Chapter 103 Jiaozhou
Of course, cavalry does not mean that all are organized. In addition, there are quite a number of scouts in the family army, which also belong to the category of cavalry. However, they are not included in the cavalry, but are scattered in each battalion and become separate scout team to provide reconnaissance cover and pursuit for each battalion.
Most of the scouts are now horse-riding scouts, which are also well equipped, but in terms of armor, they are not as good as the official cavalry, because they need speed and patience on the battlefield, and cannot be equipped with too heavy armor, so everyone is equipped with leather armor with steel sheets, which is not heavy, but protective. It's quite good.
These scouts, this time, are also about one or 200 people in each battalion.
The artillery battalion has now been transformed into mules and horses, equipped with 300 mules and horses for pulling artillery and heavy vehicles. One artillery battalion is five companies, three are full-time artillery companies, and one battalion is a heavy artillery company. It is responsible for carrying ammunition and supplies for the artillery battalion and providing accompanying supplies. In addition, there is also an infantry service. The company is specially responsible for protecting artillery positions and acting as engineers when necessary to open the way for artillery.
The heavy camp has also been transformed into mules and horses, which are also equipped with 300 strong mules and horses. They are mainly responsible for transporting various accompanying ammunition and materials for the army, as well as the grain used by a large number of people and horses. They are equipped with hundreds of four-wheeled carriages, each with two horses, which can be loaded into tons of materials at a time, and has a strong Transportation capacity.
Of course, if Jeju Island had not been found, Yu Xiaotian would not have been able to get so many mules and horses, and he would not have brought so many cannons, and he would definitely bring a large number of wheelies. In that case, his military appearance would not have been so clean at the time. It is estimated that with the army, there will be a lot of auxiliary soldiers to push The wheelbone accompanied the action.
However, even so, they still brought a lot of unicycles, requisitioned some of the people, and accompanied them with some materials. As a supplement to the heavy camp, they tried to ensure that the supplies were more abundant when the army moved.
The negative impact of the level of high-quality equipment is that the demand for logistics supplies exceeds that of other ordinary cold weapons-based armies, and the demand for materials is even greater, which will have a certain impact on the field capability of such an army. If such troops are not realized, such an army The team's field distance will be seriously affected.
This time, Yu Xiaotian also brought a special staff company and a heavy artillery company. The engineering company is an absolutely indispensable professional and technical service in the modern army. They shoulder many tasks that ordinary soldiers can't complete, such as opening roads at mountains, building bridges when encountering water, attacking cities and breaking obstacles, digging trenches, etc. The task is not responsible for direct combat, but it will have a great impact on the operation.
For this reason, Yu Xiaotian equipped them with a lot of special tools, engineering picks, engineering shovels are the most basic equipment, as well as some special barrier-breaking crowbars, saws, axes, and other ancillary materials such as iron nail ropes. The most important thing is to equip them with a lot of explosive bags for obstacle-breaking, * even if there are no future generations. Strong explosives are powerful, but they are also much stronger than manpower, especially the special explosive bags made by exquisite *, which are much more powerful than the bulk gunpowder barrels used in this era.
Therefore, when necessary, the engineering company may play an unimaginable role in the battle situation. Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to this, and most of the soldiers recruited used to be some miners. It can be said that they are familiar with this kind of digging pits and obstacles. .
The siege heavy artillery company is a relatively special arms, which must be under the artillery system, but the main equipment, one company, has only three 24-pound medium-body heavy guns. This 24-pound army heavy artillery is specially manufactured for the army artillery.
The gun weighs about 2,300 kg and is mounted on a special heavy gun rack. It is still a reced gun, but the pitching mechanism has also been changed to a bolt and handwheel adjustment mode. There is no horizontal angle adjustment mechanism. The operation is more complicated than the ordinary army 12-pound howitzer, but the power is beyond the general There are many 12-pound howitzers, which are specially used to attack towns.
Once this kind of cannon is bombarded, it can smash a big pit on the wall. As long as it concentrates firepower and bombards one point repeatedly, it won't take long to blow down a gap in the solid wall and deal with the wall of ordinary village fort. Basically, it can solve the problem with one shot, at least the wall can be bombarded big. Hole.
Once in the field battle, this kind of gun can also make a temporary guest appearance as a field gun, change into grape bombs or scattered bombs, and bombard the living forces rushed by the enemy. Once the gun passes, it can sweep a wide surface and kill a large number of dense enemy troops, so it is a very terrible weapon, at least in this era. It is an absolute killer, not to mention that it can be equipped with flower bombs, which is naturally more powerful, at least very scary.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's journey to the north to fight the rebellion brought all the elite arms he has created over the years. The purpose is very simple, which is to test the combat ability of his soldiers and the ability to cooperate with the battlefield through this battle.
