18th century total war

Chapter 246 Strategic Victory
When Bolza personally led the new Second Division of the Black Dragon Army to beat the Prussian army violently, fierce fighting broke out in the small town behind Bolza's main force to cover their back road.

The Austrian double-headed eagle military flag with a black and yellow background can be seen everywhere outside the town.

The Austrian troops rushed into the town one after another, as if they were going to completely fill this small town with a population of just over a thousand in peacetime with the crowd!

Just as the Austrian commander was looking at the town that was about to be swallowed by crowds, there were suddenly huge explosions one after another in the town!
"Master Li Wei! Long live!"

A guard infantryman threw away his musket and jumped at the Austrian soldier who was rushing towards him with a bayonet. sound, and suddenly wanted to back away in horror.

But the wave after wave followed, they couldn't take a big step back, and then there was a loud 'boom', and the few Austrian soldiers in the front were bombed beyond recognition, and they didn't even make a sound of mourning ...

"Master Li Wei! Long live!"

A guard infantryman suddenly jumped down from the roof of a wooden house, just right into the middle of the crowd of Austrian soldiers, amidst screams of fear, there was a bang!
The explosions in the town lasted for more than ten minutes, and thousands of Austrian troops were driven out by the life-threatening self-destruction tactics of the Black Dragon Legion Guards Infantry!

A colonel with a face full of gunpowder smoke, who didn't even know where to throw his military cap, ran to the rear of the Austrian general who was in charge of the command in a panic.

"My lord, the members of the Black Dragon Legion are crazy, each of their soldiers and even their officers are charging towards our crowd with a large amount of explosives on their backs.

As long as our soldiers launch a bayonet charge, they will face hordes of enemies rushing towards them.

I just personally went to the front to supervise the battle, and was almost blown to death by a lunatic..."

"waste!
Our troop strength is several times that of the enemy, and the Prussian army in front is fighting fiercely. Could it be said that the sense of honor of the Austrian soldiers cannot be compared to that of the Prussian country bumpkins?

All the reserve teams were sent to me. The officers took the lead in the charge and set up a supervising team. If there was no order to retreat, anyone who escaped from the battlefield would be executed immediately!
Let me tell you, Paris is dozens of miles away. If we eliminate this French army, we can enter Paris to party! "

Under the strict order of the Austrian commander-in-chief, the tens of thousands of Austrian troops filled almost all attackable directions of the town with soldiers, and behind these soldiers there were a large number of troops responsible for supervising the battle, and they were also responsible for the second batch of attacks Team.

Under the guidance of the Austrian double-headed eagle flag, the Austrian soldiers did not shoot at all, and directly launched a bayonet charge.

After surviving two rounds of shooting by the Guards Infantry, the Austrian soldiers successfully squeezed into the town by relying on the crowd advantage just like in the previous attack, followed by explosions one after another...

There was no way, there were too many Austrian soldiers, and the Guards infantry who stayed behind did not have heavy weapons such as artillery. The Austrian soldiers' bayonets were rushing forward in rows. No matter how strong the Guards infantry's bayonet fighting ability was, they would not be able to defeat them. There is no three-headed six-armed ah!
Even with three heads and six arms, facing multiple bayonets at the same time, you have to be stabbed into a sieve...

Fighting with such a dense enemy force with bayonets is tantamount to suicide. Since it is suicide, the Guards infantry naturally chooses a more efficient method of self-destruction.

The loud rumbling sound sounded again. This time due to the presence of the supervising team, the explosion lasted longer. When most of the troops of a regiment self-destructed, they had just defeated the Prussian army, and watched the Prussian army run faster than the self-destructing artillery. Borcha, who was as quick as a rabbit, returned with the main force of the Black Dragon Legion's new second division.

Of course, not all the Guards infantry returned, and a few remained on the battlefield to guard the prisoners and collect the spoils of war.

The return of Bolcha's main force instantly defeated the Austrian troops who resisted them, and then entered the town. The Austrian soldiers, who had been terribly bombed by the self-destruct tactics of the infantry guards, could no longer resist. Even the supervising team was unable to prevent a large-scale rout.

Borcha rescued the regiment-level troops that had been beaten down to only one battalion, evacuated all the soldiers from the town, and began to distance themselves from the Austrian army.

