Compared with grenades and shotguns, solid shells may be slightly inferior to the killing of personnel, but the damage of solid shells to fortifications is incomparable to grenades, at least for now, the degree of damage caused by a solid shell to the horse barrier is definitely higher than that of a grenade.
In such a situation, the artillerymen did not have to think about the effective range at all, they only had to be able to hit the Austrian positions, and the width of the two miles was not at all to worry about the solid shells being missed.
In fact, when the Prussians sent artillery to take the lead, Karl subconsciously felt that something was wrong.
Although the Horse Barrier could help the Austrian army hell Prussian attack, on the other hand, it was not a passive tactic, and the Austrian army hiding behind the Horse Barrier was simply unable to effectively counterattack the Prussian artillery.
"Immediately order our artillery units to bombard the enemy's artillery positions!"
"But, Your Highness, at such a distance, we can't hit the enemy's position at all......."
"Don't tell me anything that you can't shoot accurately, it's all the same artillery, since the Prussians can throw shells on our heads, then we can naturally throw shells on the heads of the enemy, give me the order!"
Facing the Archduke Karl with a somewhat angry face on his face, as Karl's staff officer, he naturally did not dare to have the slightest idea of transgressing, so he had to go to the Austrian artillery to give Karl's order.
But the range of the artillery was limited after all, and the Austrian horse barrier was outside the effective range of the Prussian artillery, but after all, it was still within the range, and the Austrian artillery deployed on the breakthrough behind the horse barrier could not tilt a large amount of ammunition to the Prussian artillery position.
The reason for this is that most of the guns that Karl deployed behind the first barrier were howitzers and shotguns that could inflict a lot of damage on soldiers, and although these guns were also capable of firing some solid shells, after all, these guns were not large guns that were specifically designed to fire solid shells.
Therefore, the range is often not very long.
As soon as Karl's order was given, the Austrian artillery on the breakthrough behind the first barrier opened fire, but the results were minimal, most of these shells were fired in front of the Prussian artillery positions, and only a few shells fell into the Prussian positions.
But the shells, which lost their power, did not bring the expected losses to the Prussian artillery.
In fact, the Prussian artillery did not cause much damage to the Austrian army at all, and the Austrian soldiers who hid behind the sandbags did not suffer many casualties at all under the bombardment of the Prussian artillery, and the specific number of casualties could be in the single digits.
However, unlike the casualties, under the attack of these solid shells, the first barrier carefully arranged by Karl was quickly punched several gaps, and some of the other barriers were also shaken by the attack of the Prussian artillery.
Seeing that the attack of his own artillery did not achieve the damage that he imagined could inflict on the Prussian army.
Carl was frustrated.
One wrong step in the war, the Austrian army enjoyed the protection of the horse barrier and also felt the disadvantage of the horse barrier formation, that is, the Austrian soldiers could only hide behind the sandbags to survive, and the damage to the morale of the army was undoubtedly huge.
"Hehe, it seems that our little friend has also tasted some bitter fruits, so pass the order to Leohard.
Let the Fourth Division also move and send another surprise to our children!
” Soon, the artillery regiment of the 4th Division also copied the fighting method of Nichlau's department, so that the pressure on the first line of defense of the Austrian army was even greater.
"Damn it, these despicable Prussians, I'm going to send them all to hell!"
Karl's face was a little hideous.
Apparently, the unexpected methods of the Prussian army made him extremely passive.
"His Royal Highness, what should our army do now, the damage to the morale of the soldiers from being beaten passively like this is too great, and our army must take some measures!"
At this moment, the staff officers beside Carl spoke to him again, and hearing the words of these staff officers, Karl raised his eyebrows and asked: "Do you have any good ideas?"
"Your Royal Highness, although our army is extremely passive at the moment, it is not that it does not have the strength to fight back, you know.
In fact, there is a fortification before the horse barrier in front of our army's formation, if our army makes an attitude of abandoning the first formation at this moment, then it is obvious that the Prussian army will definitely launch a pursuit of our army, and at that time our army can completely shoot a return horse gun, and with the artillery on the dirt slope, the Prussians will definitely be able to taste our strength!
” The staff officer's words made Karl's heart suddenly move a little.
Carl did not just place three barriers, sandbags and dirt slopes on the battlefield.
Before the first barrier, Karl also ordered the army to urgently dig a trench one meter wide and five five meters deep and two meters deep, and after this trench was dug, the Austrians hid the trench with earth and tree branches.
