December 3rd, night.

The electric light of the Celestial Chariot suddenly stopped above the Langfang Fort in the Lanyin Corridor.

With a low chirp, the Celestial Chariot descended straight from the sky to the ground, brutally piercing through the thick dark clouds, the raging cold winds, and countless tumbling snowflakes.

This is a forest area more than ten miles away from the Wolf's Tooth Fort, and the ground was originally full of large trees that hug each other, but now a large area of forest trees has been cut down, forming a clearing three miles long and two miles wide.

The trees that have been cut down have also been cast into a sturdy wooden fence around the flat land, enclosing the entire clearing.

Behind the wooden fence, guard towers stood, and the ground was densely covered with trenches, barbed wire, pits, etc., and groups of Imperial soldiers in dark gray winter coats were patrolling back and forth with wide eyes and vigilance.

Even, in several key places, several large forts were built with steel and cement, making this flat forest more and more impregnable.

The Celestial Chariot descended straight from the sky, and finally let out a low sound, and landed gently in the urgently opened glade.

The hatch of the Celestial Chariot opened, and a gangway dozens of feet wide was erected on the ground.

Salian came out with a group of generals, and the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Lanyin Corridor, the tall and burly General of the Imperial Army, Shaunley von Walton, who was as rigid and stiff as granite, had already led a large group of front-line generals to greet him below.

By the way, add.

Little Caesar, the commander of the Second Regiment of the Royal Knights of the Empire, whom Joe met in Ruhr City, and Caesar, the leader of the Hedra Knights who are directly under Salian, are all the sons of the old fellow Seanley!

There is no doubt that Shaunley is a true hardcore confidant of Sallian, an absolute supporter.

"Your Highness, what exactly have you brought us? Damn, I haven't been able to sleep for more than half a month. As soon as they met, he gave Sallian a perfunctory military salute, and Seanley stepped on his feet and craned his neck to look into the chariot of the gods.

He scolded and said: "You can't hang your appetite like this, it's not good, it's not gentlemanly, it's not noble!" ”

Salian smirked, "Of course it's a good thing, of course it's a good thing that will drive everyone crazy." But the number is not much, after all, the special factory is still in the emergency transformation, this batch of good things, all at any cost, with manual hard work. ”

Exhaling heavily, Salian patted Sean on the arm hard: "Are you ready?" Are the puppies moving? If so, give them a little color to see. ”

"Ready...... In accordance with the plan proposed by the General Staff, we turned the Wolf's Tooth Fort into a huge logistics base, stockpiling enough rations, bedding, and other baggage for a million troops to survive the winter. ”

Seanley's eyes widened as he watched as the soldiers accompanying Salian carefully carried the large boxes out of the Celestial Chariot and placed them neatly in the open space beside them. He was itching and wanted to pry open a wooden box to see what was inside, but Salian deliberately grabbed him.

Gritting his teeth, Sean Li muttered absentmindedly: "We all know the temperament of those puppies. They don't let go of the benefits that are close at hand...... And originally, this weather, this temperature, is a good opportunity for them to make a crazy profit before the New Year...... It's been a tradition for many years, and this year will be no exception. ”

"Well, we can teach them a pretty lesson." Sarian smiled with satisfaction: "Seanley, do you believe that the overall tactics of the continental war are about to undergo a revolutionary drastic change. Can you believe it? ”

Sean Li frowned and looked at Salian very deeply: "Your Highness, you haven't told us what these new ordnance are...... Changes? A sea change from bow and arrow to musket? ”

Salian patted Joe, who was standing beside him, and shook his head with a smile: "No, no, no, it's not so 'small'...... Well, from stones, sticks to large-caliber mortars? I think that the great changes brought about by this new weapon are at least this level. ”

Sean Li and a group of front-line generals around him opened their mouths one by one, like fish out of water, and their breathing stopped.

Their eyes were fierce, staring at the large wooden boxes that were constantly being carried out of the chariots of the gods, and in the winter, their foreheads were full of sweat and constantly oozing out.

"Damn, tell me, what's in these boxes?" Sean Li couldn't hold back his mood, he took a rough hand to pull away the Salian who was blocking in front of him, and rushed to the big wooden box that had just been carried out, and tore the thick lid of the box with a slap, peeling off the thick layer of straw on it, revealing a new grenade the size of a child's head below.

"Huh? Hand grenade? What kind of new weapon is this? Shaunley glanced back at Sallian in confusion.

"Try throwing one? Well, throw a little farther, and, moreover, let the soldiers mentally prepare themselves not to provoke riots! Salian smiled brightly.

