The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 33 Counter Shots
The moment Qin Jun appeared, the sound of military music on the exercise ground suddenly stagnated.

These officers and soldiers of the Sauron Legion were not the soldiers of Yuri's former personal guards. It was the first time in their lives that they saw the appearance of the soldiers on trial. They all stared dumbfounded at the soldiers in the strange black armor in the distance.

However, after the soldiers of the Qin Army appeared, the crossbowmen among them quickly stepped forward to form a simple horizontal crossbow array, and behind them were rows of spearmen to form a huge attacking phalanx.

For soldiers on trial, there is always only one option to attack, defense does not exist, and there is no need...

"What... what's going on?
supernatural event?

Or a wizard's hallucination trick? "

Andrew, the commander in charge of commanding the infantry regiment for the exercise, murmured to himself in a daze.

However, Sauron's Legion is a well-trained standing army after all. When they saw the abnormality, they immediately stopped.

After such a delay, the Qin army on the opposite side had completed the change of offensive formation and quickly launched an attack on the infantry regiment commanded by Andrew.

Seeing the ancient army array approaching quickly with a crossbow in his hand, Andrew immediately realized something was wrong.

Immediately issued an order to prepare for battle!

Today is a live ammunition exercise, and the soldiers can naturally go into battle immediately.

With the waving of the military flag and the blowing of the bugle, the officers at all levels on the front line quickly received orders and began to adjust the infantry companies under their command.

In the era of queuing and shooting, the company is the basic combat unit, which is a platoon formed by the Bailai musketeers.

This company developed to the era of Yuri's previous life, and it was a company-level combat unit in the army.

Each row of soldiers in the company is the later platoon-level combat unit. As for the squad-level combat unit, it is not necessary to set up in the era of queuing and shooting.

At this time, it is all about formation and intensive combat, and the soldiers will not be too scattered, so there is no need to set a smaller squad.

Even the leader of each platoon in this era is not an official officer, but a non-commissioned officer (veteran) appointed by the company's junior officer.

Of course, it can also be the adjutant of the company commander.

Their role is not to command the battle, but to supervise each row of soldiers, taking the lead and supervising the battle.

The real commander of the battle is the company commander.

The commander of the company generally does not walk in the front. The officers who resist the flag or carry a knife at the front are all adjutants, and the commander often walks on the side of the phalanx.

There are still one or two adjutants following the phalanx to prevent deserters in the back row.

Therefore, a company has at least three lieutenants, sometimes even four or five.

After the death of the chief officer, the lieutenant will take over the command of the company in order according to seniority or previous appointment.

Those riding horses between the various companies are generally battalion-level commanders and messengers, who manage and coordinate operations of several companies. Commanders of this level do not need to go ahead, but because the target is obvious when riding on a horse, It is easy to be targeted by enemy skirmishers and is also dangerous.

And sitting in the position of Andrew, the regiment commander, basically he can sit back and relax. He doesn't even need to go to the front line, he just needs to stay behind the large troops and issue orders.

The combat effectiveness of the infantry regiments of the British Empire is still quite strong. During the colonization process, often a regiment's strength can defeat the native army ten times its own!

Moreover, regiment-level commanders have already touched the threshold of senior officers. Many regiment-level commanders have not only infantry under their command, but also artillery and a small amount of scout cavalry.

Those generals are actually commanding regiment-level commanders, relying on them to command the entire army to fight.

Most of the division-level establishments in this era are temporary establishments, which will only be formed during wartime.

The advancing Qin army phalanx soon entered the effective range of the crossbow array.

The effective range is not the longest range. After traveling to this era, Yuri realized that the range of hundreds of meters that the crossbow saw on the Internet in the previous life was purely deceitful.

The projectile can indeed shoot hundreds of meters, but the premise is that after the hundreds of meters are shot, the crossbowmen themselves don't know where they will float!
Some people may say that covering blows...

A few hundred meters away, there is a breeze blowing, but the difference is thousands of miles away!
Even if the blind cat encounters a dead mouse, the crossbow that flew hundreds of meters away is already exhausted.

In actual combat, the crossbowmen must advance within the effective range. If the longest range is good, the muskets will not eliminate the crossbow...

Seeing the black-armored soldier coming directly from the opposite side, Andrew quickly put aside the plan of contacting and asking the other party in his mind.

Under the slogan of the officer, the soldiers in the front row who received the battle order raised their muskets and prepared.

When the commander of the front row company saw the Qin army phalanx stop, he waved his command knife forward and shouted: "Aim~~~"

With the sound of clattering, the rows of muskets were leveled and the hammer safety was released.

"Fire!!!"

bang bang bang...

A series of flames rushed out of the muzzle, and the battlefield was immediately shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

However, due to the long distance between the two sides, only dozens of Qin crossbowmen who stood still fell down.

For the Qin army with a thousand-man army, this loss will not affect much combat effectiveness at all.

Just after the platoon of guns was fired, when the soldiers in the back row alternated with the soldiers in the front row, a cloud of crossbows suddenly flew up on the opposite side, and fell down overwhelmingly!
There were bursts of screams from the officers and soldiers of Sauron's Legion who were changing formation.

However, not many officers and soldiers of the Sauron Legion were actually shot!

After all, crossbows are not lead bullets. As long as they are not hit by bad luck, people will not be killed. As long as they are dealt with after the war to prevent infection and various complications, they will be alive and kicking again in a short time. young man!
Many soldiers who suffered crossbows did not even withdraw from the front-line battle, but pulled out the crossbow enduring the pain, or continued to fight regardless!
From this point, it can be seen that the Sauron Legion is absolutely elite!
Interfered by the missing crossbow, the second salvo was fired again, and then it turned into free fire.

Among the shooting in line to shoot, the real salvo is often used only at close range, and the long-distance shooting is often only the first and second rounds of salvo. After the bullets in the chamber are fired, the rest is By free fire.

After all, soldiers can have fast or slow reloading speeds. We can't always let soldiers who reload quickly wait for soldiers who reload slowly on a battlefield where every second counts.

That is a great waste of firepower output!
Long-distance shooting is inherently insufficient in lethality, and it is difficult to defeat opponents with short-term salvos. Naturally, we must pay attention to the continuous output of firepower.

(End of this chapter)