Claude and the three of them hung out in the military academy with a garrison team left behind for more than ten days, and finally waited for the arrival of the large group of people. Starting from January 23, large groups of vehicles and horses from the royal capital came in an endless stream.
Various supplies, and a few squadron soldiers who came to carry out simple construction. After another three or four days, many students and instructors from the military academy also rushed to the military academy, but Claude did not find Muriel and Diavid
The figures of the two people.
And Lieutenant Colonel Manrich, who had been very familiar with Claude these days, finally showed that he was favored by Prince Hansback and got the position of administrative director of the military academy. No matter how complicated the affairs were, they would always change in his hands.
It had to be in order and could be dealt with quickly. Claude almost watched helplessly as the military academy, which had nothing but snow, turned into something else in just a few days, with tent dormitories, classrooms built with tents, and logs
The canteen greenhouse and wooden bathhouse built soon appeared on this wasteland...
Soon a notice was posted at the gate. Claude took a look and found that the training was divided into two levels and a total of sixteen training classes. Ten of the training classes were at the sergeant level, that is, from sergeant to master sergeant.
The purpose of this level is to train qualified junior officers. Both Mike and Big Man Gimi are among them. There is also a level of lieutenant-level officer training. There are six training courses from second lieutenant to captain. The purpose of the training is to strengthen
The tactical level and force management means for squadron and group-sized combat units to perform missions and the skills to train soldiers.
Claude saw the names of Murray Ed, Diavid, and Belklin who were assigned to the second battalion of the Rangers on the list of captain-level officer training. The other familiar names were all Rangers.
A lieutenant-level officer from another battalion. But the problem is that Claude didn't find his name on the list. Could it be that he was omitted...
Claude decided to find Lieutenant Colonel Manrich, who was very busy, to find out what was going on. When Lieutenant Colonel Manrich saw Claude, he just nodded and said, "I'm looking for you, you go first."
Wait until I finish what I'm doing.
So Claude waited for a long time, and finally waited until Lieutenant Colonel Manrich had arranged the matters at hand and drove his subordinates to execute them quickly. The office was finally cleared.
"This is for you." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich found a document from the table and handed it to Claude.
Claude took the file and took a look, advanced seminar? No, how did I join this advanced seminar? There are twenty-six names in it. Except for Claude who holds the rank of captain, the other twenty
The suffixes of the five names are all school titles, and there are eight of them for colonel alone.
Seeing Claude's confused eyes, Lieutenant Colonel Manrich laughed loudly: "You must be surprised. I was just as shocked as you when I first received this document. But after asking around, I found out that you are Michelle.
General Chi.C. Priest personally designated the candidates to join. General Michelic said that even he could not lead a large group of troops to deal with more than 5,000 enemies. You can't win the victory of Squirrel Village.
It is necessary to go through some more lieutenant officer training to be qualified to join this advanced seminar."
Claude was a little embarrassed: "This is the general's love. In fact, I am also lucky. By the way, Lieutenant Colonel Manrich, what is this advanced seminar for?"
However, Lieutenant Colonel Manrich did not answer Claude's question. Instead, the topic changed to the Ranger Corps being formed: "Did you know that after the completion of this training, all the junior officers who participated in the training will be promoted?
Level one, transferred to serve in the Ranger Corps. Unfortunately, there is no Ranger Corps anymore..."
"What do you mean?" Claude was stunned: "There is no Ranger Corps anymore? So the royal family has compromised and is not ready to have an independent armed force?"
"No." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich replied: "The Ranger Corps is gone, but the Ranger Division still exists."
Ranger division, what kind of organization is this? The kingdom has never had an organization like a division. Claude looked confused.
The military system of the Kingdom of Overas is based on battalions as independent combat units. Each battalion has more than 1,100 people. It can also strengthen two artillery squadrons, with a total strength of about 1,200 people. There are four battalions in a regiment, plus a security brigade and
The personnel of various departments under the regiment have a total strength of less than 5,400. The regiment is composed of divisions, one division and four regiments plus a security battalion and artillery battalion, as well as the troops directly under the division headquarters. The total strength is nearly 24,000.
to twenty-five thousand people.
Above the division is the corps organization. A corps has two divisions, plus a cavalry regiment, a guard regiment, two artillery battalions, and troops directly under each department. The total strength is about 60,000.
