Wild North America 1846

Chapter 472
two days later

early morning
Li Cha bid farewell to the crying girl Emma, ​​and left alone on a horse bought in the town, taking away the girl's infinite thoughts.

Parting
He gave the vineyard owner and his wife a Vienna address and a jade token, and told them;

If Emma has a son and a half daughter, then follow the plan to find Vienna, and then someone will naturally make arrangements.

If not, then Emma will find a good man to marry in the future!
It may not be the best choice for an Austrian girl to enter the imperial harem, compete with so many concubines, and have no children around her.

from start to finish
The owner of the vineyard and Emma always believed that Master Orbán was an Austrian nobleman, and it was a common thing for noblemen to stay out overnight.

Riding alone left the town, Zhu Ma looked back, and the ancient town shrouded in the morning light has not yet awakened, and it is also dreamlike.

No matter how beautiful this place is, after all, it is just a post in the journey of life. Li Cha drove the horses to gallop away, and his figure quickly turned into a small black spot and disappeared in the morning light.

More than 5 hour later

At the end of June, the bright sun shines on the vast fields, and the Prussian and Austrian armies line up facing each other.

The sunlight shining on the forest-like shining knife stabs reflected a dazzling murderous aura, and the banners fluttered in the wind. A large-scale battle of unprecedented scale was about to be staged.

Richard hid on a tall tree tens of meters high on the hill, from which he could clearly overlook the layout of the entire battlefield.

The bald eagle flying high in the sky clearly presented everything in a radius of tens of kilometers in detail, and through reading back to the memory of the bald eagle, he knew the situation of this battlefield like a palm print, and he couldn't be more clear.

The battlefield in front of us was laid out in the shape of a "pin". The Elbe Army and the First Army of the Prussian Army encircled the Austrian Left Corps in a pincer shape from the southwest and the north, and the momentum was aggressive.

Among them, more than 12 people from the Austrian Left Wing Corps formed more than 30 large hollow square arrays, and each hollow square array located in the first row was equipped with an artillery battery.

Each artillery company has 6 front-loading field artillery, which are used to enhance the lethality against the enemy in front of it.

This is a typical Napoleonic hollow formation. Each hollow formation is about 800 to 1000 yards away from the adjacent hollow formation. Both artillery and platoon guns can effectively support each other, and implement double firepower coverage for the enemy troops entering it.

The Austrian Legion connected more than 30 hollow formations together and divided them into 4 rows from front to back.

The hollow formations of the 1st row, 2nd row, 3rd row and 4th row are not only independent combat units, but also can effectively coordinate with each other, thus forming a very resilient whole.

When attacking, the wave is higher than the wave, and when retreating, fortify step by step, blocking the attack layer by layer.It is the proud work of Emperor Napoleon who led his army to conquer and defeat the Egyptian army which was several times larger in number.

The 1.2 brave Mamluk cavalry in Egypt fell under Napoleon's hollow formation, and they were killed and injured, and they withdrew from the historical stage of the war in the Middle East.

The Mamluk cavalry, which once defeated the 2 Mongolian army with 10 troops, suffered heavy losses of 1 casualties in one hour when facing Napoleon's expeditionary force.

Under the dense fire net composed of French muskets and artillery, the Mamluk cavalry who charged bravely fell in pieces, and they were blown away by artillery fire or knocked down by bullets when they could not approach the French positions at all.

The few cavalrymen who rushed into the French positions were quickly killed among the bayonet bushes, leaving piles of corpses to stain the desert red, deducing the elegy of the times for the weak.

Seeing the formation of the Austrian Imperial Army, Richard suddenly realized, but then a trace of doubt arose in his heart?
The hollow formation... is good indeed, as long as it is discharged, the cavalry of the Kingdom of Prussia army will be abolished.

This kind of hollow formation is very powerful against cavalry, regardless of whether it is the Mamluk cavalry of Egypt or the cuirassier cavalry of the Kingdom of Prussia, under the cover of intensive firepower from volleys of guns and artillery, there is almost no room for survival.

But the problem is;
This requires extremely high combat literacy for soldiers, and they are invincible throughout the European continent. Most of the French professional soldiers who have been fighting all the year round have several years or even more than ten years of military experience.At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleon era reached the peak of its military power, and was able to skillfully use the hollow array to inflict massive damage to the enemy. Can the officers and soldiers of the Austrian Empire do it?

Since the time of Napoleon in France, no European country has ever heard of a large-scale battle with a hollow formation against the enemy.

It's not that it can't be done, but that the executive power of officers and soldiers is far from enough.

Never try to imitate others and provoke ridicule.

"It's interesting now!"

Li Cha said something with a smile on his lips, then took out the kettle and corned beef jerky, found a comfortable place to lie down, and while enjoying it, he just sat leisurely on the branch and waited for the big scene.

This is an unprecedented large-scale battle with nearly 30 people, and it will take a day or two to decide the winner.

on the outside

Li Cha can roughly guess the battle plan of the Kingdom of Prussia's army, that is, to use the most simple infantry to attack, to attack the enemy's frontal battle round after round, and constantly exert strong offensive pressure.

Until the first row of the hollow formations of the Austrian Legion collapsed under the heavy pressure of the attack and fled, then the Prussian army continued to strengthen the frontal attack in order to crush the hollow formations of the second and third rows until the final victory.

This seemingly crude and straightforward combat plan just fits the straightforward character of the Prussians; there are not so many tricks, just do it directly.

Most of the Germans are rigid and straightforward, they don't know how to turn corners, and just say what they have to say.

If there is a deep meaning hidden, leaving half of what is said will confuse the German guy, and he will not be able to understand it at all.

The Germans have such a personality, and this distinctive feature is also reflected in commanding operations in the military field;

No matter what formation you form, I'm going to attack head-on and forcefully, wave after wave, until I destroy everything and win.

"Ugh..."

He was teasing the bald eagle beside him when the shrill sound of the horn caught Li Cha's attention, and he turned his head to look in surprise.Seeing the flags of the Prussian Legion waving in the distance, the orderly infantry formation had already begun to launch a full-scale attack, and the spirit was refreshed.

This is an epic large-scale battle in Europe. How can we not be excited when it happens?

The Elbe Corps of the Prussian Army approached from the southwest, and the [-]st Corps of the Prussian Army approached from the due north. It was like two huge iron fists attacking the Austrian Army Corps in the middle.

The cavalry divisions of the Prussian army protected the two wings, and it seemed that they would not act without authorization when the time was not ripe.

General Mao Qi, Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army, was indeed a generation of military geniuses. He could see the dangers of the large hollow formation set up by the Austrian Corps at a glance, and he would be punished if he was not careful.

As expected

The infantry offensive array formed by the Elbe River Corps and the First Corps is a long snake formation that has been used almost rotten since the last century. Each infantry offensive formation is arranged in three rows, with about 1800 to 2000 people, and a single row has about 600 people. , almost the size of an infantry regiment.

The first wave attacked about 1 infantry regiments, and behind them there were second and third waves of attacks, repeatedly attacking the positions held by the Austrian Legion.

This kind of bloody battle, which is close to hand-to-hand combat, is a feast of death and killing. Li Cha couldn't help breathing heavily, and his eyes glowed eagerly.

(End of this chapter)