Chapter 799 Decisive Battle in Brussels·2
The captain of the Royal Artillery Battalion studied university mathematics in the military school. Without half a minute, the ability to calculate the ballistic is not wanted. Don't want to get the graduation certificate.
The artillery, on the other hand, conducts live-fire training at all costs, and one month's training is equivalent to the British army's year.
The exchanges for excess is the level of shooting of Superman.
The French army's previous battle in the Southern Netherlands was too smooth, with almost no room for artillery, and the French army won the battle.
At present, I finally have a chance to show their strength.
Generally speaking, even a 12-pounder cannon should not start firing until within 800 steps, which is more than 400 meters, in order to ensure the killing effect.
However, this time it is a defensive war. The Royal Artillery Camp can calmly select the position and measure the shooting parameters in advance, which is simply simpler than the military school test content.
This has led them to fired at the extreme range of 1.3 kilometers, and they can also maintain a very high hit rate -the artillery positions are located on the high ground, and this range is not exaggerated. The grenades can even hit 1.8 kilometers, but the distance is so far, and it has little practical significance.
After being bombarded, the British officers even thought they had been ambushed, and quickly ordered the infantry line to stop advancing, and sent skirmishers to search the area. After confirming that the artillery shells were fired from the French positions, they continued the attack.
Under their delay, the Prussians who were copied by the wing -sided wings were dry out.
The French artillery immediately turned its muzzle, allowing the Prussian army to enjoy a precise and intensive bombardment.
The general army was a little confused, and the commander had to order to retreat.
In this way, the first day of the coalition's offensive ended hastily. Without even seeing the faces of the French soldiers, nearly 400 people were taken away by cannon.
The next day, the Duke of York adjusted his tactics and ordered his own artillery to attack first, using their numerical advantage to suppress the French army. He had confirmed yesterday that the French army only had 37 cannons, which was less than half of his own.
However, the level of British artillery was already far behind, and since it was fired from above, the artillery shells could not reach the edge of the French artillery position at all.
They had to risk getting closer until they were about 900 steps away from the French army, and finally some artillery shells barely landed near the opposite cannon.
But as they advanced, they had already become a key target of French artillery.
After several rounds of precise volleys, the British artillery had suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat in embarrassment, leaving four cannons behind.
However, they were not without gains. The "tactics" of attracting firepower objectively covered the infantry.
The British infantry line reached down the slope, and the French artillery was pointed back at them.
The Duke of York decided to seize this opportunity and sent his confidant General Harris to personally supervise the battle on the front line, so that he must capture the high ground occupied by the French army before dark.
More than 12,000 British infantry, with the cooperation of the 3,000 Austrian Satalum, faced the shells that continued to fly, and stepped closer to the French defense line on the top of the slope.
The Prussian infantry brigade on the right also rushed forward quickly.
They were 1.2 kilometers away from the British army in the middle, and they definitely exceeded the coverage of the French defense line.
As long as the British can delay the French army for 20 minutes, they can complete the flanking attack.
Soon, gunfire began to appear in the middle of the battlefield, indicating that the British and French infantry had begun to exchange fire.
To talk about, the Duke of York's red shirt army is really good. In the absence of being killed by artillery, he can still keep collapse. He has been advancing for more than 800 steps and successfully entered the distance of infantry warfare. The French line on the opposite side does not seem to be dense, which has greatly increased Harris's confidence, constantly urging the troops in the back row to press the west.
But soon, the French Royal Infantry Division used percussion cap guns to teach the British what weapons generation was.
The loading speed and projectile power were much higher than that of the British flintlock muskets. In addition, they were shooting from a high position. British soldiers continued to fall one after another, and corpses tumbled down the slope at any time.
On the other side of the French army, once a soldier was injured, he would retreat to the back of the slope, and there would be someone up immediately.
The British soldiers felt that there seemed to be countless enemies hidden on the back of the invisible slope.
Finally, the severe casualties made the extremely resilient Red Shirt Army unable to bear it. Harris had used up the reserves in his hand, and the entire infantry line kept retreating under his curses, and was about to collapse before his eyes.
At this moment, the sound of trombones came from the west. Harris suddenly became excited. The Prussians arrived at the predetermined position. That was the sound of their attack!
He immediately waved his sword and shouted, "Keep it again! General Carl Croyte can quickly defeat the French left wing!"
1.2 kilometers away, the striker of Earl Calcar Croyt is close to the top of the slope.
Major Georg, who commanded the striker, pointed at the top of the slope excitedly and said with a loud saying: "Occupy there! Then immediately turn to the east side, we have exceeded the French defense range ..."
When he didn't fall, he heard a neat drum sound on the slope, and then the flags of dolphins and golden iris appeared in his field of vision.
There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!
Gealgton felt stunned for a while.
How is this possible?
Our side deployed more than 16,000 people in the middle, plus the 6,000 soldiers on our side, a total of 22,000 people, and barely managed to pull out a 1.2-kilometer-long front.
Even with so many people, the gap between the center and the right wing was already dangerously large, so he had to be on guard at any time when the French cavalry would cut through the connection and cut himself and Harris into two sections.
You know, the two sides also arranged a large number of defense forces on the left wing, and then removed cavalry, artillery and reserve forces. French people could not have more than 15,000 troops in front of them.
But they can also maintain a front line as long as 1.2 kilometers!
How is this possible?
However, the dense guns came from the top of the slope and told him that all this was true.
Georg pulled the reins hard and shouted an order to form the team on the spot, preparing to form a line to face the enemy.
However, the Prussian army had to run up the hill quickly before. At this time, some people stopped according to the order, but more than one-third of the soldiers were still walking up, and the entire queue suddenly became chaotic.
Opposite them, the French infantry line began to fire volleys in an orderly manner.
Dense bullets flew into the crowd of Prussian soldiers. Amidst the blood spray and screams, the already chaotic formation became even more chaotic.
In the distance, Count Karkrot was shocked, and he was about to order the reserve forces to press on, and he saw that the Geols in front of him had fled like a shocked sheep.
He looked at the slope with a telescope in doubt, and saw that the French army's defense line was only two rows of infantry, and the distance between the soldiers was very large.
He immediately understood that the French used this sparse battle line to cover a 1.2 -kilometer wide battlefield.
(End of this chapter)