18th century total war

Chapter 376 England Splits

"Lloyd, do you think the imperial army on the other side will attack us?
I heard that the guns they use now are loaded with bullets in the back, so you can shoot while lying down, and the rate of fire is extremely fast. If we shoot against the Imperial Army, we will simply die. "

“Keep your voice down, Ferrell.

If the officer hears it, you'll have to be locked up in a dark room again! "

"Tch, the major of our battalion hasn't been seen since the British Youth Party rebelled.

I heard the news from the company captain from the brother next door that the battalion commander has escaped with his lover!
Even those of us who are soldiers know how good the weapons and equipment of the imperial army are, how could those officials not know?
Alas, I heard that our Governor of England has escaped, and now a group of celebrities are in power. I don't know if the news is true or not.

In this situation, if there is a fight, I will definitely be the first to run away. "

"Hehe, aren't you afraid of being killed by the bullets behind you?
It is rumored that the soldiers of the Imperial Army are all masters of marksmanship, and the breech-loading guns they use are very accurate, and they can hit people hundreds of yards away.

If it were me, I would simply throw the weapon away and raise my hand in surrender.

The big deal is to enter the empire's labor office for reform, and at least one life can be saved.

I see, the sky in England is about to change.

In fact, I also admire those members of the British Youth Party. Knowing that the empire is invincible and the whole world has been beaten down by the tyrant Levi, they dare to rebel in London. This is the real warrior. I am not as good as them ah. "

"Hmph, it's just a bunch of brainwashed youngsters.

Those people don't know how bloody the war is, and they think that the war can only be won by whoever has the most people.

As a result, there were tens of thousands of people, and the whole army was defeated by a regiment of others. I heard that the corpses of the rebel army spread dozens of miles across the ground!

We can all hear the cannons of the Imperial Army here.

Alas, this part of England is surrounded by imperial lands, front and rear, and I know that sooner or later we will be finished. "

At this moment, a hurried whistle suddenly sounded in the distance. Lloyd and Ferrer quickly picked up their miniature rifles and ran towards the place where the whistle sounded.

The Minie rifle is a front-loading rifle, not the original front-loading rifle that needs a small hammer to smash in, but a front-loading rifle that uses conical bullets.

The Minie rifle is a musket invented by Minie, an immigrant from Europe. It raised the loading speed of the rifled gun to the same level as the smoothbore gun, and completely ended the era of the smoothbore gun.

And soon popularized in North American countries.

However, breech-loading guns have already been installed on the side of the empire, so this cross-age invention is doomed to be useless. Except for countries that have not yet cracked the mystery of breech-loading guns, the Europa Federation Empire has never regarded the Mini rifle as a return. thing.

Compared with smoothbore guns, the Minie rifle has a rolling range advantage and accuracy, but compared to the Charles III rifle, the Minie rifle is proper garbage...

"This is a battle post, the imperial army won't come over..."

"Shut up, Lloyd!"

As if responding to Lloyd's speculation, there was a strange whistling sound in the sky. Lloyd, who had never been bombarded by the Imperial Army, looked up at the sky inexplicably while running like other soldiers. The next moment, Lloyd De's field of vision was filled with endless flames!

The continuous explosions made Lloyd temporarily deaf. He curled up on the ground, and he didn't know where to throw the Minie rifle.

"God bless.

My God, is this artillery fire from the Imperial Army?
How on earth did they invent such a powerful shell..."

Every explosion made Lloyd's body tremble, but because the explosions were too frequent, Lloyd's body gradually became numb while lying on the ground, and the dust on his body was covered layer by layer.

As for the whistle of the battle, it has long been covered by the sound of explosions one after another!

After an unknown amount of time, Lloyd suddenly heard a charge cry from a distance, and the explosions around him also stopped.

Lloyd got up slowly, shook the dust covering his body, and looked around.

Then he saw a familiar severed arm...

Not far away, Ferrer, who died with regret, was missing an arm and lying on the ground, his head just turned to his direction.

Lloyd looked at the mutilated corpses of his comrades. Regardless of his grief, he began to crawl all over the ground looking for his weapons.

