Chapter 242 Final Preparation
There are currently nearly two hundred members of the Crusaders, but only a little over a hundred of them have completed training and are officially participating in combat.
If the enrollment is expanded tenfold, it will be a thousand people.
The entire population of Castel is less than 10,000, and the military accounts for more than 10%, which is an extremely exaggerated proportion. To put it simply, it is almost like everyone is a soldier.
Ten times is also the limit of the carrying capacity of the Skitarii. Alexi will disband the original Skitarii and use them as the backbone of the new Skitarii.
With this conscription ratio, almost all the men of Castel's military age will enter the army, and the rest will need to work in factories.
Generally speaking, this is the limit of mobilization. To go further, people over 50 or children under 16 will need to be brought in to fill in the gaps - this is extremely inefficient. After all, Castres is already an industrial country and an industrial island. These precious populations are of little use on the battlefield, but can be put to good use in factories.
Hearing this number, most people took a deep breath and were shocked by Zeus' courage. The empire has been at war for years, and the people here have some common sense about war. This is putting everything on the line!
Come to think of it, the sea level is rising continuously, and if we don't find a way out quickly, everyone will die.
Alexei swallowed and forced himself to suppress the excitement in his heart. People in the North were never afraid of war. He had studied in the Imperial Army Academy for a long time and had a natural yearning for the battlefield.
He turned to look at Chloe, and there was a hint of fanaticism in both of their eyes.
The storm was coming, and everyone was busy in the next few days, even Hughes was busy working around the clock.
Commands were issued one after another, and Castel's huge machine ran at full horsepower under precise instructions.
From factories to the Crusaders, people were preaching and mobilizing everywhere. The people of Castel knew the impending disaster and saw their companions standing with them.
What surprised Hughes was that people did not feel despair after hearing the news. Instead, they quickly became motivated. It took him a long time to realize that perhaps what people feared was not sacrifice, but worthless death.
Guarding their homes, with their loved ones behind them and looking at Castel built by everyone together, there is no better mobilization order than this.
The Fire Moths were incorporated into the Crusaders. This group of people had rich combat experience. They had been causing trouble for the Candlelight Society in the Empire for many years. They were best at boosting morale and maintaining organization when facing powerful enemies.
In fact, he is also very good at inciting the people to rebel against the Holy See, but I won’t mention that.
After discussion, Alexei and Chloe decided to let them temporarily take over the position of political commissar, have the right to make suggestions on battlefield tactics, and the command will still belong to the original system of the army.
The Banshees were not assigned to the Skitarii, but fought as an independent squad. Wearing heavy armor, they advanced quickly on the battlefield, while the Skitarii cooperated with them in the subsequent harvest.
As for the extraordinary beings of the Fire Moths, also known as nymphs, they will not go to the front line of the battlefield. Their unique high-altitude perspective destined them to become the best battlefield staff.
With the presence of both Banshees and Nymphs in the command post, mental links and full-map vision, the battlefield commander has an overwhelming advantage in this era - no, even on Blue Star.
The rifled rifles in the hands of the Crusaders were also replaced with bolt-action rifles. The most difficult part of the bullet had been solved. Hughes directly took out several ready-made drawings and delivered them to the factory for production.
Although the failure rate of the gun is slightly higher due to the limitations of the overall processing technology, its excellent shooting accuracy and power make up for this. The bolt design also makes it easy to eliminate jamming and other faults, and most importantly, it is finally no longer a muzzle-loading gun.
The biggest advantage of the fixed copper-cased bullet is not its accuracy, but the simplification of the shooting process. It eliminates the steps of tearing open the paper shell, pouring gunpowder, inserting the bullet, pulling out the cleaning rod, compacting it with the cleaning rod, and pulling out the cleaning rod. It becomes a cycle of pulling the bolt - inserting the bullet - pulling the bolt.
The firing efficiency is overwhelming.
Hughes actually wanted to try to make a rapid-fire firearm, but the level of metal processing has always been a big problem. The processing precision is not high and the air tightness of the firearm is not good. The most direct reaction is the high failure rate.
A continuous-fire firearm that keeps jamming is no match for a bolt-action rifle that fires steadily. After weighing the pros and cons, Hughes decided to give up.
It's not good to take steps that are too big.
The expansion and restructuring of the Crusaders are almost complete, and conscription is going quite smoothly. If they don't fight hard, we'll all be doomed. Under the tremendous pressure, Castel has become a united force.
In comparison, the armor of the banshees arrived much later. This kind of armor was quite difficult to manufacture, and in the end it was completed by Nini using fossils to rub some key parts into her mud hands.
Although it is difficult to manufacture, the finished product is quite amazing.
When Ash put on a full set of armor and appeared in the cathedral, the entire church was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The huge and heavy shape shocked everyone. It took a long time for people to react. They looked up at Ash, marveling and whispering.
Ash was already tall, nearly three meters tall with his helmet on. When he stood still, he looked like a wall, a wall of steel and iron.
When she charged quickly across the training ground, it was as if a huge steel fortress was rushing towards her. The overwhelming feeling of oppression was truly breathtaking.
Zeus watched it once and felt his heart beating fast. He felt that it was not as shocking as a stroke of luck. He was a modern man who had experienced a lot of information bombardment. When the Crusaders saw Ash charging head-on, they didn't even make a move to escape. They stood there in a daze and didn't come to their senses until a long time later.
The feeling of overwhelming power and the cold, hard heaviness of metal armor are fascinating.
This race is born to be warriors, they are the banshees on the battlefield.
The Crusaders gradually recovered, and when their frozen brains gradually understood that such a powerful warrior was their ally, their original fear turned into fanaticism.
Soldiers naturally desire to be strong.
Many soldiers subconsciously began to recite the scriptures and praise Castel.
This was Hughes' idea, to downplay the existence of religion and shift the object of faith from a person or object to the love of Castel itself.
Loving the land that gave birth to us and paying blood to protect it is more sacred than religion and gods.
The number of monsters attacking the fortress did not increase, and the frequency even decreased. However, people were not careless. More and more monsters were gathering in the distance, and could even be observed with the naked eye.
Finally, after working day and night, the three new airships were completed.
(End of this chapter)
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