I want to be emperor

Chapter 826 War Is Cruel
The new mixed battalion of the North American garrison operated quite smoothly. They set off along the route found by the previous reconnaissance team, and successfully found the location of the indigenous tribe that had previously attacked the Chu immigration settlement.

Immediately afterwards, a thunderous blow was launched!
Even though these natives were already equipped with some matchlock guns, they also used horses, but it was impossible for them to be the opponents of the Chu army.

Even if the Chu army who came here was not a new army with new rear-loading rifled guns, but a traditional Chu army with flash cap percussion gun weapons and light smoothbore field guns, they could defeat them with an overwhelming advantage.

Now that it has been replaced with a new type of rear-loading rifled gun, there is no suspense or surprise in offensive operations.

The Chu army first set up a 2000mm mountain cannon on a hill about 75 meters away, and used the artillery to launch a violent bombardment of the aborigines' camp.

Then the infantry advanced in companies, advancing to a distance of two to 300 meters, and then launched intensive rifle fire.

Although the Type [-] rifle is only a single-shot rifle, its loading speed is much faster than that of a front-loading rifle, with a rate of fire of more than ten rounds per minute.

In later generations, there is a video of Mauser 1871 live ammunition shooting released by a foreign brother. In the prone position, after the first shot is fired, it takes about seven seconds from ejecting the shell to loading the second bullet, and putting the finger back on the trigger to complete the firing preparation.

The point is, it's a demonstration video, and the movements are all slow!
If it is a trained soldier, this step can be shortened to three to four seconds or even faster. In actual combat, even if the time for aiming is added, the rate of fire per minute can still reach more than ten rounds per minute.

This rate of fire is unmatched by front-loading rifles.

This is why the Chu army would rather endure the high price of a breech-loading rifle, but also equip it with a breech-loading rifle. The rate of fire advantage is too great.

In addition, the rear-loading rifle has a huge tactical advantage over the front-loading rifle, that is, the loading is not affected by the posture, and it can be loaded on the spot, which will greatly enrich the tactics of the rifleman.

The difference between loading while standing and loading on your knees and stomach can completely change the way of warfare.

The specific performance is the disappearance of infantry line tactics and the emergence of skirmish tactics.

As for the accurate effective range, this is not the unique advantage of breech-loading rifles. Front-loading rifles can also do it... The guards in the Chu army have been equipped with more than 1 [-]mm caliber ten-shot rifles before. Six-type muzzle-loading rifle.

However, this rifle has never really been on the battlefield, because the early rifled rifles were too expensive. These [-]-type rifles were basically regarded as strategic weapons by the Guards, and they were used as important weapons for controlling and guarding important places in Gyeonggi for a long time. Never appeared on the battlefield.

Now these Type [-] rifles have been handed over to the Army. The Army modified the Type [-] rifles with rear loading and changed the front loading to the rear loading. It has become a very unique [-]mm rear-loading rifle with a copper shell. But these modified rifles are only transitional weapons. When the number of Type [-] rifles in the army increases, the rear-mounted versions of these modified Type [-] rifles will be completely retired.

Now the Chu army uses the 300-type rifle, and at a distance of [-] meters away, it strikes the indigenous people in front with fierce rifle fire, and immediately defeats the opponent.

After completely breaking up the enemies, the cavalry company came out to harvest!

These cavalrymen used the Shaanxi Seventh-style breech-loading rifled revolver specially designed for cavalry, which was developed and produced by the Shaanxi-Gansu Weapons Company.

This Shaanxi Seventh-style [-]mm cavalry revolver, together with the Hebei Weapons Company's Hebei Type [-]mm officer revolver, constitutes the standard pistol of the Great Chu Empire Army, and is distributed in large quantities to cavalry, officers, artillery and other arms.

The revolvers of the Great Chu Empire also experienced three periods: front-loading smoothbore, front-loading rifle, and rear-loading rifle.

The same runner structure, but the performance is very different.

The seven-type cavalry pistol and five-type revolver used today are actually the revolvers familiar to later generations.

