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Chapter 147: Miscellaneous Troops
"One, two, one...one, two, one..."

Amidst the loud calls, the player Black and White Bear walked in the dense crowd, holding a big gun. The fish-scale armor on his body rustled, as if accompanying his steps.

"It's so spectacular..."

Monokuma sighed. He looked around. The troops on either side were like two steel torrents, advancing in unison. The soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder, their steps firm and powerful, their weapons gleaming coldly in the sunlight.

This is a team composed entirely of players, with only a thousand people. Although this number does not sound large, it seems that there are even fewer people in a middle school.

However, when these one thousand players were wearing armor, holding high flags of various colors, maintaining five columns, and walking in two teams on flat ground, they still gave off the momentum of a mighty army, with thundering footsteps and billowing dust.

This is a temporarily formed infantry regiment. Among the thousand people there are individual soldiers and battle group players.

There's not much to say about individual players; they're basically people who like to play solo or in groups of three or five friends.

As for the players of the warband, their origins are varied.

In addition to the Extreme Warriors, more than ten regiments including the Mountain Tigers, Han and Tang Warriors, Liaodong Cavalry, Roman Guards, and Xiao Erlang Backpack Group have members signed up to participate.

The commander of the infantry regiment is elected by the members of the infantry regiment through collective voting among five highly reputable players.

Then in the vote, the captain of the Han and Tang warriors successfully became the commander of the temporary infantry regiment and was awarded the rank of colonel.

Black and White Bear is a member of the Han and Tang Warriors Corps. He was originally a happy individual player until a few days ago, when the leader of the Han and Tang Warriors Corps pulled his hand and said that he would be given a set of fish scale armor as soon as he joined the group, and as long as he joined the group for more than a month, the fish scale armor would belong to him.

Black and White Bear couldn't help it.

Fish scale armor, Tang-style fish scale armor, this set of equipment is so cool and beautiful!

Not to mention practicality, let’s just talk about the ornamental value. How cool is the Tang-style fish scale armor? In the eyes of Monokuma, this fish scale armor is much cooler than the so-called Western plate armor.

The fish scale armor of the Han and Tang warriors' regiments is not only beautiful, but also an improvement to the current battlefield environment.

The material is upgraded to high-carbon steel, and the torso of the fish scale armor uses thickened plate armor as armor plates, while the limbs retain the fish scale armor to maintain flexibility. At the same time, it is lined with cotton armor and uses a multi-layer structure to cushion the impact of projectiles.

With this improvement, due to the upgrade of materials, the overall weight of the fish scale armor did not increase too much, and it can also withstand the shooting of large-caliber muzzle-loading muskets at medium and long distances.

If you are bombarded by a large-caliber musket at close range, there is no way to defend yourself. Except for modern heavy bulletproof armor, any modern armor is useless, including Western heavy plate armor.

All in all, Monokuma now wears fish scale armor on the battlefield, which is not only aesthetically pleasing but also practical.

Now, Monokuma, because he is a member of the Han and Tang Warriors, was specially selected by the regiment commander. Together with other regiment brothers wearing fish-scale armor, they carried spears and flintlock rifles, held high the flag with the word "Han and Tang" on it, and acted as pioneers and walked in the front.

Behind the more than one hundred Han and Tang warriors were ancient Roman enthusiasts wearing Roman muscle armor, holding high the Roman eagle flag, and carrying flintlock rifles on their shoulders... members of the Roman Praetorian Guard.

The members of this regiment are also a minority in the player community, and their style is particularly incompatible with the warriors of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

And then further on, it comes from...

This was also a side effect of Chris's attempt to stimulate player spending. To stay afloat or to maximize profits, player-run blacksmith shops launched a wide variety of products. Some, like fish scale armor, weren't particularly outrageous. Some even released sci-fi "Gundam"-style armor.

Fortunately, everyone knows that this Gundam armor is just a good-looking thing but useless. Players are willing to buy it just for collection, and they will not wear it on the battlefield.

From Black and White Bear's personal point of view, he felt that this temporary infantry regiment was a bit of a mixed bag. For an infantry regiment of one thousand people, there were more than ten different specifications and armors and flags of different cultures. Chaos was inevitable.

However, the messy armor and flags did not mean that their formation was in disarray... On the contrary, the ranks of these thousand men were very neat and their steps were in unison.

After all, they are all players who have received compulsory education and no less than three modern military trainings, and their discipline is better than that of professional soldiers of this era.

"Stop, stop now, form up, form up!"

The leader of the Han and Tang warriors was shouting in a shrill voice at the front. He was riding on his horse and gesticulating towards the open space in front of the team. Then, thousands of triangles emitting green light quickly appeared in the players' field of vision.

"Brothers, the enemy cavalry is charging towards us, quickly form a battle line!"

This green light is the command system owned by the player. As the commander, the player uses the virtual light frame to swipe and use a command system similar to Total War.

If you are commanding NPCs in combat, you will also need messengers or attendants such as sergeants to assist you, but commanding players does not require that much trouble.

Among these cursors, Black and White Bear had already seen the red light belonging to his position. He quickly ran forward with his gun, knocked away two guys who were in the way, and walked to his own position.

The formation that the temporary leader asked the players to form was a modified hollow large square formation.

The Han and Tang warriors holding four and a half meter long spears stood in the front row, and the other players holding two-meter long halberds and axes and spears were in the second and third rows.

They stood shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, in three dense horizontal rows, at the front.

Players equipped with flintlock rifles and two tiger squat cannons are on both sides of the square. They do not need to be arranged very neatly. The commander's requirement for them is to open fire when the enemy enters the range. When the enemy charges, they hide in the spearman square and continue to fire from inside.

The black and white bear in the middle of this improved large square formation had no idea of ​​its combat effectiveness.

Just give it a try first.

"I'm coming!"

The officer with the rank of second lieutenant and the position of company commander, who was in charge of a hundred men, was shouting as he rode his horse past the front of the long spear formation.

"One hundred and fifty enemy cavalrymen are heading towards us, five hundred meters away!"

Monokuma stuck the tail of the gun into the ground, stepped on it with his foot, held the gun barrel in his right hand, and took out a telescope with his free left hand, and then he saw the enemy.

They were cuirassier shock cavalrymen, each of them riding a tall horse, looking very majestic.

"Fuck, guys, their horses are awesome. Be careful later, don't kill the horses when you chop people!"

(End of this chapter)