The history of the Tasman Empire, the first article in the Victory of the Dead series, "Annihilation"

96 of the B century, the year of the fall of the Tasman Empire. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tasman Empire, a huge country established by the people of the empire through repeated battles by the people of the barbarian race, once the third power in the world, once powerful and glorious. The people who founded the nation were warlike and valiant in nature, and even at the end of the empire, they fought aggressively and won many major victories. It was these victories that should have been in the annals of history overshadowed by the final victors. But in the internal books of the army, which record the real history, the victory of these fallen people is still close to real.

This chapter continues with the first victorious battle of the Imperial Army's counterinsurgency war, the Battle of the Southern Frontier, also known as the Battle of Dalavillar-Vormruk Castle.

"The Battle of Dalavillar-Vormlük Castle, a counterinsurgency campaign launched by two famous Tasman generals in the last years of the Tasman Empire, Lieutenant General Woerqab and Lieutenant General Arcanatore, in the first half of B96, is a famous classic battle in the Tasman Empire's counterinsurgency war. In this battle, the Tasman Imperial Army used ancient oriental tactics such as throwing bricks and attracting jade, encircling points to send reinforcements, and attacking the east and west, and fought many times in a row in a period of nearly two months, and fought a wide range of mobile operations, completely annihilating the rebels with absolute numerical superiority, and completely quelling the rebellion in the southern region of the empire. ”

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On the morning of May 13, on the grasslands north of Dalavillar, the decisive battle between the Tasman Imperial Army and the Tribal Alliance Army of the Emirate of the Jinchuan Grassland was about to begin, and the Arcanatore Heavy Army was the main force of the Tribal Alliance Army.

Day after night of large-scale earthwork work, the Arcanatore Corps built a C-shaped semi-circular field fortification with a depth of more than 200 meters on the east bank of the river, which is quite a characteristic fortification. On the outermost side of the formula is an intermittent outer trench with a reserved passage about 20 meters wide every 200 to 400 meters. The outer trench is 2.5 meters deep and 3.5 to 4 meters wide, and all the excavated soil is piled on the inner side, and there is a reserved opening of about 10 meters at the entrance of the passage, thus forming a relatively complete parapet wall. The parapet wall is 2.5 meters high, the outer slope is relatively steep, about 60 degrees of inclination, and the inner side is a gentle slope, 30 degrees of inclination. On both sides of the opening, 30 meters from the inside of the parapet wall and 50 meters from the passage, there are two sideways oblique infantry squad fire bunkers. 100 meters from the inside of the parapet is a complete trench. The trench was 1.8 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. Twenty meters behind this trench is a parapet wall made of earth dug out of the trench, and it is about 1.5 meters high. 50 meters further inside the parapet wall, there are large mounds that appear at intervals of 100 meters to 200 meters, 5 to 6 meters high, and preset machine gun fire points are arranged above the mound, which can place 2-3 heavy machine guns, all of which are pre-placed with ammunition of two bases. This high mound of earth allows multiple heavy machine guns maneuvering here to shoot accurately and unobstructed at targets outside the outer trenches. Further inside are the artillery positions and material supply stacking points arranged by battalions, and each artillery position and material storage point has dug an outer trench, which is a relatively independent small circular fortification. On the side of the riverbank, a number of machine-gun fire points were constructed, and a number of machine-gun groups were arranged, and lookout posts were set up with materials piled up. In addition, there were guard sentries at a higher position one to two kilometers outside the defensive circle, who could use signal flares to inform the defenders of the approaching enemy.

At 4 a.m. on May 13, the Tas-Omani Imperial Army in this earthen enclosure was ready for battle, anxiously awaiting close contact with the people of the steppe.

The Tribal Alliance Army of the Emirate of the Jinchuan Grassland planned to launch an attack at 10 a.m. sharp, and at this time and position, the sun could prevent the enemy from opening their eyes and show the accuracy of their shooting. 50,000 cavalry were assembled on the west bank of the river, 8 to 10 kilometres east-south, in the Tasman Empire's defensive circle. The Confederacy forces assembled here only for the convenience of rest and horse feeding, ignoring the fact that this position was within range of enemy artillery.

