For the rest of the day, he observed the training of the hunters and cavalry.

The hunters are basically from Orion, and their marksmanship was very good before joining the army, and they were even more powerful after giving a rifled gun. The Army's training of hunters is mainly the courage to queue and adapt to real combat. In particular, elite hunters are required to find high-value targets such as enemy officers, artillery, and fortress firing ports on the battlefield where bullets are raining down.

The last to come out were the cavalry.

The Federation currently has 1 heavy cavalry regiment with 4 cuirassier squadrons. A hussar regiment, the hussar regiment has 4 chaser squadrons, similar in formation to cuirassiers.

Hussars were armourless and armed with a curved cavalry knife with a double-edged tip in the front and a single-edged in the rear. Blade length 865 mm, width 35 mm, width 7 mm, brass gauntlet. The thermal weapon had a short-barreled carbine. The shoulder height of the war horse is only required to be more than 142mm, and the height of the soldier is not required. The soldiers of the 1st Hussar Regiment were mainly Sikhs from India, and the army allowed the use of hussars with personal style of decoration and weapons, so a considerable number of the soldiers of this regiment bought their own pikes, and all of them wore thick Sikh turbans on their heads, with a heavy samour. The headscarf is actually a good piece of armor that protects a soldier's head.

The hussars did not participate in this exercise, and the cuirassier regiment performed a cavalry horizontal column switch to the generals and charged quickly.

Under the new tactical system, the cavalry has changed less, and the main point when attacking is to tighten the formation.

The number of cavalry was small, and the most important work of the cavalry director Walter was to establish a system of horse breeding and cavalry training.

Cavalry usually tended to recruit men with riding experience, but apparently most of the Federation cavalry was still ordinary peasants who had never ridden a horse.

In the beginning, the training was similar to that of the infantry, the cavalry had to be a soldier first, in order for the recruit to learn to stand up straight and become an efficient killing machine, the cavalry recruit had to learn the same stance and queue as the infantry, in fact, more often than not, Walter took the officer to visit the various infantry recruit camps and pick out the soldiers who seemed to have a better sense of balance.

Foot training allows cavalry to understand the knowledge of infantry mobility, and also allows soldiers to get rid of their natural farmer's footwork and habits, giving soldiers the self-confidence, elegant pace and military atmosphere that they deserve.

After completing the first step, the cavalry recruit becomes a well-trained soldier.

In the second step, the new cavalry learns the movements related to riding as an individual unit. Of course, the precious war horse cannot be handed over to the recruits at this stage, so the recruits first learn from the veterans how to put the bridle and saddle on the horse, and help the blacksmith repair the horse's paw.

The veteran recognizes that the recruit has completed this step of training before the recruit can receive equestrian training under an equestrian instructor. War horses still can't be tossed by recruits, and recruits are trained using wooden horses. The instructor not only plays a role in supervision and protection, but also beats and scolds.

After this session, the real equestrian training is carried out, and the first training horses are used in the dwarf native horses of the South Seas. Such horses are comparatively cheaper and easier to obtain. When the recruits finally learned to ride horses, the instructor would ask them to sit on their horses without using the reins and with their lower bodies only. This is a must-have lesson in fighting with your hands free in battle.

After that, the recruits will gradually learn to control the reins with one hand, both hands, using the spurs on the riding boots to control the speed and direction of the horse. How to get on and off the horse if you lose your saddle, stirrups, bridles.

At the same time as equestrian training, cavalrymen had to learn how to use swords and firearms, and load, disassemble, repair, and assemble weapons in their hands.

After the solo equestrian training, the last part is the cavalry formation practice.

Two people in a team, four people in a team, and then a horizontal line, a horizontal team, a column team. Cavalry was required to maneuver and fight in dense formations, just like infantry.

Cavalry used scarecrows to practice swordsmanship. Loading on horseback, shooting. Required to be steady when riding over flat ground, ditches, fences, and wooden fences, Walter had a house near the barracks of the cuirassiers, and every morning he went out on horseback to ride over the obstacles in front of the door, and Walter demanded that all cavalrymen be able to accomplish this.

Complete cavalry platoon training, and the most capable cavalry will undergo further combat training. It was rigorous personal martial arts, horsemanship, and marksmanship training. This part of the cavalry is an elite class, and Walter holds them to a high standard, and if they can learn through the cultural class, they will cross that deep chasm and grow from soldiers to officers.

The best cavalry was the 1st Hussar Regiment that did not participate in the exercise, and the cavalry of that regiment could even bend down to pick up something on the ground during an attack, or take off the opponent's hat while running.

Under Walter's cavalry training system, from a well-qualified farmer to a knight of the Republic, the average soldier needs to undergo about 2 years of training. During this period, many people were discharged due to casualties, and many more failed to pass the test at some point and were returned to the infantry unit.

The Federation did not have an adequate source of herdsmen, and the cavalry came from peasant and worker families as well as the infantry. Most cavalrymen did not show off their tricks on horseback, and their horsemanship was not superior to that of the Tatars. Their fighting power comes from something else.

