Before the Byrons family was ready for war, the initiative was in the hands of Liang Ben. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liang Ben was on the side of the Byron family, and it was impossible for him to do it until the Byrons family was ready for war. But Mel doesn't know about this, so he must prepare for war as soon as possible in case of a war that could break out at any time.

In August 157 of the new calendar, the fact that the Ilibians began to integrate the country was exposed, causing an uproar around the world. The princes finally understood the intention of the military parade of the Kingdom of Byrons, and the Kingdom of Elt finally understood the intention of the military alliance treaty, but it was too late to regret it.

The danger of integrating the Ilibians, who are the most powerful in the overall situation, into a unified nation has increased many times over. For a time, the intelligence officers and envoys of the various forces were busy. Unfortunately, the gap between the Ilibians and other races in appearance is too great, and their racial cohesion is strong, it is difficult to find the Ilibians who are willing to sell information to foreigners, and it takes a lot of trouble to get important information from the Ilibians, and the information obtained is not necessarily accurate.

By the time the outside world received the progress of the integration of the Ilibi countries, the time had already reached July 158 in the new calendar. By this time, the nations of the world had formed a loose alliance, and it would not be long before they could form a network to encircle the Ilibians and their allies. At this moment of crisis, Liang Ben stood up.

He summoned the princes of Ira and held a meeting with them. He said that the Ira Empire could join the siege, but they could only put on a posture and not fight the Ilibians with real swords. He told a story to the Ira princes that if a group of children besieged an adult, even if the victory was won, many children would be injured, and some children might be killed.

When the Ira princes heard this story, they expressed their support for His Majesty's decision. No one wants to miss out on the benefits, but if they are seriously injured or even killed because of this, the gains outweigh the losses. Liang Ben meant to let them preserve their strength, and when the Ilibian people were defeated by the coalition army, they would go up to grab the benefits, and the Irabi princes would of course be obedient.

After that, he deliberately leaked the news to foreign spies, and then took the initiative to stand up and contact the forces willing to participate in the siege, hoping that everyone could choose him as the leader of the alliance. When the foreign forces learned of the Ira's shameless plan, they were eager to put the Ilibians aside and turn around and destroy the Ira. But now is not the time for infighting, they must take out the Ilibians before they can integrate the country, and if this opportunity is missed, it will be very difficult to kill them again.

At this time, the Kingdom of Elt was still in the gap between the encirclement network and the encircled object, and did not stand in line. The Elts are now very entangled, whether they join the side of the siege network or join the side of the encircled, the Elt Kingdom will become a front-line state. Even if the Ilibi nations did not attack the Elt Kingdom, the Kingdom of Byrons, which had never fought on its own soil except for counterinsurgency wars, would take the initiative to fight it.

The Kingdom of Byron began to deploy troops a year ago, and they expanded the regular army to thirty regular regiments, five musket regiments, and five artillery regiments, with a total strength of 40,000 men, which was fully doubled. The Elts have heard of such a thing as a cannon, but in the eyes of the Elts, the cannon is a very expensive and powerful weapon, but the range is only a little farther than the musket, the accuracy is extremely poor, it is easy to explode, and it is very unreliable. Except that the cannon is loud and can be used to scare people, it is of no use on the battlefield.

The Kingdom of Byron is not short of money and can make dozens of cannons, but they are short of people! Wouldn't it be better to leave the resources for making artillery and use them to make muskets and directly arm five musket regiments?

Throughout the New World, only Leah, an Elt, knows how terrible the artillery regiment of the Kingdom of Byron is.

The artillery regiment of the Kingdom of Byron consisted of two artillery battalions, a musket squadron, an engineer squadron, a cavalry squadron and a regimental headquarters. Each artillery battalion has jurisdiction over two artillery squadrons, each artillery squadron has jurisdiction over two field artillery squads and one first attack city artillery squad, each field artillery squad has jurisdiction over three field artillery pieces with a caliber of about 15 centimeters, and each attacking city artillery squad has jurisdiction over one siege gun with a caliber of about 30 centimeters.

Each field gun is in charge of four artillerymen and six auxiliaries, and these ten people are a field artillery squad. Each field artillery squad is equipped with six horses and two ammunition carts, one ammunition cart for every two horses, and the remaining two horses are responsible for pulling the field guns, usually with six spare horses in wartime.

