Chapter 72: Hard Street Fighting Seven
Although the battle to clear the neighborhoods of houses was not as tragic and intuitive as the fierce battle at the crossroads, it took far longer than the battles that were concentrated at the crossroads in the first place. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When attacking the barricade line of the first intersection, Lin Haoda's army only took about an hour to end the basic battle and crushed the will of the defenders of the National Guard, but the army to which Lin Haoda belonged fought from morning to lunchtime to complete the basic combat mission and expel most of the recalcitrant citizens of the National Guard.
Fortunately, compared to the battle at the intersection of the wide main road, which is more easily covered by firepower, the absolute number of line infantry lost during the clearance is not large, especially the professional light infantry, which is simply a dead nemesis for those amateur citizens of the National Guard......
In this kind of intricate street battle in the battle scene, the light infantry played a role far beyond the line infantry, which can be regarded as a good news for Lin Haoda.
However, this does not mean that the light infantry can become the king of street fighting, if there is no backbone line infantry charging in front to attract firepower, the light infantry simply can not be comfortable aiming at the target for accurate shooting, and besides, although the light infantry is relatively accurate, but still use flintlock pistols, the limitation of shooting distance makes them far less terrible than the real sniper gunners in later generations.
Another point where light infantry cannot replace line infantry is that when attacking the main road barricade defense line with a wide field of view, it is necessary to use a large number of line infantry to carry out intensive charges, and through bloody and brutal hand-to-hand combat, it is difficult to crush the morale of the defenders.
After all, the citizens of the National Guard are behind the barricades, not in the infinitely open field, and of course, if they were in the field, the commander of the National Guard would not be stupid enough to let his soldiers stand and be shot......
After completing the task of clearing and suppressing, the main force of the line infantry could finally rest and breathe a little.
In just one morning and several hours of fighting, Lin Haoda fully saw the bloody street battles in this era that surpassed later generations, and the battlefield with the mixed use of hot and cold weapons not only carried forward the considerable lethality of hot weapons, but also filled with the tragedy of white knives entering and red knives coming out during hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, which tested the courage of the combatants very much!
On the battlefield of the 21st century, it is rare to see such a long period of street fighting, and the developed precision-guided weapons can easily disintegrate the enemy's morale before the street fighting begins, destroy most of the enemy's heavy weapons, and then roar into the city with various combat vehicles in a crushing way to declare 'liberation and occupation'......
In the wars of the 21st century, the battle for the occupation of a city is not as great as the casualties of the guerrillas after the occupation......
Lin Haoda was extremely impressed by the speed of the collapse of the Saddam regime, which was the change in the mode of war brought about by the development of weapons......
Lin Haoda's army, which won the first battle, lost no small losses at all, about two thousand casualties, which was shocking, of course, the losses paid by the National Guard were far greater than the regular army under Lin Haoda, and the most important blow was also in morale, compared with before the street fighting began, the citizens of the National Guard who were driven from the first intersection all the way to the second line of defense also spread the panic of defeat......
In addition, most of the citizens of the National Guard who are placed in the first line of defense at the Paris City Hall are innocent armed citizens who are tall and short, and among them, there are also members of various revolutionary clubs who serve as officers to carry out wartime agitation......
As for why the Paris City Hall put the National Guard, which can fight, on the front line, it is easy to understand, whether it is the bigwigs of the Standing Committee or the high-ranking officers of the National Guard, who are really professional, they are deeply impressed by the defeat of the armed citizens of the Bastille, and they will never dare to put the 'garbage' in front, and then cause an unparalleled rout to achieve Lin Haoda's glorious record......
It's just that, to the surprise of the Paris City Hall, even if they put the so-called 'elite' on the front line, the speed of defeat still shocked the attention of the Paris City Hall in the rear!
In just half a day, the National Defense Force lost the entire first line of defense!
Is it the Bastille defenders who are too strong, or the defending National Guard 'elite' who are too weak?
Without waiting for the bigwigs of the Paris City Hall to discuss the result, the reorganized Lin Haoda's troops drove to the second crossroads defense line after a simple lunch!
When attacking the first line of defense, the three temporary infantry regiments suffered serious battle losses, and Casio combined all the officers and soldiers of the three temporary infantry regiments into a regimental battle group for the convenience of command, and launched an attack on the enemy with battalions as the basic combat unit!
And the last temporary infantry regiment, as a new force, waited for the two sides to engage the enemy, and as the last straw that crushed the enemy, it was thrown into the battlefield!
Casio, who has played several rounds against the National Guard. The Thunder have discovered the biggest flaw in the National Guard's armament, they tend to have high morale in the first battles, but as time goes on, the morale continues to decline very quickly, and at this time, as long as a large number of new troops are inserted in the 'right' position, it can trigger the collapse of the National Guard as a whole!
Of course, this inserted force had to be outnumbered and physically strong enough to crush the few remaining resistance determinations of the National Guard with a shocking style of hand-to-hand combat.
In the face of the barricade line at the second intersection, the offensive mode was almost reopened, and the four six-pounder infantry field guns that had been dragged over and arranged were the first to launch a roar, blasting the barricades on the main road and the National Guard defenders behind them into the sky one after another......
Due to the brutal defeat of the first crossroads defense line, a large number of routs in the second crossroads defense line greatly shook their own front after the artillery bombardment began......