Some people once questioned why in the military history of Europe, after the infantry entered the modern history, there was no miscellaneous title, but instead they were uniformly called - private, this simple, unpretentious, almost perfunctory title. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because the full name of the private is the line infantry, they have completely abandoned all the tactics of the Middle Ages, and show themselves in the history of world warfare with a reborn posture, with a wide and shallow to almost thin line formation, they are close to each other side by side, raise the flintlock pistol in their hands and aim at the front in a unified manner, and use the density of salvo fire to make up for the shortcomings of the poor accuracy of the smoothbore gun, but it has created a generation of classics in the history of war.

The line formation formed a dense formation of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry, which were the main forces of all countries in the world during the Middle Ages, into bloody holes full of guns, and even in the early years of the real modern period, the heavy cavalry that had despised everything did not dare to charge towards a complete line column!

Because it would be deadly, even if the heavy cavalry could break up this line of infantry, but the end result would be a disastrous victory with extremely poor cost performance.

The heavy cavalry composed of a group of wealthy nobles, who had been trained for more than ten years to possess superb horsemanship and combat skills, had no comparison in the face of a group of line infantry composed of peasants who had only been trained for a few months, and who were completely strong and strong.

Moreover, Levi now has no longer musketeers formed by peasant makeshift training, but Spanish sailors who have undergone rigorous training in modern history, carried out strict supervision and training in barracks and military schools, and even practiced participating in real wars.

They were also Spanish sailors, even with the flintlock pistol in their hands, and did not receive too many army tactical drills, but only by their spontaneous behavior, as well as the consciousness from the practice of firing a salvo side by side, and for the dense Ketuv River thieves rushing in front of them, there was only indifference to life on their faces, and there was no fear in their eyes.

Because this is the crushing of the times, backwardness will be beaten, and in the face of bloody reality, backwardness is not only beaten, but also slaughtered, slaughtered, and harvested life, this is the stage of tragedy!

"Whoa—"

The sound of the crackling beans almost came with the scimitar that was swinged, the muzzle of the well-made flintlock had burst into a bright fire, and the gray-black smoke from the insufficient burning of gunpowder had spread with the firelight, but the force had also entered its rhythm, expansion, explosion, unparalleled propulsion, inertia, and lethal quality.

The round and soft lead bullet has been instantly discharged with the explosion of the gunpowder, and the instantaneous high temperature has also made the lead projectile, which is not hard, become like a droplet of water due to the high speed of the discharge, and the power it is given can easily pierce iron armor and leather armor, and can also easily pierce the skin, muscles, and internal organs.

Perhaps the lead bullet that was moving forward at high speed in the iron armor would shatter, and the bones would crack at the same time as it pierced it, and then the four or five petals of lead that were cracked would rotate, scattering in the body with the unconsumed power, piercing all the internal organs that it encountered, slicing the blood vessels, causing massive bleeding in the arteries, and even piercing the main body, and finally leading to the miserable death of this unlucky ghost.

Because the group of Ketufu River thieves in front of them was like this, the water thieves in the front row still had a hideous smile on their faces, and they had almost entered the forty-meter range just when they heard the dense and popping sound of beans, and found that with a powerful force surging, they had already knelt on the ground, and their whole bodies were covered with unbearable pain.

The originally safe and reliable dense formation now caused more than two hundred water thieves to kneel directly to the ground, and in the face of the volley of three hundred sailors in the thin line, their casualties were magnified to the maximum almost instantly!

Because this group of water thieves who poured out of the river beach and had not had time to disperse in that small space, in front of the linear queue that had been prepared for a long time, it was almost like a bloated target, even if they did not aim carefully, they only needed to pull the trigger in front of them, and with the crossfire formed by their width, they could shoot the water thieves who could not be avoided into a sieve!

Although the thin formation seemed to be unable to withstand the dense charge at all, the premise was that it could also rush in front of their line, and if it could not rush in front of this group of Spanish sailors, the final result would be to face the firepower advantage formed by the wide and thin line formation, crossfire.

