Xinshun 1730

Chapter 651 You Are Just a Pawn ([-])

"Splitting the expensive grenadiers, what does the commander think?"

"It's a big gamble. Bet that before the arrival of the Prussian reinforcements, the central breakthrough will cause the entire Prussian army to collapse? But the problem is that your cavalry did not continue to make a big roundabout. Detour around the flanks, can't they retreat and regroup the team?"

"Now it's time to gather the grenadiers and storm the hills in the northwest. As long as they capture that, won't Prussia collapse? There is no chance to retreat and regroup, and even if reinforcements arrive, they can only fight for fuel. Let's fight, grab this hill from each other..."

"The ancients said: Double the left and the right will be widowed; double the front and the rear will be widowed. If you double everywhere, you will be widowed everywhere."

"Wei Wuzhi's "New Book of Meng De" said: "With two enemies and one, one technique is righteous and the other is strange. Sun Wuzi said: "The human body is invisible, and this is the ultimate wonder. How can you spread out your forces? Even Disassemble the grenadiers and field guns and spread them out equally, and push them flatly?"

"If a surprise army seizes the northwest hill, the attack and defense will change. At that time, Prussia's flanks will be completely exposed, and the Prussian side can only adjust the formation. Once the formation is adjusted, it will be chaotic; once it is chaotic, there will be loopholes."

"In this way, even if the reinforcements of the Prussian army arrive, they can only return to the previous state: attack as defense. You must seize this hill before you have a chance to defend, and even have a chance to retreat. When the time comes , even if Austria defends and Prussia attacks, is it still necessary to fight?"

"And the cavalry of the Prussian army has already collapsed. Once it becomes a situation where Prussia has to attack, and there is no cavalry to cover the flanks, if it cannot attack, it will be a battle of annihilation. The Austrian cavalry will be able to reap the defeated Prussian army."

"Now the Austrian army attacking Chatusitz is a regular soldier. If they attack this hill, they will be a surprise soldier. And once the hill is captured, there will be regular soldiers on top of the hill, and Chatusitz will face it Then it is a strange soldier. How can the Pu army block it according to the original formation?"

The staff scolding here is neither pro-Pu nor pro-Austria.

Just standing at a neutral angle, with a feeling of hating iron and steel, complaining about Austria's almost rigid line array tactics.

It wasn't until this time that the staff officer really understood what Liu Yu said when he was in Petersburg: 30 years have passed since the Thirty Years War, and nearly 100 years have passed since Dashun's war for the world.But a hundred years later, the minds of many generals are still stuck in the era of the Thirty Years War and the War of Stones, or even better, they may stay in the era of the Spanish Succession War.

I thought that if someone at this time would use the tactics of anvil and hammer; or the tactics of light left and right heavy, left defensive and right attack, concentrating forces to break through one side and then sweeping and outflanking, they could also be called a generation of famous generals in this Europa. Bar?
It's just that he doesn't know, this is like a martial arts master, watching some low-handed fights, he always feels that if the punch is faster, wouldn't he win?Or if the foot is a little to the right, wouldn't it be a knot?It's not that they don't know, but that they can't do it.

The officer ratio, tactical system, tactical thinking, and training focus of Dashun Qingzhou Army made these staff officers believe that the Austrian Army can make the tactics he envisioned according to their deployment.

But in fact, the Austrian army was unable to make such a tactic at this time, because the proportion of officers, tactical system, and training focus all made it impossible for them to make such a simple tactic with the Qingzhou Army as a reference.

It's like Prussia's later famous side attack tactic diagonal formation. It looks simple, but the premise is that the soldiers with strict discipline and stunned to the extreme, the column march that has been trained and strengthened on weekdays turns to advance.

Just like in the battle of the Qingzhou Army in the Altai Mountains, the transformation of the hollow formation can be completed in just a few minutes, so some seemingly dangerous tactics can be used boldly.But in any army at this time, including the European ones, no one can do such a fast change, and it is impossible to reproduce the tactics formulated by the Dashun staff.

If you ask Confucius how to touch a ten-foot-high wooden pole, Confucius said that it is enough to stand up and stretch out your hand.That's right.

But if you ask Yan Zi, who can drill dog holes, this answer is definitely not correct.

Originally, I came here with the attitude of thinking about taking a look and learning.

But the tactical system, artillery use, and battle ideas are completely different.

Now these few people can only think of one sentence.

study?Learn ass.

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On the battlefield, Frederick II held his scepter nervously, and looked at the Dashun staff officers not far away who were muttering in Chinese with lingering fear.

