The military is a place that requires strict discipline to survive. What exactly is discipline? Discipline is actually an iron cage that suppresses everyone's behavior.
Every natural person will follow the habits that humans have developed over thousands of years. Eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty, cough when your throat is itchy, and hide when you are in danger.
If a bright knife is stabbing you head-on, you will hide. If there is a quagmire in front of you, you will get out of the way. This is human nature, a nature that has been formed naturally over thousands of years.
But the army wants to annihilate your nature and use iron-blooded discipline to change your natural behavior.
Hand-to-hand combat will only involve fighting in a surprise encounter. In a truly well-prepared battle on the Great Plains, the army that keeps its formation intact will always have the most advantage.
Relying on each other shoulder to shoulder and relying on each other as brothers is not only a spirit, it is also a science in war. Only such a battle formation can minimize the area under attack by a single person and at the same time increase the killing density of one's own military formation.
The same is true for today's new army. The brothers are trying to form a flesh-and-blood millstone made of steel on their shoulders. Every time a bayonet thrusts out, hundreds of bayonets are thrust out collectively, row after row, like steel machines without any emotion. Cruel and ruthless.
The current Huai army is not rushing into the formation. This is simply a mass suicide. Soldiers shouting revenge slogans rushed into a group and picked one group to death, and another group picked another group to death. After a while, the battlefield was full. There were corpses and wailing seriously injured people.
Of course, the casualties of the New Army were not small. Those soldiers who had been stabbed were dragged down by the brothers behind. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who were afraid came forward to take up their positions. Every dead one was replaced by another one. The New Army completely used their lives as fuel to fill the gap. An explosive killing machine.
At this time, we can see the advantages of discipline. The new army has received strict formation training from the beginning. The standard military posture and formation are all beaten with sticks. Obeying orders has almost become their subconscious and natural reaction. .
It doesn’t matter whether the one stabbing you from the opposite side is a spear or a steel knife, and it doesn’t matter whether the one flying from the opposite side is a bullet or a bow and arrow. As long as you are ordered not to move, you must not leave your post.
Under military orders, you have to jump even if there is an abyss ahead of you, and you have to cross even if it is a river of lava.
In comparison, the discipline of the Huai Army is slightly inferior. Although the Huai Army can be regarded as heavenly soldiers and generals compared with the Eight Banners and Green Camp, it is still worse than the iron army trained by purely Western-style drills such as the New Army. A little bit ahead of the boss.
From a distance, the formation of the New Army can be twisted and deformed, but the side facing the enemy is always the most numerous and dense, and every attack involves hundreds of bayonets attacking together.
On the other hand, the Huai Army's slogans of revenge were loud and Xiao Letian admired their courage to fight. However, the gap in the queue was the gap. The number of soldiers facing the enemy in each charge of the Huai Army was always due to the rhythm. Unified and below the defense of the new army.
To give a simple example, if the first row of the New Army's defensive formation places a hundred soldiers to meet the enemy, and the Huai Army on the opposite side wants to expand the discipline of its breakthrough, then the number of charging people who come into contact with the New Army at the same time must be higher than one. Hundreds of people.
However, the Huai army has not undergone strict formation charge training. They all fight based on their own instincts and the blood in their hearts. It seems that the roar of killing is loud, but the loose formation is always unable to take advantage of the number of people. .
Every time the Huai army rushed to the bayonet, it was always in waves. Although there was only a dozen or even a few seconds between each wave, it was enough for the new army to complete several effective thrusts.
The most brutal fight on the battlefield was the Japanese sword team. The one-meter-long sword was extremely sharp. The Japanese sword-forging technique was inherited from the secret method of the Tang Dynasty. Many of the know-hows are still lost in the Central Plains. The sophistication of the Japanese sword is known all over the world.
What Nohira and the others formed was a very traditional three-row tachi formation, which was essentially no different from the tachi formation during the Warring States Period in Japan hundreds of years ago.
The lack of any changes can only show the success of this cold weapon battle formation. In the rhythm of "Ho ho ho... ha," the Tai Sword formation is harvesting lives like a combine harvester.
The two shouts of "ho ho" are the soldiers taking two small steps forward at the same time, and the "ha" roar is the order to chop down with the sword at the same time.
More than a hundred tachi slashed down at the same time, and the enemy on the opposite side had no way to escape. The body was cut into different parts by pieces of white light, and even the whole body was cut into two pieces.
The Japanese nation is inherently wild. In the face of death, they don't even take their own lives seriously, so how can they care about the life and death of their enemies? On the contrary, the stronger the bloody smell on the battlefield, the more excited they become.
"It's fun, killing is so fun, following the Prime Minister to conquer the world, what a blessing it is, martial arts will last forever..."
Hyoutaro roared, and then the four hundred sword-drawing members shouted in unison, "Martial arts will last forever." Then there was another neat chop.
Wang Huaiyuan's eyes were fixed on the changes on the battlefield. When he saw with his own eyes that the formation successfully blocked three waves of enemy troops, he finally showed a relaxed expression.
