18th century total war

Chapter 95 Fire Suppression
"Damn it, God, the old man must be taking a nap now!"

Captain Wright looked at the Levi rebel soldiers in the wilderness on the opposite side, who were suppressed by musket fire and couldn't raise their heads behind the breast fortifications, or in other words, they didn't want to raise their heads at all. He couldn't help but start to compose something God is praying...

If it wasn't for worrying that God heard his choreography, Captain Wright would even want to complain about whether God was fighting with a female angel...

As the saying goes, the more knowledgeable a person is, the more devout his faith becomes, and Captain Wright belongs to this type of person.

Before participating in the American Revolutionary War, he was a 'good man' who came from a civilian family and believed in God's perfection.

After returning from the North American continent, Captain Wright thought that God must be blind!
Under the gaze of Captain Wright's staring eyes, the troops pressed up by Li Wei's rebels used precise marksmanship at a distance of less than 80 meters. The defenders behind the chest fortifications only knew to hold their muskets and tremble.

The brave men in the defenders, after standing up and firing a shot, often 'come back' with dead bodies...

The enemy's marksmanship on the opposite side was so accurate that Captain Wright suspected that Karl had gathered all the people with good marksmanship together and then sent them over to bully the new recruits!
However, how many people were there in Livy's rebel army?

There are thousands of sharpshooters pressing up...

After completing the suppression of firepower, the rhythm of the attack becomes extremely simple.

Staying behind and holding the binoculars, Major General Carl saw this scene with a smile that should be expected.

If you are loyal to Master Li Wei, you will naturally become invincible and invincible!
While the muskets suppressed the opponent, mortars with very poor effective ranges were carried up.

Although the mortars of this period and the later mortars both used curved parabolic shooting methods, they were completely two different objects. Not only did their range be extremely short, but their accuracy was also poor.

Therefore, if you want to use the parabola to increase the hit rate, you can only lift the mortar to a distance similar to the position where the musketeer volley stands, so as to ensure that most of the shells fall into the enemy crowd behind the fortifications instead of flying to the enemy. inexplicable place...

However, these mortars, which were popular throughout Europe in the last century, also have an advantage.

It is light enough that two or three people can carry it around without any problems. It is also very simple to arrange. You can put it on the ground and play with it casually without even considering the recoil. Due to structural problems, the recoil of the mortar is transmitted to the large machine below. On the ground.

This saves a lot of effort and time compared to those field artillery when setting up positions.

A mortar was arranged behind the line of guard infantry responsible for suppressing firepower, and then fired a round of salvos at the same time!
This time, the defenders behind the chest fortifications finally couldn't hold on anymore!
To suppress them with muskets, as long as you keep your head down, you can basically save your life, but the parabolic mortars exploded, and they really fell around one by one!

As long as you get closer, you will be bruised all over by the blast waves and some small objects. At this time, death is a kind of relief!
Why was the bastion defense system eliminated by Europe?

It is because the mortar and the explosive ammunition, under the arrangement of mathematical geometry, will make the defenders in the bastion defense system suffer as if they were suffering in Abi Hell.

The defenders who do not have a firm will to fight will be unable to hold themselves back and surrender in the face of the enemy's mortar fire without the enemy attacking.

"This... using a mortar so close...

The soldiers of Li Wei's rebel army are indeed a bunch of lunatics!
Aren't they worried that the stray bullets will shoot the explosive bullets of the mortar, and then cause the internal explosion?

Uh, that’s right, the soldiers behind the chest defense line were too crushed to lift their heads, and there were not many bullets to fight back..."

Captain Wright touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and began to look left and right. The adjutant next to him tensed up when he saw the change in Captain Wright.

According to his years of experience following Wright, the situation should be about to collapse at this time, so his own official is looking for the most convenient and safest escape route!

When escaping, you don't need to run faster than the enemy, as long as you run faster than your teammates. In addition, you must not rush to the forefront before approaching your second line.

Although under the collective collapse, the law does not blame the public, but everyone understands the truth of shooting the top birds. If the superiors vent their anger at that time, they will probably choose those unlucky ones who took the lead in fleeing back to vent their anger!
Although Captain Wright is greedy for life and afraid of death, but because of this, he cherishes this official skin very much. The captain's life-saving ability is many times higher than that of private soldiers!
When he was a private soldier in the American War of Independence, it was a near-death torture. Captain Wright didn't want to be kicked off the official skin before the battle was over.

On the battlefield of the Li Wei rebels whose opponents are so cruel, Captain Wright felt that the probability of survival as a soldier was less than half...

Look at the defenders who are staying behind the fortifications of the chest base, what a bear they have been blown up by flower bombs!

Faced with explosive shells exploding everywhere, many defenders stood up from their fortifications in panic, ran around, and then became perfect targets for the Guards infantry...

Of course, among these musketeers, the most eye-catching ones are those soldiers who have been trained as sharpshooters by the total war system.

Their hit rate is one level higher than that of infantry guards, reaching the pinnacle of ordinary soldiers in this world!

The infantry guards rely on fire suppression to kill the enemy, while sharpshooters rely on bursts to kill the enemy!

This is the difference!
Moreover, at such a short distance, sharpshooters don't need to use complex and slow front-loading rifles at all. They all use smoothbore guns, but they are just hand-built high-precision smoothbore guns.

The so-called high precision is to reduce the deviation rate of the smoothbore gun as much as possible, and it is still not comparable to the front-loading rifled gun.

But the advantage is that the loading speed has increased!
At a distance of less than [-] meters, the accuracy gap between this high-quality smoothbore gun and the front-loading rifle is still within the acceptable range of sharpshooters.

The sharpshooters under Li Wei's command were all scattered into various units to be used as skirmishers and mountain infantry.

Sharpshooters generally carry two types of firearms, one is a front-loading rifle and the other is a high-quality smoothbore.

Of course, when you go to the battlefield, you will only carry one type according to the combat needs. After all, muskets in this era are not light.

As for the infantry guards, although they only carried one musket, each of them carried a varying number of throwing mines!

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