Chapter 55: Route Push (2)
"This..." Faced with such a problem, many teenagers who have just come down from the battlefield are a little confused, but some battlefield statistics are understood.
"The casualties of the enemy in this night attack are twenty times that of our army, even if you don't consider the final package in the Forbidden City. Of course, this is largely due to the bonus of the pit blasting defense without conscience, but this is also part of the strength... ”
"I think that the average strength of the enemy, though it may be strong and weak, is not necessarily inferior to ours, at least at night. If it weren't for the crucial night attack, even if we didn't spare a hand in the artillery fire, our army would probably only barely resist the attack of the opponent's superior forces... ”
"No, the enemy's combat power is more obvious at night, but won't our army defend at night? At night, when our army marches, we camp everywhere, and do not give those people a chance, and during the day, even if the enemy army is doubled, it should be able to deal with it. ”
"But the speed of the march like that...
"The time for our army to become an army is still too short, even if there is even a few months of consolidation and training in an unknown place, plus the soldiers today have already experienced blood, the combat effectiveness should be greatly improved compared to before...
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The teenagers' speeches made Xiao Xuan feel a little relieved, at least this seemed to be a position on the matter rather than figuring out his own meaning. However, there still seemed to be a tendency to deviate, so Xiao Xuan corrected as if he had made up his mind: "This time, the 'no conscience pit' consumes a lot of gunpowder and lead bullet, and I think such an opportunity should not come often." In the battle of the world, most of the gunpowder and ammunition that we can use in most battles are not as much as this one, and it is better not to consider this factor... ”
At this moment, a young man who was the squadron leader suddenly said: "This battle relied largely on the advantage in defense to resist the enemy's attack. Especially the underground ditches and bunkers we built. I remember that during the previous school test, I had calculated that the attacking side should have ten times the advantage of unit combat power or at least three or four troops before the loss ratio is equal or evenly matched, even at night. In this battle, excluding the losses brought to the enemy by the last blasting defense, the enemy's casualties were only three times that of our army's entire battle, and the enemy's troops put into battle were three times that of our army, and the advantage coefficient was nine to ten. Roughly comparable... Although our army is not as good at individual night combat as the enemy, if the conditions of both sides are equal, the attacking enemy will definitely suffer heavy casualties in front of our infantry and artillery arrangements. And if the elite strength of the enemy army is reduced to one-third, I think the pressure should be far different... ”
As an ancient, or an ancient person under the Chinese culture who has always emphasized experience and light weight, it is somewhat rare to have such a clear quantitative thinking, which is also in line with Xiao Xuan's general cognition: the significance of modern military training is still significant, and the source of soldiers is also very good, and the gunpowder firearms have also exerted firepower far from being comparable to the Ming army in this era under their own intentions and digging potentials in all aspects, but even if there are few elite members in the Ming army, the advantage in night battles is too great. If it weren't for the fortifications on the periphery of the Imperial Horse Prison, he would really be completely unsure.
"And what about daytime?" Xiao Xuan asked tentatively.
The young man replied nervously: "It seems that the Holy Lord also did calculations and on-the-spot confrontation drills with us three days ago, and our army has at least five times the unit value advantage compared to night during the day. If the enemy attacks the position of the Imperial Horse Supervisor during the day with the previous strength, our army will not be able to defeat the opponent with more than fifty men if it were not for bad luck... Five times as long during the day and twice as much at night, but most of the fighting should still be during the day, so I think our army has at least three times the average advantage over the usual rebels like the Fifth Army Battalion. ”
"Then about the opinion of this chess game, you can also talk about your own understanding... Xiao Xuan had a hunch that he might have picked up a treasure, and he also had some problems that he couldn't think of clearly for a while, but he only had a slight understanding. In my own impression, even if the army in the base area of the war in the Soviet zone was fighting mainly on the outer front, if it fought against a second-rate warlord who had only one-third or a quarter of its basic strength, and the enemy army did not have a relatively prominent strong hand and trump card, it would seem that the other side was simply not one in ten, and it was impossible for 300,000 to win 30,000, and it was only because of some hard hands that it was more difficult to fight. But the feeling of playing chess is not like this at all, the advantage of the advantage of the number of chess pieces is too great, and I don't know where the key is. It may be possible to figure out these questions with more time research, but I don't know how successful it will be for this child to answer them.
