Chapter 285: Whale Swallows Ten
Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the Spaniards are many and chaotic, the Han Guards are few and fine, and the Spanish commander is only half of the ordinary militia troops, and the number is comparable to the total number of infantry and cavalry of all the pursuing Han Guards!
It's a pity that after the Spanish militia witnessed the misery of their reinforcements, their morale was already low, and the commander didn't even have the intention of resisting, but only had the intention of losing the car to protect the commander......
If it weren't for the regular cavalry left behind by the Spanish commander, I'm afraid that a charge from the Han Guards would have been enough to end the battle!
Just when tens of thousands of Spanish militia were barely lining a defensive line, the wheel-carbines, who had just been on the battlefield, relied on their speed advantage to make contact with the Spanish military formation!
The light cavalry of the Han Dynasty naturally did not go deep alone, and behind them was the battle infantry line of the Han Guards who were jogging forward!
Although the morale of the Spanish militia is not high, but at least after several months of tactical discipline training, when seeing the Han cavalry charging over, the first two rows of soldiers immediately erected a bayonet formation and squatted, the back of the butt against the ground, the bayonet of the head of the gun pointed obliquely forward, the human body is responsible for balancing the body of the gun, this practice can resist the impact of the cavalry to the greatest extent, even if the cavalry horse really ignores the sharp impact of the bayonet, it will first hit the forward blade, the butt is on the ground, It ensures that the huge charging kinetic energy will not make the fragile human body break in an instant!
The musket militia behind the two platoons is engaged in rotational shooting, which is also a popular shooting mode for platoon shooting, commonly known as three-stage shooting!
It was obviously more difficult for the Han cavalry to storm the infantry than to charge with the Spanish cavalry, and when they came within range of the Spanish militia's flintlock muskets, in front of the Spanish line militia lines that were constantly emitting white smoke, the cavalry was constantly shot and fell from their horses!
Compared with the previous annihilation of the Spanish cavalry, which had almost zero casualties, it was like a cloud!
But these wheel carbines are all the most elite part of the cavalry troops of the Han Empire, they are highly disciplined and have strong combat resilience, and they are also the main force of the cavalry units of the Han Expeditionary Force!
These revolver carbines, firing with muskets, finally rushed to the front of the Spanish militia, and then, like the Mongolian cavalry of the year, turned their horses' heads within 30 meters with a roar, almost parallel to the Spanish militia battle line, raised the loaded six rounds, and pulled the trigger suddenly!
In an instant, the Spanish militia was swept down by this dense rain of bullets, and in order to prevent the Han cavalry from charging, the infantry formation can be said to be compact to the extreme, which is just convenient for the harvesting efficiency of the revolver carbine......
When all the revolver carbines had emptied all the 12 rounds they were carrying, the entire Spanish infantry line was completely chaotic, and the momentum of collapse had been formed!
And after the Han cavalry left, the Han Guards who rushed up in a column just came out and crashed into the Spanish militia line, which basically lost the ability to fight back!
The Spanish cavalry, who were pressing the formation in the back, watched their own infantry line shatter and collapse in all directions like a landslide and tsunami, where did they dare to step forward to stop it?
Of course, what frightened the Spanish cavalry the most was that the two consecutive firing weapons of the Han cavalry, six consecutive rounds and mounted archery were two concepts!
As a result, the Spanish cavalry 'duty' threw away the Spanish militia with zero morale, patted the horse's buttocks and fled to the place they thought was safe!
The entire Spanish army seems to be huge, but in fact it is a patchwork of scattered troops supported by a group of defeated soldiers and other parts of South America, because everyone is obedient to the Spanish colonial authorities, it is naturally no problem to obey the command of the battle, but when the disaster of defeat comes, the first thought of this group of Spanish cavalry is not to protect the Spanish general who temporarily landed on their heads, but to try to stay away from the battlefield, away from the military peak of the Han Empire!
After seeing that the Imperial Rear Force left by the Spanish reinforcements was completely finished, the commander of the Han Guards immediately ordered the Han light cavalry, which had left the battlefield, to pursue the main force of the Spanish reinforcements that had not yet run away!
The combat effectiveness of this revolver carbine cavalry is considered to have impressed the commander of the Han Guards, and it can be predicted that after this battle, all the Han light cavalry will be equipped with the revolver carbine, and even the tactics of the light cavalry will change with the replacement of weapons!
The commander of the Han Guards even came up with an idea, if a small number of infantry were equipped with this disposable rapid-fire weapon, would it be more effective when used by grenadier troops?
As for the fact that the range is far inferior to that of a flintlock pistol, it can be compensated for by a will of steel, like a grenadier private, advancing to a very close distance and throwing grenades in pieces!
It's just that the blow to morale from the six consecutive rounds doesn't seem to be as strong as the close-range explosion of a grenade......
The Han light cavalry easily caught up with the fleeing Spanish reinforcements, mainly infantry, and then launched an attack on its rear team without hesitation!
It's still that classic one-hit-and-go tactic!
Judging purely from the number of bullets fired, the Spanish privates on the defensive began to shoot from the effective range of the Han cavalry into the flintlock pistol, and the number of bullets fired per capita until they left after firing twelve rounds was not as many as the twelve rounds fired by the Han light cavalry......
However, the infantry line often has the advantage of the number of enemies horizontally per unit time, and can use rotational fire to inflict a lot of damage on the charging Han cavalry, but when the Han cavalry is close to the start of the six consecutive bang bang, the Spanish infantry regiment on the first line is basically broken......
In this way, the Han light cavalry never charged into the thick crowd of Spanish infantry, they knew that they would undoubtedly achieve greater results by doing so, but it was easy for the Spanish commander to mobilize reserves and stay in the infantry group, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with great casualties!
Instead of that, they might as well shoot a little bit, leave, reload, and shoot again!
The infantry regiments that had been attacked by the Han light cavalry were all lost more than half of their strength and were basically scrapped, and it was difficult to retrain in a limited time, so when more and more full Spanish infantry regiments were chased by the Han cavalry and scrapped little by little, the Spanish commander had already understood the end of this army......
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