Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

Indeed, Malin is not the kind of superior who favors one more than another. The Carterburg regiment deploys a squad every day to engage in training battles with the Champion’s squad, usually in urban warfare. After a month of this, the best result from the Northern regiment was wiping out half a squad from the opposing side, but then they were spent completely.

Malin always dines with the winning squad, which is almost a scheduled privilege by him for the Carterburg regiment. Several regimental commanders have declared that if anyone loses, they shouldn’t bother coming back. Malin rebuked those idiots for this— The training achievements of the soldiers from the Northern regiment are evident for all to see; their biggest weakness is their lack of real urban combat experience, while several squads from the Carterburg regiment have fought multiple times in towns and have experience repelling Chaos attacks by utilizing town defenses, possessing ample real combat experience.

Comparing the soldiers from both sides, those from the Northern regiment who can fire five hundred bullets are already considered elites, while at Malin’s side, every rookie can fire five hundred bullets on the training ground. The exchange ratio in urban warfare between the two is clear at a glance—the lowest exchange ratio within one hundred meters is 1.97 to 1, rising to 2.41 to 1 at one hundred and fifty meters, and 2.79 to 1 at two hundred meters; beyond that the numbers are even more staggering, with the worst instance being a squad of elite sharpshooters decimating half of the Northern regiment’s squad without them even locating the enemy.

Only with Sudel’s squad coming up could they achieve a 1 to 1 exchange ratio at three hundred meters.

However, in the eyes of the Marshals, Sudel’s squad is the elite of the elite, whereas the most Malin could offer are model squads from ordinary regiments.

·So what caused the gap between the two sides?

Ails often comes to watch the bustle when he’s free, and having witnessed training battles more than once, his curiosity finally compelled him to ask this question after one battle concluded.

"There’s much to say." In Malin’s view, the level of training between the two sides is entirely different—Malin’s sharpshooters have a solid foundation; most are from Northern hunters with good eyesight, and although many haven’t used guns before, they’re monsters once they’re trained.

Before becoming big head soldiers, those from the Northern Kingdom were mostly serfs and freemen, lacking comparability from the beginning, even if a few young people like Sudel and Rhodes emerged among them, they couldn’t numerically compare to Malin’s carefully selected sharpshooters.

Even the ordinary soldiers of both sides are incomparable.

Ails nodded as he listened to Malin’s series of analyses.