Chapter 180: Crushing

The middle line of the army is often the most critical part, and as soon as the middle lane collapses, the attacker can hit the rest of the enemy army to the left and right, or simply directly penetrate the entire array of the enemy army and take the banner of the Chinese army!

Thus, in a moment of crisis, the Marquis de Lafayette had to send thousands of men from each wing to the receding center of the line, which had been beaten hand-to-hand with bayonets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Interestingly, the Marquis de Lafayette, after giving this order, gave an order to destroy all artillery.

At this time, the National Guard's mid-lane front had not completely collapsed, and although there were several small gaps, they could still be barely filled when the National Guard soldiers who had shrunk their wings came to the rescue.

The artillery positions of the National Guard will not be attacked for the time being.

Of course, once the central front was broken through, the artillery positions behind it did not have time to evacuate or even destroy at all, and the capture was basically a fact of the settlers.

Although these dozen or so artillery pieces are a little old, they are also serious field guns, and if they are captured and maintained a little, there is no problem at all when they are pulled to the battlefield, and the Marquis of Lafayette, who knows that he will be politically exiled if he is defeated, is naturally unwilling to let Lin Haoda profit!

The Marquis of Lafayette, who was already standing at the pinnacle of power, was beaten down by Lin Haoda's variable, how could he not have resentment in his heart?

Anyway, after the two sides completely fell into a bayonet melee, the power of the artillery has been greatly reduced, and it will simply be blown up!

If the Marquis de Lafayette had won, the loss of a dozen guns would have been nothing, and if he had been defeated, he would have avoided funding Lin Haoda's French Foreign Legion.

Lin Haoda's resolute and ruthless style has completely offended all his enemies invisibly, and he knows that he can't be an enemy like Lin Haoda who can be eased, and he often leaves no room for doing things.

After Lin Haoda saw the Marquis de Lafayette draw troops from the two wings of the National Guard to support the middle road, he put down the monoculars with a smile on his face and ordered: "Blow the horn of the whole army's charge, let the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions launch a general attack from the two wings, and the hussar troops can also give the final blow to the desperate National Guard." “

"Yes, Lord Commander."

With the sound of a rousing trumpet, the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions pressed towards the two wings of the National Guard with an absolute numerical superiority!

The reinforcement of the National Guard on the two wings relieved the pressure on the central front, but the two wings of the National Guard could no longer withstand the attack of more than 30,000 people of the 2nd Infantry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division!

The 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions used only one salvo with bayonet charges to crush the two wings of the National Guard, which were far fewer than them, and then encircled the rear of the National Guard in the center!

Seeing this, the Marquis de Lafayette, after sending the last general reserve controlled by his cronies to resist the French Foreign Legion breaking through the two wings, under the protection of a few guards, mounted the well-tended 'runaway horse', and rode away with his valuable belongings that he had already packed......

The surrounding servants and guards also rode relatively modest horses, and fled the battlefield with their bosses, leaving behind the National Guard that was about to rout in the distance!

The number of the general reserve was already small, and it could not be stopped by tens of thousands of line infantry, and the Marquis de Lafayette's private escape made the entire National Guard lose its effective command.

Fortunately, the battlefield environment was dusty, and the vision was not too good, and there were few front-line National Guard soldiers who noticed that Marquis Lafayette had fled without permission.

After the Marquis de Lafayette ran away, the Central Front of the National Guard, which was attacked from both sides, was quickly defeated, without a unified command, and there were no troops even after the break, and the defeated National Guard was unable to reorganize resistance at all, and the bloody officers and men of the National Self-Defense Force fought separately and only wanted to kill a few more backs, but most of the officers and men of the National Guard only had the idea of escaping alive in their hearts......

At this moment, the hussar troops rushed into the defeated array of the National Guard, cutting the fleeing National Guard into pieces, so that their own line infantry could chase and kill!

The battlefield was chaotic, and everywhere were the officers and men of the National Guard who were screaming for tragic deaths, and a large number of officers and men of the National Guard, who had lost their fighting spirit and were exhausted, laid down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

Thousands of hussars, as before, spared the National Guard soldiers who were still resisting and the cowards who surrendered on their knees, and chased after the National Guard soldiers who did not surrender or resist and only cared about fleeing for their lives!

Under Lin Haoda's order, they were not allowed to let go of any of the National Guards who fled within their sight!

The two-legged line infantry naturally can't catch up with the fleeing National Guard, but for the lightly armed hussars, it is really not difficult to chase down the National Guard!

