That's it, although internally, Otto von Hereford, who has the vague appearance of the world's number one, is missing. The strength of the Hereford family army www.biquge.info slightly reduced, and the deterrent power was greatly reduced.

Although he was unwilling, William himself had to admit that his actual command level and reputation were a little worse than his father's.

But even with the loss of King Otto, the Hereford family army was still a formidable, in a sense, the most powerful army in the world.

After several months of training, rearmament, and expansion, a standard Hereford regiment was more than the original 10,000 men.

After expansion, one Hereford regiment would include six infantry regiments, one artillery and combat engineer regiment, two cavalry regiments, three chasseur companies, two separate cavalry companies and one personal guard company. The total strength is more than 12,000 men.

Its infantry regiment is equipped with more than 1,500 men as standard. Divided into ten companies. The infantry units of the 1st and 2nd Corps have all been equipped with the latest muskets. The other two legions, the Shilonsk Praetorian Guard under William's command, still used old-fashioned flintlock muskets.

In terms of infantry support weapons, in addition to the traditional grenades and bayonets. The Hereford family's infantry units also equipped the mid- and high-ranking officers with flintlock handcuffs for self-defense, command knives, and a small amount of equipment as organ cannons to support firepower.

The Hereford family's artillery unit has been fully equipped with the latest six- and twelve-pounder Napoleonic guns...... In addition to the original flowering shells, new shrapnel shells are additionally equipped.

It's just a pity that the genius expert, Master Leonardo, whom William had placed his hopes on, has too much work to do lately. So none of the new ****** and explosives that William had hoped for were invented. This made William feel quite a pity.

In addition to the new Napoleonic guns, the artillery units of the 1st and 2nd Praetorian Guards Corps were partially equipped with new "Unicorns" plus howitzers. Its trajectory can be greatly adjusted, and the shells fired at the same time weigh 20 pounds...... Although it is too heavy, the launch speed is slow, and it is not easy to move. But its power is quite positive. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

The usual artillery regiment was armed with more than sixty six-pounder Napoleonic guns and forty twelve-pounder large Napoleonic guns. A total of a hundred new bronze cannons will be enough to destroy the confidence of any enemy unit. The Unicorns and howitzers equipped in the 1st and 2nd Praetorian Guards Corps totaled thirty. Each unicorn and howitzer requires twelve strong horses. Fortunately. The Hereford family also had a large supply of livestock - this is also the aspect in which the Hereford family is superior to any human nation in terms of logistics, transportation and marching.

The sapper units of each legion could drive a camel-beast army consisting of almost three thousand mules, donkeys, and military horses. Both the number of vehicles and camels can meet the demand.

It can be said that the Hereford family army was the first of modern armies to complete Romanization - I mean mules and horses. After all, the area controlled by the Hereford family is notoriously vast and sparsely populated. There are large tracts of land suitable for grazing, as well as specially enhanced animal husbandry. Paul, the head of the animal husbandry department who was born as a shepherd, is a very good guy at serving livestock. In his hands, the number of livestock under the control of the Hereford family has multiplied several times in recent years......

Therefore, in this era when the railway cannot be spread all over the country and the internal combustion engine needs to continue to work hard, the traditional transportation capacity of mules and horses is the simplest and most reliable.

Even William, who was determined to vigorously develop rail transport, could not deny this.

In addition to these mules and horses, which had to be cared for, carried a lot of logistical baggage, and transported artillery, the sappers were equipped with several other weapons.

The first is the large-caliber ****** - a massive killer that can kill several idiots by pulling the trigger at close range.

Then there is the increased number one defensive grenade. Compared with the ordinary grenade after two rounds, the weight has increased by at least one catty, and the charge and power have also increased. If you don't have enough experience and arm strength, you can easily hurt yourself when using this kind of thing.

The third is the pleasant **** - although the safe high explosives have not yet been obtained. But the insecurity is already there. Unstable, explosive, powerful explosives.

That is, ********.

William happily accepted this, a terrifying weapon that could blow up the enemy with himself. And it was distributed to combat engineering units. Expect them to kill a few more enemies before they kill themselves.

However, William knew that there were certain ways to stabilize the performance of the ******** and create the legendary safe explosive. But William knew it, but he didn't know why.

So what exactly is diatomaceous earth......******** what does it mean to adsorb diatomaceous earth...... Although the book seems to be very clear, I still don't understand it when I think about it.

What's more, this thing is too dangerous. It's a miracle that Nobel guy survived to death.

