It is inevitable that firearms units will become the new masters of the battlefield, but the process of evolution is not to eliminate all cold-weapon arms at once. \ In that change, the cavalry will inevitably have a place in the long run, and they will still be the sharp knives on the battlefield, shouldering the heavy responsibility of breaking through.
The phalanx of knights in the parade was the largest in number of assault cavalry, which clearly indicated the direction of the future development of the cavalry.
Looking at the Han army's cavalry, several of them have moved closer to the 18th-century cavalry, that is, they have removed the real heavy armor and replaced it with lighter plate armor.
There was only one phalanx of flintlock infantry, and when they reached the white line, they shouted slogans and changed their walking posture to goose steps.
The goose step is not the original name of the positive step, but has a variety of postures, which are distinguished from the swing of the hand and the position of the hold, and the span of the foot and the kicking range.
Crossing the white line of flintlock pistols, they kick their left foot about 75 centimeters straight ahead, pressing the ball of their foot to the ground, while moving their body weight forward, and their right foot in the same way.
With the right hand, the rifle is placed vertically on the right shoulder, and the left hand swings the arm forward, the elbow is bent, the forearm is slightly horizontal, and the palm is slightly downward as the stride is taken.
Except for a very few people who saw such a procession during their training, those who saw it for the first time were instantly attracted.
The goose step is a way of walking that is not very fast, and the posture will seem to have a sense of arrogance, and the soldiers walking in line reflect the strong arrogance and solemnity.
Liu Yan took the goose steps of the German army during World War II, and the reason why he did not adopt the one he was most familiar with was that the control of the Time and Space Administration was too strict, and maybe the river crab beast would suddenly appear, and his story would end here.
The appearance of this phalanx, armed with flintlock pistols, should have been greeted with the most enthusiastic cheers, but unfortunately the people only regarded the gun as a stick, and although they thought the new military uniform looked good, they felt that it was contrary to the difference between the summer clothes, and they only received polite cheers.
"I named the shaped flintlock pistol the Type 12 Rifle."
Liu Yan named it after the year in which it was truly finalized: "The total length of the body without a bayonet is 1.65 meters, and the length of the gun is 1.85 meters with a bayonet."
The total weight of the gun is 14 catties, the caliber is 20 millimeters, and the projectile weighs 0.112.
The maximum firing range is more than 400 meters, and the accurate shooting distance is within 100 meters. ” It was not that the flintlock pistol was developed at the beginning, the first generation of muskets was arquebuses, but the arquebuses were only used in excessive research, and Liu Yan repeatedly mentioned that they had crossed over to the flintlock stage, and even researched and produced breech guns.
The flintlock pistol will be chosen as the rifle of the first generation, not the more advanced breech gun, the main reason is the production time and cost, and then the bullet required for the breech gun is quite difficult to make.
As a rifle to be loaded in large quantities, the choice is definitely not the best, it should be the most suitable choice, obviously for the current flintlock pistol is the most suitable one.
Flintlock pistol is just a general term, for example, the ordinary barrel is also a flintlock pistol, and the rifled barrel is also a flintlock pistol, the latter is far superior to the former in terms of accuracy and range.
Again, due to cost and man-hours, flintlock guns with rifled barrels will have much fewer installations than ordinary barrels.
Instead of the enthusiastic cheers it should have, the flintlock infantry phalanx walked over under the watchful eyes of the reviewers.
They were followed by horsemen on straddle horses, but they were very different from the other cavalrymen who were inspected in front of them, wearing new uniforms of full cloth, looking without any armor, and holding in their hands a flintlock pistol that was slightly shorter than that used by the infantrymen.
They were musketeers armed with flintlock muskets for mounted archery.
"But if you think of them as an alternative kind of cavalry archers, the difference is that the main weapon is a flintlock pistol."
Liu Yan felt the bewilderment of the people watching the parade again, especially those who did not know the existence of flintlock pistols: "The musketeers are equipped with two kinds of flintlock muskets, one long and one short, the long one is only one, and the short standard configuration is two, which can be added according to the situation. ” The firing range of the long-handled flintlock pistol used by the cavalry is not much different from that of the flintlock pistol used by the infantry, but the firing range of the short flintlock pistol is greatly reduced, the maximum range is 50 meters, and the effective anti-personnel range is within 30 meters.
