This is a position with very complete defense facilities and a very strong position. In the eyes of General Alges, the new supreme commander of the theater, he has seen many such defensive positions. In the five years of the war in the eastern region, the Principality of Rimodra
In the brutal offensive and defensive battles, many of the enemy's defensive positions were worse than this, but they still caused heavy casualties to the Guards Corps.
"Such a position, defended by a battalion, is enough to withstand a regiment of attackers. How many people are you planning to send to attack this drill, and how many casualties are expected?" General Alges commented expertly.
, turned to ask General Bolognik and General Sevicit who were accompanying him.
Early this morning, General Alges took a large number of entourage, accompanied by General Bolonik, to General Servicit's Pandan 2nd Division for an inspection, and asked General Servicit to command the troops to conduct on-site offensive and defensive drills.
, to evaluate the offensive combat effectiveness of the Panshi Second Division. He personally took people to the defensive positions to inspect to prevent any omissions.
Many soldiers were placing scarecrows in the trenches and beside the earthen forts, and at the same time, they set up eight wooden artillery models on the position. There were a thousand soldiers in a battalion, and of course there would not be a thousand soldiers placed on the position.
Instead of using a scarecrow to replace a team of twelve people, only a hundred or so scarecrows need to be placed on the defensive position.
"I am going to attack with a large group..." General Servicit replied.
General Alges nodded: "Very good. You are more prudent in doing things and adopt very orthodox tactics. This is an advantage. First, use a large group of troops to launch a probing attack, which is enough to test out most of the enemy's firepower on the defensive position.
Deployment location, then the second attack can avoid the artillery projection area on the defensive position, reduce casualties of soldiers, find the weak points of the enemy's position and concentrate on launching an assault. It is indeed possible to break through the enemy's defense with minimal casualties.
Defensive position..."
General Servicit looked at General Bolognik next to General Alges, as if he wanted to refute something. General Bolognik shook his head slightly, General Servicit took a deep breath, and nodded to General Alges: "General, I'll go first.
We have gone to take command. Please watch our offensive drill here and guide and evaluate our soldiers after the war. By the way, General, when will we launch the attack?"
"In fact, the best time to launch an attack is at night, because the attacker can use the cover of night to get closer to the defensive position more easily, and the attention of the defender's sentry will be greatly shortened by the lighting of the bonfire in front of the position. Sometimes it happens
On a windy night, the flicker of firelight can even distract sentries and guards, making it more suitable for attackers to launch a surprise attack."
General Alges described it very professionally: "However, since General Sevicit is going to send out a large group to launch a tentative attack first, then night is not a good time, and it is impossible to clearly record the firepower points on the defensive position. We will attack
Set the time around two o'clock in the afternoon during the day. You can use a probing attack and two feints to delay the time until the evening, and then you can launch a real and decisive surprise attack..."
General Servicit turned around and left, but General Bolognik happened to receive the report from his adjutant and left General Alges. So several school-level officers from the Guards Division came with General Alges.
They gathered around the general, and a lieutenant colonel officer smiled and said: "General, the division commander of the Panshi Second Division seems a little unconvinced by your instructions and comments, and he looks very disapproving..."
Another colonel officer of the Guards Division shook his head and said: "After all, they are defensive second-line troops and do not understand the difficulties of positional attack on the battlefield. I doubt that they will conduct offensive drills in their daily training. This positional offensive battle
It is likely to turn into a farce. Maybe they think that they only need to launch a charge to successfully rush to the defensive position, and then they will successfully capture the defensive position..."
General Arges did not stop his officers from taunting him. After a while, he said: "Okay, shut up and watch the drill carefully. Even if you want to accuse others, you have to find solid evidence, not just empty words."
You talk nonsense."
A lieutenant colonel from the Second Panshi Division ran over, stood at attention and saluted in front of General Alges, and loudly reported: "General, following your instructions, the Second Panshi Division is scheduled to launch an attack on the enemy's defensive positions at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Attack, there are still two minutes left before the attack time. My subordinate is Lieutenant Colonel Bombeck, who is in charge of the staff office of the division headquarters. Please allow me to explain to you this positional attack drill."
General Arges laughed and waved his hand: "No need to explain. We can clearly see such a small offensive drill here, so there is no need to explain anything."
"Yes." Since General Arges said there was no need to explain, the lieutenant colonel named Bombeck was very straightforward and saluted again before retreating.
It was around ten o'clock in the morning, but the assumed attack time was two o'clock in the afternoon. Of course, it was impossible for everyone to wait until two o'clock. Soon, a sharp copper whistle was heard, which meant that the attack had begun.
