At this stage, the main component of their Great Zhou army was infantry equipped with Lei Ming Rifles.
There were naturally martial artists as well. Theoretically speaking, every soldier in Great Zhou practiced martial arts.
After all, martial arts could effectively improve the soldiers' physical fitness and even their reaction speed, making it part of their daily training.
However, even if ordinary soldiers practiced martial arts, without reaching a realm, their strength was only marginally greater than that of ordinary soldiers.
As a result, at this stage, these soldiers had very little need for cold weapons.
Aside from the bayonets used together with their Lei Ming Rifles, equipping them with a standard military dagger was basically enough. Anything more would only add to their burden and become cumbersome.
This also meant that the various military districts had less and less need for cold-weapon forging and repairs at this stage.
In the past, if they wanted a weapon custom-made, they only had to mention it to the forging craftsmen in the military district. But now, to save manpower and expenses, many military districts no longer employed specialized forging craftsmen.
Of course, the service itself still existed.
It was just that if they wanted a custom weapon now, they had to make time to take a special trip to the Military Equipment Forging Department in the city.
For an officer at the Hundred Refinements Realm, taking leave and going out for a legitimate reason was not difficult.
Considering that Flying Claw was going to the urban district for the first time and might not be familiar with the environment there, Shi Lei directly arranged for a human officer who had a good relationship with Flying Claw, Old Zhang, to go with him.
Flying Claw and the others had submitted to Great Zhou