Chapter 461 Chapter 460 Struggle and preparation for war

The last prison car loaded with military political prisoners slowly drove away from the "Gulag Castle" and Jiaoshi Town under the roar of the "Universal Type I" magic engine, and embarked on the long road to the south of the empire.

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To the relief of many regular officers and soldiers of the empire, this noisy "military inspection and purge campaign" did not last for a long time:

On March 31st of the Imperial Calendar, Sean Mountbatten, Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge, who was responsible for presiding over the review work, announced to all senior officers of the Imperial Army in the town square in front of the "Gulag Castle" that the Federation was

After listing the list of political prisoners of spies, it was officially announced that the purge of the Imperial Army had been successfully completed;

Afterwards, the Shuangfengling military inspection team, which was feared in Jiaoshi Town for a while and was able to stop children from crying at night, withdrew from the "Gulag Castle" without stopping and took the original route back to Yushu in the north.

Fort station.

Seeing the four goshawk striped flags symbolizing the supreme majesty of the Military Inspectorate slowly falling from the outer wall of the "Gulag Castle", the imperial officers and soldiers in Jiaoshi Town felt as if they had been in a dream for thirty days.

Feeling of exhaustion.

On the way back to Yushu Fort, Xia Houyan was really in a good mood.

First of all, Shuangmangling's assistance to the Imperial Army in purging the traitors this time is not for nothing:

After Master Ernst Heinkel's emotion and Bob Brook's understanding, Archduke Rosario finally pinched his nose and agreed to unite his "White Death" dwarf musketeers.

He was temporarily transferred to Shuangfengling as a reward for hunting down spies during this period.

The "White Death" dwarf musketeers holding the "Mosin-Nagant Musket" are the best long-range sniper troops on the continent. They are also an international column sent by the northern dwarf country to the empire to deepen the friendship between the two countries;

As early as when they were in Tumu Fort, this group of arrogant dwarves were somewhat dissatisfied with the bloated and corrupt empire's regular army, and they had long lacked enough respect because of their status as a sub-class race - and they had always been under the banner of the great unity of the Haiwen race.

Frost Maple Ridge is undoubtedly a more attractive employer for them;

Therefore, Archduke Rosario lent the "White Death" dwarf musketeers to the Xiahou officials indefinitely as labor fees, which could be regarded as a cheap and affordable favor following the wishes of these northern dwarves.

However, no matter how many calculations Grand Duke Rosario made, Xia Houyan felt that the deal was worth it:

The joining of the "White Death" dwarf musketeers means that the main force lineup of Igor's pioneering army, in addition to the wasteland humans as the main body, also includes dwarf musketeers, elf magicians, and "Dan-Azler" sub-orcs.

, the troll doctor "Enziai", the blood elf spellbreakers who surrendered to the revolution, and all kinds of strange undead creatures - except for the lack of giants who have long since disappeared on the mainland, the racial composition of this wasteland army

It is already complicated enough to make even the most white and left-wing American civil rights fighters frantic.

According to Catalina, this is because the bandits in the wasteland have long been wiped out, and the Rock Creek City taken over by Leon Houston does not dare to make any mistakes. The Soul-Splitting Land, which was originally surrounded by powerful enemies, has now become peaceful and stable.

Life is like an Alps isolated in the whirlpool of world war.

This group of gryphon beasts suddenly appeared and glided across the sky. They all had loud screams, all had strong bodies, all were covered with iron sheets, and all were wrapped with ghostly magic power.

Everyone’s doubts disappeared until a military exercise in Elm Fort:

Because at the end of this exercise, when the "Liberator" Air Force Wing appeared, in addition to Sindragosa flying across the sky screaming and casting a shadow on the ground with its huge dragon wings, the Lord also waved his hand.

, and I don’t know which corner pulled out fifty gryphon beasts:

However, there can never be too much firepower reserve: due to productivity issues, the entire Hangu Mountain Range may only be able to produce a few dozen "Mosin Nagant Muskets" in a year, but this is not the case in Frost Maple Ridge.

question:

With the "Universal Type I" magic engine powered by the little devil, the Igor family can set up a complete, mechanized copycat version of the "Mosin Nagant" in the territorial military distribution center "Huangya Cave" south of the Manhattan Laboratory.

The "musket" production line brought a small industrial revolution shock to the dwarves of the Hangu Mountains who were struggling to forge iron.

Under this situation, the new recruits of the Pioneer Army recruited by Shuangmangling from the towns on the left bank and all over the mainland were really idle and had nothing to do except patrolling back and forth along Route 66.

