"Boom!"

A nearby loud bang accompanied by a large amount of dust fell into the trench and struck Leo, pulling him out of his self-examination and making him realize that this was not a good place to think.

At this time, a figure suddenly rolled in from outside the trench, and cursed a few times in a native English Chinese language when it fell to the ground.

Although Leo noticed this figure the moment it appeared, he did not make a defensive or offensive move, because he knew this figure, the bearded man who had just rescued him from the battlefield and dragged him to this bunker for treatment.

"God bless, I knew that nothing would happen to you, Leo. The bearded man shook his head, shook off some of the dust on his head, and then saw Leo sitting on the wall of the trench, and a sincere smile instantly bloomed on his face, and he stepped forward and hugged Leo, patted him on the back like an old friend, and then let him go, and patted him on the shoulder lightly and heavily, and said with great joy.

It was the first time that Leo was treated so warmly, which made Leo a little uncomfortable, and he frowned, secretly drove the deputy brain to search for memory fragments, and soon found information about the bearded man.

This bearded man is Leo's comrade-in-arms, named Jason, and because he is only a free citizen of the Kingdom of England, he has no surname.

Just as Leo had to join the army in order to offset his debts, Jason also chose to join the army in order to offset the robbery on his body, and the item he robbed was just a piece of bread.

Jason is a bit silly, with a tendon in his brain, and often does some inexplicable things, but his heart is not bad, once he recognizes him as a friend, he will treat him sincerely, and even repay him with his life, just like he braved the artillery fire just now and ran to the battlefield to save Leo.

The reason why Leo was recognized as a friend by Jason was mainly because Leo happened to see several ruffians playing tricks on Jason after he was assigned to his subordinate troops. He himself is not a smart person, he has been bullied like this in the past, and he was deceived to end up where he is now, so after seeing this similar scene, a wave of resentment erupted, and with his extraordinary physical fitness, he stepped forward to teach those soldiers a lesson, and then was recognized by Jason as a friend.

"Jason, you idiot, take it lightly, my wound has just healed!" Leo said in the tone of his memory.

"Huh!" Jason smirked, his movements much lighter.

"Thank you!" Leo slapped Jason's chest and said with a sincere expression, "If you hadn't taken the risk to get here, maybe I'd be dead by now." ”

"Hehe!" Jason had never heard a thank you from someone before, and Jason didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so he could only smirk and touch the back of his head.

Leo likes to be around people who don't need to worry about this kind of person because he doesn't have to worry about knives coming from the back, and most of the team he manages in the past is this kind of person, so he has a lot of experience dealing with this kind of person.

The most important thing about dealing with this kind of person is to be straightforward, because if you talk too carefully, it will be difficult for the other party to understand, and even take some euphemisms seriously, so after Leo said hello, he pointed to the outside of the trench and asked directly: "How is the situation outside?"

"It's bad. Jason put away the smile on his face, became serious, and said: "I heard from the guys of the Third Wing that the headquarters of the First Army in Barrel Town was taken off by the Blue Hat of Frank, and now the Blue Hat has formed an encirclement and surrounded this place, and the people of the Third Wing are ready to break through and retreat, I came to you to find you, just to retreat together." ”

Hearing Jason's words, Leo only frowned slightly, although it was not difficult to hear from Jason's words that the situation here was tense, but for a person like Leo who had experienced the interstellar battlefield, this tense situation was just an insignificant drizzle.

In this era when there is no scientific and technological means to assist in searching for the enemy, and you can only rely on your eyes to judge, no matter how tight the enemy's encirclement is, Leo can easily find the loopholes in the encirclement and escape.

Now the problem is that Leo doesn't know where to flee, because there is no knowledge related to geography in the fragments of memory in the past, and he doesn't even know where this battlefield is in the Fran Empire, so even if he escapes, he will also be in a state of getting lost, and maybe he will go in the wrong direction and fall into the net.

Thinking of this, Leo looked at Jason and shook his head, it was obvious that with Jason's wisdom, it was impossible for him to know much about geography, so his gaze shifted to Dr. Nelson, who was still in a daze.

A well-educated Dr. Nelson should have a complete knowledge of geography, even if it is only on paper, but it is enough for Leo to get them out of trouble.

Thinking of this, Leo moved to Dr. Nelson's side, reached out and patted the other party's shoulder, making his tone as sincere as possible, and comforted: "Doctor, please mourn! This is war, either you die or I die, anyone can die in the next moment, all we can do is live well." ”

"Whew, yes, this is the damn war!" a depressed Dr. Nelson regained his breath, exhaled a breath of stuffiness in his chest, and then gritted his teeth and cursed fiercely.

"That's right, damn war!" Jason on the side also agreed, and echoed loudly.

Seeing that Dr. Nelson had recovered, Leo directly repeated to him the current form that Jason had just said, and asked, "Dr. Nelson, what do you think we should do now?"