It's not that I'm afraid of them, but I'm afraid of the gift they brought me, the hot air balloon that can scout the battlefield.

Frederick II studied geometry, and liked geometry very much, hated algebra very much, and even complained about Euler's geometry in history.

So geometry allowed him to grasp a chance of survival on the battlefield.

He found the position of the Austrian coach's main team. It was on a small hill. almost.

Simple geometry can know that the sight of the Austrian coach there will be blocked by the small hills that can be regarded as the weak points of the Prussian army.

In other words, the Austrian coach could not see the movement behind the hill, and his reinforcements could use the cover of the hill to launch a surprise attack.

This is the only possibility of winning, which is based on the thinking of Austria's situation at this time.

Because the Austrians are mobilizing most of their troops to the center line, they are obviously preparing for a wave of shock. Before the arrival of Prussian reinforcements, they will take Chatusitz, thereby dividing and annihilating the main force of Prussia.

He didn't know what Dashun's staff officers were muttering about.

But I know that if the Austrians have such a hot air balloon that can increase the height of vision at this time, simple geometry shows that the flaw and opportunity they have caught will be wiped out.

If it was even 30 meters higher, the Austrians' sight would not be blocked by this small hill in the northwest, and they would not be able to detect the Prussian reinforcements moving here.

Only 30 meters of height difference.

However, the Austrians are short of this 30-meter height difference.

Frederick II imagined that the reinforcements would march quickly in columns to the Austrian flank under the cover of hills blocking the view.Then simply stand still, turn left, and complete the transformation from column to horizontal, and a wave of salvo can directly smash the Austrians huddled in the middle.

But all of this is based on the premise that the Austrians do not mobilize their troops to attack the hill; their own troops can hold at least until 10 o'clock.

Nearly three-quarters of the Austrian infantry were crowded in the midfield, right in front of the small town of Chatusitz.

Scattered grenadiers, field artillery assigned to squadrons, and a tide of superiority have all made the Prussian front crumbling.

If it hadn't been for sending out the cavalry by myself and delaying the time with offense instead of defense for more than an hour, the current precarious situation would have appeared at eight o'clock in the morning.

Now, it is already nine o'clock.There is still about an hour before the reinforcements arrive, and it cannot be faster.

After a few shots, the next wave of Austrian offensive has begun.

The grenadiers and field artillery cooperated to blow up the brick houses used by Chatusitz for defense one by one. The Austrian soldiers with bayonets had already started hand-to-hand combat with the defending Prussian soldiers.

Frederick II calmly ordered the follow-up troops to retreat to the north of the town to form a second line of defense.

The small town can no longer hold on.

But the good news is that the Austrians' frontal attack method of assigning field artillery to the squadron also prevented the Austrians from chasing after the situation.

The ruined walls, the criss-crossed bricks and stones, and the streets that are almost impossible to line up, all made it impossible for the Austrians to continue to pursue after occupying the town.

They can only occupy the small town first, and then slowly move forward, reaching those places where there are no messy rubble and bricks to form a team before launching another attack.

The Austrian cavalry advantage was completely abolished by these broken bricks and stones, and it was difficult for horses to run in the ruins of the town.

Nine forty.

The town had fallen, but the Prussian army had formed a second line of defense.

Strolling through the ruined town, the dull Austrians found that the Prussians had regrouped.And because of the ruins, the Austrians could not form a team in the town, nor could they pass through the town full of brick and stone ruins in battle formation.

Several waves of infantry and cavalry rushing out of formation were met with a salvo by the reorganized Prussian army and retreated.

Frederick II finally breathed a sigh of relief. The salvo just now was the most dangerous time.The most feared thing about the reorganized defense line is chaos and instability. If the Austrian attack just now had been more decisive, and if the Austrian cavalry and infantry could cooperate better, it is very likely that they would not be able to defend just now. .

But now, the most volatile and chaotic time has passed, and it will take at least 10 minutes for the Austrians to organize another attack.

On the most dangerous hill, there were not many Prussian troops, but the Austrians had no interest in this flank, as if they felt that the Prussians were already on the verge of collapse, and as long as they put in the last effort, they could break through completely.At this time, it seems unwise to adjust the tactics and focus on the small hills on the flanks. After all, it looks like the front will win soon, so there is no need.

Moreover, it will take time to adjust the tactics. What if the Prussian reinforcements arrive during the adjustment period?

"Yes, there is still a chance. As long as I personally go back and lead the reinforcements that are about to arrive, when the Austrians are crowded in the center line, I will intersperse the Austrians in a column to their left flank, turn to the last salvo, and I will be able to completely eliminate the Austrians!"

(End of this chapter)