378 Crowd Offensive
After the sound of artillery, the French soldiers lined up in a dense charging formation, led by the officer, launched a charge to the position of the Taiping army from more than 500 meters away!
Looking around, the battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke was full of dense human heads, and the French soldiers sang military songs, and under the rhythm of the military band, they were next to each other with their comrades, jogging forward with bayonets!
The Minnie bullets fired from the opposite side continued to create corpses in the dense crowd, but in the 17th century, it was a terrible casualty, compared to the scene of the infantry charging at the machine gun position in the First World War, the French army relied on the density of the crowd to successfully exceed the density of the Taiping army's firepower!
The Taiping soldiers armed with Minnie rifles kept repeating the actions of loading, aiming, and pulling the trigger, but at most they could only cut off the crowd of charging people layer by layer, and they couldn't stop their progress in the slightest!
The officer died and the adjutant was on it, the front row was killed and the back row followed, and the waves were stacked on top of each other, and they didn't even fire their guns, so they rushed forward with bayonets!
Finally, within a hundred meters of the effective range of the flintlock pistol, the French soldiers who were jogging and charging raised their guns and opened fire one after another, firing without stopping at all, all they had to do was to shoot out the good bullet in the chamber.
However, even so, the French troops still relied on their absolute numerical superiority, and instantly achieved a wave of firepower suppression, pressing back the Taiping Tianwang Guards soldiers in the position, and then, rushing to the approaching French soldiers, took out the large grenades that had been prepared, just one for each person, lit the fuse, threw off his arms and threw it towards the Taiping army battle line behind the chest wall.
At the same time, rows of grenades were also thrown out of the Taiping army's battle line, and the grenades on both sides were just angry in their respective piles, taking away young and fresh lives!
"Long live France!"
"Long live the Heavenly King!"
With a bang, the bayonet jungles of the two sides slammed together, and groups of French soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades and stepped on the front line of the Taiping army.
Today's anti-Han alliance soldiers have already learned the effective tactics of the Taiping Army, almost all front-line charging soldiers will carry a grenade for throwing, the volume of the grenade is getting smaller and smaller under the research and development of the anti-Han Allied technicians, even if the lethality is reduced, you can rely on the number to make up for it!
Because of the long-range range of the Mini rifle, the tactic of throwing grenades at close range has become suicidal!
After several hours of fighting, the French troops finally relied on their numerical superiority to occupy the position, but at this moment, a large number of flowering shells suddenly fell from the sky, which was the artillery fire smashed down by the front-loading howitzers of the anti-Han alliance coalition captured by the Taiping army!
The French soldiers who had just occupied the position and had not gained a firm foothold were suddenly bombed to the point that they were turned on their backs and suffered heavy losses, and then a group of Taiping Army Heavenly King Guards were killed, lined up with neat rows of guns and killed up, and the position of the Taiping Army was aimed at the anti-Han League, and the back was a smooth road, so the Taiping Army counteroffensive did not need to worry about the chest wall in front.
The French troops, baptized over and over again by flowering bullets and Mini rifles, soon could not bear the heavy casualties, and gradually retreated, and the position once again fell into the hands of the Taiping army!
In this way, the two sides can fight repeatedly on a front for several days, leaving piles of corpses, and even sometimes, the Taiping army does not have time to clean up the corpses in the trenches, and a new round of charges of the anti-Han alliance coalition forces comes up, and as a result, the soldiers of the anti-Han alliance coalition army step on the trenches filled with corpses, and pour into the battle line more easily!
Sometimes, the anti-Han alliance coalition occupied the front for a longer time, and the fortifications built by the Taiping army were destroyed, and the fortifications of this era were incomparable with those of the First World War, the trenches were very shallow, and they mainly relied on fortifications such as breastworks to resist lead bullets, and they could be easily bulldozed with manpower.
Therefore, after repeated battles, each front will turn into a pile of useless ruins, and the anti-Han alliance coalition forces that rely on bayonet charges are not afraid of hand-to-hand combat with the Taiping army in the ruins!
The Taiping Heavenly King's Guard, even though they could fight hand-to-hand with bayonets and two enemies, still fell into a disadvantage in this war, and as a result, most of the senior officers of the Taiping Army were reluctant to let their soldiers get into hand-to-hand combat, and tried to kill and injure the anti-Han allied forces with long-range firepower.
But the commander of the anti-Han alliance was not a fool, so the famous 'pig rush' charge was invented in later generations, and the pig charge was very effective in the era of machine guns, let alone in the face of a group of front-loading rifle fire?
As long as they rushed forward in one go, the anti-Han alliance coalition would be able to use a steady stream of fresh forces to completely submerge the entire position, and as for the cost of life for this, it would be secondary.
The war between the two sides has evolved into a tragic primitive positional war due to the Taiping Army's superiority in the Mini rifle!
In such a tragic firefight, the high-ranking commander of the Taiping Army's Heavenly King Guards quickly moved the Han Association Army to the rear, as Xue Taishen reported, the Han Association Army did not hold out for ten minutes when it performed at its best......
The Allied Army and the Taiping Army have already been killed, and when the battle is fierce, there will even be tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides who will be bloodstained on the battlefield at the end of the day!
In the back, every Taiping soldier who stepped on the battlefield would tie a ring of grenades to his body and connect the lead, because there were too many Allied soldiers pouring up, and nine out of ten times would be lost in the first round of attack, and the Taiping soldiers could only rely on their own lives to kill and wound as many enemies as possible.
Because of this, the pace of the offensive of the anti-Han alliance army was so slow, advancing only a few miles in a week, but the number of soldiers suffered nearly 100,000 casualties!
The battle loss ratio between the two sides reached a terrifying gap of 1 to 8!
Because of the repeated battles on the battle line, the Taiping army occasionally took advantage of its excellent military quality to launch some small-scale raids, so it captured a lot of front-loading howitzers of the Allied army, and naturally, the Mini rifle was no longer an advantage in the hands of the Allied army.
When the Taiping army position was captured, the Mini rifles left behind by the Taiping soldiers who died in the battle were all over the place, and they had already been sent to the hinterland of France to develop and imitate.
It's just that the Minnie rifle is a brand-new weapon compared to the flintlock pistol, unlike the flowering bullet, and the technical content is not high, so the anti-Han alliance has not yet been developed and copied for a while, and can only rely on the primitive crowd offensive to attack the Axis group led by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.