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Chapter 237 Expedition Preparation
The vetch field outside the Springfield Armory was full of tiny purple flowers, and the bees darted among the flowers, bullets whizzing over their heads.

Frederick took a telescope to carefully observe the dusty earth wall 300 meters away, and was quite satisfied with the performance of Pea Gatling.

The principle of Pea Gatling is not complicated. The six sets of barrels-bore chamber-airjet cans are combined together. The tailstock is concave at the bottom and protruding above from the side, plus the protrusions on the canister and the grooves on the shell. , the spray can is pushed forward by the tailstock when it is turned, the bullet is pushed into the barrel and fired, and then backed up to make room for a new bullet to come in.

Its rate of fire theoretically depends on how fast it can turn, and people in the arsenal often joke that it needs to be driven by a steam engine.

The pea Gatling caliber 10mm currently undergoing factory testing has common bullets and pea guns. It is shaken by manpower and fed by a long magazine. Because of its heavy weight, it is mounted on a wheel frame or a carriage.

Except for Richard Nall, he asked Bruce to modify a Pea Gatling for himself, added a lanyard and a handle, changed the position of the rocker, and could hang it on the shoulder and shake it with one hand and the other Rod-fired, with a bunch of dead magazines on its back, it looks very cool.

In addition to the Pea Gatling, the Wesson Army has now installed a new pea gun. The new gun has added a burst function on the basis of the original single-shot shooting. It uses a 20-round magazine, which greatly improves the firepower of individual soldiers. .

In terms of artillery, due to the limited level of alchemy, the quality of nitrocellulose was very unstable, and the initial velocity of the projectile fired by the jet tank was not high. Frederick finally chose gunpowder as the propellant for the artillery.

The caliber of the gun is 75 mm, and it uses brown gunpowder made of incompletely carbonized charcoal. The integrated shell is loaded and loaded, and the barrel is reset by a spring retreating machine. The maximum range reaches 3 kilometers, and the weight of the whole gun is about 1.3 Ton.

Because the shells fired by the artillery shells made of copper alloy are shiny golden, people call it the "golden stick gun".

It's just that the manufacture of this kind of artillery and ammunition is more troublesome. Frederick only ordered the production of 12, and the rest of the guns were jet mortars.

On the one hand, the jet mortars that made great achievements outside the bastion of Hanma City were lightly modified and used to support infantry. disappear as far as you can.

Compared with the upgrade of weapons, the most important change of the Wesson Army is the reform of the establishment and expansion.

原有的一个班12人的编制不变，一个步兵排下辖3个豌豆枪班和1个樱桃炮班，一个步兵连下辖3个步兵排和1个装备有3挺豌豆加特林的火力支援排，一个步兵营下辖3个步兵连和1个装备了6挺豌豆加特林和9门喷气迫击炮的火力支援连，一个团下辖3个步兵营和1个装备了双联装豌豆加特林马车的快速支援连，一个旅下辖2个团。

一个师下面除了2个步兵旅外还有师属1个骑兵团、1个师属魔法师营和 1个师属火力支援旅，火力支援旅装备有12门金棒炮和54架火箭发射器，整个师的各级作战、参谋、通讯、后勤、医疗、情报等单位加起来有约18000人、5000匹马和30辆拖拉机。

With Frederick's current financial resources, he can only support the main force of one division, so that the current garrison troops such as the city defense army can only use the revolver rifles that should have been sold to allies.

But it's worth it.

The war between the two neighbors, the Principality of Franken and the League of Legens, continued until last year. At the end of last year, the forest fire caused by their battle spread to Wessen.

After putting out the fire with great difficulty, Frederick led the whole army to the battlefield to talk to their representatives about compensation. In the end, the horses of the Archduke Franken and the luxurious carriage of the Archduke Regens were pulled out to compensate Wessen.

The two countries have no money to continue the fight, so they can only cease fire along the actual control line.

Frederick inspected the Springfield Armory, told Bruce to hurry up the production of ammunition, and then left, coming to the command post in the barracks.

Now there are two colors of military uniforms in the barracks, in addition to the gray of the Wesson Army, and the black of the Restoration Army formed by Prince Dragases.

In the past few years, Dragases finally recruited 2000 people and formed a pure infantry infantry regiment with Frederick's funding. They used the old-fashioned pea guns replaced by the Wesson Army, and their combat effectiveness was not bad.

Now everything is ready to finally recover Constantbul.

The map room of the command headquarters was replaced with a sand table of the surrounding areas of Constantbul. Wessen Army’s Minister of Military Affairs, Franz Jr., and Staff Officer Helmut led staff officers, army chiefs, and Dragases’ people together. Discussing the battle plan.

For this war, Franz Jr. and others have gone to the local area in various identities to conduct on-the-spot investigations in recent years, and have an intuitive understanding of the terrain and the layout and characteristics of the enemy.

Now everyone has reached a consensus on the strategy, and some details are being supplemented.

The biggest problem at present is transportation. The entire waterway from Wessen to Constantbul is about 2 kilometers. The transportation of materials requires a huge fleet.

"Is there any news from Hayreddin?" Frederick asked.

To organize such a large fleet on the inland sea, Hayreddin was the only person Frederick knew.

Helmut immediately replied: "We have received a telegram from the city of Wien. Hayreddin's fleet is passing through the city of Wien of the Osmarga Empire and will arrive at the designated location soon."

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called. They have reached an agreement with the Osmarga Empire. Our fleet is prohibited from docking when passing through the city of Wayne. If the commander wants to enter the city, he can only bring 50 people."

Frederick nodded. The city of Wien is the imperial capital of the Osmarga Empire. There have been such cases of counterfeiting in this world. People are also afraid that they will suddenly come to such a trick.

To tell the truth, Frederick was once moved.

"What about supplies?" Frederick asked again, "Do they agree to our supply along the way?"

More than 2000 kilometers of this route is sailing on the Danube River. The Danube River is the territory of the Osmaga Empire when it leaves the Principality of Bain. If it cannot be replenished along the way, it will be troublesome.

Helmut replied: "They only agree to use small boats to go ashore to purchase."

Frederick frowned and thought for a long time. This kind of small-scale supply is a drop in the bucket for a huge fleet, and finally said: "They are still worried, please tell the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I will go to Vienna for vacation in two days , wait for the fleet to pass before leaving, and I will be alone."

Everyone around the sand table glanced at each other, they were going to be hostages.

Dragases asked worriedly, "Is it too dangerous?"

Frederick shook his head with a smile, and replied: "No, I have no grievances with the Osmaga Empire. I did them a favor by defeating the Piast Kingdom back then. They have no reason to be unfavorable to me. .”

Dragases added: "It's just that the battle for heirs within the Osmaga Empire is very fierce now, and I'm afraid you will be involved."

Frederick replied: "Don't worry, I'll just eat, drink and have fun there, and I won't make any statement."

(End of this chapter)