In 1681, the Taiping army launched an attack on the long defensive line of the anti-Han alliance gathered on the eastern border of France, stretching from the fortress of Verdun to the fortress of Dijon.

The anti-Han allies learned from the defeat of the Crimean Khanate and the Kingdom of Denmark, and no longer relied on cities and fortifications as the focus of their defenses, because they found that even the strongest diamond-shaped fortress could not withstand several salvos of 75mm rapid-fire guns, and a large number of soldiers in the fortress were often buried in the rubble and worthless before they could see the faces of the Taiping soldiers......

The shells of the Taiping army seemed to be endless, and if the anti-Han allies could no longer imagine that there was a large-scale military production base in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they could have killed them with a piece of tofu......

Of course, it was impossible for the anti-Han allies to use their precious troops to consume the Taiping army's ammunition reserves, so the fortress fortress that had been built at great cost was reduced to an ordinary auxiliary stronghold in an instant.

This is the generation gap brought about by weapons and equipment, and the advanced artillery has turned the fortress fortress, which was once useful in the face of Hanyang-made rifles, into useless coffin shells.

The anti-Han allies were also constantly learning during the war, and they could not quickly imitate the advanced weapons used by the Taiping army, but they could gradually learn how to defend against the Taiping army's weapons at the tactical level.

For example, in field defensive warfare, it is no longer necessary to simply arrange clear battle lines, but to strengthen the depth, layer by layer interception, each layer of the front is arranged with a small number of troops, no longer concentrated into a dense military formation, but learn from the Taiping army to line up scattered lines to defend separately.

For the Confederates, who did not have machine guns and dense firepower, the skirmish tactic was too early, and the Mini rifle had an advantage in terms of range, but it was also a front-loading rifle, and everyone knew how pitted the rate of fire was......

However, the anti-Han allied forces had to do this, because the traditional dense horizontal array of guns in front of the Taiping artillery and machine guns was completely tantamount to suicide, and the anti-Han allied forces preferred to reduce their firepower density and kill fewer enemies than to be reimbursed by a company like a target......

At least, this way of spreading out to reduce battle losses will prevent the soldiers of your own army from being bombarded by artillery without even seeing the face of the Taiping army!

I have to say that the progress of the anti-Han allied army is still quite large, they built a deepened trench, in order to avoid artillery shelling, simply let the soldiers hide in it, not to mention, after a few battles with the Taiping army, the anti-Han allied soldiers found that the effect was surprisingly good, and the casualties were greatly reduced.

It's just that this makes the already dense firepower even more dispersed, after all, they use front-loading Mini rifles!

Although the casualties of the anti-Han allies decreased, what remained unchanged was that the speed of the Taiping army's advance did not change at all.

With scattered firepower, the soldiers stayed in the trenches, allowing the Taiping army to easily suppress them in the trenches with machine guns and grenadiers, and could only make sporadic kills until the Taiping soldiers rushed up and smashed a round of grenades into the trenches, and then the battle was over......

However, in some areas of stubborn resistance, the Taiping army also engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Allied soldiers who had recouted from the trenches, and the Allied soldiers jumped out of the trench with bayonets when the Taiping soldiers rushed up and the Taiping machine guns and grenadiers could no longer fire.

In this way, the Confederate soldiers only had to withstand a wave of Taiping rifle salvos and grenade bombardment to enter the hand-to-hand combat phase, rather than being beaten by the alternating fire of machine guns and grenadiers......

The tactics of the anti-Han allied army were updated and used, and while the battle losses were reduced, the Taiping army began to suffer casualties.

The situation of annihilating tens of thousands of enemy troops with double-digit casualties on their own side has never appeared again on the battlefield, although the anti-Han allied forces could not hold the defensive line, but their strategic depth was wide!

The anti-Han allied army built not the trenches of World War I, but just ordinary anti-artillery trenches, which were about one person high, and it didn't take much effort, one layer was broken through, and the soldiers behind were enough to build two layers, greatly reducing the battle damage, so that the anti-Han allied army would not be defeated by one or two decisive battles.

As a result, the situation in 1681 presented such a situation, the Taiping army has been steadily advancing, but the casualties have not been reduced, the anti-Han alliance army dug trenches in all suitable defensive areas in France, and only a small number of troops were deployed in one trench, and the number of trenches was used to delay the Taiping army's attack.

As for the cities and fortresses, the Allied forces no longer deployed a large number of troops, and many cities even took the initiative to raise the white flag and surrender after encountering the Taiping army, while the few Allied defenders in the city were either rebelled or expelled by the locals.

Because the Taiping army gave preferential treatment for surrender, the anti-Han allied army shouted the slogan of the death of the city, and naturally, the citizens and even the rich people in the city were unwilling to accompany the anti-Han allied army to die......

Although the battle losses of the Taiping army remained high, the offensive of the Taiping army was not hindered in the slightest, and ordinary people would not see the essence of the war in depth, they only knew that the Taiping army was unstoppable!

Therefore, with the exception of a few large city hubs where the Allied army was heavily garrisoned, the casualties caused by the field defense line to the Taiping army exceeded those of ordinary fortresses and other cities.

As for the tragic street fighting, not a single one broke out!

The anti-Han allied forces seemed to be attracted by the results of the field trench defense battle, and tried to exchange space for troops, and let the Taiping army blood little by little.

In the trench defense battle, the death rate of the Allied soldiers was not high, they only needed to get up and shoot when the Taiping army charged, and as long as they buried their heads in the trenches before the battle, they could avoid all kinds of shelling by the Taiping army.

When it comes to real fighting, only the moment when the Taiping army rushes up, plus the hand-to-hand combat time, half an hour is enough to decide the victory or defeat of a trench, and most of the soldiers of the trench alliance are not killed, but surrender and flee.

When the Taiping army advanced to the city of Paris, a whole breech-loading rifle regiment equipped with Hanyang-made rifles had already lost more than eighty percent, and had to be broken up and integrated into other units, and the formation of a division disappeared......

Hong Tiancheng reluctantly found that the anti-Han allied army once again found a way to consume the Taiping army, even if the Taiping army's weapons and equipment were greatly improved, it could not defeat the opponent with almost zero battle losses as before.

The only good news was that the losses of the anti-Han allies in the trench defense were higher than those of the Taiping army! ()

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