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Chapter 47

Besides the immense destruction brought by the natural disaster, a large number of Originium blocks, which had been fully charged due to the negative energy state effect, were also smashed on the ground along with the hail, leaving behind clusters of bare Originium ore. This was the only benefit among all the harms of the natural disaster. After simple refining and mining, these bare Originium ores could be processed into high-quality synthetic jade and other Originium products.

The tornado left a wide scar on the desert, destroying all crops and agricultural infrastructure. Fortunately, it is the beginning of winter, so organizing manpower for emergency repairs is not too difficult.

"The damage statistics are in. We lost approximately 6000 hectares of land and seventeen irrigation canals. The damage to the branch water network is countless. Apart from the scientific research personnel, the residents were not injured or killed because they were notified in advance by the natural disaster messengers and were properly resettled."

How is the soil condition?

"Miss Mudrock and others have checked and found that the Originium particles are excessive. They need to be reprocessed and degraded before being laid. Otherwise, the crops are very likely to fail to meet the food safety standards set by Boss Xia."

Plant roots absorb large amounts of Originium components, which then exist in the fruit and leaves in the form of ionic solutions.

Earth's crops cannot metabolize Originium, meaning their concentration will gradually increase. Xia Lin originally thought that plants did not absorb Originium components.

However, it was later discovered that this was only at a certain concentration. Once the concentration of Originium exceeded the standard, plant roots would mistakenly absorb it as inorganic salts.

Of course, once absorbed, it cannot be metabolized and will be distributed within the plant along the fibrous tubes.

Therefore, to ensure the safety of crops and prevent the worsening of mineral disease, it is essential to ensure that the concentration of minerals in the soil is below safe levels.

Terra's plants may not absorb Originium for some reason, but they have evolved filters that prevent Originium particles from entering their roots, resulting in a relatively high concentration of Originium soil fragments at the roots.

Xia Lin's Earth crops do not have this organ. Originium particles enter the root system along with other water-soluble substances, and then accumulate because they are not metabolized and have no effect. If consumed, Xia Lin will at most experience a worse taste, but for the Terrans, it is no different from eating a slow poison.

"A huge project..." It's almost like turning over the topsoil again, a task that requires a lot of manpower and resources.

However, it had to be done, because preparations for next year's spring planting still needed to be made. Even if Theresis was killed, it was still a major event.

"Furthermore, Rembitox intends to terminate its partnership with us, mainly because..."

The Originium mines in Kazdel and Ursus are Rembitox's main export products, which are heavy industrial equipment and ore.

And minerals are the biggest part of the business, just like Australia on Earth, making it a country that relies heavily on mining.

Now that Xia Lin is issuing Originium Coins, Rembito was initially quite willing to accept this currency, and even planned to imitate this method to issue its own international currency.

However, they soon realized something was wrong. Xia Lin's issuance was too large, which meant that if he did not over-issue and cause inflation, he would have such a huge reserve of Originium. And if he was not afraid of a run on the bank, it meant that the center of international Originium trading might shift to Kazdel because of the circulation of this currency.

There is no friendship between nations, only real interests. In this situation, faced with the choice of either joining this system and being constrained by the other party, or turning against it and completely breaking this monopoly system, Rembitox has begun to waver.

"It's alright, they'll have to waver for a while..." Because both paths have their advantages and disadvantages for Rembiton, and they won't make a decision easily on something that concerns their fundamental national policy.

If the Kazdel Wars continue, the Kazdel New Republic, having demonstrated formidable military strength, will likely encourage its neighbor, Rembitox, to remain calm and cooperative.

It's important to know that Rembiton is located southeast of Kazdel. If Kazdel were to block its foreign trade routes, it could turn the land into a famine-stricken land of the dead within a month.

This is also why Rembitox had plans to terminate the cooperation but did not take any substantial action. They were afraid of siding with the wrong party. Half of Rembitox's industrial parts came from the industrial area of ​​South Cazdale, and almost 70% of its agricultural products and food supplies came from the rural areas of the southern Sarkaz.

The rest came from Iberia, which was almost swept away by the tide and was now covered with sea monsters. They were now mired in nationwide street fighting and counterinsurgency with the Agorians.

