NEC Chapter 120: Complete Weapons and Equipment Delivery

The reply from home to Chen Mo had three core messages.

First, full support!

Second, be extremely careful!

Third, weapons are coming soon!

There was no other choice. The elders at home had set the tone, with respecting the Wanderer's own wishes as the top priority. The head of the Stargazing Group privately interpreted this as: incomplete support means complete lack of support!

This logic might seem extreme, but in the political ecology back home, sometimes "taking sides" itself carries more significance than the specific "right or wrong" of particular matters.

Although this sudden shift might delay the originally planned industrial development blueprint by two or three months, the elders back home felt somewhat relieved.

After all, what would be continuously sent to the Wanderer from now on would be pure, reassuring weapons of war.

According to home's thinking, throwing down weapons and equipment for one month, two months, or even five to eight months, that's what they called military-first!

Later that day, the first fully armed combat robot squadron crossed the vast starry sky and arrived at Vast Sea.

That's right, Vast Sea, which had been shouting about the military-first route, already had several maintenance robots but had never had combat robots.

Why? Because the leaders at home had given orders that before the Wanderer made clear, strong demands, no weapons with autonomous combat capability would be provided.

They wanted to prevent any possible mistakes.

Combat robots and robot dogs both possessed autonomous attack capabilities, which created the problem of "what if."

What if combat robots malfunctioned at a critical moment? What if they failed to fully follow the main controller's instructions due to some command interpretation deviation?

Even worse, what if weapons accidentally discharged and injured the opposing team, or even the Wanderer himself?

The chief engineer responsible for system support flushed red in the face, "I believe our system will never have problems. I guarantee it with my life!"

"I believe it too, but whether you and I believe it doesn't matter. Can the Wanderer on the other side absolutely trust it?"

"Or let me put it more directly: all our previous accumulation and investment could be completely destroyed by one mistake! And we haven't conducted any actual testing in the operating environment on the other side!"

"What use is your life guarantee? If there's even a slight error causing the Wanderer to cut off contact, even if you gave your life ten thousand times, could you recover that loss?"

The chief engineer fell silent.

Indeed, the Starry Continent on the other side was just a world existing in data, an imagined world.

All of East Xia's weapon application simulations were tested on virtual platforms. If problems really occurred, even just one delay in command reception could destroy the Wanderer's trust in East Xia!

Not to mention the inexplicable magic.

Based on this guiding principle, East Xia's weapons and equipment, especially automatic weapons, put attack effectiveness, response speed, and killing capability all aside, prioritizing safety at any cost.

The first thing Chen Mo got his hands on was a set of clothing called the "Battlefield Command Center Suit."

Vest, jacket, hat, boots... In terms of style, it combined the noble military dress style of the Starry Continent with East Xia's traditional clothing aesthetics. From any angle, it looked proper, dignified, and heroically spirited.

Of course, appearance was its least important aspect.

The greatest function of the "Battlefield Command Center Suit" was its built-in dual sensing system, which could make all East Xia short-range weapons within three kilometers, as well as all East Xia long-range weapons relying on fire control, sense the presence of the command suit.

For this purpose, East Xia spared no expense in adding sensing control modules to all weapon systems, not even excluding pistols.

In theory, as long as Chen Mo wore any piece of the "Command Center Suit" set, East Xia weapons would enter complete lockdown mode when pointed at him, unable to fire.

After reading this preliminary explanation, Chen Mo silently put on the command suit jacket and pressed the activation button on the inner side of the lapel.

With a long startup sound, East Xia's weapon depot slowly lowered its front cover plate.

The lord waved his hand grandly, and the long-waiting centaur squad rushed in, beginning to carry out weapons box by box.

Unlike before, all weapons provided by East Xia this time were laboratory-grade custom models.

Ten Type 99 bullpup assault rifles with titanium alloy main frame, CFRP grip, high-precision cold-forged chrome-plated alloy steel barrel, integrated Picatinny top rail...

The ammunition used 6.8x43mm lightweight armor-piercing rounds. This caliber was specially added after combining the combat effectiveness of previous series firearms in the Starry Continent and repeatedly testing several types of common armor sent back from the Starry Continent.

Simply put, the conventional 5.56 caliber had insufficient killing power against armored entry-level warriors, while 7.62 was slightly excessive and not cost-effective in terms of weight.

