Chapter 109 Sword and Bow
The long sword was originally a stick in the human hand. During the wielding process, it had room for dancing to make people's arms and wrists exert force to accelerate it, and then the accumulated kinetic energy was converted into impulse and hit the opponent in the moment of collision. Later, humans discovered that stone pieces were embedded on both sides of the long sword as sharp blades, which were more powerful when they collided. The sword was born.
Since the sword moves casually in the hand, when fighting, we wear armor to protect it, hold a sharp sword, and weaken the points of the spikes in front of us. The so-called Three Thousand Yue armors that destroyed Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were such swordsmen troops.
The bow, since its birth, applies damage through an attack of over-distance. The elastic potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, ejected, and finally uses the arrow point as the energy release point.
These two weapons reflect two ideas of human offensive. In the era of gunpowder, swords and bows had already withdrawn from the battlefield, but they were still fighting with their combat thinking.
The Frenchman Madan Shaufier, now as participants, is watching the war on the Eastern continent. What is the current situation in Europe? In Eastern Europe, the Russians are fighting with the native chickens. It is also very lively in Western Europe. In order to inherit the Spanish crown for the grandson, Louis XIV of the Bourbon dynasty began to fight the Spanish throne succession war in 1700. The royal family in Europe was still very arrogant at the end of the 17th century. Don’t bow your head and the crown will fall.
The Netherlands, Britain, France, the Habsburg royal family of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, and several European royal families began to fight. Of course, four years later, the Oriental Revolution broke out, and all European royal families looked at the East.
The Ming Dynasty spanned the entire Eastern continental ruling region from a cold area like Moscow to a warm area of the southern Mediterranean. In Western translation, it is called the Light Dynasty. At this time, the Chinese were a strong race in the world. However, such a large empire and such a powerful throne were shaking overnight. It was not another empire or another family, but a team formed by inconspicuous peasant and mine slaves in poverty-stricken areas. Moreover, no one in this new force was interested in the imperial seat, but would come to the world with the political system of the republic.
As the ideas of the Eastern Revolution spread to the West, all European royal families were inexplicably afraid. They expressed their joyfully and did not recognize the attitude of the Eastern administrative power. Well, in fact, Bin was useless. He just showed an attitude. Now the Ming Dynasty would not be like a crunched ostrich like this. The media on both sides were dazzled by the allusions brought out by this orthodox lawsuit. The abdication system and the conflict between Confucius's monarch and ministers and fathers made Westerners understand the contradictions of Chinese thoughts again.
However, the progress of the war was the Europeans' eyes. The heavy artillery sides used a large number of infantry artillery guns. After Ma Dan arrived in China, he immediately overturned the influence on the Chinese peasant army in his original thinking. This was not the European peasant fighting with a manure fork. He had guns on the opposite side, but also a rapid-fire gun, mastering steel mills. He had excellent combat skills and courage no less than aristocrats.
During the half-year observation, Ma Dan wrote to Europe: "It is easy to misunderstand the peasant army to describe the rebel army in the East. The opponent has strong firepower and well-trained. The officers and leaders have a high degree of self-discipline. In previous wars, the noble officers of the Ming Empire were eliminated by the other party's famous generals with superb tactical skills. Now the so-called army of the Light Empire is more like peasants. This makes me believe in the legend of the king who has been recognized by heaven in the East for hundreds of years. Because the king can give people glory, and this legion that has risen in the East has its own glory."
However, now Ma Dan is hiking, looking at the big guy on the rails unconsciously. If the energy turns into strong wind, it can accumulate the airflow power of the entire large billboard in the steam cylinder. The steel machinery driven by humans is honestly released. The steam power is rhythmically released. The airflow of "bang, bang," is muffled, accompanied by the long whistle, announcing the large combat machine to enter the battlefield. At least this violent land weapon has not been activated in Europe.
Attack, this steel bunker strongly inserted into the battlefield where the Republican Army and the Wu Family Army fought. When the bullet was moving, it was a spark. When the shell hit the steel plate, it would jump monsters. Its stable output of firepower would expand the incision. With this effective firepower support, the Wu Family Army suddenly became excited and screamed and broke through along the gap.
"The firepower is fierce and invulnerable. If you can break away from the railway and carry out roundabout battles on the plains, it would be perfect." With the intelligence coming from the front, Zhang Youhe, the chief of staff of the command center, said.
The Republican Army is also a flesh-and-blood body, and faith cannot be a flesh-and-blood challenge to the strength of steel. If you really stupid, you can't just fix the magnitude of your courage. Those who try to make up for the steel gap are either the Boxer Rebellion or the Japanese horse manure.
Faith is to allow warriors to face, rather than helping warriors save the damage of steel.
Destructive and precise artillery fire sounded on the ground. Once the heavy artillery has the power and defense, its advantage on the battlefield is unimaginable. The commander can easily concentrate the superior firepower, and the train cannon is such a weapon.
"What do we want us to retreat?" A battalion commander of the Republican Army roared angrily, "Whose order?" Once soldiers on the battlefield were thrown into battle, they were easily selfless. However, when they saw their comrades being broken by heavy artillery, no one could be calm. They either turned into cowards and suffered from bullet quake disease. They could completely defeat their psychological fears and face the enemy and beat the enemy.
