Release that Witch Chapter 93: Army framework

A few days after the victory celebration, Roland has invested in the farming industry.

Sitting in the office, the ticking sound outside the window kept ringing, as if it was raining. It was the sound of melting snow. When he was in the countryside for the New Year, he liked to lie by the window and watch the long ice prisms under the eaves turn into transparent water droplets, dripping little by little. Although there is no such leisure at this moment, it is also good to listen to the sound of the earth's recovery while writing a plan.

According to the experience of previous years, it takes about a week to clear snow, but the land road between small town and stronghold has to wait at least a month to pass. What would be the situation, Roland of the dirt road without hardened roads and drainage measures after the snow melts? If he can successfully win Longsong Stronghold, his first thing to do is to build a hardened road between the two places that can be passed by carriage.

However, the priority is still to be settled. Without a reliable and powerful army, impossible defeated the stronghold army under the disadvantaged situation. Turning the militia team into a regular army is only the first step. The specific formulation, rules and discipline, rewards and punishments are his headaches.

Although I played military chess as a child, I have forgotten it all at this moment. Roland decided to make it by himself after some meditation. Anyway, he was the creator of the new army, and the setting was unreasonable and no one found it.

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

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

The following rules and regulations are much simpler, except that at all times, obedience to military orders, obedience to officers, no escape, no betrayal, and other old-fashioned rules, etc. The first discipline set by Roland is to prohibit robbery. Plunder and disturb people.

The disadvantages of indulging in plunder are numerous, and the bad effects on the local people can take years to make up for. This is why he insisted on using civilians as members of the military.

When noble responded to the feudal lord call, it was fantasy story that they did not want to participate in the robbery after defeating the enemy, or that the main reason they were willing to follow the feudal lord expedition was that they could plunder the opponent ’s wealth and territory -- It also includes innocent civilians on the territory.

Not to mention mercenaries and bandits. It looks fierce and fierce. In fact, they can only fight downwind. At the same time, robbery is also a major source of their income. Military discipline is meaningless to these people.

Only an army of civilians will treat other civilians as lambs to be slaughtered. Of course, it is not enough to rely on discipline and severe punishment. As time goes on, bottom of heart's greed will always be amplified with victory after victory. Therefore, the reward means must keep up at the same time to fundamentally eliminate plunder and other disciplinary acts.

In order to make the rewards inspiring enough, Roland decided to release the ultimate killer -- military award field. As long as you make great achievements in battle, you can grant farmland. The land source Roland is well thought out, it is the land to be cultivated 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 there is constant production, these people will be tightly attached to themselves, and anyone who wants to overthrow him will be confronted with the fiercest resistance of the winner.

The people are not driven by words and whip, but by tangible benefits. In other words, as long as it can always represent the fundamental interests of the people under its rule, no one can shake its dominant position.

Different from the traditional fief, Roland controls the land granting area between a few acres and a dozen acres. It can be used to build homes, buy serfs or hire farmers to take care of farmland, but it cannot establish an industry. In contrast, an Knight territory is close to two thousand acres, which is equivalent to a small village. The industry income from the above operations can provide the combat needs of Knight and attendants, such as the purchase of weapon, armor and horses.

This small area of ​​land reward will not cause strong resistance from noble interest groups, but will also weaken the independence of the recipients. In the view of Roland, it will be treated as a retirement pension, which can guarantee the soldiers' retirement. There is also a steady income.

At the same time, in order to strengthen centralization and avoid situation such as "servant's servants are not my servants", the person who grants farmland has only its ownership and no autonomy. In other words, this land still implements the laws, regulations and systems in the feudal lord jurisdiction. In a sense, they are more like future farmers.

After writing down these preliminary ideas, Roland stretched. Next, he can finally invest in the -- research and development weapon that he is good at.

As the manufacturing speed of firearms accelerates, it will be a waste of manpower to continue to equip pikemen to protect firearms. The latter must have the ability to fight independently in melee combat.

The solution is very simple. Just add a bayonet to the gun. Roland does not expect their troops to actively launch a white-blade charge on the enemy. They only need to have the power of a battle when the opponent dog jumps off the wall and cannon fails to completely destroy the enemy's courage.

A bayonet is not difficult to make, but if it is simple, it is a sharp cone. The key is the connection between the bayonet and the gun: the initial bayonet was a thin wooden rod wrapped around the handle, which can be inserted directly into the barrel. The advantage is that the manufacturing is simple, and the disadvantages are also very obvious. Bai Bai cannot shoot at wartime, and it is also very laborious to pull out after the battle.

Roland intends to produce the improved second-generation bayonet -- casing bayonet. The end of the shank has a chamfer, which is connected to a section of iron casing. The inner diameter of the casing is slightly larger than the barrel, with a zigzag notch. Only a small section of iron bar needs to be welded on the barrel to allow the notch to be inserted to fix the blade. The blade is triangular iron, the cross-section is similar to the V-shape, and all three sides are sharpened. It will not affect the extraction after puncturing into the body, and it will leave a wound that is difficult to heal.

The casing bayonet will be slightly higher than the barrel after installation, which will affect the ammunition loading, but it is simpler than the folding bayonet and convenient for mass production. Just make a sample and let it be made by the smith.

The key to making bayonet work in practice is to train soldiers how to use it.

There is no clue about Roland. Fortunately, he still remembers that Chief Knight once praised Haikou, saying that any military weapon can be used in a stylish way, so he simply asked him to teach the firearms team how to fight bayonet.