Xijiang Water Village is so rich.

The continuous flow of iron products, as if endless iron products, had already fascinated the military leaders of Mala City. The comfortable and beautiful clothes and quilts were strongly sought after by the nobles. Even the food they cooked had a special smell... Coins were like flowing water, and quickly flowed from all corners of Mala City to Xijiang Water Village. If it weren't for the fact that there were fighting knights in charge, this village of foreigners would have long become a villa manor of a big manor.

Not every military leader can be patient. Although a knight with level 6 or 7 of fighting spirit sounds terrifying, he looks weak again in the face of thousands of metal swords. Not long after, Kaman, the flag-master of the infantry battalion of the Third Formation of Mara City, began to prepare for war.

It is said that he is a flag-holding officer, but he is actually the head of the army. The soldiers of the third-party infantry battalion are all from Kaman's tribe, so no one can command the movement except him. In the city-state of Mala, such tribes and infantry battalions are the main field force, and they are long-spike heavy infantry that can resist cavalry, which is very rare. As for Kaman himself, he is also a "Temple Warrior" with level 6 fighting skills. He does not know how to fight immediately, but he is not inferior in terms of fighting spirit. He relies on a large number of people and has not weak combat power.

Kaman knew that such a merchant who could sell thousands of swords and swords, either from the Don River Basin, from the central city, or even a temple. Therefore, once the war started, he had to be slaughtered cleanly without leaving any troubles. Therefore, even if he was reluctant, he still gave up one-third of the benefits and invited Rubas, the owner of the First Cavalry Battalion, the only cavalry battalion in Mala City, and left a square formation of 1,000 people to ambush the water village people who accidentally escaped.

All the tandem work was going on very quickly. About a month and a half, Kaman's tribe prepared jerky and other marching foods. The re-repairing and equipment took a little longer. After all, it took time to repair it. Nowadays, cobblers and blacksmiths walked with their eyes wide open.

At the level of the western continent, it is normal to take half a year to prepare for logistics before sending troops. Except for the uneven elite cavalry, they will maintain combat status at any time, and the heavy infantry phalanx even starts to supervise the construction of long spears and armor before the war. The hardwood spears are often more than 6 meters, and the super spears in the back row are 20 meters. They must be used on the shoulders of the front row soldiers, and the loss is also very fast. Especially in the humid environment of Mala City, there are fewer replacing a batch of long spears in three to five years.

At the last moment before the sun sets, Mala City closed the thick walls. The third-party infantry battalion took 20 large ships to head towards Xijiang Shui Village. The soldiers sat cross-legged in the cabin, combing their beards with combs and nails dipped in saliva. Legend has it that only people with neat beards can sublimate their souls under the guidance of the temple messengers. In the army, combing their beards is a kind of momentum, proving their spirit of not fearing death.

Kaman stood in front of the bow with confidence and asked for a while: "How long will it take to arrive?"

"2 sands will definitely arrive on time." The answer was the flag-master of the temple's fleet, a tall and thin man with a fur face. He was wearing a set of cotton clothes with "comeon" printed on it, which was naturally sold by Xijiang Water Village. This kind of clothes may not be more comfortable than silk, but the nobles of Mara City have never worn such strong and close-fitting clothes, so they are quite popular. They can be said to be a fashion trend. Each piece is worth more than one snail shell. By weight, it is not less than a sword.

2 sand is one-twelveth of a day. Going upstream, the speed is already very fast. The big ship belongs to the temple, some are war slave envoys, Kaman uses money, almost tripled the paddlers, and they are all working hard under the waterline at this moment.

Kaman made a sure sound from his nose, but he took out a bag of money from his hand and stuffed it into the hands of the fleet's flag-holder. He smiled and said, "After a while, let the people below rest first, and then help us rush to the river beach in one breath."

"Surrender to the beach, the boat will be scrapped."

"Today's waves are big." Kaman took out another purse and handed it to Maonan.

The latter was confused and nodded silently. The boat was broken and repaired. It was made of money from the temple, and the bag in his hand was actually his own.

Kaman also had a smile on his face. If he rushed to the beach directly, his people would be able to line up in the shortest time, so as not to waste time swimming in the water. Heavy infantry was no more than others. The average weight of 50 kilograms per person would be harsh on the road, and the water would be slower than turtle beasts. In addition, Kaman was also afraid that Xijiang Water Village would react quickly, so he might have to die dozens of people.

