Chapter 162: The War Begins (Ask for Subscription)
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......
In fact, the Los Angeles defense line of the Han Empire was more symbolically built with a small number of breastworks and trenches, after all, the border of the Han Empire was too long to be blocked at all. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
If a strong fortification is built, the enemy is not stupid, and when the time comes, it is better to go around in a circle than to run into it......
On the contrary, it is to use limited resources to spread out in an all-round way, and build a simple fortification similar to a cordon, so that the enemy does not look so strong, and it happens to be blocked on the traffic artery, and then the real offensive and defensive battle will occur!
After all, if you take a detour, the consumption of the army is not small, and if you don't have to pay too much price, no one wants to take those forests and rugged mountain roads!
Just like now, the Self-Defense Forces of the Americas can only rely on sporadic garrison fortresses and a small number of breast wall trenches, and stand up to the artillery bombardment of the Franco-Spanish coalition forces!
The reason why these American Self-Defense Forces have not retreated in the face of dozens of artillery bombardments is only because the main elite of the Han Empire is staying behind them!
"Quick! Keep up! "A group of American Self-Defense Force soldiers with flintlock pistols moved towards the place designated by their superiors on the orders of an Indian officer.
The battlefield is not static, as long as the commander has a brain, he will always hold a telescope to observe the direction of the movement of the infantry and cavalry on the opposite side, and then make corresponding transfers, the scale of the transfer is not necessarily large, but the small-scale transfer is very frequent!
This is exactly a company of the Self-Defense Forces of the Americas that has been transferred to a position where the enemy may launch an attack!
Everyone's face was covered with the smell of wind and dust, and their expressions were full of fear, and the sound of shelling in their ears that had not stopped was beating the hearts of these soldiers all the time!
Sou~
An obvious hit of the iron egg, naughtily bounced twice on the ground, and jumped into the marching column of the Self-Defense Force of the Americas that was running forward!
This situation is rare on the battlefield, and it can only be said that this company is really unlucky......
The Indian officer who was urging the soldiers just now had round eyes and watched as the 5 or 6 soldiers under his command turned into corpses or disabled people in the bounce of the iron egg!
This is really a bruise when you rub it, and you die when you touch it!
Unconsciously, the Indian officer's head was covered with cold sweat, and he looked at the artillery position of the Franco-Spanish army not far away!
Where is the demeanor of the soldiers who shouted half a minute ago?
The performance of this Self-Defense Force of the Americas is just like the nature of their militia, just a small iron egg that is a little far away, and it makes the originally neat queue a mess!
And the look of the frightened company commander of the Self-Defense Force of the Americas accelerated the panic of those soldiers!
However, Wang Qiming naturally had a deep understanding of the virtues of these American Self-Defense Forces, and it didn't take long for an officer of the Han Supervisory Brigade to bring a team of gendarmes to restrain these Indian soldiers, and by the way, he gave a big mistake to the Indian officer who dropped the chain at a critical moment!
If this battle is good, this matter is over, and if the performance is not good, it is unknown whether this Indian officer with a record of punishment can save his life, unless he goes to be a prisoner of the whites!
If that happens, it means that the Han Empire has been completely defeated, and naturally no one will remember to deal with a small Self-Defense Force officer......
Due to the need to attack the defense line of the Han Empire with improvised fortifications, even in the plain terrain conducive to the attack, the Franco-Spanish army still carried out several hours of artillery bombardment!
From morning to noon!
The commander of the Franco-Spanish coalition army is a French 'former general' who 'retired' into a 10,000 French mercenary corps (after this battle, no matter whether he wins or loses, this general will retire, after all, this is a war of a special nature, of course, if he completely defeats the main force of the Han Empire, it will never be a problem to soar in the French army system!) )。
The Kingdom of Spain has proved to be far weaker than the French in terms of national strength and military combat effectiveness, which is not difficult to understand why the combined forces of both sides respect the French general as the commander!
Of course, this kind of humility also has a bottom line, even if the French general is the commander-in-chief, he cannot blatantly use the Spanish friendly army as cannon fodder, otherwise, no matter whether he wins or loses, the general will encounter a lot of trouble after returning home!
The French commander looked at the second-line troops of the Han Empire, under the long-term artillery bombardment, only a small scale of chaos occurred, and after no sign of retreat, his brows furrowed slightly, and he ordered two infantry regiments of Spanish infantry to attack from the front!
The French commander's approach was decent, and it was obviously not a wise choice to directly rush to the top with a small number of elites without finding out the enemy's virtual reality, after all, the brilliant achievements of the Han Empire were there, so the French commander adopted a prudent tactic!
The Spanish colonial soldiers who walked to the sound of military music and drums, under the cover of artillery, marched forward with their heads held high and the large horizontal formation with the sign on their heads, and the French commander looked at the old-fashioned horizontal formation listed by the Spanish soldiers, and was a little disapproving.
In the midst of the war, the French army had begun to gradually eliminate this large horizontal phalanx with a large firepower and changed it to a column march.
King Frederick of Prussia invented the diagonal offensive formation that was invincible all over the world, so in comparison, the large horizontal phalanx is outdated, however, this is not to say that the large horizontal phalanx is inferior to the column phalanx, if the soldiers can carry it enough, can calmly step on the corpse into the range of the musket, can give full play to the advantage of firepower of the large horizontal phalanx, undoubtedly can give the enemy a larger cross-sectional blow.
The premise is that before that, you can resist the casualties that are likely to be more than half!
In the psychology of the French commander, the morale of the Spanish colonial army can only be regarded as an unpopular level in the European battlefield.
On the other side are not backward Indian tribal warriors and cold weapons!
It's a pity that although he is the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, he can only give combat orders, and he has no right to temporarily change the offensive formation of the Spanish army, and the Spanish colonial army is an allied army, not a servant army!
The Spanish soldiers of the two infantry regiments are thousands of people, and it is quite shocking to spread out like this! (To be continued.) )