Xiao Letian's plan was completely exposed. It was a dog-eat-dog tactic. From beginning to end, they were too lazy to kill people. They just wanted to take advantage of the speed of the war horses to bully the infantry who relied on the 11th Route.
The Chinese cavalry battalions took turns attacking like hot wheels. Each time they turned around and retreated when they approached four to five hundred meters, leaving these French National Guard soldiers eating dust in place.
Each charge mobilized thousands of French troops to adjust their queues according to the direction of the charge. This kind of queue adjustment was simply a disaster for the chaotic militia without training.
But it won’t work without adjustments. Who knows whether the Chinese will turn a feint attack into an actual attack? If he fails to respond properly and allows these cavalry to find a flaw, they may be able to completely tear apart the defense line with a single breakthrough.
Time passed by, and this feint attack formation like hot wheels continued until one o'clock in the afternoon. At this moment, the sun was shining brightly, and all the French soldiers were thirsty and hungry, and their throats felt like smoke.
The 20,000-strong army has now all been deployed. Military formations that look like tofu blocks are spread out in the farmland and wilderness. From a distance, they are really impressive.
However, these teams had to face repeated provocations from the cavalry anytime and anywhere. Thousands of French soldiers were exhausted in every feint attack.
Frankl was furious, "Despicable invaders, these Chinese are shameless!"
"A decisive battle... a decisive battle! A decisive battle like a warrior, why do you go around in circles like a coward?"
Delecluse's face was ashen. "We underestimated the enemy, seriously underestimated the enemy, or we simply didn't know how to fight... I thought we could easily expel these invaders with ten times the strength, but..."
The entire top leadership of the left miscalculated from the beginning. These leaders with revolutionary enthusiasm seriously lacked basic military common sense.
Of course, some of them have received military training, but it depends on who is competing!
Perhaps compared with the Paris garrison and police, they each have two brushes, but compared with the out-and-out Chinese special forces, these people are not even qualified to carry shoes.
The National Guard has positioned itself wrongly from the beginning. What they are best at should be relying on the complex city of Paris to carry out brutal street fighting.
These people have enthusiasm and courage, but lack formal training... so they are not qualified for large-scale field legion operations!
Only by placing them in the complex and chaotic city of Paris can the combat effectiveness of these people be guaranteed!
It was their arrogance that caused the trouble. Maybe the three hundred thousand guns gave them the illusion of strength, preventing them from seeing their own shortcomings.
But if the Chinese played such a trick today, the shortcomings of the National Guard were immediately exposed.
The naval officers who were watching the battle with Xiao Letian's army had their eyes wide open and they were talking a lot! Of course they will not attack with army officers and soldiers, and the army will not let them participate in the war.
But you can also learn a lot by watching the game!
The fat man Jin Sanshun urged the war horses to move with the troops, while scratching his head and saying in confusion, "How did this fight? There are 20,000 people. When spread out, it is a large and boundless army..."
"Why are they all crowded together? Look, how come this military formation is as dense as the musket era? How come it has become a military formation in the cold weapon era?"
Fatty Jin really had an idea. When the war entered the era of breech-loading needle-punching rifles, the tactics of the musket era had already been eliminated.
In the past, in the musket era, soldiers had to line up in a dense formation, and then slowly approach the enemy under the command of the rhythm of the military drum.
Both sides gathered within the shooting range and began to line up to shoot!
The main reason for this tactic is that smoothbore guns have a short range and low accuracy, so dense military formations must be used to increase firepower density and thus increase lethality.
However, in the era of rifled guns, especially the era of rear-loading fixed-loading rifles, skirmisher line tactics have been widely used in legionary operations!
There is no need for the troops to be crowded so close together. In order to reduce casualties, the distance between soldiers should be as wide as possible.
Moreover, unit troops will also consciously expand the control area. If the 20,000 people are all Chinese troops, then the 20,000 people will be completely dispersed when the combat plan is designated.
It should be split into at least three attacking units, and then surrounded and advanced from three directions. The distance between units should be at least four or five kilometers.
After either party encounters the enemy, other troops can quickly outflank the enemy's rear route. Some troops are even tasked with quickly interspersing and controlling traffic arteries behind the enemy's rear in advance.
If there are 20,000 Chinese soldiers, a small number of them will control more than 70 square kilometers of land in this battle, and these areas will all become battlefields of fighting.
Even if the enemies are all cavalry, it is not impossible to deal with them. After all, if they have the advantage in numbers, as long as they can spread out and control strategic points in advance, then even if the cavalry moves fast, they will be blocked at all levels.
But the 20,000 National Guardsmen in front of them were like giant tortoise shells, all crowded together, and the distance between battalions and regiments was less than a hundred meters.
This shows that the commander’s tactics are completely stuck in the medieval era! This is not what a modern army looks like at all!
"Twenty thousand people! All crowded into a narrow area within sight? Isn't this looking for death?" Fatty Jin was really confused.
Fatty Jin’s confusion really got to the point. War has always been adjusted with the evolution of technology!
Ancient warfare focused on fighting in formation. The armies gathered together in formations that could support each other and then started fighting. Whichever side collapsed first was the loser.
But war in the modern sense has long been expanded. If you look at modern military maps, the marching routes of the red and blue sides, and the arrows, are sometimes more than ten kilometers or more apart.
War has become more three-dimensional and more complex due to the blessing of technology!
The ancient phenomenon of two sides gathering together on a plain and fighting to the death within an area of more than ten square kilometers no longer exists. Future wars will involve large-scale detours and wars covering hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers of land. Intersperse and strangle!
A war could even sweep through half of France!
Xiang Ying glanced at the head of state and found that the head of state was focused on the battlefield and not paying attention to the chat at the Admiralty. He could only turn his head and whisper.
"There's nothing the French can do! Most of the time it's not that they don't want to, but that they really don't have the ability..."
"You have all been trained as new recruits. Before you became a soldier, how did you fight in groups when you were ordinary people?"
"It's not all about being brave!"
