This field confrontation exercise of the 11th Field Battalion of the Blue Feather Corps stationed at Fulkby Hill Military Camp was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing a circle of ripples and then disappearing. Within a week,
No one talks about this competition anymore. When they talk about it occasionally, they think that although Claude defeated the strong by the weak, his fighting methods are clumsy and his courage in the confrontation is not worthy of praise.
In addition, his tactics may be suitable for small group drills, but they are useless on a large battlefield. After all, today's wars are large battlefields with tens of thousands of troops. A confrontation between two armies can often decide the outcome of a war.
Victory or defeat. If you adopt Claude's tactics and imagine tens of thousands of people crawling on the ground, it will be like what Lieutenant Kemont said, the Blue Feather Army will become the Maggot Army...
Therefore, after Claude returned to camp, he did not become the target of everyone's attention because of his victory in this field confrontation exercise. The only advantage was that Second Lieutenant Most and Second Lieutenant Carlos of the Logistics Department no longer attacked Claude's security team.
The consumption of gunpowder and guns was irrelevant. They had seen the power of precise shooting, and they believed Claude's words that only long-term and large-scale live ammunition shooting could improve the shooting accuracy of the soldiers.
However, what troubles Claude is that although the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun in his hand is a newly designed musket used for precise aiming and shooting by the Kingdom's Fire Gun Research Institute, its shooting accuracy is still not satisfactory. Claude
De found that at a distance of about 100 meters, the accuracy can still be guaranteed. It is not difficult to aim at the ten rings and hit the red heart of the target. But at a distance of more than 150 to 200 meters, the error in aiming and shooting is about one palm.
distance……
This is not a problem of soldiers, but that today's matchlock guns are basically smoothbore guns, and the projectiles are balls made of iron and lead. In addition to human and environmental factors, the ballistic trajectory after firing still changes. This is not
Long-term and large-scale live ammunition shooting can allow soldiers to fully master it. In other words, at a distance of more than 100 meters, whether the shot can hit the target depends on luck.
Claude originally trial-produced a modified matchlock gun in the forest farm, which was mainly used for hunting, and the distance was mostly within a hundred meters, so he did not notice this problem at all. It was not until after the field confrontation exercise that he felt that the two hundred meters
It is still difficult for the soldiers to shoot accurately at a range of 300 meters. If the alchemy magic talisman is around, he may want to try it out by himself. Remember, it should be carved with rifling in the barrel of the gun and using Mini bullets.
To solve this problem. Although I was not a firearms expert in my previous life, I have seen some related posts on the forum.
But now in the military camp, Claude does not have this condition. Although the Blue Feather Army has a small firearms repair shop in Gonigada City, Claude found after going there once that the greatest ability of this firearms repair shop is to deal with muskets.
Reassemble, remove the good parts from the broken musket and reassemble it into a good one. It usually takes four or five broken muskets to assemble a new musket. As for modifying the musket,
To this gun repair shop, that was like a night in the sky, so there was no need to even think about it.
In addition, for Claude, that field confrontation drill somehow made many officers in the legion camp give him an evaluation of being good at training soldiers. For Claude, he was able to defeat a group of captured soldiers in just two months.
It is quite recognized that those who have been eliminated from the recruit training are trained to be soldiers who can obey orders and perform precise shooting. Even if these soldiers cannot march in a queue and fire in unison, they can still perform alert duties, stand sentry and patrol.
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So more than a week later, Claude received another mission to accept the sixty or seventy newly eliminated recruits in the legion camp. The requirements were the same. They only needed to be trained to the level of soldiers in the treatment center guard team.
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It is said that this was the suggestion of Lieutenant Colonel Leon Crow, the deputy director of the training department of the legion camp who came to watch the actual confrontation exercise. He believed that all the goods that were eliminated from the recruit training should be thrown to Claude for training.
It's like scrap metal is refurbished into a furnace, and perhaps some qualified security soldiers can be brought out. This is better than sending these recruits to the logistics department to do hard work...
Claude complained to Lieutenant Most that he had become a nanny. In addition, if he accepted these eliminated recruits, he would have two squadrons under his command. The question was who would be the squadron leader of these two squadrons.
.The organization of a squad is that the sergeant chief serves as the squad leader, and a sergeant becomes his deputy, who can replace the failed master sergeant at any time on the battlefield and continue to lead the squad. But the squadron leader will basically appoint a second lieutenant, and there are four in a squadron.
The team has four sergeants and four sergeants.
Now the security team of the treatment center under Claude already has seventeen soldiers, ten idiots plus mentally ill patients as stretcher bearers, and four non-commissioned officers who are noble children. If you add in the soldiers who were sent here from the legion camp,
There are nearly a hundred of those eliminated recruits, enough to form two squadrons.
The more soldiers under his command, the better. Claude had finally trained the seventeen soldiers of the garrison, and he was trying to figure out how to make those ten idiots and mentally ill people become qualified stretcher bearers. As a result, he had to accept so many.
He was a bit of rubbish, so he went to Second Lieutenant Most and firmly stated that he would not take the blame. He could train himself, but he would have to have a formal second lieutenant to protect him from the wind and rain.
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Second Lieutenant Most was also in a dilemma. This was what I meant above, and there was nothing he could do about it. But as Claude said, sending two second lieutenants to serve as captains was something he couldn't do. All the second lieutenants knew that
What kind of thing does Lord want to train? No one wants to be the garbage who was eliminated from the recruit training. Seeing that the war is about to break out, the second lieutenants who hope to make further achievements on the battlefield are not willing to come to the treatment center garrison.
Come and mess around.