The battle between the two sides actually ended in less than half a day, but the suppression of small recalcitrant forces and the pursuit of the rout continued until dark.

Compared with the hussar team of only more than 1,000 people, the number of tens of thousands of defeated troops is too much, even if you remove those who continue to resist and surrender on their knees, the hussars who pursued until dark still did not kill the National Guard, and after the sky was completely dark, the hussars could only give up the pursuit with a little regret, and in the dark night, it became very simple for the rout to escape.

For the French Foreign Legion, this battle is to nakedly crush the National Guard, use a strong all-out attack, directly smash the seemingly solid turtle shell of the National Guard with force, and then swallow the National Guard, which is not as numerous as itself, into the stomach in one bite!

The morale of the Marquis de Lafayette and the officers and men of the National Guard, who had fled the battlefield ahead of schedule, insisted on resisting, but the number of soldiers who fled was greatly reduced.

It's just that the belief of the National Guard to fight for freedom caused the Fourth Infantry Division, which undertook the main attack, to suffer a large number of casualties, and with the attacks received during the previous main attack, the Fourth Infantry Division can be regarded as the unit with the greatest battle losses.

Because Lin Haoda's previous declaration of support for King Louis XVI to restore the old autocratic government was widely disseminated by the French government in the National Guard, arousing the common hatred of the officers and soldiers of the National Guard who believe in freedom and equality, even under the premise that the French Foreign Legion won an absolute victory, a large number of officers and soldiers of the National Guard spontaneously insisted on fighting, and the number of National Guards killed on the battlefield in this battle exceeded 20,000! (In the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the French Foreign Legion, the wounded enemy soldiers are equal to the dead, and the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion will consciously give those who are wounded by the enemy a happy ...... )

The 50,000 National Self-Guard Corps suffered more than 20,000 casualties on the battlefield alone, so you can imagine how strong the resistance of the National Guard is!

However, field battles on a wide battlefield are not narrow street battles after all, and the resilience supported by morale alone will not change the outcome of the battle, not to mention that the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the National Guard is not as good as the line infantry produced by the all-out war system.

In addition to the more than 20,000 National Guards who had already been included in the list of the dead, the French Foreign Legion successfully captured more than 20,000 National Guard soldiers under the desperate pursuit of the hussars.

Only a few thousand people have actually escaped from the French Foreign Legion......

This is the power of the cavalry troops, but the hussars can achieve such a big result, mainly because the overall front of the National Guard is too short to hold on, as a result, the hussar troops have most of the daytime can be used to chase and kill the rout, many surrendered National Self-Guard officers and soldiers are seen that they are in the hussars under the pursuit of the hopeless escape, only to kneel to surrender, the highest record is that a hussar directly brought back more than 30 lost the courage of the National Guard rout!

Of course, the more than 30 National Guard routs could not have been tamed by this one hussar, but the hussars who pursued them in small groups, unloaded the weapons of the National Guard, tied them up and sent a hussar to escort them back.

When Lin Haoda received the specific statistical report on the number of prisoners of war on the second day, he said indifferently: "The more than 20,000 captives have too much pressure on logistics, and we don't need to retain so many young and strong laborers.

Well, it was declared to the outside world that the morale of the National Guard was high and it would not retreat, so our army only captured more than 2,000 people and killed 40,000 National Guards!

It must be emphasized that the French Foreign Legion is not an army that kills prisoners of war for no reason! “

Casio, who received the order, lowered his head hesitantly and asked Lin Haoda: "Such a large-scale massacre cannot hide the more than two thousand prisoners of war who survived, if they spread it......"

"It doesn't matter, these two more than 1,000 prisoners of war could not be released, from this moment on they are the 'private property' of the French Foreign Legion, some of the arsenals occupied in the city of Paris, the original workers and bosses either ran away or died in street battles, these prisoners of war just filled in to act as workers, using the method of closed management to make them absolutely outside the outside of contact.

Although I don't want to bear the infamy of killing prisoners of war, I have no intention of clearing the reputation of the French Foreign Legion, and I want everyone to know that the end of opposing the French Foreign Legion is to be a coolie for the rest of your life, or a corpse! “

Lin Haoda stated expressionlessly.

"Lord Commander, how should these two thousand prisoners of war be selected from the more than 20,000 prisoners of war, and what should we pay attention to?" Casio asked cautiously.

"Just choose those honest and obedient prisoners of war, and not a single officer of the National Guard can be left!"