The time for the attacked French Foreign Legion camp to wake up the soldiers from their beds and gather the whole team can make the infantry regiment unable to establish a defensive line at the cordon on the periphery of the camp in time, and can only resist in the camp, which is also the last defensive area on the periphery of the village, once the garrison camp is breached, the vanguard of the peasant rebel army can clearly see the village houses illuminated by torches!

It can be said that the reason why the peasant rebel army dared to take the initiative to attack the notorious French Foreign Legion during this time period was that they only needed to break through the scattered camp within a certain period of time, and only one infantry regiment could defend the camp and penetrate directly into the heart of the village camp. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This tactic is actually similar to the way Lin Haoda broke through the main camp of the National Guard at night with the elite grenadier vanguard regiment in the Bastille, and it is also to take advantage of the time difference consumed by the sleeping soldiers to assemble and consume to create a short-term superiority in local areas, knock down the enemy little by little, and gradually expand the advantage, until finally a snowball-like situation is formed!

That's why night combat surprise attacks often work wonders!

Of course, the risk of night fighting is the same for the attacker, once an effective breakthrough cannot be achieved before the arrival of the opponent's reinforcements, and the main force is flanked by the enemy's reinforcements, resulting in a major collapse, it becomes a matter of course, and the soldiers fighting at night are too easy to form a panic mentality......

Night fighting is a military adventure that will be successful if you don't beat the enemy into chaos, and your own army will be beaten into a 'pig's head'!

When the peasant rebels successfully crossed the cordon of the 2nd Infantry Battalion and came to the camp where the 2nd Infantry Battalion was stationed, the 2nd Infantry Regiment lined up a neat defensive 5 rows of guns in a phalanx with the help of a large number of torches at the entrance of the camp!

It was the platoon gun formation commonly used by the French regular army at that time, in order to shoot several rounds of salvos in the shortest possible time, and invented a relatively rigid tactic.

There were 5 rows of line infantry, the first four rows of line infantry were all squatting on the ground with flintlock pistols, in a state of preparation for shooting, only the last row of line infantry stood upright, and the flintlock pistol was erected in front of the chest.

Officers of all ranks, standing in the aisles left between the horizontal phalanxes, holding their command knives in their hands, raised their heads, and staring at the peasant rebels who came out of the night.

They shouted slogans, shoulder to shoulder, like the closest brothers, with weapons in hand, and the peasant rebel musketeers in the front row, after entering a distance of about 100 meters, some could not help but shoot the only lead bullet of the musket in their hands.

The peasant rebels, who lacked organization and training, could not fire even the first salvo, and when they came up, they turned on the free-fire mode based entirely on their consciousness and combat experience......

As the crowd of the peasant rebels approached, the free-firing muskets finally began to gain some gains, and the crouching line infantry was not easily killed, but the standing soldiers were unlucky......

When the last row of line-lined infantry falls to the ground, the reserves that are not involved in the queue will be replenished in time, but if the soldiers crouching in the front row are unlucky enough to be hit, there will be no one to replace them......

This platoon of guns is very dense, and it is easy for the reserve to make up the last row, but if you want to supplement the front row, you have to squeeze it up little by little, or squeeze forward in the free fire bullet rain mode of the peasant rebel army!

The officers would never allow the reservists to squeeze through the soldiers in front of them and destroy the formation to fill the vacant seats!

Compared to the few soldiers who fell, the overall formation is the most important!

The reason why this squatting gun formation is discharged is to avoid slight confusion between soldiers when the queue is staggered and exchanged, relying on the fortifications to shoot in three stages, but in the wilderness, let the soldiers always stand in the same position without changing to shoot, load, and aim at a set of dragon steps, in order to give the most efficient play to the fire output!

Without a change of position, the soldiers can concentrate on their muskets, after all, the soldiers are not robots, and they are still thinking about changing queues while thinking about quick reloading and firing on a battlefield full of buckshot shots

It's a bit embarrassing......

Human beings must be more efficient at doing one thing than at the same time, so in the era of queuing to shoot, if it is not necessary, the commander will arrange in advance a formation that allows the soldiers not to move too much and fully explode the fire output, and in the field battlefield where they shoot face-to-face, even if they shoot an extra volley, they will create 'tons' of damage.

After a burst of uneven free fire, the peasant rebel army suddenly burst into a burst of cheers, converging into a rolling wave of sound waves that spread out in all directions!

With the outbreak of the sonic wave, the advancing peasant rebel army began its final sprint!

Just as the peasant rebels began to charge, the officers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, who held high the command knives, finally gave the order, and with the fall of the command knives and the sound of shouting throat-piercing fire, the last row of soldiers took the lead in firing a volley!

Bang bang bang......

A burst of white smoke filled the air, and the crowd of peasant rebels who began to charge erupted into brilliant blood flowers, and the corpses of a large number of fallen peasant rebels slightly hindered the pace of the mob armed rush behind, making the cross-section of the charging crowd that was initially fairly flat uneven.

Immediately after the last platoon of soldiers fired a volley, they began to reload their muskets, and the fourth platoon of line infantry stood up at the right time and, under the command of the officer to fire again, pulled the trigger together!

The closer distance caused greater casualties among the charging peasant rebels, and the queues they charged were so dense that the lead bullets fired by the line infantry salvo could hit human targets as long as they did not hit the sky, at most some of the peasant rebels had several bullet holes on their bodies......

The speed advantage of standing in place was fully manifested at this moment, and the peasant rebels, who had withstood the fourth volley, had not yet taken a few steps, and the third row of line infantry who stood up had already pulled the trigger and fired a third salvo!

The corpses that had fallen after three volleys had already changed from quantitative to qualitative, and they had begun to seriously delay the pace of the offensive of the peasant rebel army!

In the dark night, even with a large number of torches, it is not easy to see every corpse obstacle on the ground, as long as the eyes and reaction are a little slower, tripping over the corpse on the ground, in the dense flow of people, it is the end of being trampled into meat sauce!