open sea

Chapter 1415
On the chaotic battlefield, the Eastern Cavalry in red cotton armor showed their fangs for the first time in the city of London.

They formed a wall array, smashing everything in front of them with a bang.

Whether it was the feathered arrows shot from the longbow or the spears standing up like a forest, none of them could cause the slightest harm to them.

Baron Charles' troops always thought that they had a clear enough understanding of this elite army from Ming Dynasty, their armaments, their combat capabilities, and their frightening features.

But in fact they still know very little.

This is a strange cavalry, neither the Western European feudal knights they are familiar with, nor the new Spanish cavalry they have heard about.

Under the beating of the cavalry drums, they will form a neat formation and the wall will be blocked, frightening the infantry spearmen to stand in front of the longbowmen in the military music. The next moment they are greeted by the cavalry all pulling out their flintlocks and shooting at them , and then slowly retreat.

As soon as there was a slight change in the infantry's line, they would gallop in order and charge in small steps, stabbing the first infantry who turned around with their extremely long spears to death, and then left gracefully.

Once the infantry tried to move forward, a row of Ming army cavalry covered in European-style plate armor would rush forward through the gaps, hitting everyone like shells, and wielding Irish axes to wrench havoc in the formation. bloody.

Strange to say, in the past barefoot Irishmen carrying the same axe were driven all over the mountains and plains by the not-so-elite British army in Ireland, without a single enemy.

But now the red-haired savages in the eyes of the British army put on a set of plate armor that cost at least three pounds, raised their ancestral broken axes to form a battle formation, smashed into the formation and shouted, "Enter!"retreat! 'Running back and forth to kill, on the contrary, in a blink of an eye, the British army's dense formation was torn apart.

Usually under the condition that the decline of soldiers is an entire era behind, fighting a war cannot be based on weapons, and the talents who use weapons are more important.

But in Europe in this era, except for a few countries, it really has to be based on weapons.

Because there is basically no training for everyone, and the limited tactics are not strong enough to wipe out the equipment advantage. Three thousand shirtless Irish tribal warriors can't beat a hundred English dismounted knights.

On the other hand, although it was close, it was also easy to attack and defend. Hundreds of English infantry gathered together couldn't beat [-] Irish heavy infantry.

Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, it kills all directions.

England's longbowmen used to be the decisive force to dominate the battlefield. Cheapness often means quantity, and quantity means strength.

They have the spontaneous and simple training that every grown man needs to practice archery, and when these men are called up, they need only one word—discipline.

There is no need to prepare armor for them, no need to make weapons for them, just a knife.

Then they will cut a long wooden stick of purple shirt into a long bow, and if there is no purple shirt, they can just find another long wooden stick.

When it comes to fighting, you don’t have to worry about standing in a row. The shooting angle, shooting power, and distance calculation are all things that the captain of the little noble needs to worry about. The longbowmen just need to be obedient.

The captain draws the bow to the full, draws the bow to the full, draws the bow to the half, and the people next to him can do it. They can raise the captain's hand as high as they want, and a little nobleman will take a look at the side of the team. As long as the whole team Uniform, range, strength, and accuracy are not a problem.

And usually a good archer is also a good hand in close combat as long as he has a weapon in his hand.

After all, regardless of the East, West, Africa or the New World, as long as he is a man who can draw a full bow, it is not a problem to hit three deer with a round arm.

But the longbowmen urgently recruited by London did not have the melee weapons in their hands.

While the brave spearmen were still making their last desperate resistance, these longbowmen only suffered one blow and scattered towards the Tower of London.

A large number of infantry were driven to abandon the siege position and began to flee westward.

Compared with the Alan soldiers who actually went to fight, Yingming's Eastern Banner Army was very relaxed. They seized the opportunity and rushed back for a while. There was no chance and they would not take risks. They just shot back and forth with cavalry guns. Burning thunder, he threw it into the formation in countless steps.

What they threw at this time was not the original palm mine from the Dongyang Army Mansion. Those refined iron shell grenades were used almost as early as the siege of Puli, and the later grenades were all produced in Puli around the first month of the 12th year of Wanli.

People use the method of making firecrackers, dipping twenty or thirty iron beads in the middle of the thick paper shell, and the explosion is not stable. Sometimes all the iron beads can be blasted out, and sometimes only a few can be blasted out. The cost is cheap, and it is mass-produced by Puli.

There are so many that the Eastern Banner Army can easily throw two out of the Tower of London.

Serious damage is extremely limited, but very scary.

Flying projectiles, a large amount of gunpowder smoke, and loud noises and lights constituted the root cause of the complete defeat of the defenders.

The defenders didn't know what was going on, and they ran after others. Many people went to attack the south gate of the Tower of London and the small bridge on the lawn, and more people fled westward after finding that the gate was closed. .

Earl Charles on the high wall was furious when he saw this, especially when he saw Wei Jinzhong's soldiers rushing out of London Bridge at this time, he immediately ordered the artillery on the city to bombard them, but it was difficult to hit them from a long distance, but the soldiers on the bridge Large holes were punched in the walls of houses and shops.

However, several swivel cannons placed on the city had an effect. The shells hit the path of the Alan soldiers, killing several plate armor soldiers, and slightly weakening their high morale under the fierce attack.

However, this could not prevent the defenders outside the Tower of London from breaking down, because they could not turn their artillery around and blast the anxious fronts of both the enemy and us.

Under such circumstances, Baron Charles almost watched under his nose the Ming army rushing to kill the defenders who had lost their will to fight, and merged with the previously besieged troops, and then walked away.

Immediately after, the defenders in the city just opened the door to try to let the defeated army enter the city after the attack of the Ming army. In a blink of an eye, the Ming army came back from the west.

Some troops tried to rush into the city under the city gate, while some troops rushed over the city wall to London Bridge.

The defenders had to fight hard to stop the troops outside the city gate. It didn't take long for the troops to come and go quickly. The horse team took away a large number of corpses from London Bridge, and they used it much faster than when they came. The speed disappeared from the view of the Tower of London.

Note: Duolu - a rare medium-to-large primate mammal distributed in the Asian plains.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas on the Bite of the Tongue" has a saying: The one who snatches the deer is also the monkey.It has a long body and a slender neck. Its sound is like a clatter of a keyboard, with little force and a sweet and sour taste. It is uncommon.

　Good morning!

　　
　
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