Olioul is a city located northwest of Toulon and controls the fastest and easiest access to Toulon, although it is obviously quicker to take a boat from the sea than to take a detour.

However, in view of the fact that the French Navy has been "short of heroic breath" for many years and has always been pressed down by the British, and this time the Mediterranean Fleet was completely wiped out because of the rebellion of the Toulon royalists, even if Han Xing borrowed a million courages, he would not dare to take the sea route to touch the mildew of the British!

The whole city of Toulon is surrounded by the Gulf of Toulon, and the Sepe Peninsula stretches from west to due south like a strong arm, and the sea within the Sepe Peninsula is called the Great Mooring.

The reason why it is called the large mooring yard is to distinguish it from the small mooring, in the Toulon Bay closer to Toulon Bay, there is another peninsula, this peninsula is much smaller, from the map it is almost a "bulge" on the coastline, it is barely called a peninsula! Because it is so small, it does not have a separate name.

Fortunately, the friendly British gave it a name - Little Gibraltar, because in addition to connecting with the mainland, it is similar to the Gibraltar Rock in all aspects, high in the middle and low on all sides, and the British built a fortress on the high ground, guess what? That's right, of course, it's called Little Gibraltar Fort! I have to say that the creativity of the British in naming is really powerless to complain!

The area within the Little Gibraltar Peninsula is known as the Little Grounds, the large and the small, forming two natural lines of defense against Toulon in the rear.

Due north and northeast of Toulon are the natural barrier of the Française Mountains and the Sellas River, and only provide coastal access to the Brunais plain due east, but in this endless open plain, it will become a live target for the British fleet if it rises. Therefore, if you want to take Toulon, you must either rely on naval superiority to break through from Toulon Bay to the south. Either you have to fight all the way from Oriouel to the west.

Judging from the ruins of Oriur, there must have been a great battle here, and Han Xing even saw several corpses dressed in the red uniforms of typical British "lobster soldiers". There was a lot of smoke and dust in the streets of Olioure, probably a mixture of gunpowder smoke from firearms and dust from the destruction of buildings.

There was a pungent smell of damp wood burning in the air, and although there was no open flame in some wooden buildings, wisps of green smoke were still rising from the charred railings and walls, and some soldiers in the uniforms of the French Revolutionary Army were slumped on the ground with gray faces and blank expressions, some holding their weapons, some simply throwing them aside, their lips trembling slightly, as if they had been mentally hit.

Obviously, the cruelty of war in this era is far greater than the cold weapon war that Han Xing participated in in the past. The era of platoon guns is considered to be the most stupid era in the history of warfare, so much so that some people directly jokingly call it the "era of queuing and shooting", the tactics of this era are to use dense crowds and barrage Qi (shè) to ensure the lethality of (shè) hits, and the closer the distance, the better the natural effect·······

In fact, it was not that the army of this era did not know that rushing at the enemy in a dense formation was called "suicide". The best proof of this is the existence of an elite infantry called the "skirmishers", armed with high-precision rifles, and striking the enemy on the flanks or behind in loose formations.

It's just that the accuracy of most muskets in this era can't be on the table, if both sides play lying down, looking for cover, and forming a loose queue, don't even think about the winner for more than ten days! Of course, another major reason is that the dense formation is good for resisting the cavalry charge.

The famous British Red Coats in this era were the most famous force in the era of platoon guns, and they were known for their frontal "riding faces"! It can be seen in the famous movie "(ài) The National" (about the North American Revolutionary War) and "Barry Linden" (during the Seven Years' War, the war was small), the British Red Coats would play the "Grenadier March" and carry the opponent's Qi (shè) forward until they entered the best (shè) strike position and (shè) distance (shè) before they began to return fire, and this cruel but effective tactic did make the Red Coats the most feared opponent in the era of gun platoon.

So in that distant era, when I heard the "March of the Grenadiers", boy, I advise you to hurry up and hide! In the early days of the American Revolutionary War, the American militia suffered heavy casualties under the Qi (shè) of the Red Coats, and was repeatedly defeated in frontal battles, until they began to fight guerrilla warfare, and finally managed to hold out until French naval reinforcements blockaded the North American coast.

The British army was cut off from supply lines and forced to surrender, which was a difficult victory. This is why some people jokingly call Louis XVI "the father of the United States, who sold his head to help the United States".

In fact, the defeat of the American militia is not unexpected, they are just some bloody young men, and they are novices when it comes to actual combat experience, you know, it takes time to reload firearms in this era, which was mentioned earlier.

And the result of low gun proficiency is slow reloading! It takes 20 seconds for the little white American army to reload a bullet, while it only takes 15 seconds for the veteran British redcoat to reload a bullet, which means that after a wave of pairs (shè), the gap between the two sides is immediately reflected.

The little white American army has not yet reloaded, and the British have already fired! As a result, an evil (xìng) cycle was formed, and before the U.S. military had time to fight back, it had already fallen to the ground and turned into a corpse!

That is, assuming that the two sides have equal military strength, with 1,000 American troops and 1,000 British troops, each attack on both sides can cause one-fifth of the enemy's casualties, that is, 200 people.

After the first round of pairs (shè), both sides became 800 people. In the second round of confrontation (shè), because the British army took the lead in firing, the American army plummeted to 600 people, so the next round of the American army (shè) can only cause more than 100 injuries, and the British army will be 100 more than the American army, 700 people. The results speak for themselves!

