Chapter 101: The Power of Artillery
On October 25, 160 years of the new calendar, on the western plains of the former Republic of Sarres, 150,000 encircling network troops and 80,000 allied troops took up positions, officially opening the prelude to the world war. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The 150,000 coalition army included 80,000 Ira Army, 40,000 Leyting Army and 30,000 Tugu Army, as the main force of the Ira Army sitting in the center, the Rya Army as the left flank, and the Tugu Army as the right flank, steadily advancing.
The Allied forces against the coalition forces were all Ilibians, and this army was organized as the "Army of Zarles" before the war, and like the former "brigades", the current corps-level units are also temporary formations, and there is no fixed troop establishment. The Sales Army had 13 brigades, including three musket brigades, five cavalry brigades and five regular brigades, one regiment under the direct command of the army and one corps headquarters, with a total strength of 85,000 troops. The Saleth Army was not attached to an artillery brigade, and although the organization was changed, the composition of the troops was still similar to that of the original Ilibi Army.
The Salles army had an advantage in firepower with 9,000 Ilibi muskets, but they were at an absolute disadvantage. Moreover, the Ilibians are not good at close combat, and once they are forced to break through by the coalition forces, their formation will be disrupted, and they will pay heavy losses, or even be defeated by the coalition forces.
The Coalition thought that the Zarians would defend the city so that they could burn and loot in villages and weakly defended towns, but instead they chose to fight the Coalition on the plains. The decision of the Zarest army puzzled the coalition generals, but they nevertheless pulled their troops up the plain and fought the Zarest army in the field.
After the coalition began to march, the army of Zarians began to retreat in an orderly manner. The coalition immediately dispatched cavalry, trying to slow down the retreat of the Zarest army. After paying the price of more than a thousand cavalrymen, the coalition finally caught up with the Zarests.
The Leiting Army and the Dugu Army on the left flank did not act rashly, they felt that the Iracai was the main force in this battle, and they should attack first. Knowing that the first attack would be a confluence, the Irajun sent people to consult with the Leyting Army and the Dugu Army, hoping that the three armies would attack at the same time. While the generals of the three clans were bargaining, the Zarians distanced themselves from the coalition again.
There was a forest near the battlefield, and when the Coalition saw the Allies retreating in the direction of the forest, they thought that the Ilibians were trying to use the jungle terrain to limit the Coalition forces. In order to prevent the Ilibian plan from succeeding, the coalition army once again sent cavalry to try to hold back the Allied army, but did not want the Zarians to suddenly stop when they retreated to a kilometer away from the forest, and launched a fierce attack on the incoming coalition cavalry.
The attack of the Salles army caught the coalition army by surprise, and they lost 1,500 cavalry at once, and nearly 1,000 cavalry were scattered and disappeared. This loss made the Leyting army and the Ira army very angry, because the Tugu people had no cavalry, and they could only be responsible for sending cavalry to slow down the retreat of the Zarians army.
After catching up with the Zarest army, the commanders of the Leyting army and the Ira army let the Dugu army, which had no battle damage, attack first. But he didn't want the commander of the Dugu army to play Lai, saying that either everyone would attack together, or they wouldn't attack. The Leyting Army and the Ira Army had no choice but to agree to the demands of the Dugu Army.
After the coalition forces were ready to attack, the Ira, Leiting, and Tugu armies all stood still. They are afraid of being plotted by people of other races, and they are waiting for their allies to move first. Taking advantage of this, the Zarians retreated outside the forest, regrouping with their backs to the forest, as if preparing for a decisive battle with the coalition here.
In desperation, the coalition forces could only cancel the offensive and march again. If there is no predetermined battle plan, such repeated advances will be demoralizing. In order to boost the morale of the army, the coalition generals had to give pre-battle speeches before launching an offensive to boost morale, which consumed a lot of time.
After tossing for a long time, the Ira, Leiting and Dugu armies finally made up their minds and prepared to attack. But just as they gave the order to march, a dense figure suddenly appeared in the depths of the forest. At this moment, the coalition forces finally realized that the allies had deployed an ambush in the forest.
The Tairong Fairy Legion, which was ambushed in the forest in advance, was called "Cuckoo", with a staff of 40,000 people, 240 field guns and 40 city artillery, as well as 4,000 rifle cavalry. When the field artillery was pushed to the edge of the forest and aimed the black hole at the coalition array, the coalition generals had a bad premonition.