Dr. Nelson was silent for a moment, then turned to Leo, "What are you going to do?"

Leo said directly: "If we continue to stay here, we will definitely be captured, I don't want to be a prisoner." ”

"I don't want to be a prisoner either. Jason shouted from the side.

Dr. Nelson was silent for a few more moments, when the sound of artillery fire outside the trench suddenly stopped, and only sporadic gunfire rang out from time to time.

Leo quickly made a judgment: "Their encirclement has been arranged, and the next step is to advance to the battlefield and tighten the encirclement." ”

Jason didn't feel anything about Leo's words, but Dr. Nelson looked at Leo in great surprise, if Leo's treatment of external injuries just now made him look at this country boy who didn't look very old, then now Leo's analysis of the battlefield situation and the inference of the enemy's use of troops shocked him, and he couldn't help but wonder about Leo's identity.

Judging from the identification badge on Leo's military uniform, Leo should be just an ordinary person in the countryside of Yorkshire, but Leo's knowledge is no worse than that of the prospective undergraduates of the National College, which is really a bit incomprehensible.

Leo asked a little hurriedly, "Dr. Nelson, have you made a decision?"

A hint of hesitation flashed on Dr. Nelson's face, although he was a military doctor in the Kingdom of England, he himself was a registered doctor at the Velen Medical College, and this status could ensure that even if he was captured, he would not be harmed, and he only needed to wait for the war to end, and he would be released back to China, so staying and not running around was his best choice now.

But for some reason, he felt that if he chose to flee the battlefield with Leo and the others, he might encounter something interesting.

"Let's get out together! I don't like to be a prisoner. Dr. Nelson's inexplicable trust in his instincts, combined with his adventurous personality, made him make an immediate decision.

"Alright, now organize our belongings, search for everything that can be used, we don't know what we will need on the way out, what we will encounter, so we better prepare a little more. Seeing Dr. Nelson's decision, Leo immediately arranged the matter, then took out a very old mechanical watch from his arms, looked at the time on it, and said, "Twenty minutes to prepare, whether the time is up or not, you must leave immediately." Now, let's do it!"

Dr. Nelson and Jason, who had never received such an order, were a little overwhelmed by what to do when they heard the order, while Leo immediately demonstrated, endured the pain of the wound in his abdomen, and walked quickly to the collapsed rubble bunker, looking for everything that could be used on the corpses.

Seeing Leo's demonstration, although the two were a little unaccustomed to picking things from dead people, they also felt that Leo was right to do so, so they stepped forward one after another, looking for everything that might be useful in Leo's way.

Perhaps the hermetically sealed medical gown and mask on his body were too much of a hindrance, and Nelson didn't care about any germs he might be infected, so he took off his clothes, took off the mask as well, folded it carefully, and put it in the medical bag he had just found.

Dr. Nelson's true face surprises Leo.

Nelson's slightly hoarse voice and the status of a medical school tutor made Leo think that the other party should be very old, but in fact, Nelson was very young and looked like he should only be about thirty years old.

Although Leo is not very aware of how difficult it is to obtain the status of a tutor at Velen Medical College, from the special status of Velen Medical School in the world of Velon, it is clear that it is definitely not an easy thing to be able to become a tutor of medical school.

Not only does it require extremely high medical skills, but I am afraid it also requires a certain identity.

At this time, Leo noticed an obvious scar on Nelson's neck, which should be an old wound from the marks, which was also the reason for his hoarse speech.

Nelson seemed to be particularly sensitive to gaze, and Leo's gaze only lingered slightly on his neck, which he also sensed. He only frowned, pulled up his collar to cover the scar on his neck, and said nothing, continuing to bury his head in search of useful items.

Leo didn't ask, after all, the relationship between the two parties was not good enough to meddle in each other's private affairs, and now was not a good time to talk about private matters.

Turning his attention back to the ruins of the bunker in front of him, Leo quickly found a large number of useful items, such as unopened cans, intact health kits, some coins from the Kingdom of Fran, and several daggers and swords.

The most valuable thing he ever found, though, was a set of 10-magazine mechanical repeaters from the corpse of an officer.

This mechanical repeater is very precisely made, with a large number of gears snapped together, and some special devices that Leo can't figure out how to make a beautiful killing weapon.

The repeater was not large enough to be picked up with one hand, and when Leo found it, he adjusted it to a single-shot state and tested its power.

The palm-sized bolt shot from the repeater easily pierced a steel plate not far away for defense, and the remaining force could still make it dig deep into the dirt.

"This thing is so much more powerful than those shit muskets!" Jason couldn't help but look envious after seeing the results of the test on the sidelines, and looked at the breech gun in his hand with great disgust.

