Struggle in the Steam Age

Before the medical team set off, Lawrence specially concentrated everyone in one place for intensive training. Especially for those medical personnel and logistics personnel.

Although it is said that because of the traditional martial arts on the island and the encouragement of the Lawrence policy, everyone has learned some knowledge about shooting, but being able to shoot and knowing how to fight is completely different.

For example, these medical staff have basically only fired a few shots in the shooting range, so Lawrence specially organized them to train some simple tactics and let some veterans teach them some combat experience.

Of course, this kind of training does not expect to train them to become fighters, but only hopes that they can be kept as low as possible on the battlefield.

In addition, the core of another batch of training is those logistics personnel, although they have previously mastered good combat skills as militiamen and joined actual combat. But because these people are recruited from various settlements, Lawrence naturally needs to train them on group operations.

"Our situation can be said to be better than most of the islands in the Sea of ​​Stars." On this day, Lawrence watched the group of logistics militiamen practice digging trenches to build simple field defenses, and Safir escorted a batch of supplies to training On the field, then walked to Lawrence and looked at the militiamen who were training in full swing.

Of course, Safir did not say this out of flattery to her fiance. As someone who has been busy communicating with the surrounding friendly forces these days, she probably learned the level of the surrounding forces from the surrounding telegrams.

Compared with those under Lawrence, the army on those islands can be said to be extremely inferior and incomparable at all.

To give the simplest example, for example, the Governor of Vieques, the only colony of the White Eagle Federation in the Star Sea, is considered to be the leader of these small forces, but they only have the small-scale standing army on the island with standard military valves. Rifle, and the maintenance condition is very average.

At the same time, due to funding issues, this standing army did not lavishly equip every regular soldier with a pistol like Lawrence.

The only good news is that smugglers and all kinds of disgusting wild animal invasions often appear around the island, so the actual combat level of these standing troops is pretty good.

In terms of heavy firepower, if the coastal artillery units that originally belonged to the White Eagle Federal Navy are not counted, only two 76mm front-mounted rifled guns can be used as field guns, and the number of artillery and shells is also insufficient, and there is a serious lack of similar Ammunition such as blasting bombs or shotguns. As for the training level, it is even more terrible.

The only thing to celebrate is after the launch of the mortar at the factory under Lawrence. This unit purchased 6 120mm heavy mortars and 18 82mm mortars.

Although the effect of mortars is not good when facing enemies with a certain degree of defense or relatively strong mobility, it can be regarded as greatly enhancing their firepower level.

Considering that the island had just experienced a brutal defensive war not long ago, Vieques will only draw out a 500-man army with 100 regular troops as the backbone and 400 militiamen in this civilized expedition. In addition, it took 300 people for logistics. And these people can't compare with the armed forces of Lawrence, the medical team.

For example, their regular army lacks hand grenades and pistols, and only a small number of them have purchased pistols at their own expense. Although the militiamen received the same rifles as the regular army, they did not equip them with bayonets, nor did they receive new guns.

The worst is their logistics staff. Compared with Lawrence, which is a completely militia logistics team, these logistics personnel hired from all over the island are completely civilians.

Although they also realized that the frontline would definitely not work with their bare hands, but the change they made was just to give everyone a sailor knife that they didn't know where to collect.

"We must surpass most of the islands in the Sea of ​​Stars. After all, New Sauer Island invests far more in this area than other islands."

After listening to Syfiel's words, Lawrence, who knew everything about the surrounding islands, took it for granted. "Although investment may not be rewarded, there is definitely no way to get any rewards without investment."

Lawrence also knew in his heart that this gap is actually all-round. From the perspective of material foundation, compared with islands that rely on a single tropical cash crop or re-export trade, a relatively complete basic economic system on New Sauer Island can provide the island with stable economic sources.

And compared with the production of raw materials whose prices have been artificially lowered, no matter tea, fishery products, hardware or medicines on the island of New Sauer are all manufactured products. In this era, even simple industrial manufactured products can earn much more profit than pure raw material exports.

More importantly, Lawrence developed the business of grain farming and the production of various daily necessities on the island, and at the same time obtained cheap textiles from Erythion.

Under such circumstances, New Sauer Island naturally does not need to endure low-priced acquisitions of products on the island as some islands do, while also having to spend high prices on those necessary supplies.

Under this circumstance, even if it has been less than a year in operation on New Sauer Island. But the output value of the entire island has surpassed many islands that have been in business for dozens or even hundreds of years. With the support of sufficient wealth and the support of Lawrence’s own weapons factories, the armed forces of New Sauer Island will naturally be able to obtain sufficient weapons and ammunition for training and combat.

Of course, Lawrence also knows that this is directly related to the size of the island. Even if this world has extraordinary powers, it is not much different from the world in Lawrence's previous life in terms of economic principles.

For example, for small islands of several hundred or more than one thousand square kilometers, it is indeed much better to grow cash crops alone than to fully plant them, or to be precise, it should be a little less bad in a series of bad options. One of them is ~www.ltnovel.com~, so they can choose this path as no alternative.

In addition to these innate objective factors, the subjective wishes of some island leaders can also play a definite role in this regard.

For example, officials on islands directly under the jurisdiction of various countries like Vieques are basically local officials, so they are rarely considered as long-term as Lawrence.

Therefore, it is natural not to make long-term plans for the island like Lawrence, let alone to arm its own troops like Lawrence.

"As the only two islands in the southeastern sea area of ​​the Star Sea that belong to the White Eagle Federal Theater, the people on Vieques Island will set off with us in two days." After the inventory was completed, Safir took it from the adjutant Read a telegraph to Lawrence.

"According to the plan, we will take our own boat to meet them off Vieques Island, and then take a boat to land in Huguang City through river-sea combined transportation."

"It seems that the White Eagle Federal Theater Command has a good level of logistics planning." Lawrence, who was thinking about the island situation in the region, immediately reacted from his thoughts after Saifei said this, and then nodded. From the arrangement of the other party, Lawrence realized that the command headquarters had indeed bothered in this regard.

After all, Lawrence and his medical team need to carry a large amount of materials, and many of these materials are flammable or fragile materials, so it is necessary to reduce the transfer as much as possible during the transportation.

Now this line obviously takes this into consideration. Although the time required for the entire water transport is much slower than the direct train ride north after logging in at the southernmost port of the Federation, it is obviously more for this medical team. Suitable for them to take a lot of things on the road.