On the seventh day of July in the 28th year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign, in the Grakna state of northern India, company commander Wei Boss looked in surprise at the hundreds of "infantry fighting vehicles" parked on the dirt outside the city.
India has a vast territory and strong reinforcements. The war to conquer India is obviously not a simple matter. The war has started for several months, but the large-scale decisive battle has not yet begun.
Seeing those powerful armored vehicles made of steel, Boss Wei began to feel that the uneasiness that had been circulating in the military in the past few months was not worth mentioning.
Originally, the war in India was somewhat difficult.
India is not a small place, it is a huge subcontinent. Although Li Zhi successively sent 90,000 tiger troops, 60,000 Yizi battalions and 50,000 samurai troops to invade India, for a subcontinent, these troops were spread far and wide.
Not enough to watch at all.
The Ottoman, Persian and Indian coalition forces had a lot of cavalry, which was much more maneuverable than the infantry of Li Zhi's army. Moreover, the nobles of the Mughal Empire had been operating in India for nearly a hundred years and were deeply rooted in the local area. Li Zhi's army carried out "invasions" on the Indian subcontinent.
During the war, the local people strongly supported the coalition forces resisting the "invaders". Therefore, with the help of the local people, Li Zhi's logistics supply line was almost completely exposed to the sight of the resistance forces.
The Ottoman, Persian and Indian coalition forces, or the Indian resistance army, can use cavalry to outflank the Tiger and Ben army's supply line at any time. If the supply line is interrupted, even if the Tiger and Ben army can outnumber a hundred, it will fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food.
The coalition forces resisting the Huben Army were not prepared to engage in a decisive battle with the Tiger Army. They made full use of the width of the Indian subcontinent and gradually retreated to the northwest amid sporadic contacts, hoping to drag the Tiger Army into the Indian interior where supplies were difficult to supply.
Therefore, even if he does not consider occupying the vast territory of India for the time being, Li Laosi has to invest a large amount of troops in logistics support and station troops and horses at various strategic locations along the supply line to protect the transportation of baggage. The 60,000 Yizi Battalion and the 50,000 Samurai Army have already
All were sent to the rear to protect the logistics line, and only the most elite 90,000 Tiger and Ben troops were still advancing toward the northwest.
In other words, most of the expeditionary force commanded by Li Laosi was in the rear. There was nothing that could be done about it. Referring to the situation of the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, the Japanese invaders had more than one million troops in China, but in the three Changsha battles
The Japanese army dispatched only 100,000 troops to participate in the war, and most of the troops were in the rear.
The 90,000 Tiger and Ben troops had to face a total of 600,000 Ottoman, Persian and Indian coalition forces. The strength ratio was close to one to seven. Although the Tiger and Ben troops have always been known for their powerful combat effectiveness and were accustomed to defeating larger numbers with less, they had never fought a war.
To survive a war with such a huge disparity in military strength, especially when the Huben Army is the attacking side.
When the Huben Army invaded northern India and had sporadic contact with the Ottoman and Persian coalition forces, the soldiers of the Huben Army quickly discovered that the soldiers on the opposite side also had front-loading rifled guns and curved cannons. Such equipment plus seven times the
The number of Huben troops caused an unprecedented feeling of worry among the troops. The soldiers began to discuss each other during their sleep time at night, and the number of letters written to the rear also increased greatly. It seemed that many soldiers were busy
Tell the aftermath.
This kind of anxiety is obviously extremely detrimental to the combat effectiveness of the Tiger and Ben Army, and even to the situation of the entire Indian campaign.
Boss Wei is also worried. Although Boss Wei is a good officer and a proven veteran, he does not want to die in this damned India. The Tiger Army penetrates deep into the interior of India with an absolutely inferior force to face the well-equipped Indian reinforcements.
, this situation makes Boss Wei very worried.
Until he saw the three hundred brand-new infantry fighting vehicles.
The dirt ground outside the military camp was already crowded with people. The soldiers who were not on guard or training missions all gathered next to the chariot to watch the fun, and people gathered around in circles. Many people even climbed into the trees not far away to watch the battle.
car show.
At this time, the military uniforms of the Huben Army have been completely replaced. The original bright red Ming-style red robes have been eliminated, and the soldiers have put on variegated camouflage. The main color of the camouflage uniforms is military green, with grass gray and fog black.
The grassland blended into the background. At this time, tens of thousands of soldiers surrounded the infantry fighting vehicle, and some soldiers were also wearing steel helmets, making the whole scene look like later generations of American soldiers huddled together.
After all, Boss Wei is a company commander, and there is a special observation area open to officers above the platoon commander. So as soon as Boss Wei walked over, he found a field of view to observe the infantry fighting vehicles.
Three hundred huge chariots lay across the dirt.
Those infantry fighting vehicles look a bit like the tanks used during the battle with the Jiangbei Army. The entire size of the tank is about three meters high, more than five meters long, and more than three meters wide. It seems that more than a dozen people can be accommodated inside. The entire tank
They are all made of steel. Needless to say, they use high-quality steel produced by the Fanjiazhuang State-owned Steel Plant.
There is no chimney on the infantry fighting vehicle. Obviously, the infantry fighting vehicle already uses an internal combustion engine like the "car" in the newspaper.
The tank is also painted with green-based "camouflage". There are no wheels underneath the tank and it uses steel tracks.
However, tanks have these things, so that's not the point. What surprised Mr. Wei the most was a gun barrel protruding from the left side of the infantry fighting vehicle and a cluster of gun barrels protruding from the right side.
Boss Wei looked at the thick and short barrel and couldn't understand. How to load the artillery when installing the artillery on the infantry fighting vehicle? Could it be that the driver parked the car and ran outside the tank to load the artillery?
When Boss Wei's battalion commander, Old Man Han, saw Boss Wei, he came over with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Boss Wei, have you never seen the artillery on that tank?"
Boss Wei saluted Old Man Han and replied: "Batalion Commander, I have indeed never seen him before."
Old Man Han threw the cigarette on the ground, stamped it out, and said with a smile, "Can't you understand?"
Boss Wei nodded.
Old Man Han laughed and said, "That's a breech-loading cannon."
"The shells and gunpowder are loaded from the back, and the shells can be shot out as soon as the gun bolt is closed. After the gun bolt is opened, the ammunition can be loaded and powdered from the back. The soldiers on the infantry fighting vehicle can continuously fire the gun inside the vehicle.
No need to get out of the car."
Boss Wei looked at Old Man Han in surprise.
He has been fighting overseas and has not returned to Fanjiazhuang for a long time. He is not familiar with the new weapons that have recently emerged in Fanjiazhuang. Unexpectedly, the prince's artillery has evolved again and can be loaded from the rear.
What is the effect of such an indestructible infantry fighting vehicle paired with such an indestructible rear-mounted artillery?
Boss Wei couldn't help but have some wild thoughts.
After a long while, he asked: "Batalion Commander, what is the cluster of gun barrels on the right?"
Old Man Han looked at Boss Wei, smiled, and said, "That's called a Gatling gun."
