The first battle is a decisive battle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This is the military idea of modern warfare, and the first battle must be fought brilliantly in order to have the conditions for launching a follow-up battle. This is true not only in modern times, but in wars since ancient times.

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A popular folk military saying: Nine out of ten pioneers die. The Sprinkle family tells you that this is absolutely pure deception, this is not to fool you not to be a pioneer to grab the credit of others, but to fool you to be a pioneer to send others to death. If you all know that it is absolutely dead, then there is absolutely no one to go.

Because from ancient times to the present, it has basically been ten pioneers and ten deaths, but anyone who has the power and is not pioneered will never become this pioneer. Special statement: Except for the tall gold-plated pioneers in the name. We'll have to change the number before we can make it.

You may say, you know that this is a death, I just don't go. As long as this matter is put on the table, it is up to you whether you go or not. If this is really a pioneer errand assigned to you, you will definitely not be able to stop it, and you will have to go even if you know that you will die.

Therefore, the Sprinkle family simply wrote things at home honestly, and the generation of ancestors who sent them to death did not participate. At most, it will be on the sidelines, and when the policy is good in a few years, we will export some arms.

The ancestors said that no matter what kind of battle is fought and who is fighting, the mortality rate of the task of the top soldier is the highest, and basically no one who has been a top soldier three times is still alive, so there is a saying that the Western army has cannon fodder.

If the enemy is still rushing to the front without knowing the situation, it will almost certainly be cannon fodder. The same is true of the war in the book in the former era of big ships and cannons.

The day's battle was planned to begin with a surprise attack by the advance fleet on the Marnerocco Imperial naval fleet at Curry Island, but the new sailing officer of the detachment miscalculated the speed of the voyage, or took a detour, and the advance fleet reached the sea outside the enemy's harbor at noon. At that time, the enemy fleet was already ready for battle, and the formation outside the harbor was waiting for a long time. The raid was not sudden at all. Fortunately, the enemy fleet was all small warships, only 8 in total, and these were two cruiser detachments that entered the colony off the coast.

The commander of the advance fleet of the Saint Roman Empire felt that "the colonial fleet of the world's largest power is nothing more than that, and it may be able to fight." Let's ask the top. ”

This advance fleet has a total of 11 warships, ships with the ship numbers F201 to F211, which means the first batch of warships 201 to 211, all Selena-class cruisers, and the flagship F201.

The commander of the advance fleet reported to the commander-in-chief of the fleet: "Is this situation a fight or not?" ”

In the first battle of the fleet, the time and place were not there, and it could be said that it was unfavorable. As for the people, how many years have they been in the fleet, and you, a sailor, have only been in the army for a few days. This battle was going to be lost from the beginning. The commander of the fleet, Admiral Norman Rhodes, felt that it did not matter if he lost the first battle, a few cheap warships, and he ordered the advance fleet to "still carry out the original battle plan", "test the strength of the enemy", and "be careful not to suffer too many losses".

(Admiral Norman Rhodes thought he could test the enemy's strength by losing a few warships, but the experienced admiral didn't expect such a terrible defeat.) ）

At 12:53 p.m. local time, the first battle of the war began, and this moment also represented the official start of the war.

An advance fleet of 11 Selenas rushed towards the Marnerocco Imperial Colonial Fleet arrayed outside the harbor in a single wave.

Rumble!! Your own warship has been shot! F203, if you stop there, you can't move, you will sink if you move, and if you don't move, you will sink slowly. The sailors threw the heavy loads of their ships overboard in an attempt to save their warship. This warship uses a watertight compartment design, generally speaking, as long as the heavy objects are thrown away and the watertight compartment door of the bottom compartment is closed, the warship can last for a long time, or even a day.

But F203 is still sinking rapidly. The captain of the ship said that a large hole had been blown into the front compartment of the bottom of the ship, the watertight compartment had been blown through, and the water in the front compartment was almost full, and the ship could last for up to an hour.

There has been no cannon sound, and the enemy in front has not fired at all, how can this warship be shot! This should be a mine, it can only be a mine! The advance flotilla entered the minefield outside the enemy's military port.

