The Mina city-state's army emerged from the hilly eastern part of the Vinci into the relatively gentle impact plains. This plain is divided by a large river, and to the south of the river, where the Mina army is now located, is the Dirce Plain, which the Vinci people call “The Warehouse”. It is rich in food, minerals and so on. There are nine neutral city-states in this plain. The resources and population are very rich, but the military is weak. This situation is characteristic of the entire western continent where Vinci is located.
The militarily powerful city-states were all in the mountains, such as Peralta City-State, a large number of troops could only be transported there by air, but the outside troops didn't know the terrain, if there were a few turrets hidden in the ravines and attacked towards the transport airships, that would be a big loss. The Governor's attack on the city-state of Peralta could also only rely on infantry and cavalry to attack each mountain peak. As for the heavy weapons, they were not transported because they were too heavy and for fear of a ground ambush. By the time there was a chance to transport heavy weapons, Peralta city-state had secretly allied with Mina city-state.
The same is true for the city-state of Mina in the eastern mountains of Vinci, and the protagonist's current first strategic goal, the city-state of Frigoro, is built on a cliff. With the help of airships, forces in this terrain can easily fight their way out, while others can't fight their way in. As for the problem of transportation in the mountains, the airships in this world have a capacity of hundreds or even thousands of tons, so the problem of inconvenient transportation between the mountains can be easily solved.
The city-states built on the plains were all M. Mina's legions rampaged through this great plain, and those city-states were transformed into factories by the Minas, and large numbers of natives were trained into armies, just as the British Empire trained Indian troops on Earth.
Renyu was now standing three meters above the ground. Commanding forty muskets and ten three meter tall steel robots. In the game, a unit of musketeers was nine icons, in this world a unit of musketeers had a strength of ninety men. An artillery combat unit is one icon in the game, in reality it is in squads, and a squad of artillery has ten steam cannons under it. A squad of mechanized soldiers is a full complement of ten groups, mechanized soldiers are robots with long blades of blue current flashing on their arms, they are the nemesis of the musketeers.
As for why Renyu was now three meters above the ground, it was because the artillery needed a good observation point. So that they could see the vast battlefield, and of course the best way to command the artillery was to sit on a blimp. But sitting on a blimp and seeing others is also being seen by others, so this small team of robots has a basket welded to the back that only allows one person to stand, and Renyu is standing in the basket, which is equivalent to an artillery observatory that is always on the move.
Inoue Ohno started making these robotic soldiers after Renyu requested them, and after Renyu requested them from his commander, he was able to add them to the army he could command. The steel thighs of this team of robotic soldiers were less than forty centimeters in diameter, making them rather bumpy to walk on. After all, these combat mechanical soldiers were not designed to carry people. In comparison, the steel thighs of the manned mechs were a bit thicker, with the thinnest part being eighty centimeters, which ensured stability when traveling.
As Renyu sat in the basket, he realized how hard it was to feel the bumpy ride. After forty minutes of traveling, Renyu turned pale and eventually vomited, feeling like a flag being waved and fluttering all over his body. It was only when the steel robot reached its intended position and crouched down that Renyu opened the hatch of the carrier and rolled down in a heap.
Finally, Renyu lay motionless like a corpse on the seat of the gun carriage. No one else knew about the good things; the bad things traveled a thousand miles. A few minutes later, the sound of clattering hooves reaches Renyu's ears, and Renyu turns around to see the bald general Kalini riding by with an otherworldly smile on his face.
Renyu quickly straightened his appearance.
"Ensign, I heard that there was a problem with the artillery observation deck you proposed." General Kalini said as he looked at Renyu's pale face.Renyu had a bitter melon smile on his face. The hole he dug himself, with tears in his eyes, he had to fill him up.
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Renyu saluted and said, "Reporting to the General, a little difficulty, but the advantages of observing the backpack still outweigh the disadvantages. We can overcome it."
General Kaneri flung his horse whip and said, "Since you said so, I am relieved. I hope your next battle will be at the level you deserve."
Nearly 30,000 Mina armies and opponents of the same magnitude fought around a city-state as well as resource points on the vast Great Plains. In such a large battlefield, the Supreme Commander could not keep track of the details of the battle of all the armies on his side. The highest commanders on both sides of the battle began to decentralize.
