New Shun 1730

Just as the specialized combat engineers of Dashun surprised the British East India Company and the Bengalis in the siege of Fort George.

These Nanyang colonial legions, which were specialized in the military reform and tactical system, soon showed a move that shocked Jafar, who made a wrong decision and did not turn around and run away.

After the battle on the left wing started, the Dashun army, which had marched like a turtle and huddled in formation before, suddenly woke up as if someone had stuffed a spoonful of mustard into its mouth when it was half asleep and half awake.

The messengers spared no effort to fly between the camps and quickly pass on the orders integrated by the staff.

The infantry on the right wing directly attacked the weak Bengali infantry positions on the opposite side in the form of a column charge.

The recruiting camp of the Borneo military town following on the right wing completely replaced the role of the cavalry and marched in the form of a marching column to the flank of the Bengali infantry.

The four battalions of cavalry, except for one battalion as a reserve, all the other three battalions were mobilized.

From the rear of the left wing of the battle, they quickly maneuvered to cut off the Jafar cavalry's rear road, or launched an attack on its flank.

A recruiting company from the Malacca military town in the middle supported the battle on the left side diagonally to the right. Another recruiting company served as a reserve.

Two elite combat engineers, in columns, went straight to the junction of the British and Bengali infantry.

This is not a command method for a large army battle, but a standard three to five thousand people scale assignment task to achieve each command method.

The premise of this tactic is, first, to ensure that the opponent's cavalry is powerless; second, to ensure that each battalion can stand alone, at least in a one-on-one situation, it can not lose at all.

In theory, in this way, the entire front line is torn apart by itself, and there are loopholes everywhere. But the theoretical loopholes require an elite force that can pry open the loopholes, at least to be able to achieve rapid mobility of infantry, cavalry and artillery cooperation.

However, it is obvious that the opponent does not have such capabilities.

The development of the day before yesterday was still a standard tortoise shell.

But now, it is like a group of exploding fireworks.

Until this moment, the real advantage of Dashun after the military reform and specialization in recent years has been reflected.

The fight between the left-wing infantry and cavalry continues.

The Borneo Army Town Recruitment Battalion on the right wing, in accordance with the standard company column mobile formation, quickly inserted into the flank of the Bengal infantry at a marching speed never seen before on the European battlefield.

The front-line soldiers began to advance with the standard battalion column tactics.

A battalion deployed in a horizontal column in front.

The skirmishers were in front of each company.

Behind the two wings of the battalion that deployed in a horizontal column, followed by the other four battalions in a direct layer column.

The advantage of this tactic is that the company's firepower is fan-shaped at this time, so the battalion column assault can reduce the obstruction of the enemy infantry.

Relying on the battalion horizontal column deployed in the front row to fire several volleys of firepower, the battalion deployed in depth on the flank can directly launch an attack and tear apart the opponent's defense line.

Of course there are disadvantages.

For example, it will be penetrated by the opponent's superior artillery.

The problem is that the other side has no superior artillery, and the artillery on the Dashun side is absolutely superior.

Moreover, the Bengal infantry uses matchlock guns, and the density of its frontal firepower is even worse. A standard brigade-level column of Dashun - that is, a battalion column with four or six battalion columns - the matchlock firepower that its battalion column bears on the front is equivalent to that of a flintlock company.

A matchlock column of one thousand people is not the same length as a flintlock column of one thousand people.

And the same three thousand people, advancing in a column and advancing in a battalion column, are completely different.

This can also be regarded as a specialized idea of ​​Dashun's military reform: that is, wherever I can hit, my artillery must have an advantage. Whether it is the northwest, western Sichuan, Nanyang, or colonies, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu, Annan, Myanmar... There is no place where I can maintain naval delivery, and my artillery will be less than others.

Because except for the border areas such as the northwest and southern Sichuan, wherever the navy can deliver, it must have sea control. There are no possible hotspots of war in the surrounding areas that have sea control but no artillery advantage. And in places like Northwest Sichuan and South Sichuan that the navy cannot control, there must be more cannons than the enemy, because the enemy cannot build cannons.

