Prev
Ch. 2005 / 204698%
Next

Chapter 2005: The Quebec War

~7 min read 1,274 words

At the dawn of the second day.

Before the sky had begun to brighten, a British force of over one thousand men had successfully landed.

And in an instant, they captured the high ground on the cliff.

There were not many French troops here; this battle, compared to the one that took place on the Saint Lawrence River yesterday, was like a drop of water falling into the sea, unable to stir up even a ripple.

After the high ground was occupied, the only force guarding Fulun Wan was also wiped out, and the British troops immediately landed from here in large numbers.

And they climbed the high ground above the cliff without any danger.

At this time, General Vaudreuil was already near the Saint Lawrence River, holding his position to prevent an attack by the British troops.

But today, the firepower of the British troops was noticeably weaker, as if they were attacking only to pin down his own forces.

The battle-hardened General Vaudreuil immediately realized something was wrong.

He immediately thought of something he considered unlikely to happen and led his troops back to Quebec City at once.

It was not until six o'clock in the evening that he learned the British troops had long since crossed the Saint Lawrence River!

The section of the Saint Lawrence River area he was guarding was not the center of the British attack at all.

By this time, six thousand British troops had already appeared on the Abraham Plains outside Quebec City.

At the same time, the navy led by Charles used the powerful fuel-based cannons of Longyan to burn those dilapidated merchant ships at the river mouth to ashes, successfully entering the Saint Lawrence River.

At this moment, the general defending the city, Major General Montcalm, rejected his Strategist's advice, fearing that the fortifications he had built would be of no use against the British troops.

From their observations on the battlefield, the British troops were already equipped with Longyan weapons.

Under such weapons, their fortifications were not much different from being made of paper.

Therefore, General Montcalm decided to march out of the city to fight.

He led his four thousand most elite soldiers out of the city, intending to intercept the British troops on the Abraham Plains.

Major General Wolfe of the British forces lined his troops up in two rows on the Abraham Plains, standing in battle array, facing the incoming French troops.

The British troops not only held an advantage in numbers, but more importantly, their combat awareness was something those disorganized French soldiers could not compare to.

Their troops were a mix of several units, and those militia who had only undergone brief training could not understand commands in such a battle at all.

Their combat quality was far inferior to the British troops, and at this time, the French troops rushing to support from the other end of the Saint Lawrence River were still behind the British troops.

General Montcalm was completely unaware of this; facing the overwhelming British force, he, who was usually rigorous and methodical, seemed to have lost his reason and did not wait for the best moment to attack.

He simply had the three parallel columns of the French troops charge toward the human wall formation built by the British troops while shouting.

When they were two hundred meters away from the British troops, the Longyan Firearm equipped by the French troops fired bullets in unison, unable to wait any longer.

At such an attack distance, even for the Longyan Firearm, it was only approaching the effective attack range; for the British Soldiers, at such a long distance, they only needed to dodge slightly to avoid such an attack.

The result was obvious; such an attack did not have any effect.

But the British troops did not return fire at this time; they even allowed the French troops to continue their advance.

The French troops launched an attack on the British troops every ten meters, and the British troops remained unmoved by this.

Until they were only forty meters away from the French troops, just as the French troops were about to reload bullets for their next attack.

The British troops, lined up in two columns, launched their counterattack at this very moment!

The sound of gunfire was deafening, and the sound of the French army being hit by bullets was like the Classic of Death reaping lives.

Taking advantage of this gap in time, the French soldiers had no chance to dodge and were completely stunned by the British soldiers in one blow.

Only then did they realize that the British troops were not incapable of attacking, but were waiting for a suitable opportunity for battle.

Now that this opportunity had arrived, the Double-barreled Rifle specially provided by Longyan in their hands exerted tremendous combat capability.

A large swath of French soldiers were hit and fell to the ground, their fate unknown.

And the well-trained British soldiers fired alternately to compensate for the reloading time of the Double-barreled Rifle.

Under such an attack, there was almost no interval at all.

They crushed forward, and some people finished off the already dead French soldiers.

Originally, there were French soldiers who attempted to use the Method of feigning death to escape the British attack, waiting for them to step over their bodies before rising up to kill!

But after seeing the British soldiers put a bullet into every fallen French soldier, they completely abandoned this idea.

Before the French troops had recovered from their fear, they were once again attacked by the British troops, another volley of fire.

This volley of fire took away the lives of an unknown number of their soldiers.

The militia, lacking training and battlefield experience, were directly frightened by such a cruel scene under such an attack.

Two waves of attacks directly caused over a thousand casualties to the French troops, but this was not enough; the British troops did not stop their pace of attack, and they continued to launch a third attack in perfect unison.

The troops, which were already disorganized, fell into unprecedented chaos when facing such a uniform attack from the British soldiers.

The French soldiers on the battlefield, perhaps because of fear, no longer listened to General Montcalm's orders.

Their formation fell into unprecedented chaos as the British troops' charge bugle resounded through the sky.

The British troops switched to the standard-issue Bayonet of Longyan and launched an all-out charge against the French soldiers.

In such a chaotic battle, the French soldiers, who had long since lost their will to fight, fled in all directions, and General Montcalm had no ability to prevent the failure of this battle.

He led his personal guards to charge toward the British troops.

General Wolfe met the challenge, and the opposing troops headed toward destruction in such a fierce slaughter.

This battle, which lasted only half an hour, ended with a tragic situation.

After experiencing the shooting from the French troops, the British troops had already lost a large number of men.

Although the price paid by the French troops was a bit higher.

But both sides' troops had shot bullets into the heads of the opposing commanders.

The commanders of both troops ended up dead.

Gelin looked at the Abraham Plains, which had already been stained red with blood; he took a deep breath, as Quebec City no longer had the ability to block their advance. ghxsw.

He announced that this battle ended in their victory, but the price paid for this victory was the loss of nearly four thousand soldiers, and the money spent was beyond count!

◈

End of Chapter

Prev
Ch. 2005 / 204698%
Next
Prev
Ch. 2005 / 204698%
Next