18th century total war

Chapter 174 A Meeting Gift for the Spaniards
"For the king, kill!"

The leading grassroots aristocratic officer, brandishing a command knife, bears the brunt of the attack, and rushes forward with his soldiers.

Under the leadership of these officers, the Spanish soldiers in the back dared not disobey orders no matter how afraid they were, otherwise they would have to be dealt with by military law in turn!

In the Spanish Army, if an officer charges a soldier to a theater, it is a very serious crime, with little possibility of commutation or pardon.

Not to mention the high society in the Kingdom of Spain, even ordinary people in the civil society cannot understand the behavior of civilian soldiers daring to abandon noble officers in this era. Generally speaking, it is normal for both sides to switch positions!
When the soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion saw that the enemy had launched a bayonet charge without incident, they immediately retreated into the buildings on both sides of the street and the barricade defenses behind them, preparing to give a big gift to the Spanish soldiers who rushed up.

Those old-fashioned curved guns, such as mortars with too short range, also stopped firing one after another and moved to the rear.

For a while, the sound of artillery on the battlefield stagnated, which made the Spanish soldiers who were charging look overjoyed.

The reason why they are willing to participate in this war is just to make a living, because in the Spanish Army, where corruption is rampant at this time, only soldiers who go on expeditions can get free meals!
That's right, the soldiers of the Spanish Army need to pay for their daily living expenses on weekdays!
This system was originally intended to give soldiers more freedom, and at the same time save some trouble for the Spanish government. It does not need to establish an overly large logistics organization to be responsible for the food of a large number of soldiers in peacetime.

The Spanish government just distributes money, and the soldiers buy what they want to eat, which seems to indirectly promote the prosperity of the market economy.

In theory, everything looks so good, but any good policy will immediately become the source of public dissatisfaction once the implementation of this step goes awry!

The quality of life of the people in a country never depends on the various legal measures promulgated by the country on the surface, but on the implementation of various policies by the country.

If there are policies and countermeasures, how can the government of such a country not embezzle national property and oppress and exploit the people?
This is why throughout the ages, many countries have set up inspection bureaucracies similar to 'self-inspection'.

It’s just that in many cases, the inspection agency will actually become a department with more serious corruption, providing corrupt officials with an umbrella to accept more bribes.

Because of this, it is really too difficult for a country to completely eradicate corruption, unless all government management agencies are controlled by absolutely fair and fair artificial intelligence systems like in science fiction films.

And it is also necessary to ensure that the ruling class will not leave a back door in the artificial intelligence system and tamper with the program without authorization to seek benefits for themselves and their relatives and friends.

For example, in the territory controlled by the Li Wei regime, although many laws and regulations seem to be very "backward", in the eyes of the public in the 21st century, it is not an exaggeration to be called perverse, but the cities under the control of the Li Wei regime And the villages and towns are in order, everyone has work to do, and there are busy scenes everywhere.

There is no such thing as hooligans and hooligans on the street (all of them were arrested and reformed in labor offices)!
This is the result of execution in place!
Because of the terrible administrative enlightenment ability of the total war system, most of the high-level officials are dedicated to doing practical things, and they take the initiative to search for the people below the corpses. Most of the policies of the Li Wei regime are implemented at the grassroots level. How can the whole society Maybe not busy?
However, most of the Livy regime's policy labor force came from labor service workers, so the private wealth reserve value was very low, and the market economy was never prosperous.

Of course, this is a time of war, and Li Wei can only do this in order to save financial expenses as much as possible.

You must know that the vast majority of the labor force responsible for the logistics of Li Wei's army are labor service workers without any salary. They eat the cheapest food and suppress labor costs to the lowest limit.

This ensures that Li Wei can continue to wage war militaristically, and even purchase a large amount of arms and industrial raw materials for military expansion and industrial productivity.

Holding a bayonet, the Spanish soldiers who followed their officers into the main road of the city felt that the whole battle became easier. The Levi rebels on the opposite side seemed to be retreating?

Just as they rushed forward screaming excitedly, no one noticed that on both sides of the street they passed by, there were large pieces of 'sundries' covered by rags, and there was also the sound of burning fuses!
The noise on the battlefield was so loud that most Spanish soldiers didn't hear it at all. Even if the remaining Spanish soldiers heard it, they didn't think about it for a while, because they were following their own officers. Blindly rush forward, looking for enemies to kill!
Then, it's...

Boom boom boom...

The covered sundries on both sides of the street are all special gunpowder barrels with large equivalents. The reason why they are called special is that in addition to black powder, there are other kinds of gunpowder barrels that fly at high speed and have terrifying properties. Lethal little things.

A series of explosions completely enveloped the Spanish army soldiers rushing in. The thick gunpowder smoke completely covered the Spanish soldiers' vision, and the choking smell of gunpowder smoke was everywhere.

In fact, limited by the power of black powder, except for the Spanish soldiers on both sides of the street, few Spanish officers and soldiers staying in the middle of the road were injured or even died, but their spiritual will was horribly attacked. It added to the confusion even further.

The large number of Spanish soldiers who were still rushing forward were completely panicked.

At this moment, a large number of bullets were suddenly fired from the buildings and barricades on both sides.

Due to the large amount of gunpowder smoke, these bullets were not very accurate, but the infantry guards did not need any accuracy. Anyway, the Spanish officers and soldiers rushed in almost crowded, and there was a high probability that they would hit the human body with a random shot.

These bullets caused the panicked Spanish officers and soldiers to scream and fall down, which was equivalent to the last straw that broke the camel's camel. The Spanish soldiers finally couldn't hold it, or they didn't want to stay here and kill them!
The Spanish soldiers who poured in fled back in embarrassment, and the infantry guards who saw the Spanish soldiers' offensive disintegrated once again fired a large number of explosive bullets at the crowd, killing the enemy as much as possible!
In order to shoot accurately, many mortars even placed the mortars within the effective range of the Spanish soldiers' muskets and fired!
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Thanks to Fei Tianxiong for rewarding 100 starting coins.

(End of this chapter)