A few days after the victory celebration, Roland invested in the field industry.

Sitting in the office, the ticking outside the window was non-stop, as if it were raining.It was the sound of the snow melting, and he liked to lie down at the window and watch the long prisms under the eaves turn into transparent droplets of water, dripping a little bit.Although there is no such leisure at this moment, it is good to write a plan while listening to the sound of the earth's recovery.

According to previous years' experience, the snow takes about a week, but the land road between the town and the fortress must wait at least a month.What would happen to mud roads without hardened pavements and drainage measures after the ice melts, Roland can imagine.If he can successfully take the long song fortress, the first thing he needs to do is to build a hard road between the two places for carriages.

However, what needs to be done as a priority now is still the issue of military construction.Without a reliable and powerful army, it is impossible to defeat the fortress in numbers.The transformation of the militia into a regular army is only the first step, and the specific formation, discipline and punishment are his headaches.

Although I played military chess as a child, I have long forgotten it at this moment.Roland, after some meditation, simply decided to make it up on his own.In any case, he was the creator of the new army, and no one found it unreasonable to set it.

So the first army in the border town was quickly released: the army, division, battalion, team, group as the overall framework, five people (taking into account that a gun needs at least five people to operate), ten groups for a team, ten teams for a battalion.As for the number of divisions and troops, he decided to consider it later.Given the overall level of combat in this era, as long as two or three battalions are sufficient to defeat the vast majority of their opponents in the field.

After the most basic framework was set, Roland took a breath.

The following rules and discipline are much simpler, except that at all times it is necessary to obey military orders, obey the governors, not to escape, not to betray, and so on, the first discipline Roland has laid down is to prohibit looting and disturbing the people.

The harm of the looting of the hands is innumerable, and the bad impact on the local people has taken several years to make up for.This is also the reason why he insisted on using civilians as members of the army.

When the nobles responded to the Lord's call to march, it was simply a night of the Lord's desire not to participate in the plundering after defeating the enemy, or the main reason for their willingness to follow the lords' march was that they could plunder the wealth and territory of their opponents - including, of course, the innocent civilians in the territory.

As for the mercenaries and bandits, let alone the soldiers.It seems that it is fierce and fierce, in fact, it can only be smooth, and robbery is also a major source of their income, and military discipline is meaningless to these people.

Only an army of civilians does not regard other civilians as lambs to be slaughtered.Of course, discipline and severe punishment alone are not enough, the days are long, and the greed of the heart will always be magnified with one victory after another.Therefore, incentives must keep up at the same time in order to fundamentally eliminate looting and other violations.

In order to make the reward motivating enough, Roland decided to release the ultimate killer - military merit.As long as the great meritorious achievements are made in the battle, the field can be granted.Roland, the source of the land, was all right, and it was the place to be reclamation between the border town and the fortress.

This was an absolute grand prize in the age when ninety percent of the land belonged to the aristocracy.Once there is a permanent production, these people will cling to themselves, and anyone who wants to overthrow him will be subjected to the fiercest resistance of the profiteers.

What drives the people is not by words and whips, but by real benefits.In other words, as long as it can always represent the fundamental interests of the people under its rule, its own dominance will be unshakable.

Unlike traditional fisseries, Roland controlled the area between a few acres and a dozen acres, which could be used to build a home, buy serfs or hire farmers to take care of the fields, but could not build an industry.In contrast, a knight's territory is close to two thousand acres, an area equivalent to a small village.The income from the industries operating above provides the combat needs of knights and valets, such as the purchase of weapons, armor and horses.

Such a small area of land reward, will not cause a strong resistance of noble interests, but also weaken the independence of the people under the field, in Roland's view, should be a retirement pension, can ensure that the soldiers after the retirement of a stable income.

At the same time, in order to strengthen centralization and avoid the occurrence of "servant servants are never my servants", the person granted to the field only has its own ownership, not autonomy.That is to say, the land still implements the laws, regulations and systems within the lordship.In a sense, they are more like the farmers of the afterlife.

After writing down the system of these initial ideas one by one, Roland stretched a lazy position.Then he can finally put himself into the field he specializes in - research and development weapons.

As the musket manufacturing speed increases, continuing to be equipped with long-term gunmen to protect the musketeer will form a human waste, the latter must have the ability to fight independently in close-in hand-to-hand combat.

The solution is simple: put a bayonet on the gun.Roland does not expect his troops to actively launch a white-bladed charge against the enemy, just to jump the wall in the other dog, and the artillery can not completely destroy the enemy's courage, it can have the power of the World War I.

This kind of thing is not difficult to make, the pursuit of simple words is a sharp cone, want to further expand the killing effect can be cut on the blood tank.The key is the way the bayonet is connected to the gun: the original bayonet is a thick wooded rod wrapped at the handle, and the wooden rod can be inserted directly into the barrel.The advantage is that the manufacturing is simple, the harm is also very obvious, the white blade can not shoot in wartime, after stabbing people is easy to fall into the dilemma.

Roland intends to produce an improved second generation bayonet - casing bayonet.The end of the tool is folded, connected to an iron casing.The inner diameter of the casing is slightly larger than the barrel, with the mouth, and only one iron cut is required on the barrel to be embedded for the mouth to fix the knife.The blade is a triangular iron, all cut on three sides, and does not affect the pullout after entering the body, and it will leave a wound that is difficult to heal.

After the sleeve type bayonet is installed, it will be slightly higher than the barrel, which has a certain impact on the loading of ammunition, but it is better than the folding bayonet, which is simple enough to facilitate mass production.As long as you make a sample, you can be built by the blacksmith shop.

The key to making bayonets work in combat is to train soldiers on how to use it.

Roland doesn’t know anything about this.Fortunately, he remembered that the chief knight had boasted of the sea, saying that any military weapon could be used as a model, and simply came to him to teach the musketeers how to fight the bayonet.