When the enemy troops entered a position about one hundred and fifty meters from the defensive line, Mayer ordered the musket unit to open fire. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The musket units have been lined up. Mel had the four thousand musketeers lined up in ten rows of four hundred men each, separated by more than a meter from each other. After the first row of musketeers fired, they immediately withdrew to the last row at intervals and reloaded on the spot. The musketeers of the second row, after the first row had finished firing, stepped forward, and those behind followed suit. When the second platoon finished firing, they would retreat to the last platoon like the soldiers in the first platoon.

As the soldiers in the first row are reloading, there is a large gap between them and the people in the previous row, and the gap will become larger and larger. But the musketeers in the back did not care about this interval, they just had to stand in the last row and follow the men in front, and those in front did not move, and those behind did not move - this is how Maier trained them from the beginning.

With a gap of between three and four seconds between each two fires, ten platoons of men are enough for an uninterrupted fire output. Of course, this is only theoretical. Due to the short training time, the musketeers had problems such as shooting out of sync and standing in the wrong line in actual combat, but fortunately, the number of musketeers was large enough, and most of the soldiers had participated in actual combat, so they would not make the kind of low-level mistakes that would affect the battle, so these small problems did not affect the overall output of the musket troops.

The tactics of the Byrensburg army stunned the Xiaohu army. The non-stop firepower caused great psychological pressure on the attacking soldiers, so much so that the Xiaohu army had to increase the number of people in the queue in advance, so as not to break up prematurely. When the Xiaohu army finally broke through to a distance of 100 meters from the defense line, the crossbowmen deployed on both sides of the musket unit began to wield their might. Under the double blow of muskets and crossbows, the Xiaohu army broke up again.

After nearly 10,000 casualties, the Xiaohu Army realized that simply increasing the number of people in the queue made no sense. In the case of having already paid heavy losses, if the Xiaohu army stopped attacking, the morale would plummet. So much so that in the next week, or even half a month, the Xiaohu Army could not fight the enemy. The Xiaohu Army was also an expeditionary force, and they couldn't afford it, so the commander of the Xiaohu Army could only launch a general attack in advance.

While the Xiaohu Army was retracting the rout, the whole army pressed forward. When Maier saw that the main position of the Xiaohu army had moved, he knew that the enemy army was about to launch a general attack. Realizing that the enemy would no longer divide up his forces, Mair knew that he could no longer defeat the enemy with muskets and crossbows, and that hand-to-hand combat was inevitable.

While the entire Xiaohu army was pressing, Meier abandoned the outermost fortifications and asked the sappers to retreat with wooden fences to a position about a hundred meters from the spikes to redeploy the fortifications. He was going to put the enemy near the spikes and fight again, a trick he had just come up with, not from Salin. When Salin used this trick, the troops engaged in the battle were facing away from Mel, who was separated by a hillside and could not see the other side at all.

But Meier's troops were flanked by the left and right flanks, and from the top of the slopes of the left and right flanks it was possible to see the battle situation of the Chinese position. The power of the three-stage attack surprised Salin and Yan He, although they had expected this tactic to be very powerful, they did not expect it to be able to easily defuse the "wave charge", and also killed and injured nearly 10,000 Xiaohu troops without any losses on their side.

Of course, at least half of the casualties of the Xiaohu army were caused by the crossbowmen, but even so, the musketeers killed and wounded at least 3,000 enemy soldiers without losing any losses on their own side, and also greatly damaged the morale of the enemy army, which can be said to be indispensable.

When the Xiaohu army saw the Byrensburg army retreating, they guessed Meier's tactics. Spikes will become an obstacle for the Xiaohu Army, and while the Xiaohu Army cleans up the Spikes, Meier's ranged troops can continue to output firepower to the Xiaohu Army, causing great losses to the Xiaohu Army. But even so, they could only launch an attack on the Chinese positions under tremendous pressure.

When the Xiaohu army marched to a distance of about fifty meters from the spikes, it was not surprising that they were attacked by the Byronsburg musket unit. Some of the spikes are hit by bullets and their trajectory is deflected, but this does not mean that the bullets will stop there or fall to the ground instantly. They will continue to fly forward, still potentially hitting the soldiers of the Xiaohu Army.

The Xiaohu army did not dare to line up too densely when attacking, but the number of soldiers attacking together was too large, and even if the bullets did not hit the people in front, they would also hit the people behind, so the killing efficiency of the musket troops improved a lot. In order to reduce casualties, the Xiaohu army had to launch a charge in advance, allowing the infantry to rush to the spikes as soon as possible and clear them. But even with the charge, the infantry of the Xiaohu Army received two rounds of bullets before approaching the spike.

