Chapter 778 Recruitment and Stealing Technology
The two plain counties of Lower Refort County and Kasha County are themselves the control area of Horn.
The two county governors Martin and Catherine could have easily dispatched the priesthood, and Horn's actions only turned this power from open to dark.
This proposal was quickly passed, and the five mountain counties were temporarily maintained.
After the meeting, Horn returned to the room, but was immersed in a question that was not mentioned at the meeting - recruitment.
To expand the recruitment, it is not a simple sentence to recruitment.
The human resources problem is second. After all, Horn has two sources of troops, Black Snake Bay and Norns, and the Flaners are also willing to send some mercenaries.
The first thing that is to bear the brunt is the equipment problem.
A battle group requires at least 2400 to 2500 pairs of infantry armor and corresponding spears, 4000 sabers and corresponding military uniforms.
There are also 1600 to 2000 clockwork guns, 24 three-pound falcon cannons, and 4 six-pound sand cannons.
In addition, 50 to 80 donkeys, mules, and horses are required to carry logistics resources such as food and firecrackers.
As the agglomeration of various small workshops, the production efficiency of Huilu Town Ordnance Factory is greatly accelerating.
From 95 pairs of armor per month in 1445, to 250 to 270 pairs per month in 1448.
In three years, with ordnance workshops in other counties, the Thousand River Valley produced an average of 3,000 infantry armor and 500 cavalry armor each year.
Horne's own inventory currently has 4,000 pairs of infantry armor and 1,100 pairs of cavalry armor.
If the armor rate is maintained at 60% of the time, this number is expected to be equipped with another half of the battle group.
If the firepower in Huilu Town is fully opened, the remaining half of the battle group will be added by the end of the year.
Take more than 1,600 pairs of infantry armor sent by King Flan, and there is an estimated conscription quota for two and a half battle regiments.
There are no need to worry about clockwork guns. The Holy Gun Workshop on Qiumu Island can currently produce three or four hundred clockwork guns per month.
This is still the result of being sold. After all, there are more than 7,000 round guns in the inventory, and it is more than enough to equip four battle groups.
Looking at the draft on the desktop, Horn sighed speechlessly.
He spitted and his throat was hoarse. When will Shilov get rid of the demonic bacteria?
Back to the topic.
Will the two and a half battle groups be recruited? Recruiting 13,000 new recruits and mixing them with the original local garrison regiment into three new battle groups?
Horn's eyes moved upwards, and he saw a few key words in the draft.
Currently, the Dwarf Casting Factory in Ashluo Town can cast a 3-pound cannon in about two weeks, and it takes three weeks for a 6-pound cannon.
If it is a 12-pound gun or a 24-pound gun, it will take more than a month because the segmented casting mold is required.
This is just the casting time of the entire gun. If the barrel is just a matter of time, it is actually very fast. The one that really slows down is the clockwork bin.
There are currently 6 12-pound cannons, and only 1 24-pound cannon is cast.
Most dwarf casting gunners cast two main field guns: 3-pound cannon and 6-pound cannon.
Currently, the casting gun factory has 4 casting gun groups, each casting gun group can cast 2 falcon cannons or 1.33 sand sculpture cannons per month.
In addition to giving Meliati and the city guard cannons, Horn only filled the clockwork cannons from the two battle groups of the Savior Army in February this year.
There are currently 32 Hawks and Falcon cannons and 2 Sand Sculpture cannons left in stock, and the clockwork cannons will definitely not be able to afford two and a half battle groups.
It is a bit difficult to even supply two battle groups, after all, there is only two or three months of preparation time.
If the dwarf group in North Munde County can be brought into the wartime system, as long as there is no problem with the raw materials, the supply of clockwork cannons can double in a very short time.
As for the most important power part of the clockwork gun, there is no need to worry about it for the time being.
After using the alchemy reaction dish and mercury soaking method, Horn discovered that the so-called 14 pounds of refined iron and 1 pound of mountain copper is purely farting.
Because the alchemy reaction dish adds mercury water, you can make 7 pounds or even 5 pounds of refined iron and 1 pound of mountain copper.
Completely, at least 7 pounds of the 14 pounds of refined iron were all useless, right?
At present, one ton of steel (fine iron) can refine 400 pounds of mountain copper, which is enough to build 200 hawk falcon cannons or 1,200 clockwork guns.
When will Horn worry about the steel being unable to keep up with the copper, he doesn't need to consider where the steel comes from.
In casting cannons, the most important thing is to create a clockwork warehouse.
