War is actually about logistics. This is what Marshal Michelich said in a senior seminar. After five years of war in the eastern region, if the Kingdom of Overas had not exhausted the gold coins in its treasury and had to seek an armistice, the eastern region of Farea Continent would have been unified by the kingdom long ago. Just because there was no way to hold on any longer, this war in the Eastern Region lasted for five years and had to end with both sides losing.
His sister Anna said that the manufacturing cost of a new rifle was about seven to eight gold crowns, and Claude was not surprised. Because if you want to manufacture standard new rifles on a large scale, you need to open a firearms manufacturing workshop and design a mechanical production line to uniformly produce and assemble the various accessories of the new rifle. Mrs. Sonia said that half of the cost of manufacturing and producing 100,000 new rifles is on this mechanical production line.
If the set of mechanical manufacturing equipment for the production of muskets and artillery shipped from the Kingdom of Hicks had not been obtained from the Port of Vibato, which reduced Claude's investment in purchasing processing machinery and equipment, maybe a new musket Production costs will double. Then, just like the revolver, it became a collection of wealthy people and could not be widely promoted and applied.
Claude, however, wanted to equip his Thunder Legion with new rifles and turn them into elite weapons that transcended this era. But a Thunder Legion of 65,000 people would need 70,000 new rifles if they were all equipped. Calculating the production cost of a new rifle at eight gold crowns, then a Thunder Legion replacement would cost 560,000 gold crowns. And this amount is almost two years of military expenditure for the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion.
This is just the equipment price of a new rifle, don’t forget that you also need bullets. If a new rifle is equipped with one hundred bullets, the price of one bullet is three sunars, and one hundred bullets is three hundred sunars, which is equal to thirty riyals, which is equal to three silver thalers. But the problem is that one hundred rounds of ammunition for this new rifle is the daily reserve or the amount that every soldier carries with him on the battlefield, and the normal training consumption is not included.
According to the training regulations of the Army Department of the Kingdom of Ovilas, recruits who are recruited into the army have one month of shooting training during the training. Fire live ammunition thirty times a day. Those who make mistakes in the process need to practice more. On average, it takes one thousand live ammunition shootings in a month to master the performance of the Obas III standard matchlock gun.
If a new rifle is equipped into the army, the soldiers will also need to undergo such live-fire training to master the performance of the new rifle, but the cost of this training is a huge expense. If a soldier conducts one thousand live-fire shooting trainings in a month, he will be reimbursed for one thousand bullets. The cost price of these bullets is thirty silver thalers, which is six gold crowns. In other words, in this month's live-fire shooting theater, each soldier needs to pay six gold crowns for bullet consumption, and a regiment has 65,000 people.
This is just the beginning. But after this month of live-fire training, the soldiers would not need to consume bullets. Each soldier still has to undergo live-fire training every month, with thirty rounds of ammunition at a time and three live-fire shootings a month. Even if one hundred rounds of ammunition are consumed every month, that is one thousand two hundred rounds a year, which is almost seven times a year. Bullet training costs gold kronor.
In other words, if Claude wants to equip the Thunder Legion with new rifles, the weaponry and ammunition consumption of one legion will be close to 13.4 million gold crowns per year, which is almost five or six years more than the current two legions in the theater. of military spending. Therefore, sister Anna bluntly told Claude that the only disadvantage of the new rifle was that it was expensive. It was indeed very difficult to equip the entire legion on a large scale with such a high cost.
It's expensive, but Claude believes that General Bolognik and others will understand how much combat effectiveness it will add to the two legions after seeing the new rifle. Compared with the life of a soldier, the high cost of a new rifle is worth it. With a legion equipped with a new rifle, Claude is confident that he can defeat ten times the number of enemies.
In the next two months, Claude went to Wickham Castle in Cromwell's direct jurisdiction to supervise the training of new recruits and the reorganization of the legion. The Thunder Legion is an offensive light cavalry legion. Each recruit must not only undergo normal queue training, but also complete live-fire shooting training with the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun. At the same time, he also needs to carry out riding training, conduct various tactical drills with his mount, and finally participate in the actual combat training formulated by Claude.
The busy days passed quickly, and August arrived in a blink of an eye. That day, Claude had just returned from inspecting various units at the training ground when a communications soldier sent a Falcon message from the theater command headquarters. It said that a dilapidated ocean-going smuggling ship that seemed to have gone through a fierce naval battle arrived at the port of Vibato. The captain was from the Kingdom of Nasseri.
Now that the smuggling ship has been seized, the captain and surviving crew members have also been sent by sea to the theater headquarters in Lanhu City, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Amphiston. General Bolognik asked Claude to come back and listen to what happened. The captain and the rest of the crew of the Seri Kingdom received news about the kingdom and the countries in the eastern part of Farea.
