927 On the importance of teammates
As the most elite and most combat-effective unit of the Tang Army, the artillery team has become the most successful army in the Tang Dynasty Army since its birth because of some uncontrollable factors, first of all, artillery has been an extremely powerful firearm since its birth, repeatedly destroying the enemy's will to fight and combat ability, so that the Tang Army has won a great victory at a very small price, and because of Li Erma's reasons, the candidates for artillery are trained and selected according to the standards of the Xuanjia Army.
There are many times when the artillery cannot be used normally because of heavy rain, the artillery team has turned into an elite and capable sharp knife unit, and has taken on quite important responsibilities, such as assault, such as directly taking the head of the enemy chieftain, etc., the soldiers of the artillery team are powerful artillery when they have artillery, and they can change the role of the infantry and cavalry at will without artillery, which is quite capable, and even in the Tang army, there is an elite Cheng dù who judges the army by the proportion of artillery in an army.
Although this is a bit exaggerated, it also highlights the elite Cheng of the artillery team from the side, especially in the war against the Arab army, the results of the collective research of the staff officers in the Tang army show that if there is no artillery to participate in the war and the appearance of artillery, it is estimated that the losses of the Tang army will exceed the current losses of more than 200 percent.
The appearance of artillery can first accurately attack the enemy army in the integrated military formation at a very long distance, in the battle of this era, if you can't form a military formation, then it means that there is no combat effectiveness, the infantry does not form a military formation, it means death in the field, the cavalry does not form a military formation, it means no combat effectiveness in the field, the military formation is the greatest guarantee of the army's combat effectiveness in the era of cold weapons, and it is also one of the greatest guarantees for the safety of soldiers.
But after the appearance of the artillery of the Tang army, this phenomenon has changed, and if you gather the army into a military formation, it will happen to become a live target for the Tang artillery. You're still very close, and the number of people is quite dense, so a few shells can destroy a military formation, and a military formation has a thousand people, let alone a few shots, and it will be gone.
So the Arab general thought, "This can't go on." Sooner or later, the Tang people will have to wipe out the army, they must change, they must make changes, so they decided to disperse the army and use it, the Tang artillery has no way to take care of the scattered enemy army, the Arabs smiled proudly, thinking that they had made a great contribution, but then, the light cavalry of the Tang army roared up. Easily annihilated the scattered Arab infantry army.
They couldn't laugh anymore.
Obviously, they must make reforms, and they must upgrade military art, so the small army formation with a small number of people but still has combat effectiveness has been studied, and the large army formation has been abandoned by the Arab army, but this is not the end, the small army formation was cleaned up by the Tang army with a large army formation, or the Modao army formation. Swords and swords, flesh and blood flying. The small formations of the Arab armies also completely bid farewell to the era.
The Arabs found that no matter what method they used, the Tang Dynasty always seemed to find a way to crack it, for example, if they held the city, then the Tang army would destroy the city wall with iron cannonballs, and then kill and wound them with flowering shells. Then the tide of troops poured in, the city was broken, and often in less than an hour, a city was captured by the Tang army.
If the city is not good, then guard the sky!
The natural mountainous area is an excellent cemetery for the Tang Army. A famous Arab general decided to use a dangerous mountain peak to contain the Tang army, and then he decisively tragic, the Tang army used the intertwined attack method of flowering bullets and iron bullets, and the mountain peak was hit with thousands of holes, and the dangerous place they worked hard to build was not long after being bombarded by the Tang army's artillery, and then the staff officers in the Tang army's camp have learned relevant knowledge, and they will also specifically look for the weak points of the mountain, and then concentrate their firepower to bombard the weak places of the mountains......
The mountain peaks collapsed one by one, the Tang army only paid a few casualties, and buried a whole mountain of Arab troops, they didn't know why they died when they died, the famous general escaped, but was smashed by the incendiary canister that followed, and finally his identity was asked from the mouth of the soldier on the side, this is the worst Arab general.
The natural danger to stop the enemy failed, defeated under the fierce firepower and strong soldiers of the Tang army, but this is not over, the resistance of the Arabs does not stop, the attack and innovation of the Tang army will not stop, the resistance does not stop, a qiē will not stop, Xue Wanche led the powerful Tang expeditionary force all the way to triumph, quickly advancing towards the capital of the Arabs, where is the last shelter of the Arabs.
From the beginning of more than ten years ago, to three years ago when it was suddenly suppressed in a period of stronger and stronger rise, and then to the verge of extinction, it seems that history and the Arabs played a joke, of course, because the appearance of Suning was originally a joke, no one can believe that a soul after a thousand years will return to this era, there is no way, his brain alone may not be able to bring anything to the Tang Dynasty, but when his brain can affect the entire country, The Arabs decisively tragedy.
I have to say that in addition to the destruction that Suning has brought to them, it is the vicissitudes of life.
Artillery, the cruel war machine, was finally brought to the Tang Dynasty by Suning's brain hundreds of years in advance, bringing a blazing temperature to this cold world, and the Tang army began to study the infantry combat method of dealing with artillery, and also began to guard against the enemy Master the secret recipe of artillery and gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, all the things that have been researched will be placed in duplicate on the emperor's bedroom and the palace of Li Tai, the king of Wei, and firmly locked in the palace, I don't know who has the ability and courage to enter the palace to steal these top-secret texts.
