The horse nail is too terrifying, which can both hurt the enemy and oneself. Moreover, no matter how it moves, there will be three sharp corners supporting the ground to form a stable structure, while the other sharp corner remains upward, and whoever steps on it will be unlucky.
Therefore, after being scattered, the power is too great. Legend has it that Zhuge Liang invented it in order to cope with the cavalry advantages of Wei State. With scattered, the opponent's cavalry could not let go and charge. Whether it was to block the enemy or retreat, it could play a huge role. The only problem is that after scattered, the charge of his own people would also be hindered.
So Marin began to think about how to pin the enemy with a horse without hurting himself... In the end, he found the answer from the caltrops on the wire mesh...
The specific method is to make a hole in the middle of the horse nail and string the horse nail with a rope. During the battle, throw out the horse nails tied into strings, and the soldier pushing the cart holds a rope that can retract the string of horse nails.
Once the army needs to attack, the chariot soldiers will use ropes to retract the string of horse nails to avoid pricking their own people. When the enemy attacks, although they stop and bend down, they will see a string of horse nails and gather them together. However, the musketeers behind the unicycle will not give the opponent this opportunity. The enemy's cavalry will rush too fast and will not have the chance to collect the horse nails on the horse. As long as the opponent's cavalry rushed over, it is difficult to avoid serious damage from the horse nails.
When Marin nailed dozens of modified unicycle chariots and dozens of built skeletons to the school ground to show them to his officers, everyone gasped. Especially the cavalry officers, after seeing it, they only felt their scalp numb.
Facing the densely packed horse nails on the ground and the wheelbarrow with four spearheads in front of the last chariot, the cavalry officer did not know how to crack it. The terrifying level was no less than the two ditches and wooden pickets that Malin had built before. The two functions of blocking the enemy are very powerful. The difference is that the tactics of adding wooden pickets to the two ditches and wooden pickets not only block the enemy, but also block themselves, and can only be used for defense. The wheelbarrow chariot and horse nail string can not only block the enemy, but also quickly recover, without affecting our army's pursuit of the enemy.
The cavalry officers discussed for a long time but could not think of any solution. In the end, they believed that avoiding the edge was the right choice. Or, use the black-shirt Knight's musket tactics to deal with it.
However, in Marin's square formation, there are a large number of musketeers. Moreover, they use long-tube rifles that are more powerful than the Blackshirt Knight's carbine. Therefore, the Blackshirt Knight is not suitable for use. If you shoot, the Blackshirt Knight will definitely suffer...
It would be a good idea to attack with artillery. However, the number of artillery equipment in the Marin army has always been very high. It seems that it is not very wise to fire artillery with Marin.
In the end, everyone could only think of one way - to use a spearman to advance without fear of casualties, clear out the horse-drawn string, and then go forward and stab each other with the Marin soldiers through the wheel chariot. However, under the attack of the rogue gun, the casualties were a bit too great. When the casualties reached a certain level, the army could easily collapse...
At the end of the discussion, the cavalry officers were all frightened. They felt that once the wheeled chariot blowing, horse-stapled strings and horse-resisting tactics were released, it would be extremely difficult for cavalry to attack the infantry phalanx in the future. The era of infantry phalanx is about to come...
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Autumn is the season of harvest, Marin's local harvest, Cape Breton and Twin Islands also achieved good harvests. As for Grenada, it naturally had great harvests. However, there is no concept of autumn there, and it is summer all year round.
After the autumn harvest, the three colonies transported a large amount of supplies by ship. Cape Breton Island was transported with rye, salt, and a large amount of paper; the transported by Armerico Island was mainly 1 million pounds of soybeans and 2 million pounds of spring wheat; the transported with 500,000 pounds of sugar, and a large amount of ginger and rice were transported with Grenada.
Originally, Grenada could transport more sugar sugar. However, because the newly opened Havana colony of Cuba required a large amount of sugar cane seedlings. Therefore, George ordered more sugar cane festivals to be used to cultivate sugar cane seedlings. However, 500,000 pounds of sugar sugar were enough for the nobles of East Fries. After all, in this era, sugar sugar was not something that civilians could eat. With so few nobles, the total consumption of sugar sugar was not large.
The price of sugar in this era is also very expensive, reaching 2 shillings per pound. That is, 24 per pound of Finney, which is equivalent to the 12-day salary of an ordinary worker. If calculated based on the level of 100 yuan per day for ordinary people in later generations, a pound of sugar may be sold for as high as 1,200 yuan - it is simply scary...
Marin made fried soybeans and tofu last year with 1 million pounds of soybeans shipped back from Asiatico Island. But this year, Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that it could squeeze soybean oil...
Now, Marin and East Friesian nobles have always used lard and butter as oil for cooking. Although the taste is not bad, they are not as healthy as vegetable oil. As nobles, because they consume a lot of meat, they still need to pay attention to health.
So Marin brought in a spiral pressure oil press and started to use soybeans to squeeze oil. Marin first fryed the soybeans, then put them in a spiral oil press, and squeezed the soybeans hard with a spiral column to make it produce oil. The oil squeezed from cooked soybeans has a fragrance and is easier to preserve.
After getting soybean oil, Marin ordered that in the future, lard and butter will no longer be used as cooking oil when cooking in the kitchen. After all, animal oil has many unhealthy ingredients. Vegetable oil, by comparison, is much healthier.
Moreover, the remaining cooked bean cakes after oil pressing have the aroma of fried soybeans and are also very good feed. They are fed to horses and are also very popular among horses.
With soybean oil, many Chinese-style stir-frying dishes have a more authentic taste. Especially when stir-frying vegetables, they will inevitably have a meaty aroma. However, this is different from the original intention of stir-frying vegetables. Only by stir-frying vegetables with vegetable oil can you taste the original flavor of vegetables more. Moreover, animal oil has a high cholesterol content, and eating too much is not good for health. Therefore, using soybean oil to replace animal oil to stir-frying dishes is obviously more in line with health requirements.
In fact, if Malin's approach is known to ordinary people in this era, they will definitely be criticized. For ordinary people, oil and water are very short of water. Therefore, ordinary people invite animal oil even more. Because animal oil can make them feel more meaty. This is just like before the reform of China, the people lack oil and water, and they like to eat fatty meat more. In the 21st century, everyone began to like to eat lean meat instead of fatty meat.
Chapter completed!