Chapter 44: The Heavenly Armor Army (4)
Yun Tianjia waited for the soldiers to shout the slogan several times, and said: "If you want to become a strong army, you can't just shout slogans." It can only be achieved by relying on strict discipline and hard training. Now that the country is rampant with banditry and rebellion, our mission is to train a strong army, conquer the south and conquer the north, quell the rebellion, and bring peace to the people. There is not much time left for us, starting from today, the Tianjia Army will conduct a half-month intensive training to improve everyone's physical fitness and mutual understanding. ”
Before the training, Yun Tianjia publicly announced the list of various departments of the Tianjia Army, individual equipment, military salary system, and a series of military regulations and military laws.
These are all contents that the soldiers are very concerned about, and they should not only be publicized in their mouths, but also posted on the lists, and repeatedly publicized so that everyone can clearly understand and understand them.
At first, Yun Tianjia only planned to train 300 soldiers, but later, considering the needs of the battle, after repeated consideration, the Tianjia Army was finally divided into three types: soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics baggage soldiers.
Among them, there are three battalions of soldiers, with a total of 450 people, all of whom are composed of soul masters above level 26, and third-order great soul masters account for the majority, namely:
[Giant Axe Battalion, one hundred and fifty people, Xiong Zhuangzhuang is the battalion commander, leading the rank of captain of the flying cavalry. 】
It is divided into three teams, with Hong Liang, Yang Chun, and Shen Jian each as the captains, and the leader of the song.
Yang Chun and Shen Jian are both metallic power-type soul masters, originally the personal guard of Pu Wenjie, the former martial soul with a thick back and a long knife, which is a fifty-second level soul sect, and the latter martial soul has a double hammer on the left and right, and the soul power is cultivated at fifty-three levels.
The whole battalion is uniformly equipped with long-handled giant axes, iron helmets, scale armor, daggers, carrying tools, and space pendants, and each person can bring one or two personal weapons according to their personal conditions.
[Heavy shield battalion, one hundred and fifty people, Zhong Dinghe is the battalion commander, leading the rank of captain of the flying cavalry. 】
It is divided into three teams, Zhang Linyue, Yu Jiaming, and Wu Zhen are each captains, and they lead the song.
Zhang Linyue is the personal guard of Huazhou Thorn Shi Pu Wenjie, martial soul iron umbrella, metallic, fifty-four-level soul sect. Yu Jiaming and Wu Zhen are both the right-hand men of Ji Wenyuan, the head of the soldiers of Hanyuan County, the former martial soul hand shield, earth attribute, fifty-two level soul sect, and the latter martial soul seven killing bells, earth attribute, fifty-third level soul sect.
The whole battalion is uniformly equipped with landing heavy shields, one-handed machetes, carrying tools, space pendants, and each person can choose one or two portable weapons according to their personal martial spirits.
[Wind battalion, one hundred and fifty people, Gong Luoluo is the battalion commander, no rank. 】
Originally, as Gong Luoluo, Yun Tianjia was not suitable for arranging anything specific for her. However, Gong Luo Luoning was reluctant to return to China, and took the initiative to ask Ying, so she had to find something to do, otherwise with her temper, wouldn't she make a military camp jump?
The priest of the Tail Fire National Hall actually stooped under Yun Tianjia to be a small battalion commander with no military rank, which was also the only one.
Similarly, the wind camp is also divided into three teams, Zhang Changjian, Zhang Changyu, and Lin Zhiqi, each as the captain, and the leader of the song.
The three teams of the wind battalion are the special team, the air control team, and the spy team.
The main duty of the Einsatzgruppen is to hunt and destroy behind enemy lines, while the air supremacy team blocks the airspace and snips flying humans and beasts. The two teams are in charge of Zhang Changjian and Zhang Changyu brothers.
