There were powerhouses in the allied forces too.
Judging from the organizational form of most countries and armies in this era, the strength level of the frontline officers in the army was generally equal to the position they held. After the two Holy Wars, in order to facilitate the command and coordination of large armies in joint operations, most of the human countries' military organizations had a trend of homogenization. The hierarchical structures of their armies were very similar.
There was a similar bottom line in the common army establishment of most countries on the continent. Although this bottom line was not absolute, it was very meaningful.
LV 6 fighters could serve as platoon leaders and be awarded the military rank of second lieutenant. They could command about 30 people in a platoon.
LV 7 fighters could serve as company leaders and be awarded the military rank of first lieutenant. They could command about 100 people or 3 platoons.
A LV 8 fighter could serve as a battalion commander and be granted the military rank of captain. The number of fighters under the command of a LV 8 fighter varied from 300 to 500. For instance, when Zhang Tie was in the Iron-Blood Camp of the No. 39 Division of Iron-Horn Army of Norman Empire, Reinhardt was a LV 8 fighter. However, due to the special establishment of Iron-Blood Camp and the power of Iron-Blood Fist Skill, Reinhardt had already promoted to the military rank of lieutenant colonel. Of course, it was a special promotion. There were very few LV 8 lieutenant colonels across Blackson Humans Corridor.
LV 9 fighters could serve as regimental commanders and be awarded the military rank of major. They could command 1000-2000 fighters. The details varied according to the different military establishment of different countries and regions. LV 9 fighters were all LV 9 fighters. In this age, LV 10 strong fighters could serve as brigade commanders and be awarded the military rank of lieutenant colonel. They could command about 5000 to 10000 fighters.
LV 11 battle masters could serve as regimental commanders and be awarded the military rank of colonel. They could command at least 10000 fighters.
LV 12 great battle masters could serve as regimental commanders and be awarded the military rank of lieutenant colonel. They could command at least 5000 to 20000 fighters.
A Level 12 Great Grandmaster could become a Division Commander. They could be awarded the military rank of brigadier general or major general. The details varied according to the different military ranks of different countries. When they reached this level, they would be promoted to senior generals. They could command about 80,000 to 100,000 fighters at this level.
Above an army was an army, and at the level of an army. This huge monster composed of hundreds of thousands of fighters had the ability to destroy cities and countries. It was a really intimidating violent machine and the mainstay of humans against demons. According to the Great Radiance Charter, although LV 12 great battle masters could be regimental commanders, they could also form the core of a corps. However, it was not simply a matter of the number of low-level warriors. Instead, it was necessary to be a knight.
Only knights were qualified to build legion-level combat units. Below knights, battle spirits, battle demons and battle generals were not qualified to build legions. Although they could take important positions in legions, the most important position in legions was the position of corps commander. It could only be held by a knight.
Of course, even though corps were also composed of knights, they were also divided into different levels. Due to different countries, corps had different standards and levels. However, most of the countries in this world were based on the standards of Hua corps. Hua corps were divided into four levels. Common corps, Class B corps, Class A corps and imperial guard corps were divided into four levels, namely, common corps, Class B corps, Class A corps and Class S corps. The standards of the four classes remained the same, but the names would be different. Some countries would call the four classes C, B, A, and S, while others would call them Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Although the names were different, the general classification standards were basically the same.
A common LV 6 fighter could serve as a platoon leader in a common corps; however, this fighter could only serve as a squad leader in a Class B corps. The platoon leaders in Class B corps were basically LV 7 fighters, so on and so forth. Class A corps had a higher requirement.
It was said that in the imperial guard corps, the lowest qualification to serve as a platoon leader was a LV 9 fighter. Even common soldiers were LV 7 fighters. Given the battle strength of such a corps, an imperial guard corps could easily crush over 3 Class A corps.
Such a corps was absolutely legendary. Nobody could find such a corps across Blackson Humans Corridor. It was said that it could only be seen in the Eastern Continent. In Blackson Humans Corridor, countries that could form a Class B corps were already powerful countries. As for the Class A corps that some countries claimed to have, they were just some regiments of Class A corps on the basis of Class B corps. Such a corps was already the trump card of a few countries in Blackson Humans Corridor.
Zhang Tie did not have access to such knowledge at all when he was in Blackhot City. He only learned a bit about it when he was in Hidden Dragon Palace. The Iron-Horn Army of Norman Empire which had swept over the entire Andaman Alliance was Black Iron Army; the Brilliant Feathers of Sun Dynasty was also Black Iron Army; the Iron-Blood Camp was a special force under the division of the army.
