Uzmi looked at the tens of thousands of troops in the Third Corps of the United Army, who dared to set up a defensive posture in front of their three million troops, and was so angry that they didn't attack anyone.
Patrick shook his head and said: "What we have to do now is not to fight, but to preserve our strength, delay the speed of the United Army's attack, and hold on until reinforcements from the Magic City arrive."
The two people openly discussed how to delay the progress of the unified army. The nobles next to them also looked aggrieved. Only the two people communicating knew that they had been prepared for a long time.
It is true that they are preserving their strength, but they no longer expect to control the federal kingdom of Cleveland.
Naturally, it is impossible to waste strength here. The strength in their hands in the future will affect their right to speak in front of the Magic City in the future.
Except for a few key officers and veterans, the so-called Iron Wall Legion and Snow Fox Legion are the reserve forces of the two legions.
The veterans of the two original legions have begun to move to their respective territories, and even their wealth has begun to be transferred on a large scale. However, these nobles have been kept in the dark by the two of them and are fully cooperating with them in mobilizing military strength.
"There is a huge food shortage!" Uzmi said with a sigh.
An army of three million people consumes an astronomical amount of food every day.
Although each family produced their own food, for the purpose of unified management, it was all placed in the rear army's Snow Fox Corps camp.
After all, in addition to blitzkrieg, the United Army also has a fine tradition of air raids on granaries.
On the surface, Uzmi said that there was a large shortage of food, but in fact he was suggesting that this food should also be transferred. When the time comes, with the Magic City at their back, these defeated nobles will not be able to cause trouble to them.
Since you want to betray, you must be most thorough.
Patrick nodded firmly.
"I will be responsible for food safety."
The two sides faced off at the border for three days. During these three days, a few nobles in the Cleveland Army did not believe in evil and led private troops to test the attack. As a result, they retreated directly after a wave of volleys fired from a distance of 300 meters.
Single-shot breech-loading rifles are now mainly equipped for the main force. Most of the noble private armies are equipped with revolvers. They did not realize the performance of single-shot breech-loading rifles at first, and they all felt that they were not as useful as revolvers.
However, the revolver has a fatal flaw: long-distance shooting accuracy is a mystery.
The Cleveland Army mastered infantry line tactics half a year ago, and even had a significant restraint effect on cavalry. This also caused the rapid decline of cavalry. The minimum standard for today's knights is high-level knights.
Only the charge of a knightly group composed of high-ranking knights can block rifle fire at close range.
On the border line amid the confrontation, the unified army in the Asean Province and the reorganized garrison are rapidly laying train tracks.
Trains were produced a long time ago, but the original purpose was to lay railways to the Borean Steppe and the Galland Plateau, so that the two places could be completely connected.
"This time the war was launched too hastily. Although the army was well prepared, if it had been delayed for another half a year, no, just three months, the train tracks could have been laid here."
Aslan looked at the busy army and said with a wry smile.
Duke Durandal couldn't understand the purpose of the railway tracks laid on the ground in front of him. He heard that they were all made of steel. To lay them from Mero City to here, it required steel to do it.
Duke Medea has also taken a train, and even had shocks with Aslan many times on the train. This time when she goes back, she doesn't want to take a RV again.
"It should have been laid here a long time ago." Duke Medea said.
Nomiri and Artoria nodded in agreement.
Nomeli felt that taking the train was more comfortable, while Artoria felt that trains were faster to transport soldiers, especially supplies.
This time the war was launched too hastily. The food was good, but the ammunition loss was a bit large. Otherwise, the Third Corps would not have confronted the Cleveland Army. In fact, the Second Corps also went north for reinforcements in two days, leaving only the Third Corps who lacked ammunition.
The First Corps commanded local garrison troops to build railways.
The rebellious nobles in the province of Eshi'an were wiped out, and all the remaining nobles surrendered. The private armies and defenders of the nobles in various regions were also integrated. Aslan was also shocked when he heard the size of the army.
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There are more than one million people, an army composed of one-thirtieth of the population of Asean Province.
Aslan directly appointed Cromwell as the commander-in-chief of training, responsible for retraining and disbanding the millions of troops.
With the lessons learned from the anti-Mei defense line, it was unexpectedly easy to demobilize the troops. The demobilized soldiers happily went home with ten silver coins. Most of the million-strong army was demobilized, and only half a million soldiers were left after layers of screening.
The last 200,000 troops were laid down, plus the 100,000 troops on the anti-Mei defense line.
More than 300,000 garrison troops were added at once, which made Aslan shake his head.
Cromwell came running with a document.
Within a radius of five thousand meters of Aslan, unless they are powerful men at the Grand Mentor level, they can only walk. On the one hand, it is out of respect for Aslan's identity, and on the other hand, it is for the sake of Aslan's safety.
Cromwell looked at Arturia and nodded, saluted and said: "Lord! I have been training the new army during this period and found that it is too cumbersome to implement today's tactics with the existing army organization.
Moreover, the size of the army is too large and bloated, and it is not suitable for large-scale war mobilization."
When Aslan heard this, he immediately became interested.
The current military organization of the United Army is adapted from the original military organization of the mainland. The existing military organizations of the mainland countries are squads of 100 people, squadrons of 1,000 people, and brigades of 10,000 people.
The full name of the Tenth United Column is Ten Ten Thousand Troops United Column.
"Did you propose this?" Aslan asked with interest.
Cromwell shook his head and said: "This is just my doubt. It was only after communicating with Her Excellency Arturia that I discovered the seriousness of the army establishment problem."
"Oh! Tell me about it."
"With the development of technology, commanders need to take into account more and more aspects. Simplifying the organization of the troops will help improve the commander's control on the battlefield. Simply put, with the range of artillery and rifles, we no longer
As in the original war, soldiers were gathered together to kill, but they began to respond to the situation. The distance between the front army and the rear army may even be more than ten kilometers. In this way, the existing army organization is extremely inconvenient for the commander.
Difficult to schedule.”
"When the troops are maneuvering on a large scale, it is easy to make mistakes. Once the enemy catches this mistake, it is very likely to cause fatal damage to our army." Cromwell explained seriously.
This chapter is repeated and will be revised later.