Chapter 524: Battle of Escondido Village (Part 2)

Compared to solid shells, rockets are more lethal on the plains. Rockets penetrated into the densely packed array, clearing out a large area of ​​American troops.

Although every time one person fell, another would take his place, Brigadier General Karna's heart was bleeding. You have to know that these people are regular soldiers of the United States, and each of them has served for more than five years.

They have undergone a lot of military training to be able to stabilize the formation at this time. There are only 8,600 such good soldiers in the entire United States.

But even such troops are on the verge of collapse. If it weren't for the swords of the supervisors behind them, they would have fled long ago.

Brigadier General Karna had no way out at this time, because his infantry could not catch up with the cavalry, and it was only a matter of time before morale collapsed under such firepower. The most important thing is that there is no way to solve this situation in any textbook.

Just as Brigadier General Karna hesitated, a shell landed on the ground in front of him, then bounced up and smashed the tool he used to think like a watermelon.

"The Brigadier General is dead! Run!"

The elite American troops, who had long been on the verge of collapse, finally burst out their last strength at this time, roaring and shouting and fleeing towards Robert Stockton's army.

However, the infantry chose to flee when facing cavalry, which was equivalent to sentencing themselves to death.

The Austrian cavalry, who had been ambushed long ago, rushed out from the flank and chopped and killed these panicked American soldiers.

During this period, some brave American soldiers wanted to turn back and fight back, but the huge impact brought by people riding on horses was not something that ordinary people could withstand, not to mention that there were a large number of lancers in the Austrian cavalry. (Austrian and Polish characteristics.)

In fact, the hussars did not have pistols, but they were usually not used during the charge. These pistols were generally used when they were unfortunately knocked off their horses or in a melee.

Even though Franz had already introduced revolvers into the Austrian army's equipment system, these hussars were reluctant to use pistols in charge and raid missions.

This was not a matter of chivalry, but the pistols at that time had too many uncontrollable factors. First of all, the hit rate was uncontrollable. Not everyone could master horseback shooting, and the hit rate of the pistols themselves was also very worrying.

At that time, the effective range of pistols was usually within 30 meters, and even the effective range of modern pistols was mostly within 50 meters, but in fact it was difficult to hit the target beyond 15 meters, and high-speed movement would reduce the hit rate.

Moreover, soldiers in this era were seriously lacking in live-fire shooting training. Unless they were born sharpshooters, they could not really practice horseback shooting with 30 bullets a year.

As for American cowboys, they would hit the same coin continuously with a pistol from hundreds of meters away, or use pistol bullets to accurately pass through the gap between two glass when riding a horse and passing by an oncoming train, avoiding the crew and dense passengers and hitting the train thief on the other side.

These can basically be understood as American martial arts novels. After all, it is not impossible for a superman with eight times the speed of light to seriously injure a mortal with a gunpowder-propelled firearm.

The second is the instability of firearms. At that time, various firearms had endless failures, and jamming and misfire were commonplace.

Back to the point, in fact, cavalry wielding sabers in pursuit battles are much more terrifying than pistol cavalry, and the efficiency of slaughter is much higher.

Before Robert Stockton and his reinforcements arrived, Brigadier General Karna's elite troops had been wiped out.

And Robert Stockton did not have many cavalrymen, and it was very difficult to feed livestock on long-distance sea voyages.

Historically, Robert Stockton's expeditionary force had less than 500 cavalrymen, and at this time, Fremont's occupation of San Diego contributed a lot of horses and mules to the US military.

Although North America is not short of horses, war horses are still rare, so at this time Robert Stockton had less than 1,000 cavalrymen, and the quality of the horses was far lower than that of the Austrian war horses.

After discovering each other, the cavalry of both sides did not directly start fighting. The American pistol cavalry drew their pistols and waited for the Austrian cavalry to charge.

At this time, Brigadier General Ernest of the US Cavalry Brigade ordered his cavalry to be on high alert, ready to let the barbarians of the Old World see the tactics of the New World.

Each American pistol cavalry was equipped with two revolvers, and one thousand people meant two thousand guns, each gun could fire six bullets, a total of twelve thousand bullets.

According to Brigadier General Ernest's estimate, the Austrian cavalry did not exceed three thousand people, which means that every four bullets could hit an Austrian soldier, and he could completely wipe out this cavalry unit of the Old World.

Just when Brigadier General Ernest was still imagining that he was about to receive the Purple Heart Medal awarded by Congress in the White House, the Austrian cavalry pushed up the cavalry gun and rocket launcher.

Brigadier General Ernest couldn't help but shout "Fuck you!"

A burst of artillery fire blew up the American cavalry, especially since many of the American horses were untrained. When they heard the explosion, they were frightened and raised their front hooves high, throwing the American soldiers off their horses.

Then the frightened horses fled in all directions, easily breaking up the cavalry line set up by Brigadier General Ernest. Just as he was reorganizing his troops, the second round of firepower began.

These cavalrymen did not have the morale and discipline of the previous elite troops, and soon they collapsed.

And this group of collapsed cavalry became the vanguard of the Austrian army to break through the US defense line. The Austrian cavalry followed the US cavalry and rushed to the command center where Robert Stockton was.

Robert Stockton was not a mediocre person. He immediately ordered to shoot the American soldiers who were driven by the Austrian army, which prevented the war from deteriorating further.

But the subsequent firepower attack completely overturned the three views of this famous general.

"How can cavalry have such strong firepower?!"

The tasks of cavalry in this era are usually vigilance, reconnaissance, patrol, outflanking and "cutting leeks" (harvesting the remaining enemies), and it was mainly Franz's suggestion to let the cavalry carry a large number of light equipment with powerful firepower.

At the same time, the continuous optimization of Congreve rockets also made this tactic possible, and the installation of rubber tires on artillery also greatly enhanced its mobility.

Franz paid a lot to realize this tactic, and it was also rewarded on the battlefield at this time.

Under the continuous attack of cavalry guns and new anti-infantry rockets, Robert Stockton could not maintain the morale of the infantry at all.

So he could only withdraw troops and artillery from the siege of Escondido to stop the Austrian vanguard, but this was not a wise move.

Cavalry has a huge advantage, that is, strong mobility. As soon as Robert Stockton mobilized the army, the Austrian cavalry changed its position to attack.

After a while, these American soldiers collapsed in exhaustion.

At this time, San Diego was attacked by the main force of the Austrian army led by Archduke Karl Ferdinand. The Californians (Spanish) under the bear flag betrayed faster than the Indians.

John Fremont had to flee on the American warship. In order to prevent the fleet from falling into the hands of the Austrians, he had to choose to leave the port.

So the question is, how can Robert Stockton leave?

First finish writing this war, and then write the story of Europe.

By the way, does anyone want to see the story of Robert Lee?