Rise of the Empire Total War

Charles' evaluation of the musket was beyond Richard's expectations. Richard thought that Charles would give a relatively poor evaluation, but he did not expect the other party to give a moderate evaluation. However, his evaluation of the musket that Charles said He does not agree that it is an auxiliary weapon. He knows that the musket will become the main weapon on the battlefield in a few centuries, and he is ready to promote it to the extent that it is equipped with the entire army. Every man has guns, and Richard, a soul who has lived in another world for nearly twenty years, is no exception. That's why he puts gunpowder weapons into battle early when gunpowder weapons are still immature.

However, he decided to follow Charles's suggestion and upgrade the musket in terms of range and accuracy. He also knew that although the smoothbore gun was a little more advanced than the matchlock gun, the problems of low range and low accuracy remained as before (although the range of the smoothbore gun was still extended to a distance of 100 meters compared with the matchlock gun). Moreover, according to the performance of the muskets described by Charles in the letter in the Battle of Catonita, in the face of the charge of the coalition cavalry, the muskets fired a total of six rounds of volley, and shot a total of six rounds of salvo. Of the 138 enemies, most of them died in the last two rounds of salvo, which meant that the salvo was the most powerful, and the distance with the highest accuracy was within about 30 meters.

However, when the enemy rushed to this distance, the musketeers were about to retreat. In addition to being equipped with a musket and a saber, these musketeers dressed in strange clothes (in the eyes of people in this era) There are no other weapons and armor, and their performance in close combat is only a little better than that of trained serfs, so once they fall into close combat, they have only one-sided fate of being slaughtered. Therefore, they must retreat behind their full-time melee comrades as soon as possible to avoid melee combat.

Thinking of this, Richard couldn't help but think of the line infantry in "Napoleon Total War". The rifles they were equipped with were flintlock muskets. Although muskets have the common problem of poor accuracy, they can be reloaded quickly. (It takes about 20 seconds), the range is long, even if its accuracy is poor, this shortcoming can be easily covered up under the advantage of high shooting frequency. At the same time, soldiers equipped with flintlock muskets must receive training in bayonet combat. When the bayonet is inserted into the rifle, the rifle almost becomes a spear. Under the use of specially trained soldiers, close combat force It is not comparable to the early musket gunmen.

"I don't know when it will be able to develop to the technological level of Napoleon's total war." Richard couldn't help but sighed. He looked at Charles's handwritten letter on the table and continued to mutter: "Even if it is the early technology of the Imperial War The level is not bad, the firearms of that era are always much better than the current performance."

It's a pity that Richard was not that kind of military enthusiast before crossing, and he didn't understand the manufacturing principle of flintlock muskets, otherwise he would have personally guided the craftsmen in the Firearms Research Institute to improve the muskets, and manually advanced his system to the Empire Total War system.

After thinking about it, Richard put away the letter on the table, put it aside, and took out a new piece of paper. He picked up a quill pen, dipped it in some ink, thought for a while, and wrote on it. stand up. It is said that war can promote the development of science and technology. He decided to transfer people from the Osa battlefield, and brought back several musketry officers who had personally participated in the war to help improve the musket. I believe that with the assistance of these officers with actual combat experience, craftsmen They will definitely have satisfactory results for him.

After some pen and ink, Richard picked up the letter and carefully waved it on a lighted candle beside the desk to speed up the absorption of the ink. After confirming that the ink was dry, he stuffed the letter into the envelope and used it Cinnabar sealed his mouth, and then called a guard and ordered him to deliver the letter to Charles.

After finishing all this, he stood up from the chair, stretched himself, blew out the candles on the table, and strode out of the study room. As soon as he walked out of the study room, he felt a bit of coolness. At this moment, Vadasia The peninsula is about to enter late autumn, and the temperature is dropping day by day.

Richard looked around the corridor, and there were paintings hanging on the walls on both sides. These paintings had been hanging there since Richard was a child, recalling his carefree childhood, every time he walked in In this corridor, he was held by his father Alfonso. It can be said that this corridor is full of memories of fatherly love.

He sighed, and walked towards the direction of the bedroom. Before he took a few steps, he saw a guard walking towards him quickly. An envoy came, and he claimed that he was ordered by Grand Duke Rasik to explain something urgent to you face to face."

"The envoy of Grand Duke Lasik?" Richard was taken aback. He noticed that the person who came was only the envoy, not the foreign minister himself. It can be seen that the matter that the envoy wanted to talk about would not be the state affairs of the two countries.

Thinking of this, he said to the guard: "Bring him to my study, I will wait for him in the study."

"Of order." The guard promised, then got up, turned and left, and Richard didn't have the intention to look at his son anymore. He scratched his head, turned and returned to the study where he had just left.

"What?" Richard was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly realized that he was expressionless and said, "If I remember correctly, your country signed a mutual defense agreement against our country. As long as our army enters Lassi If it is within the Principality of Croatia, it will be deemed to have declared war on all countries that have signed a mutual defense agreement. In order to maintain this hard-won peace, please forgive me for not agreeing to your request."

The reason for Richard's refusal made the emissary speechless. Although he was prepared to be rejected, he did not expect Richard to use this reason to refuse. The purpose of signing the mutual defense agreement was to protect himself from the threat of the Winster Kingdom. But they didn't expect that they would become their own obstacles now.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said, "If you are willing to send troops to rescue, we can announce our withdrawal from the mutual defense agreement at any time."

"Oh? So what, even if you withdraw from the mutual defense agreement, I will not send troops." Richard said indifferently, a joke, they are trying to use him as a tool man, come to ask for help when needed, no Be a thief when needed?