While everyone was busy, Feletelia came up and asked: "Why don't you take this opportunity to evacuate??"

I took out my binoculars and looked at the smoke and dust kicked up by the Russian infantry and said: "With so many wounded soldiers, where can we run in a short time? There is still a glimmer of hope for us to stay here. If we retreat, Reinstein

The Emperor has a famous saying: The defeat of an army is as unstoppable as the collapse of a mountain. The shadow left in the battle is constantly expanding in the hearts of the soldiers. Once bitten by the Russians, they will wait for the Russians to massacre us.

"

Hippias nodded: "The Russians retreated in a hurry because of the illusion created by His Highness, but it won't take too long for them to find something strange, and then come back, but this time, how long will it be..."

I pointed to the group of Russian cavalrymen in front of me and said, "I think within two hours."

"So long?" Hippias asked in surprise.

I handed him the telescope: "When I first broke in, I asked my Chasseurs to scare away the Russian sentries around. They couldn't see clearly our reality for a short time. Anyway, the Russians probably only knew that we were coming a lot.

People. Look at those cavalry again. The costumes of these cavalry are colorful and have everything. They use them as sentries out of ten to delay time. Combined with your results, I think the Russian commander will use his hand.

All the cavalry from above have been sent out. There are no four reconnaissance sentries, and now I have two lines of cavalry rushing in behind them. In order to ensure that the retreat is not cut off, the Russians can only retreat. The Russians

Even if they see something strange, I don't think they will attack immediately. Combined with their commander's current actions, and considering that the commander is the lover of the woman in Moscow, I think he will definitely spend a lot of money cautiously for insurance and detection.

Time to confirm, because he can't afford to lose. If you go back and forth like this, the time will be almost the same. So two hours is enough for us to use this time difference to take down the cavalry and artillery that the Russian commander left for us because of his cleverness!"

That's right, knock out the Russian cavalry and artillery!

When two armies are facing each other, if one side retreats, the cavalry and artillery will often be the first choice to take the rear. These are the people I will target after intimidating the Russians!

I uneasily opened my pocket watch. My original plan was to kill this group of people and take advantage of the fighting time to load the injured people into carriages and evacuate them. If I were overtaken, I would put up the so-called carriage formation left by my predecessor.

The predecessor's Chexuan Formation was not like a beauty in Japan who made thousands of troops and horses roll around like wheels. This required too much command ability of the commander. The predecessor's so-called Chexuan Formation was actually the enemy.

It means to pass by the car round after round. Simply put, it means to use the car to surround the infantry and divide it into three or four large circular formations. The cavalry is in the center. The infantry cooperates with the artillery to defend with muskets. Wait until the enemy is defeated.

Then send out cavalry to attack the enemy. This move was successful against the Mongols. However, when they met Timur with elephants, it was tragic. Hitler's army and Stalin's army were defeated by Timur's hundreds of thousands of troops.

Down.

It's just that the plan is a bit risky. If I'm not careful, the whole army will collapse. Since the Fifth Spartan Legion has been newly defeated, morale is a problem. But since I have a village that I can rely on for defense, I don't have to leave.

At one-thirty, the battle between the Fifth Spartan Army and the Russians began at ten o'clock in the morning. In about an hour and a half, the Fifth Spartan Army lost nearly 1,900 men.

Of the five battalions of the main regiment, two were incapacitated, one was severely damaged, and deserters appeared in each of the remaining two infantry regiments. And the two extra battalions left by Uncle Tzimischia to Hippias

After less than ten minutes of fighting, the cuirassier battalion's strength was reduced from more than 800 to only 228, with a total of more than 2,400 casualties.

According to Fatty's estimate, they probably wiped out less than 2,000 enemies, maybe 600 infantry, and more than 1,000 cavalry. This was achieved by relying on holding on from behind. If Fatty's estimate is reliable, Russia still has more than 10,000 people.

, the number of infantry is huge, but the number of cavalry is sparse.