The seven-style cavalry pistol fires a special [-]mm pistol bullet, which is relatively powerful, and can cause effective damage even if it hits an enemy's horse.

After emptying the cavalry revolvers of bullets, the cavalry will temporarily retreat to reload, and then shock harvest after reloading.

As for charging with a sword, it is actually possible...but it is not necessary.

After all, charging with a sword looks mighty, but after all, it is close combat, and unnecessary casualties are prone to occur... After all, accidents are prone to occur in close combat. Even if the opponent brings a spear, it can pose a threat to the cavalry. It's better to shoot and harvest with a pistol tens of meters away.

In addition, these cavalrymen of the Chu army were actually equipped with Type [-] cavalry lances specially used for cavalry. This is a short-barreled version of the Type [-] rifle. use.

Of course, in most cases, cavalry use lances when they dismount and fight on foot. If they shoot directly on a bumpy horseback, the hit rate is too low.

Eighteen-type rifles, 33-year-style cavalry pistols, and 14-year-style sabers constitute the main equipment of the new Chu army's new cavalry.

From these weapons and equipment, it can be seen that this cavalry of the Chu Army is a multi-functional light cavalry that can dismount, mount and charge, and can also shoot with pistols. It is also the cavalry that the Chu Army has been searching for in the past 20 years model.

In this battle against the aborigines, this new mixed battalion of the Chu army has almost thoroughly tested various new tactics of the Chu army in the past year, from the use of artillery, to the use of rifles, to the final cavalry harvest.

And achieved great results.

This time the battle report was quickly collected and sent back to the native Jinling.

The Army Staff conducted repeated studies on this battle report. In addition to refining and summarizing the advantages brought out in it, it also conducted repeated studies on some of the problems exposed in it.

This battle is not without its shortcomings exposed, on the contrary, there are many shortcomings.

For example, after adopting new rear-loading weapons, the consumption of ammunition has increased significantly, such as the consumption of rifle bullets is amazing!

The Type 300 rifle has a very fast rate of fire, and the soldiers fire at a distance of about [-] meters. This distance is completely outside the range of the indigenous firepower, so the soldiers can obtain a very safe shooting environment.

This also led to the soldiers being able to shoot very stably, which greatly increased the rate of fire.

In addition, when shooting at a distance of 300 meters, the killing efficiency of bullets is not high. Although the maximum effective range of the Type 500 rifle can theoretically reach 500 meters...but the premise is that you can aim, and the target Limited to the vision of the naked eye of the human body, coupled with factors such as the jitter caused by the shooting action, let alone 400 meters, even at a distance of [-] meters, the shooting accuracy will still be greatly affected.

In actual combat, even at a distance of about 300 meters, it is still difficult to accurately hit the enemy.

This has to be said to be a very embarrassing fact. At this distance, the performance of the Type [-] rifle is no problem at all. The high precision of the rifled rifle allows the bullets to spread at this distance enough to be controlled within a very small range.

However, the accuracy of weapons is sufficient, and it does not mean that soldiers can use this accuracy to their full potential.

This problem has also appeared in the combat power of the Nanyang Peninsula before, and it is normal for it to appear again now.

As for the solution?There is no good solution... we can only increase shooting training to cultivate soldiers' shooting skills.

As for scopes and the like, don’t even think about it. The large-scale equipment of ordinary infantry with scopes was a thing after the 80s.

Well, this large-scale equipment only refers to the US military, and does not include the armies of other countries!

The scope seems to be simple, but in fact it is very technical and belongs to the top optical equipment, and there is a common problem with optical equipment: expensive!

Not all armies are as rich as the U.S. military, and the cost of pensions for soldiers is high. Various methods have to be used to increase the survival rate of soldiers on the battlefield, thereby reducing the cost of pensions.

Soldiers in most countries, such as Africa and West Asia, have a lot of money, so they just use AK47 to make do with it. What, you say that the scope is distributed, and that thing is more expensive than the infantry itself...

