A string of piercing cheers and whistles erupted from the Sea Clan’s War Ancient Tree.
For the Sea Clan, the Aegean Air Force posed no threat whatsoever.
At this mont, old Liu’s foresight beca apparent, for only the Wingless Jade Air Force equipped with Phantom Beast armor and heavy armor could continue air-to-ground attacks in this situation!
Old Liu naturally understood the importance of air force armor better than the Aegeanians who had never seen an aircraft. What left him amazed was that in Eagle Eye Old Barrel’s view, the giant crossbow bolts shot by the Sea Clan engineer corps’ heavy crossbows were actually dried Arrowfish, Moray, Goldlance Fish, and other large dried salted fish—a comical long-range weapon indeed, but who else but the Sea Clan could have co up with it?
However, the power of these dried flattened salted fish was not comical at all. Whether against the Eagle-Bull people, Pig-faced Bats, or Zeppelin Aircraft, being hit head-on by the sharp and sturdy elongated fish snouts would result in a clean pass-through.
The Sea Clan’s heavy crossbows were superior to most ballistae currently popular. According to old Liu’s observations, the Sea Clan’s heavy crossbows, resembling "Fei Lian" winged bird ballistae in appearance, had extrely stable trajectories. Utilizing the fan-shaped fish fins and flag-like fish tail fins of the dried fish, all fish dry crossbow bolts flew in a regular parabolic trajectory with powerful kinetic energy. Even being grazed by a fish dry was a pure nightmare for air cavalry lacking protective armor!
Even more audacious, each Sea Clan heavy crossbow ca equipped with an annular chanism—this was the crossbow’s sighting device, requiring exquisite asuring instrunts, asurents, and skilled artisans to craft. Paired with densely packed seven-bolt fish dry arrows, air forces that were anything less than swift and well-protected were practically suicidal!
Watching the Desert Dwarfs still leaning out of the Zeppelin Aircraft to toss the orange inflatable aerial bombs down, old Liu couldn’t help but feel sad about Roml’s current heroic plight. Adult Desert Dwarfs had been thoroughly exhausted by him, leaving Roml to rely on the elderly and infirm to make a show of strength. As for the Berserkers of Tel Aviv in their pri, with such a high-consumption battlefield, keeping them in reserve was the only option.
"If the armies of Ares and Seia also had these heavy crossbows, the battle at Witherspoon would have caused over thirty thousand more casualties in our troops!" Prince Kahn wiped the cold sweat off his face after witnessing the power of the military crossbows.
Every country considers the production techniques of heavy crossbows top secret. On the Aegean Continent, apart from the St. Jose Empire, only the historically well-craftsman Elves could manufacture complex, highly accurate heavy crossbows!
Luckily, there was no environnt for using heavy crossbows in the ocean, and fortunately, the manufacturing technology for such heavy artillery is seen as valuable treasure by all. Otherwise, besides Moon Elves origin Naga, more than just that group in the Sea Clan would be ard with this strategic weaponry!
"The progress of the Sea Clan in recent years has indeed been great. I rember last ti in the sea-land war, their armies relied solely on human wave tactics—and the Naga was no exception! This ti, they’ve clearly learned their lesson and employed many tactics and equipnt we wouldn’t have guessed after much thought!" Human military observers all agreed with Prince Lionheart, acknowledging that the two major Sea Clan armies of Ares and Seia, located in the main battleground of Kalimdo, also had heavy crossbows. But those crossbows’ structures were rudintary, with aim that was inconsistent. If they possessed precisely accurate, seven-arrow standard crossbows akin to the Sea Clan’s, humans wouldn’t stand a chance to dominate in weaponry!
Elves are sticklers for tradition, but once these fallen Elves—Naga—tap into their intelligence, the results are terrifying: first drying Arrowfish and Goldlance Fish to make arrows, and then researching and manufacturing heavy crossbows suited for fish dry arrows. Such imaginative concepts are beyond the grasp of most nations!
The scene continued with a grin, as the Sea Clan engineer corps in the rear assembled a large number of clockwork catapults. They wrapped soil in fish skin, ramd it into sturdy earth projectiles, flinging grey shadows in the air, and landing atop the Lucian soldiers with a thunderous explosion.
Prince Kahn’s hair stood on end as he witnessed a Hill King get a severe head injury from an earth projectile, staggering two steps back before not collapsing headfirst.
If the Sea Clan army under Witherspoon City were compared to the Naga army, it would be akin to a rabble composed of a million dumbasses and stupid mules! If other Sea Clans sought chaotically to learn land tactics from today’s Sea Clan before invading Aegean, then Aegeanian land races would be dood for certain!
Every land race mber felt a chill down their spine at the thought that just flashed through their minds.
Roml sent another squadron of aerial Eagle-Bull people, but this ti not for offense, but as rearguard, serving as executioners for the reinforcent battalion. Such an iron-fisted unit was indeed needed to push them forward.
"I never used military police before," Roml laughed self-deprecatingly. "Now that I’m assembling troops, it’s impossible to do so without this type of unit anymore. This reveals the regression in troop quality..."
"At the ti of battle, who dares retreat a step? Whether it’s a squadron leader or a team leader, which one would show rcy to a coward sowing chaos within the ranks? It requires a firing squad to kill and establish authority? Not likely!" Liu Zhenhan’s Sumr Palace Guard never established military police and never planned to form such a disciplinary unit tasked with executing comrades. For him, compliance with military laws wasn’t an imposition through the sword but through the soldiers’ personal developnt. As long as they’re trained regular army, discipline doesn’t need military police oversight.
No matter how jovial professional soldiers are usually, on the battlefield, they don’t dare hesitate for even a mont! Everyone knows that even a minor mistake could cost them their head. People pleading in knight novels for punishnt redemption, sparing from capital punishnt but not from severe punishnt, would never happen in a regular army—once a military order is given, it cannot be changed. Disturbing military law ranks as a severe cri, and a genuinely disciplined soldier would never be so reckless to plead, as that’s tantamount to placing one’s own head on the chopping block!
Jia Bao was caught impersonating "Yi Tiao" by old Liu largely due to principle errors concerning military law issues. The Sumr Palace Guard had no military regulations, but leaving the battlefield without permission is seen as fleeing and betrayal, a high-pressure taboo. Not even an experienced "Yi Tiao" would make such a novice mistake. Even if he dared, it wouldn’t be possible for him to be alive and kicking at ho without old Liu receiving a word of notice.
In essence, the reinforcent battalion represents the commander’s confidence indicator. A leader assured of victory should have the confidence not to deploy reinforcent military police!
It seems Roml’s confidence has quietly beco slightly shaken.
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