The Austrians invested so many troops at one time, which visually gave the Sardinians a great impact. Looking around, there are people near and far. Accompanied by artillery fire and military music, these Austrian soldiers lined up neatly and strode forward in great strides, looking like an unstoppable tide, which made everyone who faced them feel a heavy feeling of pressure. If it wasn't for the "Strong Pill" with incomparable miraculous effects, some people would have already turned around and run away.

All the soldiers have swallowed the "Dali Pill". As the "Dali Pill" melted in their stomachs, the soldiers felt their dry mouths drool again, and their heartbeats seemed to calm down a bit. The tension and fear are gone with the wind.

Neville's regiment was placed at the forefront of the battle line. This is the most vulnerable position. The soldiers now stretched out their rifles from the trenches, silently aiming at the approaching enemy. At this time, the artillery arranged on the side had already shifted their position, they were moved to the top of the high ground and fired condescendingly at the Austrians.

Fire from this direction is not as effective as fire from the side. Because firing from the side, if the shot is accurate, a single shell can kill a whole row of people. On the front, the thickness of the army array is relatively limited. Even if it hits the target, it can only knock down four or five people.

However, there are gains and losses. After the position is transferred to the hills, the artillery also gains another advantage: a greater range and a larger range of fire. Almost the entire battlefield was within range of their artillery. And they have measured and tested each position before. Shooting accuracy will be relatively higher.

As a bronze smoothbore gun, the accuracy and range of the Napoleon gun are quite good. Of course, compared with the steel-rifled gun that will appear soon, it is still much worse. In the original history, in the later Franco-Prussian War However, the Napoleon gun was completely inferior to the Prussian Krupp steel gun, but in this era, it was almost the best field gun. Although there are already very primitive rifled guns in this era, the high cost, short lifespan, and extremely low rate of fire make these things impossible to equip troops on a large scale.

The Sardinian artillery first used the range advantage brought by the height advantage to attack the Austrian artillery positions. Although not many shells hit, this round of artillery seriously interfered with the Austrian artillery. Move the position without panic. In this way, the Austrian artillery temporarily withdrew from the battlefield.

Then, the Sardinian artillery began to turn around the muzzle, and continuously launched attacks on the Austrian infantry units, continuously shooting shells into the Austrian formation, and continuously making bloody alleys. However, these bombardments did not stop the Austrians, they were just dozens of cannons. Although they were doing their best to cause casualties, in front of the Austrian army that was pouring in like a tide, these bombardments seemed to be lost in the tide. Although a few stones caused a little splash, they were swallowed up by the tide in a blink of an eye.

"Hold on, hold on! Don't shoot! Hold on!" the officers' shouts echoed in the trenches, and Tommy shifted the butt of his gun over his shoulder, tilted his head again, squinted one eye, and continued aiming. The Austrian in front is slowly approaching. But at this time, those Americans had already been shot. Anyway, the rifles they used would not emit thick white smoke, and it would not be easy to expose the target. As for the gunshots, the cannons constantly ringing out on the battlefield have long suppressed the particularly crisp gunshots.

If the soldiers of Sardinia had various opinions on those Americans in the past, now they only admire these Yankees, because as soon as they shoot, in all likelihood, there will be a The commander in gorgeous military uniform fell headlong to the ground.

However, the tide did not stop because of this, and it was still surging forward. The distance between them and the first trench was getting closer and closer, 200 meters, 180 meters, 150 meters, 120 meters... ... Neville stared at the whitewashed stone not far away, and slowly raised his hand.

"Fire!" Neville shouted, and at the same time chopped off his right arm fiercely, as if Hao Xiuang wanted to split the oncoming crowd.

"Bang, bang..." The gunshots suddenly rang out. Before this, the Austrians had not discovered the well-concealed first trench, and this round of salvo was completely beyond their expectations. With the accuracy of Macdonald 1857, shooting at such a distance, coupled with the dense formation of the Austrians, it is not easy for the Sardinians to shoot wrongly. So this row of guns almost directly overturned the front row of the Austrians. Immediately after this row of guns, the second trench and the third trench also opened fire. Three rounds of salvos killed and wounded nearly a thousand Austrian soldiers, freezing the sweeping frenzy at once. The shot, like an invisible dam, crushed the big waves that hit the head.