At 8:19 a.m., the reconnaissance planes spotted the cavalry, symbolically dropped several bombs, and accurately reported the position to the artillerymen.

At 8:22 a.m., the artillery of the Tasman Army in the earthen enclosure began to get busy. At 8:27, the first shells landed in the assembled cavalry ranks with unmistakable accuracy. This shelling made the chiefs decide to act immediately, regardless of the angle of fire from the sun.

At 8:56 a.m., the steppe cavalry fought in front of the Imperial army with a 500-meter-wide assault surface. The machine guns of the Imperial army went off, the front ones fell, and the back ones continued to move forward, and the rear ones could not see the situation in front, but only rushed forward, and people were constantly hit by bullets, and the shells began to explode in the shock group...... At last a few horsemen rushed to the outer trench, but they were knocked off their horses by the Imperial riflemen who were lying in ambush on the inside of the outer wall...... The follow-up cavalry continued to attack, and the characteristics of the steppe army, once the impact began, could not stop the car...... This defensive area has been covered with a large number of dead bodies, both men and horses, but the follow-up troops are still constantly storming......

At 9:30 a.m., the attack on this section had been going on for more than half an hour, and there were too many corpses on the ground for the cavalry to charge, and the attack on this section finally stopped. The unit, which had suffered heavy losses, retreated.

At 9:45 a.m., another cavalry, of a larger size, almost all the lots. The cavalry of these tribes was far better equipped and trained than the previous ones. They know how to shoot, and unlike the previous batch, they will only wave their sabers indiscriminately and go forward to die in vain. The cavalry adopted the wheel warfare style, riding horses around the line of defense, and shooting indiscriminately at the earthen enclosure on their horses. However, this was also a losing move, after a full hour of siege, there were corpses of steppe cavalry in every section of the defensive line, and the casualties inflicted on the defenders were pitiful. This blind firing continued, and at 9:55 a.m., the mortars joined the attack, which took on a somewhat modern pattern. There were only two sections of the entire line of defense that were constantly under mortar fire and incessant shelling, which caused some casualties on the defenders. At 10:12 a.m., the reconnaissance plane took to the air, and a few minutes later, several mortar positions of the steppe army were sent to the western sky by the artillery of the imperial army.

At 10:30, the chiefs finally couldn't sit still and attacked!! The artillery was gone, but the cavalry still had to continue to attack. The cavalry began to concentrate their forces on the pre-breakthrough section, which were two breaches about 1,100-1,500 meters wide. For the Imperial Army, this opening was too wide to be easily blocked by artillery fire, and a large number of infantry could only be used to shoot at the enemy inside the outer walls and implement defense. Imperial infantry was deployed to the outer wall at a defensive density of one person every 5 meters, with a column of reinforcements behind them, ready to replace the casualties. Through an outer trench, the Imperial infantry and steppe cavalry opened fire. At 10:50 a.m., the mortar began firing, this time scattered and scattered. In an hour from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., the casualties of the Imperial army skyrocketed, and the outer trenches gradually became shallower with the corpses of people and horses, and in many places they could climb up by stepping on the corpses. On the inside of the outer wall, the corpses of the defenders are scattered around. More than a dozen attempts by the steppe army to concentrate their forces and attack the reserved gap failed, and the opening of the pile of corpses of men and horses was almost impassable. Such a small hole can be completely locked with a machine gun, and the Imperial Army has transferred 6 of them, which is impossible for many dead people to rush through.

