Chapter 369 Cecil's Preparation

Although the atmosphere was a little serious after hearing Gawain's words, Byron answered the question indifferently: "After two rounds of expansion in winter and spring, the number of fighters in the Cecil Combat Corps has now reached 5,000. , 1,000 of them received artillery training. However, although we have 5,000 soldiers, more than 3,000 of them are completely new recruits - only basic training, and know how to use heat ray guns and grenades and landmines. The actual combat experience is zero."

Gawain nodded slightly, the result was roughly within the range he expected, and he was quite satisfied with it.

Today's Cecil Territory has expanded again, especially after the Kant area was officially incorporated into Cecil, the population within the territory has exceeded 70,000 - 30,000 of them are in the main city of Cecil, and the rest are Distributed in the surrounding villages and towns and the vast Kant area, considering the development model of the magic industrial society, he is still concentrating more people in the main city, and continues to recruit refugees.

On the basis of this population, the exaggerated military-civilian ratio of almost eight people and one soldier in the early days of the pioneering leader has finally been eased. Moreover, due to the existence of the construction corps system and the support of territorial productivity, the current size of the Cecil Combat Corps is relatively large. Territory is relatively reasonable and balanced.

And more than half of the soldiers in this corps are recruits, this is an unchangeable fact.

In addition to actual combat tests and time accumulation, it is impossible for new recruits in the army to turn into veterans out of thin air. Although the combat corps has always had high-intensity intensive training, regularly travels around the territory to suppress bandits and destroy monsters to increase "blood experience", veterans are used as seeds In the tradition of leading a recruit class, the training efficiency is much higher than that of the traditional private soldiers of this era, but no matter how efficient it is, it is impossible to train those recruits in place in more than two months.

But Gawain knew that even if the proportion of recruits was high, the soldiers of the Combat Corps still had a huge advantage compared with the traditional private soldiers of this era, and this advantage was enough to offset the problems caused by the high proportion of recruits. particularity.

Traditional soldiers in this era mainly rely on cold weapons to fight. Magical power is often only the embellishment used by a few battle mages in the army to enhance the battlefield and counter opponents. Soldiers who use cold weapons to fight are extraordinarily long, difficult, and complicated to train. His fighting, offensive and defensive skills require years of tempering, and the kind of courage required for face-to-face beheading at close range is not something that can be honed overnight, but what about magic soldiers?

They go from touching a heat ray gun to being able to roughly hit a person's torso from tens of meters away,

It only takes a month of practice, and in the middle, you can also receive disciplined and institutionalized brainwashing and learning of soldier ethics, and as for cold weapon combat...

The performance of the fusion sword is enough to make up for many shortcomings.

What's more, for Cecil Combat Soldiers, cold weapon melee combat itself is not the main item: the melting sword is just a secondary weapon.

As the main commander and one of the early founders of the Combat Corps, Byron of course also understands the situation of the soldiers under his opponent, so after reporting the ratio of recruits, he immediately said: "A Magic Infantry who has been trained for two months will It can kill several traditional soldiers who have been trained for many years and even experienced several battles at a distance of tens of meters, so even our new recruits have strong combat effectiveness - on the premise that there is enough shooting space."

"In comparison, artillery training is more complicated and slower," he said later. "Team cooperation, quick access to firing table data, memorization of various battlefield commands, and use and maintenance of orbital boosters are more important than thermal energy. A ray gun is much more difficult."

"This is normal. The formation of advanced arms has always been like this," Gawain nodded. "As long as they can master those small artillery as soon as possible."

"You can rest assured in this regard," Byron said confidently. "The miniaturized 'Persuader' orbital cannon can be controlled by two people. The firing table is simple and the sights are simpler. It has been trained well."

After Byron's report, Philip continued: "I am integrating and reorganizing the old regiments from the Kant region. After the knights of Kant swore allegiance, knight Wald Perich led the knights and its subordinate entourage and militia. Incorporated into the Cecil Land, there are about 3,000 people in this group. They are all old-fashioned aristocratic private soldiers, and their combat effectiveness and discipline are very poor. They can't compare with our combat soldiers at all. There are twelve regular knights, and with the cooperation of these Kant knights, the integration and reorganization of the old corps has been smooth."

"Strengthen the training, especially the ideological transformation work must be in place," Gao Wen, who knew the situation of the aristocratic private soldiers in this era, emphasized the ideological transformation work on those old regiments, but fortunately, the previous Kant collar was still a system comparison. In an enlightened and relatively well-ordered territory, the local old corps has not been corrupted to a hopeless level. He is still a little optimistic about this. "This corps, as the second corps after training, will still be led by Wald Perry. Commander of the odd knight. I have had contact with and understanding of Wald Perridge, and he is a reliable and loyal man as long as his mind changes."

