afternoon

The sun is shining

March's icy spring breeze with the fragrance of grass and trees swept across his face, brushing the black ends of Richard's smooth forehead, dancing like a dancing elf, and the silhouette in the sun looked handsome, with an irrepressible wildness.

He was thinking

After digesting the large amount of information provided by Liu Wu, Richard found that Datang would face a tricky situation;

If you want to develop further in the next period of time, you must move the big rock of the North American rudder of the agreement hall, otherwise everything will not be able to talk about it.

Lin Zhanyuan, the young gang leader of this agreement hall, seems to be a ruthless character, and he will never let the Tang Dynasty "bang" in the face, and will take action sooner or later.

Only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days?

Against such a gangster evil force, with only one person of Richard, a gun is completely unrealistic, this is not a movie, Richard is not a superman, he will be bleeding and injured if he is hit by a bullet, and even a life, he can't help but be cautious.

Datang will be founded

Military training has not yet begun, everything needs time to precipitate, and what is lacking now is time.

Richard looked into the hills in the distance, where the new French military instructor, Mike Rabiot, was leading the men of the Tang Society in building a defensive wall after teaching a simple queue.

This French-style infantry defensive wall is a tight fence made of logs about two meters high, two feet of which are buried under the soil, closely arranged with logs, covered with wet soil on the outside, about 1.4 meters high, standing behind the breastwork to shoot, just on the chest of the defending infantry, which can withstand light field artillery bombardment.

On the hill, it is planned to build two semicircular defensive walls, about 50 meters apart, to form a defensive position facing the valley mouth.

This kind of defensive wall is not continuous, but composed of a short wall about 6~7 meters long, each short wall can accommodate 12~15 musketeers to fight, form a two-stage shooting, provide continuous fire, is a single combat unit.

Each line of defense consists of 2~3 short walls, which are 20~30 meters apart, covering a front of 120 to 150 meters, and together form a semi-circular defensive line.

In the morning, a lot of trees had been cut down, branches had been removed, and a lot of axes, saws, and nails had been purchased in the new town, and more than 70 stick boys had worked together, and in just half a day, the second line of defense had been formed.

This was also a military training for the armed gunmen of the Datang Society.

In order to cope with the current emergency situation, Richard and Mike's instructor consulted and made the training of musketeers the highest priority, and a total of 57 muskets were taken out and distributed, and the training was taken in pairs in turns.

Normally

After 2~3 days of intensive training, everyone can master the basic steps of firing muskets and initially have the ability to defend themselves at a minimum, but it is still too far to talk about combat.

The musket reloading steps are cumbersome, and more importantly, there is no rigorous military training, and the most common mistake for novices in a panic is to get the reloading step wrong, either missing an item, or repeatedly reloading black powder, resulting in an explosion or no sound.

It's better to hide behind the wall, and if you really take your rifle and brave the enemy's bullets and bullets, you'll have the fun.

Perhaps as soon as the enemy opened fire, the whole team would blow up and run away.

This is the difference between a disciplined army and a rabble.

In the words of the French instructor Mike;

In three days, I can guarantee that the gunmen of the Datang Society will firmly hold the mouth of the Grape Valley.

After ten days, the soldiers were able to defend themselves against the onslaught of any enemy horse corps of no more than 100 men by virtue of the wall.

A month

The gunners of the Datang Society could fight out of the defensive wall and pursue the enemy in the field, but the pursuit distance should not exceed 3 kilometers.

Three months

Able to undertake basic defense and field combat tasks, initially tempered to become a qualified soldier, it is not a problem to deal with the various armed forces of the new town.

Six months to temper into an army, and one year to become a qualified cavalry unit.

But to reach the combat effectiveness of the French cuirassiers, it will take at least 3~4 years, invest a lot of money and huge energy, and it will be possible to achieve the goal.

Please note that this is only possible.

Richard was not prepared to train the gunners of the Tang Dynasty as elite, and every French cuirassier regiment was a bottomless gold hole, and the cost of equipment and maintenance was frighteningly high, and he didn't have so much money to throw into it.

During the heyday of the French Emperor Napoleon's crisscrossing of Europe, he only maintained 12 cuirassier regiments, each cavalry regiment was about 650~800 people, and its equipment cost was enough to equip 3.5 arquebus regiments.

The cuirassiers' armament consisted of cuirasses, helmets, straight-edged sabers, and pistols, and in 1812 they were equipped with carbines, but like pistols, only a small number of soldiers carried.

As the core weapon, the saber was originally designed in 1799-1800 to use the Republican nine-year cuirassier knife, which was the first standard saber in France, with a blade length of 97.45cm, which was a sharp weapon in cavalry combat.

The Cuirassiers' straight-edged saber was designed to center of gravity close to the gauntlet, so that when charging, the arm could remain straight forward to increase the piercing force of the stab, but it was not as effective as the Mongol scimitar when slashing.

The cavalry cuirass and helmet were made of steel, and the helmet was covered with black cowhide, brass trim and spine, and black horsehair with red feathers, and the cuirass was decorated with brass scale belts and a white trimmed lining.

As a heavy cavalry unit, the cuirassiers' regiment was primarily a strong horse, limited to the strongest horses in Normandy in Europe, each of which was costly.

In battle, cuirassiers are always present on the most dangerous battlefields, launching the fiercest charge against the most stubborn enemy, they are the symbol and soul of the cavalry of our time.

Among the most prestigious Prussian armies in Europe, it was not until the defeat of Napoleon's army in the Normandy War in 1814 that six Prussian cuirassier regiments were formed with the help of standard cuirassiers captured from the French army.

Among the major European countries, the Austrian army had eight cuirassier regiments, and France now has four cuirassier regiments.

Thus

This thing is really a big money-burner, and it can't be equipped without a strong national strength.

Richard's idea was to build a French-style dragoon regiment of about 200 people, that is, a cavalry musket regiment, to maneuver on horseback, dismount and fight with flintlock muskets, which is not only fast to become an army, but also much cheaper.

He is going to lead this armed force to make a great name in San Fernandez, and even in the whole of Alta California, and lay a solid foundation for the prestige system upgrade mission.

Ultimately

If Richard wants to strengthen his own strength, he still has to rely on the reputation system as a plug-in, otherwise he can only rise with hard tempering day and night, or lone wolf adventure.

He re-checked the system interface, and in just two days, the "Everyone Knows" task has risen from more than 1,400 people at the beginning to 3,776 people/10,000 people.

Other words

In just two days, the progress of the mission has been completed by one-third, and although the growth trend has slowed down, it is still in a tenacious increase.

In today's era, information is blocked, and information can only be disseminated by word of mouth, and the scope of influence is very limited.

Richard's murderous move spread quickly among some people in the new town and among the Chinese community, including the upper echelons of Parkview Green.

But in Mexican communities and indigenous Indian tribes, because of ethnic and linguistic barriers, only a few leading figures or indigenous chiefs know about it, and others do not care about it or understand it, which is a big problem.

In Richard's title mission, the number of people who know his identity as a "protector of Chinese gold diggers" has increased from 842 to 1,991, with a task completion rate of 64%, and it is hoped that he will be the first to achieve it.

There are only more than 2700~2800 Chinese people in total, and they like to live together, if the news of the war with the agreement hall comes out, everyone will definitely know about it, including the Chinese women in the prostitute green building.

This made him very much looking forward to what the system would reward after the title quest was completed?