From February 4 to March 19, 170 AH, Maier and his entourage inspected the garrison fortress of Prandowan one by one. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoDuring their inspection of the garrison fortress, the demolition of the rear fortress had already begun at the behest of Meier.

In the process of consolidating the front of the Imperial Army, the engineering units and the construction team of the Administration Department needed to dismantle all the rear fortresses and prepare for the construction of new ones on the front. Before there was a new battle plan in the Zhanggul theater, the Imperial Army could only slowly advance into the heart of Plandowang in this way.

After the construction is completed, the demolition and construction will greatly increase the burden on the engineering units and construction teams, and will also prolong the time of the Battle of Prandowong. However, in the long run, if the Zhanggul Theater completely controlled Prandowan in this way, this would reduce the total man-hours, but the Imperial Army would have to stay in Prandowan for a while.

At this time, many theaters had already achieved their strategic objectives, and the empire had more and more mobile troops. If Prandowong needs to fight for more than fifteen years, Maier is prepared to rotate his troops every two years, or every kilometer of the front to ensure the enthusiasm of the front-line soldiers.

"Your Majesty, maybe we should form five or eight ancient brigades."

After inspecting the last fortress, Tal suggested. At present, the main body of the Imperial Army is divided into three parts, one is the Taeyong Goblin Legion, the second is the Ilibi troops, and the third is the Taejong troops. Due to the recent poor performance of the Tayrong people, the combat effectiveness of the Tayyong troops has declined to a certain extent.

The Tajon Elf Legion and the Ilibi forces became increasingly distrustful of the Tayrong forces, so much so that in some cases, the Tajon Elf Legion and the Ilibi forces would rather die on their own feet than seek support from nearby Tayrong forces in the face of bitter battles. This distrust of friendly forces cost the Imperial Army a great deal of damage, but the Tayon Elf Legion and the Elibi forces said they would rather die in battle than fight alongside untrustworthy people.

At present, the only troops that can be used as the main force in the Tairong army are the troops from the regular army of the Kingdom of Byrons, the old department of Tengyuan, and the troops formed in Chunshan City. Their relationship with the Tairong Fairy Legion and the Ilibi troops is quite good, so much so that the troops of these two clans now only recognize the troops from the regular army of the Byron Kingdom, the old department of Tengyuan, and the troops formed in Chunshan City, while the other Tairong troops do not recognize them at all.

The Empire's Leitin, Ira, and Tugu forces were poorly proportioned, but they were no worse than those of the non-main Tairong forces. Especially those units from the regular army of the Kingdom of Byrons, the numbers of these units are like glued to the list of troop awards, and even the recruits who have just been assigned to them have collective medals.

The medal system was introduced by the empire in 166 of the new calendar, and initially the empire designed only sixteen types of medals, four for soldiers, six for officers, and six for generals. Now the empire already has sixty-two types of medals, of which thirty are general ones, eight are dedicated to rewarding soldiers, sixteen are dedicated to rewarding officers, and eight are dedicated to rewarding generals.

Next year, the empire is preparing to open special medals for the armed forces and implement a new non-commissioned officer system. The new non-commissioned officer system is for those who are too outstanding in one aspect of the rank system and have made great contributions, but are not suitable for promotion to officers. The new non-commissioned officer system establishes four non-commissioned officer ranks above the original corporal, sergeant, and sergeant, which are quasi-military commander, third-class sergeant major, second-class sergeant major and first-class sergeant major.

A paramilitary chief is treated the same as a warrant officer, a sergeant major third class is treated the same as a lieutenant, a sergeant major second class is treated the same as a major, and a sergeant major first class is treated the same way as a colonel. At the same time, the army has added a sergeant major system, and associate sergeant major, third-class sergeant major, second-class sergeant major, and first-class sergeant major are assigned to squadron (company level), brigade (battalion level), regiment (wing), and brigade (or division) as sergeant majors.

The sergeant major of the unit is responsible for the daily training of the troops, skill coaching, supervising the soldiers, and the auxiliary unit commander, while also serving as a bridge between the officers and the soldiers, and conveying the opinions or suggestions of the soldiers to the officers. In the event that the sergeant major of the unit determines that the officer's punishment of the soldier has been unjust, the sergeant major of the unit has the right to appeal to the superior sergeant major, and the first sergeant major has the right to appeal directly to the Ministry of Defence, which shall be arbitrated by the senior sergeant major or the Ministry of Defence.

