After staying on the ship for 12 full days, the Sauer Island fleet, with the Enterprise as its flagship, finally docked at the dock in Huguang City.
When they were off the coast of Eagle Fort, the reinforcements sent by Vieques Island separated from Lawrence and his fleet and entered Eagle Fort. After a short training, they would organize with other reinforcements and head to the battlefield.
As for which battlefield they will be sent to, it depends on luck. After all, after several civilized expeditions, some kind of loose alliance has been formed among the wilderness races living in the large mountainous areas.
After discovering this, the civilized races also changed their tactics to launch attacks on the wilderness races in the entire large mountain range to distract the attention of those enemies.
In this case, poorly trained temporary troops like the Vieques troops will be sent to other feint attack locations as supplementary troops for the regular army, or they will be sent to the rear of the main attack location to serve as guards or logistics for certain military stations.
Convoy guard on the transport line.
The medical team under Lawrence is obviously different from the miscellaneous soldiers sent from Vieques Island. They are the kind of talents most needed on the front line. Therefore, they can give me enough priority to follow the now saturated canal system.
Head west and rush to Huguang City as quickly as possible.
"According to the plan, we can rest here for at least three days." Lawrence said to the members of the medical team who ran on the deck after the ship docked on the wooden trestle.
"In the past few days, we will be concentrated in the temporary camp in the dock area, but this does not mean that we can only stay in the camp area."
This camp is actually a temporary camp built not far away on a vacant lot used by the area to store goods. It is neatly lined with a large number of tents and temporary wooden houses.
Although it is not too close to Lawrence's berth, its huge size allows Lawrence and the others to see it even from the deck of the Enterprise.
As an important material production base and personnel and material distribution center in the rear of the main offensive direction, Huguang City has naturally made a lot of preparations for this war.
.In addition to strengthening the production of various required supplies, a number of camps were also opened for temporary rest and recuperation by troops passing through for repairs.
And now the camp that Lawrence and the others saw was the third largest camp and the first in terms of conditions among the dozens of camps located in the urban area of Huguang City. It was mainly used to receive some reinforcements that were important to the headquarters, such as
The temporary camp assigned to Lawrence and others this time is right here.
"Considering that we are about to enter a war zone, I think everyone can leave the camp at this time and go shopping in the urban area of Huguang City." Lawrence naturally knows the importance of combining work and rest, especially after nearly half a month.
You should pay more attention to this aspect when you are going to be involved in an important war within a short period of time after your voyage.
"But everyone knows that the security in Huguang City is not as good as our island, so I hope everyone can avoid going to certain dangerous places. At the same time, try to form a team with as many people as possible." Looking at everyone's faces, there was a smile on their faces.
After smiling, Lawrence reminded with a serious face.
"I think your Lordship's concerns are very reasonable, so I will lay down a few rules here and hope that everyone can abide by them." Deputy Butler Irving, who is also one of the main leaders of this medical team, came out to make a fool of himself at this time.
"There are not many rules, just two. One is that everyone must be back before 9pm every night, and the other is that when going out, at least three people must form a group."
"I understand." "I know." "We will definitely comply with it." After listening to the instructions, the members of the medical team who ran on the deck assured them one after another. Then they lined up to take the money from Owen's deputy steward.
After exchanging them into federal dollars from the White Eagle Federation, they formed small teams and went straight to the city to relax.
In the next five days, the medical team from New Saul Island relaxed for the last time before their war in this city. Lawrence, along with Nora, stayed in the camp to communicate and sort out various supplies and material equipment.
to make final preparations for this expedition.
There are not many supplies that need to be replenished in Huguang City. In addition to the various conventional thermal insulation supplies that have been ordered and prepared before, there are also many supplies that Lawrence finds useful.
For example, there are a series of heating stoves including emergency stoves burning whale blubber, and there are safety explosives that obviously exceed normal demand.
In addition, Lawrence and Nora also went to the Bofors Gunpowder and Metal Processing Factory to pick up the additional weapons and ammunition that they had called the dwarf Eugene here to prepare.
Because they had to bring a large amount of medical supplies when they set out, in order to save tonnage, the soldiers only brought five rounds of ammunition each, and the mortars didn't even bring any shells at all.
Although the headquarters will distribute ammunition to all armed personnel participating in the battle, non-combat units like the medical team under Lawrence can only replenish 1/3 of the ammunition for combat units at most.
Therefore, for various reasons, Lawrence felt that it would be more appropriate for him to find a way to prepare some ammunition at his own expense.
For Lawrence, who owns his own weapons factory, it is not difficult to arm his own troops at his own expense. Especially with the development and mergers and acquisitions during this period, the Bofors factory, which was originally just a small arms factory, is now
It has become a medium-sized arms complex that mainly produces light artillery, light weapons and supporting ammunition.
After meeting the dwarf Eugene, the current head of the Bofors factory, the other party had prepared everything Lawrence and the others needed before. But in addition, he also showed Lawrence a series of new weapons he had recently developed.
.Obviously, basically all the money earned from the factory was invested in weapons research.
"It's only been a few months since I last saw you that you have become an earl and have a territory of your own. This is really great." As soon as they met, the dwarf Eugène happily patted Lawrence on the waist and praised him. "
Really, if it weren’t for the orders you gave our factory before and the fact that you used you as an excuse to open up a lot of markets, we wouldn’t have been able to develop so fast.”
"This mainly depends on you doing a good job here, otherwise it will be useless no matter how good the product is in the advertisement." Lawrence smiled and said. "By the way, I saw in the telegram you sent me that you invented several kinds of products.
New weapons may be used in this war. Can you let me see what they are?"
"Of course, of course." Eugene said, leading Lawrence and the others to the outside of a large warehouse, pushing open the large iron door, then turning a knob at the entrance, lighting the gas lamp in the warehouse and pointing it inside.
Those things said, "Look, this is the newly developed weapon I recently developed."
The weapons that Eugene studied this time were much better than the last ones. Apparently he listened to Lawrence's emphasis on the need to balance the performance and cost of weapons when designing weapons. It may just be because of some of the dwarf's nature.
, so these weapons are quite in the style of the Germans from the previous life.
"This portable flamethrower is indeed good, but can you tell me how this pressurized fuel tank is made?" Lawrence picked up a flamethrower about the size of a fire extinguisher and looked at it and asked. "What do I think?
It’s not like this kind of fuel tank can be made by ordinary machines.”
"You're on to the point, because this fuel tank was made by several high-level dwarf technicians I invited." Ou Ren also looked helpless. "And this is the cheapest way we can think of.
Otherwise, it would be more expensive to use some magic barrier to make such a high-pressure vessel."
"Yes, but since we can't use this thing as a personal weapon, why not use this thing as some kind of heavy weapon?" Lawrence held the flamethrower and gestured. "For example, with heavy weapons