Chapter 1756: Smallpox
In fact, when fighting in groups, what Marin asked the cadets was to learn to "get cheap". What's more, try to concentrate two or three people against one of the opponents to form a regional advantage in numbers.
No matter how strong an individual's fighting ability is, he can't stand up to a group fight. In addition to solid personal basic skills, the stabbing tactics required by Marin is to learn to "steal chickens".
For example, if the bayonetman who has just come up to fill the position, in addition to blocking the bayonet with the spear or pushing away the bayonet stabbed by the enemy, he should also pay attention to observe and observe the enemies who are fighting with their comrades. If no one is coming to attack you at this time, it is best to sneak attack those unsuspecting enemies and bring them down one by one first. In short, there must be an advantage if more people beat fewer people.
The opponent can parry your attack alone, but it is difficult to parry two or even three simultaneous attacks. In particular, the bayonet is a very insidious and dangerous weapon. When Qi Jiguang was dealing with Japanese pirates, he found that using the "Sancai Formation" or "Liangyi Formation" was very effective against a single Japanese pirate. Don't be fooled by the name, in fact, one of them holds the opponent, and then the other stabs the opponent with a spear from the slant. The Japanese swords of the Japanese pirates were held up by wolf sticks and rattan cards, so it was difficult to parry the sudden spears.
In the same way, if a bayonetman on the opposite side blocks and parries with you, and the other two stab from different directions, it will be extremely difficult to resist. At this time, the only thing that can save you is the armor on your body...
However, to be honest, Marin felt that these fighting tactics might not be applicable. Because, on the battlefield, these young guards will definitely be protected by spearmen!
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Practicing fighting and stabbing is actually just a rainy day, so as to prevent the Young Guards from being incapable of fighting when they are alone. But under normal circumstances, the Young Guards actually stood in the middle of the hollow phalanx and enjoyed national treasure-level protection.
According to Marin's arrangement, during the battle, the sharpshooters of the Young Guards will have at least three rows of spearmen in front, and there will be a row of Yu Dayou chariots in the front to prevent the enemy from forcibly attacking.
As for how the sharpshooters of the Young Guards attack the enemy? Learn more about the bench...
According to Marin's request, each of these young guard marksmen will be equipped with a bench. When fighting, as long as they stand on the bench, they can aim and shoot at the enemy above the heads of the first three rows of spearmen. In order not to prevent the sharpshooters from aiming at the enemy, the spears of the first three rows of spearmen must be placed flat and aimed at the front, so as not to lie horizontally in the sky and accidentally block the bullets.
Needless to say, the spears in the front row can be directly pointed at the front. And the spears of the two rows behind them rested directly on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, forming a dense spearhead array of three rows of spears, which seemed more difficult to deal with than hedgehogs...
At this time, after the soldiers of the Young Guards loaded their ammunition, they could stand on the stools and aim at the enemy's elite from a height for precise shooting.
If there is no shooting mission, they can even sit on the stool to rest...
Therefore, in the following training, the generals of the Beihai Kingdom were surprised to see that this group of young guards not only trained enthusiastically to fight bayonets, but also ran around with a bench when they were fine... This reminded Marin of the village where he was a child. During the movie, the villagers also carried stools and ran to the threshing floor where the movie was shown...
Because of this feature, the Young Guards were later dubbed the "Bench Legion". Because, everybody runs around with a bench.
When fighting, they also stand on the bench and shoot.
And the funniest thing is that these benches are not only tools, but also weapons. Because, in a melee, swinging a bench and smashing it is sometimes more lethal than a sword. Later, in a battle, when the young guards were facing the enemy's spear formation, they first smashed the opponent's neat formation with a bench, and then took the opportunity to charge with bayonets and won the battle...
Of course, these benches are usually placed on the trolleys, and they are not carried by themselves. But before the battle, everyone will receive their own bench to help fight.
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It's a bit of a luxury when shooting, because they all use hand-crafted steel core slugs for shooting training. These bullets are all lead bullets carefully made with molds by several well-crafted craftsmen under the arrangement of Marin, and they are very careful in every step. Especially the air grille on the top of the warhead, which cannot be damaged. Otherwise, after shooting out, it will not be able to rotate itself. A slug that cannot rotate itself is not very different from ordinary spherical lead bullets. There is no need to mention the range or something.
Therefore, in order to prevent the air grille on the top of the soft steel core slug from being damaged, each steel core slug will be put into a padded wooden box after it is built to avoid damage.
Before each shot, the shooters would open the tightly packed box and carefully take out the steel-core slug. When reloading, they did not dare to use too much force for fear of damaging the air grille structure on the warhead...
And this kind of precise bullet shooting effect is naturally very gratifying. At a distance of 200 meters, as long as there is no accident, they can hit the human target. And this kind of heavy lead bullet, as long as it hits the target, not to mention one shot kills, but as long as it is hit, the real person will be crippled. After all, the bullet is that big...
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When Marin was busy training the Young Guards, suddenly the North Sea spy in Italy sent back a very terrible news-smallpox broke out in Italy!
The sky still broke out in Venice, and its source came from the Greek area occupied by Turkey...
After entering May, in this warm season, not only everything grows, but even viruses become active. For some unknown reason, smallpox suddenly broke out in the Thrace region in northeastern Greece.
Originally, this had nothing to do with Italy. But as expected, the merchant ships of the Venetians were all over the Eastern Mediterranean. When a merchant ship passed by the port of Kavala in Thrace, the sailors on the ship went ashore happily and brought back the smallpox virus.
But the people on the ship didn't notice it at that time, because the sailor's smallpox was latent and did not erupt immediately. After the ship returned to the Venetian Dalmatia region (Dalmatia in Croatia belonged to the Republic of Venice at this time), smallpox began to break out and spread rapidly in the Dalmatia region.
Fortunately, Toleni, the governor of the Dalmatia region in Venice, heard about Marin's theory of isolation and epidemic prevention, and immediately ordered the isolation of all areas in the Dalmatia region where people who had contact with smallpox patients were located. Moreover, quicklime was sprinkled everywhere in the affected area for disinfection.
Originally, this matter would have come to an end, and the smallpox epidemic area would be controlled in the Dalmatia region. However, Tolani didn't know what to think, probably because of his extreme hatred for Spain's robbing of Venice's spice trade, he actually sent a few people who had survived smallpox, sent a group of smallpox patients, and quietly landed in the Naples area. Moreover, they landed in a small fishing village only tens of kilometers away from Mount Vesuvius...
Obviously, Toleni wanted to spread smallpox in the Naples theater and use it to destroy the Spanish army.
Toleni knew how the French army ended in the first Italian war. The French army was not defeated, but was defeated by syphilis. This time, he planned to use smallpox to infect the Spanish army stationed in the Vesuvius area. Then, deal a heavy blow to Spain, the enemy of Venice's spice business...
However, Toleni played big. Because once smallpox spreads, it's not just the Spaniards who are hurt...