Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1624 Northern Expedition ([-])
Shiwei is in September, and the preface belongs to the third autumn. The weather in the capital has reached Gao Yushi's favorite time. If there is no holiday, he would like to see Xin Zhai for a short stay.

It's a pity that this autumn is a really eventful one. I just heard that the concubine Narita Kaifei he picked up inexplicably had to stay in Kanto temporarily because of the transfer of the Narita family's seal and needed someone to contact the three parties. I haven't seen Tumen's army for several games, and I have to wait for a worse news...

Tumed's eastward expedition was ambushed and lost more than ten thousand main forces in Qingcheng.

This is not the worst, what's worse is that although the Jinghua Trading Company Qiding who went to the rescue overnight successfully rescued them, they didn't get much advantage in the night battle that night. The highest battle loss record in a single battle.In this battle, Jinghua's main general, Gao Jiang, returned to Daning City and ordered him to be locked up. He sent someone to report to him, Gao Situ, and waited for his master's punishment.

More than [-] people were lost in one battle, which is really the worst record for Jinghua's armed forces.In southern Xinjiang, no matter whether it is rehabilitating Annan or conquering Myanmar, or conquering Siam and Pingnanzhang, there has never been such a big loss-you must know Annan and Myanmar, and the scale of the fight at that time was tens of thousands. For tens of thousands, it turned out that most of the opponents were crushed by Jinghua's overall leadership in weapons and tactics.

The situation in Northern Xinjiang was similar. Although Jinghua’s lineage hadn’t really fought many big battles during the Monan War, the Daming infantry, which may be weaker than Jinghua’s lineage, had resisted the onslaught of Xin Ai’s army, and it wasn’t so ugly. What a loss!

Not to mention that during the Liaonan War, the Chaohua Department kicked the iron plate in a desperate blow, and the blockade of the river by the Liaodong Inland River Fleet of Jinghua's direct line was the key to the demise of the Chaohua Department.

Once upon a time, the armed forces of Jinghua's direct lineage suffered such serious losses?Not to mention that in the submitted report, the specific losses of the Chahar Mongolian Army are not detailed, and it can only be estimated that "it should be twice as much as me"?
"Don't be too depressed. Although the loss is not small, I think it is still necessary to find out the reason... I mean, we must first find out why there is such a large loss. After all, according to the report, their ambush was never Tactically speaking, it was successful, and the problem should be in the course of the battle."

It was Liu Xin who was speaking. As the secretary-general and chief military affairs secretary of the Jinghua Secretariat, it was absolutely necessary for her to express her views on this matter.

Gao Wushi frowned, rubbed his chin and said, "From the report, Brihatu's command should be the key."

"He did react very quickly, probably because he saw at a glance that the cavalry troops lacked the experience of regular combat in large corps, so he quickly shortened the distance to offset the threat of grenades from the cavalry troops." Liu Xin analyzed: "The cavalry troops have long-range Relying on muskets and grenades in the middle range, but in terms of close combat, it seems that the Yanling Saber is not as good as the Mongolian machete."

"I don't think it's because the gap between the Yanling Saber and the Mongolian Scimitar is really that big. What's more important is that the melee combat experience is insufficient. There are many aspects to this. It may be a training problem, or it may be simply a lack of strength as you said. The Corps’ experience in regular warfare. After all, most of the cavalry troops’ previous battles were against bandits, and no matter whether bandits or horse thieves, there will not be tens of thousands of people, so this is because they are used to fighting security warfare but have never fought before. caused by regular warfare."

Liu Xin pondered: "Gao Jiang's arrangement before the battle didn't have too many problems. Although the result of the impromptu command was not very good, I don't think he can be completely blamed. The entire cavalry army lacks the experience of this kind of regular battle with large corps. Only then did Brihatu find the loophole."

Gao Yushi said gloomyly: "There is still a problem with the weaponry of the cavalry troops. In close combat on horseback, it is unlikely that we can outperform the Mongols in terms of personnel quality, so we have to change our thinking..."

"How to change?" Liu Xin spread her hands: "Cavalry is not infantry, and they can't form a hollow phalanx with bayonets and muskets formed by formation, discipline, and firepower density. As long as the Mongols shorten the combat distance, they can only fight with horses."

Gao Wushi closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said, "Do you know why the fifth-generation machine can beat the fourth-generation machine?"

"Ah? What is it?" Liu Xin was taken aback for a moment, obviously not understanding.

