Chapter 360: A Lighthouse in the Dark

The Austrian charge was a strategy that Lei Jun temporarily adjusted after seeing the effect of the bombing, and originally this battle, he thought it would be very difficult, and made a lot of preparations, including the strategic depth of five miles long, dozens of trenches, horse rejection, horse traps and countless other preparations, so that the 150,000 army was busy for seven days, and all this was useless.

In fact, the quality of the Omen's musket was mediocre, at least in Renault's eyes, and even inferior to the front-loading flintlock pistol that he was about to obsolete.

The musket of the Austrians was not only front-loaded, but also had no bullet cork, and even less rifling. Thunderstorm also didn't know where to find an ancient history book, there are several illustrations of the line up to shoot the party, as a basis for the secret technique, playing the Austrian shooting party formation.

People on the earth know that the reason why they fought in this way was because the range and accuracy of the musket were related, more than ten meters, the musket bullets did not necessarily hit anywhere, and in desperation, they used the way to eliminate the shooting, which was not even as good as the Mongolian cavalry shooting.

Usually, after a volley of guns, you can only fight with bayonets, moving from hot weapon combat to cold weapon hand-to-hand combat.

The appearance of the Austrian musket is only more than 20 years, and the natural disasters in Austria continue to become more and more intense, although there are also many countries in Austria, and the relationship between them is not so good, but they are trapped by natural disasters, and they have no time to start a war.

Therefore, for more than 20 years, the tactical development of muskets was extremely slow, there was no test of large-scale warfare, they had not yet figured out a more effective way to use muskets, and even sectional firing did not appear.

In any case, the Austrians are far more familiar with gunpowder than the Chu people, and they will not be frightened by the violent sound and gunsmoke, at least they know what is going on.

And as a soldier, Lei Jun knows very well the importance of the battle formation, at the beginning of the training of the musketeers, it is required that the formation must be completed at any time, even if someone dies, the people behind must be immediately replaced.

The bombing made him realize that the lethality of gunpowder not only comes from the destruction of the flesh by bullets, but also the loud sound that allows him to get more.

For example, hundreds of thousands of allies!

The consequences of the chaos are helpless, Cheng Liang is also a veteran of the battlefield, but he can't do anything, and he doesn't even know what kind of orders to give.

As the platoon of guns rang out, the horses that had not yet recovered became even more frenzied, throwing their riders under their horses, and their huge hooves trampled all creatures into flesh, whether they were their owners or their kind.

The instinct of the creatures makes them want to run away from the sound and light and run to the place they think is safe......

In this battle, it took two and a half hours to set up the formation, and the battle took less than an hour, and the pursuit took half a day. If it weren't for the Austrians and no horses, the losses of the Great Chu coalition army would have increased several times.

Even so, the final statistical results still made Cheng Liang's hands and feet cold, and he didn't know how to write a recital to His Majesty Chu Ren.

In this battle, more than 2,800 Austrians were killed and wounded, of which 890 were killed and more than 690 were seriously wounded.

You must know that Da Chu's air force has 300 airships, and when fully loaded, each airship can carry 2,000 to 4,000 catties of bombs. Nearly 100,000 catties of bombs were dropped, but the casualties of the Austrians were only so many, precisely because there were trenches that the Chu people could not understand at all.

After all, it has entered the era of muskets, although the use of queue shooting, but the Austrians have found that when defending, trenches can effectively defend against the attack of muskets.

Looking at Dachu again, the 400,000 coalition troops killed more than 67,000 in battle, 8,000 missing, and countless wounded.

If someone specializes in research, they will find that in this battle, less than 500 people died in the Chu army and Luo killing army under the bombardment of the Austrians, and the vast majority of the casualties came from the 400,000 Austrian 'allies'.

The fire bull array composed of thousands of cows can crush the military array of tens of thousands of people, and the damage caused by 400,000 frightened war horses is terrifying.

Among the more than 60,000 killed, there were as many as 8,000 heavy cavalry, and their war horses were the best of the best, and they were the strongest among the war horses, otherwise they would not be able to carry heavy cavalry.

After the war horse was frightened, the heavy cavalry was thrown off the war horse without exception, and the body was ruthlessly trampled by the war horse, no matter how strong the heavy armor was, it could not withstand such damage.

In this battle, for the Austrians, not only inexplicably defeated the Chu people, but also captured countless more than 50,000 war horses, which was the top priority. As for the equipment of the Chu people, they don't look down on it, after getting used to using muskets, who wants to use knives and guns?

On the other hand, the Chu people have too many headaches for Cheng Liang, not only the responsibility and loss of defeat, but more importantly, how should such a war be fought?

Cheng Liang is already a veteran general in the army, and it is difficult to find someone to ask for advice. In addition, the Austrian got a large number of war horses, and his mobility increased several times, which made him feel at a loss for the next battle.