In this age, Chinese people were powerful and awe-inspiring. The reason that Chinese people were called golden race was that only Chinese people could form golden human corps. In the previous two holy wars, the golden Chinese corps made great meritorious deeds for the survival of humans and were recorded in history.
This time, the wild bear tribe dispatched tens of thousands of people, which had reached the size of a division. There must be many powerhouses on the level of battle masters and great battle masters in such a large troop. Plus the unique berserk ability of bear-killing fighters, it only took the allied forces a few hours to control all the water sources nearby the relics.
In the beginning, many pioneers didn't know why the allied forces started to occupy the water source nearby the relics. However, after over 10 hours, when the pioneers understood their current situation, they started to be flurried. Therefore, riots started to break out.
The water sources near the relics could never support so many people. The water source near the ruins could not support the water demand of so many people. When the underground passage was still open, this problem was not obvious. As long as one was willing to spend a little more time and walk a few dozen kilometers, they could get enough water. But now, the water supply was not as high. Apart from cutting off the way for everyone to return to the surface, the most important point was that the biggest water supply had also been cut off.
Even though they had brought enough dried rations, without enough drinking water, they could not stand too long in the underground tunnel.
During the 10-odd hours, the allied forces completed the reinforcement of their camp. At the order of Gangula, they completed the reinforcement of their camp and built a rough defense line outside the camp. All the water sources occupied by the allied forces had become military forbidden zones — — Anyone who was not from the allied forces would be killed without mercy if he was within 100 m away from the water sources!
In the blink of an eye, everyone, who was originally full of confidence and wanted to make a fortune in the super ruins, had changed. In the blink of an eye, everyone was in danger.
At the sight of the prospecting team of Golden Roc Bank, Zhang Tie found that at least half of the members of the prospecting team were gone. Most of the remaining members were wounded and looked bad.
O'Laura and Nurdo also came back. Those who had gone out with them came back. 1/3 of them had not come back yet. At the sight of Zhang Tie, O'Laura had been dragged away by Gangula's people before she could say something to him.
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Sitting on the top of a 5-storey building beside the camp of the allied forces, Zhang Tie was watching the distance quietly.
Right in Zhang Tie's sight, over 2,000 soldiers were reinforcing the defense near a water source which was occupied by the allied forces. In the distance, all the pioneers who were wandering near the water source were throwing hateful glances at the soldiers of the allied forces.
At this moment, the pioneers were still relatively restrained. In other words, none of them would like to die for a few mouthfuls of water at this moment. However, it was just the first day. 3 days later, when most of the pioneers were going to run out of drinking water, Zhang Tie wondered whether those pioneers would just watch on one side like this.
At this moment, Zhang Tie heard footsteps from behind. Without looking back, he had known that it was O'Laura. Watching Zhang Tie sitting on the ground with his feet swinging in the air, O'Laura became hesitant for a second before sitting on Zhang Tie's side. Like Zhang Tie, she also put her feet in the air.
"It seems that the situation is worse than I've imagined!" Zhang Tie turned around and watched O'Laura. O'Laura then took off her mask, allowing Zhang Tie to glance over her icy and glamorous side face in an unscrupulous way.
"You didn't attend the conference, how did you know that?" O'Laura's voice was very calm. Zhang Tie could not guess whether she was happy or angry.
"Hoho, needless to say. If you're not going to say your last words, how could you sit on the ground so casually? When you came here just now, you hesitated for a second before sitting down. I guess you must be thinking about this at that time. You've already come to this moment, why can't you let it go? Am I right?"
"You b * stard!" O'Laura swore faintly before letting out a sad sigh.
"Tell me, what's the situation now?"
"There's no star of God; no super relics. This is a trap!"
"I'm afraid that many people have realized it!"
"The first boom was also caused by the explosion of an alchemist's bomb. However, its explosive power was much greater. We can confirm that those knight-level powerhouses who wanted to grab the pieces of star of God have been killed. We can basically confirm that among the knight-level powerhouses who fell into this trap, one came from Ice and Snow Wilderness, three came from outside, including Samaranth, the Stars and Moons Sword Sage!"
