Chapter 148: The Grenadier Elite

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It's not bad that the Spanish recruits are nervous, the army on the opposite side does not follow the routine at all, and the 100-meter bayonet charge, even if it is a jogging charge, it is quite terrifying and 'brain-dead'......

The reason is very simple, although the Spanish soldiers due to the mistakes of individual recruits, the volley of the platoon guns was fired in advance, resulting in only a single-digit enemy army falling on the opposite side, however, this is not a problem, the enemy is still far away, we Spaniards can slowly reload!

The Russian Grenadier Guards led by Pavrov were indeed the elite of the grenadiers, and even when they charged, these Russian soldiers maintained a roughly parallel formation!

Naturally, the Russian soldiers are not in this formation for the sake of good looks, because they also have a mission, to throw the balls in their hands, uh, I mean grenades, together!

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The biggest difference between the grenades of this era and the later military grenades is that even if the safety bolt is removed from the modern military grenade, as long as the hand is not released, the fuse will not be ignited, and you will be fine if you pinch it in your hand for a minute......

And the grenade of this period is simply a miniature version of the howitzer projectile, after igniting it, watch it burn rapidly, but you must remain calm and not slip your hands (in order to prevent the thrown balls from being stopped by the hats of the people in front of them, when the line infantry is still wearing tricorne hats, these Russian grenadiers have already put on bearskin tall hats without brims!). It is necessary to listen to the command of the non-commissioned officer and throw it out in a unified manner, and it must be thrown far enough, and at the same time, there are constantly enemy lead bullets flying around you......

This can only be done by experienced veterans of the battlefield, or at least recruits who have been trained for a long time (in the beginning, the grenadiers were basically all guards/elite regiments). And the grenades are not clear, and the soldiers of the grenadier regiment are basically tall and strong, with large arm strength (the most extreme of this is Maozi, in the time of Alexander I, after the recruits joined the army, they first arranged the approximate direction according to their height...... Only the tallest and strongest ones can become grenadiers! The shortest ones who are suitable for hiding in the grass will participate in light infantry training...... So the grenadiers were a little higher than the average line infantry from the very beginning.

The elite grenadier corps drawn by Zhao Dutian is naturally composed of genuine veterans, these Russian soldiers ignored the Spaniards' rows of guns, and steadily jogged forward and forward!

After entering the range of the grenade, under the order of the non-commissioned officer, the Russian soldiers in the front rows lit the 'balls' in their hands, threw them violently under the unified order, and threw them perfectly into the fortifications built by the Spaniards without a roof with a parabola!

By this time, the Russian grenadiers, under the volley of the Spaniards, had suffered only a few hundred casualties!

Casualties and not casualties!

Although the grenadier's grenade throw has a shorter range than the smoothbore gun, it is a very deterrent attack as long as it is within reach. No matter how powerful the smoothbore gun is, it can only hit the soldiers in the first one or two rows of the line, while the power of the grenade can directly kill the entire column of enemy soldiers, thereby disrupting the enemy's formation, and at the same time causing panic and even collapse of the whole line among the soldiers in the rear row of the enemy. Coupled with the fact that the grenadiers are generally stronger than the average soldier, the bayonet hand-to-hand combat ability is undoubtedly better!

Think of the enemy army who was blown up by a bunch of grenades and cried dad and mother, and then faced with the bayonet charge of a strong man, in most cases, it will collapse as a matter of course!

Of course, in the history of Zhao Dutian's previous life, there were exceptions, such as in the Battle of Bunker Hill, the British army's elite grenadiers were blocked by the Continental Army several times.

On the battlefield, the factors of tactics and weapons are very important, but all of this can be resisted by the morale of the soldiers, which is difficult to control!

Theoretically speaking, the most capable army should be a robot army that is not afraid of death or sacrifice......

Obviously, these Spanish soldiers did not have the faith and morale of the Continental Army soldiers in Zhao Dutian's previous life, and after a grenade explosion, there were few Spanish soldiers who could continue to load and shoot, let alone face the Russian strong man shouting Ula!

The Russian grenadiers, who had climbed over the fortifications, almost made a big gap in the strong Spanish front with a devastating trend!

Large numbers of Spanish recruits collapsed to the ground in fright, throwing their weapons aside, and constantly crying and begging for mercy.

These Spanish soldiers should be glad that the murderous Russian grenadiers were strictly forbidden to kill prisoners before the start of the war, and the victory in this battle was so easy, so these Russian strong men let go of these Spanish soft eggs who surrendered in various postures and continued to rush towards the rear!

The commander of the Spanish army, naturally, would not watch the entire defense line completely collapse because of the expansion of this gap, and the reserves were thrown into the gap opened by the Russian grenadiers!

The Russian grenadiers responded in a very simple way, after a long round of guns, rushing forward with bayonets, sometimes stopping to throw a round of grenades, and the Spanish commander soon found in despair that the difference between the combat effectiveness of his own soldiers and the other side was really unbearable......

When Wang Qiming saw Paprov's men completely break through the main defense line of the Spaniards, he gave the order for the American Field Army to follow up, and when tens of thousands of American Field Army soldiers entered the Spanish fortifications, the outcome of this war was already known!

The main Spanish army on the front line of Eureka was cut into two parts and was rapidly collapsing!

In the pursuit of the Han Empire's army, a large number of Spanish soldiers knelt on the ground and raised their weapons, and in just one day, the number of Spanish prisoners accepted by Wang Qiming and Paprov exceeded the overall number of their own army!

As long as a small number of light cavalry of the Han Empire passed by the fleeing Spanish rout, those Spanish routs who had no gods would obediently raise their hands and surrender, they were originally farmers and hunters who had been temporarily trained, and the rout of this scale was really shocking......

Almost all the Spanish soldiers had only two words left in their minds - it's over!

Defeated the main force of the Spanish army of the Han Empire, swept all the way to Eureka City, the fragile earthen wall could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment of the Han Empire at all, and lost a large number of weapons and all the artillery of the Spanish army, and the loss of Eureka City seemed to have become inevitable?!