Chapter 172: The Leader's New Equipment
In order to let Amystan see the strength of the Leader Association, Levi simply arranged a temporary military parade for her.
The venue for the military parade was chosen to be the coastal military base of Leader.
The first to enter were Wei and Caitlyn, and the patrol infantry phalanx they led.
These soldiers are dressed in uniform urban camouflage uniforms and are equipped with a variety of weapons including rifles, machine guns, grenades, and individual rocket launchers.
“The queue is going well.”
This is just Amystan’s comment.
She was very surprised by the leader's military appearance and discipline.
After all, Noxus has hundreds of chapters, and the combat capabilities and training conditions of these chapters are at different levels.
Some are elite soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles, while others are simply cannon fodder made up of serfs, orphans, and vagrants.
Therefore, a team like the Leaders Association, which can obey orders, respond flexibly, assemble completely in a short time, and march in such an orderly formation, is considered a rare good soldier in the Noxian Empire.
"But being able to march in formation doesn't mean you have strong combat effectiveness. I think your army can only dominate the Twin Cities."
Amystan's tone was harsh, but she was speaking the truth.
Look at the weapons these soldiers are holding.
Rifles, machine guns, bazookas?
Can this be as far-reaching as the bows of Noxian warriors, or as powerful as the axes they throw?
How could these firearms, which are only used by the weak, possibly compare to the archery and horse riding left by our ancestors?
"Take another look." Levi said calmly, "Next is the actual combat drill."
As he spoke, he gave orders to Wei and Caitlin via the Bluebird Radio.
Under their command, the soldiers quickly changed their formation, lined up on the coast, set up rocket launchers and loaded ammunition, and finally opened fire at an uninhabited island on the sea that served as a target.
"Isn't this just a rocket launcher?" Amystan still asked nonchalantly.
To the elite Noxian warriors, each of whom is an "Imperial Captain", this thing is just a loud firecracker.
So as she looked on with disdain, the soldiers fired their rocket launchers.
Dozens of rockets whizzed out in the blooming orange flames, trailing white smoke and red flames, and blasted towards the uninhabited island not too far from the coast.
Then……
boom--
Small mushroom clouds exploded, and the blazing flames covered the entire uninhabited island in just a few seconds.
The vegetation on the island was ignited by the flames almost instantly. The horrific high temperature scorched every inch of land on the island, turning it into a lifeless inferno.
"This..." Amystan's expression finally changed.
This scene was almost comparable to that of a high-level imperial battle mage casting fire magic with all his strength.
But isn’t this just an ordinary individual rocket launcher?
It's just a few dozen rockets, how could the explosion be so powerful?
"This is our latest individual-soldier fuel-air explosive bomb," Levi explained.
A fuel-air explosive bomb can achieve two explosions above the target. The first explosion will explode the fuel-air explosive. The second explosion will ignite the high-energy fuel in the air, turning the bombing area into a sea of fire.
Its principle is actually not difficult to understand.
The only difficulty lies in the research and development of high-energy fuel for fuel-air bombs.
But the problem of high-energy fuel is not a difficult problem at all for Zaun, the world's number one in alchemy technology.
So Levi just casually told Victor, Singed and others about the principle of the fuel-air bomb. While Singed was helping to research the alchemical fuel for cars, he also researched the high-energy fuel for the fuel-air bomb.
"This kind of fuel-air rocket launcher..." Amystan realized something: "Does each of your soldiers have one?"
"Yes." Levi replied kindly, "This is our individual equipment."
Amystan: "..."
The physical fitness of the Windwarriors' soldiers is indeed completely incomparable to that of Noxian warriors. Their health, mana, armor, magic resistance, movement speed and other attributes are all poor.
But with this individual fuel-air bomb, their firepower, or "attack power"... is already more violent than most Noxian troops.
If they met head-on on the battlefield, the enemy would only need one volley of fire to cripple the Noxian soldiers.
"But fortunately... they just have empty firepower."
"The Empire still has plenty of ways to deal with these 'glass cannons'."
The range of this rocket launcher seems to be only 1 to 2 kilometers, which is already within the range of the Empire's archers.
In addition to long-range archers, Amystan's regiment also had battle mages, and she had no shortage of long-range cannons that could fire poison gas bombs and incendiary bombs.
Even in a head-on confrontation, Amystan doesn't have to be afraid of any leader.
Not to mention that these Windleader soldiers are just a bunch of "fragile ADCs", while she has a powerful rune swordsman like Riven under her command.
Therefore, it is only necessary to send a powerful general to charge into the enemy camp under the artillery fire. He will surely be able to easily take the head of the enemy general among millions of soldiers, turning these Zaun people into a group of panicked headless flies.
