With the help of the local garrison in Twilight City, the Desert Expeditionary Force was gradually settled down. Except for the difficulty of appeasing the families of the victims, other tasks went smoothly.

It is worth mentioning that many nobles or wealthy people were originally unwilling to use their houses to accommodate the wounded, but these people were infected by the atmosphere of separation and death, and took the initiative to take some soldiers away and let them live in their homes.

Even some civilians whose families were not wealthy also tried their best to free up beds and help with treatment, which relieved a lot of pressure on Chino's work.

One after another, some people came to the government residence to donate monthly coins, hoping to help with the treatment of the wounded.

I don’t want these monthly coins, Chino. If I take the money from crowdfunding, there will be a lot of additional documentation to write, and the source and destination of the crowdfunding funds must be reported regularly, which adds a lot of workload.

If someone confuses right and wrong again in the future and makes a fuss about this kind of thing to discredit him, it will be a big trouble to deal with it.

Moreover, after a year of accumulating taxes, trading profits, confiscating trophies, etc., Twilight City's finances are very sufficient to cope with such a situation.

The most important thing is that the expenditures for the expeditionary force are only advanced by the administrative residence. At that time, the "financial envoy" of Dusk City will make statistics and submit them to Fengyun Pass, the capital of the province, for reimbursement. The amount will be reimbursed as much as it is used, and it will not be a waste.

Get to the point of crowdfunding.

Chino followed the large troops and directed the scene all night until noon the next day when all the work was completed.

Although there are more than 10,000 people in Dusk City, which is much more crowded than usual, the order is still orderly and has not been affected in any way.

According to Bolton's strategic plan, the expeditionary force will be stationed in various cities for about 30 days.

This makes it easier to treat the wounded on the spot and avoid further non-combat attrition caused by long journeys. If stationed one day earlier, more dying people can be rescued.

Secondly, the soldiers of the expeditionary force are already exhausted. Stationing them on the spot will allow them to recuperate and make subsequent deployments easier.

The third is to prevent the desert forces from counterattacking. Although the Blood Sand Battle was a complete victory, the leader of the desert forces, the "Desert Holy Lord", escaped from the battlefield and Bolton was unable to kill or capture him alive.

The survival of the enemy leader means that the pillars are still there, and it is possible to mobilize military forces again, and the expeditionary force can be stationed in border cities to deal with possible counterattacks.

When the treatment of the wounded is almost complete, the soldiers have regained their energy, and there are no signs of counterattack in the desert, it will not be too late to return to the interior in batches.

This is of course a situation that Kino is happy to see. Twilight City has so many more soldiers out of thin air. Even excluding the wounded, the number of troops available in the expeditionary force exceeds 10,000.

This has increased Twilight City's defense capabilities by more than ten times. If the Samsara Team launches an attack at this time, the expeditionary force in the city will be a support.

Kino didn't believe that the reincarnation team in the fifth wave of invasion could defeat an army of tens of thousands of people. You know, let alone fully armed elite soldiers, even tens of thousands of pigs were not that easy to deal with, let alone an expedition.

The army also includes many extraordinary people from the royal family.

These extraordinary beings range from the 1st to the 5th sequence, and there are dozens to hundreds of them whose combat power is equal to that of Kino. It is undoubtedly suicide for a reincarnator to offend these people.

Just when Chino finished handling the work at the reception site and was about to return to the mansion, two legion generals wearing the uniforms of high-ranking generals came over.

"Hello, Administrator of Kino." The two generals shook hands with Kino, and the thinner one introduced himself, "My name is Verbick, the deputy general of the Guards Corps of the Desert Expeditionary Force, and I am also a subordinate of Prince Bolton.

The combat staff officer. Next to me is Cole, the deputy general of the Guards Corps of the Desert Expeditionary Force and the commander of the battlefield cavalry unit."

After speaking, both of them flashed their legion lieutenant-general badges to show their identities.

In the Doguland legion system, the command hierarchy from top to bottom of a main legion is - general, lieutenant general, commander of thousands, centurions, and commander of corps.