It is a good thing to have a high sense of honor, but sometimes too much honor often brings unnecessary trouble. If the fat man obeyed Uncle Zhimiszia's order and just blocked here instead of taking the initiative to attack, he might not have to lose nearly 100% of his life.

A force of two thousand men caused such misfortune.

Assuming that Maozi came back, facing Maozi's superior strength, I brought three infantry battalions and three cavalry battalions to join the remaining Fifth Spartans to barely exceed the number of 7,000 people. Fortunately, the Fifth Spartans

The legion also has eleven cannon.

Three six-pounders, four eight-pounders, and four mortars, and Maozi only had about four cannons. I believe that bluffing allowed Maozi to put all their artillery and cavalry on the table as a backstop, so in order to gain the upper hand

Maozi's advantages, we must eat them!

News came from Lyon that the Russians were leaving, and I knew without thinking that Mao Zi had gone to report something strange to their commander.

Four eight-pound cannons were placed on both sides of the cuirassiers for me, and they fired continuously for more than ten minutes. The Russians fired back without receiving a reply from the commander. I think the order they had received before was nothing more than the following:

Use shotguns at close range when the enemy is charging.

The effective range of our eight-pounder is about 700 meters, and the maximum range is 2,400 meters. The shells flew out of the effective distance, just like bullets fired from muskets. They flew wherever they went. The two sides faced each other at a distance of more than a thousand meters.

Shooting is basically a cannon shot at mosquitoes, and it's a miracle if you hit them.

Let the remaining cuirassiers of the Fifth Spartan Legion line up on the left and right sides of the Atalandi Cavalry Battalion, and then let the Poles stop their running back and forth. I gathered more than a thousand cavalry on the frontal battlefield.

Divide the cavalry on hand into three. I am very curious about what the Russians will do. If they concentrate all the cavalry to attack the cuirassiers head-on, the Atalandi cavalry battalion will be in a hard fight, but the fifth Spartans on both sides will

The legion's cuirassiers will ram into their soft bellies from the side, causing them huge damage, and the cannons without cavalry protection will basically be destroyed in one round under the impact of the Poles, and then the Poles

They will join the battle group to defeat the larger number. If they are divided into three groups, then it will be just what they want. The Atalandi Cavalry Battalion will attack frontally, and the cuirassiers of the Fifth Spartan Legion will advance left and right. At the time of the cuirassiers, Poland

People can disperse from the left and right sides to flank the Russian artillery.

The Russians met, and the cavalry hid behind the cannon, hoping to bombard them first and then attack with cavalry.

"The cuirassiers retreated to both wings, allowing the Poles to act as frontal vanguards. If the artillery turned their guns, the cuirassiers would attack from the left and right. Use this time to cover up the Polish cavalry!"

The Russians changed their actions according to the deployment of our troops, and the muzzles of the guns did not change. The Russian cavalry was divided into two parts, and the number was slightly more than the cuirassiers I lined up on the wings.

"Tell the Poles that if they don't want to be killed by shotguns, they should stop at the 350-meter line and stop moving forward."

In fact, the Poles stopped on their own without my giving an order. Are these the same Poles who were not afraid of death during the Napoleonic Wars and even connected several artillery positions when the French army marched into the Spanish Highlands? Anyway, in this era

The Poles are by no means as heroic as those in another world. They are greedy for life and afraid of death. Their ability to grab credit and cause trouble is by no means weaker than that of their legendary pig teammates, the Italians.

The Atalandi cavalry battalion on the front was divided into two, and together with the cuirassiers of the Fifth Spartan Legion, they slowly advanced to the 300-meter line. A dispute broke out on the Russian side the moment the Poles stopped.

Later, they launched a cavalry charge after the cuirassiers advanced from the side to the 200-meter line.

The cuirassiers also blew the battle trumpet at that moment.

"Tell the Poles to bypass the cavalry entanglement and attack the Russian artillery position from the other side."

Thousands of horses' hooves rumbled as two cavalrymen collided on the plain in front of this small village in southern Poland.