The spy team specializes in probing news and collecting information, and the withered leaf Zen master was capable of being the captain, but Yun Tianjia had an unspeakable worry about him for some reason, and after a little weighing, he used Pu Wenjie's personal guard Lin Zhiqi. Lin Zhiqi, Martial Soul Green Feather Vulture, Wind Attribute, Fifty-fourth Soul Sect.
The functions of the three teams of the wind camp are different, so the equipment is not completely unified, except for feather arrows, crossbows, long ropes, three-edged thorns, carrying tools, and space pendants, each person can choose their own weapons according to their personal martial soul situation.
In the border guards, a whole formation is about 300 people, and a battalion ranges from 1,200 to 1,800 people, while in the Tianjia Army, the battalion commander is only in charge of 150 people, and the qu commander only leads a team of 50 people, which is a typical high-level and low-level allocation.
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The auxiliaries are divided into six teams, with a total of five hundred people, most of whom are soul masters from level 15 to level 26, namely:
The soil attack team, 100 people, specializes in building platforms and digging holes, digging trenches, etc., Ge Zheng and Ge Yi are the main and deputy captains;
Qiaomu team, 100 people, responsible for building siege vehicles, catapults, bridges, and repairing equipment, with Sheng Jiong as the captain;
The Golden Blade Team, 50 people, specializes in the setting and burial of trap organs, with Ding Shuo as the captain;
The boat team, 50 people, has no special position, with fisherman Lu Chen as the captain, no military rank.
The fire team, 100 people, is divided into three groups: the fire group, the artillery group, and the demolition group.
The Dao Law Team, with 100 people, led by Li Siyun, the leader of the Fuhuo Dao, specializes in cultivating little Taoists to deal with exorcists and witch mages.
Each of the above six teams has a captain, and Li Siyun is also the captain.
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The logistics baggage soldiers are divided into four teams and three groups, with a total of 550 people, composed of soul masters below level 15 and young men on the verge of awakening, namely:
Baggage transport team, 200 people, in charge of treasury and transportation, captain Luo Erniang;
The medical team, 100 people, the captain of the withered leaf Zen master, was divided into two groups, one group to treat the wounded and sick, and the other group to refine pills;
The refining team, one hundred and fifty people, specializes in crafting various special equipment, such as space pendants, new muskets, palm mines, etc.
The gunpowder team, fifty people, specialized in the manufacture of various types of gunpowder.
Gang group, 20 people, specializing in cooking;
The beast taming group, twenty people, is responsible for feeding the mounts and domesticating the soul beasts;
The clothing group, 10 people, is responsible for cutting military uniforms and carrying equipment for everyone.
Each of the above seven teams has a captain, and Luo Erniang is also the captain.
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Auxiliaries and logistical baggage units usually do not have direct contact with the enemy, so there is no need to equip weapons.
But according to Yun Tianjia's understanding, under the leadership of Xiong Zhuangzhuang, Zhong Dinghe, and Gong Luoluo, the soldiers of the third battalion of the Tianjia Army do not need to be afraid of the general enemy at all, and it is precisely the auxiliary soldiers and logistics baggage soldiers that are the shortcomings.
And what determines the overall combat effectiveness of the Tianjia Army is precisely these shortcomings.
Therefore, how to arm and strengthen the self-defense ability of auxiliary troops and logistics baggage troops is the top priority of the Tianjia Army.
The biggest trouble with auxiliaries and baggage troops is that their cultivation is too low, and this disadvantage can neither be changed by short-term assaults, nor can it be compensated for by equipping ordinary weapons.
Yun Tianjia thought about it, except for strengthening their mobility ability training, the only way was to equip them with all hot weapons.
With Yun Tianjia's knowledge and ability, he can improve the level of thermal weapons in this world by several centuries without wasting much brains, but at the same time, he also understands better than anyone else that soldiers are murder weapons, and saints have no choice but to do it.
Yun Tianjia did not intend to dominate the Star Soul Continent, and he did not want to make this world unbalanced because of his arrival.
