Chapter 855 Two battalions and one artillery team

“One two one…one two one…”

A team of new infantry under the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II stepped onto the field in an orderly four-man team, with officers equipped with swords and short muskets in front, back and forth.

The soldiers and officers wear similar clothes. They can block the sunlight and have a small piece of neck protection that combines mountain armor and chain mail behind their necks. The vest-style steel breastplate is connected to form a mountain armor arm guard, shin guard, separate knee pads and elbow pads.

He was carrying a simple utensil, and there were two large bullet boxes on his waist, which contained paper fixed-load cowhide ammunition bags that were enough to shoot 200 times. There was also an ammunition bag for flint on the waist. The other was equipped with a small first aid kit and a bayonet that could be installed on the muzzle.

At this moment, the musketeers had already installed bayonets. All of these bayonets were 3-edged bayonets, which guaranteed that they would definitely kill the target with one slash.

"I saw your Majesty, the most important thing for infantry is that they must quickly form horizontal teams during battles, and four teams must form during marching. Although the transformation of formations is a little troublesome, I can guarantee that such a combat horizontal team will exert great power."

1,000 musketeers formed a team with 10 reincarnation cannons with a maximum range of 500 meters. Of course, grenade launchers are indispensable, as short-range strike and defensive forces.

What such an army can completely change is the style of war. If we use dense cavalry to attack these dense rifle squadrons and troops with reincarnation cannons and grenade launchers, it will undoubtedly be a mortal act of seeking death.

Sitting there and looking at the strange-looking musket team in front of me. Although Frederick II had watched it many times during training, he was still full of hope for an exercise.

The exercise target of the first battalion of musketeers was not far away. At about 300 meters, a large group of people acted as targets for cavalry. Of course, it was basically the distance between musketeers. After all, muskets were not like the rifles used by Zhao Fubo and others, and muskets were still dense firepower provided by the horizontal team.

"Discover the cavalry...the muskets are ready!"

The target moves forward rapidly along the track, bounces up from the start of the infantry and moves. The targets are dragged by horses with some ropes, and the ropes pass through the opposite wall and connect them with the target. What we need to test now is what kind of blows these targets made according to the size of the cavalry will be before reaching the infantry front.

Of course, this is a little unfair to the infantry, because the moving target will not fall easily. However, everyone believes that such an exercise can see the power of the musketeers.

It is obvious that in front of such a dense cavalry, both the musketeers and the artillery team can only complete one shot. So what kind of damage can a 1,000-person musketeer, 10 reincarnation gun, and 10 grenade launchers cause?

"aim……"

The long-barrel muskets in the musketeer's hands came out one by one, forming two dense rows.

"put!"

The officers waved their sabers, and the muskets rang out almost at the same time. A large mass of white smoke rose in front of the team, and the soldiers then raised their muskets with bayonets. At this time, the first batch of shells thrown by 60 reincarnation cannons flew over their heads.

Frederick II and Louis IX also have many European officers, and they do not seem to have trust in the musketeers against the cavalry. After all, they have seen so many things that they have long been used to seeing the cavalry's intensive charges using cavalry's rifles, and believe that the musketeers cannot stop the cavalry's charges. Some people also covered their mouths and noses because of the smoke of the musketeers.

Looking at the reactions of these people, Zhao Fubo quietly put a sarcastic smile on his lips. Will some old hats who don’t know how to bow their heads in the face of technological progress have other consequences besides being conquered and plundered?

Zhao Fubo knew from Teacher Martin that His Majesty Napoleon, a great French emperor, used such muskets to defeat the Mamluk cavalry of the Mamluk Empire at that time. He did not know the power of a 1,000-man squadron when the fire was concentrated and intensively shot.

As for cannons that use black gunpowder, it is no secret to Zhao Fubo. The large amount of iron he collected at this moment is that Teacher Martin led the "Chinese Academy of Sciences" and is already trying to develop real cannons with the prototype of modern artillery.

When his army is equipped with passivation nitrification foam firing medicine, and cannons with a range of 5 to 8 kilometers, he will open the sale of borebos to these European indigenous people in front of him.

As Teacher Martin said, how can a constant product occupy the market? Only those products that are constantly upgraded will make these European indigenous people willingly spend a lot of real money to purchase their own arms products. Compared with other products, arms are truly huge profits.

"Fu Bo, this time you go to Europe, the number of scholars you have obtained, and the level of completely religious Europe, will have a minimum chance of 50%, which determines our leading position!"

"boom……"

The violent explosion at close range recalled Zhao Fubo from his imagination just now. He could hear that it was the grenade launcher that shot the same grenade explosion. Flames rose up in the target that was approaching, but most of these targets that would not fall continued to approach.

"See, there is not even an arrow on these targets. If it were a archer, at least two rounds of dense rain of arrows had been shot!"

Some officers said this: Although Frederick II and Louis IX had also watched training, they could not help but wonder about the power of the musket. Especially, although Louis IX knew that the power of the musket was quite powerful, the loading was really slow.

In fact, Louis IX had an idea that he could not express, and at least he could not let other emperors in Europe know. Although he understood that Zhao Fubo could not sell them the "Martin-1 rifle", what he wanted was the revolver that Zhao Fubo equipped the archers.

If the musket team in front of them had such a weapon, facing a very fast six consecutive shots of 1,000 people, it is certain that any kind of cavalry unit would be useless.

Nevertheless, when all the people watching the exercise came to the front of the targets, they were still stunned. Because whether the reincarnation cannon or the shrapnel of the grenade launcher, including those muskets using lead projectiles, they added many holes of large and small to these targets equipped with cavalry armor.

Those who know a little bit of things will understand that this kind of cavalry has long been dead on the road. It is impossible to come to the front of the infantry like now and let him insert it with a bayonet again.
Chapter completed!