Chapter 24: training

"Don't you know... At that time, a group of us were surrounded by the cannon, and we heard a loud bang, and our legs were frightened..." An veteran stood triumphantly among a group of people, showing off his magical experience.

"When we saw that the hillside was pitted by the shells, we knew that the lord of our family...won't be right, now it should be called His Majesty the Grand Duke, that is not ordinary people!" He said vividly, making the group of recruits around him envy.

The veterans who participated in the Battle of the Eastern Forest and the Siege of Ferry City with Chris, or the veterans who followed Wagron to conquer Mayne, are now more than half of the backbone of the army, the Principality of Elan Hill The army has been expanded twice, so these original Serris veterans have become a real reserve of grassroots cadres.

Wagron is also deliberately promoting Seris veterans, letting them take up various new positions in the army.

The original corps, captain, and other structures are no longer suitable for the organization of the Alanhill troops, so the military organization of the Alanhill Principality continues to use the basic structure of the modern army: military divisions, brigade, battalion, company platoon...

More than half of the veterans were promoted to middle-level management cadres, some were platoon leaders and some were squad leaders, which immediately supported the entire military framework of the Principality of Ailan Hill.

In order to balance, Chris also instructed Wagron to promote some veterans of Mayne and Ferry. The focus of promotion was soldiers who were literate and hyphenated and had a certain cultural foundation.

"The one who can hit the hillside into pits and pits... Isn't that a powerful magician?" A recruit asked curiously, holding his wooden gun.

As mortals, there are too many common people who have never seen magicians in their entire lives. They have only heard of the existence of magic empires in the far west, but they have only heard that those magicians can control the forces of nature, powerful and mysterious. .

"You are wrong!" The veteran raised this, even more excitedly: "I have seen those artillerymen. They are all mortals like us, and they are not capable of farting!"

Speaking of this, he still has a trace of regret: "Back then, I was unlucky enough to be transferred to the border guards. Otherwise, I told you that I can also be an artillery! Don't believe me! My old John That is also a scholar of literacy!"

"Assemble! Assemble!" An officer in black armor came over and pressed the long sword around his waist: "Assemble in a row! Continue to practice!"

Everyone got up from the grass, slapped the weeds and dust on their buttocks nervously twice, and instantly formed a square team according to their size.

"Take a rest!...Stand at attention!" The armored platoon leader shouted out the password in pain, 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 this change, the entire Allanhill army has It really made a lot of jokes.

What’s more interesting is that because the new military uniforms have not been issued yet and the rank system has not been fully drafted, soldiers are trained in custom-made ordinary uniforms, but without the epaulettes and collar badges, the commanders are interesting. To distinguish it, they even wore armor.

At the end of the day, the intensity of training for ordinary soldiers is not as good as that of commanders who have burdened themselves. Every one of them, sweating profusely, has improved a lot.

"Step together...Go!" On the other side, the other phalanx that had been assembled has already begun training. All the soldiers took their own steps in shouts: "One, two, one! One, two, one!"

Farther away, a group of soldiers are holding rifle models made of wood and desperately practicing the correct use of weapons.

"Retreat! Reload!" As Wagron's officers gave orders next to each other, these recruits made rifle models made of wood and trained over and over again on how to fill their rifles with bullets.

Before these people came here, they didn't know that there was a rifle in this world. They repeated the tedious technical exercises in doubt, looking like refugees playing with wooden sticks.

Restricted by their educational level, these soldiers can only be trained in the simplest way. They don't need to remember what these technical actions are, just remember to use weapons like this.

But even so, the training speed is still very slow, and the training syllabus has been changed and changed in Wagron's hands. Even Chris himself can no longer see the original appearance of the training syllabus.

The lack of talents does not just happen in the process of industrial expansion. The military also faces the problem of lack of talents.

The artillery commander could not be elected for a long time, and Wagron could only simply organize the artillery to play some role in the siege. In fact, Chris has no commanding talent. Although he has a complete commanding textbook, he can't become an excellent commander by reading these textbooks.

He was able to win a big victory in the Eastern Forest, but in fact he did not rely on an excellent command. Defeating Meyn does not prove his commanding talent, but only proves the shocking effect brought by the crushing of weapons. Military talents are so scarce that even Wagron's adjutant Coria has been sent out to guard Mayne, which is simply a nightmare for Chris.

Because after the two wars between Mayne and the ferry, the newly established Principality of Ailan Hill blocked its own gap and successfully reduced the situation of facing the enemy from four to three, with its back leaning on the sea.

This situation allows him to have a deep hinterland, and can also save a lot of defensive forces to strengthen himself in other directions. Now he has 4,500 soldiers in his hands and Lawnes' navy, the total force is much stronger than ever.

Chris divided his troops into three regiments, each with 1,500 people. The first regiment is the main regiment with the most elite veterans, the second regiment is the mobile cavalry regiment under the command of Wagron, and the third regiment is Meyn and Ferry's soldiers. Most of the defensive regiment.

In other words, the 3 regiments of 1,500 people are used for defense, and most of them are garrisons. The 2nd regiment has the best mobility, similar to the land-occupied firefighting team. The most elite regiment in Chris's hands is the ultimate force for decisive battles.

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: "In fact, we have accumulated a lot of wealth these days."

Because Gurlo's development plan is very good, the arsenal near the city of Seris has started to operate normally in the past two months. However, there is a world of difference between this factory and Chris's regular arsenal.

Chris didn't dare to force it. At least the production of weapons and equipment here is already considered mass production. Compared with the purely hand-crafted workshops Chris did before, it is countless times stronger.

"Because of the new drill press, we have increased the speed of producing gun barrels... but because of too few workers, we still cannot speed up the production of the Mauser 98k rifle you mentioned." Smith shared a report in the wind. Opened, handed it to Chris and said: "A regiment...This is the limit we can equip."

Chris knows that this so-called equipping a regiment is not equipping a regiment with 1,500 bolt-type rifles. The actual number of equipment may not even have 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 have to participate in combat.

Take his main force 1 regiment as an example. In fact, this regiment still has 20 artillery equipped for artillery, which in theory is not equipped with rifles. At the same time, in order to cultivate the backbone of the artillery force, in addition to the 200 artillery, there are 200 apprentice artillery occupies the organization, and these apprentice artillery do not need to be equipped with expensive rifles.

Counting the management personnel of the regiment, communications personnel, and commanders above the company commander, all add up, and 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 swords to defend themselves.

On the one hand, he trusts the combat effectiveness of his main force. He feels that in the face of the firepower of hundreds of rifles, the ancient army will quickly fall apart, just like during the Battle of the Eastern Forest.

Therefore, he does not need to equip the commanders with long-range weapons, as long as he wears a long sword for self-defense. The reason is simple: there is no need at all.

On the other hand, these senior commanders and the artillery unit of the logistics unit, under Chris's plan, will all be equipped with pistols or submachine guns in the future, and there is no need to equip rifles now.

When the time comes, these people can be trained to learn the use of automatic weapons. Now let them concentrate on leading troops, and it can also strengthen their understanding of modern warfare.

So Smith is now talking about the equipment of a regiment, in fact, it means to provide 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 about bullets?" Thinking of the imminent war, Chris continued to ask his Minister of Industry.

Smith looked a little ugly, and reported to Chris in a low voice: "Your Majesty... the production of bullets is very difficult. We have now... only produced more than 7,000 rounds."

Because of the joining of Chris, the industrial development of this world itself is deformed, so the more precise and small things are now, the more time and effort it takes to produce. Bullets have always been an old and difficult problem that plagued Chris’ arms expansion and preparations, and this problem has not been fundamentally solved yet—