041 Surprised European Barbarians
The arrows thrown by the Orion archers led by Conrad fell on the soldiers in iron armor, looking extremely weak, and many soldiers gritted their teeth and got up from the ground after being shot down, cursing while pulling out the arrows stuck in the iron armor, and continued to follow the large army with their weapons.
With the improvement of smelting technology, ordinary hunting bows are becoming more and more powerless against the armor of the regular army, let alone facing high-quality knight armor, even ordinary nail armor is difficult to break through.
After squinting at the pit effect of the Orion archers' archery, Shu Zifeng completely gave up the 'illusion' of the bow and arrow, and ordered the musket team to follow up and shoot at the enemy's advancing array.
Bandak, who heard Shu Zifeng's order, asked with some hesitation: "The prisoners of war led by Baron Jamai are still resisting there, and the musket team will hit their own people when they go up at this time." ”
"Your own people? Hehe, I have never regarded a group of prisoners of war as my own, and I don't have to worry about the life and death of that group of cannon fodder prisoners of war, their role is to delay and cover our army's musket team. ”
In Shu Zifeng's sneer, a hundred musketeers hugged each other and stepped forward, these musketeers just gathered together and walked forward in a simple horizontal column, and did not step forward in a neat and orderly manner like the later generations lined up to shoot, and the musketeers under Shu Zifeng's command were far from reaching that realm.
Seeing the front and back of his musketeers, Conrad's team of hunters hurriedly ran to the sides to make way for them, escorting the musketeers' wings.
Baron Jamai, who was standing in front of the aristocratic coalition army with a forest of spears, looked back and forth in confusion at the approaching troops of both sides, thinking about a very important question - what should he do at this time?!
As the musketeers raised their guns in unison, Baron Jamai responded quickly and fell to the ground in front of the flickering pikes, even if doing so would make him lose his resistance to the pikes, it was better than being shot directly from the arquebus!
Unfortunately, there are not many prisoners of war cannon fodder like Baron Jamaie, and most of them are not willing to lie on the ground and become a 'meat bun' for the pikemen who press over and stab at will.
Bang bang bang......
A hundred musketeers fired two staggered volleys in two columns, and in an instant, the prisoners of war, cannon fodder, who were fleeing with their weapons or intending to fight desperately, were fired into a sieve along with the enemy's spears.
"Everyone, charge !!"
The officer, who was hiding behind the pikemen, saw that the arquebus on the opposite side had finished firing a volley, and immediately drove the remaining soldiers to charge forward.
The arquebus was loaded with one round a minute, and the efficiency was enough for these soldiers to rush through.
It is precisely because of the extremely slow loading efficiency of the arquebus that the bow and crossbow of this era have not been fully replaced, and even many musketeers will bring their own bows and arrows, and directly take out the bow and arrow after a shot......
Before the advent of the Spanish 'big package', although the arquebus was powerful, there was no efficient way to use it in the field, and the loading steps of the arquebus were too cumbersome!
Shu Zifeng was well aware of the shortcomings of the arquebus, and the musket team immediately retreated after firing a volley, while the hand-to-hand combat team of the conscription militia that had already been prepared swarmed up and blocked the front of the sprinting aristocratic coalition army.
Immediately, a melee hand-to-hand combat broke out without fancy, and Shu Zifeng's men had just won a victory, and the morale-filled militia fought with the vanguard soldiers of the aristocratic coalition.
As for the prisoner of war cannon fodder led by Baron Jamai, it has long been buried in the crowd, Baron Jamai fell after the musket team fired a volley, the first time to get up again, lift the knight's shield and knight's sword, and kill with the pikemen whose formation was disrupted, the surviving single-digit prisoner of war cannon fodder also did the same thing as Baron Jamaifall, because everyone knew that the aristocratic coalition soldiers in front of him would not accept their surrender!
However, Baron Jamai has a full-body plate armor made of heavy money, the physical body martial realm of the quasi-great knight realm, and the powerhouse who belongs to the same muscular realm as Shu Zifeng, is many times higher than the battlefield survivability of those prisoners of war cannon fodder.
Soon, while fighting and retreating, all the way to the crowd of conscription militia before stopping, a surviving prisoner of war cannon fodder around Baron Jamai was gone......
Shu Zifeng, who was sitting on the back of a captured high-headed war horse, looked at the Baron Jamai who was full of blood and combat power in the center of the battlefield, and for the first time had a real understanding of his personal combat power.
Shu Zifeng never expected that this Baron Jamai, who shamelessly kissed his combat boots, would have a physical martial realm comparable to his own!
"There are more masters in this world than I expected, a baron of military merit has a body of muscles and bones, and after this battle, I will use Katerina's body to complete the promotion of the inner body." After Shu Zifeng saw the physical martial arts realm of Baron Jamai, he couldn't help but have a sense of urgency.
As for the trace of guilt for his underage sister, he was completely forgotten by the realist Shu Zifeng!
Big deal, just be nice to Caterina in the future......
Shu Zifeng was very irresponsible and found a reluctant solace for his ** behavior.
After the conscription militia and the aristocratic coalition were killed together, the hunter team led by Conrad had to abandon the useless hunting bow and kill it with a better weapon than the conscripted militia.
While the two hand-to-hand soldiers were fighting together, the musketeers of the Centurion had finished reloading, ran to the diagonal flanks under the cover of the conscription militia, and opened heavy fire on the noble coalition soldiers whose armor was superior to their own!
The arquebusiers of the hundred-man squad were divided into six platoons, the first two for firing and the last four for loading, so that the arquebusiers could at least be fired at a fraction of the interval.
Although the militia and hunters were crushed by the soldiers of the noble coalition, they eventually pinned down most of the enemy foot soldiers and provided a temporary opportunity for the musketeers to open fire.
The flank of the aristocratic coalition that had endured several rounds of arquebus volleys suffered extremely heavy losses, several teams of soldiers were crushed alive, and even the musket team sent by the viscount in a hurry was preemptively defeated by Shu Zifeng's musket team because of the small number of people, and the two rounds of salvo fire!
The Viscount of the Noble Alliance looked at the arquebusiers shining on the battlefield, and for the first time changed his perception of this weapon with a low rate of fire, and it turned out that the arquebus, which could only be used in the defense of the city, could still be used in this way!
Poor European barbarians, the poor military system made them outrageously lacking in tactical development of arquebuses.
However, the main reason why the aristocratic coalition army is so passive is that there is no available cavalry team under the viscount, and without the rapid attack of the noble cavalry, the position of the musket team in rotation cannot be broken at all.