Chapter 24
My Empire Chapter 24
2020-11-03
Chapter 24 24 Training"You don't know... At that time, a group of us gathered around the cannon and heard a boom. The loud noise, the legs are weak..." A veteran stood proudly among the group of people, showing off his magical experience.
"When we saw that the hillside was battered with cannonballs, we would know our City Lord... No, now it should be called Your Majesty, that's not ordinary people!" A group of recruits are envious.
The veterans of the Battle of the Eastern Woods and the Siege of Ferry City with Chris, or the veterans who followed Val'glyn against Maine, are now more than half the backbone of the army , Alanhill dukedom's army has doubled, so these original Serris veterans have become a real grassroots cadre reserve.
Vagron is also deliberately promoting Serris veterans to new positions within the unit.
The original corporal, Captain and other structures are no longer suitable for the establishment of the Alanhill army, so the army establishment of Alanhill dukedom follows the basic structure of the modern army: military advisor brigade battalion company platoon... …
More than half of the veterans have been promoted to middle management cadres, some are platoon leaders and some are squad leaders, supporting the entire army framework of Alanhill dukedom at once.
In order to balance, Chris also instructed Vagron to promote some veterans of Mayne and Ferry, and the focus of promotion is on soldiers who can read and write, and have a certain cultural foundation.
"Anyone who can hit the hillside with potholes...that's a powerful magician, right?" A recruit asked curiously, holding his wooden gun.
As mortals, there are too many ordinary people who have never seen magicians in their lives. They have only heard of the existence of the Magic Empire in the far west, and they have only heard that those magicians can manipulate the natural world. Powerful, powerful and mysterious.
"You're wrong!" The old soldier mentioned this and became even more excited: "I've seen those artillerymen before, they're all mortals just like us, and they don't have the ability to fart!"
>Having said this, he still has a trace of regret: "In those days, I was unlucky to be transferred to the border guards, otherwise, I will tell you, I can also be an artillery dong dong! Don't you? I don't believe it! My old John is also a scholar who can read!"
"Assemble! Assembly!" An officer in black armor came over and pressed the long sword on his waist: "Assemble in a row. Continue to practice!"
Everyone got up from the grass, slapped the weeds and dust on their buttocks nervously, and instantly stood in a square according to their size.
"Relax!...Stand attentively!!" The platoon leader in armor shouted the password loudly, feeling like a fool.
This is the stipulation in the new training regulations. Every platoon leader or company commander must train his soldiers in this way—this is a big project, in order to adapt to such changes , the entire Alanhill army really made a lot of jokes.
What's more interesting is that because the new military uniform has not been issued, and the military rank system has not been fully formulated, the soldiers are trained in custom-made ordinary military uniforms, but there are no epaulettes and collars, commanders. It's interesting, in order to distinguish them at a glance, they actually wear armor.
In the end of the day, the intensity of the training of ordinary soldiers is not as good as that of commanders who have burdened themselves. Every one of them sweating profusely has improved a lot.
"Let's go...Go!" On the other side, another phalanx that had assembled had already started training, and all the soldiers took their steps in the shouting: "One, two, one. One, two, one!"
Farther away, a group of soldiers were trying their best to practice the correct use of weapons with rifle models made of wood.
"Rewind! Reload!" Following orders from Waggron's officers one by one, these recruits used wooden rifle models to train again and again how to give The rifle is loaded with bullets.
These people didn't even know there was a rifle in this world before they came here, and they repeatedly trained tedious technical movements in confusion, looking like one by one refugees were playing with sticks.
Restricted by the level of education, these soldiers can only train in the simplest way. They don't need to remember how these technical movements work, they just need to remember how to use the weapon in this way.
But even so, the training speed is still very slow, the training syllabus has been changed and changed in the hands of Vagron, and even Chris himself can't see the original appearance of the training syllabus.
Lack of talent is not just happening in the process of industrial expansion, the military is also facing the problem of lack of talent.
