The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 143 Strategic Mistake
Soon, a messenger soldier riding a fast horse galloped up to Andrew, dismounted and reported: "My lord, suddenly thousands of ancient soldiers holding bows and arrows appeared in front of me. According to past experience, those people should belong to the demon king Yuri." Summon the legion.

Those ancient soldiers are very good at archery, and they are not afraid of death. They are shooting at our former army. The former army has suffered great losses. Two battalions have already collapsed and urgently need support! "

The basic combat unit of the army in this era is the battalion, that is, the size of a few hundred people. The number of battalions in each country is not much different.

On the contrary, since there is no fixed standard for the regiment-level organization, the number of combat battalions accommodated by regiment-level combat units in different countries is different. Some countries even have no regiment-level organization at all, and directly integrate many battalion-level combat units to form a combat battalion. Unified Corps.

A regiment with few combat battalions is an ordinary regiment, and a regiment with many combat battalions is called a large regiment or legion.

After all, wars in this era seldom directly send tens of thousands of people to the battlefield, so the corps organization is already the largest.

Of course, many big countries in Europe are aware of the lack of corps organization. Because the one-time investment of troops on the European battlefield is increasing, the organizational system of large corps is gradually abolished and unified into legions, which can accommodate more troops.

At the same time, the European powers also began to set up complete regiment-level troops on top of the basic battalion-level combat units, which could fight with the legion clusters or fight alone.

It is difficult for the original battalion-level troops with hundreds of people to undertake individual combat tasks on the European battlefield.

However, the scale of battles here in North America has always been small, so the original battalion-level combat unit is still retained as the basic tactical mode. Even the Sauron Legion, which already has a regiment-level combat unit, also retains a separate battalion-level combat mode.

Each battalion is required to have the strength to fight independently.

After all, for the white troops in North America, it often only needs to send a battalion to easily wipe out an entire Indian tribe.

Even recruit training supplements are carried out on a battalion-by-battal basis.

Therefore, the troops summoned by Yuri from the Han Dynasty to exchange fire with the main force of Sauron's army were the two battalion-level troops who were exploring the way ahead. ...

For the Sauron Legion with tens of thousands of people, even the strength of the former army far exceeds the 5000 strong soldiers of the Han Dynasty.

It’s just that in the Han Dynasty, it was not a life-saving strategy to attract strong men to fight. No matter how well-trained the soldiers of Sauron’s army were, they were afraid of death!
Therefore, it is not surprising that the small number of strong soldiers from the Han Dynasty successfully suppressed the main force of Sauron's army.

Of course, this unfavorable situation cannot trouble Andrew. He knows very well how rich the main force of Sauron's Legion is. There are only a few thousand people, even if they are not afraid of death, they cannot shake the main force of Sauron's Legion.

After all, this is not an army composed of recruits, and the morale of the army is still guaranteed.

The ability to withstand casualties is not comparable to recruit troops.

The regular army of this era generally has a high ability to bear casualties. It is not uncommon for the winning side to suffer [-]% to [-]% casualties after a battle.

Some elites can even win with more than half the casualties.

This was naturally due to improved military organization and stricter supervision by officers.

At the same time, the combat mode of queuing up and shooting allows soldiers to stand together and set foot on the battlefield very densely. Even if they want to be deserters, it is difficult to rush out of the queue.

Even if you rush out, the battlefield is full of square arrays. The individual stragglers really don't want to be too conspicuous. If the supervising team doesn't fight you, who will you fight?

Therefore, in order to save their lives, soldiers often dare not leave their phalanx unless the entire phalanx collapses!
After Andrew learned the basic situation, he immediately issued a series of instructions. The main central army of the Sauron Legion, which had been in a state of combat readiness, immediately divided into two troops, one on the left and the other on the right, presenting a shape of a large pincer to intercept the strong soldiers of the Han Dynasty. double team.

It didn't take long for the Yin Qiang of the Han Dynasty, who was shooting head-on with the main front army of the Sauron Army, to encounter dense lead bullets from both wings, and the number of deaths increased geometrically under the crossfire!

This level of fighting is not a problem for Andrew. Even if he gets the position of commander by relying on vendors, he still has a professional background and has rich combat experience. Otherwise, how can he be an officer with no nepotism? Possibly a regimental commander?

It is indeed a challenge for Andrew's command ability to have tens of thousands of extra troops under his command, but it also depends on who he is targeting.

Just dealing with a group of trial legions who only know how to attack head-on and have no tactics at all, Andrew can naturally crush them with his 'command art'.

The most important thing is that Andrew's capital is strong enough, and he doesn't need to play any tricks, just go through it step by step.

This is the normal state of war.

If the military strength is enough to defeat the opponent, who has no time to come up with any clever strategies?
Any so-called clever strategy is risky, and there is a high probability that victory is based on the enemy general's brain damage.

If you are not on the weaker side and cannot win a head-on confrontation, who is willing to go to the army and take a risk?
Why are the history of winning more with less and surprise attacks being publicized?
Just because this kind of victory is so hard to come by, under normal circumstances, if you fight more with less and raids, you lose more than you win, so those victories can naturally be included in the classics.

On the contrary, it was overwhelmed by the general trend. Everyone knew that there was a great disparity in strength and victory could be expected, so history books would not praise it, and naturally it was rarely known by people.

This is also the reason why those small countries are trembling under the shadow of a big country. They are absolutely lacking in strength. If they want to win, they can only see whether the IQ of the opponent's commander is online...

Wise men are often foiled by fools.

Therefore, in modern military warfare, the staff system has been gradually improved, and the probability of mistakes in military command has been infinitely reduced. Naturally, it is difficult for dangerous tactics such as surprise attacks to be effective, and eventually they have evolved into a confrontation of real strength.

Of course, this only refers to tactics, and the probability of making mistakes in strategy is still very high. Bai felt that he was a military genius, so if he insisted on intervening in the command, it is possible to make a strategic mistake and ruin the good situation.

The losses caused by strategic errors are often higher than those at the tactical level!
For example, Andrew underestimated the marching speed of Yuri's troops, and ended up crashing into them and detonating the main battle in advance. This was a strategic mistake.

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