After the traditional siege weapons of the mainland accumulated in Shuangmaple Ridge were added to the "Tekkadan" after being blessed by the "Universal Type I" magic engine, this mechanized weapon has actually become more effective against any traditional army on the mainland.

A crushing trend of technological generational differences has been formed.

In addition, what Xia Houyan really values ​​​​is actually the "Mosin Nagant Musket" equipped by the dwarf musketeers:

This ultra-long-range sniper rifle developed by the dwarves of the Cold Bone Mountains did not use too many magical skills in the production process. It is completely the supreme crystallization of pure mechanical technology!

intelligence.

As long as there is sufficient resource supply, it will be a piece of cake for Shuangmangling to distribute individual self-defense weapons to every citizen of Shuangmangling and realize the red-neck dream of "everyone has a gun to shoot"!

In addition to the gains on the books of the "White Death" Dwarf Musketeers Regiment, Shuang Maple Ridge obtained another huge wealth in this "military inspection and purge campaign" that is not humane to outsiders:

After the purge movement ended in less than a month, the confidential information that was compiled into a volume and placed on the Lord's desk was as thick as three large volumes of "Cihai" - the contents recorded in it were sourced from a high-ranking Imperial Army officer.

From how many mistresses he had, to how many kickbacks he received in so many years, to which soldier in which battalion and company of the Central Army, he was actually a hidden deep closet. It was all-encompassing and all-encompassing.

have.

Xia Houyan saw with his own eyes more than once that the fire mage from Lianhua Ridge conducted human experiments on the battlefield to test how to chant magic spells to burn the most enemies into candles with the least amount of magic power;

They even put forward some suggestions for improvements to the lord's necromancy: these wandering mages who were fearless not only did not show any aversion to fallen magic, but they also expressed their "unrestricted use of necromancy" against the lord.

"Excellent skills" - of course, this did not stop them from boldly pointing out to the lord that the latter's way of chanting the curse of the dead was too lengthy and too inefficient.

In addition to these reserve teams from the Soul Splitting Land base camp, the revolutionary youths that Shuangmangling recruited and recruited during their journey northward in the past six months also stayed in Elm Castle with the Shuangmangling Labor and Art Troupe.

At first, everyone thought that just because there was a soaring steel dragon "Sindragosa", the lord decided to form a territorial air force, which was really a bit of a fuss - as we all know, just one giant

Dragons cannot be counted as an "Air Force Wing" in any way.

——After seeing the unparalleled combat power of the "Apocalypse" chariot, Grand Duke Rosario and Chief of Staff Quentin repeatedly proposed to purchase several of these black high-end vehicles from Frost Maple Ridge, but Xia Houyan used

The only answer to them was the middle finger: the important weapons of the country cannot be taught to others. He still knew this simple truth.

But the wandering mages from Lianhua Ridge are different: this group of idle people who have been outside the empire's rule for a long time are not as pampered as the high elves of Yongri City. They have all been mixed up in society, beaten sap, and driven.

Black guns are living in ruins on the streets. Their magic style is also full of the simplest, old farmer-like pragmatism - in other words, they just practice whatever spells they want to kill and fuck people hard, and as for the magic effects

Gorgeousness, elegance of Aeolian syllables and mastery of elemental craftsmanship, to hell with all these useless friezes!

Precisely because he made a lot of money on this trip, Xia Houyan, who originally planned to take the Shuangmangling Labor Army Art Troupe back home after the battle of Tumubao, still had the mentality of a gambler to "make a bigger sum"

, deliberately stayed in Yushu Fort for a few more days.

Of course, on the surface, he openly stated to Grand Duke Rosario and Chief of Staff Quentin that Frost Maple Ridge had no intention of getting involved in the personal privacy of the regular officers and soldiers of the empire, so all the information collected during the interrogation would be

It was incinerated and destroyed after the "military inspection purge campaign";

As for whether the great, glorious and correct Duke of Shuangmangling left a set of backup copies in advance and sent people to transport them to Shuangmangling for safekeeping before publicly burning this priceless information, that is probably only known to the Lord of Hell himself.

Already.

During the entire period when the Frost Maple Ridge Labor Art Troupe was supporting the north, Catalina not only stayed in the wasteland and kept Frost Maple Ridge in order, she even sent reinforcement reserves to Elm Fort three or four times in a row.

Although the name is quite unlucky, after being joined by the wandering mages of Lotus Ridge headed by Master Molière, the power of this team of magicians has become somewhat scary: the original "Northern Blizzard Wizards Group" was basically based on Calvino.

