soldier fall into the hands of the Tang people. We will turn Beiyuan City into a real ruin here, and every mirage soldier here will die in the end!" His expression was terribly hideous : "They won't get anything! There is only Beiyuan City that no longer exists!"

"The above also means the same." Mian Wenxi said: "The above hope that we will stick to this place and defeat the Tang people's attack, delaying the most time."

"As long as we hold on, there is hope!" As a civil servant, Mirage can't expect the performance of the army, so he can only say what he is familiar with: "There will be new changes in the international situation, and our allies will not just watch us Be devoured by the Tang Kingdom!"

"You're right!" Sanwu Mirage also pinned his hopes on the international situation: in his opinion, as long as the Chu State and the Great Hua Empire declare war on Tang, the value of his isolated city will immediately double.

At least, some countries in the Eastern Continent who are eager to make trouble, will immediately join in the feast of carving up the Tang Kingdom and give Beiyuan City the greatest reinforcements!

With these reinforcements, he can turn his defense into an offense, complete a reversal, and become the most famous general in Mirage, and even the world!
(End of this chapter)