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Soldiers from the 2nd Panshi Division appeared in groups of two in front of the crowd watching the offensive drill, but they were too far apart. Many officers of the Guards Corps had already begun to shake their heads. Such a distance meant that the defenders
If you are asked to rush to the position, you will be outnumbered because you have no cooperating companions. This is simply giving death to the enemy. The second-line troops are indeed the second-line troops, and this combat coordination is really poor.
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There were only about a hundred of these soldiers, divided into about fifty groups, two people one behind the other. Their running posture was very strange, with their waists bent, their heads lowered and their bodies pressed down, and they were sprinting forward from the side. An officer immediately looked at them.
He came out and took a breath: "Hey, there is something special about running like this. It's a zigzag shape. It's difficult to aim. It's impossible to shoot accurately with artillery like this, unless it's covered by a volley of fire. But that's only against two enemies, and no one will use it."
This way..."
However, these soldiers fell down on the ground when they were 150 meters away from the defensive position and began to crawl forward. When they were about 100 meters away, they took out a small shovel from behind and dug a hole in the ground, burying their entire bodies in the hole.
Here, this made the officers of the Guards Corps watching the offensive drill confused: "What do they want to do?"
Soon the officers of the Guards knew what they were doing. These soldiers dug the hole very quickly, and it took only a few minutes for the two of them to finish the hole. In addition to a small half of the hole that was still being dug, they were already digging.
The soldiers who dug the hole poked their muskets out of the hole, aimed at the scarecrows and wooden targets on the defensive position, and started shooting.
From the monocular telescope, you can clearly see the swing of the scarecrows and wooden targets placed on the defensive positions and the bullet marks left by the guns. The officers of the Guards suddenly realized: these soldiers are sharpshooters, they dig holes
It is to set up shooting positions to suppress the defenders on the defensive position.
I have never seen such a style of play, with so many sharpshooters deployed in the first wave of attacks. In the offensive mode of the Guards Corps, ordinary soldiers basically charge to cover the sharpshooters as they approach the enemy's defensive position, looking for a
Only shoot at good hiding positions to suppress the enemies on the defensive positions. These sharpshooters are scattered in various squads or squadrons. No one has ever thought of gathering sharpshooters for use...
"So that's it. These hundreds of sharpshooters have basically suppressed the defenders on the defensive position. Any defender who wants to fire back will have to risk his life." An officer of the Guards Corps sighed.
, this sharpshooter tactic takes advantage of the excellent performance of the Obas III standard matchlock gun equipped by the Kingdom's army. To put it bluntly, it uses an effective range of 100 meters of precise aiming and shooting to bully the enemy.
There was another sharp copper whistle. This time there were fewer soldiers attacking, only about sixty, again in groups of two. The sharp-eyed officers of the Guards Division discovered that the soldier running behind had something like a gun on his back.
Carrying a strange iron frame.
This second group of more than 30 soldiers who launched the attack were just like the first batch of attacking soldiers. They crawled on the ground about 150 meters away from the defensive position, twisting their bodies forward like earthworms. It was just that
They continued to move forward when they climbed past the hole dug by the sharpshooter a hundred meters away. They stopped when they were sixty or seventy meters away from the position. They also took out their small shovels and dug holes on the ground desperately, removing the excavated soil.
They all piled up in front to cover the two of them...
"What are they doing?" The officers of the Guards Corps were all confused. Are the people in the Panshi Second Division addicted to digging holes? Or are they prepared to dig holes at a distance of thirty or forty meters to the defense?
Up in the position, no one could imagine what role digging such a big hole at such a small distance would play in the attack.
"If I were the commander of the defenders, I would prepare the soldiers in the frontline trenches for hand-to-hand combat and hide in the trenches without showing their heads. I would order the artillery to retreat twenty or thirty meters, lengthen the depth of the defensive position, and make the enemy hundreds of
The sharpshooters' precise aiming shots from meters away were ineffective, and then the artillery was aimed at the holes in front of these positions and fired at roll calls..." an officer from the Guards Division said, stroking his beard.
Another guard officer shook his head: "It's useless. Didn't you see that the soldiers who dug the pits piled the excavated soil in front to prevent guns and artillery? Besides, artillery is not a musket. It can be aimed and fired accurately, like this
I think you have to fire ten artillery fires to hit a small hole or two, but the attackers have dug thirty-five big holes in front of the position. How long do you have to hit it...
Strange, why are you still digging..."
In the monocular telescopes of the guards officers watching this offensive drill, they could see that dirt was still being blown out of a large pit only sixty or seventy meters away from the position. The pit was large enough for three or four people to hide.
What is the purpose of these soldiers digging such a big hole?