One after another, the military orders were passed down, and the soldiers in the surrounding guard towers, secret posts, patrols, and batteries all cheered up—later, there would be a loud noise, and everyone should do their duty, and no noise and screaming were allowed.

Shaunley grabbed a new grenade and held it in his palm.

He looked at Salian again, who was smiling, took a deep breath, unscrewed the iron cover under the wooden handle, pulled out a thin drawstring, pulled the drawstring hard, and then threw the grenade at a large tree five hundred feet away.

Seanley's aim was so accurate and powerful that the grenade whizzed out, and half of the projectile sank into the trunk.

In the next moment, a ball of firelight exploded with a 'boom', and the big tree with the thickness of the two people hugging each other was blown to pieces, and large pieces of debris erupted two or three hundred feet away, and the air wave opened an empty circle with a diameter of dozens of feet in the snow in the forest.

Most of the trunks of the trees fell with a huge canopy with a loud noise.

A group of front-line generals all had red faces, red ears and bared teeth, and they let out a strange roar one after another - such a huge destructive power, such a huge destructive power, was actually caused by a small grenade!

In the past, if you want to cause such a big damage, you need at least a barrel of black powder.

With a volume as large as a barrel of black powder and weighing dozens of pounds, how difficult is it to carry?

And this new type of grenade, a soldier of the Imperial Army who is in good health and has opened up a sea of power, can hang at least thirty or fifty on his body!

An ordinary soldier can be used as a large-caliber field gun?

This has increased the destructive power of the Imperial Army by more than a hundred times? How much more than a hundred?

"Enough!" Shaunley glanced feverishly at Salian, turned around, grabbed two more grenades, and threw them out with two clicks.

'Boom, boom' two loud bangs.

In the snow in the forest, two large craters with a diameter of more than ten feet were blown open.

On the loose soil, a trace of green smoke swirled, and when the fluttering soil fell, the vision became very clear, and there was no black smoke flying in the sky after the explosion of the black powder dropped bomb that was used before, blocking the view.

"No smoke!" Shaunley and a group of front-line generals screamed at the same time.

"All the bullets of the new firearms brought this time are also smokeless." Salian smirked: "Think about it, on the battlefield, the soldiers' vision will not be obscured by the smoke of gunpowder, how much of a benefit it will be to the accuracy of their continuous shooting." ”

"Our soldiers, one can hit two to three of the other side!" Shaunley made a precise judgment.

"Thirty to fifty." Salian was very determined, very reserved, with a trace of pride and vanity that could not be concealed, and stomped his feet pretendly: "The new firearms I brought use a new type of smokeless propellant and copper-shelled fixed ammunition, and one magazine can hold thirty rounds, which can be fired in bursts or singles. ”

"A well-trained soldier of the Imperial Army, using a new type of firearm, should be able to empty three to five magazines and fire between ninety and one hundred and fifty rounds in the time it takes the enemy to fire two rounds of ammunition......"

"The effective firing range of the new firearms has reached 1,500 feet, and the maximum firing range is more than 4,000 feet."

"Within effective range, a well-trained soldier with not too poor marksmanship should be able to kill and wound 20 to 30 enemies in the time the enemy fires two rounds of ammunition – this is not an exaggeration when they are all in a queue of shots."

Salian smiled and looked at the front-line generals with a 'terrifying' look on his face: "Dear generals, times have changed, and the upgrading of weapons is bound to bring about great changes in the style of warfare...... The enemy's army will gain unprecedented strategic superiority. ”

"Therefore, this test is related to the innovation and change of the overall technology and tactics of the future imperial army."

"This is related to the future of the empire, and I hope you will pay attention!"

Shaunley looked at Salian sweating profusely, panting and pounced on a large pile of wooden boxes, shouting hysterically, "Damn, damn, damn...... Your Highness, then, tell me, where are those damn new guns? ”

Salian smiled, walked up to Seanley with his head held high, and casually opened a wooden box.

"Why don't we try this little cutie first? Fifteen millicaliber air-cooled high-speed machine gun, with a design rate of 300 rounds per minute and a maximum rate of fire of 600 rounds, using a standard 200 rounds of ammunition chain ......"

"Think about it, there are a hundred of these high-speed machine guns lined up, and in front of them are the mighty wolf cavalry of the Plateau Empire."

As Salian spoke, he himself became excited, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Dear generals...... Imagine if this were the case......"

Sean Li took a deep breath, and the hot sweat on his forehead continued to slide down his cheeks: "Your Highness, I will give them a hearty massacre...... I swear in the name of the Waltons that I will give them a massacre! ”