Can the forward troops of only one regiment of the opponent launch a tentative attack, and inflict hundreds of casualties on their own defense line of 10,000 people?

This kind of thing completely exceeded his expectations.

Immediately, he himself just flipped through the detailed battle report!

At the same time, Jian Liangzhi continued: "The front-line soldiers reported that the opponent's muskets fired extremely fast, and when fighting, they did not form a traditional line formation, but adopted a straggler formation very similar to that of the hunters, and they all lay on the ground and fired."

"The front-line troops are very unaccustomed to this new weapon and tactics of the enemy, which has led to large casualties!"

"Extremely fast rate of fire?" Jian Minggang thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that they also belong to the same breech-loading rifles as those rebels of the South China Sea New Army?" ”

Jian Liangzhi said: "Whether it is an extremely fast rate of fire or a skirmish formation, these are characteristics that can only be found when equipped with a rear-loading rifle, and it is unlikely that there will be such a tactic if you use a front-loading rifle!" ”

Jian Liangzhi said: "Although we have not been able to capture the sample gun for the time being, according to the judgment of the front-line troops, it is very likely that the other party is equipped with the same rear-loading rifle as the New Army of the South China Sea. ”

"I suspect that Lin Ziran has colluded with the New Army in the South China Sea, otherwise he would not have been able to get so many breech-loading rifles, and his Qingshan Machinery Factory is too small in scale and strength to make real breech-loading rifles."

After Jian Minggang heard this, he thought for a few seconds and said: "Reinforcement some artillery in the direction of Pingdan City, and immediately order the Luoan Arsenal to work overtime, the current production of rear-loading rifles is too low!" ”

He knew the benefits of the rear-loading rifle, and he had always attached great importance to it, and even in order to equip the rear-loading rifle in advance, he vetoed the proposal of the engineers of the arsenal to improve the reproduction, but directly copied the rear-loading paper shell rifle of the South China Sea New Army.

But the production of breech-loading rifles is not easy to say.

Although the strength of the Luo'an Arsenal under his command is not bad, it is still on a par with large arsenals such as the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanhai Machinery Bureau, and it is only a medium-sized arsenal at best.

In order to mass-produce this rear-loading paper rifle, which the rebels called the South China Sea rifle with a caliber of 13 mm, they still have many problems to solve.

Even though it has been tossed for a long time, it has only just started production, and the output is still very small.

But what he didn't expect was that the rebels of the Nanhai New Army who didn't know where to run out of nowhere had this kind of breech-loading rifle, and Lin Ziran actually got this kind of breech-loading rifle.

This time, it made him feel a huge threat.

The rebels of the South China Sea New Army are too few in number, and although the quality of individual soldiers is good, according to the feedback of the front-line troops, these South China Sea New Army seem to have good individual soldier quality, but the overall tactical level is still very limited.

In the end, Jian Minggang was able to completely compress them at the beginning of the month, but those guys couldn't fight, and the speed of escape was very fast, and when they saw something bad, they directly broke through the river at night.

But even if they run away, it also proves that although those new South China Sea troops are equipped with new rifles, when it comes to fighting, they can't do it.

However, if Lin Ziran's troops were also massively equipped with rear-loading paper-shell rifles, then things would be completely different.

Even if the Sixth Division under Lin Ziran is shallow, it is also a regular army that has been established for more than two years, and once these regular armies are equipped with new weapons to fight, their power is not comparable to those small-scale rebels of the South China Sea New Army.

But it's useless to worry now, all he can hope for now is that the troops on the front line can hold the line.

Even when Jian Minggang was worried, outside Pingdan City, Lin Ziran was leading a group of generals under his command to inspect the front-line troops.

At this time, he was smiling, not the kind of professional smile that was disguised, but a smile from the bottom of his heart.

Because just yesterday, the first regiment under his command, and the first and only unit equipped with modified breech-loading rifles, was ordered to launch a tentative attack on the enemy in front of him.

At the beginning, Lin Ziran didn't have any expectations, after all, the troops as a whole were not fully prepared for the southward attack, and the attack of the first step corps was just a tentative attack.

The purpose is simple, that is, to test the reality of the opponent's defense.

But it was such a simple tentative attack, and it turned out to be a direct capture of an important stronghold of the opponent's defense, a village that was not very large.

At the same time, it inflicted at least four or five hundred casualties on the enemy during the attack.

Even Lin Ziran himself couldn't think of this result.

You must know that this time the tentative attack did not even prepare much artillery fire, but only temporarily allocated an artillery battalion to provide support, at most plus some light mortars owned by the First Infantry Corps.

But this time the tentative attack went unbelievably smooth.

At that time, Lin Ziran was watching the battle from the rear, and after he saw with his own eyes that his artillery unit carried out a preliminary artillery attack, the other side began to line up to greet him, while his first step corps launched a skirmish line attack from multiple directions.

At that time, Lin Ziran still felt that the time for the training of the troops was not enough, the level of the troops was not obvious enough when they implemented the tactics of the straggler line, and there was an obvious disconnect between the battalions and companies.

But the next thing is to make Lin Ziran unable to understand.

Although the skirmish line can effectively reduce the enemy's artillery attack, the casualties of the attacking troops are too small.

When their own stragglers alternated with the help of the terrain in what seemed to be a very loose formation, although there were still casualties, they were nothing to the first march, which numbered nearly 2,000 men.

And at this time, what made him even more incomprehensible came.

The other party may have seen that they were only advancing with a skirmisher line, as if they had found an opportunity, and they rushed up directly in line to try to launch a counterattack.

The next thing is simple, when the enemy army is in a dense line formation, rushing up with a steady pace, Lin Ziran is still a little worried.

Even Wu Guanlin, who proposed and perfected the light infantry tactics of the army, and who had been in charge of the light infantry tactics of the army, was very nervous at that time, worried that the new light infantry tactics he had developed himself would not be able to stop the enemy's dense charge.

But the next scene made Wu Guanlin ecstatic!

Because they saw that the officers and men of the First Advance Corps rushed up in line on the initiative of the enemy, and began to shoot intensively to intercept them under the command of Xu Zhongshu, the commander of the First Rank Corps.

Then, the army of the three thousand county guards who rushed up collapsed......

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