Chapter 628: Break through Loulan City

Just when the airship ordered the grounding. Most of the Allied forces launched a large-scale attack on Loulan City.

The scale of Loulan City is not very large. Its scale is almost the same as that of a county in Qin. But even so. The fast-advancing Allied cavalry units did not quickly take over.

Most of the weapons equipped by cavalry units are rifles. And they are all short-barreled carbines. In addition to such weapons, there are also personal pistols. Perhaps it is the reason why most of the Allied forces are mercenaries. They are very good at playing field battles. Rather than a battle for the city. Because the city requires strong firepower and infantry combat. Although mercenaries accustomed to field battles want to occupy Loulan City. But it will take some time.

Loulan was determined to resist the Allied forces. The frequent harassment of Qin State had already aroused the dissatisfaction of the other party. Especially Loulan Country. Now their main force has been annihilated. But their national fighting spirit still exists. Especially when Qin State harassed before, it often used cruel methods to deal with it. While raiding its tribe. If the opponent resists a little bit. Then these security guards will slaughter them all. The usual practice is to open a distance for intensive shooting. Then throw a grenade. After an attack, he will move forward. Most of the security personnel are equipped with light weapons. Heavy weapons. Artillery and machine guns are also difficult to configure. The main reason is that they rely on speed to achieve a sudden sweep.

Although this approach lost most of the opportunity to obtain slaves. This approach is similar to slaughter and rarely survives. But two kinds of resources can make up for their losses. Gold and original jade. These things that were merely sacrifices of these tribal women or priests became the objects of their looting. And there seems to be a lot of things like a tribe. As long as you capture a tribe, you will gain a lot.

Such atrocities naturally aroused the resistance of the Loulan people. Especially Loulan City heard about the massacre of the tribe. Resolutely resist the allied attack.

The Allied forces originally planned to seize the city by sneak attack. But it doesn't seem to work now. Loulan City has taken careful defensive measures. Allied vanguard cavalry units with only light weapons can only blockade. It is difficult to conquer the city. They need the support of artillery and infantry from the rear.

But logistics transportation has become a huge problem. The problem is not road transportation. It's the complexity of supplies. Before. Qin will definitely not have such a problem. Qin State was the first country to adopt standardized production weapons. but now. This standard is diversified. When Qin was equipped with new artillery. No guns of uniform caliber were used. Instead, a large number of experimental guns were used. The artillery needs to complete various ballistic data measurements. Even the fastest. It also takes half a year. Some are longer. and. There are many factories producing weapons in Qin. Especially artillery. Major weapons companies in order to grab orders. All preemptively manufactured multiple types of artillery. And there are many types. In terms of caliber, from three inches to 6.5 inches, more than eighty caliber shells appeared. There are also many types of artillery. Howitzer, field artillery. Light infantry artillery. Curved cannon. Some companies in order to get orders from the military. He even gave the experimental artillery to Yingyu for free, when the military took over. There are hundreds of different types of shells hoarded on the front line.

These various types of shells and materials aggravated Qin's transportation pressure. But the weapon still relies on the logistics supply model of its commercial operation to complete.

When countering an attack. There are a large number of shells hoarded on the front lines. This situation is not obvious. No one paid any attention. The artillery can find the shells they want by sending more manpower. Logistics management is also very messy. Because there are too many standards for the format and type of the material list. The logistical officers who are assigned can only manage light weapons. The artillery shells simply let go.

The battle on the front line went smoothly. The cavalry unit of the Qin Army embarked on a famous victory march. With the extension of the logistics supply line. This problem is gradually exposed.

The artillery will find it after a few days of advance. The artillery they used could not supply this type of shells. And some are even more ridiculous. There are even shells but no artillery. Is the logistics crazy? He even provided artillery without shells at will.

The transporters are also very distressed. A lot of weapons and equipment. Even they themselves don’t know what’s on their car? Sometimes when they arrived, they opened the cargo box and realized that they were carrying down jackets. When is this, the logistics officer actually sent out all the down jackets.

The logistics officer was even more dizzy. When they took over. I don't even know what those supplies are. And some supplies were mislabeled. It was the diversification of products and the backward management of Qin's logistics methods that caused the artillery troops to take a long time to arrive.

Wang Ben first reduced the types of artillery used by artillery to two. Five-inch howitzer that fires grenade. The gun is a three-type howitzer produced by Wenyang Arsenal. Large amount of equipment. The other is a 3.5-inch light artillery. Mainly used by infantry and cavalry artillery units. Only two shells are required for logistics. The other shells were properly kept and transported back home after the war.

Logistics and transportation. The logistics and transportation department is no longer managing the issue of ammunition distribution. It was directly given to the combat troops. The combat troops solve the problem of ammunition delivery on their own. The material list is supplied according to your own needs. Rather than the logistics department according to the above order to allocate. such. It temporarily solved the problem of logistical supply confusion.

In fact, this is a good thing. This shows that Qin can not only meet the huge demand for quantity in China. And it can also meet various kinds of needs. This gives those procurement officials a great choice of status. prior to. The procurement officer can only worry about one weapon and equipment. This kind of distress soon turned into not knowing what kind of weapon to choose. This kind of thinking has not been converted. Let them make adjustments quickly. then. The phenomenon of various weapons appeared on the front line.

The military did not give a clear list of specific calibers. This is also one of the reasons for increasing logistics. But the preparatory stage for this war is a commercial war. It was taken over by the government later. Chaos is hard to avoid.

With the arrival of artillery. The reserves of artillery shells are gathered. The Allied forces began a large-scale artillery attack.

The infantry artillery penetrated the earthen city wall. The howitzer shelled the city aimlessly. The city became a sea of ​​flames. Death can be seen everywhere. The blasted body exacerbated the fear. Determined to no longer be able to guard this existing Loulan City. She is not a spiritual city. It exists in reality.

Under the bombardment of artillery. Loulan City was breached!