Chapter 679: The mouth suddenly opened
Zhao Hao meditated hard to defeat the enemy, and even wanted to give up, thinking that if he really couldn't do it, he would look at the sea and cry bitterly, and then hold a grand festival to save some face. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info although it costs a little more, but it is much less expensive than sending troops, and it is also insured. Today, I was inspired by listening to the fool's unintentional words, so that my brain opened up and thought of a strategy to break the enemy, but it was difficult for him to complete such a big battle plan alone.
But after all, the sins you have created can only be repaid by yourself. But those military strategists and strategists don't dare to use it themselves, if they know that they know that their ancestral graves will be dug up, and they can talk nonsense to everyone so calmly, they have to ask the Queen Mother to abolish themselves. And now it is not as good as the beginning, there are two ready-made spare tires in Qiongzhou, and the Queen Mother is also summoned into the palace from time to time to chat, it is said that she loves it very much!
Fortunately, Zhao Yu likes to keep a hand in doing things, as long as he can make an outline, then the people in the Imperial Office can make plans for themselves. You must know that as early as Yashan, he began to train them, and these people also participated in the formulation of the battle plan for the defense of Qiongzhou, the drafting of the military reform plan and the formulation of the previous exercise plans, especially Lin Zhiwu showed a genius in strategic and tactical planning. In addition, what reassured Zhao Yu was that these people had tight mouths, and they would never say a word more when they were killed, of course, they also knew that they were the ones who were killed.
Zhao Yu has also practiced martial arts over the years, he grew up listening to commentaries in his previous life, and often listened to how many people the ancient generals single-handedly won over, and they came to the company camp alone at every turn, killing a few in and out among more than 100,000 people, and envied him and a group of friends who fought with a broken stick every day. In the streets and alleys, I heard that who was particularly good at fighting, and a few big men couldn't get in, so I wanted to worship others as teachers.
In this era of cold weapons, Zhao Yu realized that those were basically nonsense, and Ni Liang could fight because he was flexible and his legs and feet were good, otherwise he would have to be chopped. And on the real battlefield, in cold weapon fighting, there are indeed few real one-on-one heads-up situations. So, in a cold weapon fight, how should you deal with multiple enemies?
In fact, if there are fewer people and more people, the key is to move in a position, and you must not be surrounded by people, because once you are surrounded, it will be over. Therefore, you must not entangle with any opponent in the case of fewer enemies, if there is a thought in my heart that I will kill him with more force, it means that you are already very dangerous, and others have begun to surround you. In short, regardless of the outcome of the battle, one blow and go.
If one of the opponents is strong and the others are weaker, kill the weak one first. The other party is fighting, and when he finds that he is left, he will be weak-hearted, and he will shrink back when he fights, and it is easy to take it away in a wave. If the opponent's strength is relatively average, feint the weaker, let the weaker take a defensive position, and then grab the stronger one and kill it. Because the weak wave can't be taken away, it will be entangled, and then the stronger will seize the opportunity to sneak attack.
Zhao Yu knew that because of the difference in the genes of the people in the north and south, there was a gap between the quality of individual soldiers and the Yuan army, but they were not inferior to the Yuan army in terms of discipline and execution, especially the collective combat consciousness was better than that of the Yuan army, and the weapons were more advanced than the Yuan army, so the combat effectiveness of the two armies was comparable on the whole. The gap with the Yuan army was that the lack of cavalry led to poor mobility, and it was difficult to catch the enemy and destroy the enemy, and all this needed to be solved strategically and tactically.
Everyone knows that water systems have an important impact on military operations, and the extent of their influence varies according to their distribution, flow direction, hydrological characteristics and nearby topographical conditions, and is closely related to seasonal changes. There are three main aspects of the impact of water systems on military operations:
The first is the impact on combat operations. Like the large and medium rivers in the direction of operation, they are also one of the strategic barriers, which are undoubtedly beneficial to the defenders; However, it is a natural obstacle for the attacker, preventing or slowing the advance. Large and medium rivers parallel to the direction of operations will also divide the battle formations and defense systems of attack and defense, which is not conducive to organizational coordination and mutual support.
