That's pretty much it, and though he wanted to declare himself victorious, he couldn't say something like that on General Franz's lips for a few rounds. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because, rather than "overcome" this is more like the enemy actively retreated, and this victory is actually mixed with too much water, water. For some people who are looking for fame, maybe it's okay. As long as you can get the honor of "defeating the Hereford family's army", then don't exaggerate, even if it's a fraud, it's perfectly fine.

But for a man like General Franz, who is looking for practical results, this is meaningless.

That is, at the most critical moment in the battle formation, the Hereford family troops, in an organized way, retreated little by little, and finally merged into the second front - at least most of the soldiers were like this. Of course, there are still some soldiers who are the rear troops, and the whole army is wiped out. But that's only four or five companies, and a few hundred soldiers combined. If you add in the troops killed in the previous fierce battles, as well as the Herriford family soldiers killed by the previous artillery and musket fire, then the loss of the first array is probably more than 50%. Two infantry regiments, more than half of the 3,000 soldiers were lost.

That's more than 1,600.

In pursuit of this kill, the Imperial Army paid close to five thousand casualties. It also included an elite hussar regiment.

That's it, the casualty ratio of both sides is three to one, that is, even if the tactics are very correct, the soldiers will use their lives. Moreover, the commander of the Imperial Army had command skills above the enemy, and it would cost three times as many troops to crush the enemy.

That's it. After the completion of this battle, the last twenty-two companies to come out suffered nearly a third of the casualties. More than half of the Great Swordsmen, who were the assault troops, were killed. These units temporarily lost their offensive capability. Of course, the same situation was with the Hereford family, the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of the 3rd Russian Praetorian Guard. The 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments, which lost more than half of their losses, basically lost their combat function. Hardly a single company is intact.

The first stage of the war, just like that, passed. Both sides can be regarded as heavy losses. The Imperial Army was especially noticeable. General Franz, as commander, looked at the second array opposite, which was placed next to the artillery positions, and it seemed obvious that the line was more tightly defended than the first array. Secretly sighed. The order to attack was not given immediately. Rather, the artillery was ordered to move forward.

Out of an abundance of caution. At the same time, General Franz took it for granted that he would never give the order to attack without artillery cover.

That's it, for the next half hour or so, General Franz only sent a few skirmish companies a little and moved forward, hoping to attract the attention of the Hereford family and make it easier to act.

General Franz would have been even happier if he had been able to draw out a few cavalry companies to drive them out.

It's just a pity that this thing didn't work out. Duchess Freya looked at the battlefield with a calm face. Turning a blind eye to the enemy's skirmishers. Not even the artillery fired. Not to mention the dispatch of valuable cavalry units for expulsion.

Fighting the opposing skirmishers was the Hereford family's chasseur unit. With more than two companies in number, the rifled spear-armed hunters easily crushed the sneaky skirmishers - the muskets in their hands had been reworked and upgraded, and they had improved from the original.

In addition to the rifled structure, which can make the range and power of the musket even further. The bullets used in muskets were not round pellets, but were processed to be more suitable for threaded breeches. This special, also threaded conical bullet, combined with a fixed primer, forms a further upgraded fire cap gun, and the rate of reloading fire increases again. This technique is basically close to the level of William's previous life and the post-Napoleonic era...... However, it is difficult to go further. At least for the time being, the industrial know-how of the Hereford family is not able to mass-produce copper-shelled bullets. Even with the technical support of the dwarven master Leonardo, plus the differential machine imported from Briton, it is not particularly good.

This made William very unhappy. Although there was no evidence at all, William even knew that they actually did not even know about the Minne. But for some reason, William just felt that if it was the Britons, their technology would be enough to support the development and mass production of this copper-shelled bullet......

Of course, William's idea was completely unfounded. At the same time, industrial production, the production of weapons, is not only related to technology. In fact, even if the Bretons knew all this, and they did have the technology to do it, it is unclear whether they would produce similar bullets and rifles.

At least, they won't do that until their Senate and House of Representatives fail to compete for supremacy—and unfortunately, Briton's military industry is in private hands. These guys do anything to make more money.

