Alien Arms Empire Chapter 1814

Chapter 18141815 The Feelings of Common People

"Open the door! Is there anyone inside? Open the door quickly!" The sound of banging on the door echoed in the corridor. Two young soldiers carrying Mauser rifles were ordered to go from house to house to clear out the surrender leaflets dropped by the Tang army.

That's right, this is the third time recently that the Tang Army has dropped leaflets to persuade them to surrender. Although the destructive power of this thing is very low, its effect is very huge.

Nowadays, people in Ruoslina are in panic, and the whole city has fallen into a worrying and gloomy atmosphere. Chaos seems to be on the verge of breaking out, and a strange smell permeates the air. It only takes a little spark to ignite and turn into a horrific explosion.

"We are only responsible for collecting leaflets scattered by the enemy! Please open the door and cooperate." Before the door was closed, the soldier's feeble voice continued.

The man opened the door just now and handed over a few leaflets sent by Tang Jun. These leaflets were not beautifully printed, and there were no new patterns on them.

It is nothing more than that the Tang army has begun to move south, the elf troops will collapse at the first touch, and they will surrender quickly if they don't want to die in vain. The Tang army promises not to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

But these innocuous words made no waves at all for the main elven city, which had not experienced serious wars for hundreds of years: the elves seemed to be more afraid of being ruled by humans than they were afraid of death.

After closing the door, the shouting in the corridor became much quieter. The man walked back to the dining table, pulled out the wooden chair and sat down.

　　The woman was taking care of her two underage children. While serving food to the children, she complained: "When will days like this end..."

Children may still be carefree and enjoy their food with their heads down. They don't know that the food at home is running out, and they don't know how dangerous the outside world is.

The man looked at the other flyers on the table and felt bad. He originally went out to make money yesterday, but he encountered soldiers who were arresting young men. When he escaped back, he picked up these leaflets along the way.

In fact, these leaflets are not useless at all. There are rumors that as long as they have this thing, the Tang army can save their lives when they enter the city. Some people also say that after the Tang army occupied some cities, they wanted to use this thing in exchange for Food relief.

No matter what the purpose is, there is nothing wrong with keeping a few of them privately. Nowadays, the soldiers who collect these leaflets are not very strict. As long as they hand over some, they will talk nicely and leave immediately.

But as the war situation changes, the situation will also become complicated: maybe soon the soldiers who want to capture the young men will start knocking on the door from door to door. By then he would have no place to hide, and it would not be a good thing to annoy those soldiers with guns.

Thinking of this, the man sighed and said, "Hey, stop talking. The food at home is about to be eaten up, but I don't know when this battle will end."

To be honest, the life of the elves has not improved at all in recent years. At least many blocks in Ruoslina have used electric lights, and many ordinary people have also used gadgets such as radios in their homes.

Compared with the Tang Empire, this progress seemed a bit insignificant, and the exploitation of the traditional nobles also made it difficult for the people of the elves to become rich.

The woman gave the man a bowl of rice, a mushy soup made from beans. This thing looked very unappetizing. The common people of the Tang Empire had not seen anything like this on the dining table for a long time.

There is no way. Food can most intuitively reflect the degree of local economic development: the more developed the area, the more advanced the food culture.

Relatively speaking, paste is a relatively backward food content, and it often appears when food is insufficient. And when food is plentiful, people prefer higher quality and “dry” food.

The woman handed the mushy beans to the man that didn't have much seasoning but actually tasted very ordinary. She explained sheepishly: "I went out to buy flour today. Guess what happened? The price has doubled again! It's also gone up." It's gone up, but the key is it's still sold out.”

Their family is one of those with a relatively good life in Joselaina. The woman's father is a carpenter and the woman herself is a teacher.

Before the war broke out, the man eating bean soup was a manager on the factory floor. After the war broke out, the factory where he worked was controlled by the army, and he, a small manager, was replaced by people sent by the army.

This matter is also very frustrating to say. Because their factory produces something related to the military, it is among the first batch of companies to be expropriated and controlled, so he went home in a daze.

Later on, because more and more companies were being expropriated, the army could not send any decent officers to take over. Instead, many of the original managers in the factories were retained.

In other words, he is one of the more unlucky ones. In fact, he does not have to go home, but ends up as an idler who goes home and is unemployed. Now that the front line is tight, it is very easy for him to be arrested and sent to the front line without being protected by the factory. .

So rather than work and income, what he needs to be careful about now are the minions of the military recruitment department wandering the streets.

The good news is that this family still has a small amount of savings, so it has not reached the point of running out of money. The man sighed and said worriedly: "I guess I can't buy it anymore. I asked my friends in the factory, and now the factory can't get food."

If the shortage of materials is not to a certain extent, then relatively important factories will definitely be able to get some supplies for workers to maintain their lives.

After all, even in the most difficult times, maintaining factory production is very important. After all, the soldiers on the front line can recruit strong men to fill the gap, but if there is a shortage of weapons and ammunition, there is nothing they can do.

"Then what should we do? The family needs to eat. If we can't get food tomorrow, we will starve." The woman sat next to the man, her eyes full of worry. Her father had been here before and said that the business had completely stopped and the family was almost running out of food.

The man chewed the tasteless beans and let the hard, uncooked bean skins roll in his mouth. He looked out the window and said, "Starving is a trivial matter. If humans come over, we still don't know what will happen to us." What kind of sin?"

When the woman heard what the man said, she was obviously frightened: "Huh? The humans are coming? Are they going to hit Joslina? My dear, don't scare me!"

