18th century total war

Chapter 397 The Doomed Cavalry Charge

"General, those strange sounds have been ringing all day and night without interruption. Those sounds should be the weapons used by the enemies in the New World. Judging from the direction from which the sounds came, we should be surrounded by enemy troops.

And those soldiers who escape early may be in danger...

This was a naked conspiracy. Merlin and the Magic Guild betrayed the Arigado Empire and set up this ambush circle to destroy the million-strong army of the Xuanwu Legion! "

Reporting to General Michael was his son Jackson.

It is very common for fathers and sons to join the army in the Aligado Empire. Not only do new nobles who rely on military merit like to do this, but civilian soldiers who join the army often choose to join the army for generations. Fathers, sons, brothers, and even three generations of grandfathers and grandchildren are in the same regiment. Phenomenons abound.

After all, in the Arigado Empire, there is no age limit for retiring from the army. Basically, the "World Soldiers" system, which is very common in feudal society, is implemented.

It's just that on the framework of the world soldier system, the assessment of the soldiers is added.

However, if someone in the family joins the army, it is not difficult to teach other men in the family to cross the threshold of a warrior.

Compared with the tightly sealed entry-level training methods of knights and various magic formulas and spells, the series of training methods from warrior to sergeant are not a secret in the Arigado Empire. arrive.

Human beings living in a world full of magical energy are naturally much stronger than the humans in Levi's world. The minimum requirement for talent in the warrior training path is relatively low. As long as you are willing to endure hardship, practice diligently, and be bolder , seeing blood, there are many civilians who become great warriors, let alone entry-level warriors.

Only sergeants have a relatively high training threshold, but if they want to be promoted to knights, they must become the confidants of the royal family and nobles.

Of course, in any parallel world, as long as it is a human society, the inertia of promoting relatives is inevitable.

Kinship is an inescapable bond in human society.

Even in the more egalitarian 21st century, it is not uncommon for talented people to be squeezed out by relying on family connections to give the green light all the way.

The phenomenon of mediocrity commanding elites can be found everywhere in society, and the reason is only because this mediocre person is reincarnated to compare with the elite under his command.

Under the confinement of huge capital, starting from scratch is nothing more than a trick to fool children.

No matter how capable you are, when you are promoted to a certain level, an invisible hand will press down on you.

At that time, there are only two paths.

Incorporated by capital, they became their workers.

Or let your efforts go to waste under the pressure of capital.

Therefore, in a peaceful social environment, no matter what era it is, it is very unfriendly to self-made people.

Almost all capable people who have truly achieved great class leaps have risen in a war-torn environment or relied on military exploits.

Only when the upper class is faced with the life-and-death crisis of war, will it open the door of convenience and distribute a small portion of its own cake to the latecomers.

General Michael's family rose up during the war, but the family that was born at the bottom has already joined forces with those traditional nobles at this time. The promotion of officers is based on close relationship first, loyalty second, and ability last!

As a matter of course, General Michael's deputy is his son Jackson, who is also the veritable second in command of the Black Tortoise Corps.

Once General Michael died, his eldest son Jackson could immediately take over his power.

Not only that, all adult sons of General Michael served in the Xuanwu Army, but the remaining second and third sons failed to escape the terrible explosion and were buried in the sea of ​​flames...

After all, the training time of the second son and the third son was too short, and they were too young to escape the bombed area in advance.

The sons of General Michael are all generals in charge of the army, so it is naturally impossible to follow him just as a personal guard.

As for the other family members of General Michael's family who have no fighting power, they will follow other powerful family members and enter the new world together at the end.

The invasion plan of the Arigado Empire is naturally that the legion will enter first, and the relatives will settle in last.

After collecting the broken troops and reorganizing the Xuanwu Army, General Michael integrated the elite into the Vanguard Corps and handed it over to his eldest son Jackson to command.

At the same time, the burden of exploring the periphery is also on Jackson.

"Don't worry about the life and death of those deserters, have your people found out where the enemy's encirclement is weak?"

"Sorry, General.

None of the scouts I sent out came back, I'm afraid they all..."

