Chapter 141 The sound of drums and horns 13

[141] The sound of drums and horns fought (13)

The next day, according to Yao Fan's arrangement, all the soldiers slept in, but the cadres did not rest. Early in the morning, they all attended the post-war experience summary meeting.

Everyone ate a cold scallion rolls, sauced meat and hot porridge for breakfast in the conference room converted into a county government hall. In order to relieve the fatigue of the cadres, Yao Fan ordered Wang Gui to arrange some guys to make fragrant and hot tea for everyone after the meal.

Forbid, the cadres were born in poverty, and they still ate such cold meals, especially the sense of equality of the big pot of rice, which made the cadres talk and laugh while eating, talking about yesterday's brilliant results, and forgetting the lack of sleep last night.

Yao Fan wiped his mouth after breakfast and stood in front of the stage and said coldly, "Yesterday's victory cannot be called a war, but a massacre." He intends to pour some cold water on the soldiers, and he still knows the principle that the proud soldiers will be defeated.

When the cadres saw Yao Fan finished eating, they began to speak, and immediately stuffed all the rest of the food into their mouths and listened carefully.

Yao Fan said, "In my opinion, the cavalry of the Qing army is simply far behind! In today's era when the great powers fully adopt rifles, they are still using the cold weapon tactics of 500 years ago. Such tactics can only be used to slaughter the backward people. Once they meet the modern armies of European and American powers, they can only be defeated repeatedly, ceded land to compensate, and humiliate the country!" Yao Fan looked at the expressions of the cadres coldly until he confirmed that his proud smile was gradually disappearing from everyone's faces.

Yao Fan spread out his hand and said, "So how advanced are our tactics? I can tell you very clearly that our victory is in terms of sophisticated weapons and correct tactics, but the fact that the tactics are correct does not mean that the tactics are advanced. Modern infantry tactics are gradually evolving from the traditional way of line infantry to shoot each other and form a phalanx against cavalry. In the tactical evolution of this natural selection, whoever becomes early and right will take the lead and win the fierce war in the future!" Yao Fan said with red eyes.

Last night, he thought about it all night and finally decided to teach modern infantry tactics in advance.

"Third sister, please send it for me." Yao Fan pointed to a thick pile of pamphlets on the side and said.

After Yao Peng's retypesetting and screening, there are only more than 50 pages of white pamphlets with "Infantry Squadron Tactical Textbook" written in red letters on the cover. The original publishing unit was the Military Training Department of the General Staff, but now it has been changed to three simple words - written by Yao Fan and erased the words published in 1968. . It was an era when all the people were soldiers. Young people with blood were embarrassed to go out to fight in groups if they didn't know some infantry tactics. Yao Fan streamlined nearly half of the content of the book and deleted the temporarily useless content such as infantry tanking, rocket launcher tactics and flamethrower tactics.

"The tactical progress of infantry is a long historical process. From the most primitive mountain and wild group fighting in ancient times to large-scale cluster array operations in feudal times, since the emergence of rifles, infantry have gradually adopted linear formations, which has been used ever since. Because the line infantry formation equipped with * is naturally strong forward aggressive, he needs stricter discipline than the feudal regiment formation. With strict discipline as a guarantee, the development of the world infantry formation began to move from a regular geometric form to a complex loose soldier form. Yao Fan said, unfolding the explanatory sketches he spent the whole night drawing on the screen in front of the county government hall.

Yao Fan pointed to a schematic diagram of the scattered tactics of the Napoleonic period and said, "This is a loose tactics. The elite infantry holding more accurate shotguns approached the enemy's dense formation line infantry with a loose column and quickly unfolded into a loose horizontal team. Each soldier Look for trees, ditches, rocks and depressions to cover yourself on the spot, and shoot accurately at each other. After yesterday's fierce battle, everyone must have seen that the dense formation will suffer very heavy casualties under the attack of strong firepower. After adopting the loose scattered formation, it will force the other party to shoot accurately at a single target, thus greatly reducing the opponent's hit rate and reducing our side. Casualties. Another advantage of the loose soldier formation is that it can advance and retreat freely and effectively protect themselves. Once it is found that it is at a disadvantage in the battle, such as being caught by the opponent's line infantry or attacked by cavalry, you can retreat immediately, and you don't have to rely on a strict formation for slow retreat or formation defense like the line infantry.

Yao Fan picked up a tea bowl and took a sip of water and continued: "However, due to the lack of effective fire support capabilities, the early loose tactics were easy to fall into the dilemma of being bitten by the enemy's tail, which required commanders to rely on line infantry at the same time to effectively fire the rapidly retreating loose soldiers. Support, so that the scattered column can get a fire barrier when it encounters difficulties in retreating, and can retreat behind the online infantry to hide and rest.

