Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 717 The Best Guide

Early the next morning, as expected, the artillery bombardment started early in the morning in Tianzhu.

Fortunately, there was Chu Xiangqian's intelligence support, and the sentries on the plateau were digging trenches themselves. When the sentry was built, anti-gun tunnels had already been dug at the same time.

And last night, the Plateau Command notified the frontline troops to guard against Tianzhu bombardment.

As soon as the cannon fired, everyone except the observer immediately hid in the anti-cannon tunnel.

The shelling that lasted for an hour really shocked the headquarters and frontline soldiers.

Such fierce artillery fire inevitably made the troops feel uneasy.

This subordinate's majesty directly shows that there is no shortage of artillery shells in Tianzhu.

It's a pity that the Chinese side was prepared. In addition to bombing the trenches into craters, the actual killing effect was very unsatisfactory.

And to put it bluntly, the Chinese army suffered enough from insufficient firepower during World War II.

Once the elite of the front army is defeated, the soldiers behind will only collapse.

In the future, thousands of cannons will be fired at once, giving the opponent a taste of being bombed.

Moreover, according to East Asian thinking, a hero is to fight to the death, so Europeans and Americans cannot understand the purpose of fighting to the death even though they know they are outmatched, or even dragging their opponents to die together.

This kind of person is, at best, courageous; at worst, he is a fool.

With this kind of thinking, you can't expect Europeans and Americans to be determined to fight to the death.

Among the remaining people, a small number were lying down or squatting to shoot, while the others turned around and ran back without their lives.

Those Tianzhu soldiers who were very courageous only fired at each other for more than ten minutes before they were all wiped out.

Our troops at the checkpoint began to collapse when they saw that the Tianzhu people only suffered about 20% casualties.

Only a few people dare to continue fighting under such circumstances.

In ancient times, this figure was even more alarmingly low.

After becoming the master of one's own affairs, I wished that the factory could produce artillery and artillery shells 24 hours a day.

At the same time, we have rich experience in how to prevent shelling.

Even if there is, it is very, very few.

When the casualty rate exceeds 30%, it has basically lost its combat capability.

In just ten minutes, a charging regiment of Tianzhu soldiers suffered two to three hundred casualties.

East Asians also cannot understand how an army of several thousand or even tens of thousands of people, with 60% to 70% soldiers, surrendered without hesitation.

One day in the future, if you lose, you can also spend money to buy your life.

When a large number of Ah Sans took advantage of the shelling and rushed up after the shelling was over, they suddenly discovered that countless gun barrels suddenly appeared on the mountain in front of them.

It is indeed more cost-effective to take a ransom than to kill the nobles and their infantry and cavalry.

They will also be cast aside by society as a whole.

On the battlefield in the Philippines, tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers surrendered at once.

From ancient times to the present, the troops that can withstand a casualty rate of 3% to 5% without retreating are all iron and strong armies.

To put it bluntly, in ancient East Asian society, if you surrendered, your family would be implicated.

The military law of the Magnesium State even clearly stipulates that an army with more than 1/3 casualties can surrender after losing the possibility of retreat.

Because the troops that can persist in fighting to this point are worthy of the country and the people in the eyes of the Chinese people.

After World War II, some European and American military experts analyzed thousands of battle cases in modern armies and found that in most troops, when the casualty rate reached 23%, less than half of the entire army still had the desire to fight. .

Continuing to expose this kind of troops to enemy artillery fire and bullets will only lead to soldiers dying in vain without any effect.

Therefore, when the casualty rate of a certain unit reaches a certain level, the commander will order it to be withdrawn for repairs to restore its combat capability.

Those examples of howling at night and the entire army being wiped out, commonly known as "camp howling", are not uncommon in history.

With more than 3% casualties, even the elite might be defeated.

Otherwise, the maggots would not have captured so many soldiers during World War II.

But the troops in the early days of the Celestial Dynasty were absolutely the best in the world in terms of fighting will.

The remaining 70% either did not cooperate and fought together, or they hid and fought passively.

The Ah Sans, who were caught off guard, were immediately killed and wounded in large numbers.

The fighting will of the Tianzhu people is not even as good as that of the Magnesium Army, which is known as the Young Master Soldier.

All the comrades around you have fled. No matter how powerful you are, you can't deal with hundreds or thousands of enemies.

Moreover, the Yingguo people have ruled Tianzhu for 190 years and have long tried their best to destroy the courage and courage of the Tianzhu people.

Being targeted by hundreds of firearms would mean death but no life. You would be a fool not to retreat.

But in Europe, nobles can pay a ransom for surrender. In other words, the winning party actually prefers to capture them alive.

