The battle is actually about logistics, this is what Marshal Michelich said in a senior seminar. Five years of war in the eastern region, if it were not for the fact that the Kingdom of Ovelas had exhausted the gold coins in the treasury and had to seek an armistice.
, the eastern region of Farea Continent has long been unified by the kingdom. Because it could no longer persist, the war in the eastern region lasted for five years and ended with both sides suffering losses.
Claude was not surprised when his sister Anna said that the manufacturing cost of a new rifle was about seven to eight gold crowns. Because if you want to mass-produce standard new rifles, you need to open a firearms manufacturing workshop and design a mechanical production line.
Carry out unified production and assembly of various accessories for new rifles. Mrs. Sonia said that half of the cost of manufacturing and producing 100,000 new rifles is on this mechanical production line.
If the set of mechanical manufacturing equipment for the production of muskets and artillery shipped from the Kingdom of Hicks had not been obtained from the Port of Vibato, which reduced Claude's investment in purchasing processing machinery and equipment, maybe a new musket
The production cost will double. Then, like the revolver, it will become a collection of wealthy people and cannot be promoted and applied on a large scale.
Claude wanted to equip his Thunder Legion with new rifles and build it into an elite force beyond this era. But a Thunder Legion of 65,000 people would need 70,000 new rifles. Just one
Calculating the cost and production price of the new rifle at eight gold crowns, it would cost 560,000 gold crowns for a Thunder Legion to re-equip. And this amount is almost the two-year military expenditure of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion.
This is just the equipment price of a new rifle. Don’t forget that it also requires bullets. If a new rifle is equipped with one hundred bullets, the price of one bullet is three sunars. One hundred bullets is three hundred sunars, which is equal to three
Ten riyals is equivalent to three silver thalers. But the problem is that one hundred rounds of ammunition for this new rifle is the daily reserve amount or the amount that every soldier carries with him on the battlefield, and the normal training consumption is not included.
According to the training regulations of the Army Ministry of the Kingdom of Ovelas, recruits who are recruited into the army have a one-month shooting training during the training. They fire live ammunition thirty times a day. Those who make mistakes in the process need to practice additional training. On average, they need to do one shooting in one month.
It takes thousands of live rounds to master the performance of the Obash Type III matchlock gun.
If a new rifle is equipped into the army, then the soldiers will also need to conduct such live-fire training to master the performance of the new rifle. However, the cost of this training is a huge expense. A soldier can conduct live fire a thousand times in a month.
For shooting training, he will be reimbursed for one thousand bullets. The cost price of these bullets is thirty silver thalers, which is six gold crowns. In other words, this month's live-fire shooting in the theater requires six gold crowns for each soldier.
Bullet consumption cost, a legion of 65,000 people...
This is just the beginning. After this month of live-fire training, the soldiers no longer need to consume bullets. Each soldier still has to undergo live-fire training every month, with thirty rounds of ammunition at a time and three live-fire shootings a month.
Even if one hundred rounds of bullets are consumed, then it is one thousand two hundred bullets per year, which is almost seven gold crowns per year in bullet training expenditure.
In other words, if Claude wants to equip the Thunder Legion with new rifles, the weaponry and ammunition consumption of one legion for one year will be close to 13.4 million gold crowns, which is almost five or six years more than the current two legions in the theater.
The military expenses were spent. So my sister Anna told Claude bluntly that the only disadvantage of the new rifle was that it was expensive. It was indeed very difficult to equip the entire army on a large scale with such a high cost.
It's expensive, but Claude believes that General Bolognik and others will understand how much combat effectiveness it will add to the two legions after seeing the new rifle. Compared with the life of a soldier, the high cost of the new rifle is a natural thing.
For what it's worth, there is a legion equipped with new rifles, and Claude is confident that he can defeat ten times the number of enemies.
In the next two months, Claude went to Wickham Castle in Cromwell's direct jurisdiction to supervise the legion's recruit training and legion reorganization. The Thunder Legion is an offensive light cavalry legion, and each recruit must not only undergo normal
They also need to complete the live-fire shooting training of the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun. They also need to conduct riding training, conduct various tactical drills with their mounts, and finally participate in the actual combat training formulated by Claude.
The busy days passed quickly, and August arrived in the blink of an eye. On this day, Claude had just returned from inspecting various units at the training ground, when a signal soldier sent a Harrier message from the theater headquarters. It said that there was a broken ship.
The tattered ocean-going smuggling ship seemed to have arrived at Vibato Port after a fierce naval battle. The captain was from the Kingdom of Nasseri.
Now that the smuggling ship has been seized, the captain and surviving crew members have been sent by sea to the theater headquarters in Orchid Lake City, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Amphiston. General Bolognik asked Claude to come back and listen to what happened.
The captain and the rest of the crew of the Seri Kingdom received news about the kingdom’s mainland and the countries in the eastern part of Farea.
