18th century total war

Chapter 290 Bloody Supervising Methods
"Fire!"

Wielding a command knife and wearing a gorgeous military uniform that could fascinate young girls, Milt, an officer of the Royal Guards, commanded his musketry company hoarsely, shooting at the Vienna Revolutionary Army on the top of the city.

With the high morale of the Royal Palace Guards, they advanced to a very close distance, which allowed the flintlock musket to give full play to its optimal lethality (that is, the hit error is not very large, usually within 50 meters to 80 meters) , depending on the quality of the musket, there is a fluctuation, but there is no guarantee of 100% hit rate. If you want to achieve a hit rate of more than 30%, you must learn to stay within [-] meters of the British lobster soldiers. During the European War, except for important battles, they were rarely so desperate. ).

After the first salvo, Milt shouted again: "Free fire, cover the siege forces!"

The effect of the salvo at such a close range was quite good. Half of the Revolutionary Army soldiers exposed on the wall dozens of meters wide fell down one after another, and those who did not fall were frightened and retreated into the corner of the wall.

At this time, the poor military quality of the soldiers of the Vienna Revolutionary Army was fully reflected. Those civilians who were temporarily armed did not know how to dodge at all.

The reloading frequency is even pitifully low. Many armed civilians in Vienna use flintlock guns, but they fire at the rate of a matchlock. It takes more than a minute to reload!
This can still be regarded as a psychological quality pass. Many armed civilians who were frightened by corpses, blood and wailing sounded tremblingly fiddling with muskets. Let alone reloading in one minute, he was still in the "reloading state" after 1 minutes passed. ' Wandering inside...

This led to the fact that the number of soldiers of the Revolutionary Army on the top of the city was obviously far greater than that of the Royal Guards attacking the city, and there were more guns than those on the opposite side. They also had the advantage of being condescending. In terms of firepower, they were overwhelmed by the Royal Guards. !
Fortunately, Alleyn is very familiar with the fighting will of this kind of armed civilians, and war supervisors and military police have been prepared behind the city wall defense line.

Allen set up the leaders of the backbone of the revolution as war supervisors. They have almost unlimited supervisory powers on the battlefield, and the gendarmerie is the armed force directly led by the war supervisors, responsible for enforcing military discipline on the battlefield!

Of course, this does not mean that the War Supervisor and the Gendarmerie are the same organization. Aileen does not dare to hand over too much power to those Austrian liberals. They may have a heart for revolution, but they may not be willing to accept his dictatorship. Not to mention accepting a 'future ally' relationship with France.

The most critical step in Lindenwan's plan is that the leader of the Lindenwan Brotherhood released by the Secret Service Division will immediately establish a revolutionary republic after successfully revolutionizing and overthrowing the regimes of European powers. The presidency holds the power of the country.

Then, in the name of recuperation, lead the post-revolutionary country to seek peace with France. Under the coercion of the army of the French Empire, the post-revolutionary regime naturally has a reasonable excuse to cede land and pay compensation!

Reparations can be saved, but land cession must be implemented!

If he wanted to carry out this kind of order, Alleyn naturally did not dare to let the Austrian liberals under his command who had not been brainwashed have too much power.

Now the best among them is given the status of war supervisor, just to unite all the forces.

After all, the Austrian Freedom Party and the monarchy of the Austrian Empire are mortal enemies, and there are many revolutionary backbones in the Austrian Freedom Party who are not afraid of sacrifice. These people are willing to really work hard.

With a bang, a war supervisor held a flintlock pistol, and with a serious face, he shot dead an armed citizen who was lying in a corner, throwing his musket aside, and then sternly yelled at the other armed citizens who looked over. He shouted: "Everyone raise their guns and fight back. Those who are afraid of the enemy on the battlefield will be killed without mercy!"

As soon as the supervisor finished speaking, the gendarmes behind him, who were also from the Austrian Freedom Party, raised their guns and aimed at the slack armed citizens.

In order to defend Vienna, Alleyn also decentralized a lot of power, allowing wartime wartime supervisors to choose familiar partners from the military police.