There is no problem in fighting with the wind, but when encountering a strong enemy, the defeat will be faster than imagined.

Some so-called elite troops in the ancient army suffered more than 10% casualties, and many morale would lose their will to fight.

Regardless of the few Tianzhu people who refused to retreat, they rushed out of the trenches with weapons as soon as the charge horn sounded.

During the pursuit, more than a hundred people were killed and injured, and many Ying-style weapons were also seized.

As for those brave Tianzhu people, they were easily killed by the soldiers who rushed down.

Wait for our soldiers to return to the trenches with some captured weapons.

The weapons used by the Tianzhu people were quickly sent to the rear headquarters.

If there hadn't been an order from above, even Tianzhu's artillery group would have been counterattacked by China's artillery today.

In the afternoon, the Tianzhu people made some adjustments and once again sent a full regiment to attack our trenches.

It is a pity that the Tianzhu regiment not only failed to rush into the trenches this time, but also suffered greater casualties.

Both sides soon discovered the differences in individual weapons.

Our soldiers' confidence improved, while Tianzhu's side immediately stopped attacking.

The Lee-Enfield rifle, as the main battle rifle of Yingguo in World War I and World War II, still has many advantages.

The shooting speed is definitely the best among all bolt-action rifles of the same era.

The ten-round ammunition capacity is also more than other rifles of the same period.

The most famous 98K has only 5 rounds of ammunition, and its firepower is indeed not as powerful as the Lee-Enfield rifle.

But after World War II, this bolt-action rifle became obviously outdated.

However, when interested in sniper warfare in the future, bolt-action rifles will be taken seriously again.

But it has become a special rifle that will never appear again. Once produced, the scale is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

Although Tianchao's 56 semi-automatic rifle is also loaded with 10 rounds, it does not need to be manually loaded by pulling the bolt-action lever after firing a shot.

The firepower can obviously suppress the Lee-Enfield rifle. And the accuracy and reliability are higher than the Lee-Enfield rifle.

In terms of effective shooting distance and lethality, the two are almost the same. As for the submachine gun, Tianzhu uses the Sten submachine gun.

This thing is known as the Widow Maker, and it can easily go off and injure yourself or your teammates.

But the historical evaluation of this gun is very high. No matter how many shortcomings there are, it was only 9 US dollars during World War II. It was stamped and manufactured with few parts and the number of manufactured guns exceeded 375 million.

You know that this gun is really suitable for large-scale manufacturing. It is indeed the most suitable weapon for the Yingguo, which was overwhelmed by Germany at that time.

Just compare it to China's 56 fully automatic, its firepower, range, and accuracy are all lagging behind by an era.

One has a range of 200 meters and the other has a range of 400 meters.

One uses pistol bullets and the other uses rifle bullets. It's strange that they can win.

The war lasted for six days without realizing it. The Tianzhu people shelled every day and then charged with infantry, but the result was heavy casualties.

When we reached the back, even the tanks that were extremely difficult to transport to the plateau were transferred to a dozen tanks.

It's a pity that China not only developed RPG7 in advance based on Chu Xiangqian's intelligence and RPG7's data the year before last, but it was also a pity that China developed RPG in advance.

Over the past year or so, improved rocket launchers have also been developed.

Not only has the optical sight been added, the explosive power of the ammunition has also been increased by 30 to 40%, and even the flight distance of the rocket has increased by hundreds of meters.

As long as Tianzhu's tanks get closer than 300 meters, they will be fired at by several rocket launchers.

Moreover, in the past few days, the Chinese side had not used rocket launchers when facing infantry. They were just waiting for Tianzhu's tanks or armored vehicles.

After one battle, seven or eight Vickers "Victory" tanks were directly destroyed, which immediately made the people of Tianzhu feel extremely distressed.

At the same time, he also lost the confidence to continue attacking.

The so-called Victory Tank was made by the Tianzhu people after inspecting tanks from several countries before deciding to purchase products from Yingguo.

Only the Yingguo people agreed to purchase 100 Yingguo tanks first and then transfer all the production lines and technology to Tianzhu.

This alone shows that this tank is definitely outdated.

Otherwise, how could the people of Yingguo sell the most advanced tanks to the people of Tianzhu with their urinary temperament?

No, no country will sell its main military equipment to other countries.

The weight of 40 tons and the horsepower of 530 horses also made the Tianzhu people realize that this thing was not suitable for combat in plateau and mountainous areas.

Just transporting these dozen tanks to the plateau took a lot of effort.

Otherwise, it would not have appeared on the plateau more than a week after the war started.

Unexpectedly, eight of the tanks that I had sworn to be able to make great achievements were destroyed as soon as the war started.

