18th century total war

Chapter 60 Sharpshooter

"I still have 55 glory points. It takes 30 points to upgrade the basic skirmisher to a six-star model, and another 10 points to upgrade to a seven-star top template. A total of 40 glory points are consumed.

In other words, if I upgrade the basic skirmisher to the full level, there will still be 15 glory points left.

It is enough for me to train for 15 months, and it will take more than a year to keep the training camp running!
Well, enough is enough, even if the group of people at the Constituent Assembly in Paris in the Kingdom of France quarreled until their brains exploded, it is impossible for me to let me recuperate for 15 months!

What's more, it's impossible for me to stay in peace for 15 months without fighting...

That's it. It's decided not to draw new units for the time being, but to upgrade the basic skirmishers to the full level first. "

Accompanied by a series of reminders to consume glory points, Li Wei spent 40 points of glory to upgrade the basic skirmisher template to the top seven-star skirmisher—a sharpshooter!

Such a simple name...

Of course, if you want to play the marksmanship of sharpshooters, you must equip them with front-loading rifles. It is not impossible to use smoothbore guns. Even if sharpshooters use smoothbore guns, they are more accurate than infantry guards.

The principle is unscientific and can only be attributed to the mighty power of the total war system.

However, no matter how accurate the musket is, the difference in the performance of the gun is limited. If the sharpshooter is not given a front-loading rifle, the combat effectiveness of the sharpshooter will be reduced by at least half!
Front-loading rifles have a production line in Rennes. Front-loading rifles are not uncommon in Europe in this world. As early as the 16th century, mature front-loading rifles came out. The time of invention is the same as that of front-loading smoothbores. Guns are not much different.

The reason why front-loading rifles failed to become the main force on the battlefield is mainly because the manufacturing cost is much higher than that of smoothbore guns (after all, the barrel needs to be rifled), and the loading speed of front-loading rifles is too slow. The gun fires one shot on average, and the smoothbore gun is enough to fire three shots. The difference in firepower is three times, how can we fight?

Of course, in the mountains and jungles with complex terrain, front-loading rifles are still relatively easy to use.

Even on a conventional battlefield, front-loading rifles are not useless. It doesn’t matter if the reload is slow, and it’s a big deal as an auxiliary black gun.

In the era of queuing up and shooting, in the military formations of both sides, it is often seen that a group of soldiers who do not form a phalanx or form a loose phalanx first step into the battlefield and shoot at the enemy from a long distance.

Li Wei clicked on the sharpshooter and quickly saw the specific abilities of the sharpshooter.

The hit rate of the perfect level musket, the peak physical fitness of the human body, the rate of fire of the perfect level musket, the enhancement effect of the queue, and the enhancement effect of the bayonet hand-to-hand combat.

Upgraded to the top skirmishers, even the formation and bayonet hand-to-hand combat abilities that they are not good at have been strengthened.

What Li Wei will fight next is city defense and defense. Cavalry is not very useful, so there is no need to open a new unit template for the time being.

He also has no extra glory points to open new unit templates.

Li Wei found that it was most cost-effective to upgrade the troop templates to the top level and then train them.

Think about it, how terrifying is an army that not only has the will to fight without fear of death, but also has the best individual combat quality and physique in the world!
At that time, Li Wei will no longer have to let the line infantry under his command approach the enemy with three salvos to attack the enemy.

Although this trick is very useful, every time it is used, it will cause a lot of damage to one's own side. The enemy is not blind. Before they go to close range and shoot, they will definitely pour out as much firepower as possible to kill and injure the black dragon army.

At the same time, the poor bayonet hand-to-hand combat ability is also one of the bane of the previous basic line infantry battle damage.

Now, these shortcomings have been made up for!
Li Wei, the first batch of troops to be trained, did not choose infantry guards, but sharpshooters. He needed a thousand sharpshooters to consume the enemy in street fighting.

And Li Wei, the officer of the thousand sharpshooters, had already found him, and it was Lesarit who was doing nothing in the prisoner-of-war camp.

The trained arms cannot be converted into other arms, and the basic line infantry can only become guard infantry after retraining, but cannot become a sharpshooter.

Therefore, if you want to form a sharpshooter unit, you cannot recruit people from the original Black Dragon Corps officer system, so you can only start from scratch.

Fortunately, Lesarit's command experience is sufficient, and it is more than enough to be the commander of a sharpshooter after brainwashing.

As for the news that Lesarite played for Levi and the news of the Duchy of Bavaria, what impact it will have on Lesarite's family is not something that Levi needs to consider.

It's not that Li Wei didn't think about brainwashing Lesarit and returning him to the Principality of Bavaria to use as a spy.

However, Li Wei found that the officers and soldiers who had been brainwashed by the training camp lost some of their emotions and were very indifferent to their families and relatives and friends, as if their brains were broken.

After all, the brainwashing effect of the training camp is too powerful. After brainwashing, the person is no longer the same person as before, and cannot undertake the mission of a spy at all.

The brainwashing bureaucrats in the administrative building can try it, but now Li Wei only has [-] administrative brainwashing bureaucrats in his hands, and he still needs to help him consolidate his 'base', so it is difficult to send out missions.

Li Wei didn't want to be dragged down by heavy government affairs all day long.

After completing the operation of the Total War system, the Black Dragon Legion began to step into the right order.

The original basic line infantry entered the training camp in batches to be trained as guard infantry. Among the prisoners of war, 999 people and Lesarit were selected to enter another training ground in the training camp and trained as sharpshooters.

The area of ​​the barracks in Rennes is large enough to accommodate and train thousands of people.

The military factory is next door, and the large population of Rennes is enough to provide sufficient labor for Li Wei. The warehouses of Rennes also store valuable raw materials to continuously manufacture various firearms and ammunition for Li Wei.

Especially muzzle-loading rifles!

After the municipal government finished the registration and coordination, Li Wei selected those with higher official positions and stronger abilities to carry out 'attestation' brainwashing.

In just one day, the Municipal Government of Rennes had a hundred more administrative officials who were blindly loyal to Li Wei!

As for the former civil servants who were not selected, they were not wasted. They were all assigned to these 100 people to continue their old business. It is difficult to manage the huge city of Rennes with only 100 people.

Li Wei even rebuilt the police station in Rennes, with loyal administrators serving as the middle and upper-level leaders of the police station to help the Black Dragon Legion manage the security issues in Rennes.

When Li Wei was accumulating strength, many down-and-out nobles in the Brittany region got the news and came here with their families. Li Wei accepted all of them. To arrange duties.

Many sons of down-and-out aristocrats were directly arranged to work as policemen in the police station!

The police also have guns, and Li Wei naturally tends to appoint 'like-minded' people.

Today, in the Brittany region, Li Wei has become a representative figure of the old aristocratic forces!
(End of this chapter)