It was September, which was the third autumn, and the climate in the capital had reached Gao Pragmatic's favorite time. If it weren't for the lack of holidays, he would have wanted to visit Xinzhai and stay there for a while.
Unfortunately, this autumn is a truly troubled one. He just heard that his inexplicably picked up concubine Narita Kai had to stay in Kanto temporarily because someone needed to contact three parties about the transfer of the Narita family. Later, he heard that Xiao Ruxun from Liaodong reported that he had been beaten.
We haven’t seen the Tumen army for several games, and we have to wait for even worse news...
Tumut's Eastern Expeditionary Army was ambushed and lost more than 10,000 of its main troops in Qingcheng.
This is not the worst. What is worse is that although the cavalrymen of the Jinghua Trading Company who went to the rescue overnight successfully rescued them, they did not get much benefit in the night battle that night. They lost more than 800 people, creating a record for the direct armed forces of Jinghua.
The record of the highest loss of power in a single battle. In this battle, Gao Jiang, the leader of Jinghua, ordered himself to be put into solitary confinement when he returned to Daning City. He sent someone to report to Gao Situ to await punishment from his master.
More than 800 people were lost in one battle. This is really the worst record for the armed forces directly affiliated with Beijing. In southern Xinjiang, whether it was the restoration of Annan, the conquest of Burma, or the defeat of Siam, there has never been such a large-scale attack on Nanzhang.
Losses - You need to know Annan, Myanmar and so on. At that time, the scale of the battles was usually tens of thousands versus tens of thousands, but most of the results were that Jinghua crushed its opponents with its comprehensive leadership in weapons and tactics.
The northern Xinjiang side was similar. During the Monan War, although the direct line of Jinghua did not really fight many big battles, the infantry of the Ming Dynasty, which may be weaker than the direct line of Jinghua, could withstand the fierce attack of the Xin'ai tribe, and it was not so ugly.
What a loss!
Not to mention that during the Battle of Southern Liaoning, the Fried Flowers Department kicked the iron plate with all its desperate attacks, and the move of the Liaodong Inland River Fleet, which was directly affiliated with Jinghua, to block the river channel was the key to the demise of the Fried Flowers Department.
How long ago had the armed forces of the direct line of Beijing suffered such serious losses? Not to mention that the report submitted did not even mention the specific losses of the Chahar Mongolian Army, and could only estimate that "it was twice as much as mine"?
"Don't be too depressed. Although the loss is not small, I think we still have to find out the reason first... I mean, we have to find out why there was such a big loss first. After all, judging from the report, their ambush started from
Tactically speaking, it was a success, but the problem should have been during the battle."
The speaker was Liu Xin. As the Secretary-General of the Beijing Secretariat and the Chief Military Secretary, she had absolutely the need to express her views on this matter.
Gao pragmatic frowned, touched his chin and said: "Judging from the report, Burihatu's command should be the key."
"He did react very quickly. He probably saw at a glance that the Cavalry and Cavalry troops lacked the experience of regular combat in a large corps, and quickly closed the distance to offset the grenade threat of the Cavalry and Cavalry troops." Liu Xin analyzed: "The Cavalry and Cavalry troops have long range.
It relies on guns and medium-range grenades, but in terms of close combat, it seems that the Yanling Saber is not as good as the Mongolian scimitar."
"I don't think it's necessarily that the gap between the Yan Ling Dao and the Mongolian Scimitar is really that big. What's more important is the lack of close combat experience. This is multifaceted. It may be a training issue, or it may be, as you said, simply a lack of experience.
The regiment's experience in regular combat. After all, most of the previous battles of the Cavalry Corps were bandit wars, and whether there were bandits or horse thieves, there were not tens of thousands of them, so this was something that they were used to fighting in public security wars but had never fought before.
Caused by regular warfare.”
Liu Xin mused: "There were not many problems with Gao Jiang's arrangements before the war. Although the results of the on-the-battle command were not very good, I don't think he can be entirely blamed. The entire cavalry force lacks experience in regular battles with such large regiments. This
Only then did Burihatu find the loophole."
Gao Pragmatic looked gloomy and said: "There are still problems with the weapons and equipment of the cavalry. It is impossible for us to defeat the Mongols in terms of personnel quality in close combat on horses, so we must change our thinking..."
"How to change?" Liu Xin spread his hands: "Cavalry is not infantry. It cannot create a hollow square formation of bayonets and muskets that relies on formation, discipline and firepower density. As long as the Mongols shorten the combat distance, they can only fight on horseback."
Gao pragmatic closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "Do you know why fifth-generation machines can defeat fourth-generation machines?"
"Ah? What?" Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding.
