18th century total war

Chapter 259 Pulling the enemy cavalry to die
Boom boom boom...

This is a long battle line with thousands of people facing each other. For a battle line of such length, let alone Austrian soldiers, even Marshal Pauliu has never seen rows of grenades falling from the sky!
As we all know, the Grenadier is a carefully selected elite unit among the private soldiers, and the elite, as the name suggests, often represents a small number of people...

It is not that there are no grenadiers in the Austrian army. The reserve force in the hands of Marshal Pauliu has a grenadier regiment.

However, the French army on the opposite side is all grenadiers!
This was the first time that Marshal Poliyu saw grenadiers throwing grenades on a long plain battle line in a large-scale line infantry duel!
The entire front, whether it was the center or the private soldiers on the left and right wings, were all blown up by this round of grenades thrown by the Guards infantry.

Limited by the explosive power of black powder in this era, the lethality of grenades was far less than that of small hand grenades in later generations. However, the loud noise and large amounts of white smoke produced by the explosion plunged the Austrian soldiers' battle lines into great chaos.

The Austrian privates, who were already at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire with the Guards infantry, could no longer maintain their formation. The Austrian noble officers were also choked by the smoke and coughed repeatedly. Looking up, they saw dense smoke everywhere. The smoke and dust, his subordinates fled everywhere, where is the need for command?

What's more terrible is that French, which the Austrians can't understand, rang from the opposite side.

"Wehrmacht, bayonets on, charge!"

"For Master Li Wei, kill!!!"

Accompanied by the shouts of the whole group, the four ranks of infantry guards merged into two ranks, making the formation denser again, and it was almost as if people were crowding shoulder to shoulder and charging up with bayonets.

At this time, although the Austrian side had more troops and a reserve force behind them to supervise the battle, the moment they crashed into the French Defense Forces, the entire battle line became in disarray.

The Austrian private soldiers were pierced through their bodies in pieces like lambs to be slaughtered!

The casualties caused by this round of bayonet charge to the Austrians were almost catching up with the total casualties from the previous shooting!
Not surprisingly, the battle line of tens of thousands of Austrian troops collapsed...

With a livid look on his face, Marshal Polyu pushed up the reserve team behind him. According to the characteristics of the queuing and shooting tactics of this era, he relied on the artillery position to launch a new bayonet defense line at the back.

The large number of Austrian routs made Marshal Pauliu's reserve team dare not shoot. Otherwise, the reserve team of tens of thousands of people would shoot a volley. It is not certain how many French soldiers who were chasing were killed, but the Austrian soldiers who fled were about the same. It can be cleared...

Today, after the tragic volley of guns and the bayonets of the infantry guards, the front-line Austrian privates have suffered more than half of the casualties, as high as two-thirds!

Many Austrian soldiers and even officers who fled back discarded their weapons, just to lighten the load and get away from the pursuers more quickly.

There is no way, the speed of the French army's pursuit is too fast, each of them looks like track and field athletes!

Only then did the Austrian cavalry sent by Marshal Pauliu detour to the periphery of the artillery position behind Niza.

Then, these Austrian cavalry encountered the Guards Cavalry who were slowly accelerating to intercept them.

Although the guard infantry can use the self-destruct tactics to exchange lives with the enemy cavalry by relying on artillery, but the cost performance of doing so is too low.

The Austrian cavalry general naturally knew that they would be intercepted, but the Austrian cavalry was filled with many noble children. They had a high sense of honor and knew that this battle played a vital role in preserving the Italian region and maintaining Austria's hegemony.

As a result, the Austrian cavalry also began to accelerate slowly, drawing out their sabers.

This Austrian cavalry is not an assault cavalry, but an ordinary saber cavalry, but the cavalry in the front row is equipped with a simple breastplate as protective equipment.

These Austrian cavalry equipped with breastplates are actually the personal guards of those Austrian generals, gathered by Marshal Paulieu for this battle.

Marshal Polyu had only one regiment of charge cavalry (at this time, the military systems of various European countries were very chaotic, and there was no fixed formation of military divisions and brigades). The charge cavalry was divided by Marshal Poliu and arranged into large-scale detours on the left and right flanks. Prepare to attack from behind Niza's headquarters.

