The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin was well aware that with just a few changes to the clockwork shotgun, a less expensive and easier-to-use flintlock could be made.

Although the clockwork musket is not afraid of wind and rain, it needs to be wound with a small wrench before firing, which will delay two or three seconds. Unlike flintlock guns, you can set the trigger back to fire. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, flintlock guns are better than clockwork muskets.

However, Marin clearly knew that the flintlock gun was low in technology and low in cost, and could easily be imitated by opponents. So, even knowing how a flintlock was made, Marin didn't plan to launch a flintlock. Because, once launched, it is easy to be imitated by the enemy, and then hit himself with a flintlock...

The clockwork gun is different, the clockwork is very difficult to manufacture and the cost is high. In the absence of spring steel, the mainspring can only be made by hand, and the yield is extremely low. As a result, the cost of others making clockwork muskets is very high. Even if they know the structure and principle of clockwork muskets, and the imitation is successful, they cannot be installed on a large scale because of the high cost. On the contrary, because of Marin's carbon spring steel technology, the cost of making springs is low, the qualified rate of finished products is high, and the manufacturing speed is also fast, which is convenient for large-scale installation.

Therefore, Marin deliberately used inferior clockwork muskets, hoping that through cost advantages and technical advantages, those poor opponents could not be installed on a large scale. In this way, the opponent's firepower is definitely not as good as his own.

Of course, other countries can also choose to install arquebuses. But the disadvantage of the matchlock gun is too obvious - the shooting density is low, and it will stop when it encounters wind and rain. Therefore, using the same musket, the arquebus line array must not be able to beat the line array of the clockwork musket. Because musketeers using clockwork muskets can stand side by side and shoot at the opponent at a firing density nearly twice the density of the opponent's line array. Although the shooting accuracy of the musket is impressive, the higher the density, the more likely it is to hit the opponent...

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However, just replacing the arquebus with a clockwork musket would have no advantage in the face of the British army. why? Because the opponent's long-range firepower is also very strong...

Although it is a bow and arrow, the lethality of the English longbow is by no means under the musket. Even, in the case that neither side wears plate armor, the English longbowmen are more lethal. Because, the English longbowmen's rate of fire is much faster...

Generally speaking, the English longbowmen fire at a rate of 12 arrows per minute, and when 10,000 arrows are fired, they can reach 15 arrows per minute. When using a musket, whether it is an arquebus or a clockwork musket, it takes 30 seconds to fire one shot because of the difficulty in loading, that is, two shots per minute. Of course, with the three-segment firing method, it can be increased to six shots per minute. However, in the face of the opponent's rate of fire of 12 arrows per minute, it is still at a disadvantage.

If you don't wear plate armor, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties in the face of the arrow rain of the English longbow. Even wearing plate armor, there will be some casualties. Because, no matter which army, it is impossible for the whole army to wear plate armor. After all, wearing plate armor also requires strong physical strength and endurance.

Even if Marin wears chest plate armor and iron helmets for the soldiers in the front row, and iron helmets and wood chip armor for the soldiers in the back row, there will definitely be casualties. After all, even the front row fighters don't wear plate armor on the lower body. If you are unlucky, you may be shot in the leg. And the soldiers behind, if the bow and arrow hit the Iron Helmet Shanghai, it will be fine. If it shoots to the neck or chest through the gap between the iron helmets, it will be finished...

Therefore, relying on a musket alone does not have many advantages, and we must think of other ways...

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Marin then began to recall the plot of the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, and finally, he remembered-the reason why the French army could finally come back,

It seems to rely mainly on two things - artillery and plate armor...

Needless to say, plate armor has enough defense against bows and arrows. The reason why the early British army frequently won big is because the plate armour had not yet appeared in the 14th century, and chain armour was still popular at that time, which naturally could not stop the English longbow. In the 15th century, with the development of plate armor technology, the French army gradually had the power to fight back. In the case that the horses were easily hit by arrows, the French knights simply dismounted and charged as plate infantry, with good results.

