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Zhao Dutian sent the soldiers charging with bayonets to chase down the collapsed Spanish infantry and the fleeing Cocopas, and when he won a decisive victory, he gave the order to pursue and kill to the end, and the execution of this order naturally only required the people below to go, and he could finally relax......

This actual battle of queuing up to be shot is far more tragic and impressive than the scene Zhao Dutian watched in the movie in his previous life!

It also gave Zhao Dutian a real understanding of the tactics of queuing up to shoot!

He kind of understood why the British lobster soldiers were able to walk with brainless guns and fight invincible opponents all over the world with three volleys......

Even the Napoleonic infantry in the Battle of Waterloo suffered a big loss in the close range of three salvos of British lobster soldiers!

Those French soldiers were all fanatical Napoleonic brainless fans, and one can imagine how powerful the British 3 columns of salvos that could shake the line of these French soldiers were!

And this British tactic is the essence of the line tactics that was born out of the line tactics!

Line tactics have become popular in modern human history, and they look very cool to fight, mainly with the following applications:

1. The dense formation is convenient for command and organization, and any army will have no combat effectiveness as long as it loses its organization, (everyone should have a flag-raising ceremony in middle school, if the assembly is not disbanded when it is not a class by class, the kind of chaos can be imagined, and it will become a stampede if it is not good) and the dense formation is undoubtedly of great help to the overall morale (aren't you afraid alone?). At the same time, in the era when communications basically rely on shouting, the dense formation also gives commanders the possibility of implementing various tactics, such as turning 90 degrees to the left with the left end as the head, and turning into an attack column for rapid penetration. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info always remember that only an organized army has combat effectiveness. For example, the French army quickly expanded from marching to horizontal formations, and then to hollow phalanxes. If skirmishers were to be adopted, in the era when there was no radio, it would have been impossible to talk about the implementation of such formations and tactics.

2. To load the cumbersome smoothbore gun, first of all, the gun must be upright, pour gunpowder into the barrel, then stuff the lead bullet into it, take out the through bar and insert it into the barrel, ram the gunpowder and lead bullet tightly, and then pull out the through bar, insert it back into place, raise the gun to shoot, and so on. This process (mainly the use of the bar) requires the user to remain standing, otherwise the action is not only extremely awkward, but also increases the reload time by a factor of four to five, during which the enemy can fire four or five more shots, or even charge directly. Combat experience has shown countless times that whoever crouches in a head-on engagement will lose even more. A flintlock pistol is more than 1 meter long, and the stabbing strip is not much shorter, which shows how awkward it is to crouch down and reload such a long firearm.

3. In fact, the line war is not completely uncovered, but what we see in the movies depicts field battles and encounters. In actual warfare, the use of low walls, trenches, fences and spurs and other fortifications is very frequent, among which the low wall is the most commonly used, which does not affect the soldiers standing behind the loading, but can cover the part from the waist down. The fortifications during the American Civil War were very effective, of course, because they were so effective, the enemy usually did not stupidly shoot at you, but fired cannons from a distance or directly launched a white-knuckle charge.

4. In fact, the war at that time was not all about queues, at that time there were already independent skirmish squads, called chasers or light infantry, responsible for providing fire support and conducting guerrilla warfare, these chasers were usually arranged in front of the formation, allowing free lying down, moving, shooting and looking for cover, some were even equipped with rifled guns, which could snipe the enemy at a long distance, but no commander thought that they alone could win a victory, they could bring a lot of casualties and distress to the enemy, But it is not up to purposeful combat missions. In addition, they were basically slaughtered when they encountered cavalry.

5. Conversely, in other words, a dense line formation is also more stable in the face of cavalry, and if a dense formation is adopted, any cavalry who dares to charge the infantry line head-on will end up with only a dead end, and the cavalry will face the infantry usually three times their own in the width of the battlefield, with their bayonets lit and standing in a dense formation, so that they will instantly fall into a disadvantage in combat effectiveness, and can no longer ravage the infantry in the front as they did in the Middle Ages. If a skirmish formation had been adopted, it would not have been possible to form such an advantage over the cavalry under the same width, and the result would still be to be ravaged by a frontal level.

There is also a kind of demonic hollow phalanx, the line infantry can quickly shrink from the horizontal formation to this hollow phalanx, which can shoot in all directions without dead ends, because there is no concept of front and rear, and it will not be outflanked or circumferential, so the cavalry also loses its greatest advantage, and several hollow phalanxes can also form crossfire with each other. If the cavalry is lucky enough to break through the hollow phalanx, he will only rush into the middle of the phalanx and be fully surrounded. This is the most effective formation of modern infantry against cavalry. It is also very effective against cold-armed armies (such as natives) that are far outnumbered and scattered on all sides, but of course, the phalanx also has a fatal flaw: if the opponent has long-range firepower or artillery, it will be a different kind of sour death. In "The Battle of Waterloo", Ney's French cavalry unit attacked the British bridge and suffered a crushing defeat, and Napoleon rebuked loudly in the play: "What can a cavalry do without infantry support? Can't I leave my position for even a minute? Your brains are in the water? "In fact, if used properly, the superior cavalry will be able to force the opponent to form a hollow phalanx that is difficult to exert firepower and has no mobility, and then press on it with infantry, and even inflict great casualties with artillery bombardment, and reduce the losses of our infantry. This close coordination between the arms was the essence of Napoleonic warfare, and it was far from tactical.

The emergence of linear tactics is naturally inseparable from the invention of the bayonet, even in this battle that broke the Spanish soldiers, if there was no final bayonet charge, Zhao Dutian would not have been able to achieve a complete victory!

Without a bayonet charge, the Spanish officers could have regrouped the Spanish infantry that had withdrawn, and then walked in unison and continued to line up to shoot!

After getting out of the front line of that kind of gunfire, well-trained soldiers tend to regain their composure and be reorganized by the officers!

Of course, if it is an organization like the militia, it will collapse if it collapses, and it is better not to be delusional about reorganization......