But soon Lieutenant Colonel Manrich's explanation made Claude understand what division organization is. It is led by one division, plus a cavalry regiment, an independent reinforced combat battalion, and an artillery battalion to form a total strength of three
The combat force establishment is about 12,000 people.
Compared with the legion, the division's establishment is almost half the strength. In addition, the biggest difference from the legion is that the organization of the five subordinate regiments is the main body to perform combat tasks. Instead of using the strength of one division to launch an attack or attack like the legion,
It is for defense, and the other division is used as a reserve force for rotational operations.
Since the formation of the Ranger Legion was unanimously resisted by the royal noble officials and the kingdom's ministers, even the kingdom's four ace field legions were covetous of the 80,000 horses prepared for the formation of the Ranger Legion, so they expressed the same secretly and openly,
We don’t want multiple ranger legions to increase the kingdom’s military expenditures…
Therefore, the biggest difficulty for the Stirling royal family to have an independent and reliable armed force lies in the funding and equipment allocation for the army. The Kingdom's Finance Minister stated that the treasury was empty and could no longer afford the military expenditure of a regiment. The Ministry of War requested that new funds be allocated for the establishment of the army.
The formed Blue Feather Legion was adapted into a cavalry legion to deal with the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath.
This is the idea of the 80,000 war horses delivered by the Principality of Karrnus in the next three years. On the surface, these 80,000 war horses are said to be a transaction with the Principality of Karrnus, but in fact it is actually given by the Principality of Karrnath to Austria.
The compensation from the Kingdom of Vilas. What they paid was 80,000 war horses, while the Kingdom of Overas sorted out the weapons of the Anti-Austrian Alliance forces captured on the battlefield and selected those that were not old and new and gave them to Kannas.
The weapons and equipment of the two legions of the principality can be used to complete the deal of exchanging war horses for weapons and ordnance.
For the Kingdom of Overas, the performance of these captured weapons and equipment is not as good as the standard equipment of the Kingdom's army. They are just for destruction. It is a good deal to exchange for war horses, and the cost of destruction is left.
What the Ministry of War means is that the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Karrnath Steppe has proven that infantry is unable to compete with the enemy's light cavalry. Therefore, transforming the Blue Feather Legion into a cavalry legion can avoid the same failure in future wars.
The Blue Feather Legion is deployed on the border of the Principality of Karrnath. Transformed into a cavalry legion, it can effectively suppress the enemy's light cavalry harassment and attacks on the kingdom's newly occupied territories. You must know that although the two countries have signed a peace agreement,
The nomadic tribes of the Principality of Karrnath have never stopped harassing the border areas of the former Eskilen Principality. This is a folk custom of the nomadic tribes for nearly a thousand years, and even the Grand Duke of Karnnus cannot restrain it, even if there were two
Principality or alliance.
As for the Ranger Corps, let’s not talk about whether the kingdom’s military expenditure can bear it. Anyway, the Ministry of War does not have such a budget. In addition, the Ranger Corps to be formed is a mobile armed force, not a cavalry, but a mounted infantry. In other words, horses will be used for transportation.
, quickly arrive at the destination and then dismount to fight. In this way, there is no need to equip a war horse, just use a second-class horse to travel, and there is no need to ride a horse to fight anyway.
Faced with the accusations from these kingdom ministers and noble officials, Prince Hansback had no choice but to discuss with his father, King Stirling X, and adopted the advice of General Michael Ch. Priest to reduce the army.
The establishment of a nondescript division was created. Only then did a compromise be reached with the Ministry of War, and the amount of military supplies such as weapons and ammunition, logistics and baggage were allocated. At the same time, the Ranger Division was defined as a direct subordinate of the royal family.
The establishment funds and military expenses of the Guards Force will be paid by the royal family.
The corps has become a division, and the size of the organization has been reduced by half. General Michelich believes that this will make it easier to exert its flexible, maneuverable and quick-response combat effects. Another point is that the division will all use the Obas three-form matchlock.
Guns, this precise aiming and shooting style of muskets have fully exerted their power on the battlefield, enough to change the kingdom's army's original combat mode of marching in formation and firing in unison.
From now on, the Ranger Division does not need to be like other legions. One division attacks or defends. When it is disabled, it retreats and then another division takes over. In the war that just ended that swept the entire eastern part of the continent, the Kingdom's army was
Using old tactics, when the enemy sets up defensive positions and refuses to engage in field combat, they line up and walk towards the enemy's defensive positions, resulting in very heavy casualties.
