Chapter 32: Times Have Changed
The Central Military Police Corps, whose name is the representative of the elite, is only the best ten soldiers in training classes outside the mainland, who can go to the mainland to join the Military Police Corps, and in addition, the only way to join the Military Police Corps is to be promoted through internal channels.
It is not by virtue of qualifications that you can get through, you must have super quality.
Excellent, is synonymous with the gendarmerie.
The number of gendarmerie regiments has always been the smallest of the three major corps, with a total of only about 2,000 people.
Even the Survey Corps, which has a mortality rate of 70 percent, is slightly higher in number than the Gendarmerie Corps.
The same number of gendarmes is likely to defeat the same number of garrisons and surveyors in a head-on confrontation, and can win by a great advantage.
Now that most of the soldiers of the Survey Corps are in custody, 120 gendarmes should be enough to deal with any enemy except the giants.
But... The situation is completely different from what was expected...
The captain of this team, who used to be a member of the Survey Corps, tried his best to be promoted to the interior in order to leave the dangerous Survey Corps, and became the loyal dog of the nobles.
Because of his familiarity with the Survey Corps, he was sent to direct the operation, with the aim of making public the evidence of the Investigative Corps' rebellion.
He used to live in a remote village, which was the hunter's village, and he knew how hunters hunted their prey.
Unnatural marks, smells, hair, excrement on the ground...
All kinds of clues allowed him to find the secret stronghold of the Survey Corps.
What kind of things are those guys doing in this kind of place?
He didn't care, he just wanted to finish the task as soon as possible and go back to the errand, just catch three or four witnesses and go back, and the rest would not hurt to kill.
He had thought so, but... Why is this happening?
"Don't panic! Those guys are fewer than us! Fight melee combat and encirclement warfare with three-dimensional mobile device devices! ”
The captain gave the order to the gendarmes.
In the forest, muskets and bows and arrows were difficult to use, especially now that it was still night, and the vision was poor, so his original plan was to launch a surprise attack at night and cleanly finish off the enemy with blades.
But... Only the gendarmes fell.
What's that weird weapon? Muskets?
Why is the styling so strange? Why don't you need to reload? Why is it possible to shoot continuously? Why can it be launched at such a distance?
Using a three-dimensional maneuver, he hooked the branches of the tree and wanted to hack a person to death and boost morale.
When he was confronted with those new weapons, he finally understood why his soldiers were falling one by one, and why they couldn't make it through the forest when they scored perfect points for their three-dimensional mobile devices.
In front of you, there was a barrage without any gaps, bullets that kept pouring down, and bullets fell like rain, and sparks burst out in the night like shooting stars.
With a snap, he fell to the ground like everyone else, shot in the chest, forearm, and foot, and he lay among the weeds, staring silently at the canopy, blood running from the corners of his mouth.
"When you go out... Why didn't I bring a raincoat..."
It was dark in front of his eyes, and he lost his breath.
...
The stormy gunfire was just a trigger on the figure, and the people fell.
Hanji suddenly understood how Petra and Elder had been so strange when they came back that day, and even her own expression had become as strange as those of the two of them.
This... Is it really a fight?
It was almost as if adults were bullying children, and the 120 gendarmes, barely able to resist, were knocked down by less than half of their investigators.
Demonic weapons...
Hanji looked at the assault rifle in his hand, his face was full of fear, and his hands trembled a little.
If you have this thing, you can easily slaughter all the human beings.
The battle was resolved in less than ten minutes, the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood filled the air, and corpses were everywhere.
The gendarmes, who wanted to win by night raids, lost without even killing a single person, and the blades in their hands did not even cut a single wound on the investigators.
Times have changed, knives, bows and arrows, and old-fashioned muskets have become a thing of the past, the era of cold weapons has passed, and in the future, it is the era of hot weapons.
Hanji cleaned up the battlefield with the others, and only about one out of ten of the one hundred and twenty gendarmes barely survived, and the bullets did not hit their vital parts, but only made them incapacitated.
Each of them became terrified, and the pain and smell of blood made them lose their dignity.
Although Hanji had killed many giants, it was the first time he had seen so many corpses of the same kind.
She returned to the camp in a strange mood, and although she was not covered in blood, she looked at her hands, which seemed to be covered with blood.
"Is it really right to make this weapon?"
She slumped in her chair, a little decadent.
As long as there are people, there will be contradictions, and violence has never disappeared from the human world since ancient times.
But she looked at the assault rifle on the table, and still felt fear, thinking of the bloody lake, and even turned into fear, as if she had become a human sinner.
At this time, Ian came to her, followed by the blonde illegitimate daughter of the Lacey family.
"Captain Hanji, has the enemy outside been dealt with?" Ian asked.
"Ahh The enemy has been wiped out..."Hanji sat up and squeezed out a smile: "They didn't have any power to fight back, they were killed, don't worry, go to sleep, soon we will march into the royal capital." ”
"Captain Hanji, your complexion doesn't look good."
"Nothing... It's just..."
"Just think guns are scary?"
"A little bit..."
"Captain Hanji, guns aren't scary, what's scary is who holds them." "If the robbers have guns, of course it's a bad thing, but it's in our hands," Ian said. ”
"We make guns that will keep a lot of people alive." Ian gently stroked the butt of AK's gun: "After overthrowing the government, we will drive the giants out of the walls, we will lay bridges and railways, we will bring the perpetrators to justice, we will build new schools and hospitals, and when the people see us with guns, they will not feel scared, they will only be proud of us, because our guns are used to protect them." ”
"Aren't guns scary," Hanji muttered repeating, "You... Sometimes it's really unpredictable..."
"Instead of that, let's start making a plan to occupy the royal capital." Ian took out the map of the buildings in the royal capital: "Heatheria has replied to me, she will speak as the spokesperson of the royal family, we have to let Commander Pixis understand that Heatria, she is a candidate for the heir of the Ancestral Giant, and she is the real royal family!" ”