"You don't know... A group of us gathered around the cannon at that time. We heard a loud bang and our legs were weak..." A veteran stood proudly among the group of people, showing off his magical power.
experience.
"When we see that the hillside is pockmarked by cannonballs, we will know that our city lord... No, he should be called His Majesty the Grand Duke now, then he is no ordinary person!" He said it vividly, making the group of recruits around him envious.
Veterans who participated in the Battle of the Eastern Forest and the Siege of Ferry City with Chris, or the veterans who followed Waggron in the conquest of Mayne. Now more than half of them are the backbone of the army. The Principality of Eilandhill
The army has doubled in size, so these original Seris veterans have become a real reserve of grassroots cadres.
Waggron is also intentionally promoting Siris veterans and letting them serve in various newly created positions in the army.
The original structure of captains and captains is no longer suitable for the establishment of the Airanhill army. Therefore, the army establishment of the Principality of Airanhill follows the basic structure of the modern army: military divisions, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon...
More than half of the veterans have been promoted to middle-level management cadres. Some are platoon leaders and some are squad leaders, which instantly supports the entire military framework of the Principality of Eilandhill.
For the sake of balance, Chris also instructed Waggron to promote some veterans from Mayne and Ferry. The key targets for promotion were soldiers who were literate and had a certain cultural foundation.
"If you can make bumps on the hillside... then you are a powerful magician, right?" A recruit asked curiously, holding his wooden gun.
As mortals, there are too many civilians who have never seen a magician in their lives. They have only heard about the existence of a magic empire in the far west. They have only heard that those magicians can control the power of nature, are powerful and mysterious
.
"You are wrong!" When the veteran mentioned this, he became even more excited: "I have seen those artillery soldiers. They are all mortals like us, and they have no abilities!"
Speaking of this, he still had a trace of regret: "Back then, I was unlucky enough to be transferred to the border guard force. Otherwise, let me tell you, I could also be an artilleryman! Don't you believe it! My old John
That’s also a literate and educated person!”
"Assemble! Assemble!" An officer in black armor came over and pressed the long sword on his waist: "Assemble in a row! Continue to drill!"
Everyone got up from the grass, nervously patted the weeds and dust off their buttocks twice, and instantly stood in a square formation according to their size.
"Calm down!... Stand at attention!!" The platoon leader in armor shouted the command loudly and painfully, feeling that he was almost like a fool.
This is a stipulation in the new training regulations. Every platoon leader and company commander must train their soldiers in this way. This is a big project. In order to adapt to such changes, the entire Airan Hill army has to
It really made a lot of jokes.
What's even more interesting is that because the new military uniforms have not yet been issued and the military rank system has not been fully drawn up, soldiers wear custom-made ordinary military uniforms for training, but without shoulder and collar badges, which makes commanders uncomfortable.
To tell the difference, they actually wore armor.
At the end of the day, the training intensity of ordinary soldiers was not as good as that of the commanders who put heavy burdens on themselves. Each of them was sweating profusely and their physical fitness improved a lot.
"Step together... let's go!" On the other side, another phalanx that has gathered has begun training, and all the soldiers are taking steps amidst the shouts: "One, two, one! One, two, one!"
Farther away, a group of soldiers were holding a rifle model made of wood and desperately practicing the correct use of the weapon.
"Reload! Reload!" As Waggron's officers ordered one after another, the recruits used rifle models made of wood to train over and over again how to load the rifles in their hands.
Before these people came here, they had no idea that there were weapons like rifles in the world. They repeated the boring technical movements in confusion, looking like refugees playing with wooden sticks.
Restricted by their cultural level, these soldiers can only use the simplest methods to train. They do not need to remember the principles of these technical movements, they only need to remember how to use weapons.
But even so, the training speed was still very slow. The training outline was changed again and again in Wagron's hands. Even Chris himself could no longer see the original appearance of the training outline.
The lack of talents does not only occur in the process of industrial expansion. The military also faces the problem of lack of talents.
The commander of the artillery has not been selected for a long time, and Wageron can only simply organize the artillery to play some role in the siege. In fact, Chris has no command talent. Although he has a complete command textbook, it is not
You can become an excellent commander by reading these textbooks.
