More than ten miles away from Miracle City, in a place designated as a restricted military area, rows of royal griffons roared past in an orderly formation in the air.
There are at least 500 royal griffins wandering in the air in this area. This number of royal griffons is enough to make one or two golden dragons feel frightened when they see them. Moreover, these royal griffins are different from before. If you look carefully, they have an extra line on their backs.
There were figures, some thin-looking female warriors holding weapons and riding on the backs of royal griffins.
"How are the soldiers adapting?"
"Gryphons are very docile and much easier to control than sword eagles."
It is a matter of course that the Royal Griffin is easier to control than the Sword Eagle. After all, it is a product of the system. Richard had already ordered the Royal Griffins to fully cooperate with the knights, skipping the domestication and familiarization stage and directly entering the tactical action practice stage.
"The physical fitness and strength of griffins are much stronger than that of sword eagles. Even if they carry us and all the equipment, they can fly in the sky for two hours. Even if they enter a battle, they can last much longer than sword eagles."
Sandrine's tone revealed that she was extremely satisfied with her new mount. Compared with the somewhat delicate sword eagles, the Royal Griffins are indeed much braver. The weight of sword eagles is generally strictly limited to 55 kilograms, so the selection is basically
It is a petite woman to be a rider, and she has to be trained from an early age.
In order to make up for their physical deficiencies, these female riders train much harder than ordinary people. They have to polish their physical fitness and control their weight. The hard work is not enough for outsiders. After going to heaven, each person can generally only carry no more than
Five kilograms of equipment, a short soldier plus goggles and a helmet are already the limit, seriously affecting the air combat capabilities of the Sword Eagle Knights. Most of the time they can only be used for reconnaissance.
But the Royal Griffin is different. The Royal Griffin's standard load capacity is set at 75 kilograms. In addition to carrying a rider of about 50 kilograms, there is still a lot of excess load for carrying equipment.
Twenty-five kilograms is quite a lot of space to operate. The machinery factory has developed a fifteen-kilogram griffin lance specifically for griffin knights. It is about six meters long. The gun barrel is made of special wood bought from the south.
The head is also made of expensive dwarven metal, the purpose is to give the griffin knights more lethality. In addition, each griffin knight is also equipped with a short crossbow, which can be used for mid-range combat in the air, and there are three
The hand ax used for throwing also took up the remaining space.
"Sandrine, let me see the results of your training during this period."
"Yes, Lord Richard!"
Sandrine was the former leader of the Sword Eagle Knights in Piaoxue City. She was a rare female knight. After the incident in Piaoxue City was almost peacefully resolved, she led her sword eagle knights to join Richard. The Sword Eagle Knights
It has always been a rare military unit, and with the financial resources of the Lanster family, they can only raise more than two hundred sword eagle knights.
In previous wars, because the enemy had little air power, there was basically no loss. When Richard took control of Piaoxue City, James had already been controlled, and no one ordered them to commit suicide against the Hunter family's air power.
Sexual assaults are now basically committed under Richard's command.
It's just that the Sword Eagle Knight, who is regarded as a treasure by other forces, is not much valued by Richard. The load capacity is insufficient, the flying distance is not enough, the body is too light, and the hand-to-hand combat ability is not good. Anyway, in the eyes of Richard, he is almost useless. The only advantage is
Maybe I just eat less.
After Sandrine brought her sword eagle knights to Richard, Richard used them as the backbone and recruited a group of petite but athletic women as recruits to supplement the griffin cavalry.
Now that I have been training for nearly a month, I seem to be in good shape.
As several special whistles sounded, the gryphon knights who had been lined up neatly in the air suddenly changed their formations, and the first row began to dive and attack a group of scarecrows on the opposite side.
"Dang, Dang, Dang..."
With the impact of the Royal Griffin, the riders accurately pierced the scarecrow with nearly six meters of lance and then quickly took off, leaving only the impaled scarecrow on the ground.
When the second group of gryphon cavalry dived, they took out the short crossbows on their waists and fired them repeatedly, completing a volley from a distance of more than 20 meters. Although it was not as accurate as the lance dive, most of them hit the target.
, the last group of gryphon knights using flying axes also threw neatly at a height of more than 20 meters, covering the pile of scarecrows on the ground.
These hand axes weighing about one kilogram were thrown down from the air of more than 20 meters. In order to be reliable, no matter how thick the armor was, it was difficult to block the blow.
"Good practice."
After the Griffin Knights finished their drill, Richard still praised him. Although he knew in his heart that Sandrine must have used the old soldiers of the original Sword Eagle Knights to show in front of him, but the fighting style of the Sword Eagle Knights
It is very different from the Griffin Knight. It takes less than a month to practice like this, which is indeed worthy of praise.
"What strength do you have now?"
"You are still at the elementary level of a knight, and you are not far from the intermediate level of a knight."
Sandrine is only in her thirties now, not counting the cheaters from the Hunter family. From a normal perspective, she is quite talented, and the world is inherently unfair to women. Women have to stand out in the military.
It is more difficult than men, and Sandrine's strength can be regarded as the best even if she excludes the female heroes under Richard's command.
"This time you have made great achievements in training the gryphon knights. You can get a quota in the training camp. Try to break through to the intermediate level of the knight. Then we will select some talented and outstanding gryphon knights to enter the training camp."
"Thank you, Lord Richard!"
There was some excitement in Sandrine's words, and there was even a trace of flushing on her face. She knew about the training camp, and it was her dream to enter the training camp to strengthen her strength. However, according to her estimation, she had just joined the opponent's team, so she could not do anything.
It would take a period of testing before she would have this opportunity. She didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly, causing her voice to tremble a little.
"No problem, train these gryphon knights well, especially the new recruits. After they perform meritorious service on the battlefield, they can get more resources."
Richard did not doubt the loyalty of these new people. They were all human lords in the North, and the Lanster family themselves had surrendered. How could these new people have any second thoughts? Besides, the gryphon knights were among the lions.
The gryphon is the most important part. Regardless of the close cooperation between the gryphons and these riders now, if someone has a second thought, these partners who are cooperating tacitly one second will take the riders on their backs the next second.
Once you leave, you don't have to worry about loyalty at all.
"Yes, sir."
Sandrine felt her heart tighten when she heard this, naturally knowing that some of her cleverness had been seen through.
Richard didn't intend to go into details. Taking out the old soldiers during the drill to build up the appearance was considered normal operation. He just gave him a sweet date and had to beat it to let Sandrine know that he was just not pursuing it and was not being fooled.
"Okay, let's continue training."
"yes!"
Sandrine stood there and respectfully watched Richard and the person in charge of the testing site leave. She had already made up her mind to strengthen the training of the new recruits. After a month, she must make sure that these new recruits who were still vomiting and having diarrhea in the air were eliminated.
