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## Overview

“龙炎”军[Lóng Yán Jūn]

(Allies: LongyanJun/Blaze Trooper)

Designation:Anti-infantray/Anti-garrison

Designer：Scientific Industry 6th Base/Huining Institute of mechanical equipment of Fenghou Group/Husu Union Industry

Training Headquarters：Joint exercise base of the north desert area

Field-Trained at: Infantry Garrison

Creed：“Great Harmony of the world.”

Key Features:

>> 1A-11 “Longyan”individual combat system

-Semi-auto electromagnetic rifle(projectile diameter 6.4mm)

-"Dragon Breath" 48 mm multi purpose grenade launcher

-Medium exoskeleton (with double ceramic insert)

-Small high density superconducting battery pack×2

>> Multi function personal identity information tag

>> 36 kinds of field self heating rations

## Background

Since modern times, Celestial Empire's huge national defense pressure has been determined by the long and complex border line and surrounding environment. However, for a long time, in order to ensure the overwhelming superiority of the navy in the surrounding areas, the proportion of military funding of the Celestial army can only be described as "just enough".

The result of this distribution ratio was directly reflected in the Pacific War in the early 20th century - compared with the outstanding navy, the performance of the Celestial army was "not very good". After the war, the war analysis report jointly issued by the Ministry of war and the general office of the staff clearly pointed out that, like the serious lack of actual combat experience, "the imbalance between the top and the bottom" in terms of equipment was one of the main factors leading to this result. As for light firearms for infantraies, it was more than a year after the beginning of the war that Celestial was equipped with Type6 semi-automatic rifles on a large scale. Before that, the soldier of the army and marine who participated in the Pacific War were only equipped with inferior firepower mainly composed of type89 bolt-action rifles. Even with the support of the excellent type98 light machine gun, this level of unit firepower can barely compete with the semi-automatic firepower of the Edenia infantry squad in the medium and long range. This disadvantage is further magnified in the middle and short range encounters that often occur in the complex island terrain of the southern Pacific and require more automatic weapons.

Because of this disparity in the firepower of lowest units, the Celestial infantry needed firepower support from their superiors very much in the early stage of the war. This led to a slight delay in the army's attack rhythm. Unless the army carried out radical tactics such as multi-directional echelon attack to speed up the attack, but it was obvious that this would lead to higher casualties. Officers often complain about the fierce automatic fire of the enemy to the generals who come to be held accountable. The army artillery and naval ships in charge of medium and long-range fire support often have to face the situation of "the demand soars as soon as the bugle roars" and "ammunition consume large as soon as the infantry charge".

In his memoir, a then naval general who had been responsible for many support missions also wrote that " For the sake of the Celestial Empire, we traveled all the way to the hot and humid South Ocean. Even though we lacked the quick response and efficient firepower support like edenia, the sense of mission to defend the motherland enabled our soldiers to overcome one difficulty after another, and the blood created a monument to victory...But I think many unnecessary sacrifices can be completely avoided. We need to improve the firepower projection ability, comfort level and coordination efficiency with superior firepower support of basic infantry, so as to improve the operational efficiency and reaction speed of our army in close combat and encounter, so as to reduce casualties... "

Although many strategists and generals have pointed out that the main reason for the mediocre performance of the Celestial army is that "the advanced technical weapons equipped by the front-line forces are not superior in quantity", and the joint analysis report does admit this point, it still can not change the trend of the continuous tilt of military funding to the navy and the new generation air force as a whole. At the end of the Pacific War, the failure of the huge fleet in Hawaii was regarded as the final performance of incomplete navy electrification construction and unreasonable fleet allocation. Moreover, the booming air force was a "money boy" who needed a lot of resources. After surviving the economic crisis, the ruling school at that time temporarily gave up the macro-control tools used to stimulate the economy in the military.

In addition, the congress also refuted the army's intention to ask for military expenditure. The opinion from the congress holds that the army has a wrong direction in the implementation of the army building policy, which is mainly manifested in its overemphasis on "exercising" or even "performing" operations in open areas, fails to adjust the types of training and equipment according to the direction of each military region, and fails to make adjustments in strategy, tactics and operational command according to the obvious predetermined operational areas. These phenomena not only show that some army officers and departments tend to deviate from reality in theory, but also show that the army has failed to make full use of the approved military expenditure.

Besides, the rugged terrain in the northwest has always restricted the possibility of large-scale mechanized conflicts in this area due to the relatively poor infrastructure conditions of both Celestial Empire and the Soviet Union. Naturally, the military threat from the Soviet Union is not so real. In other words, the congress can still reject the army's idea of taking northwest defense as an issue.

