Chapter 57: Pre-War Training
"From Morning Glory Town to Datie Village, considering the night rest factor, it takes three days to walk and about two days to run.
If the tide of beasts engulfs Morning Glory Town, it is possible that they will attack us in the south, or they may attack Silver City to the left, but Silver City is so powerful, if the Beastmaster is smart, he may choose to attack the small village.
Beast tides don't always advance, they are not tireless machines, and rushing consumes physical strength, so beasts will run and stop to rest during their runs.
Due to the sheer number of them, the speed is certainly not fast, and I estimate that it will take them three days to travel south from Morning Glory Town to Datie Village. ”
Alan was woken up in the middle of the night by a little pigeon pushing his head, lit a candle and read the urgent letter from Bell, he got up in the morning and accelerated the military training process of the army, and began to practice the musket phalanx.
The first row squats down to hold sticks, the second row bends down to hold sticks, and the third row stands to hold sticks.
Since muskets were still being forged, the orcs had to train with wooden sticks.
The Assassins, who are currently not on duty, are also in the military training team by Alan An, and they are familiar with the movement of the musket phalanx.
Alan watched the instructor shout the command to practice the musket phalanx, and explained the plan to deal with the extraordinarily large beast tide.
As Eren explained, the orcs showed a worried mood, but the mood fluctuations were not very large.
The village has a secret weapon called black powder, and the power of the explosion is even afraid of Mother Earth, so the villagers are naturally not afraid to have the idea of moving the village.
Seeing that everyone's reaction was not big, Alan was secretly satisfied, nodded invisibly, and continued to analyze:
"However, before the beast tide can move south, they need to engulf Morning Glory Town.
The worst situation is that the beast tide arrives on the outskirts of Morning Glory Town two days later, rests for half a day, destroys the city on one day, consumes the food and orcs of the town on two days, arrives on the outskirts of Datie Village on the third day, and then spends half a day resting before officially attacking. ”
At this point, Eren saw a group of orcs nodding heavily, with an expression that I seemed to understand.
He paused, and said in a flat tone: "I taught you the simple number of addition and subtraction within a hundred last night, now who can calculate how many days there are in Datie Village in the worst case?" ”
In the army of beasts, Ivan, a young genius of assassins, held a wooden stick, and his hands were as steady as a mountain.
He was listening to the attack of the beast tide and thinking about what terrain he should use to assassinate the beast, but the topic jumped to the math problem without warning, and he was completely confused.
Not only was he stunned, but the other orcs were also stunned.
Some orcs don't have very bright brains, and they can't figure out how the math problem is related to the beast tide, so they have been entangled in the beast tide problem and have no intention of calculating.
A clever orc reacted, racked that poor brain, and finally came up with an answer after sweating in the brain.
"Report! The answer is eight days! ”
The orcs who were about to calculate nodded silently, feeling that their minds suddenly brightened, so it was, so it was.
"Wrong!"
Alan glanced at the orc who answered, it was Ivan young man, he had come a long way in the path of the Assassins, but he was slow to learn.
The orcs were embarrassed, it turned out that eight days was wrong.
"Seven days!"
"Nine days!"
"The answer is nine days!" Alan waited for more than thirty seconds, and after seeing that no one shouted again, he announced the answer, and the worst case was nine days.
And it will take three days for the musket to be born, and with a few days of lightning training, Alan will personally teach people, and the teaching time will be full, which is enough to deal with the tide of unarmored beasts.
This batch of extra-large beast tides sounds terrifying, in fact, there are more than 20,000 troops in Morning Glory Town, and the beast tide will consume at least half, and it may even be wiped out, so there is no need for Alan to worry too much.
If Morning Glory Town is really captured, the beast will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and the magnitude will become an intermediate beast tide.
"Under normal circumstances, the beast tide may not attack the big iron village until two weeks later, and they have more than one beastmaster, according to the gossip sent by the assassins of Morning Glory Town, the raiding of the small village does not require all beasts to attack, the beast king will disperse the beast herd to attack the small village, so we have enough time, and the beast herd we face is not all of them."
After listening, the orc Ivan was thoughtful, it turned out that they still had to train for two weeks before they could see the beast tide.
But what is the content of today's training, holding a wooden stick to practice footsteps?
When he started walking training in unison before, he wanted to complain, what kind of thing is this practice?
If it is said that the purpose of training footsteps at the beginning is to train discipline, then after the army has discipline, what is the point of practicing this?
You must know that the beast tide will arrive at your doorstep in two weeks!
Ivan felt that he was practicing useless things, and whispered to his companions: "Do you think practicing footsteps and wooden sticks will help the beast tide?" ”
The companion shook his head slightly, not daring to shake it too obviously, so as not to be discovered by the instructor.
Ivan asked another orc, and he also received a useless reply, and his inner thoughts became even stronger.
"Report!"
"Say!"
"Lord Allen, since the beast tide is coming, is what we are practicing now really useful?"
"Of course it works, we are now practicing the musket phalanx, the musket is being manufactured, and the fastest batch is expected to be able to touch the gun in three days."
"What is a musket?"
"A long-range strike weapon, with a range of more than 70 meters, is easier to use than a bow and arrow, and it takes a month of training for normal people, but with my teaching, everyone can become proficient in shooting guns in just a few days." Alan said the musket, and a proud smile appeared on his face.
"Muskets?"
Ivan muttered these two words, one represents the flame, the other represents the cold weapon spear, will it exert terrifying power when combined?
"By the way, when Lord Allen used to teach the Assassins, he said that the musket is a powerful long-range weapon for the Assassins, and the gunpowder has a fire character, isn't it?"
The orcs diverged their thoughts, thinking far away.
"Alan, you said earlier that muskets are long stick weapons that use black powder, right?"
"Yes, you have a good memory, I did say that."
Alan had said this before training, but it was three weeks ago, when people didn't have a concept of gunpowder.
It wasn't until the gunpowder test exploded a few days ago that everyone understood the power of black powder.
"Won't it explode then?"
"Don't worry, our muskets won't use a whole jar of black powder, the right amount of gunpowder will produce enough power for a round bullet to destroy the enemy, and you will know what is going on when you test a few shots."
Alan didn't dare to say that the musket was absolutely safe, after all, things like the musket misfiring and exploding the chamber were not zero probability events.
The orcs snorted a few times and continued to rehearse the formation.
Alan taught for a while, and after everyone gradually entered the training mode, he only needed the instructor's password to control the field.
After leaving the military training ground, Alan sent another group of orcs into the gunpowder factory to increase the production of black powder, and at the same time ordered people to go to the dead train one after another to transport sulfur mines, and could use the horses left by the landlord to pull the goods.
Later, Allen ordered people to increase the amount of lead ore excavation and build a large number of warheads.
He didn't know how many beasts were heading south, and the more bullets the better.
After inspecting the work, Alan went to the north to see the construction of the cement brick wall.
Meanwhile, the town of Morning Glory port.
The harbor had long been under martial law, wooden sailing ships were parked on the shore, and five hundred wounded lion soldiers stepped on the ships, and the wounded soldiers looked relaxed, talking and laughing, as if they were going on an outing.