"I said that our fighter jets at that time, do you know the reason why the fifth-generation fighters completely abused the fourth-generation fighters?" Gao Wushi explained a little, and continued to ask.

"Uh, I'm not sure, it seems to be mainly due to the stealth performance?" She paused and asked, "Does this have something to do with the current situation? Cavalry can't be invisible."

"Invisibility is of course one of the keys, but there is a reason why there is such a big advantage after invisibility." Gao Wushi said: "For example, most people know that invisibility means that I am close to you, but you don't know it at all. , At this time, I launch a missile, even if you find it in time, you may not be able to dodge it at all. There is a military term for this "no dodge" distance called "no escape distance"..."

"What does this have to do with the cavalry?" Liu Xin seemed to be more concerned about the current problems, so she asked again persistently.

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said: "Don't worry, listen to me first... During the period of the fourth-generation aircraft, the mainstream ideas of fighter jets at that time were high speed, dogfighting, and flexible control. Small advantage, so Midi felt that he had to change his thinking—since my flight control is inferior to yours, then as long as I don’t fight you in melee, won’t it be fine?”

Although Gao Wushi obviously didn't explain in detail, the last sentence was really straightforward. Liu Xin finally understood his intention, and suddenly said: "You mean, you have to think of an idea to avoid melee combat?"

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "That's right, I've thought about melee combat, people have an inherent advantage there, although it's not impossible for us to invest huge capital in training from a young age, or equip them with full armor or even horse armor, But in that case, not to mention the higher cost, it will also lead to a serious decrease in mobility. I think the gain outweighs the loss.

In my opinion, it is better to find a way from the weapon, as long as the two sides can deal a serious blow to the enemy before the hand-to-hand combat, even if there is still a melee in the end, but relying on the advantages of the early stage, the possibility of our army losing will be much smaller . "

Liu Xin thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "Unless you can get a burst of muskets, it may be difficult to achieve such a goal. You can see from this report that our army had a clear advantage when the muskets fired at the beginning. When used, it also caused a lot of casualties to the enemy.

Until this time, our army had a considerable advantage. The real failure was when Burihatu blew the trumpet and the Mongolian soldiers rushed our army regardless of everything. "Speaking of this, Liu Xin turned over the letter paper in her hand, and added: "Look, the opponent has reached this point, but we are still insisting on completing three combos of hand grenades before meeting the enemy with the Yanling Saber. "

She sighed: "Gao Jiang probably regarded the Mongols as bandits and horse bandits, thinking that the Mongols would lose a lot after these three consecutive strikes, and such losses would be enough to make them collapse, so it caused After three consecutive grenade strikes, our army was almost powerless to fight back in a short period of time.

If it hadn't been for Erdemutu who heard the horn of the general attack and realized that something was wrong, and brought his own troops back to support regardless of safety, I am afraid the final outcome might have been even worse. "

Gao Wushi said with a sullen face: "From this perspective, it makes sense for Gao Jiang to put him in confinement!"

Liu Xin hesitated for a moment, and persuaded: "Gao Jiang did make a misjudgment, but I still want to say that this misjudgment is actually not too outrageous, because before that, whether it was the Chahar Mongolian Army or the Neikalkha Regardless of the Mongolian army in the Huahua Department, there is a problem of not being able to bear the first wave of losses on the whole, and Gao Jiang's misjudgment is precisely here.

This time, Buri Hatu made up his mind from the very beginning to not count the losses. This is an unprecedented phenomenon. I think Buri Hatu has learned the lessons from the past, but Gao Jiang did not expect this, so it was a misunderstanding. sentenced. "

Gao Wushi glanced at her and asked, "You mean, because it happened suddenly, there should be no punishment?"

"It's not that he shouldn't be punished, but I think he should be given a chance to make meritorious deeds." Liu Xin explained: "No matter how the misjudgment occurred, the responsibility for the misjudgment should be borne by him, the commander. There is no doubt about it. .But punishment is only to clarify responsibility, it is not the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is how to avoid the same failure next time.

At the same time... How should I put it, just like ours at that time, 'it is not easy to train a cadre in the organization', we cannot deny his years of hard work and achievements just because of one failure, we have to give people a chance to prove themselves. "

Gao Wushi let out a sigh of relief, and said, "Okay, you can use my name to draft an order for him to commit crimes and meritorious deeds, first lower his professional title by one level, but clearly assign the command of the three cavalry in Daning." Leave it to him...I want to see what he does next. Tell him by the way, this is the last chance."

