Chapter 9: Courage
(This chapter and the next chapter will tell about the four key battles of the imperial civil war during the fall of the Tasman Empire. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info)
"Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be overlooked." From the first article of "The Art of War"
Sun Tzu said: War is a major matter of the state and has a bearing on the life and death of the country, and we cannot but seriously observe and deal with it.
The "soldiers" here refer to "war", "national defense" and "army". War is the most brutal competition in human society. It is the last resort to solve the political problems of the national question, it speaks with strength, and it uses bloodshed to finally force the loser to surrender and even die. The outcome of a war directly determines the fate of a country or nation, and it is the most painful price and the most extreme choice of "life" and "death" and "survival" and "death" to decide the fate of a country and a nation. When you lose a war, you have to accept the reality of "death" and "death", there is no room for bargaining, and there is no opportunity to correct your mistakes. Many years after the fall of the Tasman Empire, the very few survivors who experienced the "death" and "death" of that year, and the victors who participated in this national independence war and obtained the right to live for national independence, will reconstruct with us in chronological order the four crucial battles in this imperial civil war.
The first battle - the Battle of Zama Valley. (The approximate geographical location of this place is similar to the historical strategic location of Carthage, Zama)
The pagan city of Vera, the Tasman Empire, is located on the Inland Sea Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and not far from the sea are the military fortresses and naval bases of the hostile countries. On January 1, 96 B, a great "rebellion" took place here, which can be described as the battle of the birth of the rebel army. The valiant citizens of Vera, a military-industrial city, and the 60,000 foreign border guards of the Empire in the vicinity turned their backs on the Empire. The defenders of Vera opened the empire to rebel against the head of the empire on a large scale by foreign armies, which is the courage to be the first in the world, comparable to Huanghuagang and Nanchang. Since then, the cannon fodder of the Imperial Army has finally gained courage, and a large number of foreign Imperial troops have bravely moved towards the uprising...... With these uprisings, the rebel army was born and grew, and gradually became a force capable of independently competing with the imperial army, and was enslaved by the people's own armed forces.
The Miar Holy Free Army in the western Tasman Empire is a people's armed force, an insurrectionary force that is in the midst of a bitter battle with the Tasman Empire.
The backbone of this force came from the three separate cavalry divisions of the former Tasman Empire's Miar army that revolted in Glory. This was one of the cavalry units in the western part of the empire that had not yet had time to convert to infantry. The Mills are horse wranglers, and they never lack fodder to feed their horses. On March 30, B96, the Western Tasman Military Region ordered the three independent divisions to prepare for the eastern counterinsurgency. The specific triggers for the uprising, the real situation at that time, no one can remember. There are also many theories about this matter: the three independent divisions did not receive the salaries of the silver hair, and they were issued with waste paper money; Some of the nearby Mir rebelled and infiltrated against them; The three division commanders learned from other sources in the army that the battle situation was unfavorable and their troops would be used as cannon fodder; The Empire's own troops in this area have long been transferred to the east to quell the rebellion, so they can ......... In short, they decisively reversed.
On 2 April, these independent divisions of the Mir revolted. The oldest and most militarily capable commander of the three independent divisions of the uprising, Aaron Kaman, was elected leader of the rebel army. The area was inhabited by the Mir ethnic group, and within a few days the revolt had grown to nearly 70,000 men, and the new recruits brought their own knives and guns, and many with two horses. In order to facilitate command, the commanders of the three insurrectionary divisions expanded the troops into three cavalry corps, with three divisions under the jurisdiction of the army, four regiments under the jurisdiction of the division, eight cavalry companies, machine gun companies, and a special service company, a total of 10 companies, with 1,700 soldiers and 2,000 horses.
The three divisions had only a small amount of spare weapons, which resulted in more than half of the recruits in the rebel army being unequipped. Fortunately, these soldiers from the steppe herdsmen all brought their own local guys for family use, and they did not stage a saber wielding when they fought. Each soldier of the rebel army had more than two weapons, a saber with a long and short earthen gun, and a saber with an Imperial gun. The hometown and the family are their own family, that is, the time and place are favorable. But the Imperial Army, which was also born in the steppe cavalry, was not a vegetarian.
Beginning on April 10, the rebels saw the "extraordinary martial arts" of the Imperial Army.