Just like a scene like a big car crashing into a car, it was like a scene here, with bodies flying in the air, sharp shouts, and flesh and blood flying everywhere in an instant, but overall we still had the advantage.

Relying on the advantage given by the tall war horses, the cuirassiers not only knocked away the Maozi cavalry, but during the fight, the cuirassiers slashed at a higher place. This distance may be very small, but it is exactly this small distance.

This gives the cuirassiers a greater advantage and more chance of survival. Because the chopping process requires a certain amount of space to swing the arms and let the arm strength come into play, the height of the war horse shortens the distance between the sabers held high by the warriors.

Less, this little space and time is enough to reduce the power of their chops. On the contrary, the cuirassiers are condescending, and their chops are more powerful. Moreover, the cuirassiers' breastplates are not free armor. As long as it is not

A fatal wound to the head could be blocked by an ordinary slash with strong armor.

In the first round, 70 or 80 Maozi cavalrymen were killed. If it were a normal wall charge, the equal number of Maozi cavalrymen would have killed most of them without a single encounter. But now, due to the dispersed formation, more than half of the Maozi cavalrymen were taken down.

He survived the charge. He turned his horse's head and fought again. At this time, the Poles drove their horses and appeared behind the Russian artillery. As a last resort, the two Maozi cannons turned their muzzles.

Soon, the Poles on the front split into two and launched a charge.

Two rounds of artillery fire from the four cannons that Maozi had high hopes for were able to mow down less than a dozen Poles, and they fell into the hands of the Poles. The Poles, who had gained advantage, were transferred to join the battle group against Maozi's cavalry. This made

The troubled Maozi Cavalry made things even worse.

I opened my pocket watch and saw that it was past two-twenty. The cavalry and artillery that I had deceived Commander Maozi left behind were finally eaten by me.

"Hipias, ask your people to place the carriage at the entrance of the village, and then bring the Russian cannon over. We will keep it for use."

"But we don't have any extra gunners!"

"Let a few infantrymen dress up like gunners and throw them behind the village!"

There was still an hour left for us. I asked more than a thousand of my men to take time to rest, because they would serve as the starting line later. The soldiers of the Fifth Spartan Legion were already frightened, and then let them face Maozi's infantry.

Hai, I'm worried they won't be able to handle it well.

"OK."

The waiting time was very boring. By the time I finished setting up the artillery positions, the Russians had not returned yet. I sat on the edge of the carriage blocked in front of the village and asked the fat man who kept looking next to me: "Hipias, do you know?

Is there a saying among the Russians that a bullet is a fool and a bayonet is a hero?”

"Is there such a saying?" As a Prussian, Feletelia was very curious, "What does it mean?"

I even forgot that this girl existed beside me: "It means that no matter how powerful the bullet is, it is still far inferior to the bayonet."

"No wonder the Russians are so good at hand-to-hand combat!" Hippias said with lingering fear.

"Here are the Russians from Minsk. They are the aces of the Russians. Their hand-to-hand combat skills were all learned from the Swedes." Feletelia said.

I laughed loudly and said: "So what! Bullets are stupid? Humph, the Russians are like ladies who have reached the age of tigers and wolves, and the Swedish sticks can no longer meet their needs. Wait, I will let them

The Russians, who are used to small and weak bullets, understand that there are bigger and thicker bullets waiting for them in the world."

"Did you hear that, soldiers? His Highness said he would serve those hungry Russian ladies with something bigger and thicker than bullets!"

Hippias's joke caused me to burst into laughter from the surrounding soldiers, which relieved a lot of the tension that the war was about to begin and that we had no way to escape.

Feletelia said: "Can't you stop saying these dirty words?"

"You can think of this as a conversation before strenuous exercise..."

"No one talks about these things like that!" Feletelia said speechlessly.

"What do you think?" The smiling Assassin complained at this time, which made me and the female literary youth twitch at the corners of their eyes. Uh, Assassin, where is your moral integrity!
Chapter completed!