"Boom, boom, boom......"

60 rounds of 75mm high-explosive shells fell one after another, and the originally verdant hillside was suddenly shrouded in smoke and dust. After the fire was fired, the members of the four artillery crews were even busier and rushed back and forth.

It is not permissible to store large quantities of ammunition next to the artillery, but it is important to ensure that the gun has enough ammunition to be fired. As soon as some of the ammunition in the shallow pit used as a stack of shells was consumed, more shells needed to be unloaded from the ammunition truck at a distance.

The ammunition man and the mechanic on the engineering vehicle kept rushing back and forth to transport the ammunition, and Qin Shouclumly pinched the time, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

On the other side, in the exercise ground, dozens of trucks loaded with soldiers rushed forward amid the whistling of high-power electric motors, led by vehicles equipped with 12.7mm heavy machine guns. The convoy continued to disperse in formation, eventually forming a half-moon shape and stopping at the bottom of the target hill.

The heavy infantry and riflemen sitting in the car quickly jumped out of the car, ran to the target dirt slope and stood in formation, forming a semi-encirclement posture on the target hill.

Behind the battle array, several wind mages raised their hands at the same time, and a huge tornado gradually took shape, rolling up all the smoke and dust above the target ground, and whistling towards the mountain.

When the smoke cleared, the mountain that had been the target reappeared, and an ugly yellow scar on the verdant hillside was particularly eye-catching.

The road to the summit has been opened, and the view is good, and the tornado, which has swept away a lot of smoke and dust, is still slowly moving towards the summit, just in time to obscure the view.

With the roar of the squadron leader, the battle flags of each squadron waved and gave orders to each flag, and then the flags were tilted forward 45 degrees, and the charge began first.

Qiben, who had a small battle flag like a short spear behind his back, led his soldiers and followed in the footsteps of the squadron leader's battle flag, and began to launch an all-out sprint to the top of the mountain.

For a time, the battle flags on the battlefield were like a forest, shaking non-stop.

Amid the deafening shouts of slaughter, the formation of the team inevitably began to scatter, barely maintaining the basic structure of melee combat in front and in the back.

The next moment when the boiling tornado blew over the top of the mountain with smoke, dust and sand, a flag that rushed to the front stepped on the top of the mountain, and the exercise was over.

On the whole, the entire mountain attack process was completed in one go, and the connection was also perfect, and the middle and senior officers who accompanied Qin Shouzhuo to watch warmly applauded the mercenary group's performance this time, celebrating the successful conclusion of the entire exercise.

Qin Shou clumsily applauded twice politely, and then stopped, his expressionless face was not serious, but it was by no means easy.

Seeing Qin Shouzhuo like this, the applause gradually thinned out, and soon stopped. Maybe in the eyes of the natives of this world, the previous performance was perfect, but in Qin Shouzhuo's eyes, it was not even a passing grade, and he couldn't laugh at all.

Seeing that the embarrassment and incomprehension began to spread from within the headquarters, Qin Shouzhuo immediately stood up, because he knew that at this time, it was necessary to establish the absolute confidence of the soldiers in the victory of the exercise.

"Soldiers!"

Just as he entered the stage of commenting on the exercise, he waved his hand to prevent the leader of the exercise referee group from coming to the stage, and Qin Shouzhuo took the pre-written speech draft, walked out of the semi-underground command post, walked onto the high platform, and stood in front of all the officers and men participating in the exercise.

"I'm so proud of you. ”

"You are the first army in the world to receive modern weapons, and there are no ready-made rules and regulations, no information on combat examples, and no lessons to be learned. ”

"With unfamiliar weapons, you have carried out an unprecedented reform of the military establishment, not to mention whether the reform is successful or not, and your courage to forge ahead is enough to go down in history. ”

"The success of this exercise is inseparable from the efforts of every officer and soldier of our Babi Army. Although this exercise was very simple, it was just an ordinary mountain attack, and there was no blue army, but the achievements made by everyone cannot be erased. ”

"I hope that you will take the opportunity of the exercise again and again to set off a new high tide of hard work! Remember that our slogan is: Use me in the first battle, and use me to win!"

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win! Long live the Lawrence Empire! Long live Baron Babia!"

Standing on the stage, Qin Shouzhuo seemed to have returned to the war-torn orbit of another planet, leading a whole company that had just been reorganized to ask the fleet headquarters for the wartime scene, his fists clenched tightly, and he kept waving in the air. And in response to him, the soldiers on the playground shouted more fervently.

Although he expressed doubts about the second half of the soldiers' shouts and felt that there was a suspicion of a cult of personality, he was relieved to think that this was still in the stage of social development in which mysticism was rampant, and that the cult of personality was indeed necessary.

The frenzy of the soldiers ignited the morale of the surrounding troops on duty, and then spread further, like a virus, and the entire exercise ground was filled with the sound of shouting "Long live Baron Babia!"

The fanatical shouts did not make Qin Shouzhuo blind, and handed over the soldiers to the officers below to lead, and returned to the camp as planned, Qin Shouzhuo left a sentence: "In the afternoon, the officers above the squadron leader will have a meeting." The order also pedaled away.

