In Lin Ziran's plan, even if there are ten thousand people now, it is still time to accumulate strength.
If you have the chance, expand; if you don't have the chance, shrink first.
After all, a true man is the one who can be both tough and soft!
The one who is always soft is a soft egg, and the one who is always hard is also a soft egg. He is still a soft egg who is desperate for his life, because he has taken medicine, and he still takes medicine...
Lin Ziran is naturally an iron-blooded man, and a very handsome iron-blooded man, so his plan is to be relaxed and relaxed.
Be unambiguous when it's time to expand, and be absolutely shameless when it's time to shrink back.
In fact, Lin Ziran wanted to maintain the current situation until he had trained his troops and developed the rear-mounted guns.
The training of the troops has always been a problem. Even though the troops under Lin Ziran's command have now been designated as the Sixth Division, they are not much different from the previous supplementary brigade era. The training of soldiers is still insufficient, and there is a serious shortage of qualified officers.
You can’t recruit people from outside, and it takes time to cultivate yourself.
It's okay for junior officers. Nowadays, outstanding soldiers are directly selected for quick training to serve as company and platoon-level officers.
However, there is a shortage of qualified mid-level and senior officers. All Lin Ziran can hope is that a few talents will emerge from the existing officers. In addition, he is also counting on the first officer training class of the Sixth Division Suibing Academy.
students.
This first officer training class was the fourth formal class of the previous camp school, but later on, considering that this was the first formal class with a half-year academic system, and the crash course was simply held once a month,
It’s now more than ten issues.
So we simply changed the class of more than 100 students into the first officer training class. As for the crash course, it is still a crash course, but there is no need to divide it into periods. Anyway, it will start from
The army selects some outstanding soldiers for training. After completing the training, they are awarded the rank of corporal and serve as low-level officer positions.
According to the current teaching progress, the students of the first officer training class will be able to complete all theoretical study of cultural courses by mid-January of the 50th year of Yongchang, and they will be considered to have graduated.
Subsequently, they will be assigned to actual positions in various units, but they will not serve as unit commanders. Instead, they will serve in each company as trainee non-commissioned officers. In order to ensure the quality of the internship, Lin Ziran personally ordered that all trainee sergeants go to each company.
During the company internship, you will directly learn from the company commander and be responsible for handling the daily, training, and combat affairs of the entire company.
In fact, this is also part of the teaching plan. Military students in other military academies also have to undergo internships. Only after the internship is completed can they be officially graduated.
The starting stage of these people will be very high. They are already corporals when they first enter school. After half a year of study and internship in the army, they will be awarded the title of sergeant.
As long as they successfully complete the internship, they will have a bright future. If they can perform well, maybe within a few months, there will be a battalion commander among them.
The training of troops and the training of officers take time, and the research on breech-loading guns takes even more time.
As a great time traveler and the destined son of this world, Lin Ziran naturally disdained to compete with other vassals for their talents and strategies.
There is no comparison.
Lin Ziran is more inclined to use the technical advantages accumulated by his modern knowledge to crush them.
In Lin Ziran's opinion, things like battles of wits and courage are all manifestations of lack of strength.
Flat push is the way to go!
As long as you are strong enough, you don't have to worry about the opponent's conspiracy or not. Just push forward with a wave of armies. No matter how you jump around, you will be wiped out.
If there were nuclear bombs or something like that, Lin Ziran wouldn't talk nonsense to them at all, he would just throw a few cores over and everything would be fine!
Even if you don't have nuclear bombs, you still have to get a breech-loaded gun or something to establish an absolute firepower advantage to overwhelm all enemies.
He was extremely excited when he thought of leading a group of troops equipped with breech-loading rifles and breech-loading artillery to kill the rest of the vassal troops who were still in the smoothbore era!
In order to implement the rear-loading of guns as soon as possible, Lin Ziran paid attention to the expansion and changes of the machinery factory every day, especially the secret purchase of a large amount of mechanical equipment, and paid close attention to it personally.
