ALL NOVEL Chapter 94 Arranging Guns
Soon after the Polish army appeared on the field, more than 500 Polish-Germanic infantry phalanxes were the main body, and an offensive formation was listed.
Wang Ziming read it right, the opponent planned to attack more than 4,000 of his own with a mere 1,000 troops!
The Polish offensive formation on the opposite side is very ordinary. The infantry phalanx with a mix of pikemen and musketeers is in the center, and the musketeers are behind the front pikemen.
Corresponding to the left wing of Wang Ziming's side is the right wing of the Polish army, with Polish wing cavalry and Polish armored Cossack cavalry!
On the other side is the 2nd rank Polish Yeomanry, the lowest rank in this Polish army.
The low sound of horns suddenly sounded from the Polish army, and the phalanx of Polish and Germanic infantry marched towards Prince Ming.
The direction of their attack was chosen in front of Wang Ziming's senior Swedish town militiamen!
Because Wang Ziming's side has a large number of people, the cross-section of the battlefield laid out is wider than that of the Polish army. In this case, the Polish army took the initiative to attack. Isn't it just a chance to be surrounded and beaten by Wang Ziming and Cole's coalition forces? ?
Of course, the premise is that the infantry phalanx that is facing the attack of the Polish army can withstand the opponent's first round of attacks!
After the infantry phalanx of the Polish army advanced, the cavalry on both wings also moved forward slowly, guarding both sides of the infantry phalanx.
If Wang Ziming's side wants to send cavalry to outflank and outflank at this time, they must first defeat the cavalry on both flanks of the Polish army.
Facing the left wing of the Polish army is the Swedish dragoons on the right wing of Kohl's team. Although the equipment of the Polish volunteer cavalry is poor and only rank 2, the Swedish dragoons don't seem to be much stronger...
The most important thing is that the number of Swedish dragoons does not have an advantage. If they rush over, they will not be able to defeat the Polish volunteer cavalry in a short time!
Wang Ziming's left wing corresponds to the Polish armored Cossack cavalry led by the Polish cavalry. Although they are few in number, who knows what it will look like in a fight?
And it looks like the morale of the Polish army is very high!
In the different space, Wang Ziming didn't have a specific idea of the ability of these soldiers to withstand casualties.
After all, they come from the camp of order, not the camp of chaos that advocates 'freedom'.
The different space comes from the game scene. In the game of horse riding and slashing, there may be deserters on the battlefield, but they are definitely a minority!
An army will often suffer more than 80% casualties when it is defeated, and sometimes it is normal for the entire army to be wiped out!
Originally, this was just a game setting. Wang Ziming didn’t feel much. It’s cool to kill soldiers when they don’t run away and resist tenaciously while playing games, but in a different space, Wang Ziming feels very painful...
If the troops of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in the opposite space are all brave and fearless, the losses in the battle will be great!
It didn't take long for Wang Ziming to know why the Polish army took the initiative to attack!
I saw Polish and Germanic musketeers lined up in a thin row of guns, stopped outside the effective range of the senior Swedish town militia, and then raised the advanced spring wheel guns under the command of the leading officer...
A burst of white smoke drifted past, and dozens of senior Swedish town militiamen standing in the first row fell down immediately!
For the first time, Wang Ziming saw the huge gap between the wheel-wheel gun and the matchlock gun!
Fortunately, the effective range difference between the spring wheel gun and the matchlock gun is not very large.
Under the urgent order conveyed by Zhao Ritian, the senior Swedish urban militia stepped forward over the corpses of their own people and the wailing wounded who were still alive.
With such a movement, the original horizontal and vertical formation suddenly became distorted. Fortunately, the overall formation was not chaotic.
Seeing this scene, Wang Ziming couldn't help but rejoice that they had been promoted to senior Swedish town militiamen. If they were ordinary Swedish town militiamen, no matter how neatly they were lined up, they would be thrown into chaos in an instant.
When the senior Swedish town militiamen on Wang Ziming's side advanced, the infantry phalanx on Cole's side also slowly moved forward, outflanking the flanks of the Polish infantry phalanx.
This is the advantage of having a large number of troops. You can use a wider cross-section of the battlefield to allow a large group of infantry to outflank the enemy's flanks!
However, Cole's team is a bit far away, and it will take some time to outflank and turn. In order to maintain the integrity of the formation, the infantry can only walk slowly...
Once the infantry lost its formation and the cavalry of the Polish army charged up, Cole's team would be tragic...
This is the reason why everyone on the battlefield ordered the soldiers to move forward little by little, step by step, even though they knew that walking would be slow and would delay the opportunity for combat.
Formation is more important than anything else!
When Cole's team moved forward slowly and turned around, Wang Ziming's senior Swedish town militiamen had already taken advantage of the gap filled by the Polish and German musketeers on the opposite side, and moved closer to the effective range of the arquebus.
The Polish Germanic musketeers were able to abolish dozens of senior Swedish town militiamen with a salvo because they did not take turns firing, but all muskets fired together!
Naturally, they fell into the gap of reloading together, allowing Wang Ziming's senior Swedish town militiamen to cross the gap in the effective range of the muskets of the two sides without injury.
Aim ~ fire!
bang bang bang...
The senior Swedish urban militiamen finally launched the first round of gun volleys. More than 1,600 people were divided into eight rows, and there were 200 muskets in each row. Compared with the guns fired by the Polish German musketeers on the opposite side, there was no quantitative disadvantage!
A dozen Polish-German musketeers who were loading suddenly fell to the ground dangling, and the hit rate of both sides was clear at a glance...
After all, everyone is shooting within the effective range, which is far from the close-range salvo, and the hit rate is very low.
The Polish German musketeers on the opposite side were able to bring down dozens of senior Swedish town militiamen at once, not only because of the quality of the musketeers, but also because of the huge gap in the shooting level of the musketeers on both sides!
After all, one is a Tier 3 Musketeer and the other is a Tier 2 Musketeer...
Wanting to make up for the gap in shooting levels between the two sides, Wang Ziming had no choice but to let the senior Swedish town militia continue to advance and shoot salvos!
At that distance, neither the marksmanship nor the quality of the musket becomes unimportant...
After the first row of senior Swedish town militiamen fired, each phalanx was divided by the middle line. The first row of Swedish senior town militiamen turned left and right holding their arquebus guns, jogged to both sides, and gave way to the second Platoon of senior Swedish town militiamen!
Then, the first row of senior Swedish town militiamen jogged from the gaps between the phalanxes to the last row of the phalanxes and stood still again, and then began to load ammunition!
At this time, the senior Swedish town militiamen in the second row had already taken three steps forward, and under the command of the temporary captain, they raised their arquebus again and aimed at the opposite side.
Wang Ziming didn't appreciate his army's alternate shooting method, but stared at the Polish Germanic musketeers who had been shot with green morale bars!