Looking at the messy battlefield, the Earl only felt dizzy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just a simple breastwork, plus the line of defense of the trenches. Take him, and destroy his own five regiments. A third of the troops. The Pioneer Regiment, which was the first to enter the battle, completely lost its combat effectiveness with the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Expeditionary Force. The 2nd Brigade also suffered heavy casualties. Restructuring is required.

And what about the White Legion of the Hereford family? By now, have they lost 200 of them?

"This tactic...... Unheard of, but really effective. Multi-layered, multi-echelon firepower, enough to crush the attacks of the toughest and toughest troops. Who was the man who invented this tactic? Was it Otto? It's terrifying. The Count only felt a chill in his heart.

Of course, he still does not think that it was William himself who could create such tactics. But his evaluation of William has also risen from disdain at the beginning to a very jealous level.

"Commander, we ......" The officers of the expeditionary force gathered around the count looked at each other, looking at the count, not knowing what to say. Still, their meaning was clearly conveyed to Count Rochambeau.

They don't want to attack anymore. Every officer of the expeditionary force who looked at the earl unnaturally turned his head, not daring to look at the general again. At the beginning of the war, those bold words and empty ambitions were all smoothed out by the cruel reality.

"We ...... Retreat. Although he was very unwilling, in the end, the Count chose the safest and most "correct" choice.

The officers unanimously breathed a sigh of relief. It was up to the Count to offer a retreat, so that the responsibility would be entirely his own, and his own people could continue to survive. Reputation doesn't take much ......

"The other party, do you want to retreat?" On the other side, seeing that the other party stopped at the wreckage of the first front, William couldn't help frowning. And then this is how -

"What to do, William?" asked Charlumie, beside William.

"If you pursue, you may lose more, but if you don't pursue, you may not have such a good opportunity in the future. William only counted it a little, and then made a decision—less than two hours had passed since the war began. It's still early, and it would be too bad to say that you want to collect troops or something.

"Since the other side does not want to attack, then we will take the initiative to attack the past - the second and third infantry regiments and advance

The Chresses Company takes the lead!"

Under William's orders, the three reorganized chasseur companies quickly advanced towards each other in loose straggler arrays. Then he stopped at a distance of 100 meters, stooped down, and began to reload his ammunition - and then fired.

"The other party...... Leave them alone, the 3rd Brigade stays where it is and covers the retreat!" After a little thought, General Rochambo made a decision - both the 1st and 2nd Brigades suffered heavy losses. The 4th Brigade was at the rear of the army. These are all troops that should be prioritized for retreating. Therefore, it is better to leave the fully formed Third Brigade behind.

Beyond that, the Earl had some thoughts in his heart - it was them who were now defending, and Hereford's White Army was attacking. As a result, their defensive advantage will be much lower.

The two sides fought against each other in the wilderness under equal conditions, then, perhaps.

"Even if you can't win, just hold on for a while, maintain an undefeated situation, and then kill and wound more enemies...... This is not unacceptable. The Count thought to himself.

It's just a pity that it can't-

The range of fire on both sides was unequal - the hunters could fire accurately at a distance of 100 meters, or they could attack effectively at a range of 150 meters. And his musketeers, armed with smoothbore guns, and those armed with pulleyed crossbows, had a range of about the same distance.

If you want to attack the other party, then you have to move forward. And if you move forward, you will be pulled by the opponent, and after entering the range of the opponent's main force, you will be subjected to a volley of muskets from the opponent.

But if you attack with artillery...... The opponent only had three companies, and the formation was very loose. Concentrated artillery bombardment, it seems, no, it should be said, is definitely not worth the cost.

"Damn it, these despicable villains!" thought Count Rochambeau, a little angrily.

Now, he could only order a handful of wheeled crossbows to shoot at them—ancient weapons that looked a little outdated, but were surprisingly effective. In addition to the lack of armor penetration and the lack of lethality, the firing rate and range of the pulley crossbow are not much worse than that of rifled guns. The Third Infantry Brigade of the Expeditionary Force concentrated about two or three hundred crossbowmen, and the hunters armed with rifled guns fought vigorously.

"It's kind of interesting. On the other side, William was a little surprised—the pulley crossbow was one of the best long-range individual weapons in the era of cold weapons. Both the lethality, armor-piercing ability and practicality are very good, but they are a little out of time.