Of course, it was the artillery that played a major role. Because the long-range firepower is far inferior to the British army, the French began to develop artillery to fight the British army after entering the 15th century.

Although the artillery technology at that time was general, the range was only more than 200 meters. But that was enough—because the range of the English longbowmen was just over two hundred yards.

Moreover, the lethality of artillery is much more than that of bow and arrow. English longbowmen can shoot more than 200 yards though. However, if it exceeds 100 yards, the power of the arrow will be greatly reduced, and the ability to pierce armor will almost be lost.

The artillery is different. Even if the big iron ball is smashed far away, the kinetic energy provided by the mass of the iron ball itself can still smash the opponent out.

Not only that, as long as the iron ball cannonballs pass by, as long as they don't miss it, more than one person will be killed. A three-pound iron ball, where it flies, smashes the opponent's head into the air, hits an arm and breaks an arm, hits a leg and breaks a leg, hits a chest, and smashes directly into a large blood hole that goes through it and then continues to smash. The next unlucky one... If you hit a crowded place, a single iron ball can always take away several enemies...

The French were ruthless. At the end of the war, they mobilized dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces to participate in the battle. They fired a hundred artillery pieces and took away hundreds of English longbowmen at one time...

This time the English suffered a great loss, because it was extremely difficult to train the English longbowmen. A longbow soldier not only has to be tall (over 1.75 meters tall), but also needs more than ten years of uninterrupted practice. In order to give young people enough time to practice archery, the King of England declared it illegal to play football (because young people playing football will crowd out the time to practice archery).

In this way, after many years of uninterrupted practice, King Ying recruited thousands of longbowmen from the common people. Such a difficult-to-train longbow soldier was taken away by the French in a round of shelling. How could the heart of the English not collapse?

You know, longbowmen are difficult to replenish because of their high requirements. Therefore, England's longbowmen fought less and less. After the quantitative change caused the qualitative change, the French finally gained the upper hand in the later period and expelled the British army from the European continent.

Marin thinks that the French have a very clever way of thinking, which is worth learning from. Therefore, this time, Marin also decided to use artillery as the main means of attack, using intensive artillery fire to kill a large number of English longbowmen.

Marin originally had 50 front-mounted three-pounder guns, plus more than 50 Saxon rear-mounted bronze guns (Fran cannons) captured at the Battle of Lübeck. Therefore, Marin also has the ability to mobilize hundreds of infantry guns to frantically bombard the British longbowmen.

Although the range of the French cannons captured from the Saxons was the same as that of the French artillery, only more than 200 meters, unlike the front-mounted three-pounder guns, which had a range of 365 meters. However, it was also enough to kill the English longbowmen in large numbers. As long as the artillery ship is given plate armor, it can fully resist the British longbow projectile. The English longbowmen, even if they wore plate armor, could not stop the bombardment of iron balls. As long as a hundred guns are used to inflict enough casualties on the English longbowmen, the opponent's morale will certainly plummet. At that time, the entire army will rush forward and completely defeat the British army.

As a half-fan of Napoleon, Marin also advocates "artillery doctrine". In fact, the Huaxia Republic in later generations also pursued the artillery doctrine. In 1979, the Chinese army destroyed more than 880,000 shells in the battle against Yue Monkey, which shook the ground. It is said that one time a chief suspected that there were monkeys ambushing in a certain mountain pass, so he asked artillerymen to shoot 10,000 shells into the mountain pass. Afterwards, the scouts went over and found that there were more than 800 monkey soldiers died in the tunnel. Moreover, they were not killed by the explosion, but were killed by the explosion shock wave of the continuous artillery shell, which caused blood to flow from the ears, nose and throat. To use the description of Jin Daxia - it was shocked to death by internal power, and the shock caused seven orifices to bleed...

Marin actually highly values ​​this kind of unreasonable play, but unfortunately, now the saltpeter is limited, and the gunpowder is not particularly sufficient. Therefore, it can only be used sparingly. But when Chilean saltpeter was developed in the future, Marin decided to let the cannonballs fly freely, and if anyone refused to accept it, he would use tens of thousands of cannonballs to smash it into dust...

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