Chapter 141: The Sound of Drums and Horns (13)

【141】The Sound of Drums and Horns Begins to Fight (13)

The next day, according to Yao Fan's arrangement, all the soldiers were allowed to sleep lazily, but the cadres did not rest, and all attended the post-war experience summary meeting early in the morning.

In order to alleviate the fatigue of the cadres, Yao Fan ordered Wang Gui to arrange some guys to make fragrant and hot tea for everyone after the meal.

Fortunately, the cadres came from a poor background, and they still ate fragrant food for such cold meals, especially the sense of equality of the big pot of rice, which made the cadres talk and laugh while eating, and talked about yesterday's brilliant results while eating, and completely forgot about the lack of sleep last night.

Yao Fan wiped his mouth after breakfast, stood in front of the stage and said coldly: "Yesterday's victory cannot be called a war, it can only be called a massacre. He plans to pour some cold water on the soldiers, and he still understands the truth that arrogant soldiers will be defeated.

When the cadres saw Yao Fan finish eating, they began to speak, and immediately stuffed the rest of the food into their mouths and listened carefully.

Yao Fan said: "In my opinion, the cavalry of the Qing army is simply lagging behind to the extreme!" In today's era when the great powers have fully adopted rifles, they are still using the cold weapon tactics of 5oo years ago, which can only be used to slaughter the people who are backward in weapons, and once they encounter the modern armies of the European and American powers, they can only be defeated repeatedly, cede land and pay compensation, lose power and humiliate the country! Yao Fan looked at the expressions of the cadres coldly, until he confirmed that the smug smiles were gradually shedding from everyone's faces.

Yao Fan spread his hands and said, "So how advanced are our tactics?" I can tell you very clearly that our victory was based on well-armed and correct tactics, but correct tactics do not mean that tactics are advanced, and modern infantry tactics are gradually evolving from the traditional style of fighting of line infantry to shoot and shoot, and to form phalanx against cavalry. In this tactical evolution of natural selection, whoever evolves early and evolves correctly will have the first opportunity and win the fierce war in the future! Yao Fan said with red eyes.

Last night he thought about it all night and finally decided to start teaching modern infantry tactics in advance.

"Third sister, help me." Yao Fan pointed to the thick stack of pamphlets on the side and said.

After Yao Peng's reformatting and screening, these white-covered pamphlets, which were only more than 50 pages long, had the words "Infantry Detachment Company Platoon Tactical Teaching Materials" written in red letters on the cover; the original publishing unit was the Military Training Department of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, but now it has been changed to three simple characters -- written by Yao Fan, and the words published in 1968 have been erased. It was an era when all the people were soldiers, and young people with strong blood were embarrassed to go out and fight in groups if they didn't know some infantry tactics. Yao Fan condensed nearly half of the book's content, deleting the temporarily useless content such as infantry fighting tanks, bazooka tactics, and flamethrower tactics.

"The tactical progress of the infantry is a long historical process, starting with the sound of drums and horns in Chapter 141 of Antiquity (xiii)

The primitive stragglers all over the mountains and fields were beaten to the large-scale cluster formation in the feudal period, and since the advent of rifles, the infantry began to gradually adopt the line formation, which has been used to this day. Because the line infantry formation equipped with muskets was inherently extremely aggressive, it needed to be more disciplined than the feudal corps formation, and after having strict discipline as a guarantee, the formation of the world's infantry began to move from a regular geometric form to a complex skirmisher form. Yao Fan said, unfolding the sketches of the explanations he had spent all night drawing on the screen in front of the county government hall.

Yao Fan pointed to a schematic diagram of skirmish tactics in the Napoleonic period and said: "This is a skirmish tactic, in which elite infantry armed with more accurate shotguns approach the enemy's dense formation of infantry in loose columns, and quickly spread out into loose horizontal formations, each soldier looks for trees, ditches, boulders, and hollows on the spot to cover himself, and at the same time shoots accurately at the opponent." After yesterday's fierce battle, everyone must have seen that the dense formation will suffer very heavy casualties under the attack of strong firepower, and after adopting a loose skirmish formation, the opponent will be forced to shoot accurately at a single target, thus greatly reducing the opponent's hit rate and reducing our casualties. Another advantage of the skirmish formation is that it can advance and retreat freely, which can effectively protect itself, and once you are at a disadvantage in the current battle, such as being surrounded by the opponent's line infantry or being assaulted by cavalry, you can retreat immediately, and you don't have to rely on a tight formation to retreat slowly or form a defense like the line infantry. ”

Yao Fan picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of water and continued: "However, due to the lack of effective fire support capabilities in the early skirmish tactics, it is easy to fall into the dilemma of being pursued by the enemy's tail, which requires the commanders to rely on the line infantry at the same time when using skirmish tactics to provide effective fire support to the quickly retreating skirmishers, so that when the straggler column retreats in difficulty, it can get a fire barrier and retreat behind the line infantry to hide and rest. ”