During the rainy season, especially during the flood season, it was difficult for the troops to cross the river; In the dry season, its barrier effect is reduced; The freezing of ice in winter will fundamentally change its role, from an obstacle to a thoroughfare. Fighting in plain water network areas with many lakes and swamps, the troops are often divided into some narrow terrain, creating a passive situation, but it provides convenience for carrying out water guerrilla warfare.
The second is the impact on transportation. The numerous water systems are undoubtedly an obstacle to land transportation, and only bridges can be passed, which causes certain difficulties for the mobility of troops and the rapid transportation of large quantities of combat materials; But at the same time, the rivers themselves provide convenient conditions for water transportation. Third, it provides water conditions for the survival and combat of the troops. The large corps needs a large amount of water supply for operations, and rivers and lakes have become the most important and convenient water sources.
The Mongolian army was able to sweep through Europe and Asia with a mere few hundred thousand troops and build an empire that is unparalleled in the world, and it was by no means relying on the strength of the crowd, but in terms of strategy, it often chose the strategy of great detour to create a broad space for war, and to take the detour as the straight, avoid the real and attack the false, so that the offensive and defensive structure of the battlefield underwent a sudden change, so as to disrupt the enemy's deployment and create favorable fighters for itself.
Tactically, the most common method of warfare used by the Mongol army was to line up the troops in many roughly parallel columns under the cover of light cavalry, and advance in a wide line. When the first column encountered the enemy's main force, the column either stopped advancing or retreated slightly according to the situation, while the rest of the column continued to advance, occupying the enemy's flank and the area behind it. This often forced the enemy to retreat to protect its lines of communication, and the Mongols took the opportunity to approach the enemy and cause confusion as they retreated, and finally completely surrounded and annihilated the enemy.
The battlefield chosen by Zhao Yu was in the southeast region, where the water network was dense and there was no winter ice period to use, which limited the mobility of the Mengyuan cavalry, and he already had a strategic advantage. The problem is that since the change of clothes, the Song army has trained the European linear tactics that he copied, which has been rampant in the European battlefield for a long time, but the horizontal team also has a fatal flaw.
That is, the mobility of the horizontal team is very low, and even the victorious victor has difficulty organizing an effective pursuit, because he is afraid that the formation will be scattered and the soldiers will desert. Therefore, in the era of the line array, there were basically rout wars, and there were few wars of annihilation, of course, this also had a lot to do with the limited war diplomatic wars that were popular between the European powers at that time. However, this is not the point, the point is that you must also have corresponding tactics to be able to win tactically under favorable strategic conditions.
The terrain of the operation area is complex, and most of the north of Hangzhou Bay belongs to the plain coast. The plain coast is easy to land on, and there is no dangerous terrain to take advantage of on land. The mountainous coast is also known as the rocky shore, the coastal land hills are undulating, the coast is composed of rocks, the cliff wall is steep, the situation is precipitous, the coastline is tortuous, the headlands are intertwined, there are many natural harbors, the water in front of the shore is deep, and there are often islands distributed. To the south of Hangzhou Bay, most of them belong to mountainous coasts, except for some harbors and estuarine triangles, which are plain coasts. There are many natural harbors on the mountainous coast, which can be used as a naval base, and at the same time, it is inconvenient to land, and the coastal terrain is very dangerous, but it is conducive to coastal defense operations.
Zhao Yu knew that the standard Mongolian battle formation consisted of five horizontal formations, each of which was a separate column. The first two were heavy cavalry and the other three were light cavalry. In front of the five columns, a number of light cavalry units were also responsible for reconnaissance and cover, and as the opposing forces were getting closer, the three columns of light cavalry in the rear advanced through the gap between the first two columns of heavy cavalry, and after careful aiming, they threw javelins and poisoned arrows of devastating power at the enemy.
Then, while still in full formation, the first two columns of heavy cavalry retreated first, and then the light cavalry retreated in turn. Even if the enemy's line was solid, it would have been shaken by this pre-prepared and dense barrage of arrows. Sometimes this kind of harassment can be used to break the enemy, and there is no need for a surprise charge. If the commander of the column believed that the preparatory attack had completely disintegrated the enemy, he ordered the light cavalry to retreat. But if necessary, the heavy cavalry was ordered to charge.