Everyone in the command looked at each other, they could think of anything about the afternoon meeting, it was obvious that His Excellency the Baron was very dissatisfied with the performance of the exercise, and now they should disperse, try to find a place where they can criticize themselves, and in the afternoon they should admit their mistakes and apologize, and strive for leniency.

While the exercises in the Barony of Babia were in full swing, the 1st and 2nd squadrons led by Elsa Camilla began their first battle.

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After the battle of Fangshan, the main force of the Babia mercenary group withdrew to the Barony of Babia to rest and change clothes, and the mercenaries of Shu County, who felt that they could not be of any use throughout the battle, felt that the mercenary group of the Barony of Babia was strong and well-equipped, and even reached or exceeded the level of the Holy See Templar Order, and it was obvious that it was impossible to be satisfied with the troops of the guardian home.

To say that Baron Babia has bad intentions and has a backbone in the back of his head, they do not believe it. Baron Babia is the predetermined concubine, although there has been no news about the marriage between Her Royal Highness the Princess and the Baron since the initial engagement, but it is not said that it will be canceled?

Out of various considerations, the two mercenary groups expressed their goodwill to Qin Shouzhuo respectively. The commission for this operation is registered in the mercenary union, and it is not easy to add or subtract it at will, but it is also promised to help the Barony of Babia do something for free, and it should be a giveaway.

Qin Shouzhuo said that he was noncommittal, I heard that the combat effectiveness of these two teams was the top in Shu County, but he couldn't get into Qin Shouzhuo's eyes, and the rights of these two simple entrustments fell into the hands of Elsa Camilla.

After suffering such a big loss in Fang Shan, not to mention Qin Shouchuang, Elsa couldn't swallow this breath, and the next retaliation was almost certain, so how to find the air thief group secretly supported by the Holy See became a practical problem in front of him.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the intelligence went first. Now there are only two air thieves who can be confirmed to belong to the Holy See, and they have all been destroyed. Moreover, according to the operation method of the Holy See's one-line contact, even if these two cottages are not destroyed, I am afraid that they have limited knowledge, and Fang Shan's village does not even know that the other party is a member of the Holy See.

If you want to pull out the secret of the Holy See, you must have more intelligence support.

Elsa got the right to these two commissions, and then issued two intelligence collection tasks, two mercenary groups to investigate a destroyed village, including surrounding villages, towns, cottages and other information on the target cottage, one counts one, and collects as much as possible.

Elsa, with the support of Qin Shouzhuo, organized a group of experienced veterans in the struggle, found a clean house in the Babia mercenary group's station, and tried her best to analyze the collected information, trying to find the commonality of the cottages under the control of the Holy See.

Then, I found this cottage called Barson.

There is nothing to say about the process of attacking the mountain, and those who have been reduced to going to the cottage to be a junior brother naturally cannot be a strong person with fighting spirit or magic, and ordinary people can besiege low-level warriors by relying on bravery.

The troops going up the mountain, not to mention that Elsa herself is a grandmaster-level samurai, every soldier also has the level of at least an intermediate samurai, and the vanguard is an infantry phalanx composed of all high-level samurai, where is a group of ordinary people who rely on a little bravery to eat.

However, the great contribution to this battle was still the newly formed musketeer unit.

To be reasonable, the 12.7mm*110mm steel-core armor-piercing bullet was used to hit bunkers in Qin Shouzhuo's original world, and although the armor-piercing power was not as good as the 14.5mm anti-tank gun, it could be regarded as one of the most powerful in light weapons.

Slightly stronger flesh and blood, most of them are dressed in leather armor, and a small number of elites are only qualified to wear very thin iron plate armor or scale armor, or wrought iron. Some of the soldiers were equipped with shields, mainly hardwood shields, with a small amount of iron wrapping.

With such equipment, not to mention the threat of 12.7mm full-power bullets and 7.62mm pistol bullets. The musketeers who went into battle for the first time were full of firepower, and the bandits in the cottage were injured when they rubbed and died when they touched it.

Whether or not to wear iron armor or not to bring a shield is meaningless at this time. The 12.7mm full-power bullet is paired with the Babia MK1 rifle with a classic Mauser 98K design, which is no different from running naked.

With a single shot, the kinetic energy carried by the huge warhead will easily penetrate all defenses and enter the target's body. The high-speed spin warhead tore at it, stirring the blood hole that was originally the thickness of a finger into the size of a bowl, and then the unabated warhead slammed into the ground, leaving a small hole.

And if there is a second person behind the target, it is even more tragic.

The warhead after penetrating the first person has been more or less damaged, and the kinetic energy is not as abundant as before. After penetrating the defense of the second person and burrowing into the body, if it hits the bone, the warhead, which is already unstable, immediately loses stability and rolls, and the hole the size of the bowl mouth immediately becomes the size of a basin, and half of the body is blown to pieces.

It was so lethal that even the musketeers who participated in the battle were frightened.