Under his leadership, the French army was able to sweep across Europe because of its concentrated use of artillery.
Yang Fan made the same preparations today, using more than 400 three-pound guns, 36 regiment-owned six-pound guns, and 18 division-owned 12-pound field guns to defeat the Heshuote cavalry group.
They are the strongest backbone of Mongolia in the desert. As long as they are defeated, it will greatly frighten the other three tribes and destroy their will to resist.
Now, fifteen thousand cavalry are at a distance of 500 meters to 750 meters.
Fifteen thousand cavalry are at a distance of 800 meters.
There are still ten thousand of their musketeers, who are retreating from both sides of the battlefield. They are regrouping at the rear and used as the third echelon.
There are nearly five hundred camel cannons. One camel carries the cannon, two camels carry the propellant, and two camels carry the shells. Five camels form a gun crew. These camel gunners also follow the musketeers.
Prepare for the last attack wave.
After the musketeers' array retreated, three cavalry groups of 5,000 men were exposed from behind the musketeers.
Xiao Niangpi put down the telescope and asked: "Sir, the Heshuote people divided the cavalry into two groups, are they planning to attack in two waves?"
Yang Fan nodded. Xiao Niangpi was born as a general and knew military affairs, so she and he had something in common.
Since marrying him, she has personally participated in many battles. Lin Yueru also personally accompanied him in battle. She has a certain foundation in military knowledge and also has practical experience.
These experiences and knowledge came from her early years when she led a team to go deep into Mongolia to spy on intelligence. At that time, she accumulated a lot of combat skills and techniques of cavalry and infantry units.
It also comes from the study of modern military theory books brought by Yang Fan after getting to know him.
Xiao Niangpi likes reading very much and is keen on learning new knowledge, especially military knowledge.
She is in charge of the work of the secretariat, and all requests for instructions and reports from the army, as well as the approval and allocation of property and funds, all go through her hands.
In the research and development of weapons and new technologies, she is responsible for following up on the progress, and is also well aware of the performance of various weapons.
In fact, with the development of military technology, tactics and methods are constantly innovating.
An irrefutable truth is that you can fight whatever kind of battle you have with the equipment.
As weapons advance and innovate, tactics will also need to be innovated.
Once there is a generation gap in weapons, it is a dimensionality reduction strike. Relying on numerical superiority, individual bravery and desperate efforts cannot make up for it.
Therefore, the form of war is determined by the performance of weapons.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the main revolution in weapons was the gradual replacement of cold weapons by hot weapons.
Mainly reflected in the technological progress of artillery and muskets.
From the 14th century to the first half of the 19th century, the progress of muskets was slow for five hundred years. It experienced fire portal guns, matchlock guns, flintlock muskets, front-loaded rifled flintlock guns, and front-loaded rifled percussion guns (fire door primers)
, rifled breech-loading gun (paper bag ammunition), metal bullet rifled breech-loading gun, metal bullet magazine rifle several stages.
At present, Yang Fan's technology tree has been climbed.
In terms of firearms, technologies such as rotating bolt action, magazine and magazine feeding, locking mechanism, and firing pin firing have been developed.
The propellant has been completed and the collodion film smokeless gunpowder propellant has been completed. The research on bullet primers and artillery fuzes has also been completed.
Although the Western Expedition did not have time to upgrade to advanced firearms, the current flintlock guns were enough to create a generational difference.
In terms of artillery, three-pounders, six-pounders, and 12-pounders are available at the battalion, regiment, and division levels. The problem of infantry artillery support has been completely solved.
To deal with heavy fortifications and fortified castles, there are also military heavy mortars and gas tank heavy mortars directly under the Yangfu Military Command. They are equipped with high-power bombs such as white phosphorus incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, white sugar fertilizer explosive high-explosive bombs, etc.
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The existing weapons are enough to support the Western Expedition.
Except for the shortcomings in the number of troops compared to the enemy, the others are crushing advantages.
However, the enemies are very scattered, and it is still possible to deal with some of them individually.
In addition, there is the issue of logistics supply for a long-term war.
Although the Yang Mansion's territory has some industries, it is still very stressful to support hundreds of thousands of people and carry out decades of continuous war. Both its military resources and industrial capabilities are facing tests.
Because not only the cavalry and infantry must be supported, but also the navy's fleet and marines must be supported.
