At the test site outside, a team of experienced experimenters used the Sanyi Lift Gun. Currently, the fastest rate of fire that can be fired is 2 rounds/minute.
If this kind of weapon is equipped with troops on a large scale, according to the experience of previous artillery tests, the normal rate of fire of the troops will be only about half.
However, this rate of fire is very satisfactory to Zhu Jue. It is roughly equivalent to the rate of fire of a mature flintlock gun in human civilization. When the formation and tactics are appropriate, it is enough to form sustained firepower and gradually replace the mainstream status of cold weapons.
Just as human civilization has gradually abandoned cold weapons since the age of flintlock guns. After the technical bottleneck in manufacturing the Sanyi Lift Gun has been broken through, whether mass production is needed, given sufficient resources, is only a matter of decision-making and time.
But Zhu Jue decided to be cautious. After all, the military revolution cannot be achieved overnight, even if he has experience that is ahead of the ant world.
And with the end of the Western Front War, the sharp blade of destroyer chosen over the civilized ant tribe is temporarily hanging high. Zhu Jue will not be impatient to regard some new weapon as the only life-saving straw. Eager for success!
In the Ant Alliance, a group of high-quality young and middle-aged warriors from the newly formed legion were selected and came to accept the experiment of using three ant guns.
According to the plan, only one experimental infantry regiment using a mixture of hot and cold weapons will be formed in the initial stage. Each squad will have 8 three-ant rifles and 25 close combat warriors responsible for covering.
In this way, the entire legion has 400 three-ant guns. At the same time, 3 artillery squads and 3 fly-tiger knight squads will be additionally reinforced to this legion to form a combined force.
The commander of this combined force has high hopes. He is a divine male ant named
"Floating Bridge" is the best of the first generation of male ants raised by Zhu Jue. He also served as the commander of an elite army before.
The pressure on "Floating Bridge" is not small. He must complete the formation of this experimental army as soon as possible and then form combat effectiveness by mid-June, which means he only has more than 2 months of training time.
Fortunately, one of the major advantages of firearms troops compared to troops equipped with traditional weapons is the convenience of training. According to the plan, the combined force will be sent to the Southern Territory in early June to begin assisting the Southern Governor in the conquest of the vast southern region, opening up a larger living space for the Ant Alliance!
Choosing to be sent to the southern border was Zhu Jue's only choice after weighing the pros and cons. This combined force has high hopes, but it is impossible to face the Destroyer directly from the start. Otherwise, when the tactical system and the size of the army have not yet been formed, it will be like hitting an egg with an egg. It will also cause the military to lose confidence in developing a firearms corps.
At this time, on the battlefields in this region, although the Destroyers on the Western Front have temporarily retreated, they will come back at any time.
At this time, the civilized ant tribe's coalition forces are vigorously renovating the Great Wall's defense line, and are taking the opportunity to recover large areas of land to resettle allies such as the marching ants who have lost their territory. They are also building large-scale construction projects on the newly recovered land to fortify it.
The scale of the fighting here is large and fierce, and it is not suitable for a new army to experiment. The northern front is still calm. On the land of the old Pavement Ant Empire, a large number of envoys sent by Zhu Jue have joined forces to encourage the remaining forces of the Pavement Ant Empire to fight guerrillas with the Destroyers, which has greatly delayed the Destroyers in this region from moving south. footsteps.
At present, there is no battle to be fought on the frontal battlefield in this area, and it is impossible to send precious combined forces to the unsuitable battlefield behind enemy lines, nor can it be chosen as a testing ground.
The battlefield on the Eastern Front was turbulent. The expeditionary force of the Maulin ants progressed smoothly in the eastern highlands at first, but in the subsequent critical battle between the seven tribes for water sources, the expeditionary force of the Maulin ants and the seven indigenous tribes fought fiercely for several days. When both sides suffered losses, a group of them was destroyed. The winner came uninvited and easily picked up the fruits of victory.
This destroyer not only occupied a strategically important water source, but also severely damaged the Hairy Forest Ant Expeditionary Force. If the commander of the expeditionary force had not ordered the evacuation in time, only one-third of the remaining effective forces would have been difficult to retain.
After this battle, the strategic situation in the eastern highlands was completely reversed. Even if the Maulin Ant Expeditionary Force finally waited for reinforcements sent by the Divine Envoy King's army, it could only struggle to support itself under the attack of the Destroyer and the indigenous ants.
If the Maolin ants hadn't decisively bowed their heads and surrendered at the civilized ant conference and were willing to pay a large amount of materials as compensation and reward, Zhu Jue would have intended to withdraw the troops from the eastern highlands.
The purpose of the current battle in the eastern highlands is simply to delay the pace of the Destroyers as much as possible, allowing the Hairy Forest Ants time to recruit troops and set up defenses on the mainland.
Zhu Jue is not optimistic about the combat power of the Maolin Ant Nation and has ordered to strengthen combat preparations on the eastern front of the Ant Alliance Nation. According to the most optimistic estimates, the Eastern Front will also fall into flames of war this fall, but the combined forces obviously cannot wait that long before joining the war.
From this point of view, we have obvious advantages on the southern battlefield, and we are facing a large number of barbaric ant tribes with low civilized levels. Among them are small tribes with hundreds of thousands of ants, as well as chiefdoms with five or six-digit ant populations. In the Barbarian Kingdom, the scale of battles varies. It is very suitable for experimenting with battle situations ranging from legions to squads. It is the most suitable testing ground!
After entering April, the expansion operation in the southern border area has been fully launched. governor in the south
Under the management of "Ramboser" III, since last spring, the Ant Alliance in the southern border area has been enriched by the migration of a large number of ant colonies, providing a source of power for expansion operations.
The newly conquered military reclamation areas are already relatively stable. Most of the strongholds are guarded by thousands of Ant Alliance citizens and some slave ants. They are self-sufficient in production and can also provide taxes.
Most of the indigenous tribes surrounding the strongholds in the military reclamation area were won over and controlled through trade methods such as crow honey, and some recalcitrant indigenous tribes were exterminated.
"Ramboser III" is using this multi-pronged military and trade measure to extend the tentacles of the Ant Alliance's power little by little in the southern mountainous area.
However, in a large valley in the southern mountains, the Southern Governor encountered stiff resistance. In this valley, there is a powerful barbarian ant tribe, which has dominated the valley through vassaling and other means, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
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The first large-scale opponent "Ramboser III" encountered could only rely on a few field regiments and a large number of militiamen who were both soldiers and farmers. He was able to protect himself, but he was unable to make progress if he wanted to.
The information package "Lamboser III" asked for support would be sent to Zhu Jue by the flying knight within two or three days, but Zhu Jue was busy with the battle at the Great Wall defense line and had no time to pay attention to it.
It was not until this time that the decision was made to transfer the combined force and the other five newly formed ordinary infantry regiments to the south.
"Ramboser III" finally has enough power to launch his valley strategy!
