Chapter 76 Nanyang Navy 4
Roman Rolland's answer was beyond Liu Ji's expectations. He said: "China is so rich. His Majesty's army can shoot live ammunition during exercises. I only did ammunition-free shooting before going to the battlefield. It is a waste to shoot with a simple drill like His Majesty's artillery."
Liu Ji laughed in his heart. The income from tariffs this year; the income of banks; including several major manufacturing bureaus, coal mines, and iron smelting plants, and their products were sold at home and abroad by Royal Commercial Trading Company. Liu Ji's pockets gradually swelled. Therefore, the proposed construction of the Nanyang Navy has also begun. Do you still care about a few shells? Besides, these bullets, the shells have been manufactured by the Northern Manufacturing Bureau themselves, and the cost has been greatly reduced. Although he thought so in his heart, Liu Ji just said lightly on the surface: "It's not a problem, you can continue to talk about other things."
"According to the command of Commander Napoleon, each battalion is an independent combat unit, each battalion has 6 companies, including a grenadier company and a hunter company, and the rest are flintlock companies. According to the command, a battalion should have about 800 people, but most troops cannot reach this number. The battalion I am in has about 6,700 people. Usually when advancing with an attack column, the two behind are grenadiers and hunter companies. If a straggler line is needed, the hunter company will be hunter companies.
It will be pulled away, leaving only one company behind. The grenade company is not always behind. When morale is low, the elite grenade company is behind to mount the army to stabilize the morale and prevent the troops in front of it from collapsing. When morale is high, the grenade company usually guides the attack on the right front of the column. The company maintains three horizontal lines, with the spacing between the columns about 1 meter. The spacing between the columns is about 8 to 10 meters, and the depth of the entire column is about 25 meters, which may be pulled even more when traveling.
Some. I observed that the army of His Majesty the Chinese Emperor did not have drummers to boost morale for soldiers. When stepping forward on the battlefield, it was easy to step on the pace and affect the progress of the queue. In addition, there was no special grenade force, which could have unexpected benefits on the battlefield. Imagine that it would be terrible to drop bombs into dense infantry phalanxes. Each combat unit should be equipped with a staff officer, who could remind the commander to pay attention to small things, such as asking soldiers to bring spare flints, carrying enough ammunition, etc. Others. I think His Majesty did a good job, but the organization was slightly different. In addition, I also gave His Majesty a suggestion to His Majesty the infantry to train the four-phalanxes. Although this formation would be severely damaged by artillery fire, it could improve the infantry's ability to resist the impact of the cavalry group. If it was impacted by the cavalry, it would suffer much less."
Liu Ji was familiar with the organization of modern military. After listening to Roman Rolland's lecture, Liu Ji felt that it made sense. It seemed that some shortcomings still needed to be improved. He immediately asked Zhang Biao, the martial arts lecturer, to explain the content suggested by Roman Rolland, and asked Zhang Biao to conduct a full discussion with the instructors to decide whether to adopt it. If it can be adopted, the pilot will be carried out first in the martial arts lecturer to observe its effect to decide whether to promote it to all new military units.
After the arrangement was made, the generals of the Nanyang Navy had finished the visit. They gathered at Liu Ji with great enthusiasm. Looking at their expressions, they were either thinking, energetic, or talking and talking to each other.
Seeing these naval generals who were about to take office in Guangzhou, Liu Ji really wanted to go to Guangdong with these naval generals to create a naval team that could defend the national gates. However, his identity could not be left the capital casually, so he could only place this regret on Guan Tianpei.
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Charles X was very satisfied with the gift of the Chinese emperor. He immediately asked his obedient cabinet to give the Chinese emperor a beautiful clock gift. Charles X first learned about the distant China from Marco Polo. However, Charles X personally felt the existence of this country, especially those Chinese who flocked to various French universities to study, which gave him an intuitive impression. The braid dragged behind the Chinese people's heads made Charles X laugh. From El; Raffarin's letter, Charles X had a great affection for the authoritarian emperor in the East. Especially when he was disturbed by the parliament, he was angry and longed for a political environment as stable as the Chinese emperor. This sense of political identity made Charles X agree without hesitation to the request made by the Chinese emperor, and he immediately sent technicians and technicians to China.
In the future, in El Raffarin's letter, Charles X felt more and more worthy of his investment. In China, the British East India Company was no longer the only controller who could deal with Chinese merchants. The French could trade with Chinese royal trading companies the most directly, which made French merchants no longer subject to British merchants. Because of this good relationship, when El Raffarin's letter mentioned that when the Chinese emperor wanted France to provide assistance to China's shipbuilding, Charles X made a clear statement to strongly support it.
Paul also came to China with a group of shipbuilding technicians, and left the technicians and stayed in the Nanyang Navy sequence, as a military adviser.
In August 1827, the ships of the Guangdong Navy and Fujian Navy were basically concentrated on the Pearl River, and were lined up along the winding Pearl River. Most of these old sampans were made in Fujian. Although most of them have the majestic titles of "Zhenhai" and "Guangwu", they are really disproportionate compared to their image. Guan Tianpei's eyes showed a look of "disappointment". The largest ship among them could only carry more than a dozen cannons, and they were all old cannons, and several cannons had already collapsed on the deck.
After coming to Guangdong, Guan Tianpei first gathered the naval troops from Fujian and Guangdong according to the emperor's instructions, and then carried out strict assessments to disband the eliminated officers and soldiers home. The insufficient candidates were widely selected in the two places. Then he founded the Guangdong Naval Military Academy. In addition to selecting officials from the remaining naval troops to study, he also selected qualified people in Guangdong and Fujian to enter the naval military school. During this period, a Frenchman who accompanied him as an adviser made many suggestions for the establishment of the naval military school. At this time, the Frenchman named Paul shrugged and curled his mouth. Guan Tianpei had been with Paul for a long time and knew that this was Paul's expression of regret for these ships.
Although today's training camp disappointed Guan Tianpei, he thought that although these ships were not good, they were easy to operate. He took this opportunity to train soldiers well. When the ship arrived in the future, there would be no qualified sailors operating the ship.
Chapter completed!