From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 245 Northern Intelligence

Big Tooth believes that the carrying method from 'sapling' to 'armor' is still too inconvenient. Why can't the current 'sphere' be kept in the middle as a transit?

In response to this, the witch doctor shook his head and replied,

"Tsk tsk. Do you think I don't know? But it's not that easy to achieve. Now this is a degenerated semi-dormant state of the complete body. If you want to change from the armor and sapling form to what it is now, then it must be abandoned except for

Most of the proliferative components outside the 'nuclear body'."

"That is to say?"

"In other words, it will give up all the proliferated armor layers and almost all the functional totems deployed using these armor layers as carriers. To put it less accurately, it is probably equivalent to letting you return to the state of a fertilized egg and be reborn, right?

"

"You understand that you need growth time, growth resources, and re-drawing the combat auxiliary totem, right?"

"Yes, that's it. So after you complete the assimilation and turn it into armor form for the first time, you have to use it to carve a functional totem to get a complete activated armor."

"In the future, when the armor is slightly injured, it can be restored by the nutrients provided by you in the armor state; when it is moderately injured, it can also repair itself in the sapling state; but after being seriously injured, it will have to return to a semi-dormant state and start again.

Cultivated.”

"Furthermore, if you want to change the structural appearance of its armor form, you must also start from this semi-dormant state."

"I see."

"Okay, then you go back to 'tame' the new implant first, and then 'tame' the armor core. If you succeed in both steps, not only will the armor undergo a qualitative change, but also the 'guns'

The equipment methods may change.”

In addition to the 'big clan', there are many small clans like a sea of ​​stars. They have their own fixed territories and each control many vassal and slave tribes;

"clear."

And if as the practice continues, the warrior's carrying capacity is enhanced again, such as energy conversion speed, nerve reaction speed, etc., then it is impossible to say that it can become a loading platform for large-caliber weapons like the ancient war tree.

"Haha! Okay, let's go then. Remember to come here for a checkup every three days to replenish the implant's nutrients."

In addition, various slaves and vassal races under the clan are also obliged to contribute servants in the war, and are usually used as cannon fodder to fill the lines.

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As the scale of the intelligence mastered by the Republic has expanded, the information on the various races in the North, especially those powerful races among them, has become quite abundant.

First of all, the cross-country performance of heavy artillery is too poor, and its combat radius is greatly limited by traffic conditions. The range of dozens of kilometers is indeed very long, but it is still a drop in the bucket in the face of the long transportation lines brought by the huge area;

As far as this exercise is concerned, after the heavy artillery was transported by rail from the headquarters to the outer north city, facing the relatively backward traffic conditions on the plateau, they failed to keep up with the large troops in the early stage, and were even directly defeated in the middle and later stages.

It was transported back to the main base and put on hold.

In addition, the period of rule of the great chief and his allies over the race and their respective directly governed clans is thirty years, and the last three years of their rule are the ‘Challenge Period of the Great Chief and the Council of Chiefs’ for the entire Rhine population;

According to tradition, the challenge period will determine a challenger group with more than one member and less than twice the total number of members of the current chiefs' council, and the current chief is obliged to lead his own council members to meet the challenge.

Intelligence promotes the demand for weapons, technology realizes the demand for weapons, and new weapons bring new demands for tactics and organization;

Zeng Jin’s team of five trolls has become outdated;

The coordination between foot and horse in the past was too backward.

Third, dispatch intelligence agents deep into the Rhineland's jurisdiction and personally collect information from its hinterland.

Malvina was the third batch of intelligence agents dispatched. By her time, the Republic had already mastered a large number of Hindi languages ​​through the first two batches of exploration, and had included them as 'compulsory electives' in the education system.

Courses are being scheduled.

"Already woke up"

Malvinatis, who had just taken the prisoners, threw away the pursuers behind her and returned to one of the underground bunkers she had set up.

Whether it’s because of the attached ‘deterrence mission’ or the purpose of the exercise itself, training troops will conduct a large-scale live-fire simulated battle in almost every city-state they visit;

Such 'simulation' not only contributed to the aforementioned 'political reform', but also created a huge demand for logistical supplies.

They do not have a strict affiliation with the big clan from which they originated. They only have war obligations and a very low proportion of tax and tribute obligations to the chiefs and the chiefs' council.