In the early hours of April 10, several rebel camps were raided, and many of the rebels who were still sleeping ended their uprisings in a sudden misfortune. On that day, the unprepared rebel army was swept by the elite cavalry of the Empire's own army. On the same day, a third of the rebels were wiped out by the formations.
Didn't the cavalry of the Imperial Army be transferred away a month ago? I saw them drive through here. Could it be that the cavalry unit of the Empire itself turned back halfway?
The Imperial cavalry units in this area were transferred and did not return. These cavalry were two cavalry divisions under the command of a major general commander from the Imperial Border Guards on the southern border of the Western Military District. They were also ordered to go to the east to quell the rebellion, but on the way they received an order from their superiors to "extinguish the fire in the rear and then leave." "After the Western Military District confirmed that the rebellion was true, the closest Imperial army to the rebels were these two divisions, and they were given heavy responsibilities. The first day was really good, the border guards, and sure enough, the shot was extraordinary.
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20,000 people were annihilated in a single day. "This battle is not easy to fight!" In fact, the Imperial army fighting against the rebel army also felt the same way, and they also suffered a lot of casualties on April 10. The Mir are also a fierce horse people, not two-legged sheep in those farming areas. In the morning raid, the Mire soldiers, who did not get their weapons, actually used themselves as a stumbling horse to create conditions for their comrades to annihilate the enemy. In the enemy raid, none of the Mir people fled, and all of them fought to the end, fighting to the death. In the afternoon, it was completely a confrontation between the two sides, and it was a tough encounter. The Imperial Army relied on the heavy machine guns of the division's independent cavalry battalion to hold the situation, and the Mir men faced the dense bullets and brandished sabers in formation, and did not retreat at all. "Is this cannon fodder?? How can you fight so well?? ”
Fight for yourself, anyone can fight like this. In the days that followed, the two sides played each other several times, winning and losing each other.
On 17 April, Aaron Kaman, the former commander of the Imperial Army, received terrible news from his friends who were still in the Imperial Army that reinforcements had been sent to the Western Military Region of the Empire, three cavalry divisions, to arrive in five days. A campaign of annihilation against him will follow.
At a life-or-death moment, Aaron Kaman remembered a place and decided to take a risk, using the only force advantage he had at the moment to immediately launch a decisive battle against the enemy in front of him. Start now, not a minute later.
In the early morning of April 18, about 1,000 elite cavalry units of the rebel army organized by Aaron Kaman attacked the supply depot of the Imperial Army. The Imperial Army unceremoniously surrounded the elite of these rebel armies, and the prepared Aaron Kaman was not ambiguous, and the second echelon of 2,000 people waiting nearby attacked, and the cavalry of the rebel army arrived in time, broke the encirclement and rescued their comrades, and evacuated in the direction of the Zama Valley where the Imperial Army belonged to the control area in the theater. The commander of the Imperial Army was very annoyed, and seeing that the enemy was fleeing in the direction of friendly control, the main forces of the two divisions boldly pursued them with confidence.
At 10 a.m. on the same day, the rebels fled into the Zama Valley, and the Imperial Army divided into two routes, blocking the mouth of the north and south valleys, which were so steep that only the cavalry from the north and south could enter and exit. It was close to the desert, and the military map showed that there was no water in the valley, and the enemy army did not seem to have brought any water. The Imperial Army decided to wait until noon, and then attack again in the afternoon or even near dusk, either to completely annihilate the enemy army or to capture the enemy's horses.
At 15 p.m., the Imperial Army entered the valley. But the rebels were not overburdened by fatigue and thirst (the water and rations carried by the horses were left there in the early hours of the morning), and the Imperial army seemed to have a sense of foreboding. Less than 16 o'clock, the Imperial troops at the two valley mouths found themselves surrounded and flanked. They had no choice but to switch from attack to defense, facing the enemy on both sides, regretting that they did not bring artillery with them, and the independent cavalry battalion only brought one. The independent cavalry battalion of the division where the main force is located in the mountain pass set up crane guns and gave full play to its firepower superiority to attack the enemy...... The main force fought happily, but the auxiliary troops quickly stopped moving because they had no automatic firepower.
Towards 16:50 p.m., the machine guns ran out of ammunition, and the Imperial cavalry rushed out to engage the insurgents, who were overwhelmingly numerous......
That night, the rebels attacked the camp of the Imperial army at night and captured a large number of heavy weapons.
At this point, the two cavalry divisions of the Tass Omani Imperial Army, which were ordered to come here to suppress the Aronkaman rebels, were completely annihilated by the rebels.
