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Chapter 1302 Talent
For the first time, the English longbow bared its tusks in front of exotic visitors.

This kind of single bow is easy to make, and its power is not bad. The most important thing is that there is a law currently in force in this land that men must practice shooting every day, which makes England have a large number of archers available for recruitment.

Not everyone has a longbow, even if they are all longbows, the poundage is different, and the power has its own size, but the projection ability of any kind of projectile weapon in the army is very terrifying.

It is worth mentioning that this decree has not been abolished until 400 years later, which means that 400% of men in England after 90.00 years are breaking the law.

The British have fought against the main European land power countries many times in history, and they have always had no advantage in population. The beginning of their war advantage lies in the recruitment of a large number of longbowmen for war.

But this time they faced a different war and a different opponent.

Their enemy's main force didn't even wear decent armor, and the longbowmen who had lined up their arrays and prepared to shoot the light infantry had already drawn their bows, but saw the enemy stop a hundred paces away.

They tried to shoot for a while, and the arrows fired by the long and short bow array lost their strength at this distance, and most of the thrown arrows fell on the large Miao people's shield supported by the Muye army, causing extremely limited damage.

In this era, many times military progress does not rely on intelligence.

People pursued the military reforms of Gustav II, the lion of Sweden decades later, and regarded him as the father of modern warfare who used infantry linear tactics. Of course, this has nothing to do with Asian military, let alone Ming Dynasty Shenjiying, Mu Britain, Zhang Fu, and Japan's Oda Nobunaga all used linear tactics, and the musket with the best performance in the [-]th century and the earliest trench sniper tactics were born in the Ottoman Empire. Why has it been useless in Europe?
Is it that Europe doesn't want to use it?Or they can't think of it?

No, the French used all the tactics that muskets and artillery could use at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century, but found that it was not easy to use. Why?
Because the French are not like Sweden, they have nitrate mines at home.

You don't have gunpowder, how can you play firearms tactics?Using more than a dozen cannons to capture a huge city in Italy in three days, using up the kingdom's three-year gunpowder reserves, and relying too much on artillery troops, how will the subsequent war be fought?
Why Osman can play with cannons and Daming can play with cannons, because both masters have big deserts in their homes.

Why can Spain, Portugal, and Japan play guns and iron cannons?Because two of the three brothers traded with Ottoman merchants, and they always wanted to touch the great desert of Africa; the other traded with Daming and even started excrement and urine nitration in his own home.

The French are a little worse, but at least they scratch church chairs.

What will England do now?First, he has no connection with Ottoman. The sea routes are completely controlled by Spain. Second, he has no connection with Ming Dynasty. Third, he has not learned how to hang nitrate from church chairs. However, in another time and space, England has great stamina. By the seventeenth century When Charles I came to power, facing the ever-widening gunpowder gap, the Lord immediately nationalized the national toilets.

Not only that, but bishops from all over the world called on everyone to pee in the church, which solved the urgent need.

But at this moment, Old John’s homeland doesn’t know how, so he stood behind the army formation and listened to the whispers of the people in front of the army formation, explaining that the army was holding a large shield and facing the rain of arrows and placed a row of Francois cannons in front of the formation. , his heart flustered a little.

In a confrontation between the two, the defender usually has a slight advantage, especially under the conditions of a preset position, the defender is usually reluctant to leave the position, but the situation is different if the hand is short.

After the Muye Third Battalion changed formation and combined merchant soldiers and gunners, there were twelve Franco cannons in front of each battalion, and the simple two-wheeled carriage was fully loaded with cleaning equipment, gunpowder boxes, shell boxes, and sub-guns for reloading. One glance shows how well prepared they are.

When these artillery were swung in front of them, they frightened the army formation.

There is a saying that good things do not go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. At least the English nobles in Plymouth heard an anecdote about the artillery of the Ming army. It was during the Second War between the Ming and the West. He rushed into the formation of the Ming army, hacked and wounded several Ming soldiers one after another, and no one could stop him.

As a result, he was blown over by a cannon and lost his head.

However, some people also said that this incident happened in France, no matter where it happened, anyway, one of the protagonists remains unchanged, which is a deterrent to the nobles.

Therefore, when these cannons stand in front of the formation, most of the nobles try to stay away from the troops... It's not that they are afraid, and those who dare to drive their horses to the front of the formation are not cowardly, mainly because they think that the artillery of the Ming army will specialize at this distance. Aim at them and stay away from the troops to avoid accidental damage to the troops by the artillery.

They have more or less used cannons or have seen others use cannons. They know that it is difficult for this thing to target a person. As long as they don't get close, they are not so afraid.

This kind of thinking was blasted away when the artillery fired.

What came out of the barrel was not a single shell, but a piece, a piece of scattered pieces!
The 36 Franco cannons moved from left to right in the third battalion of the Muye Army. The gunpowder smoke rising from the gun muzzles sprayed out from the middle, leaving behind a scene like tearing sackcloth in the besieged fortified camp. Like the sound of hail falling.

No one is going to target those knights and nobles who are alone. The Dongyang Army Mansion and the plate armor heavy cavalry have sufficient experience in fighting. The army, with the cooperation of a large number of infantry and projectile power, can maximize the dominance of heavy cavalry.

The infantry who teamed up with them were easier to kill. As long as the auxiliary troops collapsed, there was no way for the small number of plate armored heavy cavalry to reverse the situation.

For the siege troops that lacked artillery but had fortifications, the wide attack surface of the Franco machine gun's scatter tubes could not cause Ying Ming's imagination to shoot a salvo of uncontrolled advance, or cause a large number of casualties and retreat. of the depression.

A large number of scatter sprayed to the back of the enemy line and tore apart the general's tent, or penetrated into the helmet and face of the enemy behind and injured people. The frontline infantry who should have been seriously injured and dying and lost their combat power were relatively lightly damaged under the protection of good fortifications.

However, the exposed catapults were finally overwhelmed, and the cannonballs from the flanks of the rear array were lucky enough to pass the twisted rope, and the projecting arm was suddenly torn away by the torque, and fell heavily into the camp.

But Ying Ming was not in a hurry, he just continued to wave the command flag and let the artillery continue to bombard, even if the damage was limited, it was better than the situation where the enemy could not reach him.

If the enemy army never intends to leave the camp, the logistical supplies are enough for him to stay here for a whole day.

On the battlefield where the artillery was firing, Commander Ying was very comfortable. He even took out a notebook and charcoal pencils, and recorded the lack of gunpowder in the enemy's army on horseback.

He believes that the enemy army will always realize the tragic reality that he will never run out of gunpowder, and eventually abandon the camp without walls to fight him bloody.

　Good morning!

　　
　
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