Gunpowder weapons have been around for more than 300 years, and have been improving since the moment they appeared, and those in power hope that they will be used as a weapon for siege and fortification.

However, due to the shortage of gunpowder itself, gunpowder weapons have never been able to become the mainstream of weapons.

I don't know if it's because of the basic elements of this world, or because of other unknown mysterious forces, all in all, the gunpowder in this world is very unstable, and the gunpowder of the same ratio sometimes fails to ignite, and sometimes the power of the explosion is far greater than the quality of the gunpowder itself.

After a long period of research, someone was finally able to solve this big problem that often threatened the lives of the gunpowder user and others around him with an inhibition additive that kept the explosive power of super-powerful gunpowder in a relatively small range after it exploded.

However, while solving a big problem, another problem of gunpowder stimulation disorder has never been able to find a solution, which makes gunpowder weapons often have duds and the like.

For this reason, the armies of various countries can only use various off-the-board tactics to solve this problem.

In the early days, the armies of various countries simply asked the soldiers to bring a few more guns, and once there were duds, they would change the guns, and when the guns were all used up, the enemy should not be far away, and at this time they would directly stab them.

Later, after the invention of breech guns and magazines, armies of various countries created another device that would allow a gun to eject the impacted ammunition after it hits the ammunition, regardless of whether the ammunition is triggered or not, and the next ammunition will be pushed up.

Usually a ten-round magazine can trigger at least one, two or even more bullets, although the number of triggers is small, but if the number of firearms and equipment is large, large-scale concentrated shooting, it can still have considerable lethality, so now the armies of various countries will be equipped with this extremely unstable weapon.

In addition to these two methods, a few highly civilized countries on the three continents, such as the Kingdom of England and the French Empire, have also invented a special stabilizer.

This stabilizer can not only stabilize the power of gunpowder weapons, but also stabilize the triggering of gunpowder, so that the use of firearms is not much different from the use of gunpowder weapons in the old days of the earth.

However, this stabilizer is not only complicated to make, but also the materials used are very rare, so the price is also extremely expensive.

Due to the price, this ammunition could only be equipped in small quantities, and most of it was supplied to the nobles of the kingdom and the upper echelons of the army.

In addition, strategic weapons such as steam tanks and steam warships will also be equipped with a special bomb with stabilizers, such as the shell that blew up the bunker just now.

Compared with firearms, which are limited by gunpowder, the mechanical repeater, which still uses mechanical principles to fire arrows, is the main weapon of the armies of various countries.

For example, the beautiful Locke repeater that Leo is holding in his hand right now.

The mechanics of the Rock Mechanics Academy in the Kingdom of England, who have taken the mechanical gears to the extreme, miniaturized the powerful crossbows used in ancient sieges, and equipped them with arrow boxes, which can shoot a fifty-number arrow box in three minutes, penetrate steel plates within 200 meters, and effectively kill within 500 meters, and finally named the Locke Repeater.

The repeater in Leo's hand is a Locke III repeater specially customized by the Locke Mechanics Academy for the English Kingdom army, this model of repeater is mainly based on range and lethality, and there are also more advanced Locke II and Locke I.

Even the rival French Empire had to admit that the Locke repeater was one of the most lethal weapons in the entire Velonian world.

However, this kind of repeater also has shortcomings, the biggest disadvantage is that some precision gear parts are easy to damage if used continuously, and it will be very troublesome to repair and replace, only the formal mechanic who graduated from the mechanical college has the ability to replace and repair, in addition to the expensive cost is also a disadvantage.

Therefore, the number of such repeaters purchased by the Inge Kingdom is not very large, and about ten sets are distributed to the first-level combat teams under each legion.

Compared with this kind of precision repeater, which is only a small amount of equipment, the most common equipment of the armies of various countries is the kind of steam repeater.

This kind of steam repeater first appeared in a naval battle between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Sigmar, the overlord of the sea, more than 200 years ago, the fleet commander of the Kingdom of England, Marquis Grant, asked his friends at the Locke Mechanics Academy to design a set of steam repeaters for warships, and designed a set of special naval combat tactics for this purpose.

In that naval battle that affected the world situation, Marquis Grant easily annihilated the first fleet of the Sigma Kingdom to dominate the sea at sea with this set of steam crossbows and unique tactics, thus making the Kingdom of Inge replace the Kingdom of Sigma as the new overlord of the sea.

With the brilliant victory of this naval battle, the steam repeater also quickly entered the sight of various countries, and gradually transferred from the sea to the land, and continued to miniaturize, to the present steam repeater has become the regular equipment of the army, almost all armies will be equipped in large quantities, and with different terrain and tactics, with different arrows.

For example, now that the battlefield is beginning to enter the harvest and sweep phase, in order to clear the trenches of resistance, the Steam Repeater troops of the French Empire will be specially equipped with a flaming arrow against the trenches.