"The casualties cannot exceed 100"

This is the requirement that Kaman set for himself, and in fact it is also the requirement that the temple gives to each military head. Heavy infantry is a very useful but very technically corpse. It often takes two years to train a qualified rear heavy infantry. Those older high-level heavy infantry often stand on the inside of the square with shorter spears. The stronger their skills are, the greater their combat power they exert. On the battlefield, veterans are the only choice to maintain the front line. As long as brave and good veterans can maintain the discipline of the square and withstand huge damage, there will be no enemies on the continent.

Kaman was not worried that his heavy infantry would actually cause dozens of people to lose. He could determine the heavy infantry phalanx on the front battlefield. Unless it was in a large-scale genocide war, the loss rate was relatively low. Because of this, although the heads of the tribe could not control the tribe's military commanders used heavy infantry as private soldiers, there were strict regulations on the casualty rate in non-war periods.

If I hadn't been confident that I could capture the water camp within 100 casualties, Kaman would definitely not have sent troops.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that Xijiang Water Village only has three walls. If it were four walls, it would be better than his heavy infantry. If the slave army had to appear and rely on human life to pile it up, it would not be the 40 winding snails, it would have to be five or six hundred or even thousands of them. If it was not stuck outside, it would be a loss.

Kaman felt that he had no choice but to close his eyes with peace of mind and start to enjoy the whirlwind of the river.

In the horizon, the last red glow trembled like a rooster whose throat was cut, trembling and hanging down his head. The dim starlight was as faint as a hen's comb, and the outline of the big ship was vaguely visible. The moving fleet was entirely judging the direction between each other by the rhythmic sound of paddling.

Kaman returned to the cabin and began to prepare for dressing. The equipment of the heavy infantry was made of wild animal skins, and the hardest outer layer of various wild animals was usually peeled off and tanned. The layers of outer skins were then superimposed together. The specialty gum of the north was bonded to form a hard multi-layer leather armor. The temple leather armor made according to the standard regulations can ensure that ordinary long-range weapons could never be penetrated. Not to mention bows and arrows and heavy rocks, even cavalry javelins must be within thirty steps before they can play a role. Not to mention infantry javelins, without the impact of the mount, the javelins hitting the strong heavy cavalry alone may not knock him down - perhaps two ribs will be broken, but in fierce battles, this is nothing, at least it will not affect combat effectiveness.

The young and beautiful escorts of the palm flag then put silk underwear on Kaman, linen inner armor, and then the breastplate of multi-layered dragon skin. In the group formation team composed of long spears and super spears, except for the soldiers in the front row holding long shields, no one else carries a shield. In the process of the cruelest spear, a good breastplate can improve the survival rate several times. Because of this, many soldiers are wearing their own ancestral equipment, and some even embed metal on the leather armor, hoping that they will not be pierced by the enemy's super spear at the most deadly moment.

The shoulder and arm armor are simpler, as usual, made of the second layer of the beast's skin. The helmet is a pointed helmet that does not cover the eyes, wrapped with a little metal to defend against arrows falling from high.

Kaman touched the beautiful face of the entourage, raised his crotch proudly and said, "When I come back, I will love you well. Now I will go and scream everyone."

It takes a lot of time to wear equipment, and it takes even less time to line up. The third-party infantry battalion has a size of 4,000 people, and can be arranged into the largest combat queue. It is 20 rows and 200 people wide, enough to crush a town. In the history of the Western Continent, there were 120,000 slave rebels blocked on a peninsula and repeatedly attacked by two infantry battalions. It took three days and three nights to kill them. Although the troops sent 1,000 people on the road and distributed on 20 ships, Kaman was confident that they could line up in a neatly unified array with just half a meal.

There are 200 people in a row and 15 people in a row, holding an extraordinary gun that is up to 18 meters long, which makes people excited to think about it.

In a moment, the ship made an unpleasant sound of squeezing wood.

"It's about to be stranded." The fleet's flag officer hurriedly notified Kaman.

"Try to get off the boat in a low voice." Kaman immediately issued an order. He was not afraid of being discovered. These were 3,000 heavy infantrymen, either slave legions, let alone those mercenaries, it doesn't matter if they were knights of the same number of people.

Of course, the "Temple Knight" with a fighting spirit level 6 or above should pay attention to it. If you don't have it, you will do your own job.

Karman gathered his fighting spirit all over his body. He was at the level of 6 fighting skills. Under the protection of the square formation, he was not afraid of temple knights of the same level or slightly higher level. He was not a single fight on the ring. At most, he could abandon the lives of thirty or fifty heavy infantrymen and always trap him.