But there is no doubt that the cover on the trench cannot bear the weight of the human body, and the width of one meter and a half is enough for a paralyzed person to eat a good loss.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that such an operation was very feasible, so he immediately ordered the Austrian troops behind the first barrier to retreat, and at the same time, the artillery placed on the breakthrough began to stop firing shells and make a gesture to transport the artillery away.
Sure enough, a series of actions of the Austrians confused the Prussians, and in the eyes of the Prussian army, this was clearly a helpless move made by the Austrians seeing that they could not counterattack the Prussians, so the morale of the Prussian army was boosted.
"Your Excellency, let's strike!
The Austrians are going to run!
” Herbert, the commander of the 19th Division, who was standing beside Dessau, immediately spoke to Marshal Dessau after seeing the Austrians' actions in the telescope, but Dessau only smiled when he heard his words.
"General Herbert, you are too anxious, even if the enemy retreats from this front, in the back, the enemy still has two rejection barriers, since it has been proven that our army's methods are effective against the enemy, then we should not advance too much, sometimes on the battlefield, one of the enemy's feints may be behind the real killing move!"
In fact, Dessau, who said this, did not really see Karl's intentions, after all, Dessau did not know that the Austrians had dug a trench in front of the horse barrier.
But Dessau's decades of military experience taught him that sometimes triumphant and reckless are synonymous, except that the former is a compliment to the victor and the latter is a disparagement of the loser.
As for Dessau, he demanded that the Prussian army have an overwhelming advantage over the Austrians in terms of strength, and the more in such a situation, the more carelessness can not be paralyzed, and countless historical examples are a vivid lesson, so in the case of winning more with less, the loser is somewhat arrogant and arrogant in the battle, and this emotion can kill people in the war.
Under Dessau's constraints, the Prussian army did not take the opportunity to attack, on the contrary, the Prussian army, which had the advantage of numbers, showed considerable caution and did not take a large-scale offensive at all, except for the expansion of the army to the two flanks.
And this action of the Prussians naturally humiliated Karl.
Karl felt that the fortifications he had been busy laying out for a day seemed very insignificant to the Prussians, and under the fire of the artillery, the first barrier was soon full of holes, and even more seriously, the Prussian artillery advanced dozens of meters and threatened the Austrian artillery on the dirt slope.
However, fortunately, because the Austrian positions were outside the effective range of the Prussian artillery, these guns could not guarantee the accuracy of the shells, and perhaps it was no problem to bombard the horse barrier with these shells that were more than a thousand meters long, but it was obviously impossible to get these shells to accurately fall on the heads of the Austrian artillery on the dirt slope unless God blessed.
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And the facts prove it.
However, this did not make Karl breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that if the Prussian army did not attack, then the Austrian army's horse rejection fence and trench would not be able to exert its power, and without these two tools, the defeat of the Austrian army was only a matter of time, even if Karl lurked Eugenio's thousands of men and horses in Tsbley.
However, it was clear that the Prussian army did not keep the Austrians waiting, and soon after seeing that the first barrier had been bombarded and could not pose a threat to the Prussian army, the 9th Division, located on the right flank of the Prussian army, took the lead in the attack.
Under Nichlau's orders, two regiments of Prussian infantry marched in unison toward the Austrian positions in a huge formation, while the artillery regiments of the 9th Division quickly began to cool down the artillery, which would follow the Prussian infantry until they brought the slope into effective range.
When Karl saw the Prussian infantry advancing, his whole heart was adjusted, and even in silence, Karl could hear the increasingly fierce heartbeat in his chest.
However, it may be that God was not on Karl's side either, and just as the two infantry regiments of the 9th Division were about to approach the vital trench with the ammunition of the Austrian artillery on the ground, a shell suddenly appeared and fell on the trench in front of the barrier.
The Prussian army should have been thankful for this shell, because after a few bounces, the solid shell suddenly broke through the cover that was hidden in the trench, and a hole appeared in the eyes of the commander of the Prussian array that was about to reach the trench.
"Stop!"
As a veteran rank and file commander of the Prussian army, the officer quickly noticed that something was wrong and ordered the army to halt its advance, despite the Austrian ammunition flying in the sky.
This officer had participated in the Battle of Austria with William, and William's actions in hollowing out the battlefield underground during the Austro-Prussian War had a very profound impact on everyone involved in the battle.