Chapter 558: The Daheng general who is looked down upon by the world
But even if he didn't believe it, Prince Kang could guess that even if the Lin bandit army didn't have a thousand breech-loaded artillery pieces in this battle, it should have seven or eight hundred. Otherwise, it would be impossible to defeat them in just a few hours.
Completely shattering our own beachhead defense line of 60,000 defenders and the second line of defense.
To be able to do this, the opponent must rely on a large number of artillery regiments!
This makes Prince Kang very helpless!
In this battle, the Daheng United Army did not use any strategy at all, nor did they try to attack the east or west, secretly cross the river and take detours. They simply relied on the extremely powerful artillery firepower to directly smash the beach defense of the Jingzhou troops, and then
Forced to cross the river.
With this style of play, what can you ask Prince Kang to say...
Does the weirdo have more artillery?
However, this is the consistent tradition of Daheng people fighting!
Before the Sixth Dynasty, the people of Daheng firmly believed that having more people and more horses is the way to go!
During the Sixth Dynasty, the people of Daheng firmly believed that having more people, more horses, more cannons is the way to go!
Now, Daheng people think that more people, more horses, more breech-loaded rifled guns is the way to go!
In the Cold Weapon Age, the Daheng people used more people, war horses, and food to kill a group of surrounding aliens.
In the age of guns, in addition to relying on more people and more horses, the Daheng people also relied on more artillery and larger calibers to bully others!
As for the various exquisite tactics, the Sixth Dynasty of Daheng has been nearly three hundred years old, and there are only a few famous generals that can be praised by the world, let alone famous generals who are famous for their tactics.
In the Heng'ao War more than fifty years ago, so many senior generals from Daheng participated in the war, but few of them were actually familiar to the world. On the contrary, there were several recognized famous generals in the Orissa Empire Army.
The Orissa Empire is the master of all kinds of tactics, such as back-slope tactics, bayonet charges after volleying at close range, entering in columns, and changing into horizontal formations to fight. These things were all invented by the Orissa Empire Army.
But why do they have so many famous generals?
Because they are weak and need various tactics to make up for the gap in overall strength!
And what about the people of Daheng? With many guns and many horses, what kind of tactics will they use with you? They can just push straight and be done with it. At most, they can just play strategic detours or something like that.
When the Daheng people fought in the Heng'ao War, the basic tactics were actually very simple, that is, placing hundreds of artillery pieces, countless infantry formations in the front, and large-scale cavalry covering the flanks.
After the fight started, there was a large amount of artillery fire support, the infantry lined up in front to resist, the cavalry covered the flanks, and when the opportunity appeared, the cavalry would rush out and rush in to cover up the kill, and then it was basically over.
Occasionally, I will play some strategic detours, but as I continue to play, it will basically turn into a head-on battle between large corps!
In fact, the officer group of Daheng Army is generally considered to be a very high-quality officer group. After all, Daheng is the first country in the world to establish a professional officer school. The officers are all professional officers who have been trained since they were teenagers.
, their tactical literacy is quite good.
However, this kind of tactical literacy is usually manifested in small and medium-sized battles. As for strategy, the Daheng Army likes to fight steadily and push forward with the simplest and crudest methods.
In fact, this steady and steady attack method is also very practical. They simply rely on having more troops, more artillery, more cavalry, more logistics, higher officer quality, and higher quality soldiers than the enemy, and then crush them head-on.
Therefore, Daheng's military operations went smoothly in the early stages of the war, until other countries began to interfere in the Heng'ao War.
When the Orissa Empire received support from other countries in the Southern Continent and even other continental countries, and spent money and sent troops to help the Orissa Empire resist Daheng, the Daheng Army slowly lost its strength, firepower, and logistics advantages.
, in the later stages of the war, the military strength was even at a disadvantage.
After being unable to push through the flat push, the Daheng Army gave up...
So much so that after the war, colleagues from various Blue Star countries generally looked down upon the generals of the Daheng Army, thinking that all the generals of the Daheng Army were idiots.
But after the war, almost all countries imitated the Daheng Empire Army to build their new armies. In particular, the Daheng Army's infantry and artillery coordination became popular all over the world overnight, and its five-pound and nine-pound field guns became
The standard artillery piece for Army field artillery worldwide.
Countless countries began to abandon their old artillery and began to imitate the Tang Dynasty and directly assigned a large number of five-pound and nine-pound field artillery to their field troops.
Some backward countries use the Daheng Army as a template for building new armies.
Therefore, although other countries despise the command level of Daheng generals, they all envy the troops commanded by Daheng generals.
When many generals from other countries are studying the Heng'ao War, they will have this idea: If I were given such a powerful army, I would have swept across the entire southern continent...
However, this is just an outsider’s opinion!
After the war, Daheng’s internal reflection on the defeat of the Heng’ao War was without any strategic or tactical reflection!
The people of Daheng don’t think they made any huge strategic and tactical mistakes during the war!
So why after three years of fighting still failed?