This matter could not be delayed. Claude set out overnight to rush to the Amphiston Territory. It took seven or eight days to arrive at the theater headquarters. By this time, the captain and crew of the smuggling ship had already revealed all the information they knew.
I confessed twice.
Seeing Claude rushing back covered with dust, General Skerry handed him a folder directly: "Their confessions are all recorded on it and have been sorted out. The top one is about the war news in the kingdom. We are now
We can’t tell whether what the captain of the smuggling ship said is true or false. After all, he is from the Nasseri Kingdom and is our mortal enemy.”
Claude nodded, took the folder, and opened it to see, what, the war between the two kings of the kingdom is still going on? At present, the eldest prince Hansback and the second prince Wedelek, also known as Sterling Ten
In this life we are still at loggerheads with each other. How is this possible?
The captain of the smuggling ship of the Kingdom of Nasseri said that in May last year, Prince Widelek of the Kingdom of Ovilas led the Red Dragon Army and the Guards Army to approach the Ibiniste Plain, and Prince Hansback had already led his troops.
A standing corps and two newly formed second-line corps set up a solid defense line based on Lake Buranopes.
Before the war started, almost everyone thought that Prince Wedelek would be defeated. Prince Hansback made a surprise attack and occupied the royal capital. He also purged the forces and powerful figures who opposed him, and was able to mobilize the entire royal capital's manpower and armaments.
Resources, favorable location and people.
Prince Wedelek's performance after ascending the throne as Sterling XI was not very good. Internal coordination was not good, and various forces fought endlessly for power and interests. When dealing with the eldest prince's rebellion, he behaved poorly and reacted slowly.
In particular, it was even more careless to block the troops of Prince Hansback behind the defense line of the Odin Mountains. He thought that the prince had lost the threat to the royal capital and only needed to fight a war of attrition to eliminate the troops under the prince's command.
Rebels.
But no one expected that Prince Hansback would reach a cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Hicks. First, they annihilated the Kingdom's Dreadnought Fleet in a land and sea attack, and then used the Hicks Kingdom's Sea King Fleet and Combined Fleet to escort the Blue Feather Legion and the Kingdom of Hicks.
A standing army penetrated the hinterland of the kingdom by sea and made a surprise attack on the royal capital. Prince Wedelek escaped overnight, leaving the entire royal capital to Prince Hansback.
Although Prince Wedelek, who fled to Bethalnia County, with the assistance of his father-in-law, Marshal Siegfried, took control of the Red Dragon Army, the Griffin Army and the Praetorian Guard Army, the kingdom's three ace field armies, and re-established them.
He joined the royal court and led the Red Dragon Army and the Guards Army to regroup and make a comeback. But few people are optimistic about Prince Wedelek's prospects. After all, his behavior of abandoning the royal capital and escaping at night without firing a single shot made him in the eyes of neutrals.
Lost a lot of points.
Moreover, with Prince Widlök's ignorant military command talent, there is no way he can be the opponent of the battle-hardened Prince Hansback. Therefore, some newspapers in the capital that favored the eldest prince even reported that Prince Widlék sent troops to the capital.
The behavior is described as a gambler's desperate move, believing that Prince Hansback is destined to win a great victory, completely defeat Prince Wiederek's troops, and win the crown of the Kingdom of Ovelas.
In mid-May, the troops from both sides began to contact. On May 24, the Red Dragon Legion and the Praetorian Guards launched a full-scale attack. The result was beyond everyone's expectations. Prince Hansback deployed a standing army on the defensive front.
The regiment and the two second-line legions were almost defeated at the first touch, unable to withstand the fierce offensive of the Red Dragon Legion and the Imperial Guard Legion. Within five days, the Red Dragon Legion and the Imperial Guard Legion came to the capital.
The result of this battle shocked everyone who paid attention to the war. It was not until the end of the entire Ibinist Plains war and Prince Wedelek reoccupied the royal capital that news came out that the Red Dragon Legion and
The reason why the Guards Corps was able to capture the enemy's defensive line so quickly was because they used a new weapon, the explosive grenade.
This kind of grenade will explode after being thrown into the defensive position. The garrison troops deployed by Prince Hansbach on the defensive front were almost wiped out, and the fall of the position was inevitable. It is said that now Farley
Countries in the Asian continent have begun to study and imitate this grenade, and no one wants to suffer the same attack.
Claude felt a little dizzy. He didn't expect that the grenade purchased by the assassinated General Alges for his old aristocratic family's military industry would be such a big help to Prince Widlék. No wonder Prince Wedlék had
Confidence sent troops to confront Prince Hansback. It turned out that throwing the bomb gave him courage.
General Skerry was standing next to Claude. He was an insider who knew that Claude sold the production license of the grenade to General Algers. Seeing Claude staring at the document in a daze, he naturally knew what Claude was thinking.
What.
