Chapter Seventy-Three: There is an old man in the army, and there is a treasure

Because the elite army is equipped with a large number of high-power promenades and mobile speakers, coupled with the walkie-talkie equipment has also spread to the company, and the general headquarters also has a special multi-function digital FM radio transmitter, the speed of uploading and distributing is quite fast.

That is to say, as long as Li Yongji gives the next assembly order, Jiajia, a portable maid in military uniform, will press the preset button on the remote control, and then the multi-function digital FM radio transmitter on the carriage will automatically transmit signal commands, and the mobile speakers of all company-level units will play the corresponding assembly horn at the same time.

When the soldier heard the assembly call played on the stereo, no matter what he was doing, he had to immediately respond accordingly according to the different assembly calls, that is, he did his best to finish and assemble at the designated place within the specified time, once he could not return to the team on time within the unit time, it would be recorded, and if you did not die after the battle, there would be a corresponding punishment.

Advanced equipment and strict training have made the assembly of the elite army quite fast, and it can be said that it is the fastest troop in the world today.

Since it was an emergency assembly, it only took 15 minutes for the entire Jingwu army of more than 15,000 people to assemble, and then Li Yongji only needed to issue instructions through the walkie-talkie, and then the whole army could move step by step in the direction pointed out by Li Yongji.

This kind of mobile march also has a preset mode, for example, what Li Yongji wants everyone to do now is a second-level strategic foot march.

The so-called second-level strategy is to march on foot, which means that after the order is given, the infantry goes first, followed by artillery, and finally the baggage.

In this mode of marching, the infantry marched lightly on foot, and the artillery marched lightly, but the accompanying artillery was pulled by horse-drawn carts.

As for the baggage soldiers, they had to deal with the finishing touches in the camp first, and then under the cover of a battalion of dragoons, that is, mounted infantry, they drove the packed baggage wagons to catch up with the troops in front.

In this way, the infantry and artillery belonging to the main force are said to go, and they do not need to deal with the camp and other troublesome matters, and they are handed over to the baggage soldiers to deal with, and the baggage soldiers, although it is more time-consuming to deal with the follow-up hands and tails, but because there are a large number of horses, and when they go, they are riding horses or driving carriages, so they can quickly catch up with the infantry and artillery in front.

Traveling in this mode will be quite fast, but you must make sure that the surroundings are safe enough, after all, even with the protection of dragoons, the baggage troops are still slightly vulnerable.

Of course, it also depends on who the enemy is, the baggage soldiers again, there are also a large number of ** protection, and the number of dragoons is also quite large, so if it is a cold weapon unit such as the Taiping Army, the baggage troops alone can beat them all over the ground to find teeth.

In addition, the baggage soldiers have radio communication equipment, and in the event of an attack, the baggage soldiers can immediately defend on the spot, and with a battalion of dragoons as escorts, they can definitely wait for the troops in front to return to defense.

What the? What about the power supply? This is easy to do, many horse-drawn carriages already have large on-board generators, which can generate electricity by walking in the carriage, and after generating electricity, they will be charged into the storage battery, and then charged various equipment of the troops. In addition, in the battalion-level troops, there are also bicycle-type generators, and at the company level, there are hand-cranked generators, which can be replaced by manual power generation if necessary, but it is enough to charge the portable electrical equipment, such as walkie-talkies and loudspeakers.

These electrified equipment used by the Jingwu Army are all small cottage household appliances made in modern China, which are small, lightweight, and consume less electricity, cheap and durable, and are all integrated circuit boards inside, all of which are three-no products without any logo.

At the level of this era, even if this kind of integrated circuit board equipment is taken away, it will definitely not be able to study the reason, after all, the generation difference is too great.

If Li Yongji still had concerns about these things before, then after gaining an in-depth understanding of the current situation of the Qing Dynasty, he became less and less concerned.

After all, for the people of the Qing Dynasty, foreigners and foreign things themselves were rare, and they didn't know what was going on in the outside world, let alone the difference between foreign goods. Therefore, even if Li Yongji comes up with modern things, it will make no difference to them, anyway, they all think that they are advanced foreign goods.

As for Westerners, there must be a value that allows them to know these things, such as Karlsson, a Swedish one-eyed dragon who has to come with him, he has asked about the origin of these things more than once, but Li Yongji only needs to have a military secret, and he has nothing to say.

Although Karlsson is a foreigner and a viscount, no matter how good he is, he is only a soldier who was born as a mercenary, not a scientific research worker. In terms of academic qualifications, he is also a junior high school student, and he is also old, so although he can see that there are many advanced things, as long as Li Yongji does not explain, he can only know what it is, but he doesn't know why.

