Four months later, Colonel Wang Ding on Liberty Island received a report written in French.

He knew that it had been sent back by someone sent to the Flanders area, so he hastened to have someone translate it.

His Caucasian officers and soldiers generally heard and spoke the Great Song dialect and could write simply, but if they wanted to report in detail and accurately, they could only use their native language.

As soon as he finished translating, he began to read it carefully.

“…… Dear Colonel, as you know, their main method of warfare is that both sides make good war letters, set up positions, and fight in a dignified manner on the plains, without any strategy, including flanking and outflanking, dividing the enemy, etc., they will only divide the forces of both sides evenly on the horizontal line...... The number of people or the type of troops, everyone knows at a glance.

We also sold them a couple of telescopes...... This made the Earl of Quy and the battlefield commander David Charles see it more clearly......

But at that time, the commander of Philip IV must have been confused, he must not have understood what the troops and equipment in front of him were used for!

Later, we figured it out by interrogating the prisoners of war...... They took our musketeers for hammermen; Treat our artillery as a kind of iron repulsion; Treat our counterweight stone cannon as a watchtower......"

Colonel Wang Ding couldn't stand it when he read this, he put down the letter, laughed for a while, and lit a cigarette...... Tobacco cultivation on Liberty Island is in full bloom, and equipment such as hand-cranked cigarette machines and hand-cranked shredders have been sent to the island...... Liberty Island brand cigarettes and tobacco can be officially produced.

Colonel Wang Ding insisted that Liberty Island cigarettes were definitely better than those on Liuqiu Island...... But the Governor of the Second Junior did not think so, and he felt that the tobacco on Liberty Island was not vigorous.

But anyway, Liberty Island's tobacco has been selling well from the start!

The point is that their publicity is good, smoking this tobacco, the devil does not dare to approach!

Well, those don't matter.

Colonel Wang Ding laughed for a while, then looked at the report again.

"You know, the main men on the battlefields of Europe are the Plate Knights, and they are such a group of people...... Since childhood, they have been training like hell, and the war horses have a special bloodline, they are armed with steel riding spears about three meters long, wearing nearly a centimeter thick full-body plate armor, and even the people and horses weigh more than a ton, and the equipment must be transported separately to avoid destroying the farmland!

In wartime, they all need to put on their cloaks half an hour in advance...... They also need a distance of about a kilometer to run, and the maximum speed is about 30 kilometers per hour, and the key is that they can't steer and can't stand up after falling off the horse.

We all know that plate armor has a fatal disadvantage of not defending against stabbing attacks, which is a few streets away from the scale armor of the Great Song army in the east!

When the Tatar robbers invaded Europe, they suffered heavy losses because the plate armor could not withstand the shots of the strong bows, and the knights could not catch up with the Tatar bandits' cavalry archers...... As a result of World War I, nearly 40,000 knights from France and Italy were buried in Eastern Europe.

But if they charged, it would seem to be so powerful that it would be enough to destroy the walls of Constantinople!

However, it seems to us now that their charge is an act of low intelligence...... Especially when charging at our artillery...... They may have laughed at us at the time, thinking that they were stupid and 'rejecting horses', where could this stop their iron horses?!

I really can't describe the details of that time, but I can only briefly describe them.

They first dispatched 5,000 ironclad cavalry, trying to directly disrupt our formation...... But the war was different, we didn't set up too many rejections in front of the battle because it was easier for us to dispatch the ironclad cavalry, but the other side didn't see it.

We fired two rounds of artillery and four rounds of fire cap guns directly at their vanguard, and then two rounds of counterweight stone cannons at their center...... So they were completely defeated, and the ironclad cavalry that fell to the ground seemed to be like dead fish on the drying ground, and there were crows and crows, and in some places they were even gathered.

Their light cavalry just turned around and fled! ”

When Colonel Wang Ding saw this, he was in a trance, as if he had witnessed the whole scene with his own eyes.

If he had led the team, he would have arranged for thirty mortars to be fired directly at a rate of five rounds per minute...... At this time, the place between 1,000 and 1,500 meters will become a sea of fire!

Nothing can break through this net of fire......

However, this can only be his imagination, and there is no chance to fight.

He settled down and looked at it again.

"But I have to admit that their two-handed sword infantry is the only one I have ever seen, second only to Prussia, very brave soldiers!

Because they are mercenaries in the Swiss region, they are loyal and unruly......

They wore light plate armor and held huge swords, generally one meter eight to two meters long, ten centimeters wide, and weighing about thirty to forty kilograms, such a sword could effectively destroy the opponent's plate armor.

They didn't run away directly, they even wanted to cover their commander's escape!!

Later we learned that they believed that fire-breathing weapons could not move, and that they had always maintained strong self-confidence in the armies of Flanders' territory...... In previous hand-to-hand combat, a two-handed sword infantry could often kill more than 20 enemies!

They caused certain problems for our hussars...... It wasn't until I suggested that they mobilize their fire-cap firecrackers to eliminate them one by one.

They don't have enough time to train, and if they move, they will be scattered and will have to regroup......

During this time, we received some counterattacks from the opposing crossbowmen.

In fact, on the battlefield, the most inconspicuous, but also the most deadly, troops are crossbowmen or crossbowmen.

They tend to be farmers, but they are armed with crossbows that are powerful enough to kill elite plate knights.

Although this steel crossbow is not as powerful as the Divine Arm Bow of the Eastern Great Song Dynasty, it can also penetrate half a centimeter thick plate armor from a distance of twenty meters, which makes them extremely lethal to knights...... An untrained farmer can kill a knight who has been trained since childhood with a steel crossbow!

At a synod, the Pope ordered the use of steel crossbows in wars between Catholic nations, but this order was often ineffective.

Of course, thanks to their slow reloading and poor accuracy, their steel crossbows can only be loaded in 30 seconds and it is difficult to hit targets at a distance of 50 meters!

Our hussars also suffered a Templar counterattack during the pursuit...... They are highly skilled in martial arts, and in battle, they can even pierce their long swords into the gaps in the plate armor, and they can also block the flying arrows.

The Templars were nurtured by the Order from an early age, and possessed the strength of a hundred, which was of course far stronger than the cavalry of the Count of Quy.

But...... They are at a numerical disadvantage.

The battlefield commander, David Charles, was clever enough to send more peasant cavalry to surround them, forcing them with bows and arrows not to fight in close combat.

The rest of the cavalry and infantry bypassed them, still chasing the deserters quickly! ”

PS: THANKS TO THE BOOK FRIEND POLOYELLO FOR THE TIP.