According to Marshal Baoliu's calculations, when our own large roundabout corps on the left and right come out, the main force of Niza's army must be fighting fiercely with our own. At this time, if there are charge cavalry from both sides to take the lead in breaking the formation, they will be completely annihilated. In front of this French army.

No matter how brave and fearless these French Wehrmacht soldiers are, they will be completely killed!
However, Marshal Pauliu made a mistake in his first estimate. The Austrian regular army he personally led was defeated by the French army in a single encounter!

The reserve team left as a back-up was forced to transfer all members...

However, according to pre-war estimates, the large corps on the left and right flanks that should have arrived at the designated location by now have still not reached the combat position, let alone launched an attack.

Obviously, they were not lost but intercepted by Niza's two-wing troops!

However, Marshal Baoliu didn't understand that there were only more than 1 people in Niza's army, and there were more than 6000 fighting against him. The cavalry regiment behind was also in the sequence of Niza's army. Up to one regiment of infantry.

Is it possible that the French Wehrmacht used a regiment of infantry to intercept the Austrian corps of more than [-] men?
What a joke!
If 2 people are stopped by 2000 people, the math teacher will be pissed off!
This is an encounter in the wild, not an offensive and defensive battle in the wild, let alone an offensive and defensive battle in a city fortress!
Ten times the strength of the troops, according to previous battles, shouldn't one charge settle the battle?
What Marshal Paulieu didn't know was that the large corps he sent out to detour to the two wings was suffering from the self-destructive defensive counterattack of the French Guards infantry at the moment, and was blown to death...

The Austrian troops on both sides of the circuit are different from the troops led by Marshal Pauliu himself. The large corps of the Austrians on both sides of the circuit need to rush for time and will inevitably take the initiative to attack. This gives the Guards infantry ample space to perform self-destruction attacks.

Self-detonation attacks can only be played in defensive battles!

If it was an active attack, the infantry guards with explosive packs on their bodies would be shot down by bullets before they ran into the enemy's formation, and then the surrounding friendly troops would be blown away with a bang...

Even if it is an encounter in the wild, both the enemy and the enemy have offensive and defensive positions.

In Niza's headquarters, Niza was on the offensive side, and Marshal Pauliu was on the defensive side. On the battlefield where the two wings twisted, it happened to be reversed.

Under a bright saber, the cavalry of both sides crashed into each other.

Either passing through, or bumping straight into it!

Because the Austrian cavalry and the guard cavalry of the French Wehrmacht all use wall charges, and their formation is much denser than that of traditional cavalry.

Due to the excessive pursuit of the density of the formation (the denser the charge, the greater the advantage), the moment the two sides collide, the cavalry of both sides have no time to dodge, just like the scene of a super-large car accident, the horses and cavalry do not need to use weapons to chop each other. Flesh and blood flew from the collision...

The whine of the horses suddenly overwhelmed the shouts of the cavalry on both sides.

However, in such a tragic collision, the cavalry in the back row of both sides showed no intention of slowing down.

The Austrian cavalry had no time to slow down. After all, they used the wall charge tactic. The so-called wall charge tactic is to form dense rows and then form charge waves. There is a certain distance between each wave to prevent Front and rear horses collided.

After the charging speed increased, the distance between the dense wall charging waves was not large. In addition, the speed was too fast, and the cavalry was horse next to the horse. They could not turn the horse's head to escape at all, and could only rush forward , then pray to God...

Compared with the horrifying and bloody scene of the Austrian cavalry being collided with the front row, the Guards cavalry showed a fearless spirit without risking their lives. They shouted the slogan "Long live Lord Livy", brave and fearless. The 'Long Live Charge' belonging to the French was shown to the Austrians.

After each wave of hedging, the leading Austrian cavalry general has disappeared. If you clear the battlefield at this time, you will find that the neck of this Austrian cavalry general has been twisted at an incredible angle, and his eyes are wide open. on the ground.

Beside him lay the corpse of his beloved horse.

It was obvious that the Austrian cavalry general was thrown away during the impact, and then had a close contact with Mother Earth head-down, and his entire neck was broken...

People naturally die.

However, the Austrian military system is relatively complete. It doesn't matter if the leading general dies, and the general's adjutant... well, it's okay to die!

