Power and Empire Chapter 83: June is like a fire (2)
Fatty is worrying about the training of recruits recently. During the Battle of Sambuga Hills, the situation of the Samor Army is not optimistic.
Before he issued a retreat, the camp at the forefront had a big rout,
If it weren't for the dense triangular iron thorns at the gate of the camp, it would block the Golden Fleece knight who was chasing afterwards
The Golden Fleece Knights took advantage of the opportunity of these routs to disperse the formation, and used their sharp spear to tear apart Samor’s defenses and pierce through the weak Samor infantry positions.
After the investigation, most of the soldiers in this disintegrated camp were recruits from refugees only in the winter.
This defeat exposed the weakness of the Samor army,
Fatty feels that his army is like a sandwich. The first floor is his veterans from the falconry, and the first floor is the recruits who have no will to fight
Fatty knows that there is a mentality called the cluster effect. The content of this effect is roughly as follows: When most people are doing one thing at the same time, the remaining few people will follow suit, such as escape, such as rout,
Countless armies in history, just like this, they collapsed before colliding with the enemy,
If this fault problem is not solved, the Samor army will always be a soft cargo that is strong in the outside world.
Fatty told the three regiment commanders under his command and asked them to strengthen the discipline training of recruits in their troops
But this issue did not attract the attention of Caesar Sauron and others,
In their eyes, these soldiers recruited from farmers are already very good, at least they have dared to stand at the front of the queue instead of hiding behind the line.
"They are already very good! Even the regular army of the kingdom will flee in the face of heavy knights charging. Do you want them to use their fragile spears to fight the oncoming cavalry?"
The newly-appointed Samor Independent Knight Captain Lidarcus disapprovingly cocked his mouth
As an important part of the agreement between the Samor and the Lida family, Lidarcus is the one hundred knight commanders sent by the Lida family to perform their employment obligations
Fatty naturally gave him a decent rank, Captain Independent Knight,
This military rank is just like the Kuomintang’s commander of the bandit XX. It sounds very nice and useless.
To put it bluntly, he is a polished commander. Of course, Lidarcus, who hopes to show his fists, is not very satisfied.
The status of the heir of the Lida family allows Lidarcus to satisfy the sincerity bond between the Samor and Lida families. His transcendent status makes him eligible to participate in this head-level meeting.
"From tomorrow on, all recruits must call out the password!"
Fatty looked at Caesar Sauron and others below, and suddenly thought of a crooked trick. Didn’t I say that I had to shout the password when I saw the army training before? Lao Tzu also shouted, first cultivate the soldiers' awareness of obeying orders. /
But when the training began, the captains of these troops insisted not to call out the password, thinking it was a shameful clowning behavior
Under this trend of thought, many soldiers are very resistant to this method, thinking that they are humans and not animals, and cannot be called around like animals.
Now the fat guys don't do it. These captains actually have a few simple passwords. The reason why they don't call them is to show that style.
Fatty finally became cruel and brought all the squadron commanders of the army to the meeting, and all the weapons were collected.
Then the guards blocked the gate, and the dazzling saber in their hands was chilling, and no one could guess what medicine he was selling in the captain's gourd.
The fat man stood on the stage and looked at the panic-faced squadron leaders below, turned around and shouted to the guard at the door
" Today, everyone gave me a three-day training at the headquarters and shouted the password, whoever shouted the loudest, I rewarded 100 gold coins, the one who shouted the most boringly, next time I let his squadron be the first to touch the opposing heavy cavalry !"
The fat man's voice paused, saying almost every word
"I found the one who was silent, and immediately dragged it out and chopped off his head! All his land was confiscated!"
The squadron leaders shuddered, no one dared to jump out to oppose it again,
Watching the recruits start to step in the commands of the captains, the fat man breathed a sigh of relief. Now he feels that he should take a good rest.
The fat man shut himself in the room for the next few days and declared to the outside that he needed to think about the future direction of the army.
In the past few days, the fat man was really thinking about building the army when he was not sleeping (of course, there is not a lot of time like this),
He recalled all the knowledge he had learned, and was surprised to find out that although he may be the person with the most theoretical knowledge in the world,
can really be put into practical use, but it is pitiful. After much deliberation, the knowledge about zha medicine and steelmaking in China Chemistry may be useful.
Fatty knows that the molecular formula of * is **,
It is a pity that he neither knows how to get toluene nor how to add nitro groups.
and the fat teacher said that this thing is very unstable, we need to add other things to make it stable,
Nobel has been studying this all his life (Nobel is studying **, not *, I don’t know if the fat man remembered it wrong or his teacher said it wrong),
I am probably inferior to Nobel in terms of zha medicine, and I don’t have a lifetime to study it. It seems *have to be invented by someone in the future.
Fortunately, I still remember another method of making zha medicine. Put cotton in nitric acid to react to get collodion. This should look very simple and it should be no problem.
But the fat man sadly discovered that this world does not seem to have found nitric acid, but there are things that burst even more,
Crude oil, the gift of the black devil,
Fatty feels that it’s not bad to be able to use this thing as a burst bomb, and it’s not bad to add flames and iron fragments.
"Well, that's it"
Fatty put down the paintbrush in his hand, and a small oval cylinder is placed on the sandpaper
About how to develop industry in the future~IndoMTL.com~ Fatty came up with a lot of good ideas,
Looking at the several plans he listed on the rough sandpaper, the fat man suddenly discovered that the inspiration for these industrial constructions all came from the news media's exposure of counterfeit and shoddy production.
such as indigenous steelmaking, indigenous oil refining, small coal kilns, etc.
At this time, the fat man is really dumbfounded. It is indeed impossible to understand the construction and production process of the big factory based on his experience.
But these things are easy to understand and build up quickly.
The plan has been made, but the fat man is not sure about the effect,
After all, I have no idea what kind of craftsmen and tools I can find.
As the fat man expected, the first problem encountered in building crude oil bombs is the workers. The blacksmiths are very easy to find. Some of Jelbor’s are,
Although they are not familiar with the iron shell of crude oil bombs, they all say that it is not a difficult technique, just try it a few times.
Fatty first invited two old craftsmen who are good at using to make tin shells. The craftsmanship of these two old craftsmen is really good. The thin iron skin makes the fat guy feel like flattened by a steam engine
As a result, the fat man has more confidence in the ability of the working people.
is a talent in the fuze needed to make crude oil bombs, the fat guy doesn’t know where to find it,
If there is no fuze, you can't use the iron shell filled with crude oil to hit people.
Fatty came to Lidarcus to see if this heir to the veteran military-industrial family has any good ideas
After listening to the fat man telling his thoughts several times, Lidarcus understood a little bit, and his eyes turned green when he looked at the fat man, and finally said to the fat man with a twist
"My lord, the thing you want is not for alchemists to start fire!"