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The Austrians threw so many troops at once gave the Sardinians a great visual impact. As far as the eye can see, there are people near and far. These Austrian soldiers, to the accompaniment of artillery fire and military music, lined up in a neat line, strode forward in unison, looking like an unstoppable tide, making everyone who faced them feel a heavy pressure. If it weren't for the miraculous "Powerful Pill", I'm afraid that someone would have already turned around and fled.

All the soldiers have already swallowed the "Mighty Pill". As the "Mighty Pill" dissolved in their abdomen, the soldiers felt saliva in their originally dry mouths again, and their heartbeats seemed to have calmed down a bit. The tension and fear were gone.

Neville's regiment was placed in the middle of the front of the line. This is where the most vulnerable location is located. The soldiers now stuck their rifles out of their trenches, silently aiming at the approaching enemy. By this time, the artillery arranged on the flanks had already shifted their positions, they were transferred to the top of the high ground, condescendingly firing at the Austrians.

The effect of firing from this direction is not as good as firing from the side. Because firing from the side, if you hit it accurately, you can kill an entire platoon of people with a single shell. On the front, the thickness of the military formation is relatively limited, that is, if the mission hits the target, it can only defeat four or five people.

However, there were gains and losses, and after the position was moved to the hill, the artillerymen also gained another advantage: a larger range and a larger firing range. Almost the entire battlefield was within the range of their artillery. And they had previously measured and test-fired at various positions. The shooting accuracy will also be relatively higher.

As a bronze smoothbore gun, the accuracy and range of the Napoleon gun are quite good, of course, compared with the steel rifled gun that will appear soon, it is still much worse, in the original history, in the later Franco-Prussian War, the Napoleon cannon was completely compared to the Krupp steel cannon of the Prussians, but in this era, it is almost the best field artillery. Although there were already very primitive rifled guns in this era, the high cost, short life and extremely low shooting made it impossible for these things to equip troops on a large scale.

The Sardinian artillery first took advantage of the range advantage brought by the altitude advantage to strike at the Austrian artillery position, although there were not many shells that really hit, but this round of shelling seriously interfered with the Austrian artillery, and they had to move their positions in a panic, so that the Austrian artillery temporarily withdrew from the battlefield.

Then the Sardinian artillery began to turn its guns, and attacked the Austrian infantry units continuously, constantly shooting shells into the Austrian array, constantly making bloody alleys. However, these shelling did not stop the Austrians, dozens of cannons, although they were doing their best to cause casualties, but in the face of the Austrian troops who came like a tidal wave, these shellings, like throwing a few stones in the tide, although they stirred up a little splash, but in a blink of an eye they were swallowed up by the tide.

"Steady, steady! Don't shoot! Steady! The shouts of the officers echoed through the trenches, and Tommy shifted his rifle over his shoulder, tilted his head again, narrowed one eye, and continued to aim at the approaching Austrian in front. At this time, those Americans would have already opened fire, anyway, the rifles they used would not emit thick white smoke, and it would not be easy to expose the target. As for the gunfire, the constant sound of artillery on the battlefield has long suppressed the particularly crisp gunfire.

If in the past, Sardinia's soldiers still had all kinds of opinions about those Americans, now they have nothing but admiration for these Yankees, because as soon as they shoot, there will be a commander in a gorgeous military uniform who will fall to the ground headlong.

But the tide did not stop there, and the tide continued to surge, and the distance between them and the first line of trenches was getting closer and closer, two hundred meters, one hundred and eighty meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred and twenty meters...... Neville stared at the white-painted stone not far away, and slowly raised his hand.

"Fire!" Neville shouted, slashing his right arm off as if he wanted to split the oncoming crowd.

"Bang, bang......" The gunshots suddenly rang out. Prior to this, the Austrians had not shown a well-concealed first line of trenches, and this salvo was completely unexpected. With the accuracy of MacDonald 1857, shooting at such a distance, coupled with the dense queue of the Austrians, made it not easy for the Sardinians to strike crookedly. So this row of guns almost directly knocked over all the front rows of the Austrians. Immediately after this row of guns, the second trench, and the third trench also opened fire, three salvos, killing and wounding nearly a thousand Austrian soldiers, so that the swept frenzy was frozen at once, these three volleys, like an invisible embankment, smashed the oncoming waves.

