That's it, the mighty legions that the Russian Gothic Empire had painstakingly built slew at their enemies, with the fastest speed and with the fullest attitude, at their enemies, a poor, freshly formed fellow who couldn't even afford a full gun. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's like heavily armed special forces members beating up preschoolers, and such a war is not fair at all. It is not even clear whether this is a war or not.

In short, it was while the Visigoths of the newly formed Sixth Legion were imagining the future that their end had quietly arrived.

In a sense, the intelligence services of the Russian Gothic Empire, as well as the intelligence services of the Britons, were not very accurate.

Of course, it's not their fault.

Or, in other words, the reason for this "intelligence inaccuracy" is not the Britonians or the intelligence agents of the Russian Gothic Empire, but the person who analyzes this information, that is, Freya.

In Freya's opinion, recruits have not received much training, and even the most basic weapons and equipment are not complete, which is basically equivalent to low combat effectiveness.

But in reality, this is not the case, at least not entirely.

What is true in most cases is completely wrong in the Visigothic Republic.

The morale of these people is high. Because 80 percent of these guys are very excited and think that they have thrown themselves into a great revolution.

Although the current political situation in the Visigothic Republic is chaotic, in the eyes of the nations, these so-called big men in power, the so-called consuls, and so on, whether it is their policies or their administrative ability, are all very low-level, and can even be said to be useless.

But their economic policy, in a sense, is quite interesting.

At present, the mandatory government-defined prices of daily necessities have played a role in stabilizing prices. What is more important is, of course, the distribution of farmland to farmers.

In the long run, however, such a policy is not suitable for agricultural development. Because the future development direction of agriculture should be large-scale mechanized production.

In fact, in William's previous life, although the policies of the French Republic had a certain progressive significance, they also made the development of France's originally developed agriculture difficult, in contrast, Germany's agriculture caught up, and the United States, with its vast arable land, became the world's largest grain exporter and the world's largest agricultural country.

Of course, the other Soviet Union, with its vast arable land, was so backward in agriculture that the people starved or something...... That's another story.

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All in all, at least for the time being, the policy of dividing the land into households has made the vast number of Visigothic peasants look awkward.

And in order to protect their land, to protect their vested interests, they rightly absolutely, absolutely, absolutely do not want some bastard king to restore and then come back with a large group of noble lords to eat their own.

It is precisely for this reason that the enthusiasm of these peasants to join the army is very high, and even more than the enthusiasm of the revolutionary youth in the cities is even higher than that of the big men.

In a sense, although those revolutionary youths talk very well, in fact, many of them have actually joined the army or something. However, in terms of morale, combat effectiveness, or quality, they were no match for the peasants.

As in the French Republic of William's previous life, a certain Napoleon once commented that Louis XVI could have won the victory. And he did exactly that—when the citizens of Paris, who were so accustomed to the revolution that they really thought they were very good, were very happy to storm the ruling government, a certain Napoleon brought cannons, and then the famous "big bunch of grapeshits" taught them what is called revolutionary autocracy.

All in all, while the weaponry was very bad, the training was very bad, and the command ability of the officers was equally questionable, their morale was unexpectedly high.

It was also because of such an unexpectedly high morale that it caused a little trouble to the cavalry corps of the Russian Gothic Empire.

Of course, it's just a little trouble, and it's not too important.

Here's the difference......

"Oh, they didn't run away after the first round of shelling?"

This surprised Freya slightly.

It was less than a hundred and fifty kilometers from Rotterdam to the town where the other side was currently stationed, and it took the Imperial Cavalry Corps two days to arrive. In the process, the light cavalry scouts who rode excellent fourth-generation and improved war horses were almost relaxed and happy, killing all enemy scouts and outposts along the way like a massacre.

Of course, there are also some lurking leading party, as well as Visigothic agents or something, these guys want to run away when they see that the situation is not good. But before that, they were locked up by the Cheka, and then there was no more.

All in all, before the enemy sensed that something was wrong, the cavalry corps of the Russian Gothic Empire had already been killed.

At the forefront were the two artillery regiments of the Imperial Cavalry Corps, and the artillery regiment was at the forefront of a total of fifty eighteen-pounder Guards cavalry guns.

