The water tank project has made phased progress, which is naturally gratifying.

However, for the Army, the water tank project is just one of many research and development projects. Although it has the blessing of the king's attention, there are too many things that the War Department is concerned about, how can it always be remembered, so when the news of the phased completion of the project came, General Beno, who is the director of the Fourth Division of the War Department in charge of military technology research, thought about it carefully after seeing the news from Lieutenant Colonel Valoren.

"Well done, send a telegram of encouragement."

This telegram of encouragement was a commendation from the War Department.

Rather than being a little careless about the tank project, the War Department was much more focused on the other project.

The Garcia Army Training Ground is a large training ground of the Army in the north, which covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers and is capable of conducting confrontations at the division and even army levels.

And today, a unique exercise is underway here.

I saw that three airships were flying slowly in the sky, and there were parachutes behind the airships, and the white parachutes slowly fell to the ground like dandelions, and in the distance, a group of officers with general's epaulettes were holding binoculars and watching their landing.

"Your Excellency Minister, what you are seeing at present are the first and second companies of paratroopers in our airborne regiment that are carrying out parachute jumping missions, and they are responsible for giving priority to airdropping to enemy rear, carrying out bridges, transportation hubs, command headquarters, and other strategic and tactical target strikes."

Beside Simeone, a colonel explained the parachute of an Italian paratrooper in the air.

That's right, the paratrooper is already in the Italian Army. This is not a reminder from someone, but a branch of the Army itself that has been developed.

After the successful development of airships, the army purchased several airships. In addition to being used for transportation at the beginning, the Army is considering other uses for its good carrying capacity and ignoring the characteristics of the terrain. One of the most exciting things for the army is the air ground attack, and the airlift of troops behind enemy lines to sabotage and seize key points.

For ground attack, I had previously considered loading artillery on an airship, but it was found to be very unreliable. The recoil of the artillery is beyond the reach of the airship, and if it can't hit a few guns, it will cause damage to the skeleton of the airship, and finally the ground attack decided to use bomb dropping

As for the airborne troops bypassing the enemy's line of defense and attacking in their weak points, this is the airborne force in front of us.

The unit was formed a year and a half ago, and was headed by Colonel Higgs, who had the best idea of parachuting behind enemy lines.

This Colonel Higgs has been training for a year and a half with the newly formed airborne regiment, and the airships in the army's hands have been cooperating with it for most of the time, and now they can finally be pulled out to see the world.

I saw that the parachuted soldiers gradually landed one by one, and these soldiers immediately converged in twos and threes, gradually gathering together like a river, and half of them quickly seized the commanding heights of the surrounding mountains and set up weapons to guard.

The other half was quickly cleared in a flat clearing, and stones, small shrubs, and scattered trees were cleared with the help of sapper shovels in the hands of soldiers. Several soldiers immediately took out white cloth and spread out a cross shape, as if to guide the air. There are three such crosses, each of which is nearly 100 meters apart.

After a while, several more airships appeared in front of everyone.

"Minister, the airship that is currently coming is loaded with planes and landing for a second company. They mainly use airborne landing, but parachute landing is also possible if necessary. ”

Admiral Simeone replied casually to Colonel Higgs's words, still carefully observing the exercise through his binoculars.

The airship came quickly, and after a while, it came to bring the cleared airborne site, only to see the three airships slowly descend to the ground, and after the airship landed, the hatch was opened, and a team of soldiers ran out fully armed under the leadership of the officer.

The process is quick, just a minute or two. The airship that had completed the transport then lifted off, leaving the landing site for the airship waiting behind.

After the two companies landed on the ground, except for one company that was left to defend the landing field, the other three companies quickly attacked in a zigzag formation.

"Well-equipped, well-trained, and methodical."

A visiting general praised the level of the airborne regiment's exercises.

None of the people present objected to this sentence, because the airborne regiment really deserved it.

Well-trained and methodical, that's because the airborne regiment was originally the elite drawn from various units. And in the past year and a half, the army has given what it wants, and Colonel Higgs is also capable, how can it not be elite.

To mention that at present, in the airborne regiment, the worst soldiers are all senior soldiers, but most of them are non-commissioned officers, and the officers are generally high-ranking and low-ranked, the squad and platoon leaders are a large number of second lieutenants, and there are even two company commanders with the rank of major.

The reason for the current situation is, on the one hand, preparations for the expansion of the airborne troops, and on the other hand, it also has a great deal to do with weapons and equipment.

So how tall is it?

A squad of the Airborne Forces is equipped with 10 M88 Carcano cavalry guns, yes, riding guns, because of the airborne relationship, longer rifles are not easy to carry, so shorter cavalry guns are used instead.

And in addition to 10 cavalry guns, a squad of the Airborne Forces also has a Reviri light machine gun.

That's right, it's a machine gun!

In this era, no national army has yet assigned machine guns to squads. Now they are basically equipped at the battalion and company level, and they are not even equipped to the platoon, but the airborne troops have set a historical precedent and are directly used in the squad in one step.

In addition to one light machine gun for each infantry squad, the Airborne Forces are also equipped with two Makqin heavy machine guns at the company level. Such a luxurious company firepower configuration will not be outdated in thirty years.

And the Airborne Forces are equipped with so much machine-gun firepower, or taking into account the characteristics of their troops, fighting deep behind enemy lines, and if the firepower is not enough, it is to deliver food, so it is necessary to strengthen sufficient firepower.

In addition to machine guns, there are relatively few artillery pieces that paratroopers can use at present, and at present, in addition to the newly developed mortars, the largest artillery gun in the airborne regiment is the 75-mm mountain gun.

This is also due to the fact that airships can not pick a venue, otherwise their airborne troops would only have to use mortars.

The mortar here is the result of the latest development in Italy, which has changed the current mode of base firing in various countries, and the genius has adopted the mode of integrating the propellant and the shell, and the bottom needle impact is used to fire. This changed the current pattern of mortars weighing hundreds of kilograms in various countries, and directly reduced the mortars to tens of kilograms.

And not only did the weight go down, but the range also went up, and under the guidance of a certain prophet, a mortar with a spindle-shaped shell could hit a range of 2,100 meters.

It can be said that such a change is a technological revolution, and countries will inevitably learn from Italy's approach in the future. Dozens of pounds of artillery, manpower can be easily moved, although the accuracy is not high, more consuming shells, but the advantages of high mobility and curved shooting are enough.

Italy has developed two types of mortars, 81 mm and 100 mm. At present, both mortars are prioritized for equipping the Airborne Forces. What I like is that it is light and flexible, and it has a good range.

In front of the eyes of the army's top brass, the airborne troops performed very well in landing, raiding targets, and then sticking to and waiting for reinforcements, and the whole exercise was praised, which made Colonel Higgs very happy.

"Very well done, the Airborne Forces need to be expanded, the existing more than a thousand people are too few, I need you to expand it to six thousand within five years."

Simeone's words made Colonel Higgs immediately hold back the joy in his heart, and he replied loudly. "Please rest assured, minister, within five years, we will definitely train 6,000 airborne troops who are more elite than what we are in front of you."

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.