The Rise of the European Emperor

With 2,000 chariots lined up in front, Charles, Earl of Geldon knew that the cavalry raid was completely bankrupt. The 2,000 unicycles lined up in front of the formation became an insurmountable gulf for the cavalry.

In desperation, Count Charles had no choice but to shake his head at his general, Munster, and canceled the plan to dispatch cavalry to raid the enemy. However, Count Charles was not particularly disappointed. Because, he has a second set of plans...

Count Charles discovered that the unicycle could withstand the impact of the cavalry after it was fixed on the ground. However, facing the muskets, the soldiers behind the chariot were unstoppable. After all, a unicycle doesn't have the kind of wall panels that can block arrows and stray bullets like a sidecar.

In fact, Qi Jiguang's later chariot was built on the basis of Yu Dayou's unicycle chariot to prevent the Mongolian cavalry from riding and shooting. Although Yu Dayou's unicycle can stop the Mongolian cavalry's charge, it cannot stop the Mongolian cavalry's long-range shooting. Therefore, Qi Jiguang made a sidecar with a wall plate to block arrows, which was used to guard against the charge and shooting of the Mongolian cavalry. At the same time, soldiers can also hide behind wall panels and shoot enemies with fire guns.

But as the original Yu Dayou unicycle, it can only block the charge of cavalry. In addition, on the chariots of the Ming Dynasty, there will be some small tiger squat guns or something as an attack weapon. But Marin didn't do this, because the small tiger squat gun is not necessarily more powerful than the musket.

In addition, it is actually not cost-effective to install small tiger squat guns on unicycles. Because, after the tiger squat gun is installed, the unicycle cannot be used as a dual-purpose vehicle, and it is usually used as a transport vehicle. And if you need artillery support, it's better to go directly to the three-pounder.

With the cover of the chariot, the Beihai Kingdom's army no longer has to worry about being suddenly attacked by the opponent's cavalry. Then, the Beihai Kingdom's troops came out one after another from the bombed-out city gate of Tucheng, and came to the front of the formation in an orderly manner, arranging the formation.

Count Charles is very familiar with the formation of the North Sea Kingdom. It is nothing more than a lancer with a musketeer, the musketeer is in the middle, and the lancer is guarded on both sides.

However, this kind of regular formation of troops made Count Charles very puzzled-isn't there a lack of gunpowder? Why use so many musketeers?

You must know that in the previous siege battle, the Beihai Kingdom's army hardly used musketeers. If a large number of musketeers were used to defend the city before, it is estimated that the casualties of the Eight Kingdoms Allied Forces will be very large. Therefore, at that time, the eight princes all deduced that Beihai Kingdom had no more gunpowder. However, looking at the current formation, it doesn't seem like it...

How did they know that before, Marin deliberately restrained and did not let the musketeers participate in the battle too much, because he was afraid that the excessive firepower would scare the opponent. It's not good if the opponent is scared away. Therefore, instead of dispatching musketeers, they used inferior bows and arrows to fool the opponent. Now that the war has officially started, naturally there is no need to hide it.

Seeing that the North Sea Kingdom's army was about to be deployed, Charles, Earl of Geldon snorted coldly - whether you have gunpowder or not, we'll wait and see anyway...

So, in the army of Earl Geldon, the spearmen in the front row suddenly gave way to both sides, revealing the 600 arquebusiers in the back...

The arquebuses in the country of Geldon are all original Spanish Mushkert muskets, which are heavy muskets. When shooting, a bracket is even required. Because its power is too great. The 50-gram lead bullet is powerful and has a strong recoil when fired. Therefore, the bracket had to be placed.

In addition, the musketeers in the country of Galden are also arranged according to the standard of three-stage strike. That is to say, 600 musketeers of the Earl of Galden, divided into three rows of 200 men,

Take turns shooting.

In fact, this time, the alliance of the princes of the eight countries is not only the musketeers of the Earl of Geldon. The other seven vassal states also had some musketeers to some extent. However, the ratio of the army of the Earl of Galden is not as high.

For example, the two Dukes of Henry each had two or three hundred musketeers. After all, because Marin's North Sea army shined on the battlefield, and the Spanish defeated the mighty French with arquebuses, German countries also introduced musketeers. However, the musketeers of these vassal states did not seem to be on a large scale. Moreover, the musketeers were not used intensively, not even in a three-stage strike formation. Those musketeers, who seemed to be more like auxiliary support shooters, were more free. Of course, because it cannot be used intensively, the power is also reduced a lot.

Charles, Earl of Geldon, had suggested that these musketeers should be used in a concentrated manner and placed in the musket line of the Earl of Geldon. You know, musketeers from all over the world add up to 1,300 people. If used intensively, the power is not small.

However, his proposal was rejected. For, the dukes of Henry thought, this would undermine the integrity of their respective armies. In fact, when they looked down on Charles, Earl of Geldon...

Count Charles was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood at the short-sightedness of the two Duke Henrys, but there was nothing he could do. After all, for now, the two Duke Henrys are more powerful than him, and in front of them, he has no right to speak at all.

Seeing that the North Sea country's army had basically completed the formation, Count Charles nodded to Munster, Munster understood, and immediately brought someone to the army of the Earl of Geldon in front of the battle to conduct on-site command. As for Earl Geldon, he and the other seven princes stood on the high platform behind to watch the battle...

