Chapter 172: The Lord's Sword
Charlie is still very satisfied with his choice to train a new army, and after investing most of his wealth, the Lord's Sword has formed a strong combat effectiveness. The Lord's Sword is mainly composed of the remaining 10,000 Hessian mercenaries who have maintained their complete combat effectiveness, plus 10,000 strong men selected from the militia and the regular army, and is trained by Adolf.
According to various sources circulating in the company, Adolf Charlie saw that the company's escort team attached great importance to discipline, even to the point of disregarding life and death in order to complete orders. As long as such an army has a qualified commander, its combat effectiveness is extremely terrifying. The two of them felt that the Lord's Sword had to do the same, so they frantically conducted repetitive command training on them.
In fact, in order to reach that level, it is not only necessary to train, but also to make the fighters have no worries, and at the same time, to add advanced combat concepts. It would be nice if Charlie could come up with money to train the new army, where would he come up with money to support them. However, this kind of brainwashing training also has a certain effect. At the very least, as long as there are not a lot of casualties, the Lord's Sword will still obey orders.
Coupled with the constant canning of meat every day, the physical fitness of the members of the Lord's Sword is much better than before. Originally, a field march would take up to three hours to get tired, but now a day of walking can still ensure that you have enough energy left at night. Of course, because of the unbalanced nutrition and heavy training, there are more or less dark injuries in the body.
The Lord's Sword also has the establishment of medical guards, but the medical means are really backward. Some of the medicines are mainly purchased from Europe, and most of the others are actually various so-called home remedies. Only a very small number of them are cold and hemostatic medicines that come out of the company. There is no regular anti-inflammatory medicine. And the inflammation of the wound is the main factor that takes the life of the soldier.
The lack of drugs is nothing, the key is that doctors don't like to take a bath, and there is not even a formal sterile operating room. The wards are also dirty and messy, only a little better than those civilian rooms, and the bandages are only slightly clear with water, and there is no boiling water and alcohol bubbles at all. However, something is better than nothing, and it is this kind of medical and nursing system that has also reduced their abnormal attrition rate by 30 percent. For this, Charlie also happily rewarded them.
With that said, let's talk about the equipment of the Lord's sword. Because of the Anglo-French War, the British seized the weapons and equipment of the bad French, and even the company's appearance version of the revolver and grenade were captured a lot. After experimentation, the British found that these weapons were somewhat more advanced than those they used. The Bess musket was already the best weapon made in Britain, and as a result, the French colonial army used it was a little more advanced than the Bess musket.
Regarding the revolver, Charlie had heard before that Alger had it in his hands. He even escaped from a well-planned assassination attempt with this one, and Charlie wanted Alger to sacrifice it for the colonial arsenal to copy, and promised Alger some benefits. Originally, the benefits were too little, and Alger didn't do it. But Charlie was furious and began to act against the Charles family.
The British were lucky enough to capture seven, and there were not many bullets. After the test firing, it was found that although there was still no accuracy at a distance of 100 meters, it was more accurate than the brown bass at 50 meters. With a total of six bullets, it can be fired in one minute, which is really a melee weapon. It's just that they really can't imitate that bullet structure.
Of course, there is still a problem of lack of time, and if you give it another two years, you can still do it. It's just that Charlie knows that he doesn't have this time, and neither does the Lord's sword. In two years, with the development of the Yanhuang Trading Company, the British will definitely despair, and they can only survive in the shadow of the company.
At Charlie's urging to chase his life, the Colonial Arsenal came up with a black technology weapon. This kind of gun, which Charlie named a sword-style rifle, really amazed the military researchers of the Yanhuang Trading Company. A sword that combines a company-made revolver with a French-made flintlock pistol.
How to combine, you asked. It was actually to add a revolver structure to a rifle made by the French. They can't do six, but they can do three. They mixed the marbles with gunpowder, held them in place with a paper tube, and put them in the wheel. The front and rear sections are pressed with a pressed sheet, which is connected to the gun body by iron wire. After firing one shot, turn the engine, and you can continue to fire two shots.
Xiao Lin couldn't help but vomit, what is the difference between this and the legendary three-eyed gun, they are all three shots. However, don't say it, in this way, the probability of exploding the chamber has not increased much, but the firepower has increased by more than three times. After all, the gunpowder and marbles are sealed and assembled, and you can use them as long as you tear the paper at the front and back ends and put it in.
Of course, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Yanhuang Trading Company, this kind of gun is a huge amount of wealth that they will not use. Not to mention anything else, the Yanhuang rifle in their hands is all throwing this sword and eight roads.