There is only a small flood control embankment on the water village in the distance, and the height of 2 meters is better than nothing. In the dark night, it seems to be buried below the waterline.

The silence in the dark is the most terrifying. The waves that are both regular and irregular washing the river beaches of the delta. The cold river wind whistles by and disappears without a trace.

An alien mercenary rubbed his nose, stood up and stretched, preparing to pee and find a nest to sleep.

A "bang" and "slap" sound suddenly came out in front of me.

The sentry of the "ship" almost roared out. He turned around and ran to the village, muttering in his heart: I had already said that he wanted to build a city wall on the water... I don't know how many people were.

He didn't dare to shout because as long as a fighter level 1 could shoot himself to death with one arrow. Before notifying him and his name a while ago, the mercenaries' ethics were quite limited.

Li Changning is on duty today, plus four alien mercenaries, as well as more than a dozen soldiers from Yuncun and Hunting Village. The latter is equivalent to the secondary machine gunner of heavy machine guns. Although he has been trained, his level is really poor, mainly because he has a stick of strength.

In the Western Continent, no matter what business you do, you will have some punches and hunting skills. Therefore, when recruiting soldiers, everyone rushed to get it. Anyway, they took the spear in their house and stood guard outside. Although everyone distrusts or even fears heavy machine guns, this does not prevent Yu Weichao from using silver bullet attack to train them - the so-called silver bullet is actually a subsidy for heavy machine gunners 5 copper coins per month, and the subsidy for subsidy for 3 copper coins per month, and the village in front of them almost went crazy.

However, the mercenaries have a very professional ethics. They neither learn new weapons from the Water Village nor interfere with their defense arrangements. For these aliens, it is the same wherever they serve in the army. As long as they are worthy of the money they have received, they feel that it is unnecessary to learn new things, because no one knows how long they will work in the Water Village. Judging from their appearance, they will soon have their own army. The aliens are unwilling to make trouble and break the rules.

The mercenary sentry ran out of breath and rushed to the outside of the military building near the village, shouting inside: "The enemy attacks, so many ships."

Li Changning, who was sleeping with the quilt, suddenly woke up. He rolled his bones and his mouth was dry in an instant, and he didn't know what to say. Xiaopang's body was also trembling slightly.

People in the Western Continent have seen the size and strength of the beasts. Li Changning has very distrustled the defense of Xijiang Water Village. Several students who travelled with him also had ordinary thoughts, so when learning heavy machine guns, everyone worked very hard. Although it was an old gun nearly a hundred years ago, the m2 Browning with a muzzle velocity of 930 meters per second will naturally make people feel at ease. Just look at its tough appearance on the gun stand, you can understand that modern new machine guns, some of which are less than 20 kilograms, are called comparable to heavy machine guns, but at best it is a general-purpose machine gun, an expensive light machine gun.

The second leader of the alien mercenary was called "Chang Gun Er". He looked down on the soft and fat Li Changning, and felt like a rabbit selling his body. Now seeing him at a loss, he said even more uncomfortable: "You go to report to the Master Yu Village first, the fifth and eighth, you go to gather people and don't ring the bell first. The tenth and I will take a look."

Li Changning finally recovered and took off a single police night vision device from his waist and handed it to "Long Gun 2", saying, "Use this to see clearly, Yunwu, you go to inform the village master, I'll go to the bunker to take a look. You guys... Yunjiu Yuntou 12 follow me, others are here to stay, waiting for the order."

The reason why stone walls are not built by the river is to save expenses and materials on the one hand, and to provide a broad perspective on the other hand. After all, there are hills and trees in the other three directions. Even slightly undulating terrain will interfere with the firepower of heavy machine guns. However, there is no such problem when facing the river side. The target on the water is very clear, it is a completely open delta river beach. Even large pieces of stone are very rare. If someone regards this place as a landing site, it will definitely be exposed to several reinforced concrete bunker targets.

"I hope the heavy machine gun can be shot through." Li Changning was not very confident, but he believed in heavy machine guns more than foreign mercenaries.

Among the bunkers in Linjiang, No. 15 had the best view. Li Changning trembled while running over. Fortunately, his physical skills were good and he reached the position in three minutes.

The bunker could only be opened inside. He went around a big circle before knocking on the stone door. After getting in, he felt warm.

"Electric stove?" Li Changning's eyebrows were straightened.

The four people in the bunker were sleeping comfortably. They were very unhappy after being disturbed. The Lieba from the Lie Village said with his eyes wide open: "The weather is so cold... Are you from Jiangning? Oh, you are Li."