By the way, Karlsson actually speaks English, and the reason why he always spoke French before and had to bring a translator was to pretend to be forced.

After all, in those days, French was the lingua franca of the world, and although English became more popular with the rise of the British Empire, it was still an inferior language in high society. For example, in formal Western diplomatic occasions, the lingua franca is French, so Karlsson speaks French, which is no problem at all, and he is a viscount and has served France for a long time.

However, as he stayed in the camp for more and more time, he became more and more fond of it, after all, there are too many novelties here, there are many delicious things to eat and drink (such as beer), and even various novel medicines, which can cure old problems such as joint pain (actually arthritis) and stomach pain (chronic stomach ulcer) that have plagued him for many years.

Although Karlsson is already old and not as sensitive to the emergence of new things as young people, as an experienced old mercenary and ** nobleman, he can still see the huge military advantages of these new equipment, which is definitely something that can cause military changes.

Therefore, when he found out that Li Yongji was a very good person (this was his delusion, the fact was that Li Yongji had been too busy to take care of him) and understood English, he simply had nothing to do with Li Yongji to chat in English, and he had to follow Li Yongji and be his staff officer to participate in what he called the great war that changed the world.

Li Yongji did not agree at first, after all, the system of his elite army is not the same as the system of the foreign gun team, especially those modern equipment, although it is useless for foreigners to take it, but after all, it is somewhat sensitive, so he only allows the Chinese officers and soldiers of the elite army to contact, and strictly prohibits the contact of people from the foreign gun team, so the people of the foreign gun team are trained according to the Western system except for the Sharps rifle.

However, Karlsson is a special case, because of Li Yongji's mistake at the beginning, he was given relatively high treatment, so that Karlsson often wandered into the vicinity of the camp of the elite army to look around, and saw a lot of things that should not be seen, so whether it was out of secrecy or out of understanding the situation of the modern Western army, after he knew about it, he simply took Karlsson with him and no longer let him enter the foreign gun team.

In fact, Li Yongji's original plan was not very friendly. He felt that this Karlsson had seen so many things that he shouldn't have seen, and knew so many things that he shouldn't know, he would never be allowed to go, and it would be okay to assassinate him if necessary. Since he will no longer be let go, it is also the right thing to take him with him to squeeze the surplus value, understand the current actual situation in the West, and scare and scare others by the way.

Li Yongji had actually said these words to Karl Songming, and wanted to see how he reacted, but he didn't expect this one-eyed dragon white man who was becoming more and more old ** to be just a little stunned, so he grinned and said that it was no problem to stay and not leave, but in the future, he must be covered with food, housing, housing and transportation, the salary should be high, and he must be given a good-sounding and effective position, and he must also promise to take his family over.

In other words, he planned to settle in China in the future and follow Li Yongji.

Li Yongji once asked why, and he said that it was very simple, the food, drink and enjoyment here were first-class, the soldiers' plain was excellent, and the weapons and equipment were even stronger, and commanding such an army was a man's ultimate dream.

In his opinion, Li Yongji's army, no army of the same size in Europe can deal with, let alone the same scale, even if it is ten times the strength, even if it is a British regular army, if it is a head-on confrontation, it will definitely not be able to defeat this elite army.

If such a strong army is placed in China, if he is the commander-in-chief, he can directly rebel and become the emperor, although I don't know why Li Yongji still doesn't rebel, but in his opinion, Li Yongji will rebel sooner or later, since this is the case, he will follow now, and he can mix a higher title in the new empire in the future and become a real nobleman.

A great nobleman of a super empire makes people feel excited when they think about it, so he doesn't care about Li Yongji's disguised house arrest.

Hearing this, Li Yongji was also surprised at the time, and asked him if he wasn't the viscount of Sweden, how could he still covet the title here? Are you not patriotic as a nobleman?

As a result, Karlsson said that his Swedish viscount was a family heirloom, and when Sweden was not founded, his family's title was there, but after Sweden was founded, their family was in great decline, and now there is nothing except the identity of the viscount, and if he wasn't poor back then, he wouldn't have been a mercenary.

He started fighting at the age of sixteen, and after fighting for decades, what did he get? Sweden itself did not want to see him, Britain and France looked down on him, and in Europe, no country really looked down on a mercenary like him, even Napoleon III, who once made him a cavalry battalion commander, but it was only because that unit was cannon fodder.

So, Karlsson doesn't look like a European, but he never thinks that any country in Europe is worthy of his allegiance, and since those countries are not worth his attention, why should he love such a country?