Yao Fan said in an accentuated tone: "But with the progress of war weapons, the firing degree of rifles is getting faster and faster, the accuracy is getting more and more accurate, the range is getting longer and farther, and the addition of new machine guns has made the firepower of the skirmish formation increase by leaps and bounds!" This enabled them to gradually get rid of the constraints and help of the line infantry, free themselves from the outdated formation tactics of the traditional 'skirmishers plus line infantry', and gain the best combat capability. ”

Yao Fan said excitedly: "When the skirmishers gained the combat ability to attack and defend, the line infantry began to become out of place and officially withdrew from the stage of history. The British army, which opened the door to China during the two Opium Wars, began experimenting with small-scale elimination of line infantry tactics twenty years ago, and France, another power, currently has more than 200 line infantry regiments. But as the power of artillery continued to increase, the line infantry of the great powers would only shrink more and more. ”

Yao Fan waved his hand and said: "I personally expect that the sound of drums and horns in Chapter 141 of Europe will start the war (13)

The major powers will fully complete the military reform of eliminating line infantry tactics in the next 20 years, so the Chinese People's Liberation Army, as the most advanced revolutionary force, must not cling to the remnants and use line infantry tactics as treasures. ”

"Don't read the book, what I said is not in the book, this is my personal experience and understanding, the summary and analysis of the historical exhibition, and the vision for the future. Historically, only a constantly improving army has been able to move from victory to victory. ”

The cadres' worship of Yao Fan has reached the point of no return, and every face is full of great eagerness and expectation, which is everyone's desire for victory!

"What a leader! What a Wizard! What is the guarantee of victory! It is impossible for a general to be incompetent and exhaust the whole army to be born in our revolutionary army! As long as the chairman is here, we can go from victory to victory! …… What a nice speech the chairman spoke! From victory to victory...... That's great! Li Hainiu thought excitedly.

Bai Xiaoqi sat at the conference table and took a sip of hot tea, his heart fluctuating.

She heard last night that Yao Fan led his troops to a great victory, completely defeating the five cavalry battalions of the Eight Banners of Qingzhou, and he didn't hurt a single soldier!

Yao Fan was able to take a group of recruits and make such a record as soon as he made a move, which really surprised Bai Xiaoqi and was not surprised. What is surprising is this intimidating record! What is not surprising is that Yao Fan only achieved his pre-war tactical vision, as if this qiē was designed by him in advance.

"There is a cloud in the art of war: 'The disease of the rushing water, as for the boulders, the momentum is also!' If Chairman Yao can achieve such victories in a row, then the momentum of such victories will become an unstoppable momentum. Zhang Fei led the troops, and the soldiers were panicked, and they were all going to die. Kong Ming led the troops, the soldiers were arrogant, and his words would be victorious. This is the momentum that the wisdom and achievements of the commander-in-chief bring to the troops. Chairman Yao is such a monster-like genius, and the Qing Dynasty is bound to die in his hands. ”

Bai Xiaoqi took another sip of hot tea and continued to listen to Yao Fan's lecture.

"Okay, now let's sum up the shortcomings of our army's tactics yesterday, after listening to what I just said, can anyone talk about the shortcomings of yesterday's battle."

"Chairman, let's talk about it!" Li Jun stood up and said.

"You say." Yao Fan is kind and authentic.

"In yesterday's battle, we discharged a hollow phalanx, and the use of firepower was very insufficient! The four arrangements in the south were more than enough to deal with a cavalry battalion with a yellow flag, the four arrangements in the north finally suppressed the three cavalry battalions with a yellow flag, and the one in the west was very tight when dealing with a cavalry battalion with a yellow flag. But it's a pity that there are still seven arrangements on the side of our hollow phalanx that are useless, so we can only stand stupidly facing each other, and later some battalion commanders really couldn't help it, so they adjusted a few Chapter 141 drums and horns from the side arrangement to start fighting (13)

Platoon up to support. I think that in addition to the shortcomings of the tactics themselves, many commanders, including myself, are a little inflexible and do not dare to adapt to changes on the battlefield. ”

"Well said!" Yao Fan praised.

"The problem you mentioned is precisely where the flaw of the line infantry tactics lies, and it is also where the advantages of the straggler tactics lie, and in order to ensure the victory of the revolution, we must abandon the rigid and sluggish line infantry tactics!"

"In the first lesson, let's first learn the tactics of line infantry and skirmishers."

So Yao Fan began to explain, describing in detail how the stragglers moved loose columns forward from the flanks of their own line infantry to assault, and when they arrived at the predetermined location, how they spread out into loose horizontal formations to carry out relatively covert precision fire on the enemy infantry. Yao Fan then described in detail how the stragglers retreated quickly and quickly from the opponent's attack, and how the infantry on his own line used fire to cover the retreat of the stragglers and resist the pursuers.

"As I just explained, we have all seen the role of line infantry in cooperating with skirmishers, so since we want to eliminate line infantry, we must build a unit similar to the role of line infantry in skirmishers. In short, it's about building powerful firepower units. Only when the stragglers have strong firepower can they hold their positions and fight hard against line infantry or cavalry. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the stragglers to resist their opponents in the face of the line infantry that is gradually approaching and finally charging with white blades, or in the face of the cavalry that rushes quickly. ”

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