While the interception team led by Polkha was successful, the First and Second Corps of the Southern Army led by Arno finally contacted the main force of the First Division led by Major General Carl.

And a gun battle has been launched for a full day!

Both sides fought the traditional tactics of the era of queuing up and shooting. Before the infantry contacted, set up cannons to bombard the opponent's front line.

Of course, the artillery of this era could not have been bombarded by the other party's artillery positions.

First of all, the long-range shells fired by artillery in this era were solid iron balls. The flowering shells were not without them, but were not far away, and it was impossible to use them in artillery battles.

Secondly, the artillery hit rate in this era is very touching...

Using solid iron balls as shells and a cannon with a low hit rate to suppress the cannons on the other side is purely a dream!

Therefore, the main target of artillery battles between both sides is the opponent's infantry battle line. If there is any stupid commander exposes the cavalry to the effective range of enemy artillery, it will be even more unlucky.

Compared with bombarding infantry, bombarding taller and more majestic cavalry is obviously easier.

Therefore, on the front lines of both sides, only rows of infantry battle lines were seen, and only a few light cavalry responsible for the transmission shuttled between the various troops.

When the cavalry does not attack, they are rarely exposed directly to the muzzle.

The purpose of both sides using artillery to bombard the enemy is very simple, reducing the morale of the enemy, disrupting the enemy's formation, finding a breakthrough, and then sending infantry brigades forward.

However, both Arnault and Carl were shocked when the bombardment on the first day.

Arnault was shocked by the fact that the Black Dragon Legion was a rumored invincible army. Faced with a full day of bombardment, the infantry battle line did not move at all. Not to mention the gap that could be attacked, even the position was not messed up!

In Arno's eyes, the soldiers in the rebels were like wooden stakes...

Compared to Arnault, Carl was obviously more shocked. After all, Carl knew very well that his Black Dragon Legion was different from other armies in the world. Carl couldn't explain clearly where the specifics were different. In short, it was even higher than other armies in the world!

This is also the tendency of Carl to first bombard the opponent's battle lines with artillery to find the weak areas of the opponent's battle lines, or simply blast a gap in a certain area (not a real gap, but a chaos in the line infantry formation in that area), and then send guard infantry to attack and win at the minimum cost.

This is a very common tactic in the era of queuing and shooting.

For example, in the Second Opium War, the British and French coalition forces bombarded the Qing army's ranks, and then launched an attack and laid the victory in one fell swoop.

Although the Qing army at that time had far higher strength than the invading British and French coalition forces, the artillery performance was ultimately inferior. He would definitely not be able to withstand the cannons and could only take the initiative to launch an attack, which was also a solution.

Then Baliqiao suffered a crushing defeat!

The wonderful record of five British and French coalition forces being killed and tens of thousands of Qing troops was defeated...

Even movies are so scared that they dare not make such an exaggerated battle loss ratio!

You should know that the Qing army in the Baliqiao Battle at that time was known as the elite of the Qing Empire, and even the most capable Mongolian Eight Banners among the Eight Banners at that time (the Manchuria Eight Banners have been abolished) were taken out...
Chapter completed!