1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 84

“Lieutenant Colonel! The Austrians are moving!” Only a few minutes after the sun on the Apennines rose, Lieutenant Colonel Neville had just washed his face. Before he had time to eat breakfast, soldiers came to report to him.

“Damn it! Give me a coat and binoculars.”

The orderly handed him the lieutenant colonel’s coat and handed him the tube with the telescope. Neville put on his coat, opened the curtain of the military tent and walked out with a telescope in his hand.

At this time, Robson was already standing on the outpost, holding a telescope to observe.

“How is it?” Neville asked as he buttoned his shirt.

“The scale is not small, I am afraid there are tens of thousands of people. It seems that although you escaped the battle yesterday, today, this battle is absolutely impossible to avoid.” Robson pretended to be calm, but from his voice Here, Neville can still hear a little nervousness.

“Mr. Robson, have you seen such a big scene before?” Neville said.

“Honestly, no,” Robson replied.

“Neither did I.” Neville said. “Now we can only hope that your new defenses will work. Have the soldiers entered the position?”

“Not yet.” Robson said, “The enemy is still far away. It is estimated that it will take a while before they formally launch an attack. There is no need for the soldiers to enter the position so early. Entering the position too early is not necessarily good. Things. Well, at least, let everyone eat. Oh, the medicine is controlled in the hands of the platoon leader, and the order is given before issuing. One at a time, don’t do too much at a time like them, and the result is exhausted You can’t even walk.”

Neville raised his binoculars and looked at it, and said, “Yes, they are still far away, and the artillery hasn’t reached the battle position at all. It will take a while to attack. I’m a little anxious.” He then turned his head to the messenger. Said: “Let the camps have breakfast as planned.”

At this time, a messenger ran over, and Neville recognized that it was the messenger of the division commander Massa.

“Costa, what did the teacher ask you to do?” It is extremely important to have a good relationship with the confidant of the superior. People who are more clever know that these people are not high-ranking, but they are definitely not small. So you can see in Journey to the West, when Sun Dasheng made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals are not considered a hairy. When you follow Tang Seng to learn from the scriptures, you will just meet a certain fairy driver (mount), Life secretary, etc. Can’t beat it shyly. That combat power is far worse than when it was in the Heavenly Palace. Why is the monkey still the monkey, the stick or the stick, so the difference in combat effectiveness is so big? In fact, the reason is very simple. In the past, the monkeys were rebellious, and the Jade Emperor dared to dismount them. What are those gods? By the time he learned the scriptures, the monkey had been recruited and he was in the system, and he wanted to mix with a regular civil service establishment (Zhengguo). When the f*ck is here, do you dare to offend the leader’s driver and secretary? Do you still want to do it? Although Costa is only a messenger, he has been with the division commander Major General Materazzi, and he is the division commander’s confidant, so Nesta also appears to be particularly affectionate to him.

“The division commander asked me to inform you that according to the previous arrangement, your regiment will continue to serve as a frontal defense mission. The division commander asked you to prepare for a beautiful battle.” Costa said.

“Don’t worry, with Neville, there is absolutely no problem with the position!” Neville said swearingly. Although he didn’t necessarily have that confidence, he had to show some confidence to the representative of the superior.

As expected by Robson and Neville, the Austrian attack had not yet begun until the troops had finished their breakfast. Their artillery has just entered the firing position.

“Let the soldiers enter the position.” Neville ordered his binoculars to observe for a while.

“It’s going to be real this time, why didn’t the “Dali Pill” be sent down?” Tommy asked.

“I don’t know, it is said that yesterday the recruits took one medicine in the morning, one at noon, and one in the afternoon. As a result, when they retreated, they were so exhausted that they couldn’t walk, and they couldn’t beat them with whips. Today, it is all controlled by the officers, and they only give it to us when they feel the need.” Rossi explained.

“I heard…”

Before the start of the war, random chatting was also a common way to relieve stress.

“Attention, the enemy fired!” someone shouted.

So the soldiers stopped talking and stretched their heads out of the trenches to look around. After several bombardment training, they were quite used to bearing shelling in trenches and no longer felt too scared. Moreover, the United States guy said that looking at the shells, he can predict a point where he will fall, and he is really going to come to him, so he can hide for a while.

The Austrian fired a few shots, then stopped, and after a while, fired a few more shots. The soldiers knew that the Austrians were testing fire. Moreover, it seems that the Austrians are not targeting themselves, but the tents far behind them.

“Didn’t they find us?” Many soldiers thought so.

