Chapter 23 Preparing for War
"Everyone, change the ammunition bag, immediately get into combat and prepare for battle. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info: "Li Youqian does not dare to relax at all. "Jokhang, go pick up Viscount Paul and take him into the city."
The embarrassed Viscount Paul fled with the remnants to the city of Yongning Town.
"This is ......," Viscount Paul looked at the corpses all over the ground, "looking at the armor ornaments, it should be the army of Count Lafazi...... The number of corpses is 5,000 at least...... Legend has it that Lee Youqian is the newest god of war in Surabaya City. The force is amazing, and the killing is wild, and now it seems that the rumors are true, and what is said is true......"
"Viscount Paul, you advance to the city, and I will stop the enemy army." Li Youqian and Viscount Paul passed by, galloped to the front of the enemy army, and alone blocked thousands of troops.
The Svadia Kingdom soldiers stopped, and a Swadia royal knight came to the front of the formation and gave a deep salute, "Respected strong man, our Majesty has an invitation, please follow me into the camp." ”
Li Youqian was not afraid, and walked into the camp alone, with a halberd and a horse.
In the depths of the barracks, there was a makeshift Chinese army tent, with eight Swadia royal knights standing on both sides of the tent door.
"Please." The royal knight asked Li Youqian to enter the big tent and stayed outside the tent to wait.
In the big tent, only a silver-armored young man sat at the wine table, pecking and drinking.
"It's you!" Li Youqian looked shocked.
"It's me." William IV was calm.
"I didn't expect the king of the Svadia Kingdom to play an arena with me. It's incredible. Li Youqian's memory is very vague, "And, why you." ”
Li Youqian looked at the silver-armored young man in front of him, "If I had to choose, I would rather believe that the king of the Swadia Kingdom is the one with the knight's spear!" ”
"Oh, you say he, he's not the king of the kingdom of Svadia, he's the king of the kingdom of Vegia." William IV smiled, "It's ironic, the king of the knights looks like a light infantryman, while the king of the bow and arrow country is dressed like a heavy knight." ”
"How much do you remember about that battle?" Li Youqian picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all. The wine of the royal family is indeed delicious.
"Not much, I can't remember a lot of things...... Also, aren't you afraid that I will poison you? ”
"What are you afraid of, if you want to kill me, do you still need to poison me?" Li Youqian drank another glass of wine, and Zhengse said, "What happened, why do I have some vague memories?" ”
"Aren't you his oracle?" This time it was William IV's turn to be surprised.
"What is an oracle?" Li Youqian is really confused, is there a god in this world?
"There is a powerful god behind you, who has sealed our memories, and not even the god behind me can completely lift it."
"There's a god behind you?"
"Okanos, god of the rivers." William IV asked curiously, "Which god is behind you?" ”
"I don't know, that dark shadow, tell me, don't rely on the power of any gods, all power comes from yourself." Li Youqian didn't dare to say that the gods were just ants in the eyes of that black shadow......
"Come, drink. Today is just a simple chat, and nothing else. "The two of them drank and chatted and exchanged martial arts experiences.
"If we weren't hostile, we'd be good friends." William IV admired Lee's rich talents, but it was a pity that ......
"To each his own master......"
"I heard from the Shadow that your military is strong! I don't want to use my royal knight to try, so. You can rest for a while, and after half a month, we'll see you again. "The next time we meet, it's going to be goodbye.
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That night, Wilhelm IV's army left.
With the permission of Viscount Paul, Lee Youqian was able to recruit troops on a large scale, even the most rudimentary firecrackers, and Lee Youqian needed all the forces he could requisition.
Outside the town, the soldiers are digging trenches at the behest of Li Youqian! Although there was no such thing as trenches in the medieval era of cold weapons, the non-commissioned officer Li Youqian in the modern world has an endless love for trenches. The Battle of Ypre during World War I was a model of trench warfare. The months of intense fighting that followed left both sides numb and exhausted, digging trenches, fortifying bunkers, and barbed wire to build fixed positions. Soon, stretching from the Swiss border to the sea, more than 600 kilometers long, there was a strong defensive line of trenches, tunnels, shelters and barbed wire. At this point, the trench warfare began. This situation lasted for four years, until the end of the war.
