Chapter 331: Leap Forward
It's just that under the overwhelming scenery, I still have a faint worry.
During this period of time, it is cool to kill considerably, but the gunpowder and lead that have been beaten out, and the scrapped pipe springs, etc., have also been really consumed, although at present the tactics of using one battalion as the mobile reserve of the main formation, and the other three battalions alternately attacking with inverted characters, it is still a full offensive appearance, but the actual storage of gunpowder and lead has fallen into a trough.
Lead is easy to do, scratch on the ground, there is still a harvest, and only need a set of standard molds to be cast, even if it is an auxiliary soldier, you can also make a sample blank, and the guns are shot out, there is also a certain probability of recovery, and you can also easily contact the human body dissection,
But gunpowder is not so easy, guns and small cannons are used, making simple fire and thunder shells and laying mines, all need to consume inventory, not to mention various small uses such as fire, which add up to a lot of consumption
Although the rear has already received approval, opened a gunpowder bureau in Jiangning, and obtained a large number of raw materials, it takes a period to turn them into finished products sent to the front.
In addition, I also had to unplannedly contain a large number of prisoners, several times the prisoners of my headquarters, and the consumption of manpower and materials required for daily care was a big problem, but this problem was temporarily solved with Liu Yanqing, who came to contact him.
According to the usual practice, except for those prisoners who were selected and possessed of skills and expertise, who needed to be escorted to the rear before being transferred overseas, the rest of the captives were secretly resold at a high price by me to those friendly troops who had always been in contact with each other at a high price, regardless of whether they lived or died once they left the hand.
Of course, they had to exchange what I needed, so that my arsenal, which had been empty from successive battles, would be fuller again.
I was so thoughtful about the prospect as I stood on the lookout and watched the battle of superiority in front of Fugou Town.
In front of this large city fortress guarding the border of Xuzhou, it has been surrounded by all kinds of deep trenches and horses that have been rushed out at any cost, and it is half a mile deep as far as the eye can see.
Therefore, these obstacles not only blocked the advance of our army, but also blocked the northern soldiers who had fallen in the unprotected wilderness, and when our army pursued, their various cries and cries resounded in the wilderness for a time.
Now, these northern soldiers, who were blocked between the enemy and us, are also under the multi-faceted encirclement of the attack, and are slowly showing a trend of collapse, but our officers have to forcibly restrain their subordinates, slow down the pressure and steps of the attack, and use local subtle adjustments to let the other side obtain some hope and attempt to continue to hold on, and slow down the progress of the collapse, so that these newly replenished novices can take turns in the battle formation in various battalions and regiments to gain sufficient combat coordination and experience.
The first regiment, which is dominated by veterans of each battalion, as well as the pacesetters and teaching sequences directly under it, have been left behind, responsible for cruising on the periphery of the battlefield, serving as some kind of support and external vigilance at any time.
It is just the so-called principle of using a knife to kill chickens, but the enemy of this strength has been chasing the dead for a long time, and the aggressiveness and will to fight have been insufficient, while the group defense still has some dying tenacity, which is just used as a whetstone to practice our new tactics and verify the corresponding theories.
For example, under the command of Marquis Yu Zhao Long in front of the formation, the artillery regiment led by Guo Yaoshi practiced infantry and artillery coordination tactics.
Of course, this so-called simplest infantry artillery coordination is actually very simple, that is, after the rapid artillery bombardment, the infantry team can use the fastest speed and reaction, along the gap opened by the artillery shells into the ground formation to expand the results, seize the upper hand and victory, if you add a small number of cavalry to attack the flank, a set of basic tactical combination punches, it is completed.
Although this kind of sampan cannon cannot fire a whole projectile, but in the specific use of loose shots, we have developed two standards: large scattered bombs and small scattered bullets, small scattered bullets are mainly used for anti-infantry charges and local suppression, and large scattered bullets are used to deal with cavalry charges with larger targets.
During this time, the captured mounts were also pulled out and lined up on the battlefield, with one person responsible for pacifying and the others responsible for controlling the situation, avoiding scurrying around in the formation, and using the fastest time to let these sensitive and easily frightened creatures quickly get used to the sound of their own guns and fire, so as to form a preliminary battlefield machine power and play a basic role.
Fortunately, these war horses have been preliminarily trained according to military standards, and they have become accustomed to collective action with humans and the noise and noise on the battlefield, coupled with the foreshadowing of daily training. As a result, only a small number of military horses were in a state of panic and mania, but they were quickly suppressed.
In the era before the fire completely dominated the battlefield, most of the command levels of classical warfare were limited to the line of sight, and self-fighting outside the line of sight could only be supplemented and completed by virtue of a certain situational inertia and the daily training and battlefield experience of officers and soldiers at the grass-roots level.