Bolcha needed to wait for the artillery behind to catch up with his main force.

At the cost of thousands of people, there was still no result, but the main force of the enemy army that should fight the Prussian army came. The Austrian commander immediately realized that something was wrong.

Not long after, his scouts told him that the Prussian army had been completely defeated and suffered heavy losses. The cavalry was scattered and all the artillery was lost...

Such a disastrous defeat is only a little better than being wiped out...

In the era of queuing and shooting, without a large number of organized cavalry units, it would be very difficult to completely wipe out the enemy. This can only be achieved when the enemy actively enters the encirclement.

After all, everyone is light infantry, and they can run quite fast, but the chasing troops can't run wild like the retreating troops, otherwise without the cover of teammates, even if they catch up, they will easily be surrounded by the fleeing enemies... …

Of course, if there is no Austrian army of tens of thousands of people behind, Bolcha is still willing to pursue it. Relying on the physical advantages of the infantry guards for a marathon pursuit, it is not impossible to wipe out the Prussian army in the end.

But now he can only pull back the main force and confront the Austrian army.

Yes, the two sides are now in a confrontation.

Although the Austrian army still has a huge advantage in terms of strength, the casualties during the previous attack on the town have exceeded [-]%. Many of the wounded have lost their combat effectiveness. The morale of the army is in a low state. The attack seems to be in good morale, and there are plans to The Black Dragon Legion, which uses self-destruction tactics, has little chance of winning...

Now, the Austrian army has truly understood the horror of the Black Dragon Army, and no longer thinks that the previous achievements of the Black Dragon Army were all exaggerated by the French.

Since it is impossible to attack, one cannot expect fewer enemies to take the initiative to attack. After all, the opponent only needs to hold himself back, and it will not take long for Paris to receive a steady stream of reinforcements. At that time, the Austrian army's strength in strength will no longer exist. exist.

Without superiority in military strength, the Austrian generals felt that their defeat was inevitable...

Therefore, the Austrian generals made a very wise choice-the withdrawal of all troops.

As soon as Bolcha adjusted the artillery, he found that the Austrian army on the opposite side had begun to retreat as a whole.

The retreat of the Austrian army was not a rout-style retreat of the previously defeated Prussian army, but an orderly withdrawal, leaving behind a force staring at Borza.

The Austrian cavalry frequently roamed around the periphery. If Borcha tried to charge with all his strength, these Austrian cavalry would quickly gather and insert into the weak parts exposed by Borcha's charge, thereby achieving tactical cutting.

Once the Austrian cavalry successfully implements tactical cuts, the Austrian army does not need to retreat...

Of course, Bolza can let his own guard infantry use self-destruct tactics to resist the Austrian cavalry, but in the eyes of Bolcha in the previous battle, the self-detonation tactics of the guard infantry are obviously not as effective against cavalry as against infantry.

Because it is difficult for the self-destructing Guards Infantry to pounce on the high-speed moving cavalry, even if it pounces on it, it can usually kill only one cavalry, and if you are lucky, only two cavalry.

This kind of cost-effectiveness is naturally not cost-effective for Bolcha!
This is different from the previous Prussian charge cavalry attacking one's own artillery positions. When the enemy cavalry attacks the artillery positions, the self-destructing Guards infantry is not very lethal, but it can greatly frighten the enemy and buy more time, and then use close-range shotguns. Kill and injure enemy cavalry on a large scale.

If the enemy cavalry is attacking your own infantry, then using self-destruction tactics is completely two concepts...

If the hollow phalanx is used to resist the Austrian cavalry, it will limit the offensive ability of the infantry. As we all know, the hollow phalanx is a defensive formation rather than an offensive formation!
In the end, Porza had no choice but to give up the attack on the retreating Austrian army...

At this moment, Bolza was desperately eager to have an established cavalry that belonged to his own army. If there were enough cavalry to resist the coveted Austrian cavalry, even if the Austrian army left enough rear troops, Bolza would dare to retreat. A piece of flesh and blood was bitten off the body of the Austrian army in the battle.

The usefulness of cavalry in the era of queuing up and shooting is still great.

Even if it is no longer the king of war, it is no less important than artillery and infantry on the battlefield.

