Chapter Twenty-Three: The Army Heading East

Just as Count Carlos was swinging his sword, a Chinese army had already marched to Suero, which was only half a day's journey.

This neatly organized and uniformly equipped army numbered more than 2,000 people, including the strength of two regiments. The soldiers were drawn in two columns, occupying the winding dirt road with no end in sight.

Xiao Chen and Caterina rode two horses from the front of the team to the back of the team, Caterina had infiltrated Suero and the surrounding towns to collect intelligence a few months earlier, and when she returned to the main army today, she met Xiao Chen, who was walking at the front of the team. So Xiao Chen accompanied her to find Wang Jiyuan, who was at the end of the team.

According to the committee's decision, in addition to the necessary manpower to stay in Riverbend New Town and the school, all high-level and master-level warriors and mages who can be called upon are to be assigned to the escort to act with the army.

This army, which was preparing to capture Suero, was led by Wang Jiyuan himself, as well as high-ranking masters such as Gabriel, Xiao Chen, Roger, and Evelyn, as well as many middle-level masters.

Caterina had never seen a troop march of this magnitude before, and now she couldn't help but feel a great sense of oppression as she saw a steady stream of warriors staggering past her.

"It's spectacular. "In front of such an army, she didn't dare to speak out loud.

Xiao Chen said, "How is it? You haven't seen our expanded troops yet, have you?"

At the head of the line were ordinary soldiers in cotton uniforms, who made up the largest number of the ranks. The military training camouflage uniforms brought from the previous world have not kept up with the expansion of the Guards, and these soldiers are now wearing monochrome green uniforms made by local garment factories. Each of them carried a Type 02 air gun, carrying a carrying gear, rifle bullets were placed in the bullet pouch of the carrying gear, and each was equipped with two hedron grenades.

"Their weapons don't seem to be the same as they were a few months ago. Caterina said.

"This is a Type 02 airsoft gun. It's set before you go, but it was three months ago. Xiao Chen said.

Caterina had used the Type 01 rifle, and she squinted and took a closer look at the Type 02, and found that it was longer and larger than the Type 01, and the craftsmanship seemed to be better, both the pitch-black barrel and the wood-colored butt looked fine and smooth.

Xiao Chen told her that in addition to improving the performance of the Type 02 air gun in all aspects, it has also expanded the magazine and increased the number of bullets that can accommodate it to 5, so the current air gun bullets are no longer scattered, but are designed with a magazine of five. Airsoft bullets do not require propellant and are therefore much smaller in size than powder gun bullets, allowing each soldier to carry more bullets.

In addition to conventional bullets, the weapons research and development department has also developed hedron burst bullets, hedron armor-piercing bullets, and hedron shield breaking bullets. The first two are naturally to use the power of the spar to improve the combat performance of the bullet, and the shield breaking bullet is a special bullet, its main role is to consume the mage's shield through the magic circle above, although it is not like the magic arrow can directly penetrate the shield, but it can also produce much more energy consumption on the shield than the ordinary bullet, if you use this bullet to shoot the mage, you can quickly consume the mage's shield, causing damage to the mage. It's just that this kind of bullet needs to use rare forbidden magic crystals as a material, so it is not equipped on a large scale, but is only equipped with snipers with better marksmanship among soldiers.

"That's a sniper, right?" asked Katarina, pointing to a soldier with a longer barrel on his back. In the era of the Type 01 airsoft gun, all guns were the same, there was no such class.

"That's right, the Sniper's air gun is a specially customized Type 02 modification, not only has a longer barrel, a larger gas tank, but also is equipped with a simple telescope, and the details of these guns have been carefully polished by the dwarven craftsmen, so the shooting accuracy is much higher. Xiao Chen said.

After the group of soldiers walked by, a group of soldiers came who looked very different, not wearing cotton military uniforms, but wearing armor over short cotton clothes, they were melee soldiers with a fighting spirit.

These soldiers generally possess the strength of warrior apprentices, and some have even reached the level of low-level warriors. Most of them wore light armor and were armed with swords, shields, or spears, and their style was closer to that of the warriors of this world. But they are armed with a Type 02 air pistol and four hedron grenades around their waists, which gives them a modern feel, quite a mix of modern and classical.

"If an ordinary lord had such a force, it would definitely be his most proud guard. They basically rely on these elites to fight, and ordinary people who are generally recruited have little combat effectiveness at all. "The Empire on the other side has a habit of relying on this kind of powerful force to raid the opposing commander. ”

Xiao Chen said: "Our melee troops can not be consumables for assault. Their main task is to prevent the opposing Fighting Warriors from breaking through the fire blockade of our fighters, and then kill and injure our artillery and ordinary soldiers. ”

Caterina nodded, she found that these warriors were very well equipped, and both the armor and weapons on their bodies were equipped with enhanced circles. This is much better than the equipment she had when she was a mercenary.

However, these circles look quite different from the magic weapon circles on the market, and they seem much simpler and more plain. But those who know the formation will find that their structure is more streamlined and effective, and there is a sense of ingenuity.

They are all new types of magic circles developed after analyzing and reorganizing the magic text, mathematically simplifying the circuit, repeatedly screening and comparing various schemes with computers, and then after a large number of actual measurements. It is not only more cost-effective in terms of materials and properties, but also suitable for industrial batch drawing.

Unlike traditional enchantments, which are done by hand by alchemists, Chinese enchantments are carried out in enchantment factories. Although the Enchantment Factory is not a large manufacturing factory, it does introduce factory production models, such as assembly lines and quality inspections.

Often, an assembly line in an enchantment factory is basically made up of a group of alchemy apprentices. Each circle is broken down into several structures that can be drawn separately. A skilled alchemy apprentice, with the help of a spar charging pen invented by the Chinese, can draw a structure with very little mental power. Generally, he only needs to practice for a few days to master the specific part he is responsible for, and several processes are drawn in turn, and five or six alchemy apprentices can complete the production process of a magic circle, and then the low-level alchemist will integrate and complete the drawing of the finishing part, which will play the role of the finishing touch, and finally the middle-level alchemist will review and correct it. It turned out that the magic array that only low-level peak alchemists were qualified to complete was made in this way, and the speed was several times faster.

Although the effect of this circle is not as good as that drawn by an alchemist himself, the speed of equipment production has increased a lot.