Chapter 5 The Line of Defense Beyond the Times
What are the things that time travelers like to do the most? Make money, pretend to be b, open the harem, and bully others with power? Maybe they are all right, but for our protagonist, the ones they like most are IQ and technical crushing! How can the hundreds of years of experience be wasted? Although when we started talking to our uncle's representative, we said that we could verify the power of new weapons through a friendly match, our prince consciously or not, our prince made some trips! For example, the line trench, barbed wire, cannon nest, machine gun nest, and side and reverse attack positions that were painted by cats... If the terrain was not allowed, he would also create a reverse slope position.
According to the time traveler's idea, the best situation is that his uncle rushed over with his cavalry, and then broke into the sand and wiped out the sand in front of 4 rapid-fire cannons and 6 machine guns! Then he introduced the new toy he had just made, his things were promoted, and his uncle was also educated and learned a new fighting posture! What a happy thing this is! (It seems that this word is a bit incada here? No matter he is!)
What was unexpected was that his uncle was actually serious and all these things were used in the end! However, His Highness of the Prince still kept a little mercy. At least after the signal flag on the mountain conveyed a message that he had to wait for a while, the Prince still asked the troops to rest on the spot. In his opinion, he was just a 20-year-old child who had nothing to do with? What kind of new weapons, he just had to play with him in a good mood. Besides, using superior forces to kill a junior, it was not him who was embarrassing to spread it! After the prince had a lot of thoughts, he suddenly realized that no matter how winning or losing the exercise was, he seemed to lose...
"I regret it a little now." The prince who had recalled the taste looked at Earl Schelling next to him with some dissatisfaction. Faced with the prince's pressure, the Count decisively became an ostrich...
Although in order to fully utilize the power of the weapons in his hands, Prince Ruprecht found an open area as a battlefield, but this is a royal hunting ground, so there are not so many flat lands! Even if he walked all over the hunting ground, the battlefield he found was still imperfect, such as the woods distributed next to the battlefield. These woods provided cover for the cavalry. If the opponent also brought artillery soldiers, then it was obvious that he was at the disadvantage! What was this called shooting himself in the foot! Thinking of this, His Highness the Prince took up his telescope and looked at the woods in the distance.
"Hmm?!" What the traveler didn't expect was that at the same moment, his uncle was also doing the same thing. When he saw the officers and soldiers digging soil in the distance and moving artillery positions through the telescope, His Highness the Prince was instantly uneasy. This was contrary to common sense! This combat posture was different from what he had seen before! It was unscientific!
"Viss Schmidt seems to have participated in the Franco-Prussian War, right?" the prince said expressionlessly.
"That's right, he was the infantry battalion commander at that time. He was selected into the guards because of his outstanding performance." The Count immediately responded with fear and fear.
"That means he is not a rookie." The prince put down his telescope with a gloomy face. He was so evil! The situation in front of him made the prince immediately become serious. If it weren't for a special reason, a battalion commander who participated in the Franco-Prussian War would not have arranged a position like this, right? The few cannons were dispersed. This first violated the principle of concentrated use of artillery.
Secondly, the firing angle of the artillery also seems to be problematic, and there is a huge fire gap between the various artillery nests. Third, the infantry is too loose, and the rifle firepower cannot be guaranteed at all under such a density of troops! It seems that a circle of fortifications has been built, but there are problems everywhere! A person who has just graduated from military academy will not make such a bad arrangement! The only thing that can bring some impact is probably the barbed wire, but if it is a real war, these things will be easily destroyed by artillery!
"It seems that the little guy's men are working on some weapons with very fast firing speed recently? For example, machine guns?" The prince said casually. That's right! He was the same as the French, hoping to use dense bullets to block the way for infantry to advance! The prince remembered something that happened during the battle of Sesandang. The French used a volley of guns that could fire 25 bullets in a few seconds. This weapon caused some trouble for the German infantry, but it was useless in the overall situation, because they were quickly killed by Krupp's artillery from a distance!
After the war ended, he began to pay attention to various rapid-fire guns, such as the Gatling mobile machine gun at the beginning, and the Maxine machine gun that was recently displayed in European countries. The latter is simply a perfect infantry weapon. A machine gun can withstand the firepower of a company, but it still has the problem of being too large. If this guy arranges this thing in the defense line, such arrangement is also a matter of perverting!
"Cunning little guy!" The prince, who was half guessing, said with some dissatisfaction. No wonder I asked me to use cavalry to participate in the exercise. So that's what he thought! "At least he was smarter than the French, and knew to use bunkers to cover his machine gun position!" At this time, the prince had put away his thoughts of playing and began to seriously consider how to break through his nephew's defense line. The more carefully the study, the prince discovered that this crab formation was really powerful!
"These points should have machine guns deployed! They can easily lock all our charge roads. Secondly, their artillery was arranged separately. I can't understand the reason for this arrangement. It may be because they were unable to dig a large enough bunker in a hurry. Second Lieutenant, is there any way to knock out these artillery?" he asked the artillery company commander next to him.
"It's very difficult. The opponent's position is a bit tricky, and our artillery's trajectory is a bit straight, so we can't directly cross the obstacle and hit the target behind! But if we make some changes, there will be no problem!" The Artillery Lieutenant replied.
Time travelers underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, especially those who could leave their names in history! When Prince Leopold couldn't think of these newly emerging weapons? Even William II, a half-slave military strategist, could have discovered the function of machine guns, and later the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front would have thought of it? Although everyone liked dense formations at that time, the artillery ballistics were relatively straight, and indirect shooting was not popular, there were always situations that needed indirect shooting on the battlefield, and the powerful German artillery would naturally deal with these problems.
The prince's men began to deploy their artillery. First, they dug a pit on the ground and piled up a slope with soil behind. Other artillery were fixed on specific racks to increase elevation angle. After some planning, the prince thought that the half of the guns on the front should be able to suppress the guns on the front of the other side. Then, the guns on the other half of the company were used to suppress the machine guns on the flanks and another artillery. The remaining artillery would destroy the other two artillery and cover the cavalry to launch a charge from the flanks.
Chapter completed!