Chapter 2179: shield grenadier

Remember [New] for a second,! In fact, Marin has a more powerful charge in his hand, that is, Knott's explosive. But the problem is that Knott's gum production is very low. And, for the sake of secrecy, Marin was reluctant to divulge the technology.

Therefore, this time in Eastern Europe, it is more appropriate to use the black powder version of the imitation border maker to keep bullets. As long as the iron shell is done, there will be no embarrassing situation like Li Yunlong's ranting about being blown into two pieces.

And, to be honest, the role of the bullets in the hand is not to kill the enemy, but more to scare the enemy and destroy the enemy's morale. The black powder version of the imitation border area hand-made bomb has limited power, but it can damage the enemy within a few steps and cause panic to the surrounding enemy. And the panic of the enemy will cause morale to drop, which is what Marin wants most. Next, launch a "swarm" rocket with a high firepower density, which can directly knock the opponent down. In this era of emphasis on morale, the collapse of morale means that there is a great probability of collapse.

However, it is not without danger for bombardiers. If there is a crossbowman on the opposite side, shooting with a crossbow is likely to injure the grenadier. And the grenadier was wounded, and its own life and death was a trivial matter. The most fearful thing is that just after the fuse is lit, before it can be thrown out, the arrow will fall to the ground. At this time, the people around this unfortunate grenadier will be unlucky.

So, had to figure out a way to keep the grenadiers safe...

The first thing that Malin thought of was that the sword and shield soldiers would be in front of him for cover. However, if the other party sent elites to kill them, the sword and shield soldiers might be killed. After all, sword and shield soldiers have poor mobility and are difficult to escape. After all, a large wooden shield, weighing ten or twenty pounds at every turn, is too heavy to hold.

It's also not okay to put heavy armor on the grenadiers, it will seriously affect their mobility. If the spearmen on the opposite side chased after them, the heavily armored grenadiers would not be able to escape.

Holding a big shield...it's fine, but that's the problem. The big shield is too heavy, about ten or twenty pounds.

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Just when Marin was hesitating, his subordinates reported that Kong Tai, the governor of Dongfan Island, had brought back 8,000 rattan tokens by boat!

Marin's eyes suddenly lit up - the shield! That is the best shield in ancient times!

The protective power of the shield is higher than that of the wooden shield, but its weight is only five or six catties, which is much stronger than the wooden shield, which can easily weigh ten or twenty catties. The Roman shield weighs 7.5 kg to 10 kg, which is 15 to 20 catties. If covered with metal skin, it can reach a weight of more than 30 pounds.

Moreover, because the shield is elastic, it can absorb a certain amount of kinetic energy, and it has good protection against lead bullets. In this era, I am afraid that only the 50-gram projectile of the Spanish Musquette musket can break the protection of the rattan shield. After all, that kinetic energy is a bit big. The ordinary matchlock gun, it is difficult to break the shield. Even if the vine shield is broken, the kinetic energy of the lead bullet is almost consumed, and there is no lethality. After all, this is rattan treated with tung oil, which is very tough.

And five or six catties of shield, let the grenadiers hold it, it is not difficult, and it is convenient to retreat. Moreover, the shield is still very strong against bows and crossbows. Even if the Moscow army flanks with bowmen and shields, the grenadiers need not be afraid. They can protect themselves with the shield in their left hand, and the right hand for throwing bullets...

As for the matchstick for igniting the fuze, it can be hung on the shield. In this way, when igniting the hand-retained ammunition, it is only necessary to unscrew the cover with one hand, lean the exposed fuze against the match rope hanging on the shield, and ignite. Then, throw it with one hand.

After testing, if you hold this shield, the grenadier's protection ability is greatly improved. At the very least, it is difficult for bowmen to deal significant damage to grenadiers. At most, the exposed legs and feet of the grenadiers could be injured. However, that's not lethal, and won't let the grenadier be mortally wounded and unable to throw the flaming hand-retained round.

Moreover, in order to protect the grenadiers, Marin also made people wrap the folded paper armor with leather to protect the legs and feet of the grenadiers and prevent the grenadiers from being injured by bows and crossbows.

In this way, the safety of the grenadiers is greatly guaranteed, and they can rush forward without any scruples and throw bullets at the enemy's face.

As for the enemy will chase out? Marin thought about it and planned to arrange for thousands of black knights to take cover. Once the enemy flanks the fast light infantry, let the black knight go up to stop it. How can the light infantry be able to compete with the rogue troops like the black knight? Even plate knights were no match for them. The heavy armored infantry and sword and shield soldiers, because of their heavy equipment, could not catch up with the grenadiers. At that time, the grenadiers can retreat calmly after throwing their bombs...

Then, Marin took his soldiers to the test. Tests have found that this tactic works very well for infantry phalanxes. The destructive power of hand-retained bullets is not in how many enemies it kills, but in bringing a huge panic to the enemy.

In the era of battle formation, the stability of the formation is extremely important. If the big formation is broken through a hole, causing panic among the soldiers, then the soldiers in this big formation may collapse.

Of course, just keeping bullets by hand is not enough to defeat the big formation. Because, at best, the grenadiers can break through the protection on the side of the enemy line, causing panic on the side.

If you want to defeat the enemy, you have to fight a tough battle. If it was during World War II, the devil soldiers might have used the firepower of the three-eighth cover and the crooked handle machine gun to forcefully break into the large formation, causing the formation to collapse.