At 11:30, the steppe army transferred a large number of Maxine machine guns to suppress a 300-meter-wide defensive belt of the outer wall, and the heavy machine gun fortifications of the Imperial Army were also defeated by Maxine in superior numbers. The dismounted cavalry rushed into the outer trench and began to climb over the wall. With the powerful fire support of heavy machine guns, the operation was successfully completed. The steppe cavalry, who had climbed over the wall, began to shoot at the Imperial troops on the outer wall, and used their carbines to kill the fire point of the side-oblique infantry squad fire bunker at the entrance of the passage, and under their cover, more and more cavalry broke through this opening, and at this moment, the Imperial artillery opened fire on this position...... But this shelling lasted less than a minute, not because there were not enough heavy artillery shells for the Imperial Army, but because the fuses of the remaining large-caliber shells had expired and did not sound. In the eyes of the artillerymen, their shelling continued.

These steppe cavalry saw that the enemy was out of shells, and they rushed more violently, and more and more dismounted cavalry poured into Tuweizi.

Cannonballs don't go off!! The Imperial Army had to face this embarrassing fact. The infantrymen rushed forward and drew their pistols, fired at the approaching enemy, and after running out of bullets, they wielded their broadswords......

Offense and defense, this lot is the so-called focus of contention in the tactics book. More and more troops from both sides are crowding into this area.

Throughout noon, the Imperial infantry and the steppe cavalry who rushed in were fighting at this opening.

The steppe people did not hesitate to lose money, and the chiefs threw their most elite troops and the best equipment here. The military experience passed down from their ancestors told them that if they conquered this place, the whole battle would be won. The breach has been expanded from 300 meters to 1,200 meters. Mortar shells constantly exploded on the side of the Imperial troops, and various automatic carbines opened heavy fire on the Imperial troops. At this moment, we cannot spare ammunition, not to mention that the grassland people have no awareness of saving ammunition at all.

The Imperial Army gradually showed fatigue, this was completely a flesh mill mode of fighting, whoever has more people will win in the end, and the Imperial Army has few soldiers, and it seems that losing is an inevitability.

The steppe people dragged a large number of wagons and pushed them to the outer trenches, so that their troops could climb them. A large number of steppe cavalry dismounted and climbed onto the outer wall, shooting at the Imperial troops inside the wall, and even dragged dozens of machine guns and fired wildly at the wall. The Imperial Army had no choice but to bring in a large number of light and heavy machine guns to fire at them, but the large number of bullets with ammunition supply Maxine firepower was significantly stronger than that of the Imperial Army's heavy machine guns with ammunition supply plates. The casualties of the Imperial army were increasing by the minute. In the end, the heavy machine-gun fire of the attacking steppe army completely overwhelmed the Tasman Imperial army. More and more steppe troops rushed into the earthen enclosure, and the imperial troops blocking in front of the trenches could not hold on.

At 12:57 p.m., the turning point of the Imperial Army came. More than 50 80mm infantry guns were pushed to this breach, pushed against the parapet wall and fired directly at the machine gun fire point, these shell fuses did not expire, ran to, and those Maxine machine guns on the outer wall were blown away. The Imperial Army blew the call to retreat, and the infantry in hand-to-hand combat retreated, and immediately after, the Imperial machine guns began to fire again, and all kinds of fire under the cover of trenches and parapet fortifications were fired......

(The standard establishment of the infantry division of the Tasman Imperial Army is two brigades, four regiments, and other logistics support units.) The brigade has a heavy firearms battalion equipped with 6 heavy machine guns and 12 80mm infantry guns; Each regiment has about 1,500 men, with three battalions and a machine gun company, equipped with 4 13mm heavy machine guns and 4 light machine guns; The infantry battalion consists of three companies, each usually armed with 6 to 9 light machine guns, 2-3 per company. There are more than 7,500 officers and soldiers in the division. Individual infantry light weapons are average, with 1 rifle, 1 revolver and 1 broadsword per person. Heavy machine gun caliber 13 mm, light machine gun rifle caliber 6 mm, revolver gun 13 mm. ）

However, in this one-kilometer-wide attack surface, the steppe army is still attacking, regardless of the casualties. Open the gap and win, they are the steppe herders, and they know that. These valiant steppe troops used the outer wall as a cover position to continuously fire at the Imperial Army, and fiercely exchanged fire with the Imperial Army from the pile of corpses nearly 100 meters wide. The Mauser carbine, an automatic weapon, was used very well, killing the Imperial riflemen in large numbers, and making the Imperial Army feel that there were machine gun fire points everywhere, and the artillery was a little too busy. Subsequently, more Maxine was brought in, and mortars continued to explode on the positions of the Imperial Army.

