1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 111 “Cleveland Volunteer Corps” Training Course

After a night of thinking, Maxwell told Scrooge that he was willing to teach at the newly established university that Scrooge had set up. As long as Scrooge was ready, he could come over. It’s just that he needs to advance some salary to Scrooge so that he can move away from the damn factory as soon as possible. Otherwise, after the rapid decline in intelligence, there will be nowhere to cry.

When Maxwell made such a request shyly, Scrooge was so happy that he almost didn’t jump up. What is such a requirement to advance wages? Well, Scrooge said, it’s not that troublesome, just let me advance your settlement allowance to United States directly. It’s not too much, how about 10,000 pounds?

Maxwell resolutely rejected it at the time, saying that he didn’t need so much money at all. Seven or eight hundred pounds is enough. But Scrooge replied: “Yes, I know you don’t care about this, but the salary you are paid is too low, which will damage the reputation of the university I am building. People will say that they even pay the professors. I can’t afford to pay, what’s the future of such a university?”

After getting Maxwell, Scrooge handed over the remaining tasks of purchasing experimental equipment and continuing to dig people to Carol, and he boarded a hybrid boat and hurried back to United States.

After the Confederate army withdrew from near Washington, President Lincoln continued to issue decree to recruit troops. A large number of troops were enlisted, but the level of training of these troops was still very poor, so under Scrooge’s suggestion, federal troops began to gather near Washington. They will learn the advanced experience of the “Cleveland Volunteer Corps” that repelled the Southern Army’s offensive here, and by the way, build an indestructible network of fortifications near Washington.

More than one hundred thousand Northern Army gathered in Washington, which also made the Southern Union feel Alexander. Damn, the capital of the Confederacy is too close to the capital of the North, Washington, and the straight-line distance between the two is no more than a hundred miles. As a result, the Confederate League had to mobilize a large number of troops near their capital, Richmond, to guard against a possible attack by the Northern Army.In order to ensure the safety of Richmond, the newly arrived Southern Army troops also took the initiative to learn combat experience from Jackson and others. Regardless of Jackson, General Pierre Borregard, and General Joseph Johnston, everyone who was most impressed by the previous battles was the tremendous power of trench operations. As a result, the Southern Army also began the same action as the Northern Army-digging trenches everywhere.

So in the remaining months of 1861, whether the Southern Army or the Northern Army, everyone was doing the same thing: digging trenches, erecting barbed wire, and burying landmines. Yes, land mines are buried. After the southern army suffered the loss of landmines, they obtained some samples through this method, and then began to imitate landmines by themselves.

Of course, due to the flaws in explosive technology in the South, black powder had to be used as the charge for landmines, which also made the landmines of the Southern Army relatively heavy. But no matter what, the effect of stepping on it is the same-whether it is the Northern Army or the Southern Army, their mines are low-power broken palm mines, and their reasons for using such mines are exactly the same: to the opposite. That poor bug had a chance to go home alive to see his mother.

“Lieutenant Colonel Robson, can I ask a question?” An officer who also had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel raised his hand.

“I will ask after I have finished speaking!” Robson was shaking now. Because of the good defensive organization last time, he also has a good reputation. It is said that the appointment of his colonel will soon be down. More importantly, after the trench warfare workshop was established, he became the main lecturer here, specializing in teaching middle and high-level military officers. However, it is strange to say that, generally speaking, the higher the rank, the richer the experience and the higher the IQ. Robson found that the reality is not necessarily the case. Some guys whose ranks are no longer low have their heads as stubborn as granite. Even if there are two successful defensive battles between the North and South Armies, these guys still believe that the soldiers can break through the trenches with bravery. Others firmly believe that the use of rear-loading rifles will make the soldiers weak. Their theory is that when soldiers hold such rifles that can be loaded behind obstacles, their minds will be put to the search. When obstacles are hidden, they will become timid and weak. These guys have cited various military theories to defend their own views, and they have uttered a lot of words about trench warfare. They almost got the nose of Robson, who is proud to be leading a military revolution, crooked.