Faced with these red-eyed soldiers, Ren Di personally issued an order to retreat the defense line. As the general master of the battle situation, he used his own military consumption and the new weapon of the armored chariot, which was a new weapon with a total output of 100 yuan, and simply used troops to fill in a new weapon. It was obviously the behavior of a rookie on the battlefield. Because of the emergence of new weapons, soldiers could not master the effective means of destroying them for a while. No matter how much troops they used to make up for it, it was just adding lubricating blood to the industrial killing machine.
Holding cluster hand #grenade charges against machine gun bullets is a way of attack. Covering with smokescreen bombs and then holding cluster hand #grenade to blow up is another way. After dozens of guns fire alternately, two people suddenly stood up and aimed at firing recoilless cannons. The real generals in the age of firearms will consider the quality of the soldiers in their hands, rather than the so-called force. In the future, the combat team composed of a hundred-man soldier king will play a greater role than the combat effect of a thousand-man war.
Who tm is facing the muzzle of your superior force and steel weapons head-on. The offensive force must hit the fragile place on the opposite side. For example, the gap with a width of more than 30 kilometers is already in Ren Di's impression when the armored train on the opposite side appeared. Faced with such a gap that was seen by heavy swordsmen on the battlefield like a cold weapon, it is time for the archer to go on the field.
The planes in the sky shot at each other, and the Republicans' planes obviously had the upper hand. However, when the Republicans' armored train was driving on the track, Wu Shijie, who was excited in the north, did not feel the danger.
On the contrary, he was announcing his victory today at the press conference. "At 8 o'clock this morning, our army advanced forty kilometers, and at least 20,000 bandits along the way were eliminated. Under our army's invincible armored heavy artillery, the uncontrollable disaster that had been raging for a year, finally showed signs of subsidence." Flashes of spotlights flashed, and Wu Shijie's smug smile quickly spread with the media.
With the congratulations from the upper class and the promise of donations, Wu Shijie responded gloriously. However, Wu Shijie asked for social engagements to come to the single room where Xiao Xuan was.
"It's not that easy," Xiao Xuan murmured. Wu Shijie said, "What's so easy." Xiao Xuan said, "The Republican Army did not retreat, but allowed us to cut in." Wu Shijie said, "Maybe they wanted to cut and surround us. Don't worry, my other fronts were covered with wire and various machine guns. If the Republican Army aimed at surrounding our armored trains and impacted these fronts, I guarantee that they would understand what a blood river is."
Xiao Xuan nodded and said, "I think so too, but there are famous generals on the other side. With the support of the motorized firepower of the armored train, our assault team has pierced into the opposite position like a spike, making their front line appear in two parts. This formation is extremely dangerous. If they do not retreat in time, their troops may be divided and surrounded. Ren Di, who is opposite this tactic, plays better than you, and he cannot not know the consequences. However, these two divided fronts still did not retreat, but just made way for the railway line."
Wu Shijie said: "Then please log in quickly and we will quickly destroy one of the east sides." Xiao Xuan nodded and said: "We are already preparing to log in, and we are expected to be able to do it tomorrow afternoon."
What is Ren Di waiting for? Why are the front-line troops holding their positions under this unfavorable front? The rumbling iron armor train is the answer like a black iron scroll. Armor is destined to evolve into two weapons starting today. The first is the rushing tank, and the second is the self-propelled artillery.
Arriving at the destination. After estimating the distance by the company commander of the MLN artillery, the armored trains in twenty cars stopped instantly, and friction with the rails produced a sharp and sharp sound. Sparks jumped between the steel wheels and rails.
The huge steam train stopped. Since ancient times, the attacking troops pursued speed, and the attacking troops were also fragile, because as long as they were harder than the local troops, it was enough. This was why the head of state could have inferior tanks to push France flat. The head of state's fast maneuvering troops were harder than the French infantry. As for the hard thing in the Machilo defense line, it was just a fool.
At the same time, the offensive troops are also more fragile than the garrisoned defense forces. Artillery bombarded soldiers defending in trench bunkers often plowed for a few days. As a result, there was an argument that defense was stronger than offense in one battle. There is no need to give an example of the fragility of the offensive troops.
However, the attacking troops often do not appear within the muzzle range. Because heavy artillery is not flexible enough. If an army attacks, an artillery group can reach the battlefield at a speed no less than an attacking troops to aim at the offensive troops and gather fire, it would be so good.
However, this situation has happened in the current battlefield. The one that was renamed by the Republican Army was called Extreme. A total of 36 rocket launchers were placed on this armored train. A 120 mm large-caliber rocket shell, a launcher with twenty consecutive units, and a shell weighs 37 kilograms. That's right, you can completely regard this armored train as a heavy artillery. This is a naked firepower projection platform. This thing is to project firepower and is not used for assault.
When the train stopped, all the soldiers on the train took action together, and began to shake the steering wheel according to the benchmark of the artillery commander, and thirty-six launchers began to adjust the artillery. At the same time, the train began to quickly contact the Republican Command with telegrams.
Chapter completed!