Warlord: King of All Clans

The axe-guns in the hands of the Kobolds were new firearms specially made for Orc warriors.

It was essentially a larger version of the Kobold hunting rifle, except the single barrel had become a double barrel.

The barrels were large enough to fit an Orc's finger, and below the muzzle, a narrow axe blade shaped like a butcher knife was forged.

The entire gun weighed a full thirty pounds, equivalent to an Orc warrior's two-handed battle axe.

"Thank you... thank you, Riverbend!"

After receiving the axe-gun and armor, Agg said goodbye to the Kobolds and returned to his legion's camp.

Here, a full thousand Orc heavy armored warriors were gathered, half of whom had new armor, but some Orcs' doggy friends hadn't managed to get armor, so they were still wearing tattered iron armor.

Orcs, lacking iron armor forging technology, obtained their iron armor from various spoils of war, relying on Goblin craftsmen to patch it up so they could wear it.

Tens of thousands of Orc warriors could barely scrape together a thousand-man heavy armored infantry regiment, while the rest of the Orcs could only fight bare-chested, with at most a pair of iron plate shoulder pads.

The weapons of the heavy armored Orc infantry were also mostly replaced with Agg's axe-gun, and everyone was curiously fiddling with them.

In the legion camp, several Riverbend logistics personnel were delivering carts of ammunition into the camp.

Once the Orc heavy armored infantry had assembled, the commander of this elite force, a level six Orc mid-rank war general, picked up an axe-gun and demonstrated how to use the new weapon.

"This is the new weapon aided by Riverbend, only the strongest warriors are qualified to use it, but ammunition is very limited, each person can only receive ten rounds per battle! According to Riverbend's regulations, you need to conduct three live-fire shootings before you can be put into battle."

The Orc war general took two human thumb-sized cylindrical shotgun shells from his belt and held them up high, "Look, this is ammunition."

Then he skillfully broke open the shotgun's chamber, inserted the two shotgun shells into the chamber, closed it, and raised the axe-gun to aim at the target ten steps away.

With a deafening roar, the target was torn to pieces.

The Orc's shotgun hunting rifle was essentially a small-caliber shotgun cannon!

"Remember, first, only shoot at close range! Second, only aim at the enemy!"

The Orc war general's demonstration was simple and crude, leaving the rest for the warriors to figure out themselves.

Feisha's fulminate of mercury production had matured, and Riverbend finally had a qualified bullet primer, so primer-fired bullets entered the research sequence.

However, the breech-loading rifles that went with the primer bullets required high precision in craftsmanship and were costly, so mass production was temporarily impossible.

Only the double-barreled shotguns supplied to the Orcs, because they were simple enough, crude enough, and didn't require overly precise machine tools, were ahead of the bolt-action rifles.

Of course, this was also part of the practical testing, and once the Orc shotgun axe-gun passed the battlefield test, it would be followed by the Kobold double-barreled hunting rifle, and then gradually evolve to more complex bolt-action rifles.

The Orc heavy armored infantry regiment, having obtained new armor and weapons, soon ushered in a new battle.

Thousands of heavy armored Orcs挤were crowded together, forming an impenetrable steel wall, holding heavy axe-guns in their hands, welcoming a legion of undead marching south on the northern shore.

On their flanks, Riverbend musketeers and troll musketeers were supporting them, providing firepower.

Several elite Kobold scouts squeezed their heads out from under the Orc warriors' crotches, looking at the approaching undead army, excitedly shouting: "Riverbend is invincible! Charge! Charge! Charge!"

"Don't be afraid, I'll collect your corpses!"

The simple-minded Orc warriors were almost incited by the Kobolds to charge out, but fortunately, long-term military formation training allowed them to suppress the rage in their hearts.

Agg, in the military formation, looked at the approaching enemy, unable to suppress the bloodlust in his heart, and couldn't help shouting, "Riverbend is invincible!"

After shouting, he immediately realized and felt extremely ashamed.

But the next second, the entire Orc military formation collectively roared.

"Riverbend is invincible!"

The undead legion, representing death, suddenly seemed less terrifying.

After a battle, the originally expected casualty rate of 20% resulted in zero fatalities!

While the north continued to be ravaged by war and the south was in a chaotic uproar, Riverbend remained peaceful.

Even the troll city-states outside the Shattered Stone Hills were surprisingly quiet.

After several years of effort, Asa finally proved her loyalty and successfully integrated the troll tribes into Riverbend, no longer subject to exclusion.

As a reward, she received Riverbend's cassava flour processing technology and seed potatoes.

With these two staple foods, eighty percent of the troll city-states' food problem was solved, so more and more troll tribes from the Direwolf Plains chose to go south and join Asa.

In addition to basic survival materials such as food and cloth, Asa also successfully sent a group of young trolls to Midgard to study cultural knowledge, as well as Midgard's more complete troll heritage.

And the Shattered Stone Hills between the troll city-states and Shattered Stone Fortress had become a tourist destination.

Thousands of years ago, this was a gathering place for multi-ethnic city-states, with city-states of various races located here, protected by the lords of Midgard.

After the outbreak of war, the Shattered Stone Hills became ruins in a few decades, covered by earth and stone and submerged by vegetation under the catalysis of various spells, with almost no traces of the city-states to be seen.

But with the careful excavation of adventurers, a large number of city-state ruins appeared before the world.

Various relics of the races from thousands of years ago were discovered, circulating in the hands of collectors, and prices were rising.

In the Shattered Stone Hills, the occasional gunshot could be heard, the sound of Shattered Stone Fortress hunters hunting goats and wild boars.

A team of human explorers, led by a guide, entered this "dangerous" area.

The exploration team was small, with only three men and three women besides the local guide, all of whom were brightly dressed young people.

The guide from Midgard was solemnly warning the team members, "Everyone, from here on, we enter the territory of the trolls, as everyone knows, trolls are very terrible alien races, specializing in hunting humans for a living, they will hang the heads of adult men on their rafters, or directly hang them on their necks, to show their martial prowess."

"If you encounter trolls, don't panic, be brave enough to resist and fight them!"

"Only by letting the trolls recognize your courage will they spare your life!"

The young women of the exploration team listened with pale faces, grabbed their male companions, and said in horror, "Let's go back to Midgard, it's too dangerous here."

This exploration team came from the Imperial Capital, the three young men, one was a baron, and two were sons of viscounts, with knight titles.

And the three young women, one was the daughter of an earl, and two were daughters of viscounts.

They were all students of the Imperial Capital War College, loyal readers of 《The Firefly Adventure》, and together they raised hundreds of gold coins to obtain a permit to travel through the teleportation gate and explore outside Midgard.

As the leader of the exploration team, how could the leading young Baron Jett give up, gritting his teeth and saying, "Don't be afraid, we are also transcendent swordsmen, not weaker than trolls, if others can come, we can come too!"

Saying that, he took the lead and walked into the dense forest, "This is the treasure land in the adventure, once we discover an ancient ruin, we will be great adventurers famous in the Imperial Capital."

His words encouraged his companions, and several young noble sons and daughters from the Imperial Capital, wearing noble casual clothes, quickly pressed down their sun hats and followed behind him.