Take the 7,000 city defense troops in Twilight City as an example. If it enters a wartime state, the administrator Kino will take over the Twilight City defense army as a "general" and have the highest command authority.

The military commander Baixa served as the "deputy general" and his command power was second only to Kino.

The 7,000 soldiers under his command will be divided into 7 thousand-man teams, under the direct command of 7 thousand-man captains.

Each thousand-man team is divided into 10 centurions, belonging to 10 centurions.

Each hundred-man team is divided into 10 teams of ten, assigned to 10 corps commanders.

From top to bottom, everyone performs his or her duties, and the hierarchy is clear.

Verbek and Cole in front of them are both lieutenants of the legion and belong to the Guards Corps. In other words, they are the lieutenants of Prince Bolton himself. Their status is far superior to that of ordinary legion lieutenants, and is even more noble than ordinary generals.

Although the military and government have their own position systems and it is difficult to make direct comparisons, in terms of status, the status of these two deputy generals of the Guards Corps is obviously higher than that of a main city-level administrator in Chino.

Chino: "Hello, nice to meet you. Are your injuries okay? Do you need a doctor?"

Verbick and Cole had many injuries on their bodies, both old and new. Most of them were burns. They must have been attacked by desert fire during the Blood Sand Battle.

"Scars are a badge of manhood. It's nothing. Leave the doctor to those who need it more." Verbik waved his hands, with a look that suggested that a superior person should treat guests as his own. "Let's talk about business. There is a convenient place to talk here.

?"

Obviously, these two people did not want to be heard by outsiders, so Chino led them towards the executive residence: "Please come to the office with me."

Back in the office, Kino closed the doors and windows, dismissed the guards and servants, and made tea for the two of them: "There are only me and my cat here, no one else can hear us."

Little black cat: "Meow~"

Verbick got straight to the point: "Okay, I'll get it straight. We're here because of an emergency—Star Castle, you know, right?"

Kino nodded: "Star Castle, the capital of the Moonseeking Province, the headquarters of the Hutch family, and the best alchemists in the entire kingdom are there."

Verbick: "Yes. In last year's banquet bombing, the weapons you seized from the Extraterrestrial Visitors were long weapons that could pull the trigger like a crossbow and were called "guns" by the Extraterrestrial Visitors.

, it has been dismantled and studied by alchemists, and successfully copied."

Kino suddenly became interested: "Oh? The alchemist made a gun?"

Verbik untied the cloth bag behind his back and placed a dark, graceful sniper rifle on the table. He muttered: "The alchemist failed to perfectly restore it. It is said that some of the structures inside are very strange."

It’s complicated, what firing device is involved...gunpowder filling...what wires, springs, and parts are in the muzzle of the gun...I have never studied alchemy, so I don’t know much about it. Anyway, I can’t completely restore it.”

"But the alchemists of the Hutch family used alchemy, combined with the soul skills of the Eric family, to bypass the technology that we couldn't master, and finally made this weapon. It is said that the effect is similar to the original, or even stronger."

This aroused great interest in Kino. He picked up the gun and began to inspect it, and deliberately restrained his once professional movements to prevent suspicion from being too skillful.

In this way, Chino fumbled around "clumsily" and even touched the trigger deliberately. Verbick and Colton broke out in a cold sweat and scolded him, warning him not to touch it.

After finishing the play and touching the gun, Kino had figured out the overall structure of the gun.

The prototype of this gun should be the "Barrett M82A1" seized from the corpses of Durang's teammates during the second invasion.

But Verbick is right. The current imitation is completely different from the original.

Making firearms is not as simple as it sounds. It is not just a matter of making a shell and installing parts. It requires the support of a complete industrial system. It is not too complicated. It is just about controlling the tolerance of parts within 0.01mm.

You can count on one hand the number of countries that were able to do this in previous lives, let alone this feudal era.

The alchemists of this era could only create the external structure of a gun. Without the support of an industrial system, they could not imitate the internal parts, let alone directly create a qualified firearm.