The disadvantage of the Zarians and the Tairong Elf Legion is that they have "short legs", that is, poor pursuit ability. In order to prevent the main force of the coalition army from running away, the Taeyong Goblin Legion chose to let the infantry and cavalry go into battle after the artillery was activated. They ambushed the cavalry behind the two flanks of the Zarests, and the infantry hid behind the artillery positions, and when the coalition army was blinded by artillery, they would immediately kill and directly crush the morale of the coalition army with tens of thousands of new rifles.
There are at least 200 of those strangely shaped cannons in the woods, right?
The commander of the Dugu Army swallowed with difficulty. Even if these two hundred artillery pieces were the kind of junk weapons he knew, as long as a few solid shells fell into the military formation, it would be enough for the coalition army to drink a pot. Wherever the powerful solid bullets go, there must be stumps and flesh flying indiscriminately, which will deal a devastating blow to the morale of the troops.
Due to the distance, the poor lighting in the forest, and the fact that the Taeyong elves are about the same height as the Ilibis people, the coalition forces were unable to find out that it was the Taeyong elves who operated the artillery. The coalition forces thought that these more than 200 "cannons" were the killer weapon of the allies, and in order to prevent the coalition plots from succeeding, they let the troops attack as quickly as possible. As long as the Allied forces and the Allied troops are close enough, the Allied artillery can easily hit their own people, and then the Allied forces will shoot themselves in the foot, but they will do the Allied forces a great favor.
According to the perception of artillery by the coalition generals, this weapon could not be fired until at least ten minutes after it was deployed. However, the field artillery of the Byronic Army was not the weapon they thought it would be, and in just three minutes, all the gun emplacements were ready. With the order of the corps general (there was no commander at this time), two hundred and forty field guns let out a loud roar, and two hundred and forty shrapnel flew over the heads of the coalition troops, exploding in mid-air, raining down tens of thousands of lead bullets.
It all came so suddenly that the coalition soldiers didn't have time to react - and even if they could, they would have raised their shields in the face of the barrage of fire that rained down from the sky, and then they were hit by lead bullets that pierced through the shields. The dense formation and orderly depth formation made the lethality of the shrapnel to the extreme, and in just one breathless effort, more than 10,000 coalition troops were shot and fell to the ground, wailing all over the ground.
The explosion from overhead and the huge casualties caused by the instant caused the coalition forces to collapse directly, and even the allies themselves were taken aback by the effect of the artillery. Artillerymen often use live ammunition to train and shoot targets, and they know the power of shrapnel shells, but training and actual combat are completely different things, and targets made of wooden planks and flesh and blood are even more different things.
When the artillerymen saw from afar the scene of the coalition troops being knocked down by a large area of shrapnel like a wheat harvest, and the ground immediately turned red, they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths. The Cuckoo Legion had originally intended to strike at least five rounds of fire, and then send cavalry to attack from both flanks, with the infantry following the Zarians in frontal pursuit. However, the coalition forces collapsed after a round of fire strikes, and if they fought according to the original plan, the subsequent fire strikes would become meaningless.
The field guns used by the Byronic Army had an effective range of two kilometers and a rate of fire of one fire per minute, and the artillery positions were only one kilometer away from the enemy. It is impossible for the enemy to run out of the range of the field artillery in a minute, but they have become a rout, and they have no value to be attacked by artillery. If the Cuckoo Legion had to fight five rounds as originally planned, the next few rounds would either be pointless slaughter or a waste of ammunition. And artillery shrapnel will also hinder friendly pursuit, in which case only a fool will carry out the original plan.
The corps general immediately ordered the shelling to cease and fired flares for cavalry and infantry to attack. The diminutive Ilibima could not keep up with the allied cavalry, but it was easy to drive the infantry. With the cooperation of the cavalry of the Zarests, the Byronic army captured 90,000 allied infantry, and only the cavalry of the allied army and the elite infantry of the Tugu army, who were faster than Eli's horses, ran away.
It is worth mentioning that the commanders of the Ira, Leiting and Tugu armies were all killed in the shelling, and the commander's escort unit also suffered heavy casualties. These selected warriors or Ryding mages never dreamed that they would be easily killed by an enemy from a distance of a kilometer.
In fact, their time has long since passed when advanced muskets were installed in the troops. Tengyuan, who is a supreme master, Nanyi, who has cultivated as an Irayou monster for thousands of years, and Gray, who is a top Leiting magician, all made similar exclamations when they saw the power of new muskets and cannons.
