Chapter 109: Sword and Bow

The long sword, originally a stick in the hand of a human, has room to dance during the swing of the wrist of the human arm to accelerate it, and then converts the accumulated kinetic energy into an impulse at the moment of collision and hits the opponent. Later, humans discovered that the two sides of the long sword were inlaid with stone chips as sharp blades, which were more powerful when they collided. The sword was born.

Since the sword is in the hand, it moves with the hand, so when fighting, wear armor protection, hold a sharp sword, and weaken the point of the thorn in front of you. The so-called 3,000 Yue armor of the Spring and Autumn Warring States to destroy Wu was such a swordsman unit.

The bow, on the other hand, was born to deal damage with a long-range attack. The elastic potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, ejected, and finally with the arrow tip cone as the energy release point.

These two weapons reflect the two lines of thought of the human offensive. In the Gunpowder Age, swords and bows were no longer on the battlefield, but they were still fighting with a fighting mindset.

The Frenchman Madan Chaufeee, now as a participant in this war on the Eastern continent. What is the current situation in Europe? In Eastern Europe, Maozi is fighting with local chickens. It is also very lively in Western Europe now, where Louis XIV of Bourbon began to fight the Spanish Succession War in 1700 for the right of his grandson to inherit the Spanish crown. At the end of the 17th century, European royalty was still very arrogant, don't bow your head and the crown will fall.

The Netherlands, England, France, the Habsburg royal family of the shattered Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, several royal families in Europe, began to tear apart. Of course, four years after they tore it up, the Eastern Revolution broke out, and all the European royals invariably looked to the East.

The Ming Dynasty stretched across the entire Eastern continent, stretching from the bitter cold of Moscow to the warm Mediterranean in the south. In Western translation, it is called the Dynasty of Light. At this time, the Chinese were a strong race in the world. However, such a large empire, such a powerful throne crumbled overnight. It was not another empire or another family that was overthrown, but a contingent of peasant miners from humble peasant miners in poor areas. Moreover, no one in this new force is interested in the imperial seat, but will come to the world as a republic.

As the ideas of the Eastern Revolution spread to the West, all European royal families were inexplicably terrified. They expressed their attitude of not recognizing the administrative power of the East. Well, actually, Bin doesn't have any eggs. Just to show an attitude. Now Da Ming will not be like this as a shrunken ostrich. The media on both sides were dazzled by the allusions that came out of this legitimacy lawsuit. The conflict between the Zen system and the ideas of Confucius, the father and son, made Westerners understand the contradictions of Chinese thought again.

However, it was the progress of the war that Europeans could not take their eyes off it. Heavy artillery was heavily used by both sides of the infantry artillery, and upon his arrival in China, Martin immediately overturned the influence of the Chinese peasant army in his original thinking. This is not a European peasant fighting with a dung fork, with a gun opposite, and rapid-fire guns, mastering the steel mill. He has excellent fighting skills and courage that is no less than that of a nobleman.

After half a year's observation, Martin wrote to Europe: "It is easy to misunderstand the peasant army to describe this rebel army in the East. The opposite side has strong firepower and is well trained. Officer leaders have a high degree of self-discipline. In previous wars, the army of noble officers of the Ming Empire was wiped out by the opponent's famous generals with superb tactical skills, and now the army of the so-called Bright Empire is more like a peasant. This makes me believe in the legend of the king of the East who has been recognized by heaven for hundreds of years. For the king can give glory, and this legion that rises in the east has its own glory. ”

However, now Ma Dan is walking forward, his eyes unconsciously looking at the big guy on the railroad tracks, if the energy turns into a strong wind, the air flow power that can overturn the entire large billboard can be hoarded in the steam cylinder Honestly for the steel machine driven by humans, the steam power is released rhythmically, "bang, bang," the air flow is muffled, accompanied by the long whistle to announce that this large fighting machine has landed on the battlefield. At least this violent land weapon has not yet been used in Europe.

Offensive assault, this steel bunker was strongly inserted into the battlefield where the republican army and the Wu army were fighting, and the bullet hit the monster with sparks in the march, and the shell hit the steel plate and ricocheted, and the stable output firepower expanded the incision. With this effective fire support, Wu Jiajun suddenly became excited, and broke through along this gap with a roar.

"The fire is fierce and invulnerable. If you can break away from the railway and carry out a roundabout battle on the plains, it will be perfect," said Jang Woo-hyuk, chief of staff of the command headquarters, as information came from the front.

The Republican Army is also flesh and blood, and faith cannot be flesh and blood to challenge the strength of steel. The real stupid ones who don't pull a few of their courage to fix the amount of superiority and try to bridge the gap in steel are either the Boxers or Japanese horse manure.

Faith is to make it possible for the warrior to face, not to help the warrior be immune from the damage of steel.

The devastating and accurate artillery bombardment sounded on the requisitioned ground, once the heavy artillery had the mobility and defensive power, the advantage on the battlefield was unimaginable, and the commander could easily concentrate the superior firepower, and the train cannon was such a weapon.

"What do you want us to retreat?" One of the battalion commanders of the Republican Army roared angrily on his face: "Whose order? "Soldiers on the battlefield are easy to forget when they go into battle. However, seeing his comrades being shattered by heavy artillery, no one can be indifferent, or become cowards and suffer from bullet shock. Either completely overcome the psychological fear and face to face the enemy and hit the enemy.

