Chapter Seventy-Seven, Tactical Change (II)

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"Hey, I saw it too, that cannonball really looks like the Yankee said, you can see it with the naked eye, like a small football ball, at first it looks, slowly, as if you can pounce on it with a random side pounce. But when it was about to land, it suddenly became so fast and fierce. Well, if I can make a shot like this, I can guarantee that no one will try to save it. ”

"Come on, Pire! Even your two legs want to kick a ball like that? But that guy's power is really not covered, have you ever looked at the target? There are five targets made of wooden planks as thick, and they can be easily penetrated with one shot. It's hitting people like this, isn't that such a big hole? Private Rossi said with emotion.

"A hole? Beauty doesn't kill you! I didn't hear the Yankee say that the whole body of the person who was hit in the torso was torn apart, and the head, body, hands, feet and internal organs were thrown more than ten meters away! Vomit, thinking about that scene makes people want to vomit! ”

"I heard that the Austrians have more artillery than we do. The defense is fine, we can still hide in the trenches, as long as we are not too unlucky, like Tommy, the cannon is just listening, but the attack is troublesome. Think about it, the order was given to us to attack, and then we marched in a neat line, accompanied by snare drums, towards the Austrians, and then, from afar, the Austrians threw out a whole bunch of cannons and fired at us. It's so ...... that I can't even imagine it......"

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"The skirmishers attack, the skirmishers attack, but you actually want everyone to hang such a green cook's apron on their chests, and let the soldiers wear green sleeves! Are you going to let them play the Frog Prince? Lieutenant Colonel Neville felt that he was going to be frustrated again, though he also had a hunch that he would probably give in to the Yankees, for he could not yet figure out whether he was more loyal to the King or to Blackwater. "These devils who deserve to go to hell!" He cursed in his heart the devils who had tempted him to sign the pact of selling his soul. But if anyone asks him to give up that contract, he'll probably pull out his gun and fight you.

"I can't blame me," Robson said, clasping his arms over his chest, looking like I was innocent of business, "if your king is willing to buy camouflage combat uniforms from us, we are not willing to use such a rudimentary method." ”

"Your camouflage combat uniforms? When that thing is put on, it is really a green toad, or a toad with stripes and spots! ”

"But the concealment is good. The enemy may not be able to see it when they come to him. You see, Mr. Garibaldi has already ordered a batch from us. I really don't understand, Mr. Garibaldi doesn't care about turning his red shirts into green shirts, why do you insist on doing that? ”

"I'm saying again, Mr. Garibaldi is not like us, although I respect him very much, but he is not like us, we are a regular army, not a militia!" Lieutenant Colonel Neville took a breath and added, "The regular army has to have the appearance of a regular army, right?" And if you dress like you, it will be difficult for the enemy to see you, but our own commanders will not be able to see their own troops clearly, so it is inconvenient to command. ”

"What do you look at?" Robson glared at Neville, "And I'm just asking you to make the front of the soldiers green now, how can you not see from behind......"

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"Spread out, spread out! Damn it! Why are you squeezing so densely? Afraid that the enemy will not fire a volley at you with a platoon of guns? Or do you want to die a little more heroically? Damn it! Tommy, don't run after someone else's ass, you and Rosie should be at least 5 meters away! This way you can ensure that a bullet aimed at Rosie but hit crookedly won't hit you! Military Advisor Dale shouted loudly.

"Tommy, stay away from me! Especially when it's time for a real war! Rossi turned and shouted to Tommy, who was a little behind him.

"Why?" Tommy asked incomprehensibly.

"Because you're an unlucky guy, I'm afraid I'll be unlucky next to you, understand!" Rosie replied angrily as he half-crouched down behind a mound of dirt and made a gesture of preparing to shoot.

"The second group keeps up! Run the curve! Dale was yelling again. So the more than ten soldiers of the second group scattered and ran forward in a staggering manner. After only running for about ten steps, several guys habitually ran together again.

"Stop! Stop it! Dale called off the training and hurried over to the guys who were running in a heap.

"Idiot! Silly presumption! If there is an enemy in front of you, with a single shot or a salvo, you stupid things can contribute to the optimization of the Italian race! Tell you to spread out and run half-crouching, don't you hear? Do it all over again! Go back to the beginning and start over! Hell, it's such a simple thing, how many times has this been repeated? ”

So the soldiers turned their heads and walked towards the place where they had come out. As he walked, there were people talking about it.

"In the past, I practiced all the times when I died, but now I have to change it all at once, how easy is it?" One said.

