"Fire !!"

Bang bang bang......

On the trenches of the Revolutionary Army of the First French Republic, bursts of white smoke suddenly floated, which made the shooting range of the revolutionary army soldiers blur in a short period of time.

The white smoke produced by the violent combustion of black powder has always been a problem for the soldiers of the army, many recruits are afraid of being smoked by the white smoke to their eyes, and they will even turn their heads to avoid the white smoke bursting out of the hammer at the moment of shooting......

However, due to the poor accuracy of the flintlock pistol itself, the officers occasionally turned a blind eye to this practice.

Anyway, as long as the distance is close enough, the enemy is dense enough, and the general direction of aiming is correct, the probability of hitting the person is still quite high, as for the enemy who is far away, even if it is aimed, the hit rate is pitiful.

Of course, for skirmishers, even if the white smoke is big and choking, they have to be patient, which is also the reason why skirmishers are often old hunters and veterans.

From time to time, soldiers of the advancing Young Guards fell to the ground, but the beat of the drums did not stop at all, and the middle and senior officers who were behind the soldiers on their horses kept waving their command knives and shouting: "Forward, keep in formation!" Don't turn back! ”

As for the grassroots officers who are at the forefront, naturally they do not need to shout anything, as long as they walk in the front with their command knives, in fact, they will only exercise their command power after they have stopped advancing, and they are just an example of advancing with guns and cannons in the process of advancing.

Under the advance of the Young Guards, the small number of revolutionary artillery pieces that were placed in a very backward position, in order to avoid the bombardment of Lin Haoda's hundreds of 12-pounder infantry field guns, finally had room to play, and could barely reach the Young Guards who were close to the revolutionary army's trench position.

In the volley, the Revolutionary Army of the Republic finally realized the inconvenience of coming in the trenches, because when they fired, they were stepping on the steps of a higher level, and they could not stand up straight on the spot to reload, which would be very twisted.

Therefore, the soldiers of the revolutionary army could only retreat and walk down the steps after the salvo and reload, and the immature trench space was narrow, and there was no room for several people to be side-by-side, and naturally there was no assistant behind each musketeer who specially loaded ammunition, which led to a large number of soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic staying in the trenches, but the frequency of firing was much slower than when standing on flat ground!

This is not a fatal problem, the officers of the revolutionary army can reduce the density of fire at the same time, let a third of the musketeers in the trench shoot, and then let the other third of the musketeers fire a salvo, after three rounds, basically the musketeers who have finished the first round of fire are almost reloaded.

It's just that this method only increases the persistence of musket firing and reduces a lot of fire density, the trench is not flat, it can shoot three rows of people at the same time, and in the case of only one row of people shooting, reducing so much fire density is naturally more than worth the loss.

This is the reason why trenches were not popular in the era of queuing to shoot, and even if fortifications were built, they were star-shaped rhombus forts with superior anti-artillery capabilities and anti-artillery stones on the breastwork.

At this intensity of fire, the casualties of the Young Guards were not large, and because the artillery positions of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic were arranged too far back, they could only be bombarded with solid shells, and under the tenacious will to fight, their morale could not be shaken at all.

When the Young Guards approached the distance of 50 meters, which was the most suitable for queuing up to shoot, the officers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic were surprised to see that the Young Guards did not stop at all to shoot at the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army in the trenches, and continued to march forward without the slightest pause in the beat of the drum!

The knowledgeable officers of the revolutionary army immediately realized something, and cold sweat could not help but break out on their foreheads, they knew that the soldiers of the revolutionary army staying in the trenches could not form a dense phalanx of bayonet defense at all, that is, when the attacker launched a bayonet charge, the advantage of close bayonets as a defender was gone!

In this way, the officers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic watched as the Young Guards approached 30 meters, and then continued to close the distance, 20 meters, 15 meters......

"Stop, get ready, throw grenades!" Under the orders of the surviving officers, the young guards in front of them quickly stopped and took out the original large grenades that had been prepared to hang behind their buttocks to prevent them from being exploded by stray bullets, lit the fire rope, and threw them into the trench that was close at hand under the officer's command.

The overwhelming original version of the large grenade fell from the sky, and the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic who were crowded in the narrow trenches had nowhere to hide, and they could not climb out of the trenches one person deep in a short time!

"Oh my God, why should we stay in the pit and fight, when the enemy throws the grenade overhead, there is nowhere to hide!!"

Such thoughts were the last thoughts of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic in the trenches who threw a large number of grenades......

Boom~~~Boom Boom......

A series of explosions of all kinds, as if they were about to overturn the trenches, the young guards had no intention of charging with bayonets at once, and the first row threw it and the second row stepped forward and threw it again......

No matter how bad the power of black powder is, there are basically few survivors left in this explosion......

After the explosions passed one after another, the young guard junior officer raised his eyebrows and waved his command knife fiercely: "For honor!" Long live the Regent! Charge!!! ”

The bayonet-armed Young Guards shouted and jumped into the bombed-out trenches, killing the few lucky ones.

Soon, the first trench front was completely lost, and few soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic fled to the second trench line.

It didn't take long for the disciplined Young Guards to clear the first line of trench defense, and then quickly lined up again, and under the impassioned drum beat, they once again stepped towards the second trench line!

However, the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China on the second trench line saw the tragic situation of their colleagues in front of them, and after the Young Guards hurriedly fired an unreliable salvo at a distance of 100 meters, Hula Lala, regardless of the officers' stopping, held their own weapons, held the military caps inlaid with red, white and blue cockades, and crawled out of the trenches and fled to the rear in embarrassment.

There were tens of thousands of people on the entire trench defense line, and they collapsed like this without waiting for the enemy, and the speed of the collapse made the commander of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic in the rear turn pale with a miserable face!

Please support the genuine subscription of the starting point