Chapter 86: When the War Goes On
A cavalry is like a fist that hits a wall, and whether it is broken or not, the fist will hurt. Whether the pen is www.biquge.info waved depends on whether it is worth it.
The advent of firearms has made it more and more difficult for cavalry, and their strategic value is also shrinking.
You must know that the cost of training cavalry is very expensive, so sending them out as cannon fodder makes the veteran general Bill very heartbroken.
Under his gaze, the cavalry once again came to the battlefield and, with the cooperation of the line infantry, launched a charge on the flank of the Tianhan army.
But this time the cavalry was not as smooth as before, the firepower of the Tianhan soldiers was too strong, even if they did not put up a dense phalanx, the barrage covering them made it difficult for the cavalry to move initially.
The explosive bombs that didn't want money flew towards the cavalry continuously, exploding in their formation, and the people and horses were directly overturned.
Under such ferocious firepower, the Midland cavalry collapsed before they could get close, after all, they were not dead soldiers who regarded death as home.
This kind of action of sending them to death knowing that they can't rush over, they can't do it.
But they had already launched a charge, and it was simply impossible to withdraw without losing them.
The infantry of the Tianhan Line launched intensive fire at them, knocking down the cavalry who wanted to turn and flee, and if not killed, they would be thrown half to death.
After solving the problem of cavalry, the Tianhan line infantry began to concentrate their firepower on the infantry positions of the central ground line.
Under the gap in firepower and the quality of officers at the grassroots level, the morale of the infantry on the Central and Ground Lines was shattered.
The strength of the counterattack is also getting smaller and smaller, not that they are afraid to pick up their guns to fight back, but that all the soldiers who fought back were killed.
I saw the Tianhan line infantry lined up in a neat pace, striding towards the position of the infantry on the middle and ground lines.
As long as the soldiers in the trenches dared to take the lead, they were basically beaten into a sieve, and several positions were quickly snatched up.
Bill naturally knows this tactic, it looks brain-dead, and using soldiers to send them to death is actually the most advanced tactic now.
The test is that the quality of the infantry on the line is higher, and they will fight until the enemy collapses, or they collapse themselves.
The collapse also means that it is difficult to fight back, and the outcome of a war can basically be determined in just ten minutes.
Bill had no choice but to use the same tactics, and the skirmishers could certainly reduce casualties, but the firepower was not strong, and they would only be broken one by one.
They are on the defensive, and there are a lot of obstacles in the position, which can also be counted as an advantage.
Not only that, but they also have a lot of numbers, and they can organize several reserves, one of which is defeated and collapsed, and the other can be replaced.
Even so, Bill still didn't have much confidence and could only pray that the quality of the other side's soldiers was not good.
Under the gaze of the infantry of the Central Ground Line, the Tianhan Line Infantry approached step by step, until it was 100 meters away, raised its gun, aimed, and shot!
"Damn, how can they shoot so far!" Bill was a little depressed, such a distance, with the guns in the hands of the infantry of the Central Ground Line, it was difficult to attack.
He had no choice but to give a crazy order to let the soldiers of the middle ground on the front line advance with a barrage.
Human life is not worth much now, even if these Midland soldiers have a lot of dissatisfaction, they can only bite the bullet.
Patches of Middle-earth soldiers fell in the barrage, and the massive losses directly collapsed the remaining soldiers, but the troops behind would fill the void shortly.
At the cost of nearly a thousand deaths, the first Middle-earth troops finally reached range, and after enduring so long, they could finally counterattack.
"Ready!"
"Aim!"
"Shoot!"
As soon as the order of the Zhongdi officer fell, he saw that the Tianhan Line infantry in front of him was actually lying on the ground one by one, or hiding behind the bunker.
This led to the collective fire of the infantry of the Central and Ground lines, which caused very small losses to the infantry of the Tianhan Line.
This surprised the mid-ground officer on the front line, but he didn't think much about it, the other party could certainly reduce losses in this way.
But there is a fatal flaw, and that is the problem of reloading ammunition.
If you want to reload as quickly as possible, you must stand and use the strip to clean up the gunpowder residue in the barrel, now the musket has about a meter, and the strip is not short, you can imagine how awkward it is to squat or reload in other positions.
If the speed of reloading is slow, the firepower will be insufficient, and in the end you can only lose.
The officers on the front line were also a little glad that the enemy officers had a problem with their brains and actually made such a low-level mistake.
But a scene that he didn't expect happened, he didn't see it clearly because it was too far away before, but now after the distance was closer, he found out......
It seems that the enemy soldiers reload their ammunition in a somewhat different way, but they actually reload in the back.
It looks like it's just the other way, but when you load your ammunition from behind, you don't need to stand, you can just crouch and lie on your stomach.
The reason why the Tianhan line infantry were standing just now was because they did not enter the range of the infantry of the middle ground line, and they had always been in the habit of standing, so they did not use other methods.
The most important thing is that the infantry of the Tianhan line have better weapons too suddenly, and the soldiers of the middle and ground lines have not yet received information at all.
It's just that I know that the firepower of the infantry on the Tianhan line has become stronger and the firing range has become longer.
The information was not received in time, which cost them their lives, and a barrage of bullets covered it, and at such a close distance, the lead bullets basically rarely missed.
The infantry of the Central Ground Line, which had finally rushed up, was directly repulsed, leaving corpses all over the ground.
This does not mean that the fierce battle explains, the Middleland Kingdom sent a very large number of troops, thousands of people are just a drizzle for them, and after being repulsed, soldiers are sent over again.
According to this trend, it will take a long time for the battle to end, but the commander Huang Jiang sent by Tianhan does not intend to spend it like this forever.
He was given the order to win the war with unlimited ammunition and at the lowest cost.
The line infantry of the front line had been delaying for a long time, and the rifled guns in the rear had already been brought up, and the ignition began to unfold shells on the positions of the Middle-earth army.
This is all blasting shells, only the distance is enough, even hiding behind cover will not help, not to mention the power of the blasting bomb itself is very large.
Lin Xiao also shamelessly gave the order and replaced the gunpowder in the few explosive shells with TNT.
In the midst of an explosion, a sudden shot was so powerful that it exploded into a large crater and took away the lives of a large number of infantry in the middle and ground lines.
The huge destructive power not only frightened the infantry of the Central Earth Line who was almost affected on the side, but even the Tianhan artillery who ignited the fire was also startled.
It's like lighting an ordinary firecracker, but this firecracker emits no less power than a grenade......