Chapter 574 Chapter 536: Phantom of the Wolf Rider

Two months passed like this, and after two months, Du Wei came up with a new trick again! He persuaded the high command to second 800 soldiers from the imperial security office to enter this military academy! Then he dispersed the 108 cadets. Among the 800 ordinary soldiers, each of them served as a low-level officer. The most with a hundred. These officers have led soldiers when they were in the local area, so they have done these jobs very well.Du Wei gave them ten days to get acquainted with his subordinates, and stayed with these soldiers all day and night!Every morning and evening, they have to participate in the normal drills of these soldiers, but during the daytime, they continue their military academy courses.

And after ten days passed, many officers finally realized the effect of Du Wei's school rules! First of all, in terms of implementation, the officers took the lead in strictly obeying the school rules, so that none of the soldiers below dared to violate them!Then, the strange rule established by Du Wei that the officers must eat after the soldiers finished eating made the soldiers quickly develop a good impression of these strange officers! This era, after all, is still a feudal era. In the army, officers enjoy many privileges.Now the officers eat and live with the soldiers, of course, these ordinary soldiers quickly feel grateful.

"If your subordinates are still hungry, but you are full. Your subordinates don't have enough cold clothes to endure the cold, but you wear a high-quality leather robe... such an officer, don't expect to get the sincere support of the soldiers! " The reason is very simple, Du Wei wants to abolish the traditional privileges of noble officers in the army of the Roland Empire! Under Du Wei's strict order, these officers lived in the same barracks as soldiers and ate the same food as soldiers!Take the lead in obeying the school rules!Du Wei even stipulated that every night, the officers must go to bed after all the soldiers are asleep!

It was these rules that made those guys feel boring before, but these people got the support of their subordinates in ten days. Of course, ten days was too short after all, and it was just some gratitude from the soldiers' hearts.But this is the first step that must be completed for controlling an army! In Du Wei's view, except for the Northern Storm Corps, which is the most powerful in the empire, none of the local defense forces in the empire can achieve this seemingly simplest first step! After the ten days were over, Du Wei started a new course, this time it was not a "deduction", but an actual combat!

The place where the college is located is a military fort built by the empire many years ago. There is a large enough place here, and there are various buildings, barracks, headquarters, buildings, and peripheral sentry posts, fortress walls, arrow towers, etc. etc…… Du Wei started the "Practical Acting" course! Each lesson is very simple, he randomly designates a building, maybe a weapon storehouse, maybe a section of earth wall, or an arrow tower, maybe just a row of barracks! Then he will divide the 800 soldiers into two parts, and let these student officers lead their own soldiers to fight!

Du Wei made full use of all the terrain in the academy, and let these officers lead people to play a "war game" here. Of course, in this kind of acting, in order to avoid casualties, Du Wei wrapped the so-called long swords in cotton cloth, and took off the tip of the spear.They also brought in several priests and doctors who are good at healing of the light system, plus Du Wei himself, a powerful magic pharmacist. Continuous actual combat performances allowed the officers to actually test their tactics.The scale of the acting has also developed from the beginning of the small team confrontation, the squadron confrontation, and finally the big team confrontation!Or a confrontation between a battalion and a battalion!

In order for these officers to develop actual combat command experience, Du Wei kept mobilizing troops from the Imperial Police Station. Finally, three months later, the number of soldiers stationed in the Imperial Military Academy had reached 2,000. !A real infantry battalion! ! Du Wei also formulated a series of promotion and relegation systems!In the confrontation, the officer who made a mistake and lost in the end will be demoted!The winning side will be promoted, the original column leader can be promoted to captain, and the captain can be promoted to squadron leader... Because they were unable to go to the battlefield, these simulated actual combat performances also allowed these officers to accumulate some preliminary command experience.

By the way, our future Lord Gabriel, Earl of Rolling, also took the initiative to postpone his coming-of-age ceremony because he was obsessed with studying in the military academy. A few months later, Du Wei once again opened a new course "Gunpowder Use"... ... Spring goes to summer. It has been nearly half a year since the new emperor of the empire, Charles, succeeded to the throne. With the arrival of summer, the cold in the air has been swept away. Even in the northern border of the empire, the ice and snow began to melt, and the permafrost on the ground after a full winter and spring gradually softened.The warmth in the sun is getting more and more, and the soldiers took off their thick clothes and put on their thin summer uniforms.

