Last night, Guan Zhuofan tossed in bed for half the night, roughly messing things up. I feel a little weak in my heart, I hope Wan'er next door didn't notice anything unusual.

Early in the morning, Guan Zhuofan came to the Xuanjun camp outside the city and found Huaer, who was directing training on the school ground.

Guan Zhuofan watched the drill once, asked people to take two rifles, and carried one with Hua Er into the tent. Wall is a little strange, isn't this rifle supposed to be used on the shooting range?

Guan Zhuofan said: "Wall, I've been thinking about such a question, since the breech gun can be loaded in a low position - squatting, kneeling, or even lying on his stomach, can he shoot in a low position?" For example, to get down on one knee, or even, to lie down completely, supported only by your elbows? ”

A bright light flashed in Wall's mind, and he hesitated, "Theoretically, it's possible...... However, this will affect the formation ......"

In the era of smoothbore guns, the so-called "queue shooting" was used when shooting, because the smoothbore guns had no line and could not hit the enemy without forming a barrage of a certain width. But in the era of rifled guns, the accuracy of shooting was greatly improved, and similar formations were still roughly maintained, and even breech guns appeared, and there were no fundamental changes in a short time.

One reason is of course the inherent inertia - everything is the same in the world, but the more important reason is that the commander has to help or force the soldier to overcome the fear of guns and bullets with the help of dense formations.

People have a herd mentality, and the military, because of its strict discipline and training, is the most important place to be conformity. Advancing in a dense formation, for an ordinary soldier, the psychological stress of breaking away from this group may outweigh the fear of being shot. This ensures that the rout will not happen easily.

The cost is huge casualties.

If low-profile shooting is employed. Although the advantages of breech guns could be better played. Casualties can also be reduced. However, if some are standing, some are half-kneeling, and some are lying down, the formation will naturally not exist, and the help and restraint of the formation to the soldiers will not exist, and the possibility of rout will be greatly increased.

The requirements of skirmisher tactics for the comprehensive quality of soldiers, including courage, self-control, judgment, and shooting jishu, are far more than dense formations. This was the Weishenme skirmisher tactics, which did not fully mature until after the First Shijie War.

You can't open a big gold finger on this issue, but a small gold finger always has to be opened. Guan Zhuofan knows better than anyone in this era that skirmisher tactics are the future, and no matter what, we must find a way to advance this point in time.

We have to lay a foundation for Wall first, and start thinking about improving it from now on. And the next attack on the high ground, due to the terrain, it is impossible to form a dense formation, and naturally a skirmish line will be formed, and now the matter of Walti will not interfere with his command. We can also use the missionary battle on the heights to observe and ponder this issue.

Guan Zhuofan said: "Of course, there will be pros and cons. It's just my feelings, in the long run. The pros outweigh the cons – but this one is not to be jumped. Let's think about it slowly. Well, I've designed a kneeling shooting position, a prone shooting position, and let's have a discussion. ”

Only then did Wall understand that Guan Zhuofan was going to bring a gun into the account.

I saw Marquis Guan kneeling on the ground on his right knee, the butt of the gun against his shoulder, pulling the trigger with his right hand, and holding the body of the gun with his left hand, aiming. Wall's eyes lit up, and he secretly cheered in his heart!

Then Marquis Guan lay prone on the ground, his elbows supported the ground, his left elbow in front of his left elbow and behind his right elbow, still with the butt of the gun on his shoulder, his left hand holding up the barrel of the gun, and his right hand pulling the trigger, aiming at it.

Hua Er praised: "Yixuan, you are really amazing, although I can't say the relationship between low-profile shooting and formation, but as far as low-profile shooting itself is concerned, your posture is very scientific, I want to learn from you and study it." ”

Marquis Guan sweated slightly on his forehead, his face was slightly red, and he secretly screamed ashamed in his heart: It's a pity that I didn't learn how to shoot in a kneeling position when I was in military training in college, but I learned it in a lying position, but I have already returned it to the instructor. Last night, I tossed and turned in bed for a long time, desperately recalling the scenes in the war film and television dramas, and today's performance was finally not out of shape.

The Confederate army had already moved into Missionary Heights, but not all of them remained, and a force of about 15,000 men had crossed Missionary Heights and was moving in the direction between Missionary Heights and Mount Lucourt, south of Chattanooga.

Leading the team was none other than the general of the Confederate Army, Longstreet.

