Chapter 855: The Essence of Divine Art and the Second Round of Military Reform

“Aaaaaaa——”

The blessing of [making light of heavy things] emerged on his shiny sweaty muscles. The worker who practiced the three-step breathing method groaned and carried the heavy clockwork warehouse on his shoulders.

Nodding his thanks to the monk who was blessing him, the laborer took a step forward and walked towards the muddy area.

But surprisingly, the potholes and mud on the ground did not slow down his speed.

If you look closely, you can see that the soles of the worker’s feet are at least seven or eight centimeters away from the ground.

This is one of the monks’ most powerful blessings, [Walking on Flat Ground].

In the swamp on the other side, the Holy Wheel Pump had its orichalcum spring replaced and was constantly pumping out the sewage from the muddy pond.

In the muddy area outside the Holy Equipment Court, there are many laborers who can walk with divine power as if they were walking on flat ground.

Miraculously, a hard soil road surface appeared in the mud, and it took only one day to build this section of road.

This was built by a dozen miracle priests who used the power of turning mud into stone and then drove wooden stakes into the ground.

It just requires miracle priests to come and perform miracles from time to time to maintain and repair the damaged road surface.

This formerly deserted area is disappearing at a speed almost visible to the naked eye, turning into dry and flat land.

“You see, once this area is leveled, it can be traversed by a mortar road. I have a plan…”

With a carriage parked behind him, Witt was talking incessantly to Horn about his plan for building Autumn Dusk Island.

Horn looked into the distance at the bustling area, but his gaze was focused on the miracle priests who were living in harmony.

It must be said that this approach of combining divine arts with magical arts was not guided by Horn.

The monks of the Holy Word order who were able to perform blessings did not originally get along with the miracle priests, but they had to work together.

However, as the cooperation between the two sides deepened and they received intensive training together (including military training), this gap became smaller and smaller.

Although many monks in the order are still reluctant to admit that it was a miracle and not magic, out of “political correctness” they will never say it or do it.

Fortunately, the atmosphere in the Holy See is open enough, and such barriers exist much less among the younger generation of priests than among the older generation.

On the side of the secret party wizards, similar to the priests, many people only regard the miracle priest as a brand.

There is no barrier between young people, or they are more easily accepted.

It is in this context that this unique cooperation model was born naturally.

Under this construction model that draws on the strengths of all parties, the speed of the Holy Court’s city construction and expansion far exceeded Horn’s imagination.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty?”

“Ok?”

Looking at Horn who was absent-minded, Witt asked anxiously, “Do you have any guidance on my plan for the Ring Island Highway? Because I think that with the current population growth rate of the Holy Court, it may not be able to accommodate…”

“No, no, your plan is very detailed. I feel relieved to leave this matter to you.”

“So you were just now?”

Focusing his eyes on the blessing monks, Horn scratched his head and said, “It’s about divine magic, not your business… Remember to build more monasteries.”

“Oh, okay.” Witt nodded and asked the monk beside him to record it.

Horn once thought that divine arts and blessings were bound to the monk himself, just like breathing techniques.

But after studying the monasteries and holy water for a period of time, he gradually discovered that divine arts seemed to be bound to organizations such as monasteries.

Because leaving the monastery for too long or too far away seems to cause the power of divine spells and blessings to drop significantly.

After changing the monastery, it takes up to a month of prayer and adaptation to restore the divine arts to normal levels.

Currently, Chikara has gathered a group of radical wizards and theologians, and is conducting experiments on divine arts in Black Snake Bay.

The study of the nature of divine blessings is a topic that cannot be touched in the church.

According to the church, being studied is tantamount to an attack on religious authority.

“Don’t worry about it, just believe it and it’s over” is the correct attitude.

The Doctrine of the Mean does not have this problem. Instead, natural theology requires them to study the world to reflect the existence of the Father.

The various taboos of the church in the past are no longer taboos in the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance.

This is also the key to attracting foreign monks and reformist priests.

Among the conjectures they put forward, there was one that Horn was quite concerned about.

It was a theologian named Michael, who proposed that the monks’ magic came from collective prayer.

If divine arts and blessings are compared to cloth, then the monastery is the weaving workshop and the praying monks are the weavers.

As for those monks who used divine magic, they were nothing more than peddlers of cloth.

This explains why the power of extraordinary monks’ magic will decrease if they are away from the monastery for a long time.

Because the “replenishment” is not timely.

Unfortunately, this “monk cloth vendor theory” is just a guess.

So far, the occurrence of divine arts and magical spells are all black boxes, and the internal processes are unknown.

“Your Majesty, since you said you wanted to build a monastery, I have a plan. All the domes will be replaced with the Battle of Cheese Bay, and the holy images will be replaced with you, the Holy Lord and the Holy Father…” “Okay, okay, you told me so much, just want me to allocate a financial budget to you, right?” Glancing at Witt, Horn directly expressed his little thoughts.