However, when he picked up the mini rifle, he could already see soldiers in imperial uniforms rushing up in the distance!

The Imperial Army is what the soldiers of the Governor General of England call the Imperial Guards.

It is also the object of their fear.

"I should be in the backup position, where are the frontline people?"

Lloyd looked at the imperial army rushing up in skirmish lines with a puzzled look on his face.

Immediately afterwards, he heard continuous gunshots, and several hand-cranked Gatling machine guns in the distance had been pushed to the front line, shooting at the collapsing English soldiers!

During mobile combat, the hand-operated Gatling gun will be placed on a stand similar to a sports car. It can be pushed by mules and horses during marching, and it can be pushed by soldiers during combat.

Compared with artillery, the hand-cranked Gatling gun is much lighter, and its mobility is naturally much better.

If you encounter a group of enemies during the attack, you only need to push up a few hand-cranked Gatling machine guns, cross-fire for a few seconds, and you will be able to completely defeat the opponent!

Although both sides have eliminated muskets, their tactics are still at the stage of intensive volleying.

Especially for the English army, the Minie rifle only increased the effective range, and the shooting frequency was similar to that of the original smoothbore gun. Naturally, dense rows of guns were required to pursue the density of firepower.

As for the imperial army, in addition to attacking and charging, in order to maintain the density of firepower, they often use dense phalanxes of guns.

This is actually the most effective way to kill the enemy.

Whether it was the skirmish line or the three-three tactics, it all appeared because the killing effect of weapons was getting better and better, and the dense crowd tactics failed.

The opponents faced by the Imperial Guards did not even have machine guns, so they naturally did not need to change their tactics. For the Imperial Guards soldiers who used bolt-action rifles, skirmishing lines would only weaken their local firepower density. Only when attacking It will only be used when charging, and the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun must be followed to maintain a sparse firepower density.

Firepower density is the kingly way to win a war in this era!
Of course, another reason why the Imperial Guards dared to use skirmishing tactics to charge is because the howitzers equipped by the artillery of the Imperial Guards have the advantages of era crushing technology. Go to heaven, so you don't have to worry about encountering enemy guns when you attack.

Otherwise, if the skirmishers charge, once they hit the enemy's platoon of guns, they will be easily swept away by the platoon of guns.

In the history of the world in Li Wei's previous life, even during the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], when the Japanese and Qing armies fought against each other, they still relied on intensive platoon tactics to shoot each other.

The ridiculous thing is that the Qing army at that time obviously had individual firearms that fired faster than the Japanese army, but they were repeatedly defeated in the confrontation and acted as the captain of the transportation team...

Yes, in the Sino-Japanese War, which was criticized by later generations, the Qing army was defeated by the Japanese army when it had an advantage in equipment!
Whether it is the navy or the army, the Qing army has an advantage in equipment.

Compared with the naval ships embezzled by Empress Dowager Cixi, their combat effectiveness has been greatly weakened. The army's equipment is still good. After all, the maintenance cost of the army's equipment is much lower than that of the navy...

However, the Huai army, which was the main force of the army at that time, was pushed all the way from North Korea to Lushun by the Japanese army with better weapons...

Played a defeat that plunged the high-level Qing Dynasty into self-doubt...

You must know that before the war, due to the superiority in the number of troops and equipment, the top officials of the Qing Dynasty generally had a sense of superiority, otherwise Cixi would not have blatantly embezzled military expenses.

Just because even Cixi felt that this battle was not difficult, she embezzled military expenses!

It was only after fighting that I realized that wars are not won based on who has the best numbers and equipment...

It can be said that the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War was a replica of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the roles played by the two sides were just opposite...

It is not difficult to understand why the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War was equivalent to uncovering the last fig leaf of the Qing Dynasty. The defeat of the Qing Dynasty was so embarrassing!
Even the Western powers, who were the hegemons of the world at that time, felt incredible.

Lloyd looked at his own people who were being slaughtered in the distance, and instinctively lay down on the ground.

This moment of vigilance allowed him to save his life. As soon as he fell to the ground, he heard bullets flying past his head, as if they were hitting his scalp!
Lloyd quickly threw away the Minie rifle he was clutching tightly in his hand. If the battle can still be fought, it is something he can save his life, but in this situation, the Minie rifle in his hand is a life-threatening talisman.