Since then, if every Central School student wants to graduate successfully, he must choose at least one language from the dominant ethnic group to study, and additionally learn two additional languages ​​from the disadvantaged ethnic group;

Among the participating troops, there are nearly 100 'Bomber 1' heavy artillery, 160 ancient war trees, more than 300 'Armorbreaker 1' self-propelled combat vehicles, a thousand logistics moose, and 1,500 equipped soldiers.

'Assault artillery' infantry and cavalry combatants.

Technologies being developed such as 'engineering vehicle engines' and 'external armor' have confused the brains of commanders and tactical scholars with excitement;

Information such as the "Northland Flying Arms" also brings new issues to organizational arrangements and weapons distribution.

Most of the above information was confirmed during later on-site visits, but it was indirect information after all, so some of it was later proven to be inaccurate.

‘Cavalry’, as the name suggests, is a type of military force that relies on riding to fight, and its prefixes of ‘air’ and ‘ground’ mark their combat areas.

Malvina is a new generation warrior. She signed up for the ruling government's "Intelligence Specialist Training Program" when she was in middle school, passed the relevant qualification assessment, entered the "Training List", and has since begun to receive certain training programs.

professionally oriented education;

The exercise used the "Outer North City" as the logistics and command base, and used the plateau city-states as approach points, and conducted a two-month march and attack drill.

Among them, the Rhine race, as one of the most powerful races, is naturally the direction of intelligence that needs to be given priority.

Hearing this, Big Tooth nodded thoughtfully, and naturally thought of the 'Assaulter 1' 30mm rapid-fire assault gun, and the 'Air Defender 1' 60mm high-level dual-purpose rapid-fire cannon;

If the two can be converted into such a form and equipped, and combined with external armor and self-implantation, it will undoubtedly be a huge improvement in tactics.

In other words, from the outside world, there is fluidity between these two levels of citizens, and even ordinary citizens seem to have the possibility of becoming core citizens, but the process cannot be seen clearly, like flowers in the smoke.

The clan female, in addition to 'supporting', will also supervise the current chief to accept the tradition during the challenge period, and will besiege him when he escapes.

In particular, in the later intelligence collection, more interesting things were discovered in many aspects such as the classification standards of third-class citizens, the status of mounts, and the distribution of power within the clan.

again

The emergence of reaction chamber weapons, the individual soldier's backpack magazine supply magazine, and the successive application of ammunition supply chains, coupled with the rapid loading of artillery shells on tanks.

All these changes have extended the effective combat distance several times. Long-range firepower projection has become the main method of warfare in the imagined future "overnight". The short- and medium-range combat that once relied on for survival has become a

kind of supplement.

In this step-by-step collection process, the headquarters gradually understood the social form and production methods they displayed to the outside world;

He also initially grasped information about the sphere of influence of the Rhine race, the status of slaves and vassal races under his command, information on powerful military units, etc.

The core, senior citizens and their mounts, together form the Rhineland's 'air cavalry' and 'ground cavalry', which are the most powerful combat arms of each clan and have a strong deterrent effect throughout the North.

A strong male can serve as the chief of up to three neighboring small clans at the same time, and use his own combat power and reproductive power in exchange for the resource support of the females of the clan;

Under the new situation, how to form effective coordination among many "firepowers" with different ranges, different powers, and different target selections, and what kind of organization can achieve such coordination efficiently and stably, has become an urgent problem to be solved.

The problem.

Old-school trolls also have opportunities to study. Every 'Amateur School for Young People' has opened 'Foreign Language Interest Classes' for those trolls who can't sit still and want to be intelligence agents.

And now, Malvina brought the captives to this bunker.

Malvina muttered as she gnawed on the cold bread.

Because of this ruling tradition, the ruling power of the 'big clan' within the Rhineland is basically directly in the hands of the current chiefs and their allies, ensuring their right to speak and the right to enjoy resources during their rule.

There are 14 "big clans" in total, each of which directly governs 50,000 to 70,000 Rhine clans. They usually have a main city and several branch cities depending on the needs.

At this time, a vague voice came from behind, and Malvina looked back in surprise, just in time to see the prisoner who had spit out the gag.

Although she was very dissatisfied and felt that this was a useless relationship, this did not prevent her from confirming the value of the target she captured based on the extended title.

Fortunately in the early days, those city-states were not far from the Outer North City, and moose pulling carts of supplies could relatively easily complete logistical tasks;

But in the mid-term, as the army became farther and farther away from the logistics base, maintaining logistics became quite difficult.

While taking into account the "uncertainty" of the future at the technical level, the military department at this time implemented a plan that was more similar to the transitional plan, using "single-arms squadrons" to form "multi-arms brigades"

, and tried it in the exercise, and achieved a fairly eye-catching effect.