Aaron Kaman won, his fame was shattered, and there were many echoes around him, and people continued to come to join the rebel army.
A few days later, on 22 April, the second group of repressive troops arrived as scheduled, and one of the three cavalry divisions was a foreign cavalry division. Encouraged by Aaronkaman's victory, the foreign cavalry division revolted on the battlefield and joined the rebel army. The other two Imperial Native Cavalry Divisions could only adopt a defensive posture, building fortifications on the lines of communication and core towns, and could not hold out. The rebels took advantage of the situation and cut off the defenders' supplies the following month.
On April 24, an independent division of foreign cavalry of the Southern Border Guards joined the ranks of the Aronkaman rebels.
Since late April, the main forces of the Imperial Army have been so busy suppressing the rebellion in the southern frontier that they have completely ignored this rebel army. This rebel army took the opportunity to grow bigger.
On 10 May, the rebel army grew into an armed force of 100,000 men with nearly 100 artillery pieces.
On 13 May, the rebels launched a war of annihilation against the Empire's own forces in the region.
In mid-May, the Tasman Empire was already in flames, and there was no time to take care of this ragtag army in this non-important area, and the Imperial Staff placed this army at the end of the strike sequence.
In mid-June, when the Imperial General Staff paid attention to this rebel army again, the Imperial top brass was surprised to find that the size of this army had already exceeded their imagination.
By the end of June, the rebel army had grown to 300,000 combat troops, with four large cavalry corps, one independent artillery division, and one elite independent cavalry division, becoming the "main rebel army" in the western part of the empire.
At this time, the Imperial Army was busy quelling the rebellion in the east, and could not draw enough troops in the short term, and it was almost impossible to destroy the existing mobile forces, so it had to draw and cobble together a new army of 300,000 and deploy it on the southeast flank of the uprising area, in order to prevent and contain the department. Appointed as the commander of the 300,000-strong army, Lieutenant General of the Imperial Army, who had been suppressed by the imperial superiors, Arcanatore established himself as Emperor at the end of July B96, and later historical scholars called him the "July Emperor". The Arcanatore never surrendered to any party, but he did far more damage to the empire than any surrendered or defective general, such as establishing himself as emperor, establishing territorial autonomy, appointing officials within the territory, and enacting and enforcing laws of self-government.
"There are all those who have established themselves as emperors, so you can do it like this. Then we collaborate with the enemy privately, we surrender to the enemy, we revolt on the battlefield, we lead our troops to mutiny, why can't we, what can't we!! ”
The Battle of Zama Valley was the first battle in which the rebel army independently fought against the Imperial Army and won a victory, which is of great significance. Although it was a Pyrrhian victory. (A Western proverb that means a costly victory, a victory that outweighs the losses, or "a thousand enemies killed, eight hundred self-inflicted" in vernacular Chinese, is even worse than this.) )
Attached: Establishment of cavalry divisions of the Imperial Army
The cavalry division has three cavalry regiments, one artillery battalion, and one division is an independent cavalry battalion; 4 battalions per regiment, 4 companies per battalion, 2 platoons per company, 2 squads per platoon, 14 soldiers per squad. The regiment has a total of 896 combat soldiers, 596 miscellaneous soldiers, 108 reserve soldiers, and 1,056 war horses. The artillery battalion is equipped with 18 detachable and loadable 80mm howitzers. The independent cavalry battalion has one cavalry company and three heavy machine gun companies (18 13 mm heavy machine guns in the battalion, loaded by horses), and the division has more than 6,400 officers and men, with a total of more than 7,000 horses and pack horses. The cavalry division's individual cavalry was extremely sophisticated in light weapons, and each man was equipped with three major pieces, a short rifle, a revolver, and a scimitar.
This type of division belongs to a typical shock cavalry division, also known as a force shock cavalry division. There is a serious shortage of automatic firepower at the regimental level and below, so it is unable to play the defensive role of infantry units of the same level in defensive operations.
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The second battle - the Battle of Diel.
B96 was the year of the fall of the Tasman Empire. The history of the empire that year began with a rebellion.
On January 1, B96, the industrial city of Vera, a pagan city, was a classic foreign-aid rebellion. The following month, the empire was convinced that Vera had really been lost.
