Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 395 Offensive Warfare

This is a very well-developed and sturdy position. In the eyes of General Algers, the new commander of the new theater, he saw more of this defensive position. Five years of war in the eastern region, the Principality of Rimondra In the brutal position of the offensive and defensive battles, many of the enemy's defensive positions were worse than this, but the Guards Corps still suffered heavy casualties.

"This kind of position, using a battalion force to defend, is enough to resist a group of attackers. How many people are going to attack this battle, how many casualties are expected to be lost?" General Algers commented very well. Turn around and ask General Bologna and General Sevict to accompany him.

In the early morning, General Algers, accompanied by a large number of followers, accompanied by General Bolognik, went to the second division of the meteorites of General Sevict, and asked General Sevict to command the troops to conduct on-the-spot offensive and defensive drills. To assess the offensive combat power of the Second Division of the Rock. And personally took people to the defensive positions to see if there are any omissions.

Many soldiers are holding a straw man in the trenches and the base of the soil, and at the same time set up a model of eight guns made of wood on the position. A battalion has a thousand troops. Of course, there will be no more than a thousand scarecrows on the ground. Instead, a straw man will replace a team of twelve people, so that only a hundred straws need to be placed on the defensive position.

"I am going to attack with a big team..." General Sevict replied.

General Algers nodded. "Very good. You are more stable and the tactics are very orthodox. This is an advantage. First, using a brigade's strength to launch a tentative attack is enough to test out most of the enemy's firepower on the defensive position. The deployment location, then the second attack can avoid the artillery projection area on the defensive position, reduce the casualties of the soldiers, find the weak points of the enemy positions, concentrate on the power to launch the assault, and indeed it is possible to break through the enemy with the smallest casualties. Defensive position..."

General Sevict looked at General Bologna next to General Algers and seemed to refute anything. General Bologna shook his head slightly. General Sevict took a deep breath and nodded to General Algers. "General, I will go to the command first. Please watch our offensive drill here and treat us after the war." The soldiers gave guidance and assessment. Yes, general, when is the time for us to launch an offensive?"

"In fact, the best time to launch an offense is at night, because the attacker can use the shadow of the night to get closer to the defensive position, and the attention of the defender's sentinel will shorten the line of sight distance because of the bonfire lighting in front of the position. Sometimes touch On a gale night, the flashing of the fire even distracts the sentinels and guards, making it more suitable for attackers to launch raids."

General Algers said very professionally: "But since General Sevict is preparing to launch a brigade to launch a tentative attack, then night is not a good time to clearly record the fire points on the defensive positions. We will attack The time is set at around two in the afternoon, and you can use a tentative attack and two attacks to delay the time until the evening, when you can launch a truly decisive raid..."

General Sevict turned and turned away, and General Bologna received the report of his adjutant and left General Algers. So several school-level officers of the Guards Corps who came with General Algers gathered around the general. A lieutenant colonel smiled and said: "General, the division head of the second division of the meteorite seems to be Your pointing comments are a bit unconvincing and very disapproving..."

The colonel officer of another Guards Corps shook his head and said: "There is no longer a defensive second-line force. I don't understand the difficulty of attacking the battlefield. I suspect that they will not conduct offensive drills in their daily training. It is likely to evolve into a farce. Maybe they think that they only need to initiate a charge and they will be able to rush to the defensive position, so that even if the victory captures the defensive position..."

General Algers did not stop the ridicule of the officers under his command. After a while, he said: "When you do, shut up and watch the exercises. Even if you want to blame others, you must find the evidence, not the empty mouth. The teeth are talking."

A Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Division of the Meteorite ran over and stood in front of General Algers and loudly reported: "General, follow your instructions, the second division of Meteorite is scheduled to launch at the enemy's defensive position at two o'clock in the afternoon. The offense, now two minutes from the offensive time. The post is the head of the staff headquarters of the division commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ponbe, please allow me to explain the attack on this position."

General Algers laughed and waved his hand: "No need to explain, such a small offensive exercise can be seen clearly here, there is no need to explain anything."

"Yes." Since General Algers said that there is no need to explain, the lieutenant colonel named Pompeck is also very simple, and once again, he will retreat.

It’s about ten o'clock in the morning, but the assumed offensive time is two o'clock in the afternoon. Of course, it is impossible for everyone to wait until two o'clock. A sharp copper whistle was heard soon, which meant that the offense had begun.

