The Battle of Stampala represents a large category of battles in the history of world warfare, and the most distinctive feature of this type of battle is that they were not initially deliberately planned by the commanders of the two warring sides, but were triggered by a fortuitous event, after which the commanders of both sides changed their original intentions and engaged in a new war.

Taking the Battle of Sampala Town as an example, the participating troops in this battle had no intention of fighting for the high ground of the town at first, but from the time Lin Fei's surveyors encountered the Spanish field artillery troops by chance, after various changes, the commanders of both sides changed their intentions one after another, and finally evolved into a major battle with more than 13,000 participants.

This battle can be divided into four stages, in the first stage, the first regiment of Lin Fei's troops made a sneak attack on the high ground of the small town of Sampala, annihilated a Spanish field artillery unit, captured ten 100 mm field guns, and then blew them all up; In the second stage, the Spanish field regiment and battalion attacked the high ground of the small town of Stampala, surrounded Lin Fei's troops and made great achievements, and the two sides fought around the high ground.

In the third stage, the Spanish troops dispatched four regiments with more than 8,000 troops to attack the high ground of the small town of Sampala, and Lin Fei's troops dispatched the first brigade and the first regiment to firmly attract the Spanish troops around the high ground by virtue of the favorable terrain.

In the fourth stage, three regiments of Lin Fei's troops arrived at the outflanking position and launched an attack on the Spanish troops, the Spanish troops retreated on all fronts, and encountered Lin Fei's troops in the process of retreating, and then launched a fierce battle with Lin Fei's troops, in the course of the battle, Lin Fei's sniper team infiltrated the enemy's various departments, sniped the enemy officers, the enemy's supreme commander Raceno was killed, and the Spanish troops immediately dispersed and broke through, and finally Lin Fei's troops won a complete victory.

In the four-stage campaign, Lin Fei's troops killed and wounded more than 3,500 enemies, captured more than 1,500 enemies, captured a large number of weapons and ammunition, Lin Fei's troops killed 489 people, wounded 345 people, and 34 missing, Lin Fei's troops won a complete victory, the victory of this battle marked that Lin Fei's troops were fully transferred to the position of attack, and the Spanish army was unable to launch a field battle, and was fully transferred to the position defense.

This battle has great significance in the history of world warfare, first of all, the innovation of tactical tactics, in this battle, Lin Fei boldly used the tactics of roundabout outflanking, and in the wars of this era, especially in the Western war, few commanders dared to carry out roundabout outflanking operations.

Lin Fei also created a precedent for the use of snipers alone in this battle, and Lin Fei's sniper team killed and wounded a total of 34 enemy officers at all levels, including the supreme commander...... Brigadier General Racello, but Lin Zhenhai and Feng Ming were not rewarded for killing Racello, because the Spaniards felt that it was a great shame for the Supreme Commander to be killed on the battlefield, so they covered up the fact that Raceno was killed, and lied that he died of a sudden illness, and it was not until decades later that the archives were declassified, and the matter was revealed to the world.

The second is the innovation of weapons, this battle for the first time in the history of world warfare appeared equipped with hydraulic retractor artillery, this kind of artillery fire rate is so fast that the artillery equipped with various countries has been sent to the museum; Specialized sniper rifles also appeared in this campaign.

Lin Fei also learned a lot of lessons in this battle, for example, the combat effectiveness of the logistics troops is insufficient, Lin Fei has always believed that the logistics troops do not need to fight on the front line, so they did not equip the logistics troops with LBQ-1 automatic rifles, only equipped them with Mauser M1893 rifles, and the training was not strict.

In this battle, a transport team of more than 50 people was completely annihilated by the enemy, which vividly exposed the weakness of the insufficient combat effectiveness of the logistics troops.

Another disadvantage is the lack of flares, if the artillery regiment has sufficient flares, it can use HP-2 75mm howitzers to destroy the Spanish troops when they retreat, and the production of flares requires the use of a large amount of magnesium powder and aluminum powder, magnesium and aluminum, as a reactive metal, cannot be smelted by fire like steel and copper, and if you want to smelt magnesium and aluminum, you must use electrolysis.

The factory that produces magnesium aluminum has always been a "power-swallowing monster", because the electrolysis process requires a lot of electricity, taking the electrolytic aluminum industry in the 1890s as an example, the production of 1 kilogram of aluminum requires 42 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and 42 kilowatt-hours of electricity is almost enough for an ordinary household for a month in Lin Fei's time.

At this time, Lin Fei did not have a power plant in his hands at all, so if Lin Fei wanted to build a flare, he must first establish a power plant and develop the power industry, and the power industry was also what Lin Fei had always wanted to develop, but it was not easy to develop the power industry, especially under the current conditions of lack of talents.