But the nightmare of the infantry of the Xiaohu Army was not over. As soon as they reached the spikes, the crossbowmen of the Byronsburg Army attacked them. A dense rain of arrows fell from the sky or came head-on, and at the same time the next round of bullets from the musket unit arrived. The first batch of soldiers of the Xiaohu Army who came to the spike were beaten and cried for their fathers and mothers, and their already low morale collapsed in an instant, scrambling to flee in all directions.

The Xiaohu army had been prepared for this for a long time. In order to prevent a "chain breakdown" of the troops, they set up law enforcement teams between the troops. When they saw deserters, they killed them, and if they couldn't catch up, they shot them with crossbows. The officers were also ordered to bring the deserters to justice on the spot in order to enforce military discipline.

However, the law enforcement team will also be attacked by the Byronsburg army, and it will also break up, and some of the officers will escape, so there are still many deserters in the Xiaohu army. After paying more than 10,000 casualties, the Xiaohu army finally broke through the spiked defense. Although the spikes have not been completely removed, the first priority of the Xiaohu army now is to attack the enemy position and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the task of cleaning the spikes can only be handed over to the follow-up troops.

Seeing that the line had been breached, Maier immediately ordered the musketeers to stop firing and retreat to the top of the slope. Spearmen and infantry of the lord's convoy stepped forward, with wooden fences and crossbowmen retreating higher to fend off the enemy's attack. Since the Byronsburg army was defending the high ground, the crossbowmen could clearly see the Xiaohu army behind and attack it.

After a long battle, the archers were already tired, and the crossbowmen were a little tired. But Mair could not let them rest, and if the crossbowmen stopped attacking, the pressure on the infantry would become very great. To further reduce the pressure on the infantry, Meyer had the musket unit select snipers and let them move freely to specialize in sniping enemy officers.

After breaking through the spiked defensive line, the Xiaohu army had to advance a hundred meters before it could meet the enemy. When they saw that the enemy's musket units had stopped attacking, they hurried to quicken their pace and charged at the enemy. Some of the officers in the Xiaohu army wanted to take their troops around the rear, but Meier was prepared for this, and he deployed cavalry on both flanks, and issued weapons to the engineer units to assist the infantry in the defense.

In fact, Mel still had 10,000 reserves left unused, and they were deployed between the Chinese positions and the Ilibi cavalry. He is not prepared to use these ten thousand reserves now. Because the situation is not yet critical enough to necessitate the use of reserves. You must know that the purpose of Meier's battle is not to hold the front, but to defeat the Xiaohu army. So he must leave the force to fight back, and he will not use the reserve army until it is absolutely necessary.

In order to boost morale, he personally went to the infantry line and fought with the infantry. The soldiers were greatly encouraged by the arrival of Meyer, but the officers repeatedly persuaded him to return to command. The sword has no eyes, and if Maier is wounded or even killed in battle, even if the Byrensburg army defeats the Xiaohu army, the victory becomes meaningless.

Seeing that the enemy was about to be killed, the officers ignored any military orders and forcibly put Maier to the rear. The moment Maier withdrew from the battle line, the soldiers of the Xiaohu Army were killed. At this time, the musket troops had not yet adjusted their formation and could not carry out fire support, and the crossbowmen had greatly reduced the frequency of attacks in order to save physical strength, so the Chinese position could only rely on wooden fences and the flesh and blood of the infantry to defend for the time being.

There were hundreds of Xiaohu troops who came up, and they couldn't see the edge at a glance, and the shouts of killing were wave after wave, almost drowning the Chinese army's position. In order to embolden themselves, the soldiers of the Byrensburg Army also roared, trying to cover the shouts of the enemy. But the size of the voice does not determine the victory of the battle, even if the voice of the Byronsburg army covers the enemy's shouts of killing, they still have to fight the oncoming Xiaohu army.

The number of wooden fences is limited and cannot block the entire line of defense. The Xiaohu army saw the gap in the defensive line and rushed in this direction. Myr knew that the Tugu spearmen were not very enthusiastic about fighting, so he had to let the soldiers of the Lord's Guard guard the gaps, and the spearmen behind the wooden fence.

When they were about ten meters away from the gap, the soldiers of the Xiaohu Army all turned sideways, lowered their figures, and quickened their pace, wanting to directly break through the human wall of the Bairensburg Army. The lord's convoy also erected its shields, and those behind used their shields against the backs of those in front, ready to respond to the impact.

The soldiers of the Xiaohu Army slammed into the human wall of the lord's escort regiment like the tide of the reef, but failed to shake the human wall in the slightest. After the assault was over, the soldiers in the front row of both sides raised their weapons and stabbed at the enemy in front of them. The gap is crowded with people, and there are hardly any gaps, and only small dodges can be made. Therefore, the soldiers in the first row on both sides have no time to dodge, and those with fast hands can kill those with slow hands, but they may not necessarily live.

