Warhammer Seal

Chapter 331 Positional Battle Offensive

The empire is best at positional warfare. To say something that can be written in the book of hatred, the dwarves are not called positional warfare at all, but squatting in the pit.

The most critical thing in positional warfare is that an extremely powerful front row unit is needed to resist the enemy's charge and delay the enemy's attack, so as to create output space and time for the musketeers and artillery in the rear.

The winner or loser of every empire battle depends on whether such a line-resistant unit can resist.

There is neither the powerful and terrifying front row of the Lizardmen, the eldest son of the ancient sage, nor the cannon fodder serfs like Bretonnia who can be used to die at will. The empire can only use spearmen to defend its positions. If there is a little money in the province , will give the spearman an extra shield.

Not to mention blood knights and kingdom knights in such a front row, Norscan marauder riders can easily pierce the empire's defense line in an instant.

The empire doesn't have any units that are suitable for the front row, but why must it be stipulated that the front row must have soldiers?

The barbed wire has been completely laid, and even people wearing stab-proof clothing are stabbed by the barbed wire, which is enough to show that Uncle Censer's military strength is personal. He can roughly imitate everything Wende asks for.

Then there is the issue of ammunition.

Unlike infantry, they could fight for a long time before their swords curled and their shields dented.

And once the gunpowder and shells are lost, the musketeer's weapon is no different from a firestick.

Nord province does not have any factories and workshops, and there is no way to provide Wende with the nearest supply of gunpowder, and Norsca does not know exactly how many people will land in this place.

Fortunately, he did not sign any war treaty, nor did he treat the Norse people as fellow human beings.

This is the coast of the Claw Sea, the most indispensable thing is sand and sea water.

Electrolysis of seawater can obtain a theoretical result that Wende proposed when he was still a sea priest: chlorine gas.

Generators are not difficult to make, and of course a large amount of copper and steel can be purchased here to make generators, and soldiers can turn the wheels to generate electricity for instruments.

A steady stream of chlorine gas was produced and sealed in a glass tank. If it was in Nun City, the engineers there could easily complete the chlorine gas purification, and kill a large number of enemies with the flow of the wind.

Wende's suggested equipment here can only produce unpurified chlorine gas, but it can just meet a plan.

Killing a Norsca on the battlefield can only reduce Norsca's combat effectiveness.

But if an enemy is seriously injured on the battlefield, the opponent must send three people for treatment and protection, which can greatly slow down the enemy's manpower.

If the wounded were not rescued, it would cause a devastating blow to the morale of the Norscans. After all, no one wanted to see himself injured and waiting to die on the battlefield, or being killed by his compatriots himself.

If you want to use poisonous gas, you have to take into account a geographical knowledge. In places near the coast, the temperature of the land is high during the day, and the temperature of the ocean is low, and the airflow will blow from the land to the ocean.

The temperature of the land is low at night, and the temperature of the ocean is high because of its relatively large specific heat capacity, so the airflow will blow from the ocean to the land.

Such a thing as poisonous gas can only be used during the day.

After filling the mortar shells with chlorine gas in glass, it's time to show the Norscans the newest weapon of the Empire.

In the early morning of the third day, with the sea fog filled, the Norse fleet began to gather in groups.

They had already found out that the empire's naval power suffered heavy losses in the last battle and was resting in Marienburg. Now is the best time to land.

The first ten Norscan longships have already docked, and each longship is fully loaded with twenty Norscan warriors.

He had already landed on the coast of the empire with a shield and an ax in hand, without any attack.

It seems that the empire has no defenses, or it has not defended this coast. This is great news, and it can occupy the empire's seaport city without paying any casualties.

Due to the drastic change in the weather in the north, the Norscans dragged their families to the empire. This time, they were no longer for plunder, but to completely gnaw out a piece of land from the empire and win a living space for themselves.

Presumably the main force of the empire is defending at the northern city wall, so there is no defense here.

There are constantly Norsca longships docking, transporting people one after another.

