Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0024 Training
"You don't know... At that time, a group of us were gathered around the cannon. We heard a loud bang and our legs went limp with fear..." An old soldier stood proudly in the middle of the group, showing off his miraculous experience.
"When we see the hillside pockmarked by artillery shells, we will know that our city lord... no, now he should be called His Majesty the Grand Duke. He is not an ordinary person!" He described it vividly, making the group of recruits around him envious.
More than half of the veterans who had participated in the Battle of the Eastern Forest and the Siege of Ferry City with Chris, or followed Wageron in the expedition against Maine, are now the backbone of the army. The army of the Principality of Elanhill has doubled in size, so these former Seris veterans have become a true reserve of grassroots cadres.
Wageron is also intentionally promoting Seris veterans to take up various newly created positions in the army.
The original structure of sergeants and captains is no longer suitable for the organization of the Elanhill army, so the army organization of the Principality of Elanhill follows the basic structure of the modern army: army, division, brigade, battalion, company, platoon...
More than half of the veterans were promoted to middle-level management cadres, some of them were platoon leaders and some were squad leaders, and they immediately supported .
To maintain balance, Chris also instructed Wageron to promote some veterans from Maine and Ferry, with a focus on soldiers who were literate and had a certain cultural foundation.
"The one who can make the hillside full of potholes... must be a powerful magician, right?" A new soldier asked curiously, holding his wooden spear.
As mortals, there are too many ordinary people who have never seen a magician in their lives. They have only heard of the existence of a magic empire in the far west, and that the magicians there can control the power of nature, and are powerful and mysterious.
"You are wrong!" The old soldier said this with even greater excitement: "I have seen those artillerymen, they are just mortals like us, they have no ability at all!"
At this point, he still had a hint of regret: "Back then, I was just unlucky to be transferred to the border defense force. Otherwise, I tell you, I could have been an artillery soldier! Don't you believe me! I, Old John, am also a literate and educated man!"
"Assemble! Assemble!" An officer in black armor came over and pressed the long sword at his waist: "Assemble in the first row! Continue the training!"
Everyone got up from the grass, nervously brushed off the weeds and dust on their buttocks, and immediately formed a square according to their size.
"At ease!... Stand at attention!" The platoon leader in armor shouted commands at the top of his lungs in agony, feeling like he was almost a fool.
This is the regulation in the new training regulations. Every platoon leader and company commander must train his soldiers in this way - this is a huge project. In order to adapt to such changes, the entire Irish Hill army has made a lot of jokes.
What’s even more interesting is that, because the new military uniforms had not yet been issued and the military rank system had not been fully formulated, the soldiers wore customized ordinary military uniforms for training, but without epaulettes and collar badges. The commanders were interesting, because in order to be distinguished at a glance, they actually wore armor.
At the end of the day, the training intensity of the ordinary soldiers was not as high as that of the commanders who had given themselves heavy burdens. Each of them, sweating profusely, had improved their physical fitness a lot.
"March... march!" On the other side, another phalanx that had already assembled had begun training. All the soldiers took their steps while shouting: "One, two, one! One, two, one!"
Farther away, a group of soldiers were practicing the correct use of weapons with wooden rifle models.
"Unload! Reload!" As the officers under Wagron gave orders one after another, the recruits used wooden rifle models to train over and over again on how to load bullets into the rifles in their hands.
These people had no idea that there were weapons like rifles in the world before coming here. They practiced boring technical movements repeatedly with confusion, looking like refugees playing with wooden sticks.
Due to the limitation of cultural level, these soldiers can only use the simplest method to train. They don't need to remember the principles of these technical movements, they just need to remember how to use the weapons.
But even so, the training speed was still very slow. The training outline was changed again and again by Wagron, and even Chris himself could no longer recognize the original appearance of the training outline.
The lack of talent is not just a problem that occurs in the process of industrial expansion; the military also faces the problem of talent shortage.
The commander of the artillery was not selected for a long time, and Wagron could only simply organize the artillery to play a role in the siege. In fact, Chris had no talent for command. Although he had a complete textbook on command, he could not become an excellent commander just by reading these textbooks.
