85_85536 "Calm down, calm down. Father Peter said to himself, "This is only the first company. Other companies may not be as elite as it is. Yes. Even the apple vendors like to put the big ones in front of them! ”

Thinking of this, Father Peter breathed a sigh of relief, sat down again, and smiled as leisurely as a stick again. Soon, though, his smile stiffened.

That's because he saw the soldiers coming after the first company of the first battalion.

They were just as good as the 1st Company. Their queues are just as neat and the pace is just as unhurried.

There is no difference. At least in the opinion of Father Peter, the two companies were no different.

"Really...... That's great. Father Peter couldn't help but open his mouth to speak, but after the first half of the sentence "really" was uttered, he immediately felt his gaffe and gaffe. He immediately shut his mouth, and after a two-second pause, he said the second half of the sentence "great".

"He really trained such an elite group of troops in such a short period of time?!" Father Peter's mind was full of words, except for "incredible", and there was no other word in a short period of time.

He temporarily lost the ability to think. In other words, he had no choice or strength to continue thinking about what was going to happen for the time being.

Or rather, he couldn't accept the result. This frustration, and this gap between before and after.

He regretted it.

Originally, the cooperation between Father Peter and William could not be said to be close, but also very pleasant. According to this process, with the improvement of William's status, Father Peter's status will naturally rise.

It's just a pity, because of the wrong guess made by Father Peter before, that William would never be able to train the army in such a short time, and that William was just a young man who had a little luck and was arrogant and arrogant when he made a little achievement. So slacked off the cooperation with William.

His slack attitude, William naturally can't feel it. This also means that he has greatly offended William, and there is an obvious rift in their relationship.

Of course, Father Peter could have worked harder in the rest of the day, or could have given William additional support and benefits from elsewhere to mend the rift that had arisen before. But it is not yet known how effective such efforts will be. And the extra money, energy, money, and time required also made Father Peter very painful......

"I really regret that I shouldn't have done it in the first place. After a moment of stunned, a moment of distraction, a moment of disbelief, and a moment of disbelief, Father Peter's heart was left with only regret.

The feeling was so bitter and so irrepressible that Father Peter couldn't control his expression and demeanor. That kind of negativity involuntarily escaped, making him look so different.

After this, William turned his face away and handed Father Peter a meaningful smile.

Unlike Father Peter, most of the other people watching the parade had a look of surprise on their faces. At the same time, he kept praising the army, the companies that had walked through the high platforms one by one -- of course, the vast majority of the praise was not for the soldiers of the New Army. It was their master, Wilhelm von Hereford.

Among them, the praise and praise of the merchant John is the most exaggerated, and even a little excessive.

"It's incredible. How did you do that, Sir William? I really didn't expect it...... No, I should say that no one could have imagined that you could accomplish such a great thing. Simply, simply, simply...... Forgive me for being clumsy, I can't think of any words to praise you properly. Yes, or in other words, your greatness and glory cannot be described or described in human language—"

At this moment, the other squires and merchants also wanted to say something to praise or please William. But they were not as eloquent as John the Merchant, and they were not as thick-skinned as John the Merchant. After the businessman John said such shameless words, everyone didn't know what to say.

Of course, it is absolutely not okay not to say it at such a time. They could never object to what John the Merchant said, so in the end they could only echo him, nodding their heads and saying, "Yes, yes." Yes, that's right" and so on.

This made them feel very unhappy and embarrassed, and the limelight was all stolen by the merchant John.

But after that, they don't have to think about it.

Because, they were really shocked.

That was after the Forces nouvelles soldiers then performed a live-fire performance.

In fact, before this, there was some caution in the hearts of the people - although they kept praising William, praising William's soldiers. But at the same time, they are still a little bit "maybe they just walk in the queue and get by on the face." ”

Speaking of which, this kind of "queue walking" face project has happened in various worlds and at various times.

In the world in which William originally lived, there was the Seleucid of Syria*, whom Hannibal visited, in classical times.

Looking at the extra-pikemen armed with silver shields, the war elephants draped in Persian velvet blankets adorned with tassels, and the ironclad cavalry, camels and elite archers, Hannibal Bacca of the classical European military general commented that "although the Romans were greedy, these trophies were probably enough to satisfy their appetite"

The implication is that these armies are just a spectacle.

And something similar has happened in recent history. Foreign envoys and reporters in the last years of the Qing Dynasty once visited the Beiyang Army in Li Hongzhang's era, and were frightened by its solemn procession and phalanx, praising it as the world's first-class elite army. As a result, this "world's first-class elite army" has made a name for itself on the Korean battlefield.

That's it, that's it. Although things are different. But the principle is still the same. If William's new army had been in force a little longer, perhaps things would have been different. But in three months it will be an army. In the end, this matter still makes people mutter.

More or less, they will have a feeling that "maybe this army is just lining up well, and it is completely useless to fight or something".

But then, the army shattered their little illusions.

With the orders of Little John. The engineer unit placed a large number of humanoid targets that had been prepared forty meters away from the army. Immediately afterwards, the companies turned to the left, changing from a phalanx of twenty-five columns in five rows to a queue of forty-two people in three rows. After this, the musketeers began to quickly reload the projectiles, compacting them with stabbing bars and filling the gunpowder packets with the fixed load.

After this, under the command of the second lieutenant of the company, the soldiers of the first column raised their loaded muskets and fired a volley at the target group - then crouched down and began to clear the chambers of the remaining gunpowder before continuing to reload.

At the same time, the musketeers of the second column leveled the muskets. launched, followed by the third column.

In the blink of an eye, a total of twelve musket companies had fired three volleys. This process lasted only a minute and a half - mainly because of the extra step of cleaning the gunpowder during the second and third rounds of firing, and the efficiency of loading the projectile in the kneeling position was more difficult than in the standing position.

But this is already very valuable. In fact. After three salvos had smashed the target group 40 meters away, many of the squires and businessmen who had visited the parade had not yet reacted -- they were shocked.

Of course, it is not for nothing that there are people who still retain the ability to think. John the Merchant is one of them:

"The average speed of reloading is...... Twenty seconds. The second round of firing took place twenty-five seconds later. The difference in firing of each company was within three seconds...... Generally speaking, musketeers armed with flintlock pistols are of this rank - is this really an army that has been trained in just three months?

This time, the merchant John said something like this in a "real" and "unbelievable" tone...... Yes, not like the words that were deliberately used to curry favor with William before. It's really unbelievable.

This merchant has enough knowledge to travel north and south, and the number of armies he has seen is quite large. He had seen the elite standing army units in each of his territories, or the commercial mercenary units with a high reputation. But, in general, unless it's an absolutely elite unit, they're probably like that.

It's like the new army that William trained. It's like a new army he's been training for three months.

Of course, those mercenary units, or the standing troops of the lords, usually had to be trained for at least a few years and fought several times before they could reach this point. Otherwise, the firing rate of the average troop can reach forty seconds per shot, which is already very reluctant.

John the Merchant was really shocked this time - compared to the squires who didn't know how to do it, and casually shouted, "It's a loud voice." "The target was beaten to pieces" or something. He could see the doorway and, as a result, could give William's new army a high rating.

After that, after three volleys, according to the pre-arrangement. At the command of the company commanders of each company, "Prepare bayonets!" The soldiers immediately adjusted their postures, raised their bayonets in front of them, and flattened their muskets with bayonets as if they were holding short guns.

A bayonet charge was about to begin .......