Release that Witch - Chapter 1217

[Chapter 1188 War Summary]

In the meeting that followed in the next few days, the General Staff reviewed and summarized the entire process of Operation Torch based on Asha’s backtracking and the search results of the Taquila ruins.

Reports were sent to Roland’s desk almost every day, and they were piled up front and back, almost half a person’s height.

More and more details became clear one by one.

For example, the huge sacred stones that appeared successively in the Battle of Wangbei Slope and the siege of Taquila all came from the sacred stone veins in the ruins.

At the bottom of the mine, the detective team found the corresponding missing part of the ore cluster—the two medium-sized sacred stone pillars were cut in half, and the cross-section was very smooth, as if it had been sliced by a sharp weapon.

Although the backtracking ability cannot be used near the sacred stone, from a global perspective, it is likely to be related to the giant skeleton.

In fact, the latter is not only a means of transportation, but also has the function of a small obelisk, which can regenerate the red mist, as evidenced by the corroded land around the ruins.

However, compared with the Obelisk, which can easily cover hundreds of kilometers, its coverage is only one to two hundred meters, and it cannot be created out of nothing, and it still needs the supply of the red line to maintain it.

As a “sentinel point” that can move freely, its strategic significance is self-evident.

The conclusion given by the staff department is that compared to the spider demon, this super-large carrier is probably a rare species for the devil, otherwise it can completely replace the role of the outpost and occupy the Fertile Plain before humans react The whole territory.

In addition, most of the passages behind Taquila were dug out by spider demons—their digging ability is far inferior to that of devouring worms, but it is still much better than mad demons.

These passages all start from the God’s Stone Mine, and the depth from the ground obviously takes into account the threshold of observation ability, and with sufficient preparation time, it is by no means an easy task to discover.

Since both Celine and Agatha tend to regard the giant skeleton and the spider demon as the same type of devil, Roland also gave it a new name: monstrosity, to distinguish the carrier-type enemy from other devils, plus a specific prefix , you can quickly name an undiscovered monster of the same kind.

Currently, these two types of carriers are named “fortress-type monstrosity” and “spider-type monstrosity”, and the latter is further divided into Type 1 for throwing stone needles and Type 2 for throwing personnel. The accurate names are not only conducive to combat deduction It is also more convenient for post-war statistics and records to be issued with orders.

In addition to the detailed analysis of the battle situation, another focus of Roland’s attention is the shortcomings and areas for improvement listed by the General Staff based on the results.

Among them, Edith personally made a report, which was also ranked first among many problems, and it was still the shortcoming of the investigative ability.

Aside from the sky, in the history of human warfare, tunnel warfare has always been limited by excavation tools and cost-effectiveness. It has always been a unique trick and cannot be used as a conventional tactical method.

However, this rule does not apply to devouring worms and spider-type monsters—as long as enough carriers are gathered, the enemy may even dig an underground passage for the army to pass through in a short time. The land has also become a dangerous area that has to be guarded against.

There is no doubt that Sylvie alone is not only unable to take care of it, but also extremely uneconomical.

When the magic eye sees through obstacles, the consumption will be greatly increased. Under the condition of a fixed total magic power level, it can monitor the target ten kilometers away from the surface for a whole day. If it is replaced by scanning the ground, it is only the size of one or two football fields , a shallow layer three or four meters deep.

What’s more, except for extraordinary people, there is a threshold for the abilities of all witches. When a certain condition is exceeded, the magic power consumption will show an exponential rise. In this case, any non-emergency behavior is a waste of magic power .

This security work must be undertaken by the First Army itself.

Roland vaguely remembered that in history, two warring parties used underground monitoring to prevent each other from digging tunnels and raiding positions. Clearly capture the movement of the opponent’s digging.

However, this method is limited to the tunnels being dug near the position, traps like Taquila that have been set up early, listening alone cannot solve all problems.

After thinking about it over and over again, he came up with a feasible method – poking.

This is a detection method widely used in the civil engineering industry. As one of the two dogs of science and engineering, he often heard it mentioned by his roommates in the civil engineering institute.

To put it simply, it is to smash a steel bar vertically into the ground, and judge the softness and hardness of the soil layer according to the distance of each hammer.

The test points are generally distributed with plum blossom piles at intervals of several meters. As long as a detector is equipped, a few people can complete a large-scale inspection.

When the sinking data of steel bars suddenly increases, there is a high possibility of voids below.

The combination of listening and detecting can basically ensure the detection of underground threats without using the witch’s ability.

As for the reconnaissance of enemy situations in the air, the only way to get rid of the dependence on Lightning and Maggie is to develop the air force.

As for when this part can be made up, it depends on Tilly.

In addition, there are many conclusions in the report, such as “too much reliance on positions” and “lack of rapid support capabilities”, which made Roland feel helpless while lamenting the rapid improvement of the staff’s level-it’s not that he doesn’t know these things Problems, but limited by the population of Neverwinter, it is difficult for him to make up for the above shortcomings in a short time.

Finally, among the many reports, one opinion caught his attention.

It was a report from the grassroots of the army, submitted by a logistics officer.

According to the report, under high-intensity combat, the performance of the Mark I machine gun is not stable, UU reading www.

sonicmtl.com After the decisive battle, many soldiers in the machine gun squad complained that they spent more time replacing the barrel than shooting, which also caused a considerable burden on logistics.

Hope engineering can improve it if possible.

This is also the first time that Roland has received direct feelings from frontline soldiers after the establishment of the feedback mechanism – as personal users of weapons, they are the group of people who know the pros and cons of weapons best.

In fact, as early as the attack on Tower 1, he noticed an abnormal growth in the scrapped gun barrel, but since these parts could be recast, he didn’t pay much attention to it at the time.

Thinking about it now, it should be due to the lack of experience of the shooter and the sudden increase in the pressure of the enemy.

Soldiers are more nervous during night battles, and it is difficult to confirm the results of the battle. They will not let go when they almost press the trigger.

The air-cooled barrel itself is not as good as the water-cooled barrel in terms of endurance, and the previous combat intensity can basically be handled. Now that the shooting time is long, the heat dissipation cannot keep up.

This also made Roland feel a little vigilant. The reason he used the air-guided recoil and air-cooled barrel at the beginning was purely because he wanted to use one gun for multiple purposes. If he designed it according to Maxim, it would not conform to the “universal” idea, but the actual effect Not as ideal as he expected.

Although the production of tracer bombs and the increase in night combat experience can alleviate this situation, the enemy’s troops on the Western Front are only a small number.

If it really comes to the point where the main force is in a decisive battle and the devils are flooding the mountains and plains, the impact of the heavy machine gun’s misfire will be fatal.

Fortunately, this report made him realize his mistake.

The solution is to separate the two, and replace the heavy machine gun specially used to suppress the enemy with a longer barrel with heat sinks, and no longer consider the multi-purpose issue.

The general-purpose machine gun, which can hold a charge and is suitable for vehicles, is re-designed based on the Mark I to make it meet the needs of future wars.

[End of this Chapter]