264 The prototype of a natural fortress
"The reduction in the price of conventional infantry, the innovation of infantry tactics brought about by the bayonet in the card seat, the emergence of artillery in the Napoleonic era, the selectivity of the lottery class, and the administrative staff brought by the system building, there are really many surprises brought by this King's Quest mode."
Hong Tiancheng's eyes flashed slightly, and he took the lead in opening the artillery technology tree, which was not restricted by the permission upgrade of the all-out war system.
At present, there are only three types of artillery that Hong Tiancheng can open for national prestige - the 12-pounder heavy front-loading Napoleonic field gun, and the opening price is two points of national prestige; The mortar cannon used for curved shooting in the Napoleonic era, the opening price is a little national prestige; The 3-pounder front-mounted Napoleonic cavalry field cannon, the opening price is also a bit of national prestige.
Behind the tech tree is pitch black, and the type of artillery behind it can only be seen by lighting up the prefix, and it is clear that the Total Warfare system uses the most practical and common type of artillery in the history of Earth.
Well, practical price-performance ratio has always been one of the advantages of a total war system.
Hong Tiancheng glanced at the artillery technology tree, pondered for a moment, and sighed helplessly.
The opening price is cheap, but even in the backward 17th century, one or two can't decide the outcome of the artillery, and just 10 points of national prestige, even if the conditions for obtaining national prestige are lower than the previous sin value, but it can't support the exchange of a large number of artillery.
A little national prestige can only be exchanged for two 6-pounder light Napoleonic field guns, and without the national prestige of the infantry corps, Hong Tiancheng cannot be exchanged for a full-scale artillery unit at all.
Even if the 6-pounder light Napoleonic field gun was the most advanced artillery in the world in the 17th century, one could not be as good as ten backward guns, after all, this was only a light Napoleonic field gun.
In this case, Hong Tiancheng might as well use the old artillery captured and make up for the gap in quality with quantity, just like other European countries; as for the defect of poor artillery quality, it is barely enough in the environment of low artillery quality in European countries.
What's more, with the firing rate of artillery in this era of more than ten minutes, the deterrent effect on dense infantry is far greater than the lethal effect, and the range of grapeshot at close range is not even as good as that of muskets, and it cannot be widely used on the battlefield at all.
This is also the reason why artillery is always active in siege warfare, and in field warfare, the purpose of artillery is only to scare the enemy's motley army.
"During this period, I won the battles with infantry and cavalry, and the enemy's artillery was not much stronger than the Taiping army, and there were not many artillery at the level of red-coat cannons.
There are enough administrative officials, and I don't have to rely too much on the management of those local surrender nobles, just right, the next local power takeover can also be seamlessly connected, 2 points of national prestige can pull out a full division regiment, more than 13,000 people, with the combat effectiveness of the Taiping Army, two divisions can form an advantage over Moscow in the local battlefield, hehe, as I expected, just the troops exchanged for national prestige are enough for me to fully enter the counteroffensive! ”
Hong Tiancheng's eyes shone with a dazzling brilliance of exuberance and cruelty, and a battle plan for internal 'governance' and launching a new offensive was gradually formed in his mind.
According to Zhang's preliminary statistics, 2,000 die-hard administrators were enough to push the administration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom down to the town level, completely eliminating the previous situation of co-ruling with the local aristocracy.
Slightly less than enough, the most capable of an ordinary administrative official is only to be a town mayor, barely able to serve as the mayor of a big city, and the administrative organs of the European continent countries are very simple, except for the noble castles directly under the nobility, there are only simple town institutions, and then there are villages that are only responsible for paying taxes.
Above the city and town institutions are the great noble lords, and above them are the kings.
This is the 17th century European countries generally default to the administrative units, as for the provincial administrative units are different for each country, the nobility of the country with large rights, the nobility itself fiefdom is equivalent to a province, the centralized country, will be divided into a region, each region is filled with a large number of lords and towns, there are directly under the central government similar to the central inspector of the central dispatch officials to control the military and political power.
Therefore, the appointment of ordinary administrative officials as municipal officials was enough to completely strip the local administrative power from the local aristocratic power, and of course, the military power was always in the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The biggest advantage of this is that the local government's covert corruption will be greatly weakened, increasing the tax revenue of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it will be possible to perfectly carry out the orders issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
No matter how powerful Zhang Juzheng is, he is also a person, and with this group of administrative officials as his subordinates, he can truly establish the civil official group of the Heavenly Kingdom.
After all, the alien race is a discordant existence, and on the surface, the white nobles who want to kneel down and kiss the ankles of Han officials are willing to do something, and God knows what illegal things they will do behind their backs.
The stragglers who could not be cleaned up in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also had a certain relationship with the attitude of the local nobles who turned a blind eye.
After Hong Tiancheng counted the rewards, he immediately sent people to mobilize all the white people who could be found in the city of Kyiv, and gathered a large number of building materials, that is, wood, stones, and so on.
These things are on the ruins of the war, and they don't cost much......
In order to satisfy the mystery of the all-out war system, Hong Tiancheng could only arrange three system complexes in the suburbs outside the city of Kiev.
That is, outside the walls of the city of Kyiv!
Originally, Hong Tiancheng was worried that without the protection of the city walls of Kiev, these three system buildings, which only had one chance to build, would be attacked in future wars.
But after Hong Tiancheng stood on the building materials and watched a pile of building materials transform into an administrative hall of a modern Western-style building complex in an inexplicable force, this doubt suddenly disappeared.
Because the perimeter of the administrative hall has formed a circle of several meters high wall, and there are four defensive towers in the four corners, and there are firing ports on the wall, it seems to be a complex with certain defensive measures.
The infantry barracks and all-round artillery training camp erected behind them stood in the open space on the scale of a fortress!
In particular, the all-round artillery training camp occupies the largest area, has the most buildings, and is dominated by a whole city wall more than ten meters high, with battlements, towers, batteries and other facilities, and there are also barricade defense facilities in the streets of the internal building complex, but there is no artillery arrangement on the battery.
These three complexes themselves are the prototype of fortresses!
If Hong Tiancheng is willing to invest enough manpower and material resources, he can even build a fortress city with three building complexes as the core!
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