Let alone supplying Rembitox, the fact that they didn't even ask for international aid was already a result of the Iberians' stubbornness. They also suffered from food and equipment shortages, with only a few cities able to maintain production, and half of their coastal territory reduced to near wasteland. They had no chance of making any progress in the international community of Terra.

The military aspects of Kazdel are managed by the Doctor, since Xia Lin really doesn't know much about them.

Although he had received paramilitary training and could use military equipment, and had no problem commanding platoon and company-level units, his ability to command corps-level units far exceeded his capabilities.

Moreover, the Covenant's war mode is a standard quality war mode, and its large-scale command skills and experience cannot be applied to Terra. Compared to tactics, they tend to focus more on strategic planning. On local battlefields, they focus more on planning the recovery of their own quality and disrupting the enemy's use of their own quality and their own quality recovery activities than on striking the enemy.

Compared to combat, the focus is more on the construction and maintenance of a solid front and a logistical system, because as long as these two are not problematic, a conventional front-line base can rely on planetary resources to send six-figure basic troop units to the front line every month.

[Using the labor and material costs of one Spider combat drone as one unit, the consumption of other combat units is calculated based on this as a weight...]

Even without considering the number of reinforcements from orbital airborne resources and industrial fleets, the enemy would still face an endless stream of drones on the ground.

Moreover, while it's F2A for the commander, for individual combat units, their built-in chipsets are sufficient to allow them to automatically carry out relatively crude tactical coordination during the F2A process, rather than simply spreading out in a grand, uninterrupted manner.

The Terrans obviously couldn't do that. Therefore, the Doctor was constantly reorganizing the Royal Guard and building another heavy army.

Terra's army is roughly divided into three types: the Royal Guard, which is the front-line combat force, equivalent to the infantry army on Earth. It is mainly composed of infantry, with a small number of heavy weapons and armored forces, and is responsible for front-line combat and occupation.

Auxiliary forces, including logistics, medical, and transportation units, such as motor transport regiments, belong to this category.

They can also perform some combat duties. However, they are primarily used as support personnel.

In traditional Terran Wars, this force consisted of civilians and mercenaries, performing tasks such as setting up camps and clearing battlefields. In modern times, it has gradually become more professional and diversified in its functions.

Heavy Armored Army: A main assault force composed primarily of heavy armored soldiers, armored units, land fleets, and war mages.

It's similar to a combined arms force on Earth, equipped with drones, land-based ships, and armored vehicles. Frontline soldiers are equipped with heavy weapons such as crossbows, and are fully armored, making them very resilient.

The rear-line warriors are mainly warlocks and artillery warlocks, essentially equivalent to a heavily armed armored division on Earth.

In the past, there was also a type of cavalry composed of noble knights. However, only Cassidy still retains this military organization. They are a mobile force, a command force, and an expensive assault force, but they have been gradually replaced by armored units in modern times.

While it's true that generals are always fighting a war, the fact that Terra has never been at peace has led to genuine progress in their military tactics and organization. More and more countries and military experts have realized that past organization and tactics are no longer suitable for the new era.

The mechanically constructed armored fortresses will eventually eliminate all skilled "strongmen" from the battlefield. Why? Because there are only a few strongmen, and they need to be cultivated over decades. Before they can develop bizarre skills like creating billions of clones that can travel thousands of miles, their role on the battlefield will become increasingly insignificant.

War is not a game of fighting monsters. It's not about who kills the most monsters, who gets the MVP, or who has the most kills. Against machines that are almost tireless and whose numbers can be increased at any time based on industrial power, the strong can only hold a few key points or protect VIP commanders. When the entire front collapses, their contribution is negligible.

"How is the reorganization of the Royal Guard going?" the doctor asked. The Royal Guard was the first organized regular army in this faction, and also the first organized regular army in each country.

"The two infantry divisions have basically completed their reorganization, and everyone is adapting well to the equipment. Due to some production issues, they are not equipped with exoskeletons or powered armor," Patriot's deep voice introduced the recent military construction achievements.

"The situation of the two military dependents support regiments is rather bad, mainly due to equipment issues. The progress in mastering indirect fire and anti-armor capabilities is too slow, mainly because most of the soldiers are not well-educated."