The young man seemed to be silent for a moment when he heard such a big proposition, and then said: "I think that actual combat is different from playing chess after all, if it is a real battle, our army arrives in one place first, and the enemy army will always get the news after a few days or a month, as long as our army is either in a state of concealment or in a state of movement, no matter how many enemy troops can not be concentrated." Even if several enemy troops are besieging us, and they know which area our army is operating. However, the rations carried were also limited, and either they had to rely on horse-drawn carriages and logistical transportation, or some important places for grain storage. If it is requisitioned on the spot, then in a mobile operation, the enemy army will plunder the people within a radius of 20 miles every day for the winter rations, and the population density will be counted as a township of about 5,000, and the army's personnel consumption will be three times that of the ordinary people, and it will only be able to maintain the mobilization of 50,000 troops on foot. In the case of horses and cavalry, only fifteen thousand men could be assembled at the maximum. If our army's basic combat strength is increased by three times, and if we can save the horsepower obtained by plundering like the thieves mentioned by the Holy Lord, and can kill and wound tens of thousands of enemy infantry at a time at a cost that tens of thousands of enemy infantry and cavalry cannot bear, we will be invincible. If the strength and combat effectiveness are further improved, and 350,000 men and horses can be defeated, then the situation should be reversed immediately... ”
"But what if the enemy concentrates elite soldiers and cavalry to engage our army?" At this time, Xiao Xuan actually solved the puzzle in his heart: I am afraid that the Ming army in this era may not even have the level of the warlord army that can withstand at least thirty or even fifty percent of the casualties in the defense of the Soviet era, if it is all at the point that one battle can bear at most one percent of casualties or even less, as long as he can defeat the enemy's men and horses who are relatively light and flexible in the movement, then even twenty times the strength will be broken by himself one by one, it is just a matter of time. Thinking about it, Li Zicheng in the mobile battle back then had the ability to fight a decisive battle with tens of thousands of Ming troops in a mobile battle, and the whole battle situation was immediately different.
Although this is difficult to do for a while with thousands of people with shallow training time on their own, it is not unattainable. The only difficulty is to encounter the consequences of the Ming army's concentration of elite cavalry in various places to fight a decisive battle with themselves.
However, just when Xiao Xuan gradually had some positive hopes for the results of the soldiers' push, the young man didn't think much about asking a cold question: "If it is a daytime battle, the effective range of the enemy's bow and arrow firearms is not as good as that of our army that attaches great importance to tapping potential and improving in all aspects. In this battle with the Fifth Army Battalion, I felt that although the enemy's martial arts were good, the ability to withstand casualties was also like that. It's just that if the opponent gathers more than 10,000 Jiading cavalry to fight a decisive battle with our army, then he must have used the strength of less than eight total soldiers and more than a dozen general soldiers, if so... Will the rebels in the world give up the northern border defense and borrow divisions to help suppress it? What is the combat effectiveness and casualty tolerance of Jiannu, can the Holy Lord know some references? ”
Xiao Xuan was silent for a long time and did not speak, which made many children around him feel a little depressed. According to Xiao Xuan's understanding, in fact, there were many major battles in the nine years from the beginning of the Later Jin army to the ascension of the Apocalypse, but how much were the casualties and losses of the Later Jin? Still confused.
Judging from the number of Manchurian officers and generals killed in the Battle of the Hunhe River, the casualties and losses in a single battle may not be very large. But there are two battle examples, Xiao Xuan still remembers clearly: one is the Battle of Songjin, a netizen listed dozens of officers who were Manchurian at first glance, and the Manchurian losses in this battle must have been a lot, but it was the Manchurian side that could win.
In the battle of Xiamen of Zheng Chenggong, a total of 6 or 700 Manchu officers of the whole army hung the 82nd number at once, and the loss of soldiers was definitely 8,000, if not 10,000, which is equivalent to being beaten without a single flag. But it seems that after only a year or two, the Manchu army actually had the courage to launch the Battle of Xiamen again and take Xiamen? These two examples made Xiao Xuan guess that the Manchu army had the ability to withstand 10,000 casualties in the extreme attack, and it was also possible. In terms of morale, it is simply a modern army that has lived in ancient times.
Although the Manchus are not full cavalry, according to what they have learned: the Houjin vest is equipped with at least four horses, which means that although the Manchu army is mainly engaged in foot combat, it is not necessarily not impossible to be as mobile as the single horse cavalry of the Song army.
If this is the case, then his plan for the rebellion of the Son of Heaven is not at all certain in the expected timing. With thousands or at most 10,000 elites, the limit of their own estimation in deduction and field testing is to kill and injure one or two hundred thousand Ming troops who are not too well protected, and if the armored soldiers of the Manchu army have tens of thousands of casualties, if they only have 10,000 elite combat effectiveness and are strong enough, they may not fight immediately, but they will definitely be dragged down.
If it was a joint encirclement and suppression by Ming and Manchurian? At least for three or five years, your fate seems to be predictable. On the bright side, it will be like this: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the vigorous rebellion of the Son of Heaven finally failed under the joint strangulation of internal and external reactionaries. This is what will only be left in the history books of the future socialist countries.
It is not impossible for the history books of a non-socialist country to be portrayed as a political laughing stock...
Of course, if his own guards were as strong as the Polish hussars of this era, reaching the "collective martial arts limit of the cold weapon army" in the real ancient world plane, and a few hundred people resisting the mediocre armed forces of tens of thousands of Tatars, then even if there were only a few thousand people, they could walk sideways in this Asia. It's just that Xiao Xuan also has a hunch: even if he understands a lot of things and makes a lot of improvements, this must not be an overnight achievement.
This discussion also made Xiao Xuan feel a little relieved at the beginning, Li Zicheng can be Li Zicheng, but he doesn't have the capital for the time being. It was still necessary for the courtiers and even many of the ruling class to deal with.