Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 463: Riot: How to Defeat the Steam Knight
Night attacks are indeed one of the effective means to deal with Steam Knights.

After all, in order to ensure the condition of the steam armor, the steam knights who have experienced battles during the day will have mechanics or the knights themselves perform maintenance at night.

At this time, if we can seize the opportunity, there is still hope of a successful attack.

The maintenance of Steam Knight requires the replacement of wearing parts and consumables, replacement of parts damaged in battle, maintenance of weapons, and reloading of ammunition...

In short, the powerful combat capability of the Steam Knight is based on complex maintenance and logistical support.

Therefore, for the Steam Knights, the infantry accompanying them is a very important configuration, because these infantry can play a good protective role when the Steam Knights are performing maintenance.

The Guards Infantry Battalion accompanying the Steam Knights Flag Corps was very aware of its responsibilities. The battalion commander did not allow the soldiers under his command to launch a fierce attack in the previous day's battle.

On the contrary, they just kept following the Steam Knights and had little desire to attack.

The main job on the battlefield is not to attack, but to clear the area around the Steam Knight and ensure that there are no hidden fire points and traps around.

In the previous day's battle, the wounded Steam Knight was hit directly by a 4-pound infantry gun hidden on the second floor of the building, which caused damage to the armor and transmission mechanism of his arm. He had to give up his musket and switch to fighting with a chainsword.

From this point of view, accompanying infantry is still very important. Without them, it will have a great impact on the combat of the Steam Knights, especially in urban street fighting, the accompanying infantry is very important.

Therefore, the infantry battalion commander did not let his soldiers rest directly at night, but divided the soldiers of a battalion into three shifts and let them rest in shifts. This ensured that at least one company of soldiers was always awake, and also allowed them to maintain strict vigilance around the camp centered on the location of the train.

Around them, an infantry battalion from the colonial garrison was also stationed here, providing them with defensive coordination while also being responsible for defending the train station.

Of course, their main task is to ensure the safety of the Steam Knights. After all, no matter how incompetent the commander of the colonial garrison is, after seeing the powerful combat effectiveness of the Steam Knights during the day, he should understand who should take the lead in this battle.

Unless the commander of the colonial garrison is an idiot who is stupid enough to think that the Steam Knight's strength will steal his credit, the focus will be on the Steam Knight.

Although the commander of this colonial garrison could not be said to be a particularly powerful general, he was at least a qualified officer.

So when the revolutionary army's night assault team launched a sneak attack, although it did have a certain degree of impact on the colonial garrison and successfully plunged them into chaos, it also alerted the Northern Army and allowed the Guards Infantry Battalion to react in time and prepare for battle.

Even the Steam Knights had three machines that had completed maintenance and were put into battle.

The leader of the revolutionary army's night attack team was not a reckless man. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, he immediately chose to retreat.

However, even so, the involvement of three Steam Knights in the battle still caused the Night Attack Team to lose almost one-fifth of their manpower.

You should know that although the night attack team has less than a hundred people, all its members are elites carefully selected from the revolutionary army. They have received far more rigorous training than ordinary soldiers and have received special training for night combat.

It can be said that the Night Assault Team already has some shadows of the special forces of the original world of Perfect. If it was just a sneak attack against an irregular situation, the Night Assault Team's action tonight would have been successful, because the colonial garrison troops responsible for defending the train station had already become chaotic.

At this time, as long as the revolutionary army launched an attack, there would be a great hope of retaking the train station, even if the army from the North joined the battle.

Of course, the premise is to exclude the influence of Steam Knight.

The timely involvement of the three Steam Knights in the battle dealt a heavy blow to the Night Attack Team and also disrupted their original plans.

Although a brave soldier of the night attack team successfully broke into a very close distance to the train with a pack of explosives, and Engineer Chen ignited the pack of explosives, in the end, he failed to cause much damage to the train and the Steam Knight that was undergoing maintenance on the train.

This was also the main reason why the leader of the night attack team chose to retreat. They really had no means to cause effective damage to the train. If all the people in this team were put in, they would only help the Steam Knights to gain kills.

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"They were able to organize an effective night attack. It seems I need to give a higher evaluation of the revolutionary army in the New World. These guys are quite good!" In the laboratory, Perfect received the second combat report, and the record of the revolutionary army's night attack made her praise it.

Don't think that a night attack is a simple matter. All you need to do is let the soldiers stay up all night and launch the attack at night.

Or at most, we could add another person to hold the gag in his mouth and horses to cover their hooves, and carry out covert operations without torches.

A real night raid certainly includes these elements, but it is not just these that can be called a night raid.

It doesn't mean that after doing all these things, you can launch a night attack.

First of all, the most important issue to be solved is how to effectively transmit orders in a night environment. After all, you are going to attack at night. Even if the action plan is implemented, the connection between the troops and the commander is cut off during the night attack. How should the troops participating in the night attack attack? How should they evacuate?
All of these require the commander to make arrangements in advance and coordinate the command in order to truly meet the conditions for launching a night attack.

And secret marching is also not easy. At least you have to ensure that the troops launching the night attack can identify the marching route without torches at night, and at the same time ensure that the team does not get separated.

In other words, soldiers participating in night attacks at least had to be not night blind.

Although this is a disease that has almost disappeared in later generations, night blindness is still a common phenomenon in this era. Especially for the poor, it is normal to be unable to see at night.

Therefore, Perfect could fully understand the report that the colonial garrison infantry battalion almost collapsed during the night attack.

After all, you can't even see, so what can you do? You can't just type blindly based on your feel, right?
Therefore, a group of soldiers who can at least see at night is also essential for night attacks.

(End of this chapter)