Chapter 455: Positional battle (3)

However, Frederick III's ideas fell through.

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

You know, the front of the Marin army, but there are a thousand musketeers. Two or three hundred farmers under the supervision of the 500 soldiers of the Bossa Allied Forces walked forward with their sandbags. Fortunately, they were only 50 yards away, and only two hundred people lost. After all, the hit rate beyond 50 yards is indeed very low.

After entering a distance of 50, the casualty rate suddenly increased. Every round of volleyball shooting, three or four hundred people fell. By the distance of 30 yards, these two thousand three hundred farmers had fallen to a thousand people, and nearly half of the casualties.

At this time, the fearful farmers no longer care about the Bossa coalition soldiers behind them. Because, forward is also dead, and running away is also dead. Moreover, if you run away, there is at least a certain chance of survival. As a result, the remaining more than 1,000 farmers dropped the sacks filled with dirt and ran to both sides.

The supervising Bossa coalition soldiers behind them took a look-did it get it? So, they raised the butcher knife to the running farmer ...

Although some of the escaping farmers were killed, more than a thousand farmers ran away in front of them, and they spread out, just revealing the Bossa coalition soldiers who were supervising behind.

Schwartz saw the rare opportunity and immediately ordered-"Aim at those soldiers!"

Then, bursts of gunfire came, and the soldiers exposed under the gun were killed more than a hundred people at once. After all, at a distance of about 30 yards, the accuracy of the musketeers is still very high.

In desperation, the remaining more than three hundred Bossa coalition infantry supervised had to run backwards and retreat ...

They are different from those farmers, they only have weapons in their hands, and they run very fast. Unlike the farmers, they carried hundreds of pounds of dirt sacks and ran unhappy. Soon, they pulled into a relatively safe area 50 yards away. Moreover, still running backwards. As long as it runs 100 yards, it is almost impossible to be hit.

It's just that in their run, Frederick III's plan to fill the pit was defeated ...

Chokem I mumbled:

"If there are too many people, not too few people, what should we do? Can't let elite soldiers go up and eat bullets?"

Frederick III was also frowning, and he did not expect that if there were too many musketeers, it would be so troublesome. It is not that the Musketeers are not in the Saxon army, but only a small number of them own it, and it is not large. Therefore, Frederick III never saw the power of the musketeer. Now, after positive contact with Marin's battle front, he really felt the power of the Musketeer. Moreover, the three-stage shooting method used by the Marlin army musketeers makes the firepower endless and makes people extremely headache.

In desperation, Frederick III said:

"Let the sword shield soldiers try, send 500 sword shield soldiers, choose the kind of shield covered with iron!"

This attack was not a general attack, but was used to test the defensive strength of the sword and shield against the musket. Therefore, Frederick III sent only 500 people to play.

However, he was destined to be disappointed. Because, with a metal shield, it can't stop the heavy projectile of the 50-gram Musquete musket. Unless, use pure iron shield. However, the pure iron shield is too heavy for ordinary soldiers to take ...

To deal with a musketeer, it is best to use a cavalry to quickly hit and take advantage of the gap in the other party's ammunition to kill the musketeer. Then, it was abused casually. Although the cavalry rushing to the front will inevitably be killed by the musketeer, as long as the subsequent cavalry rushes up and rushes into the musketeer pile, they will be hacked to death. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners cavalrymen of the Qing Dynasty did just that.

In order to obtain more cannon fodder and protect the real Manchurian elite, the Manchurian sent troops to the old forest in the deep mountains of the Northeast to catch the uncivilized barbarians everywhere, which is what was called "birth of the Jurchen" (in fact, they may not be Jurchen Ethnic group, perhaps Ewenki and other ethnic groups), into the Death Squad. When facing the Ming Musketeers, they drove these "naughty girls" wearing heavy cotton armor and tied them on their horsebacks (because the girls in the deep forest and old trees were not good at riding) and charged in front. The real Manchu Eight Banners cavalry followed.

