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With a bang, the shrapnel of the grenade exploded and swept the surrounding Red Shirt line infantry mercilessly, and more than a dozen British Red Shirt soldiers who were still serious a moment ago, praying in their hearts for God's blessing, were left with the strength and wailing sound of falling to the ground and gasping!

Limited by the power of black powder, the main lethality of grenades in this era relied on the shrapnel that exploded, rather than the shock wave of the explosion of artillery shells during World War I!

On the battlefield of World War I, it is common to see those bodies that are intact, but bleeding corpses, the surface of these people's bodies has not been pierced by shrapnel and other foreign objects, but because they are too close to the explosion of the shell, the shock wave generated by them will shake the internal organs into meat sauce!

Believe me, the feeling of being completely broken from the inside out will make the soldier's spirit collapse with the body!

Therefore, for the soldiers on the battlefield of World War I, the soldiers who lined up in this era are really not too painful, if they are lucky, they can safely take out the shrapnel after the war, or a clean amputation, the pain is a little painful, but the nickname can be saved!

Of course, although the soldiers who were killed were not killed, it was undoubtedly a luxury to continue fighting, and their fate was only two ways, either to be rescued by friendly forces after the battle, or to become prisoners of the enemy and the wounded to be cleaned up......

The skirmishers of both sides, soon after the line infantry stepped into the battlefield, circled the two sides to make way for the main forces behind. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the infantry on both sides getting closer and closer also made the artillery of the British and Han Empire more and more accurate, and almost every step of the two of them took forward, there would be many colleagues swept down by shrapnel from grenades!

This is a battle of iron and blood, and it also fully reflects the cruelty of the war during the period of queuing to be shot, as it is said in history, when two European standard armies are fully equipped with guns, the winning side often has to pay half of the casualties, which is by no means an exaggeration!

The development of artillery and muskets has increased the proportion of casualties among soldiers geometrically, completely eliminated the expensive elite soldier policy, and also made European countries consider more quantity than quality when equipping their armies!

But this tactic is naturally a lot of losses in the battle of the same level, but in the face of those feudal countries that are still stuck in cold weapons, it bursts out with extremely powerful superiority!

In the wars of the colonies, almost all of the British troops fought with fewer blows, and they won more and lost less!

Defeating several times or even more than ten times the enemy's army, in Europe's foreign colonial wars, there are countless examples, which is staggering!

And in the European battlefield, every battle that will cause your side to lose a large number of soldiers is rare in foreign colonial wars, and even occasionally you can play a magical zero casualty battle loss ratio!

I have to say that Europe, which is the size of a palm, can become the robber overlord of the whole world, which is inextricably linked to the huge generation gap during the time of queuing to be shot!

It's a pity that the Han Empire was not a backward unit that the British army often encountered, and from equipment to training, even the British commanders admitted that they had fully met the standards of war in Europe!

The line infantry on both sides just stiffened the grenade blast, and slowly approached and approached with the beat of the drum!

The skirmishers on both flanks ushered in a carefree hunting time, because the skirmishers on both sides regarded the approaching line infantry as their primary target!

On the way of the line infantry, there are not only unlucky people who are affected by grenades, but also unlucky people who are knocked down by bullets!

Moreover, whether it is the British or the Han army, the grenadiers who walk in the first sequence are the grenadiers who can fight, which is also the practice of queuing to shoot, because the grenadiers are more proficient in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and also carry high-powered grenades, when launching a bayonet charge, they can definitely play a satisfactory 'breaking formation' effect!

In fact, the grenadier is also a type of line infantry, but it is just a line infantry that is tall and can fight in hand-to-hand combat!

Because the grenadiers are at the forefront of every major battle, the casualty rate is quite high, and even after some tragic battles, the grenadier casualty rate is more than 80%!

Therefore, the grenadiers are also the most frequently replaced troops, and they are also the best paid!

The only difference between them and ordinary line infantry was that they brought a few more primitive grenades......

Due to the high death rate of grenadiers, all European countries have taken this name as an honorary title, which means that it is synonymous with elite and honor, who told them to walk in the front of the guns every time?!

Gradually, the distance between the two sides approached within 100 meters, and the British commander couldn't help frowning a little as he watched the unstoppable pace of the Han soldiers.

And the British grenadiers at the forefront, after seeing that the Han soldiers did not stop firing volleys, they breathed a sigh of relief!

In their simple minds, the fewer salvos the opposite side fires before they fire, the lower the probability of being hit!

As for the extremely high hit rate of flintlock shots, they did not care at all, because at close range, there were often no more than three rounds of fire, and a bayonet charge could be launched!

Because this is the elite of the British troops, they also use the tactics of close-range dense salvo fire, which is a headache for the European powers!

No one in their own company can calmly continue to reload and shoot after more than half of their colleagues have fallen in an instant!

50 meters, 40 meters, 30 meters!

It's already 30 meters, and the soldiers and officers on both sides haven't stopped yet!

This time, even the grassroots British officers on the front line were surprised, could it be that the Han soldiers on the opposite side wanted to walk in front of their eyes?

Or do they really dare not stop shooting themselves?!

The grenadier march of the British became more and more high, and the marching drums of the Han Kingdom became rapid and excited, and the two sides approached a distance of 20 meters!

Can't go any further!

If you go any further, you can directly stab it with a bayonet!

The British stopped first, and the British soldiers could even clearly see the stiff expressions on the faces of the Han soldiers who were still walking on the opposite side, but this did not prevent them from raising their guns, aiming, and pulling the trigger under the officer's command!

Under the power of the three columns of salvos, thousands of Han soldiers who were moving forward fell in a hurry!

This...... Just the first salvo!

Immediately, the Han soldiers finally stopped, after the flintlock pistol volley, even if the people in the back and the people in front were replaced, and the unified password was used to shoot, it would take a lot of time, which was enough time to stand up and shoot the Han soldiers who had just suffered a salvo blow!

"Ready~~~"

"Aim!"