The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

On the coast, several warships flying the British flag and the flag of the East India Company were lined up, bombarding the strongholds on the shore with the naval guns on the side of the hull.

A large number of small boats are carrying sailors, and they are landing.

After landing in small boats, these soldiers who landed in small boats quickly jumped out of the small boats, ignoring the calf-deep water on the coast, and straightened up on the beach to form an array again.

In the process of their regrouping, the defenders in the stronghold did not give up their resistance and were constantly shooting at them.

From time to time, one or two unlucky people would be hit by flying lead bullets, and then half of their heads would be lifted, and the brains would splash all over the people around them.

However, all the soldiers did not waver, they were still lined up with resolute or indifferent faces, and after the formation was in order, they began to march forward with the beat of the snare drum.

Even in the process, someone was knocked down because they lined up and moved slowly and constantly.

But this is the way of warfare in this era. Limited by the range of flintlock guns, which is so bad that it requires more than ten meters to hit, it is necessary to rely on faith. If you want to use muskets on a large scale in this era, you must adopt this kind of battle that later generations jokingly called queuing and shooting Way.

Lined up in a neat queue, braved the enemy's artillery fire, stepped on the drums and walked slowly in the rain of bullets, and then fired a volley of guns after approaching the enemy.

In this era, the army fights for discipline and courage. Which army can approach the enemy closer to the position before firing the first row of guns, which army can gain greater advantages and lethality on the battlefield.

It is also for this reason that line infantry puts particular emphasis on endurance and formation during training, because they usually have to constantly bear the mental pressure of the teammates who were talking and laughing with you just now being shot away by stray bullets.

After advancing in front of the enemy and shooting a shot, you have to stand upright on the spot to reload, and then shoot again, and then insert a bayonet on your rifle, and use it as a spear to charge the white blade.

Although it sounds really stupid, the line infantry tactics of this era are the most advanced army tactics, and the line infantry is so strong that it can be called any arm in the era of cruel cold weapons.

In terms of close combat, they are not inferior to spearmen. In this era, the rifle is as long as a person's height, and it is a spear with a bayonet inserted.

As far as long-range firepower is concerned, flintlock guns are embarrassing, but they are also much stronger than crossbows. It takes three to five years to train a qualified longbowman, but a rifleman? In three months, they can be dragged to the battlefield to die.

Moreover, such things as shooting do not require much physical strength and technology, which has led to the possibility that a large number of civilians who could only be used as cannon fodder also become soldiers.

It's as if the soldiers released from these warships are not elite troops, but mercenaries recruited by the East India Company from India, Africa and the Caribbean.

Only a small number of officers came from Europe and received professional military training. Most of the grassroots soldiers didn't even know what a gun was before.

After these mercenaries were recruited, they only received less than three months of military training. After learning the array line and shooting, they were sent by warships to carry out landing operations to seize the island.

Fortunately, they are not facing the elite armies of European countries, but the Spanish colonial garrisons similar to them.

Even the Spanish Empire in its most powerful era would not do such a waste of money and money by recruiting a large number of troops from the mainland and sending them to the New World as garrisons.

Due to cost considerations, under normal circumstances, some officers or a small number of elites are recruited from the mainland, and after being stationed in the colony, the local aborigines are trained as the main military force of the colony.

Therefore, although they suffered casualties, the soldiers belonging to the East India Company were not seriously injured. It can even be said that the casualties they suffered were only minor in this era.

Although the efficiency of landing by small boats was very low, it was still acceptable in this era. They quickly deployed three line infantry regiments on the beach and began to advance towards the stronghold.

And behind the three line infantry regiments, the small mortars were already in place, and they started loading and firing.

Although the power of this most primitive mortar is limited, it is still very useful to provide a source of vitality and to pull out small strongholds.

There are larger cannons, but obviously that kind of thing cannot be easily transported and put into battle by small boats.

Moreover, they have a fleet equipped with dozens of cannons, and the bombardment of the fleet is enough to solve most of the problems. Although the extension of the naval guns is not enough, it is only enough to clear the beachhead, but this is enough.

The three line infantry regiments advanced quickly. After they approached the stronghold, they stopped, raised their flintlock guns under the command of the officer, and began to load bullets.

In this era, paper fixed ammunition has become popular, and the armies of various countries use fixed gunpowder and bullets wrapped in paper tubes.

Therefore, loading bullets is much faster than in the past. Bite off one end of the paper shell bullet, pour the gunpowder into the gun chamber, and then use the cleaning rod to drive the lead bullet and the paper shell into the gun chamber, and then you can pull the trigger. .

The thick smoke from the burning of the black powder quickly obscured the line of sight of the infantrymen. The battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke, and many people slowed down a bit because of the choking smell.

And this is the difference between elite veterans and ordinary miscellaneous troops. If the real lobster soldiers here, they can ignore the smoke generated by these shots, complete the second reload, and continue to shoot.

But these recruits who have only been trained for less than three months are obviously not so well-trained.

But it didn't have much impact. After two rounds of platooning, there were not many people in the stronghold who dared to stand up.

Moreover, the three infantry regiments alternately covered and advanced, and one of the infantry regiments had already entered the charging distance and began to bayonet.

The rifle with the bayonet inserted was lifted up, just like the most famous spear array in the cold weapon era. At first glance, it was all white bayonets, like a steel hedgehog.

And when they charge, the bayonet array like snow waves will really hit up like sea waves, or smash the enemy like a sandcastle, or shatter the enemy like a wave hitting a reef .

War is so cruel. Fortunately, the enemies that these recruits have to face this time are not very strong. It is they who smashed the enemies, not the enemies who smashed them.

"It seems that the boys have done a good job." On the warship on the sea, an officer of the East India Company was holding up a telescope to watch the infantry rush into the Spanish stronghold, with a satisfied smile on his face.

And battles like this are happening everywhere in the Caribbean right now.