This matter cannot be delayed, Claude set off overnight to rush to the Amphiston Territory. It took seven or eight days to arrive at the theater headquarters, and by this time, the captain and crew of the smuggling ship had already confessed everything they knew twice.
Seeing Claude rushing back covered with dust, General Skerry handed him a folder directly: "Their confessions are all recorded on it and have been sorted out. The top one is about the war news in the kingdom. We are now We can’t tell whether what the captain of the smuggling ship said is true or false. After all, he is from the Kingdom of Nasseri and is our mortal enemy.”
Claude nodded, took the folder, and opened it to see, what? The war between the two kings of the kingdom is still going on. Currently, the eldest prince Hansback and the second prince Widluck, also known as Sterling Eleven. There is still no distinction between top and bottom in the world, and the fight is fierce. How is this possible
The captain of the smuggling ship of the Kingdom of Nasseri said that in May last year, Prince Widelek of the Kingdom of Ovilas led the Red Dragon Legion and the Guards to approach the Ibiniste Plain, and Prince Hansback had already led his men. A standing corps and two newly formed second-line corps set up a solid defense line based on Lake Buranopes.
Before the war started, almost everyone thought that Prince Wedelek would be defeated. Prince Hansback made a surprise attack and occupied the royal capital. He also purged the forces and powerful figures who opposed him, and was able to mobilize the entire royal capital's manpower and armaments. Resources, favorable location and people.
Prince Wedelek's performance after ascending the throne as Sterling XI was not very good. Internal coordination was not good. All parties fought endlessly for power and interests. He was confused and slow to respond to the eldest prince's rebellion. One shot. In particular, it was even more careless to block Prince Hansback's troops behind the defense line of the Odin Mountains. He believed that the prince had lost the threat to the royal capital and only needed to fight a war of attrition to eliminate the rebels under the prince's command.
But no one expected that Prince Hansback would reach a cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Hicks. First, they annihilated the Kingdom's Dreadnought Fleet in a land and sea attack, and then used the Hicks Kingdom's Sea King Fleet and Combined Fleet to escort the Blue Feather Legion and the Hicks Kingdom. A standing army penetrated the hinterland of the kingdom by sea and attacked the royal capital by surprise. Prince Wedelek escaped overnight, leaving the entire kingdom to Prince Hansback.
Although Prince Wedelek, who fled to Bethalnia County, with the assistance of his father-in-law, Marshal Siegfried, took control of the Red Dragon Army, the Griffin Army and the Praetorian Guard Army, the three ace field armies of the kingdom, they were re-established. He came to the royal court and led the Red Dragon Army and the Imperial Guard Army to regroup and make a comeback. But few people are optimistic about Prince Wedelek's prospects. After all, his behavior of abandoning the royal capital and escaping at night without firing a single shot made him lose a lot of points in the eyes of neutrals.
Moreover, with Prince Wedelek's ignorant military command talent, there is no way he can be a match for the battle-hardened Prince Hansback. Therefore, some newspapers in the royal capital that favored the eldest prince even described Prince Wedelek's action of sending troops to the royal capital as a gambler's desperate move, believing that it was destined that the eldest prince Hansback would win a great victory and completely defeat Wedelek. Prince Lek's troops won the crown of the Kingdom of Orvilas.
In mid-May, the troops from both sides began to come into contact. On May 24, the Red Dragon Legion and the Praetorian Guards launched a full-scale attack. The result was beyond everyone's expectation. The one standing legion and two second-line legions deployed by Prince Hansback on the defensive front were almost collapsed at the first touch, unable to withstand the fierce offensive of the Red Dragon Legion and the Guards Legion. Within five days, the Red Dragon Legion and the Imperial Guards arrived at the capital.
The result of this battle shocked everyone involved in the war. It was not until the entire Ibinist Plains war was over and Prince Wedelek reoccupied the royal capital that news came out that the Red Dragon Legion and the Forbidden City The reason why the Guard Corps was able to capture the enemy's defensive line so quickly was because they used a new weapon, an explosive grenade.
After this kind of projectile is thrown into the defensive position, it will explode. The garrison troops deployed by Prince Hansbach on the defensive front were almost wiped out, and the fall of the position was inevitable. It is said that all countries in the Farea continent have begun to study and imitate this grenade, and no one wants to suffer the same attack.
Claude felt a little dizzy. He didn't expect that the grenade purchased by the assassinated General Alges for his old aristocratic family's military industry would be such a big help to Prince Wedelek. No wonder Prince Wedelek had Confidence sent troops to confront Prince Hansback. It turned out that throwing bombs gave him courage.
General Skerry was standing next to Claude. He was an insider who knew that Claude sold the production license of the grenade to General Algers. Seeing Claude staring at the document in a daze, he naturally knew what Claude was thinking. What.
