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172 The Bayonet

Stewart's original mortar equipment, coupled with several old-fashioned artillery retrieved in the city of Perpignan, began to bombard the Spanish offensive echelon, which had reached a distance of nearly 100 meters.

The location of Stewart is the main gate of Perpignan, which is the area with a flat road and a wide view. Here, the Spanish Army invested the most troops and the most important attack direction.

In fact, facing the attack of a total of 50,000 troops, the Black Dragon Legion defenders with more than a thousand people retreated into the city, were seriously insufficient and there was a lack of troops everywhere. Stewart could only concentrate his superior forces to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.

Yes, to outsiders, this battle that will undoubtedly be defeated, Stewart naturally would not have any additional ideas. He and his troops did not evacuate, not because Stewart was so arrogant that he wanted to defeat 50,000 people with more than a thousand people!

The reason why Stewart and the officers and soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion under his command did not receive orders from their superiors.

These officers and soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion were so loyal that they were so stubborn that they planned to die here without ordering a retreat!

There was no reason, even though Stewart had guessed that the superior's retreat order had not been conveyed, it was likely that the communication road was cut off by the Spanish Army in advance.

Even though Stewart knew that this was a battle that would be defeated, he no longer wanted to win. All his combat arrangements were aimed at killing more enemies at a smaller price.

Whether the city fell, Stewart was as sure as the commander of the Spanish Army opposite, and Perpignan could not be defended!

This is also the reason why the commander of the Spanish Army on the opposite side was puzzled. With such an obvious offensive and defensive battle, why did the Li Wei rebels in the city insist on defending to the death?

Do you really treat the Spanish Army as a militia?

The commander of the Spanish Army only felt humiliation!

Therefore, as soon as the war started, we went all out to bet on the main force. There were too many main forces that could not be fully invested in the battlefield attacking Perpignan at one time. They were divided into several offensive echelons and reserve teams, rushing up in waves!

With such a way of rushing, even if you don’t shoot and use a bayonet, you can kill all the Li Wei rebels in the city.

Unless all the citizens of Perpignan were crazy and insisted on obeying the command of Levi's rebels and following the attacking Spanish Army.

Naturally, the citizens of Perpignan would not be so stupid. If the French Jacobin Revolutionary Army of the country saved the country was defended here, there might be some possibility that the citizens would be encouraged to arm themselves and participate in the battle to defend the city.

Nowadays, the citizens of Perpignan City do not cause trouble to the Black Dragon Legion defenders, which is already the reputation of the Black Dragon Legion being at work.

The Black Dragon Legion fought all the way, and there was a record of massacre circulating among the people in France. After those cities that resisted to the end were captured by the Black Dragon Legion, 80% of the people would be killed and sent to labor camps!

Then the Black Dragon Legion migrated people from surrounding villages to empty cities and restored the city's productivity.

Because of this, wherever the Black Dragon Legion goes, as long as there are not enough defenders in the city, they will choose to surrender with all their hearts.

In the face of the butcher's knife, revolutionary justice is not very good.

Naturally, long before the war began, Stewart sent someone to inform the French citizens in Perpignan that if anyone dared to make trouble in the city, he would be buried with the Black Dragon Legion!

Under the bayonet of the Black Dragon Legion, the citizens of Perpignan were as well-behaved as quails.

Many citizens were even driven by the soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion as laborers to assist in building barricade defense lines and transporting materials.

The mortars fired in Perpignan were relatively hidden, and the flowering bullets fired were tricky in the angles, and they were all sent into the dense crowd of Spanish Army brigades. The speed of the attacking line array suddenly became slow or even stagnant.

Even though many Spanish Army officers took the lead in walking in front and shouted at the top of their voices, the Spanish Army's advance speed could not be increased.

This scene naturally fell into Stewart's eyes.

"These Spanish soldiers are not a little worse than the revolutionary army of the country-salvation that Jacobin trained.

Only a few rounds of artillery bombings, the entire attacking queue was in such chaos.

What a pity, if my troops were several times more powerful at this time, I could launch a counter-charge to repel this wave of offensive.

Alas, the Spanish attack this time was really too sudden, otherwise I wouldn't have to fight alone here."

Stewart sighed in his heart, resisting the desire to rush out with the people.

More than a thousand people were distributed in key defense points in the city of Perpignan. Even if Stewart concentrated the so-called superior forces here, there were only a few hundred people.

If you rush out at this time and each Spanish army on the opposite side fires a shot, the troops gathered in Stewart will be almost finished.

The absolute disadvantage of troops made Stewart unable to step out of the city and enter the open battlefield!

The flowering bullets of this era are filled with black gunpowder, and the amount of medicine is not too large, the air tightness is average, and the power of the explosion is unsatisfactory. The chaos in the first wave of offensive echelons of the Spanish Army was not because the Black Dragon Legion's mortals were too powerful, but because their morale was unstable!

After all, these Spanish soldiers knew that they were fighting the famous Black Dragon Legion in the French Civil War!

This Black Dragon Legion was hit hard by Jacobin's revolutionary army who had a much larger number than them!

Jacobin's revolutionary army in the country saved the country was beaten up by their vanguard not long ago. After this simple comparison, can the Spanish soldiers not be timid?

Of course, if the Spanish royal family gives full military salary, Spanish army soldiers will still dare to fight.

The soldiers of the lower class of this era do not have so many complex ideas. If you give enough money, it is natural for me to fight for you!

Even if you die on the battlefield, you can't blame others, you can only be considered bad luck.

But I didn't give enough money and I even asked myself to fight the enemy with great combat effectiveness, which is a bit...

Fortunately, the front-line officers of the Spanish Army were all nobles, and these people had a sense of honor than soldiers and were not deducted military pay (because they could also share the military pay that soldiers were deducted), and they still dared to fight.

The aristocraticization of Spanish army officers was even more serious than the former French kingdom, and civilian officers had almost no chance to stand out.

With the efforts of these Spanish noble officers, the large army finally launched a bayonet charge forward.

Because the Spanish noble officers found that it was really too embarrassing for these poor-moral soldiers to walk in a "steady" against the enemy's artillery fire and bullets.
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