The cavalry companies were close together, but if the central unit was already engaged in an engagement, the flanks were to flank and go around the enemy's flanks and backs. In such outflanking campaigns, smoke screens, dust are often used to confuse the enemy, or the cover of hillsides and valleys is used. After completing the encirclement of the enemy, the various units launched attacks from all directions, causing chaos in the enemy's formation, and finally completely crushing the enemy. This encirclement was a common method of warfare for the Mongol armies, and they were particularly adept at using stratagem to carry it out.
The terrain around Hangzhou is complex and divided into patches by rivers and lakes, which can limit the mobility of the Yuan cavalry, while he can rely on the advantages of the naval army to quickly assemble troops and surround the enemy in a preset position. However, Zhao Yu knew that linear tactics played a prominent role in defense, but lacked offensive capabilities, and the result was that they could not eat it if they were encircled, or they would pay a price that they could not bear, and there was even a danger of being counter-surrounded by the enemy, forcing them to withdraw from the siege.
Zhao Hao understood that the implementation of strategy is composed of many battles and battles, and the defeat of one battle may not affect the strategy, but many failures will be over. He thought about it for a long time and suddenly had an idea, linear tactics were all the rage on the continent, but the French improved on linear tactics, and the reason was that they were too enthusiastic to stand this constraint, so they developed the 'column' assault tactic.
The so-called column means that the linear detachments that were previously arranged horizontally were changed to deep formations. Due to the small frontage, there were fewer casualties in the face of inaccurate musket formations and artillery. The mobility of the column is very strong, which can make a large number of soldiers quickly approach the enemy in a dense formation, and it is more convenient and faster to move troops in the column. In contrast, the mobility of the horizontal team is extremely slow, because he needs to take into account the coherence of the entire front, and there can be no breakage, because the break will become the main object of the opponent's assault, and once the continuous front is broken through a certain point, it will often cause the collapse of the entire front.
Therefore, the closer the horizontal team is to the enemy, the slower the speed, and the more necessary it is to maintain the continuity and integrity of the front, but the slow-moving target is the best target, but with the continuous improvement of the opponent's shooting hit rate and the increase in the rate of fire and the density of firepower, the slow-moving horizontal team is no longer suitable for all battlefield environments, and can only be used for defense. On the contrary, because the columns are independent of each other, there is almost no need to take into account the adjacent columns, and they can approach the enemy line as quickly as possible, reducing the time for the troops to be exposed to fire, thus reducing the casualties of the troops.
And compared with the horizontal team, the terrain adaptability of the vertical formation is very strong, especially in the mountainous terrain. Columns can also be easily transformed into different formations, especially from marching columns can attack directly in columns without changing formation, and it takes almost no time to change formation from marching to attacking, which is very conducive to sudden encounters.
Offensive columns can be arranged in multiple layers. If the enemy's line is loose, the follow-up column will choose the weak point of the enemy's line to attack directly in a column formation. If the skirmishers in the front cannot take advantage of the enemy's firefight, then the follow-up column will be deployed into a horizontal formation to continue to strike at the enemy stragglers who have been tortured by artillery fire and skirmishers in the form of a salvo.
However, the column attack also has its shortcomings, and compared with the basic training of the horizontal unit, which takes half a year and three to five years to train an elite veteran, the degree of training of the soldiers in the column is also low. Because the front of the column is small and the firepower is limited, the column must rely on artillery to cover the column to meet the enemy, and when approaching the enemy to the threatening distance, the front end of the column will naturally disperse into a straggler cluster due to lack of training, so that the enemy line can be shaken by stragglers and artillery.
During the French Revolution, the armies produced by the common masses were often put into actual combat after only a few weeks of training in assault tactics in columns. Of course, this is also related to the French social environment at that time, in the early days of the French Revolution, due to the defection of a large number of old officers, a large number of volunteers and armed people were added to the army, although the morale was high, but not enough training, discipline was slack, and the traditional three-column horizontal team could be formed when defending in place, and it was impossible to form an effective horizontal column when attacking.
There was no choice but to increase the size of the skirmishers, and sometimes entire battalions of soldiers herded sheep into "skirmishers". With the continuous improvement of the training level of the French army, the role of formation was gradually emphasized, and battalion-sized columns were usually supported behind the skirmish line, a tactic that worked well at the time. Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that it would be too late to let the various departments turn to practice and test the effect during the exercise. If it is feasible, then it can not only add a tactic, but also solve the problem of attacking on complex terrain, and thus make its own strategy implemented......