Chapter 747: The History of the Legion's Heavy Archmen (I)
The Teutonic camp had always been worried about its military prowess, which was the case since the beginning of the war, and it is still the case today. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Perhaps in the eyes of the vast majority of outsiders, the military strength of the current Teutonic camp can be called terrifying: the Boghall District and the Acropolis Corps units that have retained the old methods of warfare while adapting to modern weapons and new tactics, the Teutonic artillery units that can skillfully control all kinds of giant mechanical old siege weapons and many modern artillery and light and heavy weapons, and the Teutonic automobile troops who have begun to get on the right track, The Teutonic tank corps and Teutonic armored corps, which are still undergoing basic theoretical and practical training, and the griffin cavalry, who have begun to train against pressure, all represent the strength of the Teutonic camp, and many of these units have also proved their strong combat effectiveness in the battle to encircle and annihilate the human forces from the outside world, and have been reported by a certain two Raven Tengu reporters in their respective newspapers.
However, for Feng Longde, Nether Demon Queen, and all the people in charge of all walks of life in the Teutonic camp, the current military strength of the Teutonic camp cannot be said to be weak, but they dare not say that it is so strong that it is boundless. The more than 300,000 troops of the Third German Reich who poured into Gensokyo a few decades ago can be said to crush the current Teutonic camp in terms of comprehensive strength, after all, on the premise that it is not a few times behind the technical level of the times, the absolute quantity is too easy to crush the quality, but it is still beaten by the demons and monsters of Gensokyo a few years later...... Of course, it is because Yakumo Zi has planned everything in advance behind the scenes and the fact that the modern human army does not have the corresponding energy logistics support in Gensokyo, but at the same time, it also reminds Feng Longde in disguise that when there is no sufficient logistics supply and absolute strength, it is an extremely stupid decision to directly provoke a war, not to mention that it is still in Gensokyo, a place that is not very local, and the last troops of the German Third Reich, which has not been in the country for a long time, have formed an absolute advantage over the monsters and goblins in the early stage by using the strong soldier quality and weapons and equipment, and as a result, once most of the weapons and equipment cannot be used due to lack of energy, they will be dumbfounded, it is impossible for Feng Longde not to learn the corresponding lessons.
Feng Longde and the Teutonic camp he led did quite well in this regard, or in other words, on the basis of the situation that the last troops of the German Third Reich fought a few decades ago, they developed it very well: with the royal guard composed of Yarman and other guard knights as the core force, little by little absorbing the ordinary human inhabitants in the human world as soldiers, and at the same time carrying out all aspects of communication and trade with the human world while developing itself, the relationship with Adolf, the leader of the Germanic human inhabitants, was almost honey, and the most important thing was that there was also Yakumo Zi's silent support and help behind it anywayIt is not unreasonable that the Teutonic camp has developed to such an astonishing point in the past two years, not only that, but the Teutonic camp has also skillfully tied its own interests with the interests of the world in the process, and the high degree of cooperation with the Germanic human inhabitants is in a sense completely regarded as the Teutonic camp has silently annexed it, but Adolf, the former head of the Third German Reich who is also the immortal of Penglai, still has nominal ruling power, but he is basically not in charge of things, In other words, as long as Feng Longde found a way to rely on marriage or other means, he could legally and reasonably merge all the Germanic human inhabitants into the Teutonic camp, and most of the human world could be considered to be merged.
Well, speaking of marriage, it seems that Adolf really has a suitable person to marry Von Longde, but this guy is currently in the Teutonic camp as a competent and excellent Teutonic Tomahawk Ranger flag captain......
It's a bit too far-fetched, so let's get down to business - for now, the only thing that can be reorganized into the regular Teutonic army is only one brigade, and it can only be reorganized into the Boghall brigade, and the Acropolis corps troops don't need to think about it, after all, the reorganized into the Boghall brigade means that half of them need to undergo new training, and if they are reorganized into the Acropolis corps troops, which are all hoplite units with large tower shields, all the staff will have to start retraining...... Not only that, but these human mercenaries from the outside world can't be integrated into other technical arms such as Teutonic artillery or Teutonic auto soldiers, and their own knowledge level limits their possibility of developing in this area, so their only chance is to become ordinary Teutonic soldiers, maybe they will have the opportunity to find a way to learn some basic knowledge in the future, so that they still have the qualifications and level to transfer to other technical arms positions, otherwise it is still honest and serious training and combat to come.
After some weighing, Feng Longde adopted a compromise reorganization method, that is, all the spear companies and hand cannon companies in this outside human mercenary brigade were withdrawn, and later separately reorganized into a new Boghall unit, and the missing Boghall two-handed swordsman company was specially drawn from other outside human mercenary units using two-handed sword weapons to supplement it through formal Teutonic military training; , so at that time, it is also necessary to eliminate half of the outside human mercenaries with hand cannons, and let them still maintain the identity of outside human mercenaries, but they are veterans, and they can take those new recruits to join so that the latter can form a stable combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and wait for the future when the new Teutonic regular troops are reorganized, they will be the next batch of "regular" objects.