At first they were Norscan warriors, and then Norscan women and children disembarked. As for the old man, they were all killed in the north and sacrificed to the evil gods they worshiped.

"How many people have docked?"

Wende was lying in the artillery position, looking at the situation on the coast with a telescope, and had a preliminary understanding of the approximate number of enemies.

"Report to the Elector, half of the Norsca military and civilians have invaded our land, and the other half are sailing on the Claw Sea."

"Very good, hit halfway."

The so-called half-crossing attack means that when one part of the enemy is already on the shore and the other part is still crossing the river, when an attack is launched against the enemy at this time, the enemy will not meet head to tail, and the ranks will be chaotic.

The yellow flag among the red and yellow double flags in his hand is raised above his head, which means preparation in the artillery semaphore. All artillery teams have loaded the ammunition, and all the angles have been set, perfect coverage of firepower.

Wen De's prepared semaphore lasted only three seconds. The yellow flag in his left hand was slowly lowered, and the red flag in his right hand was suddenly raised above his head.

"Fire!"

Of course the captains of the various artillery squads knew what this meant, and gave their orders at the top of their voices.

The loader had already taken off his heavy armor, and the three shirtless picked up the shells around them. The gunners fired the shells, and then the two gunners quickly picked up the gun barrels and stabbed them into the gun barrel to quickly remove the gunpowder inside. The residue is cleaned up.

The two gunners raced against time, pouring gunpowder into the gun barrel at the moment it left the gun barrel. When the scale just reached the requirement, the three loaders had already lifted the shell from the ammunition box and pushed it into the gun barrel in one go. In tube.

After fine-tuning by the team leader and observer, the new shells were ready. He watched intently as the yellow flag held high in Wende's hand was slowly lowered. With the raising of the red flag, another shell was fired. At this time, the first A shell fired had just landed on the Norscans' heads.

Airburst!

The captain of each artillery team is a mathematician who has studied calculus. They can accurately calculate the landing point and flight time of the shells, so as to select ammunition with different detonation times.

According to the formula of killing radius, airburst can cause a greater blow to the enemy.

The rusted iron pieces loaded in the shells and the chlorine gas in the glass bottles can attack enemies in a larger area.

The three Norscans at the center of the explosion were directly torn off their upper bodies, and their entire body turned into blood mist except for the two legs that were still standing in place.

The rest of the people close to the center of the explosion were penetrated by the rusted iron sheet, took a few breaths, fell to the ground and died directly.

The chlorine gas originally filled in the glass bottle also permeated the battlefield.

The Norse people are not stupid either. Every adult man has experienced the baptism of war. Of course they know what this is like.

"It's an imperial ambush! Marauder riders get ready!"

The loud shout of the Nosca chief immediately stabilized the morale of the fallen man who had just been injured by the shell, and all the marauder riders who had landed on the shore also gathered together and looked at the starting point where the shell flew.

"Rush forward, kill all the imperial people who are ambushing us, and take their land!"

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　　In the current level of military development of the empire, since musketeers are vulnerable to enemy attacks when reloading, imperial generals and hunter generals try every means to maximize the power of infantry light weapons when coordinating combined arms operations.

　　They experimented with various tactical techniques, including cavalry raids, cavalry assaults with muskets, artillery bombardment, long contradictory walls, and formations of infantry.

　　But Wende is different. He canceled the two types of arms, the sword and shield soldiers and the spearmen, and added bayonets to the musketeers of the musketeers to use as spears.

　　The establishment of melee arms was banned, and only musketeers and artillery were kept.

　　Using the powerful power of firearms and the two characteristics of bayonets to resist charges, all the military theories of the traditional cold weapon era were abandoned.

　　However, such a method cannot be copied by other provinces, because this tactic requires soldiers to have strong discipline and morale that is almost never defeated.

　　Only Maijia Village with sufficient military pay and compulsory education can recruit such high-quality and expensive soldiers.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)