Mobility is too important to the battlefield situation. Soldiers in the era of queuing for shooting generally did not wear armor. To put it bluntly, it was for the pursuit of mobility.

In the same way, the reason why line infantry does not carry heavy bulletproof shields is also due to mobility considerations.

After all, bulletproof shields are too heavy a burden on infantry. After holding the shield, it is easy to be chased and hit by the enemy's small artillery. A bulletproof shield cannot protect against artillery shells, even if it is only a small field gun!
Of course, the disadvantage of losing mobility goes beyond that.

It is inevitable that the tactic of queuing to kill can defeat the invincible players in the world.

After all, this set of tactics was not conceived by military strategists from various countries, but gradually perfected over countless wars.

It was this set of queuing and shooting tactics that turned the most powerful Manchu Empire in the Eastern world into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

The mounted archery that the Manchu Empire was so proud of was a joke in the face of the tactic of queuing to kill.

In every battle between the two sides, the gap in the casualty ratio is shockingly high.

The British even relied on the tactic of queuing to kill. They only needed one or two artillery pieces and a company of soldiers to conquer an indigenous kingdom...

It is not difficult to understand why contemporary Europeans would proudly believe that whoever can conquer Europe can conquer the world!

The British Empire has more victories than defeats in colonial wars all over the world, but on the European continent, few dare to send troops to directly participate in the war. This is the gap!

During this anti-French alliance's battle against Livy, the London government had no intention of sending an army to land in France.

Even if the 'pocket' army in the British mainland is sent to the French mainland, it may not be enough for Li Wei to eat...

The London government is still self-aware in this regard.

The British are very confident in a land war involving hundreds of thousands of people, but once the scale reaches tens of thousands, the British become cautious. If the scale exceeds [-], the British have no choice but to give up.

It's not that the London government can't expand its army to more than [-], but it's just not worth doing. If it really had [-] native troops, how many indigenous kingdoms could the London government destroy?

Even the great Eastern countries cannot withstand the ravages of [-] British troops!

The premise is that the London government can maintain the logistics line of a hundred thousand troops thousands of miles away...

However, throwing an army of [-] on European soil is a matter of a decisive battle between great powers.

The total strength of the Prussian-Austrian Allied Forces that invaded this time was nearly 10, but now they were forced back by the Black Dragon Army, which was less than [-].

The Prussian army was defeated, but the Austrian army still retained a strong combat capability. For the European powers of this era, [-]% casualties were nothing at all. It was not a problem for many elites to even sustain [-]% casualties.

If supported by beliefs such as protecting the homeland and defending the country, [-]% casualties are not impossible.

Of course, this refers to a small number of elite regular troops.

The Prussian army was defeated, the Austrian army retreated, and of course the headlines in Paris proclaimed that the Austrians had been defeated!

The Prussian army soon merged with the Austrian army, and the Prussian army took the initiative to find it, seeking the "protection" of the Austrian army.

No way, who said that the French people in this land have awakened their national consciousness?
The guerrillas like to fight the most, isn't it the regular army that has just retreated?
This kind of regular army rout does not have much courage to fight, and the equipment on their bodies is not bad. The military uniform is valuable clothing for the impoverished guerrillas.

However, with the escort of the well-organized Austrian army, the Prussian army did not suffer much harassment. The tens of thousands of Prussian-Austrian allied forces retreated, and the French guerrillas naturally did not dare to blow their hair...

However, in terms of strategy, Li Wei won a huge victory, and the upgraded total war system also gave rewards in time.

Li Wei got 10 glory points at once!
The newly formed second division of the Black Dragon Army led by Borcha suffered a total of more than 3200 casualties in this battle.

10 points of glory can train [-] infantry guards, and Li Wei has made a fortune again!
The dead officers and soldiers of the new second division of the Black Dragon Army were mainly shot to death by self-explosion and during the battle with Prussia.

In this backward era, the lethality of lead bullets was so astonishing that even if they were not shot on the spot, the person who was shot would soon die of lead poisoning later on.

As for the results obtained by Bolcha's troops, because many corpses have no specific shape, the statistics are too difficult to investigate, but more than 6000 Prussian prisoners of war were arrested!
(End of this chapter)