On the 20th day of the federal war, Weiss wore a vest on the south side of the Ulster-Wessex border line, wore a vest, waved his military shovel hard, and had a lot of mud and sand stuck on his head, but he didn't care at all. Around him, more than 400 officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Baston Student Regiment, including the battalion commander Major Salgert, were all burying their heads to "dig the ground" at this time.

Not far apart, another group of people are also doing the same thing. In comparison, they have more people, their age distribution is more scattered, and their enthusiasm seems to be a little worse.

"Okay! Time is up! Blow the trumpet!"

At the command of the 139th Reserve Division, Brigadier Wise, gave the order, and several commanders blew the lights out at the same time.

When blowing out the lights in broad daylight, this is not a funny mistake, but a pre-appointment signal. When the horn sounds, the "ground-digging action" on both sides stopped.

Brigadier General Wise rode forward and led a group of officers to the 1st Battalion of the Baston Student Regiment, carefully inspected the traffic trenches they dug, and then went to the 1st Regiment of the 139th Reserve Division, carefully inspected the fortifications dug by the reserves. After comparison between the two sides, he made a fair judgment: although the officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Battalion of the Baston Student Regiment were still better in terms of overall effect, detail quality and digging efficiency!

According to the previous "bet on the battle", Brigadier General Wise asked the division's baggage to deliver 500 canned fruits to the winning party.

Leading his subordinates to win this unique military skills competition, the battalion commander Major Boone Salgert looked proud. The battalion of the Baston Students' Regiment followed Colonel Capes' deployment, while preparing for war while assisting friendly and neighboring troops in organizing training. Although the trainees lacked practical experience, they had advantages that non-commissioned in military theory, military command, military organization and military psychology. For the lack of reserve troops of low-level officers and professional non-commissioned officers, the arrival of the trainees made up for the shortcomings of organizational training power, and the actual effect was also well received by the officers and soldiers.

In the adjacent defense zones with the Baston Students, the 139th and 142nd Reserve Divisions were stationed. The troops and training conditions of these two divisions were slightly better than the 157th Reserve Division they had encountered before. In addition, north of the border, the 107th and 124th Guard Divisions were stationed - the federal army was usually divided into three levels: combat, security and reserve. During peacetime, the combat troops generally maintained 50-80% of the number of personnel, and the guard troops were 10-30%, while the reserve troops only retained a few officers. Once the war period entered, the troops at all levels were gradually expanded to full-time with conventional staff as the backbone. The combat troops had the best training and equipment, followed by the guard troops, and the reserve troops were the weakest.

The linkage between the Baston Students and the 139th and 142nd Reserve Divisions is still just a "friendly performance" between the commanders. Colonel Capes' proposal to reorganize the border defense line was recognized by the 8th Garrison Command, but the border defense line involved a new defense zone in Wessex. They could not make the decision, so they submitted a report to the Northern Line Command, the highest command of the Federal Army on the Northern Front. Fortunately, during the war,

The work efficiency of the federal military department was surprisingly high. The North Line Command quickly issued an order to repair and expand combat fortifications on site to the various branches stationed near the border. However, the North Line Command required all departments to conduct terrain and geographical surveys of the defense zone first, propose plans to build field and permanent fortifications, and report them to the 4th Corps Command for the reorganization and adjustment, and then the North Line Command arranged and dispatched various building materials and necessary equipment needed for this work.

Ideals are full, but reality is often very skinny. On the Wessex front line, more than 200,000 soldiers of the 3rd Federation of the Federation were put into battle. Nearly half of the 4th Corps followed behind to assist. In addition, tens of thousands of Wessex troops temporarily commanded by the Federal Army, the federal logistics system has borne the combat consumption of nearly 500,000 external troops, and thousands of tons of ammunition, food, drugs and other supplies to the front line every day. As for the current combat situation, the priority level of supplying building materials and equipment must be in a relatively secondary position. The construction and expansion of a modern defense line must be a huge number for steel, cement and various weapons and equipment. According to the efficiency of peacetime, it is difficult to complete without three to five months, but will the Normans leave enough time for the Federation?