This is still theoretical, considering the specific differences between the two sides, in terms of weapons and soldiers, this number will only get larger, so the proud American Revolutionary War has never actually defeated the British army even once in a fair battle on the frontal battlefield! At most, there are more people bullying people in the later stage, and they are basically beaten in the early stage.

But putting aside the stupidity of this gun tactic, in fact, the era of gun shooting is the most romantic era of all wars, and you may say: What is so romantic about being shot!

In fact, it is very simple, in the era of platoon guns, as a soldier, unlike other eras, in the era of cold weapons, the test is your combat skills, reaction speed, and the quality of equipment, for example, Han Xing is a typical knight stream, divine armor, plus a first-class war horse, killing into the enemy army is a humanoid tank.

In the era of cold weapons, in terms of importance (xìng) is the configuration of equipment> combat skills > psychological quality, of course, this is not absolute, generally speaking, as long as you are not panicked, even the weapon is not stable, and the combat skills and psychological quality are below the average, that is basically in line with this law.

For example, even if Han Xing took off his armor, shirtless, and held a pitchfork against an all-armored knight, Han Xing would feel empty, right?

Therefore, good equipment on 一 (shēn) is even more important than your courage and fighting skills. No matter how brave you are, no matter how superb your combat skills are, it would be an act of death for you to take a rusty kitchen knife to chop the whole armored knight! Therefore, equipment is the first, combat skills are the second, and psychological quality is the third.

In modern warfare, it is the configuration of combat skills> psychological quality > equipment, where combat skills no longer refer to swordsmanship and equestrianism, but to the proficiency of weapons, the accuracy of (shè) strikes, as well as one's own reaction ability, physical fitness, etc. In modern warfare, what you play is encounter, and what you look at is combat quality and reaction ability, so combat skills are the most important, otherwise where will the elite soldiers come from?

And the equipment has taken a back seat, anyway, anyone who is shot will die, and the meaning of equipment or anything will fade, and the difference between being swept by a submachine gun and being swept by an assault rifle is actually not big, anyway, it's all death!

In the same way, the psychological quality only needs to tend to a normal level, so as not to affect the performance of combat effectiveness, be cautious, and the most important thing is to react quickly. On the contrary, no matter how strong your psychological quality is, if the anti-(shè) arc is too long, there is only a dead end, isn't it? Friends who have played CS and CF probably understand this! The anti (shè) arc is a hard injury!

In the era of gun platoon, it is the configuration of psychological quality> combat skills > equipment, which is why it is said that the era of gun platoon belongs to men's romance. In this era, the most important thing is a person's psychological quality, not other external objects, strong, brave, fearless, perseverance, and calmness, these things are the core standards for testing soldiers in the era of platoon guns!

Because in this era, muskets have the same meaning as modern warfare, and there will never be a target that cannot be penetrated, as long as it is a person, if he is shot, he will be injured, and if you are unlucky, you will be led on the spot! Equipment naturally doesn't make much sense...

In another era, a group of new recruits of the American militia can fight in the ring with the elite of the British army? In the age of cold weapons, let the American militia take the pitchfork to fight against the English longbowmen and knights! That's a one-sided massacre!

Modern warfare puts American militiamen armed with pistols, shotguns, and vintage shotguns against British machine guns, tanks, artillery, and planes. It's just Shura hell, it's like "cutting leeks" when the machine gun sweeps them up! Only in the era of platoon guns will a group of recruits be given the opportunity to fight in the ring with the regular army!

It is true that veterans are faster to reload than recruits, and (shè) combat skills are higher than recruits, but muskets are easy to learn, as long as you practice diligently, you can easily reach the height of veterans in a few months, and in the era of cold weapons, a farmer tries to challenge knights who have been training hard for more than ten years through a few months of intensive training? That's a fool's dream!

Therefore, the era of platoon guns is a romance for men, and the romance lies in the fact that you can rely on courage to fight the enemy, step on the drum, hum "Victory Belongs to Us", "Ode to Emperor Friedrich" or "March of the Grenadiers", and even "Yankee Duddle" or "The Land of Dixie" to fight to the death with the enemy.

Listen to the sound of bullets whizzing past your ears, watch the unlucky eggs on the side of the (shēn) be hit, splash blood flowers on the bore, look at the enemies who are approaching step by step, and then pick up the musket in your hand, crouch down or stand, and shoot deadly bullets at the opponent. Then continue to calmly reload, and then fire again (shè) under the command of the commander, this is the era of platoon guns.

The charm of it is that it gives you a chance to fight fairly with others, you may be thin, you may be short, and the other person may be tall (to be honest, in the era of platoon guns, it was a sin to be tall······ Big goal, hahaha! Maybe handsome, but you are equal, and bullets don't come at you with their eyes open just because you're weak, and they don't leave their hands on him (qíng) just because they have a handsome, pretty face.

On the battlefield of the platoon gun era, the real test is your spiritual quality, whether you are calm, whether you are brave, whether you can maintain a calm attitude under the bombardment of enemy bullets and fear of fire, successfully complete the state and (shè) hit, and refuse to let fear dominate you!

Every veteran who survived the battlefield in the era of platoon guns is a person with true courage! The battlefield of the platoon era abandons the differences brought by human appearance, **, physical fitness and other external objects, and goes straight to the depths of the soul!

This is the charm of the platoon gun era! This is also a point that no other era of warfare can achieve!