Of course, Carl did not criticize the sharpshooter in the battle report, even though he clearly pointed out that the reason why the guard infantry suffered a lot in this battle was that the sharpshooter was playing soy sauce throughout the whole process... Oh no, he was an auxiliary army and did not rush to the front line at all.

Especially when both sides fight with bayonets, and you have me and I have you, the sharpshooters cannot fully utilize their marksmanship, and have become a "small rib" that can only be used to guard the periphery and the back.

However, Carl particularly praised the sharpshooter's contribution to intercepting flanking enemy legions.

In particular, we chose complex jungle terrain and easily defeated the vanguards of the four legions with absolute disadvantages, and captured more prisoners of war than their headquarters!

This is the only thing that the Sharpshooter has excelled in many battles.

Therefore, Carl suggested that the sharpshooter be woven into special mountain and jungle troops, and only a small amount of configuration is required for the frontal battlefield, and the guard infantry should be used as auxiliary troops.

After reading Carl's battle report, Li Wei couldn't help but sigh:

"Sure enough, the trendsetters in every history are not idiots, scattered soldiers, light infantry, hunters and other soldiers who pay attention to gunfire have always served as auxiliary troops in the era of queuing and shooting. It is inevitable that they will be the position of auxiliary troops.

The performance defects of muskets in this era are too great. The effective range of the smoothbore gun is more than 100 meters. However, it is impossible to accurately hit the opponent within this effective range, even a sharpshooter cannot do it.

A distance of 100 meters, how long does an ordinary male sprint for a hundred meters?

How many chances can you give the smoothbore gun to fire?

Without dense line formations, and relying solely on the scattered lines, how many bayonets can the sharpshooter withstand?

However, if sharpshooters were asked to form dense lines to form a square array, they would have to face bayonets and fight, which would be better than using guard infantry.

When using the front-mounted rifle, the effective range has been doubled, but the rate of fire has dropped by three or four times. The decrease in the rate of fire is enough to make up for the more wasted time when the enemy charges and runs...

This is another unsolvable loop.

No wonder in this era, no matter which European power is, the construction of scattered soldiers is not as important as the line infantry. It is not that they ignore the importance of scattered soldiers, but that the performance of muskets in this era determines that scattered soldiers are ultimately the types of troops that cannot undertake the main combat tasks.

During the American Revolutionary War, the US Continental Army achieved remarkable results in strait warfare, which was compared with the US Continental Army's repeated defeats in frontal warfare.

If the guerrilla scattered tactics are really so awesome, the American Continental Army would not need France to sell blood to save the country...

What's more, line infantry can occasionally be used as a guest star, but it is more difficult for a strait to be a guest star. After all, the queue requirements and morale requirements of line infantry are too high.

In my Black Dragon Legion, morale requirements can be ignored. In the queue, the sharpshooter is not too weak, and can meet the standards of ordinary regular troops of European powers at this time.

However, the Guard Infantry is stronger than the Sharpshooter in this regard. Why should I use the Sharpshooter?

Both the reports of Colonels such as Karl and Polkha emphasized the brilliant achievements of the Guards infantry in this battle.

To put it bluntly, if the Guard Infantry was not in front of him, the sharpshooter would not have much chance to use their marksmanship!

By shooting alone, the enemy soldiers are not fools. It is impossible for them to stand and get shot all the time. They dare not charge and will not find a place to avoid bullets?

So the final decision on the outcome will be the bayonet charge, and only by rushing up will the enemy be defeated.

If you shoot alone, as long as the bullets cannot penetrate the cover, it will become a stalemate of mutual consumption.

It seems that I was a little unconsidered in recruiting sharpshooters in a large number of times before, but in the guerrillas, sharpshooters are indeed very useful. After all, guerrillas rarely fight head-on battles, and it is their normal state to drill into mountains and ditches.

These sharpshooters are not without performance.

But on the frontal battlefield, I still need to train a lot of guard infantry to do so.

In the era of pre-loading guns, no matter how densely arranged or how good the guns were, they could not withstand large-scale crowd charges. Even militias and guerrillas could rush through the firepower net of muskets as long as they were morale enough.

After a round of volleys, you can basically rush to the enemy.

Therefore, the shooting technique is not the most important thing in the era of queuing up to shoot. Unless you enter the era of breech guns, it is the stage where sharpshooters truly play their main role!

When machine guns become popular, marksmanship will become an important indicator of soldiers' tactical ability.

In today's era of insufficient musket performance, the outcome of the war depends mainly on the soldiers' ability to fight bayonets."

After reading the frontline battle report, Li Wei humbly accepted the proposal of senior officers of Karl and Polkha, intending to increase the proportion of guard infantry in the Black Dragon Legion and completely divide the sharpshooter into the auxiliary troops.

Of course, sharpshooters usually fire cold guns in the back, so there will not be too much losses during battle. At present, even if these numbers are formed separately, it is enough.

While Li Wei changed the focus of his training camp troops, Carl had already led the main force of the Black Dragon Legion to advance into the Gironde Province. All the cities and towns passed along the way were surrendered without exception.

There were even many capitalists who took the initiative to kneel under the banner of the Black Dragon Legion and became the leader party.

Compared with the civilian class who came from the bottom of the class, the bourgeois industrial and commercial bosses were more attentive and kneeled very neatly.

After all, the bosses of industry and commerce are generally in the local area. Even if they can take their whole family to escape, can they still take the factory and shop away?

If these industrial and commercial bosses give up their family business, they will return to the civilian class in no time...

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. In order to maintain the family business, these industrial and commercial capitalists would rather surrender to the Li Wei regime, which was in the eyes of most people. At least Li Wei would not kill all the industry and commerce. Wallace, the Minister of Commerce in the Li Wei regime, and most of the members are industrial and commercial bosses.

As for financial capitalists, it is quite convenient for these people to run away. After all, they do not have the burden of fixed production such as factories and stores, so it is easier to withdraw large amounts of cash and sweep away.

Therefore, few financial capitalists surrendered to Li Wei, and most of them fled to Paris, the safest city in France, or overseas countries.

The entry of the Black Dragon Legion is equivalent to a round of political and economic purge on the Gironde Province.

What has fallen is not just the town council that has just been established for a few years!
Chapter completed!