At the same time, a 75 mm mountain gun had also been developed in a hurry. Its main advantage was that it could be dismantled and carried by hand.
As for transportation, they still had sleds and Devil Beast Horses.
Compared to the Regular Army's massive, one-off offensives,
infiltrating an area to establish a base and then launching attacks consumed far fewer resources than their original war games had predicted.
The militia could provide much of its own food and winter clothing. Only the most important supplies—meat, weapons, and ammunition—had to be transported in.
This greatly eased the pressure on logistics.
Combined with the network of informants at their bases, their intelligence was exceptional. It was almost like having X-ray vision.
Louis's Army clearly hadn't anticipated this kind of arrangement and fighting style.
In a conventional war, mountains and rivers were all obstacles. Following the usual supply-line approach,
they should have formed a long snake along the front line and fought with their supply lines in mind.
But the militia in the mountains used a method that connected scattered points into a whole.
They treated the mountains as if they weren't there, and the rivers as if they weren't there.
Every last one of them could run like the wind.
After Lynn noticed the troops' foot problems, he introduced a tradition of washing feet and maintaining hygiene, and intensified their training with leggings. Even in winter, they were required to wrap their legs, then fight with foot cloth wrapped around the outside of their knee-high boots.
This winter, the Holy Sword Mountain had essentially become one big training ground.
And yet this very training had produced an effective fighting force.
Tactics were easy to learn, but strategy was hard.
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