Therefore, his so-called thermal weapons are only limited improvements to the existing guns and gunpowder.
The gun used by Ji Wenyuan's subordinates is a relatively primitive front-loading smoothbore scattered arquebus, which has a short range, low accuracy, low power, fear of moisture, troublesome and time-consuming loading, and is prone to explosion-chamber accidents.
Yun Tianjia took one step and changed the arquebus directly to a rear-loading bolt-type firing rifle that used a metal-shelled long fixed cartridge.
This musket is powerful, fast in rate of fire, easy to reload, easy to use, and can be learned as soon as you learn it.
Yun Tianjia initially calculated that the firing rifle he modified could pose a certain threat to the fourth-order and below soul masters, and if he shot in groups, even in the face of higher-level soul masters, he would have the power to protect himself.
What's even better is that the manufacture of rifles has extremely high requirements for metal smelting and casting processes, and with the production level of the Star Soul Continent at this time, it can only be hand-made by masters who are familiar with the process.
Therefore, after this rifle is put into use on the battlefield, there is no need to be afraid of being captured.
As long as Yun Tianjia controls himself properly, controls it tightly, restricts the refining master to a certain extent, and does not let the technology be passed on, at least for more than ten years, it is impossible for anyone to imitate it.
Taking a step back, even if someone could make a rifle, the bullet wouldn't make it.
Because the firing charge and propellant in the bullet were far ahead of their time, no one was to guide them step by step, and even if they were given ready-made samples, they could not be copied. Without targeted gunpowder, it will not be able to make qualified bullets, and the rifle will not be able to exert its due power.
The gunpowder used by Ji Wenyuan's subordinate firecrackers is still an ancient black powder formula, which is made of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur, with many impurities, and the proportion is not right, and the explosion power is sometimes strong and sometimes weak.
Yun Tianjia only needs to improve the recipe and production process slightly, and it can increase the power of black powder by several times. However, the smoke of black powder is too large, and it is not ideal to use it as a bullet propellant.
The Yuntianjiajiao gunpowder team used cotton, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid as raw materials to make fire cotton, that is, nitrocellulose, and then treated and rolled with alcohol ether mixed solvents to obtain relatively stable smokeless gunpowder, which was used as a bullet propellant.
The propellant in the metal bullet must be ignited by a primer.
The primer contains a type of firing gunpowder that ignites the projectile in the cartridge case and pushes the bullet out.
Yun Tianjia only used the thunder acid gong as the primer, and did not use the more advanced ignition charge.
In addition to rifles and metal bullets, Yun Tianjia also ordered someone to make palm thunder to use with rifles.
The palm thunder was filled with black powder with picric acid added.
The Tuhao Empire's clothing was still yellow, and picric acid was originally a yellow dye that was easily obtained.
When picric acid is added to black powder, not only does the power of the explosion skyrocket, but it also has a creeping effect.
This kind of palm thunder is a very big threat to soul masters of the fifth order and below.
Equipped with rifles and palm mines, the Tianjia Army's auxiliaries and logistics troops are enough to withstand the frontal attacks of ordinary soul masters below level 60.
Yun Tianjia knows that thermal weapons are like a Pandora's box, and once opened, they will have a earth-shaking impact on the world. In the final analysis, the core of thermal weapons is gunpowder, and when gunpowder develops, thermal weapons will follow.
Therefore, Yun Tianjia is very conservative in his treatment of gunpowder improvement.
If it weren't for the self-protection needs of the Tianjia Army, he wouldn't even plan to make these new gunpowders.
But then I thought, even without his push, wouldn't gunpowder have developed?
He's just a little bit ahead of what is going to happen in the future.
And there are two sides to everything, and new weapons can be used as tools to kill people, so why not use them as weapons to protect civilians?
With it, the gap between civilians and soul masters can be made up to a certain extent, and the status will not be as low as it is now. So the key to the pros and cons is who is in control of the new weapon.