rise of empire total war

Chapter 536 Skirmishers
The so-called skirmishers were the inspiration that Richard got based on the battle report submitted by Trond after the Zane Continent War. In several field battles, Trond's expeditionary force could only use dense formations when facing the beast army of the indigenous tribes. Defending the enemy or bombarding with artillery was a rigid method of warfare. In addition, Trond proposed to restore the light infantry organization and enrich the types of arms in the army, so Richard decided to form a skirmisher unit.

Skirmishers directly replaced the role of light infantry. They could harass the enemy from a long distance, and they could also serve as scouts to investigate the enemy's situation. However, Richard would not let the skirmishers reverse the history and pick up cold weapons such as bows, crossbows and javelins to fight again. It was decided to improve the musket, and engraved a rifling line in the barrel of the musket to improve the accuracy of the musket, so that skirmishers could also play the role of snipers.

But engraving the rifling inside the barrel is not an easy task. The craftsmen of the research institute rushed to work day and night, scrapped a large number of flintlock guns, and it took nearly a year to make the only finished product, and even this finished product has A lot of rifled guns have problems, such as the inconvenience of loading ammunition in the muzzle and the difficulty of playing the role of the rifle.In order to play the role of rifling, the bullet and the bullet need to be in very close contact, so that the rifling can make the bullet rotate and increase the flight stability of the bullet. However, the ammunition of the front-loading gun is inserted from the muzzle, so it cannot be perfectly attached. Rifling, and even for better loading, the bullets used must be smaller than the caliber of the muzzle, which in turn leads to the problem of insufficient airtightness.

To completely solve this difficulty, the type of ammunition must be improved. This ammunition is the Minie bomb that Richard often saw from historical novels in his previous life. The principle of the Minie bomb is to use a softer, easily expandable lead alloy After the bullet is fired, the bullet will expand under force and be tightly attached to the rifling, but a bullet that is too soft will reduce the lethal power of the bullet. How to grasp the speed is another difficult task.

Of course, it is not that rifled guns cannot be used without Minie bullets. Before the development of Minie bullets, Richard was still able to equip the army with rifled guns and form skirmishers.However, considering the high construction cost of rifled guns and the difficulty of loading them, he decided to reduce the establishment. He planned to equip each brigade with a skirmisher brigade, that is, 450 soldiers (90 soldiers in a company). Once the gun problem is solved, he can take advantage of the trend to expand the formation of skirmishers.

Because of its particularity, recruits with no combat experience cannot be allowed to participate in the skirmishers. Therefore, Richard will select suitable veterans from each brigade to become skirmishers. They must meet the requirements of good marksmanship, combat experience, strong close combat ability and good physical fitness. and other conditions.

Good marksmanship is the most important thing. Since soldiers can use ordinary flintlock guns without rifles to accurately hit the target, they will definitely perform better if they shoot with rifled guns.Combat experience distinguishes recruits and veterans, and strong melee combat ability and good physical fitness are also essential. Skirmishers need to stay away from the main force to move to dangerous places. Melee combat ability and good physical fitness can save their lives.

To become a qualified skirmisher does not just need to meet the above four conditions. After being selected, soldiers need to receive reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance training, and specialize in improving shooting accuracy. Richard's tentative standard is that each Out of ten shots fired by soldiers, at least eight shots must hit the target. Although this standard is too high, it is very necessary in Richard's opinion.

After all, Richard wanted the stragglers to serve as snipers. In future wars, the stragglers' responsibilities would not only harass the enemy from a distance, but also specifically snipe and kill the officers in the enemy's formation, causing their command system to be destroyed. Chaos caused the leaderless soldiers to be unable to organize an effective order of battle.

This is like the War of Independence of Country M on earth. The stragglers of the rebel army always shamelessly kill the officers of the Lobster Army, causing chaos in the grassroots command of the Lobster Army and a sharp drop in combat effectiveness (a qualified officer is essential to improve the combat effectiveness of the army Factors), while in the European continent at the same time, countries are still following the spirit of gentlemen and avoid pointing their guns at the officers of the enemy army, so that the lobster army, which is accustomed to this rule, was suddenly beaten by the M army.

The lobster army with a high degree of discipline will be defeated by the mob after losing its officers, not to mention the backward medieval army. After losing its officers or nobles, it may not be necessary for the imperial army to launch a strong attack. It just fires a few shots and the opponent will collapse on its own .

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On the other side, Ornus von Frank, the chief of diplomacy sent by Richard to the Legisamon Port of the Garagon Kingdom, finally arrived. Because he did not deliberately hide his whereabouts and identity, the Garagon Kingdom was extremely nervous about it. Although the Holy Roman Empire is not close to the Istola Peninsula, it is a new empire that defeated the old powerful Kuyavian Empire. The Garagon Kingdom dared not neglect, and held a banquet with great fanfare to welcome the arrival of Onus.

At the banquet, the Garagon envoys asked about the purpose of Ornus' visit. Although they had already guessed, they still couldn't help being surprised when they heard that Ornus admitted that he was visiting the Roman Empire fleet in the Port of Legisamon. The expressions of the two empires are really easy to make people daydream, one is the Holy Roman Empire and the other is the Roman Empire. The stories contained in them seem to be very big.

If Richard knew the thoughts of outsiders, he would be glad that he did not choose the Eastern Roman Empire. Otherwise, the fun would be great. The "orthodox" Roman Empire happened to be in the west of the Dogero Continent. His Eastern Roman Empire On the continent of Kuyawi in the east, other people will directly preconceive it later. His Eastern Roman Empire is a part split from the Western Roman Empire. Who should he turn to for reasoning?

Cough, far away.

After the banquet, intelligence officers stationed in the Kingdom of Garagon came to Onus and explained to Onus the information they currently had about the so-called Roman Empire fleet. To Onus’s surprise, the intelligence officers stationed in the Kingdom of Garagon came to Onus. The head of the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Gong is actually a Garagon noble. He was originally a noble student studying in Vienna. He was spotted by the intelligence department during an accidental outing and was recruited into the intelligence department through some means. After completing his studies and returning to the country, this nobleman relied on his own ability and family power to establish a huge intelligence network in the kingdom and became the general person in charge.

After listening to the person in charge's explanation, Onus declined the help offered by the other party. Judging from the current actions of the Romans, they were not arrogant and unreasonable by relying on high force. Arrival negotiations.

(End of this chapter)