Chapter 319
"Is there still a fight in the Middle East? I've heard that Baghdad is all powdered! That's what the Swiss are, even the Arabs do. Ao Ye felt that he couldn't say this anymore.
If you continue to talk about the topic just now, Man Ye may bring soldiers to slaughter Jinling University after returning to China.
Anyway, it was also Daming's university, and it was slaughtered by a group of soldiers, so the influence of public opinion was too great.
And Ao Ye knows Li Xiao, even if Man Ye really does such a thing, Li Xiao will definitely not embarrass him.
Even, he will not be removed from his post as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division.
A brother is a brother and will tolerate all the mistakes made by the other party. Even if it is a heinous crime, it will never be done to the brother.
If that really happens, Li Xiao will be drowned in saliva from all over the country. Those sour and rotten literati who have nothing to do, they don't care so much.
It must have been attacking the court one after another, attacking Manye, and asking the court to deal with Manye.
In the end, only God knows how much of a crisis this will cause.
"Swiss, they're like birds. I don't know how to use my brain. That's how it was when I fought with me, the Italians on both flanks surrendered, and they still fought to the death.
As a result, I had to fucking storm their positions. More than a dozen tanks were lost, dozens of people died. ”
Ao Ye took a sip of wine and said viciously.
Because of the gap in equipment, the Ming army lost more than a dozen tanks and dozens of casualties. Such a battle was a great casualty for the Ming army.
However, it must also be seen that although the Ming army has casualties. But in that battle, 50,000 Swiss soldiers were captured just by taking prisoners.
This is not counting the figures for storming the positions of the Swiss and annihilating.
Sometimes, Da Ming is a little harsh on his requirements for victory.
Da Ming didn't care how many shells were fired in this battle, but he cared about even one casualty.
After the war, staff officers would investigate the causes of casualties for each person. Then, a report is made based on the causes of these casualties.
And then improve the tactics of the Ming army, as well as the combat habits of the Ming army.
Most of the examples will be compiled into the textbooks of the Army Military Academy, so that those who have not been on the battlefield will also know some knowledge of how to avoid casualties on the battlefield.
Since the European War, the fighting style of the Ming army has improved little by little.
From the very beginning, the tanks rushed and fought fiercely, and now, the tanks and tanks rely on gestures to coordinate with each other. Aircraft in the sky, an orderly attack on the ground.
It can be said that the well-trained Ming army already possessed a strong quality of infantry-tank coordination and air-ground coordination.
The best of them are naturally the First Army of the Expeditionary Force, as well as the First Cavalry Division.
Although the First Army of the Expeditionary Force was a hodgepodge, every field division except the Second Division had personnel to participate.
But the main force is still the first division of the army before Ao Ye!
As for the 1st Cavalry Division, when this unit was still riding horses, it was Man Ye who was the division commander.
As the largest army of the Mongols, now there is not a single war horse, not even a pack horse.
However, the only Mongolian battalion in the whole army was not in the establishment of the 1st Cavalry Division, but under the name of the little-known Temporary 9th Division.
At the beginning of the war, the casualties of the Ming army were actually very large.
Many of these casualties were either due to improper command or to the lack of combat experience of the troops.
There were even some casualties caused by accidental bombing by our own artillery.
Fortunately, the Ming army had a very good system of supplementary soldiers, and these supplementary soldiers were all on the battlefield after completing three months of infantry training in China.
The Ming army did not have such a thing as a peasant with a hoe yesterday and a soldier with a gun today, like in other countries.
Li Xiao has always emphasized that sending untrained people to the battlefield is murder.
The system of replenishing troops effectively guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and even during the Battle of Tsaritsyn, which was the most seriously attritional, after a large number of casualties of the Ming army, the combat effectiveness was not significantly weakened.
The French army, on the other hand, was different, with a large number of experienced officers and soldiers on the front line dying in battle. The troops that came up later, it was almost meaningless.
Especially in the later period, the Italians, Spaniards, and Austro-Hungarian soldiers sent by the French.
These people are simply here to send the heads, a fully equipped division to the battlefield. It collapsed in only three days, and the people were either captured or killed.
Even the commanders of several divisions were captured by the Ming army.
Only those veterans of the most elite French army were able to confront the Ming army head-on without falling behind.
"Although Baghdad has been occupied, the war for law and order has never stopped.
The Arabs are playing quite obscenely, touch your whistle today. Shoot you a black gun tomorrow!
When the troops go out, they have to keep an eye out for bombs on the streets.
These bombs may be disguised as a pile of garbage, or they may be disguised as the contents of a small car.
The most immoral thing is that some bombs are strapped to children and women.
Arab women, all wearing long robes. Some of the women were thinner and couldn't see much with explosives.
But when they pass by you, these people will go off bombs.
And then there's a bang, and you're done with the bomb.
There are so many such things, even to the point that there is no way to count them.
So, I try to keep our people from fighting this kind of law and order war.
This kind of battle is too cruel and not very suitable for us.
It is not easy for the Swiss to be able to hold Baghdad under such circumstances. ”
Li Xiao has made a name for the Swiss!
It was not for nothing that the Papal Guard chose the Swiss.
Although these people fight a war, they are not very flexible.
But one good thing is to keep your promises. As long as it is something they promised, even if it is risking their lives, they have to do it.
This is also where Li Xiao admires the Swiss!
After Baghdad, the Swiss' next target was Mosul.
The attack on Baghdad was already so difficult that it could be said that like Warsaw, Baghdad was almost razed to the ground.
Many old buildings were destroyed in the war.
Then Mosul, as the nest of the Kurds, will be even more difficult to shake. Now there is information coming out about how many fortified pillboxes are on the ground in Mosul and say otherwise.
The best thing about Mosul is that huge underground fortifications have been being built there since last year.
This kind of underground fortification is definitely a nightmare for the siege troops.
They can rely on tunnels to effectively evade artillery strikes. It is also possible to send soldiers to the other side of the city at any time through the tunnels.
In the process, no one will be shelled or killed or injured by mines.
The Swiss fought hard ahead, and the attack on Baghdad was already counted as almost 20,000 men. Now to attack Mosul, it is estimated that 350,000 people will have to be filled.
However, the Ming people don't care too much, they will kill the last Swiss in order to control the Middle East.