Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Night falls.

In the sky of the grassland, the stars are very bright.

It has not passed through the northern part of Central Asia where human industrial civilization is brilliant.

Even at night, the light under the starry sky can still make people see the figures in the distance clearly.

On the banks of the Syr Darya River, in the battlefield, the artillerymen of both sides are struggling to tilt their firepower towards the enemy, and the infantrymen of both sides are also ready for a decisive charge.

After intense fighting during the day.

The Ming army had built a defensive wall made of sandbags, vehicles, soil, and standing trees at the front of the Russian army's position.

The height is about 1.5 meters, and many soldiers with relatively short heights even need to stand on tiptoe to aim.

However, this wall was not originally built for the convenience of infantry shooting.

It was to provide cover for the artillery positions of the Ming army with more than 100 howitzers, large and small.

130 howitzers have been deployed.

These artillery can easily pour grenades with a charge of 6 Huajin into the trenches of the Russian army through a high-throwing trajectory.

And the Russian army opposite them knew this very well from top to bottom, from generals to privates.

These guns are deadly to them!

From afternoon to dusk, and into the middle of the night, while the Russian army continued to dispatch infantry assaults, it also frantically reinforced their already very strong trench defense zone.

The trench defense of the Russian army is arranged like this.

Before the first trench, there were three barbed wire fences.

The barbed wire fence formed by wooden stakes driven deep into the soil is difficult for horses to break through.

This barbed wire was originally used for grazing.

Still pretty solid.

The distance between the three barbed wire fences is about 100 meters.

Behind the last barbed wire fence is the first trench of the Russian army.

As such.

The distance from the first barbed wire fence to the first trench is 600 meters.

About four hundred steps.

Consider the time to break barbed wire.

It takes at least 10 minutes for the infantry to pass this distance. Considering the blocking of the defenders, this time may be longer! !
The distance of four hundred steps is already within the effective range of the front-loading rifle equipped by the Russian army.

Although the hit rate is touching, the number of Russian troops is also large enough, and it can still cause very large damage to the opponent under intensive firepower.

The Russian army in the trench will form two rows of shooting queues.

The front row is aimed and fired with guns on sandbags, while the Russian army in the back row is standing and shooting.

To form more intensive firepower - before the appearance of machine guns, the way to form intensive firepower is to concentrate as many guns as possible in a unit area!
within 10 minutes.

A well-trained soldier can complete at least 15 reloads, which means that the Russian army can form 15 salvos!

This is definitely a fatal blow to the offensive side.

Judging from the experience of the Balkan battlefield.

Such a combination, barbed wire, trenches, and rifled guns equipped with bottom-expanding ammunition are almost invincible.

No army can withstand such intensive firepower, break through three barbed wire fences and rush into the trench! !

No army could stand a 15-round salvo of rifled guns! !

According to the experience of the Russian army, even if the artillery of the Ming army was deployed to the front, it was impossible for them to completely suppress the Russian army hiding in the trenches with artillery.

so.
In this battle, the Russian army will definitely cause a lot of damage to the Chinese on the opposite side-in theory, it is true.

But at this moment.

When Sumarokov, the acting commander of the 12th Infantry Division of the Russian Army, was patrolling the front line, he was very disturbed.

He was sent to Central Asia after retiring from the Caucasus battlefields.

As a seasoned frontline officer, more than a year of war experience in the Caucasus battlefield told him.

Such a defensive position has a great advantage whether it is facing tactics such as horizontal formations, columns, square formations, and skirmishers.

Such a defensive position is impossible to break: even if the attacker has five times as many troops as the defender!
But the current situation is that the number of Russian troops is more than double that of the Ming army on the opposite side!
But even so, Sumarokov was still very disturbed.

Because, the opponents in this battle seem to have endless new tactics, and they are equipped with new weapons.

The new tactics based on the emergence of new weapons: lying down and crawling, now seem to be able to minimize the casualties encountered by soldiers during the advancement process!

If only a few years ago.

Some of the soldiers under his command wanted to lie on the ground and crawl towards the opponent, so Sumarokov's first thought was to pull out his command knife and chop this guy who insulted the dignity of the soldier into pieces!

but now.

Sumarokov realized.

It is very likely that the Chinese on the opposite side can really win through this seemingly indecent tactic.

When they were on the ground, the bullets almost flew over their heads.

The bombardment surface is greatly reduced.

And once they break through to the range.

The astonishing rate of fire of the rear-loading guns made it impossible for the Russian army equipped with front-loading guns to win with such a difference in rate of fire.

"You can't use gun tactics, and you can't shoot them head-on, or everyone will be killed!"

Sumarokov thought.

But the problem is.

What can we do without firing a volley?

With grenades and bayonets?

This is a way.

Put the enemy into the trench to fight grenades and bayonets.

But here's the problem.

The Russian Army is equipped with too few grenades.

in industrial production capacity.

Let alone Russia.

Even if all the European countries are bundled together, they may not be more productive than the current Ming Empire.

This is a huge empire with a population of [-] million.

It's really frightening to be a neighbor of such a country-Sumarokov didn't think about it, they didn't border China.

The number of grenades is inferior to that of the opponent.

Fighting bayonets, Russian soldiers are not afraid.

But the problem is that many soldiers of the Ming army on the opposite side bought revolvers.

Except for officers above the platoon leader, other soldiers of the Ming army were not issued with pistols.

But the soldiers of the Ming army have money, so they can buy pistols by themselves.

Now there are many firearms factories in Foshan. After some introspection, the price of pistols in Ming Dynasty is not high, so many Ming soldiers can afford them.

After all, this is a matter of the guy who can save his life at a critical moment.

In short combat.

When it comes to stabbing VS pistols, it is obvious who has the advantage.

Of course, Sumarokov can attack these Chinese people for their lack of martial ethics.

But the reality is here.

They have more grenades than you, and they will empty the six bullets in the revolver before fighting the bayonet. How else can you shoot? (end of this chapter)