He threw the chalk into the groove under the blackboard, patted the chalk dust on his hand and said: "So, digging trenches became a reasonable way... What is a trench? A trench is a series of tunnels like this."
As he spoke, he picked up a teaching aid that had been carved out of wood. There are also some little figures carved out of wood, which look vivid.
As Tang Mo spoke, he walked off the stage with the teaching aids in hand. He placed the teaching aids in front of the students and asked them to watch them more carefully: "Soldiers hiding in this trench do not have to worry about exposing most of their bodies to enemy gunfire, and their survival rate is higher."
He pointed at the heads of the soldiers exposed in the trenches and said to all the officers who gathered around him: "The enemy can only target the heads of our soldiers, and the hit rate will be even lower. The trenches can also avoid more than 90% of the enemy troops. Artillery fire is more effective than city walls."
"I'm not kidding. When attacking trenches like this, the enemy will most likely have to pay ten times the price to achieve victory." He looked at these decades-old commanders who were listening humbly and warned them seriously: "As long as you don't plan to leave immediately, you must dig trenches! This is the best way to save your lives!"
Everyone in this classroom can be said to be Tang Mo or Fisherot's confidants. The fact that they were selected here represents an honor in itself.
Those who can sit in this classroom, Tang Mo's direct troops, are all officers and soldiers who have made meritorious service. They all performed well in the last battle of Beiling. Their rewards include gold coins, as well as those who come here. Opportunity to attend lectures.
No one will give up such an opportunity, because everyone knows that as long as they walk out of this classroom, they can stir up troubles in the world.
"As long as we are fully prepared, we only need to deploy 500 people on one position to withstand the enemy's attack of 10,000 people!" At this time, Tang Mo was still introducing his concept of defensive positions.
He wanted to instill relevant tactics into these officers as soon as possible, and then make them outstanding figures ahead of this era.
So, as he spoke, he walked around the classroom and then returned to the podium: "Gentlemen, times are progressing! If you are unwilling to progress with the times, you will only be regarded as stupid pigs in the future. , eliminated by history!”
"In the future, soldiers will be equipped with more powerful weapons, including grenades, rifles, and bayonets. In order to better arrange the defense line, they should also be issued with engineer shovels!" He wrote the words "engineer shovel" on the blackboard.
"Not only are engineer shovels issued, but also lunch boxes and spare socks..." He wrote in his beautiful handwriting all over the blackboard.
There are still many defensive tactics that he has yet to teach, because the Maxim heavy machine gun has not yet come out, and the defense system built around the machine gun is not yet complete.
With the advent of machine guns, it will become very difficult to attack. Both sides will enter a state of positional warfare. It takes great courage to take the lead in attacking.
Just like World War I, when attacking the enemy's solid defensive positions, it is necessary to mobilize heavy artillery, use overwhelming firepower to destroy all the enemy's defense systems, and then use soldiers to attack the enemy's already incomplete defenses crazily. line of defense.
But even so, this kind of attack is no different from suicide: even if most of the enemy's defensive positions are destroyed, they can still hold on for a long time.
During this time, the attacking soldiers were separated by the enemy's dense barbed wire fences and mines, and then easily slaughtered by machine guns.
After destroying these machine gun positions and completely capturing an entire position, these exhausted attacking soldiers will be pleasantly surprised to find that there is another enemy defensive position in front of them, which is exactly the same as the one they just broke through before.
Therefore, before tanks were born and before large-scale mechanized troops and high-performance bombers became popular, the entire war could only be presented in the form of positional warfare.
No one has any good ideas, and everyone can only use the most clumsy way to test each other. This is trench warfare, this is war like a quagmire.
After a pause, he continued to talk to these studious students: "We will continue to explain the defense part in detail in the next class, and now we will outline the offense. After the soldiers have more powerful rifles and grenades, their The attacks have also become sharper.”
"Squads, that is, small units composed of squads and platoons, already have the firepower to compete with the enemy forces of a battalion." Tang Mo spoke seriously. What he emphasized made these commanders A sudden enlightenment.
Indeed, their previous tactic was for both sides to take steps, keep the square formations close to each other, and then use flintlock volleys to defeat their opponents.
