Release that Witch

93. Chapter 93 Army Framework

    A few days after the victory celebration, Roland was once again involved in the farming industry.

    Sitting in the office, the ticking outside the window kept ringing, as if it was raining. It was the sound of snow melting. When he was in the country for the New Year, he liked to lie on the window, watching the long ice prisms under the eaves turn into transparent water droplets, dripping a little. Although there is no such leisure time at the moment, it is quite good to write the plan while listening to the sound of the earth’s recovery.

    According to previous years’ experience, it takes about a week for snow to be used, but the land between small town and stronghold has to wait at least a month. The mud road without hardened roads and drainage measures will be what the situation will be after the snow and ice melt, Roland can imagine. If he can successfully win Longsong Stronghold, his first thing to do is to build a hardened road between the two places for carriage.

    However, what needs to be resolved first is still the issue of army building. Without a reliable and powerful army, it is impossible to defeat the stronghold army in situations where the number is at a disadvantage. Turning the militia team into a regular army is only the first step. The specific preparation, regulatory discipline and rewards and punishments are his headaches.

    Although I played military chess as a child, I have forgotten it at this moment. After some meditation, Roland decided to make up his own. Anyway, he was the creator of the new army, and no one found it unreasonable.

    So the preparation of the Border Town First Army was released soon: the army, division, battalion, team, and group as the overall framework, a group of five (considering a cannon requires at least five people to operate), ten groups for one team, ten teams For a battalion. As for the number of divisions and the army, he decided to consider it later. Given the overall level of combat in this era, as long as there are two or three battalion units, it is enough to defeat most of the opponents in the field.

    After the most basic framework was set, Roland took a deep breath.

    The following rules and regulations are much simpler. In addition to obeying the rules of the military, obeying the sergeant, not being able to escape, not betraying, etc., Roland first set the discipline to prohibit looting and disturbing the people. .

    The inadequacy of the looting of the people is innumerable, and the adverse effects on the local people have been difficult to make up for several years. This is why he insisted on using civilians as military personnel.

    When noble responds to the call to the feudal lord, it is a fantasy story to not participate in the looting after defeating the enemy, or the main reason they are willing to follow the feudal lord is to plunder the opponent’s wealth and territory – of course It also includes those innocent civilians on the territory.

    As for mercenaries and bandits, not to mention. It seems that it is fierce, in fact, it can only fight the wind, and robbery is also a big source of their income. The military discipline is meaningless to this group of people.

    Only the army of civilians will not regard other civilians as lambs to be slaughtered. Of course, discipline and strict punishment are not enough. The days are long, and the greed of the bottom of heart will always be magnified with the victory of one after another. Therefore, the means of reward must be kept up to the point of fundamentally eliminating looting and other violations.

    In order to make the rewards enough to inspire people, Roland decided to release the ultimate killer – the military meritorious field. Farmland can be awarded as long as you have a great deal in the battle. The land source Roland thinks about it, and it is the land to be reclaimed between Border Town and stronghold.

    This is definitely a big prize in the era when 90% of the land belongs to the noble class. Once they have a constant birth, these people will be closely attached to themselves. Anyone who wants to overthrow him will be the most fiercely resisted by the winners.

    Drive the people not to rely on words and whip, but on real interests. In other words, as long as it can always represent the fundamental interests of the people under the control, its dominance will be unshakable.

    Unlike the traditional fief, Roland will control the area of ​​the field between a few acres and a dozen acres. It can be used for self-built houses, buying serfs or hiring farmers to care for farmland, but unable to establish an industry. In contrast, a Knight territory is close to two thousand acres, the size of a small village. The industry revenues operated above provide the operational needs of Knight and attendants, such as the purchase of weapons, armor and horses.

    Such a small area of ​​land awards will not cause strong opposition of noble interest groups, but also weaken the independence of the recipients. In Roland’s view, it is a retirement pension that guarantees a stable after the soldiers are retired. income.

    At the same time, in order to strengthen centralization and avoid the situation that “the servant’s servant is not my servant”, the person who confers farmland only has ownership and no autonomy. In other words, the land still carries out the laws, regulations and systems in the jurisdiction of the Feudal lord. In a sense, they are more like the farmers of later generations.

    After writing down the system of these initial ideas, Roland stretched out. Next, he can finally devote himself to the field he is good at – research and development weapons.

    As the speed of musket manufacturing increases, the continued deployment of pikemen to protect the Musketeers will create a waste of manpower, which must have the ability to fight independently in close combat.

    The solution is simple, just add a bayonet to the gun. Roland doesn’t expect his troops to take the initiative to launch a white-bladed charge on the enemy. Just when the opponent’s dog jumps to the wall, and cannon can’t completely destroy the enemy’s courage, he can have a battle.

    This kind of bayonet is not difficult to manufacture. The pursuit of simplicity is a sharp cone. The key is the connection between the bayonet and the gun: the original bayonet is a small wooden pole wrapped around the handle, and the wooden pole can be inserted directly into the barrel. The advantage is that the manufacturing is simple, the disadvantages are also very obvious, the white blade can not shoot when the war is over, and it is particularly laborious to pull out after the battle.

    Roland intends to produce an improved second-generation bayonet, a casing bayonet. The end of the shank has a corner and is connected to a piece of iron sleeve. The inner diameter of the casing is slightly larger than that of the barrel, with a zigzag tongue and a small iron bar on the barrel for fixing the blade. The blade is a triangular iron, the section is similar to the V-shape, and all three sides are edged. After piercing into the body, it does not affect the extraction, and leaves a wound that is difficult to heal.

    After the casing type bayonet is installed, it will be slightly higher than the barrel, which has a certain influence on the ammunition filling. However, compared with the folding bayonet, it is simple enough to facilitate mass production. Just make a sample and you can make it yourself by the blacksmith shop.

    The key to getting the bayonet to work in combat is to train the soldiers on how to use it.

    Roland wouldn’t know anything about it. Fortunately, he still remembers that Chief Knight once boasted of Haikou, saying that any military weapon can use a model, just ask him to teach the guns how to stab the knife.