Chapter 922

Boom!

Ryan drove the "Gotham" Star Destroyer, using the astral world as a springboard, and returned to the main material world after two teleportations, and came to the New World.

In front of you is an invisible mountain range, which runs from northeast to southwest. The peaks in it are not high, most of them are only a few hundred meters above sea level, and many relatively low hills form a continuous mountain system with a width of hundreds of miles. It is like a huge natural barrier on the plain.

This is the Valekia Mountains on the east coast of the New World.

Ren identified the location, about 230 miles west of Gotham City, within the illumination range of the Goddess of Magic.

The Star Destroyer has the teleportation authority of the magic torch, so it can cross the space blockade.

Flying tens of miles westward, the land along the way has been reclaimed into fertile farmland. Although it is a bit far away from Gotham City, after several years of development, several villages and small towns have been established and wide roads have been repaired. Allows cars and carriages to drive side by side.

It's the spring plowing season, and the farmers are driving agricultural machinery to work in the fields, which is a thriving scene.

Who would have thought that just six or seven years ago, there were still countless undead wandering here. .

Soon, a barracks built at the foot of the Vallekia Mountains appeared in sight. It was the "Hamilton Training Base" built last year, one of the three barracks owned by the Duke's Guard.

This barracks occupies an extremely large area, and the most conspicuous thing from a high altitude is the huge playground in the middle. The ground is poured with cement, and the side is more than two thousand meters long, enough to accommodate three Star Destroyers to land together.

In fact, this playground is the landing pad for the Star Destroyer.

Dozens of buildings are scattered around the playground, command center, soldier dormitory, canteen, shooting range, martial arts training ground, library, leisure center, ordnance and ammunition depot, mechanical workshop, prayer room and meditation room, etc. There is a closed gate outside the barracks. High walls, bunkers and forts are built on the walls, and electro-optical cannons are installed.

Hamilton Barracks is only half built, but it has been able to provide training for 50,000 troops, and less than one-third of the facilities are currently in use.

It was the first time for Ren to come to this barracks.

But through the eyes of Lei Zhutianbing, he knows everything here like the back of his hand.

At this moment, there are groups of soldiers standing on the playground of the barracks. They are wearing the same silver-white armor and closed helmets. They look exactly the same, like clones, standing in a neat queue, as if they are about to be inspected.

The roar of the Star Destroyer didn't disrupt their formation, and they didn't even raise their heads.

Wren let the Star Destroyer descend and disarmed the invisibility field.

The sky darkened instantly.

The 600-meter-long battleship seemed to be pressed down from the top of the head like a mountain. The vibration caused by the huge volume and weight made the entire barracks tremble, as if an earthquake had occurred.

The soldiers finally couldn't help raising their heads, and there was a commotion in the team.

They are all wearing helmets, which only have a "T"-shaped black mirror on the front, and their faces are completely invisible, but it can be seen from their actions that everyone is in strong shock, even the instructor They reprimanded them loudly, but failed to calm them down.

The Star Destroyer landed slowly, and finally hovered about ten meters above the ground. With a bang, it opened the hangar gate on the side of the armor.

In everyone's eyes, Ren appeared.

Standing at the front of the line was the First Company of the Ultramarines, sixty Ultramarines wearing power armor, and the company commander Sicarius took the lead and shouted loudly: "Meet the Duke!"

The Ultramarines followed suit.

Behind them, under the leadership of the instructors, all the soldiers on the playground half-kneeled towards Ren, and shouted in unison: "Meet the Duke!"

"Get up."

Ren stood at the door of the hangar, overlooking the army on the playground, and his majestic and calm voice reached everyone's ears.

The Hamilton Barracks has undergone two recruitments and currently has 10,000 troops in training.

Just built a division.

Ren copied the formation of the army in his previous life and organized the soldiers of the Duke's Guard into a team of ten, three teams into a platoon, three platoons into a company, four companies into a battalion, five battalions into a regiment, and five regiments into a regiment. A division, and officers at all levels including captain, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, regimental commander, and division commander, the number of the entire full-staffed division is about 10,000.