In this case, the distribution of military expenditure has to continue to "make best use of the advantages and bypass the disadvantages". Of course, the army's military expenditure has not been greatly reduced, or even slightly increased. However, considering the changes in Celestial economic aggregate and the slow inflation effect after the war, the resources actually obtained by the army have indeed declined by another step. After all, under the influence of inflation, the same amount of currency will only become less valuable due to depreciation.

This seemingly unfair treatment lasted for decades, until the large-scale border conflict between Celestial Empire and its northwest neighbors.

Since the 1930s, the emergence of nuclear weapons and the nuclear balance formed by the large-scale deployment of their long-range and even intercontinental delivery means have made all countries believe that large-scale land military conflicts will become history. Under the deterrence of nuclear weapons, the conflicts between big powers seem to become illusory. Both sides have the ability to destroy each other, so naturally no one dares to make the first strike. However, after the border conflict between Celestial Empire and the Soviet Union, this judgment was proved to be wrong.

Celestial Empire, which has paid "tuition fees", can no longer avoid such conflicts. Even if there is a nuclear balance, the possibility of such conflicts still exists in the future. This makes the priority of the development of land-based conventional military equipment rise again, the proportion of total defense expenditure in GDP is increasing day by day, and the balance of military funding is also rebalancing. With the increasing affluence of funds, while giving priority to the large-scale renewal of armored forces, the Celestial army began to explore ways to improve the combat effectiveness of basic infantry units.

It seems that the traditional infantry protection and firepower are not enough to adapt to the complex and changeable modern war environment, but in order to improve the protection and firepower, or even just one of them, the infantry have to carry more heavy equipment. There are inevitable "limitations" in improving the comprehensive combat effectiveness of basic infantry in this way, which will greatly affect the morale of infantries. After all, even if mechanized infantry can ride vehicles for most of the march, it doesn't mean that they don't need their own legs: heavy weaponry will make them overburdened when launching an impact on the plain or fighting in complex terrain.

While the traditional physical training has tried its best to tap the physical potential of most soldiers, if we want to further improve the combat effectiveness of infantry, or the ability to bear weight, we have to find another way - change the equipment, or change the soldiers themselves.

In terms of changing the equipment, Celestial scientific research departments and major military enterprises have been making unremitting efforts for the lightweight engineering of weapons and armor. However, the bottleneck of material technology limits the weight limit of most of the equipment. On this basis, forced weight reduction will only lead to the equipment not reaching the qualified level in other indicators - protection, durability and reliability, and the importance of these three is very important, no one dares to make a cut on them.

In terms of changing the soldiers themselves, the idea of "super soldier", which originated in edenia and once "swept the world" in a short period of time, was also demonstrated in the case of the Celestial general staff office, but then it was thrown into the shredder by "that one". People who participated in the discussion and argumentation in the general staff office can still recall that when talking about "gene" and "transformation" at that time, it was a hysterical rebuke from the representatives of the ethics committee.

"Throw all the crazy thoughts out of your mind! How can you treat a person's body as an instrument and configure it wantonly?! Can you think about it before you propose it? "

Even if the force from the ethics committee and other departments cut off the idea of improving the physical fitness of soldiers by special means, no one can guarantee that similar ideas won't be practiced in other countries or regions in the world. But no matter what, the committee's veto in this respect has always been no blind angle and leeway, we can only put our ideas on immature mechanical exoskeleton technology at that time.

Like all countries, the Celestial has not encountered too great obstacles in most aspects of the design and production of new mechanical exoskeletons. The problems of mechanical structure design, motion algorithm and control system have been solved in the face of decades of technological accumulation and progress, and the only problem is energy problem. The existing batteries and power supply equipment can not maintain the energy consumption of the mechanical exoskeleton for continuous combat. In the face of this short time insurmountable gap, Celestial efforts to improve the infantry load-bearing capacity temporarily stagnated.

Until Husu Union Industry's high-density high-temperature superconducting battery technology has been successfully developed and has the ability to be put into large-scale industrial production. This project will be improved. Like many other equipment remaining on prototypes or blueprints, exoskeletons, which were not practical in actual combat due to poor self-supporting ability, will be reborn, and the Celestial army has a real solution to the expectation of improving the comprehensive combat effectiveness of basic infantry: the practical mechanical exoskeleton will provide additional weight-bearing and mobility for infantry, which will be transformed into four advantages in information, firepower, protection and mobility in actual combat.

