Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1248 Diamond Bay Massacre ([-])

The Bengal cavalry, who were forced to go around the frontal skirmish artillery and the flanks of the privates, soon fell into unprecedented despair.

The phalanx arranged in random order is very rigid, because the officers of Dashun don't believe that these soldiers can play tricks.

But because of the rigidity, when the Bengali cavalry was blocked by the front and had to go around from the two wings to insert in, they found that these rigid phalanx configurations were so terrifying.

The side corners of each battalion's phalanx are equipped with artillery of uniform specifications after the military reform.

The positions between the phalanxes are scattered, like bastions, but bastions made of flesh and blood.Unless the officer's brain is calculating at high speed on the battlefield, it is difficult to quickly find out the blind spots of cross-firing.

The Bengal cavalry, who are good at outflanking tactics, found that they had buckshot shot from all directions.

After the impact came in, the command of the officers had collapsed, and these Bengali cavalry could only rely on their own feelings: either rush into the phalanx closest to them, or turn their heads and sneak away from this hell of death.

The dead horses, the wounded soldiers rolling on the ground, and the horses twitching their limbs on the ground after being hit by lead bullets further intensified the difficulty of the impact, slowed down the impact speed, and made the subsequent people who rushed over become living targets.

The failure of the first attack of the Bangladeshi cavalry also confirmed Liu Yu’s thinking during the Dashun military reform: Don’t believe in the courage and sentiment of soldiers in this era. The best impact cavalry in this era must be the kind he described as "" A crazy war horse carrying a madman with his eyes closed and yelling loudly and sticking his head into the horse's mane can't do the last thirty steps like a drunken man on a horse. In this era, he is no longer worthy of being called an excellent regular shock cavalry .

The greatest significance of the existence of a cavalry officer is to control the formation of the cavalry team, and when they gradually accelerate from three hundred paces away, they can control the movement from small steps to small steps to fast trots to reins and fast runs to the last crazy thirty. The whole process of stepping is a qualified battalion and company officer of shock cavalry.

Flanking, rushing, going around, etc., are not the responsibility of the battalion and company officers.

From the perspective of cavalry impact, the impact of the Bangladeshi cavalry is still very good, and it is indeed the real elite force of Bangladesh.

The reason why Dashun chose intensive charge was also because Dashun could not afford to spend money to train professional horse warriors, so after the military reform, he had to play intensive charge, so that those feudal warriors on horseback, or what can be understood as feudal warriors who focused on killing people in the feudal era Professional "craftsmen" do not have enough space to display their skills.

The flags, orders, semaphores, turns, formations, etc. of the Bengal cavalry are all available.

The difference from Dashun's regular cavalry is that Dashun's regular cavalry is basically a one-shot deal, charging at full speed in a complete formation of [-] steps, densely packed.

Dash in and win.

If you can’t rush in, it will be like the situation faced by the French elite cavalry in Hanover not long ago: the first wave didn’t go in, and under the dense formation, those dead horses and soldiers became flesh and blood on the ground. Once the dense cavalry formation fails for the first time, there may be basically no chance.

Once the cavalry phalanx attacked like a wall, it was impossible to flank the enemy or perform any change of formation.

Before the battle, it is often impossible to detect the obstacles that may be encountered during the march.

After the shock is over, how to reorganize a cavalry squadron with no gap between the two wings?

If one horse falls, the other next to it will turn. It is not a question of avoiding trampling the dead and wounded personnel's horses on the ground, but that a horse that big is lying on the ground, and trampling itself at such a speed will probably fracture itself.

Wait...wait, these are the problems encountered by the regular cavalry after the reform of the Dashun Army. There are endless reasons for opposition, and they are actually very reasonable.

The problem is that such problems and such problems are not as good as the one-shot deal of intensive charge, and the probability of tearing apart the opponent's defense is greater than that of a thirty-step drunkard speeding up the charge.

The Bengal cavalry did not have all the problems that the dense cavalry in Dashun worried about.

But the problem is, they don't have this or that problem, but they can't break through any phalanx...

Indeed, the Bengal cavalry avoided the shortcomings of the Dashun regular cavalry, which could not attack the flanks and quickly change formations during the charge.

But the price was that they encountered dense bayonets and a volley of shotgun shells, directly avoided the skirmishers and cavalry lines in front, and slipped to both sides.

Indeed, the Bengal cavalry can easily cross unknown obstacles on the battlefield by themselves, and by virtue of their horsemanship, they can avoid being implicated by those fallen horses.

But the price is that they will stall seriously, and the shock brought to the infantry by the thirty-step impact of Dashun's lunatic drunk and speeding is completely different.

Once the cavalry stalled, once they didn't know what they were going to do, and ran around in the gaps between the scattered phalanxes, they were essentially living targets.

Just like Dashun's regular battleship, it has more than 70 cannons, but the battleship dare not shoot at the turret with only a few heavy cannons.

Even if the Bengal cavalry still has some elite warriors who can play riding and shooting, it would really be a long life to play riding and shooting around the flintlock phalanx.

Amidst the sound of bang bang gunshots, Bangladeshi cavalrymen who were at a loss, or rushed into the gaps between the various phalanxes and lost their bearings, were shot down.

More cavalry chose to retreat or run to the wings.