His great victory in the eastern forest did not actually rely on his excellent command. Defeating Mayne does not prove how high his command talent is, it can only prove the shocking effect of weapons crushing. There is a shortage of military talents.
, even Valgron's adjutant Corea was sent out to guard Mayne. This was simply a nightmare for Chris.
Because after the two wars of Mayne and Ferry, the newly established Principality of Eilandhill blocked one of its gaps and successfully reduced the situation of facing enemies on four sides to three facing enemies with its back to the sea.
This situation allows him to have a deep hinterland, and can also save a large amount of defensive forces to strengthen his other directions. Now he has 4,500 soldiers and Origin's navy in his hands, and the total force is greater than ever
Much more powerful.
Chris divided his troops into three regiments, each with 1,500 men. The first regiment was the main regiment with the most elite veterans, the second regiment was the motorized cavalry regiment commanded by Waggron, and the third regiment was the Mayne and Ferry City soldiers.
Most of the defensive regiments.
In other words, the 1,500 men of the 3rd Regiment are for defense, and most of them are garrison troops. The 2nd Regiment is the most mobile, similar to the land-occupied fire-fighting team. The most elite 1st Regiment in Chris's hands is used for decisive battles.
The ultimate unit.
On the other side of the school field, Smith, who is in charge of industrial production, looked at the training troops in the distance and reported to Chris the weapons production work these days: "These days, we have accumulated quite a lot of wealth."
Because Gullo's development plan is very good, the arsenal near Seris City has begun to operate normally in the past two months. However, there is still a huge gap between this factory and the regular arsenal that Chris thinks of.
Chris didn't dare to force it. At least the weapons and equipment produced here were already mass-produced. Compared to the purely manual workshops that Chris had run before, this place was already countless times better.
"Because of the new drilling machine, our production speed of barrels has increased a bit... However, because there are too few workers, we still cannot speed up the production speed of the Mauser 98k rifle you mentioned." Smith handed a report to the wind.
He spread it out, pressed it with his hands and handed it to Chris, saying: "One regiment... This is the limit of what we can equip."
Chris knows that this so-called equipping a regiment does not mean equipping a regiment with a full 1,500 bolt-action rifles. The actual number of equipment may not even be 900.
In fact, the calculation of this quantity is very simple: the three regiments Chris currently has are actually so-called instructor regiments, and not all soldiers have to participate in combat.
Take his main 1st regiment as an example. In fact, this regiment still has 20 artillery pieces allocated to the artillery. These artillery pieces are theoretically not equipped with rifles. At the same time, in order to cultivate the backbone of the artillery unit, in addition to the 200 artillery pieces, there are
200 trainee artillerymen occupied the establishment, and these trainee artillerymen did not need to be equipped with expensive rifles.
Counting the regimental management personnel, communications personnel, and commanders above the company commander, all added up, there are probably more than 200 people who do not need to be equipped with guns. According to Chris's idea, these commanders can only equip them first.
The sword defended itself.
On the one hand, he trusted the combat effectiveness of his main regiment. He felt that in the face of the firepower of hundreds of rifles, the ancient army would quickly fall apart, just like the battle in the eastern forest.
Therefore, he does not need to equip his commanders with long-range weapons. He only needs to wear long swords for self-defense. The reason is simple: it is completely unnecessary.
On the other hand, these senior commanders and the logistics and artillery troops will all be equipped with pistols or submachine guns under Chris's plan in the future. There is no need to equip them with rifles now.
Then we can train these people to learn how to use automatic weapons. Now let them concentrate on leading troops, which can also strengthen their understanding of modern warfare.
So what Smith said about equipping a regiment actually meant providing about 900 rifles. Chris also understood that what he had to do now was to rely on the infantry regiment in front of him to win the next war.
"How's the situation with the bullets?" Thinking of the imminent war, Chris continued to ask his Minister of Industry.
Smith looked a little unhappy and reported to Chris in a low voice: "Your Majesty... the production of bullets is very difficult. We have only produced more than 7,000 rounds now."
Because of Chris's participation, the industrial development of this world itself is deformed, so the more precise and small things are now, the more time-consuming and labor-intensive they are to produce. Bullets have always been a long-standing problem that has troubled Chris's military expansion and war preparations, and now this problem is no longer