General Michael ruled the army so strictly that even his own son could not call him father in the army.

"Sure enough, we had the worst-case scenario.

Gather your troops, pick your best scouts, and move toward the water source.

We still have an army of 23. As long as we can find a source of water, no matter how much we lose, we can break out of the enemy's encirclement. "

"However, the morale of our troops is unstable. Many soldiers are afraid of unknown enemies. I'm afraid they won't be able to fight tough battles..."

"Call all the officers, we want everyone to know that if we stay here, everyone will die!
It is necessary to break out before the drinking water is exhausted, so as to have the possibility of survival.

This is a new world, and the enemy will not accept us outsiders.

We are invaders to the natives of this new world! "

Soon, General Michael mobilized the officers of the reorganized troops before the battle. The mobilization effect was not very good, but at least it stabilized the morale of the army and made everyone realize that they were in a desperate situation!
Moreover, General Michael exaggeratedly stated that the indigenous humans in the New World would not be left alive, which gave the Xuanwu Legion a strong sense of crisis.

They are in the desert, not even qualified for a war of attrition!

After resting for another two days, the sound of guns and guns outside became more and more sparse, and even a few deserters turned back!

They did not encounter the enemy, otherwise they would not have come back alive.

But they brought terrible news, and the bodies of their own were everywhere.

These deserters who came back alive were all scared back by the mountain of corpses and blood of their own people.

Both the Gobi Desert and the desert have been dyed bloody!
General Michael took the opportunity to send someone to the army to emphasize the enemy's fighting style, and to strengthen the determination of the troops under his command to fight to the end.

Under the guidance of General Michael, the remaining more than 20 Xuanwu Legion had the momentum of breaking the boat.

After a full meal, General Michael sent people to gather all the troops, divided them into three parts, the front, the middle and the back, and drove to the scouts to detect the path that might have walked out of the desert.

Among them, the former army included the most elites, and many soldiers were veteran regular troops of the Xuanwu Legion, commanded by Jackson.

The Chinese army has the largest number, but its composition is complicated, and it is commanded by the most prestigious army chief, General Michael.

The rear army has the smallest number, and includes all the wounded soldiers in the Xuanwu Army, which is a bit like an abandoned child.

There are no obstacles on the Gobi desert, and the reconnaissance planes in the sky are one after another.

Soon, word reached the headquarters of the Imperial Guard that the enemy had regrouped and begun their march.

Accompanied by radio communication, the 150mm howitzer cluster roared again.

The Chinese army with the largest number was immediately saturated by high-explosive grenades.

Under heavy protection, General Michael didn't even have time to escape, and the vindictive shield he propped up acted as a close-range bombardment with high-explosive grenades for him. After his vindictive energy was exhausted, his whole body was blown like a tattered rag and fell to the ground. .

The 10,000+ Chinese army fell apart during the high-intensity bombing for half a day, without any suspense!

The military thinking of the Xuanwu Legion is still too backward. They don't even know that the weird aircraft in the sky can easily lock their position. They think that it will be safe to gather and march away from the direction of the alien portal.

As a result, before seeing the enemy's face, the Chinese army with the largest number was bombed to pieces.

Tens of thousands of people were killed on the spot!

However, Jackson is also a veteran who has fought many battles. After receiving the news that the central army in the rear was saturated and bombed, he knew that the position of his troops had been exposed to the enemy. After the central army was bombed, he was the next target. The former army!
Therefore, Jackson issued an order that completely violated the tactical laws of the Makabaka Continent, and boldly let all the former army units attack forward!

Without any rules, it simply advances quickly according to the large formation, and stretches the cross-section of the front very long, completely ignoring the issue of strategic depth, just to separate the troops as much as possible to prevent being bombed by the enemy massacre.

Jackson's order undoubtedly allowed the front army to avoid what happened to the center army.

After the central army was completely destroyed, most of the rear army, which was wounded, was not bombed, and the long-range artillery units of the imperial guards naturally aimed at the enemy's front army.

However, because the former army had dispersed their attack to break through at this time, the casualty effect caused by it was completely two extremes compared with that of the Chinese army.

