The Rise of the European Emperor

Remember [New] in a second! In fact, Marin has a more powerful charge in his hand, that is Knott's fried glue. But the problem is that the production of Knott's fried jelly is very low. Moreover, for the sake of confidentiality, Marin was unwilling to disclose the technology.

Therefore, it is more appropriate to use the black powder version of the imitation frontier ammunition to play in Eastern Europe this time. As long as the iron shell is ready, there will be no embarrassing situation like Li Yunlong complaining about being blown into two pieces.

Moreover, to be honest, the function of holding bullets in the hand is not to kill the enemy, but to frighten the enemy and damage the morale of the enemy. The black powder version imitates the hand-made bombs made in the frontier area. It has limited power, but it can injure the enemy within a few steps and cause panic to the surrounding enemies. The panic of the enemy will cause a drop in morale, which is what Marin wants most. Next, launch the "swarm" rockets with a high firepower density, which can directly crush the opponent. In this era of emphasizing morale, the collapse of morale means that there is a great probability of defeat.

However, for the bombardier, it is not without danger. If there is a crossbowman on the side on the opposite side, shooting with a crossbow is likely to injure the grenadier. When the grenadier was injured, his own life and death was a trivial matter. What I am most afraid of is that just after lighting the fuze, before I can throw it out, I will be hit by an arrow and fall to the ground. At this time, the people around this unlucky grenadier will be unlucky.

So, a way had to be figured out to keep the grenadiers safe...

The first thing Marin thought of was that the sword and shield soldiers lined up in front to cover, but if the opponent sent elites to fight out, the sword and shield soldiers might give away their heads. After all, sword and shield soldiers have relatively poor mobility and are difficult to escape. After all, a large wooden shield weighs more than ten to twenty pounds, and it is too heavy to hold.

It is also not acceptable to put heavy armor on the grenadiers, which will seriously affect their mobility. If the spearmen on the opposite side chased them out, the grenadiers in heavy armor would not be able to escape.

Holding a large shield... is fine, but there is still the same problem. The large shield is too heavy, ten or twenty pounds, not to mention exhausting physical strength, and it is difficult to run.

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Just when Marin was hesitating, his subordinates reported—Kong Tai, the governor of Dongfan Island, shipped back 8,000 rattan cards!

Marin's eyes suddenly lit up—the rattan card! That is the best shield in ancient times!

The protective power of the rattan shield surpassed that of a large wooden shield, but its weight was only five or six catties, which was much stronger than that of a large wooden shield that weighed more than ten or twenty catties. The Roman shield weighs 7.5 kg to 10 kg, that is, 15 catties to 20 catties. If it is covered with metal skin, it can reach a weight of more than 30 kilograms.

Moreover, because the rattan card is elastic, it can absorb a certain amount of kinetic energy, and it is also very good at protecting against lead bullets. In this era, I am afraid that only the 50-gram projectile of the Spanish Musket can break the protection of the rattan shield. After all, that kinetic energy is a bit big. But ordinary arquebus, it is very difficult to break the rattan. Even if the rattan shield is broken, the kinetic energy of the lead bullet is almost consumed, and it has no lethality. After all, this is rattan treated with tung oil, which has high toughness.

And five or six catties of rattan,

Let the grenadiers hold it, it is not difficult, and it is convenient to retreat. Moreover, the rattan card has strong protection against bows and crossbows. Even if the Moscow army really deployed crossbowmen on the flanks and was protected by rattan plates, the grenadiers need not be afraid. They can hold the rattan shield in their left hand to protect themselves, while the right hand is used to throw hand bombs...

As for the matchlock to ignite the fuze, just hang it on the rattan plate. In this way, when igniting the hand bomb, you only need to unscrew the cover with one hand, put the exposed fuze against the matchlock hanging on the rattan plate, and it will be ignited. Then, throw it out with one hand.

After testing, if you hold this kind of rattan card, the grenadier's protection ability is greatly improved. At the very least, crossbowmen have trouble dealing significant damage to grenadiers. At most, the exposed legs and feet of the grenadier may be injured. However, that is not fatal, and it will not prevent the grenadier from being unable to throw the ignited hand bombs because of fatal injuries.

Moreover, in order to protect the grenadiers, Marin also asked people to use leather-wrapped folded paper armor to protect the grenadiers' legs and feet and prevent the grenadiers from being hurt by bows and crossbows.

In this way, the safety of the grenadiers is greatly guaranteed, and they can rush to the front without any scruples and throw bullets at the enemy's face.

As for the enemy chasing and killing them? Marin thought for a while, and planned to arrange thousands of black-shirted knights to cover. Once the enemy's flank kills the fast light infantry, let the black shirt knight go up to block it. How can light infantry be against rogue units like black shirt knights? Even plate armor knights are no match for them. The heavy armored infantry and sword and shield soldiers could not catch up with the grenadiers because of their heavy equipment. At that time, the grenadiers can retreat calmly after throwing the bombs...

Then, Marin took his soldiers for a test. Tests have found that this tactic works very well against infantry phalanxes. The destructive power of hand-leaved bullets does not lie in how many enemies are killed, but in bringing great panic to the enemy.

In the battle formation era, the stability of the formation is extremely important. If someone breaks through a hole in the formation, causing panic among the soldiers, then all the soldiers in the formation may collapse.

Of course, just keeping bombs with your hands is not enough to defeat the formation. Because, at best, grenadiers can break through the side protection of the enemy's formation and cause panic on the side.

If you want to defeat the enemy, you have to fight a tough battle. If it was during World War II, the devil soldiers might use the firepower of the 38 cover and the crooked machine gun to force their way into the formation, causing the formation to collapse.

