Chapter 438: Chapter 438: Explosion (There Will Be Another Chapter Later)

Unlike in the past when there was a bumper harvest, the grain was sold at a low price. After a year of hard work, in the end, those grain merchants took advantage of it.

Because of this, Aslan's prestige has been greatly improved again, especially the people's spies hidden in the Anbu have jumped out to publicize what Aslan has done, just to let the people live a good life.

For a while, the people of Melox province were overwhelmed with gratitude to Aslan.

"The unified army still maintains a scale of 500,000. The Knights of the Tax Police were merged into the Knights of the Rose, and with the expansion, the size of the Knights of the Rose has reached 20,000. There are 80,000 people in the Melo Legion, including 5,000 heavily armored guards, with a total force of 670,000."

"There are 1,053 people in the Air Mage Brigade, and 3,786 people in the Alpha Action Team." Natal said lightly, feeling unprecedented pride in her heart.

The Air Mage Brigade and the Alpha Action Team are independent of the unified army. Without the transfer orders of Duke Medea and Aslan, even Natal, the military chief, has no right to transfer.

The Alpha Operations Team is the original Billy City Magic Legion, consisting of intermediate magicians at the lowest level. Their main equipment is tactical vests and rifle sticks. They don't even have tactical helmets, knee pads and elbow pads, let alone flying boots.

After all, they are all magic equipment, and they cannot be mass-produced industrially for the time being. Naturally, they are given priority to supply to the aviation magician brigade.

The biggest difference between the Alpha Action Squad and the Air Mage Brigade is that there are no other alien races, and they are basically composed of human races. It's not that Aslan doesn't want other alien races to join, and the conditions don't allow it.

Nowadays, many industries need magicians. The middle and low-level magicians of foreign races are the key productivity for the production of these magic equipment. Inscribing magic circuits is not something that magic apprentices can do.

In this regard, the elves have unique conditions.

Although the Alpha Action Squad cannot maneuver as fast as the Aviation Mage Brigade, they are better at defensive warfare and positional warfare in an environment with sufficient supplies.

"The Billy Magic Legion has also expanded to ten thousand people, but its strength has declined slightly. After all, the magicians of the Magic Legion are mainly junior magicians."

When Natal talked about the Magic Legion, she couldn't help showing a look of regret on her face.

Once upon a time, the Magic Legion was the pride of Billy City.

Now that there are more and more magicians in Melox province, the importance of the magic legion is getting weaker and weaker.

The role of the magic legion is to cooperate with the magister to speed up the casting speed of top-level magic and even forbidden magic. At the same time, it is also a source of moving magic power to reduce the magic power consumption of the magister.

The quality is not enough, only the quantity can make up.

Now the magic force is divided into three echelons. The aviation magician brigade of the first echelon is at least qualified as a senior magician. The same is true for the Magical Battalion and the Magic Legion.

There are nearly 700,000 troops, and all of them are off-duty professional soldiers. The annual salary alone exceeds 400,000 gold coins, which is almost worth a year's poll tax.

If it wasn't for Aslan's recent addition of a vehicle and vessel tax and road maintenance fee, it would be impossible to maintain the infrastructure of the huge Merox province just because of the commercial tax.

As for the commercial tax and vehicle and vessel tax, they will not be collected until the next quarter, so Watini didn't say anything.

"The reserve force has not stopped training because of this. All citizens who have reached the age of 18 must participate in ten hours of military training every week. Now the number of reserve militiamen who have completed recruit training has reached 490,000." Natal said this At that time, he also had a look of disbelief.

The so-called recruit training was the regular military training of the unified army, but the reserve service did not last for three months like the unified army recruit training, but trained intermittently for 300 hours, which also guaranteed a certain combat effectiveness.

The key point is that the reserve militiamen only need to have enough food and meat during the training period, and they don't even need to pay military expenses.

It's completely for nothing.

"The reserve militia is related to the future plan, and there is no room for loss!" The Duke of Medea rarely added that she was well aware of Aslan's ambitions. These militiamen can quickly transform into professional soldiers at critical moments.

"By the way, I almost forgot that the Valkyrie Troop still maintains the size of a 10,000-strong unit and is stationed in Changfeng City." Natal added at last.

The others nodded. They had always been nonchalant about the attitude of the Valkyrie troops.

Although the Valkyrie army has not fought a few battles, its combat effectiveness is still quite good. It has not expanded its army in the past six months. Instead, it has strengthened its training and cultivation, and its strength has not declined but increased.

When the others were about to continue to put forward the proposal, a huge explosion sounded suddenly, and Aslan stood up abruptly.

After all, the sound of the explosion came from Merlot City.

Aslan had just rushed to the open-air balcony and saw the flames of the explosion splashing again.

That's the industrial area behind New Fort Merlot.

"Could it be that a spy sneaked in?" Aslan murmured subconsciously, and jumped towards the direction of New Merlot Fort, and rushed with him, or the aviation magician brigade stationed on Copeland Mountain.

The place where the explosion occurred was a glass factory. The furnace responsible for firing glass exploded, but the explosion was a bit powerful. It directly killed three workers in charge of the furnace, and injured several ordinary workers outside.

Aslan looked at the glass factory that had been engulfed in flames, his face livid.

"The first squadron rescued people, and the others were responsible for putting out the fire." Aslan shouted.

"yes!"

Jackley of the No. 1 Squadron quickly swooped down with his men, propped up a huge magic cover on his body, and rushed directly to the scene of the fire. The magic guides of other aviation magic squadrons sacrificed water magic one after another, and within a few minutes the glass factory was destroyed. The fire was brought under control and many employees were rescued.

Aslan didn't bother with them, but walked to the kiln by himself, quietly observing the kiln, hoping to find the cause of the explosion.

"The kiln exploded from the inside, and the explosion was so powerful that it directly opened the kiln." Aslan glanced at the kiln and quickly made a judgment.

The kiln is engraved with a magic circuit and blessed with magic runes, which not only speeds up the operation power of the kiln, but also greatly enhances the firmness of the kiln. Even if it is hit with a Pyroblast bomb, it will not explode for a while.

"What happened?" Olga was the first to arrive and asked curiously.

Neither Vatini nor Natal came, and sent their respective assistants Olga and Qatar.

"The kiln exploded!" Aslan said lightly.

Qatar also arrived at this time.

"Are there many casualties?"

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