Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 330 Accidents and New Equipment

Fatty Shi hurried into Lorist's study with a folder. Read a book??··

"What's the matter?" Lorist asked, raising his head.

Fatty Shi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Rock Legion had an accident when embarking and landing on the drill. A flat-bottomed boat was overturned. Twenty-five family soldiers fell into the water and only seven people were saved..."

As the main force of the Rock Corps to attack the West Degrad Province of the Principality of Madras, it has moved to the Blade's Edge Mountains, which is the White Rock Beach in the middle of the underpass where the four major families of Kitano Town used to smuggle. Camp. From there, it takes only five or six hours to board the boat to Silver Beach in Siddergrad Province. There are still two months to go before the combat time stipulated by Lorist. The Rock Legion is using the Maritime Legion to assist several of their large sea ships to conduct disembarkation and landing exercises. Unexpectedly, such an accident would happen.

"What happened?"

"Knight Baldfinger reported that the flat-bottomed boat used for landing was originally a lifeboat on a sea-going ship, which was used by sailors and crew members to escape. It is difficult for the family soldiers of the Rock Legion to grasp the balance of this type of boat. Easy to capsize. In addition, all the soldiers are fully armed and heavy. Once they fall into the water, they will sink to the bottom. Even the driftwood life-saving boards are useless. Now the Rock Corps has submitted a request to improve the landing punt and sea life-saving equipment……"

Fatty Shi opened the folder in his hand, took out a piece of kraft paper and handed it to Lorist.

Lorist stood up, his face heavy. It was because I was negligent to plan a landing operation but failed to make preparations for the landing operation. The life-saving boats on the sea-like boats have flat bottoms and are extremely resistant to wind and waves. Large waves will overturn. It doesn't matter if it is a sailor and a crew member. All of them can swim. There is also this lifeboat project during the sailing camp training. Nothing has happened, because even if the boat is overturned, it can be turned over again.

But now it is a landing operation. Most of the family soldiers of the Rock Legion do not know how to water. They wear standard equipment, plus weapons, and the ship flips like a big piece of iron. The eighteen family soldiers were gone. Thinking of Lorist, this would be very regretful. There is also the driftwood life board, which is a piece of balsa wood that can float on water, like a pillow. Usually someone fell into the water and threw it to him to hold on to float on the water and wait for rescue. But this family soldier sank straight to the bottom of the sea, and it was too late to catch the driftwood life-saving board!

Lorist picked up a quill pen and drew a pattern of a life jacket and a life buoy on a blank sheet of paper: "This drawing is sent to the Ironforge production base, and Chief Camorah orders someone to rush out. The life jacket It is filled with small pieces of driftwood in the vest, and this lifebuoy is made of driftwood into a circle and is placed around the waist of the person so that it will not sink."

With life jackets and lifebuoys, there is no need to worry about falling into the water for the time being. But what about this landing ship? If a wing plate is inserted into the sea under the boat, it can indeed make the boat less likely to capsize. But then landing has become a problem again. The punt can rush up to the beach at one go. If there is an extra wing under the boat, it will not be able to get close to the beach. One~www.readwn.com~ The landing time is set at the end of December. At that time, asking family soldiers to wade ashore is almost life-threatening. No one can stand the temperature of the sea, and it must be frozen.

By the way, if you can't add wings under the ship, you can add slabs on both sides of the ship. Increasing the force area of ​​the ship on the sea can also make the ship not easy to capsize. There was a flash of inspiration in Lorist's mind. First, I drew a flat-bottomed landing boat on paper, and then I drew a stick across the boat. The two ends of the stick are two large plates pressed against the sea, and a small boat has three on each side. The space between the flat sticks does not affect rowing on the boat.

"Okay, that's it. These three balance bars are movable and do not affect the transportation of the landing ship. First put the boat into the sea, install these three balance bars and then board the soldiers, so that it is not easy to capsize. You send The man sent this drawing to the Niujiaowan Shipyard, first made a few ships and gave it to Bodfinger to test it, and also sent a few craftsmen over. If there is a need for improvement, the site can be changed." Lorist handed over the drawing. Tell Fatty Shi.

Fatty Shi nodded, and took out a document from the folder: "My lord, this is the report of the Cavalry Cavalry Corps. The Josk Knights and the Yuri Knights have selected more than 28,000 from various legions and garrisons. A soldier who is good at horseback riding has formed the 1st Cavalry Regiment of 15,000 people, divided into five battalions, each battalion of 3,000 people, divided into four combat brigades, a chariot steel crossbow brigade and a major logistics team, five war horses A thousand horses, one hundred steel crossbow chariots, one hundred four-wheeled cargo carts. The Second Cavalry Regiment is being formed and is currently recruiting soldiers in the family territory."

"En?" Loristec said: "Why do the Cavalry Regiment equip the chariot steel crossbow? They are responsible for flexible and fast mobile guerrillas. Isn't the speed of the chariot steel crossbow slowed down?"

