If Marin had been on the scene and saw the battle like this, he would have kicked Schwartz a few times in anger. Why? Because Marin would never be foolish enough to let his musketeers and opponents shoot at each other.

At a distance of 50 paces (37.5 meters), the Musketeer's hit rate is very high. If they shoot at each other, both sides will suffer heavy casualties. So, at such a close distance, the best option is to charge......

Later lobster soldiers did just that, and the British found that within 30 meters, the hit rate of the smoothbore gun could also become very high. However, it would be stupid if the two sides stopped and shot at each other. Because, at a distance of 30 meters, you can rush forward in one breath.

By that time, the best weapon would no longer be a musket, but a bayonet. Once in front of the opponent, the bayonet is definitely more effective than the musket. After all, the front-loading gun is extremely slow to reload, and it usually takes 30 seconds to reload a bullet. With a bayonet, you can stab several enemies to death in 30 seconds......

Of course, Marin has not yet come up with a bayonet, so naturally there is no lobster soldier's tactic of "collective bayonet charge after a 30-meter salvo". It's not that he's reluctant to use advanced tactics, but the bayonet wasn't easy to use in those days......

In the military, there is a theory of "arms restraining each other", and a musket with a bayonet is of course very advantageous when fighting with the musketeer on the opposite side. However, that was only after the spearmen were eliminated by muskets.

But in this era, musketeers were still in the minority. In the majority, it was the spearmen. You try to stab each other with bayonets and spearmen? Your rifle is only more than 1.6 meters long with a bayonet (Type 38 rifle), while European spears in this era are often more than 4 meters long, and Swiss spears are five or six meters long...... 1.6 m bayonet and 6 m Swiss spear stabbed against each other...... Therefore, Marin did not think of putting a bayonet on the musket at all, because there was no need to ......

Therefore, in this case, Marlin will make an adaptation of the lobster soldiers' "bayonet charge after volley" - after the salvo, let the pikemen on the left and right flanks charge...... Spearmen rushed out from the left and right flanks to fill the original positions of the musketeers in the middle, and continued to charge forward, stabbing the enemy musketeers with their spears. As for the musketeers on our side, let's rest for a while. At the same time, load up your ammunition, climb on a wheelbarrow or bench, and climb to the top to observe which enemy forces in the vicinity are the most ferocious. Then, give him a shot at close range......

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Shooting at the enemy at a distance of 50 paces, such as Schwartz's, is the stupidest and the most casualty. At this distance, the musketeers on both sides had a high hit rate, and several volleys were fired, resulting in a high casualty figure......

Sure enough, after a few rounds of shooting, the North Sea Kingdom lost more than eight hundred people. The losses of the Geddes army on the opposite side were even greater, and the number of casualties was estimated to exceed 1,500......

Field Marshal Bonitz, the commander of the Gedes army, suddenly couldn't sit still, and seeing that the shooting did not take advantage, he began to realize that if he continued to shoot at each other, not only the musketeers of the Duchy of Gedes would be killed and wounded, but the spearmen would also suffer huge casualties. Moreover, after his observation, he came to the conclusion that there seemed to be more musketeers on the opposite side, and it was not advantageous to shoot the troops of the Geddes...... Therefore, he gritted his teeth and ordered:

"Stop shooting, charge with all your troops!"

Although he wondered how there were so many musketeers on the opposite side, Field Marshal Bonitz insisted that the army on the opposite side was a ragtag army composed of the ineffective Cleaver army and the armies of other countries. As long as the Swissified Guedes spearmen rushed forward and stabbed their opponents, the victory would surely have gone to the Swissified Guedus army in the end, although the opponents seemed to be outnumbered......

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Seeing that his opponent gave up shooting at each other and began to press hard, Schwartz breathed a sigh of relief - he was not afraid of the opponent rushing up to fight, he was only worried that he would be hit by a stray bullet and have a head to blossom......

In the face of the enemy's charge, Schwartz quickly responded:

"Tell the musketeers to step back, and the spearmen in the back will add 4 platoons to the front! Withstand the enemy's charge! As for the musketeers, stand behind those 4 rows of spearmen, stand on a stool or wheelbarrow, aim at the enemy from a high place and continue to shoot! ”

This formation is a strange formation invented by Marin - this formation is a defensive formation, and the spearmen in the front row are wearing breastplate armor and iron helmets, and the main purpose is to withstand the onslaught of the enemy......

