259 Pull the enemy cavalry to die
Boom boom boom boom...
This is a long battle line between thousands of people. Not to mention Austrian soldiers, even Marshal Baoliyu has never seen rows of grenades falling from the sky!
As we all know, grenadiers are carefully selected elite troops among the privateers, and elite troops, as the name suggests, often represent few people...
There are not only grenadiers in the Austrian army, but there is a grenadier regiment in the reserve team in Marshal Poliyu's hands.
However, all the French troops on the opposite side were grenadiers!
This is the first time that Marshal Baoliyu has seen grenades throwing grenades on the long plain battle line in a large-scale line of infantry battles!
The entire front, whether it was the middle or the left and right wings, was all blinded by the guard infantry's grenade throwing.
Due to the power of the black gunpowder explosion in this era, the lethality of the grenades is far less than that of the small grenades in later generations, but the violent sounds and large amounts of white smoke caused the battle line of Austrian soldiers to fall into great chaos.
Austrian privates, who were already at a disadvantage in the shooting with the guards infantry, could no longer maintain their formation. The Austrian noble officers were choked by the smoke and coughed continuously. Looking up, there was thick smoke everywhere, and their subordinates fled everywhere, so where was there any need for command?
What's even more terrible is that French was heard opposite the Austrians couldn't understand.
"The French Wehrmacht, bayonet and charge!"
"For Lord Li Wei, kill!!!"
Accompanied by the shouts of many shouts, the four guard infantry lined up into two lines, making the formation denser again, almost crowded with people rushing forward with bayonets.
At this time, although the Austrian side had more troops and had a reserve force behind the battle, the entire battle line became scattered the moment they collided in.
The Austrian private was pierced through his body in pieces like a lamb to be slaughtered!
This round of bayonet charge caused casualties to the Austrians, and even the total casualties during the previous shooting!
As expected, the battle line composed of tens of thousands of people in the Austrian army collapsed...
Marshal Bao Liyou raised the reserve team behind with a pale face. According to the characteristics of the queuing and shooting tactics in this era, he relied on the artillery position to unfold a new bayonet defense line behind him.
A large number of Austrian defeated Marshal Baoliyu's reserve team did not dare to shoot, otherwise the reserve team of tens of thousands of people would kill a volley of pursuing French troops, but the Austrian soldiers who fled were almost able to clear...
Now, after tragic volleyball shooting and being hit by guard infantry bayonets on the front, more than half of the Austrian privates on the front line have suffered casualties, up to two-thirds!
Many Austrian soldiers and even officers who escaped abandoned their weapons just to reduce the burden and get out of the pursuers behind them more quickly.
There is no way, the French army was chasing them so fast, they were like track and field athletes!
It was not until this time that the Austrian cavalry team sent by Marshal Boliyu detoured to the periphery of the artillery position in the rear of Niza.
Then, these Austrian cavalry encountered the guards cavalry who were slowly accelerating and intercepting.
Although guard infantry relies on artillery to exchange life with enemy cavalry with self-destruction tactics, the cost-effectiveness is too low.
The Austrian cavalry generals naturally knew that they would be intercepted, but the Austrian cavalry was filled with many noble children. They had a noble sense of honor and knew that this battle played a crucial role in preserving the Italian region and maintaining Austrian hegemony.
So, the Austrian cavalry began to accelerate slowly and drew out their saber.
This Austrian cavalry is not a charge cavalry, but an ordinary sabre cavalry, but the front cavalry is equipped with simple breastplate as protective equipment.
These Austrian cavalry equipped with breastplate were actually the private guards of the Austrian generals, and were concentrated by Marshal Boliyu for use in this battle.
Marshal Baoliyou had only one corps under his command (the military system of European countries was very chaotic at this time, and there was no fixed organization of military brigades). Marshal Baoliyou had split and arranged it to a large-scale detour on both left and right wings, preparing to fight out from the back of Niza's troops.
According to Marshal Bao Liyou's calculations, when his left and right large detour corps emerged, the main force of Niza's troops must be fighting with him. At this time, if there are charge cavalry on both sides leading the way to break the formation, they will be able to completely annihilate the French army in front of them.
