Chapter 260: Spain Needs Instructors
Although Australia agreed to sell arms to Spain, this did not mean that they could defeat the Dutch and English with new weapons, and by the standards of later generations, a complete set of training standards was needed to build an army with an Australian combat model. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This was Nelson's idea, after all, for him, the Dutch had their own way of fighting after being trained in war, while the Spanish soldiers were different, and even if they got new weapons, they might not be able to defeat the other side.
Weapons and people need a run-in period, but judging from the current situation, if you want to use war to run-in, it is obviously a bit of a lack of time, after all, the other side will not give them so much time, which also fully illustrates a problem, the training of Australians is very important.
Therefore, it is necessary for Australian officers to come to Spain to train them for a period of time, so that they can master the use of Australian weapons as quickly as possible, which is the most important.
Australian weapons are very different from their original weapons in use, more convenient and faster, it is precisely because they are fast, people will feel uncomfortable, after all, they are used to the old weapons used in the battlefield, and there will inevitably be discomfort with this new one for a while, the most important thing is that the Dutch are too strong now.
Originally, Spain could still rely on the strength of its own army to defeat Spain overwhelmingly, but now it has no such advantage at all, and it is passively beaten by the other party all over the ground.
When did this happen, when they began to use Australian weapons, unlike the Dutch in the Far East, the Dutch in Europe were winning battles with Australian weapons, and the Far East was the opposite.
Nelson also knew about Manila in the Far East, where the people relied on secret training from Australian officers who used Australian methods to defeat the Dutch. So in his opinion, it should be possible to defeat the native Dutch in this way.
So Nelson put forward a very difficult question for Deng Yuanjie, hoping to send a few instructors to teach their soldiers how to use guns, which is a legitimate request.
But what people want at this time is not these, but they hope to send some people to teach them to use it, and also teach them some theoretical knowledge of actual combat, which is beyond the services provided by the previous sales authority.
Deng Yuanjie can't agree to this request, he can only agree to it with the authorization of the locality, after all, it involves the National Security Council, and it is best to be cautious about matters related to the military, otherwise he will fall into a very passive situation.
In fact, this is not the first time that he has asked to send instructors, Van Dimen has made such a request, but it was refused, and later in order to help Manila gain a foothold on Dayuan Island, so he sent several amateur soldiers to give them some training.
It is very risky to help them train, and once they exchange fire with Australia in the future, they will be familiar with Australia's combat methods, so the National Security Council refuses to send instructors abroad, and even if they want to send some amateur personnel to guide them.
This time Nelson made the same request, which put the local personnel into the discussion again, after all, to cooperate with them for a long time, the Spanish army must not be too weak, and too weak may cause the Australian plan to not go smoothly.
Since the other party needs to send someone to guide, you can send some, but it is still an amateur soldier, that is, an instructor of the National Guard, the National Guard is a reserve force of the army and navy, although the battle is not good, but compared with the Spanish army in this period, there is still some strength.
And most importantly, they have experience in this area, they have already gone to Manila to train some Spaniards secretly, and now they are coming to Europe, they just need to train in the same way, and they don't need to use other methods.
It's just that what they learn is their own business, and Australia can't guarantee that they can win the battle if they are also trained, this is not guaranteed.
If you want to send people from the Australian mainland to Europe, the distance is too long, if you rely on the Spaniards or the Dutch themselves, it will definitely not work in a few months, so you still need the Australians to come themselves.
Australia's steamships have to make a long voyage, and the guarantee of the voyage is that as long as there is a coal station along the way, they can reach it smoothly.
Nelson assured that governors throughout Spain would cooperate with the Australian ships to refuel, and that if they came, the money for refueling would be waived.
According to the Australians, the time for a steamship to reach Europe is about 20 days at most, which is not too long, if it depends on a sailboat, it needs to rely on the monsoon, the time of the monsoon is determined, and the other time to reach Europe, such a long distance is still very troublesome.
But it doesn't matter, they also want to see if the Australians' steamships have such capabilities, so Australia began to prepare, Europe, here the Governor of Manila showed their internal documents, he didn't believe at all, the Australians would lie to them, after all, Australia can always convey information from a distance, and such a thing is not a secret.
And the Australians don't get much benefit from going to Europe like this, and they won't do this kind of thing.
In addition, they issued the code language used for secret Spanish communications, so the Governor of Manila did not think that the Australians had deceived them.
Australia's dispatch of instructors to Spain must be kept strictly secret, otherwise it is likely to cause trouble.
If Van Dimen knew, he would have protested to the Australians, as the Far Eastern Alliance, Australia should have helped them, but this would have helped the Spaniards, which is very detrimental to the internal stability of the alliance.
The reason why the Spaniards' army was able to train so quickly was mainly due to their own reasons, after all, they were the most powerful army on the continent, and they were the most powerful until they were replaced by the French, so they were able to learn the training methods used by the Australians very quickly.
And improve it into their own training, which does speed up the training process, after all, in general, the training of instructors still requires their own efforts, but it is not known how capable the soldiers are in Spain, it should not be much worse than that of the Far East, at least the Far East is sent from the mainland, it should not be very different. (To be continued.) )