The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 53 Artillery
In this era, officers and soldiers (including non-commissioned officers) are completely different classes.

The vast majority of official officers above the lieutenant rank are from the children of nobles. Perhaps these noble children themselves do not have noble titles, but their families can definitely beat the grassroots of civilians.

Soldiers and even non-commissioned officers (old seniority and soldiers who have made military exploits) were born at the bottom. Because the family conditions are generally not good, the cultural level of soldiers and non-commissioned officers is very low.

However, the soldiers and non-commissioned officers referred to here do not include artillery. Artillery is a veritable "intellectual" in this era. After all, artillery must learn mathematics, otherwise they will not be able to shoot at all.

That kind of talented artillery who can aim by sight alone is a minority after all, and the training period is too long and the cost is too high.

Therefore, the treatment and basic rank of the artillery are not comparable to other arms.

Relatively speaking, artillery is also safer on the battlefield than infantry and cavalry.

After all, most of the artillery in this era is bombarding enemy artillery with solid bullets, and the probability of being hit by solid bullets at such a long distance is too low.

Therefore, the status of noble children of officers and even some artillerymen naturally destined them to be separated from the class of the bottom soldiers.

European aristocrats are respectable, and the children of nobles rarely take the initiative to make friends with low-level soldiers.

The nobles have their circles of nobles, and the common people have their circles of common people.

The officers' management of soldiers mainly relied on strict military laws and mechanical stick training that formed conditioned reflexes.

Coupled with the incentive system on the battlefield-for example, soldiers can often get extra money when they win a battle, which is also a shortcut for soldiers to make a fortune.

In Yuri's previous life, the soldiers of the Anglo-French Allied Forces during the Second Opium War and later the Eight-Nation Allied Forces entered BJ. After returning home, they easily became rich just by selling the spoils they obtained from robbery.

It is this set of mechanisms that makes the soldiers of the European powers have a strong desire to fight at certain moments, but sometimes their fighting morale is not good...

The level of the army of the British Empire in this world is similar to that of Yuri's previous life at the same time, so he also created two diametrically opposite records of being defeated by Indian Asan natives and defeating an enemy army ten times larger than his own.

These two records were created by the frontline troops of the British army. Such a disparity in record gap makes outsiders feel very puzzled.

But for those who understand history, it is not difficult to understand, it is nothing more than a question of fighting desire.

Most of the officers of the nobles fought for honor (promotion and wealth), while the purpose of the soldiers had nothing to do with patriotism, mainly because of the strict military law and the desire for spoils.

The monopoly of noble children on the officer class makes it very difficult for soldiers to advance (not impossible), so the desire of soldiers to make meritorious deeds is far lower than the desire to get rich...

This made the low-level soldiers of this era very depressed in their patriotism towards their country, and it also made Yuri's adaptation work very smooth.

Most of the captured British soldiers were reorganized and reorganized. Yuri excluded the officers of the Savannah British Army and personally appointed the old man from Sorenburg as the commander of the newly established city defense force and police force in Savannah. officer.

In this way, the centripetal force of the newly established troops is guaranteed to the greatest extent.

But those artillerymen don't have this kind of treatment. Whether they want to or not, they must serve Yuri, otherwise they will end up being shot...

If any artilleryman is really willing to die for the country, Yuri will not be stingy with a bullet...

Well, two shots are fine too!
After all, artillery is a precious technical arm. There is no artillery academy in the entire Georgia state. The training of artillery relies entirely on the old and new methods, and it is impossible to mass-produce artillery.

Most of the artillerymen under the Sauron family are based on experience rather than formulaic mathematics.

Obviously, to train an experienced artilleryman requires a large number of shells, the cost is frighteningly high, and the training efficiency is naturally impossible...

Therefore, artillery in Georgia is a precious resource. Regardless of whether they are noble children or not, the artillerymen in the British army in Savannah were all kept by Yuri and asked them to teach their own artillery skills.

The soldiers in the game are completely defeated at this point. Their learning ability is simply not suitable for artillery, and the skill point of the Iron Guard is in the aspect of muskets.

Since Savannah's armaments have been abandoned for a long time, there is no new field gun. The best field gun is only a 3-pound field gun, which is not as good as the Sauron Legion's reserve.

Anyway, the Sauron Legion has several new 6-pound field guns, which are already called heavy artillery in this era!
Big guys like 12-pound field guns, which can't even carry a bastion, are the housekeeping treasures of the European powers. The Sauron family has no casting technology at all.

In addition, there are quite a few old mortars. After all, these are old antiques left over from the Georgia colony. They are still usable because they are rarely used and well maintained.

But the range of this thing is too short, and it can only be used to fight infantry in field battles, and it must be under the condition that one's own field artillery has the firepower advantage.

If the enemy has a large number of heavy artillery, these old mortar positions that are difficult to move are living targets...

Therefore, the greatest use of this old mortar is in siege.

Although the range of the mortar is short, the curved angle and the way it can be fired with explosive bullets will cause considerable damage to the defenders in the city and effectively damage the morale of the defenders.

This is also the reason why the old mortars have not been eliminated and returned to the furnace.

The rest are the hard-to-move fortress guns, mainly concentrated in the Savannah port fortress area, which are specially used to guard the Savannah port. At least there is no problem with the sailing battleships of this era.

Any fort cannon is a 20-pound cannon. It is definitely a ready-made siege cannon. The premise is that it has the ability to transport this heavy fort cannon outside the enemy city...

In this era, what limited the development of field artillery calibers was not technical problems, but a lack of transport capacity.

In this age of livestock, field guns over 12 pounds have little transport value.

Of course, the field gun here refers to the long-barreled direct-firing gun. The short-barreled mortar is relatively light under the same caliber, so it can be transported with a larger caliber.

However, the range of short-barreled mortars is generally crushed by long-barreled field guns, so they are not very useful in field battles. As long as they show their heads, they will be killed by the enemy's long-barreled field guns.

Therefore, the armies of the European powers in this era often liked to carry long-barreled field guns and small-caliber short-barreled mortars that were easy to move in field battles.

The long-barreled field guns are used for artillery battles, and the short-barreled mortars, which are small-caliber and easy to move, can be directly distributed to infantry regiments.

(End of this chapter)