The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 756 Collision of old and new
"Damn Jacob, this mad dog shouldn't be responsible for the pursuit." Albrecht said angrily.

Jakob refers to Julius Jakob von Hainau, also known as the Executioner of Arad, the Hyena of Brescia and the Tiger of Habsburg.

"My lord commander, what shall we do now?" asked Count Buhler von Stein, the number two figure in the legion.

"What else can we do? Mr. Stein, we are responsible for accidents. If there are no accidents, let's just watch the show and watch the battle here."

Albrecht called the military cadets on the side to come too.

"You guys also find a place to sit down and watch carefully, the old era is coming to an end"

"Forward!" With a hoarse cry, the ranks of the Zionist Army began to attack.The queues spread out like a long snake formation.

The two main offensive formations of this era are column and horizontal. The French used to defeat the princes of Europe by virtue of column tactics.

Let the war of annihilation become the norm, and indirectly gave birth to the universal compulsory military service system.However, at this time, most of the officers of the Polish Restoration Army came from the military academy in Prussia, and they all received traditional Prussian education.

Therefore, most people still learn the tactics of Frederick's era, and the tactical innovation needs to wait until William I's second military reform. At this time, Krasewitz's theory has not been taken seriously.

Although "On War" has a high historical evaluation, it was not taken seriously until after the rise of Prussia in the late nineteenth century, under the strong push of old Moltke.

But only the Prussians paid attention to it. The French did not accept the theory in the book until World War II, and the Americans did not accept the term "people's war" until the Vietnam War.

Incidentally, Clausewitz died of cholera, and many other famous people died of cholera besides him.

Scharnhorst's military reform, the main focus of the reform is to streamline the organization and conscription system, and expand the officer body three points.

So although the Prussians have set up many military academies, the content of the class is still how Frederick the Great's horizontal team tactics violently beat Russia, Austria, and Gaul barbarians.

At this time, there was another very notable feature of Prussian military education, that is, the role of artillery was extremely underestimated.

This point will not be reformed until the Austrian-Prussian War is unilaterally beaten by the Austrian artillery, and finally shines in the Franco-Prussian War, and also achieved the name of Krupp Steel.

However, there is no absolute distinction between horizontal and vertical teams, but depends on the battlefield and your own situation.

The advantage of horizontal team tactics is that the personnel are relatively dispersed, and the rate of each individual being hit by guns is relatively low.Once the French column was hit by shells, the scene can only be described as horrible.

In fact, the Austrian Empire usually used a horizontal formation, but it would be composed of skirmishers.In addition, the horizontal team can make better use of its advantages in firepower and troops, but the disadvantages are also obvious: it is easy to get stuck in the terrain, easy to be overwhelmed by flanking cavalry, and has high requirements for discipline.

If the Prussian army is on the battlefield at this time, there is a high probability that it will advance normally.However, the militiamen of the Polish Restoration Army were not of such a high quality, and the distance between the front and back of the queue was nearly 1 meters in just one minute.

At this time, the officers of the Polish Restoration Army had to regroup to prevent a sudden collapse after the exchange of fire.Colonel Wubao Limonta knocked on the battlements angrily and kept swearing.

"Are they still going to fight!? Gym class? Give me the gun!"

The adjutant quickly handed over the special sniper rifle, and the surrounding soldiers felt that the officer was confused.At this time, the distance between the two sides is at least 600 meters. At this time, you can be called a sharpshooter if you can hit a target 200 meters away.

As for the sniper scope, the improvement of the gunner is not as great as imagined. The use of triple scope can effectively improve the shooting accuracy within 400 meters. However, the firearms at this time are still relatively primitive, and once the bullet exceeds 450 meters, it will be greatly deflected.

However, sometimes miracles just need a bit of luck and a thick skin. A gunshot, about 1.5 seconds later, a Polish Zionist Army officer who was counting the number of people fell to the ground, and the bullet penetrated his left chest. .

Seeing this, the surrounding militiamen fled one after another, and there was a burst of cheers from the battlements of Wubao.

"Good marksmanship! The regiment commander is really amazing!" The adjutant then gave a blunt flattery, and the soldiers also booed in unison.

Only Colonel Monta knew that he was aiming at the officer standing still next to him, but this did not prevent him from bragging about decompression.

"See? Brothers! As long as you train hard, even if you are not as good as me, you can always kill people at a distance of 400 meters.

Listen up, it's okay to beat up the rebels' officers.Kill these bastards with no sense of honor! "

In fact, during this period, it is generally not appropriate to shoot officers, but against rebels, generally anything is acceptable.

As a result, there was a patter of gunshots on the top of the wall, and as the gunshots sounded, people in the ranks of the Zionist Army kept falling down.

"These bloody maggots! No honor bastards! How did they do it?"

Burns Polk is an excellent graduate of a Prussian military academy. He participated in two joint operations of the German Confederation, but he was unable to prove his talent at all because his rank was too low.

So Burns Polk decided to follow his classmates of Polish descent to come here to make contributions, and by the way, he could fight against the commander of the Austrian Empire to prove his strength.

However, the reality is that as a Prussian, he was not valued at all in the Polish Restoration Army. Although he won the position of a major, he was in charge of a company.

(At this point the infantry company commander is usually a captain.)
What made him even more depressed was that the Austrian side didn't talk about martial arts at all, and they actually shot the officers. They were really despicable guys.

But what really made Burns Polk desperate was that the opponent could actually hit him.

Although as a soldier, he has long had the consciousness of death, but it is too aggrieved to die before seeing the enemy.

The other officers felt the same way, especially when those bullets were aimed at the officers.

The emotions of the officers were quickly passed on to the soldiers, and fear spread through the ranks.

Burns Polk knew that if he didn't do something, the army would be over.

"Don't be afraid! Listen! The opponent's firepower is weak! And there is only one reason for shooting at such a distance! That is because they are afraid! The Austrians are afraid of us!"

The officers naturally understood Burns Polk's words, but the chief soldiers didn't understand, someone said tremblingly.

"But they're shooting at us"

Burns Polk was too lazy to talk nonsense with these people, so he almost changed his mind.

"They have few people! With such firepower, they only have dozens of people at most, and how many of us are humans! Don't be afraid! Charge me!"

At this time, the distance between the two sides is 400 meters, which is theoretically too far for a charge.When you get to the place, you will have no strength, but at this time the officers of the Polish Restoration Army can't control so much.

(End of this chapter)