"Well, good, now the sniper can move...the decapitation operation begins."
With an order, thirty strange soldiers wearing oilcloth cloaks suddenly rushed out from China's main formation guarding Xiao Letian. The oilcloths on these people were so thick and large that they even hid the Mauser rifles in their hands. Inside, only the black muzzle of the gun was exposed outside.
Pang Chaoyun and Ye Qiu are now the leaders of all snipers. After several battles, they have matured rapidly, and now they are somewhat as powerful as the special forces of later generations.
All the snipers did not need to speak at all. After a few simple sign languages, everyone dispersed behind the defensive formation step by step. The precious imported sights began to search for valuable targets on the battlefield.
Ye Qiu was the first to fire. When his scope caught the manager surnamed Huang, he pulled the trigger without hesitation. After a crisp gunshot, the manager Huang who had just died across the street saw his nephew. There was a loud bang in his heart and a flower of blood appeared.
One second the steel knife in his hand was waving in the air, boosting the morale of his men, but the next second all his strength was sucked away by the single hole in his chest.
Mr. Huang looked at his heart in disbelief, "Nephew...wait a minute. My...uncle is here to find you." After a weak voice, the body hit the muddy ground with a thud, splashing rainwater.
Bang bang bang... The sound of gunshots was an order, and then thirty snipers began to kill in a rhythmic manner. In their sights, those whose military uniforms were very different from those of soldiers were their living targets.
General Manager, General Manager Qian, Guards, Dusi... and even a guerrilla was killed on the battlefield. The snipers who had endured it for more than an hour since the war started were finally able to pour out the anger in his heart.
"Hahaha... well done, well done." Xiao Letian clenched his fists excitedly and shouted, "Just beat him like this and kill all the grassroots officers of the Huai Army. Let me see what Li Hongzhang can do to command the army."
At this time, Li Hongzhang in the woods was so anxious that he almost vomited blood. He found that these snipers were more terrifying than the four rapid-fire rifles. How could these people kill just the officers?
In the Han green camp military system of the Qing Dynasty, generals and generals were considered company-level cadres, while guards and divisions were considered battalion-level cadres. The killing of so many middle-level officers was undoubtedly fatal to the Hunan Army's command system. .
"Quickly pass the order, officers are not allowed to rush into the formation... Damn, if the soldier dies, I can make up for it, but if the officer dies, I will lose a lot..." Li Hongzhang, who was in a tense situation, said what he was thinking.
That's right, in the late Qing Dynasty, anyone with some culture and a promising future would not become a soldier, and the officer level in the army must also understand a certain amount of culture.
Not only do they need to understand the culture, but Li Hongzhang also often teaches them the art of war and tactics, and then practices them step by step on the battlefield. It can be said that training a grassroots officer requires ten times and a hundred times more energy than ordinary soldiers.
Generals are the skeleton of the army, and soldiers are flesh and blood attached to the bones. Flesh and flesh are long, but bones are difficult to regenerate. Therefore, since ancient times, controlling the army has meant controlling generals at all levels, and soldiers are expendable. Cannon fodder.
In Li Hongzhang's mind, even if all three thousand elite troops were wiped out in this battle, it didn't matter as long as the officers at all levels were safe in the end. When they returned to Huaidi, these generals would be able to recruit at least three or four thousand more warriors in less than a month.
You can lose soldiers, but you can never lose generals. This is Li Hongzhang's bottom line. Now Xiao Letian has challenged his bottom line. This famous general in his forties is now a little out of control.
"Pass my order and start the final plan... Since Xiao Letian is so ruthless, you can't blame me."
"Commander, think twice." Several staff and guards nearby actually knelt in the mud.
"Immediately execute the order." Li Hongzhang said coldly, "If you dare to kill my subordinate Huben, that is the foundation of my foundation. As long as I have hundreds of generals in my hands, I will have an army of millions in the future... Now Xiao Letian He killed my fundamental vitality, how could I spare him."
The commander's murderous words blocked everyone's mouths, and the orderlies had no choice but to take the horn and start blowing.
When the horns sounded across the battlefield, the already tired Huai army became excited again, "Hold on, hold on for ten more minutes, our reinforcements will be here..."
Xiao Letian and Wang Huaiyuan subconsciously turned their attention to the east, thinking something bad in their hearts.
The battlefield is now completely chaotic. The new army's formation is still holding on, but there are more and more wounded soldiers behind the team. The Huai army, which has lost a large number of officers, is attacking based on instinct like a group of lunatics. A wave of A wave of ineffective charges that never ends.
Three minutes passed quickly, five minutes, seven minutes, and ten minutes also passed, until finally, when an earth-shattering cry came from the rain curtain in the east, the battlefield suddenly fell silent.
The New Army was dumbfounded, and the Huai Army went crazy with excitement. They saw a large wave-like figure suddenly appear from the rain curtain in the east. It was estimated to be as huge as two thousand people.
The most unexpected thing is that in this overwhelming crowd, the leaders are actually ordinary people. More than 1,500 ordinary people are being coerced by swords and guns, and are staggering towards the new army.
