Bismarck, who was riding on a war horse, had a gloomy face as if he was about to drip water, and he swept past one soldier after another who had fallen in the distance, but was wearing a Prussian black uniform, panicked like a refugee fleeing the famine, and many of them did not even bring out their weapons!

What infuriated Bismarck the most was that none of the Prussian soldiers who escaped and were known for their bravery and good fighting suffered real gunshot wounds, but only the fatigue of a long flight.

Finally, Bismarck, who had already obtained absolute safety, couldn't help but question Marshal Karl, who was also fleeing on a fine war horse beside him: "This is what you call foolproof?" In just one day and one night, the enemy has hit your headquarters! You even told me at the time that you were going to send your troops out and outflank them! It's simply the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard!

Marshal Karl, I think your retirement application report will be re-examined by the Empire, and you are a 'pillar of the nation' who can't afford to pick and choose in a difficult time for the Empire, don't you think? ”

Under the forced gaze of Prime Minister Bismarck, Carl Friedrich von Steinmetz nodded with a heavy heart and said: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, this time it is indeed I miscalculated the strength of the enemy, I didn't expect Lin Haoda to use 10,000 people to defeat more than 100,000 regular troops, that kind of steel giant beast is obviously a new type of war machine beyond our common sense, our soldiers have no way to deal with it, if we don't develop to deal with that kind of mobile steel giant beast, the next time it will not only be the morale of the First Army Corps." ”

"Huh? Do you still need you to remind me of this kind of thing? Marshal Karl, what you should be thinking about now is how to gather the troops of the First Army as quickly as possible and reorganize the soldiers under your command!

And the 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Division that you sent out to carry out a roundabout mission, as well as the most elite 1st Army of the First Army, I don't care what method you use, withdraw them to me intact! ”

Bismarck's beard shook violently, and it was evident that the anger in his heart had made him lose his mind.

Now that the headquarters of the First Army has been breached by the enemy, and there are fleeing troops everywhere without the will to fight, there is no radio communication in this era, even if Marshal Karl now sends guards as messengers to inform the roundabout troops, he must be able to find their location......

The most important thing is that at the speed of the roundabout troops, I am afraid that at this moment, I am afraid that they have already caught fire with Lin Haoda's troops behind the Han Army......

Marshal Karl was not wrong in his guess, and just as they were fleeing towards the garrison area of the Second Army, the 1st and 3rd Cavalry Divisions of the 1st Army Corps, who did not know much about the front-line battles, launched attacks from the rear of the Han army's original garrison.

In this era, communications are basically transmitted by manpower, and roundabout outflanking operations are the pursuit of speed and sudden tactical movements, and the movement speed of the cavalry division itself is much faster than that of the infantry troops, therefore, these two cavalry divisions did not know that there had been a major rout on the front line, and they simply reconnoitred that the number of troops behind the Han army was only a few hundred people, and they naturally launched a charge!

Tens of thousands of cavalry troops, divided into two directions, charged to the positions garrisoned by hundreds of thousands of infantry, which was a very correct choice before the First World War, and it was almost impossible to fail!

Therefore, according to the tactical regulations, the orders of the Prussian generals of the two cavalry divisions were flawless, and they ate the positions of the Han army's palace troops, so they could lead the majestic cavalry brigade to expand the results of the battle and face the Han army that was attacking the position of the Seventh Army.

It is strange that the forces are already superior, and then there is a front and rear attack during the enemy's attack, and it is not a good thing to win.

Of course, the premise was that the cavalry division should be able to defeat the defensive positions of the troops behind the palace.

If the generals of the cavalry division had known that the Seventh Army had been abused by ten German-style No. 3 tanks when they launched the attack, they would have regretted it......

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves shook the earth, and the sight of tens of thousands of cavalry charging was rare, and the reconnaissance troops of the Han army detected the attack of the Prussian cavalry troops thousands of meters away, and then the reconnaissance troops on the front line quickly reported the news to the 75-mm French Miss rapid-fire gun position in the rear through the radio communication system......

The 75-mm Miss France rapid-fire gun position, which had obtained the exact coordinates, did not take long to fire a rapid fire, and on the line of attack of the Prussian cavalry division, a barrage covering fire that was impossible at all in this era!

It is no longer enough to describe the misery of the Prussian cavalry division, and many horses, including the cavalry members riding on them, have not even been found......

However, the elite cavalry units, who were full of morale and believed in the invincibility of the German nation, were still holding their sabers high all the way through the area covered by artillery fire!

"Onward! No backwards! Long live Prussia! The German Empire was bound to win!! ”

The cavalry charge cannot be stopped, at this time, even if you know that there is a wall in front of you, you have to hit it, because the inertia of the war horse rushing up is very large, and even the people and horses are like a solid cannonball, which is also the reason why the cavalry will be dizzy when charging into the ranks of the troops, no matter how tight the infantry array is.

Once the cavalry corps that rushed up forcibly stopped, it would artificially create a terrible self-trampling serial collision incident, even if it was a car in later generations, there was a braking distance when it stepped on the brakes, let alone a war horse?

Even if the horse's head is chopped off with a single sword, the inertia of the horse's forward rush is enough to knock a hoplite wearing heavy plate armor into the air!

This is the reason why in the era of cold weapons, only the phalanx of super-long spears can be hostile to the cavalry charge, and the only way to stop the impact of the cavalry is to kill it before it rushes into the infantry array.

Even if it is a phalanx of ultra-long spears with cold weapons, if you want to really stop the power of the cavalry charging into formation, you have to pay a price of casualties that is not much less than that of the cavalry!

The so-called spear restraint cavalry is just a conjecture of later generations, if the spearmen can really restrain the cavalry troops, who has nothing to dislike to feed the expensive cavalry troops?

In the era of cold weapons, it is not suitable for spears to restrain cavalry, but spears are the only class that can contain cavalry a little, of course, if the ranged weapons are powerful, they can also be eliminated before the cavalry rushes to the array.

The popularization of muskets has increased the firepower of far more than weapons, and the status of cavalry will naturally decline significantly, and long-distance annihilation of cavalry troops is much more efficient than that of super-long spears.

When the Maxine heavy machine gun became widespread, the glory of the cavalry was basically nothing left, and it could only be reduced to a third-rate harassing guerrilla.