Vera is lost, a very bad thing. Vera was too important for the Reich's defense forces. All of the Imperial Army's heavy large-caliber machine guns and ammunition, all of its own 100mm cannons, as well as artillery shells, also came from Vera.
It seems that from now on, you will have to spend money to buy guns abroad?? It wasn't that far.
The Tasman Empire had another military production base in the interior of Dill, but Dill's production and importance were not as large as that of Vera. Vera produced 100 mm field guns with a small number of shells, 13 mm heavy machine guns and cartridges for this machine gun and a small number of 6 mm rifles; Deere produces 80 mm guns, 80 mm shells, 100 mm shells of various types, light machine guns, rifles and their 6 mm caliber cartridges, and ammunition production capacity is basically deployed in Diere.
Vera is lost, and Dill is there. In the short term, the Imperial Army units will not be reduced to unarmed lambs.
Fast forward to mid-April, and as the insurgency intensified, Diere, a major military industrial town in an absolutely safe area, was getting closer and closer to the front line of counterinsurgency.
Almost all foreigners can see that the counterinsurgency of the empire, the more peaceful the more rebellious, the more rebels and thieves are suppressed. Many foreigners who are still in the Empire's territory for the time being have ideas. Vera, a foreign region, is no exception, and many of the pagan skilled workers in the military factories here are transferred from Vera. They learned through various channels that the Tasman Empire was not as powerful as they boasted, and they knew very well that this was likely to be the last days of the empire.
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The Imperial Army is well aware of the importance of the only remaining military-industrial base, the city of Deere, and the rebels from the Imperial Army system are also very aware of this, especially those rebels who have not been supplied with weapons from a certain power, and they are even more coveted by the military-industrial base of Deere.
In mid-April, the Battle of Zama Valley was a victory for the rebels. The victorious army was a rebel army that did not have a certain big country as a backer, did not have any arms to help, and relied entirely on its own. The morale of the rebels from all walks of life was greatly boosted.
At the end of April, rebels of all natures began to take the initiative to attack. Even those tribal armed rebels who had never been a regular soldier, let alone any foreign backers, and were the lowest grade of the stalls, dared to take the initiative to attack the Imperial Army. There are difficulties in all directions, and the imperial army is bound to be overstretched.
In order to cope with this dilemma, the imperial army resolutely abandoned the worthless areas, gathered concentrated forces, and switched to the heavy group attack and defense mode of combining key defense and key offensive. The military-industrial town of Deere is the focus of defense in the key defense area.
On the side of the Imperial Army, they are concentrating their forces on defense and attack, but many teams on the rebel army or the rebel side have entered the mode of doggy daring.
Many tribal forces also dared to fight in the face of superior imperial troops, but the result could only be used as broken eggs in front of the stones of the imperial army, and then they were swept away by the counterattack of the imperial army and successfully annihilated.
Many dream team rebels led by grassroots insurgents wanted to use that strength to change the world and change the country, take the initiative to expose the target, or collectively dream and brainwash the meeting, and most of the results were wiped out by the imperial army in an instant. It is worth mentioning that quite a few of these grassroots dream teams were exterminated by the former Imperial Army, on the grounds that obstructing traffic, damaging the city's appearance, refusing to obey management, and so on. Everyone looks at the scumbag of the riot who has nothing to do with the evil, and it can be regarded as a former comrade-in-arms who helps each other to clean up.
What is called "three nos and one hu"?? There was this word during the Anti-Japanese War, and it is said that it was coined by Chief Xue Yue. There is no backer behind him, the team has no strength, the leader has no ability, and Nima pretends to be more than Hu toss. It's an absolute obstacle, and it's rubbish for both new countries and old empires. He deserved to be exterminated by the rebels and the Imperial Army.
The regular army is efficient in combat, and in a few days the battlefield sanitation has been done.
Compared with those disgusting civilian scum armed with machine guns as heavy weapons, the regular army duel between the Imperial Army and the former Imperial Army is only technical. The battle between the soldiers was fought in a refreshing and free manner.
In response to the Imperial Army's heavy sweeping tactics, the rebels naturally gathered into a heavy group. The collision between the heavy army groups was unprecedentedly fierce.
Free and easy, never dragging mud and water, the rebels know that there is no turning back. If you rebel, then you will betray to the end, even if you lose the battle to death, your former comrades-in-arms respect you as a good man. If you descend, you will only die, and there is no dignity. This is the strength and bravery that hundreds of years of barbarian rule of the barbarian empire have injected into the veins of civilized people.