Soldiers from the second division of the meteorites of the two men appeared in front of the crowd watching the offensive drills, but they were too far apart. Many officers of the Guards Corps have begun to shake their heads. The distance between them is that the defenders will let you rush to the position. You will also be in a position to be an enemy because there is no companion. This is simply giving the enemy a head. what. The second-line troops really are second-line troops. This combat cooperation is really bad...

These soldiers are also divided into 50 groups, one after the other, a combination of two. Their running posture was very strange, bent over, bowed down and sprinted sideways. Immediately, the officer looked out and took a breath: "Hey, this running is very particular, the zigzag type, it is difficult to aim, so you can't use the artillery, unless it is covered by the fire. But it will deal with two enemies. No one will use this method..."

It was only these soldiers who fell to the ground at a distance of 150 meters from the defensive position and began to move forward. After about 100 meters, they pulled out the small iron shovel on the ground and buried their entire body in the pit. In the meantime, this allowed the officers of the Guards Corps who watched the offensive drill to be confused: "What do they want to do?"

Soon the officers of the Guards Corps knew what they were doing. The soldiers dug the pits very quickly and the pits of the two were completed in a few minutes. In addition to a small pit still continuing to dig, the soldiers who had dug the pits took their muskets out of the pit and aimed at the scarecrows and wooden targets on the defensive positions.

From the monocular, you can clearly see the swing amplitude and the bullet marks left by the scarecrow and the wooden target placed on the defensive position. The officers of the Guards Corps suddenly realized that these soldiers were all sharpshooters. They dug the pits in order to set the shooting position to suppress the guards on the defensive positions.

This kind of play has never really been seen, and the first wave of attacks sent so many sharpshooters. In the offensive mode of the Guards Corps, basically ordinary soldiers charge to cover the rifle position of the sharpshooter close to the enemy, looking for a good hidden position before shooting to suppress the enemy on the defensive position. These sharpshooters are scattered among the various teams or squadrons. No one ever thought about using the sharpshooters together...

"In the past, these hundred sharpshooters have basically suppressed the guards on the defensive positions. Any guard who wants to fight back will need to risk being killed." An officer of the Guards Corps exclaimed. This sharpshooter tactic uses the excellent performance of the Aubash three-type arquebus equipped by the kingdom army. To put it bluntly, it is to use the effective range of a hundred meters of precise aiming to shoot the enemy.

Another sharp copper whistle, there were fewer soldiers attacking this time, only sixty, two in the same group. The officer of the squad-guard group found that the soldier behind him seemed to carry a strange iron shelf.

This second wholesale attack of more than 30 groups of soldiers, like the first offensive soldiers, squatting on the ground about 150 meters away from the defensive position, twisting like a swaying body forward. Only when they climbed the 100-meter-long pit that the sharpshooter dug, they continued to move forward until they stopped at a distance of sixty or seventy meters. They also took out the small shovel on the ground and dig the pit. The soil is piled up in front to cover the two of them...

"What are they doing?" The officers of the Guards Corps are inexplicable. Do you dare to be addicted to this second division of the Rock? Or they are prepared to dig the pits to the defensive positions at intervals of thirty or forty meters. No one can figure out the distance to dig such a large pit to play a role in the offense.

"If I am the guardian commander, I will let the soldiers in the front line warfare prepare for the hand-to-hand combat, hide in the trenches and not show their heads. Command the artillery to withdraw twenty or thirty meters, lengthen the depth of the defensive positions, and make the enemy 100 The precise aiming shot of the sharpshooter outside the meter lost its effect, and then used the artillery to aim at the potholes in front of these positions for a famous shot..." An officer of the Guards Division touched the chin's beard.

Another Guard Officer shook his head: "It’s useless. Didn’t you look at the pitted soldiers who piled the muddy soil in front to prevent the guns from being fired? Besides, the artillery is not a musket, it can aim at the shot precisely, like this. A little big pit, I think you are only firing ten times of artillery to hit one or two times, and the attacker dug thirty-five big pits in front of the position. When do you have to fight... Strange, why are you still digging..."

In the monoculars of the Guards officers watching the offensive drills, they can find that the big pits that are only sixty to seventy meters away from the position are still lifting out. The big pit is enough to hide the next three or four people. What is the use of these soldiers to dig such a large pit?