As for the companies of armed infantry and crossbowmen that were separately extracted...... To tell the truth, Von Rond originally intended to retrain them and transform them into other branches of the Boghall army, but since retraining was time-consuming and laborious and not necessarily effective, he decided to just let the outside human mercenaries who could also use two-handed sword weapons in the armed infantry re-train the Boghall two-handed swordsmen, and the other armed infantry would continue to stay in the outside human mercenary units as veterans with new men like the eliminated hand artillery, and as for the crossbowmen, Von Longde decided that they would be divided into separate units to form a new unit, just like the heavy longbowmen and heavy crossbowmen of the Teutonic EmpireWhether it is the Teutonic Empire with magic guns, or the modern army that has almost completely used firearms, the use of cold weapons will still not be completely eliminated, take crossbows as an example, many times in special operations and close encounters, the power of modern military crossbows can penetrate almost any kind of body armor, and can also achieve far better silent concealment effect than guns equipped with silencers, not to mention the Teutonic pulley steel crossbow that is better than modern military crossbows in terms of comprehensive technology and practicality, and the heavy crossbowmen equipped with heavy Teutonic pulley steel crossbows are not necessarily weaker than the Boghall riflemen equipped with Mauser 98K rifles in battle, it still depends on what battlefield they are used on and how.
The user is always more important than the weapon, in Gensokyo, a place that lacks too many hardware conditions compared to the outside world, whether it is a really advanced weapon, or a seemingly backward weapon, they all have their own wonderful uses, it depends on whether the user himself has the brain in this area. No matter how advanced a weapon is, it will not be of much use in the hands of a fool, and no matter how backward a weapon is in the hands of an expert who can use it, it will be a terrible weapon of death, which can be reflected in military history or in the simplest street fights, and there is no need to say more about the specifics.
If the heavy Teutonic pulley steel crossbow in the hands of the heavy crossbowmen still has a value, then the longbow equipped by the heavy longbowman seems to be a little useless: the longbow with the special conical arrow can indeed be used for chain mail, The metal armor of the scale armor and the piercing armor have excellent armor-piercing effect, but there is almost no harm to the heavy armor that has been developed to the extreme in the era of cold weapons, and the training of a longbowman requires practice from an early age and is often a family business, a longbowman needs at least ten years of training from a young age to use the longbow effectively; in contrast, the operation of the Teutonic pulley steel crossbow is much simpler, an ordinary human can operate it after a short period of simple learning, and it takes a lot of strength to draw the longbow。 The effectiveness of the longbow is mostly dependent on the longbowman's own physical strength and skill, and compared to the Teutonic pulley, steel crossbow, magic guns, and modern firearms, which are easy to use, the longbow does not have enough stamina.
However, Feng Longde still decided to keep these heavily armed longbowmen in the human mercenary forces from the outside world, as a separate force, and also had his own full considerations- First of all, there are still a large number of Teutonic longbows in the arsenal of the Teutonic camp, that is, those taken out of the permanent shelter of the Seven Star Mountain, which are quite time-consuming and expensive to preserve, and it is better to consume them as much as possible, and the saved place is used to reserve other more practical weapons; Finally, in a sense, heavy longbowmen are also a feature of the military system during the Teutonic Empire, and it is not difficult to completely abolish them, but those human mercenaries from the outside world who are good at using longbows say that they will be laid off, and they simply let them consume the longbows and arrows in their inventory or they themselves will die clean and then do this kind of thing, at least it is reasonable to say that they are not cost-effective......
Speaking of the military system of the Teutonic Empire, the training system of longbowmen was also an important part of the military system of the Teutonic Empire: the first to use and popular longbows were naturally the Norse region, the Nelson region and the Wells region, these three regions had a long longbow culture long before the Teutonic Empire conquered and transformed it into an imperial province, but the only difference between them was that Knowles, as the birthplace, was more accustomed to using the Great Round Shield, Tomahawks, spears, and longbows are more of their auxiliary weapons, and most of the time they still pick up large round shields to fight with tomahawks, while Nelson combines longbowmen and spearmen for positional defensive combat, and Wells directly uses longbows in the mountains and forests for guerrilla warfare, which can be said to have their own merits...... However, after the Teutonic Empire occupied these three regions and turned them into imperial provinces, in order to obtain more high-quality longbowmen to join the Teutonic army, the status of the longbow almost reached the level second only to the cavalry lance and the knight's sword, making the longbow a status symbol, and the Teutonic royal family also ordered the people of the three regions to practice archery, so that the ordinary people of the three regions thought that this was a great opportunity to improve their social status: the ability to use the longbow to shoot arrows would at least make them look like local nobles, at least it was a good thing, so in these three regionsA large number of ordinary civilians who want to change their social status and living standards will spare more or less time to practice the longbow, among which the homesteaders who have a little wealth and whose social status is not much different from that of ordinary civilians are the most significant.
Under the influence of the social atmosphere created by the Teutonic Empire at that time, the proudest words of the people in these three regions at that time were "I will use a longbow!", which is roughly ......similar to the ordinary people in modern human society saying "I bought a house!" or "I have paid off my mortgage!" Ahem, to get back to the point, being able to implement this kind of policy has a lot to do with the unification of the Teutonic Empire, ****, extremely stable politics and strong policy continuity, which can ensure the promotion of the longbow, otherwise if the princes are divided into many heroes, even if someone recognizes the benefits of the longbow, there is no way to implement it.
This shows how important it is for a country to have an extremely efficient political system at any time, otherwise it will be a quarrel and quarrel all day long, and the so-called stewed system that is indiscriminate and does not do practical things is not as good as an effective and enlightened dictatorship......