The Rise of the European Emperor

However, Frederick III's idea was unsuccessful.

Why? Because Frederick III's method of batching, although the problem that the supervising soldiers could not supervise the farmers in the front, was solved, but after batching, the number of people in each batch was too small.

You know, the Marin army has a thousand musketeers at the front of the battle formation. The 2,300 farmers supervised by the 500 soldiers of the Allied Forces of Bursa were fine when they were walking forward with sandbags on their backs, but only lost 200 or 100 people at a distance of 50 yards. After all, shooting from 50 yards is really low.

But after entering a distance of 50, the casualty rate increases suddenly. Every round of platoon fire, three or four hundred people fell. By the time they were 30 yards away, 1,000 of the 2,300 farmers had already fallen, with nearly half of the casualties.

At this time, those terrified farmers could no longer care about the Bosa coalition soldiers who were guarding them. Because moving forward is also death, and running away is also death. Moreover, if you run away, there is at least a certain chance of surviving. As a result, the remaining more than 1,000 farmers dropped their sacks filled with soil and ran to both sides.

The Bursa coalition soldiers who were supervising behind them took a look - is this still worth it? So they raised their butcher knives at the fleeing farmer...

Although they killed some of the peasants who escaped, the more than 1,000 peasants in front of them escaped for their lives and dispersed, revealing the soldiers of the Bursa coalition who were supervising behind them.

Seeing the rare opportunity, Schwartz immediately ordered - "Aim at those soldiers!"

Then, bursts of gunfire came, and those soldiers who were exposed to the muzzle were killed by more than 100 people. After all, at a distance of about 30 yards, experienced musketeers have a high accuracy rate.

In desperation, the remaining more than 300 Bursa coalition infantry under supervision had no choice but to run back and retreat...

They are different from those farmers, they only have weapons in their hands, and they still run very fast. Unlike those farmers, who carry hundreds of pounds of dirt sacks and can't run fast. Soon, they were pulled into a relatively safe area 50 yards away. And, still running backwards. Just run 100 yards and it's almost impossible to get hit.

However, as soon as they ran, Frederick III's plan to fill the hole fell through...

Joachim I muttered:

"Not enough people, not too few people, so what should we do? We can't let elite soldiers go up to eat bullets, right?"

Frederick III also frowned, and he did not expect that it would be so troublesome if there were too many musketeers. There were not no musketeers in the Saxon army, but only a very small number had them, and they were not on a large scale. Therefore, Frederick III never saw the power of musketeers. Now, after coming into direct contact with Marin's battle formation, he really felt the strength of the Musketeers. Moreover, the three-stage shooting method used by the Marlin army musketeers made the firepower continuous, which made people extremely headache.

In desperation, Frederick III said:

"Let the sword and shield soldiers try it out, send 500 sword and shield soldiers, and choose the kind of shield that is covered with iron!"

This attack is not a general attack, but is used to test the defensive power of the sword and shield soldiers against the musket. So, Frederick III only sent 500 people to the field.

However, he was destined to be disappointed. Because the shield covered with iron can't stop the heavy projectiles of the 50-gram Musikt musket. Unless, with a pure iron shield. However, a pure iron shield is too heavy for ordinary soldiers to carry...

To deal with the musketeers, it is best to use the cavalry to charge quickly, and take advantage of the gap between the opponent's reloading and smash into the musketeers. Then, just abuse it. Although the cavalry at the forefront will inevitably be killed by the musketeers, as long as the subsequent cavalry rushes up and rushes into the pile of musketeers, they will kill them casually. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did just that.

In order to obtain more cannon fodder and protect the real elites of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty sent troops deep into the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast to arrest uncivilized barbarians everywhere, which was called "born Jurchen" at that time (in fact, they may not be Jurchen. tribal,

Perhaps it is from other ethnic groups such as the Evenki), incorporated into the death squad. When facing the musket troops of the Ming Army, they drove these "Jurchens" wearing thick cotton armor, tied them on horsebacks (because the Jurchens in the deep mountains and old forests were not good at riding) and charged in front. The real Manchu Eight Banners cavalry followed.

