用Mark Adkins的原图自己添了几笔,是这样没错……吧?
拉艾圣陷落的时间各方回忆从2点到7点不等,据克莱顿自己推算,时间是五点半左右,这个时候法军骑兵冲锋还没有结束,而在步炮骑的配合下法军打得风生水起,比如拿骚第一团本来想变横队去夺炮,但是法军骑兵冲锋变方阵被猛轰直至轰散。
骑兵多用于右翼法军骑兵的冲锋,至于此时的骑兵秩序和数量巴布罗说近卫旅和联合旅都只剩下两个中队左右,比荷汉诺威骑兵甚至已经失去秩序:
Sir Colin Halkett, in an effort to raise the spirits of the few remaining men in his battalions, tried to lead a Netherlands cavalry regiment deployed behind them in a charge; but after a few steps the Dutch-Belgians stopped, refusing to go any farther, turned their horses around, and headed back. Halkett's infantry squares, formed nearby,grew indignant at this behavior and started firing at the retreating horsemen, bringing many down from their saddles. General van Merlen's Second Light Cavalry Brigade, composed of the Belgian Fifth Light Dragoons and the Sixth Dutch Hussars, conducted themselves more honorably, charging the French artillery that was taking up positions beside La Haye Sainte; but the results were no better. Van Merlen, whom Napoleon had created a baron of the empire barely three years before, was killed when a cannonball struck him in the abdomen, and his brigade fell apart: Colonel Van Boreel, who commanded the Hussars, tried to take over command of the brigade, but the survivors of the Fifth Light Dragoons refused to obey a Dutchman and joined another light brigade, which was commanded by the Belgian Baron de Ghigny.
此时联军的步兵,KGL第二旅因为拉艾圣的陷落和两次不成功的反击已经基本不存在了,汉诺威第一旅和拿骚团据安德鲁.菲尔德的法军资料汇编说因伤亡过大正在往第二线退却,Halkett的第五旅为了避免丢失荣誉已经把军旗给送到后方去了,再往做梅特兰的近卫军虽然有威灵顿自己亲自指挥(如果没记错的话)不断的做方阵和横队演练,但是据英军自己的回忆录,队形正在变得越来越细。最惨莫过于兰伯特旅,第二十七步兵团损失甚至超过了三分之二。
此地段的联军炮兵,因为弹药正在耗尽已经很难再发挥太大的作用。
米夫林说此时的英军伤亡超过8000,威灵顿的可战兵力只有3万,另一个联军工程军官认为伤亡超1万,可战兵力3万3.
当然这一阵英军指挥官伤亡也很大,KGL第二旅旅长阵亡,阿尔顿和奥兰治受伤,戈登德兰西受伤,萨莫斯特和库克受伤……
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