Lieutenant Colonel Manrich told Claude that the reason why General Michelich organized this advanced seminar was to explore the new tactics of the Ranger Division and conduct various drills to test the effectiveness of various new tactics.
Effectiveness.
So it turned out that Claude suddenly realized that although he was only a captain, he was the first to figure out how to lie down on the ground, load the ammunition, crawl forward, and use precise shooting to suppress the enemy's firepower on the defensive position.
The method allowed the Obas III standard matchlock gun to fully exert its ability to accurately aim and shoot. Therefore, it caught the attention of General Michelchi. Coupled with the record of the victory in Squirrel Village, he was indeed named to enter this advanced seminar.
Nothing surprising.
"But there is still a problem about you." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich said with some embarrassment: "There is something wrong with the accommodation allocation plan..."
"Residence?" Claude was a little confused: "What's the matter? There's nothing wrong with my current residence. Isn't it good to have one tent per person?"
"The thing is like this..." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich explained for a long time, and Claude finally understood the reason.
It's very simple. With the arrival of a large number of training students, the camping tents in the military academy need to be uniformly arranged and distributed. There is no problem for the ten trainees in the sergeant training class. They are arranged in tents for 12 people just like soldiers.
.The students in the six lieutenant-level officer training courses are treated better. A row of simple wooden houses have been built in the military academy, and the arrangement is eight people per wooden house.
As for the teachers at the school and the school-level officers who came to participate in this advanced seminar, they all stayed in the villa area built outside the military school. As a result, Claude became a problem. He has the rank of captain. Logically speaking,
It was said that he should live with those lieutenant-level officers who were undergoing training. But Claude was attending an advanced seminar and did not need to receive training, so it would not be appropriate to place him with those training students.
It doesn't matter to Claude, he can live anywhere. However, Lieutenant Colonel Manrich said that the lieutenant-level officers who received the training must undergo military skills training again this time, which means that they must go to the playground to gather for exercise every morning.
The advanced seminar that Claude participated in sometimes conducted sand table simulations, and it was natural to stay up late if the session lasted for a long time.
In this case, Claude, whose work and rest schedule is completely different from that of the lieutenant-level officers receiving training, would not be able to live in the wooden house of the military academy. Not only would they affect each other's rest, Lieutenant Colonel Manrich was also worried that Claude would
He became the target of public criticism and was envied and hated by those lieutenant-level officers. Think about it, they were trained like a drowned dog when they got up early in the morning, but Claude yawned and went back to the dormitory to go to bed. Who can imagine this scene?
Seeing anyone feel uncomfortable affects morale very much.
There is also the tent that Claude is currently living in. The military academy will also recycle it. Some time ago, Claude and the three of them stayed at the military academy for more than ten days because of early registration. They lived in the winter tent that Lieutenant Colonel Manrich bought for them.
Camping tent. Now that the military academy is about to start, the logistics materials have been shipped, and the preparations are almost done. The dormitories in the academy have been arranged and allocated. We can no longer let the tent where Claude lives stand alone.
It's next to the playground, so recycling is non-negotiable.
"Then shall I move to the villa area outside the military school?" Claude asked.
"No, your level is not high enough." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich was also in a dilemma, but the rules are rules. Officers who are not at the school level cannot stay in this villa area. In addition, the villa area is now overcrowded, and three people are crammed into each villa and wooden house.
Famous school-level officers. First, there was insufficient funds to build the military academy and there were too few villas and wooden houses to build. The other was that General Michelich did not expect to invite so many school-level officers to participate in this advanced seminar. Originally, there were only sixteen places.
Now there are nine more campus officers plus Captain Claude...
"And you are not a teacher at the military school..." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich added. The houses slightly inferior to the villas and wooden houses in the villa area have already been assigned to various teachers at the military school. Some teachers have their families, and some
The teachers also brought servants or maids to take care of their daily lives. In such a situation, no one would welcome Claude's rash arrangement to live with these teachers.
Claude's face was full of black lines, no wonder Lieutenant Colonel Manrich said that his accommodation arrangement was a problem, and he unknowingly became an isolated one.
"Then what do you think I should do?" Claude complained: "Why don't you give me a tent and I can go to the village to find a place to camp myself..."`
"No, I have already solved this problem." Lieutenant Colonel Manrich said confidently: "I have designated a family in the village to solve your accommodation problem. During the training period at the military academy, you will stay at their house for free.
The military academy will settle the settlement with them..."