The group of water thieves who rushed to the front had already hesitated, and even there was a little panic in their eyes, the comrades around them had fallen, and the painful moans and miserable howls also appeared in their ears, which made them want to stop their steps, but once their bodies slowed down, the unsuspecting water thieves behind them directly crowded them and still rushed forward, and the charge of the dense formation was difficult to stop!

Originally, this was an advantage, but when the water thieves at the front who were lucky enough to survive were already widening, they also saw that only thirty meters away, those enemies with dwarven muskets were still retreating in an orderly manner, and then let the back row of people to the front.

Still raising the flintlock pistol in his hand, the muzzle of the black hole hole was also aimed at the group of water thieves, Levi's scimitar was also raised again, and Hall's Spanish red, yellow and red striped flag held up high was also hunting in the wind, and the sea breeze whistled behind them, sweeping the dense gunpowder smoke towards the group of water thieves, and the group of already fearful front rows, couldn't help but be choked and coughed, and tears flowed out unconsciously.

It was the attachment to life, the fear of death, and the fear of those enemies who were close at hand, less than thirty or forty meters away, and who could easily crush their massacre in their hearts.

"Woo Woo T

The sound of popping beans still appeared, and the bright and dazzling flames appeared in the muzzle of the black hole, and a blazing light was born from the solidified darkness, but this light represented not the blessing of life, but the praise of death.

Rows of Ketufu river thieves fell, and more than two hundred of them were already frightened, and wanted to turn around and flee to the back, but they were pushed and pushed forward by the fanatical water thieves behind them, and one by one they burst into tears, and they were already in front of the thieves with exclamations and fear, and then they burst out of their bodies with deadly blood flowers and fell miserably.

But this was not the end of the story, for the eight seven-pounder guns did not evacuate even when the enemy was about to arrive in front of them, and the sailors simply cleaned their chambers, filled them with gunpowder, and then put round solid iron balls into the muzzles, filling the fire doors with arquebuses soaked in grease and powdered gunpowder.

Then the blazing fire tongs ignited the shortest fire rope, almost with the sound of "whoosh", in the eyes of the Ketufu river thieves who were still at a loss in the front row, and in the eyes that were already extremely frightened, the black holes of the eight 7-pounder cannons had also burst into brighter flames in an instant, and then pierced the densely packed bodies, like a string of sugar gourds.

The 7-pound solid iron ball, which is larger than the fist, has a mass that is no longer comparable to that of lead bullets in the process of high-speed rotation.

In the dense formation, at such a close distance, this solid iron ball almost pierced fifteen or sixteen people, and the force on the cannonball was completely leaked before it smashed to the ground, which was like bowling, and in fact bowling was originally a way of entertainment that the soldiers came up with during the war, and this solid iron ball was also like a rolling bowling ball, blasting all the bodies that dared to block in a straight line out of a miserable hole.

This had already frightened the thieves of the Ketuf River in the front row and even in the middle row, because of the deafening roar, because before they came into contact with the enemy, the fear of their comrades around them dying in rows, and the thick smoke in front of them, and the unpleasant smell that was blowing like a ghost with the sea breeze.

They were already extremely frightened, and even most of them were trembling, and the water thieves who had survived in the front row did not dare to continue forward, even if it was less than twenty meters away, they only felt that their legs were weak, especially when they saw that the first row of flintlock gunners who were quickly pumping the barrels with the whole strip and were about to reload into the end had also stuffed lead bullets into the chamber of their guns, and reappeared in the forefront as the second row retreated.

This meant another volley of guns, even if the short rhythm of the slogan just sounded, the Spanish sailors in the first row could even see the frightened eyes of the water thieves, and then still pulled the trigger, mercilessly!

"No... No... O God... Help us..."

Countless dense popping sounds appeared over there, and the rows of water thieves were even more crowded because they were afraid, but the final result was that they had become fixed targets at such a close distance, even if it was a distance of more than ten meters, they didn't dare to continue to charge, and there was no other idea in their minds except to escape.

This is the crushing of feudal warfare in modern wars, and it is the slaughter of a group of rabble water thieves by the regular army, perhaps only the top troops of the feudal era can barely compare, but this group of water thieves who are accustomed to robbing and plundering merchants cannot be called an army at all. (To be continued.) )