Rise of the Empire Total War

The so-called stragglers were inspired by Richard based on the battle reports submitted by Trond after the Zane Continental War. Fighting against the enemy, or bombarding with artillery, the tactics can be described as rigid. In addition, Trond proposed to restore the light infantry organization and enrich the types of arms in the army. Richard decided to form skirmish troops.

Skirmishers directly replaced the role of light infantry. They could harass the enemy from a long distance, and they could also serve as scouts to investigate the enemy's situation. However, Richard would not let the skirmishers reverse the history and pick up cold weapons such as bows, crossbows and javelins to fight again. It was decided to improve the musket, and engraved a rifling line in the barrel of the musket to improve the accuracy of the musket, so that skirmishers could also play the role of snipers.

But engraving the rifling inside the barrel is not an easy task. The craftsmen of the research institute rushed to work day and night, scrapped 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 lot of rifled guns have problems, such as the inconvenience of loading ammunition in the muzzle and the difficulty of playing the role of the rifle. To play the role of rifling, the bullet and the bullet need to be in very close contact, so that the rifling can make the bullet rotate and increase the flight stability of the bullet. The front loading is to insert 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 insert into the barrel. Therefore, the bullets of the front-loading guns are all slightly smaller than the bore of the gun, so that they can be loaded in. However, the bullets and the rifling cannot be closely attached to each other, and the rotation of the rifling cannot be used to improve accuracy. (Partially quoted from Zhihu)

In order to completely solve this difficulty, the type of ammunition must be improved. This type of ammunition is the Minie bullet that Richard often saw from history in his previous life. The principle of the Minie bullet is to use a softer, easily expandable lead alloy warhead After firing, the warhead will expand under force and fit tightly with the rifling, but a warhead that is too soft will reduce the lethal power of the projectile. How to grasp the speed is another difficult task.

Of course, it is not that rifled guns cannot be used without Minie bullets. Before the development of Minie bullets, Richard was still able to equip the army with rifled guns and form skirmishers. However, considering the high construction cost of rifled guns and the difficulty of loading them, he decided to reduce the establishment. He planned to equip each brigade with a skirmisher brigade, that is, 450 soldiers (90 soldiers in a company). Once the gun problem is solved, he can take advantage of the trend to expand the formation of skirmishers.

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

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

To become a qualified skirmisher does not just need to meet the above four conditions,

After being selected, soldiers still need to receive reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance training, and specialize in improving shooting accuracy. Richard's tentative standard is that at least eight out of ten shots fired by each soldier must hit the target. Although this standard is too high High, but very necessary in Richard's view.

After all, Richard wanted the stragglers to also serve as snipers. In future wars, the stragglers' responsibilities would not only harass the enemy from a distance, but also specifically snipe and kill the officers in the enemy's formation, causing their command system to be destroyed. Chaos caused the leaderless soldiers to be unable to organize an effective order of battle.

This is like the American War of Independence on earth. American stragglers always shamelessly killed British officers, causing chaos in the command of the British army at the grassroots level, and a sharp drop in combat effectiveness (a qualified officer is an essential factor to improve the combat effectiveness of the army) , and in the European continent at the same time, countries are still following the spirit of gentlemen and avoid pointing their guns at the officers of the enemy army, so that the British army who is accustomed to this rule is suddenly stunned by the US military.

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 officers or nobles, the imperial army may not need to launch a strong attack, and the opponent will collapse on its own after just firing a few shots .

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On the other side, Ornus von Frank, the chief of diplomacy sent by Richard to the Legisamon Port of the Garagon Kingdom, finally arrived. Because he did not deliberately hide his whereabouts and identity, the Garagon Kingdom was extremely nervous about it. Although the Holy Roman Empire is not close to the Istola Peninsula, it is a new empire that defeated the old powerful Kuyavian Empire. The Garagon Kingdom dared not neglect, and held a banquet with great fanfare to welcome the arrival of Onus.

At the banquet, the Garagon envoys asked about the purpose of Ornus' visit. Although they had already guessed, they still couldn't help being surprised when they heard that Ornus admitted that he was visiting the Roman Empire fleet in the Port of Legisamon. The expressions of the two empires are really easy to make people daydream. One is the Holy Roman Empire and the other is the Roman Empire. The stories contained in them seem to be very big.

If Richard knew the thoughts of outsiders, he would be glad that he did not choose the Eastern Roman Empire. Otherwise, the fun would be great. The "orthodox" Roman Empire happened to be in the west of the Dogero Continent. His Eastern Roman Empire On the continent of Kuyawi in the east, other people will directly preconceive it later. His Eastern Roman Empire is a part split from the Western Roman Empire. Who should he turn to for reasoning?

Keke, far away.

After the banquet, intelligence personnel stationed in the Kingdom of Galagon came to the door and explained to Onus the information they currently had on the so-called Roman Empire fleet. The person in charge of the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Gong is actually a Garagon nobleman. He was originally an aristocratic student studying in Vienna. He was spotted by the intelligence department when he went out by chance, and he was absorbed into the intelligence department in some way. After studying and returning to the country, this nobleman established a huge intelligence network in the kingdom by virtue of his own ability and family influence, and became the chief person in charge.

After listening to the person in charge's explanation, Ornus declined the other party's offer of help. Judging from the current behavior of the Romans, they were not arrogant and unreasonable by relying on high force. Arrival negotiations.