At this mont, the Arican Army’s cannons had already fallen one kiloter away.
The Arican infantry looked at the thin French Army line in front of them, ready with confidence to rout them with a few volleys, while cannons roared thunderously from the side.
Although the artillery level of the Louisiana Colony was quite ordinary, all the cannon positions were calibrated by Napoleon himself. They only needed to fire according to the pre-set angles continuously, and the cannonballs could accurately pass through the most dense places of the Arican Army.
With a burst of flying flesh, the once unstoppable Aricans were suddenly frustrated, and so on the most forward infantry line even fell to the ground in fright.
The encouraged French Army began to counterattack with volleys.
Under the dense barrage of cannons and flintlock guns, 3,000 Arican troops were driven to retreat by less than 1,400 French and Spanish soldiers.
The dispersed Indian "skirmishers" also regrouped, constantly firing from both sides to wear down the Aricans.
Wayne, holding binoculars, saw the frontline situation and couldn’t help but curse repeatedly with words starting with "F".
He hadn’t expected the French to still hide so many cannons, and their firepower was extrely fierce.
He imdiately turned and angrily shouted at the order officer: "Order Arnold to put all the reserves into the battlefield.
"Also, inform those artilleryn that if they can’t enter the range within ten minutes, I’ll send them all to military court!"
"Yes, General!"
With Wayne’s orders executed, the Arican forces on the front battlefield reached a total of 5,500 n.
When Wayne saw the dense soldiers pouring towards the thin French Army positions, he finally revealed a satisfied smile. Regardless of the French cannons being a bit threatening, their defense line absolutely couldn’t withstand the impact of nearly three tis the superior forces.
As long as these thousands of French troops are defeated, the Governor of Louisiana can only choose surrender, and the sphere of influence of the United States will first cross the Mississippi River’s natural barrier, extending into the vast Central Plains of North Arica.
Additionally, with the aid promised by the British, after several years of developnt, the national power of the United States could even approach the level of Europe’s first-rate powers!
And for Wayne, as the creator of all this, there’s hardly any suspense about winning the next presidential election.
Major Braser, the vice corps commander of the French Army, reported to Napoleon: "Commander, the enemy has pressed all their forces.
"Moreover, there are over 600 Arican cavalry hovering on our left flank."
Napoleon stood up from the small chair, first gesturing to Captain Marcal who stood nearby: "You imdiately go to the left flank to assist the defense. At least hold the Aricans for 40 minutes."
Marcal quickly approached, standing solemnly with a severe expression: "Yes, Commander."
He was the commander of the French Cavalry Camp, with 270 French cavalry and over 100 Indian soldiers under his command, facing over 600 Arican cavalry posed a formidable challenge.
Moreover, he knew that their frontline defense would soon be breached by the swarming Aricans. What he had to perform was a mission with no return.
Napoleon seed to sense his anxiety, loudly declared: "I can promise you that 40 minutes later the Aricans will be defeated."
He no longer paid attention to the cavalry camp commander, turned to Braser and signaled: "Order Captain Otto to start the operation."
Otto is the French na of the Indian officer Little Turtle.
Following Braser’s order, the flagbearer signaled a series of flag signals below the hill, two cavalryn imdiately spurred their horses toward the dense forest eastward.
The Arican Army had well utilized their superior forces, advancing the front line by a kiloter in just over 20 minutes, and the French Army was about to be driven into the Mississippi River.
Just as Arnold prepared to order the launch of the final column charge to completely crush the French, he suddenly heard gunfire from the left.
Initially, he thought it was only harassnt by French skirmishers, but the gunfire beca increasingly dense, with at least a regint’s worth of forces.
He couldn’t help but furrow his brows in confusion. The east was a large dense forest, there was no possibility to deploy so many forces.
Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw his left flank corps falling into chaos, hurriedly ordering the entire army to stop advancing and withdraw two battalions to reinforce the left flank.
anwhile, in the dense forest on the east side of the battlefield, Little Turtle stood on the fork of a tree five or six ters above the ground, watching with binoculars the battlefield outside the forest and emitting a series of strange cries.
Around him were over 1,700 Indian soldiers poking their heads between the trees, aiming their guns at the outside Arican Army to shoot.
Between three ters in the forest, visibility was lost, so flags couldn’t be used for command. But with the Indians’ common whistling sounds continuously spreading, these soldiers maintained a constant interval over a 1.5-kiloter width, and could act uniformly.
Outside the forest, the attacked Arican soldiers hardly saw where the enemy was, rely firing randomly into the dark thickets.
When dozens were killed by the "ghosts" in the forest, the Arican Army’s left flank began to break up.
Luckily, the reinforcents dispatched by Arnold arrived in ti to stabilize the situation.
The Arican officer commanding the reinforcents frowned at the fire-flashing forest, hesitated for a mont, then gritted his teeth ordering the soldiers to line up in formation to launch an attack.
However, when the Arican Army braved the gunfire and reached the forest, they were unsure what to do.
This wretched place, once inside, forget combat; in minutes they’d all fall apart.
But standing there just made them sitting ducks — most of their volleys hitting tree trunks.
With more soldiers hit and falling, the Arican officer had no choice but to order a retreat.
Indeed, this was the "French-Indian Coordinated Tactic" invented by Napoleon based on the actual situation in Louisiana temporarily.
Though these Indians couldn’t even line up, they possessed ancestral skills to move and fight in the woods.
In fact, they previously relied on forests to ambush Aricans, but then they lacked the concept of modern corps warfare and were short on firearms, so they could only charge out from the woods to surprise attack when Aricans approached.
If the Arican Army reacted quickly, organizing a line defense promptly, it often ended up costing them heavily.
After months of training by Napoleon, Indians learned mutual cooperation and equipped with large quantities of flintlock guns, thus were able to hide in thick forests to engage in continuous shooting, pushing their advantages to the limit imdiately.
Outside the forest, Arican soldiers were killed in the retreat process close to a hundred more, starting to flee in panicked escape.
Coupled with the previously defeated troops, the Arican left flank instantly turned chaotic.
Arnold had already personally rushed over, simply inquiring about the situation, then hurriedly instructed the order officer: "Command everyone to stay 300 feet away from that damned thicket!"
Since these Indians only dared to hide in the woods and fire randomly, they’d better stay far away from them.
The Arican left flank imdiately sounded a brisk military drumbeat, over two thousand soldiers hurriedly gathered towards the center.
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