The Spaniards on the opposite side had already lined up and slowly walked towards this side. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAt this time, the Model Army also reacted, and the first preparations were the five 6-pounder guns accompanying them, and then the stragglers of the Model Army also began to move forward.

At the time when the Spanish phalanx began to become popular, the cannon was not yet a suitable weapon for field warfare, and even now, in Europe, His Majesty Gustav, the Norse Lion, who used the cannon most brilliantly, his army in the field was only able to use small 3-pounder guns. Moreover, His Majesty Gustav's regimental cannon is still a reduced charge version, and the power of this gun is quite limited, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a large arquebus.

However, the artillery of the model army is completely different, because of the use of forged drilled barrels, multiple barrels self-tightening and other technologies beyond the times, so that the field artillery of the model army has greatly reduced the weight, although because it takes time to cultivate heavy horses, and the dock in his hand is too simple, so Zheng Sen's dream, a cannon can penetrate a whole company's marching column 12-pounder field gun can not be put into the battlefield for the time being, but the power of the 6-pounder gun is far from being comparable to the 3-pounder gun with reduced charge.

The Spanish phalanx had many layers, which meant that they would suffer far more casualties in the event of artillery bombardment than the troops in line formation. For an army in a line formation, unless the artillery was ambushed on the flank, in general, even if it was hit by a shell, the loss would be only two or three soldiers. However, the Spanish phalanx was different, and the dense large phalanx numbered dozens of people even in the vertical direction, and once hit by shells, it was often possible to knock down dozens or even dozens of people in a row.

"The distance is three thousand feet, the elevation angle is 12, and the fifth charge is ready!" Artillery commander Zhang Qingxi shouted.

The artillery crew quickly made preparations, and the red flag of response was constantly raised.

Zhang Qingxi saw that all the artillery groups had already raised the red flag, so he stood on the starting platform, raised the red flag in his hand high, and then slammed it down.

With this action, five 6-pounder guns completed their firing in a very short time.

The artillery observers all stood on the erected herringbone ladder and carefully observed the landing point of the shells, but the crew of the artillery crew did not care whether their shells hit or not, but hurriedly went up, reset the cannons, cleaned the cannons, and prepared for the next design.

While the artillery crew was busy, the five shells crossed a distance of nearly three thousand feet and landed in front of the Spanish phalanx. The cannonball fell to the ground and stirred up a cloud of dust, then bounced and plunged headlong into the phalanx of the Spaniards. Because the Spanish phalanx was large in size and densely populated, the results of this round of shelling were even better than the previous bombardment of Jianyan by the Model Army, four of the five shells hit accurately, and one suddenly tilted to the left when it bounced up for some reason after landing, and it missed.

But this round of shooting alone caused about 100 casualties to the Spaniards, and this killing efficiency made the Spanish officials who watched the Spanish army attack the barbarians on the city walls all look like dirt.

"What about our artillery? And what about our cavalry? Why not fire at the enemy! Franco roared.

But the commander Raul did not answer him, he was now staring at the phalanx in front of him that was being shelled, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

Four shells, in almost six hundred more?? can hit the target fairly accurately at a distance, and just four shells caused such a large loss to the phalanx. Raul suddenly felt that as long as the other side had enough artillery, the Spanish phalanx, even the improved one, would be outdated.

"Give the order, let the cavalry attack the opponent's artillery and cover the phalanx attack!" Raul finally reacted, "Let the artillery advance until it can reach the other side, and then attack." ”

The cavalry of the Spaniards began to rush towards the artillery of the Model Army. However, the Spanish cavalry of this era was not a Napoleonic cavalry accustomed to hand-to-hand combat. In this era, because of the influence of firearms, and the feudal knights who have always been directly cutting people are used with spears by the Swiss poor, and even the influence of the Spanish phalanx to teach people. The cavalry of Europe, with the exception of some cavalry in Eastern Europe who often played against various nomads, became musketeers. Their tactics are often to lure infantry into firing from a distance, and then take advantage of the gap in the opponent's reload, rush forward and shoot at the enemy with a pistol. It was not until His Majesty Gustavus that the cavalry began to gradually revert to the tradition of hand-to-hand combat with sabers, but at this time, the mainstream of European cavalry was still pistol cavalry. However, in the colony of Manila, the Spanish cavalry was not yet so fully musketed, because they still had the task of suppressing the natives, and these natives did not have well-organized pikes, so it was cheaper and more effective to cut people with sabers, so the Spanish cavalry in Manila was more powerful.

There were also cavalry on the part of the Model Army, but they were not cavalry capable of fighting on horseback, they were dragoons, and strictly speaking, they were only infantry on horseback except when they were on pursuit.

The dragoons reacted quickly, running to the side of the artillery, dismounting, and lining up to fight the Spanish cavalry. The artillery also quickly turned the muzzle of the gun after the second round of shelling, and loaded the shotgun, ready to fight the cavalry.

