The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 15 The Guard Formation
"Hi number one, what's your name?"

Currison, who was teaching No. [-] how to use a flintlock, asked curiously.

It was the first time he saw Master Yuri specifically ordering a soldier to teach a person to shoot. If it was an ordinary recruit, it would be enough to directly pull him into the recruit camp and hand it over to the instructor. There was no need to specially send a guard soldier to teach him!

Of course, this undoubtedly shows that Master Yuri attaches great importance to this 'number one'.

Collison was naturally curious about One's identity and real name.

"My name is number one."

No. [-] seemed to be enlightened, skillfully loaded the ammunition from the muzzle of the gun, and replied in a blunt tone.

"Is it a secret?"

Coulison looked at the expressionless No. [-] and thought to himself.

In Collison's eyes, there are basically only two possibilities for the appearance of No. [-].

First, the person No. [-] has reached the state of being indifferent to emotions and anger, and his temperament is extremely indifferent, so he always maintains a calm expression (zombie face) on external objects.

Second, number one he suffers from facial paralysis!

Seeing that No. [-] can reload ammunition so quickly, Coulison believes in the first point even more.

He only demonstrated it once, and No. [-] was able to load and shoot by himself!

Although a flintlock musket can be learned by an ordinary farmer, at least it will take time...

If it wasn't for No. [-]'s rustiness when he touched the gun at first, Coulison even thought that No. [-] had played with muskets before.

bang~~~
As expected, the first shot missed the target.

But for those who have just touched the musket, the results are quite good!

Although the accuracy of the musket is low, it is not without accuracy.

For a talented sharpshooter, you can even use a musket to accurately hit a human-sized target within a hundred meters!
Of course, it can't be a crude musket...

Therefore, the mainstream weapons of light infantry and skirmishers in Europe are still smoothbore guns instead of rifled guns!

After all, it is too difficult to load today's rifled guns. For the same time it takes for a rifled gun to fire one shot, a smoothbore gun can fire five or six times!
Governments would rather recruit people with good marksmanship from veterans and equip them with high-quality smoothbore guns as light infantry than equip light infantry with rifled guns.

Of course, if there are too few veterans with good marksmanship, they can only use rifled guns...

At the very least, the accuracy of a rifled gun can go a long way toward making up for a soldier's lack of marksmanship.

There is a huge gap in the accuracy of smoothbore guns in this era. High-quality smoothbore guns can hit the target within 50 meters, while ordinary smoothbore guns cannot accurately hit the target within [-] meters...

After firing ten shots, No. 50 finally hit a humanoid target [-] meters away.

After seeing this scene, Yuri on the other side turned and walked towards the castle.

Soon, Yuri came to the study, which was his private space, and even Angela was kicked out by Yuri.

Subsequently, Yuri recruited an Iron Guard soldier again.

This time, the hunting crossbows and crossbows on the recruited Iron Guard soldiers disappeared, but there was a better quality one-handed sword instead of a rusty short knife around their waists.

"Sure enough, it is impossible for the game to conjure me a flintlock gun out of thin air. Given the level of the game's current training of soldiers, it should still be in the era of cold weapons.

Except that the melee weapons have become sharper, there are no changes in clothing. It seems that I not only need to equip them with flintlocks and bayonets, but also a complete set of military uniforms...

No, it would be too expensive to change all the clothes. The ancient villager linen robes of the Iron Guard are also good. Even bandits don’t wear them in this era. It’s highly recognizable and won’t hinder me from commanding on the battlefield.

Although it looks shabby, these game soldiers have no sense of honor. Their morale is always at the peak value, and it doesn't matter if they wear bad clothes.

At that time, it will be enough to equip them with an exclusive battle flag.

Well, let's use the banner of the Sauron family. "

Yuri first recruited nine Iron Guard soldiers, then brought them to the school grounds, and handed them over to the Guards soldiers for training.

In just one day, ten Iron Guard soldiers learned to use a simple flintlock musket!
Can load and shoot skillfully!
Even if the shooting accuracy is still at the rookie level, this thing needs to be fed slowly by bullets, and Yuri doesn't plan to let the Iron Guards act as light infantry, so it doesn't matter if the marksmanship is poor.

The main force of combat in this era is the line infantry. There may be no cavalry or even artillery when fighting, but there must be infantry!
After all, the lethality and hit rate of artillery in this era were very poor. It was even possible to use infantry square formations to charge into artillery positions!

Following the training of ten Iron Guard soldiers, it soon spread among the personal guards that Earl Sauron's eldest son, Yuri, recruited a group of tough soldiers, who would not experience emotional fluctuations (facial paralysis) when encountering anything, and had a look in their eyes. full of indifference (lack of life)...

Most importantly, these people never say their names, they only have simple numerical codes!

In addition, these people appeared very suddenly, and they were all brought out by Yuri, which added to the sense of mystery!
After ten Iron Guard soldiers learned how to use flintlock guns, Yuri took them to a deserted woodland alone, and used all the game coins to recruit the Iron Guard!

Later, Yuri took these 210 people back to Solonborg, opened Solonborg's weapons depot, and equipped all of them with bayonets and flintlocks.

At the same time, in front of everyone, he officially granted these people the title of the Iron Guard, and included them in his personal guard system.

This incident shocked Sorenborg collectively, and even spread to Father Yuri's ears later!

Everyone regards the Iron Guard as the beginning of Master Yuri's formation of a private armed force.

However, just after the Iron Guard was sworn in as an army, Steward Sulu came to the door...

"Master, how much do you plan to pay the 210 soldiers?"

Sulu feels that since Yuri was cursed, he has become particularly able to spend money.

First, a large number of guards were transferred to live in the castle, which undoubtedly increased the cost of living in the castle.

You can't let the soldiers of the guards who are stationed live at their own expense...

Then, Yuri added an additional combat perk!
For the cursed spirit that cannot be eliminated, Sulu feels that this combat subsidy will become the largest financial expenditure of Sauronburg in the future!
Now it is even more excessive, Yuri directly and secretly pulls up a private guard of more than 200 people alone!
Raising troops is very expensive!
The consumption of ammunition during training, the replacement of worn-out firearms, food and nutritional supplements for personnel, basic military pay, etc. are all paid for by pounds!
Otherwise, why is the British Empire unwilling to directly station red shirts under orders in the New World?
Instead, entrust the New World to the local self-government municipal committee and the governor-general, and let the New World support its own army!

"Don't worry, the Iron Guards don't need any military pay, they are all attracted by my personal charm."

Hearing this kind of answer, the expression on Sulu's face was wonderful...

(End of this chapter)