But judging by the income recorded in the ledgers, they had produced fifty thousand firearms and received another one hundred and fifty thousand as military aid.
The Demon Race had supplied one hundred thousand: seventy thousand single-shot rifles, twenty thousand bolt-action rifles, more than a hundred machine guns, hundreds of cannons, and ten small-caliber, wheeled, breech-loading guns.
The rest had been bought from other countries, which had only just begun copying them: flintlock muskets, single-shot rifles, bolt-action rifles, manual machine guns—every kind imaginable.
Even so, there was still a huge shortage of firearms for defending the main front. Before, one man in every five on the front line had a gun, while those behind them had none.
Now, one man in every five on the main front had a gun, one in every five among the Mountain Troops had a gun, and one in every five in the southern forces had a gun.
Faced with this situation, their only option was to throw men at the problem, build a vast number of bunkers, and use magic and Cold Weapons to create opportunities.
They had to rely on their large number of elite troops and the vampires' special traits.
But the enemy had a Mithril Bayonet for every man, and every small unit was accompanied by a nun or a monk.
They also scattered Louis's soldiers widely, preventing the vampires from making full use of their abilities.
The people at Holy Sword Mountain could still occasionally find loyal monks, nuns, and nobles fighting guerrilla warfare on their own, adding them to their ranks.
Becoming a vampire didn't change a person's personality, consciousness, or way of thinking. It only gave them a taste for blood, along with the ability to recover and a near-immortality.
But they still felt pain and fear.
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