And this is exactly what Xia Lin is happy to see.

He was going to screen out some squad and platoon-level officers from these regular employees and employees who had worked in Xinglan Industrial Park and had some sense of discipline, and in the past few days, he had accepted some of Xia Lin's ideas of the New Army, and understood how to train the company-platoon-level military commanders of the New Army soldiers to build the skeleton of the New Army.

Early the next morning, Xinglan Industrial Park went to the open space of the Yuya Block, and suddenly built a lot of strange facilities with wood and ropes, which were divided into four large blocks around a vacant land, which was the obstacle course that Xia Lin planned to test the physical fitness of recruits.

Xia Lin took the twelve New Army officers neatly dressed in uniforms that had just been made for a few days, wearing large-brimmed military hats, and began to formally recruit soldiers after setting up the awnings and setting up tables and chairs, while the remaining twelve New Army officers were responsible for testing the applicants in the obstacle course.

Behind them were a mountain of recruit distribution suits, which included two sets of military uniforms, a military cap, two sets of underwear, and two pairs of leather boots for each of them in summer and winter, so that the total value of a set of recruits' standard equipment reached fifty-seven silver mar.

If you add in the cost of the Type 1391 Type 2 rifle, which was officially finalized for production, and the cost of miscellaneous items such as mattresses to be distributed in the future, the price of equipment for each new soldier reached almost two gold lundes, which can be described as a high cost.

1,000 people spent 2,000 gold lundes, and the remaining 1,000 gold luns were almost enough to cover three months' military training expenses and salaries.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Xia Lin, do these things really have to be distributed to the recruits who have passed the assessment on the spot?"

Looking at these valuable equipment and materials, Lai Yin asked with some pity.

In his opinion, even some down-and-out knights, except for the plate armor on their bodies, other equipment may not be worth these things, so it is really a bit of a waste to give them to recruits who have just joined the army. Even if the alliance gave Xia Lin a huge grant of 3,000 gold lunt, it wasn't used like this!

"Of course, sign up on the spot, assess on the spot, and distribute it on the spot. In the slums, many people have some negative impressions of joining the army, and we need to use this means to break their negative perception of soldiers.

Remember what I said in Chapter 1 of the Infantry Conduct Regulations, that the new army of our alliance is unlike any other army that has always been there, and this army is an army of honor and faith!

In order to build such an army, we must first pay attention to the soldiers, not only in terms of treatment, but also in life, training, and combat."

Xia Lin solemnly explained.

"A sense of honor? We knights have a great sense of honor!"

"But you knights need to be trained from an early age, and you know the cost of a knight legion. No matter how powerful our coalition is, how can it compare to the conservatives who are born with the support of the chivalric class?

We can only choose to find a different way, and use new equipment and new armies to achieve military confrontation with the conservatives. That's why Her Royal Highness and the councillors have high expectations for the new army!"

Xia Lin vetoed Lai Yin's view, the biggest advantage of this weapon is the relatively low cost of construction and training, and only by relying on this kind of technological superiority across the era can the enlightened faction have the possibility of gaining an advantage in military struggle.

"This ...... But can such an army really be able to fight a well-armed army of knights?"

Lai Yin looked at the non-commissioned officers who acted as non-commissioned officers who were still a little immature after a few days of hard training, although their mental outlook had changed a lot, and asked with some suspicion.

"Of course, weren't the results already clear in the previous few days? With the power of Type 2 rifles, cannons, and grenades, in a 1,000-man versus 1,000-man encounter, as long as there are no Silver Knights or Three-Ring Mages in the enemy ranks, our new army will be able to crush the charging knights."

In this regard, Xia Lin had no doubt about the combat effectiveness of his new army, and after the gun factory successfully developed the ignition grenade under the leadership of Master Faun, the structure of the new army he expected had been completely completed.

Although black powder grenades

The power of the bullet is not particularly powerful, but it has a good application effect on the street fighting battlefield preset in the exercise.

In the field, the new army, which relied on bunkers such as trenches, breastwork, and wooden horse rejections, was able to easily annihilate three times its own traditional infantry group and a cavalry brigade of similar size to its own at a warning range of 100 meters away.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Xia Lin, I think what Battalion Commander Yin means is that they, the recruits, will not really be scared to run away in the face of the charge of the knights on the battlefield?"

Darius, who was sitting on the other side of Xia Lin, spoke, his expression also full of suspicion.

During this period of time, Xia Lin has established a salary hierarchy system for the new army, which costs more than the emperor's *** team, and has painstakingly produced so much valuable equipment, if this new army does not show due combat effectiveness, they have no way to explain to the members and speakers of the alliance.

"Although you as military commanders don't need to worry about this kind of problem, let me explain!

It seems to me that soldiers' will to fight derives from the ideas they received when they were trained.

According to the differences in these ideas, there are five types of armies in the world with different fighting will and combat effectiveness.

The first is a traditional army that gathers together to plunder the wealth of others and ensure that they eat, drink, and be merry. This kind of army looks strong and brutal, but in fact it is loosely organized and vulnerable, and can only be counted as bandits.

For example, the army of desert rangers composed of the chieftains of various tribes in the kingdom of Prius seemed to be large and powerful, but in the Battle of North Gaza Port, our regular knights only needed two or three charges to easily defeat them.

The second type goes further, and the army is established to defend their families and hometowns, and they fight bravely to defend their hometowns, but after leaving their hometowns and losing this goal, they become the first type of army.

For example, this is the case of the once famous Oventor Legion in the east, when they resisted the invasion of the Kingdom of Sein, they once showed strong combat effectiveness, even if they were besieged and forced to the Gangang River, they did not lose the will to fight, but achieved the miraculous Gangang Battle in the history of the emperor.

But when they succeeded in defeating the enemy, gaining an advantage on the battlefield, and turned to enter the kingdom of Seon and began to plunder, the army was transformed and lost the fundamental purpose of the battle.

In the end, in almost exactly the same situation as on the banks of the Ganggang River, they were easily routed by the army of the Kingdom of Sain on the banks of the Vasa River.

The third type of army is based on this, and further incorporates the army built by the belief of loyalty to the monarch and glory to the lord.

This kind of army implements the idea of loyalty to the monarch or the glorious lord of the Evil Light Cult, and can have strong combat effectiveness and will to fight, which is the current situation of the standing army of the empire and the armies of the six northern countries that are at war with us.

As long as we can reach the level of the third type of army, we don't have to worry about the new army being routed in the knights' charge."

Xia Lin didn't intend to answer this question, but seeing that both of them looked a little hesitant, he thought about it and patiently explained.

Several of the officers of the New Army around them all showed thoughtful expressions when they heard this fresh statement.

"I see, what about the two armies left?"

Lai Yin thought for a moment and realized that in the battle he encountered, the enemy's combat effectiveness was indeed layered due to the factors mentioned by Xia Lin.

There is indeed a big gap between the army and militia of the Kingdom of Prius and the regular army of the six northern countries and the regular army of the empire, and there is indeed a big gap between the combat effectiveness and fighting will of these militarized groups, and he has never thought about how this gap came about before, and now it seems that it is about the role of the thought that Xia Lin said.

"The fourth and fifth? That's the level I expect the new army to reach, but the people we've been waiting for have already arrived, so let's get ready to recruit first!"

Xia Lin did not immediately say his greatest expectation for the new army, because it was a bit unbelievable to say anything like building the army with political beliefs under such circumstances.

Looking at the people coming out of the industrial park, they came from all over the world

Factory's conscript, Xia Lin changed the subject.