He said quietly: "I didn't expect that your throwing bombs would make such a big contribution. Otherwise, if Prince Hansback wins, we will all be declared traitors. But now all the countries in Farea Continent are... Develop grenades, and this smuggling ship from the Kingdom of Nasseri carried the grenades they produced. They also relied on the grenades to fight their way out of the pirates' ambush and reach Vibato Port."
Claude murmured and asked: "Are their projectiles the same as ours?"
General Skerry shook his head: "It's completely different. Their projectile is like a jar, with a fuse inserted on it, put it on the thrower, light it, and then throw it out. The distance can reach more than a hundred meters. In addition, their projectile Throwers are installed on ships. Some are like trebuchets. They are relatively large and cannot be moved. Also, they call these projectiles explosive bombs. The captain said that some countries call them explosive bombs. They have different names but basically the effect is the same. Yes, when thrown, the match will explode when it burns to the end."
"Hmm" Claude felt a little strange: "Are all their imitation grenades ignited by match ropes? There are no grenades like ours that are ignited inside the pull cord?"
"No, the captain said that the grenades from the Kingdom of Overas were all ignited with match ropes. Basically, the length of the match rope has fixed the throwing distance, and it will explode after it is thrown to the target. But because it needs to be used The match ignites, so it cannot be used in rainy days. Occasionally, the match may be extinguished due to various reasons, resulting in the grenade failing to explode.”
General Skerry also couldn't figure out why the kingdom's military industry wanted to change the grenade to use a match rope to ignite the explosion. Just one rainy day could limit the use of grenades. He pointed at the document in Claude's hand: "You will know as you continue reading. Prince Hansback has now learned how to throw bombs, and he has brought the situation that was unfavorable to him back into balance."
Since the captain of the smuggling ship was from the Kingdom of Nasseri and was a mortal enemy of the Kingdom of Ovilas, the Kingdom of Nasseri was happy to see the civil war break out between the two kings of the Kingdom of Ovilas. Detailed war processes and comments are often published in newspapers. Although most of them are gloating, but because of this, the captain of the smuggling ship still knows very well about various events that have happened in the Kingdom of Olvelas.
After the Red Dragon Legion and the Royal Guards approached the royal capital, Prince Hansback could only hold a very simple enthronement ceremony in the palace. Because the title of Sterling XI was already worn on his head by Wedelek, Prince Hansback called himself Hansback I. After ascending the throne, Prince Hansback announced a tour of the southwestern provinces of the kingdom and hurriedly led the Blue Feather Army to withdraw from the royal capital.
Less than half a day after he left, the Imperial Guards entered the royal capital and regained control of the royal capital. Three days later, Prince Wedelek proudly held a triumphal military parade in the royal capital, announcing that the royal capital had been restored and sat on the throne again. Subsequently, a series of arrests were carried out in the royal capital. All local officials and nobles who had taken refuge with Prince Hansback during the fall of the royal capital were arrested and imprisoned. They needed to pay a large amount of ransom before they could be released.
After a delay of more than a month in the royal capital, Prince Wedelek ordered the Red Dragon Legion to pursue Prince Hansback's evacuated troops. At the same time, he issued a notice requiring various places to form second-line legions to participate in the attack on Prince Hansback's troops. The suppression of rebel forces. However, Prince Wedelek's reaction was too slow, giving Prince Hansback more than a month to establish himself in more than a dozen counties in the southwest of the kingdom.
The smuggling ship captain of the Nasseri Kingdom confessed that after Prince Hansback led his troops to evacuate from the royal capital, he sent various branch troops to sweep through a dozen counties in the southwest of the kingdom in more than a month, wiping out all the smuggling ships. The local forces and armed forces loyal to Prince Wedelek have won themselves time and local support.
When the Red Dragon Legion came to pursue Prince Hansback's rebels a month later, Prince Hansback deliberately commanded the troops to retreat while fighting, luring the Red Dragon Legion to continue the pursuit. Finally, the Red Dragon Legion was besieged in Tamorus County. The Red Dragon Legion, which was in desperate situation, used grenades to find a way out, but after this battle, the Red Dragon Legion had been disabled. This was the great victory in Tamorus County, and Prince Hansback once again turned a corner with this victory.
Prince Wedelek was worried about another surprise attack on the royal capital, and refused to let the Guards attack. He only ordered the formation of the Red Dragon Legion and a dozen second-line legions again. It would not be too late to wait until these legions were formed before attacking. Prince Hansback also stepped up his efforts to integrate the financial and military resources of a dozen local counties in the southwest. He also captured grenades in the battle to encircle and annihilate the Red Dragon Legion, and also copied and equipped his troops.
From October last year to May this year, the two princes accumulated troops at the borders of the territories they controlled, and the dark clouds of war once again shrouded the sky of the Kingdom of Orvilas. I just don’t know which prince will win in the next battle.