Chapter 524 The Battle of Escondido Village (Part 2)

Chapter 524 The Battle of Escondido Village (Part 2)

Compared with solid artillery shells, rocket shells are more lethal on plains. Rockets penetrated the densely populated array one after another, clearing out a large area of ​​US troops every time.

Although every time one person fell, another person would take over, but Brigadier General Karner's heart was bleeding. You must know that these people are regular American troops, and each of them is a veteran who has served for more than five years.

They have undergone a lot of military training to be able to stabilize their formation at this time. There are only 8,600 such good soldiers in the entire American Federation.

But the morale of even such a unit was on the verge of collapse at this time. If it weren't for the swords of the supervising team behind them, they might have fled long ago.

Brigadier General Karna had no choice at this time, because it was impossible for his infantry to catch up with the cavalry, and it was only a matter of time before morale collapsed under such firepower. The most important thing was that there was no textbook to solve this situation. method.

Just as Brigadier General Karna was hesitating, a cannonball landed on the ground in front of him, then bounced up and smashed the tool he used to think like a watermelon.

"The Brigadier is dead! Run!"

The elite U.S. military, which had long been on the verge of collapse, finally burst out with its final strength, roaring and shouting as they fled towards Robert Stockton's army.

However, if the infantry chooses to escape when facing the cavalry, it is tantamount to condemning themselves to death.

The Austrian cavalry, which had been ambushed for a long time, rushed out from the flanks and attacked the panicked American troops indiscriminately.

During this period, some brave American soldiers wanted to turn back and fight back, but the huge impact brought by people on horses was simply not something ordinary people could withstand, let alone the large number of lancers among the Austrian cavalry. (Austria and Poland characteristics.)

In fact, the hussars are not without pistols, but they are usually not used during charges. These pistols are usually used when they are unfortunately killed or in melee.

Even though Franz had already introduced revolvers into the Austrian army's equipment system at this time, these hussars were unwilling to use pistols in charges and surprise missions.

This is not a matter of chivalry, but the pistols at that time were too uncontrollable. First of all, the hit rate was uncontrollable. Not everyone was proficient in mounted shooting, and the hit rate of the pistol itself was also very worrying at that time.

At that time, the effective range of pistols was usually within 30 meters, and even the effective range of modern pistols was mostly within 50 meters. However, in fact, it is difficult to hit the target beyond 15 meters. In addition, while moving at high speed, It will also reduce the hit rate.

Moreover, soldiers in this era seriously lack live-fire shooting training. Unless they are a natural marksman, they can't really practice mounted shooting with thirty rounds of ammunition a year.

As for American cowboys who frequently hit the same coin with a pistol several hundred meters away, or when riding a horse and passing an oncoming train, they accurately penetrated the gap between two glass windows with pistol bullets, avoiding the conductors and the dense crowd of passengers. Hit the train robber on the other side.

These can basically be understood as American martial arts novels. After all, it is not impossible for a superman with eight times the speed of light to seriously injure mortals with gunpowder-propelled firearms.

The second is the instability of firearms. Various malfunctions of firearms at that time emerged one after another, and jamming and misfiring were commonplace.

Closer to home, in fact, cavalry wielding sabers in pursuit battles are much more frightening than pistol cavalry, and their killing efficiency is much higher.

Brigadier General Carner's elite force was wiped out before Robert Stockton and his reinforcements could arrive.

Robert Stockton did not have many cavalry, and it was very difficult to feed livestock on a long sea voyage.

Historically, Robert Stockton's expeditionary force had less than 500 cavalry. At this time, Fremont's occupation of San Diego contributed a lot of horses and mules to the US military.

Although there is no shortage of horses in North America, war horses are still hard to come by, so at this time Robert Stockton had less than a thousand cavalry, and the quality of the horses was much lower than the Austrian war horses.

The cavalry on both sides did not directly fight after discovering each other. The American pistol cavalry drew their pistols and waited for the Austrian cavalry to charge.

At this time, Brigadier General Ernest of the U.S. Cavalry Brigade ordered his cavalry to stand ready and prepare to let the barbarians of the Old World experience the tactics of the New World.

Each US Army pistol cavalry is equipped with two revolvers. One thousand people have two thousand guns. Each gun can shoot six rounds of ammunition, for a total of twelve thousand rounds of ammunition.

According to Brigadier General Ernest's estimate, there were no more than 3,000 Austrian cavalrymen. That means every four bullets could hit one Austrian soldier, and he would be able to completely annihilate this cavalry force in the Old World.

Just when Brigadier General Ernest was still imagining that he was about to receive the Purple Heart Medal from Congress at the White House, the Austrian cavalry pushed up cavalry cannons and rocket launchers.

Brigadier General Ernest couldn't help shouting "I'm a fool!".

A burst of artillery fire caused the U.S. cavalry to fall off their horses. Especially many of the U.S. war horses were not trained. When they heard the explosion, they would be frightened and raise their front hooves high to throw the U.S. soldiers off their horses.

Then the frightened horses fled in all directions, easily breaking up the cavalry line laid out by Brigadier General Ernest. Just as he reorganized his team, the second round of firepower began.

These cavalry did not have the morale and discipline of the previous elite troops, and they soon collapsed.

This group of collapsed cavalry became the vanguard for the Austrian army to break through the US defense line. The Austrian cavalry followed the US cavalry and rushed towards the command center where Robert Stockton was located.

Robert Stockton was not a mediocre man. He immediately ordered the shooting of the defeated American troops driven by the Austrian army, which prevented the war situation from deteriorating further.

But the ensuing firepower attack completely subverted the famous general's outlook on life.

"How can the cavalry have such strong firepower?!"

The tasks of the cavalry in this era were usually vigilance, reconnaissance, patrolling, outflanking and "cutting leeks" (harvesting the remaining enemies). It was mainly Franz's suggestion that the cavalry carry a large number of light equipment with powerful firepower.

At the same time, the continuous optimization of Congreve rockets has made this tactic possible, and the installation of rubber tires on the artillery has greatly enhanced its mobility.

Franz put in a lot of effort to implement this tactic, and he also received rewards on the battlefield at this time.

Under constant fire from cavalry artillery and new anti-infantry rockets, Robert Stockton simply could not maintain the morale of his infantry.

So he could only deploy the troops and artillery that besieged Escondido Village to block the Austrian advance troops, but this was not a wise move.

The cavalry has a huge advantage, that is, its high mobility. As soon as Robert Stockton mobilized the army, the Austrian cavalry changed positions to attack.

Over time, these American troops collapsed due to exhaustion.

At this time, San Diego was attacked by the main force of the Austrian army led by Archduke Carl Ferdinand. The Californians (Hispanics) under the Bear banner betrayed faster than the Indians.

John Fremont had to escape aboard an American warship. In order to prevent the fleet from falling into the hands of the Austrians, he had no choice but to leave port.

So the question is, how does Robert Stockton leave?

Let’s finish writing this war first, and then write the story of Europe.

By the way, does anyone want to read the story of Robert E. Lee?