Chapter 1,474: Invincible Firearm (Part 2)

"Military genius comes to another world with Zizhi Tongjian ()"

The generals in the Frank army naturally know that the Holy Hilan Empire has produced a new-style army in recent years.

At the same time, they also know that this new-style army played a huge role in the expedition against the grassland people.

But they know very little about this new-style army of the Holy Hilan Empire, and the information is very scarce.

They only know that the name of this new-style army is "Musketeers", and the new weapon they use is called "Musketeers", and their soldiers march forward to the sound of music.

And their "Musketeers" are a long-range weapon with great power.

Apart from this, Rudolf and others do not know any other information.

How far can the musket shoot? How powerful is it? How fast is the shooting?

Rudolf and others do not know these important information.

Because of the lack of information about this new-style army, in order to be cautious, Rudolf and others decided to adopt a safe way of playing - first send sword and shield soldiers to test the combat effectiveness of this new-style army.

After seeing the Hilan army on the opposite side send out this new-style troop with its own music, Rudolf was actually relieved.

If the Hilan army on the opposite side first sent out a troop other than their new-style troop, then Rudolf would have to withdraw the sword and shield soldiers first.

Rudolf's eyes were fixed on the battlefield in front of him, staring at the two troops that were constantly approaching...

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El is still in charge of the main camp of the entire army. The person who is responsible for commanding the musketeers and welcoming the sword and shield soldiers of the Frankish army is Gabriel.

Gabriel is the person in the entire army who is most familiar with muskets except El.

At the same time, Gabriel is also the person El trusts the most, and he himself has good military qualities.

Although El is still the highest commander of the musketeers in name now.

But now El no longer personally commands the musketeers to fight. At present, Gabriel is mainly in the front line to command the musketeers.

Gabriel, who was in the center of the musketeer formation and stayed with the musicians, kept calculating the distance between them and the Frankish army in his mind.

After calculating that the Frankish army on the opposite side had entered the shooting range, Gabriel shouted:

"Stop!"

As soon as Gabriel's order fell, the musicians beside him immediately stopped playing music.

And the musketeers also stopped advancing and formed a tight and neat formation.

"Raise your guns!"

Clatter...

The musketeers raised the muskets that had been resting on their shoulders just now.

"Aim!"

Clatter...

The sound of metal equipment colliding sounded again one after another.

"Fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...

The musketeers pulled the trigger at the same time.

The dense barrage of bullets swept towards the sword and shield army formation on the opposite side.

As the gunshots from the musketeers fell, the screams from the Frankish sword and shield soldiers sounded one after another.

After El's expedition to the Far Eastern grasslands achieved an unprecedented victory, the rulers and ministers of the Holy Hilan Empire saw the power of muskets.

Vasili never expected that the muskets he despised at the time would be so powerful.

Vasili, who was extremely happy, directly ordered to invest heavily in the research and manufacture of muskets and expand the size of the musket team.

Vasili's plan was to ensure that all the major legions of the country had a sufficient number of musketeers.

However, although the central government of the Holy Hilan Empire spent a lot of materials to increase the research on muskets, in order to further improve the power and firing rate of muskets, or directly reduce the cost.

However, researching this kind of thing is something that you may lose money no matter how much money you spend...

Although there has been no progress in the research on muskets, the power, firing rate, and production cost of muskets are the same as when El was on the grasslands, but the number of muskets and musketeers has increased a lot.

After the central government of the empire invested energy and materials to expand the size of the musketeers, there are currently 4,121 new and old musketeers and 8,291 musketeers in the Holy Hilan Empire.

In order to increase the combat power of the legion attacking the Frankish Empire and allow El to occupy as much land of the Frankish Empire as possible, Vasili transferred all the musketeers and musketeers in the Holy Hilan Empire to El's command.

So - El currently has more than 4,000 musketeers and more than 8,000 musketeers.

The army formation composed of more than 4,000 musketeers - you can imagine how large the scale of this army formation is.

The dense barrage of bullets whistled towards the Frankish sword and shield soldiers on the opposite side.

The war shields used by these sword and shield soldiers were all wall shields as high as a person.

Whether it was the thickness or the materials used, they were impeccable. Even crossbows could hardly penetrate such thick shields.

However, after this dense barrage of bullets swept towards them, these thick shields in their hands were all penetrated without exception.

The bullets directly shattered the thick shields in their hands, and then directly penetrated the people hiding behind the shields.

In an instant, blood bloomed and wailing was everywhere.

In just the first round of shooting, many people in the Frankish sword and shield soldiers fell down.

The entire formation was directly messed up.

Not to mention continuing to advance, the Frankish sword and shield soldiers even had a hard time maintaining their formation.

Whether it was the sword and shield soldiers facing the musketeers or the other soldiers behind the Frank army who were stunned by the powerful force of the muskets, the second round of the musketeers' attack came.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...

Another burst of gunfire, one after another.

Another sword and shield soldier of the Frank army fell to the ground and wailed.

After only two rounds of volleys, the morale of the sword and shield soldiers of the Frank army collapsed.

Since the first soldier fled backwards, a serious chain reaction has been triggered.

More and more soldiers did not have the courage to face the musketeers who could break such a thick shield, and fled in all directions.

Rudolf, who stayed on the watchtower at the main camp of the Frank army, witnessed all this with his own eyes, and then fiercely hit the wooden fence in front of him.

"Send troops to support! Bring all the sword and shield soldiers back safely!"

Rudolf did not intend to blame these sword and shield soldiers for deserting the battlefield.

Because he could understand these sword and shield soldiers very well...

The opponent's weapon could easily break such a thick shield... If it were Rudolf, he would also want to escape.

"Rudolf..." Erich, who was standing next to Rudolf, said in a deep voice, "What should we do now...? Have you come up with any strategy to restrain the musketeers of the Hilan Army?"

"...Send out the cavalry!" Rudolf gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Since sending sword and shield soldiers can't deal with the musketeers, then send out the cavalry! We win with speed! Before the musketeers use their muskets, defeat them in one go!"