No matter how brave and fearless these French Defence Army soldiers are, they will be completely killed!
However, Marshal Baoliyu's first step in his prediction was wrong. The regular Austrian army he personally led was defeated by the French army in one encounter!
The reserve team, which was reserved for the backup, was forced to transfer all the staff...
However, according to pre-war estimates, the large corps that had already arrived at the designated location, which had already reached the large wings of the left and right wings, still had not reached the combat position, let alone launched an attack.
Obviously, they were not lost but were intercepted by the two wing troops of Niza's troops!
However, Marshal Bao Liyou didn't understand that Niza's troops had only more than 10,000 people, and more than 6,000 people were fighting against him. The cavalry regiment behind them was also in the sequence of Niza's troops. If the troops on both wings were intercepted equally, at most one regiment's infantry would be in the infantry.
Could it be that the French Defense Forces used a regiment of infantry to intercept more than 20,000 Austrian corps?
What a joke!
If 20,000 people are intercepted by 2,000 people, the math teacher will be angry to death!
This is a wild encounter, not a wild offensive and defensive battle, nor is it a city fortress offensive and defensive battle!
According to previous battle examples, shouldn’t a ten-fold force be resolved by a single charge?
What Marshal Baoliyou didn't know was that he sent out a large corps on both sides to detour. At this moment, he was suffering from the self-destructive defensive counterattack of the guards of the French Defense Forces, and was bombed to death...
The Austrians' wings were different from the troops led by Marshal Boliyu himself. The large Austrians' wings had to hurry and would inevitably take the initiative to attack, which gave the guards infantry sufficient space to play self-destructive attacks.
Self-destruction attacks can only be played in defensive battles!
If you take the initiative to attack, the guard infantry with explosive packs tied to the enemy's array was shot down by bullets, and then it was blown away with a bang...
Even if it is an encounter in the wild, both the enemy and us have offensive and defensive positions.
In Niza's troops, Niza is the side that takes the initiative to attack, and Marshal Baoliyu is the side that defends. On the battlefield where the two wings are detoured, they just happened to be reversed.
Under a shiny sabre, the cavalry from both sides collided.
Either it passes through it or it hits straight!
Because the Austrian cavalry and the French Defense Forces guard cavalry use wall charges, the formation is much denser than traditional cavalry.
Due to excessive pursuit of the density of formation (the more dense the charge, the greater the advantage), the cavalry on both sides did not have time to dodge at the moment of collision, just like a super-large car accident scene, horses and cavalry were hit and flesh and blood were hit without having to use weapons to chop each other...
The whine of the horses immediately overwhelmed the shouts of the cavalry on both sides.
However, in such a tragic collision, the cavalry in the back row of both sides had no intention of slowing down.
The Austrian cavalry had no time to slow down. After all, they used wall-type charge tactics. The so-called wall-type charge tactics were to pull into dense rows and then form charge waves, with each wave being spaced a certain distance to prevent front and rear horses from colliding.
After the charge speed increased, the distance between the dense wall-type charge waves was not large. In addition, the speed was too fast, and the cavalry was next to the horse, and they could not turn the horse's head and escape, so they could only rush up and pray to God...
Compared to the flesh-and-blood scene of the Austrian cavalry colliding with the front row, the guards showed a fearless spirit of fearlessness. They shouted the slogan "Long Live Lord Livi" and bravely showed the "Long Live Charge" belonging to the French to the Austrians.
After waves of hedging, the Austrian cavalry general who led the lead was gone. If the battlefield was cleared at this time, you will find that the Austrian cavalry general's neck had been twisted to an incredible angle, and his eyes were wide open and he fell to the ground.
Beside him was his own body of a horse.
Obviously, the Austrian cavalry general was thrown out during the impact, and then had an intimate contact with Mother Earth with his head facing down, and his entire neck was broken...
Naturally, people die.