However, the army has maintained considerable patience in the research and development of military exoskeletons. The mechanical exoskeletons they invited for the first time were only used for the maintenance and load-bearing of engineering and logistics forces. Until the auxiliary exoskeletons showed sufficient reliability and practicability in practical application, the army continued to require Fenghou group to develop formal military combat exoskeletons and its supporting system.

Huining Institute of mechanical equipment, which has experience in the design of auxiliary exoskeletons, is full of confidence in the next research and development of combat exoskeletons, but they do not feel that they have the ability and experience to complete the research and development of a full set of combat system related equipment. Therefore, after negotiation, the research and development of weapons and equipment for this type of combat system was transferred to Scientific Industry 6th Base in Hanyang. As one of the largest Celestial arms factories, countless guns were born here. Thanks to abundant R & D funds,  the 6th Base started several R & D projects of rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers.

But as the army put forward the requirements for practical electromagnetic rifles, the 6th Base also adjusted the contents of weapon R & D projects accordingly.

**I**: electromagnetic semi-automatic rifle which can meet the mission requirements of most combat environments. It has the muzzle speed and penetration depth that traditional gunpowder weapons can't match. The tungsten core armor piercing projectile can even threaten the enemy's light vehicles.

**II**: the caseless carbine that can meet the special needs of close combat. It has high firing speed and high ammunition capacity. It is required that it can break through the conventional bulletproof clothing. However, there is no rigid requirement for the heavy bulletproof clothing with ceramic inserts.

**III**: Light machine gun with caseless ammunition, meeting the needs of medium and short range firepower support of basic infantry units, with high firing speed and high ammunition capacity, and sharing ammunition with carbine.

**IV**: multi purpose medium grenade launcher. Huining mechanical equipment research institute plans to fold the grenade launcher behind the exoskeleton, so the design of 6th base can only be carried out according to the given size data.

**V**: the new generation of portable disposable rocket launcher which is required to be launched in a narrow space and with an effective range of 320 m; Type A use self-forging warhead, which is a multi-purpose type; Type B use series connection armor breaking warhead, which is an anti armor type.

It can be said that the research and development of the new individual weapon system is quite smooth, which is unbelievable. In the first batch of prototypes, except that the exoskeleton itself and the electromagnetic semi-automatic rifle still have defects in reliability, the whole system can be said to fully meet the needs of the Celestial army, and even slightly higher than the general's psychological expectations in the comprehensive combat effectiveness; the basic infantry units can choose different weapons and equipment according to the mission environment, while the electromagnetic semi-automatic rifle with multi-purpose grenade launcher is enough to cope with most cases.

In terms of protection capability, this individual combat system is also outstanding. Because of the existence of exoskeleton, soldiers can be equipped with thicker and stronger "armor": the bulletproof vest of spectral fiber can be inserted into double-layer ceramic plug board, which is almost immune to most high-speed fragments, and at the same time, it can be shot at zero distance by conventional ammunition and cannot be penetrated. But unfortunately, the exoskeleton can not provide auxiliary support for the soldier's head, so compared with some body "armor" with excessive protection, although the helmet with limited weight uses a large number of spectral fiber materials, the protective efficiency of rifle ammunition is still not perfect.

The new type of individual combat system was awarded the title of "longyan"(blaze of dragon), which came from the impressive multi-purpose grenade launcher. Considering the recoil force, the 6th Base chose the way of "low muzzle speed and high bullet weight". Although this type of grenade launcher named "dragon breath" has the disadvantages of short range and low ammunition carrying capacity, the muzzle speed of ammunition is only about 100 m/s and the range of conventional ammunition is only 384 m, but its caliber is as high as 48 mm, and it can launch a series of grenades including directional anti-personnel grenades and anti-armor grenades. The inspiration of its name comes from its most suitable and visually shocking air blast directional anti personnel grenade. After launching, the grenade will explode in a directional air blast after flying 9.6 m, spraying 108 alloy needles and burning aluminum-magnesium powder into the cone-shaped area in front of it. After considering the suggestions of ammunition manufacturers, a small amount of compounds containing calcium and sodium were added to produce orange red flame reaction. This kind of anti-personnel grenade, which is like a red fire dragon and mixed with numerous steel needles, will turn the enemy into a hedgehog covered with fire, and bring extremely terrible psychological shock to the survivors. "As breath of dragon" comes from the words of the chief of staff who watched the live fire test at that time, and the soldiers often put it into practice This kind of ammunition is called Dragon Breath.Considering the special alloy needles that optimize the penetration ability of common building materials (brick-concrete structure, solid wood and most types of prefabricated panels), many veterans insist that their actual combat effect in lane warfare is even better than that of fuel air explosive bomb.