"I said that our fighter jets at that time, the fifth-generation fighter jets, do you know the reason why they completely defeated the fourth-generation fighter jets?" Gao Pragmatic explained briefly and continued to ask.
"Uh, I'm not sure. It seems to be mainly due to the stealth performance?" She paused and asked, "Does this have something to do with the current situation? The cavalry can't be invisible."
"Stealth performance is of course one of the keys, but there is a reason why being invisible has such a big advantage." Gao pragmatically said: "Just like most people know that being invisible means that I am close to you, but you don't know it at all.
, at this time I launch a missile, even if you discover it in time, you may not be able to escape at all. This 'unavoidable' distance has a professional term in the military called 'no-escape distance'..."
"What does this have to do with the cavalry?" Liu Xin seemed to be more concerned about the current problems and asked again reluctantly.
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and said: "Don't be impatient, listen to me first... During the fourth-generation aircraft period, the mainstream ideas of fighter jets at that time were high-speed, dogfighting, and flexible control. Especially at that time, the Soviet Army occupied a considerable position in the mechanical performance of some aircraft.
It was a small advantage, so Midi felt that he had to change his thinking - since my flight control is no better than yours, then as long as I don't fight you in close combat, wouldn't it be fine?"
Although Gao Pragmatic obviously did not explain in detail, the last sentence was so straightforward that Liu Xin finally understood his intention and suddenly said: "You mean, we need to think of an idea to avoid close combat?"
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, I have thought about melee combat. People have inherent advantages there. Although we can't invest huge capital in training them from an early age, or equip them with full armor or even horse armor.
But in that case, not only would the cost be higher, but mobility would also be severely reduced. I think the gain outweighs the loss.
In my opinion, it is better to think of ways to use weapons. As long as the two sides come into close combat, they can cause a serious blow to the enemy. Even if a close combat still occurs in the end, relying on the early advantage, our army will be much less likely to lose.
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Liu Xin thought for a while, shook her head and said: "Unless you can get a repeating musket, it will be difficult to achieve such a goal. As you can see from this report, our army had a clear advantage when the muskets fired at the beginning, and the grenade just
It also caused a lot of casualties to the enemy when it was used.
Up to this point, our army had a considerable advantage. The real defeat came when Burihatu beat his drums and trumpets and the Mongolian soldiers charged our army at all costs." At this point, Liu Xin turned over a page.
With the letter in his hand, he added: "Look, even though the opponent is at this point, we are still insisting on completing the three-hit combo of hand grenades and then facing the enemy with the Yan Fei Dao."
She sighed: "I'm afraid Gao Jiang regarded the Mongols as a ragtag group of bandits and horse bandits. He thought that after these three consecutive attacks, the Mongols would definitely suffer a lot of losses, and such losses would be enough to collapse them, so he caused
After three consecutive grenade attacks, our army was almost unable to fight back in a short period of time.
If Erdemutu hadn't heard the clarion call for the general attack and realized something was wrong, and regardless of safety, he brought his own troops back to support, I'm afraid the final outcome might have been even worse."
Gao Jingshi said solemnly: "From this perspective, it makes sense for Gao Jiang to put himself in solitary confinement!"
Liu Xin hesitated for a moment, then persuaded: "Gao Jiang did misjudge, but I still want to say that this misjudgement is not too outrageous, because before, whether it was the Chahar-Mongolian army or the Inner Khalkha
Regardless of the Mongolian troops in the Huahua Department, overall they were afraid of bearing the first wave of losses, and this was precisely where Gao Jiang's misjudgment came from.
This time Burihatu made up his mind from the beginning, regardless of losses, which has never happened before. I think Burihatu has learned lessons from the past, but Gao Jiang did not expect this, so he made a mistake.
Judgment.”
Gao pragmatic glanced at her and asked: "You mean, because the incident happened suddenly, there should be no punishment?"
"It's not that he shouldn't be punished, but I think he should be given a chance to redeem himself." Liu Xin explained: "No matter how the miscarriage of justice occurred, the responsibility for the miscarriage of justice should be borne by him as the commander. There is no doubt about this.
.But punishment is only to clarify responsibility. It is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is how to avoid suffering the same failure next time.
At the same time... how should I put it, just like we did at that time, 'it is not easy to train a cadre in an organization'. We cannot deny his years of hard work and achievements just because of one failure. We must give people a chance to prove themselves."
Gao Pangshi took a deep breath and said: "Okay, you can draft an order in my name to let him plead guilty and perform meritorious service. First, he will lower his professional title by one level, but he will clearly give the command authority to Daning's three cavalry.
Leave it to him...I want to see how he performs next. By the way, I tell him that this is the last chance."