For a time, blood was splashed on the front line, and dozens of people died in the blink of an eye. The dead man was squeezed by the people behind him, and he still stood in place after his death, but his head and hands were already hanging deeply, and the weapons in his hands also fell to the ground. The shield was squeezed in front of him, so even if his fingers were released, he was still in front of him.

Seeing that the Xiaohu army couldn't rush over, the people in the first row were almost dead again, and the people behind began to retreat, so that the people in front would fall and give way to the people behind. The soldiers who dared to rush to the front were all brave. The veteran oilman often fooled the recruits, saying that the higher they rushed, the less likely they were to die, but these veteran oilers never rushed forward because they were telling lies. The farther you rush on the battlefield, the faster you will die.

As soon as the Xiaohu army retreated, the corpses in the front row fell. After that, the people in the second row collided again, and there was another splash of blood, either you die or I die. This kind of positional offensive and defensive battle is so tragic, the people in front die, and the people behind go up, until one side can no longer hold on and begins to break and flee.

Although the gap between the wooden fences is the main direction of attack, it does not mean that there is no one attacking on the wooden fence. The Dugu spearmen, who were defending behind the wooden fence, were attacked by the Xiaohu army within seconds of being met by the lord's escort, and they took advantage of the terrain to attack the enemy with spears across the wooden fence. The Xiaohu army saw that the wooden fence could not be overturned, so they also asked the spearmen to step forward and stab the Dugu spearmen.

The white spearhead entered, the red spearhead came out, and in the blink of an eye, the first line of the wooden fence was full of wailing, and the sides were full of killed or wounded soldiers. On the other side, the Xiaohu Army, which was in the rear, also engaged the infantry and sappers who were deployed on both flanks. Sappers are not professional combatants, but they are also trained in combat. At first, the Byronsburg army had a numerical advantage, and it was easy to repel the Xiaohu army. But as time passed, more and more Xiaohu troops went around the flank, and the pressure on the soldiers increased, and every second someone fell, or was wounded, or killed, and the front soon wavered.

At this moment, some snipers came to the flank and sniped the officers of the Xiaohu Army from a high place. For every officer killed, a part of the Xiaohu army began to break and flee. The snipers noticed that there seemed to be a unit in the enemy army that specialized in killing deserters, so they took special care of the enemy troops in the law enforcement team. Unfortunately, the snipers can only shoot once in 20 seconds at the earliest, and the damage caused to the law enforcement team is very limited. Therefore, snipers will prioritize sniping officers of the law enforcement team, and basically do not attack the soldiers of the law enforcement team.

The situation on the frontal battlefield is also not optimistic. The losses of the lord's convoy were very high in the hand-to-hand encounter, and these young men who were willing to give their lives for Mel shouted "For Myr? Byrons", "For Byrensburg", one after another fell in a pool of blood, and no one retreated. But the spearmen on the other side of the wooden fence could no longer withstand it, and some of the soldiers could not bear the pressure, so they dropped their weapons and turned to flee. The Dugu crossbowmen in the rear habitually shot the deserters, temporarily stabilizing the situation.

At this time, the musket unit finally adjusted its formation. The moment the muskets roared, the pressure on the frontal infantry was greatly reduced. The Xiaohu Army in the rear suffered a sharp frustration because of the musket attack, and a large number of troops were defeated. The continuous output of firepower made more and more soldiers of the Xiaohu Army turn around and flee, if it were not for the Xiaohu Army in the rear to clean up the spikes in time and make way for the cavalry, the Xiaohu Army would probably collapse on the whole line.

The arrival of the cavalry of the Xiaohu Army once again put the Byronsburg Army in a difficult situation. The cavalry rushed forward desperately according to the orders of their superiors, and countless friendly soldiers were killed and trampled to death along the way. The commander of the Xiaohu Army thought that it was worth it, as long as the cavalry could break through the defense line of the Byronsburg army, the victory would be theirs.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and the musket units had already rushed to the infantry of the Byronsburg army after only three rounds of fire strikes. The fragile wooden fence and human wall could not block the impact of the cavalry at all, but in the blink of an eye, the frontal defense line was broken through by the cavalry of the Xiaohu Army, although the cavalry of the Xiaohu Army paid great losses for this, but the Byrensburg Army also suffered heavy casualties.

Just when the cavalry of the Xiaohu Army thought that they had successfully completed the task, nearly a hundred magic arrows appeared out of thin air, coming head-on, killing all the cavalry of the Xiaohu Army who had just broken through the defense line.