Amystan was thinking this.
Li Wei calmly told her: "This is just a demonstration of infantry equipment. Next, please appreciate our artillery equipment."
Just as he finished speaking, the roar of an engine was heard in the distance.
Dozens of temporarily modified steam trucks slowly drove over and stopped in a row on the shore.
The trucks had their beds removed and replaced with a row of metal launchers shaped like organ pipes.
The launch pad was neatly loaded with a row of huge and ferocious rockets.
"Is this... a cannon that fires rockets?"
Amystan had never seen such a novel style of artillery.
"You can understand it that way." Levi replied.
"Its name is, Jinx Rocket Launcher."
This name was chosen mainly to commemorate Jinx's outstanding contribution in the development of this rocket launcher.
Before joining Leader, she had been spontaneously engaged in the research, development and improvement of large rockets out of personal interest.
After joining the Leader, she naturally handed over these research results to the organization.
Therefore, the large rocket missile loaded on this "Jinx Rocket Launcher" is actually a modified version of the "Super Ultimate Death Missile."
However, the explosive charge in this missile is not artificial Hextech gems, but high-energy cloud-explosive fuel, which is slightly less powerful but cheaper and more cost-effective.
"It can carry 16 Ultimate Death Missiles and launch them within 10 seconds."
Throwing out 16 Jinx ultimates in 10 seconds is of course terrifyingly powerful.
Compared with individual soldier's fuel-air explosive bomb, it has more explosives, greater lethality, faster firing and higher firepower density.
"Moreover, it only takes 5 minutes to reload, and the range is up to 10km." Levi emphasized.
Amystan remained silent.
Now that the Leader has this thing in his hands, she doesn't have to think about confronting them head-on anymore.
At 10km, no one could be seen, and large rockets began to rain down.
"But...can it hit the target accurately at such a long distance?" Amystan asked with concern.
"This question..." Levi did not answer directly, but said: "I think you can get the answer when you visit our air force equipment."
"Air Force?" Amystan was a little confused.
Noxus also has air combat units, such as flying mages and warhawks.
Demacia's flying dragonbird riders are even more famous in Runeterra.
But neither Noxus nor Demacia listed the flying combat force as a separate army and called it the "Air Force".
"What equipment does your air force have?" Amystan asked curiously, "Hex flight armor?"
It is no longer confidential information that the Leader has an Iron Man special forces unit formed by Victor and equipped with Hextech flying armor.
But Amystan also knew that this kind of Hextech equipment was very expensive and could only be used on a small scale as special warfare equipment and was difficult to be equipped on a large scale.
So even if the Leader has such a weapon, it would not pose much of a threat to her.
"No, it's not a flying armor." Levi told her: "It's a drone."
Amystan frowned slightly: "Drone, what is that? An airplane?"
There are airplanes in Runeterra.
The warlike Noxians have long tried to use this new technology in war.
They installed machine guns and loaded bombs on the plane, but found out during actual combat testing:
This thing flies too high, bombs can't be dropped accurately, and machine guns can't sweep it;
If it flies too low, the enemy can use a bow and arrow to shoot this fragile thing down from the sky.
The Freljordians can even collect snowballs on the ground and take down a few from the sky.
Moreover, if they encounter enemy flying mages or Demacia's dragon knights in the air, these clumsy and sluggish fighters will be nothing more than a bunch of toys that can be teased at will and can only be beaten.
Instead of spending a lot of money building airplanes and training pilots, it would be better to use the money to train a few more mages.
As a result, this flashy thing was quickly eliminated from the battle sequence by the imperial army.
"You are still using it?" Amystan laughed secretly.
She didn't think planes would play any role in combat.
But Levi told her: "Airplanes today really aren't that useful."
"But what if we stripped the plane of all its excess weapons and filled the fuselage with high explosives - turning it into a suicide, disposable aircraft?"
"This..." Amystan's eyes lit up when she heard it.
This idea is too Noxian.
If the aircraft is used as a disposable "giant cannonball", there is no need to consider its survivability.
With the pilot's control, this "giant shell" can ensure accurate hits and cause maximum damage to the enemy.
"But isn't this a waste of money?" Amystan questioned.
Although the lives of cannon fodder are worthless, it doesn’t matter how many die.
But training pilots is very expensive.
"You misunderstood." Li Wei explained promptly: "We are drones, we don't need pilots."
"Without a pilot, who will fly the plane?" Amystan questioned.
Levi pointed at the blue bird on his shoulder and answered seriously:
"Janna."
"Her clone will help guide the plane."
