Puff puff......

A series of lead bullets into the flesh accompanied by beautiful blood flowers floated in front of the National Guard battle line, directly interrupting the battle rhythm of the officers and soldiers of the National Guard who were about to fire the fourth salvo!

It was really the firepower of the three columns of salvos within a distance of 50 yards was too strong, and the National Guard soldiers in the first and second rows fell in an instant, which made the National Guard soldiers, who accounted for the vast majority of recruits, couldn't help but breed great panic in their hearts!

Many National Guard soldiers who went to the battlefield for the first time forgot to follow the orders of their officers for a while, looked at their fallen colleagues in panic, or swallowed saliva meaninglessly and had a sluggish face, and even worse, they touched their bodies up and down like two goods to check whether they had been shot......

The performance of the National Self-Guard, which was full of battlefield recruits, under the dense firepower of this round of instantaneous firepower, completely exposed the essence of their 'scum', and the morale of the line infantry that had been hit by the opponent's uniform salvo immediately recovered. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the formation of the disciplined National Guard was retreating with a salvo, and the momentum of the National Guard created by three salvos was almost the same, if not completely subsided, after this round of volleys......

After the first round of three volleys of the Fourth Infantry Division, the soldiers of the first three rows got up collectively under the command of the officer, and the flintlock pistols continued to advance with expressionless drums, while the line infantry after the last three rows of fire inserted bayonets and did not reload their bullets, and followed the soldiers of the first three rows to step forward.

The fourth salvo of the National Guard, which was supposed to be neat on the opposite side, was disrupted and turned into a scattered free-fire mode, and after the fighting, the two platoons of National Guard soldiers, who had suffered great losses, withdrew to the last platoon, and the commotion of the defensive line barely recovered.

However, the first two rows of National Guard soldiers who had been re-rotated, after witnessing the three volleys just now, looked at the line infantry of the French Foreign Legion that continued to approach, and almost every National Guard soldier raised their hearts to their throats, and cold sweat continued to drip from their foreheads.

Fortunately, these National Guard units are all soldiers with regular military training, and under the command of the officer, they still reflexively raised their flintlock pistols and completed the action of squatting and aiming.

"Fire!"

Under the hoarse shouts of the surviving National Guard officers, the fifth salvo was finally fired decently, and the advancing Fourth Infantry Division ushered in the largest casualty, and at a closer distance, the power of the salvo was greatly exerted, and the first two platoons of line soldiers suddenly ushered in a mental test, and the colleagues who kept falling around them made them feel the same situation as the National Guard soldiers in this matter.

Although the combat effectiveness of these line infantry is slightly higher than that of the National Guard, they are not battle-hardened elites after all, and not charging or shooting at such a close distance has already made their brain nerves collapse to the critical point of fear.

After the fifth round of salvo fire, the soldiers of the National Guard who had shot hurriedly retreated, and the soldiers in the back two rows looked at the line infantry that was getting closer and closer, and thought of the tragic situation of the three salvos just now, and couldn't help but think that at the current distance, is there any hope that they will survive after the other party's volley?

The distinction between recruits and veterans, scum and elite is once again vividly reflected, although the officers of the National Guard are trying to maintain the order of the salvo, but in the face of the line of infantry gradually approaching in front of them, most of the National Guard soldiers simply cannot do the kind of uniform first three steps on the training ground, and then raise their guns to aim!

The two platoons of National Guard soldiers who were supposed to be responsible for the salvo were crowded together in a panic, and even though the National Guard officers had already shouted the order to prepare, the first two rows of National Guard soldiers still did not restore the proper order!

This situation could not help but greatly affect the overall salvo speed of the National Guard, and at this moment, the line infantry, which was 30 yards away, finally shouted the order to stop advancing with the soldiers in the front row in a cold sweat, and completed the standard three-column salvo formation under the frightened gaze of the soldiers shooting in the first two rows of the National Guard on the opposite side!

At this point, the Marquis de Lafayette, who had been following the battlefield, had to admit that the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion were more disciplined than the recruits of the National Guard!

The soldiers of the National Guard in the first two rows saw that the line infantry on the opposite side stopped and raised their guns to shoot, and they could no longer care about the unified command of the officer, and hurriedly pulled the flintlock pistol in their hands!

After the first panicked gunshot, it immediately caused a series of agile National Guard soldiers to follow up and shoot, and the incoherent free fire rang out one after another on the defensive front of the National Guard, although it was not dense, but there were always muskets firing, after all, this was a large horizontal line of nearly 20,000 people to defend the gun line, even if it was lined up in eight rows, there were thousands of National Guard soldiers in each line who could shoot freely!