After these three salvos, the oncoming regiment was almost wiped out. The remaining dozens of lucky ones who were not shot stood there blankly, not knowing whether to rush forward or turn around and run, they just stood there in a daze. After a few seconds, someone yelled, turned around, and ran away, and some people simply fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.

"Don't worry about running back! Get ready to hit the ones coming up from behind!" Seeing someone aiming at the fleeing soldiers, Neville hurriedly shouted.

The next wave of shock is imminent. The soldiers quickly pushed out the shells, filled them with bullets, and fired. At this time, the Austrians had already seen the first trench clearly, and they also began to shoot at the Sardinians. The "puff puff puff" bullets hit the ground and stirred up a lot of dust.

Casualties also began to appear among the Sardinians. More than a dozen soldiers were hit by random bullets. The trenches blocked most of the shooting. The Sardinian soldiers only showed their heads, so they were not easy to be shot. But once it is hit, it is very troublesome, because it must be shot in the head.

However, the "Dali Pill" gave the Sardinians courage, and they continued to shoot back. Their reloading speed was faster than those of the Austrians. When the Austrians were still reloading, they knocked them to the ground with bullets. The three trenches excavated on the high ground happen to have a height difference so the three trenches have a fairly good shooting sight. Thick smoke was constantly spewing out from the three trenches, killing the Austrians who stopped there and fired at them at the front of the position. The corpses kept piling up and even interfered with the progress of the troops behind.

"Stupid! Don't stop and shoot! Put on the bayonet and move forward!" An Austrian commander saw that something was wrong and shouted. The soldiers around him began to frantically put bayonets on their rifles. At this moment, a bullet flew over and hit the commander in the chest. This is not a 7.62mm bullet fired by the McDonnell 1857 Precision Shot rifle, but an 11mm bullet fired by the regular version of the McDonnell 1857 rifle. The power of this bullet is not greater than the former, but due to the caliber issue, the stopping effect is more obvious. The shot immediately knocked the officer to the ground. Let the Austrians who were just preparing for a bayonet charge mess up again.

"I shot an officer! I did!" cried Tommy, but no one was paying any attention to him now. Everyone was concentrating on reloading and aiming. Tommy looked around, but no one paid any attention to him, so he turned his head and honestly reloaded, aimed, and shot.

But more and more Austrians began to understand, they stopped shooting at the Sardinians foolishly, and they began to put bayonets on their rifles and charge upwards. For the sake of speed, they didn't even care about their formation and just rushed forward.

The McDonnell 1857 rifle does not involve a magazine, so the rate of fire is a bit slower than modern bolt-action rifles. Even modern bolt-action rifles may not be able to stop such a sea of people without the help of a machine gun. charge. Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, Lieutenant Colonel Neville had to order to withdraw to the second trench.

The soldiers quickly ran back to the second trench along the traffic trench. At this time, some Austrians had already rushed to the first trench. Some of them directly crossed the first trench and continued to rush to the second trench, and some of them jumped off the trench to avoid bullets.

As a result, the existence of this trench has shaken those Austrians who had been moving forward wholeheartedly. More people found that it seemed safer to jump into the trenches and hide. As a result, fewer people charged honestly, and more and more people hid in the trenches and could not come out. As a result, those who rushed to the second trench were of course killed without any suspense, and this made more people hide in the first trench.

At this time, the follow-up troops of the Austrians also followed. But obviously, there was no room for them in the trenches, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush to the second trench. But at this time, their charging momentum also dropped a lot. In addition to rushing all the way, the exhausted physical strength caused their speed to drop significantly. Although one of the three trenches is missing, the people in the first trench have been transferred to the second trench. Therefore, the bullets that the Austrians have to face have not decreased much. People were being beaten to death on the ground continuously. Although the distance between them and the second trench was still getting closer, their actions had become more and more hesitant.

"Let the soldiers mount their bayonets," Robson said to Neville. "The enemy is already close to the limit now. It only takes a countercharge to defeat them."

Neville thought for a while, then looked at the enemy troops who had approached less than 50 meters away, and finally ordered: "All bayonets!"