Chapter 356 Evacuation

The evacuation of the Magic Empire's advance team is proceeding in an orderly manner. From the sky, a slender white river with a hint of yellow can be seen flowing on the ground.

That was the advance team that was evacuating from its defensive position and returning to the camp.

The team that arrived at the portal station was stationed outside the city wall, and under the aim of the precise shooters on the sentry post, they divided into small groups to arrive at the portal and passed through it.

The Seventh General Advance Team has a total of 23,000 personnel, with a total of 9,700 killed and missing.

About thirteen thousand people remained.

The advance investigation mission failed.

These 13,000 people need to be moved in batches towards the other side of the portal at a slow rate of 2,000 people a day.

In order to show respect, Ji Lin met with the top management of the advance team - it is still necessary to give the opponent the most basic respect. It would be better if this can prevent the opponent from making small moves against him in the next work.

No advance team commander expressed any dissent. At the meeting, they only discussed how to evacuate and which team would evacuate first.

The conclusion was that the most stressed 3rd advance team would be evacuated first, followed closely by the 2nd advance team - and finally the 5th advance team/station defense force led by the general commander.

They did not discuss the need to hand over their heavy weapons as the losing side, and no one was crazy enough to want to stay and conduct guerrilla warfare in this unfamiliar place without supplies.

Since they have completely failed and even the portal is controlled by the other party, they will not even have this bit of magnanimity.

Under the supervision of officers, the second and third advance teams at the defense node abandoned all the army's baggage in the camp and set out on the road carrying only basic personal equipment and light equipment.

The loss of heavy equipment is not fatal to the imperial army. A considerable part of their heavy equipment units are monster infantry (tree men, armored trolls), and war mages as the backbone of the battle force.

The remaining baggage of the entire camp was completely taken over by the territorial army.

In the Jilin plan, most of the heavy equipment will be transported back to the territory for reverse research, while a small amount of heavy equipment will be handed over to the local civilization.

He gently signed his name on the confirmation of the seized equipment, which was the equipment statistics report handed over to him by the officers after counting.

Outside the window, dozens of wisps of smoke rose, and the exhausted line infantry urgently needed to replenish energy after setting up camp.

It will take some time for the advance team to completely evacuate, and they will have to take on the management of these soldiers during this period.

And this job is done by the officers, who are responsible for distributing sufficient food

The territory already has a gradually mature and fully educated team of company and platoon-level officers. In many cases, they can replace the political team to handle some temporary tasks in the war zone.

This is not their strong point, officers can do it too.

Every officer in the territory must receive the highest level of education in the territory to ensure their status as technical officers - Chang Heng's technical officer characteristics also apply to these officers.

The two are combined with each other, and a new characteristic appears in the characteristic list of the territorial army.

The territorial officers have also contributed greatly to the large number of on-site repairs of steam structures carried out in these days... Under normal circumstances, there are not so many equipment damaged due to various reasons for them to practice without scruples.

[Technical Officer Corps: This army has a team of officers who can quickly get used to and use weapons of various technical levels. Each officer has undergone sufficient maintenance and technical training. Officer training time increased. 】

[Optimization of adaptability between battles: The reliability of subordinate heavy units is increased by 20%. I thought, if we replace the original parts with some parts, then the machine can take two more steps when it can move... and it can better adapt to the conditions of this battlefield. 】

[Principle of adaptive technology: When changing to a new weapon of the same type, the adaptation time is -33%. Magic rifle? Ordinary rifle? Never mind, they all look like rifles. 】

[Coordinated maintenance command: Mechanical unit maintenance cost -20%, repair time -33%. Damn it, where is the missing piece of this place? Has anyone seen my wrench? 】

[If you give me a choice, I will never continue to repair those damn machines, absolutely! 】

Ji Lin put away the pen tip and put it in the pen tray on the table. The progress of the officer corps made him so happy that he wanted to open a bottle of champagne immediately.

It's just that there are other problems waiting for him to deal with.

"You mean, you want to stay here?"

Ji Lin looked at the human mage standing in front of him, acting very reserved.

It was he who provided the dean with a complete set of research materials on magic rifles, and at the same time, in exchange for handing over part of the magic to the territory, he hoped that Ji Lin could protect the lives of prisoners of war.

He showed his own interests. The spell-casting technologies from the Magic Empire will become a valuable asset to the territory for a long time - these technologies are even more crucial to Li Yan and Fang Ai who are cooperating with him.

According to regulations, all must be repatriated.

"Actually, it's not just me, there are thirty-one elves and twenty-seven humans among us who want to stay here."

The human mage smiled bitterly.

"We are already a bunch of useless people. The Magic Empire doesn't need mages who can't cast spells."

This is not impossible.

But Ji Lin doesn't want these people to stay in this world. Rating deduction is one aspect, and subsequent problems are another aspect.

"If possible, the Skitarii will help you restore some of your spellcasting abilities."

In return for your cooperation, part of the knowledge crystallization of these invaders was distributed to the local civilization of this world.

As for whether this technology transfer is good or bad, the system did not stop it. It believes that the spread of this technology will eventually push civilization to a higher level.

But that will only be because of the technology itself, not the way of spreading technology.

Ji Lin rubbed his eyebrows.

Obviously, the other party is the invader, why does he feel that he is the evil party now.

There is not so much justice in the world of interests, and he must also be able to maintain a moral concept that can make himself feel relatively better.

Although the knight class and the mage class in this world are not much better than the invaders.

This is not for the enemy, but for oneself, so that one's mental state will not be unbalanced in death and fighting.

"I will follow my initial promise to you and send you back to your world."

Please go back.

Ji Lin looked at the empty council hall. This was supposed to be a place for the elves to discuss. After he occupied it, he directly requisitioned this place with a great view as his temporary office.

He closed his eyes and leaned back in a chair to rest. Alicia leaned over and gently hugged his shoulders.

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The evacuated legions were stretched into a long line. The line infantry lowered their heads and looked at the soldiers holding rifles that were completely different from theirs in the distance.

Stop your steps.

Every soldier saw what the enemy they were fighting against these days was, humans like them.

The iron-gray steam mechanical structures guarded the city gate like statues. These one-story-high mechanical units used their pupils to observe the humans passing by them.

The iron pots were constantly cooking meals for these new soldiers.

The line infantry looked at the supervisors who were usually arrogant and had to bow their heads under the enemy's front and line up with them to receive the same meals.

Seeing the supervisors suffer.

The line soldiers were actually feeling a bit happy.

"Don't just stand there, bring the bowl over quickly."

The officer shouted, and the line soldiers immediately stood up as if reacting to stress and handed over the iron bowl.

The war for the line soldiers had come to an end.

Perhaps there would be a new war.