Before the medical team set off, Lawrence specially gathered everyone in one place for intensive training. Especially for those medical personnel and logistics personnel.
Although everyone has learned some knowledge about shooting due to the island's relatively martial tradition and the encouragement of Lawrence's policies, being able to shoot and knowing how to fight are completely different things.
For example, these medical staff have basically only fired a few shots on the shooting range, so Lawrence specially organized them to train some simple tactical movements and asked some veterans to teach them some combat experience.
Of course, this kind of training does not expect to train them into warriors, it just hopes that they can try not to lag behind on the battlefield.
In addition, the core of another batch of training is those logistics personnel. Although they have mastered good combat skills as militiamen and participated in actual combat. But because these people were recruited from various residential areas, Lawrence
Naturally, they need to be trained on team operations.
"It can be said that our situation is already better than most of the islands in the Sea of Stars." That day, when Lawrence was watching the group of logistics militiamen practicing digging trenches and building simple field defenses, Saifeir escorted a batch of supplies to the training ground.
On the field, he walked to Lawrence and looked at the militiamen training enthusiastically below.
Saphire certainly didn't say this out of flattery to her fiancé. As someone who has been busy communicating with surrounding friendly forces in the past few days, she also roughly understood the level of the surrounding forces' armies from the surrounding telegrams.
Compared with the troops under Lawrence's command, the troops on those islands were extremely inferior and completely incomparable.
To give the simplest example, the White Eagle Federation's only colony on the Sea of Stars, the Viceroyalty of Vieques Island, is considered the leader among these small forces, but they only have the small standing army on the island with standard military traps.
The rifle is in very average maintenance condition.
At the same time, due to funding issues, this standing army did not have the luxury of equipping every regular soldier with a pistol like Lawrence did.
The only good thing is that because smugglers and various disgusting wilderness creatures often invade the island, the actual combat level of these standing armies is pretty good.
In terms of heavy firepower, if you do not count the coastal artillery units originally affiliated with the White Eagle Federal Navy, there are only two 76mm front-loading rifled guns that can be used as field guns, and the number of artillery personnel and the number of shells are also insufficient. There is a serious lack of similar weapons.
Ammunition such as explosive shells or shotgun shells. As for the training level, it is even more appalling.
The only thing worth celebrating is that after the factory under Lawrence launched mortars, this force purchased 6 120mm heavy mortars and 18 82mm mortars.
Although mortars are not very effective when facing enemies with certain defenses or relatively high mobility, they can be regarded as greatly enhancing their firepower level.
Considering that the island had just experienced a brutal defensive war not long ago, Vieques Island will only dispatch a 500-man army with 100 regular troops as the backbone and another 400 militiamen in this civilization expedition.
In addition, they also brought 300 people as logistics. But these people were completely incomparable to the armed strength of Lawrence's medical team.
For example, their regular army lacked grenades and pistols, and only a small number of soldiers purchased pistols at their own expense. Although the militiamen obtained the same rifles as the regular army, they did not equip those firearms with bayonets, nor did they receive new rifles.
Dress up training.
The worst thing is their logistics staff. Compared with Lawrence's completely militia-based logistics team, these logistics staff hired from all over the island are complete civilians.
Although they also realized that it would be impossible to fight with bare hands on the front line, the only change they made was to distribute a sailor sword collected from somewhere to everyone.
"We will definitely surpass most of the islands in the Star Sea. After all, New Saul Island has invested much more in this area than other islands."
After listening to Saifei's words, Lawrence, who was well aware of the situation on the surrounding islands, said matter-of-factly. "Although investment may not necessarily lead to returns, there is definitely no way to get any returns if you don't invest."
Lawrence also knows that this gap is actually all-round. From the perspective of material basis, compared with those islands that rely on the cultivation of single tropical cash crops or re-export trade, New Saul Island has a relatively complete basic economy.
The system can allow the island to obtain stable economic sources.
And compared with the production of raw materials whose prices are artificially low, whether it is tea, fishery products, hardware or medicines on New Saul Island, they are all industrial products. In this era, even simple industrial products can be obtained
The profit is also much higher than that of pure raw material export.
More importantly, Lawrence developed the business of growing food and producing various daily necessities on the island, and also obtained cheap textiles from Elysium.
Under such circumstances, New Saul Island naturally does not need to endure low-priced purchases of the island's products like some islands, while also having to spend high prices to buy necessary supplies.
Under this circumstance, even though New Saul Island has been in operation for less than a year, the output value of the entire island has exceeded that of many islands that have been operated for decades or even hundreds of years. And if there is sufficient wealth support and Lawrence's own
With the support of weapons factories, the armed forces of New Saul Island will naturally be able to obtain sufficient weapons and ammunition for training and combat.
Of course, Lawrence also knows that the current situation is directly related to the size of the island. Even if this world has extraordinary power, the economic principles are not much different from the world in Lawrence's previous life.
For example, for those small islands covering hundreds or more than a thousand square kilometers, monoculture of cash crops is indeed much better than full cultivation, or to be precise, this should be slightly less bad among a series of bad options.
One. Therefore, it can be said that they have no choice but to choose this path.
In addition to these innate objective factors, the subjective wishes of some island leaders can also play a clear role in this regard.
For example, officials on islands like Vieques that are directly under the jurisdiction of various countries are basically sent from the locals, so they rarely think about the long term like Lawrence.
Therefore, it is natural not to make long-term plans for the island like Lawrence, let alone fully arm his own troops like Lawrence.
"As the only two islands in the southeastern sea area of the Star Sea that belong to the White Eagle Federal War Zone, the people on Vieques Island will set off with us in two days." After the inventory of supplies was completed, Seifer took it from the adjutant's hands.
read to Lawrence in a telegram.
"According to the plan, we will take our own ship to meet them off the coast of Vieques Island, and then take a ship to land in Huguang City through river-sea transport."
"It seems that the White Eagle Federal Theater Command is really good at logistics planning." Lawrence, who was thinking about the situation of the islands in the area, immediately came to his senses when Seifer said this, and then nodded. From what he said,
In terms of arrangements, Lawrence realized that the headquarters had indeed put a lot of thought into this aspect.
After all, Lawrence and his medical team need to carry a large amount of supplies, and many of these supplies are flammable or fragile, so they need to reduce transfers as much as possible during the transportation process.
Now this line has obviously taken this into consideration. Although the time required for water transportation is much slower than taking a train directly to the north after landing at Manson Port in the southernmost part of the Federation, it is obviously more convenient for this medical team.
Suitable for them to carry a lot of stuff on the road.