It can be concluded from this that unless the tribes of the North are kind enough to lay tracks for the Republic in advance, the scope of application of land-based heavy artillery will be very limited for a long time.

This is a core citizen who has just grown up. The ground lion mount he killed four days ago also proves this.

An ordinary small Rhine clan usually has thousands of city-state citizens, all of whom live in cities;

Its vassal slave tribes lived in the suburbs and provided food, clothing and other materials to the clan main body in the city-state.

In addition, whether it is a large clan or a small clan, the Rhineland citizens living in it will be divided into three categories: "core citizens", "higher citizens" and "citizens";

The females among the ‘core citizens’ are the ruling group of the clan and have direct jurisdiction over the territory and industry;

Food, usually shelf-stable dehydrated bread, the kind that can knock some vulnerable races unconscious with a stick;

But even so, they are the intelligence fulcrums that the Intelligence Department spent more than ten years to gradually spread in various regions of the North. Whether they are the frontline intelligence agents or the liaison officers in the no-man's land, they live in them.

This is the place.

According to early and mid-term intelligence, the sign of core citizens and high-level citizens seems to be that they have their own mounts, and their citizen levels will be divided according to their physical strength and mount strength;

Therefore, the 'supply problem' has become one of the biggest difficulties faced by this exercise.

Compared with the simpler 'sword, shield, and spear period' before, this situation made the command extremely troublesome, but they did not want to voluntarily give up such a cool and coaxing combat method and return to the simplicity of the past.

Finally, there is the issue of organizational arrangements and coordination of arms;

Technological innovation has brought about the replacement of weapons, and the replacement of weapons has led to the need for innovation in combat methods and organization. However, new organizations and new combat methods have not yet been finalized due to the uncertainty of the future.

So, he nodded solemnly and responded firmly,

"Big Tusk will do his best."

The members of the alliance are all males and will form a council of alliance chiefs to discuss overall affairs of the race.

Four days ago, the first capture of Rhineland species during the mission was carried out;

Racial tradition stipulates that vassal relationships cannot be established between Rhineland clans, and all Rhineland clans can only exploit foreign races, and this tradition has some extraordinary level of binding force, just like the 'Great Chief's Challenge', 'Chief's Challenge', etc.

The rules are the same.

Ordinary 'citizens' do not have mounts. They are all soldiers and form the main fighting legion of each clan. They are an important force to deter the vassal and slave races in the territory.

"Bah, bah. Where am I? Who are you? Why do you want to arrest me?"

For students like her, the 'Authorized Training Program' has higher application standards for 'foreign languages' than ordinary graduates, and Malvina's 'compulsory foreign language' was 'Rhineish'.

This kind of layout in the bunker is the current "standard configuration" of the Intelligence Department in the entire Northland. Since it is a product before the innovation of totem technology, it does not have any of the "functionality" brought by totems.

Malvina understood the meaning of 'mistress' and 'mistress candidate' in Rhine language, and through the intelligence collection that had lasted for several years, she gradually understood the definition of relationships such as 'parents and children';

The space inside the underground is not large, but important food and water supplies are preserved;

But behind the advantages such as firepower, the problems presented by the new equipment cannot be ignored.

Water is extracted from the ground little by little by the roots, but due to design problems it has become stagnant water.

According to the summary of information from various tribes, the relationship between mounts and cavalry has become so close that foreigners cannot understand it, and they even have a status similar to citizens in Rhine society.

At present, the exercise has entered its end. Many mixed groups have made a large circle in the cultivated fields, in the natural meadow areas, in the plateau swamps, and even in the mountains;

After leaving behind a city-state that was stunned in panic, it returned from the east to the southwest of the plateau, preparing to return to the original starting point, Waibei City, and then end this exercise.

Among them, the males, although they will be kicked out of the clan when they reach adulthood, have the natural right to form an alliance to challenge the 'chief' or the 'chief'.

Apart from this, there are only a pair of tables and chairs, a bed, and a cell left in the bunker. The former two are for intelligence agents to write and rest, while the latter is as the name suggests.

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Time: a certain year and a certain month;

Location: Northland, a district under the jurisdiction of the Western Rhine Chiefdom.

She leads the intelligence specialist belonging to the Western Intelligence Department and has been responsible for collecting intelligence in this area for the past three years.

