18th century total war

Chapter 104 Can't bear it

"For the glory of Lord Li Wei, attack!"

A second lieutenant in the Guards Infantry, waving a command knife with one hand and a flintlock musket in the other with a fanatical face, took the lead and rushed towards the trench with his men carrying straw bags.

After being discovered by the defenders of Caen City, the infantry guards who attacked at night suddenly shouted and killed, causing great psychological pressure on the defenders!

Afterwards, the first group of guard infantry who arrived, bearing the bullets with lack of accuracy (due to the darkness), began to quickly fill in the attack channels in front of the trenches.

The dark night made it difficult for the muskets of both sides to aim, especially the infantry guards on the attacking side who only lit a few torches. In the eyes of the defenders, they couldn't even see the figure clearly!
Therefore, although the defending soldiers were not suppressed by the firepower of the infantry guards as in the daytime, their counterattacks were to shoot and listen to the sound to embolden themselves. No aim!

These defenders are all from the bottom of the Normandy region. In this era of malnutrition, the bottom means that night blindness is common!
The infantry guards on the attacking side didn't light many torches to illuminate them. For these defenders, they were like blind men.

On the contrary, there are lighting torches all around them, which makes them very clear to the infantry guards. Even if the vision is not as good as in the daytime, it does not hinder the aiming.

However, most of the attacking infantry guards did not shoot, only some long-distance sharpshooters shot there.

Because once the infantry guards fired, the flames generated when the muskets were fired would allow the defenders who generally suffer from night blindness to aim at the target.

Even with torches lighting at night, the field of vision is not as good as during the day, so the infantry guards cannot carry out precise firepower suppression like in the daytime, and the defenders behind the chest fortifications cannot lift their heads.

At most, they have a slight advantage in cross-firing. Naturally, this advantage is not worth the risk of the infantry guards shooting.

Most of the guards infantry who rushed forward were there with their backs bent to fill in the trenches, chopping and clearing obstacles such as horses and wooden fences.

Finally, put the small wooden ladder on top of the parapet!

It wasn't until the infantry guards began to erect the small wooden ladders that the night blindness patients saw the infantry guards clearly and hurriedly shot downwards.

At this time, the infantry guards, who had already cleared most of the obstacles, suddenly took out the original black bomb and threw it behind the chest fortification.

At the same time, the mortar troops that were already in position were no longer hiding. Under the officer's slogan, the explosive shells fell behind the breast fortifications almost at the same time as the mines!
The Guards infantry who had not cleared the roadblocks had already stood in formation in the dark. After seeing the signal, they no longer hid their positions and fired volleys at the defenders under the torches of the chest defense line!

Mortars, thunder blasts, and volleys of guns, the firepower of the three burst out in an instant, and immediately stunned the defenders.

Captain Wright stared dumbfounded at the explosions in his defense zone, and muttered dumbfoundedly: "I knew it would happen!

It would be a mistake to fight against Levi's rebels. They have reached the level of Europe's first-class army, but the superiors are asking us, a group of provincial coalition forces who are only better than the militia, to fight against them! "

Vaguely, Captain Wright's memory flashed before his eyes - the battle in which the British regular army crushed the so-called Continental Army head-on during the American Revolutionary War!
At this time, the battle between Levi's rebels and the coalition forces in the Normandy region was more like the American Continental Army that encountered the British regular army in the plains?
The combat power of the two sides is completely unequal, this is a one-sided crushing battle!
No, in the eyes of Captain Wright, the infantry under the command of Levi's rebels is more powerful than the red shirts of the British.

At least the Red Shirts of the Brits will not fight to the death!

The reason why Captain Wright has time to daze here is because he is no longer needed to command the frontline battle, or in other words, he is no longer able to command his own troops!
In that wave of outbreaks, the entire company under Captain Wright collapsed completely!

Crash without suspense...

Captain Wright's adjutant grabbed Wright who was still in a daze, and shouted anxiously: "Sir, run quickly, Li Wei's rebels are about to cross the parapet!"

Captain Wright woke up suddenly, turned his head and looked behind the second line of defense dotted with some torches in the darkness, his mind didn't seem to come back for a while, and he blurted out subconsciously:
"What about the reinforcements?

According to General Kanol's tactics, shouldn't a large group of reinforcements be sent over at this time?
Just like the battle yesterday. "

"Sir!
It's so dark now that even if there are reinforcements, they won't be able to arrive in a while!
The second line of defense is so big that most of the soldiers are sleeping in tents! "

Captain Wright finally remembered that night battles are different from normal daytime battles.

Although the defense and vigilance of the front line at night is very high, and even the front line itself has enough defenders, it is impossible for the reserve reinforcements in the rear to be on standby as they are during the day, and to support the battlefield at any time.

Otherwise, if the tens of thousands of troops don't sleep collectively, how can they fight during the day?

What's more, according to the judgment of the bosses, the probability of a night attack by Li Wei's rebels is not high today. After all, many of the fortifications of Li Wei's rebels are not complete during the day.

Of course, if the troops guarding the second line of defense can last for a while longer, the reserve reinforcements who wake up later will come to support them sooner or later, and by then it will be no different from yesterday's battle.

It's a pity that the combat efficiency of the guard infantry is completely inhuman. Not to mention the second-line provincial coalition forces, even the first-line regular army can't handle the fast-paced battle of the guard infantry!
Sure enough, without follow-up reinforcements, the bombed dizzy turned along with the collapsed front-line garrison, and soon saw the infantry guards climbing up the small ladder.

At this time, not all the troops were as incompetent as Captain Wright's men. They had no resistance and only knew to run around (it was too dark, and night blindness could not find the correct route to escape!)...

There are still quite a few teams with high-pitched revolutionary enthusiasm, gnashing their teeth and staying in their own line of defense, engaging in brutal bayonet hand-to-hand combat with the infantry guards who have just climbed up.

Faced with this kind of garrison force, the newly emerged Guards infantry would often have several bayonets stabbed at their heads. They could not react at all and were instantly pierced into gourds of flesh and blood...

The garrison soldiers standing behind the higher breastwork still have a considerable advantage when the Guards infantry climbs over the breastwork, because the Guards infantry needs at least one hand to climb the ladder!
(End of this chapter)