Before you know it, summer is over, and after a short autumn, winter will soon come again.

As soon as winter began, there was a heavy snowfall on the Elven Administrative District, and the snow covered a large area of the mountains and the Elven Forest behind it overnight.

This winter, for the people in the south, I am afraid it will be colder than usual

As for Luronse's side in the north, it has been snowing heavily for almost a month.

Hutian is snowing in August, next to the bitter cold place, where the cold is enough to choke.

However, such a cold weather also gave Lu Longse, who had been suffering from the war of attrition, a precious rest time.

Sitting in the office of the fortress, the white wolf carefully flipped through the statistical report of troop movements in his hand.

Before the winter, the arrival of the reserve troops replenished Lulongsai in time, which allowed the white wolf to finally send some of the wounded soldiers in the fortress to the Lulong Military City barracks in the rear for recuperation.

In terms of numbers, together with the border guards who had been withdrawn from the bitter cold and the reservists who had come up to support them, the number of troops amassed in Luronse now reached 70,000.

However, the Nordic coalition on the opposite side is not vegetarian, and according to the intelligence detected by the Snow Fox scouts, the enemy has been gathering troops towards Coldwind City.

However, due to the fact that the opponent has hoarded troops in the city, White Wolf is not sure how far the total strength of the enemy's combined forces has reached.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the opposite side will absolutely overwhelm them in terms of troops.

For this, the white wolf was not alarmed.

As the general of the town guarding the side, of course he was clear about His Majesty's plan.

So he knew that his first task now was to defend Luronse, and intercept the invaders from this Luronse!

"Knock knock."

There was a knock on the office door.

The white wolf looked at the documents in front of him, and shouted without raising his head: "Come in." ”

The door opened, and a soldier walked in from outside, and after giving a military salute to the white wolf, he quickly presented the document in his hand.

"General, the latest batch of military supplies has been counted, and the quantity is the same, there is no problem."

Taking the list from the hands of his own soldiers, although it had been counted, the white wolf still looked through it seriously.

In addition to ordinary guns and ammunition, there were also a series of consumables such as artillery shells, mines, and grenades.

Among them, the number of armor-piercing bullets is what the white wolf is more concerned about.

After all, according to the situation on the northern border, Phantom was entangled by the four giant eagles on the opposite side and could not get out, and if it wanted to block the advance of the seven giant rhinoceros beasts on the opposite side and pose a threat to it, armor-piercing bullets were the most effective means at present.

However, due to the extremely high strength requirements of armor-piercing bullets, the alloy bullet cores made by ordinary human craftsmen are generally not strong enough at present, and it is difficult to cause effective damage to the outer armor of giant rhinoceros.

As a result, this part of the manufacturing work can only be done by the Dwarven Craftsman with the item buff bonus, which makes the efficiency never improve.

The number of armor-piercing shells sent in this batch is five thousand, and the white wolf is not in a hurry, simply calculate the time, before the end of this cold winter, there should be a few more batches sent from the rear, counting the inventory in Lulongse, it should be enough in a short time.

"Lieutenant, you go and arrange it, and quickly lay out the new batch of mines that have been sent over."

In the bitter cold winter, even the orcs can't withstand the cold and snow outside.

Anyway, they didn't plan to attack in winter, and both Willon Gale and Arcan Kingo retreated to Coldwind City with their troops quite simply.

This was a good time for Luronse to set up a minefield on the perimeter, while other times, if the Coalition forces crushed on the perimeter discovered it, it was bound to be attacked.

Although Valon Gale will use the Giant Rhino to break the minefield, but when the battle reaches this point, all the means available to him must be used.

After one thing was ordered, as Lu Longsai's guard, the white wolf has been doing a lot recently.

Let's say, the subsequent reinforcement of the fortifications of Luronse.

After learning about the destructive power of the giant rhinoceros, the reinforced concrete trench felt a little unsafe, and as soon as this matter was reported, Xia Qi gave instructions to stuff a steel plate into it.

In this way, a dwarven engineering unit was brought in, and this winter began to strengthen and improve the outer trenches of Luronse.

As an important fortification, the white wolf is still keeping an eye on this piece.

Because of the abundant manpower, the efficiency is still very high, and it is estimated that the renovation will be completed in another month or two.

And in addition to this matter, the white wolf has one more thing to care about.

I saw him ask a communication soldier, "Sergeant, has Great Xia City replied to the application I sent before?" ”

Previously, he sent an application to Great Xia City, requesting that a team of elven priests be transferred over for support.

In the face of the war of attrition waged by the orc army with its super resilience, if they want to fight the other side, the treatment must keep up.

Although the military doctor in Luronsene is also very good, in terms of recovering from injuries and rescue efficiency in a short period of time, it is definitely not comparable to the healing technique of the elven priest.

It's just that because of the climate and environment, it is difficult for the elves to adapt to the cold of the northern border, so on this side of the northern border, there are human troops, orc troops and dwarf troops, but it is difficult to see elf troops, especially in winter.

Of course, the limited population of the elves and the small number of troops are also one of the main reasons.

But this time, the pressure brought by the orc army's super resilience is too great, and on the northern border, there is an urgent need for a team of elven priests to increase the rescue efficiency and the chance of healing, so as to reduce the casualties of the troops.

