Chapter 2702: Hard-core confrontation between the French and Austrian armies

After dawn, the Austrians shouted heartily: "Victory!"

The French camp was as miserable as after a storm. The flags were down and the tents were burned, and there were dead bodies and blood everywhere.

After counting, awesome!

Of the 10,000 French troops, more than 5,000 fled, the remaining 4,000 were killed, and 1,000 were captured, while the Austrian boys killed less than 300 people and injured more than 500 people. Frank M. The cannibalism in the dark that Earl Ki feared did not happen.

Having obtained all the equipment and flags of the French army in the camp, Count Frank Mickey patrolled the camp and said to the soldiers: "Good fight, boys!"

The young boys grinned: "General, the Gallic chicken is delicious!"

After this vote, Earl Frank Mickey was still unsatisfied. He took his 30,000 people and went to attack the 10,000 people on the far right of the French army. The commander of the department, Major General Conrad, commanded the troops to set up artillery arrays in the field to wait.

The staff asked Count Frank Mickey what to do?

The count said fight!

The 30,000 people in our army can't beat the 10,000 French army? I don't believe it!

His idea really made sense. Seeing the Austrians coming in a steady stream, the French soldiers were beating drums and their hearts were beating wildly.

The Austrians sang military songs and hymns neatly. When the phalanxes of the Austrian army followed the flags forward and strode towards the French army, the endless teams, endless spears and muskets, and dense banners, The strength has brought heavy pressure to the French, creating a feeling that the army is majestic and indestructible like a mountain and a sea.

As the Austrians moved closer and closer, the sound of heavy horseshoes-dragging the gun carriage, the sound of neat footsteps, and the sound of footsteps swishing to the ground seemed to be heard by the French army, which shocked the hearts of all the French soldiers.

The French army was sweating from top to bottom, and the commander, Major General Konrad, was sweating profusely. He watched the Austrian army, the main rebel army, come over with hatred. It was this rebel army that committed a new crime last night. His crime defeated 10,000 French troops, and he couldn't help gnashing his teeth!

His subordinate officers felt the same way as him, they gritted their teeth and wished they could eat the flesh raw.

But they completely forgot that in the "Thirty Years' War" in Europe, they were Catholic French, treacherous, and stood on the side of Protestants to oppose the Catholic brothers Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

They also forgot how ruthlessly they rejected the request of the Holy Roman Empire, like sending beggars, when the Holy Roman Empire was attacked by the Eastern pagans, lost its troops, and couldn't support it. Just gave some money.

They also forgot that while the Spaniards were fighting at sea against the pagans of the East, they the French were paddling for fish.

Now, it's the turn of the French to bleed!

The Austrians are continuing to push, one kilometer away.

Major General Conrad ordered the French army to fire!

Both sides carried 12-pound field guns, weighing 2 tons, with an effective range of 800-900 meters and a maximum range of 2,000 meters.

Due to the thick Austrian army, Major General Konrad thought that it would not be empty, so he ordered to fire.

"Fight, fight, fight!" The artillerymen at the front of the French army were busy and lit the fuse

Sparks sizzled from the matchlock, and everyone looked nervous, all staring at the rapidly burning fire door fuse.

When the last inch of the matchrope left outside the fire door disappeared, the fire door flashed suddenly, and then there was a loud noise, and a large piece of thick gunpowder smoke was emitted from the thick muzzle. The bullet rushed out of the barrel and quickly flew towards the Austrian army formation in the distance.

From the binoculars, the shell fell into the crowd of the Austrian army, and immediately tore a **** path in the Austrian phalanx.

Wherever they went, blood spurted and people fell to the ground screaming.

But the Austrian army remained unmoved and continued to move forward. The wounded were treated by the medical soldiers in the army.

Cannonballs continued to fall in the Austrian formation. Major General Konrad watched urgently, trying to see that the Austrian army was in order, but he was disappointed.

Those young Austrian boys were advancing against the French shells, even if the French 6-pound guns and rifled guns fired sequentially, they did not waver.

At the same time, the large and small caliber artillery and rifled guns of the Austrian army were also counterattacking. The artillery shells flew over the battlefield with wisps of gray smoke.

It was getting closer and closer, and finally, the two hostile troops came within the range of the musket - fifty meters, and the appearance of the other side was clearly visible.

"Let go!" The Austrian officer shouted, the soldiers pulled the trigger, and the muskets emitted a large cloud of gunpowder smoke, and the French army on the opposite side fell.

The French army responded with a burst of random gunfire, and the Austrian army also fell down in a bunch.

In the standard and queuing and shooting combat methods, the two sides launched a fierce confrontation. One phalanx was disabled, and the other phalanx went up, and was crippled again, and another phalanx went up.

The original smell of gunpowder on the battlefield added bursts of **** smell. The blood flowed and accumulated into small pools, which was disgusting. In some places, there were many people who fell, and the corpses could even serve as half-human parapets!

With the widespread use of hot weapons such as rifles and artillery, the tactics of queuing up and shooting and phalanx tactics have not been eliminated.

The artillery fires solid shells, which are far less lethal than explosive shells. As long as you don't have such bad luck, you don't have to meet the straight line of the shells, and you don't necessarily die if you are hit by the shells.

Rifled guns are powerful and have a long range, but unfortunately they are expensive, difficult to load, and have a low rate of fire. Although the lethality caused is large, it is within the acceptable range of phalanx tactics.

On the battlefield, everyone mainly uses smoothbore guns, and their accuracy is gratifying, only short-range shots.

Although the bullets of the smoothbore gun are still lethal at 200 meters, the accuracy is already very poor. According to Major General Tong Dawei, chief of staff of the Tenth Army of the South China Army, on the musket gun: "If a soldier is 100 meters away and the enemy uses a smoothbore If the gun is aimed and wounded, then he is really unlucky; as for shooting the enemy 200 meters away with a musket, you might as well shoot the moon instead, both have the same chance of hitting the target~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In order to maximize the firepower, make up for the disadvantage of the accuracy of the smoothbore gun, and at the same time ensure that the infantry will not be disintegrated under the impact of the cavalry, the infantry at that time still needed to form a formation.

The army's phalanx tactics are the same as the navy's battle line tactics, very mechanical, but very practical, and can effectively prevent army and navy officers and soldiers from avoiding battle.

Everyone is afraid of S in the battle, you can do it, you can go up, we can see that some people shouted during the fight, but their pace became slower and slower, and they ran behind others.

The Navy's line-of-line operations can provide the fleet commander with an excellent opportunity to supervise the captain's participation in the battle. Everyone is lined up in a line, one carrot and one hole. If anyone retreats before the battle, the commander will naturally know at a glance.

The same is true of the phalanx tactics, one, two, three, everyone walks in unison, no one can just shout, as soon as you leave the team, you will be found (you are alone), and you can't help but go to the front line when you are called, and then Shoot and pray to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to bless the bullets that shoot at you and turn around.

The French and Austrian armies faced each other so hard, Major General Conrad, the French general, felt that an iron hand had grabbed his throat, because he realized that he was about to lose! 2084/10090009