Chapter 2756: People’s support(1/2)
"Don't run!" a group of middle-level generals shouted.
The supervising team stepped forward and began to kill the deserters.
For a moment, the deserters had bullets in front of them and swords in back, and they could only escape to the left and right.
However, there were cavalry on the left and right, and if they saw deserters, they would give them a sharp blow.
Wen Rensheng nodded, that's how normal fighting is.
Supervising the team is an essential part.
Otherwise, people tend to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. They would avoid bullets, bows and arrows when they encounter them, and would not want to rush.
Only a handful of highly trained elites, with heavy rewards and clear goals, can overcome the fear of death, take the initiative to fight, and achieve results.
At this time, the opponent has many tactics.
Instead of fighting the soldiers, they fought a team of supervisors who stepped forward to kill the soldiers.
The advantage of rifled guns is sniping and long-range precision strikes, which is epoch-making in terms of tactics.
The supervising team also began to collapse.
The commander of the classical army, a general, saw that something was not going well and immediately ordered his elite archers to move forward quickly, throwing bows and arrows to suppress the opponent.
Archers are among the elite of the army.
Because it takes at least three or four years to train someone, or even more than ten years.
Horse archers and infantry archers are the starting points for junior officers in the army.
They ran quickly from both sides until they were more than a hundred steps away from the opponent, and then began to fight back.
And the other side won't watch them rush over.
It's just that they were charging together with other soldiers.
After all, this is a muzzle-loading rifled gun, and its firing rate is five rounds per minute.
The average is 3-4 rounds per minute, and in extreme cases it can reach 5 rounds.
The shooting steps are still cumbersome. First, you need to load the propellant, then the projectiles, then use the ejector to pound it firmly, and finally, you have to install the flash cap... Therefore, nervous soldiers often cannot shoot out, so they continue to load.
After the war, it was often seen that someone had four or five bullets loaded into the barrel of his gun but did not fire it.
Others just punch out the strips...
As a result, elite archers can sprint at least 300 meters in one minute. They take advantage of the opponent's reloading process to quickly close the distance.
As the distance shortened, these archers finally began to fight back.
The arrows were like dense raindrops, spanning more than 100 meters, and were thrown towards the array of the new army of traversers.
Although the musketeers wore relatively simple protection, wearing hats and leather armor, the power of the arrows should not be underestimated.
The New Army soldiers also fell in the rain of arrows, but the soldiers in the back row immediately stepped forward to fill the gap.
Many musketeers also began to tremble.
But the lower-level officers yelled and used sticks and command knives to force them to stand in line!
"Think of the newly allocated fields in your family!"
"Think of your new wives!"
When I think of this, some people want to run away even more...
But they had developed the habit of fearing their officers more than death.
A time traveler commander wearing three layers of armor and sitting on a tall horse shook his head and said: "I just said that Lao Zhang is a fool. He obviously has a rifled gun, but he still wants to queue up and shoot him. I will shoot him when I get home."
!”
"Yes, Lao Zhang is an idiot. He said that queuing up and shooting is more efficient, which is a waste of our troops. Obviously we only need to send out a small team and use dragoon kiting tactics to kill these guys with almost no damage, but he insists on this trick.
"Another commander laughed.
"Go back and beat him up together, saying that the front line private is the last romance for a man. I say this because he doesn't have to stand in the front row, grandma."
In the light ridicule of these people, the lives of these indigenous soldiers were just weights for them to test their tactics.
Line combat is absolutely brutal.
The level of cruelty even exceeds that of a spear battle with cold weapons.
After all, the latter has a high survival rate with armor.
But the frontline soldiers were shot face to face and resigned to fate. If they were caught, they would die.
The battle became more intense.
The two teams started a brutal tug-of-war on the plain.
The soldiers of the Classical Corps stopped disintegrating under the restraint of the supervising team and the slow firing of muskets from the opposite side.
Some elites brandished spears and swords and rushed into the formation of the new army.
Engaged in close combat with the musketeers.
The soldiers of the New Army fought back with bayonets.
They are also at an advantage in hand-to-hand combat.
The nutrition, logistics, and training of modern soldiers are not comparable to those of the classical army.
And the long range gives them a variety of tactical options.
Some skirmishers were drawn on the wings, and they still used the long-range power of rifled guns to conduct orderly shooting.
Focus on attacking the opponent's messengers and officers.
On the battlefield, smoke filled the air, shouts of killing, the sound of guns, and the sound of metal collisions intertwined together to create a hellish scene.
Blood stained the ground red, and corpses littered the battlefield.
Soon, the classical side finally couldn't support it anymore.
They suffered huge losses.
The most important thing is that what they lost was the elite, the elite servants who had been trained for more than 10 years.
The opponent only lost musketeers who had been trained for 1 to 3 months, and the muskets could be recycled and used after the war.
Because they are destined to win.
Wen Rensheng quietly observed the battle.
He shook his head.
The time traveler seemed to have won, but only for a short time.
If they don't change their arrogant mentality, they are destined to be assimilated into this world.
This battle is not only a contest between two teams, but also a collision between two eras.
Although they are time travellers, the essence of provoking war has never changed, only the form is different.
The battle finally came to an end with the defeat of the classical army.
The general of the Classical Army escaped first.
He abandoned his soldiers and officers, which made them cursed and surrendered.
The latter happily accepted these new cannon fodders.
The biggest advantage of organizing musketeers is the cannon fodder and garbage containers.
In the past, the elite of the cold weapon army needed a good family to be successful.
Gangsters and rangers are not allowed.
The Musketeers don't care about this.
It doesn't matter who you are, whips, sticks, and mechanically repetitive tactical actions, as long as you are not mentally retarded.
As for being on the battlefield and still wanting to run?
Caught together and moving in a queue, there is no place to run.
There is no need for any thinking or superfluous actions, just complete the queue advancement and shooting.
The significance of the Musketeers is that for the first time the war industry was streamlined.
In the past, the whole country mobilized 300,000 people. If these 300,000 people were killed, we would never be able to mobilize again.
One is due to material reasons, and the other is the difficulty in training elites. There are 60,000 to 70,000 elites among these 300,000, and it will take more than ten years to train and select them.
Li Zicheng's failure is the best example. He rose all the way, but when the elite was exhausted, he was chased and beaten all the way, and he could no longer train.
If they are musketeers, it will be fine. They will be sent to the battlefield in batches every three months.
As long as you have enough muskets, gunpowder, projectiles, and food, you can kill the opponent with more people.
So after entering modern times, relying on musketeers and large numbers of industrial countries, they have an absolute advantage and will not lose easily. At best, it will be a draw.
To be continued...