Valley Emperor

Because the ammunition is expensive, and the upper echelons of the empire are unwilling to increase military spending, the three black-hearted weapons companies are unwilling to cut prices.

This also caused the military to be quite helpless.

Although there are a few military generals who have shouted the slogan that they would rather use outdated muskets than accept the exploitation of the three major weapons companies, but only a few people shouted, and the mainstream of the military still uses advanced weapons. beat natives.

On the one hand, it wants to use advanced weapons, on the other hand, the military expenditure is insufficient, and it is impossible to free up too much military expenditure to supplement the ammunition expenditure from other aspects, so the military can only move towards using as little ammunition as possible to obtain more. The road to victory is coming.

The artillerymen train every day, and use training to train, in order to train better artillery skills, so as to strive for a shot to the soul in battle.

Save ammo with high-precision shelling.

This is the path chosen by both the Army and the Navy.

In addition to training efforts, they also tried to introduce other auxiliary equipment and other technical means to improve the accuracy of shelling.

For example, the artillery unit is equipped with wired telegraph equipment, in order to directly set up artillery observation points on the high ground in the front line during the war, and communicate with the rear artillery positions through wired telegrams to guide artillery fire for long-distance accurate shooting.

The same is true for the reconnaissance balloons that are now being equipped. The artillery unit directly sends the artillery observers to the sky, and uses telescopes to observe them from a high position to guide the artillery to fire.

This has also led to the rapid development of military balloons in recent years.

Three years ago, the military had at most only a few experimental reconnaissance balloons.

But now, the army alone is equipped with at least hundreds of balloons, which are used for reconnaissance and artillery shooting.

Of course, these hundreds of manned balloons are still very few for the huge army.

The Datang Army is just about each artillery regiment, including the division artillery regiment, the military field artillery regiment, the heavy artillery regiment, the fortress artillery regiment in the fortress garrison, and the super heavy artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council. There are more than one hundred. The balloons are not enough to even assign one to an artillery regiment.

Not to mention that other troops still need balloons for reconnaissance.

According to the Army's estimate, the Army needs at least 2,000 manned balloons to be barely enough.

However, the army's appetite has always been relatively large, and they do not imagine that hydrogen balloons are expensive and dangerous equipment for the contemporary technical level. Not to mention technical problems, it is only necessary to control two thousand balloons. At least tens of thousands of people are needed.

Besides, not all battles require the use of high-altitude balloons.

As far as the indigenous combat power is concerned, it is impossible for the Datang Army to encounter a full-scale and fierce war.

During the previous conflict in Egypt, Datang only dispatched more than 3,000 ground combat troops, and more importantly, these more than 3,000 ground combat troops had not fought with the ground troops of the Ottoman Empire.

Because the army of the Ottoman Empire collapsed and fled under the bombardment of the naval artillery of the Datang Navy.

From the time of landing to the land purchase agreement between the two sides, the landing troops did not actually fight the ground troops of the Ottoman Empire.

People are not stupid. They know they can't beat them, so they won't run over to die, unless the Tang Army itself is stupid enough to send light infantry to the desert alone.

And the generals of the Tang military are not stupid, nor will they leave the range of artillery, nor will they dispatch light infantry alone to enter the desert without the cover of cavalry.

Therefore, in fact, the ground engagement between the two sides did not happen at all.

Based on the current situation, many of Datang's new technology equipment and tactical concepts are useless.

For example, the strategic concept of 'big depth, key breakthroughs and detours' that the Datang Army Staff Department has been working on in recent years has never been achieved in large-scale actual combat.

Because of these strategic concepts, all they play are wars, and at every turn they organize and mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.

The large depth and detour attack carried out by the staff office requires hundreds of kilometers to be interspersed, and the maneuvering range of the detour attack also reaches hundreds of kilometers.

In the early stage of the campaign of this strategic concept, the attacking force of one's own side concentrated most of the artillery, some infantry and most of the cavalry to a certain point.

At the beginning of the battle, hundreds of thousands of artillery pieces were aimed at a certain section of the enemy's position to carry out saturated coverage artillery bombardment. Just by looking at the words 'saturated coverage', you can imagine how violent the artillery bombardment will be. The strategy requires our own side. The artillery fire must cover every inch of the enemy's position.

After the fierce artillery bombardment, the ready infantry units launched a fierce attack directly. A large number of infantrymen crossed the front line, captured the enemy's position, and tore a gap in the enemy's defense line.

The cavalry units in the rear passed through this gap at high speed and continued to advance in depth towards the enemy.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness and continuous mobility of the cavalry, ensure that each cavalry must be equipped with at least three war horses. It is not good in other aspects, but the northwest horse with super endurance.

At the same time, cavalry artillery and cavalry baggage units are also indispensable~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is the so-called "fast cavalry" concept proposed by cavalry generals in recent years.

At the same time, it is necessary to ensure the impact capability of the cavalry unit, and at the same time to ensure that the cavalry unit can still guarantee the combat effectiveness after long-distance maneuvering.

This kind of fast cavalry should be able to quickly advance more than 100 kilometers in a short period of time and complete a large-scale strategic detour.

This kind of fast cavalry is an extension of the strategic concept of major breakthroughs in depth.

In Li Xuan's view, the concept of this kind of army is actually a bit ahead of its time. Even if it does not take into account the equipment and tactical capabilities of the potential enemy, and only speaks its own words, considering the current strategic needs of the Datang Army, it is not necessary. of.

Because Datang's enemy army doesn't need Datang to engage in such tactics, just push it flat!

Don't use so many messy and complicated tactics, assemble the main force to slowly kill them all the way, that is, kill gods when encountering gods, and kill Buddhas when encountering Buddhas. On this planet, there is no indigenous army that can resist the attack of the Tang Army.

Not only are these overly advanced tactical concepts useless, but so many balloons are useless.

As for the train guns made by the army, the battleships made by the navy are even more useless.

However, the military still continues to make these weapons and equipment that seem to be powerful, but in fact may not necessarily be used in the next 100 years.

This is definitely not their intention!

In fact, the entire military has long been kidnapped by the public opinion atmosphere and industrial system of the entire empire.