Valley Emperor

According to the exercise plan formulated by the Department of Operations, this exercise is only for the purpose of checking the individual combat capability of regiment-level troops.

It is thought that in terms of the current organization and tactics of the Datang Army, the regiment is actually the main tactical core organization.

This can be seen from the troop configuration at the early regiment level. At that time, in addition to three main infantry battalions, an infantry regiment also had two reserve battalions, a battalion artillery team, a cavalry team, and a baggage battalion and other auxiliary units. , the total strength of more than 3,000 people.

Later, after the establishment of the infantry brigade, the baggage units and cavalry units were brought under the direct jurisdiction of the infantry brigade. In addition, depending on the situation, the infantry brigade would also be assigned a heavy artillery unit.

However, in actual combat, army generals often tend to let regiment-level troops operate independently. For example, among the five existing infantry regiments of the Datang Army, three are performing tasks independently. The third infantry regiment is located in Guizhou. In the north, the 4th Infantry Regiment is located in central Guizhou, while the 5th Infantry Regiment, which is the unit in front of us, is currently tasked with taking control of Xingquan Mansion.

Therefore, in any case, regiment-level troops are the core organization of the current Datang Army, and the various tactics and collocations of regiment-level troops are naturally very important.

For example, should the heavy artillery in this artillery battalion be allocated to the infantry regiment when it is deployed? Or that those heavy artillery are concentrated and used.

If it is allocated, how much negative impact will the resulting decrease in mobility have. If it is not allocated, can the infantry regiment’s own six battalion guns alone be able to pressure the Ming army’s firepower?

These all need to be considered one by one.

When Li Xuan pondered, the following drill troops also began to move. The number of troops participating in the drill added up to tens of thousands. In fact, the huge drill field was still not enough to show the real situation.

As a field encounter, it is assumed that both sides discovered the existence of each other at the same time, and then fought in this area of ​​only a few kilometers to determine the winner.

In order to better simulate the Ming army, the seventh garrison will be actually commanded by a staff team composed of several Ming army descendants!

At this time, in the seventh garrison regiment, Xu Mingzhe, who was originally from a thousand households in the former Ming army and is now a major of the Great Tang Wang Shi, put his hands behind his back, surrounded the simple sand table in front of him, and then said: "Send a thousand elite cavalry to attack quickly and disrupt the enemy. Deploy the army and attack the enemy artillery units while the chaos!"

On the other side of the Fifth Infantry Regiment, there was a loud noise!

A staff officer walked up to Zhou Yibao and said, "Report, a thousand cavalry soldiers of the enemy appeared a thousand meters away, and they are coming towards the inside and rear of our army!"

Zhou Yibao immediately said: "Order the infantry on the right wing to form a square formation to meet the enemy, and the artillery troops stop advancing on the spot and set up artillery!"

Naturally, it was impossible for the cavalry to attack the cavalry with real swords and guns in this exercise, but the cavalrymen of the 1st Cavalry Battalion still exercised very hard. Nearly 200 horses ran wildly, and the momentum was also quite high. huge.

On the 5th Infantry Regiment's side, the advance has stopped as much as possible, the infantry has begun to form formations, and the artillery has also begun to mount artillery on the spot!

However, at this time, Zhou Yibao heard the order again: "The enemy cavalry has retreated, roaming 800 meters away, and is heading towards the rear of our army!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yibao wanted to scold people. How could the cavalry's attack be stopped? But the headquarters said that the cavalry of the 7th garrison regiment were elite cavalry belonging to the frontier army of the Ming army. All are horse and shoot masters.

No way, he can only send some troops to follow him around!

Never let the cavalry go around to the back and completely destroy his artillery position.

However, at this time, Xu Mingzhe on the other side also said: "The infantry is ordered to advance steadily!"

At this time, on the exercise ground, you can see that more than 2,000 soldiers of the 7th Garrison Regiment are slowly advancing, but although there are only more than 2,000 people in reality, the assumed situation is more than 10,000 people!

Zhou Yibao from the Fifth Garrison Regiment said: "The artillery unit will ignore the cavalry for now, and will bombard the frontal infantry of the enemy!"

"Two reserve battalions are listed behind the artillery units to prevent the enemy cavalry from attacking!"

"Three main battalions against the enemy infantry!"

On the other side of the rostrum, Li Xuan was also watching the soldiers who looked down, but they were just acting, while listening to the feedback from the people around him.

As the referee department, the Operations Division constantly accepts orders from both sides and then makes judgments.

Hearing that Zhou Yibao only used three main battalions to face the onslaught of the enemy's more than 10,000 infantry soldiers, Li Xuan frowned, this Zhou Yibao is a bit daring!

On Xu Mingzhe's side, he heard the referee's report: Due to the continuous shelling, the infantry in the front row suffered more than 300 casualties, and it was ruled that your 2,000 troops had been unable to continue fighting due to low morale.

Xu Mingzhe didn't take it seriously: "The troops in the back row go up, and the cavalry is ordered to divide five hundred troops around the left flank and then launch a companion attack on the enemy's flank!"

The cavalry is here again?

