On the other side, Ma 13 was sitting on a large cart with several companions, helping each other put on their new armor.

After this period of fierce battles, many of the people who were temporarily recruited before have relied on a huge amount of experience points to cultivate their cultivation, and some of them have reached the standard of joining the field army.

For these people, Guo Dafu also gave them two choices, one is to disband on the spot after the battle, and then go back to farming after receiving a severance pay, and become ordinary people again.

Another option is to continue to join the army, and become a militia with a strength below the seventh level of the day after tomorrow, and then cooperate with those undead warriors as the garrison of each city.

Those whose strength meets the standard can directly join the field troops and continue the expedition with the main army.

Ma 13 and several of his companions all chose to continue to serve in the army, and because their strength had reached more than the seventh level of the day after tomorrow, they all directly joined the field army.

Like them, there are about 20,000 civilians who are fortunate enough to directly join the field troops, and about 50,000 are incorporated into the militia because their strength is not up to standard.

In addition, there are about 30,000 people who do not want to continue to serve as soldiers, and will be dismissed on the spot after the battle.

In fact, Ma Thirteen was originally just an ordinary peasant, but this time he became a citizen of the Qinglong Empire, and after participating in many previous battles, he liked this kind of day, although being a soldier is indeed dangerous, but the treatment is also very good, before they were just people, there will be at least a meal of meat every day, I heard that those regular soldiers, they can eat big fish and meat, and the monthly military salary is also a lot, enough to feed five or six people.

Ma Thirteen, who had finally lived a good life for a few days, didn't want to go back to the hard life of being hungry at every turn, so when he gave them these two choices, he decisively chose to continue to serve in the army.

After registering and becoming official soldiers, they also received a full set of equipment for regular soldiers, a set of armor of the Yellow Rank, as well as a steel knife of the same Yellow Rank and a flintlock rifle of the Demon Slayer Type.

And I heard from the commander above that since they hadn't gone to the Sacred Tree King to make any backups, for the sake of their safety, they would be incorporated into the artillery unit in this battle, assisting the artillery in the rear, and guarding their safety at the same time.

It was only at this time that they knew that these regular soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire would actually have a useful body, and they would not really die after they were killed, but would return to the rear to be resurrected, but their cultivation would all disappear and they needed to be re-cultivated.

They are also very satisfied with the above arrangement, and it is also a good thing for them to be able to stay in the relatively safe rear and adapt to this field atmosphere first.

The armor of this regular soldier, there are many parts are very complete, such as what kind of helmet, handguards and leg guards are very complete, once they are dressed neatly, it can really be said that the whole body is protected, and on their helmets, there are feathers that indicate their military rank, they have just turned recruits have only one black feather on their heads, enlisted in the army for more than three months, and the soldiers who have completed the training that all regular soldiers should have will officially become a private, with two black feathers on the helmet.

Those who have been in the army for more than a year are senior privates, with three black feathers on their helmets.

For non-commissioned officers, the feathers on the helmet will be changed from black to red, and the number of feathers will increase as the rank of ordinary soldiers increases, with one feather for the corporal, two feathers for the sergeant, and three feathers for the sergeant.

When an officer reaches the rank of lieutenant, the feather color changes to blue, and there is also a blue cloak embroidered with silver edges, highlighting his status as an officer.

Colonel-level officers are words, and the feathers are cyan in color, and they will also be issued with cloaks, which are cyan and embroidered with gold edges.

The most senior general-level officer, the color of the feather is purple, and the color of his cloak is purple, not only embroidered with gold edges, but also has a beautifully made dragon pattern on it.

Relying on these different colors of feathers and different styles of cloaks, the officers and soldiers in the Blue Dragon Empire troops can easily distinguish the rank of the other party, so that even if the troops are scattered in the middle of the battle, the soldiers can temporarily belong to their command after encountering officers with higher ranks, and quickly re-form a temporary formation with combat effectiveness.

In addition to military ranks, in the Blue Dragon Empire, noble titles have recently been introduced, which are said to be able to truly obtain their own territory after the war.

As long as you pay your taxes on time every year and don't rebel, then how to manage your own territory is entirely up to the noble lords themselves.

Ma Thirteen's biggest wish now is that he can also get a noble title, wait until the war to get a piece of his own territory, and then build a manor, and enjoy the good life of his noble lord.

However, it is said that this kind of noble title is also very difficult to obtain, just like the colonel of the artillery regiment who had just met them before, he had just obtained the title of a great knight, and he could not even obtain the lowest baronial title.

If you want to get that real title, you can't do it unless you have made a real contribution in battle, or you have killed more than ten second-order beast-level beasts in total, or you have killed a third-order beast-level beast alone.

As for killing those first-order mortal-level fierce beasts, they can only be awarded some knighthoods, and this knighthood also has several levels, the lowest is the trainee knight, then the knight who is awarded the medal, and then the big knight of their regimental leader, and the highest is the title of knight chief, it is said that only a few dozen people in the whole army have obtained this title. As for those who actually obtained the title of nobility, there were no more than ten people.

Just when Ma 13 was still there looking forward to the good life he would have after becoming a noble lord, he was awakened by the shouts of a sergeant in the car.