The musketeers would then be behind the four rows of spearmen in front of the middle, gaining a higher geographical position and a better view by standing on stools and wheelbarrows. Then, at close ranges of a few meters to a dozen meters, they can calmly shoot at the enemy's most ferocious spearmen. Shoot whoever is the bravest...... No matter how good your martial arts are, you will be knocked down with one shot......

As long as the musketeers kill the most ferocious of the opponent, the opponent's offensive will be suppressed. In terms of momentum, once the enemy army loses, the offensive will naturally be over......

Moreover, according to the habits of mercenaries in this era, often the first three rows of soldiers are the most elite veterans. They are highly skilled in martial arts and experienced in combat, and many veterans wear breastplate armor and helmets. Therefore, these people are not only strong in combat, but also have high protection capabilities.

However, in the face of muskets, the protective power of breastplate armor and iron helmets was negligible......

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Sure enough, when Gedesi's spearmen rushed closer, at first, an extremely fierce battle broke out between the two sides. The spearmen in the first three rows of the North Sea Kingdom and the spearmen in the first three rows of the Duchy of Gedesi were all full of strength, and they stabbed their spears into the enemy's body with all their might. However, the fighters of the first three platoons on both sides wore cuirass armor and carried iron helmets. So, both sides began to stab each other in the face, neck, and limbs......

But the soldiers in the first three platoons on both sides are all veterans with the most combat experience, how can they easily let the other side succeed? Therefore, when the spearmen on both sides stabbed each other, the veterans used all their strength, while desperately stabbing each other's weaknesses, they were also dodging left and right, trying not to let the opponent's spears stab their weaknesses. For a time, the fight between the two sides was extremely fierce......

But soon, when the Beihai musketeers, who had pushed behind, found stools and wheelbarrows, and with the help of their comrades, they reached a high point, and everything changed......

"Hey—that Geds spearman on the other side is so powerful, he's stabbed one of our spearmen, and he wants to stab another one. Look at me and give him a ......" Then, a North Sea musketeer raised his wind-up musket and aimed it at a powerful spearman in the Geds army seven or eight meters away......

"Bang-"

"Ahh

The two voices remembered rhythmically that a big, muscular veteran of the elite spearmen of the Geddes had just finished out a spearman of the North Sea Nation and was about to stab the next enemy when a buckshot flew and slammed directly into his breastplate, breaking several of his ribs. As a result, he let out a terrible scream and immediately lost his combat effectiveness......

After a while, more sporadic gunfire rang out. At such a close distance, the musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom rarely missed. And, because both sides poked each other with 6-meter-long hairs, the distance between the two sides was at least 4 meters. When the North Sea Musketeers aimed and fired, they didn't worry about accidentally injuring their comrades......

The more than 2,000 surviving North Sea musketeers took turns to board the benches and wheelbarrows, aiming at the elite spearmen in the first three rows of the Duchy of God's Country, and they were fighting fiercely, causing the losses of the God's spearmen very heavy. Those who could fight were killed by the musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom, and the rest couldn't afford to make waves......

Moreover, with the massive losses of elite spearmen, the morale of the army of the Duchy of Gedes was getting lower and lower, while the morale of the army of the North Sea State was getting higher and higher......

Schwartz saw that it was almost there, so he went to Wolfgang, the commander of the army of the Duchy of Cliver, and said:

"General Wolfgang, the morale of the enemy has already taken a serious hit. Now, do you have the confidence to take the 8,000 soldiers of the Duchy of Cleaver and break through the enemy's right flank from the flank? ”

Wolfgang also watched for a while, and when he saw that the army of the Duchy of Gedes was indeed suppressed by the army of the North Sea State, he naturally had confidence. Moreover, he could also see that the right flank of the enemy army was a weak point. After all, the enemy has put the strongest part in front, and the right flank is naturally not very strong. Moreover, the battle in front of him has greatly reduced the morale of the Gedesi army, and attacking at this time is to pick up cheap.

So, Wolfgang nodded and said:

"Don't worry, I'll get the job done!"

After saying that, General Wolfgang left from the flank of the battle formation with eight kilograms of soldiers of the Duchy of River, and circled to the weak right flank of the enemy......