During this period, there was nothing much Chernov did, except for going to Nova-Australia for inspection of those mystery ruins and building together with Serina. Unfortunately, nothing useful has been known except for knowing they are some kind of seal, which is just the same as what the scientists concluded before.
For all these places, there will be at least a division to guard them, for the biggest ones, there is even an army corps.
Today, he receives an invitation from Commissar Zorin, at the Orc's land, asking him to have a look at the orcs army, Orcs Red Army.
Just as Chernov gets off the plane, the orc guard of honour lined up outside the plane gives him a Soviet-style salute, while Zorin waits for him. There was also the sound of artillery fire nearby.
At first glance, he immediately knows there is a huge difference in the Orcs' army compared to the common Red Army.
"What do you think of them?" Zorin asked.
"Using a 12.7mm heavy machine gun as their rifle?"
"You will be more surprised when you see the other one later." Finished speaking, he brings Chernov to one of the Orc camps.
The closer Chernov gets to the camp, the more he feels that the land is shaking. Could normal artillery guns do this type of shaking?
Soon, he enters the camp and sees what the Orcs are training on. Guns of different calibres were mounted on different-sized war beasts. Most of them were used as direct fire support.
While the Orcs are having infantry training, charging at the enemy position, digging trenches and others. What is interesting is the weapons that the Orcs' infantry used.
It seems like they have the same system as human infantry, that they have machine guns, and RPGs as their fire support, just the weapons they are using are stronger. If Chernov is not mistaken, they are taking a 23mm anti-aircraft gun as their machine gun, SPG-9, together with an RPG to use as fire support.
"You see how the Orc army works now, huh. Not only because our rifle can't fit their hand, but also the magazine is too small for them to use, it is common that their hand are too strong to press the magazine and rifle into scrap."
Yes, Chernov can see, the ammunition belt of the heavy machine gun was directly wrapped around them, reducing the frequency they will need to reload.
"Most of them will only need to know how to fix their machine gun when there is trouble. This is the only difficulty for them, they have just started their training, but I believe it will just be a matter of time for them to know."
That is what the Orcs' infantry will do. Chernov then put his attention to the artillery, where it was attached to the platform built on the war beast.
"We differentiate their war beast into a few sizes and built different artillery on them. First are the small ones, small but fast, you can see them as Velociraptor, but bigger and stronger ones. For them, we will build 120mm mortars or guns on it, operated by goblins. They will act as the Rapid Reaction Force, reinforcing to buy time for the others."
Goblins... Chernov almost forgot their existence; they only showed up during the invasion of the Baltic states. He asked his clarification from Zorin.
"That is because we killed all of them who have stepped into our motherland. The rest that remained in the Octa by that time were shocked and scared and didn't want to join the war anymore.
"They were just hiding inside their bunker and village, surrendering by the time they saw us. Their cowardly personalities somehow make them suitable to operate this, as we hope the rapid reaction force, except for reinforcement, can also do some guerrilla things, which can also delay the enemy and buy time."
Chernov nodded his head, then looked at the bigger ones, approximately 5 floor talls, where at 4 152 mm heavy artillery guns were installed.
"This was the medium ones, most commonly seen in the Octa, and also they will be the main forces of the Orcs' artillery. We divide them into two parts, one of which is operated by the Orcs and will be used directly for fire support in the front, as this doesn't need personnel to do the math and calculate the coordinates. While for the other, it will operate by our men and deploy the other unit to the rear as conventional artillery."
Chernov observes the medium ones that are practising firing the artillery. The front legs of the war beast were knee down on the ground, giving the artillery that was installed on the back sight to aim at the front.
The way that they transported ammo was not complicated, not like the other Red Army building a portal, orcs were just simply carrying the ammo box and walking to the artillery from the back leg of the war beast.
"So how about the big ones?"
"Well, for the big ones, it is not here. Instead, we are still building the platforms. I have seen it before, and I can tell you that once it has been done, it is more like a moving fortress rather than a fire support platform. There are only two now, as usual, one will use as direct front support and the other will remain in the rear."
Chernov nodded.
"There will be around ten hundred thousand orcs included in the army. They will act as one of our reserve armies. Comrade General Secretary was satisfied with this. This will be the first step for him to build the Orcs' socialist republic."
Hereby concludes the Orcs army, that's all the Orcs army will have, armoured forces? They can't even fit themselves into it. The logistics unit is just as common as the other Red Army forces. Nothing much to say, at least they can still fit themselves into the truck.