Chapter 276: The Battle of the Two Sons (13)
Junior officers, corporals, sergeants, commanders, volunteers, etc., are the cornerstone of the entire Sishang tactical system.
Just like the tactics of the first wave of cavalry attacking the coalition forces at this time, with one brigade and four companies as the first wave of attack, the tactics are also very professional textbook tactics of the Chinese army rushing straight and flanking at 45 degrees.
This tactic requires eight companies to be level, six companies to act as flanks, and to make a formation shift with the whole team in place.
It is impossible for every soldier to know what he wants to do, and it is impossible to say that the division commander and deputy division commander can make corresponding actions when the next order is forty or fifty degrees.
The coalition cavalry could not turn the whole team because it was a technical job.
It requires a large and rigorous grass-roots organization, formation training, non-commissioned officers who know a certain mathematical foundation, and soldiers who can understand the decomposition order.
When it was time to turn to the flank at 45 degrees, the six companies on the flank would follow the company commanders' decomposition orders, and they didn't need to know what they were doing, they just needed to follow the orders to complete each step.
The first company close to the Chinese army will maintain the formation of a horizontal charge when turning, and the six Sima squads will slow down and the sixth squad will accelerate while maintaining a horizontal line, so as to stagger a standard diagonal line.
When the second company turns, the non-commissioned officers or ink men on the side of the company should lead the team, change the squad from a horizontal formation to a column, and after the six squads become six columns, the front row of the flag bearer and the company representative will be the leader of the platoon, and at an angle of about 30 degrees from the direction of travel of the first company, move forward the distance on the drill code, and then change from column to horizontal formation.
In this way, the second company will change from a horizontal formation to a column, which will provide space for the third company to directly change direction in a horizontal formation, otherwise the third company will have no room for maneuver, resulting in a chaotic formation.
The third company should first turn into a column, then assemble in a column, close to the direction of the second company, and then turn from a column to a horizontal team, and the six squads will advance a certain distance along the space vacated by the second company in the formation of the small team, and then turn from the horizontal team to the column, and the veterans and corporals or Sima commanders who are now the leaders of the team on the two wings of the team will lead the team to separate forward, and then turn into a horizontal team with the head of the platoon as the axis.
Similarly, because the third company is close to the second company first, the space of the fourth company is larger, and there is no need to turn into a column, but only need to change direction directly in a horizontal formation.
The horizontal teams of the fourth company were side by side, and the six squads were arranged vertically, and after marching quickly to the specified distance, each squad turned directly in the huge space given up by the third company, and directly deployed in a horizontal formation.
The 5th and 6th companies did not consider space, but speed, distance and angle, so the 5th and 6th companies had to use each other as references.
The 5th Company should provide space for the 4th Company to change direction and also serve as a reference for the 6th Company, which will approach the 6th Company in the depth formation of the squad and the 6th Company will also approach the 5th Company in the depth of the squad formation.
Then, in two cross-referenced arcs, they quickly ran to the front and spread out, which did not affect the space of the rest of the company, nor did it cause the formation to be confused.
These complex formations are not something that the coalition cavalry can do.
Take the sixth company on the flank, for example, and the company commander needs to give about sixteen disassembly orders.
First of all, the corporal on the right wing of each Sima squad stopped, and the Sima commander on the left flank led the team, taking the corporal on the right wing as a fixed axis, circling an arc to turn the horizontal team of the squad into a column.
Then, the order was changed again, the trumpeter blew the trumpet, the corporal on the right wing of the squad became the platoon, the commander of the left wing stood still, and the column of the whole squad turned again with the commander of the left wing as the axis, and the original right wing became the left wing, and the left wing became the right wing.
The column to the horizontal team, the horizontal team to the column, all need those side corporal or ink veterans as the axis, only in this way can the formation be kept unchaotic, there must be an axis.
When it turned into a horizontal team again, the fifth company next to it had also completed the change of formation, and the two sides referred to each other and began to run forward.
After arriving at the fixed position, the first squad stopped, and under the control of the officer's lock, the horizontal team was again converted into a column, and then after arriving at the designated position according to the fixed batch, it was then transferred to a horizontal team with Sima Chang as the axis.
In this way, the six companies can complete the whole team turn, and at the same time, the position of the commander of each company is still in the middle of the company to maintain the formation, and the corporal and the veterans of the Mo family are still on the flanks.
As a soldier, you don't need to know any major tactical 45-degree turn outflanking, you just need to understand the decomposition commands such as stopping, following, turning left, turning right, and turning.
More than a dozen or twenty decomposition orders are executed by non-commissioned officers as the core, so as to achieve the effect of not chaotic formation and the whole team changing formations.
The effect of this change of formation is the embodiment of combat effectiveness, and it is also the reason why cavalry officers who have returned from Zhao Di like Shu Zhu Mi must enter the military academy to re-study, and it is also the fundamental reason why these cavalry with very good riding skills are always inferior to those more disciplined martial knight treasures.
In terms of horsemanship, these light horsemen are no worse than those warrior knights; When it comes to fighting, no one can take advantage of one-on-one.
The difference is the speed of the formation, the discipline of marching, the proportion of officers, and the time it takes to give feedback on the execution of orders.
