Chapter 317: North American Battle III (Big Reward Plus Update)
Both the British and Zhao Dutian quickly discovered that using expensive grenades to fight a war with such low efficiency was a bit more than worth the loss. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Soon, the Red Shirts and the Han Guards sent out infantry units and began a formal engagement!
The first to walk out of the queue on both sides were those small skirmishers, and when the British saw a group of British stragglers coming out of the Han army, many British soldiers showed strange expressions......
Of course, although the two sides belong to the same race, the Green Jacket Skirmish and the British Skirmish do not have any feelings of sympathy for each other, and the other party is not their relatives and friends, so it is too normal to kill on the battlefield!
The English Empire was obviously a country that paid more attention to skirmishers, and they rushed out of the British chasseurs with a lot more than the Green Jacket skirmishers, and the weapons were also front-loading rifled guns with good range, and they also had to use small hammers to smash and reload ammunition little by little......
Due to the successive wars in Europe, the main chasper unit of the British naturally has rich experience in warfare, and many of them are quite proficient in marksmanship!
At this point, the skirmishers of both sides began to shoot at each other!
Compared with the line infantry standing in a queue, the skirmishers scattered on the battlefield irregularly are naturally more difficult to aim and hit, but the two sides still listed the opposite skirmishers as the first sniper target, for no other reason, because the distance is closer!
The skirmishers who came out of the line shot while moving forward in a skirmish line, while the line infantry on both sides quietly stopped in place, as if waiting for the stragglers to divide the victory or defeat?
The British commander felt that he could have more chasers on his side, so he naturally felt that he had more chances of winning, while Zhao Dutian simply didn't care about the lives of the soldiers of the Green Jacket Skirmish Regiment from the British, and planned to let them consume more of the Chasseurs of the British on the opposite side in the way of redemption, so as to reduce the proportion of snipers when the line infantry advanced!
Those Green Jacket stragglers are all receiving the salaries of the elite troops of the Han Empire, and they are also a financial expenditure that cannot be ignored for Zhao Dutian......
This is also something that can't be helped, who called the Green Jacket Scattered Corps so brilliant before, wouldn't it chill people's hearts if they didn't raise their salaries?
The once glorious Polish hussars were canceled by Zhao Dutian, and in fact, there is also a reason for this, those elite troops of foreign heroes consume too much money!
Paprov's troops were thrown into Japan, and it was the Imperial General Staff that planned to let Paprov's grenadiers, a big money-spending, eat the Japanese offerings......
Comparatively speaking, the troops composed of Native Americans almost did not have to pay military salaries!
The local garrison is guarding their hometown, which is a compulsory soldier, and the empire provides food and weapons, which is already good!
Even the elite of the Indian army and the soldiers of the Tiger Wolf Marine Corps receive far less salary than the consumption of the Han Guards and foreign elite regiments!
Of course, the bulk of the Han Empire's military salary expenditure naturally falls on the Han Guards, both in terms of the size of the number and the elite standards, they are very high, but this is a necessary expense, and the Han Guards are the foundation of Zhao Dutian's maintenance of dictatorship!
If it weren't for the bloody torture of the local garrison by the main British army this time, Zhao Dutian would not have pulled out his roots and fought hard with the British, after all, behind him was the core of the rise of the Han Empire - California, which was an area that could not be affected by the war no matter what!
The battle between the stragglers was long and brutal, and after an hour of firefighting, Zhao Dutian finally gave the order for the line infantry to advance!
At the same time, the artillery that had been silent for a long time let out a continuous roar again!
After the British commander saw the Han army moving forward, he also decisively gave the order to attack!
Naturally, the Red Shirts were the main attackers, but there were also German mercenary regiments and Hessian flintlock pistol regiments that were more capable of fighting in the corners!
The Scottish Highland Infantry served as a reserve with the other Red Shirts.
The classic rhythm of the British Grenadier March sounded, and the drummer with the drum kit followed the infantry queue expressionlessly, moving forward, and in each company, there was a rice flag fluttering in the wind, as if it was the spiritual pillar of the soldiers of the whole company, waving!
Walking in front of the Red Shirts were British lieutenant-level officers with serious faces, holding command knives, leading their own soldiers, facing the artillery bombardment of the Han Kingdom, and stepping on goose steps with stiff faces!
Yes, at the beginning of the offensive of the infantry lines on both sides, whether it was the artillery of the British or the artillery of the Han Empire, they all invariably placed the target of the shooting on the gradually approaching line horizontal line!
There is a dense crowd there, and the target is big enough to aim, as long as a grenade hits in, at least a dozen soldiers can be killed and wounded!
It can also greatly shake the morale of the enemy!
Of course, the British native Red Shirts, who are known for their hard-to-gun shooting, naturally will not collapse because of the grenades that sporadically fall into the pile, and the huge crowd around them gives them enough self-confidence!
And the Han Guard, a loyal and brave division composed of pure systematic Han people who have been completely brainwashed, will not have negative emotions such as chaos when their colleagues are blown up!
There is still fear, but fear is not enough to break the hearts of the soldiers on both sides!
The artillery positions of both sides are too far away, and the grenade bombardment is worth the loss, but this is gradually approaching the dense phalanx that is still slowly walking, but it is an excellent target, the artillery on both sides is scattered and hard bombardment, every grenade hit, can bring people hearty feeling!
It can be clearly seen from this that the lethality of the grenade bursts the solid iron bullet!
The British commander held a monocular in his hand and frowned at the Han line infantry, flying in the explosion of the grenade, but the Han soldiers behind him unswervingly filled the gap and maintained the completeness of the entire formation!
This kind of willpower is enough to be called a qualified soldier in the armies of the European powers!
"I heard that the Han Guards were stubborn in battle, and I thought it was just those useless Spaniards boasting about themselves, but now I know that the dictator has trained a group of good soldiers!"
The British commander couldn't help but sigh in his heart!
Of course, it's just a sigh, to be able to do the degree of the Han Guards moving forward under grenade bombardment, in the European war, the normal veteran standing army can do it, and the place where you really look at the strength is still in line to be shot!
The hit rate of the front-loading smoothbore gun can only be done to this extent......