6.8 was just right!

Ten assault rifles with six thousand rounds of ammunition formed the light weapons front group.

Two heavy machine guns were specifically for suppressive fire, meaning if troops entered the relic exploration phase, they would be responsible for establishing outer perimeter alert and defense positions.

Also laboratory-custom models, after removing the gun body stand, they weighed only 12.5 kilograms.

Anyway, with the strength of local warriors, especially centaur warriors, they could fire while holding them without even trembling. The stand was really unnecessary.

If needed, they could just make one locally.

The ammunition was 12.7mm NATO high-performance polymer case rounds with standard full metal jacket bullets. The belt used lightweight plastic links, essentially replacing all metal parts that could be saved with high-performance engineering plastics and polymer matrices, locally using fiber reinforcement. Compared to brass and steel cases, the weight was reduced by over 48%.

In the past, metal rounds were used for stability and reliability. Now, after completing massive Starry Continent environment simulation data testing, the new ammunition could ensure high pressure resistance, high temperature tolerance, and reliable extraction.

Two machine guns with 120 hundred-round belts, twelve thousand rounds of primary ammunition, plus another twelve thousand rounds of backup ammunition without belts for self-replacement during combat intervals.

Next was the heavy weapons group: four 84mm low-recoil cannons with sixty rounds.

Also the far-range area damage weapon with the best tested strike effectiveness against warrior-level targets up to third-tier silver armor, using CFRP-wound launch tubes, integrated fire control system, laser ranging plus ballistic calculation, pre-loaded high-explosive anti-armor warheads.

Six shoulder-fired multi-purpose missile launcher sets could switch between ground and air modes, with infrared imaging plus dual-mode guidance heads, responsible for targeting enemy core main force units.

Ten rifle-mounted grenade launcher modules could be mounted on any main weapon or even tied to a wooden stick for firing.

40x46mm grenade warheads came in three types: high-explosive fragmentation rounds, armor-piercing rounds, and white phosphorus incendiary rounds, with two hundred rounds of each type.

Additionally, there were two heavy ultra-long-range sniper rifles, two hive drone launch containers, and boxes upon boxes of hand grenades!

These hand grenades could be additionally fitted with wooden handles and counterweights according to processing instructions in Vast Sea locally, allowing centaur warriors with powerful explosive strength to throw them over three hundred meters.

Simply called human mortars.

Finally, there was the operational core of this weapons equipment shipment: twenty Rock automatic combat robots.

Unlike the combat robots or robot dogs that East Xia used itself, this thing had no autonomous movement capability whatsoever, thus eliminating the need for terrain scanning, active obstacle avoidance, shock absorption, and heavy structures like lower limbs or tracks.

Normally, they could just be strapped onto centaurs or skeletons and carried to the front lines.

All the saved weight was added to the control modules. Rock could seamlessly connect data with biological detection radar, provide real-time communication and video transmission functions. Most importantly, Rock could perfectly adapt to any weapon delivered in this shipment.

Phased array radar, reconnaissance drones, plus Rock's own scanning system were sufficient to make it a precise, cold, efficient battlefield killer.

Thus, East Xia had planned an entirely new combat mode for Vast Sea Territory. Issues like insufficient hot weapon proficiency, clumsy operation, and poor accuracy of Vast Sea indigenous warriors were now bypassed, they would just be merciless transport machines.

Or more appropriately, auxiliary soldiers.

Using the centaurs' powerful strength and speed for rapid assault positioning, setting up weapons properly, connecting Rock, then standing by to assist and waiting to clean up the battlefield.

After examining all the weapon systems piece by piece and watching the instructions and demonstration videos, Chen Mo now had a feeling of "who can withstand my strike!"

He felt like he no longer needed reconnaissance, could just stand at the relic entrance, shout "who else!" and charge in!

However, facing the repeated instructions and warnings from home, Chen Mo could only suppress his eagerness.

Following home's suggestions, he first arranged for troop training.

Eliminating the need to feed troops with live ammunition didn't mean the troops didn't need coordination.

In the temporary meeting room outside the warehouse where the altar transmission was located, Chen Mo convened a small-scale military meeting.

