Chapter 432: The Special Mission of the Mountain Battalion
The number of people in the mountain camp in the Great Zhou is not much, but it is not too much, and the total number of people is only 35,000.
Among them, except for the 15,000 old-fashioned troops, those who can master thermal weapons will be able to complete the scale of the army.
Compared with 20,000 people and 100,000 people, there is no doubt that there is a huge disparity in strength.
Don't forget, the British didn't have any experience in mountain warfare.
On the contrary, although the mountain battalion in the true sense of the Great Zhou side is only the size of the leader, the rest of the army is no stranger to mountain warfare.
This is mainly due to the geomorphological structure of the Great Zhou.
For example, the 100,000-strong army that came from the north, although it had been formed to defend against Warat, was also extremely familiar with mountain warfare.
Just think of where they used to be stationed. Along the Great Wall, which place is not a lofty mountain?
Therefore, although these people have not experienced systematic mountain combat training, they are much better than the British army.
Besides, are there mountains in England?
Compared with the lofty mountains in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the mountains in England are only small mounds at most.
Therefore, Sun Dingzong thought that fighting the British army in the mountainous area northwest of Tianzhu would have a better chance of victory on his side.
Of course, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one can judge the final result in advance, even Sun Dingzong, a veteran of the battlefield, will not take it lightly.
In several battles with the British army before, Sun Dingzong understood that many of the war fighting methods that the Great Zhou soldiers were more familiar with before were actually outdated.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the methods of warfare have changed greatly compared to the past. From this point of view, the Great Zhou soldiers were inferior to the British army.
In the final analysis, in addition to national strength and weapons, in fact, what is ultimately fought is the coordination and cooperation between tactics and the army.
After learning the news that the British army was going to attack from the mountainous area northwest of Tianzhu, Zhang Lingyang, who was far away in Luoyang, only gave Sun Dingzong an eight-character policy of breaking up the whole into pieces and breaking them individually.
In the final analysis, because the mountainous area is not conducive to the assembly of large armies, such tactics are more flexible and mobile.
After receiving Zhang Lingyang's news, Sun Dingzong and his high-ranking generals discussed for several days and decided that in addition to the 50,000 troops left behind in the mountainous periphery of the northwest of Tianzhu, the remaining 70,000 troops would be divided into 70,000 troops, which would be divided into small groups of about 100 people and enter the mountains to fight the British army.
Yes, this time Sun Dingzong took a total of 120,000 troops to the northwestern mountains of Tianzhu, in addition to the more than 10,000 modern troops left behind in Mumbai and Delhi, the rest of the modern army, Sun Dingzong all brought to the northwest mountains of Tianzhu.
At the beginning, the Great Zhou army was not adapted to this style of play, so it caused a lot of damage.
But after getting familiar with the fighting style, the small units of the Great Zhou army began to retreat as long as they saw the figure of the British army, put two shots, and pulled the nose of the British army to wander back and forth in the mountains every day.
The British generals were not fools, and soon discovered that the troops that attacked them were small units of more than 100 people, and they began to ignore them.
But these small units were like a dog's skin plaster, and once they were touched, they would not give up, and every day they would fire cold guns at the British army in various ways.
The British generals saw that this was not a solution, so they divided a part of the team to encircle and suppress these small forces.
This part of the British army, which can be divided into encirclement and suppression of the Great Zhou army, has not been heard from again after it has gone.
Because the small force of Da Zhou has been broken into pieces, the British army has been dumpled.
Once or twice, the British generals have not yet noticed anything. But after a long time, the British generals came back to their senses, because the British army that was divided to encircle and suppress the Great Zhou army was not heard from after leaving.
Only then did the British generals become cautious.
But this caution did not matter, and the speed of the rush immediately dropped by more than half.
Rao is like this, and there are still small forces in Da Zhou who continue to harass them every day.
The tactics are still the same as before, as soon as you take a look, put a few cold guns and run, if the British army pursues with all its might, it can't catch up with the soldiers of the Great Zhou, which makes the British generals depressed.
If it was just harassment, the British generals were not intolerable. Because no amount of harassment is just harassment. The British army was outnumbered, and those small units of Da Zhou did not dare to really attack the British army.
But the trouble is that as time went on, these small forces of the Great Zhou began to attack their logistics.
At this moment, the British generals couldn't sit still at all.
No matter how elite the British soldiers are, once there is no logistics, even if the British army walks out of this mountainous area, it is just an unarmed live target.
As a result, the British generals began to gather heavy troops and sweep mountain by hill in the mountains.
After learning the news, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, Sun Dingzong immediately ordered the army to be integrated, retreat while fighting, and finally withdraw all from the mountains.
Of course, the mountain camp was excepted, because Sun Dingzong still had extremely important things for them to do.
The British generals saw that the Great Zhou army in the mountain had been reduced to pieces, and retreated step by step under their powerful firepower, thinking that their previous sweeping methods had been effective, so they began to attack the Great Zhou army regardless of the leadership.
The Great Zhou army did not fight with them, but they did not throw them away from a distance, but only hung them from a distance and retreated to the south.
On the other side, the 20,000 mountain battalions of the Great Zhou Dynasty saw that the main force of the British army began to chase the southward retreat of the Great Zhou army and sacrifice their lives to attack, so they quietly moved to the rear of the British army until they got out of this mountainous area.
The characters of the mountain camp are difficult to say, but it is actually very simple to say simple. It was after the main force of the British army was attracted by the main force of the Great Zhou that the 20,000 mountain battalions on his side bypassed the mountains and went to attack the logistics and material center of the British army in Iran.
Now that the 20,000 mountain battalions have successfully walked out of the mountains, the only difficulty they have to face next is the defenders of the British army's logistics center.
The logistics center was the top priority of the British army. So the British army remained here with an army of fifteen thousand men.
The mountain battalion was only 20,000 men in size, and it was said that it had a slight advantage over the British army in terms of strength.
But in fact, the mountain battalion was armed with light weapons in order to hurry.
On the contrary, it was the left-behind army of the British army, because it guarded the logistics center, and all kinds of neutral weapons such as artillery were available.
Moreover, the mountain battalion was a long journey, and the British army left behind was to wait for work.
Judging from these points, the mountain battalion does not have any advantage.
But to say that there is no advantage at all, in fact, it is not at all.
After all, the British army is in the open and the mountain camp is in the dark, as long as the mountain camp is more secretive, it is completely possible to launch a sneak attack on the British logistics center and catch them by surprise......