If those "birth girls" were killed by the gunmen of the Ming Army, Manqing did not feel distressed, and it would be a big deal to send people to the mountains and forests to catch them. And if they survive, these barbarians, like the "birth of a girl", will be sealed up as little officials. However, the Manqing small officers from these barbarians are very bloodthirsty. Although he is brave and wild, he has made a lot of killings after entering the customs ... a bit off topic ...

The problem is that Marin dug two very wide trenches at the front of the battle, and they were filled with wooden spikes. Behind the two trenches, slanted wooden spikes were also inserted. This double defense is specifically to restrain the cavalry charge. No matter whether it is a light cavalry or a heavy cavalry, in the face of such a terrible defense, it is impossible to break through. As soon as he fell into the pit, the warhorse was definitely poked through the belly by a wooden picket. People are not much better. Cavalrymen fall into the pit, light cavalry will be poked to death, heavy cavalry, and will be killed by Marlin's men with muskets, or even killed with a hammer ...

Therefore, in the face of such a special formation to guard against cavalry charges, Frederick III felt very difficult. As for Joakim I, it is even more ...

Seeing the sword and shield soldiers charge was useless, Frederick III was temporarily stubborn. So he commanded:

"Go to urge the artillery unit and hurry up here. Tomorrow, we will use shelling!" Then the Bossa Allied Forces withdrew their troops and returned to the battalion. However, in order to guard against Marin's night raids, Frederick III sent many scouts to shift and supervise Marin's army.

Early the next morning, after using the telescope to see that the Bossa coalition was transporting artillery in a carriage, Marin was also surprised. So he quickly ordered:

"Quick, move our artillery up too. Be careful. We must face the enemy's artillery and hit their artillery specifically!"

Then, 50 6-pound guns and a dozen 18-pound short-barrel army version of the Karen guns were pushed to the position ...

The reason why Marin ordered people to specifically aim at each other's artillery was good. At this time, European artillery generally did not have Mount Wang behind the artillery (acting like a front sight on the barrel, but at the tail of the barrel). Moreover, the artillery of this era did not even have a gun mount. When fighting a war, you need experienced artillery to command others and bury the artillery body before the formation. Moreover, there must be a pit or a mound behind the gun body ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ This is to prevent the barrel from shifting after the gun is fired because of the large recoil. If the barrel is displaced, it will be inaccurate and need to be rearranged. It is very troublesome to reset the gun barrel without the wheels of the gun mount. It required several strong men to carry the barrel and lift it to its original position. And when it is lifted, it must wait for the barrel temperature to cool down. Otherwise, it's very hot ...

But Marin's artillery with a gun mount is different. Although this artillery fires, the artillery will retreat. However, because of the wheels, the artillery can easily push the artillery to its original position. Then, the artillery responsible for aiming will squat down, put his head directly behind the gun barrel, and use his eyes to look at the target through the sight-like mountain. After aiming, you can continue firing.

Those without gun mounts and Wangshan are often miserable. They will let the experienced artillery to observe the effect. If the body is not displaced, it is easy to say, continue to load and fire. If it happened to the gun body, it would be troublesome. You must wait for the barrel to cool down, and then let the soldiers carry the barrel to reset, and then let the experienced artillery glance at the eye again before they can continue the bombardment ...

Therefore, the same is the artillery, because of technical differences, the interval between the two sides firing is very different. Marin's infantry artillery can certainly fire a second artillery within a minute. Faster, you can even fire a shot in 30 seconds. The traditional artillery, because of various troubles such as the displacement of the gun body, often can only fire the second gun for more than two minutes. Moreover, aiming is also very troublesome, not necessarily accurate ...

Just as the veteran artillery of the Bossa Allied Forces commanded others to lay out the artillery, Marin ’s artillery had already easily pulled more than sixty artillery into the battlefield, and quickly completed the loading, and began to aim and shoot ...

"Boom-Boom-Boom-"

The sound of artillery bursts and directly killed the Bossa Allied Force ...