Compared to the battle losses of the Knights, the losses of the Sea God Squad were much lighter. There were 17 members killed in the Trident battle, 15 of whom died in the missile bombardment, and the rest died in Essien's counterattack before his death. Ordinary soldiers killed more than two hundred and wounded three hundred, which was only a minor injury to the Sea God Squad. But when he saw another set of numbers, Zero's eyelids jumped heavily.
The first is fifty missiles, each priced at 500 gold coins, a total of 25,000 gold coins. Then there are the 15 electromagnetic bombs, their price is more expensive than missiles, one is 800 gold coins, and the total is 12,000. In other words, for these two attacks alone, Zero spent nearly 40,000 gold coins, not counting other ammunition consumption.
Most of the previous zero-participation wars were small-team operations. Later, he participated in the attack on the Northwest Tundra as a soldier. Counting the battle damage is not his task at all, so he has no idea. Now only 40,000 gold coins have been destroyed in a battle of 3,000 people. God knows how much it will be spent in a battle of 10,000 people, or even more than 100,000 people.
"War is really a money-burning machine." He sighed.
Next comes the harvest.
The strategic reserve of the fortress is quite sufficient. First, there are a lot of food, clean water and synthetic food reserves, which are enough for the two legions and the entire slave camp in the fortress to survive this winter. It can be seen that the Pope’s Hall invests a lot of money in the Canon Fortress every year. No wonder Mamelo said that the garrison The two legions of the fortress were reluctant to leave. Such excellent conditions are not available to other knight orders. According to Mamelo, the place where his army is stationed is very dangerous, and the subsidy is still low.
With this food, the Sea God Group's supplies on land will be no problem for the time being, and it is more than enough to add another three to five thousand people.
Then came the ammunition.
Ordinary rifle bullets have 100,000 units, and special bullets include armor-piercing bullets, sniper bullets, and guns, a total of 30,000 pieces. There are 1,000 pieces of fragments*, 500 rounds of infantry missiles, 200 sets of magazines for heavy artillery shells and rotary guns. As for firearms, there are 500 dragon gun machine guns for the Knights, 50 anti-aircraft machine guns, ten heavy artillery pieces, and 10 rotary machine guns for mechs. All in all, there are quite a few reserves of ammunition and firearms.
Needless to say, ammunition is basically needed by the Shanghai God Group. The dragon gun machine gun can also be regarded as a firearm of the new era. It has two modes of continuous shooting and sniping, and uses standard bullets. When you need to snipe, switch the No. 2 magazine, and you can replace it with sniper bullets. The power of the dragon gun is not comparable to the ordinary rifles used by the Sea God Group. Soldiers can get an additional boost in combat effectiveness if they switch to this machine gun.
Of course, the dragon guns in the warehouse are obviously not enough. However, this is not a big problem. When the battlefield was counted, a batch of dragon guns and ammunition from the Knights were also recovered. Some of them were damaged, and the rest plus the inventory were enough to equip the existing soldiers of the Sea Gods.
As for anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy artillery, it is an additional gain. These heavy weapons have strong firepower. If the Trident hadn't raided the gate of the fort last night, destroying these weapons. If it is a frontal attack, it is not known how many people will be lost in the face of these weapons. The power of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy artillery, even Franklin is unwilling to face it, let alone ordinary soldiers.
Once they are equipped, they can replace the one whose fort was destroyed. The city wall was rebuilt in advance, and the degree of damage to the city wall is basically hopeless to repair, and there is only one way to rebuild. It is estimated that it will not be used in a short time, especially the five heavy artillery. As for the anti-aircraft machine guns, they can be arranged at other commanding heights of the fortress, and can provide powerful fire support when necessary.
Most importantly, they are much more mobile than heavy artillery.
The only ones that couldn't be used at all were the special-purpose rotary cannons for the paladin mechas. That thing was even more ferocious and huge than the cannons used by Brown before, and it was not a weapon that could be used by manpower at all. Just because they can't be used doesn't mean they're worthless, Zero Thought Istar might be interested in acquiring them. Then it's an income.
A batch of special ammunition was also found in the warehouse, which was the special ammunition used by Essien's Knights of the Round Table. This batch of ammunition is not going to be sold, and they will naturally have to be used on the captured knights of the round table.
The final harvest is crude oil. There are hundreds of tons of crude oil piled up in a whole crude oil warehouse. They are packed into more than 50 oil barrels and neatly discharged in the warehouse. After seeing this line of reports, Zero couldn't help but rejoice that the war last night did not affect the crude oil warehouse. Otherwise, the entire fortress would be blown up to the sky, and hundreds of tons of crude oil would be worth 500,000 gold coins at the price of the Western Continent.
This is a huge sum, just for crude oil, zero is earned. If other materials are counted, at least one million gold coins will be credited after this battle. But the biggest wealth is not these, but the three oil well platforms under the control of the fortress. The three platforms produce nearly 100 tons of crude oil per month, so if you control the fortress, you don't have to do anything and you will get 500,000 gold coins a month.
He didn't have any idea about money before, that's because Beyoncé took care of it for him. Now that he does everything by himself, Zero finally has a more intuitive concept of wealth.