As long as Datang has always mastered artillery, and the artillery has not been obtained by anyone, then Datang is almost invincible, and the Arabs do not want to win, in the same way, the Persians and Romans do not want to get any benefits from it, and it is not the first time that the Persians and Romans have revealed to Datang whether they can share the artifact that "can breathe fire and bring despair to death", but without exception, Datang has always refused, no matter what kind of request they make.
The artillery camp is a more important place than the commander's tent, and those who do it must provide complete letters and proof of the relevant person, otherwise they are not allowed to enter. Even if Xue Wanche wanted to go in and take a look at the artillery, he had to take out the commander's talisman and big seal, and only after verification could he go in.
In order to prevent anyone from getting the Datang gunpowder and artillery, this is an artifact that only the Datang can have, and the artillerymen are very elite and very nervous. In the past three years, there have been more than one case of people in black vainly trying to steal the secret recipe of Datang gunpowder and artillery, without exception, they were either killed by the guards or killed by the artillerymen, or killed after being captured, but the result of the God's question was suppressed by Xue Wanche and was not allowed to be revealed.
Everyone understands the truth, as long as it is not something too important, Xue Wanche does not want to turn against the two empires, and Datang needs to join forces with them. Completely wipe out the power of the Arabs, so that they have no possibility of making a comeback, otherwise this emerging country with a great desire to fight and enterprising will have an endless impact on Datang's westward strategy, they have only developed for more than ten years, and they have developed so strong that Datang needs to unite the forces of the two countries to destroy it in three years, if it develops for decades, will Datang concentrate all its efforts to eliminate this terrible enemy?
No one knows if this is true or not. But as long as possible, there is no slacking off. Anything is possible, what if it happens?
Li Erqi did not dare to take this risk, and neither did Xue Wanche, so he did his best to command the army to do his best to kill and wound the enemies from Arabia, capture every stronghold they held, and did not accept surrender. It was unlikely that they would have surrendered in the first place, not to mention that their surrender now would only be a drag on Datang, who had already obtained more than 200,000 slaves to send to the Western Regions to build the local area, enough, now is the time to attack. It is not worth it for the captives to be fed with military rations, even if the military rations are supplied from the Persian Empire.
The expeditionary force sang triumphant songs all the way, compared with the expeditionary force, although the Roman army had some twists and turns, but in general it was still good, with a strict military appearance and strong combat effectiveness to continuously defeat the same tenacious Arab army, after paying a certain number of casualties, captured a lot of strategic points, and then continued to advance, following the Tang expedition after the continuous advance, towards the final victory.
As for the army on the side of the Persian Empire, how to say it, it made Xue Rengui feel depressed, those heavy cavalry didn't participate in special training, even if they didn't participate in special training, they were still making trouble when the light cavalry and infantry were making great achievements, and they had to fight desperately, but more than 10,000 cavalry were defeated by more than 10,000 Arab infantry, and the wolf who lost his armor fled, Xue Rengui looked at it and really wanted to order all these wastes to be killed, with the highest military salary, the best treatment, and the combat effectiveness was so unbearable!
Three years of Datang-style training, although Datang will not be stupid enough to train a strong opponent for himself, but if the Persians are too wasteful, it will also have an impact on the Datang army, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of pig-like teammates, in case you meet pig-like teammates, then the Datang army will be pitted, in order to prevent this phenomenon from happening, Datang decided to start with the most obedient army of the Persian Empire, that is, infantry.
After the infantry who had been discriminated against for a long time received the care from the Tang side, they were about to take refuge almost immediately, and the infantry of 50,000 people was equivalent to being absorbed by the Tang Dynasty, receiving training from the Tang Dynasty, and using the Tang Dynasty weapons, while the Persian Empire ignored the infantry in addition to tightly holding on to the command of the heavy cavalry and did not let go, and agreed that they would be commanded and transferred by the Tang Dynasty, anyway, there were only 50,000 people in total.
Xue Rengui is responsible for the training of these people, after leaving Duhe, in a year and a half, the training has been a little good, and he can go to the battlefield to fight, originally in this war Xue Rengui was counting on the Persian 30,000 light cavalry and 50,000 infantry, but he didn't expect that after two victories in the front, the Persian heavy cavalry made a fuss, saying that the lowly infantry could defeat those Arabs, and they could too.
The Persian general was also born in heavy cavalry, so he naturally told the heavy cavalry, and Xue Rengui said a little, and ordered the heavy cavalry to attack the Arab rout, but he didn't expect this group of fools to rush into the forest and entangle with the Arabs, and was beaten to escape, and finally Xue Rengui set fire to the forest in anger and burned all those Arabs to death, which won the victory.
But because of this, Xue Rengui's army was slower than the other two armies' journey by two days, so Xue Rengui had to hurry up, fortunately, these heavy cavalry reacted after a big defeat, and knew in their hearts that the infantry could fight, but they just didn't admit it, and they looked like I would reward you for their military exploits, so angry that Xue Rengui stuffed this heavy cavalry directly into the last care of the whole army......
But Rao is like this, or something happened that made Xue Rengui want to vomit blood...... (To be continued......)