Chapter 83: Battlefield Survival Handbook

  Chapter 83 Battlefield Survival Manual

“There’s a f*cking conspiracy, the enemies on the opposite side are clearly a bunch of new recruits, swarming in attack and dispersing when retreating, I don’t know where the enemy found the very best from!”

Grigi made a quick judgment, if it wasn’t for the lack of troops in hand, he would have really ordered to kill out, such a good opportunity doesn’t come along often.

“Chief, I see that the enemy has abandoned quite a few weapons, why don’t we send someone to pick them up, we can still make a profit!” The young officer thought about it and said

Grigi glared fiercely and said in a tone of hatred, “Ambridge, sometimes I really want to split your head open and see what’s inside, why do you have so many messed up ideas!

Just thinking about getting rich, do you think the enemy on the other side is a fool? Why don’t you go up there and try to see if the enemy will take your life?

Our mission is to hold the defense line, what’s the use of picking up those few broken guns?”

In this era, the treatment of national armies is not good, want to get rich most of all rely on robbery, and battlefield seizures.

This time the war, are in the Austrian mainland to fight, robbery is don’t want to think about, how crazy can’t be in their own territory to mess around, captured became their main income.

Of course, can let them feel at ease to fight, Franz promised land rewards, is also an important factor.

In the past, if you wanted to obtain land rewards, the main thing was to become a noble to obtain a fiefdom, this difficulty was too great, except for a few lucky ones, most of the people didn’t have a chance.

This time Franz made a change, in the past the actual feudal nobles, even a knight has to move thousands of acres of fiefdom, now the ordinary soldiers make military achievements can also get land.

(1 hectare ≈ 2.5 acres = 15 city acres)

Only this does not belong to the noble fiefdom, and there is no noble privilege, which is equivalent to the government using the land to pay for military pay and rewards for war service.

Since it didn’t belong to the nobility, the threshold was naturally much lower, and it was much easier for ordinary soldiers to obtain land. Basically, as long as you fight a battle on the battlefield, a few acres of land will be in your hands, and if you are lucky, you can even get a few hectares of land.

Ambridge wants to get money, the main purpose is still worried about the lack of military honor, when the time comes, he can also use money to redeem the land from the hands, after all, his goal is to be a farmer.

This is a preferential treatment for military personnel, in order to limit land annexation, Austrian land redemption law made a provision that the per capita redemption of land area shall not exceed 2 hectares, and the rewards obtained on the battlefield are not included in the calculation.

“Uncle Grigi, as you know my family has many siblings, as the second son is not qualified to inherit a title or property, so I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit!” Ambridge said without a care in the world

Grigi said without a trace of anger, “Damn it, why don’t you want to work hard and earn a title out for yourself?

I bet as long as you can earn a title, even if it’s just the lowest class of non-hereditary Lord, old John would be happier than if you were to earn a hundred thousand Rheinland guilders!”

In this era, the main officers in the European army were basically the sons of nobles, especially the second sons who were not qualified to inherit a title, but they even entered it as adults to fight for it.

These people received a good education and quickly stood out in the army, and the colonization movement in European countries was made by this group of noble sons who were eager to obtain titles.

Ambridge thought for a moment and said: ”I also want to obtain a knighthood, but with my rank, it is too difficult to obtain the military honor of being knighted now.

Uncle Grigi, why don’t we lead a sneak attack on the enemy camp at night, in case we succeed, maybe my goal will be realized!”

Grigi rubbed his forehead and gave up on the intention of continuing to teach this distant nephew of Ambridge. Even if you want to attack at night, you should consider the actual situation, right?

He admitted that the enemy’s sucked, and in all his years in the army, he had never seen a unit that fought like this, but it couldn’t be helped that they were outnumbered!

Opposite the enemy army has two divisions, the troops in his hand is only one regiment, even less than one-fifth of their strength, sure it’s not going over to give away their heads?

……

Sardinia Kingdom military camp, Major General Will severely taught a lesson to the soldiers lying dead on the battlefield today, but also selected a few unlucky eggs as the object of authority, the execution of military justice.

The battle started again, perhaps because of the relationship between the authority, or perhaps the veterans of Sardinia Kingdom, to be a little more brave, the afternoon battle is much more tragic.

Picked up the binoculars, looked at the scene of flesh and blood, once there are soldiers rushed to the enemy’s position, Major General Will nodded with satisfaction, this is the war, if they are like the morning gang of fools, that’s not going to be good!

In the camp, undercurrents had begun to surge.

A gray-headed soldier said excitedly, ”Tom, the knowledge above the Battlefield Survival Manual is really useful. See that bunch of idiots, usually all high and mighty, now they are all stupidly rushing up to die, don’t mention how relieving it is!”

“Of course, this is something that Mr. Guerrazzi spent a lot of money on, buying it from an old mercenary, just so that we can reduce casualties on the battlefield.

Raul, be careful, don’t let the Sardinians catch on, we still need them to sell their lives in this war! Who’s going to fight the Austrians if everyone learns the hard way?” Tom, the middle-aged man, said cautiously

“Yes, let the Sardinians and the Austrians fight dog-eat-dog, and when they’ve fought to a standstill, we, the Lombard Republic, will be independent!” Raul said excitedly

……

Something as lofty as the Battlefield Survival Manual naturally wouldn’t have been written by an old mercenary, it was something Franz had prepared specifically for the Kingdom of Sardinia.

It was summarized from his study of Italian war history, so it was marketed to the Sardinian army in advance, and anyway, it was all invented by Italians, so naturally there was no such thing as a watery grave.

By the way, he also gave away the sixteen-word policy: fight if you can win, run if you can’t win, and surrender if you can’t run!

Inside recorded, in the battlefield most of the life-saving skills, for example: when launching a charge, in the halfway is to look for favorable terrain to play dead.

The choice of this place is very important, can not rush too far, also can not be too close to the base camp.

It is best to have a bunker that can block the enemy’s stray bullets, but also must consider the comfort, because the trip is too long, easy to numb the limbs.

Another example: in defense, you can’t risk your head, bullets just shoot out casually on the line, anyway, the probability of hitting the enemy are not big, there is no life and death grudge, do not play with your life.

……

Franz very spoofed enough thirty-six, commonly known as “life preservation thirty-six”, all are the battlefield life preservation stunts, and also comes with the explanation, are in the most understandable language, without a trace of literary style.

(End of chapter)