227 12-pounder field guns

In the gap between calculating other rewards, Lin Haoda opened the class mall of the Total War System to check the basic information of the new 12-pounder infantry field gun.

[Class: 12-pounder infantry field gun.]

Effective range: 800 m - 900 m

Max Shotgun/Grapegre Range: 300 m (Cavalry's Nightmare)

Maximum firing range of solid shells: 3000 meters

Artillery Attachment: 24 men, 4 12-pounder infantry guns, 12 horses towed/1000 historical smash points

Applicable ammunition: solid shells, heavy grapeshot.

Introduction: The main force in artillery, much more firepower than the 6-pounder infantry gun, is the main long-range fire support in the field!

Artillery equipment: 12-pounder infantry field gun, cannon igniter, ejector lever, self-defense saber, binoculars, breech brush.

Artillery attire: high military cap, blue and white military uniform, buckled black boots.

Advantages: Fight enemy soldiers, suppress enemy artillery, effectively bombard fortifications such as city walls.

Remarks: After actual combat verification, this caliber weight infantry gun is the main weapon of artillery with very good comprehensive performance in the field, and the 12-pounder infantry gun is undoubtedly the first choice of the generals in the field in the era when artillery transportation is still in the era of human and horse dragging. It can be said that it is more inconvenient to transport than it is more powerful, and it is not enough firepower than it is more mobile, which is why the 12-pounder field gun is widely used in field and mobile warfare. 】

What makes Lin Haoda feel relieved is that the price of this newly added 12-pounder infantry field gun is not more expensive than the 6-pounder infantry field gun, which is also a team of 4 guns at the 1000 historical smashing point.

Although the price is the same, Lin Haoda feels very affordable, but if the price of the six-pounder infantry field gun is the same as that of the 12-pounder infantry field gun, isn't the six-pounder infantry field gun equivalent to a scrapped class?

Judging from the inertia of the total war system, if it is considered to be a class that can be fully replaced, it will not be listed separately, but will be replaced with a better class of the same type.

It is this law that the chasers will replace the light infantry, and the dragoons will replace the chasers, because the light infantry can fight the battle that the hunters are completely competent, and they can do more and better, and the dragoons have increased the basic morale value compared to the chasers, and increased the skills of dismounting.

"Perhaps, the six-pounder infantry field gun was left behind because it was lighter."

After Lin Haoda looked at the data of the 12-pounder infantry field gun, he returned his attention to the battle damage statistics report reported by Casio, in fact, before the siege of the last Versailles City Hall, the real battle was over, and the remaining hundreds of revolutionary diehards who were only around the Versailles City Hall were just waiting for death, and the final siege did not cause much casualties to the line infantry, because the hundreds of revolutionary diehards remaining in the Versailles City Hall had run out of ammunition and food. Most of them are left with cold weapons......

Perhaps, in the eyes of Danton at that time, the revolutionary government still had its last breath, but in the eyes of Casio and other commanders, the battle had entered the final work, and naturally, the specific and complete statistical report of battle losses was handed to Lin Haoda's desk, and the efficiency of the Paris Army has always been good.

If it weren't for the sound of the all-out war system that interrupted Lin Haoda's train of thought, he would have been instructing Casio and others to submit the battle damage report and the troop reorganization plan.

Although the Battle of Versailles was a decisive success, the entire city of Versailles was almost a hell on earth, full of burned dust and corpses, and there was not a single French in the city of Versailles, which was no different from the scene after the slaughter......

After the war, the city of Versailles was even more miserable than the original Paris, completely turned into a 'city of women', only the French women and ignorant young children who had no combat power and did not dare to resist were left, and almost all the men of Versailles died in the flames or under the guns of the line infantry!

Lin Haoda's target of one million slaughter has soared to 400,000 after the occupation of the Versailles City Hall!

In the Battle of Versailles, although the vast majority of the bourgeoisie and aristocratic classes and most of the politicians fled in advance, in order to strengthen the resistance of Versailles and expand the absolute number of people's armed forces, Georges Jacques Danton flickered many people from remote areas such as the countryside.

Of course, the Paris Corps, which had achieved such great results, suffered shocking losses of its own, and at the suggestion of Casio and other front-line commanders, the formation of the 2nd to 6th Infantry Divisions could basically be abolished......

It is not that the First Infantry Division suffered fewer losses, but because in wartime, the First Infantry Division has always been supplemented by a team of veterans with outstanding performance from other units......

