The high casualty rate is not a specific example of the American Civil War, since 1858, when the Chinese Empire led the large-scale use of breech-loading rifles and front-loading rifled guns, the world's major powers have fully popularized breech-loading rifles in just a few years, but the popularity of breech-loading rifles is too fast, and many generals have not yet figured out the tactics of the breech-loading rifle era.

Because in the past few years, in addition to the special Chinese Empire, the army tactics of other countries still continue the line tactics, of course, there are some straggler tactics, but they have not become the mainstream in a short period of time, and the generals of many countries even strongly oppose the soldiers shooting on their stomachs, thinking that this damages the dignity and honor of the soldiers.

The weapons are advanced, and the tactics are not improved accordingly, so what happens? That is, the casualty rate in war will be greatly increased.

Historically, when the Mini rifle first appeared, when the rear-loading rifle first appeared, and when new weapons such as machine guns first appeared, there was always a wave of harvesting life!

In the sixties of this time and space, in many major wars, the rear-loading rifle accounted for more than 80 percent of the casualties, and the front-loading smoothbore artillery that was highly respected during the Napoleonic Wars has been reduced to the embarrassing situation of dispensability, which directly forced countries to start developing rifled rear-loading field guns.

And now, the charge of the British, French and American forces is a classic offensive operation, with soldiers holding breech-loading rifles and then attacking in a still tight formation.

However, they did not use the salvo mode of the line era, but generally used the free fire mode, and the interval between soldiers and soldiers was not crowded with people as in the past. Instead, there is a certain space, but this space is not large. Usually only between fifty centimeters and one meter.

At the same time, the depth of their line is not large, only two columns before and after. And there was a column in the rear.

This tactic can be said to be a tactic for the transition from the era of line to the era of skirmishers, with a strong style of line tactics, and at the same time it also has some characteristics of skirmisher tactics.

However, they didn't dare to be tactical, but when they dared to swagger and charge directly at the Chinese army hiding behind the fortifications, it meant that they needed to pay a high price.

When one of the front-line commanders waved his saber forward, he shouted: "Shoot!" The Chinese soldiers behind the fortifications pulled the trigger one after another, then reloaded, and then fired.

Dense bullets formed a barrage and pounced on the British, French and American soldiers on the way to the charge!

In an instant, it hit dozens of coalition soldiers who rushed to the front. At this moment, the charge of the British, American and French forces did not stop, and the firepower of the Chinese army did not stop.

The sound of gunfire is like the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the families continue to set off firecrackers without stopping for a moment.

In the dense gunfire, a large number of British, French and American soldiers were knocked down, and for a while, the smell of gunpowder and blood on this small battlefield was mixed, which made people almost sick.

After the intensive charge of the British, French, and American forces was intercepted by the Chinese army. Although their will to fight was very strong, they could not rush to the positions defended by the Chinese army.

The first time failed, the second time still failed, and these foreigners probably know the principle of not doing more than three. After two failed attacks, the British, French, and American forces finally stopped the massive charge.

At this time, the coalition forces had left more than 300 corpses in front of the Chinese army. The casualties were quite heavy.

However, after the tragedy of the American Civil War, countries are not surprised by this proportion of casualties of only 10 percent. You must know that in the American Civil War, the proportion of belligerent casualties abounded in more than 50%. During the attack, the annihilation of the whole army happened from time to time.

Since the beginning of the fifties and sixties, the casualty rate of war has increased substantially, and the ability of the armies of various countries to bear casualties has also increased.

In the era of cold weapons, the casualty rate of more than 10 percent of the troops basically had to collapse, and in the modern era of the pre-loading gun, the casualty rate of more than 30 percent is also unbearable.

But by the late nineteenth century, it was not uncommon for troops to have casualties in excess of 50 percent.

And during World War I and World War II, it was even more common for the troops to run out.

It can be said that from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, the casualty rate of the war continued to expand, and the casualty bearing capacity of the troops was also constantly strengthened.

On the contrary, after the 50s of the 20 th century, with the nuclear bomb as a weapon of mass destruction, the world as a whole remained peaceful, and only then did it pay attention to reducing casualties.

Today's hundreds of casualties of the coalition forces are nothing to the coalition forces, and they have not even been able to dispel the idea of continuing the offensive.

However, the commander of the other party was not an elm head like Nogi Noshinori, so naturally he would not let the soldiers make indifferent sacrifices, they changed their tactics and began to divide their forces to continue the attack.

The Chinese army was also forced to change its defensive tactics and conduct defensive operations at multiple points.

Such a battle situation turned into a multi-point skirmish, and the whole battle situation showed a stalemate, and the casualties of the Chinese army also appeared one after another.

However, everyone is fighting on this Oahu Island, and they are all small in force, and their supply capacity is quite limited, so the ammunition supply brought by this is basically a one-shot deal, and this will be gone when it runs out.

Therefore, apart from the fierce fighting in the first few days, the fighting in the following days was generally a stalemate.

The reason is also simple, because everyone has sent out a large amount of ammunition in the first few days, and if they continue to use it uncontrollably, it is estimated that their ammunition will be exhausted in a few days, and then the two sides will have no good way but to fight bayonets.