This is Zhou Yibao's worry on the other side!

Moreover, the cavalry did not go to fight artillery, but to attack the flank of their own infantry phalanx, which is not very good!

Immediately said: "The second reserve battalion is dispatched to the left wing, and it is still facing the enemy cavalry in a phalanx!"

At this time, the frontal troops on both sides have entered a white-hot stage. As Xu Mingzhe did not care about casualties and piled up all the troops, the casualties of the three main battalions also increased rapidly!

The Department of Operations kept telling Zhou Yibao the results: "Continuing frontal combat, the enemy was covered and shot by bows and arrows, and it was ruled that 200 people were killed or injured."

"It was shot by the enemy's bowl-mouth artillery, with hundreds of casualties!"

"The number of enemy troops has exceeded ten times, and the second battalion of Erbu has been unable to maintain a complete formation, and is currently caught in a melee."

Zhou Yibao couldn't help roaring when he heard the referee's voice: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Under the continuous killing and wounding of our artillery and musket teams, the enemy's casualties have reached at least 1,000 people, and the casualty ratio has reached 10%. With such heavy casualties, it is impossible for them to approach and shoot arrows, and then they can take the initiative to shoot arrows. Let our army launch a hand-to-hand attack!"

"Even if it is a hand-to-hand decision, judging from the many previous battles, the hand-to-hand combat capability of the Ming army is absolutely incomparable with our army. The casualty ratio between the two sides is only one to two, which is not normal!"

At this time, the referee of the referee team said with a blank face: "The blue army is the frontier army of the Ming army, and the infantry and cavalry are both elites. If you can give you a one-to-two casualty ratio, you have already given preferential treatment!"

Paralyzed, whoever set the exercise data, it's not a problem if there are more than 12,000 people on the opposite side, and there are a thousand elite cavalrymen who are good at cavalry and shooting.

They were able to rush up in the face of artillery and musket fire, Thaksin believed it, but Nima faced the bombing attack of his own grenadiers, and then after the last salvo, the opponent did not collapse. This is unscientific, right? !

At this time, at least 2,000 people were killed or injured on the opposite side, and he could still rush up to fight meleely under such circumstances. He had never seen such an awesome Ming army.

Also, even if you rush up to fight meleely, why is the ratio of casualties between your own and the enemy so small, with one casualty on your side and two casualties on the enemy, this is unscientific!

In the past several large-scale head-to-head battles, the Great Tang Emperor has never fought so badly!

Even if Hao Bainian said that he had encountered 3,000 soldiers, those soldiers would not retreat, but it was one thing to fight to the death, but the ratio of casualties was another!

Li Chunjing's army, who annihilated three thousand soldiers, only had two or three hundred casualties!

Even if only the dead and wounded soldiers were counted, the exchange ratio could reach more than one to five.

But now, the referee team directly gave a one-to-two exchange ratio, how can we fight like this!

Not only that, the referee team was eccentric to the 7th garrison regiment who played the Ming army to the point of madness. When Xu Mingzhe ordered the cavalry to charge, he used the method of cavalry to attack, and did not directly initiate the charge. It was determined that his reserve camp could not resist, and finally collapsed.

Crash!

In the huge Ming Dynasty, did you find a cavalry unit for Lao Tzu that could strictly abide by the discipline of the battlefield and were extremely skilled in bowing and horses?

Find a Ming army cavalry that can charge, turn, shoot arrows, and retreat without any confusion under the fire of your own artillery.

In the end, his two reserve battalions guarding the artillery positions were routed by the cavalry!

Then, when Xu Mingzhe's cavalry launched a charge on the artillery position, the result is of course needless to say, the small artillery position was completely destroyed at once, and then the cavalry continued to outflank the three infantry battalions that had been struggling.

As a result, there were no surprises, and the 5th Infantry Regiment suffered a fiasco!

Although Li Xuan already knew the result of the exercise before the exercise started, it was bound to end with a fiasco of the Fifth Infantry Regiment.

Because the purpose of this exercise is not to show how powerful the Tang Wang Shi is, but to discuss how to deal with such extreme situations in actual combat~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Ming army frontier troops and cavalry, It will come sooner or later.

Moreover, the Ming army will always have a few troops that can fight. If they fight against them, they will still underestimate the enemy as always, and if they are not careful, they will capsize in the gutter!

After the exercise, after the troops of the various units returned, Li Xuan also watched the live fire of the 1,300-pound heavy artillery in the First Artillery Battalion.

But after watching a lot of artillery shooting, I didn't feel anything, it was because the charge was a little more, the shells were bigger, and they were shot farther!

But Li Xuan thinks it's nothing, but other people don't think so!

Especially some of the Ming Dynasty who just surrendered and surrendered. They have long known that the pseudo-Tang bandit army, no, it is the sharp firearms of our Great Tang Wangshi, but when they really saw this kind of heavy artillery roaring more than a thousand pounds, Just know, this is not bragging, but the truth.

Of course, they didn't know that with such a powerful artillery, the monthly output of the Tang Dynasty was only one per month. It would take half a year to gather an artillery team!