With the continuous development of the territory, the population gathered on this land has reached more than 10,000, and the Cecil Combat Corps has also experienced a new round of expansion in the process. The great help of the Cecil Territory still maintains a fairly high military-to-civilian ratio, and at the same time, it has not affected the development and operation of the Territory too much.
Gao Wen has always believed in one thing: troubled times are coming, whether it is monsters in the wasteland of Gondor or wars between human kingdoms, they will all find themselves sooner or later, and in order to deal with the coming danger, build a powerful armed force It is necessary and inevitable.
With the expansion of the Cecil Combat Corps and the gradual improvement of various administrative frameworks in the territory, Gao Wen's training for this army has become more formal and rigorous. Gao Wen formulated military regulations that were clearer, stricter, and easier to count rewards and punishments. He stipulated the allowances and treatment of sergeants at each level, stipulated the basic conduct of soldiers, and stipulated how to supervise the army and how to count Military merit, how to punish dereliction of duty, and in order to allow these systems and regulations to be implemented, he also ordered the two knights, Philip and Byron, to select a group of literate, honest and reliable people from among the young soldiers to serve as grassroots commanders. We should be grateful Thanks to the efforts of the night school teachers, more and more people can read and write in the territory. It is not difficult to select such a group of grassroots commanders.
Gawain himself is not a person who understands military affairs, but fortunately Gawain Cecil is an expert in this field, and with the theory accumulated as a keyboard warrior in his previous life, he finally built this framework.
After the framework is established and the system is established, what remains is almost brainwashing recruit education and endless drills, making all the rules and regulations and codes of conduct into conditioned reflexes, engraved on every Cecil In the bones of soldiers.
In the military area on the east side of the territory, the recruits are undergoing daily physical training. These people who were ordinary farmers and handymen not long ago are now wearing the standard Cecil armor, and they are carrying on their backs the same weight as the combat backpack. A training backpack with a steel gauntlet about the same size and weight as the magic terminal was strapped to his arm. With this equipment, he carried out training in the open space, while Gawain stood with the two knights, Byron and Philip, Pay attention to the training of soldiers.
From time to time, the veterans who acted as instructors yelled and cursed from the field, but today there were no complaints and booing from the recruits.
"To be honest, the queue training you advocated was really useful." Byron looked at the recruits who had been able to line up in just a few days, and couldn't help but sigh, "After some practice, At least their obedience has gone up."
Philip Cavaliers lamented something else: "Take the simplified code of chivalry as the code of conduct for soldiers, and require everyone to do it. I really didn't expect this to be possible."
"As long as the drills are in place, let them memorize the daily learning content in their bones like a conditioned reflex, so that even if they don't know anything about chivalry, they will follow suit," Gao Wen said casually, "Cecil Combat Corps It is a very special army, they want to protect this land and the people on the land, and the people must fully support them, only in this way can we gain a firm foothold in this dangerous wasteland border.”
Knight Byron sighed: "Ordinary private soldiers of the nobles are mostly rogues and soldiers. Even if they come from civilians, as long as they wear the emblem of the nobles and have a sword in hand, they will not hesitate to blackmail the civilians." , because the nobles only need these private soldiers to protect their castles... Occasionally, some chivalrous nobles will pay attention to the discipline of the army, and they will strictly demand their soldiers, but only strict requirements, like You have formulated a lot of rules and systems to restrain soldiers... This is the first time I have seen it."
"Individual morality will eventually perish with the demise of the individual. Only perfect systems and regulations can ensure that discipline is still effective after personnel rotation." Gao Wen smiled. "Of course, even if there are perfect systems and regulations, the world will not There is no eternal kingdom or order, but groups that are at least institutionally bound survive longer than those that collapse when the leader dies."
"Will personal morality eventually perish with the demise of the individual..." Knight Philip showed an expression of admiration, but couldn't help frowning after hearing the second part of Gawain's words, "You mean, even if there is With these perfect institutional constraints that you formulated, Cecil Territory will one day...will follow in the footsteps of those who died?"
"If future generations don't know how to cherish it," Gao Wen spread his hands, "No matter how good the foundation is, there will always be a day."
Philip Knight's expression turned serious: "You don't have to be so pessimistic, you..."
Gao Wen waved his hand without waiting for the other party to finish speaking: "Don't say nonsense like 'your great achievements will last forever', they are all fooling fools and dead people, I don't expect this person to be there when I was buried. On the head of the grave was engraved with the words 'Great achievements and great achievements will last forever', but when I opened my eyes again, even the grave was dug up. From that day on, I no longer believed in such compliments."
