Facing Wu Guanlin's doubts, Lin Ziran said: "So I said it is a hypothetical!"
"What if?" Wu Guanlin still didn't know what Lin Ziran's real thoughts were.
But since Lin Ziran made it clear that it was a hypothesis, he naturally used his imagination.
After thinking for a moment, Wu Guanlin asked: "Do you have paper and pen?"
Lin Ziran nodded slightly towards the guard on the side, and immediately brought over a handful of paper, pens and ink.
After Wu Guanlin took it, he picked up the pen and dipped it in the ink bottle, and then started writing and drawing directly on the white paper. Lin Ziran could see that what he drew on the paper was a simplified diagram of the formation.
While writing this painting, Wu Guanlin suddenly raised his head and said: "If we have the firing rate of a musket, what is the effective range of this rifled gun, two hundred and fifty meters?"
Two hundred and fifty meters, this is also the effective range of the current old-fashioned rifled guns. The rifled guns currently used in many vassal towns in Daheng are rifled guns that were only mass-equipped when the war broke out between Daheng and the Orissa Empire.
Musket'.
As you can tell from the name, this musket is very powerful and has a long range.
It uses double-groove rifling, and the bullet is a round bullet with protrusions. It is very simple to produce and convenient to load.
Although its loading speed is still far inferior to that of a smoothbore gun, it is at least much better than the previous rifled gun with a polygonal barrel.
The effective range is about two hundred and fifty meters.
Lin Ziran said: "Since it's all hypothetical, naturally we can't follow the rules. Let's set the effective range at three hundred meters!"
In fact, Lin Ziran originally planned to say four hundred meters, but considering that the current Mini rifle can hit such a distance, it is already difficult for soldiers to hit the target by aiming with the naked eye at such a long distance.
In the previous actual battles, although most of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion would shoot at a distance of about 400 meters, the hits mainly relied on barrages. After hundreds of rounds of bullets were fired, a few could always be hit.
Not to mention four hundred meters, even at a distance of three hundred and fifty meters, even a gunner with excellent marksmanship would have to rely on luck to be able to catch a few of them occasionally.
Only after entering a distance of three hundred meters, with the assistance of mechanical aiming such as rulers, can soldiers with excellent marksmanship be able to hit the enemy more effectively and accurately, instead of relying on blindfolding.
These data were all obtained with the blood of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion!
Well, it’s the blood of the enemy!
Who asked them to shoot from a distance every time? After having experienced this long-distance shooting, they naturally slowly understood that although the Mini rifle in their hands has relatively high accuracy at more than 300 meters or even 400 meters,
But most soldiers are unable to display this accuracy.
Finally, after shooting too many times, I came to the conclusion that only at a distance of about three hundred meters can we obtain a relatively objective hit rate while being far enough away from the enemy.
That's why Lin Ziran set the effective range as three hundred meters and asked Wu Guanlin to follow the figure of three hundred meters.
After hearing three hundred meters, Wu Guanlin didn't have too many doubts. It was just a hypothesis anyway. No matter whether it could be achieved or not, just formulate tactics based on this data first.
Wu Guanlin did not say that he would start from scratch, but took over the existing line tactics and made special modifications based on the advantages of rifled guns.
But Lin Ziran didn't know that Wu Guanlin was using ism.
What Lin Ziran saw now was that Wu Guanlin drew a simple diagram in just a few minutes, and then continued to improve it. In the end, in less than ten minutes, he had drawn up a simple tactical diagram for Lin Ziran.
Regardless of whether this tactic is practical or not, Wu Guanlin, who was able to design a new tactic based on a new weapon within ten minutes, immediately overwhelmed Lin Ziran.
You are indeed a professional, this quality is awesome!
Lin Ziran sighed in his heart. He had been tinkering with the new tactics of the Mini rifle for several months, but he still had no clue. However, Wu Guanlin designed the new tactics in only ten minutes.
What a talent!
After Wu Guanlin finished drawing the sketch, he began to explain: "If the rifled gun can maintain the rate of fire of the smoothbore gun and has an effective range of three hundred meters, then the biggest change to tactics will be that the troops can attack enemies at medium and long distances.
The enemy carries out an effective strike!"
"Based on this, in frontal battlefields in the wild, our army should keep an appropriate distance from the enemy and carry out long-distance intensive fire strikes!"
"When you enter the battlefield about five hundred meters away, you must change from a vertical formation to a horizontal formation. In order to increase the frontal firepower as much as possible, use two horizontal formations and fire intensively when you are three hundred meters away from the enemy!"
Then he explained in detail the detailed tactics of the troops' formation when marching and entering the battlefield.
However, after watching it for a long time, Lin Ziran discovered that this thing seemed to be no different from the current line tactics on the streets?
It was not the skirmishing tactic he expected at all!
Lin Ziran upheld the qualities that a good boy should have and asked if he didn't understand: "Is this a line tactic?"
Wu Guanlin nodded: "Not bad!"
Lin Ziran couldn't understand: "Why?"
Wu Guanlin said: "Because the hypothetical rifled gun has the same rate of fire as a smoothbore gun, and according to the rate of fire of the smoothbore gun, in order to maintain frontal firepower, enough troops must be gathered, and the line formation is the most suitable formation.
Got it!"
"If we don't use line tactics, the firepower density cannot be guaranteed, and it will be difficult to prevent the enemy's frontal impact!"
As he spoke, Wu Guanlin started to draw on the paper: "If we use light infantry tactics with more dispersed forces, then once we encounter a rapid assault by the enemy's dense formation, the enemy will soon be able to attack us in just three hundred meters.
Rush over, and once the enemy rushes over, the skirmishing formation of the light infantry will not be able to resist such a dense impact!"
"Similarly, if attacked by enemy cavalry, the skirmish formation cannot effectively form a square formation. Once attacked by enemy cavalry, it will be catastrophic!"
When Lin Ziran saw this, he was a little confused: "In other words, even if you have a longer range, you can only use line tactics?"
Wu Guanlin said: "Essentially, the hypothetical rifled gun is equivalent to the existing smoothbore gun because of its rapid fire. Therefore, apart from having more options in terms of distance, there are not many changes in tactical use!"
After finishing speaking, Wu Guanlin thought for a moment and then continued: "Another very important point is that the enemy still uses muskets and adopts a dense formation.
For such an enemy, if our army fights in a line formation, we will achieve greater results than fighting in a skirmishing line!"
"If the enemy is also equipped with the rifled rifle in the setting, then the tactics that need to be adopted will be completely different!"