Orderly was satisfied with the cavalry training, the only problem was that the number was too small.

Cavalry Commander Walter. Angelis shrugged and said, "You can solve this problem with money." ”

Orderly: "Please be specific. ”

"Bring in more Indian horses and more tall soldiers."

"We will bring in enough Katiawama, but the proportion of cavalry is too small compared to the planned number of infantry. It's unrealistic to rely entirely on imported war horses, do you have any other way? ”

"Obviously, the Cavalry Directorate has taken note of the real problem. I was training the second cuirassier regiment and set out to form the first chassar regiment. ”

"Chasseur regiment?"

"A light cavalry regiment with a height of 135 or more and less than 142. The armament was supplied by the state, there were no cuirasses, mainly sabers and carbines. This type of cavalry has no advantages, it is cheaper than cuirassiers. The height of the chasseurs requires soldiers to be under 165, and I think there must be a lot more soldiers. ”

"I support it, but the height is above 165 and below 170, and the war horse is between 142 and 148, you seem to have missed it?"

Walter grinned, "It's impossible to miss, and I plan to use this resource to build a class between heavy cavalry and light cavalry." ”

"Dual-purpose cavalry?"

"Something like that."

"Why not do it right away?"

"No money......

Shou Xu put his hands behind his back, "We will start to solve this problem, and we will have a meeting in Wang Weibao in the evening, and you will come up with a plan at that time." ”

"Don't worry, the plan has been prepared for a long time."

Shou Xuan nodded slightly, "End the training and let the soldiers go back to the camp." ”

That night, the Army held a meeting of generals and officers.

Archon Marmont had been busy with the campaign lately, and was not in the future to observe the exercise, so he sat first in the meeting.

Holren put on his reading glasses and flipped through a thick stack of army records.

Shou Xuan raised his hand, "Old general, I'll go back and look at the specific details, you guys say the main point." ”

Holren dropped the paperwork, and the corresponding data was in his head.

"Excluding slaves, our country currently has a population of 1.4 million, and in the midst of rapid growth, excluding the colonial garrisons, the Army believes that it needs at least two field divisions to meet the needs of national defense."

Shou Xiang nodded, "2 divisions, it really can't be less." ”

"Arquebuses, cold weapons, and old artillery were largely obsolete to the garrisons of the colonies, and the army was completely replaced with flintlock muskets, bayonets, and new artillery with screws."

Holren said, Order.

The army will use a block system, with 2 brigades per division, 2 regiments per brigade, 2 combat battalions per regiment, and 1 reserve battalion to train recruits.

The division has 1 grenadier battalion, 1 artillery battalion, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 baggage battalion, 1 engineer battalion, as well as auxiliary units such as field hospitals and health service detachments.

The brigade is directly under the jurisdiction of 1 artillery company and a simplified service detachment.

The corps artillery consisted of 1 company with 6 12-pounder cannons, 2 companies with 12 6-pounder guns, and 1 mounted artillery company with 6 4-pounder guns. The brigade artillery company also has 2 5.5-inch howitzers, and the division has a total of 24 cannons and 6 howitzers.

Excluding the reserve recruit battalion, the division has a total of 9 infantry battalions, with a full number of 14,500 people and 3,000 war horses.

"In order to equip these two divisions and the troops directly under the army, we need to prepare a total of 45,000 flintlock guns, 300,000 flintstones, and the first batch of 10 million rounds of ammunition in reserve. According to the Arsenal's offer, production was planned for three years, and a total of about £300,000 would be required with rifles, bayonets, and sapper equipment. ”

"More than 1,000,000 taels of silver," Shou Xuan nodded, "just the weapons and equipment of the infantry." ”

Westheim: "The artillery with horses and equipment will cost more than £170,000, more than 600,000 taels. ”

The artillery of the two divisions plus the spare artillery is enough for about 400,000 taels.

In addition to the artillery corps under the army, the army must have a heavy artillery unit directly under its jurisdiction. They were a 24-pounder siege artillery battalion and a 10-inch heavy mortar battalion, and these two heavy artillery units did not consider being equipped with horses for the time being, but only the cost of troop formation.

Walter: "The Army will form one more heavy cavalry regiment directly under the army, two chaser regiments under the team, plus one hussar regiment formed by Chinese soldiers recruited from all over the country, and one medium cavalry regiment. Together with our existing 2 cavalry regiments, for a total of 7 cavalry regiments, we need about 7,000 horses. The military expenditure is more than 1.1 million taels, which is invested in 3 years, and I need 350,000 taels per year for the equipment cost of formation, military salaries and horses, and a total of 700,000 taels per year for the replacement of war horses. ”

"We also need to set up a special engineering unit, especially the professional boat and bridge engineers who are urgently needed at present."

"Combat sappers cannot be ignored either."

"There is a serious shortage of medical staff, and recruitment must be expanded."

"It is necessary to establish a reserve mobilization system that matches the size of the current army, which requires us to recruit some veterans to train new recruits in the rear."

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Write them down in a notebook one by one.

"Anything else?"