Chapter 167: The Battle of Hussar Fame IV
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In the perennial wars of Europe, the loose nomadic and feudal cavalry has long proved that no matter how numerous they are, they cannot confront the modern cavalry that has been trained and disciplined in a frontal charge, and ranks out of a dense line of charging cavalry!
No matter how large the number of cavalry of those nomads, they will be broken through and slaughtered by the tight cavalry phalanx!
As for mounted archery......
Would the European armies, with their superiority in musket artillery, be afraid of the cavalry bow, which is inferior in range to the flintlock musket?
In the colonial war, the European army faced those backward feudal cavalry, that is, it used muskets and artillery to crush the cavalry, and used the cavalry to charge intensively to crush the feudal cavalry!
However, the French commander soon discovered that something was wrong, and the cavalry troops of the Han Empire on the opposite side also listed a strict wall-type charge formation!
The wall charge seems simple, but it has strict discipline requirements for the cavalry, with the system of the feudal country, it is difficult to really restrain the training of uniform modern cavalry, of course, if you are forced to be eye-catching, it can also be trained, but the cavalry troops, in the feudal country, but full of a large number of aristocratic interests, and even many cavalry themselves are nobles, the ruler wants to treat the cavalry troops as ordinary soldiers, with sticks to beat the training discipline, how much price do you have to pay?
Even, it is likely to shake the fundamentals!
Moreover, this kind of wall cavalry is not invincible, their strength lies in the frontal charge and the impact of the infantry phalanx to break the formation, if it is used to harass raids and guerrilla reconnaissance, it is better to use the nomadic cavalry unit!
This is also the reason why European countries in the war, the cavalry is roughly divided into charging cavalry and hussar chasers, and even many elite cavalry units, scattered to take on the task of attacking and harassing combat, gathered together are charging cavalry!
However, that kind of elite cavalry unit is too difficult to train, so in order to cope with the attrition of war, the most popular in Europe is this kind of low-cost and disciplined charging cavalry!
Under the worried gaze of the French commander, the Polish hussars and the French cuirassiers, in the same dense wall charge formation, slammed together!
In an instant, the French commander even saw the 'corpses' flying up in the front rows of both sides!
This is a real man on his back!
Both sides rushed forward without hesitation and collided together, the same dense queue, the same powerful charging potential energy, causing considerable casualties!
However, at this moment, the advantage of the length of the cavalry spear was fully revealed, and only the French cuirassiers with sabers were horrified to find that they had to withstand a wave of spear stabbing from the cavalry units of the Han Empire before they could really engage the enemy!
How many more people will die in this Nima!
Of course, under this wave of impact, after the passionate staggering of the cavalry on both sides, more than half of the French cuirassiers were killed, and the Polish hussars were at least 2,000 people......
How could the French cuirassiers, who were only a few hundred men left, dare to play a game of 'confrontation' with the Polish hussars?
Those Polish hussars did not rely only on the advantage of weapons, and the kung fu on the horse was also quite skilled, when hedging, the cavalry troops on both sides relied on the kung fu of the horse to slash and kill, and the cavalry charge queue was long, and the two sides fought fiercely!
In this way, the French cuirassiers, pursued by the Polish hussars in renewed formation, broke and fled very naturally......
After the Polish hussars dispersed a small group of French cuirassiers, who had already scattered and fled, the main force turned its spearhead and aimed at the flank of the French line infantry who were fighting fiercely!
The Polish hussars, whose spears and spears were not broken, were substituted for the first few rows, and only the Polish hussars, who were left with sabers, followed behind, raised their horses' hooves, and lined up in a standard wedge formation, fiercely facing the flanks and rear flanks of the French line infantry......
Pop the chrysanthemum!
The French commander looked at the French line infantry who were blown up by the chrysanthemum, and immediately gave two orders!
The main forces of the frontal battlefield immediately retreated!
All the hell is destroyed!
You must not leave a cannon for the Han Empire!
Oh, by the way, the shells and gunpowder were detonated!
After giving the order, the French commander took his own guards, and the Spanish generals, rode their exclusive war horses, and began to run away!
As for the soldiers who are fighting fiercely, I'm sorry, they fly separately when disaster comes, and their lives are at stake!
The French commander and the Spanish general knew perfectly well that a retreat with smaller losses, pursued by the Polish hussars, was purely a dream!
The two ferocious charges of the Polish hussars impressed the generals of the Franco-Spanish coalition army!
The French line infantry, which was fighting hard against the drugged American Field Army, completely collapsed less than 10 minutes after the Polish hussars burst the chrysanthemum!
The French line infantry, which had been able to hold up in the hand-to-hand combat of the superior American field army soldiers, disappeared in just a few minutes......
The main force of the Franco-Spanish army on the frontal battlefield also began to retreat rapidly, in the break of the French grenadier unit, this main force at first maintained a basic retreat queue, but under the pressure of the whole army of the Han Guard, and the Polish hussars who had solved the French line infantry, the French commander who ran away first expected......
It's all over!
The main force of the retreating Franco-Spanish army only fired a round of cavalry fire at the charging Polish hussar troops, and was crushed by the charging spears and sabers!
The corner of his eyes twitched as the envoy George Macartney looked at the cavalry troops equipped with spears, bursting chrysanthemums everywhere on the battlefield, and winning the victory, the corners of his eyes twitched, he knew that after this battle, the charging cavalry of the Han Empire would resound throughout the continent of Europa, and the high-cost spear cavalry that had been eliminated would also be re-put on the table by the European powers, even if it was difficult to train and the cost was high, it was necessary to have this kind of cavalry unit!
Otherwise, it will have to be filled with human lives......
George Macartney can naturally see that the Polish hussars who are powerful on the battlefield are not completely invincible, as long as they can afford to pay the price and use a large number of sabre cavalry to constantly hedge against them, they can also exhaust their sharpness and numbers and annihilate the other party, but how many people will die in that way?
Of course, it is also possible to use the tight formation of muskets and artillery to carry out fire strikes, provided that the commander who uses this cavalry is sick in the brain or is driven to a dead end, and will use this elite charging cavalry to attack the tight musket artillery phalanx without any artillery infantry cover!
Obviously, Zhao Dutian is definitely not that kind of person! (To be continued.) Pen % Fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info)