The current generals, who have been high-ranking generals for generations, have flexed their military skills to create their own legends in this vast land, and perhaps they will become the founding kings or the famous generals of the millennium. This is an opportunity for them to write and make history, and it must be seized.
Take a look at the glorious history of their foreign counterparts:
(This volume is a wild history, sprinkle the family casually, readers open their eyes to see some real history, this thing has to be accepted, the words are ugly, but that's reality)
Yuan Shikai, a member of the Qing Dynasty, the commander of the Beiyang Army, and the commander of the New Army. This President Yuan is the real president of the Republic of China, and Sun Wen is just a politician.
Nurhachi, the general of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the state. It is said that Li Chengliang, a famous general of the Ming army, misbehaved and was careless after drinking......
Emperor Zhu 88, Zhu Yuanzhang, many studies have proved that this person was born in the Yuan Dynasty nobles, and he definitely did not ask for food, one said, the commander of the regular army of Dayuan who offended the powerful by committing military law, and the other said, returning to the commander of the Ma Chi Army, and more bizarre statement, the important generals of Dayuan changed their faces...... In short, Emperor Zhu and the generals of Dayuan are also.
The first person of Emperor Zhao and Song, holding the command of 600,000 Northern Zhou forbidden troops, hehe.
The emperors of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms were all envoys of the festival.
Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty is a relative of Yang Guang of the Great Sui, and he has not yet come out of Wufu. (There are so many anti-kings who debuted together, why is there only Commander Li's family left in the Taiyuan Military Region of the Great Sui.) )
Yang Guang of the Great Sui and his father Yang Jian, the wise general on the hit TV series "King of Lanling", the general of Zhuguo, and the buddy of Emperor Yuwenyong.
(The chiefs and emperors of the Five Chaos Dynasty can be omitted)
The Emperor of the Two Jin Dynasty, Sima Shi, is a descendant of Sima Yi's supervisor. Sima Yi supervised his father and his grandfather, and ranked among the nine kings of the Han Dynasty. This Commander Cao and Inspector Sima have known each other for a long time. When the Han Dynasty was still there, because Commander Cao and Lu Bu Dong Zhuo came to drink every few days from time to time, this Sima Inspector despised Commander Cao and looked down on him seriously. Later, Commander Cao developed, and a defeat could lose the army that Liu Biao had saved all his life, and he was not distressed at all. In the defeat, Commander Cao happened to meet Inspector Sima who insulted him in public, and the plot of "New Three Kingdoms" was not handled well.
The founder of the two Jin dynasties, Sima Dushi was a descendant of the great official family of the Han Dynasty, much more than Cao Cao and his father who were brought up by the eunuchs of the chaotic government, and the power of the Chinese officials in the Han Dynasty was stronger than that of the Yuan Shao family.
Uncle Liu Huang, Commander Cao, and Commander Sun of the Three Kingdoms. If there is no Commander Cao, how can there be Commander Yuan Shao, this Commander Yuan has been a commander for three generations.
In the Han Dynasty, the head of Liu Bang Township, the county magistrate of Xiao He, and those down-and-out generals of the Chu State. Why did the county magistrate Xiao He always be polite to the head of Liu Bang, because Liu Bang's father was able to see the king of Chu.
Recently, "The Biography of Miyue" smeared General Bai Qi, Bai Qi, also known as Gongsun Qi, the cousin of the reigning King of Qin, the grandson of the real brand, and the first time he fought in his hand, he had a division in his hand. If you don't believe it, you can Baidu. Bai Qi is not a werewolf. Wei Ran is by no means a wild species, he is the king of Wei and his brother. The king of Wei in that month was very yellow and violent, and gave "Sun Li" his mother, and then had this brother. King Chu doesn't care. "Women, this king has it. It's just this thing, this thing is not gained, you have to collect some money. Brother Wei Guo, you give me two cities, okay? Why don't I go to you too? ”
The prime minister of this dynasty has always been very familiar with the Chekas. What kind of unit is this Whampoa Military Academy ZZ Department? ?
(To sum up, there is no possibility that the grass grows 100 meters tall American Sequoia, not even lower than the probability of winning the lottery 100 times.) Because it's not the same species in the first place. )
Want to build your own dynasty?
If you are Commander Li Yuan at this time in your life, Commander Yang Jian, take two or three steps forward; If you are Commander-in-Chief Zhao and Commander Yuan at this time, congratulations, it is a small step. Inspired by the typology of these examples, the rebellion continued.
