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Chapter 293: Martial Arts Examination

Heavy crossbow!

Inspired by the Moon Queen, the Zhendan people have a more peculiar demand for martial arts, which is that they are not good at killing enemies in close combat.

For the Zhendan people, close combat is used to hold the line. The best tactic is to hold the line and use long-range weapons and artillery to maximize output.

And due to the lack of high-quality horses and the fact that the anti-line shooting artillery system does not require cavalry, Zhendan's cavalry is very weak and riding skills are not required at all.

Therefore, the long-range weapons of the Zhendan people are extremely powerful.

The longbow is fast and can be deployed and fired immediately. Its advantage is its lightness, but its disadvantage is that it cannot penetrate armor.

The Heavy Crossbow is balanced. It takes time to deploy a volley, and has a slightly slower reload and firing time, but has considerable armor-piercing damage.

Iron Hail is very powerful and can fire several projectiles at a time. Although it cannot be aimed accurately, it is very useful against close-range clusters of infantry.

As a dark elf, Mousse had not received any training on how to use the longbow and iron hail, but as for the heavy crossbow, unlike other candidates, she had a record of killing people using it.

If we make a list, the names on it will definitely be densely packed.

Of course, there is a weight calculation before the exam.

After all, fighting strength is basically limited by body size. You can't let a Nobula wrestle with an ogre.

Mousse was assigned to the women's group, and the weights of the other candidates were all in the same range.

At the end of the line were two fully armed Aurora female soldiers. I didn't expect that there would be female soldiers among humans besides elves.

He put away a lot of his hostility, walked forward and allowed the two to go through the security check.

Thick linen curtains were immediately drawn up around Mousse, blocking out any view.

"Please, strip."

The Zhendan female soldier spoke slowly to ensure that the elf could hear the orders clearly.

Mousse had encountered this kind of thing before. When he was still a dread lord, he would be thoroughly checked by the servants when attending other people's banquets.

Avoid assassinations, avoid cheating, and avoid scary drugs.

Easily remove the armor and take off all the clothes and put them in the storage box that has been prepared on the side.

Mousse even raised her hands and spread her long hair, exposing every inch of her skin to the two Aurora female soldiers.

Show them that the Dread Lords have no business being as despicable as the Khaine Assassins.

The clearly visible scars and distortions on the skin made the two Aurora female soldiers, who had never been on a battlefield, scream in surprise.

Trembling with fear, he looked Mousse's whole body up and down, not even daring to touch him.

After making sure that they had no cheating props in their mouths or other parts of their bodies, the two of them held their heads in their hands and brought uniforms to Mousse in fear.

Clean, very comfortable, great value corset.

After putting it on and opening the curtain, Mousse had passed the inspection and could enter the examination room for the first round of competition.

Disassembly and assembly of the heavy crossbow.

This competition is very simple. Each candidate has two heavy crossbows in front of him, but they are both broken.

However, the two heavy crossbows were damaged in different places. If we disassembled them all and found the intact parts, they could be put together to form a new heavy crossbow.

This is Zhendan’s assembly line production. After learning the special craftsmanship of the Chaos Dwarves, Zhendan no longer produces complete heavy crossbows, but makes different parts and finally combines them together.

In order to take into account that some candidates had never seen a heavy crossbow, the invigilator took out his own heavy crossbow, disassembled the parts one by one, and then assembled them one by one.

Although the structure is very different, the dark elves have been playing with crossbows basically since birth, so they naturally have mastered it.

As the entire tutorial was demonstrated, the invigilator slowly raised his hand.

"Prepare..."

"start!"

At the command, all the candidates immediately took action and began to prepare to disassemble the heavy crossbow into its most basic parts.

Only Mousse was not in a hurry. She was very calm, as if everything that happened was not important.

Perhaps in the entire examination venue, she was the only one who had been on the battlefield and killed people.

Pick up one of the heavy crossbows, load it with ammunition, string it, aim at the target in the distance, and then pull the trigger.

After a click, there was no movement.

Just as the invigilator said, both heavy crossbows were broken, and the good parts needed to be picked out and combined into a new heavy crossbow.

This is mainly to test each soldier's proficiency in using weapons. After all, going to the battlefield is not like going on a trip.

Chaos wastelands, dimensional stone deserts, complex street cities, underground spaces, and floods can all damage a heavy crossbow and render it ineffective.

On the battlefield, how to quickly restore the combat effectiveness of one's weapons is a subject that a soldier must learn, and naturally it is also a subject that must be tested.

Mousse listened calmly to the sounds inside the heavy crossbow. Her years of experience allowed her to directly hear where the problem occurred.

"The capstan is unstable and needs to be replaced. Cut, slave work."

After finding out the problem, although he was extremely reluctant, he still stretched out his hands and began to do things that only slaves in the dark elf community would do.

Repair weapons.

He disassembled the heavy crossbow, took out the damaged capstan inside, and then picked up another heavy crossbow. Just as the invigilator said, two heavy crossbows could not have broken down in the same place.

Mousse took out the capstan and gears of another heavy crossbow and used them as repair tools to replace the broken parts of the first heavy crossbow.

The assembly is complete, load, cock, and lift.

She subconsciously aimed at other people, but fortunately this subconscious behavior did not occur immediately. After realizing something was wrong, she quickly raised her heavy crossbow and aimed at the target in front of her.

"Pre-shooting."

A crossbow arrow shot straight at the target and finally missed the target by about eight centimeters, which was counted as five rings.

The invigilator also noticed the problem with Mousse and immediately shouted to stop him!

"Candidate No. 293, stop what you are doing. There will be no shooting in the first round!"

"No shooting? Why is the crossbow arrow on the table?"

Mousse sneered disdainfully, ignored the invigilator's order, picked up another crossbow and finished loading it.

Based on the landing point of the first pre-shot, this time a simple callback is performed.

Another crossbow arrow was shot out, and this time it actually hit the red dot directly, a full score of ten rings!

At this time, the other candidates had just disassembled the two heavy crossbows into parts and were looking for the undamaged parts to assemble into a new heavy crossbow.

Mousse had already switched to the third crossbow arrow, and this shot was even more shocking because it didn't hit the target at all.

Instead, it was nailed on the tail of the second crossbow arrow, without any error.

"Don't worry examiner, I still have one last crossbow arrow."