If those "born girls" were killed by the Ming army musketeers, the Manqing would not feel sorry for them, and the big deal would be to send someone to catch them in the deep mountains and old forests. And if they survived, these barbarian-like "born girls" would be sealed as petty officials. However, these barbarian-born Manchu officers were very bloodthirsty. Although brave, he is very wild. After entering the customs, he made a lot of murders... a bit off topic...

The problem was that Marin dug two wide trenches at the front of the battle line, filled with wooden pickets. Behind the two trenches, slanted wooden pickets were also inserted. This double defense is designed to restrain the charge of the cavalry. Neither light cavalry nor heavy cavalry could break through such a terrifying defense. As long as it falls into the pit, the warhorse will definitely be pierced through the belly by the wooden picket. People are not much better. The cavalry will fall into the pit, and the light cavalry will be stabbed to death, and the heavy cavalry will also be killed by Marin's men with muskets, or even hammered to death...

Therefore, in the face of such a formation designed to guard against cavalry charges, Frederick III felt very difficult. As for Joachim I, that's even more so...

Seeing that the charge of the sword and shield soldiers was also useless, Frederick III gave up temporarily. So he commanded:

"Go and urge the artillery unit, hurry up here. Tomorrow, we will use artillery bombardment!" Then, the Bursa coalition forces withdrew their troops and returned to the camp. However, in order to prepare for Marin's night attack, Frederick III sent many scouts to supervise Marin's army in shifts.

The next morning, Marin was also taken aback when he saw through binoculars that the Bursa coalition was transporting artillery in a carriage. So he hurriedly ordered:

"Quick, put our artillery up there too. Attention, we have to face the enemy's artillery and attack their artillery specifically!"

Then, 50 6-pounder guns and a dozen 18-pounder short-barreled Army-version Karen guns were pushed into position...

There is a reason why Marin ordered people to specifically aim at the opponent's artillery. In this era, European artillery generally did not have a Wangshan installed behind the artillery (the function was similar to the sight on the barrel, but it was at the rear of the barrel). Moreover, the artillery of this era did not even have a gun mount. In battle, experienced artillerymen are needed to command others and bury the guns of the artillery in front of the formation. Moreover, there must be a pit behind the gun barrel, or a pile of mounds built up. This is to prevent the barrel from shifting due to the large recoil after the barrel is fired. If the gun barrel is displaced, it will be inaccurate and need to be rearranged. In the absence of the wheels of the gun mount, it is very troublesome to reset the gun barrel. It requires several strong men to carry the barrel to its original position. And when it is lifted, it must wait for the temperature of the gun barrel to cool down. Otherwise, it's very hot...

But Marin's artillery with a gun mount is different. After this kind of artillery fires, the artillery will retreat. However, because of the wheels, the artillerymen could easily push the guns into their original positions. Then, the artilleryman in charge of aiming will crouch down, put his head directly behind the barrel, and use his eyes to observe the target through the lookout mountain that resembles a front sight. After aiming, you can continue to fire.

And those without gun mounts and Wangshan are often miserable. They will let experienced artillerymen observe the effect. If the gun body does not shift, it is easy to say, continue to load and fire. If the gun body happens to think, it will be troublesome. We must wait for the gun barrel to cool down, then let the soldiers lift the gun barrel to reset, and then let the experienced artilleryman look at it with his eyes before continuing to shell...

Therefore, the same artillery, because of technical differences, the interval between the two sides firing is very different. Marin's infantry artillery, within a minute, will definitely be able to fire a second shot. Faster, you can even fire a shot in 30 seconds. The traditional artillery, because of various troublesome problems such as the displacement of the gun body, often takes more than two minutes to fire the second shot. Moreover, aiming is also very troublesome, and it may not be accurate...

Just as the experienced artillerymen of the Bursa coalition were instructing others to set up their artillery, Marin's artillery had easily pulled more than 60 artillery pieces to the front of the formation, quickly completed the loading, and began to aim and shoot...

"Boom-boom-boom-"

The bursts of artillery sound came, which directly stunned the Bursa coalition...