In April 1835, Sean was ordered to form the Genoese National Army.

Previously, the 101st Garrison Brigade had been expanded into the 101st Division, and the war situation was not so bad at that time. The Nationalist Army was based on the 101st Garrison Division, and two additional divisions were formed, which were renamed the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions of the Nationalist Army.

The total number of troops was more than 35,000, and the soldiers came from miners and some young people from the north who were not burdened by families. The military budget came from Genoa's tax pay, which was supposed to be paid to the Holy City by July, amounting to 30 million.

Sean became the commander of this national army without dispute.

Wells, the former commander of the 101st Brigade, became the deputy commander, and Perosa was the chief of staff, and they were Sean's trusted right-hand men, assisting Sean in managing, training, and commanding the entire army.

The senior officers of the former 101st Brigade became division commanders, brigade commanders, regiment commanders and other officers at all levels of the three subordinate divisions, and for the first time made the "battalion" a permanent command level rather than just a tactical unit.

In addition to the 1st Division, the other 2 divisions currently exist only on paper, but under Sean's close attention, the formation is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Sean took a crucial step that was crucial. Al-Quds had no time to accuse the Genoese of "self-determination", and the fact that the provinces had formed their own civil defense forces was a result of the situation.

Even though Sean had a high level of influence in Genoa, Sean had to spend a lot of energy fighting the bureaucrats and making some profits.

For example, he facilitated the Estates-General and the Governor's Office to allow private capital to invest in the defense industry without restrictions, and the empire's arms industry was mainly in the north, far from quenching the thirst of the near, and the allocation of resources must be more conducive to the needs of future wars.

To this end, he advocated the reorganization of the Poitou Chemical Company into a public company, with a number of influential people in Genoa becoming its shareholders, and the new arms company renamed the Poitou United Technologies Company. At the same time, the expansion of shareholders and capital is also aimed at expanding production capacity as soon as possible to meet the needs of the war.

War is a feast for arms dealers, who fear peace.

When powerful people become shareholders in arms companies, they will have an inexplicable fanaticism about the war, and certainly will not prevent the appropriation of funds for the army.

In addition to this, publicity is on the agenda.

The newspapers in Genoa were trying to exaggerate the brutality of the enemy and the suffering of the people, trying to inspire the people to participate in the war. Those liberals published articles one after another, and even themselves were moved, and many young intellectuals joined the Nationalist Army. These were the most fanatical of the National Army and the Genoese, and they were eager to immediately go into battle and tear the enemy to pieces.

Sean had a hunch that when this frenzy was fully mobilized, it would produce an unrivaled force.

This can be seen from the recruitment stations throughout the province, many of whom were encouraged by this fanatical patriotic fervor not because of their salary, and enthusiastically joined the ranks of conscripts.

Among them, the quality of soldiers from the mining area is the highest, because these strong miners are not only able to endure hardships, but also have great patience, and are relatively disciplined.

The working class is the most powerful and the most organised.

Among them, the miners from the north were the most active, and they joined the Genoese National Army with slogans of recovering their homeland.

At a shooting range north of Fort Partham, Sean and his senior officers are experiencing first-hand the effectiveness of the new weapon.

In addition to Deputy Commander Wells and Chief of Staff Perosa, there were three division commanders, who were Luca Mora of the 1st Division, James Roberts of the 2nd Division, and Liam Lawrence of the 3rd Division.

Each of them had a new rifle in his hand, which at first glance looked like the same as before, but from a technical point of view, it was a revolutionary leap.

The new rifles, which are characterized by smokeless gunpowder, rear-loading primer-fired all-metal cartridges, and a new firing mechanism, will obsolete the front-loading flintlock rifles, which were previously commonly used.

It was a secret product of the former Poittu Chemical Company, in which chemist Alexander Foss played a crucial role, and his invention of gunpowder made it logical for gunsmiths to launch a series of new inventions.

The new rifle had been equipped by Sean's secret operations team for a long time, and after being tested in actual combat, Sean now officially presented it to senior officers as the final product.

Bess, the general manager of Poitou United Technologies, called the new rifle the "Bess Model 1835 Rear-loading Firing Rifle", or "Bess Model 1835 Rifle" for short.

Once again, he took the opportunity to promote himself and take pride in his failure to do so – his entire fortune was tied to the company, which now seemed like a wise investment.

This revolutionary advancement of the new rifle made the senior officers very excited.