Each first attack cannon is in charge of six gunners and fourteen auxiliaries, and these twenty people are a first attack city artillery team, which is usually directly called the first attack city artillery team. Each first assault artillery squad is equipped with twelve horses, one first assault artillery transporter, and two ammunition trucks. There was one ammunition cart for every two horses, eight horses for the first assault artillery transport, and twelve spare horses in wartime.

A field artillery squad is 30 men, an attacking city artillery squad is 20 men, an artillery squadron is 80 men, an artillery battalion is 160 men, and two artillery battalions are 320 men. The musket squadron, the engineer squadron, and the cavalry squadron each had two hundred men, which added up to nine hundred and twenty men, plus the officers, artillery observers, signal men, heralds, and so on at the regimental headquarters, the number was about a thousand.

Because of the large number of horses and a sufficient number of sappers, the artillery regiments of the Kingdom of Byron moved and deployed quickly. Armed with shrapnel shells, these artillery regiments can crush the same number of troops head-on. Armed with high-explosive shells, these artillery regiments could blast any wall within range to pieces.

Leah has seen the power of shrapnel on the training ground, with the former inflicting devastating blows on densely packed enemies and the latter dealing devastating blows to buildings. The Kingdom of Byron has developed mortars that can be projectile, but due to the immaturity of production technology, it cannot be mass-produced quickly, so Maier chooses to give priority to mass production of city artillery and field artillery that have matured production technology.

The drawings of various types of artillery have long been sent to the Tairong goblin settlement, and before the artillery regiment was formed in the Kingdom of Byrons, the Tairong goblin legions in various places had already deployed artillery units. It is worth mentioning that at this time, there have been great changes in the establishment of the Tairong Fairy Legion, the size of the legion has been increased from 30,000 to 40,000, the legion has divisions, divisions have regiments, regiments have battalions, and so on.

Each Tairong Elf Legion has a different configuration, with some heavy on riflemen, some on artillery, and some on cavalry. The horses used by the Taeyong Elf Legion are all Ilibi horses, and the cavalry uniformly uses a modified "new cavalry rifle" and an improved "cavalry sword" from the long sword used by the Ilibi raiders.

The new cavalry rifle is characterized by a short barrel, the barrel exposed outside the barrel is directly cut in half, and the barrel is also shortened, and the length of the whole gun is shortened to two-thirds of the original. This results in a decrease in the accuracy of the rifle, but for cavalry fighting on horseback, the ability to shoot and reload on a horse is more important than accuracy.

The body of the new rifle may not be too long for other races, but it is too long for the Ilibi and Tayon elves. The riflemen will not feel uncomfortable when they use it, but the cavalry will be quite uncomfortable when they use it, and if they don't know it, they will lose their balance and fall off their horses when they shoot from the end of the gun.

As for the cavalry sword, it is to make the long sword used by the Ilibi raiding cavalry thinner and shorter, so that the cavalry can easily hold it in one hand. The cavalry units of the Tajon Elf Legion do not have to fight in close quarters with the enemy, they can be used as long-range cavalry equipped with new cavalry-type rifles, and they are far superior in firepower and range to the former ace, the Anwick Heavy Armored Archers.

Their only downside is that they're too slow. Erie is short in stature, and adult horses are like foals compared to other types of horses, and naturally cannot keep up with tall horses. If they were to go head-to-head with the Avik heavy archers, victory or defeat would be uncertain.

Not only has the troop establishment of the Tairong Goblin Legion changed, but the troop establishment of the Kingdom of Byron has also changed. Due to the large number of regiments, if the regular army of the Kingdom of Byron were to concentrate their actions, the command would become more cumbersome. Maier consulted with Gray and decided to add a "brigade" unit.

The original purpose of the establishment of brigade-level units was to share the command pressure of the commander-in-chief, and they were temporary units, so the initial brigade-level units did not have a fixed establishment. Each brigade has a brigade headquarters, which is responsible for the military operations and logistical arrangements of the entire brigade, and the supreme commander of the brigade headquarters is the brigade commander.