He said faintly: "I didn't expect that your throwing bombs would achieve such a great contribution. Otherwise, if Prince Hansback had won, we would have been declared traitors. But now all the countries in Farea Continent are...
Develop grenades, and this smuggling ship from the Kingdom of Nasseri carried the grenades they produced. They also relied on the grenades to fight their way out of the pirate ambush and reach Vibato Port."
Claude murmured and asked: "Are their projectiles the same as ours?"
General Skerry shook his head: "It's completely different. Their projectile is like a jar, with a fuse inserted on it, put it on the thrower, light it, and then throw it out. The distance can reach more than a hundred meters. In addition, their projectile
Throwers are installed on ships. Some are like trebuchets. They are relatively large and cannot be moved. Also, they call these projectiles explosive bombs. The captain said that some countries call them explosive bombs. They have different names but basically the effect is the same.
Yes, when thrown, the match will explode if it burns to the end."
"Huh?" Claude felt a little strange: "Are all their imitation grenades ignited by match ropes? There are no grenades like ours that are ignited inside the pull cord?"
"No, the captain said that the grenades from the Kingdom of Overas were all ignited with match ropes. Basically, the length of the match rope has fixed the throwing distance, and it will explode after being thrown to the target. But because it needs to be used
The match ignites, so it cannot be used in rainy days. Occasionally, the match may be extinguished due to various reasons, resulting in the grenade failing to explode.”
General Skerry also couldn't understand why the kingdom's military industry wanted to change the grenade to use a match rope to ignite the explosion. A rainy day alone could restrict the use of grenade. He pointed to the document in Claude's hand.
: "You will know as you continue reading. Prince Hansback has now learned how to throw bombs, and he has brought the situation that was unfavorable to him back into balance..."
Since the captain of the smuggling ship was from the Kingdom of Nasseri and was a mortal enemy of the Kingdom of Ovilas, it was common to see civil war break out between the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Kingdom of Ovilas due to the two kings competing for the throne.
Detailed war proceedings and comments were published in newspapers. Although most of them were gloating about the misfortune, it was precisely because of this that the captain of the smuggling ship still had a very clear understanding of various events that occurred in the Kingdom of Orvelas.
After the Red Dragon Legion and the Guards approached the royal capital, Prince Hansback could only hold a very simple enthronement ceremony in the palace. Because the title of Sterling XI had already been placed on his head by Widluck.
, so the Great Prince Hansback called himself Hansback I. After ascending the throne, the Great Prince Hansback announced a tour of the southwestern provinces of the kingdom, and hurriedly led the Blue Feather Army to withdraw from the royal capital.
Less than half a day after he left, the Royal Guards entered the Royal Capital and regained control of the Royal Capital. Three days later, Prince Wedelek proudly held a triumphal military parade in the Royal Capital, announcing that the Royal Capital had been restored.
, sat on the throne again. Then a series of arrests were carried out in the royal capital. All local officials and nobles who took refuge with Prince Hansback during the fall of the royal capital were arrested and imprisoned. They needed to pay a large amount of atonement.
To be released...
After a delay of more than a month in the royal capital, Prince Wedelek ordered the Red Dragon Legion to pursue Prince Hansback's evacuated troops. At the same time, he issued a notice requiring various places to form second-line legions to participate in the attack on Prince Hansback's troops.
The rebel forces were suppressed. However, Prince Wedelek's response was too slow, giving Prince Hansback more than a month to establish a firm foothold in more than a dozen counties in the southwest of the kingdom.
pace.
The smuggling ship captain of the Nasseri Kingdom confessed that after Prince Hansback led his troops to evacuate from the royal capital, he sent various branch troops to sweep through a dozen counties in the southwest of the kingdom in more than a month, wiping out all the smuggling ships.
The local forces and armed forces loyal to Prince Wedelek have won themselves time and local support.
When the Red Dragon Legion came to pursue the rebels of Prince Hansback a month later, Prince Hansback deliberately commanded the troops to retreat while fighting, luring the Red Dragon Legion to continue the pursuit. Finally, the Red Dragon Legion was besieged in
Tamorus County. The Red Dragon Legion, which was in dire straits, used grenades to find a way out, but after this battle the Red Dragon Army had been crippled. This was the great victory of Tamorus County, and Prince Hansback relied on this
Victory and victory again.
Prince Wedelek was worried about another surprise attack on the capital, and refused to let the Guards attack. He just ordered the formation of the Red Dragon Army and a dozen second-line legions again. It would not be too late to wait until these legions were formed before attacking. And Hansback
The eldest prince also stepped up his efforts to integrate the financial and military resources of a dozen local counties in the southwest. He also captured grenades in the battle to encircle and annihilate the Red Dragon Legion, and similarly copied and equipped his troops.
From October last year to May this year, the two princes were accumulating troops at the borders of the territories they controlled. The dark clouds of war once again shrouded the sky of the Kingdom of Ovelas. I just don’t know whether they will win in the next battle.