Xiao Niangpi has been deeply involved in the construction and daily management of the army since the beginning of the Yang Mansion's army construction. In fact, he and Yang Fan are both the founders of this army. She presides over and approves many daily tasks.
The officers who were born as domestic slaves in Yang Mansion all recognized his wife very much. Lin Yueru's influence in the army was very limited. It was not even as good as Tieman who had not officially entered the army, because Mongolians accounted for nearly 40% of the first-level field troops of Yang Mansion.
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Therefore, in the past few years, she has become very familiar with the internal situation and affairs of the army. Her prestige is very high. If an officer who was a slave of the Yang family commits an offense, he will be the first to seek help from his wife.
She is the person who knows the military best besides Yang Fan.
Although Lin Yueru has the rank of rear admiral, her main job is intelligence work and handling some shady matters for Yang Fan. The two people are responsible for very different directions.
Yang Fan is also willing to give her more military guidance. I am afraid that Yang Fan will often be at war or on the way to war in the future. There must be someone who understands military, economics, personnel and finance to visit the house.
Yang Fan went to war to seize territory, and his wife took care of the housework, education, and raising children at home. This was their division of labor.
Because Tu Shanyue is his legal wife, his lover, and the person he trusts the most.
The two people's interests are both prosperous and destructive. They are highly bound for life and cannot be separated.
Yang Fan explained: "The Heshuote people use their troops very methodically. The first wave is the main attack, and the second wave is both support and supervision. If the first wave of attacks fails, they will leave the battlefield from both ends of the battlefield, and then the second wave will
The second wave will continue to attack. The second wave was not defeated, but it almost exhausted the defenders. The 10,000 musketeers, infantry and camel artillery teams will be used as the final wave of attack."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is an ancient method of warfare. It is somewhat similar to the modern three-three system.
The so-called three-by-three system means dividing the attacking force into three parts.
It is divided into: offensive team, cover team and support team.
The attacking team is mainly responsible for attacking the enemy's position, while the covering team is mainly responsible for attacking and suppressing it with machine guns and small artillery. Cooperating with the attacking team to seize the position.
As for the support team, once the attacking team fails or suffers too many casualties and loses its ability to attack, it will immediately turn into the attacking team to take over.
There were no machine guns in this era, so the cover consisted only of shooting with bows and arrows, or shooting with muskets. The Hoshuotes also had camel cannons as supporting firepower. Their camel cannons had a small caliber and could be fired while moving. In theory, they could cooperate with cavalry attacks.
Therefore, there are three waves of Hoshuote people.
The second wave can be used as a supervising team, a support team, and a cover team at the same time. They can just launch the cavalry bow from behind. Once the first wave is defeated, they can immediately attack.
If the second wave fails, the last 10,000 infantrymen will rush forward.
Although the Lumi Guns are not equipped with bayonets, they are equipped with waist knives.
While looking for cover, they would alternately advance in groups of several and shoot alternately. They would cooperate with each other and gradually approach the position. Then they would shoulder their muskets, draw their swords, and rush towards the enemy formation for hand-to-hand combat.
After listening to Yang Fan analyze the fighting methods of the Heshuote people, Xiao Niangpi also felt that it was more difficult.
This kind of wave-like attack, one wave after another, is indeed very impactful.
"Master, do you have any good ideas to deal with this kind of tactics?" Xiao Niangpi asked with a frown.
Lin Yueru and Chen Xi also pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
They know very well that the art of war in this era is a secret that is not taught and cannot be heard by anyone.
They, the female relatives, are not qualified to listen. It's just that the master doesn't pay attention to these things, so they can have the opportunity to listen.
Usually this kind of knowledge is taught to the son alone in the master's study. Daughters are not qualified to listen. These things are passed down from father to son.
Yang Fan smiled and said: "There is no need to do anything, just concentrate the artillery and use it."
"No matter how many waves they try, none of them can get through."
"We have nearly 500 three-pounders. Their firing rate of five rounds in two minutes is five times higher than their matchlock guns. In addition, our muskets fire at a rate of five to six rounds in one minute. It would be strange to be able to charge forward.
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Yang Fan pointed to the terrain and said: "And the terrain is also favorable to us. We occupy the hillsides on both sides. Being at a commanding height allows us to take advantage of our firepower and form a crossfire attack."
"We have enough ammunition, and our officers and soldiers are well-trained. It would be useless if they had twice as many people."