Chapter 139: Distribution of Human Resources (2/2)

“What is that?”

I explained to Snow and others who tilted their heads about the “mortar” that we made with Mayer. Of course, dividing it into parts that can be explained to them and parts that cannot.

A large number of weapons were born in the world of my previous life, in World War I. The mortar is one of them.

At the time, machine-guns were developed, and soldiers were often forced to fight in close quarters by night raids or digging pits to try to get close. It is commonly known as the “trench war”.

Therefore, it was difficult to give effective hits with rifles and cannons because the enemies and allies were in the trenches. Therefore, Grenadiers appeared to throw grenades into enemy positions, but they were unable to get close enough due to the barbed wire and machine guns.

Being wary of each other’s grenadiers and attacks from the soldiers, they kept a distance of 100 m. or more from their opponent. It was no longer a distance you can throw a grenade with your hands.

As a result, there was a tactic that extended the flight distance by a method other than throwing a grenade by hand.

The first method was to shoot a grenade from the tip of the rifle [Rifle grenade]. As I explained before, this is a method of attaching a special device to the rifle and firing a grenade using an empty gun. However, this method had a drawback that it was necessary to attach a device for firing a grenade to the muzzle, and during that time shooting was impossible.

As a result of trying other ways other than throwing grenades by hand, a large-scale mortar (grenade launcher) was born that further expands the range of the Rifle Grenade.

Larger – scale? Just imagine a cannon used in the Middle Ages as an image.

In fact, the French Army brought out canons used in the Middle Ages and put it into trench warfare. It seems that there was a problem with durability because it was made in the age of low metallurgical technology.

And in 1915, the British Army has developed a Stoke-type mortar that looks just like a slanted barrel.

Although various countries tried various types of mortars, the Stoke mortar became the standard weapon.

The structure is extremely simple. A Barrel, a pedestal Baseplate, a bipod with adjustment handles.

The advantages of mortars are “high destructive power and killing power” because of the large amount of explosive charge that can be put in. It is easy to carry and handle because of its simple structure, and it has a low manufacturing cost. Because it falls from the sky, the pieces are scattered, and the killing ability is high.

On the other hand, the disadvantages are that the mortars shoot up shells and fall at a near-vertical angle, making them slow and susceptible to crosswinds, and the sound when shells fall makes them easy to detect by the enemy.

As mentioned above, mortars have many drawbacks. It is by no means a universal weapon. Since I made such a mortar, I was thinking of forming a support unit…

“Even Lute kun thought about that. Then the number of people is not enough. What should we do?”

“Would you like to recruit new members now?”

“But princess, is it difficult for us to spend 13 weeks on training again?”

Everyone gave their opinions. I would never give up myself…

I hit my knee and made a decision.

“If this happens, I’ll let the members, everyone learns all the skills!”

“All of them? “

Chris embarrassedly put out the mini blackboard.

I nodded.

“That’s all. The mortar is basically operated by the infantry squad, Sniper also, supports the squad, machine guns are going to be in the squad, so I should let them all learn. “You can buy your hard work while you are young”. There is no loss in learning the skills.”

My wives and apprentice agree with me.

If you are a small company, you have to do everything regardless of office or sales. In this way, the distribution of the members who joined the team was decided.

In the end, there would be 20 professional infantries, and 10 people as escort maid candidates. It was decided that all of us, would be in charge of protecting Kokori town.

The 10 escort maids were the ones I gave up because Shia did not give up to the end.

As a concession, we have agreed to nurture them as specialists in indoor control, protection of important persons, and rescue of hostages. Of course, I’m also going to put in the skills of mortars, snipers, and squad-supported weapons.

Rather, Shia was happy about that. In addition, she asks me to pay for the maid.

Wasn’t it difficult for one maid?

She’s been taking care of me all the time, so I forgave that much.

next time

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