However, at present, all the officers above the company commander are held by Lei Zhutian soldiers, and only a few people with command ability are appointed as deputy.

Hamilton Barracks trains the 1st Division of the Duke's Guard.

Two other barracks, one in the Duchy of Augustus and one in Calanos, formed the second and third divisions of the Duke's Guard.

In Rennes' plan, before the end of his consul's term of office, the Duke's Guard will build ten divisions with a full staff of 100,000 people to form the first army of the Imperial Defense Army.

Every member of the Duke's Guard is trained with the Black Soul Potion.

When I was still an ordinary person, I took the black soul potion to strengthen my soul, passed the first soul transformation ceremony, and then fused with the demon soul to become a superhuman. After the three-month effect of the medicine was over, I immediately continued to drink the potion, and always maintained the effect of the black soul potion. , to increase strength at the fastest speed.

Ren has already invested tens of millions of gold shields just for the black soul potion and the demon soul.

Including weapons and armor, daily training expenses, and military pay, the average investment in each person is close to two thousand gold shields!

So much money and resources have been poured in, and finally the initial results have been achieved.

The first division of the Duke's Guard is all extraordinary. Among the first batch of 5,000 people, more than 2,000 were promoted to the second level of extraordinary. The instructor who served as Lei Zhutianbing has trained for a whole year in the way of a modern army, and has formed combat effectiveness.

However, training is training, and no actual combat experience cannot become a real iron-blooded army.

Today is the time for actual combat training.

Ren's eyes fell on the back of the Ultramarines. There were five phalanxes, each with 400 people. They were the elites of the Duke's Guard, all of whom were Level 2 Transcendents, and more than a hundred of them had outstanding talents. , has been promoted to the third level in just one year!

"The first regiment of the first division, board the ship."

Ryan gave the order directly.

He didn't say a word about the pre-war mobilization declaration. In the usual training and life in the barracks, the instructors and mentors have already said too much, instilling loyalty to the Duke into the minds of every soldier, and let them remember Live, everything I own is a gift from the Duke.

From now on, I must obey the order unconditionally and fight for the glory of the Duke!

"Get on board!"

With an order, the officers at all levels lead their soldiers to move, take steps, and advance in a uniform manner. The formation is like a whole moving.

bang bang bang...

Two thousand soldiers of the first regiment entered the hangar of the Star Destroyer on the inclined deck made of alloy.

"Continue training."

Ren's voice spread throughout the playground, "When you reach the second level, you will have the opportunity to participate in the battle soon, work hard!"

"Obey, Your Excellency the Duke!" The remaining 8,000 people on the playground responded in unison.

When the Ultramarine Company also entered the hangar, the gate was closed, and the Star Destroyer immediately lifted off and disappeared into the sky.

On the bridge, Sicarius took off his helmet and approached Ren, "Boss, are you really not going to take action today?"

"What do you think?" Ren asked back.

Sicarius smiled awkwardly and said helplessly, "Okay..."

Today's goal is to let the Duke's Guard grow up in battle, practice the tactics of usual training, and improve immediately if there are flaws, and practice as they fight, until they form a modern army that is completely different from the extraordinary army.

If the Ultramarines make a shot, what else is there to fight?

Not only the Ultramarines can only stand by, the Star Destroyer will not enter the battlefield, but only as a means of transportation.

After a teleportation, the Star Destroyer appeared at a high altitude south of Isinger across thousands of miles, flew out of the range of the magic torch, and continued to fly south at high speed. In the hangar, two thousand soldiers boarded five armored warships to make the last inspection for their weapons and armor before the battle.

The armored battleship is the latest combat vehicle developed by Rennes.

Its prototype is a magic airship, but it is no longer the shape of a ship. Its volume has been reduced by half. Car, but it can float and fly.

The armored battleship uses a medium-sized Titan furnace as its energy source and is equipped with six small drive engines.

It has an electro-optical cannon at each end of the top, and twelve blaster machine guns surround the sides. The shell armor is thick and heavy, and it is loaded with a resistance force field, which can withstand three spell bombardments below the ninth ring. The firepower is fierce, and the defense Powerful, a true mobile fortress.