The Spanish cavalry also knew that if they rushed directly, they would probably be unlucky, so they kept a distance from the model army, only holding back on one side and not immediately entering the battle.

Taking advantage of this time, the Spaniards regrouped their phalanx and continued to advance, and then they were met by the stragglers of the Model Army.

In the era of flintlock pistols, the most classic tactic was the infantry line tactic, which is also known as the queue shooting tactic. However, except for the line infantry that was the main force, which was lined up in a tight formation, there were also skirmishers in this era. These skirmishers, often armed with a selection of flintlock pistols, fought sporadically ahead of the line infantry. Their task is primarily to disrupt the opponent, disrupt the opponent's array, as well as attract the opponent to shoot first.

In later generations, a conscientious inventor of history once praised the gentlemanly spirit of Europeans with such feelings. He said that when Europeans go to war, they are also very gentlemen. When their line infantry met in battle, they would continue to uphold the spirit of gentleness and frugality, and shout to the opposite side: "Gentleman on the other side, please fire the first shot!" Of course, the gentleman on the opposite side naturally had such a noble spirit, so he naturally responded: "The gentleman on the other side, please shoot first!" ”

Is there such a thing? It really is. However, the reason has nothing to do with what kind of gentleness and frugality, because the rifles of this era are smoothbore guns, with low long-range accuracy, and slow reloading. If you can entice your opponent to shoot at a distance long enough, you can take advantage of the opponent's reload opportunity to quickly close in and return fire at a closer distance for higher results. If you really have such a gentlemanly spirit, and what kind of war is there to fight, everyone will be kind and humble, and come to "let him be three feet", isn't it okay?

Place some skirmishers in front of the infantry line, and the skirmishers will fire at the opposing line infantry first. The target of the skirmishers is the entire line of infantry, while the enemy's line infantry is shooting a single straggler, and the difference in the hit rate of the two sides is very large. When the stragglers were shooting, they aimed at William on the opposite side and fired, even if they missed, it was very likely that they hit the old Charles who was standing next to him crookedly. But when the line infantry returned fire, the situation was different, first of all, if William stood still and fired back, as soon as he stopped, the whole array had to stop at once. Otherwise, the whole array will be messed up. If the whole queue is chaotic, then the opponent's cavalry, or the opponent's line infantry, will definitely take advantage of the chaos to attack, and then ......

Therefore, the line infantry can only endure the constant fire of the stragglers, resolutely advance slowly, exchange casualties for distance, and finally close up and fight the enemy's line infantry. Either the cavalry can only be dispatched to drive out the opponent's skirmishers. However, the opponent's skirmishers are often not far from the line infantry of their own side, the cavalry comes out, they will retreat, and then use the guns in their hands to shoot at the cavalry, the cavalry because of the short barrel of the guns used, the inconvenience of loading, and the instability of the shooting platform, their own targets are larger and a series of reasons, if you really shoot at the skirmishers, it will definitely suffer, if you simply pull out the saber and rush up to cut him, it is easy to crash into the range of fire of the line infantry behind, and be fired by others in a volley, do not want to hit.

Therefore, in the era of line infantry, there is only one way to fight against the skirmishers, and that is to let your own skirmishers go up to deal with the enemy stragglers.

However, this set of tactics was the product of the evolution of line infantry tactics to the Napoleonic era, when there was no such unit in the Spanish army. Moreover, the quality requirements of the skirmishers for the quality of the soldiers are also significantly higher than those of the line infantry, and the line infantry only needs to be able to fight meticulously according to the order, but the skirmishers must have the will to actively seek battle and the ability to fight independently. In this era, even if the armies of Europe are left unattended, if they are allowed to run around on the battlefield by themselves, the result is that most of the stragglers themselves run away from the safety of the battlefield. In addition, when to shoot, when to advance, when to retreat, it is up to him to make his own decisions, and they need to be able to make a simple judgment of the situation. It's even harder. Therefore, in the era when there is no nationalism and no universal education, stragglers are like family members, a thing that requires a lot of money to be thrown out.

Even the Zheng family, which is not bad for money, will not be able to smash many stragglers if they simply rely on the way of smashing with silver (because the line infantry also needs a lot of money to smash), so Zheng Sen carried out nationalist brainwashing in the form of a factory protection team school from the beginning, and later, after the factory protection team expanded into a model army, the original factory protection team school also became a model non-commissioned officer school, and the scale was also expanded. In addition, the various apprenticeship training courses that began at the artillery factory were also expanded into technical schools, which also provided the conditions for nationalist brainwashing. Relying on the brainwashing of the school and the brainwashing of various theatrical and artistic activities, Zheng Sen finally equipped the model army with a group of usable skirmishers.