But here's the interesting thing. This sniper rifle is not a "model". It actually has actual combat effects, but its firepower is completely different from the original Barrett.

Samsara's Barrett M82A1 is a purely industrial product that contains the crystallization of military technology.

The Barrett in front of Kino is actually a mixture of alchemy and soul magic.

The general structure of this Barrett is made by alchemy, but its firing effect and the bullets used are all carved by soul masters using runes. What drives the bullets out of the chamber is no longer traditional.

Gunpowder, but runic soul power.

In other words, this is a "rune weapon" designed from the structure of a firearm from a previous life.

As for the accuracy and power of this gun, and whether it can match the original Barrett, Chino doesn't know yet. He will only know after testing it with live ammunition.

At the end, Kino couldn't help but admire him. He underestimated the productivity of this world.

The industrial system of the Kingdom of Doguland is indeed very backward, with standard feudal era technology.

But think about it differently, who stipulated that a strong national power must rely on the industrial system?

What does the industrial system bring? It is nothing more than a tight flow of materials and personnel, soaring work efficiency due to mechanical innovation, booming productivity, etc.

Why is the industrial system in previous lives so important and directly linked to a country’s national strength?

Because under the laws of the universe in previous lives, apart from industry, there was no other way to improve the country's hard power, and it had to develop science and technology.

But there is extraordinary power in this world. For example, the Kingdom of Doguland has a unique soul power, and the technology brought by rune carving is sometimes even more powerful than industry.

To use a military analogy, the nuclear strike force in the previous life was powerful enough, right? One bomb destroyed an entire city.

Couldn't this world do it? The dragon breath of a high-sequence dragon knight is not much less powerful than a nuclear weapon.

In the "Conflict of Eight Kings" 513 years ago, the "Dragon Queen" Sofina rode the legendary black dragon "Nidhogg" and used her dragon breath to dry up the hundreds of miles of Dead River in the "Battle of the Dead River"

, to help friendly forces get out of trouble.

If you put this 7th sequence "Black King" dragon knight into a modern war, it would be a dragon knight that ignores weather, ignores interference, does not need radar, has ultra-high mobility, can enter and exit the battlefield at will, has ultra-long battery life, and can fly at once

It is the ultimate bomber that travels thousands of kilometers, has super strong defense, can be scratched by anti-aircraft missiles, is equipped with super-heavy firepower, and has a dragon breath that is as powerful as a nuclear explosion.

Moreover, the "pilot" who flies the bomber is even more powerful than the bomber itself.

What is this concept?

Doguland is only feudal in system and has not relied on industry to enter the modernization process. It is not low at all in terms of technical strength. The advantages and power that the industrial system can bring can be achieved by extraordinary power.

Kino put the Rune Barret back on the table and praised: "This gun is simply exquisite. Is the business you are talking about related to this gun? Do you hope to mass-produce it and equip it in the army?"

Verbick sighed and said: "The idea is good, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve. Rune carving requires far more manpower and material resources than you think. At present, mass production is almost impossible."

This news made Kino inevitably feel a little regretful. If this kind of rune barrett could be mass-produced and installed in the army, what an exaggerated scene would it be?

Not to mention anything else, just taking Twilight City as an example, out of the 7,000 city defense troops, even if only 100 elite shooters are equipped with rune barretts, coupled with sufficient training, it is equivalent to having 100 snipers.

When faced with the invasion of reincarnation, as long as the strength of the reincarnations is not abnormal, these 100 snipers carrying rune firearms can directly shoot them to the point of doubting their lives.

In the future, if the Alchemist can replicate more rune weapons, such as the 14.5mm caliber twin heavy machine gun that was dismantled by Durang, then Twilight City will be equipped with a batch of heavy firepower to ensure that the reincarnators never come back.

But at present, rune technology seems to have limitations. Compared with industrial mass production on the assembly line, rune efficiency is not that high, but it is a brand new system that deserves Kino's continued attention.
To be continued...