Fortunately, they were the last elite of Bengal. After running to the two wings, they did not collapse immediately, but turned their horses around and returned to the place where their attack started.

Jafar later made the worst possible decision in his life.

After this wave of impact failed, he did not choose to run away directly, ran back to Rajshahi, prepared to run, or went to sea to escape.

Instead, it was decided to launch another shock.

He was a little scared by the skirmishers and cavalry artillery lines in front of him, so he decided to make a bigger circle this time, trying to charge into Dashun's battalion phalanx from the side.

At least, it seemed that those battalion phalanxes were better than the line of skirmishers and artillery that had impressed him just now.

On the battlefield where the battle was fiercest just now, there were hundreds of war horses lying densely, and the remains of cavalrymen who were directly torn apart by the shotgun.

The ultra-long range of those skirmishers, and the shock of more than a dozen cannons firing shotguns at the same time, made Jafar dare not try to charge straight.

Although he didn't charge directly at the beginning.

But at the beginning, he, not even him, even the British didn't expect that Dashun's skirmishers and cavalry artillery could do this.

It is a tactic that can discharge skirmishers in an arc formation to cover the cavalry artillery to advance in the opposite direction, block the cavalry's charge in the direction of the cavalry's charge, and force the cavalry to plunge into the gap between the two wings of the rear phalanx.

And with this powerful firepower and range advantage, it really withstood, and really forced Jafar's cavalry to the side and plunged into the phalanx trap.

Too shocking, never seen before.

However, in fact, Dashun's army is not strong enough to be invincible. It is only because of the special situation of Dashun that Dashun's military reform many years ago made Dashun's tactical system really suitable for this It's just a way of fighting.

It can be regarded as a feature enhancement. In fact, if it is really pulled to the European battlefield to play a big battle with 8 or [-] people, this kind of tricks will not be too much fun.Strong is definitely a little bit stronger, but basically it belongs to the level of half a catty.

For example, the situation in Europe at this time, in terms of the direction of military reform, take the simplest example of Dashun's specialized siege super-excellent combat engineers.This is a direction suitable for Dashun, but not a direction suitable for European military reform.

For the European battlefield, why should the bastion be fought?
If it is possible to enlist all the people, or encamp the country, recruit three or five thousand more soldiers, and surround the bastions, won't the job be over?Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to recruit three to five thousand more soldiers and reform the conscription system without hindering the supply line or the advance of the main army than spending a lot of money to train specialized combat engineers?
But this principle is "correct but meaningless" to Dashun.Because of this principle, Dashun cannot be used.

It would definitely be no problem to recruit 5 to 5 more people.The problem is to recruit [-] to [-] more people to encircle the fort, but wherever the fort needs to be encircled, it is either in the Western Regions, in western Sichuan, or in Nanyang. There is no problem in recruiting troops, but sending them there is a problem.

Similarly, the tactical system of the Dashun Army after the reform had two notable features from the very beginning.

One: The purpose of the military reform was to determine the colonial war model of the Seven Years War. Due to the limitation of the delivery capabilities of each country, only wars with a scale of 5000 soldiers could be fought.

Therefore, the requirements of the Dashun military reform must rely on this one: that is, in the case of limited projection capabilities, strengthen the tactical capabilities of brigades and battalions to ensure that they maintain absolute advantages in battles of 5000 to [-] people.And... a battle of this scale must be a battle with only a small number of cavalry.

Because no matter whether it is Dashun, Britain, France, Prussia, Spain, or Portugal, they do not have the ability to get three to five thousand cavalry to protect the flanks and engage in cavalry flank protection battles in colonies far away in the ocean.

Second: The touchstone after the military reform has always been the nomadic direction.

The struggle between farming and nomadism for thousands of years, the three major events of northern Xinjiang, floods, and annexation that began in the Qin and Han Dynasties, whether the military reform can be successful in the military, first of all, the Northwest should be tested.

How different are the Mongols and Europeans in terms of army organization, tactical system, artillery ratio, infantry drills, etc. at this time?Self-explanatory.

Therefore, the requirements of Dashun's military reform must also rely on the second article: that is, the cooperation of infantry and artillery can be carried out in nomadic areas such as Northwest China and Mongolia.

It is required that Dashun's tactical system must be able to achieve that a 2000-man infantry can quickly deploy formations in the face of pan-Mongolized troops' attacks, and specialize the ability of battalions and companies to fight against cavalry.

The combination of these two distinctive features created the specialized Dashun tactical system at this time.

In fact, Dashun did not carry out military reforms targeting India or Bangladesh. There is really no reason to carry out military reforms targeting India and Bangladesh. Even if the military reforms are aimed at the reform of the Southwest and the Western Sichuan Fortress Group, it must be ranked ahead and has almost no sense of existence. Indian front.

Dashun is just a military reform aimed at the Northwest frontier of Pan-Mongolian tactics, and the possible colonial war that was envisioned back then, where 5000 people were sent to fight on an extreme scale.

It's just that... the Bengal cavalry happens to be a pan-Mongolian tactic.Their tactics are very similar to those of the Junggars, and even the infantry use the so-called "Zambarak shotgun", not to mention the cavalry style.

And the British army commanded by Clive happened to be the scale of the colonial battle envisioned by the Dashun military reform system in which "5000 European troops were the imaginary enemy".

(End of this chapter)