Chapter 1999: Crushing Tactics

The Longyan Artillery launched a fierce attack, with cannonball after cannonball raining down.

The French artillery positions, less than two hundred meters away, were blasted into a daze.

They stared at the suddenly appearing artillery fire, completely unable to react, wondering how such artillery had come from where.

By the time they realized it, it was already too late; the Longyan Military Department's Artillery Unit gave the French army no chance to counterattack at all.

Longyan's artillery poured down, and almost every cannonball hit the French army's artillery positions.

Yet at this moment, the French Musket Team had no Method to fight back.

Their attack range was controlled by the Longyan army, and their firepower was also suppressed by the Longyan army.

Under these circumstances, Prince Soubise could only abandon the attack on the Longyan army's artillery positions and instead turn to attack the Musket Team at the Longyan army's positions.

Ling Chen watched as a large portion of the French troops retreated in extreme humiliation, in order to escape his attack range.

By doing this, their artillery unit could only cover the trenches in front of them with fire, but they had no way to threaten the Longyan army's rear troops.

In this situation, the French troops could only passively take a beating, being turned into living targets by the Longyan army.

Prince Soubise saw the tragic situation on the battlefield; more than thirty minutes had passed since the battle began, but the French troops had been the ones passively taking a beating the entire time.

They were beaten to the point of having absolutely no ability to fight back.

Under these circumstances, Prince Soubise was burning with anxiety, constantly gathering his generals to ask if they had any good suggestions for an attack.

He was willing to adopt anything that could work, but in the face of the Longyan army's fully armed, ultra-long-range attacks, their troops, a mix of cold and hot weapons, had no combat capability at all.

Even the Cavalry, which could exert the greatest combat capability, was now being strictly restricted by the Longyan army.

After thinking of this, Prince Soubise sighed.

Regardless, this war had to continue.

In order to maintain the front line, Prince Soubise could only decide to withdraw the Cavalry that was controlling the artillery on both sides of Longyan.

To be used on the front line.

First, hold off the Longyan army's attack and push the front line forward a little bit; otherwise, the current situation would lead to defeat sooner or later.

"Have the Cavalry withdraw first, use our Musket Team to hold off the opponent's pressure; as long as we break free from the Longyan army's attack range, we still have a chance!"

Prince Soubise was thinking of luring the Longyan army to attack them, so that they could break free from the Longyan army's combat range.

But clearly, his wishful thinking was wrong.

Prince Soubise still had not realized the gap in equipment between them and the Longyan army; Ling Chen's troops were now fully equipped with Muskets, and even without artillery, they could kill Cavalry single-handedly.

After paying a huge price, their Cavalry finally withdrew from the battlefield.

But at this time, the French Cavalry no longer had enough strength to launch another attack; they had been beaten by the Longyan army with countless casualties.

And the collapse of the front and side battlefields forced Soubise's troops to choose to continue retreating rapidly.

Only at this moment did he realize the true reason for his failure!

Muskets bestowed upon war a new form of warfare; Ling Chen had already sensed through this battle that the changed form of war would surely shine brilliantly in the future!

Long Spears, bows and arrows, and even Cavalry would very likely completely withdraw from the battlefield in the future.

As for the Artillery Unit, a single cannonball could wipe out thirty or fifty of the enemy; if the number of Cannon reached a certain level, it could completely change the current war situation.

Then there were the Muskets; the Long Spear that Cavalry used to love—they called it a Long Spear—was fast beyond ten paces, and accurate and fast within ten paces!

Now the attack range of a Musket had reached over one hundred and fifty meters; within such a range, there was absolutely no need to have one's own troops engage in close-quarters combat with the enemy.

Wouldn't long-range attacks reduce casualties? After thinking of this, the Longyan army did not pursue after the French troops retreated.

Ling Chen felt that pursuing a French army that was about to be defeated had no meaning.

Just as Li Hongtian had instructed, their troops were only there to intercept the French troops.

There was no mention of completely annihilating this unit.

And at this moment, Prince Soubise was somewhat glad that the Longyan army did not pursue; after all, with this kind of fighting Method used by the Longyan army, even if they could really lure the opponent's troops out...

Could they guarantee they would defeat the opponent's troops?

Clearly, under the opponent's fighting style, Prince Soubise even thought that they might be the ones to be completely wiped out by the opponent's troops.

Retreat was now one of their best options.

And just at this moment, while they were retreating, the Longyan army did not pursue, but they were attacked by the Britain troops.

Prince Soubise was completely dumbfounded when faced with the suddenly appearing Britain troops.

It was true that there was Britain territory in Hanover, but the Britain troops should have been busy fighting the Swedes right now.

How could they have come to Hanover at this time?

The Britain commander, seeing the retreating French troops, immediately dispatched his own team to attack.

They had been waiting here for a long time.

Just waiting for the French troops to collapse.

Now that they had finally waited for this opportunity, the Britain troops naturally would not let it go!

The Britain army was now following the movements of Longyan.

Ever since they learned that Longyan intended to cut off the cooperation with Britain regarding the trade of the Giant Steam Engine.

George III immediately lamented the power of Longyan; the only Dreadnought-class Battleship Britain currently possessed had already been destroyed.

They urgently needed a second Dreadnought-class Battleship, and the Giant Steam Engine was the most crucial core of this Dreadnought-class Battleship; if the Giant Steam Engine were missing, the Dreadnought-class Battleship they built could only be put in the harbor for people to visit!

The Cannon on those Battleships would also be a pile of useless scrap metal.

It would be just like a tiger losing its sharp claws and fangs.

This was the critical period for competing with France for overseas colonies at sea, and Britain would absolutely not give up on the Dreadnought-class Battleship.

The battlefields in America and Africa were still hanging in the balance.

After thinking of this, George III did not inform Longyan, but directly ordered them to cooperate with Longyan's actions.

Thus, this ambush against the French troops came to be.

Prince Soubise felt deep despair; the French troops that appeared suddenly at this moment left him with no more ability to launch an attack.

They had already been beaten to the verge of collapse by the Dragon Flame Army's troops.

The British troops that appeared suddenly at this moment dealt him a fatal blow.

The remaining French Cavalry, however, stepped forward at this moment to pin down the British forces and cover Prince Soubise's escape.

Prince Soubise swept past these self-sacrificing French Cavalry.

By the time he escaped, of the thirty thousand main force troops he had originally brought, only five thousand remained; the other units had all been scattered. Biquge

But Prince Soubise was not discouraged; besides this force of thirty thousand, he had other troops currently marching in Hanover, heading toward Berlin.

As long as these two forces could break through the Dragon Flame blockade, then the Goddess of Victory would still be on his side.