Yes, yes, yes, William still has one unit of counterattack force left in his hands, and that is his cavalry regiment, or in other words, two cavalry battalions of 400 men that are missing the third cavalry battalion. otbnkotgt Equipped with breastplate and saber.
Most of them are herdsmen, and they spent more than a year "learning" to ride horses after entering the army.
I once lived on horseback for a month, eating, drinking, sleeping, training, fighting and even excreting.
These cavalrymen are "basically qualified".
The advantages of removing the horse armor and abandoning the full body plate armor also showed at this moment that the cavalry were faster, and at the same time, their sprint distance was also greatly extended.
Before the opponent could react and desperately tried to change their formation, the Hereford family's cavalry had already rushed into the opponent's formation, waving their fine steel sabers and harvesting lives.
In the beginning, with the help of the impact of the war horses, the rigorously trained cavalry could even cut off the enemy's head with ease.
There were heads rolling on the ground and arterial blood spurting out.
The whole scene was like hell.
But then, the cavalrymen who were caught in the enemy group changed their tactics.
They cut, cut, and cut them just gently, neither lightly nor hard, but with absolutely rapid techniques, they would swing their sabers and slit the opponent's throat. , or send the opponent's hand closest to you to the side and cut it off entirely.
However, no matter what, there were injuries, serious injuries, disabilities, and even deaths.
Hereford's eight hundred cavalry destroyed a third of the unprepared regiment with just one charge.
After that, under William's control, the companies closest to the battlefield also joined the massacre with bayonets drawn.
These soldiers were equipped with expensive flintlock muskets.
However, unfortunately, their bayonet skills were very poor.
Most of the fusiliers were not equipped with bayonets.
The few musketeers who were equipped with bayonets only had the most basic insert bayonet.
That is, insert the bayonet sleeve into the barrel.
In this way, the shooting function of the musket is gone.
But even so, in such a chaotic situation, how many people can calm down, insert the bayonet in their pocket, and then muster the courage to attack?
Very little.
Yes, very few.
Compared with those musketeers, it is better to say that some soldiers equipped with bayonets have more or less achieved some achievements.
Yes, the vast majority of the members of the Legion are minor nobles or knights.
In other words, after joining the Legion, they can at least obtain the title of a knight.
As one of the symbols of "noble honor", the sword is more popular among the Legion of Honor.
More than 30% of the soldiers are equipped with various long swords.
Because they are real soldiers and are likely to go into battle.
Therefore, these long swords are not just decorations like ordinary small nobles.
They are also made of fine steel, strong, sharp, and deadly.
Apart from these useless bayonet musketeers and the swordsmen who unexpectedly played a role, the only ones that really played the expected role were the cavalry companies attached to the Legion of Honor.
Relying on their own identities, these warriors who occupied most of the rideable horses of the entire expeditionary force could finally show off their strengths at this moment.
It must be said that their combat skills, riding skills and familiarity with coordination are much better than In the White Legion, the recruits who have been in the army for only a little more than a year are much stronger.
In cavalry battles, they can fight one against two, or even one against three.
After initially reacting, the cavalry company of the Legion of Honor was formed in a dense formation.
At this moment, the two companies of the White Legion cavalry in Hereford were restrained.
In addition, there were some stragglers.
Yes, that's it, although at the first moment, under the calculated and unintentional cavalry charge of the Hereford family army, the Legion of Honor, which had no time to change its array, lost nearly one-third of its troops.
But soon, the soldiers of the Legion of Honor reacted and launched a counterattack in their own different ways.
The situation even reached a stalemate However, this all came to an end when three full companies of Hereford families joined.
The heavily arrayed Hereford infantrymen lined up in horizontal lines, carrying their bayonets and guns, easily harvesting the lives of the enemy.
Although their array cannot be compared with the super spearmen and the steel wall stacked with three layers of gun poles, the metal and death wall composed of dense and compact bayonets are enough to deal with those equipped with swords, holding muskets like fire sticks, or those with fire sticks.
The cavalry was stuck in the quagmire of cavalry battle and was unable to take advantage of the charge.
The Legion of Honor was retreating steadily.