In the face of this group of red-eyed soldiers, Ren Di personally gave the order to retreat the defense line. As the general master of the battle situation, in the face of the consumption of his own troops and new weapons such as ironclad chariots, it is very likely that he will invest a hundred outputs but have zero returns, and simply use his troops to fill a new weapon. Obviously the behavior of a rookie on the battlefield. Because of the advent of new weapons, soldiers were unable to master effective means of destroying them for a while. At this time, no amount of troops to try to make up for it is just to add lubricating blood to the industrial killing machine.

Holding a cluster hand # grenade against a machine gun bullet and charging to blow up a bunker is a form of attack. Using smoke bombs to cover and then holding the cluster hand # grenade to blow up is another way, after dozens of guns are strafing alternately, a group of two people suddenly stands up and aims to fire recoilless guns, which is also a way. The real generals of the firearms age would consider the quality of the soldiers at their disposal, not simply the so-called troops. In the era of rapid-fire firepower in the future, the combat team composed of 100 soldiers will play a greater role than the combat effect of 1,000 people.

Who's going to go head-to-head with your superior forces and the muzzles of your steel weapons. The offensive force should hit the vulnerable place on the opposite side. For example, where the artillery can't reach, this gap with a width of more than 30 kilometers has long been in Ren Di's impression when the ironclad train on the opposite side appeared. Faced with such a gap seen by heavy swordsmen on the battlefield like a cold weapon, it was time for the archers to play.

The planes in the sky fired at each other, and the planes of the Republican Army clearly had the upper hand. However, when the Republican Army's ironclad train was moving on the tracks, Wu Shijie, who was excited in the north, did not feel the danger.

Instead, he's announcing today's victory at a press conference. "At eight o'clock this morning, our army broke through forty kilometers and eliminated at least 20,000 # bandits along the way. A burst of magnesium lights flickered, and Wu Shijie's smug smile quickly spread with the media.

Under the congratulations of the upper class people and the promise of donations, Wu Shijie responded with honor. However, Wu Shijie came to Xiao Xuan's single room for entertainment.

"It's not that easy," Xiao Xuan muttered. Wu Shijie said: "What is so easy. Xiao Xuan said, "The Republican Army did not retreat, but connived at us to cut in." Wu Shijie said: "Maybe they want to cut and surround us." Rest assured that the rest of my front is covered with wire and all kinds of machine guns if the Republican forces attack these lines with the aim of encircling our armored trains. I'll make sure they understand what a river of blood is. ”

Xiao Xuan nodded and said, "I think so too, but there are famous generals on the other side, and our assault team has pierced into the opposite position like a spike with the mobile fire support of the armored train, making their battle line split into two parts." This formation is extremely dangerous. If they don't retreat in time, their forces may be divided and surrounded. Ren Di on the other side of this tactic is playing more slippery than you, and it is impossible for him not to know the consequences. But the two divided fronts still did not retreat, but only gave way to the railway line. ”

Wu Shijie said: "Then please land quickly, and we will quickly destroy the eastern part of it." Xiao Xuan nodded and said, "We are already preparing to land, and we are expected to be able to do it tomorrow afternoon." ”

What is Ren Di waiting for, why are the troops on the front line holding their positions on this unfavorable front. The rumbling ironclad train is the answer to the black iron picture. From this day on, armor is destined to evolve into two weapons, the first is the assault tank, and the second is the self-propelled gun.

Arrive at your destination. As the commander of the artillery company of Yoyuki estimated the distance, the armored train of twenty carriages, the steel wheels stopped instantly, and the friction between them and the steel rails produced a piercing and sharp sound. Sparks jump between the steel wheel and the rail.

The huge steam train stopped. Since ancient times, the attacking troops have pursued speed, and at the same time the attacking troops are also vulnerable, because as long as they are harder than the troops that move locally, this is why the Führer can have inferior tanks to push France. The Führer's fast-moving troops were tougher than the French infantry. As for the Magilot Line, this hard thing is stupid and tough.

At the same time, the attacking troops were more vulnerable than the defending troops, and artillery bombardment of the soldiers defending the trenches often plowed the ground for several days. As a result, the argument that defense is stronger than offense occurred in World War I. There is no need to give examples of the vulnerability of the attacking forces.

But the attacking troops often do not appear within the muzzle range. Because heavy artillery is not flexible enough. If, when an army was attacking, an artillery group could rush to the battlefield at a speed no less than that of the attacking force, and focus on the attacking force to concentrate its fire.

However, this is exactly what is happening on the battlefield right now. This ironclad train was changed by the Republican Army called Extreme, and a total of thirty-six rocket launchers were placed on this ironclad train. 120-mm large-caliber rocket artillery shells, twenty batteries of one launcher. One shell weighed thirty-seven kilograms. That's right, you can think of this armored train as a heavy artillery division. This is the naked fire-projection platform. This thing is projection, not for assault.

When the train came to a standstill, all the soldiers on the train moved in unison, and began to shake the steering wheel, thirty-six launchers, according to the artillery commander's benchmark, and began to align the artillery. At the same time, the train began to quickly communicate with the IRA command by telegraph.

Almost at the same time, the front-line commanders of the Republican Army, who insisted on enduring the armored train of the Wu family army on the front line, opened fire to destroy their own frontline land acquisition, got the news from the headquarters. "Fire support is there in three minutes. Please answer after accepting. ”