Chapter 45: Firearms Troops

In the gunpowder era, Zhao Dutian no longer needs to enter the military camp one by one to recruit, and the list of military arms is directly listed on the operation interface, and Zhao Dutian can directly operate to recruit the army!

Smoothbore flintlock musketeers: 50 food and 20 gold, maintenance cost 2 food a day and 1 gold, wearing black military high military boots, boat-shaped hat, equipped with flintlock pistols and bayonets, high morale, loyal obedience, good discipline, proficient in line tactics, tactical rigidity, can play the momentum of lining up to shoot!

Riflemen: 60 food 200 points of gold, maintenance cost 2 points of food a day 2 points of gold, wearing black military uniform high military boots, wearing a boat-shaped hat, using an early rifled gun that is difficult to manufacture and expensive to build, the gun is slow to produce, can not be installed on a large scale, and is difficult to replenish, but the range is long, and the people holding the rifle are soldiers with good marksmanship, general morale, loyalty and respect, melee ability is not strong, and it will quickly collapse in the face of cavalry charge! Often used as skirmishers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Warning: The damage rate of rifled guns in this era is extremely high, and after the rifled gun is damaged, it costs 200 gold to replace the rifled gun!

Pistols: 100 food, 60 gold, maintenance cost, 10 food a day, 1 gold, wearing black military high riding boots, wearing a bearskin high hat, holding a flintlock pistol with a saber cavalry troops, can stop shooting in formation on horseback, can also dismount to shoot, dismount to shoot more accurately, if necessary, you can charge like light cavalry, high morale, loyalty and obedience, belongs to the rapid mobile support force.

Cuirassier: Cheap cavalry in the gunpowder age, 100 food and 50 gold, maintenance cost 10 food and 1 gold a day, charging cavalry, wearing steel cuirass and sabers, high morale, loyal obedience, strong discipline, can list wall charge formations, impact power is higher than ordinary cavalry troops! The cheap price allows this class to be equipped and consumed on a large scale.

These soldiers are the troops that Zhao Dutian intends to recruit after screening, and in the gunpowder era, due to the great increase in productivity, the price of the troops has dropped!

Moreover, soldiers in the Gunpowder Age can be recruited not only individually, but also in formed infantry regiments!

There are about 2,000 people in a standard infantry regiment of flintlock line infantry, and when recruited in formation, the resources consumed will be reduced accordingly, just like buying more things will be discounted, even if Zhao Dutian doesn't understand what the principle is......

But it's always a good thing, isn't it?

The cavalry unit has more than 1,000 people in a standard cavalry regiment and nearly 3,000 people in a cavalry brigade.

Of course, this is just the recruitment price given by the system, Zhao Dutian can completely reorganize these soldiers according to his personal preferences and judgment of the form of war, even if he organizes tens of thousands of people for a regiment, it doesn't matter, but doing so will make commanding battles extra bloated and sluggish......

After checking the infantry and cavalry, Zhao Dutian opened the list of artillery arms.

All musket guns are equipped with a base ammo, which costs additional gold resources to produce!

Cavalry Artillery: 100 food, 1000 gold, maintenance cost, 10 food per day, 2 gold, has a 3-pounder field gun that can be quickly maneuvered and dragged by horses, can fire grapeshot and solid bullets, has strong attack power, and has very poor melee ability. (The minimum number of artillery is 4 people, and the optimal number of artillery is 6 people!) )

6-pounder infantry field gun: 2000 gold, maintenance cost, 2 food and 2 gold per person per day, basic infantry Napoleonic cannon, can fire grapeshot and solid bullets, strong attack power, and extremely poor melee ability. (The minimum number of artillery is 4 people, and the optimal number of artillery is 6 people!) )

12-pounder large cannon cannon gun: 6000 gold, maintenance cost 2 food per person per day, 2 gold, slow-moving heavy infantry gun, can fire grapeshot and solid shells, has a longer range, more powerful attack but not as accurate as a 6-pounder infantry gun, and has extremely poor melee ability. Can damage diamond-shaped fortress defenses. (The minimum number of artillery is 6, and the optimal number of artillery is 8!) )

18-pounder Unicorn Heavy Siege Cannon: 10,000 gold, maintenance cost, 2 food and 2 gold per person per day, mobile installation cumbersome gunpowder era ultimate land artillery, can fire grapeshot and solid shells, super long range, super attack power, accuracy plummets as distance increases, melee ability is extremely poor, and can pose a lethal threat to the diamond-shaped fortress defense system! (The minimum number of artillery is 10 people, and the optimal number of artillery is 16 people!) )

Large-caliber curved guns: 1000 gold, maintenance costs per person a day 2 points of food 2 points of gold, the price is cheap but the shell is a special blasting projectile, so the cost is extremely high, a blasting bullet is equivalent to more than 10 times the price of a solid bullet, and the early blasting shell has a very high dud rate, if you want to play an advantage, you must use a large number of blasting shells to make up for the super high dud rate, it is recommended that when the economy is not very rich, do not use this artillery, this kind of artillery in trenches and siege warfare, It can effectively kill the living force behind the protective building! (The minimum number of artillery is 4 people, and the optimal number of artillery is 6 people!) )

The price of these guns is exchanged separately, the artillery requires additional recruitment, and the price of the cannonballs of the pit daddy is a world of difference from the almost negligible price of musket lead bullets!

What made Zhao Dutian speechless the most was that those artillerymen who had no weapons at all, except for the artillery whose combat effectiveness was about equal to that of scum, the military salary required was twice that of the line infantry!

Zhao Dutian looked at his gold reserves, okay, buy one of those 18-pound unicorn heavy siege cannons, and he will go bankrupt......

In the end, Zhao Dutian only recruited one of the cheapest cavalry cannons, which could act with the infantry without delaying the march, and Zhao Dutian believed that this cannon could definitely surprise the Spaniards!

After choosing artillery, Zhao Dutian's remaining gold resources only recruited flintlock muskezeers for half an infantry regiment......

When the money is used, I hate it!

However, when Zhao Dutian saw the team of line infantry full of spirit, carrying flintlock pistols on their shoulders and wearing gorgeous black military uniforms of the 18th century, he was more sure of victory!

You know, the invading Spanish army was all infantry, not a single artillery, and they didn't know that they were waiting for a group of troops that were no weaker than them!

I wonder how much the colonial army composed of scum and poor people of Spanish society will have to resist when it encounters the standard army of Europe?

When the army drove out of the barracks, Zhao Dutian, who was excited, had already thought of the scene of passionate sail battleships shooting at each other in this era, and hurriedly crossed the option of the navy, wanting to see if he could recruit sail battleships!

This is the age of great sailing!