After knowing that the other party was asking for a guarantee from him, Soshiyan thought for a moment and gave an answer.
"With Riza so strongly supporting the expedition, the expeditionary force will naturally have no choice but to have the security of Riza. After arriving in the Sagan Galaxy, I will form a rapid response force composed of at least 300 spacemarines as a reserve force. Once Riza is invaded, I will send them to support Riza. At the same time, I will also send fleets to patrol and protect the transportation line between Riza and Sagan Galaxy... In addition, the Astral Knights will sign a defense contract with Riza. Even after the expedition, if Riza is invaded, the Astral Knights will send troops to support whatever happens."
Ultramok nodded slightly.
“That’s great.”
Afterwards, Soshiyan came to the welcome banquet prepared by Riza for him and enjoyed the highest courtesy of forging the world.
At the banquet, Soshiyang publicly announced to the sages that as a supporter of the Expeditionary Force, the resource world that the Expeditionary Force recovered in the future will have priority development rights, and that the Riza's fleet can enter and exit the vortex area without any obstacles - whether there is or not, draw the cake first.
After the banquet, Otmok and several wise men had a secret conversation with Soshiyan. During the secret conversation, Soshiyan learned something that surprised him even more.
It turns out that the 158 Titans of the Militant were just superficial numbers. In order to avoid Mars' attention, Riza kept making a fortune in silence. Many Titans were secretly built and not recorded in the organization. The Militant's actual military strength was 231!
This is Riza’s real strength.
Ultramok also expressed their expectations for this expedition. In fact, for so many years after being suppressed by Mars, Riza has always been eager to "break the deadlock". The most important point is the supply of rare materials and trade lines. The large vortex area closest to Riza is obviously rich in resources and has many routes, but Riza has not received any benefits due to Mars' supervision and the rampant Red Pirates. They have long wanted to change all this.
The emergence of the expeditionary force was an opportunity for Riza to break the deadlock this time, but they were not familiar with Soshiyan enough, so Ultramok was able to test it.
At the end, Ultramok finally "find the picture" and expressed Riza's real demand, that is, during the expedition, Riza will build a "steel corridor" from the casting world to the Viani Galaxy in the Great Vortex area. Simply put, it is to build several militarized fortresses on a series of planets and asteroids to form a stable route, and to spread their unique Omnisaiah Fire Blood Cult in the Great Vortex area!
The sages admitted that this matter was very taboo on Mars. Although they would do it secretly in the early stage, they would never be able to cover the fire over time. Once Mars was discovered, the first person to bear the pressure was definitely Soshiyang, the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force.
Although the Omnisaiah Sect is not heretical, it is a non-mainstream sect after all. Soshiyan opened the door to preach for Reza and endorsed this sect, which almost directly provoked Mars' authority as an interpreter of the doctrine of the Mechanical Cultivation.
There is indeed no free lunch in the world. Soshiyan knew that it would be a price to get Riza's full support, but he didn't expect the price to be so high.
It is no joke to get along with Mars. Although the Astral Knight is far away from Mars, Terra is very close to Mars.
But now Soshyan doesn't have so many choices, because Mars has almost zero help to this expedition. If he wants to win, he can only rely on Riza, so he can only take one step at a time.
After receiving the guarantee, Ultramok seemed very happy. With a big stroke, thousands of plasma weapons became the first material assistance to the Expeditionary Force.
Not only that, Ultramok later took Soshiyan to inspect a special escort army that Riza has latest "research and development".
In fact, just looking at the appearance, the differences between those escort soldiers and ordinary soldiers are not big. The vanguard soldiers and hunters are similar, but the weapons they use are very special.
"This is......"
Soshiyan looked at the weird weapon in his hand carefully. At first glance, it looked like the plasma carbine commonly found in Riza, but the body was longer and thicker, and the sides were covered with silver metal strips with slightly curved shapes.
Then he handed the weapon to the Alpha Pioneer on the side, and the opponent immediately started to operate, picked up the gun and shot at the target in the distance for five consecutive times. The hot plasma accurately hit the target three hundred meters away.
Suddenly, more than a dozen targets were poked out at the shooting range, and then Soshiyang saw the metal strips on both sides of the plasma weapon in the vanguard's hand pop out, instantly turning the gun into a crossbow.
Immediately afterwards, the weapons in the vanguard began to spray plasma at extremely fast speeds, and hundreds of projectiles instantly covered the dozen targets, smashing them all into burning fragments.
"sharp."
Soshiyang took over the deformed plasma weapon and found that the two metal plates similar to crossbow arms were actually heat dissipation devices. The inside of it was fine stripes, because the high temperature turned dark red.
"This is the model we have improved the production based on the stc template you gave. Although the weight has increased a lot, it can fire 400 bullets in full automatic mode, and the firepower is twice as high as the heavy rain model. It is currently named the Flame Crossbow."
"Riza is worthy of being one of the worlds with the strongest innovation capabilities in the Mechanical Society."
"Because conservatism means a single means, which means that the enemy will gradually get used to your combat methods, which means that the war of attrition must be fought with the enemy with existing resources. This is not the style of the Rizal people. We firmly believe that only by improving existing weapons and inventing new war weapons can we form an unequal advantage against the enemy."
Soshiyang nodded and looked at the vanguards and hunters arranged in a row. Basically each of them was equipped with such a flame crossbow - the terrifying productivity of Ruizha.
Some escorts are also equipped with a unique model similar to the rainstorm-type plasma pistol but smaller in size.
The infiltration of Reza holds a unique plasma energy bar. This weapon stores extremely terrifying energy in the capacitor at the base. Once a solid impact occurs, that is, a melee impact, it will release this energy forward in a fan-shaped plasma heat. Although it is difficult to use it for a second time in a short period of time, its power is very impressive.
At the same time, these infiltrators are also equipped with an impact gun. Although this rapid-fire fire gun that fires high-speed solid ammunition is smaller in size, it relies on black technologies such as acceleration, large charges and impact warheads, making the small-caliber dense ammunition it fires has a huge stopping effect than the large-caliber heavy machine guns on the Astral Army tanks. Once a team of infiltrators shoot collectively, it will be difficult for even green skins to rush up at the middle distance.
Chapter completed!