Chapter 142: Night Battle III (Seventh Update)

The attacking peasant rebel army is only the troops around this village, the Paris region is very large, and there are peasant rebels in other places, and the French Foreign Legion only has such a main force, not to mention a one-to-one exchange, even if it is a two-to-one or even three-to-one exchange, the peasant rebel army is enough to beat Lin Haoda's troops back to the city of Paris......

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The direction of the attack of the peasant rebels was the area defended by the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Line Infantry, which was also the station of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and the French Foreign Legion was arranged in this village in such a way - the village was composed of logistics and all veterans, and the four directions on the periphery of the village were the Casio Line Warriors Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and the 4th Infantry Regiment.

As for the light infantry battalion, it was divided into two stations and placed a company of about the size of each station, the auxiliary line infantry guarded the defensive line, and the hussars also lived in the villages because of their strongest mobility, so they could gather and mount their horses as quickly as possible to support in case of attack.

Not to mention the first step of guarding the village, as long as the four infantry regiments on the periphery were all defeated, it would be impossible for them to move their positions, because they were guarding the supply of the whole army, and without the logistics materials of the army in the village, Lin Haoda could only flee back to Paris with his troops in disgrace......

It is not an easy task to feed an army of tens of thousands by robbery, not to mention that it is even more difficult to replenish ammunition, and those peasant rebel armies have a pitiful low ration rate of their own muskets, and there is not much capture value at all!

Compared with the peasant rebel army, the National Guard was a 'rich and handsome' force......

The attacking peasant rebel army used the tactic of crowding up, and the front row was a 'gunner unit' with more than ninety percent of the peasant rebel army's muskets, and even a large number of old arquebuses were involved.

And in this group of mob armaments, it is obviously impossible to have that kind of skilled soldiers, standing still and loading will have to be drummered for two to three minutes, if you reload while advancing, it is better to charge directly with a knife!

Compared to the flintlock pistol, a weapon that can shoot three times per minute for civilians who have played with guns, the arquebus is simply weak!

In Prussia, excellent soldiers who have been trained in professional flintlock shooting and loading can even shoot 5 bullets a minute, and the average number of flintlock shots of Prussia's professional elite line infantry is 4-5 shots per minute, so to speak, completely destroy the troops of other countries!

A normal regular army, in the tense and bloody environment of the battlefield, has an average of three buckshot shots in one minute......

Using a flintlock pistol in training and using a flintlock pistol on the battlefield are two different concepts!

The peasant rebel army knew its own family affairs, and the gunner troops in the forefront actually regarded the musket as a disposable weapon, that is, the rhythm of hand-to-hand combat with one shot and rolling up their sleeves......

In order to prevent the gunners in the front from being killed by the enemy before they could shoot, wasting their precious muskets, each musketeer was followed by 1-2 peasant soldiers with farm tools and weapons, silently waiting for the musketeer in front to fall to the ground during the attack, and then picking up his weapon and continuing the attack......

The peasant rebels were so poor, the offensive front of tens of thousands of people, only the thin layer in the front was musketeers, and the back was full of mob armed with all kinds of strange weapons!

If Lin Haoda had witnessed the main armament of this peasant rebel army, he would definitely have thought of the scenes of armed fights between villagers in the countryside in later generations......

Hammers, forks, sticks, kitchen knives, hammers...... It can be said that both the machete and the long sword can be regarded as weapons that can only be used by the sturdy 'warriors' of the peasant rebel army!

No wonder these peasant rebels can't even defeat the small number of National Guards, and there is already a generational gap in this kind of armament!

If in the daytime, the troops with artillery could have slaughtered the enemy in a free and drenched manner before the two sides engaged, and then let the line infantry fire a few rounds of salvos like targets at close range, even if the peasant rebels could continue their attack with such casualties, it is difficult to imagine that the agricultural tools and weapons could beat the tight bayonet phalanx......

For this group of outrageous peasant rebels with poor weapons, perhaps only night combat is the most suitable for them, which can allow the artillery units of the regular army to hit the target accurately, and can also reduce the killing distance of the musket to the greatest extent possible, and enter the melee hand-to-hand combat faster.

However, the French Foreign Legion itself does not have an artillery unit, which is not a pity......

In the crowded crowd of the peasant rebels, the small leaders of the rural committees, hiding among them, constantly shouted impassioned slogans: "For freedom!" Kill all the foreign mercenaries! For the sake of bread, destroy the brutal autocratic army! ”

These small leaders who can become members of the Rural Committee have obviously drunk some ink, and they shout slogans that are not like ordinary mud legs who only know how to repeat, and every time they shout the surrounding peasant armed forces, they will follow with passion!

"Despotism and tyranny oppress us, and you can see the fierce soldiers, killing people everywhere, and they take the lives of your wife and children from your arms!"

"Onward! Advance! All in one! Wipe out the enemy!"

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Inspired by the enthusiastic slogans, the dense peasant rebel army easily rushed through the cordon of the Second Infantry Regiment, because the peasant rebel army pressed the main force when it came up, and after the guards of the second infantry regiment who did not have a few cordons fired a few more shots, they did not dare to face the peasant rebel army who could not see the end at a glance, and all retreated to the main defense line of the second infantry regiment that was rapidly gathering in the camp!

The distance between the four infantry regiments of the four defensive lines on the outskirts of the village is not far away, and they will soon be able to support each other, of course, this refers to the time when the soldiers are awake during the day, at three o'clock in the middle of the night, the officers shout the soldiers out of the camp tents after hearing the gunshots, and then gather the troops to go to the place of the incident to support, this process is easy to say, but it is not something that can be done in an instant, an infantry regiment plus the attached light infantry, nearly 3,000 people, even if it is a regular army, It takes time to assemble a whole team in your sleep!