Victory relies on precise tactical judgment on the one hand and strict military discipline on the other. The two sides fired two volleys at each other, and the side that collapsed first lost the battle.
But now, the phalanx is definitely an outdated tactic, because the firepower density of the soldiers has obviously increased to several times its original level.
If both sides use the original tactics at this time, the scene will be very bloody, and the two armies will almost face their own annihilation in an instant.
If the two sides were fighting with K2 lever rifles at a distance of tens of meters, then not a few of the two sides would survive past several rounds of salvo fire.
In just a few seconds, two phalanxes approaching each other will destroy each other because their weapons are too good.
If more than half of the soldiers are lost in an instant, the vast majority of the troops will immediately collapse and lose their combat capabilities. Such losses are unacceptable to both sides, regardless of victory or defeat in the war.
Soldiers who are well-trained on weekdays must not be wasted so easily on a disorderly battlefield where they are lined up to be shot. Therefore, taking the initiative to seek change is a common understanding of almost everyone.
Just imagine, if Beiling's troops faced an enemy's attacking phalanx, and it was a phalanx using needle guns or lever rifles, would they have to use the same tactics to confront them?
Obviously not. As Tang Mo introduced, this defensive tactic of digging trenches to conceal oneself, thereby making it safer and more convenient to eliminate the opponent, is obviously a more appropriate choice.
That one-life-for-one strategy should be consigned to the trash heap of history. The tactic of forming a human wall in order to increase the probability of hitting is bound to be eliminated.
Tang Mo simply sketched some terrain marks on the empty space on the blackboard, and then simply drew a few arrows: "In this case, it is more reasonable to disperse the attack than to march together in formation, and it can also reduce casualties."
As he spoke, he wrote the unit "squad" behind the arrows and marked 12 people: "Experiments show that using squads as a unit, covering each other and advancing alternately is more in line with the combat environment... This requires everyone to fight in the future. You can experience and explore it yourself, and there are no hard and fast rules here.”
After tapping the blackboard twice, Tang Mo warned again: "I hope all students will take good notes! These theories are very important, do you understand?"
Hearing what he said, all the officers lowered their heads and began to write down the content of the class.
Many of them had already studied Tang Mo's gunnery tutorials, and some had learned the basic drill movements of the troops.
And these veterans who had learned the previous lessons realized at this time that the fighting and crawling that Tang Mo taught them were actually preparations for the current tactics.
When faced with bullets from densely packed enemy lever rifles, lying on the ground is obviously a wiser choice than standing there.
Tang Mo walked back to the desk, clapped his hands, and began to organize his lesson plan: "Now, do you know why our Datang Group's security forces are equipped with these functional equipment?"
"I understand." All the students nodded.
Tang Mo picked up the book and held the teaching aids in his hand, "After you go back, you must try your best to ensure that your troops have the ability to build fortifications in the field. At the same time, I also hope that you will purchase supporting equipment from our Datang Group."
"Okay, that's it for this class. get out of class is over! Goodbye, classmates!" Tang Mo nodded slightly and walked out of the classroom with a bunch of odds and ends.
"Goodbye, teacher!" All the students stood at attention and saluted Tang Mo. They watched Tang Mo walk out of the classroom with adoring eyes.
"Who would have thought that there is actually a rifle that can fire continuously..." After Tang Mo walked out of the classroom, an officer from Beiling said in amazement.
"Forget about rifles, if we don't know it ourselves and are suddenly attacked by troops equipped with revolvers, won't we also lose?" Another officer said with emotion.
Everyone was talking among themselves, and some gathered to talk about the lever rifle that might be built in the future.
Even though this thing has the disadvantage of short range, everyone is still more interested in it. Because compared to paper data, the lever rifle is obviously more attractive than the KAR98K.
"Each unit must bring at least three more carriages..." Redman complained to Loew beside him: "The ammunition must be consumed faster than before."
"Three carriages? I guess five more carriages may not be enough." Loew said with some pain: "People eat horse chews. Counting the extra carriages and the consumption of people, five carriages... is just a lot more! "
The other officers from the Datang Security Force packed up their things without saying a word, because there would be other students who would use this classroom later.
They all know that no matter what, the situation in the next war will definitely change. They just don't know when the next war will come.
