The frontal infantry attacked and covered, while the cavalry went around the flanks to attack in a roundabout way, and the standard infantry cavalry attack combined with tactics rushed over like a textbook, and then the Imperial Guard infantry was shot back like a textbook......

As in the previous attacks, in the queue of shots within a distance of 50 meters, the Imperial Guard infantry could not survive even half an hour, the Scottish Highland infantry did not change their face in the front and died in the back, and the Imperial Guard infantry became more and more chaotic until it collapsed, if it were not for the fact that the infantry of the Imperial Guard was much more powerful than the Scottish Highland Infantry, and the huge reserve base made the Scottish Highland Infantry unable to launch a counterattack, I am afraid that it would have been completely defeated long ago......

However, the front commander of the Imperial Guard on the right flank thought that the combat mission of the infantry had been completed, and although they were routed as usual, they managed to attract the main force of the Scottish Highland infantry in the front, and the Scottish Highland infantry on the flank was only a thin phalanx of shallow Scottish Highland infantry, and they were faced with a charge of 5,000 saber hussars!

This kind of battle can not be changed by willpower, the number of defending infantry phalanx is not as large as that of the charging cavalry, and the hollow phalanx of defensive cavalry is not listed, because the Scottish Highland infantry does not have this time, and the attack of the main infantry of the Imperial Guard is not a waste of soldiers' lives!

"Offensive !!" The commander of the Imperial Sabre Hussars, who raised his sabre, gave an order, urging his war horse to drive a sea of blue uniformed cavalry towards the shallow Scottish infantry phalanx.

In order to cope with the onslaught of more cavalry, the Scottish Highland infantry on the flanks had to resist the opposing cavalry charge by compressing the depth and stretching the horizontal line as long as possible.

In the eyes of the light cavalry commander, the tactics of the Scottish Highland infantry were completely death-free, without a deep infantry phalanx, and in the face of the cavalry charge, wasn't it just a window paper that could be broken with a stab?

Of course, the light cavalry commander knew that the other side had no second choice, and if he listed an infantry phalanx with a large depth, he would only be easily surrounded and annihilated by the light cavalry!

The only advantage of the Scottish Highland Infantry's lack of depth of defense is that it allows all front-line infantry to have a firing position, which can fire and kill the enemy to ensure maximum firepower output.

It's just that at the speed of the cavalry's charge, how many cavalry can be killed by a volley of infantry far fewer than their own?

Sure enough, the Scottish Highland infantry only fired two rounds of volleys, and had to face the close-range saber slash of the light cavalry, but to the shock of the Imperial light cavalry, the second salvo of the opponent actually put the cavalry forward troops more than ten meters away before pulling the trigger!

Perhaps the officer would have had the courage to wait until this distance to give the order, but the soldier is not a machine, and it is too normal for the infantry to be timid in the face of the surging crowd of cavalry riding on tall horses, and it is too normal for humans to pull the trigger in advance in an extremely tense situation.

The reason why the firearms of the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty always fired at the Manchu cavalry when they were always out of the range of firearms, resulting in a lethality of about none, was caused by the huge psychological pressure on the infantry caused by the cavalry charge.

In that kind of battlefield environment, as long as a soldier shuddering and firing, it will trigger a series of firing actions, in the battlefield where the communication basically relies on roaring, musket shooting does not rely on a group of officers to open their voices and shout, the officer's password is actually only heard by a small group of soldiers around him, and the command of the small officer on the front line of the battlefield in ancient and modern times is transmitted by relying on other shouts or war drums of the soldier.

This kind of scene can often be seen in modern queuing shooting movies, the officers give an order, and the soldiers will repeat it collectively, only in this way can it be transmitted to the ears of the soldiers of the entire army, as for the order to fire, it is very simple, just listen to the roar of muskets around.

This leads to a very embarrassing problem, if one of the soldiers on the front line misses the gun, the first salvo will be sent out inexplicably......

This is the reason why only well-trained regular and even elite troops can fire volleys, and it is difficult for militias and paramilitaries to shoot in a uniform manner, and free fire is the best choice for militia arming.

The desire to control the shooting in the face of the infantry is much simpler than in the face of the cavalry, the closer the cavalry is to the soldiers, the greater the pressure on the soldiers' hearts, the ordinary regular army elite does not dare to put the cavalry closer to a distance of more than ten meters to fire a salvo, which is likely to occur in the case of misfire and waste the salvo in advance, or when the cavalry arrives at this distance, many soldiers will have a blank brain, resulting in forgetting to pull the trigger, so that the salvo effect is greatly reduced!

Talent is the key to the war, if everyone can be mechanically lined up to be shot under a unified password, then the battlefield will not have to be fought, it is basically the end of one-on-one change, it is precisely because of the rarity of the close-range queue to be shot, it highlights the strength of the British Army at that time with rigid tactics and a few tricks that are eaten all over the world.

Even Napoleon admitted that it was a very unwise choice to fight the British in a head-on field on the open plains.

On more than one occasion, the French tried to learn from the British tactics of firing from the back, but the result was often so brutal that the troops collapsed before they could shoot later......

As the Scottish Highland Infantry, it carried forward this tradition of the British Army to the extreme, and the accurate salvo of more than ten meters made the light cavalry unit experience a tragic man's back in front of the formation, but where is the number of light cavalry, coupled with the inertia of the cavalry charge, after trampling on a large number of friendly troops that were shot down, they rushed into the bayonet jungle of the Scottish Highland Infantry, and then undoubtedly penetrated the thin Scottish Highland Infantry.

Just when the Imperial Light Cavalry thought that the Scottish Highland Infantry, who had been dressed like a sieve, would face the fear of the cavalry in the face of the cavalry in normal battle, the Scottish Highland Infantry, who had been scattered, lifted their checkered skirts...... Uh, I mean lifting the bayonet and howling at the Imperial hussars beside him.

I have to say here that wearing a skirt to fight is not a good choice, of course, in the face of courage, the skirt or something is the honor of the Scottish Highland infantry, this is their national tradition, and the male warrior must wear a skirt and suit stockings......

The tradition of wearing stockings in Europeans is something that the Orientals can never understand!

The Scottish Highland infantry knew that they would not be able to defeat the light cavalry coming and going like the wind without a formation, but they had already been given a death order before, holding back the enemy light cavalry and holding on until the main force turned the spearhead!