The students' doubts were still not solved, because this Sharp still didn't get to the point, the short-term measures he said before only solved the problem of the empire's military resources, and the students waited for Sharp to talk about the second method. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yu Wuming nodded to Molodov with satisfaction, turned his head to the students in the audience, and said, "You must not be satisfied with what I just said, right? Because I still haven't talked about the things you care about, then I'll talk about what you care about, but this can only be a long-term plan."

Why? Because this involves the reform of the military system, before that, I would like to ask you, why do we have so few troops? Even if we count the private armies of the nobles, the number of our troops is too small, after all, we are a large country with a population of nearly 100 million, but our troops are only 100,000 people, and the troops raised by the state do not even have 50,000, of course, if you add the private army of the royal family, it can barely reach 50,000.

And the rebels in Romania, in just one year, have already exceeded 100,000, and why is that? Because our empire can't afford to raise so many troops, do you know why there are so many private troops? Do you know the number of direct guards that a nobleman can really have?

The number of a count's guards is only three hundred, and the number of duke's guards is only eight hundred, and the prince's guard can be full of thousands, of course, our earl is an example, his number of guards can reach six hundred, the standard of a marquis, but why can many imperial counts have a whole division of private troops?

That is also because the empire can't afford to raise so many troops, the empire needs the nobles to raise these armies for him, and an empire with 100,000 standing troops can only be said to have just reached the standard of self-preservation. ”

The students didn't expect that such a vast empire could not afford to raise an army of 100,000 people, and they looked at Yu Wusheng in surprise, this news was a bit big, and the students' brains were a little shut.

Was this message meant to tell them that the other empires were very weak, and why couldn't the Germans fight for hundreds of years?

"I'm sure you don't believe it!" Yu Wuming smiled on the stage, the students' expressions were exactly what he wanted, and only by giving these students a sense of crisis would they stimulate the youthful strength in their bodies.

Many students in the audience were shaking their heads, they really didn't believe it, Yu Wuxian turned around and asked Molodov again: "Colonel, may I ask how much does the most ordinary infantry plate armor in our empire cost?"

Molodov thought for a moment and said, "15 gold coins, this is the plate armor used by the local garrison. ”

"Oh, okay, a set of infantry plate armor costs 15 gold coins, this is only for local troops, but what about field troops? How much is needed? Have you calculated?" asked Yu Wuming to the students in the audience.

The students inhaled again, as future magicians, they have almost no contact with armor, they have no concept of the value of a set of armor at all, everyone silently calculated in their hearts, according to the most ordinary infantry plate armor, the armor of 100,000 people also needs 150,000 gold coins, and magicians are already a very money-consuming profession, but ordinary magic tools are only settled with silver coins.

"Now you know why the garrison is called a regiment, but there is generally only one battalion, a regiment of more than 1,000 people, how much military expenditure is needed, a battalion can only be 500 people, you can save half of the military expenses, don't you say?"

The students kept nodding their heads, but Yu Wusheng suddenly raised their voices: "No, as a local garrison, why do you need to equip such good armor? Why can't you equip light armor? May I ask Colonel Molodov, how much does a fine-grade chain half-length armor cost?"

"A fine-grade chain mail should be more than 100 silver coins, and the bust should be 50-70 silver coins. Molodov said.

"Students, do you know where the gap is? The garrison is more often responsible for defending the city, because of the help of the city wall, where is the center of gravity of their defense? Upper body! So the garrison only needs to defend the upper body, the chain mail is mainly used to defend against bow and arrow attacks, and when defending the city, the main blow comes from the opponent's bow and arrow, so why use plate armor?" Yu Wuming asked.

"Brigadier General Sharp, aren't you a bit of a sneak peek? After all, there is still a good chance that the enemy will storm the walls!" asked one of the students.

"That's a good question, but if a large number of enemies rush up, the city has basically fallen, and no matter how good the personal defense is, it's useless, right? Besides, the combat defense of chain mail is not much worse than that of plate armor, and it is more flexible than plate armor, so why not abandon the heavy plate armor and wear light chain mail?

Yu Wuming's words caused a burst of laughter in the audience, and the classmate also laughed, he didn't ask any more questions, and sat down at the same time, it seemed that Yu Wuming's answer satisfied him.