In today's Great Chu Empire, optical instruments are more expensive, and it is impossible to distribute magnification lenses to ordinary soldiers. Just a sniper.

It is estimated that for ordinary soldiers, Luo Zhixue will not be able to equip them with scopes in his life.

Therefore, the situation that ordinary infantry using rifled rifles has a poor hit rate at a distance of 300 meters cannot be solved for the time being.

Of course, this refers to single-shot precision hits. In fact, like smoothbore guns, infantry can use intensive firepower to kill enemies from a long distance in a face-to-face manner.

When shooting collectively, the infantry using Type [-] rifles can effectively kill group targets hundreds of meters or even kilometers away.

This is why it is difficult for soldiers to use the Type 300 rifle to accurately shoot targets 400 meters away. However, the scale of the Type [-] rifle still reaches [-] meters...

The distance of this ruler is not for you to use for precise shooting, but for you to use for collective shooting of group targets.

The specific use scenario is: when the enemy launches a group charge 1000 meters away, a large number of riflemen adjust the scale under the order of the officer, and shoot collectively at the enemy group target at a distance of [-] meters... so many bullets are shot out, and the bullets are scattered It is small enough, and the number of enemies is large, and there are always bullets that can hit the enemy.

It's just that it consumes a lot of bullets.

When the new mixed battalion of the Chu army fought in North America, the soldiers consumed a lot of ammunition, and each shot almost hundreds of bullets... This far exceeded the dozen or so rounds in the era of front-loading muskets.

The high consumption of bullets means that the logistics supply is more troublesome. This is a severe test for the logistics system of the Great Chu Empire Army, and it is also a big test for the national strength of the Great Chu Empire!

After all, bullets also cost money and consume productivity.

Without the support of strong national power, you can't afford a rifle with such a fast rate of fire.

In addition to the large consumption of bullets, another problem was exposed in this battle. To be precise, it was a problem with the formation of skirmishers.

That is, the Chu army discovered that after adopting the formation of skirmishers, the combat enthusiasm, or courage, of the soldiers was lower than that of the line era, and it was more difficult to command.

When shooting at long distances, the soldiers are safe because they are guaranteed, so they are very stable when shooting, and most of the time they can fight stably. Eleven millimeters, but the recoil is still not small, and the soldiers' shoulders will be sore or even injured if they shoot too much.

In the formation of skirmishers, free shooting is the main shooting method. The rate of fire is more or less fully dependent on the consciousness of the soldiers. Many soldiers will deliberately or unconsciously lower the shooting speed in order to avoid shoulder pain and the enemy is not doing well. speed!
This is not a big problem, the key is that when the officers ordered the infantry to advance, because of the skirmish formation, the troops scattered widely, and it was difficult for the officers to directly command or restrain all the soldiers.

When attacking, some soldiers often delay the advance speed deliberately, or out of fear, and the mentality of saving their lives: let their teammates rush forward, while they advance slowly behind, and lie down to avoid the slightest risk !
This kind of situation makes the Chu army's high-level officials very upset... When Nima used to engage in line tactics, this kind of situation would basically not happen, because they are all in a tight formation, and if you take a step slower, you will make yourself very obvious, and There are teammates behind you. If you are one step behind, the comrades behind you will have to hit you directly.

Therefore, in the linear era, few people will deliberately lag behind.

If there is, then it's time for the supervising team to play.

However, in the case of skirmishing tactics, there is a way to advance and then to advance, so the soldiers are a few steps behind their teammates. It is difficult for you to judge that this is intentionally behind, and there is no way to punish them with military law.

It is also because under skirmish formation, soldiers can move freely, and what is needed is subjective kinetic energy, not the same as in the line era. Soldiers do not need and are not allowed to have their own ideas, and directly follow the orders of the officers to advance and retreat. Just load and shoot.

On the battlefield, soldiers have clear orders on how many steps to take!
But now... it is impossible for the officers to direct the battle like this, and all these are left to the soldiers to make their own decisions.

When soldiers have a certain degree of autonomy on the battlefield, trouble comes.