However, the Austrian military system is quite complete. It doesn’t matter if the general who leads the lead dies. The general’s adjutant... Well, it’s okay to die!
Searching down one after another, a new commander, with the Austrian cavalry who were slowing down, re-arranged into a dense wall-type storm-for-straight formation. Even though the number of people had shrunk by more than half, he still rushed towards the artillery position where Niza was.
The Austrian cavalry's sense of honor is obviously several levels higher than that of the Austrian infantry. It is not difficult to see from this alone why the Austrians can let Italians call them dads...
"The Holy Roman Empire will win!"
The new cavalry commander raised his command knife diagonally upwards and shouted loudly.
They dared not slow down, because at this time they would inevitably be caught up by the French guards who had turned behind them.
To put it bluntly, these Austrian cavalry no longer dare to hedge against the group of madmen-like French cavalry, they were afraid!
However, right ahead of them was an artillery unit specifically restrained by cavalry, so the Austrian cavalry and Yu Yong continued to charge.
Neza was surrounded by only a few guards who acted as commanders, and there was an artillery position ahead. Facing the final charge of the Austrian cavalry, he pulled out his saber without changing his face.
The guards around Niza were like general guards, all riding horses (for the convenience of sending orders), and pulled out their swords together with Niza, who was also riding horses.
If the artillery positions in front cannot stop the enemy's cavalry, Niza will charge towards the opposite Austrian cavalry with less than ten guards!
"For the glory of Lord Levi!"
Niza murmured to herself.
Immediately afterwards, a shocking roar came from the artillery positions in front.
A shotgun fan-shaped attack hit the Austrian cavalry head-on, and hundreds of Austrian cavalry were dismissed on the spot!
However, there were still Austrian cavalry who were not afraid of death and were rushing towards the artillery positions.
"Long live Lord Li Wei!"
Rumble!!!
When the Austrian cavalry had just rushed into the artillery position and thought they could wield their sabres to kill, the ammunition and powder barrels around the artillery were immediately ignited by the artillery as the artillery.
For a moment, the death of the death was heard one after another, and the Austrian cavalry who had the courage to rush in rose to the sky with more than a dozen field artillery from Niza's troops...
A dozen ordinary French artillery soldiers who fled behind Niza looked at the serial explosion of artillery positions with lingering fear on their faces.
They were not brainwashing soldiers trained in the military camp, but were old French gunners who surrendered to the Levi government.
These old gunners have strong gun control capabilities. Li Wei cherishes their gun control capabilities, so they are not brainwashed.
Li Wei has already done experiments. If he is a military branch with too strong technicality, after participating in the brainwashing training in the system military camp, the brainwashing process will be too fierce, which will lead to the original skills decline.
In other words, after experienced artillery soldiers are brainwashed and trained into guard infantry in the military camp, they can certainly gain the strong individual combat capability and fearless combat morale of guard infantry, but their original artillery control ability will transform into a novice artillery.
That is, artillery soldiers who are about the same level as gunners as guard infantry.
Artillery was a military and technical talent in this era, so Li Wei naturally did not want to waste it like this. These artillery were also the only real soldiers who had military pay.
However, there are not many such artillery troops in the French Defence Force. Their main responsibility is to aim at enemy positions at long distances before the two sides engage in battle and exert their professional and technical capabilities.
Every old gunner will have several guard infantry soldiers who follow and learn to act as auxiliary soldiers and are responsible for a field gun. Even if you can't learn anything, the guard infantry cannon cannon control.
When field guns face close-range attacks from the enemy, the veteran gunners can give up the artillery and escape without being punished. Their guard infantry students will take over the positions of these veteran gunners and fight against the enemy to the death.
The pupils of Niza's eyes reflected the flames of the artillery positions. The remaining Austrian cavalry soldiers had no courage to continue fighting when they saw this scene.
But when they wanted to turn around and escape, the light guard cavalry had already chased after him, and the Austrian cavalry who had no time to speed up was riding and slashing...
At this point, all the Austrian cavalry were destroyed, and no one of the living was left behind. Even the wounded were finally killed by the guards cavalry one by one.
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