Daheng generals believe that cross-sea operations have limited their own transportation capabilities, so that they have become refueling tactics. In the long run, there are not enough infantry, not enough cavalry, and not enough artillery on the front line. In the end, the war has become protracted, and the war has become protracted.
Later, it directly led to the empire's financial difficulties and even domestic turmoil, forcing it to end the war.
If we attack the Orissa Empire again in the future, we must ensure the strength and supplies in the early stage, prepare countless ships in advance, and send millions of infantry across the sea within three months of the outbreak of the war, and then thousands of artillery pieces, and then another
More than 200,000 cavalry.
Just push it forward in one wave to avoid a protracted war.
This idea was not expressed by a few senior generals at the time in order to shirk responsibility, but was drawn by many generals after careful study, and it was a conclusion that was widely recognized!
From these we can see that the people of Daheng have a somewhat special way and view of war.
Now, in Prince Kang's view, it was obvious that the Lin bandit army on the opposite side relied on their cannons to bully others.
But the frontline troops have nothing to do!
I can only feel helpless for him!
After the beachhead defense line was lost, the remaining nearly 50,000 troops of the Jingzhou troops on the front line in the direction of Karasuba Ferry retreated. Because Karasuba Ferry was breached, the other two major ferries defended by the other two states' troops had no value in continuing to defend.
As a result, the three-state coalition forces with about 180,000 troops on the Mihe defense line began to retreat!
Finally, we moved along the railway line and rebuilt our defense line about ten kilometers away from Mihe.
The Mihe defense line was lost, and there were over 10,000 casualties. In fact, this was nothing. The most important thing was that the battle situation deteriorated too quickly, and many troops were unable to carry artillery and baggage to evacuate.
So much so that the frontline reported that in the three-city defense line along the railway, there were only less than a hundred breech-loaded guns and less than a hundred and fifty front-loaded rifled guns.
In order to follow up the defense of the three cities on the railway line, the frontline generals requested reinforcements, especially artillery reinforcements!
It is said that at least two hundred 75mm breech-loading guns and more than 100 large-caliber breech-loading guns above 100 mm need to be urgently supplemented!
In response to this, Prince Kang had nothing to say but sigh!
Before the war, the entire Mihe defense line of 250,000 troops had only about 300 breech-mounted rifled guns, which were scattered among the various units. However, more than 200 guns were deployed on the Mihe front line. The strategic reserve troops in the rear were even more powerful.
There are only a few dozen doors at most.
But it was useless to sigh. He could only find the deputy commanders of the other two states. After some urgent discussions, he mobilized the rear strategic reserve team to urgently reinforce the front line. At the same time, he mobilized the last fifty or so breech rifles.
gun.
But can we defend the three cities on the southern line in this way?
Prince Kang looked at the schematic diagrams of the enemy and ourselves on the map, thinking about how to deal with it.
The three cities on the southern line are not a city, but an area. No one even called this area that before.
This area is actually three small towns on the southern line of the Jingzhou Railway Network. These three small towns are not very big and are very close to each other. They were originally just three villages on the southern line. Later, they relied on the railway line to continue to develop.
, developed into small towns one after another.
Now the Three-State United Army has connected these three towns to form a three-city defense zone six kilometers from north to south and three kilometers from east to west. There are railway lines running through the middle, and there is a train in Fengrong Town.
Station, which is also the terminus of the Jingzhou South Line Railway.
From this we can know the importance of the three towns on the southern line.
After the three-state coalition forces lost their positions on the Mihe front line, they retreated to the three southern towns on a large scale and rebuilt their defense lines.
Regarding their actions, the Jingzhou Front of the Daheng United Army would not sit back and watch them retreat steadily, and finally establish a solid defense line.
Even if the Daheng United Army is good at fighting this kind of tough battle, it will not fight it if it is not necessary. After all, fighting a tough battle is too expensive.
Not only does it require a large amount of ammunition, it also causes a large number of casualties.
Just like the previous strength of Karasuba Ferry, although the Daheng United Army had an absolute firepower advantage, suppressing the opponent from beginning to end, and advancing rapidly, the casualties were still relatively high.
That night, Liang Chenglei received preliminary casualty statistics. A total of more than 1,200 people from all participating forces, including the navy, were killed and more than 3,000 injured.
These casualties mainly occurred in the early stages of crossing the river, especially when they were still on the beach, and the casualties were relatively heavy.
In the later period, the Eighth Division advanced in depth. Due to the lack of direct artillery support in the early stage, it could only rely on light weapons carried by the infantry. At the same time, the mission time was relatively tight, so it also suffered certain casualties at that time.
Then it was time to launch a large-scale encirclement. Although the encirclement went very smoothly on the whole, an infantry battalion was unlucky enough to intersect in front of one of the enemy's main divisions, and misjudged the situation and believed that the enemy only had one.
regiment, and believed that the enemy troops had fled and had no heavy weapons.
The young and bold battalion commander boldly carried out interception operations.
The result was tragic. It was an entire division, and it also had more than twenty breech-loading cannons!