Rise of the Empire Total War - Chapter 529

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The so-called skirmishers were inspired by Richard’s report submitted by Trond after the end of the Zane Continental War. In several field battles, Trond’s expeditionary forces could only use dense formations to face the beasts of indigenous tribes. Defending the enemy, or bombarding with artillery, can be described as stiff tactics. Coupled with Trond’s proposal to restore light infantry formation and enrich the types of arms in the army, Richard decided to form skirmishers.

The skirmishers directly replaced the role of the light infantry. They can harass the enemy from a long distance and can also act as a scout to detect the enemy. However, Richard will not let the skirmishers go back in history and take up cold weapons such as crossbows and javelins to fight again. Decided to improve the musket, engraving a rifled line in the barrel of the musket, improve the accuracy of the musket, so that the skirmishers can also act as a sniper.

However, it is not an easy task to engrave the rifling in the barrel. The craftsmen of the institute rushed to work day and night, scrapping a large number of flintlock guns, and it took nearly a year to make the only finished product, and even this finished product has A large number of rifled guns have problems, such as the inconvenience of loading ammunition at the muzzle and the difficulty in playing the role of the rifled gun. To play the role of rifling, bullets and bullets are in very close contact, so that the rifling effect allows the bullet to rotate and increase the flight stability of the bullet. The front loading is to plug the bullet into the barrel from the front of the barrel. If the diameter of the bullet fits the rifling, it will be very difficult to fit into the barrel. Therefore, the bullets of the front-loaded gun are slightly smaller than the barrel, so that they can be loaded in. However, the bullet and the rifling cannot be closely attached, and the rotation of the rifling cannot be used to improve the accuracy. (Partly quoted from Zhihu)

To completely solve this difficulty, it is necessary to improve the type of ammunition. This ammunition is the Mini bomb that Richard has often seen in history in his previous life. The principle of the Mini bomb is to use a softer, easy-to-expand lead alloy warhead. After firing, the warhead will be forced to expand and closely fit the rifling. However, a warhead that is too soft will reduce the damage power of the projectile. How to grasp the degree is a difficult task.

Of course, it is not that the rifled gun cannot be used without the Mini bullet. Before the development of the Mini bullet, Richard was able to equip the rifled gun with the army to form a skirmish army. However, considering the high construction cost of the rifled gun and the difficulty of loading, he decided to reduce the number of staff. He planned to equip each brigade with a skirmisher brigade, that is, 450 soldiers (a company of 90). The gun problem is solved, and he can expand the skirmish formation accordingly.

Because of its particularity, the skirmishers cannot allow recruits with no combat experience to participate, so Richard will select suitable veterans in each brigade to become skirmishers. They must meet the requirements of good marksmanship, combat experience, strong melee combat ability, and good physical fitness. And other conditions.

Good marksmanship is the most important thing. Since soldiers can use ordinary flintlock rifles without rifled to accurately hit the target, they will definitely perform better if they shoot with rifled rifles. Combat experience distinguishes new recruits and veterans. Strong melee combat ability and good physical fitness are also essential. Skirmishers need to move away from the main force to dangerous places. The melee combat ability and good physical fitness can save their lives.

If you want to be a qualified skirmisher, you do not only need to meet the above four conditions. After being selected, soldiers will also need to receive reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance training, and specialize in improving shooting accuracy. Richard’s tentative standard is each At least eight of the ten shots fired by a soldier must hit the target. Although this standard is too high, it is very necessary in Richard’s view.

After all, Richard wants the skirmishers to serve as snipers. In future wars, the skirmishers will not only be responsible for remotely harassing the enemy, but also for sniping and killing officers in the enemy’s army to create their command system. Chaos, leading to groups of soldiers without a leader can not organize an effective battle sequence.

This is like the American War of Independence on Earth. The American skirmishers always shamelessly sniped and killed British officers, causing confusion in the British army’s grassroots command and a sharp drop in combat effectiveness (a qualified officer is an indispensable factor for improving the military’s combat effectiveness) In the contemporary European continent, countries are still following the spirit of gentlemen and avoid aiming their guns at enemy officers, so that the British army accustomed to this rule was suddenly beaten by the US army.

The British army with a high degree of discipline will be defeated by the mob after losing its officers, not to mention the backward medieval army. After losing its officers or nobles, it may not need the imperial army to launch a strong attack, but the opponent will disintegrate by itself after a few shots. .

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On the other side, Ornus von Frank, the diplomatic chief who was sent by Richard to the Port of Regisalmon of the Garagon Kingdom, finally arrived. Because he did not deliberately hide his whereabouts and identity, the Garagon Kingdom was extremely nervous about this. Although the Holy Roman Empire is not close to the Istria Peninsula, it is at any rate a new empire that defeated the old powerful Kuyavi Empire. The Garagon Kingdom did not dare to neglect, and hosted a big banquet to welcome the arrival of Ornus.

At the banquet, the Garagonian envoys asked Ornus about the purpose of his visit. Although they had already guessed it, they couldn’t help being surprised when they heard Ornus confessing that he was visiting the Roman Empire fleet in the Port of Legislative. The expression of the two empires, the country names of the two empires are really easy to make people think about it ~ www.mtlnovel.com~ a Holy Roman Empire, a Roman Empire, the story contained in it looks very big.

If Richard knew what outsiders thought, he would be glad that he didn’t choose the Eastern Roman Empire. Otherwise, the fun would be great. The “Orthodox” Roman Empire happened to be on the western side of the Dogeiro Continent. He was the Eastern Roman Empire. On the Kuyavian continent in the east, others will be directly preconceived. His Eastern Roman Empire is a part of the Roman Empire in the west. Who should he talk to to reason?

Keke, it’s far away.

After the banquet was over, the intelligence personnel stationed in the Kingdom of Garagon took the initiative to come to the door and explained to Ornus that they currently had information about the so-called Roman Empire fleet. To his surprise, Ornus was stationed in Gara. The head of the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Gong was actually a Garagon nobleman. He was originally a noble student studying in Vienna. He was taken by the intelligence department when he accidentally went out and absorbed him into the intelligence department in some way. After returning to the country, this nobleman established a huge intelligence network within the kingdom by virtue of his own ability and family power, and became the chief in charge.

After listening to the explanation from the person in charge, Ornus declined the help offered by the other party. Judging from the current behavior of the Romans, they are not rude and unreasonable by virtue of high force. In that case, Ornus is confident to deal with the upcoming Negotiations are coming.