In a few decades, the new country will be transformed into a historical drama. In particular, the Battle of Dill was extremely dramatic, a battle of aristocratic style.
This idea of taking a few steps forward was also shared by one of the defenders of the Imperial Army of Deere. This is that he does not have enough courage for the time being. This guard is an alien among the people of the empire, probably because his mother is too beautiful, and his general's father is only one of his sons. The general's son was already a major general at this time, one rank shorter than his father when he retired. His lieutenant general's father died early, and he is a mongrel, so it is already very good to climb to the position of major general. But he still wanted to take a step, to be more precise, to the rebels. His childhood playmate, the alien kid who was always bullied by other kids along with him as a bastard, was just outside the city.
At this time, the alien child, the former major general of the Imperial Army who grew up in the compound of the Imperial Military District, was already the commander of the rebel army's army group, and half of the enemy troops outside Dill City were his childhood subordinates.
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In May, the fire flowed, and the blood was like a red. The top brass of the empire knew that the rebels had to be wiped out as soon as possible, and the longer they dragged on, the more rebels would be. In May, the Imperial Army and the rebels in various theaters of operations began a decisive battle of fate, a decisive battle at any cost. This is true for both sides.
The Imperial Army decided to use Dill as a decoy to launch a war of annihilation against the rebels. Here's the plan:
First feigned defeat, the troops scattered and withdrew, leaving the defense line open and exposing Dill to the enemy. The enemy will inevitably march on Diel. The elite units of the Imperial Army held on to Diere, and the enemy army would inevitably devote more forces to attack Diere. Hold out until the enemy forces have gathered enough, close the gap in the defensive line, and the troops will attack the enemy under the city of Dill on all sides and annihilate them. This campaign was named the Battle of Deere. It is planned to invest 630,000 troops, and a reserve of 100,000 people has been arranged in advance.
Of the 630,000 non-reserve troops participating in the battle, two corps and several independent divisions totaled 110,000 troops to defend Diel. The half-breed brother's army was among the 100,000 defenders.
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On 10 May, the Imperial Army began to carry out the battle plan for the Battle of Diel. As the Imperial Army wished, the enemy took the bait.
On 15 May, 300,000 rebels gathered under the city of Dire. Another 100,000 rebels were deployed in the original gap. The rebel army was outnumbered, far beyond the expectations of the Imperial army. In the past few months, there has been no shortage of recruits, with the Saint-Roman Empire providing weapons, the rebels have no shortage of equipment, and there is more heavy firepower. The Imperial Army was a little hairy. It was decided to add another 200,000 reserves.
On May 16, the Imperial Army decided to close the breach and launched an encirclement campaign. On the same day, one cavalry corps was deployed on each side of the Imperial Breakthrough to attack the rebel defenses at the breach. It is planned to close the breach by dusk on May 17. 200,000 reserves are coming. This is the last reserve that can be called.
On May 17 and 18, the operation at the breakthrough was extremely unsmooth, and the losses were heavy.
At noon on May 19, the Imperial Army crushed the enemy at the breach at a very heavy cost and almost closed the breach. The enemy was armed with a large number of improvised automatic weapons, two cavalry corps were killed and wounded, and the Imperial army committed several separate cavalry and infantry divisions. But it doesn't make sense anymore.
At 8 a.m. on May 19, the defenders of Deere sent a telegram saying that our troops had declared an uprising, and that our troops would leave the battle sequence of the Imperial Army and join the rebel army with immediate effect. This means that the defenders of 110,000 Dil became enemy troops. More than 6,000 officers and soldiers were unwilling to revolt and were disarmed and imprisoned, with no casualties. The rebels released these officers and soldiers unconditionally at the right time.
At 14 o'clock in the afternoon of May 19, the enemy forces equipped with heavy artillery launched another attack on the breach, and the main line of communication for the breach was opened at dusk. It is said that it was a rebel military adviser from the Saint-Roman Empire who commanded the reserve forces to launch the attack. (Post-war scholars have found that these reserve units totaled only two new infantry corps of 60,000 men.) )
At the critical moment, at the time of the decisive battle, the front command of the Imperial Army did not have the courage to fight for victory.
At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of May 19, the commander of the front command of the Battle of Dill Campaign, General Ashina Luluosi, ordered the troops behind the defensive line to stop the encirclement of Dier, and all the frontline units prepared to retreat on all fronts.