After throwing away the Minie rifle, Lloyd lay on the ground and shouted to the front: "Don't shoot, I surrender!
For God's sake, please, don't shoot, I surrender..."

After shouting more than a dozen times, Lloyd finally saw a pair of military boots stepping in front of him. He raised his hands with a smile on his face and got up from the ground.

An English-speaking Imperial Guard soldier stepped forward, pointed to the place where the small red flag was planted in the distance, and said to Lloyd: "Go by yourself, don't do unnecessary things, and you will survive .”

Lloyd nodded repeatedly, and walked over under the watchful eyes of several Imperial Guard soldiers.

And these soldiers of the Imperial Guards didn't mean to escort Lloyd at all. They seemed certain that these surrendered English soldiers didn't dare to think carefully, and continued to move forward with Charles III rifles.

Although the gunshots on the battlefield did not stop, most of them came from hand-cranked Gatling guns.

The tactics of the Imperial Guards are very simple. First use howitzers to clean up large strategic targets, and then the whole army presses down on them, using hand-cranked Gatling guns to suppress them, or it is more accurate to call them massacres.

When the enemy's establishment is broken up, soldiers of the Imperial Guard will rush up to collect prisoners of war and clean up the battlefield.

In this situation, apart from a few extreme nationalists in England, soldiers of the Imperial Guard would not encounter resistance at all.

Even in the border barracks, many middle and high-level officers in England disappeared, and most of the commanding battles were adjutants and even grassroots officers!
In this way, the most elite frontier army of the Governor General of England was completely wiped out in just one day and one night, even more thoroughly than the rebel army of the British Youth Party...

Because the rebel army of the British Youth Party gathered together and attacked in two ways, when they collapsed, they collapsed in a chain. There were too many people, and the imperial guards who were chasing them could not be wiped out, and many people were let go.

However, the border troops sent by the English Governor to the area were scattered everywhere in order to defend the long border, which naturally gave the Imperial Guards the opportunity to annihilate them one by one.

Under the weapon generation difference of an entire era, the casualties of the Imperial Guards only stayed in single digits, and the entire Governorate of England fell into an undefended level.

Next, the temporary Public Opinion Cabinet of the Governor-General of England got the news, and the big guys finally stopped arguing.

Smart people began to seek a way out, simply quit the temporary public opinion cabinet, and ran away with their families and property.

The hot-headed clamored to send muskets to every Englishman, calling on the whole people to fight to the end...

Of course, the members of the interim public opinion cabinet with the largest number of people tend to negotiate with the Europa Federation Empire to resolve this dispute.

After all, at this point, everyone knows that the Governor General of England has no chance of winning, except for those ultra-nationalists who don't know what kind of shit they have poured into their heads.

Not to mention sending muskets to everyone, will the inventory in the armory be enough? Even if the muskets are sent, how many armed citizens of England will fight desperately against the Imperial Guards?
The situation on the border has spread to the political center of the small Governor-General of England. Even a military layman knows how big the gap is between the two sides in the course of the destructive battle!
That is the most powerful frontier army in the Governor General of England!
Even the border troops were beaten into pig heads by the Imperial Guards who were smaller in number than themselves. Is it possible to count on those armed civilians?
If armed civilians were really useful, the British royal family would not have surrendered to the tyrant Levi!
Not surprisingly, the temporary Public Opinion Cabinet of the Governor-General of England has the worst situation-split!
There is still a market for extreme nationalism in the Governor-General of England. After all, the British royal family and capitalists have never given up on taking back the British Isles, but the opportunity is set at the moment when Levi died in the belly of a woman...

Therefore, there are still many ultra-nationalists in the Governor-General of England.

Under the call of their temporarily elected leader, these people opened the arsenal that had been left unattended and began to arm themselves.

As for those cabinet members who wanted to negotiate with the London City Government, it was no surprise that they were labeled traitors by ultra-nationalists!

Under the attack of the Imperial Guards, the entire Governor-General of England fell into anarchy!
(End of this chapter)