Chapter 1830: Battle Clouds Gather (III.)

As its name suggests, the Far Eastern "Shooting Army" was positioned as a modern infantry unit with medium and close-range shooting as its main mode of combat at the beginning of its establishment, and compared with the traditional infantry in previous wars that were poorly equipped with melee weapons - they could not even afford military weapons, and had to use scythes, flails, pitchforks and other agricultural tools to fill the number, and could only serve as cannon fodder for knights on the battlefield.

The officers and men of the Far Eastern Shooting Corps are all young and middle-aged people who have received complete reserve militia training and have at least a primary school education, and are uniformly equipped with Far Eastern Type 1624 air rifles, and officers above the class level are issued with Far East Type 1624 air pistols.

Another feature of the Far Eastern Shooting Corps that is very different from the traditional infantry regiments is that, despite its name infantry, it does not rely on two legs on the march, and is equipped with new magic cars produced by the three major automobile factories in the Far East - in addition to ordinary trucks, some armored personnel carriers. The Far Eastern Shooting Corps was actually a corps built on "wheels", and the new means of transport brought greater mobility, not to mention the fact that the speed of the traditional infantry could not be compared with it, and in terms of long-distance marches, the best cavalry could not win the infantry in the car. Not to mention the fact that horses and riders inevitably consume a lot of physical energy during long marches, and if they do not get a timely rest, their combat effectiveness will be seriously weakened, while Far Eastern riflemen can maintain their physical strength while traveling long distances by car.

Compared with cavalry and infantry, Rudolph paid the most attention to the construction of artillery units during his lifetime. As early as the period of leading the Far Eastern militia against the orcs, Rudolph realized that artillery would play a key role in modern warfare, and creatively developed a set of tactical ideas for the concentrated use of magic crystal cannons in field battles.

After the founding of the Far East, Rudolph used his spare time to write a textbook on commanding and training artillery operations, which served as a textbook for the officers' training course at Krasbourg University.

In addition to the above-mentioned military ideas, Roland also inherited a valuable asset from his father - a modern artillery unit that can be considered the largest in the world in Vares!

The Far Eastern Army has two artillery divisions, more than 20,000 professional artillerymen, 3,000 mountain guns, 2,000 field guns, and two super-large caliber train guns "Roland's Hammer". In addition to the traditional animal traction, some of the above-mentioned cannons have been changed to be towed by magic trucks, and have been upgraded to "towed artillery" with better mobility.

Most of the officers and men of the artillery unit are from Icewind Dale, after all, the dwarves have a talent in artillery skills that no other race can match. The commander of the 1st Artillery Division, General Yuri Popov, is a dwarven artillery expert, and the commander of the 2nd Artillery Division, Ilya Konrad, is an old brother who followed Rudolph and has been in charge of managing artillery since the time of the militia regiment.

The Far East has a powerful artillery force, but other powers in Varace also attach importance to artillery construction, and the Far East artillery only started earlier and has a larger scale, and the technical level of the magic crystal cannon itself is not necessarily much better than that of other countries, let alone a "secret weapon".

The truly unique branch of the Far Eastern Army is the "Armored Knights". Not counting the "Yangbo mecha" configured by the navy and mainly engaged in underwater warfare, there are about 600 units of marine combat mechanical armor in service in the Far East, and the model is mainly "steel cavalry". Six hundred "steel cavalry" were evenly distributed between the two armored knights, both of which were brigade-level establishments.

The commander of the Far Eastern Armored Knights Regiment is Major General Frannis, and the pilots are mostly elves and half-elves, a mechanical armor with two pilots and two pilots, and the number of mechanics responsible for repairing and reconditioning the mechanical armor is the same as the number of pilots. In addition, each mechanical armor must be equipped with a squad of grenadiers to provide cover, so that the first regiment of armored knights has no less than 3,000 grenadiers.

The 2nd Far Eastern Armored Knights Regiment is stationed on the southern border of Xinjiang, and the mechanical armor and personnel configuration are similar to those of the 1st Regiment, except that the accessories of the mechanical armor are different - in order to facilitate the march and combat in the southern desert area, the "Steel Cavalry" of the 2nd Armored Knights Regiment is additionally equipped with sandboarding boards.

The commander of the 2nd Regiment of Armored Knights was Roland's Iron Buddy, Major General Brigade Commander Bloom Wrought Iron. Alexander, the grenadier commander who had been partnering with Bloom, had now been promoted to the rank of major general and transferred to the newly formed Shooting Corps. Alexander's position was replaced by Bloom's cousin, Colonel Kirov, who also served as chief of staff of the 2nd Armored Knights' Regiment.

In addition to the above-mentioned conventional forces, the Far Eastern Defense Forces also have powerful spellcaster units. At present, there are no less than 1,000 mages and warlocks in the military, and together they form the "Far Eastern Arcanic Legion", which is commanded by Sir Merlin during the war.

Thanks to the rapid expansion of the Church of Sindra, the Far Eastern Army has twice as many Divine Spellcasters as Arcane Casters! In addition to the marching chaplain and medic and instructor assigned to the company level, there is also a formed corps of chaplains, led by Patriarch Boris, who can provide a large number of magical services when necessary.

The magic casters in the Far Eastern Army are not only from the Church of Sindra. There are no less than 1,000 Green Druids serving in the military, which is about the same number as the arcane spellcasters. Valgentina's disciples have always advocated peace, but in order to fulfill the sacred mission of "protecting the family and defending the country", the druids of the "Harvest Ring" did not hesitate to put on their battle robes and use natural magic to help their comrades.

In addition, the Far East Defense Forces also have a complete logistics supply team, including an engineer division led by Jack and Kafka, with a total of more than 40,000 active logistics personnel responsible for transporting clothing, food, shelter and other military goods, no less than 100,000 military mules and horses, and more than 5,000 military Los Beasts......

Although the navy of the Far East is not as large as the army, it is still in the top five in the entire world of Vares, barely among the naval powers.

The main force of the Far East Navy is the "North Sea Fleet" stationed on Kolas Island, and the flagship "Sea Palace" is the most advanced magic warship of this era, under the jurisdiction of two cruisers "Beifeng" and "Canglong", and four destroyers - "Seawolf", "Siren", "Blackwater" and "Tiger Shark". All ships are steam-powered, and the overall cruising speed of the fleet is not less than 20 knots.

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