1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 215 Teaching Company

The guns are in place and the officers are in place.

Next, Liang Yao planned to use these Prussian officers as instructors to train his California infantry regiment.

The main force of the California Infantry Regiment is in California. Liang Yao only brought two infantry companies and one cavalry company to New York this time.

Liang Yao decided to choose one of the two infantry companies as the teaching company, give priority to equipping the Dreiser firing needle gun, and let these Prussian instructors train first to see how effective it is.

The Prussian side is very considerate, and the officers selected for him can speak English.

The soldiers of the California Infantry Regiment are all veterans. They have lived in the United States for more than a year. They cannot speak English very well, but they can communicate normally.

These soldiers and Prussian instructors also had no language barriers, which saved Liang Yao a lot of trouble and no need to find an interpreter.

The Dresser firing pin gun is more advanced and more precise, especially the mechanical structure of the bolt part is more complicated.

In addition, the Dresser firing needle gun has problems such as fragile springs, easy residues of gunpowder, and easy wear and tear at the junction of the chamber and the barrel.

The maintenance requirements for guns are relatively high.

Liang Yao also knew that his soldiers and low-level officers were all from poor peasants, and their quality could not be compared with the Prussian army who pursued [military] harmony [country] [principal] [righteousness] and had been militarized since childhood.

If you want to narrow the gap with the Prussian army, you can only make up for it through acquired training.

The cost of obtaining these Dresser firing pin guns was very high.

The purchase price of the rifled Springfield M1842 with bayonet is only 14 US dollars each, and you can bargain if you buy too much. After all, he is also an old customer of Springfield Armory, and this discount will still be given.

The smoothbore M1842 is even cheaper at $11 brand new.

For the price of cabbage, many colonels in the army still think it is too expensive.

As for these Dresser firing pin guns, Liang Yao bought them from Prussia in the form of gold payment, excluding shipping costs, and the purchase unit price is 50 US dollars if converted into US dollars!

The Dresser firing pin gun is indeed more sophisticated than the M1842, and it is more difficult and expensive to manufacture, but it will never be as high as $50 a piece.

3000 Dresser firing needle guns cost $15. At this price, Liang Yao must have been severely slaughtered by the Prussians.

But it’s easy to say that the gun is in hand. The mechanics and inventors in the United States have always been good at reverse engineering. The industrial level is not as bad as that of Prussia, and it is not difficult to make imitations.

As long as the imitation is produced, there is no need to purchase it from Prussia at a high price. If a new gun with better performance is developed, it can be sold back to Prussia to recover blood.

Thinking of this, Liang Yao felt much more at ease.

"Why is this gun so weird? How do you load it from the back?"

"There is a big needle in the barrel of the gun! How strange!"

"Not to mention, this new gun looks better than the old one!"

"There are dragon heads and dragon patterns on it!"

"How to use this new gun?"

In the clearing on the Hudson River, the infantrymen of the First Company who had just received new guns were excitedly playing with the Dreiser firing pin guns in their hands, and there was a lot of discussion in the besieged city.

Even the officers were so engrossed in admiring the new guns that they forgot to attend training with the whole team.

Just as the soldiers of the first company were discussing, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded.

"Everyone stand in line for me! Where are the officers?! Are you usually so loose and undisciplined?"

Kruger reached out and took the whistle from his mouth, and reprimanded sharply.

After being reprimanded, the officers quickly formed a team to listen to the training.

The speed of the entire team of these soldiers is fairly fast, and Kruger is a little satisfied with this, but he did not express his feelings.

"Reporting sir, everyone is so happy to release new guns today, they forgot to arrange the formation in time."

Wang Shu, the company commander of the first company, argued after finishing the team.

"You still dare to talk back! You were too nervous on the battlefield on the first day and forgot to line up. Will the enemy wait for you to line up before fighting you?!"

Kruger glanced at the captain's epaulettes of the company commander, and said to Uncle Wang unceremoniously.

"As a company commander of a professional army, you are very incompetent. I officially announce that you are now relieved of your position as company commander!"

Kruger's words were undoubtedly a thunderbolt to Wang Shu. As the saying goes, there are three fires when a new official takes office. Wang Shu didn't expect that the fire would burn on his company commander so quickly.

Wang Shu, the company commander, earned his military merits step by step by killing hemp bandits and entering the Mason Infantry Regiment that invaded California.

He was very unconvinced to be dismissed by the new instructor Kruger in one sentence.

"You have no right to dismiss me! In California, only the colonel can dismiss me!" Wang Shu bit his lip unwillingly and said, "We only listen to the colonel!"

With that said, Wang Shu turned his gaze to Liang Yao not far away.

"What? What's wrong? After a few small battles, you don't know the heights of the sky and the earth? I told you that the first company was renamed the teaching company, and everything was listened to by the instructor. How quickly did you ignore my words?! "

Liang Yao walked over with his hands behind his back.

These soldiers are no longer farmers. After more than a year of training, they have been completely reborn. According to the standards of the American army, they are completely qualified professional soldiers.

But this is not Liang Yao's ultimate goal. Liang Yao doesn't know how many people California will have in 10 years.

