The dull beat of drums, the fluttering flute, accompanied by the silent footsteps, and the high-pitched voices of the officers from time to time, formed the main theme of the infantry ranks.

The Imperial Guard and the elite of the British Redwoods marched towards each other, flintlock pistols on their shoulders and followed the footsteps of the 'Scythe of Death'.

Before the attack, in order to divide the victory and defeat as soon as possible, the British commander used a quick battle to make up for the disadvantage of his own lack of troops, and ordered all the corps to stop and fire the first volley only when they could see the 'whites of the eyes' of the opposing soldiers.

If a normal person wants to see the whites of the opposite side clearly, they must at least get close to within 20 yards, that is, when they are more than ten meters apart, they should stop firing!!

This is simply a whimsical order in the armies of other countries on the European continent, let alone soldiers, even officers will refuse to carry out this order to send to death, and the hit rate of the flintlock pistol is enough to kill people in pieces within 30 meters......

In other words, the British Redwoods had to really advance to a close enough distance in the face of a hail of bullets before they could fire!

In the face of this kind of tactics, the results of individual combat skills training have become meaningless, and only discipline and queue are the key to determining victory or defeat.

The queue determines that when the neat horizontal squad is cut out by a round of guns, the soldiers behind can be substituted in time, and discipline is to ensure that the soldiers who face the bullets at close range will not be scared to pee their pants......

The British Redwoods Army, which advanced in three battle lines, had 4 rows of soldiers in the horizontal phalanx of each battle line, and the standard alternate firing formation, the British could not only use the so-called three-column salvo tactics, that tactic was used in a long queue to shoot, and it was naturally the best way to keep their own battle lines on the offensive at all times if they wanted to fight quickly.

During the period when the solid bullets flying everywhere smashed the thighs, arms and even the head of the human body, the distance between the battle lines of the two sides became closer and closer, 100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters!

Whether it is the Imperial Guard or the British Redwood Army, they have no intention of stopping the salvo, and they are still walking forward with their heads raised and flintlock pistols on their 'goose steps' without hurry, and on their expressionless faces, I don't know how many people are dripping cold sweat between their hair, although they can face this kind of scene because of strict training, but to say that they are not afraid of nervousness in their hearts is to deceive themselves.

The rigid and rigorous queue shooting tactics are to use training and strict discipline to make soldiers into sluggish creatures like machine parts, so that they habitually obey orders, and instinctively follow the officer's orders to perform basic marching, stopping, firing, loading and other fixed actions, and the Prussians have taken it to the extreme, so that the Prussian soldiers who only know how to load and fire can even fire 5 bullets in one minute!

You must know that the average rate of fire of the ordinary regular army of the European continent can only reach about 2 rounds a minute.

After all, shooting during training and shooting in the face of the enemy's black hole muzzle on the battlefield are completely two different concepts, even if it is a well-trained elite veteran, in the exciting and tense environment on the battlefield, it may also make mistakes repeatedly......

According to historical records, the highest record of such flintlock pistols filled with bullets on the battlefield was a full 12 rounds of ammunition stuffed into the barrel!

It is conceivable that the soldier holding this musket really did not shoot a single bullet from the beginning of the battle to the end......

This kind of flintlock pistol stuffed with bullets abounds, and it is not an isolated phenomenon, which is one of the reasons why the lethality of the shot is not high in the queue, and many of them appear to be mechanically loading, aiming and pulling the trigger, but in fact nothing is fired......

Even the soldiers themselves don't know whether they are fighting or not, and expressionless faces do not mean that they are fearless and keep a clear brain, and on the battlefield where guns and bullets are flying, there are more soldiers whose brains are blank and only know how to instinctively fight according to the inertia they have cultivated, rather than a veteran soldier with a rational face.

The soldiers of modern warfare can't imagine the terrifying state of queuing up to shoot on the battlefield, which is also the reason why modern people think that the modern tactics of queuing and shooting are stupid.

However, it was this kind of queuing and shooting tactic, which was considered a stupid fork, that ran rampant all over the world for more than 200 years, established a new order with Europe as the center of the world, and completely suppressed the brilliant oriental culture with guns.

When the distance between the two sides reached less than 50 meters, the officers of the Imperial Guard had to give the order to stop, because as the distance was greatly approached, the originally neat queue had begun to become crooked, and it was clear that the mood of the Imperial Guard soldiers had collapsed to the limit.

It's just that the Imperial Guard, who stopped, only briefly sorted out the queue, and did not make a move to fire, the first row squatted in the second row, and the third row stood with the muzzle of the gun stretched out from the gap in the front row, and the Imperial Guard, which lined up in a dense three-column salvo horizontal array of guns, did not fire, just held the musket and aimed at the British Redwoods who were still walking forward!

If it were an ordinary paramilitary organization or militia, there would have been an accident at this time, but fortunately, the army produced by the total war system, even if it is just an ordinary regular army, can be among the best in Europe, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard can still maintain basic calm and not pull the trigger under the pressure of the officer's bullet.

The commander of the British army, who was holding a monocular in his rear, looked at the Imperial Guard who were neatly organized and did not fire, and couldn't help but sigh: "Lin Haoda, a foreigner, can really unify France, and the discipline of his troops is about to catch up with our young man, of course, it is still a little short." ”

"Launch!" After the first line of battle of the Sequoia Army entered a distance of 30 meters, the Imperial Guard officer finally couldn't bear this torment and gave the order to open fire, which is also the limit distance tested in the training of the Imperial Guard, the hit rate of the flintlock pistol within 30 meters is already very powerful, and there is no need to risk closing the distance to fire, after all, the quality of the Imperial Guard is far from reaching the level of the Young Guard, and if it is too close, it is likely that the Imperial Guard will be destroyed by the opposite side first......

Bang bang bang ~~~

A series of white smoke came out one after another on the Imperial Guard battle line, and the thin horizontal phalanx of the advancing British Redwood Army suddenly fell in pieces like wheat harvesting!