Chapter 228 Start to attack
Xiao Lin's order to Lin Xin was not actually a serious support for the British to defeat the French. His real order was to let Lin Xin use the British power to drag the French team to enter the British colonies and provide better conditions for the company's army to send troops. You must know that in order to defeat the British first, the 30,000 troops sent by the French this time, 20,000 of which were the most elite regular troops. As long as this force was not on the company's side, Xiao Lin could completely rely on the 20,000 troops in his hand to fight the French.
At the same time, in order to occupy more territory, Xiao Lin also began to recruit more militias. The officials of the Pandey family and the Adams family have been trained and can take up their posts at any time. Now, just wait for Lin Xin to fight, and then Xiao Lin can attack the entire army and occupy the French North American colonies in one fell swoop. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of Xiao Lin's plan, Lin Xin must start the battle as soon as possible. Through a night of struggle, Lin Xin finally straightened out the matter here with the staff.
The French were still very strong, with 30,000 troops, of which 20,000 were the elite troops of the regular army. Ten thousand were the regular troops that came from the local area, and ten thousand were the elite troops that the colony itself maintained. However, the 10,000 elite troops in the colony died and injured many people due to the continuous battles with the British. There were only more than 4,000 left. Later, some other militias and regular troops were selected to enter, and only 10,000 were regained. Therefore, the combat effectiveness was a bit unsatisfactory, only about 70,000 of the 10,000 people from the local area.
The 30,000 people, except for the 20,000 elite soldiers, each with 1,000 cavalry, a total of 3,000 cavalry, the rest were infantry and artillery. Ten thousand auxiliary militia were all the most basic musketeers, and they could act as spear infantry by installing bayonets. Among the remaining 17,000 soldiers, 12,000 of them were musketeers, and the last five thousand were artillerymen. From four-pound cannons to eighteen-pound cannons, they were carried. Because the four-pound cannons were the lightest and the largest number, the British could not determine the total number.
The eighteen-pound cannon has the greatest power, but also the greatest weight. If it weren't for the British's trench defense system that was too powerful, and there would be no need for heavy cannons, the French might not have brought it. Therefore, the number of the eighteen-pound cannons was the earliest to be determined, with a total of thirty-five. At the same time, there were 30,000 French troops and a total of 3,000 revolvers. If this equipment was a few years ago, the British would really be desperate.
However, for the British today, they are not as powerful as desperate. Although the Hall m1819 type rifle is the first rear-mounted rifle and many things have not been developed and improved, there is no problem with a gun being pushed into three front-mounted muskets. The heavy punch 75mm caliber cannon, because it uses a black technology-like structure and gunpowder and shells far exceeding this era, its power is not worse than that of twelve-pound cannons. Even if it is made of ordinary gunpowder and inferior iron cannons, its power is only 30% worse than that of twelve-pound cannons.
Moreover, because the gun body is made of high-quality light alloy steel, it is even smaller. For the British nobles who are obsessed with cannons, this good weapon is like a person who has been hungry for more than ten days and sees a roast chicken. Naturally, these people have taken out their old capitals. The so-called guns can be used, but cannons cannot be bought. They actually piled up the number of heavy punches to a total of 500. This is the power of 500 twelve-pound cannons, which is far beyond the French artillery power.
On the British side, there were a total of 30,000 noble private forces. The cavalry of the nobles also had a total of 3,000 cavalry and 17,000 musketeers, of which 7,000 were equipped with Hall m1819 rifles. This was only available to the three thousand soldiers equipped with Hall m1819 rifles brought by Lin Man and the three earls of Lin Man and did not have much elite power. The various miscellaneous and obtained from the company, they only had 10,000 people and 2,000 people equipped with Hall m1819 rifles.
Because of the riots in the colony, there were only such people in the early stage. It seemed that the British were still very powerful. Even if they could not defeat the French, they would not be pinned to the ground and rubbed against them like they are now. However, what happened to the French, all the troops belonged to the country's regular army, and all followed the orders of the generals sent by the colony governor. If they ordered a party, they would naturally be in order and responded quickly to the battle.
