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"Does the First Army have this training program?"
"You do not know?"
"Uh, I don't know."
"Well, I also heard from the company commander that Corps Commander Domit selected a group of soldiers for secret training a few days ago. The training goal is to learn how to operate the radar."
"Radar... I remember this thing is used to detect the enemy?"
"Yes, it can detect enemies beyond the field of vision."
“Drones can also be used.”
"Different."
"where?"
"I don't know the details, but I heard from the company commander that with radar and drones, we won't need to use our eyes to aim at the enemy anymore."
"Really?!" The gunner turned his head and looked at the driver's profile.
"That's what the captain told me anyway."
"You're just not sure?"
"Oh, never mind. We'll know after the announcement."
"Too."
The convoy went further and further away along the dirt road, and soon turned a corner and disappeared behind the mountain.
…………
Night is coming.
At the foot of an unnamed mountain, the Bauhinia Corps was busy setting up camp.
The legion commander was the commander of the army, so he naturally did not need to do these trivial matters himself, so he found a rock by the stream and sat down.
His aunt walked out of the camp with her hands behind her back, still wearing the armor that covered her entire body.
It was very strange. She was obviously a blessed woman. Even if she didn't reveal her identity, her aura was unfaithful. But the soldiers she passed by ignored this extraordinary woman and kept their heads down doing their own busy work.
"Aunt." The legion commander looked up and saw her.
"Call me Lord Shenyou."
The legion commander was too lazy to care why she asked him to change back to the formal title. He could only say that women of all ages were the same, their moods could change at any time. He was powerless to resist and could only obey obediently: "Lord God Bless."
"Ah."
"Do you have anything to do with me?"
"We march less than a hundred miles a day. When will we reach Lake?"
"Our mission location this time does not involve Lake."
"God's blessing has the right to take over command."
"Then you should give the order directly, Lord Shenyou."
"Call me Auntie."
"I..." The legion commander sighed deeply, "Aunt."
"Good boy." The woman smiled behind her helmet, and took a few steps forward to rub his hair. "Please understand my aunt's wish to see her lover again soon."
"You just recently..."
“It’s been almost two years!”
"Two years is a long time for a God to protect you..."
"Woo——"
A sudden wail from the sky interrupted their conversation.
The legion commander looked up in confusion, and heard what sounded like a dragon's cry, but why did the sound feel...
After a while, seven flying dragons emerged from the clouds, swaying in the air, and landed in front of the two people.
The legion commander narrowed his eyes and stared at the seven knights who jumped off the flying dragon: "Where is your legion commander?"
They looked at each other, then lowered their heads in silence.
The legion commander raised his eyebrows. "You are the only seven left? And you encountered multiple Saints?"
"No..." A knight looked a little embarrassed. He said a word and paused for a while before continuing, "We encountered the legendary Lake First Army. They... used a strange magic item.
Uh, maybe it's not a magic item, I don't sense any magical fluctuations."
The legion commander didn't seem to care about such a heavy loss. He looked at the woman beside him with interest: "Aunt, it's very interesting."
“I’ll go check out this legendary First Army.” The woman waved her hand, turned and walked away.
She had anticipated this scene, but she didn't expect it to happen so soon.
The legion commander turned his gaze back to the seven people: "So, the only information you got after being almost completely wiped out was that the enemy was from Lake's First Army, and they used a strange weapon that seemed to be a non-magical item?"
The seven knights were silent for a while, then said in unison, "Yes."
“It’s really disappointing.”
"It's our fault."
"If it's not you, then is it mine?"
Faced with the legion commander's crazy sarcasm, the usually arrogant dragon knight didn't dare to retort at all and just endured the scolding.
The legion commander seemed to find it boring to scold a few knights who had lost their spirit. He stood up and said, "There are only seven flying dragons left. They are no longer capable of fighting. Go back to the empire and apologize to the king."
"Yes."
They straightened up, looked at each other, and jumped onto the dragon with bitter faces.
