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

Since the end of July, Alda has held several military exercises in succession. After all, in the upcoming war, they are no longer dealing with third-rate pirate groups, but the military forces of nobles in another territory, so they must adapt in advance.

In order to be able to use troops flexibly on the battlefield, under Paul's suggestion, the staff began to try to use linear tactics, specifically: each infantry battalion is lined up in a horizontal line, and each spearman company in the battalion is lined up in a line with 6 rows in depth, and each company is responsible for two rows; the musketeer company is deployed separately, lined up in a line with 3 rows, and one platoon is responsible for one row.

Compared with the popular phalanx tactics now, the front of the Alda army is wider and the depth becomes smaller. The wide front can form a semi-encirclement effect. As the number of muskets equipped increases, the effect of dealing with dense phalanxes will become better and better, and a large amount of firepower can be output to the enemy in a very short time.

Compared with the large-scale combat groups of 10,000 or 1,000 men commonly used in the world, smaller-scale troop formations such as companies and platoons can provide more opportunities for subordinate commanders to exert their subjective initiative. Of course, the premise is that there are a large number of qualified middle and lower-level officers in the army. Paul is very sure that no other forces in the world attach as much importance to the training of middle and lower-level officers as he does. In order to train qualified lieutenants and non-commissioned officers, he even established a military academy. The low-level officers in the armies of most countries have little in their minds than the big-headed soldiers under their command.

Given the poor hit rate of smoothbore barrels, musketeers are not allowed to fire at will before hearing the orders of officers. In actual operation, there are generally two ways: round shooting or volley shooting.

When firing in a round, three rows of soldiers fire in turn from front to back. When one row of soldiers is shooting, the other two rows of soldiers aim or load ammunition. This cycle repeats to maintain continuous firepower output.

When firing a volley, the first row of soldiers half-knelt and fired, while the second and third rows of soldiers stood and fired. In this way, all soldiers could fire a volley at the same time. Although this volley could not maintain uninterrupted firepower, the war examples in European history proved that a fierce shooting within a few minutes of approaching the enemy before launching the climax of the charge was very effective.

A volley of soldiers could fully prepare for the rigorously trained spearmen to carry out the attack. A piece of information that Paul had read in his previous life said: Such a volley can not only cause greater casualties to the enemy, but also cause the enemy to be three times more fearful and shocked than the previous single-row shooting, which can greatly dampen the enemy's courage. The reason is simple. For ordinary people, the shock and terrible effect of a long-lasting thunder will be greater than the sum of the shock and intimidation effects of 10 intermittent thunders.

Paul thought that he only needed one round of volleys to defeat the soldiers who were temporarily recruited by the local lords.

Soldiers standing in the first row undoubtedly need great courage, so a reward mechanism called "courage allowance" was created. Soldiers standing in the first row will receive a generous reward of three times their daily salary. In order to fully protect the soldiers in the first row, the equipment department took great pains to purchase and build a batch of iron armor so that these warriors can boldly lead the brothers behind them to advance forward.

In order to eliminate the soldiers' fear of the main long-range weapon of the current era, the bow and arrow, the equipment department also mobilized the people to make 100 wooden bows temporarily to shoot thin wooden sticks wrapped with cloth on their heads. Of course, it can't be compared with a truly qualified war bow, but it is enough to simulate the effect of a hundred arrows firing at the same time. During the exercise, rows of soldiers held simple wooden shields, stepped on the drums, and moved towards the "enemy" in neat steps. Anyone who could not bear the psychological pressure and retreated or rushed rashly would be severely punished.

In order to give full play to the role of artillery, the concept of "infantry-artillery coordination" was also proposed. Of course, what Paul called "infantry-artillery coordination" is very simple: the artillery bombards the infantry and then the infantry rushes, and the infantry rushes and then the artillery bombards.

But this still tests the mobility of the artillery. In order to increase the movement speed of the artillery and provide timely support to the infantry, each artillery group is equipped with 4 horses, two horses for pulling the artillery and two horses for pulling ammunition. In addition to practicing to increase the firing speed, the artillerymen must also practice how to quickly load and unload artillery and arrange firing positions.

In addition, the infantrymen must be able to overcome the fear brought by the shells fired by their own artillery whizzing over their heads, and the artillerymen must also be able to roughly grasp the relationship between the different elevation angles and ranges and even trajectories of the artillery, otherwise it will be bad if they hit their own people.

After several exercises, a set of fighting methods suitable for the Arda army was explored:

When the enemy army actively launched an attack, the artillery carried out long-range firepower strikes on the enemy army to destroy the enemy's battle formation. When the enemy army approached further, the musketeers and the artillery equipped with shotgun shells carried out medium-range firepower strikes on the enemy army, killing a large number of the enemy's living forces. During this period, the musketeers used rounds to ensure the continuity of firepower. When the enemy army rushed to the front of the formation, the spearmen stepped forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. If the enemy army was strong, the musketeers would put on bayonets to join the hand-to-hand combat. If the forces were evenly matched, the musketeers would accurately kill the enemy at close range under the protection of the spearmen, while the artillery would be responsible for delaying the enemy's follow-up forces.

When the Arda army took the initiative to attack, the artillery first used long-range firepower to destroy the enemy's formation deployment, making it impossible for the enemy to assemble effectively. When the artillery fired, the musketeers moved towards the enemy's position in front and the spearmen in the back. When approaching the enemy, the musketeers fired a round of volleys to kill a large number of enemies and demoralize the enemy, and then the spearmen launched a charge to defeat the enemy.

In the previous battles, many veterans who were not suitable to continue to stay in the army due to injuries were re-recruited. They were sent to garrison in various villages and towns, and with the assistance of local farmers' associations, they established and guided the training of militia organizations. In Paul's plan, the militias in various places will become an important part of the Arda military system as a reserve force.

The reason for strengthening the training of the militia is that in the wars between lords of this era, there is a notorious but effective war strategy-sending small forces to harass and plunder the enemy's towns, reduce the enemy's population and economy, and finally force the enemy to surrender.

While the army was strengthening its strength, Cecil, who was in charge of the intelligence system, was not idle either, because people in this era had almost no sense of confidentiality, and it was easy to find out the dynamics of the traitors of Bairdin.

Intelligence showed that Viscount Abbott and the other two barons had returned to their fiefdoms to recruit soldiers, while Viscount Angelo continued to stay in Butuya. He would recruit soldiers in the direct territory of the Garnad family in the name of the lord's mansion. According to calculations, the size of the army that the four people could gather was about 2,000 to 2,500 people.

Paul naturally disdained those farmers who had just put down their hoes. The only thing that made him a little worried was that there were more than 20 knights in the enemy's team. Unlike the "water-injected pork" of the Graman family, they were real knights. When assembled, they were also a considerable cavalry force, and their personal martial arts were strong.

"Should I practice the hollow square formation?" Paul suddenly remembered this.

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