Main participants included his most trusted bull and horse duo, backbone members of the patrol team, captains at all levels of the Youth Corps, and the entry-level necromancers named Resurrection One through Resurrection Ten, plus Bone One through Bone Twelve from Chen Mo's directly controlled skeleton regiment.

All the core elites of the entire territory were present.

"All troops, regardless of race or unit type, primary mission: learn the basics of coordinating with this hot weapon combat system: dig trenches! Build fortifications!"

"There are detailed tutorials in the videos, East Xia-Resting Moon bilingual versions, perfect for learning knowledge and language at the same time!"

"Training location will be arranged at the Grand Training Ground. All units will suspend all other drills except morning exercises and concentrate full effort on practicing the complete manual of digging trenches, piling sandbags, and establishing temporary fortifications!"

Officers from all units competed to voice their commitment to follow the lord's orders and practice their digging skills well.

"Oh right... centaur squads will practice building fortifications in the morning and rapid mobility and combat deployment in the afternoon."

In the combat doctrine East Xia had tailored for Vast Sea, the centaur squads held a very important position.

They were equivalent to a rapid reaction force, capable of deploying positions, weapons, and combat personnel to any location needing defense in extremely short time. They could also use high mobility for raids, protracted battles, and even guerrilla warfare.

Just like Kaga's squad's battle against the bandit gang.

Theoretically, if enemies couldn't outrun this unit in mobility, then with the hot weapons provided by East Xia, any enemy could potentially be kited to death by them.

Kaga straightened up and gave a quite standard East Xia military salute, "Yes! Please rest assured, Lord, we will definitely complete the mission!"

As for the patrol team, they were assigned another task.

"The territory's militia training must still be maintained. Recently, besides ensuring agricultural production, slow down the outer city infrastructure and port construction, focus on militia training!"

"If the main force expedites to Blood Fortress, the territory's defense work will be entrusted to you!"

Lynn felt slightly regretful but still quickly and loudly responded.

The patrol team was currently the core main force of cold weapons in the territory, equipped with the best armor, swords, and crossbows available on the market.

In the past, this would have been the territory's ace army, but now...

Lynn clearly understood that if they clashed with the lord's personal guard units, whether the patrol team could survive one encounter depended only on how accurately the opponents shot.

The opponents were simply like the legendary "Magic Knight Regiment" of the Sky Empire.

What could he do? Continue performing actively!

With basic military training plans arranged, Chen Mo checked his watch.

"Time frame: tentatively two weeks, with inspections every three days and tests every week. I hope you won't disappoint me!"

Amid the thunderous responses from all the people, horses, cattle, and silent acknowledgment from the skeletons, Chen Mo declared the meeting adjourned.

"Kaga, Baoguo, you stay behind!"

A small meeting after the big meeting was also Chen Mo's habit.

Looking at the adoring gazes of the six centaur captains below, Chen Mo pondered for a while before speaking his thoughts.

"I know your centaur race has a tradition of not allowing humans to ride you!"

This "human" was naturally a general term, also including elves, dwarves, orcs, and all other humanoid creatures, representing the last stubborn pride of the centaur race.

Little Kaga and the other horses exchanged glances, vaguely guessing what the lord was about to say, feeling somewhat heavy-hearted.

"I have an idea. If riding isn't allowed, what about carrying?"

"Just like when you normally carry things, hang a bag on each side, stuff two skeletons inside. This way, once you reach the preset combat position, you can untie the bags and 'deploy' the skeleton soldiers to establish defensive points on the spot, attracting and blocking the enemy's frontal assault!"

"And you would be immediately freed up to continue leveraging your best mobility advantage!"

"Would this work?"

"No problem!" Kaga was first to stand up and voice his support.

Although knowing that ancestral teachings could no longer fit the era's development, the lord's such considerate understanding still made the centaurs feel deep warmth.

"Good, then let's practice this tactic well too!"

Chen Mo paused, showing a half-joking expression on his face, and asked, "By the way, if one day enemies were chasing me relentlessly, could you put me in a bag too?"

Kaga had almost no hesitation, instantly straightening his back, front hooves raised high, his voice filled with unquestionable determination.

"Lord, you are the deity in our hearts!"

"If we could have the honor of bearing you, that would be the supreme honor of the centaur race!"

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