Chapter 473: Polemic
Zhang Li's eyes deepened, and he repeated word by word: "Its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, it is not moving like a mountain, it is difficult to know like yin, and it is like a thunder......"
Immediately, Zhang Li fell into deep thought, and did not speak for a long time.
Indeed, as Li Dingguo said, he gave the name of the "immovable camp" brought by the wood because of this sentence of his grandson - immovable as a mountain!
Judging whether an army is advanced or not is not enough to have a few new muskets and a few new artillery. For example, in the last years of the "Great Qing Dynasty," the battle example of "no one before or after the enemy's British and French troops killed tens of thousands of people was killed in Bali Bridge" was not entirely due to the backwardness of weapons.
Of course, the weapons of the Qing army were naturally much worse than those of the Anglo-French army, but they were far from the extent that they fought against the Mi Di, who was armed to the teeth, with a brick. You must know that in North America, the Indians' weapons were N times worse than those of "I Daqing", but they also brought heavy casualties to the British colonists.
The regular army of "my Great Qing Dynasty" is not even as good as the natives, and it can be said that it is the best of the best to throw people into this part......
In the Battle of Bali Bridge, the Qing army belonged to both hot and cold weapons, because at that time, the Westernization Movement had already kicked off, and there were many firearms and artillery in the Qing army. If you don't say anything else, you can kill one or two hundred British and French troops even if you use artillery to bombard, right?
At that time, the tactics used by the British and French forces were actually very casual, but they were the most advanced tactics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - lining up to shoot.
There are two things that are most afraid of this kind of dense formation, one is artillery. The second is the cavalry to storm the two wings.
If you think that the musketeers in a line will be able to crush the cavalry. That can only be said that the too young, too simple Tucson was broken - the cavalry withdrew from the stage of history because of the invention of the Maxim machine gun and the advent of non-stop guns made of alloy steel.
Historically, the British army fought against the French army in Spain. The British had been blinded by the sudden rain, and when the rain stopped, they found two French light cavalry regiments on the flanks preparing to attack. In a hurry, three battalions did not have time to form a phalanx. As a result, in just five minutes, the three battalions suffered a devastating blow - 1,248 casualties among 80 officers and 1,568 soldiers.
I don't know how the battle of Bali Bridge, the Mongolian prince of the Manchu Dynasty, Grinqin, with tens of thousands of cavalry, was completely defeated by the British and French forces?
The things at the end of the Qing Dynasty were very evil, and only I, the Qing Dynasty, could play such a "strong" record; If it is simply a camp to fight against the current Manchu cavalry, then I am afraid the result will be very sad.
The cavalry was most afraid of artillery. The second is the battle loss ratio, if the exchange ratio with the infantry is not good, it will be a loss-making deal for the cavalry, and the number of troops will only be reduced and fewer.
Therefore, the condition for the use of the immovable battalion is that the enemy cannot fire artillery in dense density - this is quite understandable, because the formation of the immovable battalion is so dense that it is simply a target for artillery. The other is that the enemy must not have cavalry, or rather, it must be able to restrain the enemy's cavalry and not allow them to charge at full speed without moving the two wings of the battalion.
Able to deal with cavalry. In addition to artillery, then there is another cavalry. Therefore, the cavalry of Chaolu firmly protected the left and right flanks of the immovable battalion, and if the Tartars dared to charge the cavalry, someone would naturally clean them up.
And at that time, the artillery of the Tartars on the battlefield could no longer be fired. The camp did not move and was not worried about being attacked by the cavalry, so as soon as this "killer feature" came out, it immediately turned the entire battle situation upside down.
The tension was not expected either. There will be fifteen thousand cavalry of the Tartars! Coupled with the white swing tooth soldiers who were proficient in archery skills that appeared later, this battle was actually very dangerous for the Tuanshan army.
Fortunately, the course of the battle was a bit of an up-and-down, albeit one. However, the final result was that the Tuanshan Army was superior.
Zhang Li thought about it so much, but in fact, it was because he had a relatively big flaw. That is, whether it is rifled guns, mini bullets or howitzers, the original intention of Tension is to make something modern and modern. However, due to the limited scientific and technological conditions of Tuanshan Fort, it has not yet reached such a high industrial level.
For example, rifled guns were not as fine as those of later generations, and the materials used to make howitzers were helplessly made of copper instead of alloy steel...... Therefore, these new weapons are actually very discounted.
This is also a matter of no choice, two or three years can be the whole industrial "crossing" progress, then it is estimated that it is no fun to build satellites, and it is almost the same to put satellites.
Everything still needs the accumulation of time, no accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles, the ancients are honest and do not deceive.
Zhang Li retracted his thoughts, looked at Li Dingguo with a smile, and said: "Immovable as a mountain - that's exactly it!" The most classic tactic for the next 100 or 200 years is the tactic of the immovable camp that you see today. ”
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in history were the period when the West surpassed "my Qing Dynasty" on a rocket, and of course, this was also thanks to "My Qing Dynasty". In the wars of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth West, the tactics used by the Europeans were almost always this kind of line-up and shooting.
Li Dingguo nodded, and said with a sigh: "In the past, the Jin people evaluated Yue Wumu's Yue family army, saying that it was easy to shake the mountain, and it was difficult to shake the Yue family's army, which must be the same meaning. It is precisely because of the strict discipline and high morale of the immovable battalion that it will give the enemy a sense of oppression like Mount Tai! ”
After a pause, Li Dingguo then said with some doubts: "If you want to talk about flaws, in fact, there are a lot of immovable battalions, not to mention artillery and cavalry, if even the white tooth soldiers of the Tartars dare to form a formation to shoot, then I am afraid it is not known who will kill the deer!" The immovable battalion was able to achieve a decisive victory in this battle, and his subordinates felt that it was still a bit of a fluke. ”
Zhang Zhang smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "No, this is inevitable." On the battlefield, I never went to be a gambler. The victory of the immovable battalion represents an advanced method of warfare. If our regiment of 20,000 mountain troops were all fighting in such a formation, with cavalry protection on both flanks, and artillery in front of the formation to suppress the enemy's artillery, then the Tartars would have been defeated even if they had an army of 200,000 men. ”.
Due to the rush of time, Zhang Li could not train a large number of qualified soldiers who were shot in line in just one year, and there were about 10,000 soldiers in the training of Tuanshan Fort at present, but only the 2,000 people with the wooden belt reached the battle standard.
Zhang Li didn't dare to use them as soon as he came up, but waited until the most critical moment to make this big move.
Zhang Li's eyes flashed, and he said meaningfully: "You are quite right just now, I am afraid that the victory or defeat of the war in the future depends on strict discipline and high morale. This is the direction of the future development of our regimental mountain army, not some melee surprise attack. ”
Li Dingguo pondered for a moment, glanced at the battlefield of the bloody battle just now, and finally nodded: "The last general understands." The battle that adults want to fight is a battle without heroes and famous generals! ”
Yes, this kind of queuing and shooting tactics, how can there be heroes like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?
Zhang Zhang smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Hero? Heroes don't necessarily have the courage to face death! In my heart, all the soldiers of the immovable battalion are heroes! (To be continued.) )