Not many people can make this thing well except dwarves.
This depends on the progress of Halkin.
Horn picked up the latest three issues of Pravda, and almost every issue was attacking the Steel Guild in North Mundt.
The first issue is where the dwarves expose the scandal of the dwarves master, and the apprentice exposes the master's atrocities in blood and tears.
The second period explains the current situation of Thousand River Valley and explains the steel output of Thousand River Valley. It is implicitly pointed out that they are dwarves, mine owners and nobles of North Munde County. The third issue was to announce that it would build a new smelting town in Nammand County and enthusiastically solicit names from the general public.
Pravda is relatively neutral due to its linkage with the communiqué system and has not broken up.
The commercial newspapers below Megdi and various tabloid booklets that curry favor with Horn are frequently rumored.
What are the "North Munde, the sinners of Thousand Rivers Valleys", "The Steel Guild is the enemy of civilization", and "must punch against the dwarves of North Munde" all come out.
They're going to be soon.
After thinking about it, Horn finally wrote down the number of 8,000 people in the draft, which could probably form two battle groups (without orders).
When the spring of next year begins, it will be not too late to replenish the second batch of 12,000 people.
After all, there are two new battle groups, and there should be about 30,000 people in cooperation with the Savior Army's two field battle groups, the new battle group built by Shandi County and the Advocate Army.
In the future, the troops that are able to support Meliati can pile up to about 40,000, which is almost the same.
When the second batch of 12,000 people join the army, it is time for a strategic counterattack.
Bringing out this plan, Horn called Pettier and handed him the pile of drafts.
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Received the draft in a daze. Pettier was about to leave, but turned his head and said, "Ms. Istria seems to be waiting outside the door. Are you going to invite her in? I asked her, and she just smiled and didn't answer."
"Istria? Let her come in."
Soon, the witch came to Horn under the guidance of the servant. "What's wrong with you?"
Istria didn't say much, but handed Horn a few pages of notes.
Horn took the notes blankly, took a few glances, and his eyes froze.
"This is..." He raised his head and looked at Istria in surprise, "Are you trying to reverse mana of Shan Tong?"
"To be precise, it's not me, you will know when you look back." Istria smiled with her eyes closed.
The so-called anti-magic transformation of Shan Tong is a conjecture put forward by Seneus, an alchemist.
That is, after brute force tightens the mountain copper spring, is there a problem of mana inside it?
According to the law of alchemy, spiritual attributes and material attributes will affect each other.
Since the spiritual attribute of Shan Tong can transform mana into potential energy, can the material attribute of potential energy be converted into mana?
Because there is no mana observation instrument, this problem has been put on hold until now and has not been resolved.
Bachelor Kelburn believes that mana cannot appear or disappear out of thin air.
Without external input, mana power cannot exist in the mountain copper spring.
But in this incomplete note, an alchemy ritual that Horn couldn't understand proves that the brute force-tight clockwork will store mana!
The owner of the note was still trying to find the source of these mana, but unfortunately he failed.
So the note owner designed a new alchemy ceremony that Horn still couldn't understand, trying to "take out" the mana power inside the mountain copper spring to identify its properties.
It's a pity that he could only transfer the magic power in the mountain copper spring between different mountain copper springs.
It's a pity for the note owner, but it's a complete pity for Horn.
This means that there were only relatively fast water flows or dams that could recharge the clockwork.
But now, you can even use wind power to charge the light spring, and then use this ritual to concentrate mana and potential energy on the heavy spring.
The only thing worth examining at the moment is how efficient this ritual is.
But this ceremony is incomplete, with only about one-third of the content. Fortunately, some experimental data and failure cases are present. "Do you have any of the broken parts of the ceremony?" Horn raised his head and asked impatiently. "No." Istrian tightly closed his eyelids, "but you can reason about it yourself."
Horn's passion suddenly cooled down: "There is currently a shortage of personnel, you know that we have distinguished countless fake formulas during this period..."
"This will definitely work." Istria interrupted Horn, but her soft voice would not make people feel rude. "You are so confident? This is an unverified formula. Perhaps it was caused by a mad alchemist who had hallucinations." "Why don't you look at the signature of the owner of the note?" "Horn flipped these pages quickly until he saw the last page that he was surprised to find a familiar name.
"Kelburn?" Horn looked up suddenly, "This is Kelburn's research, why don't I know?"
"Of course you don't know." Istria smiled mysteriously, "because this is Mr. Kelburn's research result ten years later."
(End of this chapter)