Chapter 247 January 16
“All pike brigades, move closer to the left!”
Raising the feather spear, Coleman put his hands on his hips and shouted loudly.
In the sound of military drums, the black-clad spearmen lined up in a 50X8 queue stood still on the left, while the soldiers on the right quickly moved closer to the left until the distance between their shoulders could only accommodate the palm of their hands. .
If on the battlefield, such a distance means that you have to start face-to-face combat with the opponent's cavalry or infantry.
The tight formation can slow down the impact of the horses. Soldiers equipped with short hooked spears may be able to pull the knight off the horse.
According to Horn's design, the entire battle group has 4,000 infantrymen, including 3,200 spearmen and 800 holy musketeers.
There are 8 spear divisions and 2 holy gun divisions in a legion.
Horn reduced the number of holy gunmen after all, because the production of holy gunmen still couldn't keep up.
It's not that they can't keep up with the infantry gap, but they can't keep up with the supplementary cavalry, because Jeanne's cuirassier regiment also needs wind-up muskets.
Standing under the wooden shed next to the training ground, the sun shines on the white snow, and the reflected sunlight makes people dizzy.
Horn narrowed his eyes with difficulty and looked at the war monks striding forward in the snow and mud.
"How are these war monks adapting?"
We call them war monks because the Salvation Army is essentially an armed religious order, but most of the other armed religious orders are Saving people is the main thing and killing people is the supplement.
The Salvation Chapter mainly kills people and saves people as a supplement. However, the people they kill are sinners. From this perspective, they are also saving people.
The status of war monks is monks, not soldiers, which can reduce the resistance to recruiting soldiers in the future to a certain extent.
After all, the reputation of soldiers in the empire is not very good.
“Most of them performed well. They received a lot of respect when they returned home, and there was a precedent of deserters. They all trained hard.”
Horn nodded and flipped through the roster of soldiers from the table nearby.
Two weeks have passed since the New Year's Day, and the first batch of recruits finally began their formal regiment life.
According to the previous request, the veterans came to select people to form the legion.
Originally Horn did not want to create a division between the Black Hat Legion and the Guards Legion, but if he did not do it, it did not mean that the two factions would not do it.
Obviously, there is no difference, but in fact, veterans of the Guards and Black Hats will still draw a line.
By the time Horn found out, they had finished dividing the people.
And the people divided into them are all very unique. The leader of the Guards, Das, was born in an armed farmer and has a relatively good conduct. The Guards also have the responsibility of protecting the Pope.
Therefore, most of the people he selected were simple and honest farmers, and what he required was discipline and a clean life experience.
As for the leaders of the Black Hat Army, Victor and Coleman, many of them are farmers, homeless beggars and bandits.
They all prefer to have strength in numbers, be inclusive, and accept anyone who comes, and they prefer people with wild and ferocious personalities.
In this way, it has become an established fact. Horn simply finalized these two systems and separated them when they expand in the future.
So the current establishment is the First Guards Army, the First Black Hat Army, the Second Black Hat Army and the Third Black Hat Army.
Formal training is naturally very different from the training of previous recruits.
The most important thing is to start learning the basic training code of "Salvation Legion Soldier Holy Book".
In this basic drill, Jeshka, Hakuto, and many knights from the Holy Trinity Education Team summarized the movements of using infantry spears.
There are three standing postures when using a spear: putting down the spear, picking up the spear, and arranging the spear. Marching gun-holding movements: raising the spear, shouldering the spear, leveling the spear, tilting the spear, checking the spear, and dragging the spear.
The gun-holding movements when attacking: stabbing from the upper part, stabbing from the lower part, charging from the upper part, charging from the lower part, blocking the gun with the upper part, blocking the gun with the lower part, and holding the gun diagonally with one hand and drawing the sword to chop.
These movements are summarized by these veterans and are the most useful and best to practice on the battlefield.
According to Horn's request, they divided each action into as many as seven or as few as three small actions. Each time they shouted the command, they only performed one small action.
This can keep the army in order when attacking, causing more intensive and greater damage in a unit of time.
In addition, in this "Salvation Army Sacred Book", Horn, Jeshka and others completed the unified setting of most basic instructions.
For example, the leader of a column is called the pacesetter, because many times, soldiers still cannot understand the officer's orders and can only follow the actions of the person in front.
Then the first soldier in each column is very important.
Only the leader is the one who can truly understand the officer's order. To ensure that anything goes wrong, the second soldier behind the leader must also understand the order.
In a queue of ten people, only two people need to be able to roughly understand and understand the commands.
When an officer gives an order, there are also requirements, that is, the three things "Who? How? What to do?" must be highlighted in the command.
For example, "turn left in the front row" is the wrong password, and "turn left in the first row" is the correct password.
Don’t underestimate this small change, it can greatly improve the efficiency of command and reduce the probability of errors.
After flipping through the roster, Horn directly saw the statistics at the bottom: "Extraordinary rate 3%, holy favor rate 25%, simple literacy rate 37%."
The so-called extraordinary rate The rate is the proportion of soldiers in the Breathing Technique stage to the total number, while the rate of holy followers is the same, but it is the proportion of holy followers.
As for the simple literacy rate, in Horn, as long as you know the 28 French letters and 20 common words, it is considered simple literacy.
This can already express some simple meanings, such as "I saw a knight in the east" and let them write "I am an easter."
Currently, soldiers have to take literacy classes every two days. Conduct simple literacy and rapid literacy for soldiers.
"According to this rate of holy disciples, well, there are almost 500 recruits who can be holy gunmen, which is enough." Horn's fingers crossed the roster and material logistics book.
“We currently have 440 clockwork muskets on hand. Among these 2,000 recruits, 400 holy musketeers will be produced, and there are still 40 guns left.”
“It’s still not enough. "Horn sighed.
"Isn't this enough?" After wiping her sweat and returning to the shed, Jeanne picked up the booklet in surprise, "Aren't there 40 left?"
"Tomorrow will be the second batch of 1,000 recruits. After entering the camp, the third batch of 1,000 new soldiers will enter the camp in five days. As for the cavalry, we still have a gap of 560 spring-loaded muskets."
Madelan immediately said: "Your Majesty, please. Don't worry, the new blacksmith and lightning wizard sent from Rapid City were in place yesterday, and our production can probably increase from 10-12 to 15-18 per day."
Horn nodded slightly. In fact, there was one thing he didn't say, and that was the gap in the lead bullets. After all, the iron sand was not enough, and the stone bullets were not powerful enough.
Nowadays, Holy Gunslingers use stone bullets for training, but lead bullets still cannot be equipped for every Holy Gunslinger.
It seems that it is necessary to use the hidden line at Fort Joan of Arc and buy some lead.
Horn had left a lot of connections in Fort Joan. When Mitten left, he sent several Cheka boy soldiers to follow him and infiltrated Fort Joan.
“What’s the date today?”
“It’s January 16th.” Jeanne rubbed her sore eyes and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“ I think it’s almost done. The day after tomorrow, let’s mobilize the 1st Guards Corps and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Black Hat Corps to attack the giant spiders and monsters in the southern swamp.”
(End of this chapter)