354 First round engagement
“Make ready! "After the Imperial Guard fired a volley, the British Sequoia Army paid heavy casualties, and the soldiers behind naturally made up for it, and under the command of the officer, they stopped and raised the flintlock pistol on their shoulders.
“Take aim! (aiming)" Under the howl of the British officer in the queue of soldiers, the raised flintlock pistol was laid flat on the shoulders of the British soldiers, the first row of British Redwood soldiers half-kneeling on the ground, and the second row of British Redwood soldiers standing.
The British Redwoods did not use the tactics of three volleys they were proud of, but simply lined up in the usual two-column salvo formation.
Since there are four full rows of people in the battle line of the British Redwood Army, even if the first salvo almost replaces the soldiers in the first row of the British Redwood Army, they can still be filled up, that is to say, the muzzle of the Imperial Guard has not decreased in the slightest at this time!
The efficiency of the flintlock pistol reloading was vividly demonstrated at this moment, and during the reloading of the Imperial Guard after the first round of three salvos, the British completed the action of stopping the advance-forming the whole team-raising the gun-aiming.
“Fire! (Fire)"
Bang bang bang......
The real battlefield is far more terrifying than the scene in the movie, when the British are only about 20 yards away from the Imperial Guard, and just a dense volley of two platoons of musketeers directly knocks down more than eighty percent of the loaded soldiers in the front two rows of the Imperial Guard!
The Imperial Guards in the back two rows looked at the empty queue in front of them in amazement, and they were stunned for a moment, even though their guns were already loaded with bullets, and they seemed to have forgotten what they should do at this time!
A round of close-to-face volleys, the first two platoons exceeded eighty percent of the death rate, directly blinding the Imperial Guard on the first battle line.
In fact, the distance of 20 yards is not much different from the execution distance of the Fusilier execution ground, and at this distance even the eyes are closed, and people can be hit even with their eyes closed, except, of course, the soldiers who aim into the sky and plan to wash the floor......
Imagine how a person would feel when he pulled the trigger with a musket at you from a distance of more than ten meters?
On the battlefield at this time, the Imperial Guard was not faced with one or several muzzles, but with endless muzzles pointed at them......
That kind of sourness will only be felt if you are there in person, if you can go home alive......
The British Redwoods, who fired the first salvo, began to reload with trembling hands and feet, while the British Redwoods, who did not shoot in the back, stepped out of the gap between the soldiers in the front row, and took a few steps forward to reline the two columns of salvo formations.
The Imperial Guard's battle line could no longer produce a decent salvo after the first volley of the British Redwoods, and only sporadic soldiers pulled the trigger in a hurry, killing the few British soldiers.
Seeing this situation, the Imperial Guard officers knew that it would be difficult for their side to survive the second volley on the opposite side, and their own second volley could not be organized, so the Imperial Guard officers chose to charge with bayonets!
When the soldiers of one of the companies launched a bayonet charge, they successively led the other Imperial Guard allies of the first battle line to charge, this is the casualness of the soldiers on the battlefield, even a group of rabble can launch a grand cluster charge with the crowd, let alone the regular army?
The bayonet-charged Imperial Guard could barely make out that it was a horizontal blue line rushing towards the British Redwoods.
Facing a group of Imperial Guards rushing up with bayonets just 20 yards away, the elite of the British Sequoia Army, even though their faces were pale and covered with beads of sweat, raised their flintlock pistols under the officer's hoarse orders and fired a fairly neat second volley!
At the moment when the volley rang out, the Imperial Guard soldiers who rushed to the front were as if they had been violently hit by an invisible steel plate, and under the strong kinetic energy of relative movement, the whole person rose with their feet off the ground and fell backwards to the ground, and many of the soldiers who were hit even knocked down their colleagues in front and behind.
The charging queue, which was still extremely fierce just now, was directly cut off a layer, not to mention, and the overall offensive pace suddenly stopped, and among the surviving Imperial Guard soldiers, the timid ones were completely defeated by this huge tragic casualty, and they wailed and threw away the weapons in their hands, and fled to the rear.
Some of the Imperial Guards on the first line fell, some fled backwards, some tried to continue the charge, and some stood stunned like fools.
As for the officers who rushed to the front, there were few of them who could continue to stand......
Under the slogan of the charge, rows of red seas with bayonets rushed to the first line of the Imperial Guard on the verge of collapse, and the few Imperial Guard soldiers who dared to charge with weapons were drowned by the red wave before even a bubble came out, and the first line of battle of the Imperial Guard, which suffered heavy losses, collapsed like this......
General Carlson rubbed his eyes, as if he couldn't believe that his first line of battle was demoralized in just half an hour, and he ordered to the herald with a gloomy face: "Tell the commander of the second line of battle to stop using the tactics of three salvos at close range, and fight according to the conventional platoon gun tactics, I want to see how many soldiers the British plan to die in front of me!" ”
The British Redwoods Army, which defeated the first line of the Imperial Guard, after a period of pursuit, saniently did not attack the second line of the Imperial Guard, but slowly retreated to the rear of their own second line, and their losses were not small, and they needed to reorganize before they could be pulled back to the battlefield again.
On the other hand, the rout of the first battle line of the Imperial Guard was either frightened into malaise or nervous abnormality, or they fled without a trace, and the rout of the gathered army did not have a few days of rest and could not return to the previous combat state.
Although the Imperial Guard can meet the standard of a regular army among the European powers, it is still not enough compared to the real European elite.
This gap may not be too obvious in a melee between a pair of shots and bayonets, but it is very prominent in a large-scale cluster head-on confrontation.
Soon, the British Redwoods on the second line of battle, and the second line of the Imperial Guard, which was facing each other, entered the maximum effective range of flintlock guns, this time, the Imperial Guard did not hold up the big closer, but stopped advancing within the effective range of the flintlock guns in conventional battles, and listed the platoon of guns to aim at the marching British Redwoods.