The front row squatted, the second row stood and raised its guns, and the third row moved sideways a small step to the line of infantry, which was sticking out of the muzzle between the soldiers in the front row, fired three volleys of phalanx, and in an instant was killed by the scattered Free Fire of the National Guard on the opposite side.

However, the line infantry still insisted on neatly pulling the trigger under the officer's order!

At a distance of 30 yards, three volleys crashed into the dense National Guard line, an old-fashioned tactic used by the British until the advent of breech guns, and the effect was always unexpectedly good, especially against the National Guard, a new army with a weak fighting will!

The soldiers of the National Guard were shot in a neat manner, and the soldiers of the National Guard in the first row were cleared out at once by three volleys, and the second row was also injured.

The National Guard soldiers in the back watched as the queue in front of them was empty!

The morale of the National Guard soldiers in the first two platoons was immediately shattered, and shooting at such a close distance was not much different from being shot on the execution ground!

Even God and his old man can't protect themselves......

Among the surviving National Guard soldiers in the first two platoons, there were naturally deserters and the entire defensive front was fluctuating!

"No backsliding! Go up! For France! For the sake of freedom, keep fighting for me!! ”

The angry scolding of the officers of the National Guard continued to sound, but before they could reorganize the chaotic National Guard soldiers, the Fourth Infantry Division, which had just finished firing three salvos, had already sounded the trumpet of the charge, and in the charging sound of the various junior officers raising their command swords, the dense bayonet phalanx crossed the 30-yard distance that was not too far and killed!

The chaotic NSF defensive line could not even fire another salvo, at most a few clever and well-armed NSR soldiers fired the bullets from their flintlock pistols before the line infantry rushed up, and then chose to retreat or go up with their bayonets......

Inspired by the red, white and blue tricolor flags flying high, the National Guard did not behave too badly, and there were still many National Guard soldiers who were willing to fight for freedom and equality took the initiative to carry the bayonet charge of the line infantry!

However, the National Guard, which was a little confused by the previous three volleys, fell into an absolute disadvantage as soon as they made contact in close combat, and the Marquis de Lafayette in the rear had to put the thousands of reserves into the defensive points of the weak front in batches in order to stabilize the overall central front from being broken.

After Lin Haoda saw that the National Self-Defense Force was indeed suppressed under a round of charges from his own line infantry, he immediately ordered the column of the First Infantry Division behind him to go up!

The 1st Infantry Division, with several company-based offensive columns, trotted with flintlock muskets loaded with bayonets and whirled into the crumbling National Guard mid-lane line!

The thickness of the offensive column is much higher than that of the horizontal phalanx, and the offensive phalanx of the column in the local area can use far more troops than the enemy to sprint and break through, and it is easier to penetrate the relatively thin horizontal defensive line, which is also the reason why the column offensive phalanx gradually eliminated the horizontal phalanx in the era of queuing and shooting.

Historically, in the Napoleonic period, except for the British, who were still holding the rigid large horizontal phalanx, other European countries basically used the column phalanx as the main formation of field battles.

The British clinged to the phalanx of the Great Horizontal Formation, of course, not because the British brains were in water, but because only the British army in the world could not change its face, advance to within 30 yards under artillery fire and bullets, and use dense three-column salvos to fire high-intensity fire at close range to directly break the enemy's morale......

It was generally accepted by the continental powers of the time that no one was an opponent of the British in a face-to-face field battle on an open plain, because no country's army could withstand the fire of a three-column salvo within 30 yards and maintain its morale!

Therefore, when the European continental powers encountered the British army in the field, they rarely played face-to-face shooting, either using roundabout tactics and cavalry to avoid the front of the British large horizontal phalanx, or simply like Lao Maozi, directly hit a volley from a long distance and then launched a bayonet charge......

However, in the Napoleonic era, the military genius managed to break the myth of the invincibility of the British in the field with flexible column tactics, but even then, a three-column salvo was a nightmare for hostile soldiers on the battlefield!

In fact, the morale of the ordinary line infantry of the French Foreign Legion is simply not enough to play a 30-yard three-column salvo at close range, but the combat quality of the National Guard is too poor, and it only fired three rounds of decent salvos before the Fourth Infantry Division approached, and it became chaotic.

Of course, there was no 'if' on the battlefield, and after the 1st Infantry Division's offensive column was inserted into the middle front of the National Guard, the rooftop of victory had begun to tilt sharply towards Lin Haoda.