Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

A group of soldiers in leather armor at the Suxincheng military base

are training on the playground, and their mental outlook has changed dramatically from a few months ago.

Everyone's eyes were bright, their steps were more neat and brisk, and the slogans of training were also loud.

"Five kilometers! I love you! If I don't run for a day, I want you to die

!" "One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four!" The

slogans of each company were mixed together, and each soldier shouted slogans desperately, trying to cover the slogans of the other companies, as if his voice was louder than others, he had won a battle.

There are also companies running laps on the playground, and the company commanders of two of the companies are still more energetic, and the two of them are veterans running in the front, and no one is convinced, but the recruits and soldiers behind are miserable, and they are desperate to follow the two company commanders, and the rear of the team is even more out of breath.

Lei Ming trotted in front of Su Zheng with two adjutants, and then immediately gave a military salute to Su Zheng.

"Your Highness, you see, your training methods are really effective

, one by one, day by day, more and more energetic!" "Good! very good! very energetic!" Su

Zheng is very satisfied with the current state of these soldiers, and Su Zheng dares to guarantee that even if these soldiers are replaced with cold weapons, they are much more powerful than the soldiers of other city-states.

With the supply of big fish and meat every day, coupled with high-intensity physical training, every soldier is like developing again, and they have grown stronger and taller.

"Oh my God, are you planning to dominate the world?"

Noelle exclaimed in amazement as he watched the soldiers' training momentum.

With such high-intensity training, what else can you do besides preparing for war?

"When will there be a war?" Noelle

looked at Su Zheng with a grin, his hand clenching the saber at his waist.

"Haha, don't worry, come, get to know him, this is called Lei Ming, he is the military commander, he is the supreme person in charge here, this is Adjutant Luo and Staff Officer He. Her name is Rothschild Noelle, and she's a... Enchanter!.

"Hiss!" Su

Zheng introduced several people separately, and when Lei Ming and the others heard that Noelle was a magician, they all took a deep breath in surprise.

"Miss Noelle, I want you to show your abilities, okay!"

This is the issue that Su Zheng is most concerned about, and it is also the issue that Lei Ming and others are concerned about.

Seeing that several people were looking at him with expectant eyes, Noelle nodded in agreement, and then took out a jade pendant-like thing from his waist, Su Zheng took a deep breath and made a gesture of please at her, signaling that she could show it.

Noelle held the jade pendant and closed her eyes, and then the jade pendant emitted a faint white light.

Su Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Noelle intently.

Immediately afterwards, Noelle opened his eyes, put away the jade pendant, and looked at Su Zheng and the others with a smile on .....his face

"Huh?"

Su Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then looked at her suspiciously, seeing that Su Zheng was a little puzzled, Noelle was also stunned for a moment, at this time her inner thought was, how could these people not be surprised when they saw this magical scene.

"Huh?"

Su Zheng, Lei Ming and Lei Ming's adjutant glanced at each other, all of them looked confused, and only the staff officer showed some surprise.

"Huh

?" "Huh

?" "Uh

?" "Hmm?"

Su Zheng and the three were puzzled, and Noelle was also puzzled, and the four of them sent question marks for a long time, so that the staff officers also joined this puzzle chat group.

Su Zheng opened his mouth to end the chat with question marks between them:

"Uh, excuse me... Can you show it?"

"Ahhh This..."

Hearing Su Zheng's words, Noelle was stunned, and he didn't know what to say for a while....

"That.... You should call some people first..."

"Ahh Oh..."

Su Zheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then waved his hand at Adjutant Luo.

At this time, Su Zheng seemed to understand that he, Lei Ming and the others had all seen He Jing's strength, so it was natural to think that all magicians were like He Jing.

But the fact is that many so-called magicians may not be as good as the deserters who were discriminated against by He Jing that day.

Adjutant Luo quickly brought ten strong soldiers, and before they could salute Su Zheng, Noelle said directly to them:

"You guys go up together!"

The soldiers were stunned, and then looked at Su Zheng one after another.

Su Zheng nodded, and the soldiers looked at Noelle again, and then looked at each other again.

"Little girl, you have such a big breath!"

"This... Are you going to single-handedly pick us up?"

"Don't take it lightly, this is probably a hard stubble!"

The soldiers quickly formed a circle in Noelle and took a fighting stance.

"Come on!"

Noelle first removed the saber from his waist and placed it on the ground, and looked around with a breezy face.