Searching down level by level, a new commander led the entire team of Austrian cavalry who was slowing down, and re-arranged into a dense wall-like wave charge formation. Even though the number of people had shrunk by more than half, they were still bravely heading towards The artillery position where Niza was located rushed over.

The sense of honor of the Austrian cavalry is obviously higher than that of the Austrian infantry by several grades. From this alone, it is not difficult to see why the Austrians can let the Italians call their father...

"The Holy Roman Empire must win!"

The new cavalry commander raised his command knife diagonally upwards and shouted loudly at the top of his voice.

They did not dare to slow down, because if they slowed down at this time, they would be overtaken by the French Guards Cavalry who had turned behind.

To put it bluntly, these Austrian cavalry no longer dare to confront the group of lunatic French cavalry, they are afraid!

However, right in front of them was the artillery unit that was restrained by the cavalry, so the Austrian cavalry still had Yu Yong to continue charging.

Nizza had only a few escorts acting as messengers around him, and there was an artillery position in front of him. Facing the final charge of the Austrian cavalry, he drew his saber without changing his expression.

The guards around Niza were like a general's guard, all riding horses (for the convenience of passing orders), and they drew out their sabers together with Niza who was also riding a horse.

If the artillery position in front cannot stop the enemy's cavalry, Nizza will charge against the Austrian cavalry on the opposite side with his escort of less than ten people!

"For the glory of Lord Li Wei!"

Niza muttered to himself.

Immediately afterwards, there was an earth-shattering roar from the artillery position in front.

A round of shotguns fanned the Austrian cavalry's charge head-on, and hundreds of Austrian cavalry fell off their horses on the spot!

However, there are still Austrian cavalry who are not afraid of death, accelerating towards the artillery position.

"Master Li Wei! Long live!"

Boom! ! !
When the Austrian cavalry just rushed into the artillery position, thinking that they could brandish their sabers and start killing, the ammunition and gunpowder barrels around the artillery were immediately ignited by the artillerymen acting as crazy guard infantry.

All of a sudden, the explosions sounded one after another, and the Austrian cavalry who had the courage to rush in rose into the sky together with more than a dozen field guns under Niza's command...

A dozen or so ordinary French artillerymen who fled behind Niza with fear on their faces looked at the serial explosions of the artillery positions with lingering fear on their faces.

They are not brainwashed soldiers trained by the barracks, but old French gunners who surrendered to the Livy government.

These old gunners are very capable of handling artillery, and Li Wei cherishes their ability of operating artillery, so he did not brainwash them.

Li Wei has already done experiments. If it is a unit that is too technical, after participating in the brainwashing training of the system barracks, the brainwashing process will be too intense, resulting in a decline in the original skills.

In other words, after experienced artillerymen are brainwashed and trained into Guards infantry in the military camp, they can certainly acquire the Guards infantry's strong individual combat capabilities and fearless combat morale, but their original artillery skills will degenerate into a A novice artilleryman.

That is to say, artillery at the same level as the gunners of the infantry guards.

Artillery is a military technical talent in this era, and Li Wei is naturally unwilling to waste it like this. These artillery are also the only real soldiers who can get paid.

However, there are not many such artillerymen in the French Defense Forces. Their main duty is to aim and shell the enemy's positions from a long distance before the two sides engage in battle, and to use their professional technical capabilities.

Every veteran gunner will have a few infantry guards who will learn to serve as auxiliary soldiers and be responsible for a field artillery. Even if they can't learn anything, the infantry guards can have the ability to operate artillery.

When the field artillery faces the enemy's close-range attack, the veteran gunners can abandon the artillery and escape without being punished. Their infantry guards will take over the positions of these veteran gunners and fight the enemy desperately.

The pupils of Nizza's eyes reflected the flames of the artillery emplacement. Seeing this scene, the remaining remnants of the Austrian cavalry no longer had the courage to continue fighting.

But when they wanted to turn around and flee, the lightly-armed Guards Cavalry had already caught up with them. They faced the remnant Austrian cavalry who had no time to speed up and just rode and hacked them...

At this point, the Austrian cavalry was completely wiped out, and no one was left alive. Even the wounded were killed one by one by the guard cavalry.

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