Times have changed. Those who do not keep pace with the times are destined to be crushed by the wheels of history. As historical promoters, Maier and Liu Xiu, in whose Byronic empire they are in, are destined to become frontrunners in the new era.
From October 25, 160 to February 8, 161 A.D., the Allied and Allied forces fought a total of 55 major battles. The 55 battles were all fought by the coalition forces according to the predetermined plan, and they thought they were well prepared and almost guaranteed to win, but all of them suffered crushing defeats.
In the space of more than three months, more than 876,000 coalition forces were killed, and more than 4 million were captured or surrendered voluntarily due to wounds. After the great success, the Allies did not immediately launch a counterattack, but repatriated all the prisoners of war and rested for another half a year before launching a counteroffensive.
During the period when the Allied forces were resting, a large number of coalition forces secretly sent envoys to sue for peace, but the Allied powers sternly refused. The Allies said there was only one path to peace, and that was world unity. In fact, during this half a year, the Allies were not resting their troops, because their troops did not need to rest at all.
During the battle, the total number of Allied casualties was only 31,524, or less than 600 casualties per battle. Most of them were wounded, and the number of dead was only 6,750, which was a fraction of the coalition army, and the ratio of casualties was very different.
The Allied forces took a half-year break to make tactical and strategic adjustments to adapt the army to the new tactics. At the same time, the Byronic Empire began to put pressure on the Dugu Kingdoms in several alliances in the hope that these countries would be peacefully incorporated into the Byronic Empire.
The Byrons family didn't want vassals, so it was useless to simply show submission. In the face of the new rifles and muskets of the Kingdom of Byrons, these nations were as powerless as weak women stripped naked. Ramogis took the lead, surrendered his entire army, and handed over all the king's power to Mel. Maier took Ramogis directly to Byron City and made him Minister of Education.
The Ministry of Education is the fifth department of the Cabinet that has just been separated from the Ministry of Administration in January 161 of the new calendar, and its predecessor is the General Directorate of Education under the Ministry of Administration. With the development of the core district system, the expenditure of the General Administration of Education in the Administration Department has become larger and larger, and by the end of the year 158 of the new calendar, the expenditure of the General Administration of Education accounted for 57% of the total expenditure of the Administration Department. Under these circumstances, it is clearly not suitable for the General Directorate of Education to continue to be a subordinate department of the Ministry of Administration.
The importance of education to the country is self-evident, and the former director of the General Bureau of Education had to hand over a lot of work to Yu Changnian and Nam Yi due to his limited capacity. Now that the General Administration of Education has become the Ministry of Education, the director of the General Administration knew that he was not competent, so he took the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian, and elected Gray as the Minister of Education.
At this time, Yun Xin was getting old, and there were more and more gray hairs on his head, and his appearance was far less beautiful than when he was young. Originally, she only wanted Gray to love herself, but she began to persuade Gray to marry again a few years ago. Gray refused to marry again, and promised that as long as the situation stabilized, he would give up all his work and take Yunxin back to live in the mountains where he had lived in seclusion.
Gray had already made up his mind that if it weren't for Yun Xin's reluctance to give up his son, he would have taken her away before the outbreak of the world war. Myer knew that Gray was not interested in politics, so he did not force his father to stay and help him. At this time, just as Ramogis came to offer his country, Maier arrested his strong man and made him Minister of Education.
After Ramogis became Minister of Education, he reformed the education system of the empire several times, establishing a "teacher qualification certification system", "teacher qualification evaluation system", "school evaluation system" and so on. These systems continue to this day, which is why the results of these reforms are known as the "Ramogis Guidelines".
Ramogis, the protagonist of the movie "The Teacher Called "The Teacher Who Doesn't Abandon"? Savi, whose surname is the surname of the teacher in the real event, but the name is the name of Ramogis, the first Minister of Education of the Empire. It is said that the screenwriter originally wanted to use the teacher's real name, but when designing the lines, he suddenly had an inspiration, and then changed the protagonist's name to Ramogis.
Then, we heard the classic line spoken by the protagonist: "My name is Ramogis, not the great man who created the 'Ramogis Guidelines', just an ordinary teacher, but the 'Ramogis Guidelines' are my life guidelines." You may seem to others to be the scum of the scum, but I would never see you that way. You are my students, and no matter what happens, I will not abandon you, because my name is Ramogis, and I am a teacher named 'Unabandoned'! ”