Rumble! Another mine has been hit by your own warship! F206 won.

The commander of the advance detachment did not feel a dilemma. This is a very fierce admiral.

He didn't mean to retreat at all, "This hasn't tested the strength of the enemy army yet, and this task must be completed."

At that time, the only way to leave the wounded warships alone was to "keep rushing, rush through the minefield, and we will bombard them." ”

Having lost one more warship (F209), the fleet rushed into the range of naval artillery fire on both sides. The fleet still maintained a horizontal formation, and the bow of the ship exerted its main artillery fire against the enemy.

At 13:13, the two sides began to fire at each other using naval guns.

At this time, the defending fleet arranged the warships in a column formation in order to make it easier to exert the secondary artillery fire on the side of the ships.

The fire of both fleets was fierce, and the columns of water smashed by the artillery fire of both sides rose one after another, as if a fountain was gushing out of the sea.

At that time, warships did not have a fire control system, so they could not determine whether their shells had hit or where they had hit.

In the sixth round of cross-fire, in order to maximize the firepower superiority of the main guns, the commander of the advance detachment of the Saint Roman Imperial Army ordered all ships to concentrate their firepower on the nearest enemy ship.

In the eleventh round of cross-fire, the commander of the advance detachment spotted the enemy's shore artillery and began to join the fire. The huge sea water column that exploded next to his own fleet was obviously about 300 mm caliber artillery, and the other warships definitely did not have such large-caliber guns. The commander of the advance fleet was somewhat frightened. At that time, the firepower of shore guns was far more accurate than that of warships, and the caliber was also larger than that of naval guns at that time. With the addition of local shore artillery, the results of the advance fleet can be imagined.

In the twenty-first salvo, the defending warship that was the target had already hit twelve rounds in a row, but unfortunately each time it was a cannon shell that exploded into the sky, and after the smoke cleared, the enemy ship was actually fine. The commander of the advance detachment felt that this was strange!! How is this possible?? I'm so good that they are all guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and if this gun rests on the ground, it must be a firepower configuration above the division level. Why is this so powerful??

"After a few more rounds, should we withdraw? But there is war damage but no results, and it's hard to explain when you go back. "Before the commander could think about it, his own warship was shot.

In the twenty-eighth round, at about 13:36, tragedy occurred, a shore artillery shell hit the F205 ship, a very sad thing. The shell hit the central part of the ship and entered the hull from the rear side of the bridge. Then, a second, two seconds ......, and ten seconds passed. Looking at this posture, it's okay, it's just a big hole. But if it's okay, why are the sailors on the ship busy jumping into the water??

I saw billowing smoke coming out of the cabin of the F205 ship. The ship caught fire, and it burned from the inside. There is no help. A few minutes later, the entire warship sank in minute mode due to the explosion of the boiler.

The warship had the privilege of experiencing for the first time the new weapon of the Marne-Rocco Empire, the incendiary bomb.

(In the mid-18th century, the British Navy proposed the tactic of incendiary artillery destruction, but it was not applied in actual combat because it also threatened the safety of its own warships.) In the 19th century, France developed incendiary bombs for naval use, but for the same reason, they could not be deployed on warships. In the second half of the 19th century, after the ironclad of warships, Germany developed semi-armor-piercing incendiary bombs, which were used as chicken rib weapons, and they were also not used in actual combat. Let's try it this time and let this product go to real combat. The 280-mm shore artillery fired incendiary bombs is also reasonable. ）

Seeing that the F205 ship was sinking like this, the commander of the advance detachment felt that it was okay, and the warship was quite beaten, and there was shore artillery support. We are not as good as others, we should withdraw, and if we don't withdraw, we will all stay here to feed the fish. But right now, his fleet is really bitten and can't be withdrawn. The enemy ships are on par with him in terms of speed, and you'll have to run fast to get out of the way.

As the enemy fleet approached, all the side guns were able to reach the advance fleet, and they soon adopted a concentrated fire pattern.

By the end of the 42nd round of firing, the United Empire advance detachment had lost four more ships -- two warships (F205 and F210) were hit by large-caliber shore guns, and two warships (F211 and F209) were destroyed by the fleet's salvo.

