Chapter 57: The Battle of Waterloo (5)

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The ordinary player's name was Liu Cheng, and he thought back to the game teaching he had just experienced, when the generals were familiar with their soldiers and officers, and these ordinary players were playing the role of soldiers, and they were using the hours to learn all kinds of simplified game operations.

As infantry, many of them have experience in using muskets and arrays, but it is relatively simple. In the wars of the early 19th century, although the musket had been greatly improved, it still relied on dense arrays to wield its power.

Artillery, on the other hand, has to learn to load and aim, shoot and reset, clean the chamber and other operations, and even how to tow the cannon with a horse to achieve battlefield maneuvering.

He usually plays a lot of horseback fighting games, the lancers in this battle, the operation is more realistic, of course, it is more difficult, if the general player is disabled, here can only appoint aI to deal with it, only need to give the order to charge, as well as retreat, turn forward and other orders.

Cavalry, a strategic arm in the history of mankind, with the rise of muskets, the strength of infantry, was finally eliminated, and can no longer be used as the main arm that determines the outcome of the battlefield.

But in this crucial battle, the cavalry also played an important role, and the cavalry on both sides played an important role in supporting the battle. For both sides, they wanted to use cavalry to destroy each other's artillery, the difference was that Wellington achieved its goal, although it paid the price of total destruction of cavalry, but the cavalry commanded by Marshal Ney, because of the British phalanx trap, although they were brave and fearless, also broke through part of the phalanx, killed part of the artillery, but more were sacrificed in vain, did not achieve decisive results.

Liu Cheng only glanced at these things, and he was more concerned about which cavalry army he was in and when he would be ordered to attack.

"Hansen, 2nd Lancer Regiment, Commander Michaud," this simple piece of information is all his identity, as for whether it is consistent with history, he does not know, he only knows that the cavalry regiment to which he now belongs belongs to the heroic cavalry commander Michaud, it seems that it was set up to change the historical French cavalry tactics.

The battle started quickly, and Liu Cheng's screen could not see the situation on other battlefields, he could only see the situation of the cavalry regiment to which he belonged.

The soldiers sat on their horses with solemn expressions. Liu Cheng could tell that those movements with some slight shaky movements were played by players, because they needed to operate the mouse and keyboard at all times to ensure that they could respond as soon as they heard the order, and in order to let others know that they were also players, they figured out some general operations, and the changes in the facial expressions of the soldier characters brought about by these operations would not violate military discipline.

Of course, it is beneficial to let other people know that they are players, so that they can be on the battlefield, once they enter the free fighting stage, they can hold together, and the NPC soldiers will not follow the orders of ordinary players, they will fight according to the established purpose, and cooperate in groups of three or five.

After all, players have their own habits, and cooperation with NPCs is often not good, which brings a lot of problems.

The battle was fierce, and the rumbling of 12-pounder guns could be heard from time to time in the stereo. The screen was already filled with the smoke of gunfire, and it was only when the wind passed by that you could see what was in front of you.

Liu Cheng knew that this was Napoleon's powerful artillery group bombarding the enemy opposite, the Duke of Wellington's infantry, but there were two unfavorable factors, the artillery attack in the early stage did not achieve the expected effect, one was that it had just rained heavily, and most of the shells fired drilled into the rain-soaked soil, which did not cause damage, and the terrifying ricochet killing was weakened by the weather, and the second was that Wellington had a good position, and he was arranged along the hillside, which was a gentle ridge, about four thousand yards long, This allowed him to hide his soldiers behind the hillside to avoid French fire.

The artillery of this era naturally lacked a threat to the soldiers behind the mountain, Liu Cheng understood this, and he believed that his mission was to rush through the enemy's phalanx, destroy their artillery, and allow his own artillery to maneuver to the enemy's front and wield real power.

While he was staying, the horn of the charge sounded in his ears.

"Valiant cavalrymen, destroy any enemy that stands in your way! Charge! ”

A mighty general was in front of them, brandishing his sabers, commanding the Lancers, Cuirassiers, and Dragoons, and began to advance towards the British phalanx, where they were to break through the British positions in front of them, seize the point of Lahaisheng, which covered the center of Wellington, and then be able to attack the central part of Wellington and crush it.

Liu Cheng didn't have time to look at the surrounding battlefield situation, so he operated his character and began to charge with the cavalry of the brigade.

The ground was still very muddy, and the cavalry did not increase quickly, and the smoke and mud raised along the way were sprinkled all over the screen.

Hundreds of meters away, there was a neat British formation, and in front of them were the British forward artillery, which still calmly fired a shell in the face of the cavalry charge.

This is a frontal assault, and as in history, even if the player knows the various deployments in history, they can't change it at will, because this is basically the best offensive and defensive method in line with the environment at the time, even if there is a genius idea, it must be considered whether the soldier who executes it can accept it. Simple and effective command is the guarantee of victory, not some ingenious scheme. The ultimate goal of the scheme is nothing more than to disperse the enemy's forces and make his own forces fight as many as possible.

Liu Cheng and the other lancers rushed towards the British army with an unstoppable attitude.

After pulling up the viewing angle, Liu Cheng could still see that behind them, one cannon after another roared, but the cannons in this era had accuracy limitations, so when the cavalry was impacting, it could not wave a good synergy, but only lengthened the range, bombarded the rear of the enemy's phalanx, and blocked the battlefield.

The only thing that reassured him was that it was clear that Marshal Ney had learned the lessons of history, and behind the five thousand cavalry, there were nearly 30,000 infantry charging in the same customary column, and they were in good formation, and they followed the cavalry in unison.

Obviously, this kind of joint charge is not very perfectly connected, after all, it is a problem for soldiers to carry it out smoothly.

"Storm their flank phalanx, don't pass through the center, the infantry attack from the torn opening" One by one orders flashed on the screen, Liu Chengdu turned a blind eye, all he could do was to attack with the cavalry.

The attack did not go well, the initial artillery bombardment was reduced too much to disrupt the British formation, and the road was also rough and difficult, which made it difficult for the cavalry to maneuver and turn, forcing them to stay in the front of the enemy phalanx for more time before they could go around the flank to attack.

When Liu Cheng entered the range of enemy artillery fire, his eyes widened, watching the solid bullets rushing towards his cavalry array, and he couldn't help praying in his heart that he would not hit himself, at least until he pierced his cavalry gun into a British soldier.

However, his prayers were in vain, and a solid bullet that grew larger and larger on his screen slashed off his horse's head, and the high-charging horse fell to the ground.

Then his screen went black, "You're dead."

Liu Cheng didn't have a temper, he had seen too much of this situation in the previous real series of wars, and he often prepared for a long time, but was killed by a stray bullet in the end. After the character dies, it automatically becomes ghost mode, and he can only see a little scene before death, and his own faction, as well as the map explored by his own faction, still can't be seen. Although it's a game, this can also be a loophole for leaking military deployments, and in order to prevent players from communicating internally, not only is there no live broadcast, but there is no God's perspective.