He is also a second lieutenant officer, but he cannot make decisions for other second lieutenant officers. Second Lieutenant Most can only tactfully say that he will ask the superiors for instructions on Claude's behalf. But if there is no arrangement from the superiors, he can only let Claude
Come and act as the squadron leader. As for arranging for other non-commissioned officers and sergeants to come over, Second Lieutenant Most said that manpower is tight. Since Claude acts as the squadron leader as a sergeant major, the four aristocratic children can also use the sergeants' positions.
Act as team leader.
As for the issue of their deputies, Second Lieutenant Most can transfer a few veterans with the rank of corporal or sergeant. Due to the expansion of army recruitment training and preparation for war, veterans with the rank of sergeant have been promoted to sergeants. Second Lieutenant Most
With his power, he could only allocate a few corporals and sergeants to Claude. However, the remaining seventy-two Obash Type III standard matchlock guns at the battalion headquarters were transferred to him by Second Lieutenant Most with a stroke of his pen.
All the money was allocated to Claude, and he promised to provide an unlimited supply of gunpowder guns. He knew that Claude's live-fire shooting training was very expensive.
Seeing Claude still dilly-dallying in his office, Second Lieutenant Most finally became annoyed and warned Claude sternly that as a soldier, the most important thing is to obey orders and carry out the orders given by his superiors to the letter.
The task. You are not a small businessman, and you cannot bargain with your superiors because of the difficulty of the task. Remember, you are a soldier, and it is your bounden duty to obey orders...
Claude had no choice but to hand over the eliminated recruits and bring them back to the treatment center to figure out how to train them.
Time passed quickly, and while Claude was busy training new recruits, news reached the military camp at the end of May. The war broke out. The Kingdom of Ovilas declared war on the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance, and the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance also
Declaring war on the Kingdom of Orvelas, the clouds of war are gathering over the entire eastern region of Pharea. The beacon has been lit, but we don’t know who will be burned to ashes.
Waves of cheers erupted in the military camp. Many soldiers and officers rushed to the playground and loudly cheered slogans such as Long Live the Kingdom, Long Live Sterling X, Down with the Anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance, and loudly sang the Blue Feather Legion’s military slogans.
Songs and other war songs are high-spirited. Perhaps in their eyes, victory in this war is just around the corner, without any effort...
Claude is training his stretcher team outside the military camp. There are currently thirty-eight people in the stretcher team, all of whom are not suitable candidates to become soldiers. What Claude has to do is to train their reflexes, and they will wear blue feathers.
The scarecrows uniformed by legionnaires and officers were thrown into the mountains, and the stretcher teams were asked to put the scarecrows on stretchers and carry them back. In order to let these stretcher teams adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield, Claude also asked people to go to the canteen kitchen to get some pigs.
Place blood intestines, heart, lungs, etc. on the scarecrow.
The stretcher bearers who can carry the scarecrow back can drink water and rest, and may even be rewarded with a fruit or a small piece of bread. Those who fail to carry the scarecrow back will be whipped, turn around and continue carrying until they bring back a scarecrow.
There is no other way, Claude can only train these stretcher bearers in the same way as training hunting dogs, and find ways to develop their reflexes. As for the military regulations about rescuing the officers first, Claude said it was too complicated, and the stretcher bearers
Those idiots and psychopaths just can't tell the difference...
In one month, Claude accepted three batches of eliminated recruits from the legion camp, a total of 121, and then organized a 60-person guard squadron and a 38-person stretcher team.
The hopeless idiot was thrown into the army's logistics department to work as a coolie.
There were two recruits who used to be local gangsters. After being forcibly recruited, they pretended to be crazy and stupid in the legion camp and were eliminated from the recruit training. When they came to Claude, they repeated their old tricks. After being discovered by Claude, they still refused to change. So Claude reported it.
The two fools became two chickens and were beheaded in front of the whole battalion of recruits. The heads were ordered to be sent to the legion camp as a warning to all the recruits.
The news of the outbreak of the war was brought by Dr. Perrent in a carriage. Dr. Perent said that there was an uproar in the military camp. The officers were celebrating and cheering, clamoring to overthrow the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance. As for the soldiers, there were
Some of them were cheering and celebrating along with the officers, but most of them just watched silently, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing. After all, the outbreak of war meant that they had to go to the battlefield and serve as cannon fodder. For people with a clear mind, this is actually nothing.
Good news.
Claude had nothing to say, he was just prepared in his heart. Although he was a sergeant now, he was still acting as the squadron leader of the treatment center's security squadron. In terms of safety, he was still more secure than the soldiers in the military camp. At least
He doesn't have to charge into battle. Even the treatment center has to follow the battalion headquarters to the front line, which is also at the rear of the battlefield.
"Are we about to leave?" Claude asked.
Doctor Perrent shook his head: "I don't know, the Legion Camp has not issued an order yet, and I don't know what orders our Eleventh Field Battalion will receive. But I heard that the Third and Seventh Field Battalions over there at the Legion Camp
The battalion has received orders to move in the direction of the Principality of Sidings. I think the main direction of our army's attack is probably the Principality of Sidings..."
Claude sighed. The war broke out too suddenly. He originally thought that there was still a month's buffer time, at least to train these eliminated recruits. After reading the news in the newspaper recently, I also thought that
Most of them are news about the kingdom sending special envoys to visit the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance, hoping to reconcile the disputes between them and not easily start a war. I didn't expect the war to start so soon. Or the kingdom took the initiative to declare war on the anti-Austria Five-Nation Alliance. I really don't understand.
What happened to force the kingdom to go to war?
Claude had a helpless feeling of being caught up in the tide of history. He was so humble that many things were out of his control...