This is determined by human nature. Not only skirmish tactics have this problem, but many tactics have similar problems, such as the typical cavalry charge.

Under the traditional formation, the cavalry will also have similar problems when charging, and there will always be some cavalry who deliberately lag behind.

How did modern cavalry generals solve this problem?

Shorten the free charge distance as much as possible.

Restrain the cavalry with strict military laws and dense formations, and maintain the same pace and speed during the slow walk and trot stages in the early stage to maintain the overall formation. Well, it is the same as the line formation of infantry.

Only launch the infantry charge in the last tens of meters... It's still the same as the infantry's last bayonet charge.

In this way, not only can the horse's physical energy be saved to the greatest extent, and the impact of the horse can be exerted, but it can also minimize the situation where the cavalry deliberately lag behind.

When the last few tens of meters are charged, even if you want to deliberately lag behind, you will be coerced and charged forward!

So, when you see the guards cavalry charging bravely in movies and TV dramas, don't think that the modern cavalry is so brave... let alone think that they are all trained to be inhuman wooden men!
In fact, it is not. The actual situation is that the cavalry are limited by tactical formations and strict military laws, and are forced to act in unison in the early stage, and they are coerced to charge together in the later stage.

The generals also know that you are afraid of death... more clearly that you are afraid of rushing ahead... so the generals will find ways to keep you and your comrades in the same way in various ways, such as reasonable formations, strict military laws, etc. Rush forward at the pace of the game...and you become a warrior!
The Great Chu Empire was no exception. In the era of the ranks, the generals of the Chu State solved this problem very well.

But now after entering the era of skirmishers, this problem has exploded again, and the generals of Chu State need to find ways to solve this problem: how to make ordinary or even cowardly soldiers rush forward like warriors!

However, this is not without a solution. A large number of staff members of the General Staff Department of the Great Chu Empire proposed a solution other than strengthening the publicity of ethics and education, formulating corresponding military laws, and strict training!

It is also necessary to strengthen the role of grassroots non-commissioned officers, especially squad leaders, deputy squad leaders, and senior non-commissioned officers in the infantry. These soldiers can replace grassroots officers and perform part of the duties of command and supervision.

Skirmish tactics are the general trend. It is impossible for the Chu army to continue to use line tactics after being equipped with breech-loading rifles.

How to make better use of straggler tactics is a question that a large number of officers of the Chu army need to think about.

Strengthening the training of non-commissioned officers and strengthening the role of non-commissioned officers is an improvement they made based on the advantages and disadvantages of skirmish tactics.

Increased logistics consumption and low motivation of soldiers are all inherent shortcomings of the era of skirmishers.

But compared to many advantages, these shortcomings are not worth mentioning. Therefore, the four major armed forces of the Great Chu Empire, the Guards, the Marine Corps, and the Armed Tax Police, even if they are equipped with rear-loaded rifled weapons and adopt skirmish tactics Many problems were encountered in the process.

But it is still firmly moving towards the rifled rear and skirmishing!
A new mode of warfare has emerged, and the footsteps of the new era are approaching. The Chu army will not rest on its laurels and restrain itself.

Luo Zhixue is also aware of the many problems faced by the military after reinstalling rifled guns recently, but to be honest, he has no good solutions.

After all, he was just an ordinary person in his previous life, so he was able to know the general structure of the breech-loading rifled gun thanks to the war movies and TV dramas he had watched.

But in those film and television dramas, no one will go into the detailed tactical preparations, let alone tell you that one of the important reasons why the modern cavalry has such a short charge distance is that they don't want to give the cavalry a chance to retreat!

I won't tell you that the emergence of the modern infantry squad and the birth of non-commissioned officers are mainly due to the fact that they don't want the soldiers to back down when they charge...

It sounds cruel, but the reality is like this!

After all, this is military and war.

As for war, no matter how it is beautified, it cannot change the nature of the behavior of war: a group of people try to kill another group of people...

War itself is a cruel thing!

(End of this chapter)