Chapter 42: The Essence of Line Infantry Tactics

For several days, Lin Jue's life rhythm once again became a wandering between two points and one line.

Sleeping at night, writing in the office during the day, and eating are all solved in the office. In addition to these two places, he has recently abandoned even the habit of going to the shore every day to look at the stars.

Anyway, now the threat of the power of the curse is almost a dead knot, and there is no way for Fenex to solve it, even the omnipotent witch is missing, and he can only take one step at a time.

In the past few days, he has been squatting in the office every day, holding a pile of paper, writing all the time, and constantly revising after writing, and now he wants to embody the training methods of the line infantry in the form of words. For this tactic, he is not a soldier, let alone a historian, and he does not know much, so he can only rely on the small memories in his mind to piece together and copy him.

After so many days, he feels that he has become an author, and if he returns to Earth in the future, maybe he can consider becoming a writer and write about what he has seen and heard recently, and maybe he can write a book that is on fire.

Of course, he just thinks about it, he knows very well that his hometown may never go back.

After about a week of clear weather, the sky was once again covered with dark clouds. White snowflakes are flying in the air, and the streets of Phoenix have finally been completely cleared by the people, looking at the current appearance, it may not be long before they will be covered with snow again.

Lin Jue glanced at the calendar on the table, on January 6, nearly ten days had passed, and the training plan on line infantry tactics that he had put together improvised in his hand was finally completed.

"Maybe I can give it a nice name. ”

There are no computers, no printers, and no professional printing shops in this world, and Lin Jue still admires himself for being able to write such a plan with a pen, although this is just a method that is used only as a last resort due to conditions.

"Maybe I can be an inventor in this world and invent a typewriter, which is a great achievement that can benefit the development of literature all over the world. ”

Regarding the idea that suddenly popped up in his mind, Lin Jue gave up after a little thought. The point is that the invention of the most basic typewriter did not benefit the people of the Orlante Kingdom. The Kingdom of Orlante was influenced by the Yan Empire, and the script used was Chinese characters.

If he wanted to invent a typewriter used by the Orlantes or the Yan Empire, then Lin Jue couldn't imagine how a typewriter with two or three thousand keys should be made and how it should be promoted? Although he was very reluctant to admit it, he had the prototype of the typewriter in his mind, and the writing of Western countries had a natural advantage in this aspect.

Before he crossed over, he had heard that there was a Chinese typewriter, but, first of all, he didn't know the principle of that typewriter, and secondly, the typewriter was probably not easy to operate, and it was probably more difficult to promote, and it was estimated that people would be more willing to accept a stupid method, even if it would be a little more troublesome.

Lin Jue looked at the blank paper on the top that he used as the cover, thought for a moment, and in a flash of inspiration, he wrote: "Infantry Drill Code". At this time, Lin Jue would not have thought that the four words he wrote today would make much contribution to the transformation of the human army in the future, although the current infantry drill book is only about ten pages.

This book, which took Lin Jue ten days and nights, recorded the training program he received during military training in school before graduation, although in the process of writing, it was inevitable to recall some painful experiences of sadness and enthusiasm, but this is not important, as long as you can train real line infantry, these are not worth mentioning.

In addition to this, there are training programs on the use of thermal weapons, infantry shooting training programs, as well as training programs in hand-to-hand combat.

Lin Jue did not have the idea of letting all troops quickly accept the training content of this "Infantry Drill Code", he knew that this was unlikely, his purpose was just to forcibly promote it first, and when all the military commanders discovered the advantages of the line infantry, then they would not have to worry about how to promote such a training method.

The essence of the line infantry lies in the combat advantage brought by the rapid change of the horizontal column formation, in the case of the supply of muskets, it can simultaneously give full play to the maximum killing area of the horizontal column, as well as the rapid march of the column, and the ability to quickly enter the battlefield.

When Bi Fang got this infantry drill manual, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. It wasn't that he was shocked by the advanced training content, but he wondered if His Excellency the Governor, who was sitting across from him and had been drinking milk all the time, was crazy.

Bi Fang frowned and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, with all due respect, what is needed to fight a war is the muscular strength of the soldiers, as well as the decision-making judgment of the commander, although the training method of this queue can maintain a good military posture, but I am afraid there is no need to use it as the most important training subject, right?"

Lin Jue shook his head and said, "No, no, no, the training of the queue must be put in the first place, and all troops must receive such training, even if it is the city defense army and militia garrison to be formed in Phoenix City in the future, even including the navy and cavalry, it cannot be an exception." ”

"May I ask why?" Bi Fang said with a puzzled expression.

Lin Jue sighed softly. Bi Fang's incomprehension, this was unexpected, before the appearance of the line infantry class, since the Xia Dynasty, the army on the earth had actually realized the importance of queue training.

It's just that the queues at that time were all for the convenience of the large army to fight, and they were all separated by various arms, and the phalanx was used as the queue training subject, and the main purpose was simply to facilitate the arrangement of troops.

In this world, including the Orlante Kingdom Army, there is also a tradition of army queue training, although the "Infantry Drill Code" is currently forcibly promoted, but now it is just to improve the status of this tradition, he really can't figure out why Bi Fang doesn't understand.

"I'm just putting the method of queue training in the most important position, anyway, the Ollante Kingdom Army has had a queue training subject a long time ago, I'm afraid this change is not a difficult thing, right?" Lin Jue said helplessly.

Bi Fang smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, I want to ...... It is not impossible to put the method of queue training at the top of the training schedule, and it is enough to modify the exercise schedule slightly, but it is ...... Isn't this training plan you gave too rigid?"

"Too rigid?" Lin Jue looked at Bi Fang suspiciously.

"In a group of 300 people, with the same steps and actions, in addition to the phalanx, additional training of columns and lines has been added, and the marching of columns and columns has to be trained, and the three formations of lines, columns and phalanxes change with each other in the process of moving. ”

Lin Jue was silent, it seems that in Bi Fang's eyes, such a training method is indeed a bit redundant, after all, the concept of line infantry tactics is somewhat ahead of its time compared to this era, and the general legion battle, as long as it can keep the army acting in the formation of the phalanx, it is really meaningless to add so many unnecessary formations.

Lin Jue was now thinking about how to explain the line infantry tactics to him. But after thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't know how to explain it to him, how to explain it to him before he could accept it. After all, Bi Fang is currently the highest military commander of the Orlante Kingdom in the entire Eastern Continent, and even if this training method is forcibly promoted, he still needs to nod and agree before it can be carried out.

"Well, that's it, now that I told you, you don't understand, I have my own plans, let's speak with facts. You organize an army of 300 people, and the requirements for these 300 people are that there is not much difference in body and height, they are more clever, and they don't need to pick any people with high combat effectiveness, as long as they are obedient. ”

"When the people were organized, they told me that I was going to train them myself. When the training is almost complete, you can organize a group of officers to observe, and you should be able to understand my intentions by then. ”