New Shun 1730

The Bengal cavalry, who were forced to go around the front skirmishers, artillery and private flanks, soon fell into unprecedented despair.

The scattered arrangement of the phalanx was very rigid, because Dashun's officers did not believe that these soldiers could play tricks.

But precisely because they were so rigid, when the Bengal cavalry was blocked from the front and had to go around from the two wings to insert inside, they found that these rigid phalanx configurations were so terrifying.

At the side corners of each battalion square formation, artillery pieces with unified specifications after military reform are deployed.

The positions between the phalanxes are staggered, just like bastions, but they are just bastions with city walls made of flesh and blood. Unless the officer's brain is operating at high speed on the battlefield, it will be difficult to quickly find the blind spot for cross-fire.

The Bengal cavalry, who were good at outflanking tactics, found themselves being shot with lead bullets from all directions.

After the attack, the officer's command had collapsed. These Bengal cavalry could only rely on their own feelings: either rush into the phalanx closest to them, or turn around and run away from this hell of death.

The fallen horses, the wounded soldiers rolling on the ground, and the war horses twitching on the ground after being hit by lead bullets further increased the difficulty of the impact, reduced the speed of the impact, and made those who rushed over later become living targets.

The failure of the first wave of Bengal cavalry attacks also confirmed Liu Yu's thinking when he was reforming the Dashun Army: Do not believe in the courage and sentiment of the soldiers of this era. The best shock cavalry of this era must be what he described as " The crazy war horse is carrying the horse with its eyes closed and shouting loudly like "a lunatic who stuck his head in the horse's mane". He can't make the last thirty steps and rushes like a drunkard on horseback. In this era, he is no longer worthy of being called an excellent regular shock cavalry. .

The greatest significance of the existence of a cavalry officer is to control the formation of the cavalry team, and when gradually accelerating from three hundred paces away, control the steps from a small step to a trot to a trot, to a controlled trot, and finally to a crazy thirty. The entire process of infantry is a qualified battalion and company officer who attacks the cavalry.

Side attacks, direct charges, detours, etc. are not the responsibility of battalion and company officers.

From the perspective of cavalry impact, the impact of the Bengal cavalry is still very good, and they are worthy of being the real elite force of Bangladesh.

The reason why Dashun chose to charge intensively was because Dashun could no longer afford to train professional mounted warriors. Therefore, after the military reform, he had to engage in intensive charge to make those feudal warriors on horseback, or those who used to kill people in the feudal era. Professional "craftsmen" do not have enough space to display their martial arts.

The flags, orders, semaphores, turns, formations, etc. of the Bengal cavalry are all available.

The difference from Dashun's regular cavalry is that Dashun's regular cavalry is basically a one-shot deal, charging at full speed in a complete formation of thirty steps, densely packed.

Go in and win.

If you can't rush in, it will be like the situation faced by France's elite cavalry in Hanover not long ago: the first wave failed to push in. Under the dense formation, those dead horses and soldiers became flesh and blood on the ground. It was too much. Once the dense cavalry formation fails in the first attack, there may be basically no chance.

Once the cavalry attacks in dense formation like a wall, it is impossible for it to flank the enemy or perform any formation changes.

It is often impossible to detect all the obstacles that may be encountered during the march before the battle.

After the impact, how to reorganize a cavalry squadron with no gaps on both wings?

If one horse falls, the other horse next to it will turn around. This is not a matter of avoiding trampling the dead or injured person who has fallen to the ground, but a matter of such a big horse lying on the ground and trampling itself at such a speed that it will most likely break its bones.

Wait... wait, these are all the problems encountered by the regular cavalry of the Dashun Army after the reform. There are various reasons for opposition, and in fact they are all reasonable.

The problem is that problems like this and that are not as good as the one-shot deal of intensive charging, or the high chance of tearing apart the opponent's defense with the speeding impact of a thirty-step drunkard.

The Bengal cavalry did not have any of the problems that Dashun's dense cavalry worried about.

But the problem is, they don't have any problem of this or that, but they can't break through any square...

Indeed, the Bengal cavalry avoided the shortcomings of Dashun's regular cavalry, which were unable to attack the flanks and quickly change formations during the charge.

But the price was that they encountered a dense barrage of bayonets and a volley of shotguns. They directly avoided the skirmishers and cavalry artillery lines in front and fled to both sides.

Indeed, Bengal cavalry can easily cross unknown obstacles on the battlefield on their own. With their own equestrian skills, they can avoid being implicated by fallen horses.

But the price is that they will stall seriously, which is completely different from the shock to the infantry caused by a thirty-step impact like a drunken and speeding lunatic like Dashun.

Once the cavalry stalls, once they don't know what they are going to do, and they rush around in the gaps between the scattered square formations, they are essentially living targets.

Just like the regular battleships of Dashun, there were more than seventy cannons, but the battleships did not dare to shoot at the fort with only a few heavy cannons.

Even if the Bengal cavalry still has some elite warriors who are capable of riding and shooting, it would be a long life to play riding and shooting around the flintlock phalanx.

Amidst the banging gunfire, Bengal cavalrymen who were overwhelmed or rushed into the gaps between various square formations and lost their direction were shot down.

More cavalry chose to retreat or run away to the wings.