Smoothbore guns and pulley crossbows were born almost at the same time. Although initially, the former could not compete with each other in terms of reload speed and range, so it was somewhat competitive. However, with the advancement of technology, the long-barreled smoothbore gun quickly replaced the pulley crossbow and became the regular weapon that the armies of the countries scrambled to equip.

And with the exception of the Visigothic Army, which is still stubbornly using pulley crossbows, the vast majority of other countries have abandoned this expensive weapon.

Yes, compared to smoothbore guns, the production of pulley crossbows is very wasteful, both in terms of labor costs and material costs. Some of its materials require the use of steel, which is cast little by little by the best craftsmen. Smoothbore guns, on the other hand, require only cast iron to be crafted.

In addition, the most important crossbow string of the pulley crossbow is also a material that requires delicate care and great loss. Crossbow strings made using traditional techniques have disadvantages such as fear of moisture, deformation, and strong wear. The new crossbow string, while removing these disadvantages, greatly increased the cost of construction because it was made of steel wire.

Steel, in the first two hundred years of the era, in the era when metal smelting technology was inadequate, was a very, very, very expensive war resource.

When the vast majority of soldiers' weapons and equipment, as well as the vast majority of agricultural tools and living tools, still use "iron" as raw materials, why can pulley crossbows consume so much "steel" as a production material?

That's it, the price of a good pulley crossbow is several times, or even more than a dozen times the price of a smoothbore gun. While training a group of capable crossbowmen who wield pulleyed crossbows, it is possible to train several times more smoothbore gunners than him.

To make matters worse, in terms of weapon power, the smoothbore gun also quickly threw the pulley crossbow behind.

Nowadays, the most popular steel cuirass on the market for individual use can easily defend against any type of individual pulley crossbow.

At the same time, any smoothbore gun equipped by the armies of the nations today can easily penetrate the most popular individual cuirass.

This led to the elimination of pulley crossbows. At the same time, it has also led to a decrease in the army's armor rate year by year. In fact, there is also a voice in the Hereford family army today that the cuirass will be phased out en masse, and the cuirass will be used to add artillery, as well as to add chaser companies, rifled guns, or develop new gunpowder weapons.

In the end, however, William did not adopt this argument. Because, William knew a truth -- that is, weapons and equipment should not only take into account themselves, but also what kind of enemy they want to deal with -- and nowadays, although the continental countries are paying more and more attention to gunpowder weapons, the main forces of the continental countries are still dominated by cold weapons, that is, ultra-long pikemen.

Considering that nowadays, long-range strikes and bayonet charges are almost as important in battle. So William finally decided to keep the cuirass in the Hereford family's army.

When, the continental nations massively abandoned the pikemen, and when, the Hereford family abandoned the cuirass.

That's it.

Having said all this, it is practically useless. The Visigothic Expeditionary Force and Hereford's White Legion should fight as they wanted.

William pulled the infantry of his two regiments out of the breastwork, and at the same time nine of his artillery batteries, nearly a hundred Napoleonic guns, were also pulled out.

On the march, the artillery was transported, which was mainly done by large cattle "requisitioned" from the locality, and of course, William gave the locals a good price - of course, and even then, it was more or less uncomfortable for the locals, but William did not count that much.

"In this way, we are equal. Seeing that William chose to come out from behind the breastwork, he marched forward. Count Rochambeau only felt relieved. At the same time, it strengthened confidence.

Soldier to soldier, he didn't think he would lose to William.

To this day, he still believed that William's previous victory was due to his intrigue and his own unpreparedness.

It was under these circumstances that the Count gave an order for the 4th Infantry Brigade to remain as well. At the same time, the Second Brigade also retained a regiment that had remained relatively intact.

Such a force, coupled with his trump card, all armed with flintlock pistols, armed with artillery and cavalry companies of the Praetorian Guard, the Count still had tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, and he felt that he could still fight.

"Aren't you running away?" William looked at the enemy opposite, feeling in a happy mood.

"If you don't run away, that's fine. Just let me be here and annihilate this ridiculous army. ”

In this way, the White Regiment of Hereford, with two infantry regiments, was thrown into the ranks, with an artillery regiment. An infantry regiment, two infantry battalions, and two cavalry battalions, the infantry regiments that were the first to enter the battle, were put on the second line by William to rest. The total number of troops is more than 7,000.

His enemy, the Visigothic expeditionary force, threw into one infantry brigade, two artillery regiments. There was an infantry brigade, an infantry regiment and a Janissary regiment. The total number of troops was more than 11,000.

The white army was elite, and the Visigoths were numerous. It is still unknown who killed the deer.