Chapter 607 Broken-Winged Bird (V)

Supreme Command.

"Have all the deployed personnel in all war zones been withdrawn? How is the training progress?"

Ji Lin flipped through the report in his hand and asked the staff officer beside him.

"All fixed bases have been withdrawn, leaving only a very small number of reconnaissance and early warning troops. The troops of each lord have entered the training process... It will take two months to organize and train them into division-level units."

Integrate the scattered soldiers into the most basic units that can undertake the battle mission. Each division-level unit can be responsible for a small section of the front battlefield alone.

Lords who can provide a large number of manpower will be organized at the division level, and lords who do not have much manpower will use the regiment-level organization to participate in the battle.

A standard infantry regiment of 1,500 people composed of riflemen and heavy mortars, supplemented by the lords' characteristic support regiment, has become a regiment-level unit under the Supreme Command.

A large-scale division consists of five regiments and support troops, and can reach a scale of 10,000 people.

Whether it is ratmen, dwarves, or orcs, even if they are, as long as they take a rifle, they are riflemen.

The development of weapon technology has smoothed out most of the gaps between species, allowing every humanoid unit with "hands" to be sent to the trenches to fill every gap in the battle line.

Make them the cheapest rifle troops that can fill the trenches.

The organization is naturally based on the wisdom of predecessors and forums. It has been proven by facts that the available templates will not have too many problems.

The importance of various monster infantry and large units has been significantly reduced in this era due to excessive firepower. Both direct-fire field artillery and indirect-fire mortars can easily kill various medium and large troops that could have been slaughtered in the infantry array.

For the first time, the destructive firepower possessed by infantry units completely surpassed defense.

The corresponding is World War I and World War II.

"During this period, we and the island alliance will be responsible for ensuring the safety of the defense line. The ground has retreated 30 kilometers. Don't let those birdmen come up to interfere with our normal production work."

"The industrial command ship has been dispatched to the nearest airspace for production work. It will take two to three weeks to arrive."

The staff officer glanced at the file in his hand and replied.

"But... do you really plan to distribute the production technology of steam spiders and steam mechanized soldiers? Will it make us lose our technological advantage?"

Ji Lin nodded, he knew the doubts of his officers.

"I only plan to distribute the technology to the lords at the division level, and that is the retired next-generation armored machinery technology... This is what they deserve."

The ground lords are willing to form a division-level force to participate in the battle, and they, as the highest command, naturally have to give "help".

Of course, no salary.

It is closer to the self-support of the guards in the Ming Dynasty, and the central government will recruit soldiers to the front line when needed.

Ji Lin nodded, continued to look through the plan report in his hand, and checked the organization submitted by each lord.

"We have already mastered the early armored machinery technology. The third-generation automatic machine unit is developing it. There is no problem in delegating the first-generation technology to other lords... It is better to let them help us see if there are any areas where the structure can be optimized."

He paused.

"As for the technical advantage, our real technical advantage is the industrial advantage brought by the popularization of automation technology in the territory, not the technical advantage brought by steam spiders and steam mechas."

The advantages of size and production capacity are the real advantages.

"Yes, the Engineering Academy is already integrating the castrated version of armored machinery technology... We only need to determine the first batch of division-level lists to delegate the technology, and then retire the old equipment in the warehouse."

The staff officer nodded, Ji Lin took a sip of tea, and stared at the gray sky outside the window.

The technology of steam spiders and steam mechas, as well as twelve retired mechas each, will be given to these division-level lords.

He finally came to this step, and he finally had several strategic combat armies under his command. When the subordinate lords mastered this part of the technology... these troops will become the real mainstay of the battle.

Ji Lin does not need to let his troops participate in high-risk army operations, and can focus on developing floating fleets for ground support and air superiority.

Today is different from the past. The troops under his command are all airborne assault troops piled up with real money, or special mixed assault troops.

If he is asked to use the high-quality infantry of the territory to fill the line and mince meat now, Ji Lin will feel heartbroken.

He feels a loss even if he exchanges one for five.

And the people of the Ring Island Alliance are still holding on to their magic mecha technology.

What he delegated is technology, which can be used by different lords to create different mechanical constructs...including other forms of mechanical troops that the territory does not have the time and resources to develop.

Just like he released the rifle technology, and then borrowed the technical capabilities of others to harvest a batch of new rifle designs.

Tracked, wheeled, truck.

Lightweight, heavy, specialized firepower.

The technology is universal, but the territory's fully loaded research institute has no extra energy to develop new bodies and sub-models.

The research and development priority of heavy aircraft is much higher than that of ground armored forces.

With heavy aircraft, the mobile operation platform of the industrial command ship can deliver attack firepower at a longer distance and give the enemy meticulous "care".

"And they will eventually use our crystal ore fuel. All technical troops are designed around hydrogen polymerization ore. Ordinary coal has too low calorific value and cannot replace our special fuel."

Using our technology, even the fuel must be purchased from us, and only Ji Lin is qualified to produce crystal ore.

The steam engine troops without the corresponding fuel are just a pile of slow-moving scrap metal, and the alternative fuel thrown in is not as thermally efficient as the special crystal ore fuel.

After the popularization of technology, the demand for fuel will make them more united around the Supreme Command.

United by his side.

Ji Lin looked at the staff officer, who showed a clear expression.

"The troops of the Holy See seem to be preparing for some action...Do we need to take the initiative and carry out a "punishment attack" like before?"

The supreme commander glanced at the map. The only thing left in the entire defense line was the front-line material distribution center.

Any frontal attack on the battle line cannot bypass this fortress anyway. If the fortress is not destroyed first, it will be attacked from the side by the garrison and suffer heavy losses.

"No, we wait for them to hit us..."

"Let the patrol team be on standby 24 hours a day."