118 Destroying the withered and decaying
Da Da Da ......
The officer who led the cuirassiers at the front suddenly burst out of his chest at the moment of the gunshot, and the cuirass that was supposed to be able to block the lead bullet did not play a role in the slightest.
In front of the dense wall-like charging formation, the cavalry and horses continued to shoot large explodes of blood, and the horses without armor protection were even broken in two by machine gun bullets, and various organs were splashed around, making the dry and hard ground suddenly slippery.
The cuirassiers' wall charge was not all gathered together, as the formation was too dense and had to be divided into several arrays in front and rear to avoid 'horse collisions'.
Each layer is relatively thin and does not pursue depth.
As a result, the first array turned into corpses in just a few seconds!
Although Luo Tianjie's unit did not have many machine guns, the use of cross-fire to rush forward head-on, the lethality caused by the cuirassiers of the target thief was very terrifying.
In addition to machine guns, thousands of automatic rifles fired at the cuirassiers, and the first wave of cuirassiers had fallen from their horses or died before they could even react.
The cuirassiers of the 2nd Potts saw this scene and immediately began to slow down.
This is the advantage of the wall charge formation, when the front rushes up, the next few waves just jog to follow, and do not sprint with all their strength, and you can stop immediately when you have time.
Of course, this is when attacking the infantry, and if there is cavalry on the opposite side, the wall charge must maintain an indomitable momentum and must not stop!
After the second wave of cuirassiers stopped suddenly, they immediately blew their bugles, and when the next few waves of cuirassiers heard it, they began to slow down, and the already unhappy horse speed was quickly stopped, and the trumpets were sounded at the same time.
It didn't take long for the trumpets to sound in unison, and the entire cuirassier array stopped and began to turn.
By this time, the Roman legionary infantry and the Tokugawa iron gunneru had already moved forward quickly, holding automatic rifles and aiming and firing as they advanced.
In the process of turning, the heavy cuirassiers never expected that the enemy's bullets could shoot so far, and either the horses were hit and fell off their horses, or they collapsed directly on their horses after being shot.
Fortunately, the second wave of cuirassiers used as a meat shield for the cuirassiers of the following waves, and the cuirassiers of the later waves saw the miserable situation of their teammates in front of them, and no longer maintained the integrity of the formation, and each of them scattered and fled to the main formation.
If the four-legged man wants to run, the two-legged tool man soldier can only stare dryly......
However, Luo Tianjie's goal is not to completely annihilate the Anglo-French coalition army, and the mission objective is very clear, only need to defeat the main force of the Anglo-French coalition army.
Luo Tianjie relied on the long range of his automatic rifle, and simply pulled a large number of tool men up, leaving only the forest cool people to guard him to prevent the cavalry of the British and French forces from making a detour and raid.
The tool man soldiers who attacked the cuirassiers, after the cuirassiers were out of effective range, turned to attack the main formation of the British and French forces under the control of Luo Tianjie.
At this moment, under the control of Luo Tianjie, all the 2,000 or so tool man soldiers were spread out, and almost the entire main formation of the British and French forces and the Bali Bridge were included in their attack range.
The battle line arranged by Luo Tianjie is a straggler line, without any depth, and it is to bully the opponent openly with the long range of firearms......
Of course, in the loose front, there will be two Spartan warriors with bazookas at intervals.
Rockets are now a valuable equipment for Luo Tianjie, and they will never be used unless necessary, after all, the heavy weapons under Luo Tianjie's command are only RPG bazookas......
The calibers' defeat made the commander of the Anglo-French army wake up instantly, and at this time, the discipline of the Anglo-French army far beyond the Qing army was reflected, and the team that was chasing the Qing army on the Bali Bridge quickly stopped the pursuit and regrouped one after another.
The front-loading smoothbore howitzers in the British and French forces were also turned down at the officer's strict order, aiming at Luo Tianjie's department, who was raising his gun to pounce.
The British and French soldiers in the front row stood with their heads held high, forming four to six horizontal formations during the battle, waiting for orders from their superiors.
However, the standing private suddenly fell down with scattered gunfire in the distance, and the originally tight line was suddenly crushed like wheat cutting.
Fear spread to the front line of the main Anglo-French army in a few breaths.
The Roman legionnaires, who walked in the front row, carried their automatic rifles on their shoulders, pulled the trigger as they went, and stopped to fire a series of shots if they encountered a large number of targets.
From time to time, grenades fell next to them, knocking the Roman legionnaires to the ground!
However, as long as the Tool Man Soldiers' health bar is not emptied, they will get up again and join the fight again, and the wounds on their bodies will at best add a bleeding buff to them.
Fearless of death and advanced individual weapons, the main formation of the British and French forces did not hold out for even ten minutes, and they had no way to cause casualties to Luo Tianjie's troops except artillery.
In the eyes of the commanders of the Anglo-French forces, this was not a battle at all, but a massacre!
Ironically, in the morning they were still using advanced equipment and tactics to slaughter the Qing army on the opposite side, and it was just after noon, and they themselves became the targets of slaughter.
The Anglo-French commanders did not continue to stiffen, and anyone with a modicum of military common sense knew that their hopes for continuation could only be pinned on the enemy's lack of ammunition......
By the time the order to retreat reached the front, more than eighty percent of the phalanx on the front line had collapsed on its own, and the British and French soldiers on the front line felt like prisoners being escorted to the execution ground, standing and being shot......
The light-moving howitzers of the Anglo-French army began to be loaded onto the gun trucks under the orders of the officers.
But soon the Anglo-French commander abandoned this attempt, and the enemy on the opposite side attacked too quickly!
It's not that the enemy attacks fiercely, but that the enemy won't stop at all!
Even when the side was in a large rout, the unknown enemy on the opposite side had already begun to run and chase quickly.
The current Anglo-French coalition army has completely separated Luo Tianjie's unit from the Qing army, because the Anglo-French coalition army knows very well from top to bottom that if the Qing army really has a 'musket' with such a long range, it is impossible for the Anglo-French coalition army to land on this land!
Eventually, the Anglo-French abandoned all their bulky artillery, threw down thousands of corpses and ran away.
You must know that the whole battle combined, the contact between the two sides was less than half an hour, but the British and French forces had already lost more than one-eighth of their troops!
The lightly wounded are not included, as the lightly wounded will run away with the large army......
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