Chu Weiming looked at the enemy troops on the front line, rushing up like a tide, but soon receded like a tide, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's not so easy to learn our light infantry tactics!" ”

On the other side of the battlefield, Xu Teng and other senior generals of Hetai County looked at the nearly 20,000 first-wave attacking soldiers on the front line, and their faces were very unsightly after they were repulsed not long after they launched the attack.

"How did you fight ahead, this has rushed to a distance of three or four hundred meters, why did you retreat again, it was not easy to go up, and it was not so easy to retreat and want to go up again!"

Xu Teng was quite dissatisfied with the current development of the war situation.

You know, although he adopted a skirmish tactic to disperse the attacking troops of the infantry, it was still inevitable to be bombed during the advance.

At first, it was okay, the enemy's artillery seemed to be difficult to find the target, and the casualties of the artillery attack on their side were relatively small, but later the effect of the enemy's artillery bombardment increased significantly, and the pressure of the artillery bombardment of the attacking troops was extremely great.

Even the first wave of nearly 20,000 attacking troops suffered at least 1,000 casualties just as they advanced.

It took a great deal of money to kill, but it was just the beginning of the charge, and it retreated within three hundred meters of the opponent's defensive line, and when it retreated, it was disorderly, not to mention the chaos, and it directly exposed itself to the enemy's artillery, which led to even greater casualties.

When Xu Teng was dissatisfied, Chu Weiming had already suggested that Wang Dao, the commander of the Seventh Division, carry out intensive artillery bombardment: "Division commander, let the artillery unit increase the intensity of artillery bombardment and properly carry out extended artillery bombardment, it's a pity not to hit such a good target!" ”

Wang Dao smiled: "Well, let the artillery units fight well, by the way, let the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment also properly fire a rapid fire to suppress their arrogance!" ”

From their point of view, when the retreating soldiers of the Hetai Army retreated, they were all over the mountains, running faster than the other, and in the process, they naturally forgot to lie down and hide their bodies with the help of the terrain, and these retreating soldiers were the best targets for shelling.

After receiving the order, the 75-mm artillery of the artillery regiment of the 7th Division and even the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment began to turn their guns and began intensive shelling of these retreating enemy troops.

In the past, when the artillery units of the South China Navy wanted to shell, it was very easy, because the enemy troops lined up several kilometers away and let them blow up.

But now the troops of these Hetai troops have learned wisely, and they have already dispersed their formations several kilometers away and adopted small-scale infiltration and entry, resulting in a poor artillery bombardment.

Although they also killed and wounded at least several hundred enemy troops through artillery during the early advance of the enemy's army, the results of this kind of artillery bombardment were quite good in the past, but for the South China Sea artillery, which was accustomed to blowing the enemy directly to the back of the horse, this kind of thing was very unaccustomed.

The front-line artillery officers also recognized this embarrassment, and after urgent discussion and analysis, they believed that the existing artillery tactics were still too rigid.

Subsequently, it adopted a more flexible approach, and instead of stubbornly looking for large-scale and dense enemy forces for large-scale artillery bombardment, it began to disperse artillery and flexibly shell dozens or even several enemy troops.

After emergency adjustments, the effect of the artillery bombardment rose to a relatively normal level, killing and wounding many enemy troops.

However, at this time, in fact, the combat targets of many artillery pieces were not these enemy infantry on the front line, but the enemy's artillery positions in depth and troop gathering places.

When the enemy's 20,000 forwards were killed, in order to prevent a large number of the enemy's smoothbore guns from advancing forward, the heavy artillery of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment was specially shelled and intercepted by the enemy's artillery units.

Otherwise, when these smoothbore cannons also enter within two or even one thousand meters, they can also pose a great threat to their own defense line.

What the artillery units of the South China Navy have to do is to stop the opponent's artillery four kilometers away!

And it was very successful, although the enemy's infantry came up, their artillery units were still hiding four or five kilometers away.

Now the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment is also turning its guns and carrying out intensive artillery bombardment on the enemy infantry together with the 7th Artillery Regiment, a large number of shells continue to fall, and the casualties of the retreating Hetai Army instantly increase.

The drastic increase in casualties instantly turned the retreat into a collapse!

When he saw that his forward troops only retreated at first, but soon turned into a collapse, Xu Teng's face was expressionless instead of angry.

A few minutes later, I only heard him say: "Suspend the attack, gather the troops!" ”

"Convene a meeting of the commanders of the divisions and brigades!"

The anger at the beginning and then the calmness now, that is because Xu Teng can see that his troops did not make any mistakes when attacking, they did their best under effective conditions, and even braved the enemy's breech-loading rifled guns to kill a few hundred meters in front of the enemy's infantry line.

Even if the follow-up retreat becomes a collapse and there are a large number of casualties, the front-line troops cannot be blamed, except for a very small number of elite troops, most of the troops are subjected to this level of large-scale artillery bombardment when retreating, it is difficult to maintain organization, and collapse is a high probability.

And the troops who served as the vanguard and were responsible for the first wave of the offensive were not considered elite in his Hetai army, but just ordinary front-line troops.

In his opinion, this attack was thwarted not because of the enemy's artillery strength, but because the infantry at the front line met with unexpected resistance when attacking.

After 20,000 infantry entered the effective range of 500 meters of rear-loading rifles, they were completely defeated in the confrontation with the enemy's infantry, and even had no power to resist at all, which led to retreat and collapse.

What caused the front-line troops to lose fire against the enemy infantry?

This is the problem that Xu Teng wants to solve!

As a veteran general who has been in the army for more than 30 years, Xu Teng was already the commander of an army under Duke Meng, and followed Duke Meng to fight for many years.

There is no doubt about his military qualities!

In the battle just now, he didn't seem to have any problems with his own attacking troops, but he saw through the telescope that when the infantry on the front line and the enemy infantry fought, it was simply out of order, and in a battle line of more than 100 meters, some soldiers continued to attack, and sometimes they hid, and some even retreated.

The troops at the front, lost their command!

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