Because the use of artillery and Originium Arts requires considerable knowledge and training, whether it is as a caster group providing close-range fire support or as artillery providing long-range support, they all need to have been to school and be proficient in mathematics and various functions.

"The armored battalion under the military command has been in good condition. All Titan Type I and Type II tanks have been delivered, including spares. The repair shop and technician team are also working together smoothly..."

"What about exoskeletons?" This unit definitely needs to be equipped with exoskeletons, otherwise, who the hell can repair those road wheels with their bare hands!

"The preparation and mastery of exoskeletons are also progressing smoothly." The construction of the engineering battalion and communications battalion, in addition to these, is also a bit tricky, mainly due to the level of education. Fortunately, this is not a major problem.

If you need it urgently, you can have them memorize the operation manual and various technical requirements without fully understanding them, and then just follow the manual rigidly.

As for a deep understanding of its principles and mastery of wartime maintenance and simple handling methods, those can be learned gradually during the war.

After all, these days, no amount of talking from the teacher will help. On the battlefield, enemy bullets and swords will make them grow at an astonishing speed and have a very high motivation to learn.

After discussing the Imperial Guard, who were in good condition and, while not necessarily ready for immediate deployment, at least wouldn't let anyone down, it was time to talk about the Heavy Armored Corps.

The Terra Heavy Armored Forces are a standard mechanized force, equivalent to a combination of naval and armored forces on Earth. They have two armed land ships, the Aretosha and the Viper, 12 Type 1 Titan vehicles, and will need to be supplemented with 400 various combat drones in the future.

This includes artillery forerunners that guide the war sorcerer's bombardment, light drones for reconnaissance, attack drones that replace crossbows with MA12 assault rifles, and unmanned bombers that can launch grenades.

Terra doesn't have an air force because they skipped the intermediate stages of propeller-driven fixed-wing aircraft, jet aircraft, and so on, and went straight into the era of drones. Warlocks can establish a sensory link with drones through the Originium Effect Field, which is equivalent to remotely controlling drones in real time.

Some highly educated warlocks can even use Originium spell components on drones to cast spells remotely. From an engineering perspective, this convenient method of operation is much simpler than sending a person into the air, and can provide air support in the same way.

Don't assume that Terra doesn't have an aviation industry or fighter jets, or that it doesn't have air strikes. The "Doctor," who was blown to smithereens by grenade drones in a parallel universe, could easily form a reinforced battalion.

However, due to the heavy load and the Originium Cloud, the drones do not fly very high, so the probability of them being shot down by snipers standing on high ground is still quite high.

However, Kazdel's drones were a little different, because Xia not only improved its flight components, but also replaced the heavy Originium spell components with wet components.

So, the drone units of the Kazdel Heavy Armored Army, or rather, the drone units deployed by the Army Aviation Corps, can be considered to be... well, roughly a few hundred Jaegers flying around in the sky.

"And we still don't have any heavy drones..." Patriot's head ached at the thought of the heavy drones of the aviation sorcerer corps that the heavy armored army was working with.

How many sets of aircraft are qualified?

"No, the logistics technicians are now thoroughly familiar with all kinds of maintenance and repair manuals."

Because on average, we crashed 15 times a month, once every two days. At the most intense time, we crashed six out of seven days a week, and spent the remaining day giving reports and writing self-criticisms to everyone.

The heavy corps is organized as a land fleet, counted as a division;

Two War Warlock Regiments with an attached drone reconnaissance battalion; a heavy infantry division, essentially power armored tanks; and a military aviation regiment and an aviation warlock regiment.

Both military aviation regiments and aviation squadrons use drones, but the latter mostly consist of reconnaissance drones and artillery precursor drones, while aviation regiments are composed of grenade drones and bombers.

The reorganization and establishment of these two groups did not present any major difficulties. The main issue was the training of warlocks. The Sarkaz people had a high aptitude for warlocks, but their general level of education was low. Both groups needed... highly educated warlocks.

The training methods and equipment for warlocks were obtained from Hrag, which can be considered as part of a military cooperation project with the Ursus Emperor. It was an unspoken agreement between the two sides. In Terra, it is mainly used to provide close-range fire support, and can also provide beyond-visual-range bombing in conjunction with drone units.