The time was close to 14 o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still five warships left in the advance fleet of the Holy Roman Empire, F201, F202, F204, F207, F208. This was the close distance between the two armies, and the commander of the fleet gave the most correct order in the battle that day -- "all fire torpedoes."

It was the only order that had been successful in the day's battle. An enemy warship was hit by a mine and sank a few minutes later.

Then the battle entered a state of close-range melee, and the advance fleet was pleasantly surprised to find that its own battleship shelling hit the enemy ship, and it was finally able to penetrate, although the damage caused was not large. They were even more surprised that enemy artillery fire only hit their own warships - first with an unusually violent explosion, then with an unquenchable fire......

In the close-quarters melee, the remnants of the advance fleet kept moving from a distance, giving full play to their main gun superiority, looking for opportunities to fire torpedoes, but they found that the enemy had more powerful close-range weapons.

In the final battle, the flagship F201 witnessed the destruction of the F202. The F202 ship was approaching an enemy ship, preparing for a torpedo attack, and just as it was about to launch, it saw one fire after another on the enemy ship, and several objects flew towards the ship, and then, with a violent explosion, the ship disappeared into the smoke of sparks......

An enemy ship approached the F201 from the other side, and a flash of fire flashed on the enemy ship......

This may be the first time that the Imperial Navy has used 700mm rockets, and the battle records show that 5 enemy ships were sunk with 700mm rockets, 2 by naval artillery, 2 by shore artillery, and 3 by mines.

Some of the surviving sailors of the three warships were in lifeboats, and some were floating on the water. Having sunk the rest of the advance fleet's warships, the enemy fleet immediately targeted them.

Under the blows of the enemy's shore guns and the enemy warships leaving the port, this advance fleet was completely annihilated, but at the end of the day, a ship sank an enemy medium armored cruiser with a torpedo, which can be regarded as a somewhat successful result, and this result still has historical significance in ordnance -- the torpedo was used in actual combat for the first time to sink an enemy ship.

In fact, on this day, the United Empire of San Romain was not completely defeated, and in the afternoon of the same day, near dusk, the army landed successfully. The advance fleet of the Navy sank only one enemy ship, but the rest of the enemy ships were basically damaged, and they had to rest; The army defending the island was also concentrated in the area of the harbor, and the defenders thought that the enemy was attacking, and it was definitely still in this area. That's why an army would land on a completely defenseless beach behind the island's harbor, and it's no wonder that it didn't succeed.

The next day, the enemy forces on the island of Curry began to rely on the forts around the port to defend to the death, and the ground offensive of the landing army was not going well, and they found that the enemy infantry was really strong and fierce. They really deserve to be the army of the world's most powerful country.

October 20, 58 B century, the first day of the war, the first day of the intercontinental war in the colonies of the B century.

The advance fleet of the United Empire of St. Roman-Santa Sunia, a total of 11 Selena-class cruisers, all entered submarine mode on this day. For the first time in the country's naval warfare, all the participating units were defeated by the enemy. Ten of the pioneers died, and one more still died.

October 20, the first day of the war, was not a complete failure, and in the evening the army landed successfully, on a completely defenseless beach, and it was strange that it was not successful.

From the next day, the enemy forces on Curry Island began to rely on the fortresses around the port to defend it. The ground offensive of the army was not smooth, and the enemy infantry was strong and fierce.

(The landing place of our troops is on the north side of the island, the port is located on the south side of the island, and the theater of operations is a tropical island with dense vegetation, which is not conducive to defense.) The enemy carried out key defenses, arranged around the port in a ring, and selected hills with a wide view around the perimeter to build batteries and infantry defensive positions. ）

At 8:30 a.m. on October 21, the first ground battle between the two armies began. The specific participating units of the two sides are: the 1st Brigade of the newly formed 2nd Division (N2D) of the United Expeditionary Force of the United Empire of San Romain, and the garrison of Curry Island of the Imperial Army of the Marnerocco (the division has a total of 16 infantry battalions and 4 rocket artillery battalions).