Back to business. Due to the good performance of these units, the Ministry of Defense has appeared to expand the Ira troops, the Letin troops, and the Tugu people to replace the untrustworthy Taiyong troops. Considering that the troops that perform well are all from the regular army of the Kingdom of Byrons, soldiers recruited from other regions may not perform so well, so the empire has no plans to expand the troops of these three tribes at present.

The reason for Tár's suggestion was that all the garrisons of the fortress said that the Turfolk in the coalition were very difficult. Many people believe that the environment in Prandowong is favorable to the Tugu people, and hope that the empire can transfer the only three Tugu brigades from other theaters to counterbalance the Tugu people in the coalition army.

Of the three brigades, one brigade was expanded from the Tugu Regiment of the Kingdom of Byrons, and the remaining two brigades were adapted from the descendants of Ramogis. All three brigades were musket brigades, all of which used Tugu muskets and were armed with a small number of newer rifles. As Ramogis gave way, he gave Mel the skills of the Dugu musket as well. Now that the Taeyong Goblin Settlement has established a production line for the Dugu musket, both the musket and the ammunition can be mass-produced.

Since last year, the Empire has been equipping the main forces with Dugu muskets (with the exception of the Taeyong Elf Legion). While the other troops were happy to change their outfits, the Ilibi troops were a little reluctant. Because the Dugu musket was developed by the Dugu people, the Ilibi musket has always been inferior to the Dugu musket in terms of performance, which has always made them very unwilling.

The Dugu Musket is indeed more accurate than the Ilibi Musket and is relatively simple to maintain, but it also has significant drawbacks. Dugu musket is too precise, there are too many parts, once there is a failure, you must let a professional repairman repair, let alone repair the ordinary people, even the cause of the failure can not be checked.

The Ilibi musket will not have this kind of problem, as long as there are maintenance tools and understand the structure of the musket, the cause of the failure can be quickly found, and if it is just a general small failure, the musketeer himself can solve it. Moreover, the cost of the Ilibi musket is much lower than that of the Dugu musket, which is easy to mass-produce and cost-effective, and these attributes have always been the pride of the Ilibi people.

The people of Ilibi have always believed that if they were given time, their muskets would surpass those of the Tugurs. But before that moment arrived, Tayyong Goblin's new rifle appeared. Under the pressure of ultra-modern technology, the people of Ilibi dare not have a little temper. If the Empire asked them to change to a new rifle, they didn't have a problem at all. But if it's the Dugu musket, they'll be upset.

As of January 170 of the new calendar, the Ministry of Defense has forwarded 827 proposals to the Ministry of Scientific Research. These proposals were sent from the Ilibi troops, who hoped that their fellow workers in the Scientific Research Department would compete and develop an Ilibi musket with better performance than the Dugu musket as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Scientific Research can only smile bitterly at this. Today, when new rifles and various types of artillery have been mass-produced, and mortars are about to be put into production and installed in the army, the development of a new type of Ilibi musket is a complete waste of resources.

In fact, those who have lived in the city of Byron for a long time know that the reason why the empire does not fully equip the army with new rifles now is because the Byron family has not fully trusted the army other than the Tairong Goblin Legion. The Ilibians working in the scientific research department have heard more than once that the Byrons want to redress the Ilibian troops, and if it weren't for the Tairong people who are always making trouble, the Ilibian troops would have used the new rifles a long time ago.

The new rifle was produced by the Tairong goblins, and it is understandable that people give priority to their own troops, and the Tairong people can't make trouble if they want to, because they don't take care of this matter. If the Byrons replace the Ilibians with new rifles at this juncture, but do not equip the Tayrons with new rifles, the Tayrons will think that the Byrons are biased, and if they mutini again, things will become troublesome.

Even if the Byrons family changed the clothes of the trusted Tayrons troops, the Tayrons troops who were not redressed would still think that the Byrons were biased. Because the Tairong troops redressed by the Byron family are all from the areas directly controlled by the Byron family, there are cultural differences between the Tairong people in these areas and the Tairong people in other regions, and the contradictions between the regions are still relatively serious.

But the Ilibians didn't know about it. In their opinion, the inability of their own troops to change their outfits is all the responsibility of the Tairong people, so they hate the Tairong people. The troops of the other three tribes felt that the Tairong people occupied the pit and did not, and they did not have much affection for them, so that those Tairong troops who were highly loyal were implicated, and the relationship with the friendly forces was rifted.