But he is very clear that ten years later California's population will definitely be smaller than that of the north and the south.

If you want to gain a foothold in the Civil War 10 years later with a disparity in population, and compete with the North and the South, and prevent California from becoming a vassal of the North and the South, the only way to go is elite soldiers.

Wang Shu and the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the first company bowed their heads and remained silent.

Liang Yao continued to teach: "You are the teaching company! You are a role model for the California Infantry Regiment! In the future, you will all be sent to other companies to serve as officers! With your current appearance, how can I safely send you to other companies in the future? Serve each company!"

Hearing this, Wang Shu took off his epaulettes silently. Liang Yao had already made it clear that as long as he stayed with the teaching company, he could still be an officer after training.

Being dismissed is a foregone conclusion. Now Wang Shu just wants to stay in the teaching company. As long as he stays in the teaching company, there is hope. He saluted Kruger: "I obey the instructor's arrangement and teach the company soldier Wang Shu, Report to you!"

"Enter!"

Kruger said to Wang Shu expressionlessly.

"From today onwards, Major Kruger is the highest officer of the teaching company. Everything in the teaching company is subject to Major Kruger's arrangement! Do you understand?!" Liang Yao snapped.

"Yes! Colonel!"

The officers and soldiers of the teaching company said in unison.

Liang Yao reached out to find the gun that Kony handed over, holding the gun in his hand, he said to the officers and soldiers of the teaching company.

"This gun is worth five broken guns that you used to use. It is precious and delicate. From now on, you should cherish your guns like your own daughter-in-law!
The instructor will teach you how to maintain your guns. We are all soldiers, and guns are what we eat. If anyone’s gun is damaged due to improper maintenance, get out of the teaching company! "

"Yes! Colonel!"

The officers and soldiers of the teaching company replied.

After the lecture, Liang Yao handed the gun to Kony.

Kruger was not polite at all, and directly made the soldiers of the teaching company stand under the scorching sun without any cover, as a punishment for their failure to form a team in time.

In Kruger's view, he was already very magnanimous, which was only a very mild punishment in the Prussian army.

"Your Excellency, Colonel, thank you for your support. I will definitely train these soldiers to be the best soldiers in the United States!"

Kruger was very grateful to Liang Yao for giving him such great power.

Previously, Kruger was also worried that because he was a foreign instructor, Liang Yao would not be able to fully trust him and give him enough power. Without enough power, it would be difficult to deter the officers and soldiers underneath, especially the officers.

Now that he thinks about it, he is overthinking. This employer is very determined and courageous.

"No, I want you to train them into soldiers comparable to the Prussian elite!" Liang Yao said.

"Yes, sir!"

Kruger gave Liang Yao a straight answer.

After leaving the temporary barracks, Liang Yao came to Walter with the patent drawings of a Dreiser firing pin gun and a lever gun.

"No, your drawing is not detailed enough, redraw! This level of drawing is not worthy of the title of New York's top painter!"

Walter was dissatisfied with the drawings handed over by the artist and asked the artist to redraw.

Such images used to only appear in Walter's dreams.

Walter used to often not be able to pay the artist's wages, and he had to pay on credit to find an artist. Artists in New York had heard of Walter's notoriety and were unwilling to draw drawings for Walter.When I heard Walter's name, I avoided it.

It would be great if Walter could find an artist to draw drawings for him, so he wouldn't dare to pick and choose.

But the situation is different now. His benefactor, Liang Yao, offered generous salaries to these painters, and he himself also received a huge amount of royalties.

Fully affordable for top painters.

Walter now speaks a lot harder than before. Now it is not he who acts according to the painter's face, but the painter who acts according to his face.

"Walter, how's the sewing machine doing?"

Wearing a colonel's uniform and carrying a gun, Liang Yao came to look for Walter, which made Walter's heart tighten.

"I can finish it tomorrow, even if I can't finish it tomorrow, you won't be urging me to hurry up with a gun." Walter muttered.

"You misunderstood, I have some technical questions about firearms." Liang Yao said and handed the gun to Walter.

"I've never seen this gun. You seemed to be shooting ducks by the river a few days ago. Is this the gun you used?"

Walter took the Dresser firing pin gun from Liang Yao, and played with it curiously.

He pulled the breech bolt and glanced at the firing pin in the breech.

"If I'm right it's a Prussian Dresser, I've heard of it."

"I heard that you also know a lot about firearms, and have provided assistance to Colt and solved their technical problems. I want to ask you, can the arsenal in the United States imitate this gun?" Liang Yao asked.

"But Colt was not interested in the patented technology I provided, and they didn't even bother to pay for my patent."

Walter glanced at the blueprint of the lever-action rifle in Liang Yao's hand and said sadly.

"I've been to Colt's factory, and I'm fairly familiar with the level of gun manufacturing in the United States. This gun looks very sophisticated. I'll have to dismantle it to find out if it can be copied. Can it be dismantled?"

"Of course, tear it down!"

Liang Yao said very grandly.

Although the Dreiser firing pin gun was expensive, he bought [-] of them, and he was willing to disassemble a few of them.

(End of this chapter)