General Carlson hoped to successfully complete the combat mission of encircling and annihilating the main landing force of the British army as explained by Lin Haoda, and the elite of the British army who landed also hoped to use a decisive battle victory to break the blockade of the Imperial Guard and the Young Guards who were rushing quickly.

In the era of queuing and shooting, due to the popularization of battle line and horizontal phalanx tactics, the national regular army with strong head-to-head confrontation ability often avoided complex and narrow forests or mountain terrain as much as possible.

Because the decisive battle on the plain can be the greatest possible to use cavalry to pursue the enemy, expand the results of the battle, and destroy the enemy's living force, if you meet in the forests, mountains and rivers, it may not be difficult to defeat the enemy, but if you want to pursue the enemy after victory, it is not easy, as we all know, the fleeing infantry is always faster than the pursuing infantry, as long as the defeated side flees in a large area, the victorious side wants to capture prisoners and kill people It will be troublesome!

After all, the era of queuing for shooting is not like the World War I period, with powerful long-range artillery and slaughter weapons - machine guns, the rifle range is only 2 or 300 meters, and the accuracy of the pit father's smoothbore gun basically exceeds the 100-meter distance hit rate is completely up to luck......

Far exceeding the limit of the firepower killing distance, the efficiency of the winning side is not high, and there are basically no cavalry units, and it is difficult to inflict heavy casualties on the defeated side.

This has created an interesting phenomenon: the higher the morale of the troops, the longer the fighting, the higher the proportion of casualties after defeat, on the contrary, those units whose morale is not good and are about to collapse, although they have been defeated repeatedly, but in fact the number of casualties in each battle is really pitiful.

The reason why the Qing army suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Bali Bridge was precisely because the Manchu Empire at that time sent the only remaining elite of the Eight Banners and the Manchurian and Mongolian iron cavalry, which can be said to be the last hardcore elite troops that the Manchu Empire could scavenge at that time.

Then, in the Battle of Bali Bridge, this group of last elite iron cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who were not afraid of death, used backward cavalry tactics to rush into the streets in front of the guns of the British and French forces, and died in the explosion of guns and shrapnel in batches like going to the execution ground!

This is the reason why the proportion of casualties in the Battle of Baliqiao is so huge, most of the tragic battles are the brainless charge of the Manchu iron cavalry, and the British and French troops play the game of slaughter in a neat queue.

As a result, a Bali Bridge ended, and the last bit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was wiped out, although there were still many of the remaining Eight Banners, they were basically useless foodies, and the real blood warriors basically died in the Battle of Baliqiao.

On the contrary, when Napoleon attacked the Italian peninsula, he won many battles but rarely killed the enemy on a large scale, but when he attacked Prussia, he swept away the entire elite army of Prussia.

Lin Haoda's past of repeated victories made the Imperial Guard produced by the Total War system full of pride, and they thought that they could destroy the British army, which was far fewer than their own, and took the initiative to attack them.

And the arrogance of the British elite army to fight the colonial natives all over the world will naturally not shrink back, so it is natural for these two arrogant troops to hold a large-scale main battle face-to-face in the field.

Whether it is Carlson or the elite commander of the British army opposite, they all use decent tactics, General Carlson hopes to use superior forces to directly defeat the elite of the British army head-on, and then use his own extra cavalry advantage to launch a thousand-mile pursuit to completely drive the defeated elite of the British army into the sea, or stay on French soil forever.

Therefore, General Carlson only deployed a meagre number of 10,000 Young Guards on his two wings, that is, only 5,000 men on the left or right flanks were stationed, which was already quite weak in the battle of tens of thousands, but General Carlson was very confident in the will of the Young Guards led by General Parkinson.

To say that the morale of the Imperial Guard still belongs to the standard of ordinary regular armies in European countries in this era, the Young Guard has evolved in an inhuman direction, since the appearance of the Young Guard, even if Lin Haoda does not come to the battlefield in person, he can endure the terrifying proportion of casualties reaching eighty percent!

You must know that if a unit is killed or wounded to the extent that it is 80 percent killed, it basically means that the structure of the unit has essentially disappeared.

If Lin Haoda comes to the battlefield in person, the Young Guards will fight to the last man in a frenzy, this kind of thing has actually exceeded the understanding of the European white guy natives, it is not strange that a force can fight to the last man, but if it is an energy production of this kind of troops, it will be too terrifying!

Lin Haoda can win many battles, the Young Guard's will to fight without fear of death is indispensable, even if the die-hard militants who were completely brainwashed by revolutionary ideas at the beginning, they were also completely defeated by the Young Guards in the attrition, it is conceivable that in the war with the same weapons and equipment and the same number of people, the Young Guards can already be called invincible, but unfortunately, what is most lacking in the war is a fair environment!

If the strength is really equal, the heads of state will not start a war lightly, every war is based on the fact that the heads of state think that their own strength is higher than the other side, if they are not sure of victory, unless they are forced to the point of having to fight, otherwise, no one wants to be a gambler with their own country and their own small life.

Even small Japan, which likes gambling the most, sent a large number of spies to get a thorough understanding of Chinese mainland before swallowing China, and before launching the Battle of Pearl Harbor, it also found out the naval strength of the US military in the Pacific Theater and assessed it before launching a surprise attack.

Before launching the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese thought that the Americans had no determination to fight, and even made a plan for decent reconciliation, not to mention that the full-scale outbreak of American industrial strength could easily crush the Japanese fleet that had been saved up with aircraft carriers!

Therefore, misestimating the true strength of both the enemy and the enemy will often become a fatal factor in defeat.