The commander of the artillery had not been selected for a long time, and Vagron could only simply organize the artillery to play some role in the siege battle. In fact, Chris does not have any commanding innate talent. Although he has a complete commanding textbook, he does not become a good commander after reading these textbooks.
He was able to win big in the Eastern Woods, and it wasn't actually a good command. Defeating Mayne doesn't prove how high his commanding innate talent is, it only proves the shocking effect of weapon crushing. The shortage of military talents, and even Valgeron's lieutenant, Coria, was sent to guard Mayne, which was a nightmare for Chris.
Because of the two wars between Maine and Ferry, the newly established Alanhill dukedom plugged one of its own gaps, and successfully narrowed the four-faced enemy situation to three, with its back to the sea.
This situation allows him to have a deep hinterland, and can also save a lot of defensive troops to strengthen his other directions. Now he has 4,500 soldiers and Laurence's navy in his hands, a total force more powerful than ever.
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 Vagron, and the third regiment was A defense regiment with the majority of soldiers from Maine and Ferry City.
In other words, the 3 regiments of 1,500 people are used for defense, and most of them are garrisoned. Regiment 2 has the best mobility, similar to the firefighting team. The most elite Regiment 1 in Chris's hands is the ultimate force for decisive battles.
On the other side of the school field, Smith, who was in charge of industrial production, looked at the training troops in the distance and reported to Chris about the weapons production work these days: "These days, the family property we have accumulated is actually the same. A lot.”
Because Gurlo’s development plan is very good, the arsenal near Serris City has begun to operate normally in the past two months. However, there is still a gap between this factory and the regular arsenal of Chris in mind as different as heaven and earth.
Chris didn't dare to force it. At least the production of weapons and equipment here is already considered mass production. Compared with the pure hand workshops that Chris had done before, this place has been countless times stronger.
"Our barrel production speed has increased a bit because of the new drill press...but we still can't speed up the production of the Mauser 98K you're talking about because there are too few workers." Smith Spreading out a report in the wind, he handed it to Chris and said, "One regiment...this is the limit of what we can equip."
Chris knows that this so-called equipment is a Regiment, not to equip 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 number is very simple: the three regiments in Chris's hands are actually the so-called instructor regiments, and not all soldiers are required to participate in combat.
Take his main 1st regiment as an example. In fact, this regiment has 20 artillery pieces for the artillery, which theoretically are not equipped with rifles. At the same time, in order to cultivate the backbone of the artillery unit, in addition to the 200 artillerymen, there are 200 apprentice artillerymen occupying the establishment, and these apprentice artillerymen do not need to be equipped with expensive rifles.
Including the regimental management personnel, communications personnel, and commanders above the company commander, all add 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 be equipped with long sword self-protection first.
On the one hand, he believed in the battle strength of his main force. He felt that in the face of the firepower of hundreds of rifles, the ancient army would quickly collapse, just like the battle in the Eastern Forest.
So he doesn't need to equip commanders with ranged weapons, just wear long sword self-protection - and the reason is simple: absolutely unnecessary.
On the other hand, these high-level commanders also have artillery units in the logistics force. Under Chris's plan, they will all be equipped with pistols or submachine guns in the future, and there is no need to equip them with rifles now.
When the time comes, it's enough to train these people to learn how to use automatic weapons. Now let them concentrate on leading troops, and it can also strengthen their understanding of modern warfare.
So when Smith is talking about equipping a regiment, he actually means providing about 900 rifles. Chris also understands that what he has to do now is to rely on this infantry regiment in front of him to win the next war.
"How about the bullets?" Chris continued to ask his industry minister, thinking that the war was imminent.
Smith's face was a little unsightly, and he 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 the addition of Chris, the industrial development of this world itself is deformed, so the more precise and small things are now, the more time-consuming and laborious they are to produce. Bullets have always been a long-standing problem that plagued Chris's military expansion and preparations, and this problem has not been fundamentally solved until now. “
(end of this chapter)