However, under the circumstances, if the Imperial Army could persist in the Battle of Diel, it was still possible to annihilate the rebels, or at least deal a heavy blow to the rebels. The 110,000 new rebels in the "uprising" may not participate in the battle. There were 300,000 enemy troops under the city, and the Imperial Army had 200,000 attacking troops that could be immediately engaged at dusk, and the Imperial Army was stronger than the rebel troops full of recruits. Another 200,000 can be invested the next day, and by May 24, 200,000 reserves can be rushed to the war zone.
The Imperial Army could win, but it would only be a pyrrhic victory. After the Imperial army fought hard to win, it will only be more rebellions. The empire's own army is less and less able to suppress foreign armies.
"The remaining Imperial army is too precious to be annihilated in this gamble." The commander of the front command, Admiral Ashina Lurosi, was quite sober. At that time, the best national policy of the empire was to come from where it came, to withdraw the empire's own troops to its own region, to dissolve the empire or to form a federation. But where did those feudal emperors have the concept of federation in their minds.
After the historical archives were declassified, the half-blood brother led his troops to revolt on the night of May 18, and another independent division was also rebelled by the infidels, handing over the defense area to the rebels, and the rest of the defenders also joined the uprising when they saw that there was no hope of victory. The failure to close the breach as scheduled and the siege of the city by a large enemy army caused the defenders' trust in friendly forces to be seriously shaken; The display of dozens of 155 heavy howitzers from the Saint-Roman Empire under the city by the enemy army for several days caused the defenders to lose confidence in the defense, and the defenders finally chose to "revolt".
Since mid-April, our army has handed over a large number of heavy artillery from combat stocks to the rebels who have not yet been absorbed by us. The pro-our Tasman rebel units were armed with 18 or 36 large-caliber guns of 120mm caliber or more, each corps. At that time, it may not have formed a fighting force, but it is absolutely conquering all eyeballs.
The thick barrels of these cannons were more convincing than any propaganda and tradition, and they were more victorious than any light field gun of the Tasman Army, giving the rebels unprecedented confidence in victory without opening their mouths. Those false and false and deceitful signs were instantly shattered in the silent fire of these cannons. For civilians who earn a living, they are highly appealing recruitment advertisements. In this world, you have to have the strength to get mixed with you.
On May 19, B96, the only remaining military industrial base of the Tasman Empire, Dill, was lost, which meant that the supply of domestic field artillery and domestic firearms was cut off. Two months later, the remnants of the Tasman Army began to gradually replace with "made in all countries" equipment from the international market.
In the early morning of May 20, the Imperial Army began an unprecedented retreat, and the entire front retreated...... Several units did not withdraw, and on the evening of May 19 they took the initiative to go to the other side of the front. The rebels were well aware of the retreat time route of the Imperial army, but did not take any military action.
On the afternoon of 20 May, Dire and the surrounding area were already rear areas on the rebel side of the front.
At 6 a.m. on May 21, more than 6,000 Imperial officers and soldiers in the city of Dill who were unwilling to participate in the uprising were unconditionally released, and they returned to the Imperial battle line with the returned weapons.
The ungentlemanly scene was staged:
On 22 May, the Tasman Imperial Military Council, acting on the Emperor's order, arrested the commander of the Front Command of the Battle of Diel, Admiral Ashina Luros. On June 1, the admiral was sentenced to death by the Supreme Military Court of the Reich and immediately executed. His charges were "fear of the enemy's cowardice," "desertion of duty," and "desertion." But until the moment of his arrest, Admiral Ashina Luros was still at the front command post, which was only 2 kilometers away from the enemy troops, and he even prepared his own machine gun to fight the enemy troops. Everyone understands that this is what the emperor means, "kill one and make an example", and "the rest of the generals, you must fight to the death".
In all fairness, this Admiral Ashina Luros is an extremely good general among the members of the imperial family, but he is by no means the only royal general, and there are many qualified imperial generals. But after his death, the rest of the royal generals gradually relinquished command of the army. Objectively speaking, this bullet that killed Admiral Ashina Lukith created the conditions for more of the Empire's own troops to rebel and hastened the end of the Empire.
