18th century total war

Chapter 212 Faith Collapse
"for freedom!!!"

"Fire!"

bang bang bang~
Holding the red, white and blue tricolor flag, a second lieutenant of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation was the first to jump in. Several blood flowers splashed out in front of him, and blood bubbles were spitting out of his mouth. The red, white and blue tricolor flag in his hand was firmly inserted into the soil.

Immediately afterwards, the flagpole was stained red by the blood he spit out, and the entire flagpole was dragged aside by the dead body.

Before the corpse fell down, the infantrymen of the Black Dragon Legion who fired the gun took three steps back in a neat step like a robot, while the soldiers behind them took a big step forward. Without the officer's order, they aimed their guns and pulled the trigger. Done in one go!
It is even more tidy than the trained extras in film and television dramas.

On the battlefield, commanders rarely ask the soldiers in the front row to retreat and change formation. Even if they retreat, they will change from horizontal columns to vertical columns under the leadership of officers, and then run from both sides of the team to the back.

This is mainly done to prevent some soldiers from retreating and changing formations due to excessive fear and tension during the retreat process, and then turn into escape behavior, so that the entire phalanx team becomes chaotic.

Therefore, on the battlefield, only the most elite regular army would dare to change formations like the Black Dragon Legion.

Of course, the benefits of changing formations in the front and rear at the same time are also very obvious, which can save the time of changing formations to the greatest extent, but it requires a high level of training for the formation.

When the second batch of National Salvation Revolutionary Army soldiers crossed the chest line of defense, the infantry guards after the change had already fired a second round of salvo!

However, the defenders of the Black Dragon Legion were too few after all, and the offensive from the two wings dragged down nearly half of the defenders of the Black Dragon Legion. National Salvation Army soldiers!

However, when a large group of soldiers of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army jumped in, holding bayonets and their faces full of enthusiasm poured out by the revolution, Wilkers who rushed in after him saw a large number of primitive grenades thrown over again!

Wilkets couldn't help but curse in his heart.

“Are all these Livy rebel soldiers strong men?
How can every soldier of theirs throw the grenade so far! "

Regardless of the infantry guards of the Black Dragon Legion, everyone uses grenades as conventional weapons, but in this era, no matter which country's regular army, the proportion of grenadiers is not high.

The main reason is that the explosion power of the black powder in this era is far inferior to that of the later yellow explosives. To ensure the lethality of the grenade, the only way is to make the grenade large and heavy. Thin and thin male, it is difficult to carry and walk!

This is the reason why such useful weapons as grenades cannot be used as ordinary individual soldier equipment in the era of intensive stormtrooper-style queuing and shooting.

Every grenadier has strict requirements on height, and what he pursues is nothing more than strength.

After all, the 18th century is not the 21st century of overnutrition. Short people cannot be stronger than tall people unless they are a very small number of people with extraordinary talents.

In this age of not having enough to eat, height basically determines the strength of ordinary people.

This is why the selection criteria for grenadiers generally require tall stature.

As for the advantage of tall stature in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, it is just an additional reason for the selection of grenadiers.

Grenadiers can be seen from the name. Their main combat mission is to throw bombs, not to fight with bayonets.

However, the height and strength of the guard infantry fully conformed to the high standards of the grenadiers of this era, so the Black Dragon Legion easily and comfortably completed the task of "grenadierization" of the whole people.

Before the battle began, each infantry guard was allotted two or three grenades, or more if necessary.

However, since the grenade is too heavy in this era, the infantry guards rarely carry grenades on weekdays.

After a series of familiar explosions, Major Wilkets, who had just climbed over the parapet, huddled at the base of the wall with his head in his hands, avoiding the explosions everywhere. When the explosions stopped, the entire battlefield was once again shrouded in thick white smoke. !

At this moment, uniform shouts of killing rushed towards his face, and Wilkers looked in horror at the infantry guards charging forward with bayonets from outside the fog barrier formed by the white smoke!
Many National Salvation Army soldiers lying on the ground to avoid the grenade explosion were knocked down by bayonets or rifle butts before they had time to get up, and they never got up again.

The offensive of the Black Dragon Legion, whose number was far greater than that of the Black Dragon Army, collapsed.

Seeing the line of deserters already appearing, Wilkers knew that there was nothing he could do, so he turned around and wanted to jump off the parapet.

It is very difficult to jump over the chest defense line from the outside to the inside, but from the inside to the outside, you only need to jump lightly.

Wilkers had just stepped on the parapet when he suddenly heard a gunshot behind him, and a huge force pushed him off the parapet from his back. Wilkers fell off the parapet in a figure-eight shape, facing Lie down on the ground.

The severe pain in his back reminded Wilkers that he was shot!

The blood flowing out of his body made Wilkers feel that the strength in his body was rapidly draining. Wilkers, who wanted to get up again, staggered and fell to the ground again.

At this moment, a red, white and blue tricolor flag full of bullet holes was thrown beside Wilkers by someone. Wilkers, who had no strength to get up, turned his face sideways and looked at that side. The red, white and blue flag looked like a tattered rag, coughing blood and laughing at itself:

"The French Revolution, it seems, is really going to fail..."

After the tragic fierce battle, the battlefield was filled with dead soldiers of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, as well as prisoners of war who had thrown away their weapons and were being received by the Black Dragon Legion with their hands raised.

Compared with the previous impassioned appearance, the soldiers of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army who surrendered were all downcast, and many of them even had tears in the corners of their eyes, showing a miserable appearance of collapsed faith.

A battalion's attack on a company ended in such a miserable failure, which dealt a great blow to these prisoners of war of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army.

The Black Dragon Legion has a complete set of operational procedures for collecting prisoners. Even if the frontline battle is not over yet, these prisoners will be pulled to the rear in the shortest possible time.

Then they will be guarded and organized by the garrison army or security regiment, and continue to be transported to the labor concentration camp in the rear.

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(End of this chapter)