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Chapter 119 Talent

The English Longbow revealed its fangs in front of foreign visitors for the first time.

This single bow is easy to make and has a good power. The most important thing is that there is a law currently enforced on this land that allows men to practice shooting every day, which gives England a large number of archers to be recruited.

Not everyone has longbows. Even if they are longbows, the pounds are different, and their power can be divided into sizes. However, the number of projection weapons in the military formation increases, and the projection ability is very terrifying.

It is worth mentioning that this decree has not been abolished until four hundred years later, which means that 99% of the men in England are breaking the law four hundred years later.

The British have repeatedly fought against major European land-power countries in history and have always had no advantage in population. The beginning of their advantage in war was to recruit a large number of longbowmen who were used in war.

But this time they face different wars and different opponents.

Their main enemy troops were not even wearing decent armor. The longbowers who had listed the vertebrae and prepared to project light infantry were already on the verge of the bow, but they saw the enemy stopping a hundred steps away.

They tried to shoot a round, and the arrows of both length and length were lost at this distance. Most of the arrows shot down on the Miao people's shield supported by the Makino army, causing extremely limited damage.

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

People sought after the military reform of the Swedish lion Gustav II decades later, and he regarded him as the father of modern warfare who used linear tactics of infantry. Of course, this has nothing to do with Asian military. Neither the Ming Dynasty Shenji Camp, Mu Ying, Zhang Fu or Japan's Oda Nobunaga all used linear tactics. The best-performing smoothbore gun and the earliest trench sniper tactics in the 16th century were born in the Ottoman Empire. Why has Europe been useless?

Is Europe not wanting to use it? Or are they not able to think of it?

None of them were. The French used all the tactics that can be used by muskets and cannons at the end of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, but found that they were not good. Why?

Because the French are not like Sweden, they have nitride mines at home.

If you don’t have gunpowder, how can you play the firearm tactics? Use more than a dozen artillery pieces to capture a giant city in Italy in three days, use up all the gunpowder reserves of the kingdom for three years, and rely too much on the artillery troops. How can you fight the war later?

Why can Ottomans play cannons and Daming play cannons? Because these two men have a large desert at home.

Why can Spain, Portugal and Japan play muskets and iron cannons? Because the two of these three brothers trade with Ottoman merchants, and they always want to touch the deserts of Africa; the other trades with the Ming Dynasty and even creates shit, urine and urination fields at their own homes.

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

What will England do today? First, he and Ottoman do not have a connection with the sea routes are completely controlled by Spain, second, he and the Ming Dynasty do not have a connection with the country, third, he has not learned to hang silt soil from a church chair, but in another time and space, England has a strong momentum. By the time Charles I took power in the 17th century, facing the expanding gunpowder gap, this man immediately nationalized the national toilets.

Not only that, bishops from all over the country also called on everyone to pee in the church, which solved the urgent problem.

However, Old John's motherland does not exist at this moment, so he stood behind the military formation and listened to the whispers of the people in front of the military formation, indicating that the army was holding a large shield and holding a row of Fran's cannons in front of the formation, and he was a little panicked.

In the two sides, the defensive side usually has some advantages, especially under the conditions of preset positions, the defensive side is usually unwilling to leave the position, but if the hands are short, the situation will be different.

After the third battalion of Makino changed its formation and combined with the Shang soldiers' gunners, each had twelve Fran machine cannons in front of the battalion. The simple-made two-wheeled carriage was loaded with cleaning equipment, gunpowder boxes, shell boxes and sub-guns for supplying bullets. In short, one eye can see that they are fully prepared.

As soon as these artillery were swung, they scared the military formation.

It is said that good things don’t go out, bad things spread thousands of miles. At least the English nobles in Plymouth have heard of an interesting story about Ming army artillery. It was during the Second War in Mingxi. A Western Knight rushed into the Ming army formation with his plate armor and swung his sword, slashing and hurting several Ming army one after another, and no one could stop him.

As a result, he was shot and lost his head.

However, some people say that this happened in France. No matter where it happened, one of the protagonists remains unchanged, which is a shock to the nobles.

Therefore, when these cannons stood in front of the formation, most of the nobles tried to stay away from the troops... It was not that they were afraid that there would be no cowards who dared to drive the horses to the front of the formation. The main reason was that the Ming army's artillery would aim specifically at them at this distance, and that they could avoid the accidental injury of the artillery to the troops by being away from the troops.

They have used cannons or seen others use cannons, and they know that it is difficult to aim at a person. As long as they are not close, they are not that scared.

This idea was completely bombarded when the cannon fired.

What was shot out from the barrel was not a shell, but a piece of loose pieces!

Thirty-six Fran machine guns were each directed from left to right in the third battalion of Makino Army. Scattered pieces of smoke rising from the muzzle were sprayed out from the middle, leaving behind a sound of tearing up the siege camp with fortifications, both like tearing up a linen and hail falling.

No one was aiming at the single knights and nobles. The Eastern Military Palace had sufficient experience in fighting with the plate-armored heavy cavalry. Although the plate-armored heavy cavalry had superb combat power, this single armament was not enough to be taken to fight against the complete army. With the cooperation of a large number of infantry and projection forces, the dominant power of the heavy cavalry can be maximized.

The infantry that they work with are easier to kill. As long as the auxiliary troops collapse, there is no way to turn the situation around with a small number of heavy cavalrymen.

For siege troops lacking artillery but with fortifications, the wide attack surface of the Fran cannon firing scattered tubes cannot cause Ying Ming to imagine a volley that could uncontrollably advance protruding, or a depression caused by a large number of casualties and retreat.

A large number of sparse men sprayed behind the enemy formation and teared the general's tent, or invaded the enemy's helmets and faces behind them torture people. The frontline infantry who should be seriously injured and died and lost combat power were slightly damaged under the protection of good fortifications.

However, the exposed stone casting cannon was finally overwhelmed. The cannon projectiles on the flank of the rear formation were shot and the projecting arm was pulled away by the torque and fell heavily into the camp.

However, Ying Ming was not in a hurry. He just continued to wave the flag and let the artillery continue to bombard. Even if the damage was limited, it was better than the situation of the enemy not reaching him.

If the enemy had never planned to leave the camp, the logistics supply would be enough for him to fight here for a whole day.

On the battlefield where artillery fire was rippling, the commander should be very comfortable. He even took out a small notebook and charcoal pen to record the enemy's lack of gunpowder on the horse's back.
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