In the north, the Kaspersky line of defense of the empire, the Storm Legion has been fully stationed in the main fortress in the center and the fortress on the east side. As for the western fortress, it is left for Alpay's Whip of Thor. The warmer weather has accelerated the excavation of trenches in the north of the fortress.As the weather got warmer, the soil on the ground was no longer as hard as rocks, and just below the fortress, the excavation of a 100-meter-long trench had come to an end. The ravines on the ground will become a "corridor of death" for the imaginary advancing enemies!It is necessary to pass through this 100-meter-long trench area, and at the same time, it is still within the range of the crossbow of the defenders on the city wall!From the perspective of General Rostock, the commander of the Storm Legion, this trench alone is enough to make the enemy pay a huge price in blood!

A complete line of defense, the most elite soldiers of the empire, sufficient weapons and equipment... Rostock is full of confidence in the future war! The only thing that made him feel a little disapproving was the "First Division of the Imperial Air Force" located behind the defense line, the original Northwest Independent Division. General Andre used to be a subordinate of General Rostock, and the two had a good personal relationship.It can be private.General Andre made a suggestion before, which is to mobilize his airship troops to cooperate with the scout cavalry on the ground to establish a patrol area with a radius of 50 kilometers around the main fortress in the middle of the Kaspersky line of defense.

