The first battle is the decisive battle!

"The first battle is a decisive battle" means that under the conditions of modern warfare, due to the excessively large disparity in the balance of forces between the two sides in the war, the side with absolute superiority is backed by its strong economic strength and comprehensive national strength, relies on advanced science and technology and military superiority, and uses weapons and equipment that are superior in quantity and quality, and completely defeats the enemy in the first battle and wins a decisive victory, so as to achieve its relatively limited but still strategically significant goal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of military thinking and actual combat operation has existed since ancient times, and many armies in human history have been practicing this mode of operation since before modern military theory was proposed. In Hu Jun's version of "Zhu Yuanzhang", Chen Youliang once said this sentence: "The first battle is a decisive battle, and the first battle is decided." In Huang Xiaoming's version of "Jingzhong Yue Fei", Han Shizhong's naval army also adopted this style of play.

This is the case in many wars on the real battlefield, and in order to attack a certain point, you need to have the determination and courage to concentrate all your forces on it. Since you have decided to do it, you must do it and have the courage to fight a decisive battle. On the negative side, Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, and his brother Gao Wei were defeated by Yuwen Yong because of the lack of such courage in the first battle, and then lost again and again and died in less than half a year.

For all the amphibious landing campaigns in human history, the first battle is a decisive battle, and this is an uncompromising truth!

Sun Tzu's Art of War "Nine Lands" chapter has an apt description of this type of battle: "Throw into the place of death and then survive, and fall into the place of death and then live." "On the beach, when the two armies face each other, only advance is the way to live, and retreat is equal to a dead end.

On the north shore of the main island of Treasure Island, the amphibious landing of the Saxony-Windsor Imperial Expeditionary Force began.

In the early morning of the next day, the date change line was crossed, and the time was already January 1 of the first year of the new century.

At 5 o'clock in the morning and at sunrise, 8 Daystar-class battleships and 8 Pluto-class battlecruisers, calibrated by carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, were ready to begin shelling the northern part of the island and pre-select a landing beachhead surface position. Previously, the fleet had sent 20 large landing craft carrying colonial officers and soldiers to feint close to the east coast of the northern part of the island, and they were already approaching the coast. The purpose of this unit was to conduct an effective reconnaissance of the enemy's firepower deployment. As for the loss, this level of loss is quite acceptable.

However, the defenders were not fooled, and the large-caliber coastal fort guns did not fire a single shot, waiting for more valuable targets to appear and open fire. When the landing craft approached the coast, the civil defense artillery who arrived in a hurry opened fire with four light guns, and the effect of hitting two of them was mediocre. When the landing craft was about to land, a certain company-level 150 howitzer deep in the interior began to bombard the beach, and one of the landing craft was shot, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the sea water turned a large area red. More light artillery was brought in, and the 150 artillery battery continued to fire. A total of nine landing craft were hit and incapacitated, and three were seriously injured or sunk. The colonial officers and men on these ships were forced to go to sea early, launch a landing operation, and struggle to get to the beach in the wind and waves. The lack of training of the colonial officers and soldiers made it look like an amphibious landing, but rather a group of uniformed refugees fleeing, many of whom were carried to the bottom of the sea by heavy equipment and disembarked the next day at high tide.

On the attacking side, the first group of attacking troops, only 8 landing craft were safely docked, each with about 100 officers and men on board, and the soldiers roared and rushed to the beach to charge the artillery positions of the Civil Defense Army on the coast.

The defenders, the main force of this section, rushed to this section of the coast of Treasure Island and the infantry battalion of the Civil Defense Army of the defenders of Treasure Island (about 500 men) attacked fiercely with rifles, machine guns, submachine guns and other small arms. Although these civil defence officers and soldiers are not in the regular army, they have received regular military training and are no less good at fighting than the regular army. Under the cover of coconut groves along the coast, they fired heavily at the enemy on the open beach, and with the help of their own artillery, their defensive advantage was not ordinary. The attackers were still a little arrogant when they came up, but as soon as they exchanged fire, they were completely suppressed in minutes.

On the attacking side, the colonial soldiers charged and shot while scattering, while constantly being knocked down by various fires from the defenders. On the beach, there was no cover or cover, only the comrades-in-arms around them who charged together covered each other. It may sound tragic, but it's much more humane than the fierce battle a few hours later. On the empty beach, colonial soldiers were slaughtered indiscriminately, and a 75mm grenade exploded in the crowd, and at least five or six people fell in response; And the effect of a 150mm grenade is enough to blow up a large area, maybe a dozen or twenty people. More than half an hour followed, a massacre. The soldiers were pinned down on the beach, in the sea, and the enemy soldiers hiding in the woods were called one by one with rifles. There are really not many people who rush up, and those who don't come up are dead in the sea. Subsequently, the enemy charged, and the remnants of the colonial soldiers were eliminated. These poor soldiers seem to have only rifles and machine guns, and if there were artillery, maybe it would be better.