At first, the trenches on both sides were trenches dug out of grass, but later with the development of the war, some command personnel and various logistics forces also went deep into the trenches to command and supply, so the trenches were constantly widened, and the defense system became more and more developed.
Lee had money and muskets, but the enemy didn't, so the role of the trench was not to block the enemy's bullets, but to slow down the enemy's advance and increase the area of his own attack.
Against the cavalry, Li Youqian knew a great grandmaster-level figure, Oda Nobunaga! In the Battle of Nagashino, Oda Nobunaga's 3,000 iron cannons fought against the 15,000 cavalry of the Takeda family. In the end, 12,000 people from the Takeda family were killed! The myth of the undefeated Takeda family's red cavalry, known as the "Warring States Warriors", was ended.
This time, Lee Youqian's musketeers face off against the Swadia Royal Knights, will Lee have a rich man create his own myth?
Against cavalry, the most effective tactic in history is three-stage shooting! There are two types of three-stage fire, the first of which consists of a group of three, with the musketeers at the front firing first, then retreating to the rear of the line to concentrate on reloading, and the second soldier coming forward to fire. Three people alternate reloading and firing, tripling the efficiency of arquebuses that would otherwise take a minute or more to shoot at a time! Approximate European semi-maneuver tactics.
In the second case, Oda Nobunaga defeated Takeda Katsuyori's Japanese three-stage shooting, arranging soldiers in groups of three, with the soldier with the highest shooting accuracy acting as the shooter, and the other two being responsible for the assembly of the gun and arquebus.
After the shooter fires, a second soldier takes the musket and loads the gunpowder from the front end, which is tamped and loaded with bullets. The third soldier simultaneously adjusts the position of the arquebus from the rear, moves the trigger to its original position, and then hands the musket to the shooter, allowing for non-stop firing.
Li Youqian's tactics are not three-stage shooting, but self-created tactics, which Li Youqian calls "Liuhe"!
Two trenches are dug, one deep and one shallow, the shallow trench is the first echelon, and the deep trench is the second echelon. The shallow trenches were preceded by the repulsion of horses, and after the deep trenches were the third echelon half-kneeling, followed by the fourth echelon standing. The earth dug out of the trenches was laid flat behind the fourth echelon, forming a step, on which was the fifth echelon. The fifth echelon is followed by the sixth echelon standing on the folding stool! Li Youqian's plan was to use trenches and folding stools to turn the flat battlefield into a 3D three-dimensional, and the six echelons attacked in batches and filled with gunpowder in batches. It is equivalent to a 6 times increase in the rate of fire, no matter how strong the Svadia Royal Knight is, can he be stronger than such a dense number of bullets?
Of course, as the current commander, Li Youqian has always had a beginning and an end in his work (leaving himself a way back), how can there be only such a plan. The second plan is one after another. The simple explanation is that if the enemy is really strong enough to break through the offensive of six echelons, don't be afraid, the second function of the trenches, the tunnel will come in handy. The soldiers of the first echelon shoot and run through the tunnel to the second position a kilometer away, and the first echelon becomes the sixth echelon, and so on. When the enemy had painstakingly captured the position, they found that they had found nothing, and the cavalry could not tunnel to the second position, so they could only continue to advance. And on the way from the first position to the second position, there were all kinds of rejections and traps. The second position was followed by the third and fourth positions. If, I say, if the enemy really breaks through the quadruple position, then there is the wall of Yongning Town behind it, and there is only a dead end waiting for Li Youqian. Li Youqian has already realized that he is ready to die. Killing one is enough, killing two to earn one, what are you afraid of. People who have already died once, is it a big deal to die again! It's really, killing people can't be a head, and Ding Ding can't cut a big scar in the bowl!
At the same time, the Svadia Center Army routed the army of Viscount Arashi. But the Central Army did not have any better ...... Viscount Arathi's soldiers were so stubborn that the Central Army was killed more than twice as many on a battlefield where there were more than five times the number of enemy troops......
The 4 earls have also completed their tasks, and now there is only one place left in the entire Shangwu County that has not yet fallen, Yongning Town! The storm is coming, and everyone is greedily enjoying the calm before the storm...... Can I survive tomorrow......