"Up!"

Ten soldiers pounced on Noelle at the same time, Noelle jumped directly, did a backflip in the air, jumped outside the encirclement, and then quickly rushed towards the soldiers who did not react, and at the same time punched the two soldiers, and the two soldiers were directly knocked away.

Then she quickly attacked the other soldiers, and after a few moves, all the soldiers were knocked to the ground before they could punch.

After a battle, it still has the flavor of the friars fighting in a fantasy movie.

Noelle's speed is far beyond ordinary people, her strength is also very strong, and her fists and legs also have a hint of Chinese martial arts.

If you change to ancient Chinese costumes, it really looks like those heroines in fantasy movies.

"Not bad!"

Su Zheng nodded, from a mortal's point of view, she is indeed very strong!

Looking at Su Zheng's understatement, Noelle's heart is not at peace, Su Zheng doesn't seem to be very satisfied with his strength.

Su Zheng clasped his hands to his chest, looked at Noelle and thought for a moment, and then said

, "You will be a military adviser in the future! You will be colleagues in the future, and you can communicate more."

"Yes!"

Su Zheng felt that she could be trained, it was obviously inappropriate for her to be a guard, this strength could not be compared with the musket, and the guard with the musket organization was completely competent.

And she also has experience on the battlefield, and she has more practical experience than everyone present, including Lei Ming, so it makes sense for her to be a military advisor.

At the same time, this position is also an idle position, and Su Zheng can provide her with some military books to try to cultivate.

Then Su Zheng looked at Noelle with his hands behind his back and asked

, "If you really plan to stay here, then you have to be prepared to lose contact with other people for a while, and in the future, I will arrange a study task for you! I will also inspect you! Only if you pass it completely, you are qualified to stay!"

Hearing this, Noelle was stunned for a moment, and looked at Su Zheng with some surprise, but he didn't expect Su Zheng to speak with such an attitude after seeing his strength.

"You now have one last resort, you can choose to leave, or you can stay.

"Since I chose to stay, I won't leave! I feel that your territory gives me a peculiar feeling! There is no sense of oppression in other places, and I see a rare peace and harmony here, which is why I chose to stay."

Noelle puffed up his chest and looked at Su

Zheng and said, but when he heard Lei Ming, he touched his head and said: "Hey, this sentence is so familiar...."

Su Zheng heard Lei Ming's words, turned his head and looked at him suspiciously, Lei Ming patted the back of his head and said:

"Oh remember, that's what I said to your father at the beginning......

" "Haha, it seems that I have some magic power here!".

Su Zheng laughed, then looked at

Noelle and said, "Okay, in that case, let's go, I'll take you to the shooting range first!"

Su Zheng turned around and got on his horse and waved at Noelle.

.

On the way, Su Zhengchao asked

Leiming: "By the way, Leiming, how is the organization of the Sequoia Battalion?" "

500 relatively good grenadiers have been selected, and I plan to let Li Zhen train them.

"Hmm!"

The current army totals 3,000 regular troops and 2,000 recruits, all armed with smoothbore flintlock pistols.

After the initial industrialization, Su Zheng originally developed a fixed-mounted cartridge shell gun, but soon Su Zheng found that although there was already a production process of smokeless gunpowder and metal cartridge shells, the production cost was extremely high, in addition to the lack of production technology, and the cost of raw materials for smokeless gunpowder was extremely high.

In the end, Su Zheng only made a batch of single-shot breech guns using metal cartridge shells, and only 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and then discontinued the production of this gun. These guns were also only armed to Su Zheng's personal guards.

On the one hand, the extremely high cost and technical shortcomings make it difficult to produce them now, and on the other hand, there is no need to use them.

In Xizhou, it is completely enough to have a flintlock pistol, black powder is simple to produce, and it is powerful enough to make Xizhou tremble, and there is no need to spend money in vain.

However, Su Zheng also developed and mass-produced a batch of rifled muskets, similar to flintlock pistols, and the ammunition was breech loading.

However, the firing mechanism changed from striking flint ignition to the use of a striking fire cap, and the rifling was added to the barrel, which greatly increased the power and range, and the increased manufacturing cost was also within an acceptable range.

In the end, Su Zheng felt that a small group of vanguard troops were equipped with this gun, after all, the cost of fire caps was not low, and the main thing was to use flintlock pistols.