As you can imagine, the new weapons will give the opponent a terrible shock, and by the time the opponent is lined up in a neat line ready to see death at home, the slaughter has already begun. It has a longer range, more consistent firepower, and above all, a faster and easier way to shoot that will make it a nightmare for enemies.

However, the officers also realized that this advancement would present them with challenges, as it would mean that they would have to change their existing training methods and tactical options.

Pain and joy.

That's the only reason Sean brought them here. He had to get his men to change, not completely abandon their old tactical concepts.

To the surprise of his subordinates, Sean threw out a training syllabus, which was not signed, and even clearly stated: for reference and can be modified at any time.

Even in the current military tactics, line tactics are not absolute, and skirmish tactics are also a common tactical choice used by command commanders, and some people are also called skirmish tactics experts.

This skirmish tactic is relative to the line tactic of a tight formation.

For example, in a company of 100 men, 50 men formed a "loose formation", and the width of the stragglers in front and back was the same as that of 100 battle infantry in two dense formations, but they could achieve greater results and suffer smaller losses in the firefight.

Especially in certain battlefield moments, the walking tactic often becomes a preferential choice for the commander.

In the dense queue, while one soldier is closing the medicine pool, another is thrusting the throughbar, the third is just reloading, the fourth is aiming, and the fifth is pulling the trigger. If you take into account the fall of the dead, the evacuation of the wounded, and the thick smoke of gunpowder around the soldiers, including the fear itself, even the best hunters will not achieve better results in a dense queue than ordinary soldiers.

In contrast, the Skirmish has the disadvantage of being unable to withstand the onslaught of cavalry. And for some commanders, he was more afraid of the ease with which the soldiers would flee due to their dispersion.

So, tactics are not set in stone. When the new Bass 1835 rifle appeared, there was a need for a tactic that was compatible with this weapon.

Sean does not advocate a complete abandonment of the original line tactics, because his army is an asymmetrical slaughter against an enemy armed with flintlock muskets, so why lie down in the trenches?

Unless the opponent is also equipped with the same rear-loading rifle.

As a result, he paid more attention to skirmishers, especially small troop tactics.

So this is also the reason why he set up the command level of "battalion". In the past, and now, the "battalion" is not a permanent hierarchy, and only in the field of war, the command army will form 2 or 3 companies into a sub-battalion, or more companies into a large sub-battalion, as needed, to deal with the opponent.

Even in general wartime, there will be huge sub-battalions such as "regiment-based sub-battalions" and "division-based sub-battalions."

Considering the large amount of equipment of the Bess 1835 in the future, it is necessary to set up a battalion level, a force unit of about 500 people, the firepower is far from being comparable to that of a unit of the same strength equipped with flintlock pistols, which can not only flexibly deal with small-scale opponents, but also not be weak in the face of more troops alone.

And when it comes to defense, Sean has more options.

Trenches and barbed wire will be necessary for defence.

Of course, this is only Sean's idea, and he needs the officers to help him perfect.

Sean, who has not a thin military experience, does not dare to say that his assumption is correct.

"The 1st Division will remain unchanged, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions will train their troops according to the new program, because these two new units are starting from scratch anyway and have no historical burden, which means ......," Sean said.

"This means that the 1st Division will not be equipped with new rifles. Wells said.

The commander of the 1st Division, Luca Mora, was very disappointed, and any soldier would love this new rifle in his hand. Sean Says:

"500 non-commissioned officers and veterans from the 1st Division will be drawn into a training battalion, and they will undergo a special one-month intensive training. Once the new unit is formed, they will be the seed of the new tactics and will be assigned to the new unit as officers. ”

"Is a month a little shorter?" said Chief of Staff Perosa.

"Time waits for no one, and if I can, I'd rather give them more time to us. Sean said, "Who knows if the Bilisians will cross the Dragon River?"

"This is almost killing me, if you don't equip me with a new rifle, forget it, 500 backbones will be pulled out, and the vitality of the 1st Division will be greatly damaged. Mora complained, "Commander, I'd like to switch places with James or Liam, and be a brigade commander or regimental commander." ”

"The opposition is invalid!" the other two division commanders objected in unison.

Sean glared at Mora: "Luca, the most experienced officers and soldiers are in your hands, if I were you, I would have nothing to do." Or do you want to break up the 1 division and distribute it evenly among the divisions?"

That's impossible.

Luca Mora was greedy, but he knew that His Excellency the Commander's move was very necessary, and the national army must maintain a considerable combat strength for now.

"Everyone, let's not talk about it, we have to race against time!"

"Yes!"