1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 348 Technical Sergeant

The rifle is finished, the pistol is finished, and the cannon is next.

This batch of arms orders from Guangdong came very timely. If this order can be successfully completed, Liang Yao can spend less money in the Sacramento Arsenal this year, and the saved money can also be used for other purposes.

The Sacramento Armory, which was formally established in 1851, was finally able to open and opened up an overseas market.

This is a milestone for California's military-industrial complex.

Liang Yao asked the staff of the arsenal to select one of each of the various types of artillery currently available at the Sacramento arsenal and pull them to the test site for testing.

Accompanying the test were four Armstrong guns obtained from special channels.

In this test, Liang Yao was not only trying to sell the guns produced by the Sacramento Armory to Hong Mingxiang and others, but also to compare the performance of the Armstrong guns with these old guns and the transitional guns.

Finally, the development and production focus of the Artillery Department of the Sacramento Arsenal will be decided in the future.

Participated in the test were 6-pound muzzle-loading smoothbore gun (Little Napoleon), 6-pound muzzle-loading rifle, 6-pound breech-loading rifle, 10-pound muzzle-loading smoothbore, 10-pound muzzle-loading rifle, and 12-pound muzzle-loading smoothbore Gun, 12 pounder rifled gun.

This is all the artillery models currently available at the Sacramento Armory.

The main artillery parameters of this test are range, rate of fire, and lethality.

The first to be tested are all kinds of 6-pound guns. The 6-pound guns are relatively light, flexible, and powerful. They are the field guns currently equipped by artillery companies.

According to the establishment of the Army Artillery of the Federal Army, the 6-pound gun consists of 3 to 5 people serving a gun as an artillery squad.

1~2 soldiers hold the worm and push rod, responsible for cleaning the barrel and pushing the bomb, 1~2 soldiers are responsible for passing and loading ammunition, and one soldier is responsible for pulling the fire and launching.

Compared with the establishment of the Army Artillery Regiment of the Federal Army, Liang Yao's 6-pounder artillery squad consists of 6 people.

It is to equip each artillery with a sergeant rank gunner with T, who is responsible for the aiming and calibration of the artillery.

The so-called T is the letter T on the military rank logo. This letter T is the initial letter of Technology.

The rank band T means technical sergeant, which is the military rank system implemented by Liang Yao in his army with reference to the ranks of the US military in World War II.

After the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States officially joined the war and began to expand its military intensively, because the technical arms of the army required a large number of relevant technical personnel.

In order to attract engineers and technicians to join the army, on January 1942, 1, the American Army officially added three technical posts at the non-commissioned officer level, five technical sergeants (T-8), four technical sergeants (T-5), and three technical sergeants (T-4).

Those with driving skills, mechanics, radio skills, medical skills, and military music-related skills can obtain the corresponding technical sergeant rank after passing the recruit training and technical assessment.

The most intuitive benefit that technical sergeants can get compared to ordinary sergeants is higher wages. While attracting more relevant technical talents to sign up to join the army, this new military rank system does not disrupt the original command system.

Taking ordinary soldiers as an example, for the same recruits, the salary of recruits who have completed training with T is 25% higher than that of recruits who have not completed training.

This system has been tested by war, and it has been proved that the third-level sergeant technical post system of the US military in World War II was very successful.

Of course, the basis for implementing this system is that the country has completed industrialization and there are sufficient reserves of technical personnel in the country.

Even if an agricultural country implements this system, it may not necessarily achieve the same results as the United States.

This is why Liang Yao spared no effort to attract industrial workers from the east and even Europe to California for employment.

These industrial workers can not only create a lot of real wealth in peacetime, but also represent greater war potential in wartime.

In Liang Yao's army, the salary of sergeants with T is 25% higher than that of sergeants of the same level.

It's just that there are not many technical services in Liang Yao's army at present, and only one artillery company and engineering company have technical sergeants.

At the same time, Liang Yao is still considering building a dedicated communication company.

The technical sergeant equipment of the artillery company is very luxurious. In addition to being equipped with a saber for self-defense and a Sacramento version of the Colt revolver, it is also specially equipped with a monocular for observing the situation on the battlefield and the landing point of the artillery.

It can be said that whether it is hardware or software, the technical sergeants of the artillery company are armed to the teeth.

Only Liang Yao's artillery company in the entire United States dared to be so arrogant in delegating expensive equipment such as binoculars to the first-class sergeant officer.

Of the three active artillery regiments in the United States, even the lieutenants at the company commander level may not have popularized binoculars.

The gunners of the three artillery squads responsible for testing three various 6-pound guns first measured the range of the target, and then directed the soldiers under his command to adjust the muzzle and pitch angle of the guns.

After the adjustment of various parameters, the soldier holding the worm and the ejector rod pushed one end of the worm into the barrel, and cleaned up the residue in the barrel according to the provisions in the training manual.

Kang Enze, who was watching from the sidelines, was eagerly waiting for the cannon to be fired, witnessing the power of Citigroup's foreign cannon.At the same time, I also hope that the visit to the Sacramento Armory will end soon, and he can also return to San Francisco to ride Yangma soon.

Kang Enze couldn't help complaining about the seemingly superfluous actions of the soldiers who operated the artillery: "This is a newly pulled cannon. The barrel must be clean. Besides, if there is any foreign object in the barrel, you can just take a look at it? Why bother?" A lot of trouble?"

"It's daytime now, and the foreign objects in the barrel may be visible with the eyes, but what about at night? Do you also use your eyes to see?" Liang Yao asked back.

"My artillery is very expensive, and they are all fed with shells. If the cannon is damaged because of the explosion, my heart will bleed!"

Liang Yao's words are not exaggerating. The infantry cannon fodder who fills the line is easy to find, and it is easy to train into an army.

But experienced artillerymen with combat experience are hard to find.

These artillerymen of Liang Yao are all artillerymen with combat experience collected from all over the place. This only artillery company was trained by him as a future artillery officer or even a lieutenant.

As long as he has this elite artillery company as his team, he can quickly expand an artillery company into an artillery regiment at the fastest speed during wartime.

An improper operation caused the casualties of an artillery squad. It seemed that only one artillery squad was lost, but in fact, an artillery company was lost.Can he not feel bad?Can the heart not bleed?
Liang Yao's soul question left Kang Enze speechless.

"Don't be so embarrassing here!" Hong Mingxiang kicked Kang Enze unceremoniously, and then glanced at the accompanying confidantes, "Look at how General Liang's artillery fires, and keep your eyes wide open , I brought you to California not only on horses, but also learn some real skills for me to go back, don’t waste my money!”

After being reprimanded by Hong Mingxiang, Hong Mingxiang's confidants were silent, so they had to cheer up and watch how Liang Yao's artillery fired the cannon.

(End of this chapter)