Lin Haoda divided the 50,000 Young Guards into five columns, each column has about 10,000 people, which is a large corps combat unit, and the battlefield is limited, and it is impossible to put 10,000 people on the front line at the same time.

Due to the large number of horses rejected by the Maasai Revolutionary Army on the position, the cuirassiers were placed by Lin Haoda on the periphery of the two wings to protect the artillery positions arranged on the flanks.

These cuirassiers are naturally not suitable to attack the infantry positions of the heavily defended positions, but to attack the ranks of mobile infantry trying to rush to the artillery positions, it is a proper weapon of great destruction!

Since ancient times, it is often the cavalry that takes the initiative to attack the infantry, and it is difficult for the infantry to attack the cavalry, first of all, the infantry is more than a step shorter in momentum in the face of the cavalry troops riding tall horses, and it takes great courage to insist on standing in place to resist, let alone take the initiative to attack the cavalry charging queue......

Most people know that theoretically the spear phalanx can resist the frontal charge of the cavalry, but in the real historical examples, there are often spear phalanxes that are many times more numerous than the cavalry, and they are crushed and slaughtered by a small number of cavalry troops, and the most important reason is the fear mentality!

When the cavalry charges head-on and crashes into the spear phalanx, the loss of the spearmen will be more due to the huge kinetic energy of the cavalry, but according to the ideal exchange ratio, 2 to 1 will be the sky, however, even the spear phalanx ten times that of the cavalry will often be overwhelmed by the cavalry!

This is the fear of human beings, in fact, this is the same as the situation of tanks crushing infantry, when the tanks rumble in front of humans, few people can calm down and continue to fight, rout is the general trend.

It is normal for human beings to instantly explode in fear and other negative emotions when they face a large high-speed moving object, not to mention military armaments, just the hula of a large truck that is taller than a human head is enough to make people panic, not to mention a heavily armed war machine!

Therefore, the infantry phalanx itself was charging at the cavalry in a state of extreme fear, and if a certain point in front of it was broken again, it would basically be the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing the entire infantry array to collapse.

It is already difficult to use infantry to resist cavalry, and as long as the phalanx has a few more fluctuations, it is a sure fact that it will be crushed.

For this reason, even in the era when muskets and artillery dominated the battlefield, commanders preferred to place cavalry on the flanks of the army to guard their flanks.

Guarded by powerful cavalry, the enemy commander will not let the infantry line outflank as long as he does not have sufficient self-confidence and excessive brain deficiency.

Even the entrenched infantry phalanx was difficult to defend in the face of cavalry charges, let alone the infantry queues that were moving from time to time?

Most people have the impression that the spearmen and cavalry are a joke on the real battlefield, even if it is a strictly trained and defensive phalanx of spearmen, they must be cautious in the face of cavalry troops, and a slight mistake is the end of the whole army, if the cavalry troops are elite enough, it is not a miracle to defeat the spear phalanx directly head-on with losses.

This is why cavalry is king in the era of cold weapons, as for long-range bow and crossbow weapons, because of the protection of heavy armored cavalry, the killing effect is not very good, and it has never been able to suppress the advantage of cavalry as an ace class.

Until the advent of the armor-piercing musket and the rampant armor-piercing artillery, even if the cavalry turned itself into an iron shell and crushed the human body, it could not resist the bombardment of solid iron eggs......

At this point, the cavalry retreated from the status of the ace class, to put it bluntly, the cavalry did not fail because of the combination of muskets and spears, but because of the penetration of lead bullets and the great lethality of artillery!

The phalanx of spears was the only means of fighting the cavalry, not a tactical means of restraining the cavalry!

After the 100 12-pounder infantry field guns were pushed to the preset position, Lin Haoda raised his monocular and carefully inspected the opponent's position.

"It's really cautious, the Maasai Revolutionary Army has only been killed by a bunch of generals, how do I feel as if they have killed their attacking wildness?

Qin Xue'er has made a great contribution this time, but unfortunately, I have no intention of rewarding her, hehe. “

Lin Haoda will not be accustomed to this proud stunning beauty, in Lin Haoda's eyes, Qin Xue'er is just a useful tool, and the big deal is to add the aura of a '** preparation'.

Such a character, sneering at Lin Haoda at the beginning, looking like the second and third in the world, how could Lin Haoda give Qin Xueer good treatment?

Since that day, except for Lin Haoda, who did not develop Qin Xue'er's lower body because of the Coiling Dragon and Phoenix Heart Method, almost all other insulting gameplay methods have been tried on Qin Xue'er, and at the same time, he has a deeper understanding of the magic of internal strength......

"If we don't have so many artillery, it will be difficult to crack the shell of the turtle built by the revolutionary army of Marseille, but for now......

After a three-hour bombardment, I'll see how long the Marseille Revolutionary Army can last! “

In order to give full play to their own military superiority as much as possible, the Marseille Revolutionary Army chose the field battlefield, and built temporary defensive fortifications, which were far less solid than the city's defense system, and hundreds of artillery shelled for three hours, even if the fortifications built by the Marseille Revolutionary Army could not be completely destroyed, it was enough to make the fortifications full of gaps and ruins and lose their due effect......

The 12-pounder infantry field gun used by Lin Haoda is the most advanced infantry field gun in continental Europe today, and only the bulky and heavy caliber fortress guns or naval guns with larger caliber and longer range are left......

Therefore, Lin Haoda, who has 100 12-pounder infantry field guns, is completely in a state of superior fire suppression in the field, as long as he can hit the shells, it is naturally easy to bully and bully the enemy with superior artillery first!

Lin Haoda's artillery arsenal is full of prisoners of war coolies and young prisoners who have been arrested for committing various inexplicable crimes, in addition to the basic food expenses, Lin Haoda does not need to pay extra labor costs at all, only need to provide machinery and raw materials, in the original French government's wealth support, raw materials and machinery and equipment have long been equipped, it can be said that Lin Haoda has pressed the cost of producing shells to the minimum, and it is no problem to use hundreds of artillery guns to play with long-term shelling.

In this way, the earth-shattering sound of artillery unfolded under the horrified gaze of the soldiers of the Maasai Revolutionary Army, and it also made these mud-legged armed men realize for the first time what is called fire suppression......