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After the solid iron bullets were stuffed into the muzzle of the gun that had just been cleaned with a brush, the artilleryman who was already standing next to him with a stabbing rod stepped forward and fiercely compacted the shells and black powder of the 12-pounder infantry field gun, ensuring that the gap between the solid iron bullets and the black powder was compressed as much as possible to increase the air tightness, and only in this way could the heavy solid iron ball shoot farther.

"Fire!" With the order of the only artillery commander who did not have to work, the artilleryman in charge of ignition held a burning red lighter, and accurately probed into the small opening reserved on the chamber behind the 12-pounder infantry field gun, and at the moment of igniting the black powder inside, the violently burned black powder suddenly burst out of powerful and powerful expansion air, and the solid iron bullet that was pressed on his body in front of him was fiercely pushed out of the chamber and shot towards the target site nearly a thousand meters away.

The reason why hundreds of 12-pounder infantry field guns bombarded the main frontal forces of the Union Army with solid iron bullets was because, to put it bluntly, it was because of the range and angle problems.

The large-area lethality of shotguns against infantry and cavalry is considerable, but precisely because every salvo of shotguns will bring catastrophic damage to enemy infantry, so on the field battlefield, as long as the enemy commander does not occupy an all-round advantage, he will not let the infantry brigade hit the enemy's large-scale artillery position head-on.

Even if it is a charge, it is also a position with a small number of impact artillery, and the artillery position deployed by Lin Haoda is wide-eyed, dozens of artillery pieces are spread out, and only the commander of the coalition army with brain cramps will order his own soldiers to commit suicide......

This is no longer a substitute for courage!

On the battlefield, as long as the frontal assault artillery positions are avoided, the diagonal artillery will not be able to smash too close shotguns into the enemy's crowd, and at most they will be able to scrape the corners with the shotguns.

This is the horizontal surface of the battlefield lined up by tens of thousands of people, and the defense line where the Central Guards Regiment is located, standing at one end and looking at the other, there is no artillery arranged on the two wings......

It is conceivable how large the area of this kind of battlefield is, any battlefield above the level of 100,000 is wide beyond the field of vision of human beings, and the commander-in-chief can often only see the battlefield situation in the front of the middle road, and the army on both wings is actually outside the horizon for a long time, and it is necessary to rely on the communication cavalry to report the battle situation back and forth.

If it weren't for the effective range of the 12-pounder infantry field gun's solid iron projectiles, it would not have been possible to place such a wide cross-fire position, and with such a wide battlefield cross-surface, it would have been too inefficient and inefficient to attack the Union Army of the Central Guards Regiment with shotguns.

It is for this reason that even though most continental European countries have realized that the concentrated use of artillery is powerful enough, they still prefer to disperse their artillery into the gaps between frontal infantry regiments, so that they can face the attacking enemy infantry directly, and although the fire is greatly separated, at least when the enemy approaches, they can fire a round or two of shotgunfire.

Of course, because the artillery is scattered in the direction of the infantry formations everywhere, there are at most one or two artillery pieces in one place, so that the instantaneous firepower is far from being able to break the morale of the enemy, and can only be used to increase the lethality of the firepower, and it cannot be like Lin Haoda's arrangement at this time, relying on solid bombardment alone to knock out a string of blood for the follow-up Alliance Army soldiers!

However, in order to achieve Lin Haoda's results at this time, the premise is to configure enough artillery, the number of artillery is small, and the effect of concentrated use is not as good as placing it in the center of the infantry line.

In this era when the first industrial revolution was just beginning, limited by the development of productive forces, the casting of smoothbore guns was complicated and costly, far more expensive than the formation of infantry, so it was often difficult to increase the absolute number of artillery of various governments, and a legion could be equipped with double-digit artillery, which was already quite good, and pure infantry and cavalry legions abounded.

Another reason why European countries are reluctant to spend a lot of money to cast artillery is that the lethality of solid shells of smoothbore guns is really not good, and shotguns are rarely used on the field battlefield, at most they can play some role when cavalry charges.

The artillery in the hollow phalanx bombarded the cavalry units that could not rush in with shotguns, which was a proper weapon of mass destruction, and this was how the Mamluks were slaughtered by Napoleon with the hollow phalanx and artillery.

To say that the artillery is lined up in the front, top in the front, it is even more suicidal, the enemy can use a small number of infantry to contain the artillery units that are full of front, and then make a roundabout flank attack, after the artillery position falls, it is not a simple matter to turn to bombardment, and it is very easy to accidentally injure friendly troops after turning!

That's why at the end of the line up to shoot the development belt of the era, it is generally the infantry line in the middle and the artillery units on the two wings, or the infantry and artillery units are mixed and matched together.

On the real battlefield, the distance between the horizontal sides of the battlefield is too wide, and it is no problem to use two-wing artillery to cover the middle infantry, but it is a waste of firepower and stupidity to let the two-wing infantry cover the middle artillery......