After these three volleys, an oncoming regiment was almost swept away. The remaining dozens of lucky people who were not shot stood there, not knowing whether to rush forward or turn around and run, so they simply froze there. After a few seconds, someone shouted, turned and ran, and someone simply fell on the spot and pretended to be dead.

"Don't worry about running back! Get ready to hit the back up! Neville shouted loudly when he saw that someone was targeting the fleeing soldiers.

Another wave of shock is already in sight. The soldiers quickly pushed out the cartridge casings, filled them with bullets, and opened fire. By this time, the Austrians had seen the first line of trenches, and they began to shoot at the Sardinians, and the bullets hit the ground and stirred up a lot of dust.

Casualties also began to appear among the Sardinians, more than a dozen soldiers were hit by bullets fired indiscriminately, the trenches blocked most of the shots, and the Sardinian soldiers only showed their heads, so they were not easily hit, but once they were hit, it was also troublesome, because it must have been shot in the head.

However, the "Mighty Pill" gave the Sardinians courage, and they also kept shooting back. They were obviously better reloaded than the Austrians, and while the Austrians were still reloading, they knocked them to the ground with bullets one after another. There is exactly a difference in height between the three trenches dug on the high ground, so that all three trenches have a fairly good line of sight. Smoke was constantly spewed out from the three trenches, killing the Austrians who had stopped there and fired at them. The corpses kept piling up, and even interfered with the advance of the troops behind.

"Stupid! Don't stop shooting! Get on the bayonet and move forward! An Austrian commander saw that something was wrong and shouted loudly. The soldiers around him began to scramble to load their rifles with bayonets, when a bullet flew and hit the commander in the chest. This is not a 7.62mm bullet fired from a MacDonald 1857 precision rifle, but an 11mm caliber bullet fired from a regular MacDonald 1857 rifle. The power of this bullet is not greater than the former, but it should be a matter of caliber, and the stopping effect is more obvious. The shot knocked the officer to the ground. Let the Austrians, who had just prepared a bayonet charge, make another mess.

"I killed an official! I really got it! Tommy screamed, but no one paid attention to him now, everyone was focused on reloading and shooting. Tommy looked around, but no one paid attention to him, so he turned his head again and honestly loaded, aimed, and shot.

But more and more Austrians began to understand that they were no longer foolish enough to shoot at the Sardinians, and they began to load their rifles with bayonets and charge upward. For the sake of degree, they didn't even care about the formation, and just rushed forward.

The MacDonald 1857 rifle does not involve magazines, so it is a little slower to shoot than modern tethered rifles, and in fact, even modern bolt-action rifles, without the help of machine guns, may not be able to stop such a crowd charge. Seeing that the enemy forces were getting closer and closer, Lieutenant Colonel Neville had no choice but to give the order to withdraw to the second trench.

The soldiers hurried back to the second trench along the communication trench. By this time some of the Austrians had already rushed to the first trench, some of them crossed the first trench and continued to rush towards the second trench, while some of the more clever jumped off the trench to avoid the bullets.

As a result, the preservation of this trench shook the Austrians, who had been single-mindedly rushing forward. More people now seem safer to jump into the trenches and hide. As a result, there were fewer people who charged honestly, and more and more people hid in the trenches and did not come out. As a result, the people who rushed to the second line of trenches were of course killed on the ground without any suspense, and this made more people hide in the first line of trenches.

At this time, the follow-up troops of the Austrians also followed. However, it was clear that there was no place for them in the trenches, so they had to rush to the second trench. However, at this time, the momentum of their charge also decreased a lot. Coupled with the rush along the way, the loss of the body lì made their degree also drop significantly. Although one of the three trenches was missing, the people in the first trench had basically been transferred to the second trench, so the Austrians had to face no fewer bullets, and in a short distance of eighty meters, people were constantly killed on the ground, although the distance between them and the second trench was still getting closer, but their actions had become more and more hesitant.

"Let the soldiers put on their bayonets." Robson said to Neville, "Now that the enemy is close to the limit, it only takes one counter-charge to crush them." ”

Neville thought for a moment, looked at the enemy troops who were already approaching less than 5o meters, and finally ordered: "All bayonets!" ”