(The Marnerocco Imperial Army made full use of the concept of modular formation, and organized different participating units according to the specific battlefield situation.) The battalion is the largest fixed establishment of the Marnerocco Imperial Army, and the battalion commander and above are the commanders, and this position is usually held by temporary personnel appointed by the government, who may be soldiers of a certain department, or civilian officials who understand military affairs, or even simply local officials of the troops. The units under the command of each commander ranged from a few battalions to a dozen battalions or even twenty or thirty battalions, depending on the specific battlefield situation at that time. ）

At 8:30 a.m., the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade launched an attack with two infantry companies, targeting the position on the northern slope of the port of Curry, which is also the commanding height of the area around the port. This is to make a breakthrough in the central government.

Two infantry companies with several hundred men quietly leaned forward, machine guns firing in front, ready to suppress the enemy, infantry and demolition teams followed. The formation was denser than the current stormtrooper formation, but it was by no means a die-and-die phalanx from the Napoleonic era, after all, machine guns have been in common for decades.

The infantry company consisted of 280 men, divided into four infantry platoons, one demolition platoon, each infantry platoon had 40 riflemen "Mosin Nagant" rifles, divided into four rifle squads; a support machine gun squad (two lightweight Maxim machine guns) with two machine gun crews of 10 people; 4 grenadiers (1.5 kg of fipple fuse grenades), 55 per platoon. The demolition platoon has 55 people, equipped with high-power iron-shelled black powder grenades (weighing about 1.5 kg), explosives packs and other support weapons. Company 5 people.

The defenders on the northern slope of the harbor were two infantry battalions of the Imperial Army of Marnerocco, one on the hill and one on the south hill as a reserve.

The defending infantry battalion had long since "seen" these "quietly going up the hill" attacking troops, as reported by the observation posts in the woods. The woods under the hill were dense, and the shooting effect was not good, and the fire was not fired. This is a hill more than 200 meters high and a slope of 30 degrees, the mountainside is full of stones, and the defenders are on the top of the mountain, and there is an open shooting range of 200-300 meters.

200-300 meters, there are not many opportunities, you must take advantage of them. The defenders also thought the same way, and accordingly made a targeted firepower allocation.

The only 2 20-mm Gatling guns and 2 150 rocket launchers in the battalion were towed to the center of the hilltop, and two were borrowed. Two companies of infantry were placed along the ridgeline, but all the rocket artillery of four companies were placed. The infantry of two more infantry companies waited on the southern slope.

At 9:10, the two showed their heads. A litter of men came out of the woods with guns and walked up the hill.

At 9:13 a.m., the two sides began to exchange fire. At this time, the distance between the two sides is about 150 meters. The defenders opened fire in unison with all kinds of firepower. Machine guns, rifles, and rockets fell into the crowd of attackers. The two companies fell in a large area at once.

Many of the attackers' machine gunners died before they could fire, and the living ones charged stubbornly while firing, and the riflemen also charged while shooting. The ammunition hand also rushed, ready to rush close and throw the mine.

The defenders' four 20mm Gatling guns opened fire at full speed, and the dense fire completely suppressed the attacking troops. This is a 6-barreled smoothbore machine gun with an accurate firing range of 200-300 meters, which is just right for use here. This is not a cannonball, it is the cheapest bullet, wrapped with lead and iron bullets, in order to prolong the life of the barrel, the iron bullet is covered with a layer of lead skin. If you hit a round-headed bullet, a 20-millimeter lead-clad iron head, and hit a person, you will die immediately if you are shot, and you will have to die in backflip gymnastics.

Then the defenders fired the second and third rounds of rocket artillery that began to explode in the attacking crowd.

There were really not many of the attackers' two companies that were not dead, and this attack was repulsed......

This round of attackers was lined with hundreds of people, and only a few of the defenders died. The attackers were defeated so badly.

At 10:05 a.m. on the 21st, the second round began. The attacking artillery came up. A new infantry battalion arrived, and regiment after battalion was put into battle. The artillery of the division, an artillery battalion armed with 18 75-mm field guns, emerged from the woods. At a distance of about 400 meters, aiming is exempt. Fire, fire, fire. The waves that exploded on the ridgeline bloomed, and there was the blood of the defenders here.