"It's just, I said, what do the Yankees mean by 'contributing to the optimization of the Italian race'?" Another asked.

"That is, if we die, the average intelligence of the Italians will rise! Without even understanding this, it seems that you did pull down the average of the Italians. Someone from the first group, who had to start over because they had dragged him down, replied.

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"How high can such a sparse attack be?" Lieutenant Colonel Neville, who was watching the training from the side, muttered again, "Moreover, if the enemy gathers a force of cavalry and rushes over, we can still use the hollow phalanx against them before, what now?" There are no trenches that have already been dug here. ”

"Lieutenant Colonel," Robson said, "given the accuracy and accuracy of the MacDonald 1857 rifle, even in a loose formation, the density of fire is no less than that of a traditional dense formation." In fact, if you use 1857 and use dense formations, it is not only easy to be killed by other people's artillery, but also a bit of a waste of firepower. Do you remember the last time you hit a target, many targets were hit by more than 10 shots, right? As for cavalry, it's a bit of a problem, but it's not a big deal. ”

"Why isn't it a big deal? As soon as the cavalry rushed up, the saber slashed, and the entire formation collapsed! Isn't that a big deal? ”

"Your formation is so loose, the front and depth are so big, as long as you don't scare yourself to death, where is it so easy to collapse? Oh, I forgot that you guys are Italians. Robson said maliciously, so angry that Lieutenant Colonel Neville's nostrils were about to smoke out.

"Haha, just kidding, don't be angry." Seeing that Neville was about to run out, Robson quickly analyzed the situation of the loose marching array equipped with MacDonald 1857 rifles in the face of the cavalry charge. He knew that with such an analysis, Neville's custodian would forget about his offenses.

"Do you think, a group of cavalry rushes over, are they rushing in dense formation, or are they scattered? Rushing intensively, only a few people on the front of the impact? On the contrary, they themselves had to face a salvo from an entire loose infantry array. Hey, a salvo from the McDonald 1857 rifle...... No matter how you look at it, they are the ones who suffer. Moreover, the cavalry charge distance is also very limited. I came from a cavalry background, and as a general rule, we had to line up and march slowly to a distance of about 500 meters from the enemy before we got on our horses. Then the first 200 meters are jogging in small steps, and only at the 300-meter distance do you start to mention. But when the MacDonald 1857 fired a salvo, it had a range of nearly 8oo meters. If the cavalry wants to charge you, either they have to withstand your volley and rush again when they reach a predetermined distance, or they will rush ahead of time, and the strength of the horses will be insufficient, and the degree will be slow. And then you were bullied with long-range volleys. In the end, he rushed up, but there were few people on the front of the impact, and they all cut down, and they also made up for the loss. Besides, cavalry is much more valuable than infantry, so why do you do it stupidly? ”

"And what about scattering?" Neville asked.

"For example, one day, you take a MacDonald 1857 to hunt on the North American prairies, and suddenly you see a bison coming towards you 6oo meters away, do you think you are dead, or is the bison dead? No matter how you look at it, the chance of the bison dying is higher, right? The cavalry scattered and charged, how is it different from this? If the Austrians exchange cavalry for infantry in this way. Your king will wake up laughing when he sleeps and dreams. So, rest assured. As long as your people don't have a nervous breakdown, although they will definitely be hacked to death, it is definitely the cavalry who suffers. Robson replied.

"What you say seems to have some truth, but why do I still think there is a problem?" Neville said, "By the way, you said that as long as your people don't collapse on their own, there's a problem here." These dog-killing talents may really collapse on their own! No, you have to find a way! ”

"Otherwise, go find a team of cavalry, rush at them twice if you have anything to do, write down those who dare to turn around and run, and whip them with a whip after training, and draw them a few more times, and it will be fine. Well, we're all good at it! Robson smiled.

"Good idea, just do it, it won't take many cavalry, a few dozen people are enough. Squad-by-squad exercises. I knew Leonto, the commander of the cavalry regiment, who was a friend of my father's, and asked him if it should be difficult to borrow a cavalry company. ”

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"Call it a day, go back to rest!"

After being stopped again and again, the training of loose formations and mutual cover for each other to advance finally ended. The soldiers returned to the barracks and talked about the training they had just had.

"Tommy, you freaked out when the cannon went off just now, right?"

"No, the muzzle of the gun is facing me. Who would have thought that the cannon would be hidden there? Luckily there were no shells. ”

"Don't worry. Only the lewd guys of the "Black Water" will hide the cannon half-buried in the earth. Austrians don't have so much to think about! ”

I'm going out to run some errands today, maybe late in the afternoon