In the fierce battle, the original grenadier pioneer regiment also suffered serious losses, Lin Haoda simply combined the grenadier pioneer regiment and the first infantry division into one place, the first infantry division, which had been beaten by the fires of war, as long as it was equipped with primitive throwing grenades, in fact, it was no different from the grenadiers.

After the Battle of Versailles, the former grenadier commander-in-chief, Siri Lafaeli, was also officially promoted to the colonel and commander of the First Infantry Division by virtue of his military exploits.

Casio Thunder, who already has a long experience in commanding large corps, will become an independent corps commander if nothing else.

Since the Battle of Versailles was all street fighting, the hussars used fewer places and did not suffer many losses, and they belonged to the most well-preserved troops, with more than 1,000 people remaining.

The remaining main force of line infantry has basically been trained into veterans, and it can be organized into a pure veteran corps unit, which is equivalent to the elite of the original army of the Kingdom of France.

Of course, the last elite veterans of France today are the 50,000 royalist army in the hands of the Marquis de Lafayette, and the rest have either left the army in disgrace at the center of the struggle for power between politicians and noble generals, or have been meaninglessly consumed in foreign and internal wars in this storm.

From this point, it can be seen that Lin Haoda and Jia Xu's previous arrangements and waiting were not in vain, and the current French democratic government can no longer find a regular army with a long history of fighting.

The rest of the troops were armed with fanatical revolutionary ideas, and even basic military training was pitiful......

It can be said that the current France is the best period for Lin Haoda's expansion!

The battle losses of the line infantry were quite serious, as Georges Jacques Danton said, although he failed, but Lin Haoda paid more than half of the cost of his troops!

After removing the wounded soldiers who could not return to the army, and leaving them to fill the civil service posts in the Paris region, the line infantry who could really continue to fight, there were only more than 30,000 left, and the original army of nearly 100,000 was left with more than 30,000 after struggling out in the frenzied sea of people's war.

The French Revolution is the first in history to be recognized as the first time in history that the plebeian class had a clear ideological direction and intended to establish a people's government, but the bourgeoisie that was just emerging at that time was too powerful for careerists to reap the fruits of the revolution.

Different from the original history, with the participation of Lin Haoda, the Kingdom of France became more turbulent, the people were more oppressed, making the revolution more tyrannical, and the second revolution became more thorough, although the bourgeoisie was not completely abandoned by the radical democrats, but now the French political center was occupied by a foreign warlord, and the division of the French nation seemed inevitable.

Lin Haoda pulled out hundreds of elites from these more than 30,000 people as his personal guards, and the rest were organized into the first infantry division and the second infantry division, each infantry division has more than 15,000 people.

This is just a basic framework, he has not made much arrangements for other meritorious senior officers for the time being, and plans to wait for the new army to recruit and directly parachute in the past as the commander-in-chief, these surviving senior officers are all valuable assets, Lin Haoda naturally will not ignore them.

The remaining 1,000-strong hussar regiment and the remnants of several hundred light infantry who were not fully formed were also assigned to the Guards Regiment to serve as reconnaissance, harassment, escort and pre-battle cover, and the six-pounder infantry field guns of the two companies also became the direct artillery units of the Guards Corps.

In this battle, Lin Haoda deeply felt the lack of artillery power, the power of eight six-pounder infantry field guns is really unsatisfactory, even the walls of Versailles can not be broken, after having a 12-pounder infantry field cannon, Lin Haoda immediately made up his mind, and after the historical smashing point is received, he will form an artillery regiment with dozens of guns, independent of other branches of the military, directly belong to himself, and gather alone on the battlefield to fight the enemy!

Lin Haoda believed that with the power of the 12-pounder infantry field gun, as long as the quantity broke through a certain limit, it would certainly be able to cause qualitative changes.

Artillery tactics have been proven practical in later generations, and Lin Haoda intends to take the lead in this era to start the fine tradition of concentrated artillery bombardment!

Before the war developed into a mode of trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, artillery cluster tactics were an absolute nightmare for all enemies.

Lin Haoda only gave instructions on the general framework of the army's rectification, and the specific implementation was naturally operated by the following people, and soon after establishing the new Guards Legion establishment and the planning route for the future recruits, Lin Haoda finally received the settlement reward for the Battle of Versailles, which had a long calculation time.