After reading the report, Zero stood in front of a plasma panel, on which was a complete map of the Western Continent. This map is much more detailed than the one in Mr. X's hand. Zero's eyes fell on the Kanon Fortress, and then followed the bloody road to the Pope's Hall. On this 8,000-kilometer-long highway, it has to pass through five major surface cities controlled by the Pope's Hall and over a hundred small and medium-sized towns.
From the distribution of these cities, we can also see what kind of price the Pope's Hall paid all the way back then. The foundations of every heavy city on the surface are probably built of thousands of corpses. This highway almost runs through the entire continent, and every inch of the land is stained with blood. No wonder the highway is named the Road of Blood.
"Go and inform the regiment leader and them, let them come here for a meeting." Ling said to the soldiers outside the door.
After a while, all the core members of Zero and the three leaders of the Sea God Group walked in. Looking at the excited expressions on their faces, it seems that these guys were still excited about the battle last night. Only Franklin's face remained normal. This enigmatic deputy captain was much calmer than the others.
"Sit down, everyone." Ling said lightly, this is the command room, usually only Essien and Lei Ming are active. There were very few chairs, but there were enough chairs in the command room for everyone in the room at this moment to have one.
Of course, Franklin didn't have a chair. Even Essien's newly built big chair was not enough for the giant to stuff half of his buttocks, so Franklin could only sit cross-legged on the ground. Zero showed him an apologetic look, then looked at other people and said, "Everyone, how do you feel now?"
"Very good, but killing is not enough. Boss, please leave me some tougher opponents in the future. I don't have any strength to kill ordinary soldiers." Man Shan laughed. Bewildered by the simple and honest smile on Shan's face, who knew that he was crushing all the way to kill people last night. Under his giant rolling stone, there are countless corpses of knight soldiers.
After that, everyone expressed some of their feelings. Compared with Qi Su and the other members who had followed Zero early, Cinderella and the others were obviously much more emotional. After all, this is the first real war they have participated in, and it is inevitable to feel a little excited.
After they finished speaking, Zero stretched out his hand to signal, and said: "It can be seen that everyone is very happy. But don't be too happy, if we just slapped the Pope's hall last time at Roaring Bay, then this Canon battle, Just give them a punch directly. A slap in the face is naturally a shame, but a direct punch is not as simple as a punch. I believe this punch should hurt them, so the Pope Hall will fight back soon return."
"It's better this way, I wish they would all fight back, and then we'll beat those guys back hard." Man Shan said excitedly, beating his fists.
"No, it's not that simple. You have to be mentally prepared. If you don't fight the Vatican this time, it will be a deadly battle." Zero and one bucket of cold water was poured down, so as not to underestimate the counterattack of the Vatican. .
Ling walked to the window, pointed at the bottom of the fortress, and said, "Look carefully, this place can no longer be called a fortress. If the Pope's Hall is coming now, do you think you can defeat them in this kind of place?"
"We can rebuild the damaged city wall." Cinderella said.
"It is possible, but it takes time, and time is exactly where we have a headache." Zero smiled.
Feng said at this time: "Boss, just say what you want to do!"
These old people who have been with Zero for a long time are very clear about Zero's style of work. He must have thought of a countermeasure before calling everyone for a meeting. Zero smiled, walked back to the plasma panel, and said, "Of course we can't just give up Canon Fortress. Instead, we have to rebuild it. It will be our important stronghold on this continent. In our hands, we Let it never fall!"
"This is the determination we should have. If there is no stronghold, we will lose the space to advance and retreat. In that case, it is impossible to overthrow the giant of the Pope's Hall. Then again, determination alone is not enough, we have to act." Zero Stretch out your finger, click on the Canon Fortress, and then move forward to cut into the blood-stained road, and continue to stretch up to the Pope's Hall.
Everyone moved their eyes with his fingers. At first, everyone was confused and didn't understand what zero meant. But as his fingers crossed the blood-stained road all the way and pointed directly at the Pope's Hall, everyone's eyes became scorching hot. There seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, and with the movement of Ling's fingertips, the fire became more and more intense!
"From the moment you set foot on this land, I think you should all have realized something. This road is never easy. Every step towards the Pope's Hall means blood and sacrifice." Zero looked down seriously Everyone nodded their fingers vigorously and said: "This will be a bloody road. I don't know how many people will lie on the road forever at the end. I only know that every step forward on this road , must have been a huge blow to the Vatican. And when we reached the finish line... "
Zero exerted himself to swipe on the new city of Rome: "The Pope's Hall will cease to exist!"
"They came from the city of New Rome back then, and now, we will fight back from Fort Canon!"
No one spoke, but the sound of breathing quietly increased. Zero's plan can be said to be wild, or it can be said to be stupid. Because he gave up the safer method of devouring the Pope's Hall with guerrilla attacks, and then shrinking and finally eating the city of New Rome. Instead, the most radical and dangerous method was adopted. But it is undeniable that this is also a blood-boiling strategy.
Fighting back from the front, stepping over the enemy's corpse and going straight to the lair, just thinking about it makes people feel exciting.