But the most important function of armored warships is to project troops.

An armored warship can carry up to 440 people, which is just enough to transport a battalion of soldiers, and there is still some surplus.

As long as twenty-five armored warships are needed, an entire division can be sent into the battlefield.

The four hangars of the Empire-class Star Destroyer can accommodate almost thirty-six armored warships, more than enough to carry a division.

After a while.

The Star Destroyer has penetrated deep into Kurgos' territory and arrived at the predetermined location.

The target that Rennes selected for the Duke's Guard was a tribe of Netifer demons. This tribe is about a hundred miles away from Raleigh, with more than 20,000 people. The chief is a legendary high-level demon, and there are thousands of abyss knights in the tribe. , is relatively well preserved.

The purpose of the battle is to destroy the entire Demon tribe!

The difference in the number of enemies and us is ten times, and except for the Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers officers, all of them are second- and third-level transcendents, and the difference in strength is like a world of difference.

The Star Destroyer hovered at a high altitude more than ten miles away from the Horde, maintaining an invisible state. Ren entered the hangar and personally issued an attack order.

"Set off!"

The gate of the hangar opened, and the five armored warships floated up, flew out in a row, and swooped down towards the demon tribe on the ground in the distance.

The armored warship turned on the invisible force field before flying out of the hangar, and the flying speed was very fast. It could reach a speed of more than 200 miles per hour, three times that of the magic airship, and because it was much smaller than the star destroyer, it could be equipped with a sound-proof force field. Masks the sound waves caused by flight.

In the silent flight, the armored warship approached the Demon Tribe.

The devil was completely unaware of the danger.

The five armored warships slowed down and lined up a kilometer away from the tribe, separated by hundreds of meters. While flying sideways, they opened their bottom armor.

At the same time, the soldiers in the cabin unfastened the buckles on their backs one by one, and fell directly from the open deck.

Teams of heavily armed soldiers descended from the sky.

The armored battleship was about 100 meters above the ground, and the soldiers quickly approached the ground. The floating technique attached to the armor in mid-air was automatically activated, allowing them to land smoothly, and quickly assembled with their teammates to form a formation with the squad as a combat unit.

In less than half a minute, a whole regiment was delivered.

Although they had trained countless times before today, there was still some confusion in the first actual combat. Fortunately, the officers corrected them in time, and two thousand soldiers formed an offensive formation on the ground, facing the demon tribe.

woo woo...

A muffled horn sounded from the Horde, and the Majin finally spotted the enemy.

The whole tribe was boiling, and the demons reacted very quickly. Soon, demons above the legend appeared outside the tribe and rushed towards this side.

"attack!"

The head of the Thunder Cast Heaven Corps ordered loudly.

Two thousand soldiers immediately pushed forward. They maintained their formation but were relatively scattered. They were completely different from the general crowd tactics of the Extraordinary Legion. Everyone had sufficient fighting space and shooting angles, and opened up a thousand-meter-long battle line. Form three distinct offensive echelons.

Just after advancing more than 200 meters quickly, a large number of demons poured out from the tribe ahead, roaring and charging.

"Bazooka, get ready!"

The company commander ordered.

The smallest tactical unit of the Duke's Guard is the "team". A ten-man team is equipped with a bazooka, a sniper rifle, two rotary grenade guns, two Rambo guns and four blaster guns, fully guaranteeing the army's firepower , able to cover ten times more enemies.

The effective range of each weapon is different. The rocket launcher has a range of up to a thousand meters. The power of a rocket is equivalent to the six-ring pyroblast technique, and the killing range is nearly 100 meters.

Suddenly, a rocket launcher was raised.

next second.

Dozens of rockets whizzed out, and the long tail flames dragged out trajectories with low arcs, falling into the demon army.

rumbling...

The sound of the explosion went straight into the sky, and the flame shock wave spread on the ground, blowing the demon who rushed to the front into pieces.

Then came the second wave of rockets for the second round of strikes.

Then came the third wave of rockets to wash the ground.

