And just like that, the war between the coalition and the Imperial army began. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info As I said before, it was the Imperial Army that attacked first. In fact, William was a little strange - the direction of the coalition was basically the same as that of His Majesty the Emperor. They all value the first two formations and despise the third formation.

In this case, the third array is basically useless......

The arrangement of the two sides was more extreme than that of Kalman IV. This has created a superiority in the strength of the coalition forces.

In the first array, the enemy had one more regiment, and in the second there were six thousand more troops.

Calculated in this way, the coalition forces naturally have a greater chance of winning than the imperial army. In fact, at the beginning of the war, the rhythm of the battle was indeed like this.

Initially, the battle of the first arrays of the two sides can be described as lackluster. Basically, it follows the rhythm that has been popular for hundreds of years before...... The artillery of both sides spewed solid projectiles at each other. Although the sound is very loud. At the same time, the large shot put that is sprayed is also quite amazing, but the actual lethality is ...... Well, that's it.

The hit rate of artillery on both sides was basically the same. If the shells really hit, they can indeed inflict greater damage on the enemy -- a lead bullet will pass by, and the horizontal line will be a bloody alley one by one. Stumps and severed arms, human organs flying around.

This kind of firepower was definitely earth-shattering hundreds of years ago. Few armies can compete with it. Basically, the elite troops of that era, one counts as one, and after a round of shelling, and then look at the flesh-and-blood friendly soldiers around them, they collapsed directly...... An army that can advance a hundred meters against such an artillery is definitely the elite of the elite.

It's just a pity that the deterrent power of this artillery has no effect on the army of this era. No matter how loud the cannon on the opposite side is, no matter how much gunpowder smoke is spewed, it can't shake the professional mercenaries on the opposite side.

These mercenaries still marched in order, beating small drums, blowing military trumpets, carrying arquebuses and extra-long guns, and striding forward in a horizontal formation. From time to time, a bloody hole was blasted out by artillery, and the soldiers continued to form a formation as they marched...... Seventy meters away, the musketeers set the arquebuses on fire. Then he slowly moved forward...... Forty meters away, the front arrays of both sides stopped, and then began to reload the projectiles - after a salvo, yes - a salvo. The generals on both sides have been more or less affected by some of the contemporary wars. They gathered the musketeers and fired a volley.

A salvo from a heavy smoothbore gun at a range of forty meters, the effect of which was not bad. The soldiers on both sides lost a lot of soldiers. Then, the pikemen on both sides continued to move forward, and the pikemen who maintained the horizontal line began to stab each other with their hard and thick as soon as they entered the attack range......

The process is a little more tedious. And those musketeers, some of them drew their swords while stabbing each other, and then either parried the opponent's super long spears, or pushed forward with all their might, ready to drag the enemy into melee combat.

Few of these brave musketeers succeeded. The role played is not as good as that of those who are "not very brave".

They gathered and then formed a diagonal line on the flanks of the extra-long gun queue, and then continued musket fire, forming an inverted trapezoidal formation throughout the company. These musketeers calmly killed and weakened the enemy's flanks, and combined with the ultra-long pikemen, weakened the enemy's living force......

In fact, in this day and age, company tactics like this are the mainstream. William's admiration for artillery fire, coupled with grenades, flintlock volleys followed by bayonet charges, is utterly heretical.

That's it, the infantry units of the book secretly visited engaged in an orderly, fierce, but in fact meaningless war of attrition. The commanders of both sides did everything they could to keep their formations intact, so that the cavalry units of both sides could not find gaps and opportunities to attack and charge.

In the end, the Imperial Army, which was still the main attacker, could not wait. Finally a cavalry unit turned around and began to try to make a detour back to the enemy flank. Before that, though, they were bitten by the light cavalry regiments of the coalition forces......

The battles between the hussars were no less lackluster.

The various cavalry companies on both sides formed a dense and neat wall formation, and then charged at each other. Under the waving of the saber, the arms, legs, heads and hands flew around, and the heads of people were rolling under the horse's hooves...... It's just that such a battle is also meaningless.

While watching the intelligence of this series of battles, William simply ignored them. Ten lines at a glance, omitted to mention. Just because these battles are almost worthless and have no reference point. This is true both in military technology and in terms of strategy and tactics...... The first array of both sides felt like it was used to deplete and then offset by the enemy's army of the same style.

They're basically using tactics like this, and it feels like two clones are fighting......

