The Rise of the European Emperor

To be honest, forming an army composed purely of highly educated cadets is extremely extravagant in this day and age. But Marin didn't care, because Beihai State had already promoted compulsory education across the country, and thousands of non-commissioned officers graduated every year.

In the future, even if half of the thousands of non-commissioned officers are selected every year as adjutants in the army, 500 people will remain to join the Young Guards. Because there will be no shortage of people in the future, there will be no luxury or no luxury.

How terrible is an army composed purely of cadets with extremely solid military skills? In this era, I am afraid that he is the elite of the elite! Learn more about the Whampoa student army who defeated the warlords... Moreover, because this army received militarized education from an early age, unlike the Whampoa students, they only received one or two years of education when they were young. In terms of majors, this student army is many times more professional than the Whampoa student army!

In the future, Marin's plan is to make the Young Guards the real trump card of the North Sea State, replacing the First Army, and becoming the most capable army in the North Sea State.

After all, the First Legion is mainly mercenaries, and its reliability is not very strong. This group of people can fight smoothly, but if the North Sea country encounters difficulties and cannot even pay commissions, it is difficult for these people from the mountains in southern Germany to be loyal. Only this group of young non-commissioned officers who have been brainwashed since childhood will continue to be loyal to Beihai and Marin.

And Marin treats them well, because of full trust, Marin intends to equip this trustworthy cadet unit with new-style firearms that use rotatable slugs, making it the most powerful firearm in the North Sea country. army!

Previously, Marin had selected 100 young cadets who were older (the ones who went to school late) to form a young sharpshooter unit, all of which used long-range and high-precision slugs. However, this army is too small to have enough impact in a large-scale war. Therefore, this time, Marin formed a troop of thousands of non-commissioned officers to replace the original small-scale troop. Thousands of sharpshooters are enough to tear a huge gap in the enemy's formation, making it easier for the army's assault troops to defeat the enemy...

After using smokeless gunpowder, the effective range of the steel core slug can reach about 200 meters. It should be pointed out that this 200 meters can be aimed and shot, not like a smoothbore gun, the hit rate is halved after 50 yards, and the bullets fly randomly after 70 yards, and there is no hit rate at all...

In the previous battlefield against the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms, Marin's 100-year-old marksman actually played. However, because of the limited number of people, they can only be used to attack the enemy's artillery positions, killing and injuring the few enemy artillery as much as possible. Although it played a great role, it did not play a decisive role in the overall situation of the war. Because, with a lot of armies, artillery doesn't really matter. Even if the artillery is wiped out, it may not necessarily affect the combat effectiveness of those troops whose artillery is not important. At most, it only formed a certain deterrent to the enemy.

But a sharpshooter with thousands of people is quite different...

1000 sharpshooters,

A round of salvo can kill at least several hundred enemies. After two or three rounds, more than two thousand people can be wiped out. What is the concept of more than two thousand enemies? In an army of 10,000 people, more than 2,000 people are equivalent to more than 20% of soldiers.

As far as the ancient army is concerned, most armies are prone to collapse after casualties of more than 10% of the personnel. If the casualties are more than 20%, the probability of collapse is very high. Even with an army of more than 20,000, more than 2,000 people have reached the breaking point of 10%.

This is the first batch, 1000 young cadets, plus the original 100 young sharpshooters, Marin has 1100 sharpshooters, who can accurately shoot each other within 200 meters.

And starting next year, another 500 people will be added to the Young Guards every year. Five years from now, the Young Guard will have 3,600 sharpshooters. After two or three rounds of shooting, there are thousands of casualties. This is an unbearable huge casualty for any European army in this era.

Even the army of the Ming Dynasty, with hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, could not bear such casualties. Because most of the Ming Dynasty's army was made up of numbers, and the only ones who could really fight were the servants and personal soldiers trained by the generals. The rest of the people were just following behind the elite composed of these servants and soldiers. It's okay to fight against the wind, but if it's against the wind, as long as those family members and soldiers are severely injured, the others will inevitably collapse. And the largest pro-military group in the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang's family general cavalry, the Liaodong Cavalry, only had 3,000 elite cavalry. Later, relying on these thousands of cavalry, Li Rusong beat Toyotomi Hideyoshi severely in North Korea. Generally speaking, to deal with tens of thousands of people in the Ming army, as long as the core few thousand (or even only a few hundred) of them are disabled, the rest will be given away.

Not to mention the army, even the European army is similar. Generally speaking, the first three rows of European mercenaries are the most elite. Historically, the first three rows of German mercenaries were all veterans, and they usually wore half armor and iron helmets.

These veterans are all elite, well equipped, and have the strongest combat effectiveness. And those who hide behind the battle formation are often the old, weak, sick, and recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very average.

Even the Swiss mercenaries across Europe are similar. Therefore, in the Battle of Lübeck, Marin specially sent a large army to attack the old, weak, sick, and recruits of the Swiss mercenaries from the rear, which caused chaos in the Swiss battle formation and led to the final defeat and surrender of the Swiss.

Therefore, the European army is actually similar. As long as you kill the elites in the first three rows, the rest will be given away. This is a common problem of the ancient army-unbalanced strength, too dependent on the elite to drive.

This situation has changed since the modernization and even modernization of the military. Because a unified drill code is used to train the whole army, everyone's training level is generally not much different. Of course, there are also elites, but most of the troops are relatively average in strength, and their ability to fight independently is good. After all, even platoon leaders in later generations were trained by professional military academies. In this way, a single unit of the modern army can be pulled out to perform tasks independently.

For example, while attacking a certain provincial capital, the modernized army is fully qualified to split out several regiments to raid nearby medium-sized cities, instead of having to wait for the army to conquer the provincial capital and then remove them one by one.

But the ancient army was different. There were only a small number of elites leading the whole army. For the rest of the troops, many of them would not be able to fight without the elite leading the battle. We can only wait for the main force to conquer a certain place, and then the elite will take the lead to conquer other places.

The same is true of Marin's North Sea Army, because they are worried that small-scale troops will not be able to complete tasks independently. In combat, Marin basically acts according to legions, and rarely sends out phalanxes or even companies to perform tasks alone. Unless, it is just a task that is not a tough battle, such as going to the countryside to collect food or looting.

But Marin's newly formed Young Guards is different. Here, every soldier is an elite with thinking ability. Even if they are split into multiple centurions, each centurion has the ability to perform combat missions alone. Moreover, understanding and execution are better. After all, these teenagers have all received military education for many years, and their executive ability is absolutely nothing to say.

The mystery lies in the different abilities of the grassroots officers. Many of Marin's current legions, such as the squad leaders at the grassroots level, are illiterate. If there are senior generals on site to command, they can still lead the army. If you give them a task, let them lead their respective teams to perform the task alone, and make sure to catch the blind.

In the modern army, every squad leader is a literate professional, and his executive ability is by no means comparable to those reckless officers. What's more, the cadets of the Young Guards have all received military education for many years, and they are not ordinary majors...