The defenders also bombarded their artillery with rocket artillery, but the accuracy and range were not good. The rocket artillery team of the whole battalion was busy for 5 minutes, firing no less than 20 rounds, before knocking out 4 guns, and few of their own rocket artillery team died. The accuracy of rocket artillery is poor, which is a problem that has not been corrected for many years; Besides, shooting under enemy firepower is qualitatively different from shooting at the shooting range!

At 10:10, the attacking infantry began to charge, charge, charge. The attacking artillery continued to bombard, boom, boom.

The defenders saw that there was no way to dodge the cannon, so let's show their heads and fight. The attacker died, the defender also died, and it seemed that there were more deaths.

At 10:15, the defending reserves began to come up, and they had to add more people, or they couldn't hold it. The ensuing battle was very dangerous, and on two occasions the attackers saw that they had rushed to the top of the hill, but the defenders collectively still carried grenades and forced back the enemy troops who had almost rushed up.

At 10:16, the attacker's heavy machine gun joined the fire, and the machine gun was used as a curved machine gun, hitting a ballistic arc, and the bullets kept falling on the back hill.

The officers and soldiers of the reserve unit who went up the mountain to reinforce the defenders were frequently shot, and people felt that they were inexplicably dead.

The battle went on without stopping for a minute. As the attacking infantry entered the attack one after another, and the divisions of the three battalions and four battalions of the first regiment were thrown into battle in turn, the defenders saw that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and the reserves were enough to hold on, so they had to call for reinforcements.

At 10:45, reinforcements arrived, with 2 infantry battalions and 1 rocket artillery battalion. In fact, these reinforcements have been prepared for a long time, and they are all in the battle plan.

At 10:55, these reinforcements were engaged in this war of attrition.

At 11:11, the 200-mm rocket launcher dragged to the top of the mountain spoke well. In the first round of firing, the target enemy artillery bombed inaccurately but fiercely enough, and the attacking artillery unit suffered heavy casualties. Less than a minute later, a second volley was fired, and the attacker's attack was completely disintegrated. In the third round, the fourth round, fire into the woods, foggy, bombing whatever, so that the lurking enemy army is also happy.

In the second round of the attack, the attack lasted nearly an hour and a half, and the attacking side put in troops close to a whole regiment plus a divisional artillery battalion. As a result of the battle, the attack failed. The attacking side suffered extremely heavy casualties and technical losses. On the hillside, the corpses of thousands of officers and soldiers of the attacking troops were scattered there, and there were hundreds in the woods. A tragic attack.

However, the attackers will not stop there. Both attacks failed, the losses were significant, but the position was decisive. This 216 highland is like the 203 highland in Lushunkou, Liaoning back then, if you get it in your hands, you will win, no matter how big the cost, you must take it. The defenders are also well aware of this, and this 216 high ground must be defended at all costs.

At 12 o'clock, the division's artillery had the strongest firepower, and the battalion equipped with 105-mm howitzers finally found a firing position. 18 105 howitzers fired.

Grenades exploded on the hills, one after another. Finally, a very lucky shell hit the defenders' 200-mm rocket ammunition box on the back of the hillside...... The explosion was unprecedentedly violent, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. There was no way, the reserves continued to go up the mountain to reinforce.

Under the cover of this heavy artillery fire, the attacking forces of the third round of attack were in place - all the troops of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment and a 75-mm field artillery battalion belonging to the division.

At 12:50 p.m., the attack began. This time it was an all-out attack, a desperate attack.

Addendum 1:

Selena-class cruiser: Iron-ribbed wooden hull, displacement of 1,300 tons, length of 86 meters, width of 11 meters, depth of 7.6 meters, draft of 5.3 meters, 1,500 horsepower, speed of 16 knots. Armament of 2 150-mm guns (twin front main guns), 4 120-mm guns (layout on both sides), two torpedo tubes; The crew is 160 people. A total of 366 ships of this class were built.

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