Fatty Shi looked at the file: "My lord, the Josk Knight said that this is to protect the logistical equipment of the Cavalry Regiment, and to avoid being attacked by the enemy when the enemy is attacking the location of his food, grass and horse materials. People can still think about what they have not eaten The method is improvised, but if there are so many horses without the horse material, the cavalry group will be all over."

Lorist thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, since Josk and Yuri are responsible for the formation of the Cavalry Corps, then I trust their judgment. The steel crossbow chariots they need can order the Commander Camora. Assign it to them."

"One more thing, Josk and Yuri jointly signed a request, which was handed in yesterday, asking us to determine the long-range weapons and standard equipment used by the Cavalry Regiment, so as to carry out the attack on the First Cavalry Regiment as soon as possible. Training forms combat effectiveness. They believe that the current standard armament of family soldiers is not suitable for cavalry use. They hope that the family can provide lighter, stronger and durable standard armor."

"I know about this. You don’t need them to destroy it. Master Sid and Master Faring will bring samples here this afternoon. You also come to see this afternoon. I have ordered the Elder to send a letter to Joe and Yuri. , Let them come." Lorist said: "Is there anything else?"

Fatty Shi picked up a document again: "My lord, this is an official report submitted by Director Speer. One~www.readwn.com~ Our family has been spending money in the past two years. Last year, we compiled 20 nearly Weiying spent nearly three million Golden Ford, as well as relocating freed slaves to the Northland and developing Taichuanyuan in the western part of the Northland, with a budget of nearly one million. With some additional expenditures, our family overspent last year alone. Nearly five million Golden Ford.

Although this year’s arms transaction with the Fesabrunn family is estimated to earn 5 million, you have allocated 1 million research and development funds to Master Sid and Gunpowder Lab, and 2 million Golden Ford for the Marine Corps to purchase warships. In addition, the amount of other daily necessities, arms purchases, pensions and rewards also reached almost one million, and almost all the profits of the arms trade with the Fisabren family were spent.

Now we are going to form a new cavalry regiment, which is estimated to cost no less than three million. In addition, the budget for the war you are about to launch against the Principality of Madras is no less than one million, plus help Kenmai The cost of the replacement of the territories of the Si family and the Shaheen family is also the cost of one million Kingford. In addition, there are some messy expenditures such as the cost of supporting the establishment of Dawn Academy in Northland, which is expected to exceed 6 million yuan this year.

So Chief Speer specially sent this official document to remind us not to be extravagant. Even if we destroy the Kingdom of Haneabadha and seize the slave kingdom for decades, the savings of up to 27 million Golden Ford, my lord, if you spend money like this, the family will be out of money in two or three years... "

Lorist laughed disapprovingly: "Manager Speer is like this. I hope the vault is full of gold coins. In fact, you also know that it is impossible for gold coins to produce small gold coins in the vault, and there is a big possibility. Depreciation, maybe a cow can be bought now with five Golden Ford, and it will cost seven or eight in a few years. Only by letting gold coins enter the market can I earn more gold coins in the future. Now I spend more It doesn't mean that I am spending money randomly. It is all about investing and laying the foundation for the future of the family."

Fatty Shi smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, this is 27 million Golden Ford. What you said makes sense, but even if it is an investment, I suspect that it is impossible for your grandson's grandson's generation to take this money from the family territory. The money will be recovered. If everyone does not form a new army to carry out new developments and do not start a war, in fact, our family's income and expenditure situation in the past two years is very good. If we save a little, there may be a net income of hundreds of thousands.

One more thing, adults, the family implements a policy of hiding blessings from the people. At present, the tax families in Fengleyuan, Xing'anyuan, Hongheyuan, and Beihai City, which have been developed, only charge 40%. Local garrison members receive 30% from their homes, and family members of family soldiers and administrative officials who serve in service receive 20%. Family knights charge 10%. Although these taxes offset the administrative expenses and still have some surplus, they are not helpful to the huge military expenses of the family.

At present, the military expenditure of the family’s armed forces mainly relies on the trading transactions of various workshops opened by the family, thanks to the large quantities of snow salt and daily necessities purchased from our family by the Snow Salt Chamber of Dumping. But just as you said, once the Fiesabrun family opens the business route to the four central states, it will obviously reduce their dependence on the purchase and supply of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. I am afraid that the huge military expenditure of the family’s armed forces will become One burden...

My lord, Manager Speer made a suggestion that all taxes in the family territory should be increased by 10%, and the 30% shares of our family in private workshops and shops should be increased to 100%. At 50%, the tax rate of private shops such as snack bars and small grocery stores that originally only charged 10% tax rate was raised to 30%. Compared with the 60 to 70% tax of the nobles in other territories, even if we increase, we are still very kind to agility. And in this way, we will earn more than 300,000 Golden Ford every year, which is almost half of the military expenditure of the family armed forces. "

Lorist shook his head: "Improving the tax rate is the most stupid idea. There is a way to get the gold coins out of the pockets of civilians. Put this official report from Chief Speer here, and I will take the time to write him a reply. Yes. He is very grateful for his advice and suggestions for the family’s expenses, but I cannot take his advice, because doing so will lose the trust and loyalty of the civilians in our family territory to the family."