After coming to the left flank where the army of the Earl of Galden was located, Munster loudly ordered:

"Musketeer, light the match!"

So, the musketeers of the Earl of Galden took out the ends of thread from the bundle of matches on their shoulders and began to set fires. After lighting the match, the musketeers blew the match to make it fully burnt and avoid extinguishing. Then, the arquebus head went around the musketeer's arm and was temporarily fixed on the musketeer's left arm.

Then, Munster loudly ordered:

"Start loading the charge!"

Following the order, the arquebusiers of the Earl of Galden began to methodically load gunpowder, and then rammed it down with iron rods. Afterwards, following the practice of the musketeers of the North Sea, he wrapped a slightly smaller-caliber lead bullet with buckskin or linen soaked in grease, pressed it into the barrel of the gun, and stabbed it into the bottom of the barrel with an iron rod, tamping it...

After loading the ammunition, the arquebusiers in the country of Geldon put the burning arquebus head that had been wrapped around the left arm through the clamp, and clamped it above the fire door at the bottom of the arquebus, and entered the state to be fired... …

At the same time, the musketeers of the opposite Beihai Kingdom also began to load the ammunition. However, the musketeers of Beihai Kingdom lined up more densely. After all, the musketeers in Beihai Kingdom used clockwork muskets, and they didn't worry about the arquebus igniting the gunpowder packs of their comrades-in-arms. Therefore, the musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom can get closer to each other. The musketeers of the Earl of Geldon who used arquebuses had to keep a standard distance of 1 meter from their comrades because they were worried that the sparks of the arquebuses would accidentally ignite the gunpowder packs of the musketeers next to them...

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Seeing that the preparation was almost ready, Munster immediately sent someone to signal that it was ready. The two Dukes of Henry also wanted to see the strength of the musketeers of the Earl of Geldon, so they nodded in agreement to attack.

Then, a war drum sounded, reminding the Beihai army on the opposite side - we are going to attack...

Then Munster, who heard the drums, shouted:

"First row, raise your gun and aim straight ahead!"

The musketeers of the Earl of Gelden in the first row immediately put the Mushkert arquebuses in their hands on the stand standing in front of them, and aimed at the soldiers of the North Sea Kingdom in front...

"put!"

As Munster shouted loudly, the musketeers in the front row of the country of Geldon pulled the trigger one after another, and the end of the arquebus above the fire door was pressed by the gun and sent into the fire door...

Suddenly, bursts of white eyes appeared, and then, in front of the army of the Earl of Geldon, there was a loud noise...

"Bang-bang-bang-" With a dull loud noise, a buckshot was shot from the barrel of the Mushkert arquebus and went straight to the line array of the North Sea Army...

Although the hit rate of the musket is impressive, the problem is that both sides are lined up in very dense line formations. Even if the shot rate of the musket is low, it can always catch the opponent...

How huge is the kinetic energy of a 50-gram lead bullet?

When two hundred 50-gram projectiles flew into the Beihai Army formation, they immediately caused huge damage.

Although only 20 or 30 lead bullets actually fell into the enemy's line, they still caused extremely terrifying damage...

"boom--"

"Pfft-"

A lead bullet was shot into the body of a Beihai musketeer in the front row. The lead bullet weighing 50 grams immediately penetrated the leather armor of the hapless Beihai musketeer, and then entered his body.

The huge lead bullet, after entering the body of this unfortunate musketeer, did not go straight forward, but performed a rolling motion in his body.

Suddenly, the tumbled lead bullet in the musketeer's stomach forcibly tore a huge wound. Although the diameter of the Mushkert arquebus is only less than 2.3 cm, the irregular rolling of the lead bullet in its body has caused a large wound on the mouth of the bowl...

Then, the hapless man let out a painful wailing. And fresh blood spurted out from the large wound at the mouth of the bowl. The hit man quickly fell to the ground, and, apparently, he couldn't be saved...

Moreover, in this round of shooting, not only this unfortunate person fell to the ground, but twenty or thirty... From a distance of hundreds of yards, although the hit rate was low, there were also almost one-tenth hits - who is the formation of the two sides? Are they all that close? There are always some unlucky ones...

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However, the pain and mourning of the companions did not shake the firm will of the North Sea Country musketeers. Just being beaten and not fighting back is not the style of the Beihai army. So, after the battle, Marin ordered the drums of war that represented the signal of attack...

The drums rumbled, and the commander of the North Sea Country Musketeer in the front row also gave an orderly order:

"Refill (the back row of musketeers fill the positions of the dead musketeers), first row, raise your guns!"

"Fire!"

"Bang - bang - bang -" A loud bang sounded, and there were bursts of white smoke in front of the battle...

Although the caliber of Beihai's clockwork musket is not as good as that of the Mushkert musket used by the country of Geldon, the caliber is also close to 20 mm, and each bullet is almost 30 grams. Therefore, the power of its lead bullet should never be underestimated.

Hundreds of lead bullets rolled and whistled into the eight kingdoms princes on the opposite side. Soon, dozens of soldiers from the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms were also shot and fell to the ground. Although the power is not as lethal as the 50-gram projectile of the Mushkert musket, the 30-gram lead bullet is equally powerful and can be rolled in the body. Anyone who is shot, the wounds are extremely terrifying, and the bloody arrows spurt wildly. For a time, the mourning of those who were shot in front of the formation was heartbreaking...