The third sharp copper whistle sounded. There were fewer soldiers attacking this time, only about thirty or forty. These soldiers did not carry muskets, but carried a bulging satchel on each side. They were just like the previous two times.
Like the attacking soldiers, they knelt on the ground one hundred and fifty meters away from the defensive position and quickly crawled towards the large pit in front of them that was still being dug.
After the soldier carrying the satchel entered the pit, the soldier carrying the strange iron frame set up the iron frame in the pit. Then the soldier carrying the satchel took a black object from the bag and placed it on the iron frame.
Above. Another soldier stopped digging a hole and picked up a musket to shoot at the defensive position.
When the fourth sharp whistle sounded, a black object was thrown high into the more than 30 large pits in front of the defensive position and thrown towards the defensive position. And it quickly landed on the ground.
There was an explosion, fire, dust, fragments of the scarecrow and fragments of the wooden target were thrown high on the defensive position, and then fell...
All the officers of the Guards Division, including General Algers, were dumbfounded as they watched the explosions on the defensive position cascade together.
The fifth sharp copper whistle sounded, and the same group of more than forty soldiers, one carrying an iron frame and the other carrying two large satchels, ran directly to the front line. They did not even crawl on the ground, but looked like a gust of wind.
He ran to a distance of fifty meters from the defensive position, then squatted down and took down the iron frame and immediately set it up. The soldier next to him also took out black throwing objects from his backpack and placed them on the iron frame...
When these twenty groups of soldiers began to throw the explosive object into the depth of the defensive position, the three people who threw it in the big pit also stood up and rushed forward. They were twenty meters closer to the defensive position and started another attack.
Start erecting the iron frame and throw the explosive object into the depth of the defensive position again...
The defensive position is over, and no defender can continue to hold on in such a violent explosion... General Alges and the officers of the Guards Division around him felt extremely complicated at this moment.
It turned out that what General Servicit meant by the large group was that this small number of men and horses would be enough to launch an attack, rather than using this large group of men and horses to launch a tentative attack as General Alges thought.
The face was a little sore from being beaten, but General Alges and the officers of the Guards Division no longer had any need to worry about their own face. There was no need to watch this offensive battle drill any longer. They were in Alges
Under the leadership of the general, we walked straight to the drill venue.
"You guys, come here!" General Alges shouted to two bomb crew members who were throwing a bomb, waving them to come in front of him.
"What weapon is this?" General Alges asked, pointing to the strange iron frame.
The two soldiers who were shouted at by them looked at the iron frame and said: "This is a throwing device, used to throw grenades."
"Grenade?" A guard officer took off the soldier's satchel, which contained a grenade: "Is this it?"
Under the guidance of two soldiers, a group of guards officers tried the power of this grenade on the spot.
"The maximum throwing distance is seventy or eighty meters. No wonder those soldiers had to move forward thirty meters beyond the sharpshooters before starting to dig a hole. They had already entered the area covered by artillery shells and within the range of the enemy's precise aiming and shooting.
We had to dig a big hole to hide ourselves, and at the same time, we could allow the subsequent ammunition-carrying personnel to come up..." General Alges and the guards officers finally understood the purpose of these soldiers digging such a big hole.
"The built-in match rope is ignited for five to six seconds before exploding. The explosion covers a range of five to six meters. There are cracks carved on the surface of the projectile. During the explosion, shell fragments are used to injure people!" Another Guards officer quickly figured it out!
The explosive power of the projectile.
He hesitated and said: "Actually, I have seen this grenade before. During the five-year war in the Eastern Region, when attacking the Principality of Rimodra, the rear equipment department once transported a batch of round grenades similar to grenades to the front line.
The shaped throwing bomb is about twice the size of this throwing bomb and is very heavy. There is a match rope inserted on it. Before throwing, you need to light the match rope above, instead of just pulling the fuse like this throwing bomb...
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"I have seen the one you mentioned." A guard officer next to him continued: "That thing is incomparable to this grenade. It is big and heavy and requires a special trebuchet to throw it. Although it can be thrown to a distance of two
Three hundred meters, but as soon as the trebuchet was pulled to the front line, it became the target of the enemy's artillery, and was quickly destroyed by the enemy. As a result, not a single hurled bomb was thrown, but instead injured many soldiers pushing the cart.
All the troops have abandoned it. There is no such throwing device that is small, convenient and practical, and can be run by just one person..."
At this time, General Severit and General Bolognik came over: "General, what are you...?"
General Arges laughed loudly: "There is no need to continue this offensive drill. I never thought you had such powerful offensive weapons. With this kind of grenade in hand, I believe that no enemy can rely on defensive positions."
It can withstand our attack. By the way, General Sevicit, I would like to ask, where do these grenades come from?"