The advantage of the large column phalanx was evident at this moment, because the cross-section of the battlefield was relatively drastically reduced, they could approach the enemy line more quickly, and the number of shots they received was reduced.

After the first round of salvo fire, the National Guard changed to free fire mode, because the frequency of the soldiers reloading and firing was different, and if the salvo continued, it would inevitably make the fast reload person wait for the slow reloader, which was tantamount to reducing the fire output density at the same time.

Therefore, the defenders, who were generally defending behind the fortifications, tended to be free fire after the first volley.

The National Guard is a firing group of three people, the first person fires and then gives way to the firing position to reload the ammunition, and the person behind raises his gun and fires, so that from the perspective of the attacker, the sound of muskets behind the fortifications is continuous, as if there are flintlock pistols shooting at themselves all the time!

Fortunately, due to the distance, the casualties of the Young Guards were not large, and when they were close to a distance of 50 yards, the soldiers at the front of the Young Guards stopped at the order of the officer, and after firing a three-row salvo, they rushed forward with a shout!

The soldiers of the National Guard stayed behind the fortifications and shot, even if the fortifications had been damaged by the previous shelling, but they still had a great advantage over the Young Guards standing in the wilderness......

"Kill !!"

Led by junior officers wielding command knives, the swarms of the Young Guards rushed to the dilapidated fortifications with flintlock pistols.

The soldiers of the National Guard, whose morale was already low, instinctively felt fear in their hearts when they saw the dense flow of people coming up, but out of the habit of obeying orders, they still fought against the Young Guards behind the fortifications with bayonets.

Fierce hand-to-hand combat suddenly began, and this kind of bayonet hand-to-hand combat was going on almost simultaneously at various attack points, and the artillerymen in the rear of the Young Guards had already engaged in extended fire, and the 12-pounder infantry field guns that fired directly were turned to attack the areas on both flanks of the National Guard, where there were no troops of their own troops to attack, and the six-inch howitzers continued to rain shells on the second line of defense of the National Guard.

The interweaving of blood and fire, the dense gunfire in the bayonet hand-to-hand combat never stopped, and the Young Guards soldiers who did not rush to the front line kept firing at the back to cover the robes in front, and in the same way, the National Guard, which did not receive the lower in the rear of the line, was also firing to kill and injure the young guards who rushed up.

However, under the impact of the Young Guard's death, several of the National Guard's defense lines were unexpectedly broken through, and after the breakthrough, one of the Young Guards pursued the National Guard's rout, and some of them attacked the flanks of the National Guard's defense line on both sides!

In this way, it didn't take long for the first National Guard to completely collapse, and a large number of routs fled backwards like wolves.

The new force behind the Young Guards followed, chasing the National Guard and pouring directly into the second line of defense of the National Guard, which was devastated by six-inch howitzers, and once again engaged in a bloody battle.

The real battlefield is boring and terrifying, in addition to killing is to be killed, here there are only two simple concepts left in the soldier's mind, how to kill more efficiently, and to save his life to the greatest extent!

Both the Young Guard and the soldiers of the National Guard knew that retreat and defeat were not far from their own death, but the Young Guard chose to put victory in front of their lives, and the soldiers of the National Guard did not want to die for an unwinnable war......

The fighting morale of the officers and men of the National Guard is not at all comparable to that of the Young Guard, and in addition, they were suppressed and beaten by artillery for a long time before, and when the Young Guard launched a full-scale main attack, the outcome of the war was almost doomed, the only difference was how many people died in the Young Guard.

Because the Girondist regime led by Brissot attached great importance to the armed forces of Lin Haoda, the nearly 100,000 bourgeois National Guards in front of the Young Guards were the most elite units controlled by the Girondist regime, all of whom were veterans of the suppression of the rebellion in the Vendée.

Therefore, after breaking through the second line of defense, the Young Guards were weak due to considerable losses, and retreated sensibly before the third and last line of the National Guard line.

After seeing such a fierce offensive ability of the Young Guard, the commander of the National Guard of the third line of defense made a bold and risky move, he pulled all the last general reserves of the National Guard to the front line when the Young Guard attacked and retreated, and launched a major counteroffensive of tens of thousands of people!

Because the commander of the bourgeois National Guard knew that according to the offensive strength shown by the Young Guards, his remaining forces would not be able to hold it at all, and since waiting was bound to be defeated, it was better to launch a counteroffensive while the opponent's offensive strength was insufficient and new forces were not yet born.

The commander of the National Guard did not seek to defeat the Young Guards completely, because that would not be realistic, but as long as he could regain the two lines of defense that he had lost, he could continue to defend them.

After all, this unit is the most elite veteran unit of the Girondist government, and its combat effectiveness is still good, as long as you don't jump to the bottom completely at once, you can slowly fight a war of attrition.

It's just that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Indeed, when the Young Guards retreated, launching an attack would make the Young Guards generally unable to react for a while, even if the Young Guards in the rear turned back to counterattack, it was still a mantis arm blocking the car, and if they wanted to turn around and attack tens of thousands of troops, it was not enough to send a herald to shout two sentences after a few orders......

What's more, most of the retreating Young Guards were exhausted from fighting!

Killing and chasing can be very physically demanding.

Normal large-scale battles often require several offensive battles to take a position, where is there such a thing as the Young Guards, which broke down two lines of defense in one go!

The Young Guards are not afraid of death, but they are people and not machines after all!

It's just that Lin Haoda has long been guarding against the counterattack of the National Guard, and after the general reserve of the National Guard of the third line of defense rushed out of the fortifications, it suddenly ushered in an overwhelming artillery bombardment, and when the Young Guards retreated, 200 artillery pieces were already ready, just waiting for the desperate National Guard to crash headlong and send them to death.

When the commander of the National Guard saw that his soldiers were killed and wounded under the continuous shelling, he had no choice but to give the order to retreat, and the General Reserve, which had been repeatedly tortured by such fierce shelling, was unable to continue the offensive even if it caught up with the tail of the Young Guard......

However, while the counteroffensive forces of the National Guard were retreating in disarray, a cuirassier with only a thousand men rushed out with their horses' hooves!