“Although if you want to develop in the military, your contacts are very important. But the so-called good contacts can’t be achieved by saying good things to everyone and no one can sin. A person who can’t sin is another. On the one hand, it is also easy to be regarded as a person who lacks offensive power. The army is like any group. It has factions within it. A person who does not oppose any faction will not be treated by any faction. Be your own person. Therefore, it is possible or even necessary to offend people. As long as you know who you should offend, how you should offend them, and where you should offend, you can truly manage your own network.” This is Scrooge Speaking to Robson not long ago. At that time, Scrooge suggested that Robson should develop into the military altogether and take advantage of this war to get ahead.

“Maybe one day, your name will be recorded in various historical books, your battle will be regarded as a guide by various military works, and your statue will be erected high in the square like Lord Nelson’s.” At that time, Scrooge said to him in such tempting words, “Of course, the army must not give you as much money as Heishui now gives you-the federal army is completely a bunch of miser in the house! But , I can hire your daughter as a consultant for Heishui, and I will send her the money that should have been sent to you. So I promise that you will never lose money financially…”

Since we are going to develop in the military and we are going to offend some people, who should offend people?

“In this war, some conservative-minded people, or those who write too closely with the old interest groups, are all targets that can be offended, because they are destined to be swept into the garbage dump of history! And now Lincoln is like this. If you are in desperate need of victory, even if you offend someone, no one can really and effectively suppress you based on your back (harmonious) scene and record.” This was also the result of analysis by Scrooge and Robson at the time. So now, whenever someone puts forward those silly arguments mentioned earlier, Robson will immediately switch himself to the poison tongue mode, no matter how high the rank of the other party is. As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Robson quickly became famous in the Union Army, and the nickname “Ohio Smelly Mouth” was said to even be known to the Southern Army.

But today Robson seems to have misfired a bit. The lieutenant colonel did not actually intend to raise any silly questions about trench warfare. However, now everyone is accustomed to Robson’s mouth, so the lieutenant colonel didn’t think it was too disgusting. Anyway, Major General Colonel has been sprayed, so what does it mean to be sprayed like this?

When the content of this class was finished, the lieutenant colonel raised his hand once.

“Oh, Lieutenant Colonel, what’s the problem with you?” Robson said.

“Lieutenant Colonel Robson, I want to ask, are there any effective methods of attack on the trench fortifications?” the lieutenant colonel asked.

“I have only a few ideas about how to attack the trenches. I haven’t practiced it in actual combat.” Lieutenant Colonel Robson was rarely humble. “This will be the content of our last lesson tomorrow. You can start by yourself. Think about it, we will discuss it together tomorrow.”

The next morning, Robson took the students to a fortification constructed by the “Cleveland Volunteer Corps.”

“You are all familiar with this fortification. Three trenches, six barbed wire fences, and three minefields. There are ten twelve-pound Napoleon cannons behind the trenches. The use of shrapnel can accurately cover any position in the front.” Robson said, “Everyone is already familiar with how to use it to resist an attack by the other side, and today, what we are going to discuss is how to attack such a target.”

“What? Digging along the tunnel? Didn’t this turn our soldiers into groundhogs? How can this work!” Someone protested loudly.

“It’s better than letting soldiers turn into corpses for nothing.” There are also people who stand firmly on Robson’s side and support this idea.

“We have some weapons specially prepared for this kind of battle.” Robson said, “The first is the grenade. You have seen this kind of weapon just now. As long as a soldier is trained, a soldier can throw it to dozens of them quite accurately. Go in the trenches outside the meter… Cole! Come here!”

A sergeant wearing the most insignificant green uniform of the Cleveland Volunteer Corps ran over and saluted Robson: “Hello, sir!”

“Well, not bad!” Robson raised his hand to salute, then pointed to an unmanned trench fifty meters away and said to Sergeant Cole: “Cole, can you throw your grenade into the trench over there?”

Sergeant Cole looked at the trench over there, smiled slightly, picked up a grenade, pulled the ring, and smoke of gunpowder emerged from the grenade’s handle. After waiting for a second or so, Sergeant Cole waved his arm, and the grenade flew out, drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then fell precisely into the trench and exploded.

“As long as they are trained, normal soldiers can reach a level close to them.” Lieutenant Colonel Robson said, “When we are close enough to the enemy’s trenches, we can use this method to give the opposing guy a cruel Hit hard. And use the firepower of the grenade to suppress the people who cover us to occupy the enemy’s trenches. This is the first attack method we envisioned.”