18th century total war

Chapter 39 The Secret Keeper

"My lord, that boy Borza's troops are still chasing, and they will soon approach our rear."

Rolf trotted all the way to Lesarit's side, his expression a little unnatural.

After he returned to the team, he thought that Borcha's team would leave, but unexpectedly he started jogging to catch up!
In order to maintain the formation, it is impossible for Lesarite's team to run forward.

The era of queuing and shooting is not the period of World War II. When marching in line, you can disperse anytime and anywhere when you encounter attacks. You can avoid fire bombing without weakening your own firepower.

In this era, relying on the rhythm of firing and reloading the ammunition of the flintlock, if you really disperse, everyone should stop fighting, and wait for the enemy to swarm up and annihilate them one by one.

Otherwise, rifled flintlock guns have been developed long ago in this era. Why has it not become the standard weapon of the army?

Rifled flintlock guns can shoot long and accurately, and their performance seems to be much superior to smoothbore flintlock guns, but there is only one flaw that makes rifled flintlock guns never become the mainstream weapon of this era-reloading is complicated and slow!
The barrel of a smoothbore gun only needs to be loaded with ammunition, and it can be fired by poking it with a pole. However, due to the rifling in the barrel of the rifled flintlock gun, it is very difficult to poke the ammunition with the pole, and even a small hammer is required. Knock inside.

The result is that a rifled flintlock takes several times as long to load a bullet as a smoothbore flintlock!
What is the most important thing on the battlefield?
Firepower density!

At the same time and in the same area, whoever can unleash higher firepower will have the advantage.

Artillery is so called the god of war!
Obviously, the faster-loading smoothbore gun can easily produce a firepower density far exceeding that of the rifled flintlock gun in the same time, and it has naturally become the mainstream weapon of this era.

After all, fighting is a group sport, not a duel where several people compare their marksmanship with each other.

Facts have proved that if you want to maintain the best firepower density with smoothbore flintlock guns, you must maintain formation at all times, even in combat.

The great powers and powerful armies of this era are basically emphasizing the importance of formations. The most critical thing in formation training is how to quickly transform from a marching column to a line of guns that can fight and exert firepower density.

Once the enemy takes the lead and there is a trend of horizontal teams fighting columns, it is basically equivalent to dozens or hundreds of people shooting at a dozen people at the same time. It would be strange not to turn you into a hornet's nest!

In the 18th century, there was a Prussian emperor named Frederick the Great. His favorite tactic was the diagonal tactical square formation. The principle of obtaining combat advantage was actually to form a situation in which more troops hit fewer troops in certain areas of the battlefield, thus occupying a dense firepower advantage.

Then quickly win the local battlefield, and after defeating a group of enemies, besiege in other directions, forming a sweeping momentum!
Of course, everyone now knows that the famous tactic of the dead Frederick the Great is no longer a rigid flat line of battle to attack forward.

Lesarit stared at Rolf like lightning, as if he was questioning him, didn't you say that you can settle everything?

But at this time, Lesarit also knew that it was not the time to reprimand Rolf, and immediately issued a series of orders. The Bavarian mercenary group that was leaving quickly stopped in the sound of drums, and one after another, the phalanx After the order of the respective officers, turn around!
The front team has changed to the rear team, and the rear team has changed to the front team. The Bavarian Corps is worthy of being the regular army of the Principality of Bavaria. In just a few minutes, it completed the formation adjustment facing Bolza's troops.

If the basic line infantry is allowed to do this, it will definitely not achieve such a high efficiency. Who is to say that the basic line infantry has poor formation ability?

When Bolcha's team saw the enemy troops stop and turn collectively, they immediately issued an order to slow down.

After all, when jogging to catch up, the entire queue actually became loose. If these soldiers had not restrained themselves with a strong sense of honor, they would have run into chaos long ago.

The basic line infantry is far from reaching the tactical literacy to run on the battlefield and then go into battle.

Accompanied by several adjutants, Lesarite came to the rear of the team and raised his binoculars to look at the team that Bolza was organizing.

Then, he turned his head to look at Rolf, who was slightly pale, and said in a cold tone: "Rolf, I have already adopted your suggestion, but something went wrong at this time, you don't mind going to see Boercha Bar.

His people are twice as small as ours, and it won't do him any good to fight. I just want to take everyone away completely. "

Rolf seemed to have anticipated this moment. After all, Lesarit's attitude towards him was not friendly at all. If Rolf hadn't been behind the will of the Grand Duke of Bavaria, he would have been punished by Lesarit long ago.

Here, after all, it is Lesarit who has the final say.

And the family behind Lesarite is not afraid of Rolf's family.

In desperation, Rolf had no choice but to agree to go to Bolcha's team.

When Rolf appeared in front of the formation, Bolcha was ready to fight, but did not rush to attack.

Bolcha also knew that his side had few soldiers, and he couldn't take advantage of it in a fight. The opponent was not the mob of the Vannes City garrison!
It's a well-known mercenary in the Principality of Bavaria!

On the battlefield, it doesn't mean that soldiers can win without fear of death, otherwise the church's fanatics would have unified the world long ago!
Bolcha's purpose was to hold back Lesarite's Bavarian corps. Unless the opponent took the initiative to attack, Bolcha would lead his troops to meet them.

He is not afraid of death, and he believes that the soldiers he has just received from the training camp in Charles Town will not be afraid of death, even though they were defeated and surrendered in the Battle of Vannes a few months ago.

Under the total war system, it only takes one month to turn a group of cowards into butchers who don't even recognize their parents!

Porcha knew the truth. After serving as a bishop for a month, he witnessed with his own eyes the initial disdain and sneakiness of the prisoners of war, to their fanatical admiration for Levi. He understood that these soldiers would be the most fearless soldiers in the world. people!

However, Polcha also admires Li Wei, even though he himself occasionally feels discord when recalling his past life, but this does not prevent Polcha from concealing this secret for Li Wei.

Not only Bolcha, but most of the veterans and officers in the Black Dragon Legion know the secrets of the training camp's 'brainwashing', but they all keep their mouths shut, and believe that this is a great ability bestowed by God on Li Wei, and that he can save The trump card of France and the whole world!
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