Of course, just because the power of the war supervisor is too great, Allen strictly stipulates that the war supervisor is only a temporary position during the war and will be banned immediately after the battle.

Moreover, since many military police followed the war supervisors and obeyed their orders, Elaine deliberately did not set up a military chief of the military police, and planned to reorganize the military police after the battle was over, and put his cronies in it.

Allen knew that after this battle, the status of the Gendarmerie in the Revolutionary Army would inevitably be greatly improved, and war was the easiest way for ordinary soldiers to understand the horror of the Gendarmerie.

Frightened by the murder of the wardens, the armed civilians had no choice but to stand up again and open fire at the Austrian Royal Guards who were building wooden ladders outside the city wall.

At this time, the Royal Guards had rushed to the bottom of the wall, and many people had already climbed the ladders. At such a short distance, even armed civilians could shoot an Austrian Royal Guards...

The casualties of the Royal Guards suddenly increased sharply. It didn't take long for Milt, who was in charge of fire cover, to lead his company to rush up the wooden ladder. Fortunately, the Austrian Royal Guards had already boarded the top of the city at this time. What he needed The firepower faced has dropped a lot.

Facing the stray bullets everywhere and the occasional shotgun eruption from the defenders, when Milt's company reached the top of the city, more than one-third of its soldiers had been lost!
This is still the casualties of the follow-up troops. Many of the vanguard troops that rushed up to the city at first have left single digits!
However, the cruel Franz I ordered the soldiers on the front line to attack, and the rear team led the front team to rush forward, and the soldiers behind had the right to kill the soldiers who retreated in front!
In the key battle to capture the capital of Vienna, this order did not cause a backlash from the Royal Guards, because they also knew that once Vienna could not be recaptured, there was likely to be a major rout on the front line, and more than [-] French troops would flood in. , the Austrian Empire is almost finished even without the Revolutionary Party...

That French tyrant is a master who does not pay attention to international unspoken rules. Looking at the end of the Central European states that Li Wei brought down, none of them can retain their sovereign status. Even if it is as strong as Bavaria, it is dying to be rectified by the French Empire...

Even when the war broke out, almost all the regular troops in Bavaria were conscripted. Except for the second-line troops such as the city guard, they were all pulled to the front line by the French Empire, either as cannon fodder or as the escort of the logistics team.

In the third anti-French war, in addition to mobilizing his own army, Li Wei also mobilized more than [-] vassal troops for the front line, and the latter vassal states were still continuously training recruits to join the army.

It is these vassal armies that allow the main force of the French Empire to use most of its forces in front-line operations without hesitation.

Therefore, for the survival of the Austrian Empire, these Royal Guards from aristocratic families are really desperate.

As the captain of the Royal Guards, Milt jumped into the entrance of the city, but he no longer cared about recruiting his men, because there were battles everywhere on the city wall, and the revolutionary army always had the advantage in numbers!

Among them were those wearing the uniforms of the Gendarmerie of the Revolutionary Army!
The gendarmerie established by Allen mainly comes from fanatical revolutionaries, so they are naturally capable of fighting!

Moreover, the time the gendarmerie was established was extremely short, and there was no time for these gendarmerie to be 'corrupted'.

In order to deter ordinary armed civilians, these gendarmes all wore uniform uniforms. The uniforms were all Austrian military uniforms looted from the Vienna military warehouse, and then the style of the general uniform was changed to distinguish it from the Royal Guards.

Of course, there is not only one type of Austrian military uniform. Even if the uniforms worn by the Revolutionary Army Gendarmerie do not change the style, they still choose ordinary military uniforms, which are still somewhat different from the uniforms of the Royal Guards.

Milt raised his hand and knocked down a lunatic with a red cloth wrapped around his arm and shouting "Long live freedom" with a face full of fanaticism, and then leaned against the wall to quickly reload his flintlock pistol.

In this kind of close-range melee, flintlock handguns are still quite useful, with the advantages of fast reloading (due to the short barrel) and easy aiming.

As for the flaw in the effective range of the flintlock pistol, it is completely made up for in close combat.

What Milt didn't know was that what he had just killed was a key member of the Austrian Freedom Party who was a war supervisor, that is, the group of people who were the most fanatical about the revolution.