The artillery and machine guns of the Imperial Army were destroyed quite a bit by the steppe army, but they were quickly replenished. The two sides consumed each other like this, and finally, the Imperial army could not hold its breath, the casualties were too great, and the traitors had to be given some color. At 13:30 p.m., the Tasman Imperial Army began to use a secret weapon, importing high-tech weapons - 160mm green artillery shells, the scientific name of which is 160mm siege chlorine gas bombs, which are poison gas bombs to put it bluntly.

Truth be told, this gas bomb is a really good thing, super effective weapon. Its power lies not only in its lethality, but also in the fact that it can create a terrifying atmosphere of watching their comrades die in pain. Round after round of poison gas ejections were fired at the steppe army assembly area, the effect was very good, super good, and the assembled steppe army was in chaos. The green smoke drifted away, and the smell of death lingered on the earth, and men and horses fell to the ground one after another, breathing in pain, struggling in pain; More people fled in a panic, and people kept falling, and people didn't know where to flee...... Panic spread, and the steppe people fled, and the chiefs saw their army of hundreds of thousands scattered in all directions, unable to organize any longer.

(Lieutenant General Arcanatore's heavy group: about 270,000 men, 4 fully formed corps, 1 cavalry corps, 3 new infantry corps without cavalry, plus a separate division.) It is equipped with 5 heavy artillery battalions, 4 120mm howitzer battalions (18 guns per battalion, 72 guns), 1 160mm heavy siege howitzer battalion (12 guns), and 4 reinforced 100mm medium field artillery battalions (18 guns per battalion, 72 guns). The specific number of each ministry under its jurisdiction is unknown. The infantry corps is an artillery unit with three cannon artillery regiments (36 100-mm cannons) with 100-mm guns. 264 guns of 100mm or more. ）

The follow-up troops dispersed, and the assault on the breakthrough could no longer be sustained.

At around 14:20, the follow-up breakthrough troops chose to withdraw, and the attack was a complete failure. On the battlefield, the attacker must dare to invest, invest at any cost, only need to invest until victory, if you can't continue to invest, it means that all the previous investment is lost. The chiefs knew this well, and they all counted the loss of their tribe in their hearts, and several of them had painful expressions on their faces.

At 14:50, even worse, Dalavillar was attacked, the chiefs' nest was attacked, and 100,000 troops were left behind, and they were actually taken in minutes......

At 13:20, Dala Villar, west wind 2-3, Tasman cavalry rode the wind. Prior to this, the green shells had been frequently exploding in the core positions, the defenders were in disarray, the battalions were blown up, a large number of poisoned, more panicked, and in addition to the dead and wounded, the defenders all fled...... The small number of defenders of the outer defensive positions were quickly annihilated, and then the Tasman cavalry marched slowly to the beat of the wind.

By 15:30 p.m. that day, the Imperial Army received Dalaviral, who were all over the place......

(Lieutenant General Woerqab's heavy group: about 240,000 men, 3 fully formed corps, 1 cavalry corps, 2 newly formed infantry corps without cavalry divisions, plus a number of independent divisions.) Reinforcement of a separate heavy artillery unit with 6 battalions as the artillery unit of the heavy group. Two battalions of 160mm siege howitzers (12 howitzers of 160mm each) and four battalions of 100mm medium field artillery (18 guns each). The specific number of each ministry under its jurisdiction is unknown. Corps Artillery; 24 160mm howitzers and 72 100mm field guns. Infantry corps, corps artillery units, 2 cannon artillery regiments (36 100-mm cannons), 72 100-mm guns. 168 guns above 100mm. ）

