The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 93: The Army Framework

A few days after the victory celebration, Roland finally did a great farm project.

The continuous sound of droplets rang out from the direction of the window as he was sitting in his office, it sounded like a relentless rain.

It was the sound of snow melting. When she visited the countryside for the New Year, she lay in front of the window most of the time,

watching the long ice prism hanging under the roof turn transparent and then into droplets, which then fall off.

Right now he had no time to relax like that.

However, writing down future plans while listening to the sound of earth recovery is also very pleasant.

According to information gathered from previous years, the snow will take about a week to melt,

but the road between Border Town and Longsong Fortress would take at least a month until it could be reused.

It took a lot of time after the snow melted because the road was built of mud and also did not have a drainage system Roland could already imagine,

if he wanted to defeat Longsong Stronghold, the first thing he needed to do was to build a road between the two cities that could be used by the carriage even during heavy rain.

But now the issue with the highest priority is still the issue of army reconstruction.

Without a reliable and mighty army, it would be impossible to defeat the power of Longsong Fortress with its outnumbered army.

The transfer of militias into regular armies was only the first step.

Special preparation to establish new rules, discipline, reward and punishment systems turned out to be very dizzying.

Although since childhood he has been playing ground combat chess, but he has long forgotten all the previous teachings.

Roland, after some thought, decided to make his own plan.

After all, as the creator of the new army, even if he applied unreasonable things, no one would find him anyway.

So the first compilation of Border Towns for new troops was immediately prepared: according to the Army, divisions, platoons, teams, squads, five men for one squad

(considering that the cannon needs at least five people to operate), ten squads for one team, ten teams for one platoon.

As for the number of platoons within a division, he decided to consider it later.

Given the overall battle prowess of the army during this era, as long as he sent two or three army platoons, it was enough to defeat most opponents on the battlefield.

When he decided on the basics of the army skeleton, Roland took a deep breath.

The orderliness that came next was much simpler, besides always wearing uniforms, they had to obey the commander, never leave, never betray comrades and so on.

Roland's first rule was to prohibit looting and harassment.

The problems caused by looting are numerous, and the negative impact on the local population is so great, that they take years to recover, if ever.

This was also the reason why he insisted on using only civilians as members of the military.

When the aristocracy responded to the call to battle their Master, the main reason for their obedience was not to defeat the enemy,

except for the looting afterwards. Or in other words, the main reason they followed the call of war, was to plunder the wealth and territory of the enemy, he said,

this includes innocent civilians in the area.

As for the mercenaries, not to mention the bandits, although they look stable and ferocious, but if you take a closer look,

they are just flags waving in the wind and at the same time robberies are also a major source of their income.

So expecting military discipline from these people is meaningless.

Only troops made up of civilians would not see other civilians as mere sheep to be slaughtered.

Of course, relying on discipline and moral control alone is not enough.

After long days on the field, the heart of greed will grow with each sustained victory.

Therefore, the gift given must always follow greed, only in this way can he prevent looting and other illegal behavior.

To make the prize big enough, Roland decided to offer the biggest prize – receive their own territory.

As long as they achieved great achievements during the battle, they could obtain their own territory.

Since over 90% of all land belonged to members of the aristocracy, such a gift was truly very attractive.

Once they had their own property, these people would be tightly bound to his side, and if there was someone who wanted to overthrow him, they would be bound to him,

they will show the strongest possible resistance to protect their benefactor and hereby protect their own land as well.

After all, humanity is not driven by words and whips, but by their own advantage.

In other words, as long as he could continue to fulfill the basic interests of the people under his rule, nothing would be able to shake his dominance.

Unlike traditional territories, Roland would give them an area between several acres and up to a dozen acres.

The territory could be used to build their own residences, and they could buy slaves or hire farmers to take care of their fields, he said,

but they were not allowed to set up their own industry. Instead, the reward territory for a knight approached two thousand acres, an area equivalent to a small village.

The above-mentioned industrial revenues were used to provide his knights and servants for their war needs,

for example, it is necessary to buy their own weapons, armor, and horses. Being awarded such a small area of land was not very attractive to the aristocracy and therefore would not face much resistance,

but it will also weaken feelings of independence for people on the battlefield.

In Roland's view, it was like paying a retirement pension, which would ensure that the soldiers had a stable income even after retirement.

At the same time, to strengthen the centralization of power, and to avoid thinking that

“servant servant is not my servant”, he will only give them ownership of the territory but no autonomy.

In other words, the land is still under the jurisdiction of laws, regulations, and systems in the territory of God.

In a sense, they will be the foundation for future generations of farmers.

After he wrote down the concept for the reward system, Roland rested and stretched his body.

Then finally he can start thinking about the field in his own field of expertise – weapons R&D.

With the increasing speed of flintlock creation, continuing to use the spearman to protect the shooter seems to be just a waste of manpower,

so that the latter needed the ability to fight independently in close combat.

There is a very easy solution to this problem, which is to add a bayonet to the flintlock. Roland did not expect his own men to take the initiative and engage in close combat, either,

instead they should only have the ability to defend themselves if the force of the weapon cannot completely destroy the enemy's courage and they start an attack.

desperate attack. Weapons like bayonets are not so difficult to make, describing them in easy-to-understand words,

it was just a sharp cone, and in terms of further increasing the killing effectiveness, he could also add a blood groove to it.

The key part is the connection between the bayonet and the gun, the first bayonet is the blade connected to a thin wooden pole, which can be directly inserted into the gun barrel.

The advantage of this construction is quite simple, the disadvantage is also very obvious, if the bayonet is used the weapon can not shoot, the loss is also very clear, if the weapon is used bayonet can not shoot,

and in addition, if used to stab someone, it can happen that the bayonet will be trapped in the body of the enemy.

So Roland intends to produce better second generation bayonet – casing type bayonet.

The bayonet has an iron sheath added to its blade handle. The diameter of the inner sheath is slightly larger than the grooved barrel.

One only needed to weld a piece of iron with a hole above the barrel. After attaching the bayonet above the barrel and inserting the stuffing into the hole, it will become fixed.

The blade is triangular in shape, with three sharp blades, if pierced into the body will not fall off, and will also leave a wound that is difficult to heal.

After installation of the bayonet, the bayonet will be slightly longer than the barrel, and also complicate the loading process, but compared to the folding bayonet, it is much simpler for mass production.

As long as there was a sample, any blacksmith could reproduce it.

But in order to allow the bayonet to play an important role in combat, it is important to train the soldiers on how to use it.

But Roland naturally knew nothing about it. Fortunately, he remembered that his Knight Chief had once boasted, that he could use any weapon.

So he just needed to find her and have her teach the others how to fight with bayonets.

TN: For more information about bayonets. see youtube "...."