Especially for an outlaw like Man Shan, Zero's almost crazy strategy is most suitable for people like him.
"Boss, just give the order, let's pack up the guys and go on the road now!" Even though he knew it was impossible, Man Shan still said hehe, enjoying his mouth.
Unexpectedly, Ling nodded and said, "That's exactly what I mean. Manshan, you take two hundred soldiers and go out with me in the afternoon."
Now Man Shan was stunned and said, "Are you going to fight again so soon?"
"It's just a small fight." Zero smiled lightly, and looked at the map on the plasma board. On the map, start from Kanon, cut into the blood-stained road and walk about a hundred kilometers, there are two small towns distributed there. Zero stretched out his hand and gently circled the two small towns with his fingers.
Fortress Khanom is not self-sufficient, and its slave camps are more for oil well platforms, wood mines in the Emerald Forest, and cloud iron mines at the foot of the Eternal Mountains. As for drinking clean water and synthetic food, they had to be imported from other cities, and there were two small towns less than a hundred kilometers away from the Bloodstained Road, and they were most likely to be supply points for the fortress.
If they are also included in the sphere of influence, then daily life will not be a problem, not to mention that now that the gates and outer walls of the fortress have been demolished, it is necessary to properly establish some outposts. Zero didn't want to wait for the Pope's hall to hit the old den before discovering the enemy's traces, so he asked Man Shan to arrange the manpower. There will definitely be troops stationed in the town, and Ling didn't take it to heart. The only worry is that the town will run out of people, so it won't work if there are empty equipment and no manpower.
For the next morning, Zero displayed high office efficiency. One order after another was issued in his hands, even if he had to use the wildest way to send back to the Vatican, Zero was not arrogant enough to think that such a big event could be accomplished with his current strength. Once the direction is set, the details must be carefully considered, and then put into action, in order to successfully take your steps to the end.
To win this war, soldiers alone are not enough, Zero also needs a base that can provide logistics. This base is undoubtedly Canon. The wooden ore, iron ore and oil well platforms under the control of Canon can produce a large amount of resources at zero output every month. These resources can be exchanged for the required materials or gold coins through Istar, which is what is needed to maintain the war. required capital.
Now there is no shortage of soldiers under Zero, what is lacking is workers. So his first order was to recruit workers, first of all the slaves who ran away last night. Zero believed that they were still hiding in the Emerald Forest, so he asked Cinderella to arrange for some people to find these slaves in the forest. The conditions offered by Zero were very attractive. All who wish to come back will be freed from slavery, and will be workers in the fortress. In addition to providing them with accommodation and food, Zero will also settle their wages.
Not to mention wages, food and water alone are enough to attract these slaves back. Without these things, let alone winter, they might not even be able to survive this fall.
But these slaves alone are not enough, they can only maintain the normal work of the fortress. After reading some information in the fortress, Zero knew that the mineral deposits of wood mine and cloud iron were actually very rich, but their value was not as great as that of crude oil. Half of the slave camps in the fortress are used for oil wells, and the rest are allocated to the construction sites of wood mines and cloud iron mines.
The fortress obviously made special assessments for wood mines and iron mines. From this information, it is not difficult to see that the 4,000 slaves are not up to the average daily production level of these two industries. Essien despises them because the output value of crude oil alone reaches the sum of the other two mining industries. But for Zero, no amount of money would be enough for him.
The more wealth accumulated, the less time this war will take. Wars have always been piled up with money, and Zero decides to use all wasted resources. If you want to do this, you need to increase workers and food accordingly.
The slaves recruited from the Emerald Forest are the first batch of workers, and the second batch of workers can be recruited from the outer islands. And this work is carried out together with recruiting recruits. There will be casualties in wars, and soldiers are also a kind of consumables. There are definitely not enough soldiers in the Guanghai God Regiment to get through the entire blood-stained road, so the recruitment of new soldiers is imperative.
Zero has seen the hardships of the residents of the outer islands on the western continent. For the city of Rome, these people living on the outer islands have nothing to do with them, and naturally there will be no corresponding supplies and assistance. These people will be zero-key recruited objects, and the recruitment of workers and recruits can be held at the same time, and then classified according to the quality and career orientation of the personnel.
Next, fate had to be summoned, and both Billy and Ji Ya would be indispensable and important personnel. The place where they are active is not the battlefield, but in the base. Zero Needs Billy and his technical team go through all the operating tools, including the well, and see if modifications can be made to improve the efficiency of the operation. As for Ji Ya, she might have to integrate with some female soldiers into a field medical team, so as to ensure the survival rate of soldiers to a greater extent.
There is one more thing that needs to be handed over to Ji Ya, and that is Lei Ming's corpse. The army leader who died in battle didn't have half of his evolution points left for Zero. He believed that there should be important secrets that could be unearthed on this corpse.
So after a morning, Zero's brain was running at high speed almost all the time. After all the orders were issued, he breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the stack of materials and reports on the table, he suddenly felt nostalgic for the days when he was a mercenary in the wilderness.
Although the days at that time were hard, they were relatively simple.