Brigade-level units consist of two parts: combat units and auxiliary units. There is nothing to say about the combat units, which are assigned to the regiments of the brigade, and the auxiliary units are divided into two parts: engineers and auxiliaries. The so-called auxiliaries are actually civilian soldiers, but the Kingdom of Byron has professionalized them and regarded them as official soldiers.

In the past, if a citizen was injured, missing, or even killed on the battlefield, the state may not have paid any compensation. However, once the people become official soldiers, they are official members of the army, and the state cannot treat them as before, and they have to be paid according to the set standards. But on the other hand, after becoming auxiliary soldiers, the people can no longer simply work, they have to receive a certain amount of military training, and when necessary, they will be pushed to the battlefield and participate in battles.

It is worth noting that the auxiliaries of the artillery regiment and the auxiliaries who are not part of the combat unit are not the same branch. Their full name is "engineering auxiliaries", they are highly trained professional soldiers, have a certain understanding of artillery, can have simple engineering skills, are equipped with muskets and light armor, and have strong combat effectiveness.

In the event of serious injury or death of an artilleryman of the same squad, they can take the place of this artilleryman. If the loader is wounded or killed, they are more than capable of doing the job, and if the gun commander is wounded or killed, a loader will take the place of the gun commander, and the engineering auxiliaries will take the place of the loader. Unless all the artillery members of the same squad lose their combat effectiveness, the engineering auxiliary will not take over the position of the artillery commander.

And the real auxiliaries are all temporary conscripts, they regularly receive a certain degree of military training, they are not equipped with any armor and weapons in peacetime, and they have almost no combat effectiveness.

As for the Tairong Kingdom, the army of the Tairong Kingdom has been reorganized according to the military establishment of the Byronic Kingdom. The standing army of the whole country was first reorganized into a regular army, which had a total of 300 regiments, and then expanded to 100 regiments on the basis of these 300 regiments, among which there were no musket regiments and artillery regiments.

However, the army of the Kingdom of Tayyong increased the number of cavalry regiments. A cavalry regiment is a cavalry-based combat unit, with each regiment having two cavalry battalions, a cavalry squadron, and a regimental headquarters. Each cavalry regiment had to have at least a thousand auxiliaries, and this number was to be doubled in wartime. The kingdom of Tajon has sixty cavalry regiments, and in time of war they will occupy at least 120,000 auxiliaries.

In fact, there is a production line of Taeyong goblins, whether it is a new rifle, a musket, or an artillery, it can be fully supplied, but Mel did not do this. At present, Maier still does not have full control of these armies, and although it is possible to completely reorganize these troops into musket units, this will cause a lot of noise and stimulate the countries that form the encirclement network.

And there is a considerable part of fighters who reject the adaptation. On the side of the Kingdom of Byrons, it is good to say that the musket unit has made so many achievements, everyone knows the benefits of muskets, and almost no one resists the adaptation.

The Tairong Kingdom is different, the Tairong warriors who mainly use cold weapons are still respected by martial arts, and personal bravery can determine the status of individuals in the army to a certain extent. Once the unit was reorganized into a musket unit, the status of many old-fashioned officers and non-commissioned officers would decline.

The Taeyong Kingdom only used the rank system after the end of the counterinsurgency war, and now this new energy has not completely passed, and most people care about the pattern on the rank badge. At such a time, if these officers and non-commissioned officers are discharged from the army and relegated to the second line, they may commit a mutiny.

So at present, Maier can only quietly let the regular regiments of the Byronic Army receive musket training, and as long as the war breaks out, he will replace these regular regiments with musket regiments as quickly as possible.

As for the troops of the Taeyong Kingdom, he could only let the thirty regiments under his control and willing to accept the change quietly undergo musket training. He had already asked the Kingdom Caravan to secretly send muskets and ammunition to the towns near the garrisons of these troops, and stored them in warehouses under the name of the Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, and sent people to keep them under strict guard.

As soon as war broke out, he would replace these thirty regiments into musket regiments as quickly as possible. However, due to the temporary redress, the combat effectiveness of these 30 regiments of the Byronic Army and the 30 regiments of the Tairong Kingdom Army was not guaranteed, and their performance was not very stable. However, it is better to change clothes than not to change clothes, and suddenly there are 60,000 more muskets on the battlefield, which is enough for the enemy to drink a pot.