On the defending side, the soldiers, supported by artillery fire, completely suppressed the enemy with automatic weapons, and the rifles began to shoot accurately, taking the roll call one by one; It wasn't a brave enemy who stood up again and tried to rush up, but was immediately wiped out by machine-gun fire. When the enemy was almost dead, they bravely rushed forward and eliminated all the remaining men. So far, it seems like an easy battle. Civil Defence officers and soldiers cheered on the beach, happily cleaned the battlefield, picked up enemy weapons, and some took out their wallets by the way.

A battalion of 500 defenders, a battalion of 500 defenders, in one morning to carry out the first round of attack and defense, a colonial infantry regiment, was not at all surprising, except for the artillery support, it was actually the battalion's own firepower that played a decisive factor. Although there are only two machine guns per platoon, each infantry squad has four submachine guns for 10 people. The nouveau riche landlord's house has a specific firepower configuration, the rifle never fails with the century sharpshooter K98 (often called a carbine), the submachine gun Chicago typewriter movie star Thomson, the machine gun: machine gun grandfather Madsen light machine gun or the big brand Browning.

rifle

The short rifle version of the Mauser G98, the Mauser Gewehr-98 rifle was designed by Mauser in 1895. Due to the security problems of the G88 rifle, in 1898 the Imperial German Army decided to adopt the newly improved Mauser rifle as the standard infantry weapon, Gewehr 1898 (Model 1898 Infantry Weapon), often abbreviated as Gew.98 or G98. Later, on this basis, short rifles were developed to make them easier for soldiers to carry.

submachine gun

The Thompson submachine gun, also known as the Tommy Gun, ChicagoTypewriter, and Chicago Violin, is the most famous submachine gun in World War II in the U.S. military. It was designed at the end of the 1910s and produced by Auto-Ordnance Co. of the United States. The earliest production model was the M1921 type, and it was produced until 1945, including British imitation and Yan Xishan and other copycat experts, with a total output of more than 4 million pieces.

machine gun

Madsen machine gun: The Madsen machine gun produced in Denmark is the world's first mass-produced practical light machine gun, from 1905 to 1950, the Madsen machine gun was mass-produced to equip the country and exported, no less than 36 countries have been equipped with the Madsen machine gun, and have been widely used in armed conflicts around the world, and until the 21st century, the Madsen machine gun can still be seen. The Madsen firearms factory is ready to produce according to order and can supply different armies with a variety of calibers from 6.5mm to 8mm The gun was changed according to customer requirements, different models and different calibers had different sizes and weights, but most of the types during the First World War weighed about 9 to 10 kg.

Browning BAR1918 light machine gun

In 1917, John Moses Browning designed an automatic rifle with a caliber of 0.30 inches (7.62 mm), automatic in the air conduction mode, and semi-automatic and fully automatic firing modes. This automatic rifle was used to provide fire support to charging soldiers. In 1918, the U.S. military decided to adopt this gun as a standard weapon, and the original "M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle" (abbreviated as BAR) was actually used as a light machine gun.

These weapons are expensive, they have never been cheap, and "Chicago typewriters" like Thomson consume a lot of ammunition, but the army of the nouveau riche tyrants, how can they be short of money. In addition, if you buy tens of thousands of pieces at a time and buy them directly from the factory, the price must be very different from that of the gun shop on the street.

Backed by strong economic strength, the local tyrants' civil defense force is not equipped at all, and there are also large sums of training funds to improve combat effectiveness. Objectively speaking, this civil defense force is far stronger than the regular armies of most countries in the world, at least in terms of infantry units and light weapons! Only when the combat effectiveness is strong can the battle be won.

Let's take a look at the weapons used by the army of the colonies of the Fallen Empire:

rifle

The Lee Enfield Short Rifle, a world famous gun, (Short Magazine Lee-Enfield, "SMLE") was improved from the Enfield Arsenal on the basis of the Lee Rifle (Lee-Enfield Magazine Rifle), officially named the "Lee-Enfield Magazine Short Rifle", which was put into production in 1903. It was the standard equipment of all Commonwealth countries in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.

Wrong! Wrong! This rifle is used by the regular army of the homeland. These hapless cannon fodder buddies are armed with MKIII or MKIV rifles.