Payments will always be given priority.
At the same time, we are also paying attention to the research and development of breech-loading rifles and breech-loading artillery.
Now Boss Wang is asking his group of technicians to work overtime on research.
The most important topic at this stage is to study how to modify the Fuyuan musket. Not only must the modification cost be low, but also the breech-loaded musket after modification must be simple and reliable. As for performance, it can actually be ranked secondary.
Anyway, they are all breech-loading rifles with metal bullets. No matter how bad their performance is, they are still much better than smoothbore rifles or even the current mini rifles.
A rate of fire of just over ten rounds per minute is enough to allow the infantry units under his command to establish an absolute firepower advantage.
Coupled with the accuracy of the rifled rifle, the effective range of four to five hundred meters is easily achieved.
There are also breech-loading rifles that allow soldiers to squat or simply lie on the ground to load and shoot. This will bring huge tactical advantages. The light infantry tactics that Wu Guanlin has always wanted can be directly applied on a large scale.
Breech-loading muskets have such huge advantages, not to mention breech-loading artillery.
Get a breech-loaded rifled artillery, and it will definitely be able to defeat all the feudal towns in the contemporary era!
It's just that this thing has higher technical requirements, especially the steel barrel. This thing is very difficult to make. It is estimated that Qingshan Machinery Factory will be able to make it after its expansion.
But even though it was difficult to do, and he couldn't be seen in a short time, Lin Ziran still attached great importance to it.
Lin Ziran personally asked Boss Wang to mobilize a number of technical personnel to form a research and development team for breech-loaded artillery.
In order to prevent them from messing around, Lin Ziran set the tone for them from the beginning.
"New artillery must use breech-loading and steel rifled barrels!"
"Don't learn from those messy designs when it comes to gun bolt design. Just use a plug-in gun bolt. It's simple and reliable!"
"And this artillery shell, which uses a cylindrical metal shell and a front-end impact fuse!"
In addition to these most basic core elements, he even set the design indicators.
"The effective range of the army's main suppression field artillery is longer than the current new smoothbore artillery. Considering that many smoothbore heavy artillery have an effective range of two to three thousand meters, the effective range of the new breech-loaded artillery is more than four thousand meters."
Lin Ziran proposed this effective range indicator, but he planned to sweep all smoothbore cannons, no matter what kind of field guns, fortress heavy artillery, etc., into the garbage heap of history, even if they were new types of smoothbore cannons.
, the same is true for the new bronze smoothbore cannon of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.
"While ensuring the range, the secondary consideration is weight, and compressing the weight as much as possible ensures maneuverability."
"In terms of caliber, in order to ensure power, the caliber of the main field artillery in the division's artillery regiment cannot be less than 75 millimeters. If it is too small, the grenade charge will be insufficient and the power will be limited. However, it should not be too large, so as not to exceed the weight and affect the maneuverability.
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"We can also develop a lighter weight divisional artillery of the same caliber to cooperate with field artillery. The range can be shorter, but the weight must be lighter and the mobility must be better to support infantry operations at any time!"
"In addition to the divisional artillery units, we can also conduct appropriate preliminary research to develop larger-caliber artillery, one hundred millimeters or even larger. Not only long-range suppression artillery, but also large-mouth golden howitzers!"
When Lin Ziran made these requests, he did not forget to say: "Also, don't think about making multiple models at the same time, focus all your energy on making one that works."
"The current situation is tense and time does not wait for me. You have to get it done as soon as possible when you go back."
After Lin Ziran said this, Boss Wang was stunned for a while. In the end, he could only return to Qingshan Machinery Factory with an empty mind and a lot of various requirements that he had written down.
Before going back, Boss Wang patted his chest and said to Lin Ziran: "Don't worry, sir. I will let them work overtime when we get back. It will definitely not delay things!"
Next, many technicians in Qingshan Machinery Factory were working hard.
Boss Wang gnaws melon seeds, drinks tea, and squats in the office every day to supervise the technical staff in their research!