In fact, the highest lethality for infantry belongs to howitzers, however, Lin Haoda does not have this technology, and the all-out war system has not opened the howitzer as a troop, so he can only use 12-pounder infantry field guns and rely on numerical superiority to bombard the Alliance Army.

It seems that the effect is still good, if it weren't for the fact that the Union Army was killed and wounded under the crossfire of the 12-pounder infantry field guns, and the morale fell badly, the 1st Guards Division, which had lost more than half of the battle, might not have been able to stop it!

The 1st Guards Division that retreated to the defensive line was protected by bunkers, and its morale rose again, and the rapid loading and shooting caused heavy losses to the Union soldiers who reorganized the charge, and in just half an hour, the front of the position of the 1st Guards Division was covered with dense corpses of sans-culottes who followed one after another, and more than a dozen red, white and blue tricolor flags fell in the middle, and each flag represented that at least one battalion of the Union Army had all died here!

Due to the serious expansion of the alliance army, the number of people in each battalion has expanded to about 1,000, and tens of thousands of people died in front of the front line of the 1st Guards Division just by counting the flags.

And in the middle of the Union Army, there are still a large number of corpses and mutilated pieces of flesh scattered on the ground, which are all unlucky eggs who have been 'broken' by the solid iron bullets of the 12-pounder infantry field guns that have been bombarded non-stop, although the casualties caused are not as tragic as those from the front, but the morale blow to the Union Army is definitely much greater than that of the infantry of the 1st Guards Division!

Finally, while being bombarded, the main frontal force of the coalition army, which had been fighting for nearly an hour under the fire of the 1st Guards Division, slowly retreated back, and the huge casualties could not be borne even by the staunch elements who had been brainwashed by revolutionary ideas.

Hundreds of 12-pounder infantry field guns on both flanks continued to bombard the retreating red, white and blue tricolor flags, and the Union army was filled with miserable wails and dashed hopes for the victory of the revolution......

Just when Lin Haoda was complacent about to launch a reserve counterattack on the retreating main force of the Allied Army, a panicked herald came to him on a communication war horse and reported in a panic: "Lord Regent, the 3rd Infantry Division on the flank was completely crushed by the elite of the Allied Army, all the officers above the regimental level of the 3rd Infantry Division were killed, and the artillery position was in urgent need of reinforcements!" ”

Lin Haoda frowned deeply: "These ordinary line infantry divisions are really too weak, and they can't even stop a bunch of mud legs!"

I ordered all reserves to support the artillery positions on both flanks, and all artillery to turn around and bombard the Union troops attacking on both flanks. “

After the herald left, Casio on the side explained to the dissatisfied Lin Haoda: "Although most of the soldiers of the Union Army came from the poor families of the low-level sans-culottes, they were all loyal supporters of the democratic concept of the Jacobins, and they learned a lot of combat experience in the war against the Austro-Prussian intervention army, and cultivated a victorious national fighting spirit. Defeat is inevitable, and the death of middle and senior officers on the front line has already shown the fierceness of the war. ”

Lin Haoda nodded: "It seems that I underestimated the combat resilience of this group of people's armed forces who were brainwashed by revolutionary ideas, and they were able to hold out for nearly an hour before they were defeated under the collective fire bombardment of hundreds of artillery, and this army is enough to rank among the best in the world in terms of morale alone." “

Casio calmly analyzed: "From the combat resilience shown by these 100,000 alliance troops, it can be seen that the other party should be all the elites controlled by the Jacobins, and most of the troops left in the Verdun fortress should be temporarily recruited soldiers, as long as we defeat this alliance army, the recruits in the Verdun fortress will be terrified, and there will be no suspense in the next battle." “

"Well, I hope that the 2nd Guards Division will not be as humiliating as the 1st Guards Division, after this battle, the army needs to be reorganized, I don't need to see the red, white and blue tricolor flags, cowards who are afraid when they hear the Marseillaise!"

Lin Haoda said coldly.

In fact, the performance of the 1st Guards Division, which undertook the frontal middle combat mission, was not as unbearable as Lin Haoda said, as can be seen from the fact that more than half of them were still able to hold on to the front line and repel the attacks of several waves of fanatical soldiers of the Union Army.

It's just that this kind of thing feels different when it is compared, if the Young Guards appeared, the performance of these line veteran units formed with tragic street battles would naturally be good, but compared with the Young Guards who could fight for Lin Haoda to the last man, it was not a little worse......

Of course, if Lin Haoda wanted to reorganize the army, he first had to win this crucial battle, all the reserves of the 2nd Guards Division were all thrown into the battle on both flanks, and the 1st Guards Division, which had suffered heavy battle losses, continued to hold the front to prevent the frontal rout of the coalition army from returning. Mobile phone users should browse and read for a better reading experience.