The continued stalemate in the land battle between the two sides also made the commanders of both sides quite a headache, which is good whether they win or lose, it is best to win, and it is a big deal to surrender if they lose, but this situation of not losing or winning is to make both sides quite passive.

The British, French, and American forces were on an expedition of more than 3,000 kilometers, and the nearest supply ports were on the west coast of the United States, which meant that they could not stay in the waters of Hawaii forever. There will be no problem with this for about half a month, but if it takes a long time, there will be problems with the supply. In particular, coal and fresh water are recharged.

Although the supplies of the Chinese army were more convenient, they were mainly coal, fresh water and food. They could resupply directly at the port of Honolulu, but it was very difficult to replenish ammunition and troops, because the nearest supply place for the empire was in Edo, Japan, which was nearly 7,000 kilometers away from Hawaii.

However, even if it is a long distance, this supply still needs to be replenished, and in order to maintain the combat supply of Hawaii, the Imperial Navy has organized a fleet of more than dozens of ships since last year, going back and forth between Japan and Hawaii.

However, there is too much time to come and go this time, and I can't count on it in a short time.

Britain, France, and the United States are far away. But it's not that easy.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the Second Battle of Honolulu on the Hawaiian side, the battle on land has shown a stalemate, so the situation in Hawaii will not change much for a while.

Although the Chinese army could not completely drive the Anglo-American-French allied forces into the sea, the British, French, and American allied forces could not destroy the Chinese army and then capture Honolulu.

According to the current situation, the solution to the Hawaii problem will ultimately have to rely on diplomatic negotiations between the two sides, and war is not impossible, but the price to pay will be too high.

Today, the Chinese Empire and Britain, France, and the United States have invested a lot of power in the direction of Hawaii. To some extent, it has even exceeded the inherent value of Hawaii at present, and aside from the military and strategic value of Hawaii to the United States and the Chinese Empire, its economic value alone is completely unable to offset the war expenses of both sides.

Millions of dollars in war funds, even if Hawaii is turned upside down, it will not be recovered.

The situation in Hawaii continues to be deadlocked. In the case of Hong Kong, the Empire had recovered Hong Kong and defeated the East India Fleet. The British were negotiating with the Empire while sending warships to reinforce the East India Fleet. It is said that this time the British made a big decision and directly dispatched two ironclad ships of larger tonnage to the East India Fleet. Specifically, the two temporary empires have not yet received detailed information.

But once the British reinforcements arrived, the Imperial Navy would be under great threat!

Therefore, in this context, the Imperial Navy actually hopes that the Empire can reach a peace agreement with the British as soon as possible and stop this war that has not yet been declared.

However, the army didn't care too much, and even many army generals delusionally thought that once a large-scale war broke out between China and Britain, the army would enter Burma and India and completely pocket these two places, and the duke and marquis title would not be at their fingertips at that time!

Although the British were already sending warships to reinforce the East India Fleet, they also knew that even if the reinforcement fleet could defeat the Imperial Navy and sweep the entire Chinese coast, it would not be able to force China to submit, as for the landing operation?

In the middle of April, the British consulted the military generals, and the senior British army generals said that once a full-scale large-scale war broke out between China and Britain, the British side should prepare at least 50,000 troops in Lower Burma and at least 100,000 troops in northern India for defense, and if it wants to land in China's coastal areas, it needs to send at least 50,000 people in the early stage, and the number of landing troops must increase to more than 100,000 within a month, otherwise it is very likely that the huge Chinese army will be directly driven into the sea. Then repeat the tragedy of the annihilation of the entire army in the Battle of Shanghai.

In this way, if a full-scale war breaks out with the Chinese Empire, the navy will naturally have no pressure and will be able to completely suppress or even blockade China's coastal areas at any time, but in terms of the army, Britain will have to mobilize more than 250,000 troops in the early stage, and at least 500,000 troops in the later stage in order to maintain a certain advantage.

Well, this is just talking about superiority, as for wanting to defeat China through land warfare, don't count on it, 500,000 people are used to defend India and Burma, and at the same time land somewhere along the coast of China and hold on, as for going deep into the hinterland of China, you don't dare to give the British Army a hundred dares, you are a fake Chinese army of 7 or 800,000 troops, and people will not mobilize more troops if they start a war!

In the face of the pessimistic attitude of the military, especially the senior generals of the British Army, many excited British MPs and senior government officials have calmed down.

The Chinese Empire of 1866 was not the Manchu Dynasty of 1840, for which the British could sweep through China by sending a fleet of thousands and a few thousand marines.

But against the Chinese Empire in 1866, tens of thousands of people are not enough, and if you are not ready for 500,000 troops, don't talk about a full-scale war, as long as you want to completely defeat the Chinese Empire, this upper limit of troops is even more difficult to estimate, even if you invest a million troops, it is estimated that it is enough.

This all-out war is not easy to fight.

Now the British are just thinking about continuing to expand their superiority at sea, and then get everything they want at the negotiating table, maybe the diplomats of the Chinese Empire are stupid, frightened by their own fleet, and then sign the traitorous treaty. (To be continued.) )