Moreover, the soldiers in the Xuanwu Legion were of good physical fitness. Under the full attack, they quickly approached the trench defense line established by the Imperial Guards.

The enemy has no hot weapons, and the Imperial Guards naturally don't need to dig the trenches of World War I. Simple trenches plus traffic trenches that can quickly retreat and support are enough.

At this moment, Jackson, the supreme commander of the Black Tortoise Corps, let alone the Black Tortoise Army, couldn't even command his former army. What he could really lead was an army of [-] people.

All are cavalry!

Before the start of the breakout battle, General Michael assembled all the cavalry in the regiment, leaving some for himself as the personal guards, and the rest for his only remaining eldest son, showing deep fatherly love...

Because General Michael never imagined that he could lead more than 20 remnants of the Xuanwu Legion to break out of the siege. He only thought that his father and son could leave the encirclement, and the other troops were just used as a foil.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Chinese army with the largest number needs General Michael to sit in order to appease the army, General Michael would even stay with his eldest son in the elite former army and take the lead in running away.

It's just that General Michael never expected that his decision to appease the army would let him be buried in the ocean of artillery fire...

The knight commander is certainly powerful, and the battle energy shield propped up by fully stimulating the battle energy can even resist the damage caused by the close-range explosion of the high-explosive grenade.

However, the high-explosive grenade is a product produced by the assembly line, but the fighting spirit of the knight commander is not an endless source of energy...

It is undoubtedly a wise choice for Jackson to replace all his troops with cavalry.

The high mobility of the pure cavalry corps made the generals of the imperial guards give up bombarding them immediately. The 150mm caliber howitzers are all bombarded beyond the visual range, and the cavalry can easily escape when they are bombed.

On the other hand, infantry, basically after being hit by shells, most of them don't want to escape...

The artillery unit of the Imperial Guard naturally pursues the maximum enemy-killing effect. After all, the order issued by Emperor Li Wei is to annihilate no enemy!

As a result, the ten thousand cavalry regiment led by Jackson was the first to appear in the trench defense line of the Imperial Guard.

Behind the cavalry was the dust billowing up all over the sky, which completely covered the figure of the cavalry behind them. The soldiers of the imperial guards staying in the trenches couldn't tell how many of them there were. They could only feel the overwhelming pressure sweeping towards them.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the imperial guards had been brainwashed by the ideological stamp, and this pressure only passed in their hearts in a flash, without causing any waves.

Soon, a row of soldiers from the Imperial Guards carried the grenades, and a pair of two quickly placed the grenades on the flat ground, and determined to shoot the players.

After the command flag was issued, one after another special shells for general-purpose grenades that could be used as shells and grenades were thrown into it.

Under the action of gravity, the moment the cannonball slid down to the base, the primer was activated, and the sudden increase in chamber pressure pushed the cannonball out of the top, accompanied by strange screams, and landed on the galloping horse, just like the enemy of the ancient legion. Among the horses.

Continuous explosions kicked up more dust, completely covering up the charging cavalry.

The fighting spirit of the great knight bloomed on Jackson's body, and he easily bounced off the shrapnel that randomly valued him. He waved the knight's long sword bursting with fighting spirit, and kept shouting loudly: "Long live Arigado!"

At first, there were many cavalrymen who shouted loudly to boost their morale, but with a series of grenadier strikes, the shouts were quickly buried by the explosion.

Many cavalry even subconsciously slowed down their horses or even stopped their horses because of excessive fright.

At this moment, dozens of tongues of flame spewed out from the unremarkable trenches ahead!
A soldier of the Imperial Guards dragged a long ammunition chain, while another machine gunner grabbed the trigger of the Maxim heavy machine gun and continuously fired three bursts. Occasionally, there would be a long series of continuous shots, and the gunner would rush closer. The enemy cavalry was wiped down one after another!
The combat literacy of the mind is like water, so that the Maxim heavy machine gun can exert the highest lethality in the hands of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard!

In addition, there are hundreds of imperial guards in the trenches who have picked up the ugly Bobosha submachine gun!
They are the field testers of this submachine gun!

(End of this chapter)