Therefore, in addition to the war report, there is also an excerpt of the plea and resignation. After decades of fighting, Cheng Liang found that he suddenly couldn't command.

On the battlefield, Da Chu Luo killed the coalition army and was defeated, while on the other battlefield, the earth immortals led by Yuxi had the upper hand, and the earth immortals of the Austrians were unusually few, and their strength was not as strong as they imagined.

When Lei Jun was preparing to organize an army and pursue the victory, he was assassinated by the Great Chu Di Immortals, although several Earth Immortals of the Ao people arrived in time and desperately rescued, Lei Jun was still slightly injured, which made the original pursuit plan have to be suspended, giving the Great Chu Army a chance to breathe.

But the problem has not been solved because of this, the war horse is afraid of bombing, afraid of muskets, this is an unsolvable problem, if you want to solve this problem, you must let the war horse adapt to the sound of explosions, but this is definitely not a short time to solve.

So, what to do?

Everyone dismounted, changed from cavalry to infantry?

Not to mention the heavy cavalry, even the equipment of the light cavalry is not light, and it feels that it has little impact on the horse, the same equipment, let them change from cavalry to infantry, let alone fight, after a charge, I am afraid that everyone will have no strength.

Just when Cheng Liang was at a loss, an urgent official letter from the Los Angeles Military Department came. What can be sent to the front line in an expedited manner is usually not an official letter, but an order or a holy decree, but this is an official letter.

The origin of this official letter is very simple, after Renault saw the ridiculous air battle, he wrote a few words and handed them to his airship troops, and when he went to Los Angeles, he brought it with him by the way, and this paper with only a few words soon arrived in Wei Wenchang's hands.

The letter from the Lei Master of Nanzhang Shengong City, who dares to be careless, after reading it, Wei Wenchang nodded happily, but he didn't care too much.

It wasn't until he received the results of the first land battle that he realized that the words Lei Shi were of immeasurable value, and they were secret techniques that could change the situation of the battle, and he almost ignored them.

The content of the letter was very simple: to deal with airships and planes, install a naval oil-filled bed crossbow, shoot it, and burn it.

Da Chu and Ao Ren are also in a period of transition, and at this stage, a very common idea may change the direction of history.

Air superiority is the trend of future warfare, and no one knows this better than Renault. Whoever owns the sky owns the future.

The airship is too big, the speed is slow, and the flexibility is poor, and if you want the two airships to engage in air combat, unless there are more advanced long-range weapons, it will be like two huge fat people fighting, everyone will hold their stomachs, bump into each other's stomachs, and their hands will not be able to touch each other.

The airplane is different, compared to the take-off boat, it is like an ant next to an elephant, but its flexibility is a hundred times greater than that of an airship.

There are too many weaknesses of the airship, not to mention anything else, slow speed, poor flexibility, poor controllability, fear of fire, these are enough.

Cheng Liang understood at a glance, and continued to think about it following Renault's train of thought, and the original depression and decadence were swept away.

What is the problem in this battle, there is no need for him, the corps commander, any lieutenant general can clearly tell. It's one thing to know, it's another to solve. Cheng Liang's problem is that it cannot be solved, not that it is found.

Just one line of words, like a beacon in the dark, pointed him in the way forward.

Cheng Liang knew that although this battle was lost and suffered heavy losses, for Dachu and the Dachu coalition army, the casualties of more than 100,000 people were completely acceptable.

You must know that in the prediction of the Ministry of War, this war will be protracted, and may even last for decades, and it is normal for the final loss to exceed 10 million people. 100,000 people, but a drop in the bucket, in the post-war period, the troops coming from all directions have already exceeded the previous losses.

Cheng Liang has not only seen the plane, but also piloted it himself, and he had a lot of fun at the time, but as a general, just play around, the poor load capacity, and the average speed can't stimulate a general's nerves at all.

In fact, the appearance of the foot plane is much earlier than the airship, at least a year earlier, and now in the sky of Dachu, the figure of the airship can often be seen, except for the Nanzhang Shengong City, but the foot plane can rarely be seen.

Nowadays, the pedal plane has become a toy, and only the rich can afford to play it, and they must be martial artists. With the power of ordinary people, it is very difficult to make a pedal plane fly, let alone fly freely in the sky.

Lei Shi has pointed out the direction, but Cheng Liang's problem has not been solved, the speed of the hot air balloon is very slow, but it can fly very high, one or two thousand meters is normal, and the foot plane, if you want to fly to this height, it is very difficult, even if you fly up, I am afraid that you will not have the strength to let the plane catch up with the hot air balloon.

After all, hundreds of thousands of troops, countless craftsmen, and many counselors in the army, Da Chu did not lack smart people, and soon the flying troops solved this problem, and the methods they used were similar to Renault's air carriers, but they were simpler.

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