Although humans die for wealth, birds die for food, Zhang Tie was still shocked when he heard that so many powerhouses who were like gods in his eyes had died. Any one of them was a big figure. Unexpectedly, 4 of them died at the same time. Even in the fiercest times of the previous two holy wars, it was rare for 4 human knights to die in the same place in one day. Zhang Tie had not imagined that the holy war had not started yet. Unexpectedly, before the holy war started, 4 human powerhouses died here.
When he recalled how Samaranth, the Stars and Moons Sword Sage killed a huge deep-sea monster, Zhang Tie felt pitiful inside. Donder once said — — no matter how powerful you are, you are still afraid of a kitchen knife. Zhang Tie thought it was a joke; however, now he realized that it was not a joke at all. The kitchen knife was an alchemist's bomb. Even a knight-level powerhouse would be killed by a pile of alchemist's bombs if he was careless.
The first explosion was at least hundreds of times more powerful than that alchemist's bomb that Zhang Tie saw in Blapei. Facing such a terrifying explosion, even steel would be melted, not to mention humans.
"Do you know who dug this trap here?"
"Gangula suspects it's Three-eye Association!"
Three-eye Association, Three-eye Association again. However, besides Three-eye Association, Zhang Tie really couldn't think of any other human organization that could do such a thing. 'It's possible.' At the beginning, this trap was aimed at human knights. The pioneers and the allied forces were just additional "helpers" in the eyes of others. No matter what, as for those b * stards of Three-eye Association, as long as they could weaken humans and make humans more chaotic before the holy war broke out, those b * stards of Three-eye Association would do whatever they could to weaken humans and make humans more chaotic.
This pit had been dug too brilliantly. There were falsehoods in truth and truths in falsehoods. With a newly discovered relic as a prop and background, who would have thought that there was such a conspiracy behind this real prop and background? The knights were so confident in their strength that they thought that they could face all problems and conspiracies. However, who could have thought that what was waiting for them here was not a piece of God's Star. Instead, it was a death trap made of alchemist's bombs.
Zhang Tie recalled the animal tide on the earth's surface, which appeared to be irrelevant to the relics and was full of conspiracies and man-made traces. After thinking about it carefully, Zhang Tie realized its value at once. The function of animal tide was to attract people's firepower and attention. When all the tribes and those who were vigilant about the conspiracy of Three-eye Association moved their eyes and attention to the outside, few people could imagine that the real trump card of Three-eye Association was here.
Finding that Zhang Tie remained silent, O'Laura thought that Zhang Tie was digesting her words. Therefore, she didn't disturb him; instead, she just watched those fluorescent light spots in the distance. After that, she started to talk about the current situation like murmuring.
"In the meeting just now, we've already made a rigorous deduction about the current situation. The water sources that the allied forces occupied could only provide enough water for about 30,000 people. As the allied forces have 37,000 people in total, it means that after 3 days, 7,000 people in the allied forces would not be able to get enough water supply."
"Besides the 7,000 people in the allied forces, over 20,000 pioneers are gathering near the relics. 3 days later, if they don't want to die of thirst, they have to fight the allied forces for the limited water supply. The terrain of the relics is not suitable for the large-scale army. If they want to kill over 20,000 pioneers, the allied forces would have a chance to win. Even if they win, the allied forces would have to pay a great price. At least 10,000 people would be sacrificed!"
"The fierce battle would last over 1 week. After that, the corpses of the pioneers would cover every corner of this relics. As it's underground, we're standing on hard rocks. Additionally, the environment is relatively closed. Therefore, it's hard to deal with the corpses. The allied forces could deal with a batch of corpses by burying them under the ruins or throwing them into caves far away from here. However, many corpses could not be dealt with. Those corpses would soon decay. After that, 70% of the corpses would probably bring diseases and plagues to the survivors."
"Even if there are no plagues and diseases, the dried rations that we've brought could only support us for less than 1 month at most. Even if we have sufficient water supply, we would still be starved to death!"
"According to the confirmation of the exploration team of Golden Roc Bank, there's only one tunnel leading to the earth's surface. If we want to reopen that tunnel, it would cost at least 40,000 people to work for over 2 months. Even if we could contact the outside and have people help us to reopen this tunnel, it would still take 40,000 people to work for one and a half months in the most optimistic situation. In the current situation, it's impossible. Nobody could organize 40,000 people to accomplish such a project. Even if the allied forces and the pioneers join hands, they could not stand it for 1 and a half months... "O'Laura paused for a second before concluding in a bleak and calm tone," Therefore, we might all die here in 1 month! "
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