In addition to long and short flintlock muskets, musketeers were equipped with sabers.
At the beginning, Liu Yan actually wanted to engage in the Three-Eyed Fire Hammer, and he had the idea of retro the Guanning Iron Cavalry, but reason finally defeated the bad taste, and he directly made the standard Musket Cavalry in one step.
The important ministers have all seen the drills of the firearms unit, and there is no big doubt about Liu Yan's statement that the firearms unit will become the new master of the battlefield, after all, the artillery has been applied to the battlefield, and the power shown and the impact on the battle situation can only be said to be obvious to all.
The main reason is that they still have no intuitive impression of how strong the musket unit can be, and everything is just because drills and actual combat are always two different things, and they want to admit that the musket unit is so powerful that it has been tested on the battlefield.
The firearms units armed with flintlock pistols walked past one square position after another, but the reaction they received was ordinary, in fact, this was also related to the fact that they had not been on the battlefield.
After the phalanx of soldiers is completed, it becomes an equipment unit to be reviewed.
The equipment of the cold weapon era was mainly based on various crossbows, with some traditional siege equipment.
Their presence once again enlivened the scene, because everyone knew exactly what they were doing, and understood their power, unlike not knowing what a flintlock pistol was.
When the horse-drawn cannon appeared, the scene erupted in deafening cheers.
The cannon is a bronze cannon with a gun carriage and wheels, and is pulled by a different number of horses depending on its weight.
The current bronze cannon does not pay much attention to it, and the cannon itself does not have the difference between cannons, howitzers, and mortars, mainly by the projectiles fired.
Most of the bronze cannons equipped by the Han Army are lighter types, with a minimum caliber of 75 mm and a maximum caliber of 150 mm.
The first place where the bronze cannon was powerful was in the Liaodong battlefield, but at that time, the number of explosive packs used far exceeded that of the bronze cannon to launch projectiles, but it still left a deep impression on the world.
Knowing what bronze cannons were, and knowing how powerful they were, the people did not hesitate to cheer at all, and responded with a hundred times the enthusiasm of the flintlock muskets.
"Artillery" Yuli looked at the bronze cannon phalanx in a row, eager to see the structure of each cannon and distinguish the slightest trace of them: "The most powerful embodiment of the Han Empire, the artifact on the battlefield" There are people who participated in the decisive battle of the plains of the Three Continents, and they will never forget what they saw and heard there for the rest of their lives, especially when they dreamed back at midnight, they were repeatedly alerted by the scene of explosions.
"I will never forget the muffled noises of the earth, the earth being thrown up like a volcanic eruption in the explosion, and the earth is left to shake the earth in the world."
Julian had nightmares about gunpowder explosions more than once, and each time the scene was different, from being bombed on a field battlefield to being blown up while defending a city: "Today I finally saw what they looked like. ” One of the foreign visitors had their eyes fixed on the artillery units passing by in a row, and their eyes were full of greed, and they were eager to take the cannons with their eyes, so that they could take them back with them.
In fact, they have thought more than once about using special means to snoop, especially the method of making gunpowder, but no one has taken action for the time being.
The posture displayed by the Han Empire is really too powerful, and anyone who wants to use their brains will have to think about the consequences.
In the eyes of the nations, the Han Empire was not only powerful, but also an aggressive country.
If the Han Empire was only strong, they were limited even if they were afraid, and the problem was that the Han Empire was not a country that could be offended in any way, and that was a fact seen from the Gupta Empire.
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According to the Han Empire's declaration to the outside world, the Gupta Empire invaded the Han Empire's sphere of influence, but who doesn't know that in fact, the expansion of the Han Empire coincided with the expansion direction of the Gupta Empire, and even the expansion of the Gupta Empire to the South Seas was far earlier than the Han Empire, but the Han people just felt that the Gupta Empire had entered their sphere of influence, and declared war on this as a reason for war, and also destroyed the Gupta Empire.
Well, the Gupta Empire was destroyed just because the direction of expansion coincided with the Han Empire, but there is nothing to say about this, and Rome and Sassanid also used similar reasons to destroy the country.
The difference between the Han Empire and Rome and Sassanid is that the Han army behaved too easily when it came to destroying the Gupta Empire.
