18th century total war

Chapter 73
Li Wei’s information on the peak physical fitness of the human body in the profile of the infantry guards was once tested in Rennes, including various physical indicators and actual combat ability tests. Li Wei did everything he could think of.

It turned out that the peak physical fitness of the infantrymen was not what Levi had imagined. The physical fitness of Captain America in a certain movie he had seen in his previous life was far from the peak human Captain America in that movie, whether it was speed or strength. , have obvious shrinkage.

The peak physical fitness of the guard infantry is more like the average of the peak physical fitness that ordinary humans can train.

If there is an analogy, it is roughly equivalent to the physical fitness of a special soldier in the world where Li Wei lived in his previous life.

He doesn't have the tactical ability of a special force, it's just an analogy to his physical fitness.

Therefore, the individual combat capability of the guard infantry is very strong, but it is far from reaching the level close to the human limit.

After all, there is a huge difference between the peak physical fitness that ordinary people can train and the level that gifted people can train, not to mention that there is an average value in it. The group of ordinary people who are born with poor physical fitness will naturally Become a trough that pulls down the average.

However, in the 18th century when most people were malnourished, the infantry guards were equivalent to the physical fitness of the special forces of later generations. In the eyes of the miscellaneous army and the militia, they were almost like strong men, and they were also strong men with exceptionally long endurance!

To put it bluntly, the infantry of the Provincial Allied Forces that invaded was a group of second-line troops and militia organizations, and the militia included a large number of 'National Self-Defense Forces' who had not joined the army for a long time.

In the Kingdom of France today, the name National Guard is already in disrepute. Many local councils that support the revolution like to form a group of National Guard when needed.

There is no other reason, the National Self-Defense Forces have no military pay to receive most of the time!
Only when they are required to perform missions will they be given some temporary subsidies according to the needs of the leaders of the upper council.

The National Self-Defense Force is really supported by patriotic enthusiasm...

It is conceivable that except for the National Guard in Paris, which has been integrated with the regular army, how weak the National Guard in other regions is.

The provincial coalition forces in Brittany can gather so many people, and the National Self-Defense Forces among them have contributed a lot. It is precisely because such a team whose income depends entirely on robbery...collecting protection fees, will be stimulated by the French franc Rare combat power erupted.

These provincial coalition forces are really too poor!

Most of them have their own muskets and ammunition!

Of course, doing so has a huge benefit to the local government, which can greatly save military expenditures for sending troops.

It is not difficult to understand why when the two major provinces entered the Morbihan province to suppress the rebellion, why did they parade there armed, even the richer villages were not spared!

Such an army composed of poor people, the physical fitness of the soldiers can be imagined, not to mention the muscles, many of them have pale faces.

In their eyes, infantry soldiers with balanced nutrition and muscular arms are no different from Hercules...

Don't think that the physical fitness of the ancient people must be better than that of the modern people. The ancient people had to work all day long, but they couldn't stand the poor food of the ancient people. Even if it was rotten food, they often couldn't eat enough!
But for modern people, as long as they spend a little energy and time exercising, and then participate in some amateur sports, their physical fitness can reach the standard of a soldier in ancient times!

Modern people are all "ancient wealthy class" who have no shortage of fish and meat, and can cultivate vegetables and fruits vigorously!
The soldiers who served as servants to the generals in ancient times may not be able to keep up with modern people in terms of food and clothing.

A person's physical fitness does not mean that you can develop it after working all day, but you also need to have enough nutrition to keep up.

Among the elite soldiers in ancient times, which one didn't have a mouth full of oil and a bulging stomach?

It's just that the fatness of those elite soldiers in ancient times belonged to "real fat", which is different from the puffiness of many modern nerds.

So those ancient elite soldiers looked strong and fat, with quite good strength and endurance.

Only with strength and enough stamina can you kill the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and fight for a longer period of time.

In battles on the battlefield, people are side by side, and the effect of skills is greatly weakened. No matter how agile your figure is, there is not much room to dodge!
Only strength can give soldiers a greater advantage in confrontation.

As long as you're strong enough, it's not impossible to split a person with armor in one blow!

This is the advantage that the current infantry guards have. Even if the provincial coalition forces send forward wave after wave of reinforcements, they still cannot hold back and more rout soldiers are beaten and withdraw from the chest base.

Many infantrymen of the provincial coalition forces were so frightened by the tragic battle that they threw away all their weapons and ammunition, and jumped down from the breastplate with empty hands to escape for their lives.

Even though there are still teams of supervisors in the rear pointing their guns at the deserters and shooting them!

The bayonet hand-to-hand melee was much longer than the shooting time. The two sides fought fiercely around the chest wall for more than an hour, and the corpses of the provincial coalition infantry even paved the outside of the chest wall!
The infantry of the Provincial Allied Forces behind did not need to climb at all, they could climb up to the chest barrier by stepping on their own corpses!

This time, Wallace and his party acted as black-hearted leaders, not to mention doubling the franc reward, and dispatched a large number of supervisors to shoot at the deserters behind them with guns!

Even so, the level of bayonet hand-to-hand combat between the two sides is too different, and the physical fitness is like an adult beating a child. When all the fresh troops of the provincial coalition army except the supervisory team went up to attack and were beaten back, Wallace and his party could only Helpless to accept the bloody facts...

"Well, after this battle, we can no longer attack until new reinforcements arrive."

Wallace has been the commander of the sightseeing group for so long, and he has gained knowledge. At least he can see that the retreating soldiers of his own side are no longer able to attack the outskirts of Rennes.

Because the fear of those soldiers was written on their faces, most of them lost their guns when they returned!
However, the casualties of the Black Dragon Legion were not light, and they were temporarily unable to launch a counterattack. Rao, the infantry guards were physically strong. After such a long battle with bayonets, most of the infantry guards were left lying on the ground panting. Got strength.

The infantry guards can persist for so long, mainly relying on willpower. During the brainwashing process of the training camp, the "unnecessary" human emotions of the infantry guards were eliminated, and the mental toughness of these soldiers has been raised to an inhuman level .

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