Chapter 54 Ten-person combat team, five-person medical team
Shu Xin wanted to ask in return, "Otherwise what?" In her understanding, magic wands were equivalent to guns, bullets, and medicine. In peacetime, they could be stored away in the warehouse to collect dust. But now that war was about to break out, if the soldiers weren't given weapons now, when would they be? Were they supposed to go to the battlefield empty-handed?
However, Shu Xin thought for a moment and did not answer. Instead, she inquired carefully and learned that this was a common practice. In order to prevent the flower fairies from losing, damaging, or abusing the magic wands after obtaining them, the magic wands that were made were all stored in the warehouse.
After all, the wands that the flower fairies can get their hands on are usually low-quality ones that can't be graded. In order to ensure that the wands have a certain durability, they are only distributed to the patrol team members on the day before the harvest month.
But the magic wands in the Land of Sin aren't exactly low-quality wands either...
Shu Xin then asked about the specifics of how to repel the monsters from the outer continent, only to learn that the patrol team's battle plan was completely nonexistent.
Once the harvest month begins, the flower fairies belonging to the patrol teams will take turns patrolling and guarding the wheat fields day and night. If any monsters from the outer continent invade, they will wave their magic wands and swarm them. If the previous patrol team is wiped out, the next patrol team will be quickly arranged to take its place. They will wear down the monsters from the outer continent by sheer numbers.
...In other words, the lives of the patrol members and the inferior magic wands they received were both disposable items.
No wonder the patrol team has such a high injury and death rate!
Shu Xin didn't know what to say after hearing this. The flower fairies wanted to have as many children as possible, probably not only because they were protected by the Flower Goddess, but also because the mortality rate during the harvest month was too high!
After carefully examining the existing magic wands, Shu Xin was not surprised to find that the magic wands that Nonoli and Pengpengan called general-purpose magic wands were engraved with all offensive magic runes, with none of them being defensive or healing.
Fine, fine, the lives of slaves are not lives, nor are the lives of commoners!
Although a weak will to live is a serious problem, Shu Xin could understand the situation in the Kingdom of Ganar. However, understanding was one thing, but this matter couldn't be left unresolved.
After some research, Shu Xin arranged for the magic workshop to produce a batch of auxiliary general-purpose magic wands engraved with defensive runes, healing runes, and repair runes. She also specifically instructed Nonoli and Pengpengan not to be stingy with magic crystals and to use all the ones they could.
After confirming that there were enough magic wands available for all the flower fairies in the Land of Sin to have one, Shu Xin first halted the production of offensive magic wands. Except for the two workshops that produced auxiliary magic wands, which were operating at full capacity, all other magic workshops were shut down.
After instructing that all the magic wands be distributed to the patrol team members, Shu Xin immediately announced that all the flower fairies who had signed up for the patrol team would undergo full-time training.
The remaining flower fairies who did not sign up for the patrol team were divided into groups to build training grounds, while the rest continued to build magic workshops. Shu Xin was thinking that if other workshops needed to be built in the future, these magic workshops could be easily modified and put into use. This would also save the flower fairies from being anxious because they had no work.
As for the patrol team's training, Shu Xin had no choice but to bite the bullet and do it herself. Although her understanding of troop deployment was limited to some well-known military maxims, she knew nothing about how to use magic to fight against the magical beasts from the outer continent. She thought about asking Xi for advice, but no matter how she called him, she couldn't wake him up. She could only rely on herself!
Shu Xin first counted the number of people: Including herself, there was 1 Flower Fairy, 2 Flower Fairy Nobles, 53 Flower Fairy Servants, 236 Flower Fairy Slaves, and 617 Flower Fairy Commoners in the Land of Sin; among them, 11 Flower Fairy Servants and 374 Flower Fairy Commoners signed up to join the patrol team, which made up a total of 385 Flower Fairies in the patrol team.
Shu Xin had never fought a war, but she had played competitive games. After much deliberation, she decided to divide the 300 flower fairies into 30 teams of 10 each, and the remaining 85 flower fairies into 17 teams of 5 each.
The ten-person team is entirely a combat team. However, Shu Xin arranged for six of the flower fairies to carry offensive magic wands, while the other three flower fairies carried defensive, healing, and repair magic wands respectively. The last one is the captain, who carries a high-level magic wand. The five-person team, on the other hand, all carry only auxiliary magic wands engraved with healing runes, making them an emergency medical team.
Shu Xin wanted the ten-person combat team to focus on training in how to coordinate effectively.
She required the attacking team members to wear a defensive shield before attacking, and to minimize the time interval between the shield dissipating and reforming. The captain had to make good use of acceleration magic to maintain the formation and ensure that each team member had a defensive shield when attacking. The support team members had to increase their casting speed to ensure that at least three team members could attack under the cover of the defensive shield each time. The flower fairy Shu Xin, who wielded offensive and support magic staffs, did not have to be fixed; the team members could change the personnel at any time according to the situation.
Shu Xin had only one training requirement for the medical team: to activate the runes and release healing magic as quickly as possible.
Before the training ground was built, Shu Xin used the magic workshop that was no longer in use as a training ground. Using transformation magic and illusion magic, she turned the withered leaves of the Tree of Life into small yellow flags and planted them on the roof of the magic workshop. The two combat teams were required to capture the same small yellow flag and hold it for a certain period of time without being touched by the opposing team members. Whenever a flower fairy was touched by an opposing flower fairy, Shu Xin would instantly eliminate that person. In this situation, only by casting a shield in time could the person be prevented from being touched.
The teams compete in pairs, and the winning teams then face off again in pairs until the final team emerges victorious. All team members are rewarded with a dessert of the day.
After the training ground was built, Shu Xin placed countless small yellow flags in various corners of the training ground, both above and below ground. Under the same condition that they could not be touched by the enemy teammates, the patrol team that captured and held the most small yellow flags within a certain period of time would win. The winning team would still receive a dessert as a reward for all team members that day.
The medical team doesn't need much training space, but Shu Xin has allocated a portion of the space for them. The member of each team who activates the healing runes on their magic wand the most frequently and fastest each day will receive a dessert reward.
With 17 medical teams supporting 30 combat teams, and each combat team equipped with support personnel, the safety of the flower fairies should be somewhat guaranteed. In addition, with Nonori and Pengpeng providing support, and Shuxin herself responsible for guarding the last line of defense, this harvest month should pass smoothly.
"I think it's possible," Shu Xin thought to herself, feeling a little uneasy.
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Author's Note: Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 19:09:28 on July 23, 2024 and 20:52:43 on July 24, 2024!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the landmine: Xitong (1);
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