It's no small hassle. In this way, the Confederate army could be flanked by echoing the main force in the missionary heights, and could threaten Chattanooga from the south, and the right side of the southern army would be exposed when the northern army attacked the missionary heights from west to east.

This situation exceeded Guan Zhuofan's original expectations, and made him alert himself: Prague and Longstreet of the Southern Army are not incompetent, and they must not be a little contemptuous of the enemy because of the success of the battle of Chickmoga, thinking that the enemy can be played with in the palm of his hand.

In addition, the northeast and due east directions of Chattanooga were now controlled by the Southerners, and if the Northern Army intended to cut off the enemy's rear route, it could only go around the missionary heights from south to east, and then turn north and move to the east of the missionary heights. If the Northern Army really wanted to do this, the valley between Mount Lucourt and the Missionary Heights was the only way to go, and the arrangement of the Southern Army also had the effect of protecting its own rear road.

However, Guan Zhuofan and Grant had no such intention. The terrain around Chattanooga is quite complex, and it is not easy to move in a large area in a short period of time, especially now that it is the rainy season, and a river that does not exist yesterday can come out of the ground at every turn, and it is difficult to accurately predict the time of the march. It is very likely that the battle on the main battlefield has ended, and the unit responsible for copying the enemy's rear road is still wading through mountains and rivers.

The key point is that although the strategic goal of the Northern Army is to eat this 85,000-strong Southern Army, it does not require "total annihilation", but "complete defeat". This is Tennessee, and most of the Tennessee Legions, the main force of the Southern Army, are local people, and if the establishment is completely dispersed, they will naturally go back to their respective homes and will not return to the team. The Tennessee Legion vanished. This is also an essential feature of warfare in this era.

Now that the main force of the Confederate army had occupied the missionary heights, and the Sherman division had reached the other side of the Tennessee River, it was necessary to act as soon as possible and not give the Confederate army more time to adjust and reinforce.

Tennessee Theater Command formulated the following jihua:

The Cumberland Corps sent a force to force the Sherman army across the Tennessee River.

Early the next morning after Sherman's troops crossed the river, the general offensive was launched.

The Sherman Division attacked the northern end of the missionary heights from northwest to southeast, where the terrain was relatively gentle, and the Sherman Division was the left flank of our army.

In the middle, the main ridge of the missionary heights was attacked by the 14th Army of the Kumbran Regiment and the 1st Songjiang Corps.

The southern end of the Missionary Heights was attacked by the Matsue Corps, and this section of the terrain was the steepest, with the focus on the highest peak of the Missionary Heights, "Lookout Mountain". This is the left flank of the enemy and the right flank of mine.

The 1st Songjiang Regiment and the 1st Twentieth Army of the Kumbran Regiment rushed to the valley between the Missionary Heights and Mount Lucourt to block the Longstreet Division of the Southern Army.

The 21st Corps of the Kombran Regiment was the general reserve.

The specific arrangements of Xuan Jun are as follows:

The 1st Division's Yang1st Regiment, Dezi Regiment, and 2nd Division's Luzi Regiment participated in the attack on the missionary highland main ridge in the middle, and there were two battalions of the Yang1st Regiment Spencer, the number seems to be slightly smaller, but Guan Zhuofan visually observed that the winner or loser on this road lies in the artillery battle, and the demand for Spencer is slightly less.

The 1st Division's Kezi Regiment, the Kuizi Regiment, and the 2nd Division's Xianzi Regiment were responsible for capturing the "Lookout Mountain", and the Kezi Regiment and the Xianzi Regiment each had two Spencer battalions, a total of four battalions of Spencer, with the strongest firepower. After capturing the "Lookout Mountain", the enemy and the enemy are dispositioned, and the main ridge of the missionary heights can be attacked on both sides of the middle road.

The 2nd Foreign Regiment of the 2nd Division, the Jianzi Regiment and friendly forces jointly blocked the Longstreet Division, and the 2nd Foreign Regiment had two Spencer battalions. This road did not require the defeat of the enemy, but the blocking of Lang to the death so that he would not be able to cause trouble on the flanks of our army.

The atmosphere inside and outside the city quickly became tense.

After Sherman participated in the formulation of the general attack and received the task of the headquarters, he rushed back to his troops and began to prepare to cross the river.

As a result, Guan Zhuofan really saw the eye-popping industrial capabilities of the United States, an emerging industrial country, and understood that the north of Weishenme could finally win this war.

*(To be continued......)