The Yongri City mage group under Master Lingge is the skeleton, mainly composed of elf magicians of water and wind elements. The fighting style of the entire team also has some flashy elf habits;

After a long period of accumulation, this mechanized force has been equipped with twelve Shuangmangling Type 96 "Apocalypse" tanks, and forty-one "Igor" vehicles also powered by the "Universal Type I" magic engine.

Ren-25" armored personnel carrier. These latest armored vehicles put into use almost overnight eliminated all the cavalry accumulated in Shuangmangling into reconnaissance auxiliary forces.

Even Xia Houyan himself did not expect that when a person is put on the tiger bench as a suspected collaborator, they will spit out many shady secrets without scruples in order to prove their innocence:

The first is the veteran elemental weapon "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" in Frost Maple Ridge.

Xia Houyan once borrowed a musket from a dwarf legend buddy to study. He found that the manufacturing technology of this dwarf firearm would not lag behind even on the earth. Whether it was the rifling, pneumatic device or sight, it was all very similar.

Quite ingenious.

Therefore, this small castle with an unassuming appearance at the northern end of Burning Crystal Canyon has actually gathered an elite armed force that can make any mainland power invincible and frightened:

Xia Houyan speculated that the reason why the "Mosin-Nagant Musket", which is very close to the design idea of ​​the earth's thermal weapon, has not yet shined in Haiwen Continent is simply because the elemental power dominated by magicians is too cheap and powerful.

, and the production of the "Mosin-Nagant Musket" is extremely expensive and slow, and the price-performance ratio is not high in comparison.

——Probably only the dwarves, who have not been blessed by the elemental gods and have very few magicians born in their race, would choose to find another way to create this kind of long-range weapon to replace the power of the elements.

Xia Houyan can even believe that as long as he relies on these backlogged military secrets, he can even go in that direction if he wants the regular army of the empire to go.

In the midst of everyone's inquiries, the Lord categorically denied that these gryphon beasts were evil undead creatures made using the Imperial Air Force mounts that died in the Fallen Dragon Mountain. Instead, he claimed that these were the latest military achievements of Frost Maple Ridge's "Manhattan Laboratory."

——"Hellcat" type "Bionic Mechanical Fighter"...

Compared with the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" and "Tekka Group" that have already proven themselves on the battlefield, the newly formed "Liberator" Air Force Wing in Frost Maple Ridge is a completely new face.

As famous as the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" is the newly formed heavily armored "Tekka Group" formed by Igor's Pioneer Army.

Relying on the infinite magic energy from the purgatory world, the steel monsters of the "Tekkadan" can use unimaginable high mobility to deliver the elite infantry of Frost Maple Ridge to any quiet street on the mainland - and if the street

If it is not quiet enough, the demon-made "Bofors" magic energy cannon installed on the top of the "Apocalypse" tank will be responsible for shooting the weak flesh and blood of any blocker into blooming flowers of hope.

Catalina and Mayor Joel worked together and simply packed up the girls and sent them to the Burning Crystal Canyon in the north, so that these young soldiers who grew up in peace could have a taste of the gunpowder of war:

From the beginning to the end, Shuangmangling, under the leadership of the lord, has adhered to one concept, that is, truly elite soldiers and generals must be honed in the long years of war!

However, if the people of Frost Maple Ridge, who are watching the Lord secretly go to Fallen Dragon Mountain every month, and watching Master Ernst Heinkel banging iron sheets day and night, would believe the Lord.

Such nonsense, then they might as well cut off their brains and attach them to their butts...

What makes all the viewers secretly shocked is that with this group of undead griffins made in the same way as Sindragosa, the territorial air force that the lord has always been thinking about may really be developed based on this brand-new unit: as long as a soldier is trained.

A batch of qualified pilots, then this group of undead birds with iron protection must be stronger than the empire's previous gryphon aerial riders!

The only problem is where to get a sufficient supply of gryphon carcasses in the future...

These three fist troops, plus those that traditionally form the main force of Igor's pioneering army's combat sequence, are equipped with cosine steel armor, seahorse hand crossbows and ancient elf daggers. They are led by death knights in the front and dwarf musketeers in the back.

The Shuangmangling heavy infantry holding the line...

Even the staff officer of Shuangmangling, who had received much education from the Imperial Military Academy before, felt a sense of shock that he could not understand at all when faced with this group of murderous machines hidden in the Elm Castle.
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