Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1247 Diamond Bay Massacre ([-])

After Dashun's left-wing column received the report from the scouts, their response was very simple, and they even followed the combat regulations mechanically.

For example, if the infantry confronts each other in a field battle, the skirmisher company will disperse on the front line of the private company and shoot freely.

If the cavalry raids, the skirmishers will disperse in an arc formation, cover the cavalry cannon and the 6-pound cannon, advance quickly, and widen the distance from the follow-up infantry company.A professional recruiting company followed the artillery and skirmishers in company columns.

The skirmishers fired within a range of [-] steps, using the dead horses to slow down the attack speed of the enemy cavalry.When the enemy cavalry advances to fifty paces, the artillery fires cannonballs.

If the enemy turns around and wants to bypass the flanks, he can continue to shoot freely, and the light cannon adjusts the angle to reflect the explosive bullets.

If the enemy cavalry does not turn around and continues to attack, the skirmishers and artillery retreat to the gap between the covering infantry companies.

Generally speaking, in such a chaotic situation, the local cavalry will not destroy the cannons, nor will they have the ability to destroy the cannons.After all, the cannon is made of copper and iron. It is very difficult to use the wretched way of blocking the fire door without professional hammers and nails.

Dashun's drills, to a certain extent, deal with the cavalry, using the regular cavalry trained by Dashun himself as the imaginary enemy.

Dashun's regular cavalry... in fact, the distance of a fast charge is only 40 steps.To be more precise, there are actually only 30 steps.

Only when the 30th step was reached, was the horse speed allowed to increase to the maximum and poke in.Because if you increase to the fastest speed far in advance, horsepower may not be a problem, but after running, the formation will all break up.

Dashun's infantry can now advance horizontally at a speed of about [-] to [-] steps per minute, without the need to regroup midway.

But for the final charge of the cavalry, they can only sprint at full speed in the last thirty or fifty steps.

Of course, this is not bad, basically it is the top three in the world.At this time in this world, there is no cavalry that can charge all 50 meters and the formation is still neat when it starts to poke the infantry.Everyone is the difference between thirty-step full-speed rush and twenty-step full-speed rush.

When training rather than actual combat, excellent regular cavalry can actually run a record of 200 paces at full speed.

But the difference between training and actual combat is too great. In actual combat, everyone can only run at full speed for the last few dozen steps.

It is true that infantry are afraid of death, but cavalry are also afraid of death.

Many ideas of Liu Yu’s military training are the core of Dashun’s military reform. He described the cavalry’s charge in this way: When the bugle that finally meets the enemy finally rushes to charge, the cavalry will put their noses into the horse’s mane in fright. , yelling loudly so that my ears are filled with my own voice so as not to hear the sound of gunfire and artillery, my eyeballs are too frightened to look forward and only dare to look at the ground a dozen steps ahead.It's like thousands of drunks who are drunk and unconscious, rushing into the crowd like being carried by crazy horses, this is considered to have trained cavalry who can charge intensively.

Of course, those who can actually do this, it should be said that they may be counted as powerful cavalry within a hundred years.

Dashun's corresponding tactics are also based on this set of plans.

It's just that the feudal warrior cavalry of the Bengalis is different from the cavalry who captured refugees and peasants after the Dashun military reform, and practiced their movements and collective formation desperately.

However, there has never been a chance to test it in actual combat. Today's attempt can be regarded as a test.

On the opposite side, the first wave of Jafar's cavalry attack has begun.

This time, in terms of tactical conception, Clive's conception was basically realized for the time being.

All the offensive troops of the British and Indian coalition forces are concentrated here.And the rest of the weak Bangladeshi infantry, after advancing not far, built a camp, ready to mobilize Dashun to change the line, relying on distance to ensure that the Bangladeshi infantry collapsed later.

Behind Jafar's cavalry, followed by the main force of the British East India Company and the Bengal Battalion.

The task of the cavalry was to tear through Dashun's infantry defenses and disperse Dashun's infantry before they formed a phalanx.

And if Dashun's speed is fast enough to deploy a phalanx, the cavalry will wedge in.The British troops behind destroyed the Dashun infantry in a horizontal formation.

This kind of tactic is not a sneak attack, and in fact, there is no chance of a sneak attack at all.

Just use the early morning mist to make a time difference.

Theoretically, as long as the column of the Dashun Central Army cannot be effectively rescued before its left-wing infantry is dispersed, the Anglo-Indian coalition forces can get a chance to breathe, and even prevent Dashun's disgusting tortoise from shrinking its shell. It is possible to build a fort at the fork in Diamond Bay before climbing.

But when Jafar's cavalry started to move and run forward, Clive found that something was wrong.

Dashun's coping strategy was something he had never seen before.