Three hours ago, Renyu saw Andrew disappear out of view with three musket squads, a squad of cyborgs, and a mechanical spider with a rocket launching system. Information about Andrew's combat was only available from the Spark Telegraph. There were about a dozen squads like Andrew's in the entire battlefield.
They intercept enemy scout units in the field. Sneak up from behind when the enemy is preparing to attack a neutral city-state or other facility. Or they may rob the enemy's commercial airships. Creating battle opportunities for the main force. It was due to such tactics that the entire Great Plains had become a battlefield.
Renyu realizes that nearly all of the surviving Travelers are now assigned to such a harassing force, and it seems that a general test for every Traveler is coming, along with the start of the second mass death of Travelers.
Each traveler belongs to a different such unit, and of course the better the previous performance, the more power they have in such an outposted army. Andrews, for example, leads an army on his own and has a lot of autonomy. Inoue Ohno also leads an army by himself, and he leads a very elite force of ten Viceroy mechs with stubby mechanical legs that look like walking cabinets, and two teams of mechanical spiders that can fire rockets. This force is practically an armored battalion.
Teams assigned to fight independently are first and foremost at the mercy of the Supreme Commander. If the squad completes the mission ahead of schedule and a new order has not yet been issued for this gap, the outgoing team may go on a mission that they deem worthy. Until the commander telegraphs a new mission to you with an ESP.
Each outposted army's combat mission is different; Inoue Ohno, for example, commands a high-value, highly-protected army with the highest level of security for the mission, and on several occasions Giacomo gives Inoue Ohno a fair amount of self-judgment; after all, the Supreme Commander doesn't want to lose expensive heavy mech armament, either.
As for Andrew's army the danger level has to be a bit higher because dead colonial troops can be recruited again. It wasn't Mina's elites who died anyway. Even though Renyu had heard the main characters of this world emphasize the justice of conquering Venucci over and over again, the bloodshed of war could never be hidden if one looked deeper.
As for the other travelers, they didn't have the right to command the army on their own to accomplish the mission like Andrew or Inoue Ohno did, they didn't have a higher rank than the natives of this world, so they had to continue to follow the orders of the native officers to accomplish the mission.
"You, get up there ......" a bearded lieutenant, full of ferocity, yelled to his squad of soldiers, rows of soldiers formed a queue to shoot at the cavalry charging towards them, even though the opposite side of the chest-armored cavalry hadn't yet reached within the effective killing range of fifty meters.
A total of hundreds of heavy cavalry holding a cold and shiny long sword to launch a charge, metal plate armor reflecting the light, raised high long sword is very sharp, heavy cavalry tread on the ground vibration. It made the will of these people who had just specialized from farmers into soldiers instantly collapse. Less than ten cavalrymen were shot and dismounted during the shooting, and then these soldiers were dispersed by the heavy cavalry.
A Negro traveler happened to be in this party, and the last thing he saw when the high horseman came crushing down on him in a titanic force was the flash of a dazzling blade toward the region of his neck.
The brutality of war makes it easier for the lower ranks of the army to die in battle. This can be seen in the plight of the traversers, Inoue Ohno and Andrew lived and died as those soldiers under them. As for the other traversers with lower rank levels, all of them are left to kill each other with their opponents. It's either you or me on the battlefield, and after seeing a lot of dead people, even more thoughts and minds will be worn out.
Chimura Niiyama, the young Japanese with tattoos on his arms, often wore a sneer on his face that didn't care about anything when Renyu first met him. When Renyu saw him again ten days ago, his expression was dull, his hair was disheveled, and in his eyes was the numbness and melancholy of war.
Everyone grew up, those who didn't want to grew up died in the war, and only those who survived the war years knew how precious peace was.
As the bad news of the removal of one traverser after another came in, Renyu forced himself to be constantly alert to his surroundings from the back of his cyborg. The gun carriage under his own command drove around Giacomo's mech. Seven thousand musketeers, a huge army of six hundred cyborgs moved slowly across the land.
Renyu was not sent out to hold the army in check, and the forty steam cannons he commanded went behind the right flank of this main force. Upon demonstrating a talent for commanding artillery, Renyu was selected to follow the main force forward.