Chapter 18 Infantry
That night, everyone went to bed early. Lin Kaixin's camp was better. The crying sounds of young mercenaries came from time to time at other mercenaries' camps.
The next morning, it was a sunny day without a cloud. Everyone buried their own pots to cook. Lin Kaixin ate stewed beef here, which was also stimulated by Huang Yi and the others to eat snowflake beef. Of course, the beef here was bought from a merchant, not snowflake beef.
In this world, beef is expensive and pork and mutton are cheap. It is not common for you to eat fresh beef (now slaughtered). Although the mercenary group claims to have meat every meal for training, most of the time they only eat chicken, pork and mutton. This way, it is very rare to eat beef open-minded - do you have to control the cost?
After Lin Kaixin's mercenaries finished eating the beef, each of them wrapped a few kilograms of cooked beef in oil paper and used it as today's dry food. It was still unpredictable for the next meal.
After breakfast, at about eight o'clock, the troops began to gather under the command of the liaison officer, military judge and record officer sent by the King Team.
Lin Kaixin and other private soldiers and mercenaries were all used as infantrymen, and together with the infantrymen of the regular army of the Kingdom, which had hundreds of people, formed an infantry front with more than 2,500 people.
Although everyone has mules, in fact, mules are not as good as war horses in battle. The Tang Sanwang team opposite is similar, half of the infantry and half of the cavalry - among them, the cavalry must be elite, and a war horse is expensive.
There are various reasons why mercenaries use mules. First, when facing robbers, the impact of mules is enough. The most important thing is naturally economic factors. Mules are low, easy to raise, and not easy to get sick. Not only are they purchased for war horses expensive, but each war horse also needs someone to take care of them day and night. Mercenaries cannot afford such a cost.
Even the regular army of the kingdom, the number of war horses they raise is limited. Simply put, how much income each lord has can only decide how many war horses and elite knights they raise.
Although the more than 2,000 war horses on the battlefield are not the whole of the Warlin Kingdom, they also account for 70% to 80% of the war horses in the country.
After becoming an infantryman, Lin Kaixin's bows, swords, shields, long swords, etc. were hung on his body. Anyway, after the four-dimensional attributes were high, there were many people who could carry them. Everyone was both archers, swords, shields, and spears, and long swords.
Only after such infantry formation can they barely fight against the cavalry. Of course, most of the time, cavalry and cavalry fight, infantry and infantry fight.
Lin Kaixin's private soldiers were incorporated into the 60-man regular army infantry of the Kingdom. Their equipment seemed a little simpler than the light and heavy cavalry, with only bronze helmets and bronze heart protection mirrors, and then a leather armor. Their level was also below level 25.
Because of its good equipment, all equipped with half-body steel armor and steel helmets, as well as a full set of steel knives and steel guns, Lin Kaixin's private army and the king's sixty people, a total of 250 people were organized into the first squadron.
The commander was a royal officer named Wat sent by the king. He was of thirty-one level, with his own war horse, full of iron armor, and a entourage knight carrying the King Warlin flag.
Level 31 is also the highest in the entire brigade. The world here only recognizes the level. Of course, if you have good equipment, everyone will praise you for being rich.
The two sides fought decisively on the plains and formed the same formation, with infantry formations in the center, light cavalry covering both wings, and heavy cavalry behind.
This is because the heavy cavalry has the strongest breakthrough ability and can often play a role in turning the situation around the war, so they always follow a group of nobles and kings behind. The main function of the heavy cavalry is to fight against the enemy's heavy cavalry and prevent the enemy's heavy cavalry from raging among the infantry and light cavalry on their own.
Just like the best weapon to deal with a tank, it is still a tank. The heavy cavalry of this era is like a small tank, with the best defense and the strongest breakthrough ability. Long-distance raids still require light cavalry to do this, and the main force of siege is infantry.
Both sides were organizing the team, and the officers and knights here shouted "For the Kingdom of Warlin", while the other party shouted "For the Kingdom of Tang San".
Soldiers, private soldiers and mercenaries did not respond much. Everyone came here for contractual obligations. For the sake of the kingdom, it was better to be for gold coins and women. Of course, there were many women among the soldiers and private soldiers here. However, there was no gender distinction between soldiers and private soldiers. When they arrived here, there was only one name, the soldiers.
After shouting the slogans, the military formations of both sides approached the drum beats. In this era, there were no famous generals or the like. In fact, even grandson said that they should be consistent.
In terms of righteousness, it can be seen as the military's field capabilities. The army with poor field capabilities cannot do so. The city-guarding experts in the era of cold weapons did not end well, such as Zhang Xun and Yuan Chonghuan.
Generally, one arrow refers to two hundred meters in this era, which is the largest shooting range of military bows and arrows in this era. However, today when the infantry troops on both sides approached about three hundred meters, the first brigade, dominated by Lin Kaixin's troops, all 190 people began to shoot bows and arrows.
Prince Wat originally wanted to scold him, but he couldn't shoot arrows so early, so what's the use? Isn't it a waste of physical strength and arrows?
However, after Prince Wat saw nearly two hundred bows and arrows flying into the opponent's infantry formation, he did not scold him after he saw that he was stuck in his throat.
After taking the initiative, more than a dozen people fell from the opponent's infantry formation, and many of the remaining people were injured, and even three or four arrows were inserted.
Seeing that the projectile was effective, Prince Water ordered "the first team to shoot quickly."
In fact, without waiting for Prince Wat's order, the second round of arrows was almost leaving the bowstring. After the rain of arrows, the infantrymen of the Tang San Kingdom opposite could only bear it silently and used the shield, but the shield could only cover a small number of key parts of it. Moreover, the ordinary wooden shield and bronze shield had very low defense against the arrows. Arrows obtained from high altitude can often penetrate these wooden shields or bronze shields.
However, the opponent's infantry also knew that although it was difficult at this time, if you dare to escape, you would die first, because a very important task of the heavy cavalry behind was to serve as the military and legal team. Although there was no way for the entire army to retreat, the few who ran first would die. There was no need to run first. As long as you didn't follow the drum beats, you would die without moving forward when you heard the drum.
Chapter completed!