Instances like the situation with the Pinewood and Sled Knight Order are almost ubiquitous in Europe, with every knight order receiving documents from the logistics officer, requiring them to prepare for future counterattack plans.

What they need to prepare is actually not much. Only one-third of the members of each knight order will be recruited, another third will serve as reserves, and the final third will continue daily operations.

In other words, from the moment they receive this document, at least half of each knight order must begin military training to be ready for battle at any moment.

At the same time, logistics officers will also distribute several sets of exoskeletons to each knight order so that they can familiarize themselves with and understand the use of this equipment and be able to operate it proficiently.

According to the document's requirements, every member of a knight order must become proficient in using the exoskeleton and be able to perform a full set of tactical actions while wearing it, reaching the standard of qualification.

Knight orders like the Pinewood and Sled Knight Order, which do not have many combat missions, are relatively at a disadvantage. They have almost no military actions and have also rarely conducted military training.

Although they have some shooting practice per the knight order's requirements to maintain basic combat ability, they lack professional military training and actual combat experience, and only those who have paid the blood tax have some combat experience.

In fact, European countries at this time were very grateful for the knight order system and blood tax policy instituted by Chen Xin, as it unexpectedly provided them with a group of recruits with at least some training foundation and certain battlefield experience.

It's essential to know that the biggest difference between veterans and new recruits is battlefield experience.

During World War II, when the cannons roared on the battlefield, veterans would listen to the caliber and fall point, hiding in the shelter to count the time the barrage advanced slowly, while new recruits would scream in panic, possibly running around wildly and then getting directly blown up.

Those members who had paid the blood tax at the front line had all experienced combat and witnessed the cruelty of the front line and the appearance of alien creatures, laying a solid foundation for them.

They only need to be armed and given some adaptive training to be able to fight as qualified troops on the frontlines.

For each knight order, these members who had paid the blood tax are also a very valuable asset. They have come into contact with equipment like exoskeletons and power armor on the front line, are well suited to train other members of the knight order, and can also pass on combat experience, so the new recruits aren't entirely green.

Fortunately, besides knight orders like the Pinewood and Sled Knight Order, which haven't executed many military tasks, there are also many knight orders that have fought numerous security wars; their members are well-honed with decent combat experience. With a bit of training, they can perform excellently and even be directly armed to go to the battlefield.

However, it will still take a long time before these knight orders can really be put to use. After all, their equipment consists of old military gear from various countries; while they are not short on guns and ammunition, they lack equipment like exoskeletons and power armor, let alone electromagnetic rifles, which are now widely used at the front line.

These items need to be produced in sufficient quantities by factories to arm these knight orders. Otherwise, with just ordinary equipment, they cannot effectively injure alien creatures.

This is also one of the main reasons countries have not rushed to counterattack. After all, this is not World War I, where two people could share a gun, and unarmed soldiers could pick up a dead man's rifle from the ground, load it, and charge the trench.

As for weaponry and equipment, there are not only exoskeletons, power armor, and electromagnetic rifles but also ammunition for electromagnetic rifles, batteries for exoskeletons and power armor, various transport vehicles, and supplies, all of which require a lot of time to prepare.

Especially when deploying such a large force, feeding and supplying them is a big issue.

To address this, the European countries even requested Flame Country to build two new synthetic protein factories in the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions to get more synthetic protein foods for military food reserves.

While this seems a bit stingy, for European countries, it is actually the most economic and practical way they can think of to stockpile food in large quantities at present.

Besides, the countries are also aggressively restoring their industrial production facilities, producing as much weaponry and equipment as possible.

If some are too damaged to be restored, they can only buy industrial production equipment produced with 3D printers from the supporting European fleet.

One has to admit that the tables have turned; Flame Country used to buy European machinery, and now Europe buys from Flame Country.

In fact, they truly envy the 3D printing equipment of the supporting European fleet; for industrial production, there's nothing better than 3D printing equipment.

However, Flame Country strictly controls 3D printing equipment. Regardless of the terms offered by various countries, it is not for sale.

Though humanity is now tending toward unification and European countries are advancing integration processes even more than in the half-century after World War II, thanks to the Southern Celestial Gate plan.

But even in this situation, Flame Country still guards some of its precious technologies tightly without thinking of sharing them.

After all, Flame Country had suffered losses in this area before, and must learn a bit from experience.

And currently, each country is still an individual country. There are boundaries to be maintained between them.

Even if humanity does establish a united governing body and tendencies lean toward merging all humans into one organization, countries will not disclose their most advanced technologies until such an organization is officially established.

And even if a united governing body is established, each country will form its own forces and groups, and it will be impossible to eliminate the original differences and barriers between countries in the short term.

One can see this from how Europe spent so many years on European integration, and in the end, most of their work amounted to translating documents.

Even if someone is truly selfless, you cannot deny that most people still have personal interests.

However, Flame Country and Lucia are both supportive of Europe's counterattack plan, providing substantial aid while also actively pushing for the construction of the Middle East Defense Line, and planning to use the Middle East Region as a direction for counterattacks.

For this purpose, they are not only accelerating the construction of the Middle East Region's defense line but are also deliberately concentrating their military forces toward the Middle East defense line.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com