Cavalier Philip was stunned for a while, unable to speak for a while, while Cavalier Byron next to him patted Philip on the shoulder vigorously, laughing so hard that his ribs almost broke: "Let you brag to someone with experience. "
Gawain glanced at Byron, who had no chivalrous demeanor: "Don't laugh at asking you to conceive a new type of melee weapon that conforms to Cecil's fighting style and magic technology. Do you have any ideas?"
Due to the discovery of the "Rebel" fortress, the ruins in the mountain are undergoing large-scale cleaning and restoration. Gao Wen wants to restore the middle-level area of the ruins and use it as Cecil's "Ancient Technology Research Center" and the second industrial base. And considering that Knight Byron had organized explorations in the ruins before winter and now had such remarkable achievements, Gawain gave him a few days off so that he would have time to go back to the surface to bask in the sun, and to return to the ruins. But in line with the principle of making the best use of people, Gawain also gave Byron a relatively easy task, which is to let him think about what else his soldiers need, so that he can design Cecil Melee weapon improvements for Combatants.
Originally, he was just asking casually, and he didn't expect that this mercenary knight who usually idled would get any results so quickly, but he didn't expect Byron to show a smug smile immediately: "You are asking the right question, I really have something. some ideas!"
"Oh?" Gao Wen was a little surprised, "Let's hear it."
"Wait a minute, I still have a blueprint!" Byron said happily, "It's not far from here at home, I'll come whenever I go!"
Byron was super mobile, and after getting Gawain's permission, he sprinted and charged all the way and disappeared on the training ground, leaving Gawain and Philip staring at each other, and it took a while for Philip Knight to say: "He Can you still draw magic blueprints?"
Byron's residence on Knights Street was very close to the barracks, and coupled with the fast pace of professional knights, Gawain didn't have to wait long to see the knight running back in a hurry. Not a small roll of paper, it must be the blueprint he was talking about.
"That's it," Byron came to Gao Wen and unfolded the blueprint excitedly, "I worked on this with a few rune craftsmen from the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. Very good at…”
Only then did Gao Wen nodded in understanding, and at the same time his attention was drawn to the blueprint. It was indeed a blueprint for a melee weapon. It was shaped like a sword, and it could be seen that it was just a conceptual framework. The handle of the sword and the root of the blade can be seen reserved for runes and magic devices, but there is no exact structure yet, and there are many functional requirements or ideas written next to the drawings, obviously this has not been discussed yet over.
Byron also noticed the imperfections in the drawing, and he smiled: "The results haven't been discussed yet, and there are many things that are controversial."
Gao Wen had already seen what he expected from the design drawing of the sword, and immediately said, "Don't be afraid of controversy, just tell us your opinion."
"That's right, you should know that I was a mercenary back then. The difference between a mercenary and a professional knight or soldier is that we don't have so many stereotypes and rules. Whether it's weapons, equipment or combat methods, they are all based on practicality. When people look at our equipment, they will think it is messy, but we know that every weapon and equipment exists because it is 'needed', and it has its own corresponding use environment and scene," Byron rarely offered After seeing my own mercenary experience, I began to talk about my thinking, "So I was thinking about when our soldiers need to use melee weapons, and what kind of battlefield environment do these melee weapons have to face?"
He paused, and then said: "Cecil Combatant already has a thermal energy ray gun. It is said that a higher-level arcane missile launcher and electric energy spear have also entered the design stage. These things are more powerful than one, and Soldiers can even directly kill mid-level Transcendents if they use them in groups. These long-range attacks are enough for them to destroy most of the enemies. Then there are only two reasons why they use melee weapons: First, their own long-range weapons are because It doesn't work for some reason, such as broken, and second, the enemy has strong magic resistance or simply has a characteristic like 'flow arrow deflection'.
"The second situation is obviously the most countermeasure should be considered.
"Soldiers don't lack magic attacks, what they lack is stronger physical lethality. I and the rune craftsmen ruled out the traditional scheme of enchanting elements on the blade to increase magic damage, and instead found ways to increase the damage of the sword. Pure destructive power. The more common methods in this regard are physical enchanting effects such as sharpness, aggravation, and armor piercing. Didn't even consider...
"Finally, we have two plans, one is 'Mechanical Sword' and the other is 'Mechanical Sword'..."