It was they who attacked without authorization. The scene of the legion commander's admonition was recorded in the crystal, so there was no possibility of shirking responsibility.
After returning to the empire... the seven survivors had to bear the king's wrath alone.
Ruined.
The images in their minds were all of the cruel punishment they were about to suffer, and they relied almost entirely on instinct to control the flying dragon into flight.
The legion commander looked at the back of the flying dragon disappearing into the sky and said coldly, "A bunch of idiots."
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Zhang Mu was on his way back to the headquarters.
He had expected the First Army to completely annihilate the Dragon Cavalry with zero casualties, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
How long has it been since the First Army set out from Kedun City?
It was only a few hours, although it was a long way to go.
You have to know that the First Army is composed of armored vehicles and troop transport trucks driven by the entire army. Unlike the commandos who only rely on their own legs to travel, an hour is enough to travel dozens of kilometers, and this is still the speed limited by road conditions.
Zhang Mu is already planning to build a highway along important cities.
Once completed, Lake's troop transport capabilities will be improved by several levels.
In addition, Joffrey's magic armored vehicles, magic tanks, magic trucks, etc. are all under development. If they are successful, the overall strength of the First Army will usher in a qualitative change.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Mu returned to the command center and found Domit to ask for the specific battle report of the annihilation of Feilong.
Because the battle ended so quickly, when Zhang Mu arrived at the scene, the First Army had already cleaned up the wreckage of the flying dragon and set off to return to Kedun City, so he didn't know any details of the battle.
Domit gave a brief account of the story, and Zhang Mu burst out laughing after listening to it.
Although they had guessed that the Dragoon Regiment, which had never seen anti-aircraft guns, would suffer a head-on blow, they still didn't expect that this "blow" would be so painful.
"I think the Bauhinia Legion has received the news by now and will definitely go crazy and launch a revenge. The Second to Seventh Armies are speeding up to the front line. Although the new recruits have experienced many wars, they are using original weapons. It is still too difficult for them to deal with the full professional legion."
Domitt looked strange: "Marshal, you are only half right."
"Ok?"
"The drone detected that the lucky seven flying dragons that survived have indeed returned to the Bauhinia Corps. However... the Corps Commander does not seem angry. Instead... he has been maintaining a leisurely pace."
"Is there still this?"
"Yes."
Zhang Mu was a little confused: "What tricks are they playing?"
"Not sure." Domit lowered his head and flipped open the battle report, scanning the text while saying, "Drones can collect sounds, but only at close range.
The Bauhinia Corps has a large number of professionals, and the Corps Commander is a Saint, so we can’t get too close.”
"Then forget about it." Zhang Mu turned and walked out the door. "No matter how they play tricks, there are only so many of them, and they are all within our sight, so they can't make much waves.
As planned, the legion went to the front line.
As for me, I will go there after I return to the capital."
"Yes!"
Chapter 393 Epic Promotion Conditions
It is very convenient for Zhang Mu to go to Wangdu. Using the light gates set up in various places in Lake by the "world", he can arrive there in just one minute.
But he had things on his mind that needed to be sorted out calmly. In addition, the Bauhinia Legion was advancing at a snail's pace for some reason, so it was still too early for a battle to break out. Therefore, he chose to fly to the royal capital from the sky.
Being high in the sky, the view is extremely broad. You can see the endless wilderness, the winding rivers that run through the wilderness, and the green mountains that stretch for thousands of miles on both sides.
However, Zhang Mu was not paying attention to the beautiful scenery before him and his brows were furrowed.
What the hell is epic?
Judging from the conversation between the commander of the Bauhinia Legion and his aunt that was overheard, epic poetry seems to be the foundation of the empire.
But strangely enough, epic is not the king of the empire.
According to what the two men said, epics do have a very transcendent status in the empire. Even the king cannot enslave them, but epics cannot ignore the king's orders.
In the continent of Thor, where the strong are respected, this is obviously beyond common sense.