The European Allied Forces and the Tatar Army launched many large-scale battles around Verdun and other areas. The battles were extremely brutal, with tens of thousands of people dying on the way to charge...
Even Datang's military observation group who was watching the battle couldn't help but marvel when they saw the brutality on the Western Front. These natives were really fierce in fighting.
The proficiency of its tactical application and the brutality of the battle exceeded the many battles between the army and the Ming army in the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Even the officers of the Tang Army have to admit that the current war on the Western Front in Europe can be said to have brought line tactics to its peak.
Look at their formation and march, as well as their rhythm in battle, they are perfect and can serve as a textbook example of line tactics.
The coordination of infantry, artillery and cavalry was standard and perfect. The artillery bombarded first, and then the infantry of both sides marched in horizontal lines or columns. After entering the predetermined battlefield, they quickly formed a two- or three-row battle formation.
Finally, shoot at enemies who are only a hundred meters or even tens of meters away!
When the enemy army collapses, charge directly with bayonets.
At the same time, the cavalry came out from the flank to pursue!
This is almost a perfect template for line tactics.
In addition to tactics, the combat literacy of many of their elite troops is also quite high!
Look at the Guards of the Tatar Kingdom. Tsk tsk. It’s just one division, but it blocked the frontal attack of at least three French armies. Moreover, it was able to maneuver later and launch a counterattack from the flanks. At this time, this Tatar army
More than half of the imperial guard divisions of the Tarjin Kingdom had been killed or injured. After the attack, half of them were killed or wounded, but they still did not collapse.
An infantry division with tens of thousands of people could not collapse until only a thousand or so people were left. It could even organize a complete formation to defend and wait for reinforcements.
With such qualities, even the officers of the Tang Dynasty's military observation group had to admit that these Tatars were very good at training soldiers. They turned a living person into a piece of wood and ignored life and death.
The Royal Guards on the French side were not weak either. Three thousand cavalry dared to attack the enemy's defense line of five thousand infantry, and actually allowed them to rush in and destroy at least dozens of artillery pieces of the Tatar army.
Although less than 500 cavalry survived after completing the combat mission, they still completed the combat mission and successfully eliminated the enemy's important artillery position that threatened them.
Even the English Expeditionary Force, which crossed the strait to support the European brothers in resisting the Tatars, had a good fighting capacity. A mere 30,000 people were able to fight against 30,000 Tatars without losing.
If these indigenous armies had fought with the Tang Army forty years ago, to be honest, the Datang Army might not have been able to defeat them!
At this time, the war on the Western Front in Europe was more in line with the characteristics of the line era and even more cruel than the war between the Tang Army and the Ming Army.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty King's Division was founded several years ago, and many line tactics were still being explored, and the Ming army on the opposite side was even more unbearable. Therefore, although the war between the two sides at that time could be regarded as a war in the line era, it was still relatively rudimentary.
,original.
In the subsequent war between the Tang Empire and the Golden Kingdom of Tartar, because only the Tang Dynasty used guns unilaterally, the cavalry of the Golden Kingdom of Tartar were still in the traditional mounted and archery style, so it could not be considered a standard battle in the line era.
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Then, the Tang Army had little chance to engage in line combat, because not long after, the Tang Empire began to equip mini rifles, single-shot breech-loaded rifled paper rifles, and now it has simply changed to continuous-fire
Breech-loading rifle with metal bullets.
To be honest, the Tang Army has never fought such a brutal line battle on the Western Front in Europe!
But this is not important. What is important is that the Tang Army had abandoned this line tactic decades ago.
I have breech-loading guns in hand, and now I’m also equipped with mortars and heavy machine guns!
Who is playing line combat with the natives?
According to the current combat mode of the Tatar Jin Kingdom and the European Allied Forces on the Western Front, it is estimated that their armies were completely wiped out before they got within a thousand meters of the Tang Dynasty's defense line. The greater probability is that the opponent's
As soon as the troops were assembled and ready to enter the battlefield, they were overrun by Datang's artillerymen.
Super-large-scale wars broke out on the Western Front in Europe in the winter of Xuanping 43 and in the spring of the following year. Affected by this, fierce wars also broke out in the Italian Peninsula and the Balkan Peninsula.
The Golden Kingdom of Tatar fought on three fronts at the same time on its own!
And in the spring of Xuanping 44, the Tatars took advantage of the slight pause on the southeastern and southern fronts to launch a fierce attack on the western front, deploying a large number of troops. At the same time, the Tatars' military strength on the western front reached its peak.
More than six hundred thousand.
There were repeated battles around Verdun and several other strategic points.
There were a large number of casualties on the front line every day, but the Tatars gritted their teeth and sent a large number of soldiers to the front line every day.
At its peak, the Tatars recruited more than 50,000 new soldiers to the front line in just five days, an average of 10,000 soldiers per day.
And these recruits are not strategic reserves, they are simply recruits temporarily recruited from the hinterland of the mainland and come up after simple training. Many of them do not even have standard weapons, at most they only have some old matchlock guns in stock.
The matchlock is a weapon that has been eliminated for many years in European countries.
But they are all used.
It can be seen how huge the consumption on the front line is, not only the consumption of people, but also the consumption of equipment.
In just one month, the Tatars have applied for emergency loans from Datang three times!
Prior to this, the Tatars had spent more than 20 million Tang yuan on ordering various weapons, ammunition and other supplies from the Tang Dynasty.
But now, the Golden Kingdom of Tatar still doesn't have enough, so it needs a loan from Datang to purchase war supplies. Finally, Datang approved a loan amount of 10 million.
Therefore, to a certain extent, in this spring offensive, the Tatars fired various imported weapons and ammunition from the Tang Dynasty worth 30 million Tang yuan.
As for the European coalition forces, all countries combined have produced various types of imported weapons and ammunition from the Tang Dynasty worth at least 20 million Tang Yuan.
This is a spring offensive on the Western Front worth 50 million Tang Yuan!
What makes Datang's weapons suppliers happy is that this European war is far from over, and there will be more orders in the future!
The European coalition forces and the Tatars fought tooth and nail, but in the end it was the Tatars who survived to the end. They successfully broke through the defense lines of the European coalition forces, and then marched westward, directly to the outskirts of Paris!
For a time, Paris was in danger, France was in danger, and Europe was in danger!
However, although the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain suffered heavy losses, they were not willing to fail like this. For this reason, they were prepared to defend Paris!
Philip II expressed his determination to hold on to Paris to the Tang consul in Spain: Even if Paris is broken into pieces, we in Spain will stop the Tatars!
Philip II had this determination, because if Paris was destroyed, the Kingdom of France would most likely be destroyed as well. Once France was destroyed, the Tatars would directly invade Spain. This was something Philip II would never do.