According to the current operational conditions, night warfare is extremely difficult for both offensive and defensive sides, but it is the best means of surprise attack, and even in the 20th century, this kind of combat means that can easily cause a major collapse has not been effectively solved until the emergence of more mature night vision devices.

Therefore, if you want to leapfrog and establish a bridgehead-like combat point, the defense at night has become a problem that must be faced directly and must be solved with great effort.

At present, the troops stationed outside the mountain villages use a combination of fuel searchlights, barbed wire, and mines to defend night battles, and just listening to these things you will know how much supplies need to be transported if you want to build a bridgehead, and the fuel consumption of fuel searchlights and lights in the camp is also a large number, so the army rarely sets up garrison points unless it is absolutely necessary.

For this reason, it is worth considering how to set up this bridgehead, where to set it up, the size of the number of people, and whether to use the military fort that was attacked as a foundation for repair, or whether to rebuild it.

In addition to the creation of a bridgehead outpost, there is another question that cannot be ignored and who to fight? How large a battle to fight also needs to be carefully considered.

At present, the opponents encountered by the army of the mountain village, whether it is the Tusi or the Ming army, are mainly infantry combat units, and the combat troops of the mountain village can completely avoid or bypass the weak points through the mobility of the foot force and the supplies they carry, and even the siege army can use artillery to blast through the defense system of the city wall on which it depends.

Moreover, considering that the army has not yet fought a serious positional war or a large-scale battle, putting aside the issue of tactics, how to support a battle with more than 3,000 men is also a practical problem.

The logistical characteristics of cold-weapon warfare are mainly determined by the supply of grain, and because the mountain village army is equipped with a large number of hot weapons, the decisive factors that determine the scale of the mountain village army's combat scale are three quantities: output, reserves, and transportation volume.

The production capacity and reserves of the mountain village industry have become less of a problem with the maturity of steam engine and press technology, and given a certain amount of time, when new industrial machines are put into service, a large amount of ammunition will be produced.

If it is a short-term operation, the supply of more than 3,000 people is not too big a problem, but once the combat duration exceeds one and a half months, there will be a supply gap in the transportation capacity that the mountain village currently has, especially if the combat position cannot be reached directly by water and has to take a land route, then the supply can only guarantee a time interruption of one month. Beyond this time period, on the basis of only ensuring the supply and consumption of ammunition, the food can only be replenished by going out to plunder and collect.

It is precisely because of this that the command is cautious and cautious in choosing foreign operations and expansion, and the intelligence work is meticulous and meticulous. There is no way, the foundation is still too thin to withstand too much loss.

After thinking about it, everyone unanimously agreed that if it is necessary to reduce the number of troops dispatched and fight with the smallest combat units, and to ensure the effectiveness of marching, stationing, and combat, the most reliable thing in the case of a battalion's strength is not artillery, but a weapon that can produce a continuous rapid-fire interceptive attack. Although the Thor artillery can fire shotguns to do this, the artillery is difficult to turn, and it takes time to reload, and it doesn't matter if you fight with infantry, once you encounter an opponent with high mobility combat ability such as cavalry, then it is easy to be attacked by the opponent in the encounter and night attack defensive operations, causing huge losses.

Extrapolated to such a conclusion, the eyes of the commanders at the moment were looking at Deng Shifeng with blank eyes, and seeing the eager gaze of these guys, Deng Shifeng wanted to slap himself a few times.

At the beginning of this year, after the commercial fast gun was confirmed, Luo Dan happened to see a weapon on Deng Shifeng's desktop during a report, this weapon looked very strange, like a bunch of barrels tied together, with a crank next to it, if it was a traveler with a little military knowledge, he could recognize this as a Gatling-style machine gun at a glance; At that time, Luo Dan asked Deng Shifeng about the function and principle of this weapon under curiosity, and Deng Shifeng said the surname and working principle of this machine gun......

The structure of the Gatling rotary machine gun is not complicated, and this weapon is also a weapon that can be equipped after replacing it with metal fixed ammunition, if it is not for the insufficient propulsion generated by black powder, it cannot provide enough thrust to the re-entry mechanism under the premise of ensuring the kinetic energy of the gun bullet, Deng Shifeng wants to be equipped with a heavy machine gun similar to the Makqin type; After all, the Gatling machine gun cannot be fed by the cartridge belt, and the drum feed is a bit difficult for the technical level of the mountain village, so it can only use a vertical feed magazine like the early Gatling machine gun, and the magazine feed is certainly not as good as the belt type can provide a longer continuous firepower.

"This ...... You guys are still temporarily dead of this heart, I kept this thing to prepare to deal with the Manchu cavalry, and it will only be bad if you take it out too soon...... And you guys, don't always focus on new weapons, although new weapons can change the tactical mode, but the real key is to work hard for the personnel. Look at other people's plates, give him two people to load ammunition next to him, and he can use a big business style to form a fire blockade!! ”

Seeing that the commander-in-chief was about to mention his face, several commanders hurriedly said:

"Teacher, it's no problem if you don't have that machine gun, as long as you can match each company with twenty more Da Shang styles, plus ten big business types in the fire platoon, whether it is attacking or defending, we dare to hit any place!"

The awl patted his chest in reassurance, and the other commanders nodded in agreement. After the test of this actual battle, the commercial rifle has won unanimous praise from officers to soldiers for its high rate of fire, good accuracy and rapid reloading; Although the theoretical effective range of the firing range is 200 meters, in fact, 200 meters can only cause limited damage to the unarmored target, once the target is armored, it must be close to a distance of 100 meters before the warhead has enough kinetic energy to penetrate or cause impact damage, and a distance of 100 meters is also the best distance for Dashang rifles to ensure accuracy, although this distance is not as good as the 300 meters of the summer rifle can also cause impact damage to the armored target, but everyone is already very satisfied with this range, After all, commercial rifles use pistol cartridges.

"Are you sure?! If it is added, it will be necessary to increase the number of people in the fire platoon. ”

There is nothing wrong with increasing weapons, but increasing the number of people means increasing the pressure on logistics, and Deng Shifeng must remind these people.

"There is no need to increase the number of troops, each squad can be equipped with a soldier with more accurate marksmanship, so that once it is put into battle, the squad support firepower is sufficient when attacking, and the firepower density can also be blocked when defending!"

The awl replied very simply, this kind of tactical deduction has been tested in this actual battle, and the rapid-fire firepower network composed of ten big merchants makes everyone extremely envious and trusted.

Seeing that they were so confident in the awl, Deng Shifeng calculated in his heart the arsenal's production capacity of firearms and the ammunition production capacity of the ammunition factory, and waved his hand:

"That's it!!" (To be continued.) )