Escaped? The Chinese actually escaped?
Frankl and Delecluse were completely dumbfounded. Before the war started, they had imagined countless possibilities, but none of them was escape!
Although the French are still very arrogant and they still look down on the Chinese from the bottom of their hearts, after so many battles, at least the fighting power of the Chinese has been recognized by all of Europe.
You can attack the Chinese as barbaric, backward and poor, and you can even attack the Manchus as incompetent, cowardly and vulnerable, but these characteristics cannot be applied to the Chinese.
War after war has long proved the fighting power of the Chinese people! How could a nation that dared to fight against thousands of people in a naval battle in East Frisia be a coward?
In the Franco-Prussian War, even the Chinese head of state was able to rush to the frontline battlefield as a vanguard. How could such an army escape?
But what they saw today completely overturned people's judgment. Facing the charge of three thousand French troops, more than two thousand cavalry actually turned around and walked away without any hesitation.
These war horses had already gained enough strength in the evening, and now they were trotting happily under the urging of the knights!
Four legs can't run faster than two legs. These cavalry are really rogue enough to keep a distance of about 800 meters from the French army. They just run for a while, rest for a while, and then run again and rest again.
With only a distance of two thousand meters, these French troops were already out of breath from exhaustion. They had not received any real recruit training, and had never practiced five-kilometer cross-country training.
It's not that the book says that their physical fitness is not good, but that their bodies are simply not adapted to such intensity of exercise, which is completely different from regular Chinese troops.
"God...god...oh god...why don't they fight!"
"Shame... you are a shame to soldiers... why don't you fight..."
These soldiers couldn't bear it any longer. They picked up their rifles and pulled the triggers to shoot into the distance. However, more than 800 meters had long exceeded the effective range. Even the Prussian Mauser could hardly guarantee accuracy at this distance, let alone Forget about those old rifles.
Bullets were flying everywhere, but the Chinese soldiers didn't even blink. They didn't even bother to take off the rifles hanging on the sides of their horses, and just watched the enemy show off quietly.
The white smoke from the random shooting was everywhere, and the fight lasted for a quarter of an hour, but nothing was gained. The tired and panting French soldiers swallowed dryly and held up their legs to breathe heavily.
But at this moment, when the three thousand French troops were sweating profusely from exhaustion, the first battalion of Chinese cavalry on the far right suddenly launched a charge without warning.
More than three hundred war horses lined up in a thick charging formation with thunderous hooves, and launched a rapid charge towards the chaotic French army.
"No! Prepare to fire...the enemy is about to attack...quickly, quick...fire support..."
The Chinese's right wing was the enemy's left wing. These tired National Guard soldiers did not dare to underestimate the powerful impact of the cavalry. As a result, the positions of the three battalions began to shift, and more than a thousand rifles were aimed at the charging cavalry team.
They had to use the density of firepower to offset the powerful impact of the cavalry.
Eight hundred meters, seven hundred meters, six hundred meters... The cavalry rushed closer and closer, and the panicked French army could even see clearly the unique style of the Chinese helmets.
This is not a Prussian pointed war helmet, but a very strange round steel helmet, pitch black and buckled on the head like a pot.
Under the black helmets were all stern oriental faces with no expressions or emotions. This was a group of veterans who had fully adapted to the war. They had transformed into killing machines without any emotion.
In the eyes of these veterans, those who scream and fight are all weaklings and are just inferior!
Of course, these veterans will also automatically filter out their excitement when they first joined the battle. At that time, their emotional flow was no less than those of the people in front of them.
The commander of the first battalion was Chu Zhao. He drew his saber and steadily suppressed the charging formation. This war was like a joke in his eyes.
I had already made a ruler with a telescope before. Along the way, the distances were marked on various inconspicuous objects. Maybe it was a tree, maybe a shrub, maybe the body of a dead dog.
Chu Zhao could visually measure the distance between them and the enemy without using any tools.
Six hundred meters, five hundred meters... five hundred and fifty meters, four hundred meters...
At this moment, the three battalions of the National Guard were already highly tense. All the officers were shouting at the top of their lungs, "Calm down! Don't fire without an order... I will shoot anyone who dares to fire!"
"No firing... Everyone is waiting for the order! Open fire only after entering the effective range of 400 meters..."
Four hundred meters is not a distance that can be reached in the blink of an eye. Just after the marked bush appeared in front of Chu Zhao, he raised his command knife and slashed down with a sneer.
"Let's go...brothers, let's retreat..."
A battalion of cavalry made a 180-degree clockwise U-turn right in front of all the French formations. The cavalry just turned around and ran away outside the effective range!
"I...I...I..." The three battalions of French soldiers were all dumbfounded. They couldn't speak even when they opened their mouths, and they didn't even have the energy to curse.
The smoke brought up by the cavalry charge was slowly blown into their formation by the wind, and there were bursts of coughing. The morale that had just been boosted was suddenly suppressed.
If you can't understand the Chinese tactics now, then the IQ of these people will be too problematic!
"These despicable invaders just want to tire us to death. They treat us like mice...shameless and despicable!"
The entire National Guard was shouting curses, and their angry roars were earth-shattering.
Xiao Letian said with a smile, "Yes, yes...that's it...it's already ten o'clock in the morning, and you continue to scold and consume your energy..."
"What good food did the people of Paris give you this morning? I want to see how long you can hold on... Let's just play slowly today!"
With the head of state waving his arms, the third battalion of the Chinese left wing also launched a charge. Their target was the enemy's right wing. The same harassment tactics were still effective, because these French people did not know when the feint attack would turn into a real attack.
They knew very well that if they did not respond correctly, the enemy's cavalry might rush in the next second.
This time, the four French infantry battalions began to change their formations. They faced the charging cavalry head-on. This time they learned the lesson and there was a burst of gunfire from a distance of 500 meters.
Bullets were raining down, and the Chinese cavalry tried their best to press their bodies on the horses' backs to reduce the surface of the bullets, but more than a dozen horses were hit by bullets and fell to the ground regularly.
Fortunately, the soldiers only suffered minor scratches. They jumped on the backs of other people's horses with the help of their comrades, and then drove away.
After only two feints and two charges, the National Guards that were first organized were completely in chaos, and the entire front was in chaos.
