No matter what kind of troops, there is a limit to the ability to withstand the casualty rate, and in the Heng Olympic War, some of the elite units of the Daheng Army can bear more than 50 percent casualties in offensive battles, and if it is a defensive operation, the casualty bearing capacity of the elite troops is even higher.

And the current Daheng Imperial Army, that is, the troops to which the Lin Dynasty belongs, to a certain extent, the elite level is not as good as the Daheng Army back then.

Moreover, the nature of the war also has a great impact on the casualty bearing capacity of the Daheng army!

Daheng people are well-known outsiders and insiders in civil wars!

In the war of foreign expansion, no matter whether it is an officer or an ordinary soldier, they are all as fierce as a tiger!

But if it's a civil war, don't expect to be able to see how enthusiastic the people of Daheng are, most of the soldiers fought the civil war and dealt with it, even the grassroots officers.

As for the senior generals, they will naturally make the troops desperate for their personal interests, but it is another matter if the troops do not stop.

In recent decades, it has been common to see similar battles: tens of thousands of troops from both feudal towns fought for several days, and a lot of shells and bullets were fired, but in the end the number of casualties was only in the tens or hundreds.

The Daheng Imperial Army of the Lin Dynasty, although it introduced ideological education courses to educate the officers, and also began to carry out ideological education for ordinary soldiers, but it was okay at the officer level, on the whole, most of the officers of the Imperial Army were still full of enthusiasm, thinking that the few elites in their Daheng were born to save Daheng, so when fighting, even if their legs and feet were weak, and even scared to pee, many of them would still hold the command knife with trembling hands and order to continue the attack!

However, there is still a lack of ideological education for ordinary soldiers, and many soldiers disdain the ideological education section in the army, or they accept it on the surface, but they still have their own ideas in their hearts.

There is a flaw exposed here, that is, most of the soldiers of the army and navy of the Daheng Empire are still soldiers in the troops of the former feudal towns!

There are actually relatively few newly recruited and self-trained soldiers.

But there is no way to do this, on the one hand, the source of qualified soldiers is also limited, and it is not possible to recruit as many as you want.

In addition, there are too many feudal troops who surrender and capture, and after every large-scale battle, they are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of prisoners, and these people are not easy to deal with.

After each battle, there are so many captured soldiers, adding up to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, and if one is not handled well, it will be a big trouble.

In addition, most of the captured soldiers are also veterans, and they all have basic qualities, and they can be pulled out to fight after a little adaptive training, and if they are used properly, their combat effectiveness can be compared with that of the old troops.

This led to the expansion strategy of the Imperial Army, which was mainly based on capturing soldiers.

However, although this can quickly expand the army, and at the same time avoid the follow-up troubles of the prisoners of war, and prevent them from harming the locality, it also brings some problems to the troops.

That is, these people are used to fighting in the troops of the feudal town, and they are used to fighting with the wind, and they will run away or even surrender directly if they are slightly wrong!

Even though the Imperial Army had a team of highly qualified officers and popularized ideological education in the troops, it was still difficult to change this bad habit among most soldiers.

Of course, even if it is poor, it is better than other feudal troops, after all, the officers of the Imperial Army, especially the grassroots officers, are all poor and enthusiastic, and dare to fight.

But in any case, the Imperial Army was not as strong as it seemed!

The Imperial Army is powerful in firepower, more flexible in tactics, and more enthusiastic in the officer corps, but no one has ever said to anyone how high the fighting will of the ordinary soldiers of the Imperial Army is!

This also means that even if a unit like the 15th Regiment of the Fourth Division suffers too many casualties, it will still affect morale, which will lead to the inability of the troops to attack or even collapse.

However, his worries did not last long, and soon a group of the sharp knife units of the front-line troops rushed halfway up the mountain, and fired rapid-fire mortar guns behind the bunker, and the heavy machine gun crews were also in place one after another, and continued to strafe and suppress the enemy troops.

After the rapid-fire mortars and heavy machine guns carried by the front-line troops opened fire, the enemy's firepower on the hill suddenly weakened, not because they suffered heavy casualties, but simply because they were suppressed by the explosion of shells from the dense rapid-fire mortars and the strafing of heavy machine gun bullets.

However, this is also exactly what the officers of the front-line troops want to see!

Xie Yichang, the commander of the second company of the first battalion in the forward unit, saw that the enemy's counterattack firepower was weakened, and he directly raised his command knife: "Attack!" ”

In the next moment, the three platoon commanders under Xie Yichang also held their command knives and blew copper whistles, and in the sound of copper whistles, the soldiers of the second company left their bunkers or stood up again from the ground, and continued to charge towards the mountain!

Sergeant Xie Yichang, who was wearing the gray officer's combat uniform, also rushed forward with his own soldiers!

However, he only rushed a few dozen meters, and there was a sound of bullets shooting on the mountain, and the soldiers in the charge inevitably fell one after another, Xie Yichang looked at the remaining nearly three hundred meters in front of him, and was a little unwilling, but he still ordered in time: "Hide, lie down!" ”

In this case, if you continue to charge, it will not be a charge but a death! “

Lying behind a stone, Xie Yichang gasped and looked at the foot of the mountain, the road up the mountain was a few hundred meters away, and all his fallen comrades-in-arms were down!

Many of them were already corpses, and many of the wounded were wailing in place, including soldiers of his infantry company, as well as other friendly units!

On the entire mountain, more than 1,000 soldiers of the 15th Regiment were attacking the top of the mountain, and while the number of attackers was large, many people fell in the middle of the attack.

After waiting for about half a minute, he once again heard his own rapid-fire mortar and heavy machine guns firing intensively halfway up the mountain, this time with more fire support!

And through the sound of the explosion, he knew that this time he was afraid that even the 120-millimeter heavy rapid-fire mortar gun at the division headquarters had been drawn up, otherwise, it would be impossible for such a loud explosion to come from the enemy position overhead.

With the support of their own firepower, the enemy firepower on the hill has weakened again!

After taking a deep breath, Xie Yichang once again raised his command knife, and there was no superfluous nonsense, only one sentence: "Attack!" ”

With his order, the sharp copper whistle sounded again, and the soldiers stood up again and began to move forward quickly, after standing up and rushing forward for dozens of meters, Xie Yichang suddenly fell, and Xie Yichang, who was weak and fell, looked at the soldiers under his command who were still attacking, and suddenly had a question in his heart, his company was replenished after the battle of the Beijing Division, and the full strength of one hundred and fifty-six people was restored.

And how many are left now?

Maybe not a hundred!

He didn't know, because he fell, couldn't see, couldn't count!

The only thing he could be sure of was that after he fell, his troops continued to attack!

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