When the Fran machine cannon outside the besieged camp fired the eleventh sub-gun, Earl Charles finally couldn't help it.

It is not difficult to watch the soldiers die and remain indifferent. What is difficult is how to stop the soldiers from wailing and spread fear.

The damage caused by artillery shots from the Ming army was very limited. In front of each army, there were veterans under the lords from all over the country. They generally had good armor defense and stood behind the fortifications, while infantry and refugee mercenaries who lacked defense were arranged behind the formation.

The nobles who led the front line even boasted that even if the Ming army used artillery to hit the entire twenty rounds of artillery, they might not have died less than 400 people.

It's true that it's quite pertinent, but everyone ignored the injured.

The Ming army artillery bombed out of the first round, and the morale of the entire army was depressed; but when the third round was hit, everyone was no longer afraid, and no one died in front, back, left and right.

But the more people heard the wailings, some people were hit by the iron balls, some were unlucky to be injured by the iron balls, and more screams were heard. Old John's reserve team came in handy, pulling the injured people from the front line to the camp to provide bandage.

The wounded soldiers staying in the military formation will only keep wailing and reducing morale, but once they can be treated, they will be much quieter.

Although they did not have military doctors, many lords brought private doctors, and fellow villagers from the army behind them, and the priests of the army would also participate in the treatment, so that they could bandage them.

But Old John's reserve team could not keep up with the speed of soldiers becoming wounded soldiers. The endless shelling also made soldiers frightened and uneasy. Compared to being shot to death, this fear of being disabled at any time is even more scary. There is no social security these days.

The battlefield casualty rate is not directly related to whether the troops collapse or not. The key is whether the formation is dispersed, whether the command system fails, and whether an army from general to soldiers does not know what to do about the current situation.

Earl Charles knew very well that the third most deadly situation was thrown into him.

The noble commanders and veterans on the front line did not know what they should do now. The longbow projection power was insufficient, the direct shooting distance was not enough, and the advancement faced greater casualties, and retreated caused the enemy to pursue it. It was because of the fear of advancing and retreating and retreating, constantly enduring a small number of casualties, touching the bottom line of soldiers' collapse and escape.

Earl Charles must give orders, and if he doesn't give orders later, he may not have a chance to give orders.

The horn of the besieged camp was finally blown, and then the nobles in front of the formation heard low horns one after another according to their combat habits.

Each noble subordinate has different combat habits. Some are used to blowing two sounds and some are used to blowing three sounds, but don’t worry about the last sound, the same purpose must be made to prepare the soldiers for battle.

The cavalry carrying muskets and spears galloped and gathered in the camp and turned to the two wings; the infantry front followed the orders after the Protestant monks encouraged him. Of course, there were also two-pole knights who were deeply influenced by the knights, with a brave heart to face the artillery fire and advance with their spears.

They did not have unified command, and their respective commands were not an army, but several noble coalitions led by Earl Charles. Under each noble coalition, there were several cavalry corps. Each unit was flexible in its movements and its strength was dispersed.

However, dispersal is only relatively common. For example, the Earl of Charles, who had the largest number of troops, easily gathered a team of two hundred horse-riding knights, heavy cavalry and light cavalry, collected all the short muskets in the army and sent them to the light cavalry, and formed a semi-rotor horse team to cover the heavy cavalry to move to the flank of the Ming army.

Since the end of the Italian War, the normal-minded knight masters have no choice but to charge. They are not afraid, they are still willing to fight with enemy knights, but they are just attacking the organized infantry front and it is hard to describe.

It’s not that you can’t rush or you can’t rush down. The tactics are carried out by people. This issue needs to be measured by the skills and timing of both sides, but in most cases it is indeed not worth the loss. What’s wrong with having the skill to drive the enemy’s heavy cavalry out of the battlefield?

The semi-rotation tactics are even more favored by them. In fact, semi-rotation is just a different name, similar to the ancient cavalry and shooting of the Central Plains dynasty and the Japanese rippled horse, which is about five steps to shoot.

Five steps are the habit of archers in the Central Plains dynasty to shoot arrows. It is very scientific. This distance is usually a position that the infantry cold weapons cannot reach. This tactic is used to attack infantry fronts with mostly cold weapons. Most archers in the world are used to shooting arrows at this position because they provide the maximum hit possibility under safety.

Of course, if the cavalry is elite enough to shoot from a further position but may not be able to break the armor. It is not a problem of bows and it is not easy to borrow force immediately; if the cavalry who performs tactics are weak enough, they will also shoot from a further position, but may not be able to shoot.

This tactic was originally used to deal with infantry gun arrays. It was also arranged during the Roman rule in ancient times, but it was strange that they didn't know how to arrange them later. Therefore, Western Europe and Northern Europe appeared relatively late. Eastern Europe inherited the gene of unparalleled cavalry and shooting since the Mongolian Western Expedition, and was not listed here.

Sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't work well, it mainly depends on what kind of enemy it encounters. If it is used well, it can tear the front line. If it is not used well, the Huns who were shot to death by Li Ling would also welcome them underground.

The current situation is a good opportunity to use semi-rotary tactics in the eyes of Earl Charles. The third battalion of the Ming army has many spears, mostly light armored infantry, with few muskets, and the main projection weapons are large crossbows with slow winding. The cannons are slowly turned around. As long as you attack from the flanks, you can shoot the enemy with semi-rotary tactics, and the heavy cavalry takes the opportunity to attack the artillery position, which should be able to tear the front lines for the main infantry.

Even if they can't, they can escape without any severity.

Two hundred cavalry made a circle in the besieged camp, attacked from the east, and bypassed the artillery range to advance towards the right camp of the Ming army. A distance of only one or two hundred steps, the right camp commander did not have time to turn the gun mouth, so he simply ordered the caravan artillery to continue bombarding the enemy formation, and the infantry under his command formed a formation with large shields and spears to prepare for a defensive counterattack.

Ying Ming, who was in the central army, also observed this and waved his hand to lead fifty cavalry to the right camp to rescue, while the remaining fifty cavalry continued to press the formation to guard against the enemy's back.

During the brief charge, Earl Charles saw the Ming army's line adjusting its formation. The crossbowmen put the big crossbow on the big shield, and the horses in the Mercedes-Benz also held the shields in front of them and quickly approached with muskets.

During this period, the Fran machine gun bombarded twice, and several riders were knocked down and rolled down from their horses. They could bear such losses.

As they approached thirty steps, dozens of crossbows were opened and shot out vigorously, shooting a row of cavalry and horses overturned. All the cavalry were relieved... They would no longer give the enemy a chance to reopen the crossbow. The front line was right in front of them. They picked up the musket and were about to approach the shooting position!

Cavalrymen turned their horses in the Mercedes-Benz and stretched their arms to shoot at the Ming army a few steps away. Earl Charles, who led the team, could even see the enemy's faces that looked different from them before the smoke burst out, but those faces were not afraid, which was strange.

Just as the war horse had turned around and was about to turn his head, he heard a muffled groan of force through the smoke. Immediately afterwards, something came out of the smoke and flew away to the distance by Earl Charles.

The sounds of breaking through the air behind the ears are one after another.

The Count on the horse's back seemed to have seen a ghost - it was a javelin.
Chapter completed!