The real-world MK series of rifles is definitely rich in history and culture. In terms of story richness and historical significance, it can definitely throw off Lee Enfield more than ten streets.

This is also from the British Empire, which was once the standard rifle of the British Empire Army, with a large caliber (.45 inches) and great power (which is a must), and this large gun has been seen by colonized people all over the world. In the film "Four Feathers", which depicts the colonial war in Sudan in 1884, British soldiers are armed with MKIII rifles.

At the end of the 19th century, the more advanced Lee-Metford rifle officially appeared and began production, which also made the MKIV early prepared to take a back seat, and in 1889, MKIV completely stopped refitting and production, and the era of colonial expansion of the gun was officially ended.

If you thought that the MK rifle was completely gone, then you should hit your head on the door panel 10 times, do you really not understand the British temperament!?

After 1890, the Lee-Metford rifle was installed in the front-line troops of the British army, and the Martini Henry in the warehouse was not idle, and the dozens of Martini Henry rifles and carbines were converted into .303 caliber equipment for the second line and colonial armament, if you think this is too much, it would be too much to underestimate the British, in 1895 the Lee-Enfield rifle was officially installed, and the Martini Henry was actually converted into a rifle that could be loaded with .303 smokeless powder bullets and continued to be used... If you're lucky, you might be able to see veteran soldiers of the Local Defence Army patrolling the streets with Martini Henry during the bombing of London in 1940.

What an antique gun, what a literate gun, so the guys in the colonies here use this gun. The colonies are right to use this weapon.

Compared with the Lee Enfeld used by the native army of the Saxony Windsor Empire, the advantage of this MK series rifle is that it can be loaded with one shot, fired with one shot, saving ammunition, and it should be able to sell at a good price in the antique market.

As for the Colonial machine gun, it's a steampunk relic, the Lewis light machine gun.

The Lewis light machine gun is a light machine gun that experienced World War I and World War II, and was once widely equipped in Commonwealth countries. In the early 20s of the 20th century, China imported this gun and participated in the Zhifeng War, the Northern Expedition, the Civil War, the War of Resistance, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Among them, the Tibetan army (the old Tibetan ******** lama army) is also heavily equipped. The gun has two characteristics, one is the use of a thick heat dissipation barrel to wrap the barrel, the effect is to make the air sucked into the barrel when firing to become the wind to blow the barrel free, but it was later confirmed that this barrel has a limited effect on cooling the barrel but increases the weight of the gun in vain, the other is the drum above the gun body, the Lewis machine gun originally used a 47-round drum, the drum is fixed in the center, and the drum bearing rotates to push the bullet into the gun when firing.

The native army of the Reich was heavily armed with such machine guns, but the colonial army was armed with only 18 of them in the entire regiment, and only two per company. The regiment also had an artillery battery, which was sunk to the bottom at the beginning of the battle, armed with 6 70mm infantry guns, old equipment that had been eliminated by the native army, which was a must. Then again, to give the children of the colonies the latest weapons, is the local uncle a pig!?? The Soviets bought his new weapons at a high price, and he specialized in making an inferior product, selling it at a high price, making money and worrying about it, and the Russians called this kind of goods monkeys. Refer specifically to the T-72 bought by Saddam Hussein's baboon. In fact, this is not called a pit, this should be called being responsible for oneself, or the maturity of a big country. The Saxony-Windsor Empire is a mature power, but a little overdone.

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At 7:05 a.m. on 1 January, the command of the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet in Saxony-Windsor received an aerial reconnaissance report - the first wave of attacks had failed. No enemy shore-based fort artillery or other large-caliber artillery positions were found, and it appeared that there was only a 150 howitzer battery.

It was expected and planned that the landed colonial troops would be eaten, but on such a large island, only this bit of artillery seemed untenable. This force did not draw out the enemy artillery, in other words, the expeditionary fleet lost the first move.

On the King Charlie, the flagship of the fleet, Admiral John Jericho, the commander of the fleet, who was born as a civilian, cautiously asked the Duke Commander about the next step: "Your Excellency, what should we do next?" ”

The commander of the expeditionary force, Admiral Herman Norton, was unsteady and unhurried, with a hint of melancholy: "Of course it is impossible to have only this bit of artillery on such an important island. It's just that we don't act, and they won't fire, so we're going to pay a little more, knock out their fortress guns, and then everything will be simple. ”

The duke's expression instantly became serious: "The second wave of attack troops set off, and the naval battlefleet launched an artillery bombardment operation as originally planned. ”

The ship's staff officer immediately went to the telecommunications room to give the order.