After talking about guns, let's talk about guns. Why not talk about machine guns, it's because the British simply can't make this weapon that they call Hellfire Tongue now. The point is that there is no physical reference, and it is simply impossible to infer from what some people have seen and heard. They didn't do a good job of ammunition, and they really had to force development, and in the end, they only had the result of injuring their own people.
In terms of artillery, Charlie found that heavy artillery of nine pounder guns and above was enough to pose a deadly threat to the Yanhuang Trading Company. There were only six-pounder and three-pounder guns, which were too powerful to pose any threat to the trench fortifications dug by the company's fighters. However, because these guns were small in size and light in weight, they were not able to escape under the company's shelling.
In this regard, Charlie can only urge the steel mills below to smelt suitable cannon steel. Now, iron and bronze cannons are no longer suitable, and it is necessary to use strong and lightweight steel cannons to cast good cannons that take into account both quality and weight. For more than half a year, the British really made a new cannon.
This person was forced out, Charlie's policy of sticking in his right hand and radish in his left hand forced various steel mills to study with all their might, and barely made a batch of qualified cannon steel. This batch of cannon steel, after being cast into a twelve-pound gun, has a service life of 600 rounds. It doesn't seem like much, but the rate of fire of the front-loading guns is too slow, and the life of 600 rounds is enough to fight a big battle.
There is no rifling, and there is no problem of precision or inaccuracy, as long as it is guaranteed not to be fried. This kind of artillery was renamed the Lord's Glory again by Charlie, who was in the late stage of literary and artistic disease. Charlie was really scared by Xiao Lin, and he went to the point of praying to God and worshiping Buddha. White people don't have gods and Buddhas, so they believe in a god and take a name, and they don't know which fantasy angel legion they think it is.
New weapons have been developed, but they are manufactured more slowly. Of the 20,000 new army of the Lord's Sword, only 5,000 were replaced with the new Sword and Rifle. The Lord's Radiance-class twelve-pounder cannon has only thirty guns. Since both shells and bullets can be used universally, there are extremely abundant of them. The rest of the people had to use the brown bass musket and some cannons made in the late 17th century.
However, even so, the warrior of the Lord's Sword was as confident as the commander of Adolf. Fortunately, the news of the North American version of the 918 incident specially created by Xiao Lin has not yet come, otherwise I don't know how proud they are. As soon as the front received information that the Yanhuang Trading Company had been discovered, they took the initiative to move forward.
If it weren't for Charlie, for the sake of safety, he ordered them early not to take the initiative in the face of Yanhuang Trading Company, I am afraid that a fight would have started. They had reconnoitred, and the weapons of the company's escort were still those ones, so they gradually settled down. However, they did not know that the number of machine guns and 60mm mortars of the company's field divisions had increased considerably.
The most important thing is that the 122mm heavy guns and 152mm heavy guns are still in transit, and these people have not seen them, so it is difficult to be prepared. In order to prevent people from bypassing and sneaking up on the artillery, the blockade of the front line was extremely tight. Even the 82mm mortars were hidden by the front-line commanders, just to kill these British by surprise.
Since the heavy artillery has not yet arrived, the battle has not officially begun, and the Apache and their front-line commanders have not been idle. First of all, he gave an order for his soldiers to trim the trench defense system and build more than three artillery positions, which was enough for the soldiers to be busy. Then, let the night owl's men assist and find out the situation of the enemy's position.
And they themselves gathered all the staff officers together to integrate the information collected by the night owls. Then, together with Li Ming, an instructor and officer with rich theoretical experience, he discussed the offensive strategy in the future.
It was busy here, but Adolf began to wonder. Although he didn't know that Xiao Lin had asked his subordinates to officially submit a declaration of war, he also knew that the people from the company were definitely not here to play.
But as soon as I arrived at the place, I didn't say that there would be a fight, but what was it to build defensive positions in three separate places. I really thought he was stupid and would crash headlong with the army. Those fortifications that he looked at were complicated, and with the company's powerful firearms, the Lord's sword would definitely not be able to break through the head and bleed.
They didn't move, and for a moment, Adolf didn't dare to move. It's the scouts outside, and he takes them back. Why do you want to do such an unreasonable thing? That's because he knows how powerful the night owl is. As far as his subordinates are concerned, they are not even scouts, they can only be said to be sentinels, and when they encounter the night owl in the wild, they have no chance of winning at all.
Xiao Lin couldn't wait, and came to the front line with the Guards Regiment (the expansion of the original 1st Guards Battalion) and personally took charge of the artillery transfer.