"Well, then, I'll go out first to let the adults confess. See you this afternoon." Fatty Shi turned and went out.

...

Dilianna, who was with her pregnant belly, had lunch at noon. She has been pregnant for six months and has a big belly. The pharmacist who came for the examination said that they are likely to be twins and need more nutrition, so now the Dina family is young Her aunt became extremely plump as if she was breathing, almost twice as big as before. Apart from her body change, she was also very sleepy. She yawned and went to take a nap after lunch.

As for Miss Diner because of her successful promotion to the Silver level, she happily took her sister Diner II to Nicol Academy to visit her little brother, and planned to hold a ceremony there to make herself a member of the Diner family. The female knight and the surrogate Patriarch will wait until her younger brother is eighteen years old before turning over the Patriarch's power. It will probably take a while to return to Rock Castle.

Lorist also went to take a nap, got up and went to the study. After more than an hour, Swarder came in to report that the carriage of Master Sid and Master Faring had arrived, and Knight Josk and Knight Yuri were also there. The reception room downstairs has been waiting for a long time.

"Let them go to the conference room on the third floor, which is connected to the back mountain and has a big square. If Master Sid and Master Farin bring long-range crossbow weapons, they can just practice there. Josk and Yuri were dissatisfied. In addition, you call the Shred Knight over to check it out." Lorist said.

"Yes, my lord."

Soon everyone gathered in the reception room on the third floor of the Central Castle. This time Master Sid and Master Faring brought three large boxes. The first large box contained a set of steel wire armor, and the Norton family now Equipped with a completely different style of standard armor, the helmet of this steel wire lock armor is hat-shaped, like a round pointed shield.

Master Sid explained: "My lord, the equipment you said for cavalry is light and strong. I asked many family soldiers who had been scouts and adopted their suggestions before designing this standard equipment for cavalry. Since our family’s newly formed Cavalry Cavalry is based on the rangers of the Fi Sablon family as an imaginary enemy, and the standard equipment of the Rangers is also produced by our family, the standard equipment of this Cavalry Cavalry is also based on the characteristics of the rangers. Improved, lighter, more flexible, sturdy and more defensive than the 103 Cavalry standard equipment sold to the Feisabrun family.

The main offensive method of the hunting cavalry and the ranger is the medium and long range attack. The rangers often dismount their horses at a distance of 100 meters from the enemy, launch three consecutive shots with a longbow, and then mount and go away. This is the main harassment method. The stone crossbow has an effective range of less than 50 meters, and the closest point is the use of throwing guns and throwing axes. Therefore, as a cavalry, the main defense is the ranger's long-range attack, not the sprint and fight like our family Lancer.

The strongest defense against long-range attacks is the chain mail. We used steel wire to make this set of samples. Its defense against long-range attacks is stronger than that of plate armor, especially this hat-style helmet, as long as the bow is held down. The projectile is useless, and can even be used as a shield for self-defense in close combat. As for this set of steel wire lock armor, there is also a set of black demon leather armor outside, which not only increases defense power, but also keeps warm and windproof, playing a role of cover.

In addition, we also designed a front inlaid steel wire vest for the horse to protect the vitals of the front of the horse. The weight of the complete set of standard equipment plus the vest is one-fifth lighter than that of the 103 Cavalry standard equipment of the Fi Sablon family, ensuring that the load and durability of the mount can be maximized. In addition, we have also made standardized improvements to the saddle stirrups and other accessories on the horses, which are more durable, lighter and more durable than the old saddle stirrups you use now..."

"Very good~www.readwn.com~ Lorist nodded in approval: "Thank you for your efforts, Master Sid, Master Farin. I am very satisfied with this set of cavalry equipment. You are very considerate, but can the production capacity keep up? "

Master Sid was very happy to receive Lorester’s praise: "Of course, my lord, now this kind of steel wire is drawn using hydraulic machinery. I have redesigned and made a set of mechanical equipment, which can easily be broken off. Buckle it into a loop. Apart from the manpower required for knitting, nothing else is troublesome. I estimate that one thousand people can produce one thousand sets a day."

"Okay, the cavalry will use this standard equipment. I will ask the Chief Camorra to arrange the manpower to complete the generals as soon as possible. But Master Sid, have you designed the long-range weapons of the cavalry? I hope that the cavalry has a long-range weapon that can defeat the rangers, so that they can increase their confidence in dealing with the rangers." Lorist asked.

"Hehe, sir, please come and admire the masterpiece that Master Farin and I have worked hard to design." Master Sid opened the second big box, and Master Farin took out a strangely shaped crossbow.

"My lord, this is the crossbow, a new long-range weapon!"

……(To be continued.)