Chapter 3792: Musketeers of Carthage

More than a hundred kilometers north of the city of New Carthage. There is a small tribe here, the tribe called Los. This tribe is not small, but not too big. It has a population of more than 2,000 people, but it can provide more than 500 to 800 indigenous soldiers. This is their confidence. Where, they have expressed impatience with the Carthaginians this winter. They refused to provide more food to the Carthaginians and called their soldiers back. This had a very bad influence on Carthage’s rule here, because some tribes had begun to move around. They believed that the Carthaginians were barbaric and did not respect them. They decided to unite against the Carthaginians.

In order to eliminate such hidden dangers, Carthage decided to take military action to eliminate such hidden dangers in advance. Hannibal decided to participate in such an operation, and at the same time he asked to try to launch a sneak attack at the beginning, using new tactics. The commander thought for a while and agreed to his request, maybe they also hope to get some new surprises. In order to ensure that such an accident can continue, the commander-in-chief sent more than one hundred well-trained musketeers to help out. This is what Li Wei has grasped.

"Winter combat will bring a lot of inconvenience. First of all, the drop in temperature has brought a lot of trouble." Li Wei was a little hard to bear the cold, because he had adapted to the northern desert climate and came to Spain at once. The weather was cold and humid, and his physique changed a lot, but he was a soldier and had to endure everything here. His fingers started to suffer from frostbite. This is a bad situation. If he hadn't insisted on keeping his shoes and socks dry, trench sickness might follow. This situation is too bad.

"Secondly, there will be some errors in the performance of the weapon. For example, if the rifle is not maintained in time and they are wiped with antifreeze oil, they will not even be able to pull the bolt." Li Wei rubbed his hands and wrote in his notebook. Which wrote. Hannibal asked him to make a battle plan. Because Hannibal didn't know how to face such an attack, usually, they would launch a challenge, and then the two sides would set up a battle. Hannibal did this according to the original plan, but Li Wei did not agree to do it because it was too stupid to do so.

"In the end, their strength is too small. We only have one cavalry squad, 33 cavalry, plus their commander, Mr. Hannibal. Although they are well-equipped, they have to face five hundred to Eight hundred armed tribes, although their equipment looks much worse, they still have a great advantage. They are very familiar with the neighborhood, and they are more brutal, and they have a lot of strength and number. Big advantage, these barbarians have a big advantage, that is, they are very brave. They will attack tenaciously. Unless you can kill them to complete despair, they will only surrender if you kill such despair." Li Wei wrote in his notebook. The weather is not bad, suitable for combat. Many Musketeers are huddled together, unable to live, they can only lean on some blankets and wait for the arrival of the enemy. They are in ambush.

Yes, it was an ambush. Li Wei formulated a battle plan. They deliberately beat the combative tribal arms in the distance, making them crazy. Because their rifles have a longer range advantage, usually the tribe does not have a weapon that can withstand such shooting. Li Wei asked Hannibal to keep roll call on the periphery. They can shoot either on the horse or under the horse, whatever they want. In short, they have to pose a great threat to the other side, and at the same time provoke the other side’s nerves so that the other side cannot stand such shooting. Once the other side spills out, he will immediately Let his soldiers withdraw immediately. Once the other party returned to their camp, they would continue the roll call. After several times, the other party would definitely send troops to chase them, because their provocative behavior greatly stimulated the nerves of those tribes. What Li Wei wants is such an effect. As long as such an effect is achieved, all problems can be solved.

After all, there are more than a hundred musketeers here. He divided the musketeers into three groups and divided them into three stable points to form a triangle on a path that must be passed. There are virgin forests on both sides, which is good for hiding. Use the Musketeers' muskets to shoot them. The cavalry who come back will act as mobile forces, and they will continue to look for weaknesses in the mobile to kill each other.