However, there were no repeating rifles or even machine guns in this era. Therefore, the grenadiers can tear open the side protection of the enemy formation, but cannot destroy the large formation.

At this time, an assault unit is needed to rush in and forcibly defeat the enemy. Then, Marin thought of the Lancers...

Beihai Kingdom has always had a 1,000-strong lancer team, divided into two lancer regiments, each with 500 men. Each regiment is divided into three squadrons of 150 people, and the remaining 50 people are the direct guards of the regiment commander. The three squadrons are generally divided into three batches. When charging, they launch a three-layer wave-style impact. If the two regiments acted together, each platoon consisted of two squadrons of 300 men, charging forward. Of course, if the enemy is too weak, you can even send a two-row formation to charge.

If the enemy's flank protection is broken, what class is best for charging? Of course the lancers! The lancers charge in armor and have good protection, which is also a nightmare for the enemy. For the sake of convenience, the lancers are generally the same as the Polish winged cavalry, wearing only half-armor, and the horses are not armored. Before this, the Lancers of Beihai Kingdom were indeed like this.

But after Marin "invented" the "Jiangnan Leather Factory" armor, Marin felt that Chinese armor was also good. As a result, the Lancers switched to the lightweight "Jiangnan Tannery" leather wrapping armor.

However, unlike the Austrian armor, the North Sea Lancer's leather bag wrapped the armor was not made of iron, but folded silk. In the officer's purse was folded sisal cloth.

In addition, the lancer's horse was also wrapped in leather armor, and the leather bag was also folded silk. In this way, people and horses are well protected.

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However, this time, Marin did not intend to use the two Lancer regiments belonging to the First Army, but planned to recruit 1,000 wandering knights in the Teutonic and Livonian Knights to form two new spears. The cavalry regiment, used to launch this attack.

The main thing is that the First Army should stay in the mainland to protect its hometown and cannot be easily dispatched. The army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is not very strong, and recruiting two new lancer regiments is enough.

Of course, Marin will definitely transfer some officers from the old Lancers to train and command the new Lancers. In fact, they don't use much training. Those wandering knights are masters who have practiced martial arts for many years, and their personal combat effectiveness is not bad. As long as they get used to the new weapons and armor, and emphasize discipline, they can basically get started.

However, for the two new Lancer regiments, Marin did not plan to equip them with leather-wrapped armor with folded silk, but instead planned to equip them with rhino leather armor.

Rhino leather armor is enough to deal with cold weapons, while the Moscow army has a low rate of firearms, and they must be placed on the front. Therefore, when hitting the flanks, you will basically not face muskets and artillery, and rhino leather armor is absolutely sufficient.

If it was an army of tens of thousands of people, it would be difficult to get tens of thousands of sets of rhino leather armor. However, the rhino leather armor of a thousand lancers, Marin can still get it by squeezing it, including the rhino leather armor of horses.

Moreover, the importance of rhino leather armor has been greatly reduced since the appearance of leather bandage armor. After all, rhino leather armor can't stop bullets. In this way, the nobles are interspersed with folded sisal leather armors, and many rhino leather armors have become decorations and have been collected by people. But the war needed it, and Marin asked them to take it out, which was still okay.

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"It's a good tactic, Kohler, you take note - it's a good tactic to deploy lancers in rhino leather armor while making sure there are no firearms on the enemy flanks..."

In the combat research room, Marin is leading a new batch of staff. Although Marin had planned to establish a staff for a long time, the military cadets of Beihai Kingdom were generally inexperienced. Combined, they don't have as many ideas as Malin. After all, Marin is a transmigrator. Therefore, most of the junior staff members are learning from Marin's side. Even many junior staff officers who have not graduated yet come to the combat research room to listen and learn.

There is no way out, because Marin, who is an instructor, is half a bucket of water. He has never attended a military university, and he does not know how to train staff in future generations. Therefore, at present, the military students of Beihai Kingdom do not have special teaching materials for staff. And the study of ancient war cases is of no use. Because we have entered the age of firearms, the combat thinking of the old cold weapon age has actually fallen behind.

And Marin, it is not easy to explain to them the battle cases that did not happen in later generations. Therefore, he can only pick out a group of military cadets with agile minds and bring them around to train~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These children are very loyal. Except for some absolute secrets of assassinating the monarchs of other countries, they are not allowed to participate. plan, they will be taken to audition. Then, these plans became teaching examples...

In fact, this training model is a bit like the apprenticeship of this era. It's just that the master with the apprentice is a bit powerful, and he is the monarch of a country. But Marin couldn't do anything about it. He didn't have a systematic teaching material to train staff members, so he could only do it like this. But when this group of people grows up, they can take apprentices. Then, you don't have to go out on your own.

It's just that these officers and students studying on the spot are very puzzled - why did His Majesty make a plan to fight the Muscovites? Poland and Lithuania did not invite North Sea countries to send troops...

It's no wonder that although Marin mobilized a large number of young officers and soldiers for high-intensity training and training for long-distance raids. However, Marin never revealed who he was targeting, and the inexperienced teenagers just thought it was normal training.

It was not until the news that the Grand Duchy of Moscow was besieging Smolensk spread that Marin publicly deduced how to defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Therefore, those junior officers and students are very confused - we didn't participate in the war, what are we deducting?

Of course, out of their fanatical admiration and loyalty to Marin, they would not question Marin, but would only think that Marin was far-sighted. Soon after, Marin's deduction came in handy, and the officers and students recognized Marin's "far-sightedness" even more...