So William wrote down a series of ideas, ideas and everything, and then gave them to Master Leonardo. Ask the master to work on these questions. Ask the master to bear the danger or something.

Finally, there is the better sapper shovel...... Of course, it is not as exaggerated as the multifunctional sapper shovel of later generations. And the quality is also slightly worse. However, this sapper shovel is still very luxurious and uses steel blades. Whether it's digging trenches, building fortifications, or chopping off the head of some idiot, it's very suitable.

In artillery and sapper baggage regiments, the number of artillery ranged from six to eight hundred. And the number of sappers is more than a thousand. Originally, these two branches of the army could form an independent army. William once had the idea of forming combat engineering units independently. However, because the military forces don't look down on these groundhog-like guys, they have met with great resistance.

So, William gave it up for the time being. It is expected that in this great war, the combat engineers will make enough meritorious contributions. That's it.

After talking about infantry and artillery, the next step is the cavalry troops.

After a series of developments, the number of cavalry units of the Hereford family increased significantly.

With their backs on the savannah, and with the traditional cavalry power of Wende in their hands, the Hereford family can proudly claim to be the country with the best cavalry soldiers in the human world

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Hereford family added another cavalry regiment to each regiment. and the creation of two additional three-regimental hussar brigades in addition to the corps.

Of the five additional cavalry regiments, there were two cuirassiers and three lancers. Here, William can proudly claim that the Hereford family has the best cavalry unit in the world.

That's it. In addition to these basic units, the Hereford family also had special experimental units such as a company of hunters and guards equipped with rifled guns, and a separate cavalry company equipped with the latest revolvers and rifled carbines.

That's pretty much it. Ah, in a sense, this period of time in modern times should be the era when the army is equipped with the least variety of weapons and equipment. It is not like modern times that you need airplanes, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery of all sizes, rockets and missiles. One soldier was equipped with a whole bunch of bits and pieces of sights, night vision goggles, or something.

It's not like in ancient times, where there are eighteen kinds of weapons and different divisions of labor......

So modern warfare is relatively simple - and even if the Hereford family hadn't pioneered the reform and introduced a variety of new weapons, the weaponry needed for the original mode of warfare would have been much simpler.

Now the number of Hereford family troops in operation with the war machine in operation is no longer 50,000 as advertised. Rather, it was a huge army of more than 60,000, close to 70,000. Equipped with relatively up-to-date weapons and equipment, a large number of baggage, logistics materials and ammunition have been prepared...... In fact, William had already thought about the wonderful effect of such an army intervening on the battlefield today.

It's not an exaggeration to say that it's devastating. Although the number is less than the emperor's army of nearly 100,000, it is relatively strong in terms of quality and weaponry. In this case, even if you fight the emperor's army independently, it is perfectly fine, right?

Of course, William wouldn't be so stupid.

All in all, at the end of 1741, William worked hard to deploy his army. In response to Victoria's frantic voice, "Bastard, you'd better hurry up and send troops!"

While constantly communicating with the Hereford family, while expecting King Otto to return, while desperately trying to win over William, he is also desperately attacking-

Perhaps, he made the right judgment from some clues. That is, the Hereford family has made a decision to form an alliance with the Britons.

So, Kalman IV was in a hurry.

He had to settle Jutland before the Hereford family could complete its internal unification (Kalman IV consciously had a power struggle within the Hereford family) and the Britons could recruit a second army. He must not be allowed to deaf the main force to this not too important battlefield at such an important moment.

That's it, Kalman IV made a force. Archduke Christian was out of luck.

William didn't care if he lived or died, and the Britons were powerless. Kalman IV could not trust him at all and did not accept his surrender.

In this case, he could only bite the bullet and fight with Kalman IV.

The emperor's army was as high as sixty thousand. And Archduke Christian, even with the support of the Britons, worked very hard to recruit and expand his troops. But because Jutland has been cut off from the mainland. Therefore, the recruitment of troops is not ideal. In the end, he could only use 20,000 men to face the imperial army that was twice as large as him. In the end, there was no doubt about losing.

The army of 20,000 was completely defeated, and the Grand Duke himself fled in disarray, and finally withdrew from Jutland on the battleship Blithon. Temporarily sheltered on the West Island.

Because the Duchy of Jutland has sufficient naval forces, and at the same time, the Britons are recognized as a naval power in the world. In contrast, the Emperor controlled only a very pitiful amount of coastline - the Emperor had almost no naval forces at his disposal.