258 Line tactics of breech guns
"The randomness of the draw of legions in this system is really great. I clearly think of the Prussian legion, but why did it draw it out? The Japanese army...
It seems that my mental intervention method is simply ineffective.
Fortunately, the Legion produced by the system maintains absolute loyalty no matter who it is. If the Japanese army dies, I won’t feel sorry for all of them!"
Xiao Yunyang looked at the Japanese division facing him with his back to him and facing the enemy, and the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually became abnormal.
As the first system legion that appeared, it naturally had to bear the most battles. Xiao Yunyang had made up his mind to not "Jade Shatter" the last soldier of this Japanese division, and would never spend precious war souls to extract the second legion.
Xiao Yunyang's eyes swept towards the ammunition boxes that were placed between the various square arrays, and suddenly he found a serious problem.
The Industrial Age Legion he summoned seemed to be only used as disposable items because he did not have a complete logistics ammunition production line!
After they had exhausted all the ammunition they carried, they probably could only fight a bayonet or replace it with a backward flintlock rifle...
Fortunately, the Japanese division carries quite sufficient ammunition, and there are much more ammunition boxes than people!
It should not be a problem to destroy the Red Shirts of the Kingdom of England and to destroy the Normandy and the Principalities of Brittany supported by the Kingdom of England.
At this moment, a middle-aged man in a Japanese general's uniform with medals held a commanding knife in his hand and ran to Xiao Yunyang with his two personal soldiers.
"His Majesty the Great Emperor, please give orders!"
Xiao Yunyang was slightly stunned when he heard the other party’s name. When did he become the emperor?
However, when the loyal "program" implanted by the system for the Japanese army was heard, I had no choice but to take it.
Anyway, Xiao Yunyang probably won’t be able to use it for long, and no Japanese will call him the Emperor…
"Eliminate all the main British forces on the other side, and you can find him to find out about the intelligence of the opposite army."
Then, Xiao Yunyang called the Han general who was stunned by the Han army's household soldiers and acted as the "intelligence officer" of the Japanese division commander Kotaro, who had never heard of Xiao Yunyang before.
From beginning to end, none of the Japanese soldiers facing Xiao Yunyang turned back because they did not receive the order.
After Gentaro Ota, the Japanese army in the "military parade" immediately began to reorganize the team under one order after another.
The front-mounted rifled guns that were arranged separately for the beautiful array began to be arranged on the small high ground found nearby, and a hand-cranked Gatlin also started to be shelved on the preset position.
The Japanese division had just set up its offensive position, and the British redshirt army, who had already discovered that the sudden appearance of the army on the other side began to shell the shelling!
Originally, the sudden appearance of this Japanese army scared the British commander. Later, after finding that there were only 10,000 people ahead and the number of artillery was not large, he continued to set up a formation to prepare for the attack.
Xiao Yunyang stood opposite, and the emergence of this army was already expected by the British army, and further confirmed the information obtained by the British army.
The British army ended the war in order to fight one, which was a waste of effort.
The rumbling cannons rang one after another. For this battle, the Redshirts transferred all the British field artillery, and dozens of field artillery that were the most advanced in this era and no less than the German mercenary group roared.
Faced with artillery bombardment, the Japanese division's brigade of infantry quickly retreated from the effective range of enemy artillery, or lay down at a low place to avoid the direct solid bullets.
However, the Japanese artillery soldiers who operated artillery became even busier.
Not long after, the shooting numbers were adjusted one by one, and the backward enemy artillery allowed the Japanese artillery to survey and map out their artillery positions without any risk.
Then, a grenade with great lethality to the infantry flew out from the muzzle of the front-mounted rifled gun.
Xiao Yunyang, holding a monocular telescope in his hand, soon saw the British Redshirt artillery positions opposite him being overturned one by one by one by one by one by one!
With the advanced range of grenades and rifled guns, the British artillery was massacred without resistance!
After easily removing all British artillery positions, the Japanese artillery then arranged the infantry phalanxes in dense lines lined up in open areas!
The terrifying grenade fell into the dense crowd, and various broken limbs and arms covered the entire British position. The shelling of British frontier infantry lasted only for more than ten minutes, and the entire British infantry battle line collapsed!
The British commander never expected that the enemy's artillery could fire so far!
Then, the Japanese infantry who had already prepared had stepped onto the front line. They carried the village's official single breech gun, held their heads and chests, and also made a dense array of lines and strode forward.
Before the Maxim heavy machine gun failed to make the Frenchman in World War I hit the head and blood, even if the line tactics entered the era of breech guns, they were still the most popular tactics in countries around the world.
At most, they went from being shot while standing and queuing to being shot while lying down.
Although the breech gun single weapon greatly increases the killing efficiency of the rifle, shooting alone still cannot achieve the final victory. Infantry in field battles, the final victory is still achieved by bayonet charge.
Therefore, dense line formations have not been abandoned, and dense formations are crucial when bayonets charge!
As for the problem of increased lethality of rifles, we can completely rely on enhancing soldiers' fighting courage to make up for it.
At that time, there was a famous military argument that as long as the infantry density of the offensive side charged higher than the firepower density projected by the defensive side, the offensive side could win.
It was not until later that Maxim heavy machine gun used bloody corpses to tell everyone on the battlefield that the firepower density cannot be filled with human lives, and the dense line-based tactics officially withdraw from the stage of history.
Naturally, the Japanese army from the Meiji Emperor era still adopted dense line-arrangement tactics. After their artillery gained absolute artillery fire advantage, they began to line up dense square formations, carrying rifles and strode forward!
Military whistles came one after another in various square formations, adjusting the pace of the soldiers and maintaining a consistent speed of progress throughout the square formation.
At the beginning, the Japanese infantry advanced at a speed of normal walking speed. As they got closer and closer to the enemy's front, their pace gradually accelerated.
All of this depends on the on-site command of the middle and lower-level Japanese officers!
It is naturally impossible for the more than 60,000 Red Shirts to collapse after the frontier infantry is repelled. In fact, there are only a few thousand frontier infantry that have been repelled. These people are originally the forces used by the Red Shirts to test.
The British commander who withdrew from the Japanese artillery fire immediately sent out his own infantry main force after seeing the enemy infantry rising.
The speed of artillery movement cannot exceed that of light infantry, so British soldiers can easily escape from areas covered by Japanese artillery fire.
Chapter completed!