New Shun 1730

"What was the commander thinking by splitting up the expensive grenadiers?"

"A big gamble, betting on a breakthrough in the center before the Prussian reinforcements arrived, causing the Prussian army to collapse across the board? But the problem is that your cavalry did not continue to make a large detour. Even if you capture the town, in this hilly terrain, your cavalry can't make a detour around the flank. Can't they retreat and reorganize the team?"

"Now we should obviously concentrate the grenadiers and attack the hill in the northwest. As long as we capture that, won't Prussia collapse? Since There is no chance to retreat and reorganize. Even if the reinforcements arrive, they can only fight a fuel battle and fight for this hill..."

"The ancients said: If you have twice the left, you will be weak on the right; if you have twice the front, you will be weak in the back. If you have twice the front everywhere, you will be weak everywhere."

"Wei Wu's "Meng De Xin Shu" said: If you use two to fight one, then one tactic is normal and the other is strange. Sun Wu said: The enemy is visible and I am invisible, this is the extreme of normal and strange. How can we spread out our forces, even the grenadiers and field artillery, and push forward in one line?"

"If we use a strange force to seize the west If the northern hill is captured, the offensive and defensive situation will be changed. At that time, the Prussian flank will be completely exposed, and the Prussian side can only adjust the formation, and once the formation is adjusted, there will be chaos; once there is chaos, there will be flaws. "

"In this way, even if the Prussian reinforcements arrive, they can only return to the previous state: attack as defense. They must seize this hill to have a chance to defend, or even a chance to retreat. At that time, it will be Austria defending and Prussia attacking. Is there any need to fight?"

"And the Prussian cavalry has collapsed Once the situation becomes that Prussia has to attack, and there is no cavalry to cover the flanks, if it fails to capture, it will be an annihilation war, and the Austrian cavalry will be able to harvest the defeated Prussian army. "

"Now the Austrian army attacking Chatusitz is the regular troops. If they attack this hill, it will be a surprise attack. And once the hill is captured, the troops on the hill will be the regular troops, and the front of Chatusitz will be the surprise troops. Once the regular and surprise troops are replaced, how can the Prussian army resist according to the original formation? "

The staff officer who cursed here was neither pro-Prussian nor pro-Austrian.

He just stood at a neutral angle, with a feeling of really hating iron and steel, and complained about Austria's almost rigid linear formation tactics.

Until this time, the staff officer really understood what Liu Yu said in St. Petersburg: a hundred years have passed since the Thirty Years' War, and the war of Dashun for the world has just passed for nearly a hundred years. But a hundred years later, many generals' minds were still stuck in the Thirty Years' War, the Battle of One Stone, and the better ones might be stuck in the War of the Spanish Succession.

I thought that if someone knew the tactics of the anvil and hammer at this time, or the tactics of left light and right heavy, left defense and right attack, concentrating troops to break through one side and sweeping and turning to encircle, they could also be called a famous general in Europe, right?

But he didn't know that it was like a martial arts master watching some low-level fighters fighting, always thinking that if this punch was faster, wouldn't it be a win? Or if this kick was a little to the right, wouldn't it be over? However, it's not that they don't know, but that they can't do it.

The officer ratio, tactical system, tactical thinking, and training focus of the Dashun Qingzhou Army made these staff officers believe that the Austrian Army could make the tactics he imagined according to their deployment.

But in fact, the Austrian army was not able to make such tactics at this time, because the officer ratio, tactical system, and training focus made it impossible for them to make such tactics that they thought were very simple with the Qingzhou Army as a reference.

Just like the famous Prussian flank attack tactical oblique formation, it looks simple, but the premise is strict discipline, soldiers who are extremely dumbfounded, and the column march that has been strengthened by daily training turns to advance.

Just like the Qingzhou army in the battle of Altai Mountains, it can complete the conversion of hollow formation in just a few minutes, so it can boldly use some seemingly dangerous tactics. But if it were any army at this time, including the European army, no one could change the formation so quickly, and it would be impossible to replicate the tactics formulated by the Dashun staff.

If you ask Confucius how to touch a ten-foot-high wooden pole, Confucius said to stand up and stretch out his hand. It is indeed correct.

But if you ask Yan Zi who can drill a dog hole, this answer is definitely not correct.

Originally, I came with the attitude of wanting to see and learn.

But the tactical system, artillery use, and battle ideas are completely different.

Now these people can only think of one sentence in their minds.

Study? Learn a fart.

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On the battlefield, Frederick II nervously held his scepter, looking at the Dashun staff who were muttering in Chinese not far away.

He was not afraid of them, but afraid of the gift they brought him, the hot air balloon that could detect the battlefield situation.

