Munitions Empire

Chapter 1077: 999 Market

Dahua Empire, Fengjiang, amidst a pile of ruins, inside a street bunker converted from an underground room, a Dahua military officer tossed some maps onto his desk.

The maps in his hands, procured from the Great Tang Empire, were far more accurate than their own urban maps. Although many of the marked areas had turned into ruins, the maps from the Great Tang Empire were still somewhat more valuable for reference.

The maps drawn by the Dahua Empire itself were just too inaccurate, sometimes so much so that they were completely unusable.

To the north of this street bunker was the Fengjiang railway, which cut across from east to west, running through Fengjiang City. This area was now a zone where troops from both sides dared not move about lightly.

As a result, some Fengjiang civilians who had not evacuated began to conduct business around this railway. Some sold food and supplies, while others provided various services to both sides’ militaries.

Ever since the Dahua Troops re-entered Fengjiang, or it could be said, bought back their own occupied area, the intensity of firefights between the two sides’ troops declined sharply. The daily exchanges of a couple of shots from one side and a shell from the other became rare, and large-scale combat operations seldom occurred.

After a month of peaceful nurturing, the local residents have begun to thrive with vigor. Many children gathered around the railway to dig for shell casings to sell for money, and some traded newspapers from the Great Tang Empire.

They would “stock up” at the makeshift docks by the bridge and along the riverbank in the afternoon, and then come to sell goods along the railway the next morning. Usually, only people from the Dahua Empire side, who were short on supplies, would come to buy.