However, there were no repeating rifles or even machine guns in this era. Therefore, the grenadiers can tear open the side protection of the enemy formation, but cannot destroy the large formation.

At this time, an assault unit is needed to rush in and forcibly defeat the enemy's formation. Then, Marin thought of the Lancers...

Beihai has always had a 1,000-man Lancer team, which is divided into two Lancer regiments, each with 500 men. Each regiment is divided into three squadrons of 150 people, and the remaining 50 people are the personal guards directly under the head of the regiment. The three squadrons are generally divided into three batches, and when they charge, they launch a triple-wave attack. If the two regiments act together, each row will be two squadrons of 300 people, launching a frontal charge. Of course, if the enemy is too weak, you can even send out a two-row formation to charge.

If the enemy's flank protection is breached, what class is best for charging? Lancers of course! Lancers charge with their armor on, and they have good protection, which is also a nightmare for the enemy. For the sake of convenience, Lancers generally wear half armor and horses do not wear armor, just like Polish wing cavalry. Prior to this, the Lancers of the North Sea Kingdom did the same.

But after Marin "invented" the "Jiangnan Leather Factory" armor, Marin felt that the Chinese armor was also good. Therefore, the Lancers switched to light "Jiangnan Tannery" leather for armor.

However, unlike the armor of the Austrians, the leather bag of the Lancers of the North Sea is not iron, but folded silk. In the officer's purse, there is folded sisal cloth.

In addition, the horses of the Lancers were also wrapped in leather and armor, and the leather bags were also folded with silk. In this way, people and horses are well protected.

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However, this time, Marin did not plan to use the two Lancer regiments belonging to the First Army, but planned to recruit 1,000 wandering knights in the Teutonic and Livonian Knights to form two new Lancers. Cavalry regiments, used to launch this attack.

The main reason is that the First Legion must stay in the mainland to protect their hometown and cannot be easily dispatched. The army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is not very strong, and it is enough to recruit two new cavalry regiments.

Of course, Marin will definitely transfer some officers from the old Lancers to train and command the new Lancers. In fact, they don't use much training. Those wandering knights are masters who have practiced martial arts for many years, and their personal combat effectiveness is not bad. As long as they get used to the new weapons and armor and emphasize discipline, they can basically get started.

However, for the two new Lancer regiments, Marin did not plan to equip them with leather bandages with folded silk, but planned to equip them with rhinoceros leather armor.

Rhinoceros leather armor is enough to deal with cold weapon troops, while the Moscow army does not have a high rate of firearm equipment, and it must be placed on the front. Therefore, when attacking the flanks, you will basically not face muskets and artillery, and the rhinoceros leather armor is definitely enough.

If it is an army of tens of thousands of people, it is difficult for Marin to get tens of thousands of sets of rhinoceros leather armor. However, the rhinoceros leather armor of a thousand cavalrymen can still be obtained by squeezing Marin, including the rhinoceros leather armor of horses.

Moreover, since the appearance of leather bandage armor, the importance of rhinoceros leather armor has been greatly reduced. After all, rhinoceros leather armor cannot stop bullets. In this way, the nobles interspersed with folded sisal cloth leather armor, and many rhinoceros leather armors became decorations and were collected by people. But if the war requires it, it is still possible for Marin to let them take it out.

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"This is a very good tactic, Kohler, please write it down - under the condition that the enemy's flanks have no firearms, it is a very good tactical idea to dispatch cavalrymen wearing rhinoceros leather armor..."

In the combat research room, Marin is leading a new batch of staff officers. Although Marin had long planned to establish a staff department, the military students in Beihai State were generally inexperienced. Together, they don't have as many ideas as Marin. After all, Marin is a time traveler. Therefore, most of the small staff members are learning from Marin. Even many small staff officers who have not graduated yet come to the combat research room to listen and study.

There is no way to do this, because Marin, who is the instructor, is himself a half bucket of water. He has never been to a military university, so he doesn't know how future generations train staff officers. Therefore, at present, the military students in Beihai country do not have special staff teaching materials. And the study of ancient battle cases is useless. Because we have entered the age of firearms, and the combat thinking of the old cold weapon era has actually fallen behind.

And Marin, it is not easy to explain to them the battles that did not happen in later generations as war examples. Therefore, he could only select a group of military students with flexible minds and take them with him to train them. These children are very loyal. Except for the absolute secrets of assassinating other countries' monarchs, they will not be allowed to participate in some ordinary plans. Then, these plans became teaching cases...

In fact, this training mode is a bit like the apprenticeship system in this era. It's just that the master with the apprentice is a bit powerful, he is the monarch of a country. But Marin couldn't help it. He didn't have systematic teaching materials to train staff personnel, so he had to do it like this. But when this group of people grows up, they can lead apprentices. Then, you don't have to go out on your own.

However, the officers and students who were studying on the spot were puzzled—why did His Majesty make a plan to fight the Muscovites? Poland and Lithuania did not invite the North Sea country to send troops...

It's no wonder that Marin mobilized a large number of young officers and soldiers for high-intensity training and long-distance raids. However, Marin never revealed who he was targeting, and the inexperienced teenagers only thought it was normal training.

It wasn't until news of the Grand Duchy of Moscow's siege of Smolensk spread that Marin publicly deduced how to defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Therefore, those young officers and students are very confused - we didn't participate in the war, what is the deduction?

Of course, out of fanatical admiration and loyalty to Marin, they will not question Marin, they will only think that Marin is far-sighted. And soon after, Marin's deduction came in handy, and the officers and students recognized Marin's "foresight" even more...