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Under the Hereford family's cavalry offensive, even escape became a luxury.
It seemed that the ultimate fate of this symbolically significant army was to perish.
The same fate was shared by the entire expeditionary force.
The morale originally created by the Legion's joining the battle was evaporated by the Legion's predicament.
Seeing the Legion fell into a terrible ending of annihilation.
The remnants of the third brigade of the expeditionary force finally couldn't hold on any longer and all collapsed.
At the same time, the 4th Infantry Brigade, which had already become the target of the Hereford family's artillery attack, was exposed to the front of the White Legion.
"It's really over this time."
Count Rochambeau closed his eyes in pain.
"Earl, Earl, what should we do now?"
Around him, the officers who were full of confidence just now and believed that the addition of the Legion of Honor could change their own unfavorable situation were now all panicked.
They looked at Count Rochambeau with expectation, indescribable indifference, and even unconcealable murderous intent in their eyes.
"Retreat."
The Count naturally understood what they meant, scapegoat, scapegoat, or "responsibility bearer."
He presided over this battle, he was the highest person in charge of this battle, he was the commander, he was the one with the highest status and the most power among the people present.
Therefore, he should bear the responsibility for the defeat.
He should also issue the declaration of defeat and the order to retreat.
"Finally I can't stand it anymore, and it's finally over."
William sighed as he looked at the flag of the Visigoth command on the opposite side.
Although this battle has been all in his plan from the beginning to the present, there are very few things that are out of the ordinary.
But, sure enough, he was relieved when it was finally over.
"The other side retreated and we won."
Next to William, Elise almost shouted with uncontrollable excitement: "William, we really won.
We defeated an army twice our size.
It was not a repulsion, but a complete victory."
They defeated us and won, defeating all 20,000 Visigothic expeditionary troops."
"It's too early to say that."
Although William was also very happy, he still suppressed it and did not show his smile: "Although the possibility is very low, the more it comes to this time, the more cautious the enemy has any conspiracy.
Don't let go, pass on the order, and continue the attack."
The fourth regiment split into two parts, and the first battalion of the fourth regiment went to support the cavalry.
The second and third battalions were divided into two wings, and then they directly attacked the enemy and destroyed them."
As William issued a series of orders, the white army of the Hereford family continued to shout forward.
What he faced was the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Expeditionary Force, which was on the verge of collapse, and two infantry regiments separated from the First and Second Brigades.
The total strength of these troops is still more than 6,000.
It is even equivalent to the total number of troops currently deployed by the Hereford family on the frontal battlefield.
However, they have no morale and no fighting spirit.
They are afraid, terrified.
They don't want to continue fighting at all As Count Rochambeau's order to retreat was issued, all the expeditionary forces that were still barely intact were rushing to join the retreat.
At the very beginning, the count hoped to maintain an orderly retreat.
I also hope that some troops can be separated to serve as the rear army.
But in the end, all his efforts proved to be in vain.
No one, officer or soldier, wanted to hear his orders anymore.
His authority as a general had all disappeared.
"Is this the end of the defeated?"
For a moment, Count Rochambeau just wanted to commit suicide.
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But in the end he couldn't muster the courage to do so.
He could only retreat as quickly as possible toward Charleston with the soldiers and officers who were still loyal to him, or who had no choice but to follow him.
The expeditionary force, which still had eight thousand or even tens of thousands of soldiers, still much larger than William's White Legion in total, collapsed completely.
What followed was a pursuit by the cheering and extremely excited Hereford White Legion all over the mountains and plains.
Encouraged by William's mandatory orders and the "end of this war and an additional month's pay", the soldiers forgot about rest and fatigue.
Endlessly chasing after the enemy.
Either force the other party to collapse and surrender, or simply take away the other party's life.
It took several days for the Count of Rochambeau and his army to leave Charleston and reach the battlefield.
However, their vanguard reached the edge of Charleston the day after the battle.
However, even so, the number of expeditionary soldiers who finally escaped back to this port city did not exceed 5,000.
At least three thousand soldiers were captured or killed during the two-day pursuit.
Afterwards, the White Legion troops surrounded Charleston. and demanded that the Count of Rochambeau surrender to them. 160420oshow7: