The number of Red Shirts in Britain is not much, and there are only more than 20,000 people who came this time, and these more than 20,000 Red Shirts are the elite of the Red Shirts who have fought old battles, almost all of them are veterans who have been trained through the years, and the newly formed Red Shirts are fundamentally two different concepts!

Originally, the British commander planned to use the elite of the Red Shirts to smash a gap in the center of the Han Front, and then the whole army pressed to completely defeat the main force of the Han State, but unfortunately, the strength of the Han soldiers was unexpected, and the current situation seems to have a tendency to develop in the opposite direction......

The bayonet hand-to-hand combat looks extremely bloody, but in fact, the proportion of casualties caused in a short period of time is far less than the moment when the queue is shot, and the main forces of the Red Shirts on the front line have already joined the tragic hand-to-hand combat defense line, but there are less than 10,000 people left, but they were stunned to support for nearly an hour!

Moreover, looking from a high place, the British Red Shirts still have so many troops, red and black uniforms are mixed together, and boat-shaped hats of the same style and color are discarded everywhere on the battlefield like garbage!

The modern European-style military uniform, which usually looks noble and gorgeous, has now become a beggar's suit, with mud and blood spots mixed with a little gunpowder residue composed of black and brown, rendering the soldiers on both sides hand-to-hand like beasts drilled out of the barbarian era!

Of course, at this time, no one cares about appearance, soldiers and even front-line officers are most concerned about how to effectively kill the enemy and save their lives!

The British commander naturally would not watch his elite native Red Shirt veterans being pressed to the stage of collapse little by little, and in more than an hour of hand-to-hand combat, the various mercenary regiments in reserve, the hand-to-hand meat grinder that constantly stepped into the middle front, the Germans, the Hesses, the Saxons, and even the Ottomans existed!

On the contrary, those soldiers such as colonial militia and Indian mercenaries were not sent, and the British commander did not believe in these soldiers in his heart, and most of the colonial militia were assigned to the two wings of the army, which was too far away from the center of the battle line to be easily mobilized!

When Zhao Dutian found out that the British were constantly adding reserve troops, and forcibly moved the battlefield form from weak back to a draw, he only needed to order the revolver carbine light cavalry to forcibly break through the flank of the middle line and carry out a flank attack!

Both the British and Zhao Dutian were well aware of the danger of being attacked by a roundabout flank on the middle battlefield, and even in this situation where the middle front was in urgent need of support, they kept a few infantry regiments to protect them on the flanks, and by the way, they also protected the artillery positions!

Therefore, although the British seem to be in a weak position, in fact, the overall front can still maintain basic defense, and there is no too serious situation of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall.

You must know that this is only the main battlefield, and ten miles away from the two sides of the main battlefield, there are still a large number of troops guarding the safety of the two wings, placing a large number of troops to detour to the rear of the main battlefield for a back attack!

It stands to reason that the troops guarding the two wings are relatively weak in combat, and generally speaking, after the victory on the main battlefield, the enemy forces on the two wings will retreat on their own, and this battle is equivalent to victory!

After the Han cavalry launched a charge, the small number of light cavalry of the British naturally met them, and these British cavalry also held short-handled muskets in their hands, which the British called 'dragoons'!

This was copied by the British after seeing the power of the musketeers of the Han Empire, but they lacked the technology of the revolver carbine, and the war came too quickly, so these dragoons were mainly equipped with ordinary short-handled flintlock pistols. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Their tactic is to fire a volley before approaching, causing as much confusion as possible in the enemy formation, and then draw their sabers and charge!

It is conceivable that this kind of cavalry unit, which has not been out of the state of hand-to-hand combat, will meet the obscene and shameless Han light cavalry that only kills the enemy with a revolver carbine......

The most important thing is that because the European continent is too far away from the North American continent, it is difficult to transport war horses in large quantities, and there are not many qualified war horses in the North American colonies, resulting in the scale of the cavalry units of the British army being far inferior to that of Europe itself!

As a sea power, the British have always only regarded cavalry as a pure auxiliary force, and compared with the Kingdom of France and the Russian Empire, which paid special attention to the development of cavalry, there is a big gap!

Naturally, after the British light cavalry encountered the shameless Han Rotary Carbines, except for the first salvo that caused some casualties to the opponent, the whole process was in the stage of being shot!

It didn't take long for the British cavalry who rushed out in high spirits, and they were completely defeated!

The British commander watched with anger as his cavalry was easily defeated, and his psychology had already begun to draft a report, and he should go back and cut down these useless scum that cost a lot of national wealth!

Dragoons have been proven to be just a matter of course on the battlefield, and without the fast guns that can fire bullets continuously, Dragoons are a joke!

However, the British did not fully put their hopes on the cavalry units, and it was the Scottish Highland infantry in checkered skirts and furry hats that really served as the last line of defense on the flanks!

These Scottish Highland infantry have made a name for themselves in the European battlefield, and their fighting courage is quite reliable!

Moreover, these Scottish Highland infantry naturally have a kind of arrogance from the heart, and they will mock those red shirts who are mixed with good and bad as a bunch of cowards!

It is true that there are a large number of elites in the British Red Shirts, but due to the needs of the war, the British Red Shirts have expanded very strongly, and the British will not divide the Red Shirts into three, six, nine and so on.

The Scottish Highlanders themselves are small in number, adhering to the elite route, plus these Scottish Highlanders are those fierce people who came out of the poor mountains and bad waters, and they have the temperament of an outlaw before they became soldiers.

If it weren't for the fact that these Scottish Highland infantry could not be expanded on a large scale due to the problem of troops, I am afraid that they would have become the main force of the British government's army!

The Scottish Highland Infantry, due to its own glory and customs, wore a red uniform, but the style was very different from that of the Red Shirts, especially their hats and the sound of Scottish bagpipes, which were completely different from the grenadier march used by the Red Shirts!

This may be a maverick of the Scottish Highlanders......