The following year, Admiral Ashina Luros taught at the Wehrmacht Military University in Assenstan, established by the rebels. It was a stand-in who died, and the relevant personnel of the military tribunal and the old subordinates of the general teamed up to save the general and send him to the rebels in the form of a front-line uprising. The old subordinates of these generals also led their troops to revolt when the conditions were ripe.
Postscript:
Ten years later, the half-breed who spearheaded the uprising in the defenders of Deere made a big move to run for president - a book. At this time, the half-breed bastard major general should be honored as Chairman of Nietzsche Worthrop, Chairman of the Liberal Party of the Republic of Yasenstein, Hero of the State, Former Minister of Defense......
In his book Memoirs of the Bloody Honor, the War of Nation-Building, Chairman Vothrop made public the situation in the city of Diere at that time.
On 13 May B96, the last remaining military capital of the former Tasman Empire, Dille, was besieged. Besieging the city is the former Imperial Army, one of whose generals were a childhood playmate of Chairman Worthloop, who lives in the same military family area, and is now the Minister of National Economy Rocconiosen, who also has a lot of titles and is also a presidential candidate.
(One of these two brothers defended the city and the other besieged the city, and they sang on the stage at that time, hehe)
On May 14th, two good friends, face to face again, Rocconiossen held a cannon exhibition under the city of Dire, and Nietzsche Worth Lopp was invited to visit from a distance.
That day, Nietzsche Worth Roop couldn't sleep. After watching the cannon exhibition hosted by his buddy, the half-breed brother certainly had an idea. Originally, I thought that people were rifles and infantry, and cannon fodder was comic. Now it seems that he is cannon fodder, and the Tasman Empire is a joke.
"I want to keep the people of the city from being bombarded, and I want the city and its culture not to be burned down by the war............ In short, a bunch of sensationalism, in short, "I, Chairman Vothrop, saved the people of a city and all my comrades", "This is what I should have done, I could have done more." ……“
On May 15, the two had secret contact. It wasn't until Nietzsche Worth Roop saw his mother on the 16th that he made up his mind. "For the sake of the people," said the half-race brother of the year, now Chairman Nietzsche Worth Roop. Mutiny. On the 17th, the subordinates negotiated and unanimously agreed to revolt.
At 18 o'clock in the evening of the 18th, the 31st Infantry Corps of the Tasman Imperial Army announced, "Our troops will revolt from now on!" "Our unit is out of the battle sequence of the Tasman Imperial Army and is no longer subject to the command and dispatch of this military system. "From now on, our department will fight for the people!! ”。
On May 26, Chairman Vothrop was appointed commander of the 4th Army of the Republic of Ascenstein, which consisted of all the rebel forces in the city, and he also had his own army, so he could fight for the liberation of the people.
After that, the 4th Army of the Republic of Ascenstan independently completed the battles for the liberation of Golo, Sal, Rooney Valley and other important areas......
The 4th Army of the Republic of Yasenstan fought bloodily under the leadership of Chairman Vothrope,......... This is what we should do, salute the people.
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Excited, it looks like Chairman Vothrop is really going to be president. Don't worry, you have to continue canvassing. It is necessary to create an overwhelming vote rate.
There is also a big trick in the book, absolute high-end privacy - the late mother of Chairman Wothrop turned out to be a native of St. Sunia, a small fisherman of St. Sunia who was lost and strayed into the territory of the Empire while fishing, and both she and her father were captured by the Imperial Army. The evil Tasman Army killed Chairman Vothrop's grandfather and handed him over to his superiors. Chairman Vothlop, who is an absolute poor middle peasant, speaks to our working people......
Also, legally, this Chairman of Wothrop is a citizen of the United Empire!! The United Empire is the boss of our Republic of Yasenstan!!
Later, Chairman Vothrop became the second elected president of the Republic of Ascenstein.
This Chairman of Worthrop is on the right path, on the right step, and with a little bit of blood, how can I not support the United Empire......
During the second term of the Vothrop chairmanship, the Republic of Assenstein held a referendum in which 96.4% of its citizens were willing to annex the country as a free province to the United Empire. However, according to the country's constitution, the Republic of Asenstan was incorporated into the United Empire.
Since then, our country has eaten 80% of the territory of the former Tasman Empire. It tastes really good, but unfortunately there is no such fat meat on the side of my mouth.
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This story tells us that if you want to be president, you have to be a seed, you have to be promising, and most importantly, you have to have a backstage and you have to be wholeheartedly for the interests of the backstage. Backstage interests above all else!!