After receiving the latest reply from the rear staff headquarters from the communications corps, after confirming the contents, it is not unacceptable.

As a powerful auxiliary class that can milk and buff, the Elven Priest can imagine how important its status is.

According to the current situation in Great Xia, the army of Greengrove on the southern border is preparing to launch a counterattack in the spring of next year, and the elven priests, as a limited number of important troops, cannot be mobilized at all.

However, the situation on Lu Longsai's side, Xia Qi and Du Ruhui also know it in their hearts.

So, instead, they sent five hundred Terran Wood Mages to support the northern border.

The reason why Xia Qi would send a wood mage army to replace the elven priest was naturally because there was a spell called healing in the lower spell of the wood mage.

After the treatment is administered, there will be a lasting effect, and the wound will heal slowly under the effect of the treatment.

Although the recovery effect and recovery efficiency are not comparable to the healing technique of the elven priest, it is still a healing spell, with five hundred beginner-level wood mages acting as an emergency force, so the casualties should be controlled to a large extent.

At the same time as the reply was issued, these five hundred junior wood mages were already in the process of being assembled, and they thought they would soon arrive in Lulongse.

After carefully reading all the replies from the Imperial Palace Service Hall of Great Xia City, the white wolf finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Great Xia City.

The various development departments within Great Xia were so busy that it was called a dark place, especially the relevant departments in the field of military and ordnance, and during the war, their busyness increased by several levels at once.

Among them, the most representative is undoubtedly the Arsenal and Ordnance Research Department.

The arsenal is busy producing all kinds of ordnance equipment and ammunition, and it is very busy.

On the Ordnance Research Department, it is completely because there are more and more projects that need to be studied and improved, so it is busy in the dark.

Today, in the Ordnance Research Department, twenty or thirty large and small project teams have been established.

New weapons that have not yet been successfully developed need to invest resources and energy to continue to be developed, and the follow-up improvement work of weapons that have already been successfully developed must also be continued.

In the case of the cannon, although it has been developed for a long time, the task of improving it has never stopped.

The range, power, and ballistic stability and accuracy can continue to be improved in all aspects.

Over the years, on the basis of the original cannon, the Ordnance Research Department's large and small formal improvements have definitely added up to hundreds of times.

If you add informal experiments and tentative improvements, the number of times is too many to count.

However, it is precisely because of this continuous improvement that the latest cannon has increased the range of shelling several times compared with the earliest version of the cannon, and at the same time, the stability and accuracy of the trajectory have also become more stable and accurate, not to mention the power of the shelling.

According to the current power of cannons, it is estimated that the previous kind of city wall can be penetrated with a single shell.

And the improvement of the cannon is just one of many improvement projects.

In addition, there are a series of ordnance weapons such as mountain artillery, field artillery, rifles, grenades, mines, etc., and the improvement work is in charge of the ordnance research department headed by Xia Fox, not to mention, there are also some new research and development projects.

The busyness of the work of the Ordnance Research Department can be imagined.

At the same time, it is precisely because of these numerous projects that the Ordnance Research Department, which has extremely high requirements for personnel ability and relatively limited personnel, has to appropriately adjust its focus according to the situation at that time.

For example, when the giant rhinoceros first appeared, Xia Qi ordered the Ordnance Research Department to develop armor-piercing shells, which was undoubtedly an urgent project.

After receiving the order, the Ordnance Research Department had to temporarily put aside the research and development of new weapons at hand and instead concentrate all the excellent R&D personnel on the research and development project of armor-piercing shells, which allowed them to successfully develop armor-piercing shells in a short time.

After that, considering the importance of armor-piercing shells to the war on the northern border, the project team responsible for the follow-up improvement work was naturally established immediately. In addition, the cannon project team, which had already transferred a lot of personnel, also quickly transferred another group of people.

That's how it takes to make adjustments.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, almost 50 percent of the outstanding researchers in the Ordnance Research Department had been concentrated in the two project teams of cannon and armor-piercing shells.

The remaining 50 percent of the manpower is divided among the other 20 or 30 project teams.

Because these two things are needed to deal with the giant rhinoceros, the priority is revealed.

However, even top talents like Xia Fox, Wang Jie, and Gondor can't look at an ordnance weapon that has a fairly high degree of completion, and say that it can be improved.

Now that the improvement progress of the two project groups of cannon and armor-piercing shells has declined significantly, considering the problem of efficiency, Xia Qi, who received the report, decided to temporarily transfer manpower to the improvement of mines and the research and development of new weapons after thinking about it for a long time.

Landmines are a weapon that can be used by defenders due to their explosive power and the tricky nature of being extremely difficult to handle.

However, this sharp weapon has been frequently deflated on the battlefield on the northern border.

The existence of the giant rhinoceros beast is like a minesweeper tank, and the power of the explosion cannot hurt them at all, and it runs all the way, directly clearing all the mines along the way.

In the face of this unconventional means of mine clearance, the only thing Xia Qi can do now is probably to let the Ordnance Research Department develop mines with stronger explosive power.

In order to be able to pose a certain degree of threat to the giant rhinoceros of the enemy orc army, so as not to continue to be unscrupulous!

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