That's it, the commanders-in-chief of both sides were patiently preparing for this war and waiting for the opportunity. otbnkotgt On the front line, Freya is still the commander of the Hereford family's third legion.
In the previous battle, Freya gained a lot of practical experience.
It can be said that the Hereford family's war talents are quite high.
Now Freya is commanding the battle and already looks decent.
But even so, Freya was still startled by the bombardment of the opponent's artillery.
After all, the opponent's artillery was more numerous than her own.
Well, yes, it's more.
Although in terms of quality, these patchwork artillery pieces are no match for the excellent Napoleon cannons of the Hereford family, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
Even with sufficient numbers, the opponent's artillery group still suppressed the Hereford family's artillery group for a time.
Of course, this was only for a while.
Although the Hereford family's artillery group was insufficient in quantity, its quality was enough to outshine its opponents.
After being slightly surprised, Freya regained her composure, and then issued a series of orders, asking her own artillery positions to counterattack the enemy's artillery.
The artillerymen on both sides were fighting back and forth, having a great time.
It was under this circumstance that the opponent's troops began to advance.
The first front, with more than twenty companies and more than 3,000 soldiers, was like the head of a worm that kept crawling forward, and seemed to be surging.
Like the wave line of the sea, it not only keeps the relative front lines flat, but also moves forward quickly and orderly.
Speaking of which, these guys could have completely guaranteed the smoothness of the front line.
However, it was different from what Freya thought.
These soldiers are running quickly.
Mostly it was the experience gained from previous battles.
The long-range lethality of the Hereford family's army is definitely better than that of the Imperial Army.
In this case, it is the most correct tactic to pay little attention to the formation, run quickly in small steps, and hope to get close in the shortest time and enter the stage of hand-to-hand combat.
Freya thought, perhaps, if the enemy's troops do not change their weapons and equipment in the future, then running quickly and approaching the Hereford family army quickly should be the most correct and best way to fight against the Hereford family army.
A standard tactic.
Seeing the rolling waves of the soldiers, who seemed to have consumed a lot of energy, Freya had the urge to charge towards them and then completely overwhelm them.
But of course, the urge comes and goes as quickly as it comes.
Freya, who already had enough experience and suffered a lot of losses, suppressed her impulse and continued to maintain the Hereford Army's defense line.
Of course, one of the more important reasons may be that Freya does not have many cavalry troops on her hands.
Only four companies of the Lancers remained, all taken by William.
She had only one regiment of light cavalry under her command.
This is used to retreat when the enemy troops cannot be stopped, and must not be used lightly.
In contrast, the number of cavalry under Franz's command was also not too large.
Three regiments of light cavalry, no matter how much they are used, they feel they are not enough.
So he simply didn't use it, but used it as one of his own trump cards.
That's it, both sides had a tacit understanding not to use cavalry, so the battle became a pure battle between infantry and artillery.
After the artillery groups of both sides bombarded each other for a while, it turned out that the Napoleon cannon with explosive shells was more lethal, so the artillery of the Hereford family destroyed dozens of artillery on the opposite side, allowing these artillery to join them.
The artillery blasted into the sky together.
After that, the Imperial Artillery felt that artillery was not a good way to fight artillery, so they aimed their artillery at the Hereford family's infantry array, and the Hereford family's artillery followed suit and began to attack the Imperial Army's first array.
Groups of infantry fired artillery shells.
The artillery fire from both sides was exchanged.
Every shot of explosive shells can lift up a dozen or even more infantrymen, fly into the air, and then dismember them into parts and fall down with a crackle.
And every solid bullet fired into the array will dissipate all the flesh and bones it passes through, opening a flesh and blood alley in the dense infantry array.
Although the effects of the artillery on both sides are equally appalling, when it comes to lethality, the combination of Napoleon cannons and explosive shells is better.
But Franz, who has more than 300 artillery pieces of various types, is not too bad.
In this way, the artillery bombards each other and exchanges points.
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The only result was that the infantry arrays on the front line of both sides became pitted.
Of the twenty-two companies that attacked the Hereford family army, in the end only two companies barely maintained a strength of 130 soldiers.
The average strength of the other twenty companies is only 110 to 120.
The artillery exploded with astonishing power in the war, although it was far from what William expected, which would happily crush the enemy like dregs if trenches were not dug.