In general, this is the case with civil wars in the modern human world. The competition between the two sides is no longer strategy and tactics, but the most basic people...... Well, the number of people is remarkable, and the vast majority of wars are actually more than the number of people -- especially in this era of alternating hot and cold weapons. The modern military system makes it easy and pleasant to train a farmer with a hoe into a murderous soldier in a short period of time......

That's basically it.

However.

It's just "basically".

The combat effectiveness of the troops on both sides was similar, and the commanders on both sides were about the same level of competence - the rank-and-file commanders of Franconia also had extensive experience in the previous civil wars of the Empire. Even the two armies that are currently fighting bloody battles were once comrades-in-arms who fought side by side a few years ago.

And the commander-in-chief of Franconia, that is, Prince Henry, is indeed not as capable as the battle-hardened old emperor. But his "superior" or "adviser", General John Churchill, was a very good commander.

Although General John had less experience and skill than the old Emperor Kalman IV. But he also has his own strengths - his advantage is his youth.

Well, yes, young.

Kalman IV had passed his prime, though his experience and wisdom were still growing. But his physical strength, energy, thinking speed and reaction speed are constantly decreasing. Therefore, the commanders of both sides, like the armies of both sides, have their own advantages and disadvantages. Calculated in this way, the victory or defeat of the two sides is still five or five.

That's it.

The first array of ping pong on both sides was quite ruthless. After being entangled like this for a while, one company after another fought to get most of the casualties, and then retreated or even collapsed. At the same time, new companies were added - and then, seeing the information here, William was a little surprised - in the end of such a refueling tactic, it was not the Imperial army with fewer troops that could not stand it first, but the coalition army.

With one regiment more troops than the other side, and the loss of troops was basically one-to-one, the first array of the coalition forces was the first to withdraw in an orderly manner.

If one were to ask why the coalition forces were retreating, the reason was just as simple, simply because they were "coalition forces".

The coalition forces naturally cannot have one heart. After dozens of companies in the first array had suffered heavy losses and thousands of men, the prince Henry was a little dissatisfied. He had lost more than a fifth of his strength, but his allies had not moved at all. Is that appropriate? Of course not.

If his army really fought with the enemy on the opposite side as calculated before, and Prince Henry's army suffered heavy losses, then why should he be emperor again, and why should he have enough say in the coalition army?

So, seeing that the fight was almost over, Prince Henry looked at General John Churchill. After a heated argument with General Churchill, Prince Henry, who threatened to retreat, finally won the victory. John, General Churchill finally reluctantly agreed to his request.

Of course, it is impossible for him to swap the positions of the first and second fronts in one go. This is unreasonable and unscientific. It will lead to the complete defeat of the coalition forces. He only slightly reversed the sequence of the infantry team. Three infantry regiments of the Frisian army were transferred to the first front, and three mercenary regiments were transferred back -

Of course, General John Churchill hid his mind that the three infantry regiments transferred to the front were not the latest full-flintlock and bayonet infantry regiments, but flintlock muskets and super-long infantry regiments distributed at forty or sixty percent.

Of course, the Prince Henry was still very satisfied. He did not know much about modern munitions and the trend of military reform, and he did not look at pure flintlock pismen units. In his opinion, it is still configured with muskets + ultra-long guns, and the "average" army is more reliable.

That's it, because the coalition was a coalition force, General John Churchill had to carry out a tactical directive that was militarily unnecessary, but politically essential. It was precisely because of this tactical directive that there was a slight confusion on the part of the coalition forces...... It was precisely because of this small amount of confusion that Kalman IV noticed that in the next battle, the coalition forces began to fall to the upper hand.

Another cavalry regiment of the First Order of the Imperial Army took the opportunity to launch a charge into the disorganized positions of the Allied forces - these Imperial light cavalry, which were slightly different from the Allied light cavalry - they were mostly armed with carbines, in addition to sabers, also known as "carbines".

The cavalrymen, when they had reached about thirty meters of charge, first disrupted the opponent's line with a round of musket fire, and then rushed in, brandishing their sabers and slashing at them.

Such tactics were mostly useless against the array of infantry super-long spears that were on the rise—but Kalman IV's gaze was poisonous. The cavalry charged, and it was not the complete array that was impacted, but the two companies that had just retreated.

The two wings were about to retreat and had not yet retreated, and behind them, new infantry companies were coming up to fill the line, not yet moving into position.

It was at this opportunity that the light cavalry rushed in and laid a wedge in the weak point of the coalition array.