Another student stood up again and asked, "Your Excellency, do you mean that not all troops will abandon the heavy plate armor and wear light and flexible chain mail, so that the cost of defense will be greatly reduced, so that we can arm more fighters with the same money, right?"

"This classmate has basically grasped the thoughts of our Earl, I want to say almost yes, our Earl's philosophy is that we don't need so many heavy armored troops, almost halved, the other troops are lighter, the strength of the troops has increased, supplemented by strict training, the combat effectiveness will increase exponentially.

In the case of this Romanian rebellion, when those nobles withdrew from Romania, the Romanian light infantry easily divided and surrounded the garrisons of each city in one city after another, and when the logistics supply of a city was cut off, how long could they hold out? The Romanians were also very careful to grasp the hearts and minds of the people, and these cities were mixed with a large number of rebel spies before the war, and in the end, while the rebels cut off the logistical supplies, the spies in the city took advantage of the panic of the defenders to open the city gates, so that the city fell into the hands of the enemy very easily.

What if the defenders in the cities were doubled in strength against the unarmored rebels, and the defenders only had to divide half of their forces to rush out of the city?"

Yu Wuxing stopped, he wanted the students to think about it, but it seemed that these students didn't want to think, they all looked at Yu Wuxing with blazing eyes, and they were all waiting for him to give an answer.

Okay, if you don't think about it, then I'll give you the answer, Yu Wuming continued: " The answer has been given in the first stage of the campaign, that is, in the battle of the Neuide garrison regiment to annihilate the Black Wind Village bandits, the garrison regiment took the initiative to attack, and lurked lightly on the bandits' only way, when the bandits entered the ambush circle, using the characteristics of the long-range strike force of the bow and arrow, all the archers in the garrison regiment were concentrated on the bandits to carry out long-range strikes, and after disrupting the bandit formation, the cuirassiers attacked, completely crushing the enemy's formation, and the sword and shield soldiers finally carried out hand-to-hand combat with the bandits to completely destroy the enemy.

That's who I am...... The tactics used by our division commander in the Battle of Noyd, throughout the battle, he has always made full use of the striking power of long-range weapons, and when the enemy has not rushed in front of him, he will kill and wound the enemy in large numbers and hit the enemy's morale.

The students in the audience were all nodding secretly, but Molodov frowned, this paragraph of the explanation does have a little bit of a concept in it, after all, these people here are all magicians, they don't know much about the marching formation, and when they return to their own school, I don't know what kind of content the Count will bring when he goes to class?

"As for the role of the magician in this kind of battle formation, our division commander's setting for you is that the fire support battery is moving!" When the students heard the role of the magician, they were all shocked, and the fire support battery They understood that even if the magic cannon had not seen the real thing, it had also been heard, and the smallest magic cannon needed nearly ten magicians to start, needless to say, the power was needless to say.

But how should this be understood? The students are at a loss, the magician group has always been staked, and it has not yet been said that it can be moved, and the magician moves when the battle is raging, which can only mean that their side is going to lose, and the magician is making a strategic transfer under the cover of the heavy army group.

"Everyone must not understand these words in the move!" Yu Wuming said after seeing the puzzlement on the faces of the students, he continued: "Our 14th Division will form a magical cavalry unit, and our division commander has said a word, use magicians on the cavalry line!"

The cavalry here is not a heavy armored cavalry that needs a crane to get on the horse, these cavalry are the light cavalry created by our division commander, there is no vest, there is no heavy plate armor, and even when necessary, the cavalry itself is not armored, this cavalry will be the magician as the core, the ordinary cavalry is the final striking force of the cavalry cluster, the magician will be used as the cavalry's supporting firepower, where the cavalry strikes, the magician's support will be there, this is the moving fire support battery. ”

"Your Excellency, this is unrealistic, as we all know, magicians need a relatively stable environment to cast spells, and it is impossible to use powerful magic on the move, even if you barely use it, you can only use some lowest-level magic, such magic should not be very helpful to warriors, right?"

The corners of Charlotte's mouth, who was standing on the side of the podium, pulled out a disdainful arc, and Yu Wuming smiled and said: "Hehe, there is nothing impossible about this, our captain Charlotte relied on countless low-level magic and his followers to create a battlefield miracle, he is the first user of the magic cavalry, they galloped 40 miles in an hour, defeated Don Quixote's 2,000 people, and burned Don Quixote's camp, but only 11 people were used." ”