Yao Fan said in a heavier tone: "But with the progress of war weapons, the shooting speed of rifles is getting faster and faster, the accuracy is getting more accurate, the range is getting farther and farther, and the addition of new machine guns, which has rapidly enhanced the firepower of the loose soldier formation! It enables them to gradually get rid of the constraints and help of the line infantry, free themselves from the old formation tactics of the traditional 'sold soldiers plus line infantry', and gain independent combat capabilities.

Yao Fan said excitedly: "When the scattered soldiers gained the combat ability to carry out attacks and defense independently, the line infantry began to become untimely and officially withdrew from the stage of history. The British army, which opened the door to China through two * wars, has been trying small-scale elimination of line infantry tactics since 20 years ago, and another powerful country, France currently has more than 200 line infantry regiments. However, with the continuous strengthening of the power of artillery, the line infantry of the great powers will only shrink more and more.

Yao Fan waved his hand and said, "I personally expect that the major European powers will fully complete the military reform of eliminating line infantry tactics in the next two decades. Therefore, the Chinese People's Revolutionary Army, as the most advanced revolutionary force, must not hold its shortcomings and use the line infantry tactics as a treasure. Land, we also need to eliminate line infantry tactics.

"Don't read books. These words I said are not in the book. This is my vision for the future through the summary and analysis of historical development through my personal experience and understanding. Historically, only a constantly improving army can move from victory to victory.

The cadres' worship of Yao Fan has reached an incomparable level, and each face is full of incomparable eagerness and expectation, which is everyone's desire for victory!

"What is a leader! What is a wizard! What is the guarantee of victory? The incompetence to kill the whole army will never happen in our revolutionary army! As long as the chairman is there, we can go from victory to victory! ...The chairman speaks beautifully! From victory to victory... That's great!" Li Hainiu thought excitedly.

Bai Xiaoqi sat at the conference table and took a sip of hot tea, and his heart fluttered.

She heard last night that Yao Fan led a great victory and completely defeated the five cavalry battalions of the Eight Banners of Qingzhou, and that she did not injure a single soldier!

Yao Fan was able to take a group of recruits* and make such a record as soon as he took action, which really surprised Bai Xiaoqi. What is surprising is this formidable record! Not surprising, Yao Fan only achieved his pre-war tactical vision, as if all this was pre-designed by him.

"The art of war has a cloud: 'The disease of water, as for the drifting stone, it is also powerful!' If Chairman Yao can achieve such a victory in a row, the momentum of victory will become an irresistible momentum. Zhang Fei led the soldiers, and the soldiers were panicked. They all said that they would die here. Kong Ming led the soldiers, and the soldiers were hustle and said that he would win. This is the momentum that the Lord's wisdom and achievements brought to the troops. Chairman Yao, a monster-like genius, must die in his hands.

Bai Xiaoqi took another sip of hot tea and continued to listen to Yao Fan's lecture.

"Okay, now let's summarize the tactical shortcomings of our army yesterday. After listening to what I just said, who can talk about the shortcomings of yesterday's battle?"

"Chairman, let me talk about it!" Li Jun stood up and said.

"You said." Yao Fan is kind.

"In yesterday's battle, we discharged a hollow square array, and the use of firepower was very insufficient! The four arrangements in the south are more than enough to deal with a yellow flag cavalry battalion. The four arrangements in the north finally suppressed the three yellow flag cavalry battalions. The west arrangement was very tight when dealing with a yellow flag cavalry battalion. If it hadn't been for the organic gun pressure, it would have been almost been inserted into the array by the Qing army on the official road. But unfortunately, there were still seven rows on the side of our hollow phalanx that were useless, so we could only stand face to face. Later, some battalion commanders couldn't help but adjust several rows from the side arrangement to support. I think that in addition to the shortcomings of the tactics themselves, many commanders, including myself, are a little inflexible and dare not adapt to changes on the battlefield.

"Good to say!" Yao Fan praised.

"The problem you mentioned is the defect of the linear infantry tactics and the advantages of the scattered tactics. In order to ensure the victory of the revolution, we must abandon the rigid linear infantry tactics!"

"In the first lesson below, let's first learn the tactics of cooperating with the line infantry and the scattered soldiers."

So Yao Fan began to explain in detail how the scattered soldiers launched a loose column assault from the two wings of the infantry on the square line, and how to launch a loose horizontal team to carry out relatively hidden and accurate shooting at the enemy infantry after arriving at the * location. Next, Yao Fan described in detail how the scattered soldiers retreated comprehensively and quickly under the attack of the other side, and how the local infantry used fire to cover the retreat of the scattered soldiers and resist the pursuers.

"Through my explanation just now, we have all seen the role of line infantry in cooperating with scattered soldiers. Since we want to eliminate line infantry, we need to build units similar to line infantry in scattered soldiers. In short, it is to build a powerful firepower unit. Only with strong firepower can the scattered formation defend the position and fight against the line infantry or cavalry. Otherwise, in the face of the line infantry that gradually approaches and eventually launches a white-edged charge, or in the face of the cavalry that rushes quickly, it is difficult for the scattered soldiers to resist the opponent.