Chapter 5 Beyond the Lines of Defense of the Times
What are some of the most popular things to do for the time-traveler? Make money, pretend to be B, open a harem, and bully others? Maybe it's all right, but for our protagonist, the favorite is IQ and technology crushing! How can the extra hundred years of knowledge be wasted? Although at the beginning of the conversation with my uncle's representative, he said that he would test the power of the new weapon through a friendly match, but consciously or unconsciously, our Royal Highness the Prince made some stumbling blocks! For example, polygonal trenches, barbed wire, gun nests, machine gun nests, and side-to-side and backward positions that are painted by cats and tigers. If it weren't for the terrain not allowing it, he would have made an anticline position.
According to the traverser's idea, the best case scenario is that his uncle rushes over with cavalry, and then collapses in front of 4 rapid-fire guns and 6 machine guns! Then I took the opportunity to introduce the new toys that I had just made, and my own things were promoted, and my uncle was also educated and learned a new fighting posture! What a joy it is! (As if the word is a bit of a mishap to use here?) Leave him alone! )
As a result, what is unexpected is that his uncle actually used it seriously, and these things were used in the end! However, His Royal Highness still had a little affection, at least after the signal flag on the mountain conveyed the message that they would wait for a while, the prince still let the troops rest in place. In his opinion, is it a 20-year-old child who has nothing to play, what kind of new weapon, just play with him in a good mood, besides, use superior forces to kill a junior, and it is not he who is embarrassed! After the prince's thoughts, he suddenly realized that no matter what the outcome of the exercise was, it seemed that he was the one who lost.
"I kind of regret it now." The prince looked at Count Schelling next to him with some dissatisfaction, and in the face of the prince's coercion, the earl decisively became an ostrich.
Although in order to give full play to the power of the weapon in his hand, Prince Ruprecht found an open area as a battlefield, but this is a royal hunting ground, how can there be so many flat land! Even if he traveled through the hunting grounds, the battlefields he found were still not perfect, such as the woods scattered around the battlefields. These woods provided cover for the cavalry. If the opponent also brings artillery, then it is obviously himself who suffers! What is this called lifting a stone and shooting yourself in the foot! Thinking of this, His Royal Highness the Prince depressedly picked up the binoculars and looked at the woods in the distance.
"Huh?!" What the traverser didn't expect was that at the same moment, his uncle was also doing the same thing. When he saw through the telescope the officers and soldiers who were digging in the distance and the moving artillery emplacements, His Royal Highness was not calm for a moment. This is against common sense! This fighting posture was different from what he had seen before! This is not scientific!
"Viscount Schmidt seems to have fought in the Franco-Prussian War, right?" The prince said expressionlessly.
"That's right, at that time he was the commander of an infantry battalion. Because of his outstanding performance, he was selected to join the Guards. The Earl immediately replied with sincere fear.
"That means he's not a rookie." The prince put down his binoculars with a gloomy face. There is a demonic spirit! The situation in front of him made the prince immediately serious, if it weren't for a special reason, a battalion commander who had participated in the Franco-Prussian War would not have arranged his position like this, right? The few guns were dispersed. This, first of all, violates the principle of the centralized use of artillery.
Secondly, there also seems to be a problem with the angle of fire of the artillery, there is a huge gap in fire between the various gun nests. Thirdly, the infantry is too loose, and rifle fire cannot be guaranteed at such a density of troops! It looks like a ring of fortifications, but it's full of problems! No one who has just graduated from a military academy would make such a bad arrangement! The only thing that can make a difference is the barbed wire, but if it's a real war, these things can be easily destroyed by artillery!
"It seems that the little guy's men have been working on some weapons with a fast rate of fire lately? For example, machine guns? The prince said seemingly nonchalantly. That's right! He, like the French, wanted to block the path of the infantry advance with a dense barrage of bullets! The prince remembered an incident that had happened at the Battle of Sedan that the French had used a platoon gun that could fire 25 rounds in a matter of seconds, which caused some problems for the German infantry, but it was useless in the big picture, because they were quickly killed from a distance by Krupp's artillery!
After the end of the war, he began to pay attention to various rapid-fire firearms, such as the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun at the beginning, and the Maxine machine gun, which was recently being displayed in various European countries. The latter is a perfect infantry weapon, a machine gun can withstand the fire of a company, but it still has the problem of being too large. If this kid had arranged this thing in the middle of the defensive line, such an arrangement would have been said in the past!
"Cunning little one!" Half of the guessed princes said with some dissatisfaction. No wonder I was asked to use cavalry to participate in the exercise, so I thought so! "At least he did it smarter than the French and knew how to cover his machine-gun positions with bunkers!" At this time, the prince had already put away his thoughts of playing a hand, and began to seriously consider how to break through his nephew's defenses. The more he studied it, the more he realized that this crab array was really powerful!
"Machine guns should have been deployed at these points! They can easily lock all of our charging paths. Secondly, their artillery was arranged separately, and I don't understand the reason for this arrangement, probably because in a hurry they could not dig a large enough bunker. Ensign, do you have a way to knock out these guns? He asked the artillery company commander next to him.
"It's hard. The position of the opponent is a little tricky, and the trajectory of our artillery is somewhat straight, and it is impossible to directly cross the obstacle and hit the target behind! But if we make some changes, there's no problem! The artillery lieutenant replied.
The traverser still underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, especially the wisdom of those who can leave a name in history! Prince Leopold really couldn't think of these new weapons? Even Wilhelm II, a half-military strategist, could discover the role of machine guns, and later generations of the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front would not have thought of it? Although at that time everyone liked dense formations, the trajectory of artillery was relatively straight, and indirect fire was not popularized, but there were always situations on the battlefield that required indirect fire, and the powerful German artillery naturally dealt with these problems.
The prince's men began to deploy their artillery, first they dug a pit in the ground and a slope with earth mounds in the back. Other guns were fixed on specific racks to increase the elevation angle. After some planning, the prince decided that he had a last resort, and the artillery of half of the company in front should be able to suppress the one in front of the opponent, and then the artillery of the other half company should be used to suppress the machine guns on the flanks and the other artillery. And the remaining artillery was to destroy the other two guns and cover the cavalry charge from the flanks.
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