Colonel Elance knew that he couldn't continue to confront each other like this, he didn't have artillery, and if he just stood up and was bombed, it wouldn't be a problem!

The morale of your own soldiers is not very high!

Colonel Alan quickly made his choice, and ordered to his new adjutant: "Order the soldiers, attack!" ”

The Spanish drummers began to beat the drums, and the officers of the various companies drew their command knives and gave the order forward in a loud voice: "Walk in unison!" ”

This kind of order will definitely feel ridiculous if it is heard by the soldiers of modern warfare, and this kind of order, which only appears on the march and in the guard of honor, shouts it on the battlefield, is really irresponsible for life!

However, compared to the brutality of the two world wars of the twentieth century, the war of the 18th century was so gorgeous and elegant: a column of brightly dressed soldiers, accompanied by drums and fluttering flags, marched in a neat queue towards the enemy, is it similar to the current military parade?

That's right, the modern military parade originated here, high school students and college students military training over and over again practice queues have a lot to do with this, it can be said that many items of modern university military training are modern honor guard training subjects and 18th century European armies compulsory subjects!

This tactic looked ridiculous in later generations, but at the time it was the standard for judging the strength of a country's military strength!

This kind of queue rush may seem untactical, but it is actually the most advanced tactic of the time, and no contemporaneous tactic can compare with it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The biggest reason for this dull tactic, which tested the courage and willpower of the soldiers, came from the weapons of the time - a large number of smoothbore guns!

The flintlock pistol replaces the arquebus with flint, which you can interpret as a lighter's head mounted on the gun......

But that's not the point! It's all about the barrel, the bullet and the ******!!!

The barrel is drilled out one by one, it is not rifled, how straight and smooth can you expect the inner wall of the barrel to be?

The bullets back then were lead shots! How uniform can you expect the melted lead to drip from a high place into a basin of water and make it into lead balls the size of small glass beads? Each one is the same size? When the relatively small lead shot is put into the not-so-smooth barrel, in the process of firing, the lead shot will continue to collide with the barrel, and the result is: the enemy is aiming at you, and the shot is Zhang Ergou who is still lying on the ground between the two of you! It was really not unusual to be shot lying down in that era!!

Back then****** it was black powder! It's about the same as our artillery today, how far can you expect the gun to hit? What's more, you don't dare to load too much, this barrel is really explosive! You're happily aiming at it, pull the trigger, duang!! I was blown up and became a third-level cripple, who wants to charge more!!

To sum up, the flintlock pistol has several important characteristics: complex operation, slow rate of fire, insufficient power, short range, difficult aiming, and poor accuracy.

Because the characteristics of such weapons could not be solved with the technology of the time, how can it be rectified? Don't use a gun and continue to use a broadsword and spear?

Absolutely not!!!

Here's why:

1. The lethality of the smoothbore gun far exceeds that of the bow and crossbow and other projection weapons, as long as the hit can basically directly cause the opponent to withdraw from the battle, and can effectively penetrate all kinds of armor, in short, although the hit rate is poor, but it is a critical hit, and most of them are dead.

2. The training of a smoothbore gun is extremely simple, the resources to train a longbowman are enough to train five or more smoothbore gunners, and there is almost no requirement for physical fitness, as long as you can mechanically repeat the reloading action, you are a qualified smoothbore gunner. The barrel and ammunition of smoothbore guns are also simpler and faster than bows and crossbows after the technology matures, and the manufacture of lead bullets only requires building a tall tower, and then letting the lead water drip from a high place, the lead will naturally form a circle in the air, and when it lands, it has cooled to a solid state, while making an arrow is much more troublesome. Even, a skilled musketeer can make irregular lead bullets on his own, and the round ones can be shot anyway!

So if you find a problem, you need to solve it:

Can't get it right? Fifty or so people shot in a row together, so they could hit! (It is said that this is how the current military unit "platoon" came about) Thirty or fifty people can't walk in unison? It's easy to do, we have military music! Let's walk to the beat of the drums, don't be nervous listening to the music!

Not enough rate of fire? It's simple, it takes a minute to reload a shot, I get three rows of people, one row is fired, the second row is fired, the second row is fired, and the third row is ...... Isn't this cycle a shot in 20 seconds?

Not enough range? Simple, get closer! I can't shoot every 100 meters, so it's always okay to stick my nose to my nose!! And the rear shot tends to have an advantage, and the closer you get, the higher the hit rate!

You see, it is for these reasons that the Spaniards lined up in a dense horizontal line, carrying the flintlock pistols of the playoffs, stepping on the drums, and getting closer and shooting again!

Not to mention, with accompaniment, the queue of these Spaniards is still quite neat, if it weren't for the painful expression on their faces, they would be quite similar to the honor guard......

The egg's painful expression can't be changed, after all, the Spanish infantry knew what they were about to face, and stood in a horizontal row and let the opposite side shoot at themselves!

Well, they will do the same thing, and when the time comes, whoever will survive to the end will depend on God the love of his old man......

Rumble!

An iron bullet opened a flesh alley in the advancing queue of the Spanish horizontal team!

As the Spanish infantry approached in unison, the hit rate of this field gun finally returned to the point that Zhao Dutian could accept......

As the first time that his side faced the formal queue to shoot the battlefield, Zhao Dutian stood in the position of the front-line officer, ready to give orders to the Han infantry lined up in a row!

The power of that field cannon is still good, almost as long as it hits, it can make a gap in a small horizontal phalanx!

And this horizontal team basically needs a period of time to adjust after being hit, before it can take another step forward, cannonballs and bullets are two kinds of things, being hit by cannonballs is not just a matter of stepping over corpses, it is the death of a whole column of people!

When the Spanish infantry entered the range of the flintlock pistol, Zhao Dutian quickly ordered: "Raise your gun!" ”

The soldier in black uniform, when conveying the password, skillfully raised the flintlock pistol above his head with both hands!

Zhao Dutian saw that the Spanish infantry had not stopped walking in unison, and continued to shout: "Aim!" ”

The soldiers in the first row quickly raised their flintlock pistols flat, put their fingers on the trigger, and waited for an order or their own gunshot!

Obviously, Zhao Dutian, who does not have many soldiers, has no intention of using the British to shoot 3 columns of salvos close to his face!