That's it, the commanders-in-chief of both sides are very patient in preparing for this war, waiting for the opportunity. At the same time, two of the most powerful and terrifying war machines in the human world www.biquge.info full force and charged at each other.

On the front line, it was still Freya who served as commander of the Third Regiment of the Hereford family. In the previous battle, Freya gained a lot of combat experience. It can be said that the Hereford family's war talent is quite high, and at this moment, Freya commands the battle, and it already looks decent.

Even so, Freya was taken aback by the bombardment of the enemy's artillery, which had more artillery than she did. Well, yes, it's a little bit more. Although in terms of quality, these patchwork guns were no match for the excellent Napoleonic guns of the Hereford family, but quantitative changes caused qualitative changes. In the case of sufficient numbers, the opponent's artillery group still suppressed the Hereford family artillery group for a time.

Of course, this was only for a while, and although the number of the Hereford family's artillery group was insufficient, the quality was enough to throw off the opponent a few streets. Freya regained her composure after a moment of surprise, and then issued a series of orders for her artillery positions to counterattack the enemy artillery. The artillery of both sides fought back and forth like this, and they were very happy.

It was in this situation that the opposing forces began to advance, and the first front, with more than twenty companies and more than three thousand soldiers, was like the head of a worm that was constantly wriggling forward, and like a line of churning waves, both maintaining the level of the opposing front and moving forward quickly and methodically.

Speaking of which, these guys could have completely guaranteed the level of the front. However, it is different from what Freya thinks. The soldiers were running in small steps. Most of the experience was found in the previous battles.

The Hereford family's army is definitely superior to the Imperial army in long-range lethality. In this case, it is the most correct tactic to not pay much attention to the formation, run in small steps, and hope to approach in the shortest possible time, and enter the hand-to-hand combat phase.

Freya thought that perhaps, if the enemy's troops did not change their weapons and equipment in the future, then running in small steps and approaching the Hereford family army quickly should be the most correct and standard tactic against the Hereford family army.

Seeing these waves rolling and seemingly exhausting a lot of physical strength, Freya felt the urge to charge at them and then completely crush them. But of course, this impulse comes and goes quickly. Freyya, who had enough experience and suffered a lot of losses, suppressed her impulse and continued to maintain the line of defense of Hereford's army. Of course, perhaps more importantly, Freya didn't have many cavalry troops at her disposal.

Only four companies remained of the Lancer Regiment, all of which were taken by William. She had only one underrepresented hussar regiment under her command. This is used when it is impossible to stop the enemy's troops, and it must not be used lightly.

On the other hand, the number of cavalry under Franz was also not too large. Three regiments of light cavalry, how to use how to feel that it is not enough. So he didn't use it at all, but used it as one of his hole cards.

In this way, the two sides tacitly agreed that no cavalry was used, so the battle became a purely infantry and artillery battle.

After the artillery groups of the two sides bombarded each other for a while, the Napoleonic guns with flowering shells were a little more lethal, so the artillery of the Hereford family destroyed dozens of guns on the opposite side, and these guns exploded into the sky along with their artillery.

After this, the Imperial artillery sensed that artillery against artillery was not a good solution, so they aimed their artillery at the infantry array of the Hereford family, and the artillery of the Hereford family did the same, and began to fire shells at the infantry cluster of the first array of the Imperial Army.

The artillery of both sides fired at each other. Each shot could lift a dozen or more infantrymen into the air, fly into the air, and then dismember them into parts and fall down with a crackle. And each solid projectile fired into the array dissipated all the flesh and bones in its path, opening a flesh alley in the dense infantry array.

Although the effectiveness of the artillery on both sides is equally appalling, when it comes to lethality, it is the combination of Napoleon cannon and flowering shells that is superior...... But Franz, with more than 300 guns of all kinds, was not too bad.

In this way, the artillery bombarded each other and exchanged each other. The only result was that the infantry arrays placed on the front line by both sides were all potholed.