　　Two children were heartlessly fighting with spoons at the dinner table, completely ignoring their parents' conversation. In their world, spoons are swords, and they are dueling knights. Of course, no one told them that times have changed. Now it is not even the rifle that determines the outcome of a war... Those more terrifying weapons may change the fate of an ordinary family at any time.

The man thought it would be better to talk to his woman about the actual situation. After all, he still had some sense of his own judgment in this regard: "Why should I scare you? It seems that the human army is only a few meters away from Sliner at most. There are only a few hundred kilometers left.”

“Isn't that still far away?” The woman obviously had no idea about hundreds of kilometers, and the man's guess was actually not that accurate.

"You don't understand. I guess they are already close to Matus." The man shook his head. He roughly knew the current flight distance of the plane, since the invader attack planes had already begun to circle over Joslina. , which proves that the Tang army is really approaching Ruoslana.

Moreover, things like airports are often far away from the real battle line. In other words, the ground forces of the Tang Army must at least completely control the airport before repairing the occupied airport and deploying aircraft at the airport with confidence.

In other words, the ground troops of the Tang Army should actually be closer to Joslina than the airport. Maybe the Tang army is already close to Mattes City, and has even begun to attack Mattes City.

"Ah? We've arrived at Matus? What should we do?" The woman had no idea about distance, but she was still very familiar with the city of Matus. So when she heard about Matus City, she was frightened.

Conversations like this are happening in every corner of Joslina, and everyone can actually see the changes in the battle situation from some details.

For example, the number of soldiers on the streets began to increase, and the recruitment department became active. Many places outside the city have been turned into military zones, and many people have been recruited to build fortifications outside the city.

The original farm became a strategic location. Trenches were dug out and reinforced with sandbags. Many were covered with wooden roofs and buried with sand for reinforcement.

Just because of time, many of these fortifications are only prototypes, and only a few are qualified. No one knows when the Tang Army will arrive, nor when this place will become a real battlefield.

In a small village about 70 kilometers away from Joselaina, some elven soldiers were ordered to load all the food they could find into trucks and transport it away.

A few farmers helplessly begged the soldiers to leave some rations for them, but the elven soldiers carrying weapons could only carry out the orders coldly.

If they don't grab this food, their troops will soon have nothing to eat. So they had to choose between starving themselves and starving civilians, and they chose to starve others.

"Get out of the way! We are also following orders!" The soldier closed the door panel of the car compartment and yelled at the farmers who were still pleading: "The Tang Army will be here soon. You should run away as well. There is nothing you can do along the way." Find something to eat.”

"Sir!" Elf farmers still retain the habit of calling you "Sir". They bowed bitterly and begged with tears: "Leave some for us! Even if you are fleeing, you must leave some for us..."

“Isn't it reserved for you?” The soldier frowned and walked impatiently to the front of the car. They also acted under orders, and actually did leave some food for these unruly people.

　　It's just...how much and what you keep is all based on your conscience. Originally, these farmers didn't have many edible things in their hands. If they kept too much, how could they, the soldiers, go back and explain?

Before these farmers could say anything else, a gunshot made everyone involuntarily shrink their necks.

This shot came so suddenly that people were caught off guard. The elf soldiers next to the car took off their Mauser rifles from their shoulders, pulled the bolts in panic, and kept looking for the source of the gunfire.

An elf soldier ran over quickly with a rifle, pointed at the entrance of the village and said breathlessly: "Tang, Tang Army! Tang Army is coming!"

His words were like a stone being thrown into the water. The elven farmers who had been pleading just now dispersed, and the remaining elven soldiers became even more chaotic.

At this moment, a Tang Army wheeled armored vehicle rushed out of the woods not far away, and then a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle followed and rushed out of the bushes beside the woods, aiming the turret on its body at Target the village.

The Tang army came so quickly that the elf soldiers in the village were not prepared at all: they did not even get any warning and did not know that there was a Tang army in their vicinity.

In fact, even their superiors did not know that the Tang Army had advanced so far. They thought that the Tang Army was near Mattes. Many people even did not know that Mattes had fallen into the hands of the Tang Army.

"Oh my God!" The elf soldier just now lost his arrogance and domineering attitude. He threw away his weapon and ducked into the corner with his head in his arms. Behind him, the other elf soldiers were not much better. They scurried away to avoid the Tang army's cannons. mouth.

Then the armored reconnaissance vehicle of the Tang Army drove into the village. The elf soldier driving the truck did not dare to move at all. He stood beside the truck with his hands raised, for fear that the armored vehicle of the Tang Army coming over would misunderstand something.

If he really started the car and ran away, he would probably be shot into pieces by the 30mm machine gun equipped on the armored vehicle.

The two trucks became the trophies of the Tang Army. None of the elf soldiers ran away. They all became prisoners of the Tang Army's reconnaissance force.

When the elven civilians had the courage to come out to check the situation, they saw the elven soldiers who had troubled them squatting beside the truck with their heads in their hands, their weapons put aside, and several human soldiers wearing strange clothes standing there. There he said some incomprehensible words to the black box in his hand.

They didn't know that radios could be made so compact, nor did they know the role of camouflage uniforms and tactical vests. These farmers didn't dare to get close. They only dared to look at the two human tanks from a distance, which obviously looked more powerful than the elf trucks. .

Then they got back their own grain, which made them happy. On this day, the Tang Army was still 70 kilometers away from Ruosilaina.

Chapter end

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