Admiral John Jericho leaned over with a little uneasiness: "If you fight like this, you can only fight hard." ”

The duke smiled: "That's how it is to fight. ”

The second wave of attack forces consisted of a mixture of Marines and colonial forces. There were 66 large landing craft in three columns, the foremost two of which were the two light infantry regiments of the colonial army, and the rear of which were the light infantry regiments of the native people of the native empire. The total strength is about 7,000 people, of which nearly 3,000 are natives.

Admiral John Jericho seemed somewhat unacceptable to throw his native troops into such a human fire reconnaissance operation, but the duke, who had lived an aristocratic life since childhood, did not care. In the Duke's view, these children of commoners, poor families or middle-class families should become cheap cannon fodder in the process of realizing the national interests of the Empire, and there is no mercy for the sacrifices they are about to begin.

By order of the duke, 2,000 died this morning, and now another 7,000 must be sent to their deaths. It seems difficult for people who have never fought to accept these things, but they seem to be ordinary at the top.

Stalin famously said: "The death of one person is a tragedy, and the death of a million people is just a statistic." ”

It is unlikely that a person standing at his height will have any feelings, even the most basic humane sympathy for the dead and wounded ordinary Soviet officers and soldiers on the front, because these characters are standing too high and too far away, and he will not feel it at all, and there is no need for it, except for the need to act. Khrushchev, the former commander of the Don River Front and the successor of "Uncle One Million Dead", made wanton accusations against this Uncle Joseph at a meeting of the CPSU, and criticized him fiercely. In the course of the subsequent history, many declassified materials that were unfavorable to the Georgian were made public. People can't help but exclaim: "Great men are great only because most of us are used to kneeling on the ground." ”

The commander of the expeditionary force, Admiral Herman Norton, was unattainable in the eyes of soldiers and junior officers, majestic and brave, and even some old subordinates called him the god of war. But that's the beauty and prestige that comes from a long enough distance. In the days that followed, all the officers aboard the battleship King Charles came to realize that "this nobleman of imperial fame, who had won many wars, was nothing more than a mortal man of good luck, inferior even to most ordinary people in terms of basic human morality, such as compassion and credibility." ”

While the Saxony-Windsor Imperial Expeditionary Force was actively organizing a second wave of attacks, the naval forces of the Treasure Island Republic were about to attack. The Treasure Island Republic's Self-Defense Force's maritime power is six advanced warships customized from abroad, a new concept warship developed and manufactured by the New World York Federation.

6 warships, not as many as one model of others, and what is even funnier is that the tonnage of these six warships together is more than 10,000 tons, which is not as good as an ordinary capital ship of the Imperial Navy. However, the Treasure Island Self-Defense Force naval fleet still had to make a resolute attack.

The navy is an offensive service, and the navy must attack. The Navy is to survive at sea and fight a decisive battle with the enemy, rather than staying in the harbor as a target, and the Pearl Harbor and other cases fully illustrate this example. The naval fleet is actually waiting for death to defend itself, just as the battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division hiding in the harbor eventually became the target of the Japanese army, the final outcome of the ships to avoid the war is usually only the total destruction of the nest or the capture of all the troops (refer to the German High Seas Fleet after the end of World War I).

A captain of the Navy of the Republic of Treasure Island put it more clearly, "At that time, the port was actually the most unsafe place, the enemy knew that you were there, you were a clear fixed target, any range that could reach your firepower would treat you as the highest priority target, as long as you stayed there, you would definitely die, it was only a matter of time." …… The warships bought by the state with huge sums of money cannot be consumed by the enemy army with a few cheap shells. As a member of the Navy, as a descendant of the Navy hundreds of years ago, you have to fight no matter what. Before the warships are sunk, it is necessary to give full play to the maximum combat effectiveness of these warships and deal the greatest blow to the enemy. At that time, both for the purpose of protecting warships and from the point of view of striking the enemy, we had to take the initiative. ”

This was the first time that this type of warship was put into combat, and after this battle, many impossibilities were possible.

At that time, the naval fleet of the Self-Defense Forces of the Republic of Treasure Island was ordered to attack to the death with all its might, and a naval battle in the mode of desperate combat was about to begin.

But at that time, no one on the offensive and defensive sides of that place could have imagined that this naval battle would be a battle that would shine in the annals of history, a battle that was included in the compulsory course of naval tactics all over the world, and a decisive battle that was recognized by historians all over the world as a turning point in history.

The outcome of this naval battle shocked both sides and the whole world, and relevant experts in the naval and military fields of the world exclaimed in unison: "This is simply impossible, this can only be a miracle!" ”