There is no doubt that if Maier ordered the expansion of the forces of the Letines, Ira and Tugu people in this situation, the Byrons would gain the favor of these three tribes. However, at the same time, the favorability of the Tayrong people will drop significantly, and even a second mutiny, and then the Byrons family will have to cut the troops of the Tajon people, which will lead to a larger internal conflict.

Internal contradictions are different from external contradictions, and they cannot be resolved by a hard beating. In many cases, violent means only exacerbate the contradictions, and even make them irreconcilable. Mel doesn't want to fight a civil war now, and he doesn't want to do it again. But as things stand, civil war is almost inevitable. Because the old nobles have not been uprooted, as long as these guys still exist, they will stir up the relationship between their own commoners and the Byrons family, and exacerbate the contradictions between the two, but there is nothing Mel can do about them.

Besides, there is no guarantee of loyalty to the expanded troops, because the Byrons family has not yet fully mastered any of the ancient kingdoms except for the native ones, not even the kingdom of Egus. If it weren't for the fact that Ramogis's descendants were obedient enough to be trusted, Mel wouldn't have been able to make up even a single brigade. If there is also a situation like the Tairong troops in the ancient army in the future, won't the Byron family have even more headaches?

"We will consider this matter later, and the top priority now is to find out the grain reserves of Prandowong and the channels for obtaining food."

Regarding this matter, before Maier decided to come to the Zhanggul War Zone to supervise the battle, he had let the Inspectorate take action. The Chamber of Commerce under the name of the Inspectorate has disguised itself as a supporter of the coalition forces, secretly providing them with food and gaining their trust in order to obtain information about the coalition forces. If nothing else, in three months, the results will be on the part of the Supervisory Committee. At that time, Maier will formulate a new battle plan according to the specific situation of the coalition forces.

After inspecting the garrison of the fortress, Meier spent another two months inspecting the troops stationed in the field. The conditions of the garrison in the field were much worse than those of the fortress, and they were also easily harassed by the Dugu army. During his inspection, Maier was subjected to a total of six harassing attacks by the Tugu Army.

Such attacks were usually carried out by squads of about 300 men alone, each divided into small groups ranging from 10 to 50 men each, using new rifles, muskets, heavy crossbows, or strongbows, to attack the Imperial army from multiple directions. They shoot a maximum of five rounds, run away after the fight, and don't care if they kill or hurt the enemy. If the Imperial Army sends people in pursuit, they will definitely encounter an ambush, and if they don't, they may come to harass them again at some point.

The Imperial Army stationed in Prandowong had at least two hundred killed in such harassing attacks every month, while the losses of the Tugu Army did not exceed thirty per month. But now that the Imperial Army has learned to behave, they will ambush snipers around the camp, and as soon as the Dugu people show their heads, the snipers will immediately open fire.

The reason why the Imperial Army didn't wait for the Turfolk to start their action before firing was because they just wanted to scare the Turfolk away. Killing a Dugu would leave a portion of food for the coalition army, which would be detrimental to the Imperial army. If it is a desperate attrition, the Imperial Army will definitely be able to consume the coalition army. Although the coalition forces did not show a lack of food, it is not difficult to see from their refusal to give up harassment that they do not seem to want to fight a war of attrition with the Imperial army.

In fact, as the Imperial Army expected, the coalition forces simply could not consume the Imperial Army. By mid-June, Maier had received information from the Inspectorate. To Meier's surprise, the coalition forces actually cultivated farmland and grew food in Prandowong. They grow a wild potato that can grow in cold conditions and also loosen the soil during the growing process. However, the yield of this wild potato is very low, and the growth cycle is as long as three months, which is probably the longest crop in the New World.

Because of the limited land that can be cultivated, the grain produced by the coalition forces at a time is only enough for 50,000 people to eat for a month, and even if new fields are cultivated every month, after 15 years, the grain produced by the coalition forces will only be enough for 100,000 people to eat for three months, and they still cannot support this large army of 600,000 people. In addition to the coalition forces, there are about 400,000 civilians living in Prandowong, and these civilians also have to eat. In order to hold out for a longer period of time, the coalition forces have repeatedly gone to civilian villages to loot food. At the same time, they over-hunted animals, picked wild fruits, wild vegetables, fungi and nuts, and secretly sent in food from the outside world, which barely survived until now.