However, the training of the aviation sorcerer group is full of problems. The main problem is that Xia Lin has crammed a new type of heavy drone into the aviation group, the kind that requires five sorcerers to operate together: one is responsible for flight control, one for perception, two for weapons, and the last one is responsible for filling in gaps and reducing the burden on the others.

Since they couldn't find anyone skilled enough to design flight control programs, Xia Lin had no choice but to resort to a makeshift solution. Since the Terrans had neural link technology and could control aircraft with their brains, they might as well skip the manned mode and go straight into the drone era.

What are the main difficulties?

"Too fast..." The arc jet engine is like flying the J-20 in supersonic mode right after you finish learning the CJ-7. It would be a miracle if you didn't crash.

During taxiing and low-speed phases, the pilots still perform very well. Initially, the plane crash was due to the five crew members' inability to achieve mental unity, but now, after intensive training, they no longer make such basic mistakes.

However, once it entered dive attack mode, the pilot started to feel dizzy, and the Originium sensor's transmission capability was simply insufficient to reproduce the perception at such ultra-high speeds. Thus, in the instant the pilot became dizzy, the device turned into a man-controlled rocket that crashed headlong into the enemy position.

The same reason is that aerial combat training is completely impossible: flying a slow-moving rotary-wing drone is a completely different matter from flying a jet-powered, statically unstable contraption.

"Is there a solution? What about Boss Xia?"

“We’ve come up with a second plan, but… that means all the previous training was for nothing.” Patriot sighed; they had to start all over again.

The reason for the dive attack is that Lao Xia didn't develop any missiles. To be precise, even if he did, the warlocks couldn't manually control the fire, so they could only dive and use iron bombs to lick the ground.

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Outbreak of War

Chapter 48

The northern wilderness of the Sati Oasis is the garrison area of ​​the Heavy Armored Army Aviation Mage Corps, which consists of two separate regiments: the Aviation Corps and the Aviation Mage Corps.

Actually, it's one entity. To be precise, the former refers to the drones and their maintenance, repair, and transportation personnel, while the latter refers to their operators. The reason they are divided into two groups is that the loss of the former would not affect the latter.

One type of heavy drone was completely abandoned. These drones had a streamlined and beautiful fuselage, and the jet power provided by the variable wing box and the Dragonfire wet parts could fly at 1.7 times the speed of sound, and could drop a round of bombs on King Theresis' tent in two hours.

The ideal is lofty, but the reality is harsh. Since the flight control problem has not been solved, it can only be remotely controlled by humans. Therefore, the combat radius is limited by the network radius of the warlocks, and the warlocks are also unable to operate such a fast thing.

"What a pity, I'm so reluctant to part with them—" These beautiful large birds were loved by everyone from the start. Not only were they huge, but they could also carry a lot of equipment, making them much more comfortable than those small drones, but...

"There's nothing we can do. If there's a design flaw, no matter how beautiful it is, it's useless!" A girl with a candy in her mouth plopped down on a crate. "Speaking of which, a new drone is arriving today, right?"

"Yes, new aircraft have arrived, but... the engineering department says they don't look very good." At least not as good-looking as these futuristic attack drones.

"If we still don't perform well, will we be laid off? Or scattered into the drone reconnaissance battalion? I don't want to!" another girl wailed. Going back would be too embarrassing.

The aviation sorcerer corps was almost entirely composed of Sarkaz witches. The reason was simple: the strong men were all recruited to drive armored vehicles and Titans, and the slightly less capable ones were also recruited to drive armored vehicles and wear power armor, or were sent to infantry divisions.

All the male warlocks were captured and sent to the War Warlock Corps for grueling training. Even if some escaped, the aerial reconnaissance battalion needed such promising talent. So... all that was left were girls with warlock talent.

Given that Sarkaz warlocks are indeed on a completely different level from other races, it's normal that they are predominantly composed of Sarkaz succubi.

However, this has led some busybodies to simply call this first warlock squadron in Terra that specializes in flying drones and does nothing else the "Aviation Witch Squadron" or the "Witch's Tea Party" because they don't participate in most of the daily training and seem to have a very relaxed lifestyle.

Yeah, don't ask why strong, muscular men don't fly planes but drive tanks. Imagine the Titan's four sets of eight tracks and its half-person-high, staggered road wheels—if you're not a strong, muscular man, you couldn't even lift the control lever.