However, compared with twenty years ago, or even five years ago, artillery only played a deterrent and auxiliary role.
Today's artillery has truly become a decisive force that can determine the outcome of a war.
It's just a pity that the number of decisive forces on both sides is relatively basically the same.
This is very regrettable.
It is also regrettable that the Hereford family's defensive horses and parapets were severely damaged by such a salvo of artillery.
This may also be one of the reasons why the opponent's artillery changed tactics.
All in all, soon, the opponent advanced to within 70 steps of the Hereford family.
Originally, this distance should be the best distance for the shotguns to exert their power.
It's just a pity that in order to pursue the effect of explosive shells, the Hereford family concentrated their artillery for use.
Although this tactic can cause huge damage to enemy infantry from a long distance.
But it loses the pleasure of using shotguns to get a good shot at close range.
This makes many veterans of the Hereford family feel very sorry.
They have become accustomed to the pleasant scene of using large fan-shaped shotguns at this distance to cut down the enemy like wheat.
But don't worry, they have other delightful weapons As one of William's reforms and innovations, the Hereford regiments inherited the fine tradition of using rifled musket hunters.
On this basis, the number of chasseur companies in each regiment was expanded to five.
Within a distance of one hundred meters, these muskets will work with company-level support weapons, three-pound light mortars, and twelve-barrel organ guns to form a dense torrent of metal like a storm, blasting the opponent into a sieve.
"The other party's firepower is really unimaginable."
Seeing a dozen companies that were stunned and collapsed by a round of attacks from mortars, organ cannons, and chasseurs' flintlock guns in an instant, Franz gritted his teeth.
Fortunately, this time, he Twenty-two companies were committed instead of the usual dozen as was the norm.
Otherwise, after these two rounds of baptism of fire, his first batch of attacking troops can happily declare failure.
But this time it was different.
This time, there were still nine companies, and nearly a thousand soldiers entered their firing range.
Under the cover of muskets, the super spearmen who formed a smaller group began to charge, which was also considered a charge.
For the first time, the Imperial Army did not place the musketeers in an independent formation in front of the super spearmen.
Instead, they "retro" concentrated them on the edge of each super spearman and formed an independent queue.
In this way, when the super spearmen charge, they can fire in three columns to provide fire support to the super spearmen.
There is no need to withstand the next round of grenade bombardment.
Yes, although the opponent's speed is fast enough, it is still not enough.
When they saw those distant subway lumps being thrown into their camp, the faces of the super spearmen instantly changed.
Changed Although very few people have actually faced this kind of weapon because most of the people who faced it are already dead, through countless distorted and even demonized legends, these super spearmen can still figure out, What are they going to face.
Although they were small, explosives were explosives.
After a round of grenades were thrown, there were only a few soldiers who could still stand on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, the musketeers who stood on the spot were also shot by the hunters.
After a lot of fighting, the guy who survived turned around without hesitation and ran away in confusion.
Although there have been many innovations, even proud pioneering achievements.
But the Imperial Army still has not gotten rid of the stereotypes of the traditional army.
Therefore, when faced with the Hereford army, which was fully armed with "modern weapons", their fate was still terrible.
The loss of nearly 3,000 soldiers became the largest loss of a single batch of troops for the Imperial Army in this war.
However, their sacrifices were not in vain.
Even those soldiers who turned around and ran away were not spared.
They were trampled to death by the imperial light cavalry that suddenly appeared behind them.
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They trampled on them and turned into a lump of flesh under the horseshoes.
But they still succeeded.
To be precise, General Franz succeeded.
By sacrificing nearly three thousand soldiers, he finally got a chance to fight in close combat.
Cavalry, artillery, infantry.
Under his command, the imperial army's attacks were coordinated seamlessly.
Just as the infantry army was about to collapse, a regiment of light cavalry roared in.
They rarely died because of artillery, muskets, or any kind of "new weapons."
They basically maintained full formation and rushed into the Hereford family's array.
Although because of the trenches, the remains of the horses and the parapets, these cavalry were unable to take advantage of the charge.
But they still cannot be underestimated.
Yes, that's it.
At least so far, they are the only group of troops that have given the Hereford family troops enough and effective kills. 160420oshow7: