The sound of gunfire did not affect the rhythm of the cavalry charge. These cuirassiers have very rich experience in fighting muskets! Their equipment is also carefully designed!
The bulky full-body armor was abandoned, and only the breastplate part of the knight's plate armor was retained. The two breastplates were made using the most advanced stamping and forging method, which can withstand ordinary bullets.
Rifles in this era were not very powerful, and bullets could only penetrate steel armor at the shortest distance. Most of the bullets just made uneven craters on the breastplate.
As for the limbs of war horses and soldiers, these are not considered for protection. In war, there must be injuries and disabilities. The so-called protection can only defend the key points!
Casualty rate is sometimes just a simple math problem!
Gunshots rang out chaotically, and from time to time, unlucky ones among the charging cavalry were knocked off their horses. Of course, there were also war horses that were shot and rolled to the ground with screams.
But the charging crowd did not slow down at all, and the military flag held in the hands of the blond battalion commander moved forward firmly!
There was a muffled bang, and the blond cavalry battalion commander felt a sharp pain in his heart. He looked down and couldn't help but exclaimed God bless him. It turned out that a bullet had hit the heart of the breastplate.
This is an improved cone bullet, so its lethality is much greater than that of ordinary spherical bullets, and its penetration is also better.
The bullet penetrated the steel plate but did not pass through completely. The entire projectile was embedded in the breastplate. The front end had pierced the muscle and blood began to flow downwards along the silk shirt.
But it doesn't matter, no ribs were broken or internal organs were injured. The blond battalion commander shouted excitedly, "God bless France! God bless His Majesty the Emperor!"
"We are the proud Guards Cavalry Battalion! The heroic spirits of our ancestors are watching us in the Pantheon! Charge..."
The cavalry will always be the most honorable unit in the Middle Ages, because the members who made up this unit were definitely the backbone of society at that time.
In Europe, it is impossible to become the emperor's cavalry without aristocratic status. Even if your family is only an honorary lord or a down-and-out knight... you must have this noble status!
Learning to be a knight in ancient times was much more complicated than learning to get a driver's license in modern times. People without money or background simply couldn't afford it!
In that era, the cavalry driver's license should be comparable to the small aircraft license in later generations!
It is precisely because the members who make up this group are so unique that this group has two extreme personalities!
One extreme is extreme dandyism, while the other extreme is a sense of glory that is not afraid of life and death!
Obviously, these cavalry warriors supported by the Bonaparte family all come from the military aristocratic families they single-handedly promoted. These warriors do not have the decadence and loneliness of traditional feudal aristocrats. Their hearts are full of enterprising spirit and sense of honor!
"Brothers! Today is not just about fighting for our glory!"
"It's for revenge against your great Majesty!"
"Napoleon's legions... advance!"
Four hundred daring cuirassiers launched a charge against the hail of bullets. Everyone was drained of their horsepower, and the horses were dripping with blood from their spurs.
Boom...boom...boom...
This was the muffled sound of the collision between war horses and human bodies. The cavalry battalion smashed into the commune infantry formation like a hammer, and a big hole was completely broken into the entire formation!
The crowd fell down like radioactive rays, horses' hooves stepped on the soldiers' bodies, bones and tendons were broken, and the seriously injured members vomited blood!
The saber slashed wildly left and right, and the blood from the cut throat splattered everywhere!
"Crash it! Crash it! Don't get entangled... Increase your horse's speed! Keep the distance!"
The blond battalion commander was like a lion at this moment, holding a military flag and commanding the troops in the chaos. The cavalry drew a flesh-and-blood arc from the commune's military formation, and then immediately trotted away to a distance of sixty or seventy meters.
Reorganizing the military formation again, the blond battalion commander found that there were only more than 320 brothers left among the 400 brothers at this moment, and more than 80 brothers had died in the attack just now!
The crazy commune soldiers were massacring the surviving cavalrymen, stabbing the fallen Guards cavalrymen into sieves like chopping dumpling stuffing.
"Stooges! You are the emperor's lackeys! Kill you..."
"Executioners, you only kill ordinary people... You all turn into pussies when facing the Prussians!"
While killing, the commune soldiers were still yelling angrily. They were venting their anger by torturing corpses!
How could they not be angry? In this charge just now, more than 200 people were killed directly, and a few others were seriously injured. The battle loss was more than 400!
Since the founding of the commune, they have never encountered such horrific casualties. How could they not be angry and fearful!
The soldiers of the Guards Cavalry Battalion watched helplessly as their brothers were brutally tortured, and the anger in their chests almost burst out of their Tianling Gai.
The blond battalion commander held the battle flag high, "I... come from Rouen... the only son of Baron George... I have been favored by the emperor in this life, and I am willing to fight and die here for the sake of glory today!"
"I am willing to use my life to repay the emperor's kindness...I am willing to use my blood to pour glory..."
"Who will follow me!"
A shrill roar rang out in the square outside the Pantheon, and three hundred Guards cavalry covered in blood struck their steel breastplates with their sabers!
"Let us follow... I will repay the emperor's favor with my life, and my blood will shed glory!"
"The Guards... charge..."
The three hundred cavalrymen once again mobilized their horses and launched a desperate charge towards the commune's artillery position like a group of lunatics!
Blades flashed, blood rained, and horse hooves roared!
The Guards chariots charged for the second time and tore off more than 300 commune lives. Now the morale of the entire commune was pushed to the brink of collapse!
In the second charge, only 190 people of the Guards Cavalry Battalion were left to fight!
Charge... fight... distance yourself again... prepare to charge again...
"Napoleon's Legion! Keep fighting!" The blond battalion commander was no longer an angry lion at this moment, but a blood lion. The military flag in his hand was splattered with blood, but the fighting flame in his chest became even stronger!
"Fight to the death...Kill!"
The sound of horse hooves sounded again, and one hundred and ninety cavalry continued to attack!
"Crazy, these people are crazy... What kind of ecstasy did the damn emperor give you? Why do you have to sacrifice your lives for him?"
"He has already stepped down and left France. Why are you still working so hard?"
The remaining commune soldiers were going crazy. The soldiers added by the reserves were not enough to cover the consumption, and the artillery position was now in danger.
The flag of the cavalry battalion once again penetrated the commune's position. The proud battalion commander cut off a head and shouted loudly, "You humble souls will never know what honor and loyalty are!"
"You will always struggle to survive just for the bread in your mouth!"
"You will never open your eyes and see the world...because your eyes are full of selfishness!"
"I'll tell you! Why I am loyal!"
"Because the Empire is everything! Everything is the Empire!"
The third charge was extremely brutal. When the blond battalion commander, who was covered in wounds, led his brothers to distance themselves again, he realized that there were only eighty-eight knights left around him!
"Cough cough cough..." After spitting out half a mouthful of blood, the blond battalion commander finally allowed his alveoli to continue breathing!
"My brothers...are you still willing to charge with me again?"
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