The number of enemies was smaller than Yun Xiaohan expected. Yun Xiaohan's troops plus Nelson's troops were almost 15,000, but many of them were operating ships at sea, so it was definitely impossible to come.
Participating in land battles, so in terms of pure land battles, Yun Xiaohan's side is at a disadvantage in terms of military strength.
But when it comes to the quality of the troops, most of Yun Xiaohan's troops are composed of elite regiments, and their quality is much higher than that of their opponents, not to mention the generals.
In fact, the current situation is very beneficial to Yun Xiaohan. The North Gate is further away from the coastline, and only a small number of ships can reach the shore, while the vast majority of ships on the West Gate can bombard the Merchant Alliance.
The location of the troops.
Of course, this is first of all thanks to the low AI of the Merchant Alliance commander, who didn't even know how to prepare for sea bombardment. In comparison, Nelson's AI was obviously much higher. It was obvious that it could carry out artillery bombardment, but it never did.
When he fired the artillery, he was obviously preparing to coordinate with the attack actions of Yun Xiaohan's troops and then choose the right time to launch the artillery fire.
Since they were preparing to attack the city, the Merchant Alliance troops were facing the west gate of Cassis City. Now that Yun Xiaohan's vanguard troops have arrived, they naturally have to turn their direction to deal with these reinforcements first.
The commanders of the merchant alliance were indeed relatively weak, and the quality of the soldiers was also low. Just a simple adjustment of the direction took more than 30 seconds. Yun Xiaohan did not seize the opportunity to launch an attack, but instead retreated a long way.
Distance, after all, the follow-up troops have not arrived at this time, Yun Xiaohan has less than 2,000 men in his hands, and Morris's command BUFF can increase the range, so increasing the distance has only advantages and no disadvantages for Yun Xiaohan's troops.
When the Merchant Alliance completely turned around, the follow-up main force led by Morris also arrived, and they quickly adjusted their formations to prepare for positional warfare.
The Merchant Alliance troops began to press forward after a brief pause. They did not notice that on the sea behind them, the imperial fleet was approaching quickly. Under the command of Nelson, the entire fleet was pulled into a double column formation.
And use the right side to face the Merchant Alliance troops.
In order to allow Nelson's fleet to put into an attack formation more conducive to artillery bombardment, Yun Xiaohan commanded the troops to retreat a short distance. The merchant alliance did not have a speed advantage, and they had to maintain their formation to cope with the following battle, so although moving forward was better than moving backward,
You have to move faster, but there is no way to effectively shorten the distance between the two parties in a short period of time.
Nelson's naval command level was extremely high, and his Thunderstorm Legion's ship maneuvering level was also extremely high. He widened the distance between the ships in a very short time, and the two columns of fleets also formed a staggered position and dropped the anchor.
Stop the ship to obtain a smoother attack environment and improve the accuracy of artillery fire.
This positioning and approach is to bully the merchant alliance into not being able to threaten the maritime fleet at all, and it can only be used to hit semi-fixed targets on land. If the enemy really has artillery or navy, they have to form a single column formation.
After all, the ships in "Decision" are not like the ships in the real industrial era that can unify ship specifications and maintain a relatively stable speed through boilers. Sail warships are not easy to synchronize in speed, and the ships may be in naval battles.
The speed is reduced due to being injured, so it is very unrealistic to insist on setting up a relatively strict double vertical formation in mobile warfare. Often, there will be situations where our own ships collide with each other or require emergency evasion, which not only fails to increase the attack surface
and artillery hit rate, there will be a lot of trouble.
In fact, the advantage of the double column lies more in its tactical flexibility. It can be regarded as two single columns. When necessary, it can complete side detours, or merge with other fleets and other tactical actions.
After seeing Nelson's fleet in a good posture (the ships were larger and could be seen even beyond the player's field of vision), Yun Xiaohan ordered the troops to stop and launched a long-range attack under the command of Morris.
When the first round of bow and arrow attacks by Yun Xiaohan's troops hit the Merchant Alliance troops, Nelson's fleet also opened fire at almost the same time. The shells spanned a distance of more than a hundred yards and directly hit the Merchant Alliance troops.
Although grape bullets are more lethal to personnel, the range of grape bullets is relatively short and cannot hit very far at all, so the Nelson fleet uses all solid bullets.
The solid bomb with huge kinetic energy bounced up quickly after landing on the ground, causing a bloody storm in the Merchant Alliance's formation, forming a path of flesh and blood composed of residual limbs and blood.
After several negotiations with the government, the Chinese version of "Decision" finally opened the optional bloody mode. Players can choose whether to turn on the bloody mode to see more realistic battles and war scenes. Minors are pitiful and have no choice.
, unable to turn on the bloody mode. And a battle madman like Yun Xiaohan naturally chose to turn on the bloody mode. Of course, this is also because "Decision" can perform iris verification and implement single-player binding.
Since the ship had anchored, the attack platform was extremely stable, the gunners of the Thunderstorm Corps were of high quality, and they were shooting at semi-fixed targets. The hit rate of Nelson's fleet's first round of bombardment exceeded 50%, with more than half of the shells fired.
They were all hit in the formation of the Merchant Alliance troops. This round of shelling alone caused more than 500 casualties to the Merchant Alliance troops. More importantly, the killing scene of the solid shells was too bloody, which severely damaged the morale of the Merchant Alliance troops.
Suddenly, the morale of the Merchant Alliance troops dropped by 15%.
The Merchant Alliance was originally a miscellaneous army, and its morale was not very high. If it dropped by another 15%, the morale would drop to between 65% and 70%, which is not far away from the 60% passing line.
At this time, Morris took the time to launch a second round of bow and arrow attacks, and at the same time, the first round of spell attacks was also fired. Because the range was insufficient, the merchant alliance could only be beaten and could not fight back, and its morale dropped by another 3%.
Faced with this situation, the NPC commander of the Merchant Alliance force was also fooled and made a big mistake. He ordered the Merchant Alliance force to move north, away from the coastline, to avoid shelling.
However, turning and moving take time. It does not mean that you can get out of the shelling range immediately. In addition, in order to avoid the shelling, the Merchant Alliance soldiers rushed forward, and a large number of NPC soldiers were entangled, which seriously reduced the movement of the troops.
Speed. In addition, when a large number of people are crowded together, the density of personnel has also been greatly increased, and the damage caused by one shell will be even greater.
When the Merchant Alliance troops are completely out of the artillery range, they will be attacked by Nelson's fleet for at least two or three more rounds, which can cause at least 1,500-3,000 casualties to the Merchant Alliance troops, and this does not include the long-range attacks of Yun Xiaohan's troops.
of killing.
PS: The Chinese men’s football team actually beat South Korea 1:0. I was really touched. The men’s football team also tried their best.