Compared to Arcanatore, Vorqab had two battalions of 160mm siege howitzers and also carried more green shells. In addition, there are large quantities of green shells on the way to the war zone, and these gas shells are definitely super effective weapons compared to ordinary shells. These high-efficiency shells for the Tasman Empire were made by the Empire of Saxony and Windsor, and were designed for 160mm siege howitzers. In the mid-50s of the B century, during a colonial counterinsurgency war, the tacticians of the Saxony-Windsor Empire creatively used chemical agents to attack the enemy's fortified castle, using large solid rockets (small drill monkeys are the standard equipment of the Tang Dynasty Shence Army) to shoot cylinders containing high-pressure chlorine gas into the enemy castle, and then ...... A day, two days, two days later, the Imperial Army of Saxony and Windsor attacked, resistance was almost minimal, casualties were almost zero, and the defenders were almost dead......

There is no doubt that this is a great invention that has been imitated by various civilized nations. In the 60s of the B century, the poison gas bomb was introduced, and in the 70s of the B century, this highly effective weapon became the common equipment of all powerful countries. From the mid-70s of the B century onwards, it was widely used by colonial powers against colonial rebels or to open up new colonies. The most effective way to deal with nuclear weapons is to use more nuclear weapons against each other. (The pacifist doctrine of Our Lady of Nuclear Abandonment is like a dog that has eaten shit farting.) Nuclear weapons are the greatest invention of mankind, and they can only be carried forward, so let's deploy enough nuclear bombs in outer space!! Similarly, the most effective way to deal with gas bombs is never to issue a gas mask to each person, but to fire more and more powerful gas bombs or virus bombs. As for the pacifist pig's "I protest", is this fool funny?? In the dark jungle, if you don't want to be hacked, the only correct way is to hold a sword. Officially in this sense, in the early 80s of the B century, the Tasman Empire imported a large number of chlorine gas bombs, judging from the use of this campaign, this thing is really a weapon to kill the enemy, even if the fuse expires, it can still kill the enemy efficiently.

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The front line was defeated and the logistics hoarding point was lost, and the big tyrant chiefs of the Jinchuan Grassland Emirate had to flee, and it was definitely not so easy to get under the nose of the enemy.

At 15:10, the Imperial army in the earthen enclosure came out, threw in the only cavalry division, and slaughtered the shogunate tents of the steppe chiefs. The chiefs were arguing and complaining to each other at this time.

At 15:40 the cavalry division reached the chiefs, who howled and met them with their elite guards, who seemed confident of their victory. The same is true of the chiefs, firstly, these guards are the best cavalry in a hundred, and secondly, the number of their own cavalry participating in the battle is more than that of the enemy. With these two points, it is enough to teach the Imperial Army a lesson and give them a war of annihilation.

At 15:45, the two sides began to make contact. The speed of the Tasman cavalry was not very fast, but the formation was super dense.

I saw that the steppe cavalry who were rushing up at high speed fell and dismounted in front of the opponent's shock array, and the imperial army, which was not superior in number and was absolutely inferior in quality, swept away the top steppe riders who went to teach them a lesson. Even in hand-to-hand combat, which the steppes excelled at, the poor elite cavalry was crushed by the Imperial army.

In the dense ranks of these Imperial cavalry, discipline seemed paramount, individual horsemanship was no longer important, and a single rider did not need to pull the reins, but his teammates and horses on either side of him would carry him forward. This way each cavalryman could free up two hands to fight, one with a sword and the other with a pistol. For example, the cavalry queue marching on the wall did not need to be too high, which would disrupt the formation and affect the impact force, so they used a neat canter charge. It seems to be no threat, but it is powerful.