Liu Xin didn't speak, just nodded her head, and said after a while: "You said just now that you want to find a way to deal with this situation with weapons...do you have a ready-made idea?"

Gao Wushi glanced at her and said, "You've already said it yourself, only continuous fire can solve the problem."

"Has the burst gun made a breakthrough?" Liu Xin asked immediately.

Gao Wushi was silent for a while, and then said: "I suddenly thought of a person named Dai Zi."

Liu Xin was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Who is this person?"

"A firearms expert in Kang Mazi's time, it is said that he invented the blunderbuss—probably what you call a firearm." Gao Wushi replied.

Liu Xin was surprised: "During the Kangxi period, China had continuous fire guns?"

"No." Gao Wushi said indifferently: "This person offended Nan Huairen, a firearms expert and Belgian missionary of the Qing Dynasty, and was slandered by him. He was eventually exiled, and he failed to manufacture large-scale firearms. There are also rumors that It is Kang Mazi who did not dare to let such firearms come out, so as not to weaken the rule of the Qing Dynasty."

"Oh... these mandarins really want to slow down the pace of progress. However, since Lianzhu firecrackers were able to be made in the early Qing Dynasty, it should mean that the difficulty of making them is not particularly high. Could it be that Jinghua can't make them now? ? Didn't you give them some technical advice on this?" Liu Xin asked.

Gao Wushi said a little depressed: "The Maxim machine gun was invented in 1883 and patented in 1884. If you ask me if I can give advice on building a Maxim machine gun, then I really don't have that ability."

Liu Xin was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said, "It's so late, it was invented almost close to World War I? Then why do you want to solve the current problem by improving the level of weapons?"

"Maxim is a heavy machine gun. If we talk about the prerequisites for its invention, then maybe it should be regarded as an upgraded version of the rifle." Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "I can't provide any advice on this aspect, after all, I don't know much about its principles. Clearly, I just roughly remember its appearance, and the specific mechanical structure is beyond the level of understanding. But the repeating rifle is not good, and I have some ideas about the repeating pistol.”

"Oh?" Liu Xin put the Maxim machine gun aside and asked, "What about the pistol?"

"We definitely don't have the conditions to make a pistol with a clip. After all, we haven't even finished with the metal bullet casing. However, we can still think of a way for the revolver." Gao Yushi said: "You know the revolver, right? Commonly known as a round pistol, it is a non-automatic firearm with multiple rounds of loading. Its main feature is that the gun is equipped with a drum-type magazine with 5 to 7 bullet nests (mostly 6), and the bullets are loaded in the nest. , Turn the wheel, and the bullets can be aimed at the barrel one by one. Because the common revolver pulls out the wheel and swings to the left when loading, it is also called a revolver.”

"Oh, that, I know, I've seen it a lot on TV. If I remember correctly, I've seen it a lot in western cowboy movies." Liu Xin replied immediately.

Gao Yushi hasn't watched many Westerns, he basically only watches American popcorn movies to pass the time, he doesn't have much interest in Westerns.But that's not the topic of discussion now, so he just nodded and dragged the matter back.

"In fact, as early as ... about the 16th century, matchlock-style revolvers appeared in Europe, and later flintlock revolvers appeared. But there were two big problems with revolvers before Colt. One It is necessary to turn the wheel by hand, or pull the hammer by hand to drive the wheel into place, and then the trigger can be pulled to complete the single-action firing; the second is that there are always some technical obstacles in the firing of bullets, so they are not widely used.”

Liu Xin thought for a while and asked, "So, the 'Colt' you just mentioned is the key to solving the problem? Is this Colt a person or a technology?"

"It's a person." Gao Yushi said: "The revolver invented by Colt has a primer percussion bolt and a spiral rifled barrel. Two-step action when ready to fire. This makes the revolver really have good practical value for the first time, and has been widely used by countries all over the world. Although people have made some improvements to the revolver later, its basic structure and principle remain the same. As it was when Colt invented it."

After a pause, Gao Yushi added: "However, due to the low rate of fire, slow reloading and small ammunition capacity of the revolver, after the Second World War, its status in the army was replaced by the automatic pistol. However, because the revolver is very easy to deal with blind fire bullets and its performance is quite reliable, it is still used by police and individuals in many countries. When US President Ronald Reagan was assassinated in 1981, the assassin used a revolver.”

Liu Xin didn't care much about what he mentioned later, and just asked: "Can you handle Colt's improvement? Oh, I mean, can you provide technical guidance?"
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