Rome and Sassanid were also great powers In particular, the distance between Sassanid and the Gupta Empire is not far, whether by land or sea, it must be more convenient to destroy the Gupta Empire, but the Persians have not thought of invading the Gupta Empire, the key is that the Persians have not really competed with the Gupta Empire when they go south, just because the Gupta Empire supports countries adjacent to the Persians, and the Persians' footsteps to the south have been blocked.
The Romans, of course, also coveted the riches of the Gupta Empire, and must have thought about invading more than once, but they only thought about it, and they could only think about it.
The Han Empire was unable to invade the Gupta Empire from the land, and chose the most difficult cross-sea battle, if it weren't for the fact that the Gupta Empire was destroyed by the Han army, I don't know how many people would have waited to see the jokes of the Han people.
"Such a Han Empire makes people not have the slightest provocation."
Cicero kept smiling bitterly: "Unless it's inaction, it's going to be over."
Powerful and without the slightest scruples, whoever provokes it is to wipe out the country, but it is definitely not a mouthful of muttering, the Han Empire has used the destruction of the Gupta Empire to prove the cruel fact that "distance is not a problem".
Dare to ask, who dares to provoke easily After the artillery unit was divided, the whole parade was held to present prisoners.
Liu Yan originally wanted that a common person could also march on the White Tiger Avenue, but as soon as he proposed it, he was opposed by almost everyone.
It's not that the people are despised, it's not that the people are not qualified, and there are still a lot of people who are not soldiers who are qualified to set foot on the White Tiger Avenue to be reviewed, and the key is that everyone is worried that there will be problems.
Ordinary people are disciplined, but no one dares to guarantee that there will be no problems.
If there is a problem on this occasion, it is not one or two people who are embarrassed, but a large piece of the head that is lost.
The main reason is that today's military parade is not an ordinary one, which involves Liu Yan to be called emperor, if something goes wrong today, will it become a joke to be called emperor On the White Tiger Avenue, walking through the last phalanx, there was an interval of about ten minutes in between, and there was no team coming again.
When people reappeared in the distance, they saw people walking in front of the crowd dressed in fancy clothes, dancing comically as they went, and seemed to be singing something.
Offering prisoners, there was originally such a link, so that those who were originally noble dressed in fancy clothes, and then danced a dance that would make them feel funny when they saw it, with the intention of humiliation.
When the well-dressed people appeared, the scene erupted in a whistling sound, and every Han Chinese laughed to their heart's content, using such actions to show that they were subjects of the victorious country.
There are not many captives who have been arranged to carry out singing and dancing parades today, including the county guard of Changguang County captured by Liu Yan when he started his career, and the Jalla Ragupta who was sent after the Gupta Empire's war.
The sooner those are captured, the more familiar they will be with this kind of behavior, mainly because they will be pulled out and slipped away during the big event every year, but practice makes perfect.
"I've almost forgotten that these people existed."
Liu Yan was talking about some people who had long been captured, including Li Nong.
He had a rare look of contentment: "I don't have many times when I can feel happy" Ran Min's gaze kept on Li Nong.
Speaking seriously, he felt a slight palpitation, and thought more than once that if he had not been attached to the country, he would definitely not accept the fate of being captured, but the heir would definitely be a member of the singing and dancing.
The people who have ideas are not only Ran Min, but also Huan Wen, Xie An, Yu Yi, Yuan Qiao and other people who are watching the ceremony, they see Sima Dan, the last emperor of the Sima clan, and they can't help but think about what will happen if they don't know the current affairs.
Sima Dan, who was only ten years old, was also in the crowd of singing and dancing, and his small body was trying hard to follow the rhythm of the rest.
The people whose surname Sima was also participating in the parade were not only Sima Dan, but also some of Sima's clan relatives, both old and young, who became one of their own columns.
If it were according to Liu Yan's true thoughts, he would not frown if he slaughtered the Sima family, and finally chose to leave these guys as exhibits.
There was also a column of some captives of the Zhao Kingdom, who were the hardest at performing burlesque dances, and they were afraid that they would not be able to survive if they didn't work hard to be funny.
"This is really," Julian looked at the clowns trying to please the audience: "The heart-to-heart has deep palpitations":