In terms of individual combat effectiveness, as the chiefs knew, the cavalry of the Tasman Empire were no match for the steppe cavalry in terms of individual horsemanship and martial arts. However, the Imperial cavalry was able to move in unison under the constraints of strict discipline, keeping their horses next to horses and shoulder to shoulder when charging collectively, like a fast-moving "iron wall". This iron wall always maintains its collective strength to avoid the chaotic fighting of each other after the dispersal, so the overall combat effectiveness is far greater than that of the steppe cavalry army that meets the enemy in a scattered formation.

Soon, the steppe soldiers who rushed to the front like the wind disappeared as if they had hit an iron wall. Just as in those years, Russian military observers observed the war between Austria and the Turkish Empire in Asia, and found that when the cavalry of the two sides fought with a hand-to-head battle, there would always be a situation where a Turkish scimitar faced 2~3 Austrian cavalry swords at the same time. The Austrian cavalry, on the other hand, was able to maintain a neat line even after the Turks had dispersed and fought in groups. He then suggested to the Tsar: "Austria's greatest advantage over the Turkish army is their cuirassiers, which are feared by all Turks, and we should introduce this type of training as well." Turkey is one of the traditional cavalry powers, in the 18th century war with Western European countries, its traditional cavalry has become the biggest disadvantage, the good Turkish riders are always defeated by the Western European cavalry who are not good at horsemanship, indicating that the evolution of cavalry has entered a new era, an era in which discipline is more important than horsemanship.

Napoleon, the later Emperor of the French Empire, described the battle between the Mamluk cavalry and the French cavalry in a diary: "Two Mamluks can definitely win three French soldiers; 100 French soldiers and 100 Mamluks were evenly matched; Most of the 300 French soldiers can defeat 300 Mamluks, and 1,000 French soldiers can always defeat 1,500 Mamluks. "At the foot of the pyramids, in the real war, the great Napoleonic general led 2,000 French cavalry with artillery support to defeat more than 10,000 Mamluk soldiers, drove them into the Nile and fed the crocodiles.

Next, the Imperial cavalry swept the territory of the steppe army, which was absolutely superior in numbers, slaughtering these fleeing aborigines like steppe wolves driving and hunting sheep. In the days that followed, the corpses of the steppe people littered the vast expanse around Dharavilar, including several chiefs. The chief of the Kollo tribe and his second son became the only high-level steppe goats to survive.

The steppe army was completely defeated at Dalavillar, and the cavalry of the Imperial army galloped across the grassland, plundering everywhere. Since then, almost only the Kollo tribe has remained in the Emirate of the Jinchuan Grassland, and there is a small number of organized resistance. Not all of the main divisions of the tribe took part in the battle, only one cavalry regiment was left, so most of them were preserved, and Count Drachinko Konstantin and his officer advisory corps were largely intact.

The steppe armies of the rest of the tribes gathered around the Kollo tribe to keep warm, or to protect themselves, but under the sweep of the imperial army, it was only a matter of time before they perished. The fate of the small tribes of the northern steppe is about to play out on these large tribes.

To live or to die? This question is in front of every steppe person. It is the responsibility of the head sheep to find a way for the flock and for themselves. Everyone is trying to figure out how to do it, but these solutions don't even work for the person who came up with the idea. Finally, the second son, Bok Hammore, came up with a fairly reliable plan - 36 plans, go ahead, flee abroad to avoid the war, spend gold to rent a piece of land to live first, and then come back when the imperial army is gone.

A few days later, the chieftain spent several large golden tickets, the land was rented, and the chief of the Kollo tribe led the main division and the remnants of the other steppe tribes to the south. On 17 May, the last of the steppe people gathered around Wormluk Castle, where they rested and assembled before migrating south for exile. They planned to gather as many people as possible here, and set off on May 20, escaping all the way south, leaving some blood for the steppe people, but it turned out to be the opposite, and the gathering of sheep in one place was undoubtedly the best target for the hungry wolves.

On the morning of May 18, the unexpectedly arrived cavalry units of the Imperial Army surrounded these last steppe people, and the massacre was about to be staged.