The Austrians did not find the Sardinian soldiers who stayed in the trenches, because they only extended their heads out of the trenches, and these shrunken guys actually stuck branches in their hats. What do you think of this? Get it?

“Obviously there is a Sardinian army defending, why can’t I see the defenders coming out to prepare for battle? No matter how slow, you should be ready now?” Many Austrian officers have such questions in their heads.

“Do their tent artillery have enough?” General Guiule asked.

“General, you can get it. But the distance is too far to be accurate. It may take a lot of shots to hit a shot.” An officer replied.

“Fire a few shots and see,” the general said. At the same time, there was a guess in his mind: “Isn’t there no one in those military tents? People have already left, right?”

After more than ten cannons, one shell hit a camp, and the camp was overturned, but there was still no response from the Sardinians.

“Send a few cavalry over to take a look, let them be careful.” The general ordered.

“Some cavalry came here.””No fire is allowed, these guys will be dealt with by the people from United States!”

At this time, Blackwater’s consultants had already fixed the own MacDonald’s 1857 precision shooting rifle. When they quietly included these cavalry into the shooting scope, these Austrian cavalry were about to come. The fate of is still unknown.

The reason why other soldiers were not allowed to fire was not because they were worried that their rifles would not have enough range, or because they were worried that their marksmanship was not good enough. Even if the Sardinians’ marksmanship were bad, a volley of shots at the cavalry would definitely bring them down. The real reason is that the rifle bullets used by Heishui’s consultants use nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder, while the ordinary version of 1857 in the hands of ordinary Sardinian soldiers still uses black gunpowder that can smoke. As soon as the shot is fired, the location of the trench is exposed.

These cavalry ran a little closer, then stopped, raised their binoculars and looked at them, completely unaware that they were under someone else’s gun.

“Bang, bang, bang…” With a burst of clear gunfire, several cavalry fell from their horses. However, because the shooters were too far away to communicate with each other, there was a problem in assigning goals. Some cavalry were shot three or four times, and another lucky guy, no one aimed at him. So when the comrades around him fell one after another, he still sat on horseback steadily. The sudden change left him stunned, but he immediately reacted, slamming the horse’s belly with his feet, turning the horse’s head and turning around and ran.

Dale quickly loaded the own MacDonald 1857 precision shooting version with bullets, and then looked at the remaining target, then he shook his head, and at this distance, shooting high-speed moving targets, it was too difficult to hit.

“The cavalry was shot suddenly, and the shooter could not be found there? How could this be possible? As long as the shot was fired, there must be white smoke?” In this era, because of the barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, plus the precision shooting version of 1857. Because of the outrageous price and very low output, not many people in Europe know that there is still such a rifle that does not have obvious gunpowder when shooting.

“General, what should I do?” The officers looked at their commander in chief.

“Assault as planned.” General Guiule ordered, and at the same time he thought to himself: “No matter what tricks the Sardinians are playing, they can’t go underground, right?”

Neville’s 1,500 soldiers guarded three front and rear trenches about 800 meters in length. There is a distance of about 80 meters between each trench. Now most of the people are staying in the second trench. They plan to fire from this position first, and after giving the Austrians a severe blow, they will quickly move to a trench through the traffic trench to fight. In this way, the enemy’s firepower can be avoided after the location of the trenches are exposed, and secondly, a volley of fire suddenly shot from a closer range, which not only has better accuracy, but also makes it easier for the opponent to fall into chaos.

Now about a regiment of Austrians lined up neatly, getting closer and closer to their position. At this time, the two 12-pounder Napoleonic cannons that the Sardinians were ambushing on the side of the high ground also started firing. A shell accurately smashed into the Austrian array. Because the shells were fired from the side, and the Austrians’ horizontal formation relative to the high ground became a column at the angle of these cannons. Cannonballs are always the most lethal to such a column. If a 12-pounder cannonball hits such a queue, it can even smash a company’s queue directly! In addition, the Sardinians have conducted test shots in advance, so the accuracy of shooting is also guaranteed. As a result, the firing of only two artillery shells caused huge casualties to the Austrians. One shell that traversed the entire line knocked down at least twenty people. The other shells also caused damage. Small casualties. Although the power of this artillery does not have the magical power of the legendary Ningyuan Cannon that “severe miles in one shot”, the Austrians they hit were also mortals who died immediately after being hit by a cannonball, not Nurhachi. Such a super wild boar skin that was hit by the Ningyuan artillery and could go to Mongolia to grab a handful, then to North Korea to grab a handful and then die. So in just a few shots, the Sardinians gave the Austrians a disarm.

However, this is not the end. With the shelling, Neville’s soldiers also fired their first round of salvos.