18th century total war

Chapter 72
In the third attack wave, the provincial coalition forces finally relied on the transposition attack and the deployment of saturated troops on the battlefield, and completed the fire suppression of the infantry in the early stage of the attack.

Firepower suppression is very important to the attacker. The first two waves of attacks were anticlimactic because the attacker failed to suppress the defender with firepower. The defender killed a large number of their own vital forces, so naturally they couldn't hold back.

A large number of muskets and mortars from the attacking side fired at the chest defense line, and the infantrymen kept falling. Even if someone replaced them, they couldn't keep up with the speed of consumption!

As the Guards infantry behind the chest continued to suffer casualties, the attacker's firepower advantage grew larger and larger.

Fortunately, mortar guns came up in time to support them, and after opening up the bombardment of flowering bullets, they finally made up for the gap in firepower.

However, at this time, obstacles such as the ditch in front of the chest wall and the horses were bulldozed, and the soldiers of the provincial coalition army who were in charge of the attack were trying to climb over the breast wall that was as tall as a man in front of them.

Suddenly, a large round object with burning lines of fire was thrown from behind the parapet. Under the horrified gaze of the provincial coalition infantry, it fell at their feet, followed by a series of explosions!

The infantry of the Provincial Allied Forces who were about to climb over the parapet was immediately devastated. The infantry in charge of the attack were bombarded by the continuous bombardment and fled the battlefield crying.

The infantry and artillery of the provincial coalition forces responsible for fire suppression at the back saw that those in front were defeated and retreated, so they also withdrew.

Holding the binoculars in hand, Wallace sighed helplessly as he watched the infantry retreating again.

Although he doesn't know about soldiers, he still understands the principle of fighting with one blow and then dying out.

This is also the reason why he launched a fierce attack on the first day while the morale of the provincial coalition forces was still good.

It's a pity that after the three waves of offensive, almost all the units of the provincial coalition forces took turns, either responsible for the main attack or responsible for the feint attack.

After the main attacking team was defeated, the feint attacking team naturally also retreated. However, the feint attacking team did not approach the trench at all and only shot from a distance, so the losses were very small.

The sky is getting dark, all the troops have gone to the round, morale is low, and it is impossible to organize the fourth wave of offensive today.

However, the infantry did not attack, but the artillery of the provincial coalition army roared again, and the solid iron bullets were fired one after another. It is not necessary to smash the chest barrier with sandbags piled up on the anti-cannon, but at least clear the obstacles such as horses on the periphery. Clean, if you are lucky and shoot into the chest defense line, maybe you can kill a few enemy soldiers.

The provincial coalition forces had enough shells, so they naturally opened up their bombardment.

This kind of shelling continued until it was completely dark, and the artillery of the Provincial Allied Forces who lost their vision stopped.

The command of the Provincial Allied Forces began to reorganize the army overnight and evaluate the achievements of each unit. If the team in charge of the main attack suffers too much loss, it will be rotated to the task of feint attack the next day.

At this time, any connections and affection are not easy to use, and the big bosses above dare not worry about affection any more because of the position under their buttocks.

Anyway, they were not the ones on the battlefield...

In addition, various provincial capitals received letters asking for help. When Wallace and his team were fighting here, they also asked the rear to continuously train new recruits and then send them over!
In this era, as long as you have money, it is theoretically possible to draw as many troops as possible, because the entry threshold for line infantry is too low. As long as you are not disabled, you can go to the battlefield and shoot a few shots if you train casually for two or three months.

If the pursuit of time is not the pursuit of quality, you can also pull the militiamen who can only shoot but not line up to the front line. At worst, the phalanx is not needed. The big guys rush up and shoot together and then charge with bayonets.

Early the next morning, the artillery of the provincial coalition forces began to prepare for the artillery bombardment of the defense line on the outskirts of Rennes City, and then reorganized a new attack team, together with the feint attack team, to launch an attack on the defense line on the outskirts of Rennes City.

Perhaps it was because of the heavy losses on the first day, and the effect of the franc mental stimulation method was also compromised. The infantry attack wave on the second day was only two rounds, one in the morning and one in the afternoon...

The loss ratio of both sides is not light. Although the Black Dragon Legion died much less than the Provincial Allied Forces, but the Black Dragon Legion's total force base is low, so calculated according to the ratio, the loss of the two sides is not much different.

The next day, the provincial coalition forces also failed to attack the chest defense line. The Black Dragon Legion's guards infantry first fired with muskets, then bombarded with mortars, and finally threw mines to block the enemy and used bayonets to attack the attacking soldiers who climbed over, even though they were at a numerical disadvantage. , the provincial coalition forces who were still fighting were in a state of ecstasy...

The only result of the Provincial Allied Forces was to fill up the trenches outside the line of defense that were flat, wide-ranging, and easy to attack, and cleared most of the obstacles.

When night fell, the Provincial Allied Forces had been sending people to keep a close eye on the chest line of defense. Once the Black Dragon Army sent people out to install new barriers such as repelling horses and clear the trenches, they would be shot coldly.

In the two-day fight, the two sides had already started fighting, mainly because the provincial coalition forces were fighting, because all the actions of the Black Dragon Army were under Li Wei's orders.

On the third day, the provincial coalition forces suddenly broke out in an offensive posture comparable to the first day, because Wallace and his party found that the provincial coalition forces were too heavily reduced. The third day was likely to be the last day that the provincial coalition forces had the ability to attack.

Wallace, a group of ignorant people, went all out in every attack without knowing how to retain their military strength. As a result, they defeated the provincial coalition forces.

The offensive on the third day was as fierce as the first day, but the strength of the Black Dragon Legion was far inferior to the first day, and the mines were exhausted, which made the provincial coalition army the first soldier to cross the chest line of defense.

It's just that before the soldier could figure out how to spend the 200 franc bonus, he was pierced in the heart by a guard infantry.

The provincial coalition infantry who crossed the chest line of defense immediately broke out in a brutal bayonet fight with the guard infantry. It was really miserable. At least in the memory of Wallace and his party, they had never seen such a brutal battle!

The guard infantry almost used one against two or even one against three, pushing the provincial coalition infantry back with their bayonets!
The infantry of the Provincial Allied Forces desperately discovered that after they had overcome all kinds of difficulties and arrived at the chest defense line, they were defeated by the rebels with bayonets under the advantage of their numbers!
Not to mention the astonishing strength of each of these rebel soldiers, the bayonet tactics were used so innocently, whether it was a team of three or two or fighting alone, they could perfectly display their lethality.

The most important thing is that the physical strength of these rebel soldiers seems to have no end. Even if they are panting heavily, they can kill the infantry of the Provincial Allied Forces with good physical strength to retreat steadily.

This is the combat power shown by the peak physical fitness of the human body combined with the perfect level of bayonet hand-to-hand combat ability!
(End of this chapter)