Although it is not as good as the more disciplined warrior knights, it is not a problem to hang the allied cavalry.
The coalition cavalry was unable to make a full turn, which meant that once they turned, there would be gaps and confusion, and a single rider could not fight against the entire attacking cavalry.
The formation and the configuration of the officers made it possible for the cavalry on Sishang to maintain the formation at all times, unless the corporals on both flanks were dead, it was possible that the formation was scattered and difficult to regroup.
The company commanders and company representatives deployed in the front and rear can also quickly form a team in the chaos, with themselves as the center and Corporal Sima Changmo as the core, and quickly reorganize the formation.
On the battlefield, all a divisional or brigade-level officer like Shu Prisoner Mi has to do is to give orders that can be done in the drill code, and then choose the central breakthrough.
What sustains the combat effectiveness of these cavalry is the training and rank and file officers.
This time, the first wave of attack of the prisoners was a standard flank 45-degree tactic of changing the direction of the whole team to outflank.
The warrior knights of Sishang can charge at about 600 paces and can maintain a relatively reliable formation.
And these light horsemen can only charge quickly when they are about two hundred paces, and if they are a little farther away, the formation will be chaotic.
The first wave of more than 2,000 cavalry was far more shocking than the impact of the allied cavalry, because the formation of discipline guaranteed made the momentum of 2,000 cavalry far better than 4,000 cavalry.
When the first wave of cavalry slowed down to about 500 paces, the prisoner ordered the flank to turn, the trumpeter agitated the horn and passed the message, the brigade commander on the flank commanded in the center, and the company commanders of each company gave the order to disassemble their respective companies, and when they were about 300 paces away from the enemy, the flanks had already adjusted their direction when they were completely in formation.
At about two hundred paces, the prisoner waved an iron sword, and the trumpeter beside him blew the horn of the charge.
The cavalrymen in the front row, with wooden spears between them, followed the corporals on both flanks, began to accelerate.
The distance of 200 paces was approaching in an instant, and when the prisoner rushed to the position, the central company had already opened a gap and rushed in.
Beside them were broken wooden spears and fallen corpses, and the loose coalition cavalry tried to fight back, but to no avail.
Each company can at least complete the squad, every coalition cavalry feels that they need to face four or five opposing iron swords at the same time, after being rushed out of formation, the coalition army will not withdraw in the whole column in the chaos, plus those infantry phalanxes that are still holding on to have not been dispersed, almost half an hour, the last elite force of the coalition cavalry and chariots have completely collapsed.
Instead of regrouping, the captives let the trumpeters blow their trumpets, and each company raised its flags to pursue the fleeing coalition cavalry, not allowing them a chance to regroup and drive them out of the battlefield once and for all.
One of the hallmarks of the gunpowder age is not the so-called dense charge, but the ability to quickly regroup in a melee. Those who can do the latter must be able to do the former, even if they can't do a dense charge hundreds of steps away, it is enough to do a canter and accelerate within 200 steps.
If the cavalry of the two sides only looks at equestrianism, there is not much difference.
However, a whole team can divide into a dozen broken down orders, so as to continue to maintain the integrity of the formation in the turn; The other is based on the tactical instinct of the soldier even if he turns, and even if he can maintain the formation for a while, he will eventually disperse in the rush.
This gap is difficult to see in peacetime, but on the battlefield it is fatal.
After the last of the coalition forces that could reverse the partial occupation was defeated by this tactic of infantry luring and cavalry flank charge, the coalition forces had in fact completely lost the opportunity to retreat in formation.
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On the other side of the battlefield, the battle of the hill, which decided the survival of the right flank of the coalition army and the Chinese army, was also nearing its end.
The two brigades in reserve quickly replenished the strength of the battle for the hill, and two of the most elite companies of grenadiers of the advance battalion were also sent to the hill as a means of pressing the bottom of the box.
The decisive charge of the nobles of the Qi State did not have much effect, but after a large number of nobles were shot, the remaining companies of the Qi army had completely lost the spirit of daring to fight.
After the grenadiers climbed the hill, they used dense iron thunder throws and counter-shocks as a signal that the Mo family had captured the hillock.
After the black flag was planted at the top of the hillock, several small cannons were quickly pushed from the bottom of the hill to the top of the hillock.
A large number of copper cannons on the left flank of the Mo family also began to assemble, and although the battle for the hill was not over, after the first few small cannons climbed the hill and carried out steadily, the battle could actually be declared over.
The cavalry and two brigades of infantry in the flank, the grenadiers and infantry of the advance battalion on the knoll, and the right flank of the coalition army, which had been pinned by artillery shelling, could no longer resist and began to flee in confusion towards the rear.
The capture of the hill meant that the left wing of the Mo family could not be divided by the hill after breaking through, thus forming a cohesive force.
At this time, the left flank of the Mo family occupies the hillock, and at most a quarter of an hour will completely collapse the right flank of the coalition army; The cavalry behind the left flank of the Mojia completely drove away the last elite cavalry and chariots of the coalition army, and the infantry re-changed their formation and cooperated with the cavalry to compress the coalition defense line from the flank; The warrior knights and some infantry, who were the general reserve support, had also moved along the flank of Sanyanagi to the vicinity where the cavalry battle had just broken out, completing the encirclement of the coalition forces.