Chapter 468: On the airship
On the airship flying to the front line to deliver supplies, Perfectcott only got a small cabin.
This is the crew cabin on the ship, with a total area of no more than ten square meters and a very simple decoration.
There is only a narrow bunk bed, which can allow two people to lie down. There is a small table next to it, which allows one person to sit on the bed. Then there is a metal cabinet placed against the wall.
There is nothing else. The space is so narrow that it is impossible to even stretch your body in the room. If you raise your arms, you will hit the walls on both sides.
Purficott didn't pay too much attention to the accommodation conditions in the room. After all, even such a simple environment was much more comfortable than taking a long-distance train before.
Except for the fact that the bunk bed was relatively hard and made Purficott, who had been accustomed to sleeping on soft beds over the years, feel a little pain in her back, everything else was within her acceptable range.
And compared to these, she is more concerned about the current situation on the front line.
Through talking with the officers on the ship, Purficott learned some information, some of which were different from the battle reports she received.
For example, the number of casualties was actually higher than the battle report she saw. The deaths of some soldiers were blurred out just to make the battle report look better.
The situation on the battlefield was more severe or worse than what Purficott had known. The Steam Knight did put tremendous pressure on the Revolutionary Army, so much so that they had to shrink their defense lines to avoid the Steam Knight's edge.
And they are constantly trying to use various methods to block the movement of the Steam Riders. At present, at the cost of blowing up important transportation facilities such as railway bridges, the actions of the Steam Riders have indeed been affected and are temporarily limited to around a certain city.
While the Steam Knights were restricted, the Revolutionary Army's attacks on the colonial garrisons did not stop. Even because they shrunk their defenses and concentrated their forces, several strategic locations they had originally defended were destroyed. capture.
Of course, the situation of the army in the north is slightly better. The main problem lies in the colonial garrison.
In the final analysis, the military level of the colonial garrison is indeed too poor. Not only compared with the Guards in the north, it cannot even be compared with the general army of the empire.
This situation was within Purficott's expectation. After all, according to the division of the empire's army, the Guards were in the first rank, the standing army was slightly inferior, and only the non-prepared troops of the Officer Corps were inferior. After these three It's the colonial garrison.
According to different levels, the quality of soldiers, equipment levels and training levels of the army are completely different.
The Guards are undoubtedly the strongest. Those who can serve in the Guards are either veterans who have served for a certain period of time, or young people of appropriate age who have taken the initiative to sign up to join the army.
The members of the standing army are mixed, and many of them are even strong men, criminals, and gangsters randomly pulled from the street.
As for the unprepared troops? They have no soldiers, and usually only retain the officer corps and a small number of veterans. Only when they are really needed on the battlefield will they recruit men of suitable age from all over the country to fill the establishment.
Among the three, there is no doubt that the soldiers of the Guards have a higher fighting desire and soldier quality than the general army. The daily training and food supplies are also a higher level, thus ensuring the training level of the soldiers.
Different from the military training that most people imagine, soldiers do not train every day, but at certain intervals.
After all, soldiers are humans, not machines. They undergo high-intensity training every day. Whether humans can bear it is another matter. The consumption of logistical supplies alone is not something that ordinary countries and armies can bear.
Normally speaking, only the special forces in the original world can achieve such high training intensity. As for this world, perhaps only the Knights can train every day. The physical fitness of those extraordinary people can withstand such training, but their logistics consumption is usually such that one Knights can kill the logistics of an ordinary infantry regiment. Supply volume.
Yes, in this world, the logistical consumption of a knighthood and an infantry regiment is the same, and a knighthood usually only has more than a hundred people, while an infantry regiment usually has at least a thousand people, and even more There can be more than two thousand people.
So the Guards can guarantee training every three days, while the standing army trains once every five days.
The extremely well-prepared troops usually train once every three days to maintain the quality and condition of the veterans. However, when they are filled with conscripts and mobilized troops, the new recruits usually only receive one. Recruit training lasts for three months, and then they go directly to the battlefield. There is no daily training at all.
But this is not bad, after all, they still have veterans as the backbone, who can support the basic combat level.
As long as you fight a few battles, the new recruits who survived will quickly become veterans, and their quality will improve rapidly.
It can even be said that as long as an army fights on the battlefield long enough without losing a large number of veterans, it will be able to continuously improve its combat effectiveness and reach the level of the Guards.
Many of the Guards of the Victoria Empire came from this way. After the standing troops and non-standby troops accumulated enough honors and military exploits on the battlefield, they could be promoted to Guards.
As for colonial garrisons, they are usually not included in the order of battle of the imperial army.
Because the colonial garrison is an extraordinary security force recruited and organized by each colonial governor when the local financial situation allows.
To put it simply, they are on the same level as the city guards, and their daily tasks are to maintain law and order, not to fight.
Although if there is a war in the colonies, they will be filled into the specifications of regular troops, but their combat effectiveness is obviously not comparable to the empire's real non-prepared troops.
After all, everyone knows the difference between veterans and urban management.
As a result, Purficott actually understands that the war situation is like this. From a certain perspective, the joining of the northern army can be regarded as the regular troops of the imperial army joining this war.
Before this, it could only be regarded as urban management and militia maintaining law and order, and it was not considered a formal battle at all.
After Major General Richard led his troops to join this war, he actually did quite well. Although the initial trap did not trap the revolutionary army, several subsequent attacks did. Although it was quite satisfactory, it still put great pressure on the revolutionary army.
After all, his unit is the Imperial Guard, and its equipment has been upgraded by Purficott. If it still can't produce any decent results, then this unit should be disbanded as soon as possible.
Of course, it was precisely because of this that he was assassinated.
Although after Purficott learned the details, he felt that this was at best a raid on the headquarters.
(End of this chapter)