The third sharp copper whistle sounded, and there were fewer soldiers on the attack, only thirty or forty. These soldiers did not have a musket on their body, but a sac bag with a bulging sac. They were like the soldiers who attacked the defensive position, squatting to the ground at a distance of 150 meters from the defensive position, and quickly returning to the front. Climb in the big pit for excavation.

After the soldier carrying the bag entered the pit, the soldier carrying the strange iron shelf placed the iron shelf in the big pit, and then the soldier carrying the bag took a black thing from the bag and placed it on the iron shelf. on. Instead of digging a hole, another soldier took a musket and fired at the defensive position.

When the fourth sharp whistle sounded, there was a black thing in the more than 30 large pits in front of the defensive position, which was thrown high and thrown at the defensive position. And after the landing, the explosion, the fire, the dust, the scarecrow and the fragments of the wooden target were thrown high on the defensive position and fell again...

All the officers of the Guards Division, including General Algers, were stunned and watched the explosion on the defensive position.

The fifth sharp copper whistle sounded. It was also more than forty soldiers. One was carrying an iron shelf, and the other was carrying two big satchels. They ran straight to the front. They didn’t even lie on the ground, but they were like a wind. It ran to a distance of 50 meters from the defensive position, and then immediately took the iron shelf and set it up, and the soldiers next to it took out the black throwing items from the bag and placed them on the iron shelf...

When the twenty groups of soldiers began to throw the explosive thing deep into the defensive position, the three people thrown in the crater also stood up and rushed up. They were nearly 20 meters away from the defensive position. I started to set up the iron shelf and threw the explosive item in the depth of the defensive position again...

The defensive positions are over, and no guards can continue to hold on in such a violent explosion... The feelings of General Algers and the officers of the Guards Division around him are unusually complex. It turned out that the team that General Sevict said meant that it was enough for the attacker to launch an attack, instead of launching a tentative attack with the team of General Algers.

The face was hurt a bit, but General Algers and the officers of the Guards Division had no need to worry about their faces. This offensive combat drill did not need to be seen anymore. Under the leadership of General Algers, they went straight to the venue for the exercise.

"You, come over!" General Algers yelled at the two bombers who threw a bomb and waved them to come in front of themselves.

"What kind of weapon is this?" General Algers asked, pointing to the strange iron shelf.

The two soldiers who were squatting in front of them looked at the iron shelf and said, "This is a throwing device used to throw a throwing bomb."

"Throwing a bomb?" A Guardian Officer unloaded the shackled bag from the soldier. There was a throwing bomb inside: "Is this the case?"

Under the guidance of two soldiers, a group of Guards officers tried the power of the throwing bomb on the spot.

"The longest distance to throw is 70 to 80 meters. No wonder the soldiers have to go beyond the positions of the sharpshooters to continue to dig for 30 meters. They have entered the range of the artillery cover of the artillery and the range of the enemy's precise aiming shot. I had to dig a pit to hide myself, and at the same time let the follow-up ammunition personnel come up..." General Algers and the Guards officers finally understood the intention of these soldiers to dig such a large pit.

"The built-in fire rope will only explode after five or six seconds of ignition. The explosion covers a range of five to six meters. There are cracks on the surface of the projectile. When the explosion, the shell fragments are hurt!" Another guard officer quickly figured out The explosive power of the toss.

He hesitated and said: "In fact, I have seen this throwing bomb. During the five years of the Eastern Region, during the attack on the Principality of Modra, the rear equipment department once sent a number of rounds to the front line. Shaped throwing bombs, about two times larger than this throwing bomb, very heavy, with a fire rope inserted on it, you need to ignite the fire rope before throwing, instead of just pulling the fuse line like this throwing bomb.... .."

"I have seen that you said." A guardian officer next to him said: "The thing is not comparable to this throwing bomb. It is big and heavy. It needs a special trebuchet to throw. Although it can be thrown to two. Three hundred meters, when the slinger was pulled to the front line, it became the target of the enemy artillery, and was quickly destroyed by the enemy. As a result, a throwing bomb was not thrown out, but a soldier who injured many carts was quickly All the troops have been abandoned, and there is no such a throwing device that is small and convenient. It can be run by one person..."

At this time General Secci and General Bologna came over: "General, are you...?"

General Algers laughed: "This offensive drill does not need to continue. I didn't even think that you still have such a powerful offensive weapon. With this throwing weapon in hand, I believe that no enemy can rely on defensive positions. Resist our offense. Yes, General Sevict, I want to ask, where is this throwing bomb?"