Yu Weichao and others announced that they were from Jiangning. Anyway, the Western Continent didn’t know where Jiangning was. The world is so vast that there is probably a place called Jiangning. However, since the upper level of the Shui Village is from Jiangning, anyone who comes and goes to the Shui Village will be more careful when they see young people with short hair and a white face.

Seeing that he was recognized, Li Changning felt a little relieved. He took out the observation hole leaning against the castle and said, "You all prepare for it, an enemy is coming."

"Who?" Everyone was nervous.

"I don't know yet." After Li Changning said, he lowered his head and began to check the heavy machine gun.

A heavy machine gun team must have at least two people to cooperate to operate, otherwise it will be exhausted just by changing the barrel. The Browning M2 does not have a water-cooled model, so if you shoot at full speed for two minutes, the barrel will be hot and you have to use thick cotton gloves to replace it.

In addition, the number of bullet supply is large and the guns are relatively complicated than the rifles, so it is still difficult to train a good machine gunner. Several soldiers in the castle were still villagers two months ago. If you want to say that the combat skills of hot weapons cannot be compared with Li Changning, at least they have watched TV or movies.

During the period of checking the machine gun, Li Changning gradually calmed down. He ordered Yuntou 12 to turn off the electric stove, and ordered Yuntou 12 and two sub-machine gunners to get more bullets. The bunkers are now independent, and they will pick up bullets after the war begins, which is dangerous and inefficient.

Looking out from the observation hole, there was only a dark piece, but if you listen carefully, you could detect the creaking sound of the big ship. It was caused by the improper placement of the ship in the river. Li Changning exhaled a breath of turbid air and suddenly realized that there were night vision sights in the bunker, but the distance was relatively short.

He touched the ground twice, grabbed the sights from the wooden box, and leaned over and looked up.

The moment the direction was adjusted, Li Changning's heart almost stopped working.

How many people do this take?

In the dark, the ragged night vision goggles couldn't be seen clearly, but the dense array looked awkward. He grabbed someone next to him and asked foolishly: "Is there any army nearby?"

The fellow villager shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't know."

Li Changning "jammed", pulled the bolt and asked again: "Can the local army fight at night?"

In his impression, the ancient army could not fight at night, and there were too many constraints. The night was dark and the wind was high, so they could only fight themselves.

The machine gunner asked in skeptical question: "Why can't it? The black cats all came out at night."

Black Cat is a kind of animal that is often caught by locals. It has tender meat, small size and is easy to cook.

You said "oh" in your position, put your hand on the trigger, and didn't know if you should pull it down.

There are probably tens of thousands of people below

In fact, there were only 3,000 people below, but when they pounced on the river beach and cooperated with the 20 large ships behind, it was easy for Li Changning to think of the unit "Wan".

Who knows that ships from the Western Continent can carry 150 heavy infantrymen.

The others in the castle could not see the scene on the river beach, and they were all wrapped in clothes and felt comfortable, but they heard Li Changning curse something and put their shoulders on the heavy machine gun.

The heavy infantry phalanx began to move.

"The distance of 100 Changning is nervously adjusting the mechanical cover. The effective range of m2 Browning is 1,800 meters, which is 6 times that of automatic rifles such as AK. In addition to poor accuracy and large weight, it is simply a continuous sniper rifle, and its power is not inferior at all.

In the era without tanks and armored vehicles, heavy machine guns were massacred against unguarded soldiers. The battlefield of World War I was proof that even in the landing operations of World War II, heavy machine gunners appeared in Germany who killed more than a thousand people a day.

Li Changning has learned relevant knowledge and knows that the heavy machine gun in his hand can hit 7,400 meters, which is 7 kilometers away. Now the castle is only 2 kilometers away from the nearest river beach, so it is no problem to penetrate and transport animal skins.

But he did not dare to shoot suddenly. Although there were many castles around him, could the natives rely on it? If only he fired the gun and the other castles did not fire, even if there was a heavy machine gun, it would be difficult to survive...

However, I am the officer on duty in Water Village today. If I don’t shoot, who will shoot?

As the square formation gradually left the shallow water area, Li Changning's sweat was about to drip.

A scholar rebelled for ten years.

Smart people decide things and think too much, but they will find it difficult to make a decision.

"Can't wait anymore. Didn't they find Yu Weichao? She Lei lives not far from the river beach. He transported five idiots, and it would be a disaster if he couldn't find anyone."

"If I don't come, I can only shoot."

Li Changning glanced at the side and ordered: "Are you ready to change the barrel at any time, right?"
To be continued...