As soon as all the soldiers in the army were equipped with their new uniforms and with the surge of new incoming population, the army saw a massive surge in New recruits.
A military general once said, " a uniform is not just a piece of clothing, it is respect and duty sewn into threads. Uniforms are the symbols of professionalism , we wear it with honor."
The new military uniforms, especially their dress uniform had a role in increasing the size of the army from two thousand five hundred men to seven thousand men in just two weeks .
Training immediately began, to shape the new recruits into professional elite soldiers.
As the training of recruits was going on ,a group of selected soldiers were chosen to witness the new weapons testing .
The soldiers who were at the testing site were mostly sergeants in charge of their own teams.
As soon as everyone settled down, sir Alfred gave a speech about how this new weapons would change warfare for them and then the testing started.
The first weapons to be tested were the general purpose machine gun which was made as a replica of the German mg 42 also know as Hitlers buzzsaw and the heavy .50 Cal machine gun made as a replica of the American browning machine gun.
The technology of the Patagonian region could be said to be on par with the late 1800 to early 1900 as the weapons had little issues. The machine guns spewed out flames repeatedly, digging up soil and shattering the targets placed before them.
The next weapon was a semi automatic rifle, which was designed to look like the AR style rifles, although it was still heavier. The weight was reduced by using wood for its stock and handles. It introduced detachable clips that held thirty rounds of 7.70 mm center-fire bass cartridge bullets. There were two variants, the AR 1 rifle which was the regular with the seventeen inch barrel and the AR 1 C carbines with the fourteen inch barrel .
There was also the pistol , or rather the revolver. It was designed to look like a .500 magnum revolver. It was a double action revolver that would be able to fire six shots in succession.
Then there was the bolt action sniper with a mounted rudimentary telescope with an effective range of 800 meters.
And finally the fragmentation grenade, which for the moment was still the stick grenade.
The breach loading cannons were not yet ready for testing so no one saw it but still they were marveled by the new weapons that they witnessed, especially the machine guns.
In the grand scheme of things, Ceaser wanted one in every ten soldiers to have the mg 42 with one heavy machine gun providing support for a company.
The production of these weapons were already ongoing and by the time the Blackthorn empire sends it force, about eighty percent of the soldiers would be well armed.
At the black site , crates of weapons were opened as members of the Shadowcorp picked up what turned out to be an Uzi, a submachine guns that fired 9×19 mm parabellum with clips holding up to 45 bullets.
It was made entirely out of stamped sheet metal which made it lightweight and easier to maneuver.
One hundred men prepared theirselves, dressed in black combat gear armed with a dagger and the submachine gun. They were going to embark on a mission miles away from the town of Patagonia. They were going to Lejoys castle to strip the castle of all valuables.
They all boarded the wagons that were provided for them and left the town under the cover of darkness.
Five days later, they found theirselves on the outskirts of the town where the castle was located.
The town was unfortified, littered with filth and dilapidated buildings. The only building that was worth looking at was the castle on top of the hill .
The town had at least one thousand guards patrolling both the castle and the towns vicinity.
They rested in the surrounding woods till midnight and then they crept towards the castle trying as much as possible to be inconspicuous.
The castle gate was still open, the reason behind it was foreign to him, but it was a good start if not they would have relied on grappling hooks to scale the walls.
Quickly they dispatched off the drowsy guards by the gate and made their way into the castle vicinity leaving four men to stand guard at the gate. The rest separated into five man teams to clear the castle.
To the Shadowcorp agents, this was an opportunity to put their training to the test as they crept through the halls and the compound finishing off any of the guards that were still awake.
Soon the team led by Ceaser came to the vault hidden underneath the castle, and there was a metal gate blocking access into the area. After confirming that all agents were in position all around the castle, an explosive was attached to the gate and seconds after the fuse was lit , it blew open the gate .
The noise now attracted most the remaining surviving guards who rushed into the castle . The agents who were already at the major points of the castle and the castle gates opened fire on the rushing guards, turning them into swiss cheese.
After the first few hundred guards had perished, the rest of them valuing their lives immediately surrendered, allowing for them to be restrained.
After the short skirmish, Ceaser ordered that the entire castle be stripped down of everything of value and to be transported back to Patagonia.
Gold coins and bars , silver, precious stones , grains, horses , carriages, livestock, etc. Anything that wasn't nailed to the ground was carried out to be transported to Patagonia.