Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

Paul Graman spent nearly a week getting familiar with and adapting to the daily work and life of a lord. During this period, his body's original memory gradually recovered.

His territory belongs to the Kingdom of Aldo, the westernmost country in the known world. There are many human countries to the east of the kingdom, among which the Gabela Empire is the most powerful.

There are thousands of miles of mountains in the north and east of the kingdom, where many dwarf clans live. To the north of the Rocky Mountains is the vast grassland with countless orc tribes, and to the north is the endless ice field with few people.

There are also discontinuous large rain forests in the south of the known world, where elves known for their beauty and elegance live.

What worries him a little is that there is a huge religious organization in this world - the church, which has different official titles in different historical periods. Later, people directly called it the church.

Its beliefs are almost everywhere in human countries, and even believers are distributed among foreign races. The priest who woke up that night was a clergyman of this religion.

With his current memory, he still doesn't know much about the past history of this religion, and he doesn't know if there is any dark history. But what is certain is that there are many fanatical believers among humans, and he has seen several of them with his limited experience.

The land directly controlled by the Church is not much, not much larger than a principality, but its influence can be said to be able to call the wind and rain.

"Isn't this a setting that has been used too much? Every world that travels through has its shadow." I am already powerless to complain.

In addition, this world seems to have magic, although most people, including nobles, have never seen a person who can use magic in their entire lives, and many people regard magic as nonsense.

But his butler Philip swore that he was saved from a robber by a wizard when he was a child. According to Philip, the wizard made a gesture with his left hand, muttered something, and then a big fireball shot out from the staff in his right hand, and hit the face of the robber opposite with lightning speed.

Well, since there are fantasy races such as dwarves, elves and orcs, the existence of magic is not impossible. However, he is more inclined to think that what the butler saw was something like a magic trick.

On the first weekend after he woke up, the long-awaited military parade finally began.

According to his request, the soldiers lined up in three squares and passed through the small square in turn under the command of the knights.

"These... are my soldiers?" The little earl's face was livid.

The soldiers in the "square" were dressed in a variety of clothes, with all kinds of clothes. The only thing they wore the same was a piece of cloth armor with the Graman family emblem.

At the beginning, the formation of the row was quite neat, but after starting to march, the pace was messed up not long after it started. When it came to him, the team had become messy and sparse, and it was even impossible to tell that it was a square.

"Gentlemen, it is necessary to raise the quality of our army a little bit!" After summoning the knights, Paul said a word with a gloomy face.

"Uh..." The knights looked at each other, and finally Bryce stood up, "My Lord Earl, it's like this, our place is relatively remote, no other lords covet it, and the people are simple, so we are usually lax in terms of military preparation. To be honest, I didn't expect that the pirates would fight so far from the coast this time."

"A bloody lesson! Comrades... No, I mean gentlemen." The young lord sighed to the sky, looking heartbroken, "The last failure was a bloody lesson!"

The knights were ashamed, and the death of the old earl always left a shadow in their hearts;

Paul took advantage of the situation and said, "So I decided that I will personally supervise the training of the new recruits this time!"

"Yes! My Lord Earl!" Although they had great doubts about how much the young earl knew about military affairs, the embarrassing performance of the parade team made the knights unable to muster the courage to raise objections.

Another week passed, and a new round of conscription recruited a total of 315 new soldiers. He decided to reorganize the army in the same way as the Earth army before the crossing, so he announced his reorganization plan to the knights.

The army was organized into five levels: regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad. The most basic squad usually had 10 people, with a squad leader and deputy squad leader. According to the principle of the three-three system, a platoon had three squads, with a platoon headquarters and a platoon leader and deputy platoon leader. A company had three platoons and a cooking squad, with a company headquarters and a company commander and deputy company commander. A battalion had three companies, with a battalion headquarters and a battalion commander and deputy battalion commander. A regiment had three battalions, with a regiment headquarters and a regiment commander and deputy regiment commander.

Corresponding to the organization, he copied the military rank system of the previous life. According to the current organization, there are two levels of soldiers (private, private), three levels of non-commissioned officers (corporal, sergeant, sergeant), three levels of lieutenants (second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain), and three levels of colonels (major, lieutenant colonel, colonel). At the same time, the corresponding relationship between each level of military rank and position is stipulated.

He also stipulated the order of transfer of command in special circumstances - such as when the commander is injured or sacrificed and cannot command the troops - the first priority is to transfer according to the level of position, the second is to transfer according to the level of military rank, and finally the length of military service.

Take a company as an example. If the company commander is injured or unable to command the battle on the battlefield, the deputy company commander will take over the command. If the deputy company commander also has an accident, the platoon leaders will take over the command of the entire company in order of rank. If the platoon leaders have the same rank, they will be ranked according to their length of military service. The same applies to other organizational units.

Ranks will make the troops more organized, so that the situation in the old army will not occur when the commander dies and the troops are scattered. Under the rank system, once such an accident occurs, a new commander will be automatically generated in order and continue to lead the troops to fight, ensuring the sustainability of combat effectiveness.

The knights were a little dizzy with these complicated titles. Some people suggested that the ranks should be directly set to four levels: private, non-commissioned officer, lieutenant, and colonel, and each level should not be further subdivided. The reason is that the army in the territory now has only a few hundred people, but it was rejected by the little earl.

He explained: "Although our army is still small, we must set up the framework first anyway, so that it will be convenient to expand when we encounter more serious emergencies in the future."

"What a short-sighted bunch of guys," Paul secretly complained: "I haven't even brought out the names of division, army, army group, general, and marshal!"

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

The reason why he didn't propose a larger scale organization and a higher level of military rank now is that on the one hand, the current army is too small, and on the other hand, he doesn't dare to do it. According to the current largest regiment-level organization, if it is fully staffed, there will be more than a thousand people. For an earldom in a remote area, this is a considerable military force.

If a division-level organization of more than 10,000 people and a larger army-level organization are proposed, if it is spread by someone with ulterior motives, it may be a big hat of treason. You know, a knight group in the capital has only more than 10,000 people.

Moreover, only those nobles who have been in battle for a long time and fought for the country are qualified to be called generals. It is unreasonable for a country knight who has only 1,800 men and usually suppresses bandits and pirates to be called major generals or generals.

Some people also have objections to the fact that each company is equipped with a cooking team, thinking it is unnecessary.

"This will be the guarantee of our combat effectiveness!" When talking about the cooking team, the lord suddenly became excited, stood up and explained its great significance with his hands and feet, which made the knights confused. However, seeing that the lord attached so much importance to it, no one objected.

Finally, Paul proposed to make the army regular, and he would pay a certain allowance as compensation for the loss of labor in the soldiers' families.

The knights had no objection to this, because it was all the money spent by the lord's mansion. Butler Philip, who was standing aside, almost fainted. This time, a lot of money has been spent on recruiting soldiers, and the young master has to increase the expenditure, and it is a long-term one. It seems that he has to find a time to persuade him.

After the meeting, Philip was even more distressed. The young master actually asked him to be responsible for custom-making two sets of clothes for each of the soldiers, and to complete them within a month. Although he strongly opposed the young master's "wasting" of money, the young master repeatedly emphasized the importance of uniforms to a regular army, so he had to do it.