The fortifications of the times of the First World War are not only backward but also rudimentary in the eyes of modern people. [No pop-ups]

Before the cross-era progress of military science and technology, in the era when tanks and airplanes were not mainstream weapons at the turn of modern and modern times, the positions composed of barbed wire, trenches, single-shot rifles, Gatling machine guns, and light artillery, in understanding modern military knowledge, and understanding of artillery at the level of guidance, precision, self-propelled, and a maximum range of more than 50 kilometers, Wang Shuhui, the First Army Corps in the northwest of the Baxing Army built this kind of World War I-level fortifications are a little stronger than paper, but they are also very limited.

In fact, this kind of fortification built by the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Revival Army can easily break through as long as any army that has entered the mechanized era. Of course, in the non-mechanized troops, there are not no units capable of solving such fortifications. At least Wang Shuhui knows that with a non-mechanized army that uses millet plus rifle military equipment, it can easily break the military deployment of the Revival Army by various means.

For example, Wang Shuhui himself knew a very simple way to make this military deployment of the Renaissance Army completely ineffective.

The position of the 1st Army Corps in the northwest of the Baxing Army was a road in a valley with high mountains on both sides and only a width of less than ten meters in the middle. In fact, as long as the troops of the attacking side have excellent military qualities, or do not have excellent military qualities, and have a strong will to fight, then it is a very good choice to organize troops to bypass the seemingly troublesome fortifications of the Baath Army through the steep mountains on both sides.

Of course, this is all a conjecture of Wang Shuhui, who is currently a non-combat commander. Now Wang Shuhui is just standing in the wooden headquarters as an ordinary observer, listening to the arrangements and arrangements of the staff officers and commanders. Occasionally, he would take out inferior telescopes that were not produced by the Baath Party, and use modern telescopes from modern times, which were sold on the ground but were of much higher quality than those produced by the Baath Party, to observe and observe Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

It's not that Wang Shuhui doesn't know what Zhang Xianzhong looks like. However, his understanding of Zhang Xianzhong's image is either the painting of ancient people or the dress of modern people. And whether it is ancient people or modern people, Zhang Xianzhong in their pen and costume is all the kind of majestic image with long sideburns and beard, and a picture of the protagonist of film and television dramas. What is Zhang Xianzhong's actual appearance, through those paintings and appearances, don't want to know.

In modern times, there is a writer named Zhang Xiaohua, which is very reasonable. What this ancient person looked like, if you want to understand it through modern sculpture and painting, it is the delusional Xianyuan Farm. The sculpture of a long-bearded old man, except for some differences in posture, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen and others are actually such an image of an old man who looks similar. It is likely that the people who engaged in sculpture made a mold from the same mold that these ancient people used to make sculptures in order to save trouble.

The staff officers and most of the commanders and fighters of the Fuxing Army may not have much pressure on Zhang Xianzhong's troops. They just responded to the situation step by step and according to the experience of the exercise. Wang Shuhui may have been a little interested in this famous and controversial ancient person, but he occasionally used a telescope to look at the crowd opposite.

It's not that Wang Shuhui looks down on Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army. After all, judging from the equipment level of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, especially from the situation of those displaced people who were coerced and organized as cannon fodder, it is absolutely impossible to call them an army. Indeed, they can only be described and defined by crowds.

Wang Shuhui and the Renaissance Army could treat the peasant army of tens of thousands calmly. But as the leader of this peasant army of more than 10,000 people, Zhang Xianzhong faced the fortifications of the First World War built by the Renaissance Army above the level of the First World War, and there was no possibility of facing it calmly.

Before coming into contact with the Renaissance Army, Zhang Xianzhong certainly did not know that the Renaissance Army used single-shot rifles with all-metal bullets, and modern artillery equipped with grenades, modern machine guns, and shells filled with high spirits. But just looking at the three layers inside and three layers outside, the Fuxing Army was densely covered with trenches and barbed wire, but he couldn't see a single person's position, Zhang Xianzhong felt very surprised.

Zhang Xianzhong and his men, of course, did not know what trench warfare was. They also do not understand modern warfare at all. However, his intelligence was not abnormal, and he could naturally understand that this kind of fortification of the Renaissance Army was obviously some kind of artificial defensive arrangement. It would have been nice if there were a large number of people standing on the positions of the Ba'ath Army, but the problem was that the positions of the Ba'ath Army, where everyone had taken refuge in trenches and fortifications, were quiet and deserted.

For Zhang Xianzhong and his men, this situation is too abnormal.

As a matter of fact, as far as the various enemies that the Renaissance Army may encounter in the next 100 years, both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the current tactics of the Renaissance Army are a bit too advanced. It is impossible for the other side to have explosive and high-spirited hot weapons. The range of muskets and bows was very limited. The cannons fired solid shells that fired straight fire. So such modern fortifications make sense only when the Ba'ath Army meets an opponent who is at the same level of equipment and tactical thinking as them.

However, because this is what the defense mode of the Revival Army looks like, and this defense mode is absolutely effective against the ancient army, there is nothing wrong with doing so.

As a "big man" who left his name in history, Zhang Xianzhong is definitely not the kind of straw bag who lacks heart. Zhang Xianzhong, who had received a certain amount of edification in the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, issued two orders after a moment of doubt. One is to send people to the mountains on both sides to see if there are any other roads. One was to order a small leader to lead a team of twenty or thirty people to the position of the Baath Army to probe it.

Generally speaking, whether in ancient times or in modern times, the troops that took on scout tasks in the troops, served as reconnaissance missions, were elite troops. Just as the Fuxing Army had a special reconnaissance battalion, Zhang Xianzhong also had a small reconnaissance team composed of skilled hunters and experienced scouts in the border army who did not collect overnight.

After receiving Zhang Xianzhong's tentative order, this team of more than 20 people immediately approached the position of the Fuxing Army as carefully as possible.

This team has some experience, although it is possible to use the trees and rocks on the side of the road as a concealment to hide their figures. However, both the front-line commanders on the battlefield and the staff officers and commanders-in-chief in the headquarters have long used the "advanced" telescopes made by the Baath Party and have seen very clearly what they are doing.

Zhao Wanli, commander of the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Rejuvenation Army, carefully observed the actions of these people and ordered the officers and men in the frontline positions to remain still.

There really was nothing wrong with Zhao Wanli's order. Faced with a large number of complex obstacles composed of trenches and barbed wire, Zhang Xianzhong's scouts were helpless.

You must know that there is nothing in the trenches, but the barbed wire, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong's group of peasant troops, there is no wire cutter with excellent materials, and any armed force in the feudal agricultural society has no way to use barbed wire

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