Frederick II had studied geometry and liked geometry very much. He hated algebra very much. He had complained about Euler's geometry in history.

So geometry allowed him to grasp a glimmer of hope on the battlefield.

He found the position of the Austrian coach's main camp, on a small hill that was not very high. The height of the hill was about the same as the hill in the northwest corner where the Dashun staff was staring at and believed to be the flaw of the Prussian army.

Simple geometry can tell that the sight of the Austrian coach there will be blocked by the hill that can be regarded as the flaw of the Prussian army.

In other words, the Austrian coach cannot see the movement behind the hill, and his reinforcements can use the cover of this hill to launch a surprise attack.

This is the only possibility of victory, which is the thinking made by Austria at this time.

Because the Austrians were moving most of their forces to the center line, they were obviously preparing for a wave of attacks, taking Chatusitz before the Prussian reinforcements arrived, and thus dividing and annihilating the main force of Prussia.

He didn't know what the Dashun staff were muttering.

But he knew that if the Austrians had such a hot air balloon that could increase the height of their vision at this time, simple geometry would show that the flaw and opportunity he had caught would be gone.

If it was even 30 meters higher, the Austrians' vision would not be blocked by the small hill in the northwest, and they would not be able to detect the Prussian reinforcements moving towards this side.

Only a height difference of 30 meters.

But the Austrians lacked this 30-meter height difference.

Frederick II imagined that the reinforcements would use the hills to block their vision and march quickly to the Austrian flank in a column. Then simply stand still, turn left, complete the column to the horizontal column, and a wave of volleys would directly break the Austrians huddled in the middle.

But all this is based on the premise that the Austrians do not mobilize their forces to attack the hill; their own troops can at least hold on until 10 o'clock.

Nearly three-quarters of the Austrian infantry were crowded in the midfield, right in front of the town of Chatusitz.

The scattered grenadiers, the field artillery assigned to the squadron, and the overwhelming force advantage have made the Prussian front shaky.

If they had not sent out the cavalry and delayed the defense for more than an hour, this shaky situation would have appeared at eight o'clock in the morning.

Now, it is already nine o'clock. There is still about an hour before the reinforcements arrive, and it can't be faster.

After a few gunshots, the next wave of Austrian attacks has begun.

The grenadiers and field artillery cooperated to blow up the brick houses used for defense in Chatusitz one by one, and the Austrian soldiers with bayonets had already started hand-to-hand combat with the defending Prussian soldiers.

Frederick II calmly ordered the follow-up troops to retreat to the north of the town and form a second line of defense.

The town could no longer be defended.

But the good news was that the Austrians' frontal attack method of assigning field artillery to the squadron also prevented the Austrians from taking advantage of the situation to pursue.

The broken walls, the bricks and stones in all directions, and the streets that were almost impossible to pass through made it impossible for the Austrians to continue pursuing after occupying the town.

They could only occupy the town first, then slowly advance forward, and reach those places without messy rubble and bricks to form a team before launching another attack.

The Austrians' cavalry advantage was also completely abolished by these broken bricks and stones, and it was difficult for horses to run in the ruins of the town.

9:40.

The town had fallen, but the Prussian army had formed a second line of defense.

The dull Austrians passed through the ruined town and found that the Prussians had reorganized their troops. Because of the ruins, the Austrians could not form a team in the town, nor could they pass through the town full of brick and stone ruins in battle formation.

Several waves of infantry and cavalry that rushed quickly and were not in formation were hit by a wave of volleys from the reorganized Prussian army and retreated.

Frederick II finally breathed a sigh of relief. The previous wave of volleys was the most dangerous moment. The most feared thing for the reorganized team defense line is chaos and vacillation. If the Austrians' previous wave of attack was more decisive, if the Austrians' cavalry and infantry could cooperate better, it is likely that they would not be able to hold on just now.

But now, the time when it is most likely to be shaken and chaotic has passed. It will take at least 20 minutes for the Austrians to organize an attack again.

The Prussians no longer have many troops on the most dangerous hill, but the Austrians have no interest in this flank, as if they think the Prussians are already shaky and can break through completely with just one last push. At this time, it seems unwise to adjust the tactics and focus on the hill on the flank. After all, it seems that the front is about to win, so there is no need.

Moreover, it takes time to adjust the tactics. What if the Prussian reinforcements arrive during the adjustment period?

"Yes, there is still a chance. As long as I go back and lead the reinforcements that are about to arrive, when the Austrians are crowded in the center line, I can penetrate to their left wing in a column, turn around and fire a volley, and I can completely solve the Austrians!"