As for the British, you see, there are 37 nobles of all sizes in these 20,000 private troops. Because in order to seize land, obtain land benefits, and use them to compensate for their own losses, these nobles all had some resentment towards others. Not to mention giving the troops to others to command, it would be good to be able to cooperate with others to fight together. On the British side, let alone ordering one door, but ordering the thirty-seven doors. If you want to go out, you have always been a taboo on the battlefield.
The reason why these nobles were able to fight to this level was because they were relatively smart and could take into account the overall situation. Those who ignored the overall situation had been defeated by the French long ago. Not to mention that all the private troops did not escape, even the nobles who were leaders did not escape. The Hall m1819 rifles and heavy punches in their hands fell into the hands of the French. Fortunately, these people did not have many of these weapons.
The worst estimate is that at most there are only a thousand Halls, and fifty heavy punches fell into the hands of the French. If enough numbers are left for dismantling and imitation, there will be only nine hundred Hall muskets and thirty heavy punches and cannons to join the battlefield at this time. With the strength of the Fourth Guard Brigade, the machine gun mortar Yanhuang rifle, the overall strength here is greater than that of the French.
The most important thing at the moment is to take command power. However, things went smoothly beyond imagination. The aristocratic coalition was unable to coordinate again before because it lacked an absolutely fair commander. Among the three counts of Lin Man, among the thirty-seven nobles, they were all close and distant. After the previous grievances, these people could not believe the other party at all, so they have been commanding their own troops since each other.
However, Lin Xin is different. First of all, he is from the Yanhuang Trading Company and has no interest in anyone here. Secondly, when he was talking about the nobles before, his military talents had been recognized by all the nobles. In addition to the military situation of the Fourth Garage Brigade, the various performances he had arrived yesterday. Everyone went to. This is an elite army. What is the company? If there is no real talent, how could he lead such an elite army? It ruled out that Lin Xin was talking about it on paper.
In this way, they were willing to hand over the command power. Moreover, they had negotiated privately that no one was allowed to go to Lin Xin to leave favors, and they could not let Lin Xin take care of their private army. However, they put forward a condition for Lin Xin, that they needed to watch at the command center and learn Lin Xin's command technology. Lin Xin said that there was no problem at all. They really thought that they could come by just looking around, so they had been in the company's officer training class for so long. Isn't it a waste of time.
Without systematic training, if you want to learn the company's command technology, you have to watch for at least two or three years, and you can't leave in the middle. There must be at least three wars. Just now, just as the beginning, these nobles caught them blindly. Lin Xin actually made the entire definite battlefield range into a fine map and a sand table. They can still understand the sand table, after all, it is an intuitive three-dimensional form, so they can't understand the map at all. Various arrow marks and a series of numbers are like reading a heavenly book.
"If the order is passed down, separate the troops. Those who use Hall muskets will be called Hall team, one team of one thousand people, and those who use ordinary muskets will be brown bass team, and the same team of one thousand people. The artillery is made of thirty heavy punches and ten messy artillery pieces, and the number of artillery soldiers will be distributed separately. The cavalry is divided into six teams, each team of five hundred people."
"In the D3 area, immediately dispatch a Hall team, two brown bass teams, three gun teams, and one cavalry team. There is a river there, which is the main water intake area around. Let them choose suitable mountain guns to build fortifications, and the French must not easily obtain water."
"yes!"
"A2 and A6 areas, each went to a team of soldiers according to the previous configuration, and the A4 area let our people go. These three areas are close to the French camp, and the British soldiers were covering us, and we were responsible for the main attack."
"yes!"
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The British nobles were stunned. Lin Xin and the others showed silence to draw the map and make the sand table. Then, a group of people gathered together and pointed at the map and the sand table. After talking for most of the day, they didn't understand the nouns they had at all. They followed their guidance in time, and didn't know what they were talking about. When the discussion was over, Lin Xin started to give orders directly, and then, the commanders received their orders, left the command center, and conveyed them to the troops on standby.
The French disappeared today and had a day off and did not come. The British originally wanted to take a break, but after orders were issued, they could only leave their current camp, go to their destinations, and start building new trench defenses. It can be seen that the British army began to turn off attack to defense, with the 4th garrison as the core of the central road, and the remaining musketeers as the auxiliary, pushing directly. There was a group of British troops on both sides, supporting each other and covering the central army.
Chapter completed!