Attacking the twenty-two companies of the Hereford Family Army, only two companies managed to maintain one hundred and thirty soldiers in the end. The average strength of the other twenty companies was only 110 to 120. Artillery exploded in the war with amazing power...... Although it was not far from what William had hoped for, if he did not dig trenches, he would happily crush the enemy like scum. However, compared with 20 years ago, and even five years ago, artillery only played a deterrent and auxiliary role, but today's artillery has truly become a decisive force that can determine the outcome of a war.

It's just a pity that the number of decisive forces on both sides is relatively basically the same. This is very regrettable.

It is also regrettable that the horses arranged by the Hereford family, as well as the arranged breastwork, suffered serious losses in such an artillery salvo. This may also be one of the reasons for the change of tactics of the opposing artillery......

All in all, it was very quick for the pair to come within seventy paces of the Hereford family, which should have been the best distance for a shotgun. It's just a pity that in order to pursue the effect of the flowering shell, the Hereford family concentrated the artillery for use. This tactic is capable of inflicting massive damage on enemy infantry from long distances. But it loses the pleasure of using a shotgun at close range. Many veterans of the Hereford family feel very regretful.

They were accustomed to the pleasant sight of cutting down the enemy at this distance with a large fan-like shotgun, like cutting wheat.

But don't worry, they have other delightful weapons-

As one of William's reforms and innovations, the Hereford Regiment continued the fine tradition of using rifled spear hunters, and on this basis, the number of chasper companies in each regiment was expanded to five.

At a distance of 100 meters, these muskets will join company support weapons, three-pounder light mortars, and twelve-pipe organ cannons in a dense torrent of metal like a storm, blasting them into a sieve.

"The firepower of the other side is really unimaginable. ”

Seeing that in an instant, under a round of mortar artillery, organ cannons, and chasseur flintlock muskets, a dozen companies were directly stunned and collapsed, Franz gritted his teeth - fortunately, he was committed to twenty-two companies this time, not a dozen as usual standards. Otherwise, after these two rounds of firepower, his first attacking troops would have happily declared defeat.

This time, however, there were still nine companies and nearly a thousand soldiers within range of them - under the cover of muskets, the pikemen who formed smaller groups began to charge - also a feat in which the Imperial Army did not place the musketeers in front of the pikemen in separate formations, but "retro" concentrated them on the edge of the various pikemen and formed separate formations.

In this way, they can fire in three volleys when the pikemen charge, giving them fire support.

Also...... Not having to endure the next round of grenade bombardment - yes, the other side was fast enough, but not enough, and the faces of the pikemen changed instantly when they saw the distant pimples thrown into their camp - although very few had actually faced such a weapon - because the vast majority of those who faced him were already dead - but, through countless twisted and even demonized legends, the pikemen could still figure out what they were up against.

Although small, explosives are explosives, and after a round of grenade throwing, there are very few soldiers who can still stand in place, and immediately after, those musketeers who are standing in place are also killed by the fire of the hunters...... Then, the guy who survived turned around without hesitation and fled in embarrassment.

Although there are a lot of innovations, even smug initiatives. But the Imperial Army still did not break free from the trap of the traditional army. Therefore, in the face of Hereford's army, which is fully armed with "modern weapons", their fate is still miserable.

The loss of nearly 3,000 soldiers became the largest loss of a single batch of troops in this war. However...... Their sacrifice was not in vain - even the soldiers who turned and fled, but did not survive - they were trampled to death by the Imperial light cavalry that suddenly appeared behind them, and they were trampled on and became a lump of flesh under the horseshoe -

But they succeeded.

To be precise, it was General Franz who succeeded.

By sacrificing nearly three thousand soldiers, he finally got a chance to fight in close quarters. Cavalry, artillery, infantry. Under his command, the Imperial Army attacked almost seamlessly. Just as the infantry army was on the verge of collapse, a regiment of light cavalry roared in, and they were rarely killed by artillery, muskets, or any other kind of "new weapon".

They basically kept their whole formation and rushed into the Hereford family's array...... Although because of the trenches, because of the wreckage of the horses and the breastwork, these cavalry were not able to take advantage of the charge. But they are still not to be underestimated. Yes, that's it. So far, at least, they are the only troops that have given the Hereford family troops enough effective lethal damage.