However, General Rostock was not too impressed with this proposal.As a typical loyal believer in the traditional "cavalry theory", Rostock has led cavalry all his life, and cavalry accounted for a considerable proportion of the Storm Legion under his command. He firmly believes that cavalry is the only human army The strongest and most reliable powerful arms! He didn't believe that those airships flying hundreds of meters above the sky could take on any scouting work... That's right, flying in the sky, you can see far away!But how can the function of a cavalry scout be replaced by those airships? Experienced scouts can judge the enemy's tracks and even the direction from the various footprints on the ground and the traces of trampled vegetation!Where can those airships in the sky see these things? Moreover, every dispatch of the airship will cost a lot of money!Every time the airship takes off in groups, it consumes a lot of fuel!Those fuels were all purchased with military expenses! General Rostock has been officially appointed as the head coach of the Kaspersky Line of Defense!In terms of position, whether it is General Andre's Air Force or Alpay's Thor's Whip Corps, they must be controlled by Rostock. Of course, another accusation from the commander: all supplies and military expenditures of the entire Kaspersky line of defense , and all are in charge of General Rostock! In the opinion of this veteran general who has rich experience in the empire and has been on the border for many years, those airships certainly have strong combat effectiveness (this has been seen from the Northwest Army Corps extermination battle a few years ago).General Rostock acknowledged the combat effectiveness of the airship, but he felt that such combat effectiveness was too expensive! An established airship, every time it takes off to carry out the "fifty-kilometer radius" patrol operation, consumes more fuel than the same amount of scout cavalry's horse fodder and soldier rations. After conversion, it is more than ten times higher! ! General Rostock thinks this is simply a waste!Why do those expensive airships have to do the work that cavalry scouts can do? Although due to his personal relationship with General Andre, he did not reject all of General Andre's proposals, but only agreed to some of them with reservations, but he reduced the number of airships proposed by General Andre to patrol the theater to one-third! Most areas are still patrolled by cavalry scouts! And the result... What he didn't know was that General Andrei sighed helplessly, because the power to approve military expenditures and all expenditures was in the hands of the coach Rostock! As a result, the perfect early warning system designed by General Andre did not achieve the desired effect, and there were many gaps in the coverage area of ​​the airship patrol! On this day in the early summer of the 965th year of the Roland Empire, finally, the cavalry scouts sent the first unusual news! A scout formation with as many as ten people was originally scheduled to return to the day to submit the information, but they did not return! This news was not immediately reported to General Rostock, and the officers below did not pay enough attention to this news. They thought that the team of scouts might have encountered a monster, or they might have been delayed on the way.Moreover, the army sent a total of two hundred teams of scouts to patrol the vast area north of the fortress, and one of them was delayed for a day, which was nothing. As a result, the news reached General Andre the next day. On the third day... Finally, another team of scouts found the missing team in the north... dead body! The ten-man scout cavalry passing through that area saw a scene that terrified them! On the edge of a forest, on the ground, there are blood and broken corpses everywhere!The condition of the dead is extremely terrifying!The wounds on those dead horses seemed to have been bitten by no ferocious beasts! And those comrades who died couldn't even find a complete body!Those corpses seemed to be brutally torn into pieces!There's blood splattered everywhere!Even, many corpses were incomplete!Some had a leg cut off, while others had only half of their body left! All the corpses, their armor and weapons have all been stripped off - this is definitely not done by Warcraft or wild beasts!Beasts may eat people, but they will never snatch weapons and armor! From the leading officer to the soldiers, everyone saw such a terrible scene, even the brave soldiers couldn't help their legs go weak!Because they saw... right at the edge of the woods, there were still warm ashes of the fire on the ground! On top of the ashes, on top of a few rough wooden sticks, there are some remnants of... legs and arms!Exactly the parts cut from those corpses! Those arms and thighs, which were worn on wooden sticks, had obviously been "barbecued", and there were still signs of gnawing on them! ! this is too scary! ! The bravest soldier couldn't help but suddenly turned around, hugged the big tree and vomited violently.The leading officer's face was as pale as paper, and just as he ordered to gather information on the spot and was about to retreat, all of a sudden, the horse under his crotch started to stir uneasily! The horse seemed to smell a dangerous smell in the air, neighing violently, and raised its front hooves!No matter how the cavalry tried to appease them, the horses tried their best to paw their hoofs in place, but refused to settle down... At this time, the scout leader suddenly heard a strange roar, that sound seemed to be a wild beast, as if... the roar of a wolf? As soon as he turned around, he saw countless terrifying figures rushing towards him in the woods!That speed is as fast as a galloping horse!But in the narrow woods, it is surprisingly fast!Jumping and jumping, but where is the agility that human cavalry and horses can possess? Before the scouts could react, a dozen giant wolves had already pounced in front of them in the woods!Each of these giant wolves is covered with rough and hard armor, and those sitting on the back of the giant wolves are monsters with sharp beaks and fangs!They held long, broad knives in their hands, howling like a pack of wolves... These scouts, who were slow, were thrown to the ground on the spot, and their throats were bitten off without even screaming!But those who reacted faster didn't even pull out their weapons at all, just watched those monsters riding giant wolves rush in front of them, cut off their heads with one stab! Among the team of scouts, the scout leader was the most skilled, and he made a decision in an instant: run away! The excellent judgment of the scout, he immediately made the judgment that the ten people on his side were absolutely impossible to be the opponent of the opponent. As a scout, his task was not to kill the enemy, but to send the information back! However, just as he turned the horse around, the frightened horse took a few steps under the control of his excellent riding skills. At this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped over his head!That dark shadow, even for a moment, blocked the sunlight! That giant wolf with a body as big as a horse has such a terrifying leaping power? ! ! The giant wolf that passed over the head had already stopped in front of him, and the wolf-faced monster immediately opened its mouth to him, bared its sharp fangs, and let out a shrill roar! Fight!The scout captain pulled out his long sword with all his strength, and was about to rush forward desperately, but at this time, another wolf cavalry from the side had already charged forward fiercely!With the powerful power possessed by the giant wolf, with a single pounce, the scout captain, including his man and horse, fell to the ground! When the scout leader landed, his legs were pinned down by the horse, and he was about to struggle. At this moment, he saw the giant wolf with its mouth, biting him... (These are, what monsters?!) It was his last thought. ... On this day, of the forty-six teams of scouts on patrol, only three teams came back!None of the other forty-three teams, four hundred and thirty scout cavalry, could come back! The problem is, the three teams who came back alive did not encounter any enemy!In other words, 430 outstanding cavalrymen were lost, but the imperial army inside the Kaspersky line of defense did not get any news or traces of valuable enemies! ! This matter immediately caused an uproar in Kaspersky Fortress! The enemy is coming!But where is the enemy? !What does the enemy look like? !