"Hurry up, get out of the car, the vanguard has caught up with the enemy brigade, hurry up and unload all the artillery, set up artillery positions, and prepare for battle!"

Hearing that their vanguard had caught up with the enemy's large force, Ma 13 and the others couldn't help but get excited, quickly jumped out of the cart one by one, and then worked together to carefully unload a 100-millimeter caliber heavy cannon from the towed artillery cart.

At the same time, the airships also flew above their heads, with a large number of flying war beasts, forming a powerful air formation to guard against the sudden attack of the enemy, after all, the Golden Eagle Empire, the most powerful is the air force.

Before, because Guo Dafu was far from being able to compare with the other party because the air power in the city was far from being able to compare with the other party, he didn't even dare to send air troops to fight against him, so he could only hide in the city and defend it.

And this time, the rear supply fleet brought a full ten large combat airships and eight thousand flame sparrow war beasts, which made the air power in Guo Dafu's hands also improve a lot, so that he was qualified to fight with the other party.

Now with the addition of the two battle airships that Shark Castle City originally had and some Divine Fire Crows and Flame Sparrow War Beasts, he now has a total of twelve battle airships and tens of thousands of aerial war beasts in his hands.

Of course, the Golden Eagle Empire has a larger number of aerial war beasts, although some of them were consumed by artillery fire in the city defense battle before, but now there are still about 100,000 heads, but the other side does not have large aerial weapons such as battle airships like the Blue Dragon Empire.

Behind the army of the Golden Eagle Empire, Agukos looked at the huge combat airships opposite, and his brows couldn't help frowning, he hadn't seen the other party dispatch these things before, so he didn't know what the specific combat effectiveness of these combat airships was, but looking at its huge size, presumably its combat effectiveness would definitely not be too weak, and there were faint barrels on it, it seemed that there were artillery installations, and when the time came, it would be said that the other party had seized air supremacy, and bombarded his own army with artillery from the air, Then they don't have to fight, just surrender! After all, in the face of this kind of artillery bombardment from high altitudes, even if the ground troops want to counterattack, they have no way to start!

In order to avoid this situation, Agucos also decisively sent all his air forces to meet the enemy's air forces, even if they could not completely annihilate the opponent's air forces, they would have to entangle the other party in the next battle, so that the other side would not have the energy to support the ground troops with artillery.

And with the dispatch of the air forces of the Golden Eagle Empire, Ling Zhi was also over there to introduce the lineup of the air forces of the Golden Eagle Empire to Guo Dafu.

Under Ling Zhi's introduction, Guo Dafu learned that the largest number of them were black-winged eagle beasts, with more than 70,000 of them, and their strength was above the seven-fold of the day after tomorrow, and there were more than 20,000 silver-winged eagles, which were even more powerful, at least with the strength of the nine-fold of the day after tomorrow, and some of them even had the strength of second-order beast generals.

The smallest number is the Golden-winged Eagle Force, the number is only about three thousand, but all of them have the strength of the second order or above, and they can take out these more than three thousand second-order transcendent beasts that are equivalent to innate masters in one go, which also reflects the depth of the Golden Eagle Empire as an old fierce beast empire to some extent.

Even Guo Dafu, after hearing Ling Zhi say that the three thousand golden-winged eagles were all at least at the level of second-order beast generals, he was under a lot of pressure, and he didn't know if his air troops could withstand it! If you can't stand it and the other side seizes air supremacy, it will be embarrassing.

However, at this time, it was already ready to be fired, and seeing that the air troops of the two sides had already begun to fight sporadically in the air.

The first to be handed over were some of the Air Knights of the Golden Eagle Empire and the players of the Blue Dragon Empire, and some of the players of the Blue Dragon Empire who survived captured and domesticated flying mounts in the wild, or domesticated the existing Divine Fire Flying Crows and Flame Sparrow War Beasts of the Blue Dragon Empire, and also became air knights. However, these people are a few lucky people after all, and the total is not more than a thousand, and Guo Dafu, the emperor, only has about five hundred such air knights in his hands.

And these air knights are basically the elite of the two forces, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, but the fighting schools of the two sides are not the same, among them, the air knights on the side of the Golden Eagle Empire, because they have been trained as air combat talents since they were children, so they cooperate with the flying mount very tacitly, and can make all kinds of difficult maneuvers in the air, and the favorite is to rely on their own strong mobility, slowly fly kites to the enemy, and bleed the enemy little by little, so that the enemy is slowly exhausted in the futile pursuit. This can be regarded as a very conventional way of fighting in the air force.

In order to match this style of play, the air knights of the Golden Eagle Empire will practice superb archery skills, and can use bows and arrows to accurately hit targets when both sides are moving at high speed. And they and the mounts under them are only wearing some light armor, as much as possible to reduce the load, so as to increase the speed of the mounts, so that they can perform kite flying tactics.

The air knights of the Blue Dragon Empire are just the opposite, as players, most of them are halfway monks, and most of them are just lucky to be able to domesticate these flying beasts.

Because there is no relationship between childhood practice, most of these players have a hard time shooting arrows accurately on the ground, let alone in the air.