Therefore, in most cases, as a general, you just give specific orders, and let your subordinates use all kinds of free hands in the process of implementation, according to their personal style and expertise.
In the absence of modern means of communication such as radio, in a large-scale strategic layout, generals can only designate the offensive routes and stopping lines of the corresponding troops, and cannot do much more.
The troops that can attack and enter the battle in a timely manner, and can withdraw from the battle in a relatively organized manner, can be called a first-class elite soldier, and it takes a lot of battles and eliminations to cultivate the habits and tacit understanding.
And those who command can fight out and take back can be called generals.
In the process, the defenders in Fugou Town seemed to regard our battle as some kind of blatant demonstration or bait-like trap, and watched from beginning to end in a dead silence, that is, they did not come out to fight or help.
Of course, they really can't bear to come out, and I am not without countermeasures and preparations, those dense moats, although for the time being, have hindered my attack formation, but also hindered their attack route, before that, I have enough time to use guns and cannons, so that they can only be beaten passively.
"That's it......"
I finally gave the order to end the battle, and with the sound of waving flags and drums of varying lengths, the two wings of the battlefield began to shrink, and those enemies were turned off with bayonet spears. Pressed in one direction.
Then, unsurprisingly, they collapsed, and they all turned and fled.
Then they jumped into the trenches voluntarily or involuntarily under the push of the fleeing crowd, and after many screams, they never climbed up again, but then more people stepped on their corpses and appeared on the other side of the trench, but they screamed again and rolled to the ground, but the edge of the trench was also planted with small traps such as bamboo sticks, and the rest of the people, stepping over these unfortunate people, continued to cross and knock down the towering horse-repellent pickets, and then rushed into another trench.
After such a cycle of ups and downs, when these defeated soldiers rushed to the bottom of the walled city, there was not much left, and then they fell in a rain of arrows from the city, but the part I wanted had already been achieved, and they almost used their corpses to lay out a few irregular routes for us......
Li Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "People bear six buckets and lily hats, and rice for two soldiers is more self-serving." The high and low days are given two liters, and six buckets can be used for ten days. "If you don't have enough oil and water for meat and vegetables, you can't stand hunger if you eat food alone.
And those who were not selected only had six baked potatoes or sweet potatoes a day.
Kuroshima Ren and his entourage finally ate enough wheat rice and cakes, and put on half-new leather armor, and finally couldn't unify their equipment in a decent way. Kuroshima was also given a bust of chain mail from the trophy and a mallet-like three-eyed gun, which served as his superior identification.
And, a new Chinese name "Zhao Xin", although when he was called this name for the first time, he always felt a little cold under his crotch, but he still gladly accepted this blue-eyed treatment from Shangguan,
Although it was exchanged for many people's lives, most of the people under him still felt very satisfied. After all, in Fuso, although the social productive forces have progressed, the resulting skyrocketing population, coupled with the expropriation and expropriation of the higher-ups, has not improved the living conditions of the low-level people.
As the saying goes, human life is as cheap as soil, and in the winter, it is still necessary to abandon the elderly who have no productive capacity, or to draw lots to select the elderly as mountain ambushes, so as to ensure that others survive the famine, because the children who die of hunger and disease do not know how many, and they can easily live to adulthood, for a few bags of miscellaneous grains, go to sea to work as coolies or serve as cannon fodder, but it is a common choice for them to reduce the burden on their families.
Because they did not have enough arm strength and durability to use longer and heavier weapons, the lightweight thick-ridged swords and wide and short knives became their first choice, and as for the swords and sickles that were originally used for self-defense, they were all thrown away.
Because this thing looks sharp, it can only bully the unarmored peasant soldiers, and it can't cut the armor that is generally equipped in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Like the Southern Dynasties, the most popular and equipped is the chain mail made of iron wire drawing, while the Northern Dynasties are generally equipped with the most common ring plate armor, and even all kinds of Tutuan soldiers, duplex leather armor equipped by volunteers, no matter which is not their rudimentary weapon can be cut lightly.
Although Japanese swords were a well-known specialty in the previous dynasties and were known for their sharpness, they were mostly limited editions made by famous artists or craftsmen, and they were not the hard-pressed lowly people at the bottom of the society who could be equipped.
Therefore, during the battle, many of these Japanese soldiers rolled their blades with their own knives before they could cut them a few times, and most of the results obtained were stabbed to death by the tip of the knife through the gap in the armor leaf.
"Gentlemen......"
Kuroshima Ren suddenly stood up and said in an official voice that was not very proficient
"It's our turn......"