Each of these cannons, each of which was drawn from sixteen horses, came to a steady stop opposite the opposing barracks, and then before the other side could react, the Empire's well-trained artillery units put the artillery in order as quickly as possible, and then loaded the shells - in this case, it was naturally impossible to do accurate ranging work, and even because Freya emphasized the suddenness of the attack, she did not even do the work of firing. As soon as they came up, all the artillery fired three rounds of rapid fire, and they used their own strength to desperately speed up the artillery bombardment.

Fortunately, the area of the military camp on the opposite side is not small, and the Russian Gothic Empire still uses high-explosive bombs, and the casualties after bombardment are carried out, but the chaos caused is certain. What's more, the enemies on the opposite side are all recruits. Since it was a new recruit, it was only natural to panic or something - after three rounds of fire from more than 300 guns of the Russian Gothic Empire, the whole camp was already in chaos.

Some soldiers scurried around like flies without their heads, some soldiers were stunned as if they were stupid, and some even trembled with fright, and even incontinent is not nothing, and some soldiers were unlucky, and were blown into scum by artillery fire, or were swept by shrapnel and were injured, and they couldn't die for a while, so they covered their wounds and wailed loudly.

However, that's not all.

After three rounds of firing, the cavalry artillery of the cavalry regiment stopped firing, but almost without a moment, the cavalry units of the cavalry regiment charged towards the camp.

At the same time as the artillery bombardment, the officers of the Russian Gothic Empire, large and small, had already looked at it and commented on the camp.

Very bad.

Well, yes, the camp of the other side looks very bad. Whether it is a defensive barracks, or near a water source, it is convenient to get water, it is convenient to defend, and there are no surrounding horse rejection and so on.

It's not so much a military camp as a mix of a large garbage dump plus a refugee camp. It is even a lot worse than the refugee camps of the 21st century. After all, the strength of the latter is so high that I don't know where it is.

All in all, this group of scum is unlucky. The Visigothic recruits, from top to bottom, seemed to have no idea what a "cavalry raid" was.

These officers who were mass-produced from the third-rate assembly line and promoted from the firing line, plus these soldiers who had only been trained for a few months and began to carry guns and eat, could almost break anything.

In this way, after the artillery bombardment, a total of eight regiments of Imperial cavalry were dispatched in unison - of course, only two regiments of these eight thousand cavalry were placed in front, and two regiments were only six companies in front, and the rest of the troops were all desperately detouring towards the two flanks of the opposing barracks under Freya's orders. After a detour, the company turned directly and charged towards the opponent's camp without hesitation.

And while they were making a detour, the six cavalry companies that were charging at the forefront had already rushed to the place. Seeing the stunned and bewildered enemy soldiers on the opposite side, the cavalrymen almost did not hesitate to raise their revolvers in their hands, and the guns rang out one after another—I am afraid that there was no such speed and intensity of musket bombardment in this world as it is now.

The bewildered Visigothic recruits were beaten into a hornet's nest, and then fell, and together with their unlucky comrades who were not dead and had half a breath left, they were knocked to the ground by the horses of the Imperial Cavalry, and then trampled into meat sauce......

There was little defense, and in fact there was no way to launch some counterattacks. After the Imperial cavalry stormed the barracks, all armed with revolvers, and with their unhesitating, efficient and quick killing, the Visigothic recruits were barely able to fight back.

Half an hour after the battle began, the Visigoths could already declare defeat, and an hour later the bayonet phalanx of the commander of the Visigothic corps, as well as a handful of veterans, was blasted to smig by the revolvers of the Imperial cavalry.

Under such a dense musket bombardment, the poor soldiers with flintlock pistols that take more than ten seconds to fire a bullet were simply powerless to fight back.

This can almost be said that the hollow phalanx, which has a strong restraint for cavalry, is no longer of much use in the face of pistol cavalry.

As gunpowder weapons advanced, and as the rate of musket fire increased, dense phalanxes naturally became worse and worse...... Just like now, it doesn't take to wait for the machine gun to appear, just the revolver is enough to form an extremely strong restraint on the hollow phalanx. (To be continued.) )