As for infantry, I'm afraid it will disappoint some people. Four full infantry battalions and 5,000 infantry are only equipped with 3,000 flenel rifles, only half of which are wolf tooth rifles, and the other half are old-fashioned South Japanese smoothbore lance guns.
For the remaining 2,000 infantry, there are 1,500 long gunners and 500 knifemen. The knife hand is also a bullet thrower. The division is responsible for dealing with the enemy approaching the front, while the long gunner is mainly responsible for dealing with the enemy cavalry. After the formation, he is at the outermost level and uses long guns to form a gun forest to prevent the cavalry from rush into him. Our infantry phalanx.
This is also a relatively helpless thing at present. This time, the number of cavalry among the rebels is relatively large and relatively elite. There are about thousands of rebel cavalry, with great impact on the battlefield, and most of them are some old parts of the Dongjiang Army. The horse's ability is not small. The Dongjiang Army followed Mao in those years. Wenlong is in Liaodong, but he dares to fight against the Jiannu cavalry and has a strong combat ability.
However, the sea wolf is limited to the bottleneck of rifle production capacity. Although the wolf tooth rifle has now become the main product, it has not been able to do it. It has replaced all the old South Japanese smoothbore guns, so the army has now formed a situation of mixing rifles and smoothbore guns, and half of each company * is equipped.
In addition, although the sea wolf's rifles have been equipped with bayonets, so that the infantry have a strong melee ability in close combat, when dealing with cavalry, the configuration of rifles and bayonets still seems to be a little too short, even if it resists the enemy cavalry. But there will also be a lot of casualties for infantry.
As the best arms to deal with the cavalry, there is nothing better than the spearman. The long guns used by the Yu family are all long guns. When they meet the enemy cavalry, they do not need to stab the enemy cavalry with long guns. They just need to get together and pestle the gun at the end of the long gun on the ground. The soldiers squatted down and pointed the tip of the long gun diagonally in the direction of the enemy cavalry.
Then, the enemy cavalry will either turn the horse's head and take a detour, or the war horse will not do it and turn to run, or they can only cover *, forcing the war horse not see the long gun array, and directly rushing into the battle with the horse. Although the long gunner will be injured or even killed, the enemy cavalry must be people and horses. I can't live.
So at present, the long gunner is still one of the indispensable arms in the army for the time being, and this arm equipment is really cheap, and the training of personnel is much easier and simpler. Even if it is a temporary conscripted civilian, as long as he abides by discipline and gives them a long gun, he can immediately have a strong combat ability. .
Generally speaking, this is the composition of the military service led by Yu Xiaotian to Deng Laiping's rebellion this time. Such a level of military configuration is probably the most luxurious lineup for the whole earth at present. It is not one of them. Its firepower output ability is so strong that it can be said that it can never find a second one.
If Yu Xiaotian can't defeat those rebels in this way, Yu Xiaotian himself will be embarrassed to run back to Fujian alive. In this case, he'd better go back to Fujian to get some money and sleep!
Jiaozhou Zhizhou learned that Fujian soldiers and horses had arrived outside Jiaozhou City. In addition, with Zhu Dadian's order, he had to fully cooperate with Yu Xiaotian's actions, so he did not dare to neglect them. He quickly led the officials to welcome Jiaozhou City. In the past, even if Yu Xiaotian was a general soldier, he would not enjoy this. Treatment, small Zhizhou, can still not fuck him.
However, at present, the rebel army is under pressure, and the officials in Jiaozhou are so scared that they beg their grandparents everywhere for help every day, hoping to send reinforcements, but they don't even look forward to it.
Now suddenly came such a Fujian soldier and horse. It is said that they are all elite soldiers and can fight quite well. Even the new governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, personally sent them to serve them well. Jiaozhou couldn't keep it, so he looked at the Fujian soldiers and generals.
So now the officials and gentry in Jiaozhou dare not put on the air of fart. As soon as they heard that Yu Xiaotian's army was coming, they ran out of the city to welcome the Fujian army.
In addition, they also sent a batch of grain to Yu Xiaotian's Fujian army. Although it is not much, they are also dedicated. At present, there is a shortage of food everywhere in Shandong. They can collect these hundreds of stones of grain, and they have done their best to raise it. They are afraid that these Fujian Qiuba people will be unhappy and leave. They It's miserable.
(Oh my God! There are really a lot of brothers who rewarded yesterday! Thank you very much! Xie Tieshou is affectionate, popular 456, desert laughs at the west wind, shrimp and perverts several brothers' rewards!)