Chapter 144: Night Battle Five (Ninth Reward)
"Prepare ~~~ to fire!"
The second round of salvo came as scheduled, and the pre-arranged position only required a slight pull of the trigger, and even the soldiers with great psychological pressure could perfectly complete their tasks. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This is the advantage of establishing a suitable tactical formation in advance, there is no universal only tactical formation in the world, only the most suitable tactical formation, the British Redwood Army's close-range three-column salvo is famous all over the world, and it is also in the field offensive operations, as long as it is not in the field, this trick of the British Redwood Army is not very useful.
This is the reason why the British did not unify the whole world, and the armies of European countries who know the British Redwoods only need to try to avoid fighting against the British Redwoods on the basis of no fortifications in the field.
Faced with tight fortifications, the so-called British Redwoods could not even defeat the Continental Army of the American Revolution, which consisted of militias......
In addition, the British Redwood Army's world-famous three-column salvo tactics are not unbreakable in the field, and the easiest way is to use much more troops than the British to submerge them in the sea of people......
On the battlefield, if it were possible, not a single commander-in-chief would refuse to besiege the enemy's inferior forces with superior forces!
In the face of victory, all morals and bottom lines are floating clouds!
The fourth volley fired by the second row of line infantry directly cut off one layer of the first two platoons of the peasant rebel army that had advanced to 30 paces away!
However, the main force of the peasant rebel army, which had been 'brainwashed' by the belief in revenge and freedom, was still crowded forward with indomitable movement under the impetus of the flow of people!
Even if there were a few front-row peasant rebels who were so frightened by the corpses around them that they wanted to flee, they could only be squeezed forward under the dense flow of people.
There are even armed mobs with dark hearts, who are desperately facing the people in front, secretly thinking that with a meat shield in front, they should be able to rush in front of the enemy alive......
In the face of the peasant rebel army that was about to come to him, the first row of line infantry standing up couldn't help but show a trace of fear in their eyes, in fact, the peasant rebel army did not rush to the front of the line infantry until this time, completely because of the large number of corpses that had fallen before, which caused the charging queue to constantly chaos and slow down, otherwise, if it was a normal run at a distance of dozens of meters, it would have rushed over a long time ago!
The line infantry in the first row, holding flintlock muskets with bayonets on them, pulled the trigger almost in the face of despair on the faces of the armed men of the peasant rebels a few meters away!
At this distance, the huge potential energy of the lead bullet directly pushed the hit human body backwards, knocking down a large area of the crowd behind it!
It can be said that this round of volleys has brought the already chaotic peasant rebel army's charging queue out of a state of stasis, and if the peasant rebel army's charging queue is compared to a whole, it can be called a 'stiff'......
"The first and second platoons retreated, and all the rest of the soldiers, who had reloaded, opened fire on the enemy!!"
At such a close distance, even if the peasant rebels were stunned by the close-range salvo, it was not enough for the first two platoons of soldiers to complete the reloading, and the officers simply let them completely withdraw to the rear, and then let the line infantry that had been disrupted form a simple horizontal line, and once again fired a 'face-to-face' salvo at the peasant rebels who had restarted the sprint!
For a flintlock pistol, a distance of less than ten meters is enough to be called a close-to-face shot, and at this distance, even a flintlock pistol can be pointed and shot......
After two successive shots in the face, the peasant rebels could not even shout slogans, only screams and wails remained, and the survivors either crowded into the crowd for fear of being killed by another volley, or stood there in confusion, not knowing what to do......
Of course, among the crowded and chaotic peasant rebel army, there were also brave men who dared to fight hard and still maintained a clear consciousness, holding aloft the 'agricultural version of cold weapons' and rushing towards the thin line of infantry with shiny bayonets erected.
Unfortunately, with such a separation, the originally dense charging crowd became loose, and at this time, the line infantry was also under the orders of the officer, shouting and rushing towards the enemy who was close at hand with bayonets!
Although the number of line infantry was far inferior to that of the peasant rebel army, in the chaotic state of the peasant rebel army, this bayonet counterattack charge completely crushed the high momentum of the peasant rebel army before, and the huge flow of people of the peasant rebel army began to break and flee to the rear!
For this kind of loosely organized peasant rebel army, the rout is a very contagious 'disease', and those peasant rebel troops who have not even seen the enemy in the back, seeing the people in front of them turn around and flee, also follow the overwhelmed to flee back, even if some bloody brave men dare to turn around and fight hand-to-hand with the line infantry who counter the charge, in addition to increasing the casualties of the line infantry, it is impossible to change the overall trend of escape......
The leader of the peasant rebel army, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw that the attack of tens of thousands of people was so quickly defeated, and his heart could not help but increase his fear of the French Foreign Legion, although the small number of the Second Infantry Regiment could not continue to expand the results of the battle and completely disperse the main force of the peasant rebel army, but the time to recollect and organize the main force of the peasant rebel army was enough for the reinforcements of the French Foreign Legion from other directions to arrive on this battlefield!
At that time, no matter how large the peasant rebel army is, it can only become a defeated army fleeing with its tail between its legs!
The big leader of the peasant rebel army turned his gaze to the small force of more than 1,000 people, each armed with a machete, hand axe, spear and other standard cold weapons, and there was a figure who also belonged to the level of the big leader, and then made the final mobilization of this group of carefully selected peasant armed forces who had an unforgettable hatred for the French Foreign Legion.
These were the peasant armies from the small town and two large villages slaughtered by the French Foreign Legion, and almost every one of them had a close relative die at the hands of Lin Haoda, of course, the women and children who had been spared by Lin Haoda so far had not found the peasant rebels, and these people did not know that the wives of some of their lucky ones were only forced to carry out an 'obligation' and did not die......
There is no doubt that these thousands of people are the most hated group of the French Foreign Legion, which, together with the passionate agitation of the Rural Council, has put revenge above their lives, so to speak!
Originally, this unit was the cannon fodder for the Rural Committee to attack the French Foreign Legion for the main force of the peasant rebel army, intercept the other side's reinforcements, and gain time for the attack, but the Rural Committee never expected that the main force of the peasant rebel army, which was composed of more than ninety percent of muskets and tens of thousands of young and strong men, was defeated by the defenders of the French Foreign Legion!
The leaders of the Rural Council had to fight a hopeless counteroffensive at this critical juncture......