Chapter 925 (1/2)

Roland had mentioned several problems that needed to be solved The lack of an air defense netas as big of an issue as the transportation problem

The i air supremacy stuck in his head He had learned this lesson from the history of the wars in his previous world An are was always able to launch an attack from any point at any tiround was able to detect ene that in mind, he planned to enhance his army's air defense capabilities as soon as possible Otherwise, he would never be able to build an artillery position near the Taquila ruins

He guessed that after Lorgar's escape from their pursuit, the deion several tiate, and they would have likely concluded that most of the residents of Neverwinter were coht they could repeat the old trick that they had used in the first Battle of Divine Will

The deed to avoid the sentry posts in the Ie as well as the God's Punishone deep into the Barbarian Land If Sylvie had not taken over the scouting job, the frontier guards would not have been able to detect the approaching demons until they came near the city wall

The battle on the city wall had highlighted as lacking in the current technology, and proven that the sky had already becoest vulnerability in Neverwinter's defensive line

After all, the people in this era could hardly iine aerial forces, let alone countermeasures for aerial attacks

Roland had been pondering over the air defense problem ever since theDevilbeasts, but he had never expected them to come to the city so early He had not started the develop the Iround defense line and the telephone network

The fact that the frontier guards had not been able to shoot down any de the earlier incident did not surprise hi rifles to fill up the blind zones of the uns and the cannons for now, and they had proven to be quite effective in suppressing ene fro rifle had a relatively short range and a low accuracy, which becaainst airborne enemies Furthermore, its hit rate was low and its firepoas lies could only contain five bullets Last but not least, it had no suitable tripod or aiets in the sky With these defects, it could hardly serve as an ideal ground-to-air weapon

He felt that he had better begin to replace all the revolving rifles with bolt rifles

It was already part of his plan, but Anna was unable to mass-produce that e-scale production of the bolt rifles Given that, he had only equipped the sniper team with bolt rifles for now Fortunately, the workers had started to get familiar with the operation of the new machine tool which was put into use recently, and they were already able to assemble rifles on their own Once they could iuarantee the quality of the products, the output of bolt rifles would be substantially increased

Though bolt rifles could shoot farther andrifles, they could hardly serve as ground-to-air weapons Their rate of fire was even lower than the revolving rifles, and their tracer ammunition, which had a complex structure, was not easy to manufacture, especially when the a at its full capacity Even if he began to focus on tackling the key problems for the mass production of bolt rifles now, he would need several oal By the time he succeeded, the Months of Demons would already be over

Under these circuround-to-air firearms as the primary air defense weapons and use the bolt rifles to assist these neeapons in a fight

Based on the existing technologies, he was not able to equip his arh-tech fire control system, so his only choice was to create a hail of bullets to stop the enemies in the sky

The easiest way of achieving this effect was to convert souns into anti-aircraft uns, which had been a tried and tested solution in the modern world's history and would not increase the burden on the istics sectors A Mark I type HMG equipped with an ai tool and an adjustable tripod would be able to shoot low-flying enemies out of the sky

In any case, his Mark I type heavy uns were easy to convert, as he had planned for the air defense usage in advance and had equipped the when designing these uns