As for the merits of linear tactics, no one in the world knew better than Roque in 1899.

Historically, linear tactics did play a great role, and in the era of smoothbore guns and flintlock pistols, limited by the defects of weapons, in order to increase the lethal effect, they could only use close fire to line up to shoot to increase the hit rate.

The British went to the extreme in this regard, and the lobster soldiers were also known as the "Sequoia Army", a habit that was retained during the Civil War, in order to distinguish the white shirts who supported the king, the troops who supported the parliament adopted bright red as the color of their uniforms, and with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, the lobster soldiers wearing three-cornered hats finally conquered the world with the British Empire.

Linear tactics are the main tactics of lobster soldiers to conquer the world, this tactics have very high requirements for discipline and coordination, in the course of the battle, the infantry have to listen to the march played by musicians on the battlefield, step by step with a fixed speed to advance, and the later widely used positive step began to form during this period.

The famous "March of the British Grenadiers" used by the British army is a march of the British army, the style of this piece is very fresh and pleasant, and the "Lobster Soldiers" is accompanied by this brisk song, facing the enemy's bullets, enduring the casualties of his comrades, walking through all kinds of complex terrain, fearlessly facing all kinds of enemies, and establishing a glorious empire on which the sun never sets.

The most representative of linear tactics was the Battle of Waterloo, when the Duke of Wellington demanded that the British must allow the French Guards cavalry to charge within 20 yards before they could fire.

18 meters!

It's about the length of a bus, and at this distance, the soldiers on both sides can almost see the freckles on each other's faces, and the other side is still a cavalry!

Since linear tactics had their glory, there was no reason for the British to change them, so in the Second Boer War, the British troops still used linear tactics.

It cannot be said that the British are stubborn, no one will improve a tactic until it is completely eliminated by the times, and linear tactics are completely eliminated by the times until the First World War, when the Maxim machine gun and barbed wire in World War I became a nightmare for linear tactics, and the Anglo-French army lost more than 60,000 people in one day in the Battle of the Somme, and linear tactics have since become history.

In fact, in the Second Boer War, the linear tactics were already exhausted, the total population of the Boers was only 400,000, and they did not have the ability to fight the British Expeditionary Force head-on, so the Boers had to use small militias to fight guerrilla warfare against the British in the Transvaal.

The Boers also had a brilliant record, with the British killed 1,139 and 250 missing in the recent Battle of Ladysmith, while the Boer army suffered only 8 killed and 30 wounded.

The outcome of the battle, it seems, was as if the Boers were fighting against the black tribes, which was simply unacceptable to the arrogant British.

Of course, with the huge difference in overall strength, the British were indeed able to conquer the Boers, which also made the weakness of linear tactics not completely exposed, and also led to heavy losses of the Anglo-French forces in World War I.

No one knows all this except Roque, and even if Roque says all this, no one will believe it, but the same thing, if Henry is allowed to say it, then the effect will be completely different.

"- Got it? If you still stubbornly use bright red as the color of military uniforms, if you still stubbornly use linear tactics and do not want to make progress, then sooner or later the empire will face even more painful losses, think about it, the Boers have no machine guns, few people, but if it is replaced by another country that is not inferior to the empire in size, then what will be the result? Roque could only pick up what he could say, and it was shocking enough.

"What will the result be—" Henry subconsciously repeated Roque's words, and when Madame Veuve Clicquot opened it, Henry didn't take a sip of it, but his mouth was dry.

"You've served in the military, and you know the power of the Maxim machine gun, so think about it, what do soldiers face when they line up in a neat line and charge an army with a Maxim machine gun? What was once a close battle can turn into a one-sided slaughter! "Roque is not alarmist, this kind of war scene will definitely happen in the future.

No, this kind of war scene has actually happened, and it was created by the British.

In the Zulu War five years ago, a British unit of more than 50 people repelled dozens of charges by more than 5,000 Mactabili men with only 4 Maxim heavy machine guns, and killed more than 3,000 Mactabili warriors in the whole battle.

"No, that can't happen, we have to do something." Very coincidentally, Henry experienced the Zulu War, so he knew the power of the Maxim heavy machine gun, and when the advantage was on his side, Henry was triumphant, but when the advantage was on the other side -

Henry was instantly frightened into a cold sweat.

"We can't do anything, don't forget that we are policemen, no matter what we say, we will be regarded as a dream, uh, no, you are also from the army, you should have something to do with the army, or you go to find your old superior? They should be in Ladysmith. Roque still thought of a way, Henry was born in the army, and he must have something to do with the army.

"No, no, I can't go to them." Henry refused again and again, the expression on his face was very embarrassed, and he actually blushed rarely.

"What's going on? It's not like your style, anyway, how did you leave the army in the first place? "Roque is quite curious, which can make Henry's second skin blush, which means that Henry should have a rather unbearable past.

"Don't ask, I won't tell you!" Henry was a little annoyed, but his tone was very resolute.

Roque didn't speak, and looked Henry up and down with malicious eyes, and Henry was soon embarrassed.

"Well, I was courting General Hopkins' daughter—" Henry didn't have much of a city and was still very honest with his friends, which marked a big step forward in the relationship between Henry and Roque.

"Ha, you made the belly of the general's daughter bigger!" Roque had a big brain, this kind of thing was not uncommon among nobles.

"No, I don't, Lacey and I are genuinely in love, it's just that Lacey already has a marriage contract—" Henry couldn't go on, tears glistening in his eyes, and he took the cup in front of him and drank it down.

This time it was replaced by Roque embarrassed, who can not have a few failed relationship experiences, Roque no longer laughed at Henry, nor apologized to Henry, silently added wine to Henry's cup, and silently took the cup in front of him and drank it all.

Don't say anything, it's all in the wine.