Fortunately, they were the last elite troops of Bengal. After running to the two wings, they did not immediately collapse, but turned their horses' heads and returned to the place where they launched their attack.

Jafar, who was behind, made the most wrong decision in his life.

After the failure of this wave of attack, he did not choose to run away directly, run back to Rajshahi, prepare to escape, or go to the sea to hide.

Instead, he decided to launch another attack.

He was a little scared of the skirmishers and cavalry artillery lines in front of him, and decided to go around a bigger circle this time and try to charge the Dashun battalion square from the side.

At least, it seemed that those battalion squares were easier to charge than the skirmishers and artillery lines that impressed him just now.

On the battlefield where the battle was the most intense just now, there were hundreds of war horses lying densely, and the remains of cavalry directly torn apart by buckshot.

The ultra-long range of those skirmishers and the shock of more than a dozen cannons firing buckshot at the same time made Jafar dare not try to charge straight again.

Although he did not charge directly at the beginning.

But at the beginning, he, not only him, but even the British did not expect that Dashun's skirmishers and cavalry artillery could do this.

They could arrange skirmishers in an arc formation to cover the cavalry artillery's advance in the opposite direction, block the cavalry's charge in the direction of the cavalry, and force the cavalry to rush into the gaps in the phalanx behind them.

And with this powerful firepower and range advantage, they really held on, and really forced Jafar's cavalry to rush into the phalanx trap to the side and back.

Too shocking, unprecedented.

However, in fact, Dashun's army was not strong enough to be invincible. It was just because of the special situation of Dashun that the military reform direction of Dashun many years ago made Dashun's tactical system really suitable for this kind of combat method.

It can be regarded as a characteristic enhancement. In fact, if it is really pulled to the European battlefield to play a large-scale battle of 70,000 to 80,000 people, this kind of trick can't be played. It is definitely slightly stronger, but basically it is at the level of half a catty and nine taels.

For example, in the current situation in Europe, in terms of the direction of military reform, take the simplest Dashun specialized siege super excellent combat engineer as an example. This is the direction that suits Dashun, but not the direction that suits the military reform in Europe.

For the European battlefield, why should we fight the bastion?

If we can achieve universal conscription or a military camp state, recruit 3,000 to 5,000 more soldiers, and surround the bastion, wouldn't it be done? It will not hinder the supply line or the advance of the main army. Recruiting 3,000 to 5,000 more soldiers and reforming the conscription system will be more cost-effective than spending a lot of money to train specialized combat engineers?

But this truth is a "correct but meaningless" truth for Dashun. Because of this truth, Dashun can't use it.

There is no problem in recruiting 30,000 to 50,000 more people. The problem is to recruit 30,000 to 50,000 more people to besiege the bastion. Wherever there is a need for siege, it is either in the Western Regions, in western Sichuan, or in Southeast Asia. Recruiting soldiers is no problem, but sending soldiers there is a problem.

Similarly, the tactical system after the Dashun military reform has two very significant characteristics from the beginning.

First: The purpose of the military reform was to determine the colonial war model of the Seven Years' War. Due to the limitations of the delivery capabilities of various countries, only wars of three to five thousand people could be fought.

Therefore, the requirements of the Dashun military reform must rely on this one: that is, under the condition of limited delivery capabilities, strengthen the tactical capabilities of brigades and battalions to ensure that they maintain absolute advantages in battles of three to five thousand people. And... this scale of battle must be a battle with only a small number of cavalry.

Because whether it is Dashun, or Britain, France, Prussia, Spain, and Portugal, they do not have the ability to get three to five thousand cavalry to protect the flanks and fight a battle with cavalry flank protection in a colony far away in the ocean.

Second: The touchstone after the military reform is always the nomadic direction.

The struggle between farming and nomadism for thousands of years, the three major events of northern border, floods, and annexation that began in the Qin and Han Dynasties, whether the military reform can succeed in military terms, first of all, must be experimented in the northwest.

How big is the difference between the Mongols and Europeans in the military organization model, tactical system, artillery ratio, infantry drill manual, etc. at this time? It goes without saying.

Therefore, the requirements of the Dashun military reform must also rely on the second one: that is, the coordination of infantry and artillery can be carried out in nomadic areas such as the northwest and Mongolia.

The Dashun tactical system must be able to achieve that one or two thousand infantry can quickly deploy formations and specialize in the ability to fight cavalry between battalions and companies when facing the attack of pan-Mongolized troops.

These two significant characteristics are combined together to create the specialized Dashun tactical system at this time.

In fact, Dashun did not carry out military reforms against India or Bangladesh. There is really no reason to carry out military reforms against India and Bangladesh. Even if it is aimed at the military reform of the southwest land reform and the Sichuan-West fortress group, it must be ranked ahead of India, which had almost no presence before.

Dashun only carried out military reforms for the northwest frontier of pan-Mongolized tactics and the three to five thousand people in the possible colonial war that was expected at that time.

It's just that... the Bengal cavalry happened to be a pan-Mongolized tactic. Their tactics are very similar to those of the Junggars. Even the infantry used the so-called "Zambarak big bird gun", not to mention the cavalry style.

The British army commanded by Clive was exactly the scale of the colonial war envisioned by the Dashun military reform system, with "a European army of three to five thousand people as the imaginary enemy."