Chapter 445: Murphy's Law
To the layman, fighting a war is a very simple matter.
When the layman talks about fighting, he always thinks that in a face-to-face battle between two armies, a single bullet can destroy an enemy.
Destroying an enemy force of 3,000 men requires only one shot from each of your 1,000 musketeers.
However, anyone who has participated in actual combat, or played a real combat game, knows that this is impossible.
No matter how well you perform in training on weekdays and how accurate your guns are, once you get to the actual combat or in the real competition, you can play a good training performance.
You know, on the battlefield, it's extremely chaotic. Anything can happen in a chaotic battlefield.
In later generations, the Yankees summed up a whole set of "Murphy rules on the battlefield" on the battlefield, which is very revealing.
Murphy's Law on the Battlefield is the thing that has been misrepresented as the U.S. Army's Code of Operations.
However, in fact, the US military's code of conduct is detailed to the extent that it is necessary to maintain one's teeth in what environment.
There are detailed rules on what to do and what not to do in each situation.
How could it be possible to come up with such a crude so-called code of conduct as Murphy's Law on the battlefield! This is completely spread by people who don't know how to pretend to understand.
Now, we can distill a few of them to see how the veterans who survived the war describe the battlefield.
The friendly firepower is not friendly at all.
Suppressive fire will not suppress anything.
You're not Superman.
There's a big hole in your chest, and you'll naturally stop.
Pretend to be someone who doesn't matter, and the enemy may not have many bullets and won't waste them on you.
Never be in the same foxhole as someone who is brave.
Never sleep with someone crazier than you.
Never forget that the weapon in your hand was made by the lowest bidder.
If the attack goes well, you must have fallen into the enemy's trap.
The enemy force you thought was a feint is actually the real main attacking force.
Enemies will always attack when they're ready and you're not.
There is no such thing as a perfect plan.
Any battle plan will be wasted in the Centennial City after engaging the enemy.
The grenade's five-second fuse always burns out in three seconds.
Important things are always simple, and simple things are always difficult to do.
If an enemy comes within your range, then, don't forget, you're also within his range.
The head and the ass are always incompatible.
Don't think there will be reinforcements to save you.
If the deputy platoon commander can see you, then so can the enemy.
Accidents are the best proof of the law of battle, let the battle plan roll aside.
You're always accurate when you have enough ammo, but when you're short on ammo, you can't hit anything the size of a barn.
The more useful the weapon, the farther it will have to be sent when it is repaired.
Battlefield experience is a thing that you can only get after an action where you need it a lot.
If the command may be misunderstood, then, it will certainly be misunderstood.
These are just a few of the 140 or perhaps more Murphy Laws of the battlefield.
From the complaints left by these veterans who survived on the battlefield or survived for a period of time, it can be clearly found that fighting a war is really a matter of frequent accidents and constant conditions.
When a war is fought, the situation on the battlefield will never go as planned before the war, let alone as smoothly as people think.
Therefore, although the situation is now dominated by the Huaxia army, and constantly shooting at the enemy through infantry guns, flintlock pistols, pump-action rifles, hand cannons, grenades and other weapons.
However, the overall situation of the battle has not yet gone in a very clear direction.
The two sides are still fighting, the Houjin army is still advancing, and the Huaxia army is still shooting.
In the cacophony of different orders from both sides, we approached each other.
The fighters of the 3 spy platoons and the 3 infantry platoons fired another salvo halfway, but Houjin also made corresponding adjustments.
Houjin ordered the stragglers to continue to move forward and shoot at the Chinese stragglers.
Under the supervision of the warlords, these Houjin stragglers bravely marched forward to a place 50 meters away from the main formation.
What they did, just like the previous actions of the Huaxia stragglers, was to use the surname of the counter-shooting to widen the distance between the Huaxia stragglers and the Houjin infantry array.
In this way, the distance between the enemy and the enemy is far away, and the shooting accuracy of the Chinese stragglers naturally drops a lot.
Similarly, even if a few special service platoons engaged in another rapid fire, the losses of the infantry formation of the Houjin Army were not as great as before, and the casualties dropped.
It's just that it's the stragglers who have suffered from Houjin.
Originally, because they couldn't defeat the soldiers of the special platoon in Huaxia, they were forced to return to the middle of their own big formation, relying on the big formation to deal with the attack of the special service platoon.
But now, because the losses of the Great Array were too great, the officers of Houjin sent them out again.
In addition, the officers of Houjin also arranged a team of warlords at the back of the line, pointing bows and arrows at them, asking them to buy space for the large army.
The stragglers in Huaxia were feeling angry because they were being driven away, and they wanted to continue shooting at the Houjin array, and they would be constantly harassed by the Houjin stragglers, so they were even more angry.
Now that the Houjin stragglers came out to be heroes, the angry soldiers of the spy platoon decided to fulfill these Houjin stragglers.
As a result, the Chinese stragglers began to put most of their energy on the Houjin stragglers.
The two sides gradually approached the center of the battlefield, and the overall oppressive and bloody atmosphere became a little stronger again.
In the infantry formations on both sides, the smell of blood was not so strong, but because of the continuous firing, the positions of the Huaxia army were already filled with gunsmoke, and the wind was very small at this time, so it could not be dissipated for a long time.
Zachdan frowned as he looked at the smoke above his queue and the view that was gradually obscuring him. If you continue to fight like this, I am afraid that by the time the Houjin army arrives in front of the battle, your side will completely lose its vision.
After thinking about it for a moment, he turned around and ordered the herald to continue firing in formation after advancing 30 meters to avoid the heavy smoke.
The order was soon given to the sound of bugles and drums, and the whole army moved together, shooting and moving forward in turn.
The team, which is less than 2,000 people, behaves like a steel fortress and is strong.
After the team advanced 30 meters, they happened to meet the stragglers of the special service platoon and the infantry platoon, and they also returned to the main formation automatically under the orders of the officers.