Among them, the alliance headquarters is located in the area where the most powerful clans take over, and its leader is called the ‘big chief’;

A warchief usually directly governs one or two powerful clans, while the rest of the clans are ruled by his brothers or allies;

She locked the prisoner into the cell, then lit a dim oil lamp, filled a bowl of water from the reservoir and began to eat;

After several days of running away, assassinating, and using totems countless times during this period, Malvina was in urgent need of replenishing her body's consumption.

The improvement of intelligence capabilities and the rapid development of technology have not only brought vitality, but also put the entire army in a state of excitement and instability.

These vassal tribes will also be divided into three, six or nine levels according to their obedience and combat effectiveness, and they will bear different production and combat indicators;

Of course, the premise is that the Republic has not made a breakthrough in its cross-country transportation power technology.

Secondly, although the ancient war trees and self-propelled combat vehicles have strong off-road capabilities, their speed and endurance are limited, seriously slowing down the overall marching speed of the troops;

The Rhineland is a united chiefdom located in the west of the continent. Its internal political form is a 'clan alliance' system. If it is explained from small to large, it can be further divided into three levels: small clan - large clan - clan alliance headquarters.

Thinking about these possibilities, Big Ya suddenly felt that a "mission" fell on his shoulders.

As the most powerful and pure warrior at this stage, his progress is not only about "self-growth", but also laying the foundation for the path of thousands of future soldiers of the Republic and the path for the development of military weapons.

If you win, you will continue to rule. If you lose, you will lose the right to rule the territory and serve the winner for 3 years.

This method of warfare not only increases the efficiency of killing, but also makes "supply" become the "life and death line" for maintaining the combat power of the army. The situation where a person with a stutter can maintain 100% combat power can be said to be gone.

Never to return;

When she was in her senior year, she naturally chose the "Intelligence Major" to receive more detailed special training.

The underground bunker was covered in dust, and it didn't look like it was used often;

Several ventilation tubes snaked out of the ground from different locations hundreds of meters apart and grew into the shape of trees. They provided nutrients for the bunker itself while covering its own 'ventilation' function.

The mount of the 'ground cavalry' is a specialized ground type of the former. It is a 'ground lion' that is larger than the 'gryphon' but cannot fly.

It is said that these two creatures are very closely related to the Rhine species. They have fought side by side since ancient times, and to this day there has never been a precedent of them being tamed by other races.

The mount of the ‘Air Cavalry’ is called ‘Gryphon’ in Rhine language, and it is a winged land and air amphibious monster;

The lowest vassal is usually required to contribute 80% of the grain and livestock harvested, while the highest vassal can use blood tax to replace part of the contribution.

The huge momentum and attack power wherever it passed made the ruling government's plan for the city-states on the plateau be implemented amidst the "Nono" sound of its senior officials who neither dared to be angry nor dare to speak out.

The chiefs of small clans are challenged by foreign males, and they also have 10-year ruling authority less than the term of the big chief. In the year at the end of the ruling period, the chiefs are obliged to accept at least three challenges from those who are less than twice the number of their own alliance;

For the time being, such difficulties can only be 'cured by building roads' and 'building logistical supply transfer bases' to 'treat the symptoms', but at the 'root cause' level, everyone is at a loss.

This battle takes place at the end of the last year of the term. The winners will become the new chiefs and council members, and there will be no term limit as long as they continue to win;

Under the constraints of a rule called the 'Sacred Clause', although the loser will not pay the price with his life, he must serve the victor for ten years.

The bread in her hand was particularly bitter, but she still dipped it in the boiled water and started to chew it.

‘Click’, ‘click’.

"The water smells a bit...forget it, I won't die from drinking it anyway, so I'll change it after a while."

Just when Big Tooth was participating in this experiment, many matters were gradually developing to a certain stage.

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In the north, the troops heading to the plateau for training have begun their return journey.

The collection of intelligence can be roughly divided into three stages;

First, the oral description of the earliest migrating horn-hoofed species;

Second, in the early stage of the intelligence department's northward departure, it was indirectly learned from the interrogations of prisoners of other races in the "Central Continent Area";

Therefore, she can now understand and communicate with this 'substitute mistress' without any difficulty.

Malvina put down the food in her hand, stood up, took five steps forward with the chair, and arrived at the cell in the corner.

The dim oil lamp in the room rendered his face very terrifying. In addition, his exaggerated height and muscular to the point of being "deformed" all brought heavy pressure to the "noble man" in the cell.

"Ah!!! You monster! Let me go! My mother and sisters will not let you go!"

Malvina ignored the scream of the female, just put down the chair and faced the cell directly.

(End of chapter)