062 Elite Discipline
In the group of conscripted peasants and soldiers who were densely packed together to 'warm and strengthen their courage', dozens of brilliant blood flowers suddenly bloomed, covering the parts of the bullet in a loud or loud or 'sullen' snort, staring at the round eyes with their mouths wide open, as if they did not obey the call, and collapsed to the ground.
The fall of dozens of people did not have much impact on the array of thousands of people, but after this group of conscription militiamen suddenly saw the people in front of them and the people on the left and right suddenly falling, their footsteps suddenly stopped, and there was even a tendency to retreat backwards.
However, the conscription militia is not a fully armed and fierce mercenary with a hundred battles, as soon as they stop, the mercenaries who are similar to the warlords behind the conscription militia wave their weapons and slap the stagnant conscription militia with blunt faces!
"Onward! Advance! Whoever dares to stop, will be executed on the spot! ”
Under the shouts of the officers one after another, several conscripted militiamen who were afraid to turn around and escape were slashed down by the mercenaries behind with a sneer, and the head of one of the conscripted peasant soldiers even flew high in front of the formation, and under the blood pressure of the neck, it squirted out more than a meter high before falling to the ground!
The bloodied conscription militia looked at each other in a daze, they had been forced to know a 'truth' - they could be killed if they didn't advance, and if they didn't, they would definitely be hacked to death by mercenaries outnumbered them!
At the same time, the veteran Swedish musketeers, who had completed the first volley, quickly retreated from the one-man wide gap between the soldiers, without the orders of the officers, and all their actions had already been honed in training.
And the senior Swedish musketeers in the second row, under the orders of the officers, took the same three steps forward, raised their guns, aimed horizontally, and pulled the trigger!
The veteran Swedish musketeers in the first row were quickly and efficiently reloading the flintlock muskets in the last row, when another volley rang out in front of the formation, and the white smoke became a little thicker.
The steps of the Swedish veteran musketeer's first platoon to retreat and the second platoon to fire a salvo seem very simple and straightforward, but the soldiers who can achieve such simple steps on the battlefield are the elite of the elite!
Although it increases the speed of retreat of the musketeers from the gap between the soldiers in the rear, it requires a high degree of cooperation between the soldiers, and if a group of ordinary musketeers do this, they will inevitably collide and collide in the retreat, causing a certain amount of confusion to the overall formation!
On the battlefield, every minute and every second is very precious, and if the musketeers who have fired a salvo are unable to form a team on their own, when the three rows of musketeers who have stood in advance have finished firing, the originally neat firing queue will inevitably cause a mixture of various horizontal columns, and then it will gradually change from salvo to free fire......
The kind of platoon guns in the movie, in reality, often only the first few rounds can be reached, soldiers are not machines, but individuals, they reload at different speeds, in the battlefield full of gunsmoke and gunfire, who dares to guarantee that after they finish loading ammunition, will they shoot under the orders of the officer, instead of directly raising the gun themselves?
Therefore, elite musketeers have extremely high requirements for discipline, and it is easy to train musketeers, but it takes years or even more than ten years to train elite musketeers!
In the process of colonizing the whole world, the European army often encounters all-firearms enemy forces, especially on the Asian continent where the civilization is more developed, and may not understand the power of firearms for the first time and suffer a big loss, but after the defeat, the idiots know the power of the musket, and the Indians at the beginning understand the power of the musket, and do everything possible to trade firearms with the whites, and finally after the independence of the United States, the weapons of the Indian musketeers are even more advanced than the regular American army......
Among the colonized Asian countries at that time, there was no shortage of armies equipped with muskets and artillery, including the Manchus!
As early as before the First Opium War, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was equipped with more than 50% of the army's shotguns, and in the Second Opium War, the rate of arming all kinds of firearms even exceeded 80%, including many advanced Mini front-loading rifles, however, they were still beaten to the brim......
Later generations only know that the opium war foreigners relied on the sharpness of firearms, but they don't know that the final victory or defeat of the foreigner army was won by bayonet charge!
The foreigner army itself admitted that the Manchu army had a very good courage in firing muskets, no matter how heavy the casualties, they could carry the guns and shoot at each other, but as long as the bayonets were hand-to-hand, the Manchu army would collapse at the touch of a button......
The foreigner army discovered this in the first Opium War and carried it forward later, which is why the foreigner army would always have a hard time when it encountered the kind of Chinese army that did not want to die-bayonet charge was not good......
Historically, why did the Manchu regular army that was beaten by foreigners not find the north, but the peasant uncles of Sanlitun were able to rely on farm tools to kill the burning, killing and looting foreigners to cry and cry for their mothers?
Of course, in the period of World War I and World War II, weapons will be developed to a stage where human courage cannot be resisted, and the atomic bomb will completely transition the war situation from crowd tactics to the leading level of science and technology.
From the moment the first atomic bomb was exploded, the heads of state understood a truth: from now on, wars will no longer be won by the number of troops, but by the degree of sophistication of military science and technology!
The veteran Swedish musketeers produced by the Conquest System undoubtedly improved their discipline and combat experience to the extreme, and they faced the enemy who was far outnumbered by themselves, and they did not change their faces and fired under the orders of the officers, and then they naturally stood in line and began to reload, without any noise or fear during the whole process, and the whole formation was only the shouts of the officers and the sound of a few drummers and trumpeters.
Bang bang bang ~~~
In just one minute, the Swedish veteran musketeers fired three volleys, and the conscription militia almost fell to the ground one by one, and I don't know how many frightened conscription militiamen were hacked to death by their own people the moment they turned and fled.
Since this group of conscription militia is regarded by the mercenaries as human shields, they are quite effective in supervising the battle......
The Swedish veteran musketeers used a platoon to reload in place after the first row of shots, and when the third row was shot back, the original first row of Swedish senior musketeers also finished loading ammunition, this is the efficiency of senior musketeers, even if it is a flintlock gun, replaced by an ordinary musketeer, it is impossible to load ammunition so quickly in the battlefield environment!
Shu Zifeng looked at his own musket formation like a clockwork, stuck in time to shoot rows of volleys, slicing off the endless military formation on the opposite side like peeling a banana, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hang a happy smile.
The performance of the Swedish veteran musketeer was even better than Shu Zifeng expected!