Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

According to the instructions of the Lake Heart Town, Lion Harbor established a civilian armed group called "Janwan Volunteer Army".

Although it is called a civilian armed group, its core land force is actually composed of three battalions of the Alda Marine Corps and six newly added army battalions, totaling more than 5,000 officers and soldiers from the Northwest Bay.

Because of the formal involvement in the Horn Bay War, the command system of the Horn Bay Volunteer Army was adjusted for the consideration of the possibility of deep land military operations in the future. The fleet at sea is still commanded by the fleet commander Quick, while the land military forces including the Marine Corps are commanded by Major General Andrew who came with the infantry battalion. He was promoted from the former commander of the Bayerding Battalion, that is, the former Fourth Infantry Battalion.

As the size of the army expanded, the Alda army increased the level of military ranks, adding colonel, major general, lieutenant general and general above the colonel. Currently, Quick and Andrew are both major generals.

In addition to the regular army from the Northwest Bay, there are 15,000 local mercenaries in Horn Bay as auxiliary forces. This mercenary force was originally established by the captives of Horn Bay mercenaries in the Usurper War. The Lake Heart Town transported them back to Horn Bay and recruited local people to supplement the current scale.

Because of the changes in the current situation, the mission of the mercenaries has expanded from maintaining order and protecting property to participating in battles. Its organizational structure and organization have also been changed to be exactly the same as the Alda army. In order not to drag down the regular army, its training intensity has also been increased. Claude and others in Jingyao provide ready-made training templates for the infantry manuals compiled for the new royal army.

Since assisting Niceburg to lift the sea blockade, the Horn Bay Volunteer Army has tried to organize an expedition in order to completely annihilate the remnants of the retreating Guardian Army.

However, when the Aldo soldiers left the coastal city and entered the inland of Horn Bay, the seemingly beautiful tropical forests suddenly revealed their hideous and terrifying side to these guests from the north of the continent.

Vicious snakes and insects, poisonous miasma, dangerous plants... In short, the acclimatization of the soldiers of Ordo was greatly aggravated, and the epidemic began to spread in the army. Many people vomited and had diarrhea, and even had fever and coma, which seriously affected their ability to move.

Sometimes, the power of will cannot completely overcome the difficulties in reality. General Andrew realized that his army might be swallowed up by the environment before seeing the enemy, and at that time, the ability of those mercenaries to fight independently was questioned by him, so he withdrew the army and first conducted adaptive training on the edge of the forest.

At the same time, he allocated part of the force to help the Protestant Alliance recover the fallen coastal cities together with the navy.

It is difficult to capture a city protected by heavy walls on land, even for the Alda army equipped with artillery. Although long-term siege is a good choice to avoid casualties, it takes a lot of time. Therefore, the volunteers of Horn Bay chose a quick way to fight against coastal cities-invasion from the sea.

In the sailing age of the earth, the navy once had a rule-naval guns should not be stupid enough to fire at the artillery on land. But it does not apply here, because the opponents of the Alda Navy are not equipped with artillery, and the active defense equipment that can be deployed to the port is nothing more than long-range cold weapons such as crossbows.

Naturally, these relatively backward "firepower points" cannot fight against the naval guns that have both range advantages and power advantages. The Alda Navy sailed outside the port, adjusted the ship body, aimed the muzzle, and removed the "firepower points" one by one. Then the marines rowed small boats and entered the port under the cover of artillery. The chain that blocked the ship from entering the port was taken up by shaking the capstan, which often meant that the city was in hand.

In the old times, if the army defended the city with thick walls, the defenders could still resist stubbornly, but once the walls were lost, the morale of the defenders would immediately drop to zero, and they would not have the courage to fight street battles at all. In order to facilitate trade, the coastal cities of the Horn Bay are often laid out in such a way that the port directly connects to the central city without any complicated obstacles in between. The defensive forces deployed by the Crusaders here are basically recruited from local believers who still support the church. They lack training and have poor equipment. In addition, they are questioned by the locals for joining the Crusaders and their morale is very low. The combat effectiveness of such a group of guys can be imagined.

This kind of situation often occurs. Before the Marines land, the garrison of the port will scatter. Soon, the citizens will spontaneously tie up the officials appointed by the Crusaders and surrender to the landing vanguard.

Overall, while the Crusaders were busy licking their wounds, the recovery of the coastal cities of the Protestant Alliance was relatively smooth. It took Nisburg nearly half a year to restore its rule over the coastal territories and finally restore it to a more decent country. It tried to build a powerful armed force again, ready to avenge the previous shame in the next stage of combat.

The retreating Crusaders, as well as the Horn Bay Church and the Holy See behind them, were not idle.

Pope Harrington II and the high-ranking officials of the Holy See reached a consensus on the current situation. They put aside the matter of Gabela for the time being and prioritized extinguishing the heresy in the Horn Bay. They lifted all restrictions and sent a large number of soldiers, weapons and money to the Horn Bay via sea and land transportation to re-arm the recovering Crusaders.

With the direct support of the Holy See, Webster, who had been relegated to the second line, was re-employed and once again served as the commander of the Crusaders.

Webster's experience is quite legendary.

At the beginning of the Horn Bay War, the northern route of the Crusaders' strategy was severely blocked, while in the south, the heretic army, led by the fierce general of the Horn Bay Alliance, Vasquez, marched eastward all the way to Fort More, not far from Collins. Just when the Crusaders and the Horn Bay Church were about to be destroyed, the Holy See sent Webster to lead the army to support.

He defeated the Protestant army under Vasquez at Fort More, and then pushed back all the way to the most powerful Horn Bay Alliance in the Protestant Alliance.

However, at this time, the short-sighted Horn Bay Church believed that it had already won the victory, and advocated to send part of its troops to the north to attack Eaton and other countries, and to wipe out all heretics as quickly as possible.

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The cautious Webster rejected this plan and insisted on concentrating his forces to eliminate the leader of the Sacrilegious Alliance, the Horn Bay Alliance. The Horn Bay Church therefore developed a grudge against him and after some operations, kicked Webster to the second line and replaced him with Edwin Cook, who was also sent by the Church.

The plan of splitting the troops to attack was promoted and executed by the Horn Bay Church. Cook led half of the troops in the original plan to attack Niceburg, but ultimately failed to take it down and died in a camp roar.