Witt was not shy and said confidently: “Yes, Lord Sissi said that I have used up all the construction funds for this year, and he will not give me a single copper coin.”

“It’s only April, right?”

“OK.”

Horn knew that he was an architecture fan and liked to build wonders, and he was not likely to embezzle money under the surveillance of the Cheka.

But in the face of Witt’s request, he could only throw up his hands and say: “I have already used up all my face on scientific research grants. I won’t take any more money no matter what he says.”

Witt looked at Horn’s expression, which didn’t seem fake, and he was completely depressed: “Then at least one-third of the projects will have to be postponed, such as this one. Is there really no room for negotiation?”

“…I can show you a way. The Holy Treasury has no money. You can ask for it from the people.”

“The people don’t have money either. Besides, my return on investment is slow, and people are buying industrial bonds and jihad bonds.”

The main reason is that in this era, the concept of real estate is still very backward.

In order to gather industrial population, Horn specially built the cheap Insula Apartments.

Otherwise, relying on land sales, Witte’s city government would never be short of money.

“Go find the army. The various regiments have fought in the war and have a lot of money.” Horn said with a smile, “In the future, the Guards will be stationed on Autumn Dusk Island, and the other regiments will be stationed there in rotation.”

“You mean, the Legion’s territory?”

The carriage was driving on the smooth road, and Witt was still thinking about how to integrate the legion’s territory into part of the Holy See.

Horn was flipping through the recruit training report handed to him by Bonard.

A regiment of 5000 men from Black Snake Bay and a new regiment of 5000 men from Norn are training in the new barracks of Fort Jeanne and the Holy See respectively.

“These two new regiments can be trained according to the latest organization.”

“What do you mean?” Bonard asked tentatively, “Start the second round of military reform pilot projects? We are still at war, right? Isn’t it too hasty?”

After the technology of Holy Favor became universal, Horn could basically get nearly 4000 Holy Gunners and Alchemist Priests every month.

At the same time, due to the popularization of breathing techniques and the refining of mithril, the weight of weapons such as firearms has been greatly reduced.

The holy musketeers of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance have already begun to eliminate the gun mounts.

Many Holy Gunners still keep their gun carriages, but this is because they mount axe blades or bayonets on them for close combat.

With the evolution of clockwork weapons, the old tactics are no longer keeping up with the times and are unable to bring out the maximum power of these weapons on the battlefield.

Then the original 2:3 organization of Holy Gunners and Pikemen, which was caused by the shortage of Holy Gunners, can be eliminated.

Likewise, officers do not have to worry too much about whether the Holy Gunners are attacked, as there are enough replacements.

“Is it urgent? I don’t think so.” Horn shook his head, “Currently, the battles between the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance and the Leia people are all taking place in the Thousand River Valley itself.

We have always had the advantage of location and people, what if our battlefield is outside the Thousand River Valley?”

“It happened outside the Thousand River Valley?”

“Yes, if we continue with the current military system, we will always lack the ability to attack Leia.”

Even before the development of the Holy Favor technology, Horn was thinking about this problem –

Is it necessary to thicken the Holy Gunners Phalanx?

Is it necessary to change the original 20X5 square matrix to 20X6?

Do you need to change from a Morris-style backward rotation to a Gustav-style forward rotation?

Adding a row of Holy Gunners and using forward rotation shooting will bring about the following effects:
The first three rows fired in half-kneeling, bending over, and standing postures. After the firing was completed, the last three rows continued to move forward and fired simultaneously in three columns using this tactic.

The pikemen would not stay where they were as they were doing now, but would charge forward and counterattack along with the volley to gain more initiative.

This three-row salvo has been proven to be extremely effective against extraordinary knights, unless they are extremely powerful titled knights.

In this case, perhaps the new Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance army could even withstand the attack of the Imperial Order Company in the enemy’s advantageous terrain.

In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, the army of the Thousand River Valley Holy Alliance will usher in its second military reform.

But if we want to eliminate people, it doesn’t mean we can just eliminate them.

Galar’s entire tactical system is tied to the 3:2 Galar horizontal formation.

Horn still has to follow the approach of first piloting, then promoting and testing, and finally adapting to local conditions.

Looking at Horn’s thoughtful face, Bonard felt complicated.

Attacking the Kingdom of Leia? The Thousand Valley Holy Alliance entering the land of Leia?
What a ridiculous statement, but inexplicably, Bonard felt that maybe it would really come true.

Suddenly there was a noise outside the carriage, and then the carriage slowly slowed down until it stopped.

Bonard stuck his head out and asked unhappily, “What’s wrong? Why are you stopping the car?”

The man was a Cheka. He rode up to the carriage window and handed a document to Bonard: “Please give it to His Majesty.”

Seeing that it was the Cheka logo, Bonard knew he had no right to interfere, so he handed it directly to Horn.

Horn opened the envelope and took a look, frowning slightly: “Why does King Gigi always come up with these shady tricks?”

(End of this chapter)