Naturally, the war against the Han Empire, in the psychology of British soldiers, has undoubtedly become a shortcut to making a fortune without capital!

The British soldiers were told that this war was to reach the capital of the Han Empire, and as long as they entered the city, all the property would belong to the soldiers themselves!

Therefore, the morale of the main force of the British, after stepping into the territory of the Han Empire, has always been maintained at a very high level!

It's a pity that Louisiana doesn't even have a figure except for a few mining areas, let alone the robbery that he likes to see, and the commanders of the British army at all levels, in order to invade California as soon as possible, completely destroy the industrial center of the Han Empire, and end this war, naturally will not let those soldiers scatter to find the target to rob!

What the British soldiers did all day was marching, eating, marching, eating, sleeping......

It's boring and boring, but the good news is that they're not far from the Han Chinese city of Louisiana!

The march of 100,000 troops is naturally impossible to gather in one place, and if it is spread out, it is easy to stretch for hundreds of miles!

At such a time, if a battle is conducted, it is naturally impossible to put all the armies on both sides on a plain to pinch each other, which is destined to leave most of the troops behind and act as reserves, and the war will naturally become a pure war of attrition that neither side wants to see!

Spreading the army horizontally, dividing it into several roads, and covering each other to move forward is the normal state of the army's offensive!

In Zhao Dutian's previous life, Napoleon took advantage of the fact that this kind of army had a certain distance between each other, and used the French army to exceed the enemy's marching speed, quickly interspersed these gaps, and ate the entire enemy army piece by piece to win!

The main army of the British marched into the front in a decent manner, the two wings were colonial militia units that were not very capable of fighting, and the center was the absolute elite of the Red Shirts and the Scottish Highland Infantry, and they didn't play any tricks, so they rushed over with the momentum of Mount Tai pressing the top!

The British troops are all official roads, the biggest and best kind, Louisiana is barren, this kind of official road is often only a few, if the Han army wants to detour, the marching speed will be left behind!

Besides, Zhao Dutian didn't dare to spare the queen, in a battle of this level, it was not a good thing to divide the troops!

In this era when the march is completely leg, if you want to flank and outflank, it is not as simple as in the game to point in a direction, first, the roundabout troops must be able to safely break through the cordon of the local flank troops, and then, to ensure that the roundabout troops can smoothly break through the rear guard of the main force in the local center. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Only when these two conditions are met can we carry out a real ** operation against a large number of enemy forces!

However, even if the first two conditions are perfectly achieved, ** may not necessarily succeed, as long as the enemy's commander is more vigilant, can find out in advance that his rear road is attacked, command techniques are more sophisticated, and re-apply a thicker layer of band-aids in the direction of the butt chrysanthemum, which will definitely make the ** troops extremely sour!

If the enemy commander is a little more awesome, it is not impossible to swallow the defeated troops in one gulp!

The range of muskets and artillery allows the army's cordon to extend a long distance, and at the same time makes it more difficult to outflank, and the superiority of the line infantry against the cavalry also makes it extra difficult for the cavalry troops with real high-speed movement to achieve results!

To put it mildly, even if the cavalry really went around the weak point of the enemy's rear, would they dare to launch a death charge alone in the face of a barrage of bayonets?

War horses are creatures that have a natural fear in the face of bayonets, and many cavalry are overturned by their own horses before they can meet the enemy when they storm the bayonet jungle, which is also the reason why the cavalry often loses heavy losses when they hit the bayonet phalanx head-on!

During the period of queuing to shoot, the standard use of cavalry is to first use artillery or line infantry to blast a gap in the enemy's line, and then insert cavalry into it, expand the results of the battle, and shake the enemy's entire military formation!

The infantry queue that can be broken by cavalry alone can only show that the infantry on the opposite side is scum......

Zhao Dutian still has a good understanding of this kind of military common sense, so he is very simply like the British, he did not carry out any dangerous and dangerous surprise attack strategy, and planned to fight with the British!

The Han Guards divided one or two thousand people to contain the British two-wing colonial army, and the 50,000 people in the middle were fully equipped with guns and artillery to face the main force of the British homeland!

The Han Guards are not only line infantry, these guards have long been reorganized by the Imperial Staff into multi-service units with independent combat capabilities, artillery, wheel carbines, grenadiers, everything, but the line infantry occupies the largest proportion!

As for the indispensable skirmishers, the Green Jacket Rifle Infantry Regiment with brilliant results was used!

In this way, the main force of the Han Guards, under the morale bonus of Zhao Dutian's personal expedition, encountered the main force of the Red Shirt Army of the British in a wasteland!

Both sides conducted the standard European skirmish, with the artillerymen busy unloading the guns from the dragged mules and horses, and arranging the artillery positions in the chosen positions.

Both sides used large-caliber howitzers, and the British this time in order to destroy the Han Empire, but they spent a lot of money, and the main force of the entire Red Shirt Army, all of which were attached to expensive 5-inch howitzers!

Moreover, the British referred to the various examples of the rise of the Han Empire, and also used the easy-to-understand concept of concentrated artillery, which concentrated all the artillery and divided it into several cluster artillery positions!

The artillery belonging to the Han Guards and the British Red Shirts is not big in terms of quantity, and in terms of caliber, the British Empire, which is owned by one of the best in the world, will naturally not lag behind, and the Han Empire will not suffer a loss with the scientific and technological support of the imperial age system!

Therefore, after arranging the artillery positions, the two sides began to open fire on the enemy line in an orderly manner!

Together, hundreds of artillery pieces of all kinds kept roaring of their own, and the grenades filled with black powder exploded quickly after they landed, and some exploded in mid-air for some reason, and the most pitiful thing was that there were a few grenades that rolled on the ground for a long time without making a sound!

Of course, no soldier would have the brains to see if the grenade was a dud......

The distance between the two fronts was nearly a kilometer, and coupled with the poor hit rate of the front-loading smoothbore guns, even though the roar on the battlefield continued, the real casualties were not many......