18th century total war

Chapter 50 Poor National Guard

The National Guard in the front row couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the enemy striker finally stop.

On the contrary, the walking steps returned to normal speed.

And when the three soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion's vanguard raised their guns to aim, the National Self-Defense Forces also stopped.

Calculated according to the time, after the platoon of guns on the opposite side is finished, one's own side can just raise the gun to aim and shoot a volley!

The premise is that the National Self-Defense Forces can withstand this round of salvo without collapsing.

In fact, the close-range salvo tactics of the National Self-Defense Forces are very different from the close-range three-column salvo tactics of the British.

Even the basic line infantry with average formation ability on the opposite side is better than the National Self-Defense Force.

Of course, this is mainly because the basic line infantry of the Black Dragon Legion are all ready to die for Li Wei, and their psychological quality is too hard!
People who are not afraid of death are the scariest, because they will never leave room for anything.

Naturally, the forwards of the Black Dragon Legion didn't care what the enemy was thinking. They just followed the officer's order, established tactics, and dogmatically completed their mission.

After a roar, the National Self-Defense Forces fell down like cutting wheat, and the soldiers in the first three rows were almost emptied!
The distance between the two sides is too close, only more than 20 meters. As long as the flintlock guns are not fired at this distance, basically they will not miss.

The National Self-Defense Forces did show their bravery. Within a distance of close to the shooting scene, they withstood a wave of three salvos from the opponent...

Then, the survivors of the National Guard were stunned.

They looked at the fallen corpses in front of and around them, as well as the howling companions, as if they had forgotten the purpose of their walk, until the Black Dragon Legion on the opposite side rushed up with bayonets, many people still stood in a daze!
This was a battle without any suspense. The National Guard of the Ille-Vilaine province foolishly sent them to the enemy to fire a volley of guns, and was suddenly beaten...

Then it was easily pierced, divided, surrounded, and slaughtered by the dense bayonet array!

The National Self-Defense Force, which was several thousand small, did not make a decent resistance at all, and was completely defeated by the vanguard of the Black Dragon Army.

Wallace and his party who could see behind were stunned for a while.

Is this war?
Did you lose too quickly?
The National Self-Defense Forces are the vanguard of the Chinese army. Once the National Self-Defense Forces collapsed, the other miscellaneous troops on the two wings were immediately exposed to the vanguard of the Black Dragon Army.

Li Wei just gave a few random orders to defeat the forward of the Black Dragon Corps of the National Self-Defense Forces, and divided them into two parts, moving towards the miscellaneous troops on the left and right flanks of the enemy.

Of course, it's not rushing to kill, but reorganizing the queue and walking over!
It's a pity that the formation of the basic line infantry is too poor. Even if the frontline officers have been greeted in advance and tried their best to restrain the soldiers under their command, there are still some soldiers who are red-eyed, or have not heard the military order, and chased after the National Guard. Back butt all the way forward...

To put it simply, the vanguard of the Black Dragon Legion became loose.

Fortunately, the other teams of the Black Dragon Legion cooperated with the vanguard legion that broke through the central army, and attacked the motley troops of the Ille-Vilaine Legion on the left and right flanks.

The troops on the left and right wings of the Ille-Vilaine Army were also shocked to see the National Guard of the Center Army defeated so abruptly.

They are not regular army, at most there are some people who used to be in command of the regular army. Seeing that the central army was defeated so easily by the Black Dragon Army, their own army formation also began to become agitated.

At this time, the Black Dragon Legion is fully betting on them, attacking them from both sides, it is simply killing these miscellaneous troops!

The reserve team of the Ille-Vilaine Corps was pushed up by the commander in the rear (not Wallace, he was a civilian, he didn't know how to command the army, he only knew how to play politics and business).

It's a pity that the morale of those National Self-Defense Forces was so high when they attacked, and their morale was so high when they were defeated...

These people wearing the tiger skins of the National Self-Defense Forces are after all just armed citizens who have not received much training!

There is no comparison between them and the National Guard in Paris, neither in terms of combat experience nor revolutionary spirit!

The citizens of Paris were all brainwashed and educated by decades of revolutionary thought books and underground revolutionary organizations. Otherwise, how could they work together so well during the Great Revolution?

The National Self-Defense Forces of Ille-Vilaine Province are just a group of armed civilians who were fooled and gathered with their blood. After seeing the cruelty of the battlefield, they immediately lost their courage!

The most important thing is that these National Self-Defense Forces don't know the unspoken rules of the battlefield at all, and the direction of the rout turned out to be the direction of the Chinese Army Reserve.

Perhaps in their eyes, the military formation in the rear will have enough sense of security.

A few thousand National Self-Defense Forces, only a few hundred people were actually killed and injured, less than four figures. If they really rushed into the rear reserve army formation, the reserve team would not have to fight...

Don't forget, there are still some Black Dragon Legion soldiers who are not so clear-headed, didn't hear the orders from their superiors, and chased after them like sheep.

At this time, if the National Self-Defense Force is a regular army, it only needs to stand up to one or a few prestigious officers to gather the rout, and they can easily clean up the chasing enemy.

It's a pity that the National Guard is too far behind the regular army.

Seeing that the defeated National Self-Defense Forces were about to disperse the main force of the reserve team behind, the commander in the rear, a general from Rennes, was also cruel enough, and directly ordered the artillery in the position to be turned around to let the reserve force The ranks raised their muskets against the rout of the National Guard.

The next moment, all kinds of artillery sprayed a large amount of shells on the defeated National Self-Defense Forces, and the first salvo of the reserve team was also sent to the defeated National Self-Defense Forces.

After this round, the number of kills was even greater than the previous results of the Black Dragon Legion!

Of course, the effect was surprisingly good. The National Self-Defense Forces that had been wiped down in a large area finally came to their senses. They no longer dared to flee towards the death scythe-like reserve positions of their own side. Instead, they scattered and fled towards places where no one was around .

However, with such a delay, the reserve team of the Chinese army missed the best time to support the motley troops on the left and right wings. Under the onslaught of the Legion, they were completely disintegrated like the National Guard...

In less than an hour of infantry fighting, the Ille-Vilaine Army was defeated by thousands of troops!

(End of this chapter)