After three rounds of rocket bombing, the first batch of demons who rushed out of the tribe were almost completely wiped out. Only a few legendary demons survived, but they were also seriously injured, with horrified eyes, and turned and fled into the tribe regardless of their serious injuries.

"keep going!"

The whole regiment of 2,000 members of the Duke's Guard was running like a cold machine. When they advanced to more than 500 meters from the tribe, two soldiers in each team raised their grenade guns.

bang bang bang bang...

Thick grenades were launched one by one, flew into the sky and drew a parabola, fell into the demon tribe and exploded.

The grenade gun they used was the "M32 grenade launcher" that Rennes imitated from the US military in the previous life. It can be loaded with six grenades and has an effective range of 600 meters. The power of one grenade is almost equivalent to that of the four-ring fireball technique. Even ordinary people can use it, and the cost is much lower than that of rockets.

A regiment of the Duke's Guard was equipped with 400 grenade guns, and the 400 grenade gunners pushed forward while finishing six grenades.

2,400 fireballs bombed, and the continuous explosion made the earth tremble.

The demon tribe suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames.

At this time, the Duke's guard had already advanced within 400 meters of the tribe, and a group of abyssal knights riding hell horses maintained their fel shields and rushed out of the sea of ​​flames.

They smashed through the log fence outside the tribe and charged at the enemy, roaring.

Although there are only more than two hundred riders, each of them is an abyss knight above the middle rank, with the momentum like a thousand troops, like a black torrent crushing them head-on. Their leader is the chief of the Majin tribe, a legendary God of the Abyss of Kosuke.

Facing such a terrifying enemy, the offensive formation of the Duke's Guard couldn't help but stagnate.

Although their helmets are enchanted with "psychic protection", which can resist attacks on the will of the mind, some people are still afraid of the power of the enemy and stand still.

"Bazooka!"

"Fire all, blast their shields!"

"Machine gunner ready!"

The head of the first regiment who was Lei Zhutianbing calmly ordered, and more than 80% of the bazooka players overcame the fear in their hearts, raised their weapons to aim at the enemy, and pulled the trigger at the same time.

More than 80 rockets roared out, bombarding the Abyss Knight's fel shield.

The bazooka used by the Duke's Guard is different from that of the Knights of the Holy Gun. There is no phlogiston in the ammunition, and it can be fired without soul power. It is the same as the original bazooka. It was originally an anti-tank weapon with strong penetrating power.

The fel shield instantly collapsed.

The abyss knight was backlashed, vomited blood, and the hell horse under him was also affected, and the charge was interrupted immediately.

But before they had time to adjust, dense gunshots rang out.

da da da da...

The machine gunners opened fire wantonly, and the tongues of flame sprayed out countless bullet storms, pouring on the bodies of the abyssal knights, penetrating their armor, tearing their flesh and blood, and in the screams, they instantly turned on their backs and fell down in pieces.

Immediately afterwards, the dozen or so bazooka players who reacted slowly also opened fire.

More than a dozen rockets fell into the Knights and exploded.

At this time, the grenade gunners also filled the new six grenades. They raised the shooting angle and covered the rear of the abyss knight with firepower.

On the front, the riflemen also opened fire.

There are four riflemen in a team, and they are equipped with "blaster guns". The power of this new weapon developed by Rennes is similar to that of "Avengers 47". One bullet is equivalent to a second-level spell, but the blaster gun fires It is a high-temperature flame beam, similar to the scorching ray of the second-ring spell.

Because the energy beam is easy to dissipate, the range of the blaster is lower than that of the "Avenger 47", less than 400 meters, and the firing frequency is also slightly lower, only three beams can be fired per second.

Even so, the blaster is a killer weapon!

Because it can be used without soul power, one energy magazine is enough to fire 300 times, and the magazine can be charged with the core of Iola and used repeatedly when it is taken to the Star Destroyer.

At this moment, the abyss knight entered half of the range of the rifle rifle, and countless red beams shot out, concentrating on the leader of the abyss knight, and he was submerged by the energy beam before he had time to dodge. A few seconds later, the Demon Chief was reduced to ashes.

The Abyss Knights were also wiped out!

"March!"

"For the glory of the Duke, destroy them!"