And to improve industrial technology, update machinery, launch new projects or something. In the eyes of the capitalists, it is natural that it is not easy to maintain the status quo ante - especially if it is possible to make good money by maintaining the status quo.

Therefore, even if this technology is launched, it will be difficult to promote it...... Of course, this is something that William did not know. Maybe even if he knew, William didn't care. William is just unhappy, I don't know why, I don't know what the reason is.

All in all, the two sides maintained a relatively stable situation for more than half an hour. The competition between small groups of troops cannot determine the overall situation. The hunters, armed with Mine's rifles, add up to only two companies. These guys can't decide the success or failure of a war of 100,000 people.

So, then, half an hour later. When all the artillery of the Imperial Army is in place. The war continues. The artillery of the Hereford family and the enemy's artillery fired at each other's infantry units. At the same time, a large number of Imperial infantry, under the orders of the officers, took small steps and charged towards the line of the Hereford family in the same pattern as before—unlike the previous one. This time, the morale of the soldiers was not very high. They should have seen the fate of their predecessors before, so they were a little demoralized.

Because the death of their predecessors is meaningless. And now, it's their turn to die such a senseless death.

General Franz noted a similar phenomenon of demoralization. But there was nothing he could do. Although I feel uncomfortable in my heart. But soon, he still gave this "impersonal" order.

Warlords.

He formed his escort troops, as well as some of the officers, as well as the children of the nobles from aristocratic families, into the Overseers. Armed with swords, scimitars, and rifles, these guys are responsible for executing soldiers who flee without following orders. In this second wave, partially destroyed by the Hereford family's flowering bombs, and then after a small rout, these warlords killed those who fled without mercy.

Seeing these corpses, the soldiers who were forced to go to the battlefield had to move on. It's just that compared to their predecessors, their pace has slowed down a lot. This has a very bad consequence. That is, while they were killed by shotguns, organ cannons, grenades, and rifles, their formation became more loose. At the same time, there were more people - this was because of the loose formation.

This led to the tragedy that followed. It was the second light cavalry regiment that had been dispatched, and when it failed to rush to the front, it was stopped by these loose, broken infantry units of its own side.

This gave the Hereford family forces a chance. Although, this opportunity is only a few seconds - a few seconds, there is no way to support a musket reload, a salvo. But it can support a round of grenade throwing.

The dense grenade bombardment made the enemy tremble. At the same time, it also kills and clears a road...... The enemy cavalry finally rushed up...... Although the speed is still not fast, and there are not enough troops.

This led to the latter consequence, that is, behind them, those re-replenished and well-organized pure hand-to-hand combat personnel units could not quickly keep up.

General Franz's command did not decline. If the army continues to fight under his command, then the second attack will still be the same as the first attack. After suffering heavy casualties, the Hereford family's army was forced to retreat.

But because of the fear of the soldiers, the soldiers did not cooperate. Therefore, the second attack of the Imperial Army was far from achieving the effect of the first attack.

Despite their casualties, they eventually dragged the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiments of the 3rd Army into the melee phase. But there was no scene of defeating the enemy like before. Even the "momentary repression" that the Imperial officers had hoped for did not materialize. They confronted the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiments of the Hereford Family Army for nearly two hours. The two sides are almost evenly matched. Although in the end, it was the Hereford family army that retreated on its own initiative. However, the casualties of this batch of hand-to-hand troops were close to half. The exchange ratio between the two sides is close to one-to-one.

"It doesn't look like this tactic will be of much use anymore. General Franz sighed.

If he could, he wanted to use better tactics. I want to fight with a better and more army. He actually has better tactics than the current battle with huge casualties.

That is, to concentrate more large-caliber artillery, to concentrate heavy fire. Immediately afterwards, cuirassiers, instead of light cavalry, violently charged the site of the previous artillery bombardment, tearing apart the opposing line. and then spread from the breach to both sides......

Such a tactic would certainly cause fewer casualties and be more effective than the one he was practicing now......

It's just that he doesn't have the capital to do this kind of tactic. There is only one person who has this capital, or rather, has this "qualification" to do this, and that is the Emperor, Kalman IV.

The older and more powerful the emperor, the more he must make himself the most striking and shining star of this war. He would never allow anyone to steal his role. Not even the generals he relied on the most.