He was able to win a great victory in the Eastern Forest, but it was not actually due to his excellent command. Defeating Mayne did not prove how talented he was in command, but only proved the shocking effect of the crushing of weapons. Military talents were in short supply, and even Wageron's adjutant Kolya was sent to guard Mayne. This was simply a nightmare for Chris.
Because after the two wars of Maine and Ferry, the newly established Principality of Elanhill blocked its own gap and successfully narrowed the situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides to being surrounded by enemies on three sides, with its back to the sea.
This situation gave him a deep hinterland, and he could save a lot of defensive forces to strengthen his other directions. Now he had 4,500 soldiers and Lawrence's navy, and his total force was much stronger than ever.
Chris divided his troops into three regiments, each with 1,500 men. The First Regiment was the main force regiment with the most elite veterans, the Second Regiment was the mobile cavalry regiment commanded by Wagron, and the Third Regiment was the defense regiment composed mostly of Maine and Ferry City soldiers.
In other words, the 1,500 men in the 3rd Regiment were for defense, and most of them were garrison troops. The 2nd Regiment was the most mobile, similar to a land-based firefighting team, and the most elite 1st Regiment in Chris's hands was the ultimate force for the decisive battle.
On the other side of the training ground, Smith, who was in charge of industrial production, looked at the training troops in the distance and reported to Chris on the weapons production work in recent days: "We have accumulated quite a lot of wealth in these days."
Because of Gurlo's good development plan, the arsenal near Seris City has started to operate normally in the past two months. However, there is still a huge gap between this factory and the regular arsenal in Chris's mind.
Chris didn't dare to force it. At least the weapons and equipment produced here were already mass-produced. Compared with the pure handmade workshop that Chris , this place was countless times better.
"With the new drilling machine, we have increased the speed of producing gun barrels... But because we have too few workers, we still cannot speed up the production of the Mauser 98K rifles you mentioned." Smith spread out a report in the wind, handed it to Chris with his hand, and said, "One regiment... This is the limit of our equipment."
Chris knew that the so-called equipping of a regiment did not mean equipping a regiment with 1,500 bolt-action rifles. The actual number of equipment might not even be 900.
In fact, the calculation of this number is very simple: the three regiments that Chris currently has are actually the so-called instructor regiments, and not all soldiers need to participate in the combat.
Take his main 1st Regiment as an example. In fact, this regiment has 20 artillery pieces assigned to the artillery. In theory, these artillery are not equipped with rifles. At the same time, in order to train the backbone of the artillery force, in addition to the 200 artillerymen, there are also 200 trainee artillerymen who occupy the establishment. These trainee artillerymen do not need to be equipped with expensive rifles.
If we add up the management staff, communication staff, and commanders above the company commander level, there are about 200 people who don't need to be equipped with guns. According to Chris's idea, these commanders can only be equipped with long swords for self-defense.
On the one hand, he had great confidence in 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 collapse, just like in the Battle of the Eastern Forest.
Therefore, he did not need to equip the commanders with long-range weapons, they only needed to wear long swords for self-defense - the reason was simple: there was no need at all.
On the other hand, according to Chris's plan, these senior commanders as well as the logistics and artillery units will be equipped with pistols or submachine guns in the future, so there is no need to equip them with rifles now.
We can then train these people to learn how to use automatic weapons. Now, just let them concentrate on leading the troops, and it can also strengthen their understanding of modern warfare.
So what Smith said now was to equip a regiment, which actually meant to provide about 900 rifles. Chris also understood that what he had to do now was to rely on this infantry regiment in front of him to win the next war.
"How's the bullet situation?" Thinking of the imminent war, Chris continued to ask his Minister of Industry.
Smith looked 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 so far."
Because of Chris's joining, the world's industrial development itself is deformed, so now the more sophisticated and small things are, the more time-consuming and labor-intensive it is to produce. Bullets have always been a long-standing problem that has troubled Chris in expanding his military and preparing for war, and this problem has not been fundamentally solved until now.