Moreover, he also said that he was now in his last years, sick and sick, and had never slept well in a day, and that little pension was almost spent, and he might not know that he would die that day.

The reason why he started his trip to the East was that he was tortured by illness, he felt that his life was short, and his youngest daughter was very curious about the East, so he hoped to see new things in his lifetime, and then go back to tell his daughter what he had seen and heard, at least leaving something for the world.

But since there is a special medicine here to treat his various ailments, and food, drink, and shelter are all high pleasures that the great European nobles do not have, then why doesn't he stay here, but go back to the cold, dirty, fishy countryside of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Norway?

Well, cold and dirty? Smelly of fishy everywhere? Broken place in the countryside? Oh, it turns out that he was talking about Sweden in the mid-nineteenth century, not modern Sweden, understandable, completely understandable.

In short, no matter whether Karlsson was greedy for the good life here, or because he was angry and knew that he couldn't run, anyway, he became Li Yongji's personal adviser, or personal staff officer, and stayed in the Jingwu Army.

In fact, Li Yongji found that Karlsson was actually a good old man, although he was very wordy, but he was really experienced, especially in the details of marching and fighting.

It is true that Li Yongji can use modern knowledge to engage in infantry drills or military systems, but that is still theory, even if these theories are the crystallization of various wisdoms of later generations, when it comes to reality, it will definitely require a process of practice and running-in.

Karlsson, on the other hand, has rich combat experience and has served in almost every soldier except the Air Force, so after coming into contact with the operational concept of the elite army, he can quickly find out the mistakes and omissions in it and improve it according to the actual situation.

Karlsson's effectiveness has been proven in recent drills to prove that his improvements are indeed effective.

For example, for the cavalry tactics of the Jingwu Army, Karlsson made some improvements to the cavalry weapons and combat concepts of the Jingwu Army.

When he was chasing the enemy, he should not shoot with a revolver during horseback riding, which would not only be poor in accuracy, but also easy to accidentally injure his own people when charging in the group, so he fought immediately, especially in pursuit warfare, the saber is the best weapon. And if you are using a Type 65 cavalry knife, it is best to hold the knife diagonally in one hand, use the inertia of the horse to cut the enemy, and try not to wave your arms sharply. In other words, the arm swing is not used to slash hard, but to fine-tune the direction of the saber cut, and what really makes the saber kill is the speed of the horse itself.

In addition, in terms of army transfers, he also advised that he try not to ride horses, and let the soldiers march on foot as much as possible. Those tall horses are best distributed to some people with good riding skills to form special dragoons, dragoons if possible, it is best to have one person and two horses, and the dragoon troops should be independent, and they should be equipped with special horsemen.

As for most of the infantry, let's walk honestly and practically, don't play any horse-drawn infantry tricks, not to mention that the speed is not much faster, and it also consumes horsepower, and it is easy to raise soldiers and lack the spirit of hardship and hard work. If you have to pull a cart to pull the baggage, it's not impossible, it's better to use local horses or mules, not those big horses.

In this way, we can more effectively speed up the march, maximize the horsepower, retain the essence of the cavalry, make the troops more specific, command more flexible, and use good steel on the blade.

In his opinion, many of Li Yongji's quat horses are good horses, but these American horses are only suitable for charging and fighting, but not for endurance, so it is best to only use them for tactical charging or chasing the enemy, and it would be a pity not to be a mule or horse to pull a cart in peacetime.

There are more other small buildings, such as how to build fortifications in different environments and different soil conditions, etc., anyway, since Karlsson's non-stop construction, the changes in the elite army are obvious to all.

He also proposed that although a force like the Jingwu Army is very powerful, it is also quite strict in its dependence on those strange things, and once it is gone, the Jingwu Army is not as good as ordinary Western troops, so it is built to let the Jingwu Army do some drills that do not rely on modern items.

However, Li Yongji did not think so, he just wanted this army to rely on KitKat, so that without him, there would be no one to command this army. However, Karlsson's words also make sense, he can't make all the troops like this, and there will definitely be many ordinary troops who are not equipped with modern communications in the future, so the future training must be handed over to Karlsson, so that he can use the Western military system of this period to train, or in other words, let him improve a new system according to the situation.

Li Yongji is very confident in this point, because Karlsson may not be able to formulate a new military system on his own, but he is very good at making more practical changes to the original military system, and he is also willing to engage in these things that are destined to go down in history.

All in all, Li Yongji is more and more satisfied with Karlsson, a semi-white old man who is very knowledgeable about current affairs and has rich combat experience, and he really responded to that sentence, there is an old man in the army, if there is a treasure.