In addition to the battery pack, Husu union industry also provides a simplified version of helmet mounted sight to the R & D team of Huining Institute of mechanical equipment; in addition to the basic use of auxiliary shooting, the sight can also display the working status of exoskeleton and the physiological value of members, as well as the information synchronously transmitted from the theater data link in real time. And the personal identity information tag, which is placed behind layers of bulletproof fabric and plug board protection, can also store the physiological values of the wearer collected from the exoskeleton sensor into the microelectronic chip inside. At least, this brand, which is far more resistant to gunfire than the human body, can tell the person who picks it up what happened to the body of the holder before losing it.

Like most services, the food allocation of Blaze Troopers is still a standard multi-level classification. In peacetime, it is divided into station food and training food; in wartime, it is divided into rear food and war zone food; in war zone food, it is subdivided into front-line food and individual rations. Thanks to the extra weight-bearing capacity of exoskeleton, Longyan kit also has a food heating module, which is convenient for self heating food under field conditions.

However, all things are relative; the excellent performance of Longyan individual combat system also brings "excellent" cost, and the amount of resources required for equipment production, maintenance and personnel training is not comparable to that of conventional infantry training process. In the initial period of time, Long Yan and other series of exoskeletons were not widely equipped. Only a few elite mechanized units and rapid reaction units were awarded this honor, and the infantry units equipped with them were also known as "Long Yan" army(Blaze Trooper); the emergence of Blaze Troopers represented the appearance of the most elite army units in the Celestial Empire, and they will prove themselves with their actions and carry out their creeds.

Facing such a strong opponent, the Soviet infantry division preferred to use large caliber heavy machine guns for suppression attack, or to use rifle armour piercing bullets for ambush at close range; the Allied brigade combat team successively distributed arrowhead bullets for rifles and hard alloy slugs for shotgun to basic units, in order to pursue effective penetration within the normal combat range.

## Notes From the Field

Battlefield reconnaissance has revealed at least these facts about the Blaze Trooper.

**Well Armed and Protected** - The survivability and firepower of the Blaze trooper are higher than the basic infantry of other troops, but just like the time it takes for a knight to wear armor, the Celestial Empire Army also takes longer to complete the equipment before deployment  Wear and check.

**Burning Dragon Breath** - Blaze troopers can use helmet sights to direct the shooting of multi purpose grenade launcher. This weapon can damage light infantries or clear the garrison in buildings effectively.

**Cold Bullet and Heat Barrel** - There is no chemical propellant when the electromagnetic rifle is launched, but the barrel will still be heated due to its working mechanism, coupled with the larger recoil, the rate of fireof electromagnetic semi-automatic rifle is limited.

**Field Operations Adaptability** - Blaze Trooper is very good at carrying out combat tasks in open areas. With the help of mechanical exoskeleton, Blaze Trooper can still move at the fighting speed of normal infantry even with heavy equipment. Moreover, reasonable engineering design also enables it to make full use of buildings and transport vehicles for mobile deployment and combat.

## Remarks

### About the text on the second illustration

There is the name of the weapons and equipment of a Celestial soldiers in the early 20th century.

Type95 offensive grenade

Type99 steel helmet

type6 8mm semi-auto rifle

By the way, according to Ninghai, the Celestial Empire use Yuanshi chronology. There is only a few months difference between the Yuanshi chronology and the A.D. chronology .

### About ruling school in the 5th paragraph

The original Chinese text is “执政学派”, I can't find a better choice to express “学派”。 It means academic faction formed by different theories and viewpoints in a discipline.

Technocracy?

### About the 4th image in the article

The illustrator released the full version on his bilibili account.

The following text comes with the picture.

Improved the previous blaze trooper (illustration).

When painting, I found that many people, including some artists from the developer group, felt that Blaze Trooper's exoskeleton fitted the arm like the arm armor. The arm armor of the exoskeleton in some official propaganda works also deepened this misunderstanding.

In fact, in the existing Blaze Trooper model, the mechanical arm of exoskeleton is fixed on the top of the backpack. There will be a big gap between the mechanical upper arm and the upper arm of the organic body. Only the forearm is completely fixed with the mechanical arm. This design makes the upper body looks larger,in size, which makes people think that it is a powered armor at first sight. I think it is a big highlights, please praise Ostwind(

## Notes

This article is an unofficial translation.

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