Even if all the subsequent seventy or eighty vehicles purchased from Ying Kingdom were mobilized, basically no one would dare to drive in front of the people of the Celestial Dynasty.

In this way, the tank will become useless, and at most it will just bully Lao Ba.

The Lao Ba of this era is not the Lao Tie who will be bullied by the people of Magnesium and the people of Tianzhu in the future.

At this time, Lao Ba's heart was drawn to the country of Magnesia. Only when the people of the country of Magnesia felt that Tianzhu was more valuable and abandoned them, would Lao Ba clearly realize that the people of the country of Magnesium were unreliable.

The next day, the 17th, based on this week's battles, the superiors had a clear picture of the reality and reality of the Tianzhu people.

What's more, it reassures the superiors, but also finds it incredible that Tianzhu has never dispatched a fighter jet that is obviously more advanced than China.

But if you think about it carefully, you can actually understand it.

The altitude of combat areas is generally in mountainous areas with an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000.

For a propeller fighter, the risks are very high.

Therefore, the Tianzhu people did not expect to dispatch fighters from the beginning, and the Tianzhu people were indeed too arrogant and arrogant.

I feel like we can win with just the Army alone.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian blew up Tianzhu's Jet Research Institute, scientists, and most powerful pilots the year before last.

The Tianzhu Air Force has not recovered yet.

Moreover, during this week, Chu Xiangqian took advantage of the fact that the war in Tianzhu had already begun and did not have adequate supervision of the camp and the front.

Not only did the Tianzhu people's frontline troops, firepower, and supplies be thoroughly investigated, but the location of Tianzhu's headquarters was also reported to Qian Guotai.

What's more speechless is that General Court, as the commander-in-chief of the entire Tianzhu Northern Front, has not even been to the front line in person.

Instead, they stayed in the city more than 300 kilometers away from the front for remote command.

After receiving the order to counterattack from above, the Plateau Command immediately began to review the previously formulated counterattack plan.

That night, four combat regiments left their base and began to perform interleaved missions in the mountains on the plateau.

Among them was Xue Jianrong's troops.

By the time Chu Xiangqian found out, it was already the afternoon of the next day. After Ti Que monitored the Tianzhu troops as usual in the morning, he accidentally discovered the intersecting troops who had been walking in the mountains all night and all morning.

Chu Xiangqian's face was filled with joy. Once the Tianzhu army knew that they had been penetrated to the rear, their morale would plummet.

There is a high probability that they will be defeated and surrendered due to being flanked from both sides.

Chu Xiangqian hurriedly asked Ti Que to get closer to the intersecting troops, lowered his height and checked back and forth several times to confirm that the route taken by this troops was the route he had drawn on the map when he went to Hong Kong Island.

Busy tits to check out several other routes.

Only when I saw that there were teams of my own on other routes did I get excited.

Once the Tianzhu people are defeated, they can enter the logistics warehouse in the rear and take away all the weapons, ammunition, and military supplies inside.

Chu Xiangqian, who was just waiting to watch the show, suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of a team.

He hurriedly asked the tit to lower its height, and it turned out that he was really his uncle.

He couldn't help but curse, but there was nothing he could do.

Not to mention that it was too late to stop Xue Jianrong from going to the front line, even if he could be allowed to go back, his brother-in-law would definitely hate him for the rest of his life.

After thinking for a while, he released a motorcycle and started walking north.

When he was a few kilometers away from the war zone, he casually climbed up a hill and hid, without having to worry about being discovered by the Tianzhu people.

Only then were Da Zhuang and Hong Niu released.

As soon as the two hunting dogs appeared, Chu Qianqian put leather jackets on them, and then gave them orders to follow the two flying tits and run in the direction of Xue Jianrong's troops.

The two hunting dogs have a constitution of 10, a strength of 9.7, and an agility of 7.2. They are the dog-shaped Tyrannosaurus, with 10 times the stamina of the wild wolf, a little strong who can't run to death.

In just one and a half hours, they crossed three mountains and ran 1 to kilometers, approaching Xue Jianrong's team.

Several dog barks immediately alerted the troops.

Fortunately, Xue Jianrong is quite familiar with these two hunting dogs, and Laizhou Red is quite famous in North China.

When many soldiers held their guns and aimed at the two hunting dogs, they were still confused as to why they encountered such hunting dogs here.

Xue Jianrong dared to order people to shoot at this time, lest the gunshots be heard by the people in Tianzhu, he hurriedly shouted a few words not to shoot.

Watching the two hunting dogs getting closer and closer, Da Zhuang and Hong Niu actually rolled on the ground when they were dozens of meters away.

When Xue Jianrong recognized them later, he was filled with disbelief.

(End of this chapter)