"If you have a machine gun, it will be better. You can use the crossfire to shoot them well. In that case, the war will become very easy. Unfortunately, the Carthaginians did not have such weapons. , Or they have it. But the Army will definitely not be equipped with such weapons. For them, bullets are too expensive. Although the price of copper is not as good as silver, they have to spend a lot of bullets on this. It's still unacceptable." Li Wei said.

"Although the Carthaginians' economy is developing very well, they have their own agricultural foundation and do some trade, they are not an industrial country after all. In the arms trade, they are completely on the weakest side and want to get rid of this situation. There are still many things they need to solve. For example, they need to solve a lot of military production problems, introduce related weapons production equipment, and related technologies, but the problem is that they don’t have these things. They are stingy and stingy. They are unwilling to spend so much money on these equipment. As a result, their situation cannot be changed at all. This is essentially the difference between the agricultural economy and the industrial economy. The output value of the agricultural economy is the limit. Although they also do some trade, these trades are nothing more than trade. They do not create more wealth. Because they are reluctant to invest more, Carthage lacks all important sources of funds, but they are not at all. Understand this." Li Wei wrote in his notebook. He has no good feelings for the Carthaginian Senate, and he thinks that their Senate is composed of a group of selfish and shameless villains. Such a group of villains naturally caused the current situation to get out of control. They may have failed politically. This is the biggest failure of the Carthaginians. Li Wei thinks so.

"Da da da da." At this moment, there was a rush of horseshoes, and they could hear some gunshots from time to time. Obviously, their enemy was coming. The seduction plan was very successful.

"Okay. Everyone is ready to fight." Li Wei said, an officer on the side translated. They immediately entered a state of fighting. They kept rubbing their hands, allowing their fingers to pull the trigger, and some people filled their guns with ammunition, which was a fine job. The order must not be chaotic. If it's messed up, the musket is nothing, he is not as good as a stick.

"Don't be nervous, the enemy will come in a while." Li Wei gestured. But no one can understand what the other party said, they just take good care of the muskets in their hands. For the Carthaginians, muskets are very contradictory. The power of the musket is indeed great, but its accuracy is very poor, and it requires a lot of people to fire together to focus on the target. In long-range combat, his power is still good, but the problem is that once the distance is too close, their disaster will happen, and they need cover. Because the second reloading was very time-consuming, they did not have enough infantry to cover them. Everything depends on them, which makes them feel very worried. In order to solve this problem, Li Wei implemented a platoon of guns. They formed a group of ten, which was the strength of a squad. After the shooting, he ordered the second group to shoot and the third group to shoot again, and the first group just finished reloading. .

"Come here. All ready. Hearing my order to fire." Li Wei said. But no one can understand it.

The savages are savages, and their team looks very scattered. Chaos, but fortunately, they are generally concentrated, many people brandishing short swords in their hands and large axes constantly yelling. Obviously, the cavalry mobilized them very powerfully, and the barbarians simply couldn't bear such a mobilization. Constantly roll the names, if they don't care, all of them will be shot. They wanted to grab each other and then skinned them alive because they were so angry.

"Prepare." Li Wei saw that the opponent had entered the ambush circle, raised his right arm, and just waved his right arm to shoot. He has already seen some people enter the ambush circle, and the people behind are still a little bit close. As long as they come according to their own requirements, this is a perfect ambush.

"Bang." Just then. A gunshot came too suddenly. Li Wei was very surprised, because he really couldn't think of who would shoot, it was the guy who wanted to do it, didn't it kill everyone?

Then everyone was shooting, and the enemy hadn't completely entered the ambush circle. Such crazy shooting was very chaotic. Soon Li Wei knew that the situation was worse than he thought. Because everyone is in the shooting position, the first group, the second group, the third group. The Carthaginians simply did not shoot in accordance with his request. They swarmed to the firing position and kept firing. Regardless of how the barbarians were killed, they seemed to have lost the opportunity to resist, but Li Wei knew that the situation would be very chaotic. Because after they finish shooting, they will be in a period of firepower as a whole. At that time. Disaster will come.