Chapter 847: Section 562: Walking with You (Part 4)_2
"I can only try my best to teach them, hoping that some of them will live until the end of the Tide of the Dead," Lady Karlmo mentioned this with some melancholy. To Malin, her sadness seemed completely normal, for the Tide of the Dead was perilous, with the entire world facing an invasion from Chaos. Whether in the Western or Eastern parts, Asia or Europe, the whole of human civilization had to confront this indiscriminate catastrophe.
Thinking this far, Malin addressed the children on the field: "Madam, I will do everything within my power to arm these children."
"I know. I have heard of the performance of your workshop’s weapons in the North. They say casualty rates have decreased by at least seventy percent, right?"
"Yes," Lady Karlmo referred to a figure that Malin was rightfully proud of.
According to the military statistics of the Northern Kingdom, units equipped with firearms from Malin’s workshop had an amount of fire per unit time that was tens of times higher than those using muzzle-loaded firearms.
Under the same circumstances, a Chaos unit could break through the line and perform well in exchange against a unit with muzzle-loaded firearms. But facing the new units, equipped mainly with breech-loading bolt-action firearms, and Elite units even with semi-automatic firearms, the same Chaos units were unable to accomplish breaching the line.
Now that a large number of new firearms had been distributed, the Northern Kingdom’s military discovered that their troops were becoming increasingly effective in combat. Units that fought hard battles against Chaos and had more veterans than recruits were everywhere.
Seeing everyone as Elite was the happiest annoyance for those in the military at the moment.
Similarly, after confirming the current state of all their front-line units, ensuring that the veterans got no sawdust, sand, and stones mixed in their bread became the most crucial task for the Marshals and the General Staff — a simple affair, since Malin had already given them a hand before. Now, all they needed to do was to maintain it.