When the cavalry on the opposite side began to jog, the skirmishers and cavalry artillery on Dashun's side were still maneuvering, and they were maneuvering at a very fast speed, forming a flanking arc to cover the infantry behind.

At this time, there were no skirmishers among the infantry of the British East India Company.And of course there are no mounted guns.Naturally, Dashun absolutely does not have the battalion and company-level quick formation and quick maneuvering capabilities set by Dashun's military reform.

Therefore, Clive and other British officers did not understand.

However, they still commanded the infantry, followed the cavalry, and moved forward.

The distance between the two sides at this time is about 800 meters.Under training conditions, Dashun's cavalry can complete this distance in two and a half minutes.But this requires the officer's order to be in place to ensure that the horsepower is not consumed in advance.

Generally speaking, this may take about 3 minutes in actual combat.

During this period of time, for Dashun's infantry, it was enough to complete two formation changes.And for those light mounted guns, it is enough to complete the deployment and loading.

When Jafar's cavalry began to jog, the artillerymen on Dashun's side had already started firing shells on their heads.

When the Bengal cavalry was four or five hundred steps away from the skirmishers and cavalry guns, the skirmishers on Dashun's side finally received the order to shoot freely.

It took these skirmishers about half a year to become familiar with using this conveniently loaded rifled gun.Because the ballistics of this gun are completely different from the previous smoothbore guns.

They used to shoot people with muskets and hunt very accurately.In fact, they were just organized as skirmishers, and after being replaced with rifled guns, they were very uncomfortable.

After training for more than half a year, they were considered to have mastered this gun.

From the beginning, I was full of complaints and disliked this shit. But now I can't put it down, and I sneer at the infantry who are still using muskets.

The stragglers who had already loaded did not panic at all, but slowly raised their rifles and aimed at the Bengal cavalry who had begun to speed up.

Under the push of the gunpowder, the tail of the top bullet swelled up and rotated rapidly under the drive of the rifling.

The fired bullets fly out with a flatter trajectory that is completely different from the smoothbore gun.

The Bengal cavalry rushing forward fell one after another.Fortunately, they did not attack in a dense array, but maintained a Central Asian style of charging, bypassing the hit horses, and continued to charge forward with scimitars waving.

The sound of shooting from the skirmishers kept ringing, and when they rushed to a distance of about a hundred steps, the skirmishers made their last round of shooting.

Started to back off.

Light guns deployed, loaded with heavy cannonballs.The infantry lined up in a horizontal line also raised their muskets in unison, forming a line of defense that was not a square formation between the two wings and the gap of the artillery.

When the skirmishers retreated to the artillery and reloaded, the artillery who had been preparing for a long time also ignited the gunpowder.

"Fire!"

The infantry officers behind shouted in unison, raising their guns but instead of forming a phalanx, they adopted a dislocation configuration of five companies in three, two, and two lines. cannons, fire together.

In an instant, gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield, as if Dashun's position was on fire, and white smoke filled everyone's eyes.

The shotgun shells of 18 cannons and the salvo of 500 infantrymen out of [-] men instantly overturned the first wave of the Bengal cavalry.

There was little left to live.

A large number of war horses fell to the ground, their hooves struggling continuously, blocking the direction of the cavalry behind them.More Bengali cavalry were shot by muskets or directly shattered by shotguns.

Occasionally, a few horses rushed into the artillery position, but the skirmishers pulled the reins, reined in the horse's head tightly, and stabbed the cavalry above with a dagger or bayonet.

The Bengal cavalry behind absolutely did not receive the order to run to the two wings, but after the first wave of shock was completely shattered, they subconsciously turned their horses' heads and walked around the flanks of this position.

It's not to attack around the flank, but to avoid here and rush inside.

Inside, those soldiers of the Huading Mansion who had not experienced actual combat had already set up a scattered square formation according to the deployment of the battalion and company.

They might be able to withstand the impact of the cavalry just like the private soldiers in the Java military town in front of them, without forming an formation at all.

It may also be the same as those stragglers, who can stay calm in times of crisis.

Maybe even probably, like those expensive combat engineers, maybe able to maintain morale in that disgusting slope battle.

However, none of the officers in Dashun dared to try.

They don't even expect them to be able to complete the column's rapid mobile flanking attack on the battlefield, but let them form a phalanx according to the usual training method.

People are crowded and people are next to each other, so that these soldiers who smoke Ding will not be afraid.

The skirmishers, cavalry artillery and private soldiers in front were like a boulder in a rushing stream, forcing the furious current to part and slowing down their impact.

The Bengal cavalry, which could no longer form a straight charge, plunged into the firing range of the Fangdingfu soldiers who had completed the phalanx.

Continuous gunshots began to erupt one after another.

(End of this chapter)