I received the latest reply from the rear staff headquarters from the communications corps. After confirming the content, it was not unacceptable.

As a powerful auxiliary unit that can both farm and strengthen BUFFs, the Elf Priest has an important status as you can imagine.

According to the current situation of civilization in all realms, the army of Luolinbao in the south is preparing to launch a counterattack in the coming spring. As an important unit with a limited number, the Elf Sacrifice obviously cannot be mobilized at all.

However, Luo Ji and Guo Jia were undoubtedly aware of the situation at Beishan Fortress, so as an alternative, they sent 500 human water mages to support the northern border.

In the original civilization of the world, there were no water mages. It was not until Luo Ji went on an expedition to successfully recruit the gray elves and obtained the corresponding spells that they finally began to cultivate them. After that, it took many years to develop them.

A group of junior mages have emerged who are reasonably good at it, and this is the group that is right.

The reason why Luo Ji and Guo Jia sent an army of water mages to replace the elves to sacrifice was naturally because among the lower spells of the water mages, there was a 'healing' spell called 'Water Healing'.

After the water healing is performed, a lasting effect will be produced, and the wound will slowly heal under the effect of water healing.

Although the recovery effect and recovery efficiency are not as good as the healing spell of the Elf Sacrifice, it is still a healing spell. With these five hundred elementary water mages acting as first aid troops, it is expected that the casualties can be controlled to a large extent.

At the same time that the reply was sent, these five hundred elementary water mages were already gathering, and it was expected that they would arrive at Beishan Fortress before the spring of next year.

Zhao Pan, who carefully read the entire reply, naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

Now turn the perspective back to Mirror City.

Some time has passed, and the story of the corruption case that involved many people and had extremely bad consequences has been officially overturned. Today, few people in Spiegel City are still talking about that matter.

After returning from mourning in Donglin City, Luo Ji naturally threw himself into busy government affairs again.

During this period, various development departments within the Wanjie Civilization were undoubtedly extremely busy, especially those related to the field of military and ordnance. During the war, their busyness increased by several levels.

The most representative of them are undoubtedly the Arsenal and Ordnance Research Department.

The arsenal is busy producing all kinds of ordnance equipment and ammunition, and it is extremely busy.

As for the Ordnance Research Department, it is completely busy because there are more and more projects that need to be researched and improved.

Today, within the Ordnance Research Department, twenty or thirty project teams, large and small, have been established.

For new weapons that have not yet been successfully developed, resources and energy need to be invested in continued research and development, and for weapons that have been successfully developed, subsequent improvement work must continue.

Take the cannon as an example. It can be said that it has been developed a long time ago, but the improvement work has never stopped.

Range, power, ballistic stability, accuracy, all aspects can continue to be improved.

Over the years, the Ordnance Research Department has made hundreds of formal improvements, large and small, based on the original cannon.

If you add informal experiments and tentative improvements, the number of times is probably countless.

However, it is precisely because of this continuous improvement that the artillery firing range of the latest cannon has been improved several times compared with the earliest version of the cannon, and the stability and accuracy of the ballistic trajectory have also become more stable and accurate.

Accurate, not to mention the power of artillery strikes.

According to the current power of cannons, it is estimated that one cannon shot can penetrate the previous city wall...

The improvement of cannons is just one of many improvement projects. In addition, there are also a series of ordnance weapons such as mountain cannons, field guns, rifles, grenades, landmines, etc. The improvement work is led by Ye Xuan.

Responsible for the Ordnance Research Department.

Not to mention, in addition, there are some new research and development projects, and the work of the Ordnance Research Department can be imagined how busy it is now.

At the same time, it is precisely because of these numerous projects that the Ordnance Research Department, which has extremely high requirements for talent capabilities and has relatively limited personnel, has to appropriately adjust its focus according to the situation at the time.

To give a simple example, when the armored beasts first appeared, Luo Ji ordered the Ordnance Research Department to develop armor-piercing bullets.

This is undoubtedly an emergency project.

The Ordnance Research Department, which received the order at that time, had to temporarily put down the research and development of new weapons at hand, and instead concentrated all its outstanding R&D personnel on the research and development project of armor-piercing projectiles. This allowed them to successfully develop armor-piercing projectiles in a short period of time.

Afterwards, considering the importance of armor-piercing bombs to the war in the north, a project team responsible for subsequent improvement work was naturally established immediately. In addition, the 'cannon project team', which had already transferred many personnel, also

I quickly sent another group of people over.

This is an adjustment based on the situation.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, almost 50% of the outstanding researchers in the Ordnance Research Department had been concentrated in the two project teams of 'cannon' and 'armor-piercing projectiles', leaving 50% of the manpower.

, was equally divided by the other twenty or thirty project teams.

Because these two things are needed to deal with the armored beast! So the priority comes out.

However, even top talents like Ye Xuan, Jiang Zhan (Deputy Minister of Goblins), and Bart Wildhammer (Deputy Minister of Dwarves) cannot look at an ordnance weapon that is already quite complete and say that it can be improved by improving it.

come out.

Nowadays, the improvement progress of the two project teams of 'cannon' and 'armor-piercing projectile' has declined significantly.

Considering the overall efficiency issue, Luo Ji, after receiving the report, thought about it for a while and decided to temporarily allocate manpower to the improvement of 'landmines' and the development of new weapons.

Landmines, as an ordnance, have become a powerful weapon for defenders due to their excellent explosive power and extremely difficult to deal with.

However, this sharp weapon frequently failed on the northern battlefield.

The existence of the armored beasts was like minesweeping tanks. The power of the explosion could not hurt them at all. They ran all the way and cleared all the mines along the way.

Faced with this unconventional mine clearance method, the only thing Luo Ji can do now is probably to ask the Ordnance Research Department to develop a mine with a stronger explosive power.

In order to pose a certain degree of threat to the armored beasts of the enemy orc army, lest they continue to act unscrupulously!
Chapter completed!