"Bulging." A burst of machine-gun fire. Shattered the peace of the night in the Western Regions. Two horse-drawn water-cooled heavy machine guns pierced the night's calm. Bullets whistled at the tribe of the Wusun people not far away.

And a Qin army flag fluttered in the dark night. This is a company of Qin cavalry troops. They are using their advanced weapons to carry out a surprise attack on one of the tribes of the Wusun people.

"Bang, bang. Boom. "Three three-inch mortars opened fire one after another. Shells whizzed by, firing through the Horde. Mortars, which were not optimistic at the beginning, began to appear on the stage of history. The range of such curved guns ranged from five hundred paces to two miles. But his firepower was much faster than that of ordinary artillery. On top of that, he was light, lighter than all reloader guns in general. As a result, this artillery was quickly taken seriously, and infantry, cavalry units began to massively equip this weapon capable of compensating for the lack of firepower of infantry and cavalry.

However, this mortar shell is far from being streamlined like the current mortar shell, but a cylindrical front point in the front and a round rod in the rear as a bottom propellant and primer installation. The shells were packed in wooden boxes, followed by a small wooden box with a fuse device for the shells.

"Bang. Boom. "Cannonballs whizzed through the tribe. And the shells are still flying from afar. The point of the slapper is that it provides an effective strike outside of infantry fire. Moreover, it has a front-loading method, which makes it easy to complete a single shot. Then shoot again to form a coverage. This fire strike is quite deadly.

"Bulging." The horse-drawn water-cooled heavy machine gun fires deadly bullets. If the shells are not scared, then the machine gun is a lethal weapon, and the heavy machine gun of the Qin State uses the standard machine gun bullet of point 50 caliber. The actual caliber of this bullet was later measured to be smaller than the NATO 12.7 mm bullet. But his power didn't diminish much. Successive bullets are usually capable of knocking an opponent to pieces from a distance. Even more so at close range. A bullet can interrupt a person in the waist. This machine gun is even more powerful than a mortar.

With the war in the Western Regions in full swing. In particular, the Nanxi Regions basically entered a state of marching, and a part of the troops crossed the Tianshan Mountains and began to attack the Wusun people who had just finished the Yueshi Wusun War.

The war in the Western Regions is very peculiar. Due to the vast area and sparsely populated people, and because they are all nomadic tribes, the war has not occurred on a large scale, because the style of nomadic warfare is basically based on sneak attacks, relying on the mobility of light cavalry to achieve suddenness. The opponent is like this, which also determines that the Allied war in the Western Regions should also be carried out in this mode. As a result, the corresponding Allied forces also adopted this tactic to fight.

The Allied forces in the Western Regions retained only one brigade and one regiment of cavalry. The rest of the cavalry and mounted infantry were scattered in battalions and companies. In particular, the use of a group of machine guns, mortars exacerbated this dispersal of forces.

The Qin commander's practice was usually to divide several areas and then repeatedly put several companies into the war zone. Several companies relied on communications corps and liaison planes to establish contact with each other. Then dozens of people separated from each other, the search continued to advance. The logistics system in the rear is constantly setting up logistics supply points. When the forward company consumes about the same amount of ammunition by maneuvering a sneak attack. They would stop and wait for supplies, while the troops sent from the rear would take over. Then they will become supply points, and so on.

In the air. Liaison planes are constantly on patrol, and pilots can check the situation in the entire area. In particular, some bold battalion-level officers personally checked the entire battle situation on the liaison plane. Then drop the contact box according to the battlefield situation. In fact, the situation of the battlefield is put into the form of canned boxes to nearby combat units, and these combat units begin to adjust their attacks according to the markings on the map after receiving orders.

This is almost equivalent to cavalry wolf pack tactics. Liaison aircraft play a very important role in army cavalry tactics. It is precisely because of this that the combat effect of the Qin army began to be greatly improved. Gradually, the tactics explored the company-level straggler maneuver tactics.

Armed with new weapons and equipment, and with the help of the Heavenly Liaison Plane, the Qin army continued to attack the Wusun people with scattered forces. The use of machine guns and mortars allowed a company with only a hundred people. However, it has exerted the effectiveness of the previous combat units with more than 1,000 cold weapons. More important is the use of the liaison machine. Make the connection between the troops more agile. This agility lies in the ability to mobilize several company-level combat units scattered around at any time to intervene in the battlefield from other directions. This has increased the pretense of battlefield forces at another level.

The battle soon unfolded. Caught off guard, the Wusun began to retreat in a hurry, while the Qin troops used a mobile platoon to step forward and crush the opponent. The opponent simply could not withstand the rapid bullets. They could only retreat. But the Qin army did not plan to take the initiative. Because they know. Even if they are lucky enough to break away from this area, they will be attacked by Qin company-level teams in other areas. This attack is usually slowly attritional, and eventually eliminated by it.

It was only at this time that the Qin State finally found a suitable tactic against the nomadic cavalry, but this was not the peak period, because there was a special technique that was not used at this time. That's radio.

The high-tech battlefield, especially the change in communication methods, made the Qin army's combat units more and more dispersed. The battlefield is no longer the kind of one-man show where large armies assemble and large corps fight. The combat methods of small-scale combat units have officially entered the stage of history. This is very similar to the "bee colony" proposed by later generations. "Tactics. Combat is like the continuous extension of a person's various bodies. The appearance of the Qin liaison aircraft extended people's senses of sight, smell, and taste, and the use of various weapons extended various functions of people. It is like the strength of a person's arms and legs.

War is comprehensive. It is also a place where high performance is emphasized. The dispersion of troops in the traditional mode of warfare is a kind of taboo for soldiers, but this kind of tactics has adapted to the needs of the battlefield with the help of technology, and this kind of dispersion is not a taboo for soldiers, on the contrary, it is a kind of change in the concept of past patterns and take the initiative to meet the needs of modern needs. This kind of bold use was only dared to be used boldly by the new generation of generals of the Qin army, Wang Ben, Li Xin and others, who took the initiative to attack.

Also aware of this was Li Zuoche of the paratrooper unit of the Zhao army, and this kind of constant fighting with only 100 men made him begin to have a strong interest in small unit tactics.