489 The Dwarf Enters the Game
Originally, the Ottoman Empire wanted the La Mongol Empire to join the Allied Power, but the Centaur proposed the conditions to require the Ottoman Empire to fully share firearm technology, which was unacceptable to the Dark Elves, so the Mongol Empire did not join the Allied Power.
The Continental War allowed the Centaur to see the lethal power of new weapons. Even with the absolute cavalry advantage, the Centaur Khan was deeply worried.
The five consecutive rear-mounted rifles developed by humans are enough to pose a strict threat to the cavalry, and the firepower net formed will suffer heavy losses even if the cavalry charges.
Simple operation: Any human farmer can be trained in three months and can be brought to the battlefield!
Therefore, the Centaurs are worried that they will be erased from the Eurasian continent by this weapon in the future!
This is different from the weapons that Richard transformed out of thin air. Human advanced weapons are produced in industry and can be quantified and manufactured, and a continuous armed army!
So the Centaur is eager to obtain this weapon!
It’s a pity that how could the Dark Elf develop a competitor for itself?
The Mongol Empire has a vast territory and a large number of humans under its rule. If advanced firearms are fully armed, it is equivalent to creating another enemy of about the same level as continental humans!
The Mongol Empire with cavalry advantage is already terrible. In addition, firearms make up for the disadvantage of infantry, how can the Ottoman Empire guard the vast northern border?
Therefore, the Ottoman Empire would rather not have the Mongol Empire as an ally, and would rather not provide them with weapons!
By the same token, the centaur also hit a wall with the dwarf...
In this way, the Mongol Empire did not join the Allied System.
However, the Centaur did nothing. He took advantage of the continental war and mobilized a large army to attack the weak Duchy of Moscow, intending to take down the Duchy of Moscow while the dwarves and dark elves had no time to take care of them!
The lands of the Principality of Moscow are not much attractive to centaurs. Those are truly bitter and cold places, and their fertile territory has long been swallowed by the Kingdom of Sweden...
But there was a production system for the arsenal in the Duchy of Moscow in the era of smoothbore guns. After those Duchy of Moscow, the Centaur Mongol Empire could upgrade from the Age of Cold Weapons to the Age of Flintlocks in one fell swoop!
Originally, the centaur looked down on the flintlock rifle, and the firing rate of the flintlock rifle could only shoot a volley under the cavalry charge.
The bayonet formation of the flintlock rifle is even more of a joke under the charge of the centaurs.
The hollow square array that is very effective against nomadic peoples has little effect on the charge of elite centaurs.
The thin bayonet periphery of the hollow square formation is a kind of fear for war horses. When the war horses sprint, they will instinctively avoid the bayonet formation, making it impossible for cavalry to attack the hollow square formation head-on.
But the centaur cavalry did not have this problem. They were united by a man and horse, and could completely rush to the hollow square formation!
The thin hollow square array has only three rows in one layer, and the centaur cavalry can penetrate it with a round of rifle.
Since there is no need to worry about the frightened horses, centaur cavalry can fight along the way in a straight line. At worst, they can only bear more casualties.
And after the centaur cavalry took the lead in opening up the situation, the subsequent human nomadic cavalry could flock to follow up and tear the entire hollow square formation apart!
Therefore, the hollow square formation in the era of flintlock rifle did not have much effect on dealing with centaurs, and at most it would be replaced with some casualties and injuries.
Although the fertility of centaurs is worse than that of humans, they are not much worse. They are not afraid of death.
Of course, most of the time, the centaurs would not choose to rush to the hollow square formation, but instead forced the enemy to retreat by harassing the logistics line.
If it is not necessary, the Centaur will not choose to confront the human firearm army head-on. If that happens, it will be too great even if you win.
This is the fundamental reason why the centaur despises the flintlock.
However, after the breech gun showed its power, the Centaur had to put away his contempt, especially the five-pearl breech gun (similar to the Mauser rifle before World War I), which allowed the Centaur to see the threat!
That is a rifle that can fire more than a dozen bullets in one minute!
Infantry holding this kind of rifle can cause significant losses to the centaur cavalry even if it is a small group of troops. If it is a human nomadic cavalry, it can even charge and repel the cavalry!
Human nomadic cavalry are not as brave as centaurs to face the rain of bullets.
Therefore, the Centaur began to pay attention to the development of firearms and could not obtain a breech gun. He could obtain a full set of flintlock gun technology and breech gun technology, and could also make up for his own weakness.
The next step to taking over the Principality of Moscow is to form a human infantry legion!
The attack on the Principality of Moscow was nothing at all in the continental war. After the Ottoman Empire and the dwarves discovered that the centaur did not dare to invade their own territory, they ignored it.
The Principality of Moscow is a place where scraps of materials are exiled, with a severe cold climate and harsh living conditions, so it is not taken seriously by the great powers at all.
The warm and fertile Central and even Western Europe are the places where dwarves yearn for the most!
If it weren't for the great power of humans, the dwarves wouldn't have been excluded from the cold Northern Europe...
With the establishment of the Allied System, a large number of dwarf regular legions from the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway joined the battlefield.
Dwarves are born warriors, and they do not arm a large number of human cannon fodder to the front line like dark elves.
There were also humans under the dwarf kingdom, but their living conditions were much stronger than those of the Ottoman Empire. Dwarfs generally regarded humans as logistics forces rather than front-line troops.
This is mainly because the dwarves do not trust human combat power, especially when fighting against the human kingdom!
In fact, the dwarves' vision is very correct. It is a clear example that the Ottoman Empire's human servant army was beaten up by the chaotic human coalition on the front line!
The Ottoman army with a unified command system clearly had great tactical and strategic advantages, but was defeated by the chaotic human coalition!
Of course, this situation reversed after the Dwarf Legion joined!
First of all, due to the large loss of the army, the Prussian Kingdom was destroyed by the Dwarf Legion and attacked Brandenburg, and even the capital of Berlin was lost!
As soon as the Dwarf Legion entered the field, it severely damaged the coalition forces with the human race!
Brandenburg is one of the important battlefields of both sides, and it was easily captured by the dwarf...
Then, the united dwarf legion took advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the coalition was dragged by the Ottoman to disperse the assault, defeating the chaotic human coalition one by one, and swallowing half of the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire!
The scale of the Human Alliance has been reduced by two-thirds!
It can be foreseen that there is only a matter of time left to win the Allies on the battlefield...
Obviously, this is the result that the Church of Light and Western European countries do not want to see!
Chapter completed!