Chapter 278 Establishment of Logistics Transportation

After the personnel and weapons and equipment are determined, the next step is to practice various actual combat.

In order to allow all the soldiers to experience the siege battle firsthand, Ning Yuan had people build a simulated training ground in the barracks outside the Condor City.

Due to the large number of wounded in the last actual combat training, Ning Yuan learned the lesson this time and directly built the ground of the simulated training ground into a swimming pool.

In this way, the soldiers who fell from the city would fall directly into the water, and Ning Yuan only needed to arrange some water-based lifeguards on the shore.

As soon as everything was ready, the soldiers who were selected for the siege corps threw themselves into rigorous training.

Looking at the soldiers who were poofing into the water, Ning Yuan knew that once this legion was officially put into the battlefield, I was afraid that many soldiers here would not be able to come back alive.

Although Ning Yuan didn't want to see these soldiers go to their deaths, his purpose in forming this legion had already pushed these soldiers to the side of death with one foot.

Therefore, in order to compensate these soldiers, and at the same time to seek a little peace of mind, Ning Yuan provided this legion with the highest standard of treatment.

Not only did he provide them with the best food resources, but he also asked the civil affairs department to arrange a family affair for everyone.

Although many people are destined to never come back in the future, at least Ning Yuan will let their incense continue.

At the same time, in order to improve their survival rate on the battlefield, Ning Yuan also arranged special personnel to conduct various targeted training for them, and he planned to use the past few years to train them into a real elite division.

At this point, Ning Yuan has done the best he can for them, and the next thing is to look at their training results, hoping that after hard training, their life-saving ability on the battlefield can be improved.

After solving the problem of the siege arms, Ning Yuan began to study the formation of the logistics corps with Bai Shihai and others.

With the arrival of the Star Craft era, it may be difficult for the Player Lords to send an army of hundreds of thousands casually, because logistics will be a problem that everyone will have to face.

When an army goes out to fight, in addition to carrying a large amount of food and grass with it when it goes out, it must also send them supplies from the rear once a month, and once the logistics supply is interrupted, the army in the front is likely to be defeated without a fight.

The ability of logistics and supply is directly related to the success of the front-line war, which is why Ning Yuan attaches so much importance to it.

In ancient times, a legion of 100,000 people went on an expedition, and the civilians responsible for transporting logistical supplies to this legion had to need 200,000 or 300,000 people.

The soldiers on the front line had to eat, and the people who transported supplies also had to eat, so every battle in ancient times had to be delayed for several years, because the amount of grain and grass consumed in each war would be an astronomical amount.

As a modern person, Ning Yuan definitely didn't want to see hundreds of thousands of people serving 100,000 troops, so he wanted to form a full-time transportation corps.

Because there was already a prototype before, he just needed to expand and improve it this time.

There is no shortage of manpower and cart-pulling livestock in Ning Yuan's territory, so the only thing that really needs him to improve is the grain truck.

Because they were all plane wars before, it would be over in ten days and half a month at most, and there was no need for long-distance transportation, so Ning Yuan only used some simple ox carts at that time.

After the arrival of the StarCraft era, each transportation may take a month or two just to travel, so the requirements for vehicles are relatively high.

In order to be able to transport more grain and grass at one time, Ning Yuan asked the craftsmen to design a new type of carriage.

The carriage is hermetically sealed, and the body and roof are waterproof and fireproof, making them ideal for long-distance transport.

In order to increase the sturdiness of the body, the wheels and frame are made of steel, and a thick layer of rubber is wrapped on the wheels, which can play a good role in shock absorption.

In order to test the practicality of this kind of carriage, Ning Yuan asked his subordinates to drive ten sample carts full of grain and grass and wander around the Condor Territory.

After all the minor problems found were corrected in time, the vehicle went straight into mass production.

After seeing this box-type carriage, Ning Yuan thought of the troop carrier again, so he simply asked the craftsmen to transform it according to the style of the van truck and developed a more comfortable troop carrier.

Personnel carriers are specially intended for infantry, especially hoplites.

Although the hoplites are very effective on the battlefield, their movement speed is a hard flaw.

If they were to walk dozens of kilometers in armor, they would probably not need the enemy to attack, and they would be paralyzed on the ground from exhaustion.

Therefore, in order to preserve their physical strength, the application of personnel carriers is still very necessary.

The craftsmen designed this troop carrier with a capacity of twenty people, a roof with a sunroof, and windows on the sides of the body, in which the soldiers could sit and rest.

After Ning Yuan experienced it himself, he felt that this kind of personnel carrier was very suitable for hoplites to rest in, so he immediately asked people to hurry up and produce it.

A regiment of 100,000 men can only hold twenty people in a troop carrier, and a full regiment needs 5,000 vehicles.

And 5,000 personnel carriers require at least 10,000 to 20,000 livestock to pull the carts, which is a huge burden for any territory, so this kind of personnel carriers are destined to not be popularized in all legions.

After considering this huge consumption, Ning Yuan decided to temporarily position the personnel carrier as a means of transport for the hoplites, and the other lightly armed infantry could only rely on two legs to get there.

After solving the problem of transport vehicles, the next step is to create a legion to protect the transport team.

Because the significance of whether grain and grass can be transported to the front line in time is too great, and many enemies will attack the enemy's logistics supply lines in a targeted manner, so logistics transportation cannot be missed.

The logistics transport corps not only has to protect the transport convoy, they also consume a lot of grain and grass, so their number must not be too large, but not too small for the sake of safety.

There are too many people, and the grain and grass they transport are consumed by them on the road, although the safety factor has increased, but the actual amount of transportation each time has decreased, so that the gains outweigh the losses.

The situation is even worse if the enemy attacks the food convoys and they can't protect them, because the front line is likely to run out of food.

How many people should be arranged, Ning Yuan thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a feasible plan.

Because he found that these have a lot to do with the size of the transportation fleet, the length of the transportation distance, and the harshness of the transportation environment, and need to be arranged according to the specific situation.

So he simply put these problems behind him and began to concentrate on building a transport corps.

One hundred cavalry, four hundred elven rangers, and five hundred infantry, this is the standard configuration of a brigade and regiment of transport corps that Ning Yuan came up with.

Cavalry can act as scouts in peacetime to find their way, and in wartime they can charge into battle to kill the enemy.

The infantry and the elven rangers are always on the left and right of the grain convoy, the infantry is responsible for defense, and the elven rangers are responsible for long-range attacks, which can be near and far, which can better protect the safety of the grain convoy.

After discussing with Bai Ze, Bai Shihai and others, Ning Yuan decided to temporarily form a transport corps of ten divisions first, and then expand it if needed in the future.

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