"Fire!"

The same formation, the same three columns of salvos, swept down thousands of British soldiers who were raising their guns!

These are the elites of both sides, and in this short period of less than a minute, a total of nearly 3,000 people died!

If this is fought in three rounds, it will be nearly 10,000 elite soldiers lying on the ground in line!

The spacious cross-section of the battlefield makes the salvo shot in line exert an amazing lethality, and on the ancient battlefield, if you want to kill 3,000 people, I don't know how long it will take!

This ~ not counting the casualties caused by the soldiers on both sides against grenades and enemy skirmishers before!

The kills of grenades and enemy skirmishers, cumulatively, are no less than the first salvo kills!

However, it is in this kind of shooting game that seems to outsiders to be infinitely brainless and low IQ, and both sides seem to plan to continue playing!

The reason is very simple, whether it is the line infantry of the Red Shirts or the Han Guards, there is no confusion, and the gap in the front line is quickly filled by the soldiers behind the two sides!

Zhao Dutian looked at the shocking killing rate of the front line with a hideous face, in order to win this battle, he completely crushed the British idea of infiltrating the industrial core of the Han Empire, and he was ready to play the old foundation, all the line infantry of the Han Guards were treated as grenadiers by him, and each of them was distributed a primitive grenade!

Soon, the British line infantry, under the command of the living officer, stepped on the corpses of their own people, and once again fired a volley full of deterrence and lethality!

This time, the number of Han soldiers killed and wounded was only a lot more!

However, the Han soldiers also quickly responded to the opponent's second volley!

At a distance of less than 20 meters, the two sides lined up in a dense large horizontal line, pulling the trigger on each other!

Whether it was a Han soldier or a British soldier, the lethality of the second salvo was higher than that of the first, and at a glance, the number of soldiers who fell in the second salvo on both sides had exceeded 4,000......

With such a high casualty ratio, in fact, many companies on the front line have all 'evaporated from the world', just standing and being pierced by bullets!

Even the regiment-level establishment has become incomplete, and the grassroots officers are equivalent to a group of people!

Whether it was the British or the Han, they didn't expect that the other party could still play such a neat shot at such a close distance, and the front line was even more stubborn!

It's just that the salvo is a kind of work, relying on organization and discipline, discipline is nothing to both sides, but under the two rounds of salvo killing on both sides, this organization......

This is also something that can't be helped, because too many grassroots officers at the front have died, plus many regiment-level establishments are incomplete, and they are supplemented by people from other regiments, and the unified salvo consumes more time!

In the second salvo, although the lethality was greater, the organization took significantly longer, therefore, the British were the first to give the order for free fire!

The Han line on the opposite side did not move at all, and this is obviously not the best time to launch a bayonet charge, at least, it will also make the other party a little confused!

The soldiers of the Han Empire, after the start of the scattered free fire of the British, the soldiers who kept falling also made the salvo no longer efficient, and they naturally chose to shoot freely!

However, there is still a big difference between the army and the militia, and both sides invariably use alternate free fire, which can also be called a three-stage shooting method!

Although free fire does not have the morale of knocking down a large area of the salvo suddenly, the firing frequency and lethality are better!

After all, the efficiency of each soldier's reloading is different, and it is much faster to fight out when he is loaded than to wait for the officer's order to fight out after he is loaded!

The Prussian army loved to use the free fire mode, because their soldiers were trained to achieve the fastest reload efficiency of any European power, even firing 4 to 5 rounds a minute!

You know, a skilled standard flintlock soldier of a European power can only shoot 1 or 3 rounds a minute!

If it is a militia, it is difficult to say, if the psychological quality is strong, it is okay, and if the psychological quality is poor, it is likely that when facing the guns, they can only shoot one shot from beginning to end......

There are so many such examples!

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"This ...... That's almost 10,000 casualties, isn't it......" the British commander muttered to himself, dumbfounded.

No wonder he lost his temper in front of the battle, and none of the British generals around him were not surprised!

If it weren't for the full mobilization of morale in advance, the British Red Shirts still had an advantage over the Han soldiers, and the front-line army at this time might not be able to resist the collapse!

That's the Red Shirts in Britain!

Of course, under such tragic casualties, the front lines of both sides have also become chaotic, there are so many corpses, and the soldiers can no longer find an open space to continue to maintain a tight queue!

Finally, the first to charge with bayonets were the Han soldiers who were more powerful in the line infantry, and they roared hooray, and launched a bayonet assault!

At this time, both sides did not have a tight formation, so they could naturally charge!

But it is not an easy thing to launch a bayonet charge in such a tragic casualty situation!

The British will definitely regret being shot in a close-range queue with the Han army today!

After stepping into a distance of about ten meters, the Han soldiers threw the large primordial grenade that had been prepared in their hands violently!

Of course, many Han soldiers have forgotten the task of dropping bombs for various reasons......

The British Red Shirts, on the other hand, could only watch as hand-thrown grenades smashed into the ranks of their own people!

This is the British are not considerate, they never thought that the Han soldiers could hold on to the fire for so long, so most of the grenadiers in front of them were killed, and many of the substitutes were ordinary Red Shirt line infantry, and they were not equipped with grenades at all!

Boom boom boom ~~~

The continuous explosions blew countless gaps in the barely maintained line line, and then it was completely torn apart by the Han soldiers who rushed up!

These redshirts, who had come all the way from the British mainland, were worthy of being elite troops, and in this case, they were not defeated by a single blow, but gritted their teeth and engaged in hand-to-hand combat!

The sound of intensive musket fire on the battlefield was replaced by the clash of bayonets, and the soldiers on both sides crowded together in the most primitive and tragic hand-to-hand combat!

However, the Han Guards had a huge advantage, they had many more soldiers at the front of the battlefield than the Red Shirts!