With the token in hand, the responsible commander would not wait for the equipment and materials in the rear to arrive, but would try every means to make good use of the existing resources. Military surveying is one of the main courses in the third grade of the Baston Military Academy. Capes arranged for the Baston cadets to form several survey groups and conduct technical surveys with the federal troops in the border areas. The 4th Corps Command also tried every means to get military deployment maps for the border defense line from the Wessex military. This "waste paper" that seems to have lost its meaning can be very helpful: using the marking of hidden facilities in various places on the military deployment map, the Federal Army discovered multiple hidden warehouses covered by ruins or sand, seized a large amount of combat materials, and found some underground fortifications that could be reused.

The military survey work was a great success, which set a good start for the preparation of the border defense line. Under Colonel Capes' active running, the troops began to dig a large number of traffic trenches between the federal defense line on the south side of the border and the old Wessex defense line on the north side of the border to combine these two defense lines.

In addition to digging as many traffic trenches as possible, the federal troops stationed north of the border also began to sort out the broken defense lines left by the Wessex army. The establishment of this defense line can be traced back to before the outbreak of the last war. In that era, the Kingdom of Wessex and the Ulster Free Federation did not form a military alliance, and the Norman Empire was troubled by internal stubborn diseases and was not as powerful as it was later. Therefore, the Wessex army carefully built a border defense line that seemed strong enough at the time, equipped with steel lifting turrets and underground transportation facilities, and later added to resist flight wars.

The ship's air defense weapons were also undergoing a large-scale renovation a few years ago. The reason why the Norman army was able to easily occupy this line of defense was entirely because they attacked from behind the line of defense, and the Wessex army had been beaten to no fighting spirit; the Federal Army was able to crush this line of defense with a destructive force, on the one hand, it concentrated the most destructive air and ground firepower. On the other hand, the Norman army stationed here was like a strong crossbow, neither had the strength nor the determination to stick to this line of defense. If not, foreign troops would not have come and go through streams on this Wessex line of defense.

A few days later, the first batch of building materials from the rear arrived at the border defense line. It seems that, whether in the Northern Line Command or the military supplies department, there are still many people who are not blinded by temporary victory, and know that the rear is stable to be invincible. Taking advantage of the national mobilization, they urgently recruited building materials from several nearby federal states and requisitioned private transportation capacity for transportation.

With steel and cement, the troops stationed on the border defense line can finally show their strength. With previous experience in organizing surveys, the guard divisions and reserve divisions sent invitations to the Baston student group. This time, Colonel Capes personally took the Baston students to conduct on-site inspections and make suggestions. In fact, this old man is not only a qualified Baston Military Academy graduate, but also a well-known civil engineering expert in the federal army. In addition to being proficient in materials and construction, he also has a lot of research on ballistics and blasting. Therefore, his observations and analysis are in-depth, meticulous and thorough, his countermeasures are reasonable and well-founded, and his considerations are comprehensive and properly handled, which has indeed given the students who were originally preparing to do a big battle!

Weiss learned a lot from Colonel Capes and realized that he still had many shortcomings in basic knowledge. At the same time, he did not give up his independent thinking: fortress-style fortifications, and defensive firepower mainly relies on small and medium-caliber rapid-fire cannons. Although these cannons can use grenades and shotguns to produce group killing with different effects to curb the attack of enemy ground troops, the experience of modern and modern war history of Earth civilization shows that guns that can be shot continuously have irreplaceable effects of artillery and are necessary and necessary for defense operations. However, the only semi-automatic weapon currently installed by the federal army is a semi-automatic pistol distributed to the military police department and some officers. The automatic weapons are only present in the military's technical reserve database and the laboratories of some military enterprises. Due to insufficient technology or such reasons, it has not been put into production and installation.

If the Norman army attacks in large numbers, its attack method is the same as the Federal Army's "trampling on" the Wessex border defense line, and directly flattening the fortifications with heavy artillery in the air and ground, then there is indeed no big difference between whether there are continuous firing guns on this defense line. This is also an important reason why semi-automatic and automatic weapons are not favored by armies of various countries. But if the Norman army does not have an overwhelming firepower advantage, but relies on ground forces to shake the defense line, then the situation will be completely different if there are continuous firing guns.

Before the Baston student group set off from O'City, Weiss contacted Jose specifically to inquire about the trial production of automatic firearms. Half a year ago, he handed over the technical drawings of automatic firearms designed based on the Maxim heavy machine gun to Jose, and asked him to bring them back to the family gun shop of Klumber Heisen for research and development and trial production. In the past six months, after repeated adjustments, the 1.4 PIR-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber A-caliber at the right time and the battlefield test of new weapons is still needed.

It's the right time now.
Chapter completed!