Liu Xin didn't speak, just nodded. After a while, she said: "You just said that you would find a way to deal with this situation with weapons... Do you have any ready-made ideas?"
Gao pragmatic glanced at her and said, "You have already said it yourself, only repeating muskets can solve the problem."
"Have you achieved a breakthrough with the repeating musket?" Liu Xin asked immediately.
Gao pragmatic suddenly fell silent for a moment, and then said: "I suddenly thought of a person named Dai Zi."
Liu Xin was stunned for a moment and asked: "Who is this person?"
"A firearms expert in Kang Mazi's period is said to have invented the continuous gun—probably the repeating musket you mentioned." Gao pragmatically replied.
Liu Xin was surprised and said: "During the Kangxi period, China had repeating muskets?"
"No." Gao Pragmatic said calmly: "This man offended the Tatar firearms expert and Belgian missionary Nan Huairen. He was slandered and slandered by him, and was eventually exiled. Even the fire blunderbuss could not be manufactured on a large scale. There are also rumors that
, Kang Mazi did not dare to allow such firearms to come out, lest it weaken the rule of the Qing Dynasty."
"Oh...these Manchu Tatars are really bent on slowing down the pace of progress. However, since the early Qing Dynasty could make continuous fire blunderbuss, it should mean that the manufacturing difficulty is not particularly high. Couldn't Jinghua be able to make it now?
"Didn't you give them some technical advice on this?" Liu Xin asked.
Gao Pragmatic said a little depressedly: "The Maxim machine gun was invented in 1883 and the patent was obtained in 1884. If you ask me if you can give me advice on how to build a Maxim machine gun, then I really don't have the ability."
Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "It's so late, was it invented so close to World War I? Then why do you want to solve the current problem by improving the level of weapons?"
"The Maxim is a heavy machine gun. If we talk about the prerequisites for its invention, then maybe it should be regarded as an upgraded version of the rifle." Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "I can't provide any guidance in this aspect, after all, I don't know much about its principles.
I know it clearly. I just roughly remember its appearance. The specific mechanical structure is beyond the level of understanding. However, repeating rifles are not good. I have some ideas about repeating pistols."
"Oh?" Liu Xin threw the Maxim machine gun away and asked, "What about the pistol?"
"We certainly don't have the conditions to make a magazine pistol now. After all, we haven't even finished the metal cartridge case yet. However, we can still think of a way around the revolver." Gao pragmatically said: "You know about revolvers, right? It's just a revolver.
Commonly known as a wheel pistol, it is a multi-shot non-automatic firearm. Its main feature is that the gun is equipped with a rotating drum magazine, which contains 5 to 7 bullet nests (mostly 6), and the bullets are loaded in the nests.
, turn the wheel, and the bullets can be aimed at the barrel one by one. Because the common revolver swings out to the left when loading, it is also called a revolver."
"Oh, that, I know, I've seen it a lot on TV. If I remember correctly, I've seen a lot of it in western cowboy movies." Liu Xin replied immediately.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gao Pragmatic has not watched many Western movies. He basically only watches popcorn movies to pass the time when watching American movies. Western movies do not interest him much.
.But that was not the topic to be discussed now, so he just nodded and brought the matter back.
"Actually, as early as... around the 16th century, matchlock revolvers appeared in Europe, and later flintlock revolvers appeared. However, there were two big problems with revolvers before Colt. One was
It is necessary to turn the runner by hand, or to pull the hammer by hand to drive the runner into position, and then the trigger can be pressed to complete the single-action firing; secondly, there are always some technical obstacles in firing bullets, so they are not widely used."
Liu Xin thought for a while and asked: "So, the 'Colt' you just mentioned is the key to solving the problem? Is this Colt a person or a technology?"
"It's a person." Gao pragmatically said: "The revolver invented by Colt has a primer impact bolt and a spiral rifled barrel. It uses shell bullets with conical bullets, and pulls a trigger to complete the rotation.
Two-step action to fire. This made the revolver truly have good practical value for the first time and has been widely used in countries around the world. Although people later made some improvements to the revolver, its basic structure and principle still remain the same.
As it was when Colt was invented.”
After a pause, Gao Pragmatic added: "However, due to the lower firing rate of the revolver, slower reloading, and smaller ammunition capacity, after World War II, its status in the army was replaced by the automatic pistol.
However, because revolvers are very easy to handle blind ammunition and have quite reliable performance, police and individuals in many countries still love to use them. When U.S. President Ronald Reagan was assassinated in 1981, the assassin used a revolver."
Liu Xin didn't care much about what he mentioned later, and just asked: "Can you handle Colt's improvements? Oh, I mean, can you provide technical guidance?"
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