18th century total war

Chapter 99
The front-line commander of the provincial coalition obviously did not expect that the "big gift package" he carefully prepared could not repel the Li Wei rebels who had just attacked the first line of defense and had not yet gained a foothold!
These skilled volleys of guns fired at the Li Wei rebels were all musket infantry specially selected and temporarily integrated.

Prior to this, Senawi, an expert in military affairs on paper, and a group of aristocratic generals who are not high in status but have serious experience in wars deduced the countermeasures of their own army once the first line of defense is breached.

As the saying goes, three stooges are better than Zhuge Liang, not to mention that there are far more than three stooges in Normandy. Naturally, they have already collected detailed information about Levi's rebels.

For example, in the Battle of Rennes, the soldiers under Li Wei's command showed the level of powerful bayonet warfare.

This made the high-level members of the Normandy Regional Council headed by Senavi unswervingly request the army to avoid large-scale bayonet battles with the Levi rebels as much as possible.

However, in the era of queuing to kill, no matter what kind of battle it is, the final decision is inseparable from the bayonet!

To put it bluntly, the front row of guns is just to disrupt the enemy's formation, kill the enemy's vital strength, and consume the enemy's morale. As long as they are not facing a mob, they will need a bayonet charge in the end to establish the victory.

Therefore, even Senawi, an expert on paper, knew this requirement clearly, and bayonet melee could only be avoided 'as far as possible', and it was impossible to avoid it completely.

Naturally, under this combat principle, the current fighting method was born.

These musket infantry are all soldiers with good marksmanship selected from the provincial coalition forces. They are different from other provincial coalition infantry in that they have always been in the rear mobile reserve team.

They will only show up when a certain line of defense is in an emergency.

In fact, the timing of their appearance was also very good. In order to buy time, the frontline commander even sent an extra group of ordinary provincial coalition reinforcements to replace the defense line. The one that handed over to Captain Wright was part of them.

And when a large number of guard infantry began to climb over the chest fortifications, these specially gathered musket infantry with better marksmanship had a chance to show their talents.

The quality of individual defenders in Caen City is very low, and even the average level is far inferior to the ordinary regular army of the Kingdom of France, but after all, their base is there, and they have gone through two years of training.

Although due to funding issues, the military training of the provincial coalition forces in the Normandy region cannot adopt the 997 model, two years is enough to get these people out of the category of 'militia'.

After further screening among the provincial coalition forces, the musket infantry with good marksmanship were selected. In terms of marksmanship and loading speed alone, they were actually close to the level of the Guards Infantry.

Of course, this refers to the level on the training ground. On the battlefield, these musket rifle infantry can display half of their true level, even if they have excellent psychological quality!
Even so, they still shot a relatively good three-stage shooting, the first row fired, and the last two rows were responsible for loading ammunition and presenting muskets!
In the eyes of the frontline commanders, taking advantage of the unsteady foothold of Li Wei's rebels and displaying such powerful firepower, they will definitely be able to repel the opponent's offensive!

In addition, there were more than a dozen mortars that had been prepared behind these musket infantry.

The other mortars are too far away and will not be lifted for a while...

Not long after the volley of guns fired, the mortars behind covered the infantry guards who had climbed over the chest fortifications!
The routines of offensive and defensive battles in the wild are so cruel. The attacker can never see clearly how many trump cards the defender has hidden.

It's a pity that none of the brave infantrymen retreated even if they suffered heavy casualties!

On the contrary, as more and more guard infantry climbed over the chest fortifications, they were not afraid of death to launch counterattacks, which disrupted the shooting rhythm of the inferior musket infantry.

Then, they saw that the infantry guards had gathered one by one, and under the leadership of the officer, they brazenly launched a bayonet charge towards their own side!

You know, when the guard infantry launched a bayonet charge, the number of enemy infantry they faced was exactly three times that of the guard infantry!
And there is a steady stream of reinforcements coming from behind the opponent, forming a second echelon of gun platoons!

According to the normal battle rhythm, after paying a huge price to get close to the enemy, even if the infantry guards smashed the first echelon of platooning guns, more enemy reinforcements will continue to come from behind, and the tactics of refueling wave after wave are generally platooning guns Consumes Guards Infantry.

This is also the ideal state for Sennawi and his team to formulate strategies.

It's a pity that the morale of the infantry troops of the provincial coalition army is so bad!
The tragic battle situation extinguished all the fire in their hearts that was burning with revolutionary enthusiasm. Facing the blood-stained infantry guards on their bayonets, roaring and rushing up with crazy faces, the musket infantry of the first echelon did not wait to meet the enemy. It began to retreat in a large area, and then evolved into a retreat of the establishment!

These infantrymen with good marksmanship carefully selected from the provincial coalition forces have only one advantage of good marksmanship...

It is not difficult to understand. The first large-scale war they faced in their lives was against an enemy like the Guards Infantry who should not exist in the world. It would be strange not to be defeated!

After all, the revolutionary enthusiasm of the infantry of these provincial coalition forces was far less than that of the citizens of Paris.

In this time period, Paris is the real revolutionary holy land!

Whether it is the lowest civilian class or the middle-class intellectuals, they are all loyal supporters of the revolution. Only those who are really in power will secretly do things that violate the principles of the revolution for their own self-interest and ambition.

Although human beings are fickle creatures, most of the people who participated in the revolution had very good intentions.

In Li Wei's previous life, Wang, a world-famous traitor in history, even assassinated the then regent of the Qing Dynasty when he first joined the Revolutionary Party!

It is because of this merit that Wang became a veteran of the revolution, and finally became one of the leaders of the revolution step by step...

However, at the very beginning, the revolutionary youth who was full of passion, fearless of life and death, and willing to die for the country, became a traitorous leader who was greedy for life and afraid of death, selfish and selfish, and would do anything for his own benefit...

Therefore, at the grassroots level, it is not considered a skill to devote oneself wholeheartedly to the revolution. The real hero worthy of praise is the kind of revolutionist who is in a high position and does not hesitate to sacrifice himself!
Once a person has power and status, the ideals of the past will deteriorate!

This is the fundamental reason why after the victory of the Paris Revolution, the Legislative Assembly of Paris fought openly and secretly!
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