"The first trainee of the Iron Rangers and the preliminary training plan are in place, but the training has just started, and there is nothing to report yet," the third person who spoke was Solderling, "I personally based it on I have thought about some equipment design plans based on my own combat experience and the characteristics of 'magic weapons', and I am going to discuss with Mr. Egg in the near future."

After these reports were over, Gawain nodded in satisfaction, but Heidi, who had wanted to speak for a long time, finally couldn't help but speak: "Ancestor, are we going to... prepare for war?"

"Yes, prepare, but it's just preparation for now," Gawain looked into Hetty's eyes, "Frankly, I don't want to let the unfolding territory be involved in the war right now, but we have to be prepared for the situation to change. "

"Changes in the situation..." Hetillo pondered and understood what Gawain meant. "You mean, this peace negotiation between Typhon and Ansu will lead to chaos? Instead, it will lead to war?"

"I'm just a little uneasy foreboding," Gawain affirmed Hetty's remarks from the side, "I would like to believe that the leaders of the two countries are aware of the common threat from the wasteland, and can understand the inconvenience of war between the two countries at this time. Reasonable, but I doubt whether everything will go so smoothly... The eternal sleeper, the death of all things, the main battle nobles of the two countries, and the rumored "madness" of Emperor Typhon, there are too many factors. Threatening this negotiation, if something goes wrong during the negotiation process, it will be too late to prepare after the war breaks out.”

"I understand," Hetty nodded slowly, "The Government Affairs Office will also start to act—in fact, since the opening of various trade routes, the work of hoarding materials has not stopped, but now I will increase the hoarding of materials according to the preparation standards. strength."

Cecil Land is a seemingly peaceful and prosperous place, but in fact, due to Gawain's sense of crisis, this land has been prepared for war from the very beginning - no matter whether the enemy is an aberration or a human. In the past year, Gao Wen has opened up trade routes in three directions. Today, various ores from Leslie Collar in the west, medicinal materials and wheat from the Kant region in the north, grain, fur, Textile raw materials are continuously delivered to the warehouse every day.

Outsiders only know that Cecil has earned amazing wealth in the fields of alchemy potions, magic machinery and other fields, but they may not imagine that more than half of these wealth are actually spent at the same amazing rate, turning into high The preparations for the war in the warehouse...

"In addition to stockpiling supplies, we must also consider issues such as territorial security maintenance, public opinion, logistics, material distribution, etc. once a war begins," Gawain said, not only looking at Hetty, but also everyone present, " Cecil has prosperity and order far away, and what we have to prove is that even in the event of war, this prosperity and order is far away from anywhere."

After completing all preparations for the battle, Gawain announced the end of the meeting, but the atmosphere at the scene was still a little tense and serious.

Seeing this, he laughed: "Of course, we're just taking precautions here, maybe this negotiation will end smoothly, maybe nothing will happen, so don't be too nervous - life should pass or pass. of."

Amber couldn't help muttering when he heard this: "Why do I panic even more when you say this..."

Gawain immediately glared at the guy: "How do you say this?"

Amber muttered: "Last time you said that it would be better if the aberrations didn't come to attack, but as a result, more than 3,000 monsters came to attack the city after the winter..."

Gawain slapped the half-elf's skull with a slap: "You are in charge of the head iron when Rebecca is not there, right?!"

"Hey mom - it hurts!"

Thanks to Miss Half-elf for her dedication and sacrifice, after Gawain's slap, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became less tense and serious...

After taking the amber photo honestly, Gawain remembered something, so he looked at Byron: "Speaking of which, winter is over, and it seems that the exploration of the rest of the 'Fortress of Disobedience' can start again."

After Carmel joined the Cecil Land, many secrets of the ruins in the mountains were cracked, and its name was changed to the official name of the Gondor Empire, "Fortress of Disobedience". Currently, one-third of the area of ​​the Fortress of Disobedience has been re-used. It came in handy, and after the transformation of the modern magic net, it was connected to energy, and it became the location of the arsenal, the sophisticated equipment manufacturing factory, and the warehouse of war preparation materials, but it still has a large part of the area hidden in the unknown depths of darkness.

Although Carmel was one of the senior technicians who disobeyed the fortress in the past, the scale of the ancient fortress was too large, and there were too many secrets buried inside. Only the Gondor royal family of that year held all the secrets of the fortress. So Carmel just helped Gawain draw a structural diagram of the bottom layer of the Rebellion Fortress and the area of ​​the Rebellion Fortress. As for the situation in the south and east of the fortress, it is still a mystery.

After the winter, Gawain suspended the exploration of the unknown areas of the Rebellion Fortress, and ordered people to temporarily block the corridors leading to the southern and eastern areas of the fortress, but now that the winter is over and the weather is gradually warming, he thinks it is time to The project has been restarted.

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