Lin Fei set his sights on the world, at this time there are two countries with the most developed power industry in the century, one is the United States, Nikola Tesla has invented alternating current at this time, and Edison, the "king of invention" and the improver of the light bulb, is holding on to his direct current, desperately suppressing Nikola Tesla.

The other is Germany, Werner Siemens founded Siemens as early as 50 years ago to produce all kinds of generators and electric motors, at this time thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants have been established in many places in Germany.

Lin Fei thought of these two countries, and secretly thought in his heart, can I seek some international cooperation in the development of the power industry? If so, what is the best way to do it......

While thinking about the future development plan, Lin Fei instructed the troops to rest in place, replenish their troops, and then march to Manila, Lin Fei's troops used the methods taught by Lin Fei to enhance the goodwill of the people, won the trust of the locals, the Chinese and Mistizo came to vote, Lin Fei's troops were quickly replenished, and continued to march to Manila.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of June 12, Lin Fei's troops encountered the first line of defense of the Spanish defenders at a distance of 15 kilometers from Manila, and Lin Fei immediately ordered the troops to camp at a distance of 5 kilometers from the first line of defense and build fortifications, and the battle to attack Manila officially began.

During the period of the Battle of Koregido Island, the Battle of Cavite, and the Battle of Standpara, the Japanese army continued to ravage the Chinese compatriots in Taiwan, and on June 3, the Japanese army invaded Keelung; On June 7, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Taipei, but the Qing government resigned itself to the Japanese invasion and turned a blind eye to the war of resistance of the compatriots on the island of Taiwan......

At 4 p.m. on June 13, the fortifications of Lin Fei's troops were completed, and the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade, the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade and the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade participated in the offensive operation, while the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Brigade and the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade served as the rear guard troops in the rear of the four regiments.

Lin Fei's troops and the Spanish troops faced off at a distance of five kilometers, and the distance of five kilometers was also the upper limit of the accurate fire of the artillery of both sides, and neither side would be threatened by the other's artillery at this distance.

Lin Fei gave the order to rest after the completion of the construction of the troops, and the troops then turned into a state of rest, Lin Fei saw that it was still early, and asked the staff officer Li Tianqian to call Xu Deping, and then took the sniper team to the first line of defense of the Spaniards to reconnoitre.

Zhang Chuang, the captain of the sniper team, said to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, is it too dangerous for you to go to the front line in person?" ”

Lin Fei said: "It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon, let's get to the front of the position, reconnoitre, and it will be dark, and the night will provide us with the best cover, so we will not be in danger." ”

Xu Deping said at this time: "I know that Your Majesty went to the front line to reconnoiter the terrain, just let us do this matter, why do you go in person?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "You don't have to say it anymore, I've already decided, go and prepare." ”

At 4:30, Lin Fei and his party rode out of the camp on fast horses, the road was full of grass and woods, Lin Fei was thinking about how to deploy troops on these terrains while silently remembering the terrain.

While walking, Xu Deping rode a horse and stopped in front of Lin Fei and said to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, crossing the dirt slope in front is the first line of defense of the Spaniards." ”

Lin Fei nodded, turned over and dismounted, and said to Zhang Chuang: "Arrange for a few soldiers to watch the horses, and the others will come with me." ”

Zhang Chuang agreed, called a few soldiers to guard the horses, and then followed Lin Fei up to the top of the dirt slope, Lin Fei lay down on the dirt slope, looked at the Spanish defense line in the distance, and saw that the outermost layer was a layer of barbed wire that was more than one person high, and the sharp iron nails were shining in the cold light in the setting sun.

More than fifty meters behind the barbed wire fence is a trench, the chest wall of the trench is more than a meter high, and from time to time a few heads with long golden hair emerge from the top of the chest wall, Zhang Chuang whispered: "Your Majesty, once the war starts, I will take people to ambush on this dirt slope and snipe the Spaniards in the trench, how about it?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "The Spaniards must have deployed artillery in the depths, as soon as you shoot here, their shells will fly over, and the gains will outweigh the losses at that time." ”

Zhang Chuang said "oh" and stopped talking, Lin Fei continued to look behind the trench, only to see that more than thirty meters behind the trench, there were round fortresses, there were many black holes on them, the fortress was three or four meters above the ground, and the outside was gray and white.

Lin Fei was watching, when a soldier ran over and said, "Report to Your Majesty, there are troops coming over and wanting to attack the Spanish defense." ”

Lin Fei was startled, thinking to himself that he had not given the order to attack at all, which army was acting without authorization? Spain's first line of defense is heavily fortified, so it's no wonder that the whole army is not completely wiped out when they rush to attack...

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