Rockets are more lethal on the plains than solid shells. Rockets burrowed into the densely populated array, each time emptying a large area of American troops.

Although every time one fell, another would make up for it, but Brigadier Karner's heart was bleeding, knowing that these people were all regular soldiers of the United States, and each of them was a veteran of more than five years of service.

They underwent a great deal of military training to be able to stabilize their formation at this time, and there were only 8,600 such good soldiers in the entire American Federation.

But even the morale of such a force was on the verge of collapse at this time, and if it weren't for the sword of the Overseer team behind them, I'm afraid they would have fled long ago.

Brigadier General Karna had nothing to do at this time, because it was impossible for his infantry to catch up with the cavalry, and it was only a matter of time before morale collapsed under such a blow of fire, and the main thing was that there was no textbook to solve the situation.

Just as Brigadier General Karna hesitated, a cannonball landed on the ground in front of him, and then bounced up and smashed the tool it used to think like a watermelon.

"The brigadier is dead! Run! ”

The elite of the American army, which had long been on the verge of collapse, finally burst out with the last of its strength, roaring and shouting and fleeing in the direction of Robert Stockton's army.

However, if the infantry chose to flee in the face of the cavalry, it was tantamount to pronouncing their own death sentence.

The Austrian cavalry, which had been in ambush for a long time, came out from the flank, and slashed and killed these panicked American troops.

During this period, some brave American soldiers also wanted to turn back and fight back, but the huge impact brought by people on horses was simply not something that ordinary people could withstand, not to mention that there were still a large number of lancers among the Austrian cavalry. (Featured in Austria and Poland.) ）

In fact, hussars did not have pistols, but they were not usually used in charge, and these pistols were usually used in unfortunate falls or in dogfights.

Even by this time, Franz had already introduced revolvers into the Austrian armament system, and these hussars were reluctant to use pistols in charge and raid missions.

This is not chivalry, but there were too many uncontrollable pistols at that time, first of all, the uncontrollable hit rate, not everyone can be proficient in mounted shooting, and the hit rate of the pistol itself at that time was also very worrying.

At that time, the effective range of pistols was usually within 30 meters, and even modern pistols were mostly within 50 meters, but in fact, it was difficult to hit the target beyond 15 meters, and the high-speed movement would reduce the hit rate.

Moreover, soldiers in this era seriously lack live-fire training, unless they are natural marksmen, they can't really practice riding and shooting with 30 rounds of ammunition in a Chinese New Year's Eve.

As for the American cowboy who hits the same coin with a pistol a few hundred meters away, or uses a pistol bullet to pass through the gap between two glasses when riding a horse and passing by an oncoming train, avoiding the train thieves who are hit on the other side by the conductor and the crowd of passengers.

These can basically be understood as American martial arts, after all, it is not impossible for a superman with eight times the speed of light to make mortals seriously injured with gunpowder-propelled firearms.

The second is the instability of firearms, at that time, various faults of firearms emerged in an endless stream, and jamming and blind fire were commonplace.

To get back to the point, the sabre-wielding cavalry in pursuit was actually much more intimidating and slaughtered with much more efficiency than the pistol cavalry.

Brigadier General Karna's elite troops had been wiped out before Robert Stockton and his reinforcements arrived.

Robert Stockton did not have many cavalry, and it was difficult to feed his livestock on long sea voyages.

Historically, Robert Stockton's expeditionary force had fewer than 500 cavalry, and the capture of San Diego by Fremont provided a lot of horses and mules for the American army.

Although there was no shortage of horses in North America, war horses were still rare, so at this time Robert Stockton had less than a thousand cavalry under his command, and the quality of the horses was much lower than that of the Austrian army.

The cavalry on both sides did not directly engage in battle after discovering each other, and the American pistols drew their pistols and waited for the Austrian cavalry to charge.

At this time, Brigadier General Ernest of the American Cavalry Brigade ordered his cavalry to be ready to show the barbarians of the Old World the tactics of the New World.

The pistols of the U.S. army were each armed with two revolvers, and a thousand people were two thousand guns, and each gun could fire six rounds, for a total of 12,000 rounds.

According to Brigadier General Ernest's estimates, the Austrian cavalry did not exceed 3,000 men, that is, every four bullets could hit one Austrian soldier, and he could completely annihilate the cavalry force of the Old Continent.

While Brigadier General Ernest was still fantasizing about receiving the Congressional Order of the Purple Heart at the White House, the Austrian cavalry pushed the cavalry cannon and rocket launcher up

Brigadier General Ernest couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm a!" ”。

A burst of artillery fire blew up the US cavalrymen on their backs, especially the US horses, many of which had not been trained, and when they heard the explosion, they would be frightened and raise their front hooves high and throw the US soldiers off their horses.

Then the frightened horses scattered and fled, easily breaking up the cavalry line set up by Brigadier General Ernest, and just as he was regrouping, the second fire began.

These cavalrymen did not have the morale and discipline of the elite troops that preceded them, and they soon collapsed.

And this group of collapsed cavalry became the vanguard of the Austrian army to break through the American defense line, and the Austrian cavalry followed the American cavalry to the command center where Robert Stockton was.

Robert Stockton was no mediocre man, and he immediately ordered the shooting of the rout of the American troops who were being driven by the Austrians, which prevented the war from deteriorating further.

But the ensuing firepower blow completely subverted the three views of this famous general.

"How can the cavalry have such strong firepower?!"

The tasks of cavalry in this era were usually to be on guard, reconnaissance, patrolling, outflanking, and "cutting leeks" (harvesting the remnants of the enemy), and it was mainly Franz's advice to have cavalry carry a large amount of light equipment with strong firepower.

At the same time, the continuous optimization of Congreve rockets has made this tactic possible, and the installation of rubber tires for the artillery has greatly enhanced its mobility.

Franz put a lot of effort into achieving this tactic, and he was rewarded on the battlefield at this time.

Under the constant onslaught of cavalry artillery and new anti-infantry rockets, Robert Stockton simply could not maintain the morale of the infantry.

As a result, he had no choice but to draw troops and artillery from the siege of Escondido to stop the vanguard of the Austrians, but this was not a wise move.

The cavalry had a huge advantage, that is, it was highly mobile, and as soon as Robert Stockton mobilized his army, the Austrian cavalry switched positions to attack.

After coming and going, these American troops collapsed in exhaustion.

At this time, San Diego was attacked by the main Austrian army led by Archduke Carl Ferdinand, and the Californians (Hispanics) under the bear flag betrayed faster than the Indians.

John Fremont had to flee to an American warship, and in order to prevent the fleet from falling into the hands of the Austrians, he had no choice but to leave the port.

So the question is, how is Robert Stockton leaving?

Finish writing about this war first, and then write the story of Europe.

Anyway, does anyone want to see the story of Robert Lee?

(End of chapter)