Today, the main part of the fierce hand-to-hand fight with the Royal Guards at the head of the city is the Austrian Freedom Party and the Lindenwan Brotherhood, and the armed civilians are only the part that is coerced.

However, groups of armed civilians kept rushing up from the city with all kinds of weapons. These armed civilians did not even have a musket in their hands, and most of them were armed with cold weapons. Broadswords and spears were considered "excellent equipment." ', many people even held kitchen knives and dung forks!
You can even see people with sticks and benches in their hands!
After Milt finished loading the bullet, his eyes widened. He saw hundreds of people suddenly rushing up from the other end. Several armed civilians with benches and wooden sticks in their hands screamed to embolden him. , rushed to his side.

Milt looked around and found that he was the only Austrian Royal Guard left in this area. No wonder these revolutionary rebels with benches and sticks had the courage to rush over.

Milt raised his gun and shot, and with the proficiency developed on the training ground, he immediately knocked down an armed civilian holding a bench in front of him. A round hole appeared on the bench that was protecting his chest. The wooden thorns shattered by lead bullets around the round hole all penetrated into the chest of the armed civilian holding the bench!

It's a pain to die...

It turns out that ordinary wooden furniture only creates a 'splash effect' in the face of close range fire from a musket.

After firing, Milt threw the flintlock pistol to the ground, drew out his saber and stabbed fiercely, hitting an armed civilian who was holding a wooden stick to meet him.

Immediately afterwards, Milt flashed sideways, and a bench whizzed past Milt's eyes. Milt let go of the hand holding the knife handle (the knife was stuck in the human body and could not be pulled out for a short time), and kicked He stepped out and kicked the armed civilian who had lost his center of gravity to the ground.

The armed civilians who were kicked to the ground were lying on the ground clutching their stomachs and weeping in pain, unable to get up in a short time.

Taking advantage of this gap, Milt lowered himself down and pulled out the saber stuck in the corpse. However, after such a delay, another bench hit him hard on the back, and the poor-quality bench shattered on the spot. The armed civilian who made the sneak attack only had a bench leg left in his hand...

Milt spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell forward to the ground under the huge force of inertia.

After falling down, Milt couldn't get up again. The armed civilians around him were good at beating dogs in the water. The benches and sticks rushed up to meet Milt who was lying on the ground. cut.

After a dozen strokes, Milt has gone to meet God...

The dignified captain of the Royal Guard was surrounded and beaten to death by armed civilians with simple weapons!

After killing Milt, these armed civilians immediately began to scramble for the saber beside Milt and the flintlock pistol that Milt casually threw on the ground.

During the scramble, several soldiers of the Royal Guards climbed up this section of the city wall. They fired a round of guns at the crowd of armed civilians, and then rushed up with bayonets. Suddenly, several corpses appeared beside Milt. .

The fierce fierce battle is still going on, and there is a long line of armed men from the Lindenwan Brotherhood organized by Elaine's cronies standing under the city wall. These people are the first to take root in Vienna, and most of them are French. Here we can say Is Allen's loyalist!

After all, there is still a gap between these French people and the Austrians.

This group of people stood in the various entrances and exits inside the city wall. When they saw who escaped, they immediately stepped forward and knocked the other person to the ground, dragged them aside and picked their necks with bayonets!

The corpses were hung in rows on the eaves around the entrance and exit. The fresh troops who went up to support them would pass by and see the hung corpses of their own people, and their leading officers would explain to the armed civilians at the right time. Stakes.

Relying on this kind of strict military law method, coupled with sending a large number of armed civilians to the city wall in waves, the battle between the two sides around the city wall of Vienna has not ended since morning until it gets dark!

The Royal Guards paid an unimaginable price. Franz I, who was behind, looked at the Royal Guards who still had not rushed into the city in disbelief, and realized for the first time the horror of the Revolutionary Party!
Franz I now somewhat understands why the Paris garrison and the armed forces loyal to the royal family collapsed so quickly during the French Revolution...

"Revolution, what a terrifying power of thought!"

Franz I couldn't help sighing as he watched the Royal Guards retreating again.

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