Chapter 238 This is my famous saying from today onwards
Chapter 238 This will be my famous saying from today on
An Ning has also been paying attention to the performance of the shooter company.
He excitedly said to the people around him: "Look! It has such a killing efficiency at such a long distance! If we can universally install this thing and get the prefabricated ammunition, the form of war will change!"
An Ning said excitedly and turned to look to the side, only to see Berthier's serious face.
He curled his lips and then remembered that the person who could share his joy was no longer around - Berthier had always been very measured and would not be happy with him like a brother.
It can be said that the chief of staff has always kept the distance very well and maintained a respectful attitude.
There is nothing wrong with this attitude, but it is indeed a bit boring.
An Ning filled himself up again, and while continuing to admire the accurate marksman he had high hopes for, who even killed the coalition's engineers, he was thinking about how to improve the breech-loading gun in the future.
First of all, we should get out the primer and prefabricated ammunition.
It's a pity that An Ning is a computer major, and his understanding of chemistry is only at the comprehensive level of the college entrance examination. It is unrealistic to rub primers by hand.
But An Ning knows who to let in. Now Mr. Pingping is his prospective father-in-law, and Mr. Pingping's clientele is roughly equal to his clientele.
Mr. Equality funded the great chemist Lavoisier.
In real history, Lavoisier was ultimately guillotined because he was involved in politics and tax issues in Paris.
An Ning remembers that in real history, this happened in 1794, which was one year away.
It's too late to ask for Paolavoisier.
While he was thinking about this, Berthier suddenly shouted: "General!"
An Ning suddenly woke up from his distraction, and his consciousness returned to the battlefield. Then he saw the coalition soldiers carrying the bridge planks of the pontoon above their heads, using the planks and pontoons as shields, and forcibly rushing towards the river bank.
"Let the precision shooters retreat!" An Ning ordered loudly.
However, it was already too late. The first wave of coalition troops rushed to the shore and rushed towards the precision shooters with bayonets in hand.
The precision shooters were in a skirmish formation at this time, with a considerable distance between each of them. This meant that when the enemy attacked a part of the formation, the enemy might have a local advantage of being overpowered.
Soon several shooters were knocked down, and the copper-plated breech-loading guns were also taken away.
Upon seeing this, the Self-Defense Army soldiers guarding a little behind the precision shooters immediately climbed over the low wall and attacked the small group of enemies crossing the river in a dense formation.
Several enemies were immediately stabbed to death, and several of the stolen guns were recaptured.
However, there were still a few coalition soldiers who ran very fast and rushed back into the water with their golden rifles.
The National Guard soldiers who rushed to the river immediately opened fire intensively in the water.
However, at this moment, a solid bullet hit the beach in front of them. As a result, the beach did not bounce up, but turned into a literal ground ball.
The rolling shells broke the legs of several people at once.
The tragic wailing could be heard even from An Ning's position.
An Ning frowned and was about to say something when Berthier suggested: "The soldiers should be asked to throw the pontoon components that have been pushed to the shore into the river."
"Okay, go ahead and give the order." An Ning nodded.
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Prince Schwarzenberg looked at the gun retrieved by the suicide squad who had just crossed the river for an assault.
"Loading in the breech? No wonder it can shoot so fast." He said as he stood the gun up and looked inside from the muzzle. "There are actually riflings... How do they solve the problem of incompletely burned gunpowder residue blocking the riflings?
question?"
Schwarzenberg said as he handed the gun to the chief of staff.
The chief of staff fiddled with the mechanical structure of the breech: "It seems that the locking is OK, but I really don't see how they deal with the problem of the rifling eating gunpowder residue."
Schwarzenberg: "After firing this kind of weapon for a while, you need to rinse the inside with water or something to wash away the gunpowder residue from the narrow rifling. In my opinion, this is a weapon that is far from the actual combat stage.
The cobbler actually used all these things.
"Well, that's enough discussion of Frost's new gun."
As he spoke, Schwarzenberg turned to the soldier who ran back with the gun: "You swam over, how about it? Can your feet reach the bottom of the river?"
The soldier nodded and replied: "It can be reached. The river is actually not particularly deep. Except for the people in the middle row, most people should be able to cross the river by walking."
The current infantry offensive formation generally uses three rows. The arrangement rule of this formation is that the tallest person is in the first row, the second tallest person is in the third row, and the second row in the middle is mainly filled with dwarfs.
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As for why there is such an arrangement, it is mainly because the Prussian infantry drill regulations stipulate this.
After the defeat in the Seven Years' War, all parties involved in the war basically imitated the Prussian doctrine and copied it one by one.
During this process, the French did not dare to change the Prussian doctrine at all, for fear that if they changed a word, the doctrine would become ineffective and unable to unleash the power of the era of Frederick the Great.
The Austrians were no less generous, so the shorter Austrians were sandwiched in the middle by the taller ones like sandwich biscuits.
The Prussian tradition was copied in its entirety, and no one even asked "Why do we make this sandwich biscuit model?"
Even if someone wants to ask now, Frederick the Great, who presided over the formulation of the regulations, has passed away. Unless there is a true medium, it is impossible to get the answer.
Schwarzenberg ordered the chief of staff: "Take the highest first platoon in the army as the vanguard, go down to the river immediately, and cross the river to attack the mob on the opposite side!"
He paused and then added: "Under the cover of the shock troops, the engineers quickly completed the hypothesis of the pontoon bridge!"
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An Ning saw the coalition troops starting to go down the river.
"Damn it, was it the assault just now that let the commander on the other side know that the river is not actually very deep?"
An Ning muttered.
The upper reaches of the Marne are not suitable for navigation, as the water is shallow and the current is fast.
Theoretically speaking, as long as you can find a location with shallower water depth, there is a certain chance of success in forcibly crossing the river.
Apparently, the attack launched by the enemy just now against the precision shooters convinced Prince Schwarzenberg that he had found the shoal he needed.
So he attacked without hesitation.
An Ning looked at the soldiers on the other side who were starting to lay down dumplings, and said to Berthier: "Convey my order to the entire army. Now comes the real test. Although France is big, we have no way to retreat, and Paris is behind us!
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Berthier: "Although France is big, we have no way to retreat... You are really a genius at speaking and inspiring morale."
No, no, that is not my original creation, I copied it...
Forget it, no matter what, I copied them all. From today on, this sentence will be my famous saying.