As always, the British army lined up in their usual field offensive formation of three battle lines, with a distance of about hundreds of paces between each battle line, so that after the thin horizontal battle line in front was broken, the formation of the brigade could be stabilized and the whole line could be prevented from collapsing, and the commander in the rear could also be given a certain buffer time to adjust the order to dispatch troops to plug the gap, or simply retreat tactically, etc.

After all, it was not an easy task to break through three battle lines in succession, especially in the elite Sequoia Army array!

The three battle lines can also form an effective stepped attack pattern during the attack, and when the friendly forces in front of them suffer heavy losses, they can be put into the battlefield in formation, maintaining the continuity of the attack's firepower, or the depth of the bayonet charge.

The three battle lines are all made up of horizontal phalanxes, and if you look down from a high place, you will see lobster soldiers wearing red military uniforms and tricorne hats standing in layers......

It's a bit like the queue of honor guards who stood in a horizontal row and waited for the chief to pass by in a car, of course, the depth was much thicker than the horizontal row in the military parade in later generations.

In fact, the military parade phalanx commonly used by various countries in the 21st century comes from the battlefield formation of the modern queue to be shot, and the originator of China's military parade honor guard comes from the original Prussian army, after all, the most powerful country in the world at that time was either in Europe or the United States, and it is human nature to learn from the strong.

Behind the three battle lines is the British army overseer team and the reserve, the reserve actually serves as the purpose of the superintendent, the reason why the British army can go to the enemy's nose with guns and bullets to shoot, is not only because of the strict 'stick education', the role of the superintendent is also very large, as long as it is a large-scale battle, the British army can see a large number of superintendents in the rear.

The British soldiers are also very aware of this, and in the long-term training, the British soldiers have subconsciously imprinted a concept: if they flee backwards, they will definitely be killed by the overseers, and they will be nailed to the disgraceful desertion record, which will cause trouble to their families, and they may not be killed if they go forward, and even if they are killed, they will be treated as martyrs, and there will be a pension......

Perhaps, in the eyes of later generations, it is very common for soldiers to have pensions for the dead, but in the 18th century in the world, most countries did not have the concept of pensions except for the real elite troops, if the battle was won, the generals were in a good mood, and perhaps they would give a little compensation to the families of the fallen soldiers, but if they were defeated, they would basically not even find the corpses......

The pension system of the British government is relatively advanced, even if that pension looks pitiful in the eyes of later generations......

The reason why pensions were not valued by the government at the time was not that they did not see the benefits of this morale-boosting effect, but because...... No money!

The cost of appeasing the fallen soldiers once in a while may not be large, but if the pension is established as a system in which money is paid for every war, the government's finances will definitely be daunted by war, and the cost of war will skyrocket!

Historically, it was not until the perfect end of the first industrial revolution that the social productive forces developed by leaps and bounds, the government accumulated wealth at an increasing rate, and the pension system was gradually improved.

To put it bluntly, the people's living standards have improved, not because of the conscience of politicians, but because the social productive forces have developed by leaps and bounds, creating enough materials to ensure that everyone has enough to eat and have a surplus, so that the majority of the people have solved the problem of food and clothing, and it is the development of science and technology that determines the quality of life of the common people, not the system!

No matter how good the system is, there are tons of corrupt officials who are oppressed, but no matter how many corrupt officials there are under the modern scientific and technological productivity, it is enough to feed the majority of civilians, while in ancient and modern times, there is little production itself, and if they are pulled by corrupt officials, they will naturally starve to death a large number of civilians.

The Imperial Guard is also divided into three battle lines, with reserves in the rear, but the Imperial Guard has far more troops than the other side, the battlefield cross-section is wider, the battle line is thicker, and the number of reserves can also completely destroy the British army on the opposite side.

When the two sides were hundreds of meters apart, they changed from marching columns to thin horizontal phalanxes in an engaged state, and at the same time, the artillery that had just been set up also began to roar, firing solid bullets one after another at the opposite infantry line.

Because Lin Haoda had almost emptied the reserves of howitzer ammunition when he unified France, this time the Imperial Guard did not bring a single howitzer, but only brought dozens of 12-pounder infantry field guns and small-caliber field guns produced by the French, and the remaining field guns were allocated to the 30,000 young guards stationed in southern France to resist the attack of the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Compared with the howitzer with huge lethality, Lin Haoda's attitude towards ordinary infantry field artillery is no longer as important as before, for Lin Haoda, the infantry field gun that fires solid bullets and short-range grape shells has no other advantages except for the convenience of ammunition replenishment.

Moreover, thanks to the efforts of the French bourgeoisie, the arsenals of mainland France have resumed the production of such conventional infantry field guns, which, as long as there is enough time to accumulate, can be completely self-sufficient and no longer rely on the system of total warfare.

After all, France already had the ability to produce conventional infantry field artillery, and there were no technical obstacles, and with the research and imitation of howitzers, it was only a matter of time before self-sufficiency in howitzers and the production of howitzers were realized.

Of course, the premise is that the anti-French alliance will give Lin Haoda enough time to recuperate.

In the army formation of tens of thousands of people, dozens of artillery pieces were distributed, which was really not much, and both sides bombarded each other's infantry in dense formations without a single shot, which hit the morale of the enemy army.

The skirmishers on both sides are the first to line up in a loose skirmish line to rush forward to receive hostile shots, the Imperial Guard, as a formed force, naturally also has skirmishers, in fact, there is no clear distinction between the skirmishers and the line infantry, the Imperial Guard and even the Young Guard, who were born in the line infantry, can completely select a group of soldiers with good marksmanship in wartime, and serve as the skirmishers who are harassed by the previous raid, although the marksmanship is not as slippery as the professional skirmishers, but it can be used to strike at the dense infantry queue.

The rousing drumbeat resounded in the Imperial Guard, and at the call of the officers, the soldiers of the first battle line marched forward in unison.

At the same time, the command to 'advance' also sounded on the British front, and the rhythmic grenadier march suddenly sounded, and the expressionless 'lobster soldiers' formed a thin red line, stepping forward like the honor guard of later generations, the only difference was that they did not kick their thighs high and throw their arms to their chests for the sake of beauty like the honor guards of later generations.