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Chapter 125 Fighting Will
And this is exactly what Xia Lin is happy to see.

He plans to select some squad-level officers from these formal employees and employees who have worked in the Xinglan Industrial Park and have some sense of discipline. In the past few days, he has accepted some of Xia Lin's new army ideas and understood how The company and platoon-level military officers who train the soldiers of the new army build the skeleton of the new army.

Early the next morning, from the Xinglan Industrial Park to the open space in Yutou Street, a lot of strange facilities were suddenly built with wood and ropes. These facilities were divided into four large blocks around an open space. This is Xia Lin's scheduled test recruits. Physical obstacle course.

Xia Lin took twelve new army officers neatly dressed in uniforms that had just been made a few days ago, and wore military caps with large brims. A new army officer is responsible for testing the applicants in the obstacle course.

Behind them, there is a mountain of recruits' distribution suits, including two sets of military uniforms for each person in summer and winter, a military cap, two sets of underwear, and two pairs of leather boots. Such a set of standard equipment for recruits adds up The total value reached 57 silver Maar.

If the cost of the 1391-type 2 rifle that is formally finalized for production and the subsequent distribution of bedding and other sundries are included, the equipment price of each soldier of the new army has reached almost two gold lunds, which can be described as Costly.

1000 people cost 2000 gold lunds, and the remaining [-] gold lunds can almost cover three months of military training expenses and salary payments.

"Deputy Commander Xia Lin, are these things really going to be distributed to recruits who pass the assessment on the spot?"

Looking at these valuable equipment and supplies, Ley asked with some regret.

In his opinion, even for some down-and-out knights, other equipment other than the plate armor on their bodies may not be valuable. It is really a waste to distribute them to recruits who have just joined the army.Even if the alliance gave Xia Lin a huge allocation of 3000 Jinlund, it was not used in this way!

"Of course, on the spot registration, on-the-spot assessment, and on-the-spot distribution. In the slums, many people have some negative impressions of joining the army. We need to use this method to break their negative perception of soldiers.

Remember what I said in Chapter 1 of the Infantry Code of Conduct, the new army of our alliance is different from any other army in the past. This army is an army with a sense of honor and faith!
To build such an army, we must first attach importance to soldiers, not only in terms of treatment, but also in life, training, and combat. "

Xia Lin explained solemnly.

"Sense of honor? We knights have a sense of honor!"

"But you knights need to be trained from an early age, and you know the cost of a knight army. No matter how powerful our alliance is, how can it compare to the conservatives who are born with the support of the knight class?
We can only choose to find another way to achieve military confrontation with conservatives through new equipment and new troops.This is also the reason why Her Royal Highness and Members of Parliament have extremely high expectations for the new army! "

Xia Lin vetoed Lay's opinion. The biggest advantage of the musket is its relatively low cost and training cost. Only by relying on this technological advantage across the ages can the enlightened faction have the possibility of gaining an advantage in military struggles.

"This... but can such an army really beat a well-equipped knight army?"

Ley looked at the non-commissioned officers who were former members of the security team who had changed a lot in spirit after several days of hard training, and asked suspiciously.

"Of course, wasn't the result already clear in the previous few days of exercises? Using the Type 2 rifle plus the power of artillery and grenades, in an encounter between 1000 men and 1000 men, as long as there are no Silver Knights or With the existence of three-ring mages and the like, our new army will definitely be able to defeat the charging knights."

In this regard, Xia Lin has no doubts about the combat effectiveness of his new army. Under the leadership of Master Fine, after the gun factory successfully developed the ignition grenade, the structure of the new army he expected has been completely completed.

Although the power of the black powder grenade is not particularly powerful, it has a good application effect on the street fighting battlefield preset in the exercise.

In field battles, the new army, relying on bunkers such as trenches, parapets, and wooden repelling horses, can easily annihilate traditional infantry groups that are three times larger than itself and are similar in size to the enemy within the warning range of 100 meters away. cavalry brigade.

"Deputy Commander Xia Lin, I think Company Commander Lay means that these recruits, facing the charge of the knights on the battlefield, won't they really run away with weak legs in fright?"

Darius, who was sitting on the other side of Xia Lin, said, his expression was also full of suspicion.

During this period of time, Xia Lin has established a new army salary hierarchy that costs more than the imperial army, and has painstakingly produced so much valuable equipment. If this new army does not show its due combat effectiveness, They have no way to explain to the members of the alliance and the speakers.

"Although you, as military chief officers, don't need to care about this kind of problem, let me explain it!

In my opinion, a soldier's will to fight comes from the ideology with which they are trained.

According to these different ideas, there are five types of armies in the world with different fighting will and combat effectiveness.

The first type is just a traditional army gathered together to plunder other people's wealth and ensure their own food, drink and entertainment.This kind of army looks tyrannical and brutal, but in fact it is loosely organized and vulnerable, and can only be regarded as bandits.

For example, the desert ranger army composed of tribal chiefs in the Kingdom of Pulius looks huge and powerful, but in the Battle of North Gaza Port, our regular knights only need two or three charges to easily defeat them. them.

The second is to go one step further, to defend their own family and hometown, and build an army. When defending their hometown, they bravely killed the enemy and went forward, but after leaving their hometown and losing this goal, they became the number one kind of army.

For example, this is the case of the once-famous Owendo Legion in the East. When they resisted the invasion of the Thain Kingdom, they once showed strong combat effectiveness. Even if they were besieged and forced to the Gangang River, they did not lose their battle. On the contrary, he realized the miraculous Battle of Gangang in the history of the Imperial Army.

But when they successfully defeated the enemy, gained an advantage on the battlefield, and then entered the Kingdom of Thane to start looting, this army changed and lost the fundamental purpose of the battle.

In the end, in almost the same situation as that of the Gangang River, it was easily defeated by the army of the Thain Kingdom on the Vasa River.

The third type of army is based on this foundation, and further joins the army established by beliefs such as loyalty to the monarch and honoring the owner.

This kind of army implements the idea of ​​being loyal to the monarch or the Lord of Glory of the Evil Light Sect, and can have strong combat effectiveness and fighting will, which is the status quo of our current standing army of the empire and the armies of the six northern countries that are fighting us.

As long as we can reach the level of the third type of army, there is no need to worry about the new army being defeated by the knight's charge. "

Xia Lin didn't intend to answer this question at first, but seeing that both of them looked a little hesitant, he thought about it and patiently explained.

When the surrounding officers of the new army heard this fresh rhetoric, they all showed thoughtful expressions.

"I see, what about the remaining two armies?"

Ley thought for a moment, and found that in the battle he encountered, the enemy's combat power was indeed stratified due to the factors Xia Lin mentioned.

There is indeed a big gap between the fighting power and fighting will of the army and militia of the Kingdom of Prius, the six northern countries and the regular army of the empire. He had never thought about how this gap came about before. Now it seems that , which is roughly what Xia Lin said about the function of thought.

"The fourth and fifth? That's the level I expect the new army to reach, but the people we're waiting for have already arrived, let's prepare for the recruitment first!"

However, Xia Lin didn't immediately express his greatest expectation for the new army, because under this circumstance, it was a bit unthinkable to say something like building an army with political beliefs.

Looking at the candidates from various factories coming out of the industrial park, Xia Lin changed the subject.

(End of this chapter)