Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 468 On the airship
On the airship that flew to the front line to deliver supplies, Perfect was only given a small cabin.

This is the crew cabin on the ship. The total area does not exceed ten square meters and the decoration is very simple.

There was only a narrow bunk bed that could accommodate two people, and a small table next to it that allowed one person to sit on the bed, and then there was a metal cabinet against the wall.

There was nothing else, and the space was so narrow that I couldn't even stretch my body in the room. If I raised my arms, I would hit the walls on both sides.

Perfect didn't care too much about the accommodation conditions in the room. After all, even such a simple environment was much more comfortable than the long-distance train ride he had taken before.

Apart from the fact that the bunk bed was quite hard and caused Perfecto, who had been used to sleeping on soft beds over the years, to feel a little back pain, everything else was within her acceptable range.

And compared to all this, she is more concerned about the current situation on the front line.

By talking with the officers on the ship, Perfecto did learn some information, some of the details of which were different from the battle reports she received.

For example, the number of casualties was actually higher than what she saw in the battle reports, and the deaths of some soldiers were blurred out just to make the battle reports look better.

The situation on the battlefield was more severe or worse than Perfect knew. The Steam Knights did bring tremendous pressure to the Revolutionary Army, so much so that they had to shrink their defenses to avoid the Steam Knights' edge.

They also keep trying various methods to block the movement of the Steam Knights. At present, at the cost of blowing up important transportation facilities such as railway bridges, the actions of the Steam Knights have indeed been affected and temporarily confined to the vicinity of a certain city.

While the Steam Knights were restricted, the Revolutionary Army did not stop its attacks on the colonial garrisons. In fact, because they contracted their defenses and concentrated their forces, several strategic locations that were originally defended were captured.

Of course, the situation of the army in the North is slightly better, and the main problems lie with the colonial garrisons.

In the final analysis, the military level of the colonial garrison was indeed too poor. Not to mention compared with the Northern Guards, it could not even be compared with the general army of the Empire.

This situation was within Perfectot's expectations. After all, according to the Empire's military division, the Guards were at the first level, the standing army was slightly inferior, and only the officer corps' non-reserve troops were inferior again. After these three were the colonial garrisons.

According to different levels, the quality of troops, equipment level and training degree are completely different.

The Guards are undoubtedly the strongest. Those who can serve in the Guards are either veterans who have served for a certain number of years, or young people of appropriate age who voluntarily sign up to join the army.

The quality of the standing army's soldiers was mixed, with many of them being men randomly picked from the streets, criminals, thugs, and the like.

As for the extraordinary reserve troops? They have no soldiers, usually only retaining the officer corps and a small number of veterans. Only when they are really needed to go to the battlefield will they recruit men of the right age from all over the country to fill the organization.

Among the three, there is no doubt that the soldiers of the Guards have a higher fighting desire and troop quality than ordinary troops. Their daily training and food supplies are also at a higher level, thus ensuring the training level of the soldiers.

Different from what most people imagine about military training, soldiers do not have to do drills every day, but there are certain intervals between them.

After all, soldiers are human beings, not machines. Whether they can withstand the high-intensity training every day is another matter. The consumption of logistical supplies alone is not something that ordinary countries and armies can afford.

Generally speaking, only the special forces in the original world can achieve such a high training intensity. As for this world, perhaps only the Knights can train every day. The physical fitness of those extraordinary people can withstand such training, but their logistics consumption is usually that a Knights can kill the logistics supply of an ordinary infantry regiment.

Yes, in this world, the logistical costs of a knightly order and an infantry regiment are the same, and a knightly order usually has only more than a hundred people, while an infantry regiment usually has at least a thousand people, and sometimes even more than two thousand.

Therefore, the Guards were able to ensure training every three days, while the standing army was trained every five days.

The non-standby skeleton troops usually train once every three days to maintain the quality and condition of the veterans, but when they fill up with conscripts and mobilized soldiers, the new recruits usually only receive one to three months of recruit training, and then are directly sent to the battlefield, with no daily training at all.

But this is still good. After all, they still have veterans as their backbone who can maintain basic combat levels.

After just a few battles, the surviving recruits will quickly become veterans and their quality will improve rapidly.

It can even be said that as long as a unit fights on the battlefield long enough and does not lose a large number of veterans, it will be able to continuously improve its combat effectiveness and reach the level of the Guards.

Many of the Victoria Empire's guards came from this way. After the regular and non-reserve troops accumulated enough honors and military merits on the battlefield, they could be promoted to guards.

As for the colonial garrisons, they were usually not counted in the battle sequence of the imperial army.

Because the colonial garrisons were temporary security forces recruited and formed by the governors of each colony when local financial conditions permitted.

To put it simply, they are at the same level as the city guards, and their daily mission is to maintain law and order, not to fight.

Although they would be filled up to the specifications of regular troops if war broke out in the colonies, their combat effectiveness was obviously not comparable to that of the empire's real non-reserve troops.

After all, those who understand know the difference between veterans and urban management officers.

Therefore, Perfect actually understood the current state of the war. From a certain perspective, the joining of the Northern Army was regarded as the regular troops of the Imperial Army joining the war.

Before this, it was just the urban management and militia maintaining public order, which was not considered regular combat at all.

After Major General Richard brought his troops into the war, he actually did a pretty good job. Although the trap he set at the beginning did not trap the revolutionary army, the subsequent attacks, although conducted in a standard manner, still brought great pressure to the revolutionary army.

After all, his troops were the Imperial Guards, and their armaments had been upgraded by Perfect. If they still couldn't achieve any decent results, it would be better to disband this unit as soon as possible.

Of course, it was precisely because of this that he was assassinated.

Although after learning the details, Perfect felt that this was at most a raid on the headquarters.

(End of this chapter)