Therefore, under this specialized consideration, the column tactics, which actually have shortcomings, became the favorite offensive method of Dashun in the battle.

In short: artillery advantage, mobility first, formation conversion first, and tactical coordination with the largest brigade scale.

Line soldiers shooting and large corps flanking are the lowest considerations, because this is really a dragon-slaying technique for Dashun and is not useful at all.

War is not a chess game. Dashun may not be able to play such a fancy battle on the European plains; or Dashun's skirmishers and cavalry artillery will definitely not be able to withstand von Seydlitz's cavalry charge; or the British 110-gun sailing warships can beat Dashun's fast cruisers in a one-on-one battle, and Dashun does not have a single 110-gun warship.

This may be true, but even if it is, it is a meaningless fact. The only land battle that Dashun could possibly participate in on the European battlefield was the siege of Gibraltar; and Dashun's cruisers could not possibly fight British battleships, they could only capture ships everywhere in the Caribbean.

This is Dashun's military reform thinking and the specialization of the tactical system that avoids dragon-slaying skills.

So, the Dashun army, which marched like a turtle a few days ago and deployed superior forces but still looked like a defensive counterattack turtle formation, once it broke out its real advantage, the first wave of attack tore open the Bengali infantry's line.

After the scattered soldiers in front fired randomly, they approached the battalion column in front of the Bengali infantry and fired a round of volleys behind the scattered soldiers.

Then, the battalions in columns on both wings directly launched a charge.

It was like a hot knife inserted into lard.

The Bengali infantry's line was completely torn apart.

The battalion that rushed into the depth did not choose to pursue, but turned quickly at a speed that shocked the Bengalis, turning to the horizontal columns facing the left and right sides, sweeping to both sides.

On the right side of the battle line, the two battalions that inserted into the depth had already deployed and continued to attack to the right.

In front of the Bengalis was the battalion that was in the horizontal column during the attack.

To the east of the Bengali infantry was the Borneo recruiting battalion that quickly inserted and maneuvered to the flank in a marching column.

The Borneo Recruitment Battalion marched very fast, because they had been fighting in Southeast Asia for several years by marching quickly and changing formations quickly. The messy battles in Southeast Asia did not give them the opportunity to fire at each other in full force.

Either they were attacked by a wave of fanatical believers, or they needed to quickly deploy on a narrow path. This tactic of rapid maneuvering the flanks with columns was exactly the direction they were most suitable for.

As a result, the Bengali infantry on the right was surrounded by the Dashun infantry without cavalry support, and the entire line collapsed.

Center line.

The recruitment battalion in the Malacca military town was not to support the battle between the left-wing infantry and Jafar's cavalry.

Instead, it was to cover the flanks of the left-wing infantry that had already deployed square formations and guard against the horizontal attack of the British infantry.

The elite combat engineers interspersed in the junction of the British and Bengali armies played their role as "broadly defined grenadiers".

After they entered the junction, they didn't care about the collapsed Bengal infantry at all, but quickly launched a flank attack on the British Bengal 102 Native Battalion that had already exchanged fire with the Malacca Army Town Recruitment Battalion.

The way they launched the attack was relatively simple.

Formation, turn, flank volley, throw grenades, and then charge directly.

Left wing.

In fact, just like when Niu Er stood on the platform to watch the battle for Siraj, Niu Er said at that time that when he saw Clive's flanks were gone and the whole line was attacked, he didn't fight at all and ran directly, which was obviously a betrayal by the people on the flank.

The truth on the battlefield is sometimes really simple, there are not so many miracles, so famous generals will shine in the long river of history.

The situation on the left wing was the same at this time.

In fact, when the first round of cavalry charge was directly broken by the Dashun's skirmishers and cavalry artillery, Jafar should no longer fantasize about flank charge phalanx.

At that time, he should have just left the infantry and the British army behind, fled quickly, crossed the Ganges, reorganized the team, and maybe there was still a glimmer of hope, or even negotiated with Dashun to save his life, or packed up his belongings and fled elsewhere.

But he didn't, but had a glimmer of hope, thinking that he could continue to go around in a big circle, bypass those disgusting skirmishers and cavalry artillery, and attack the phalanx.

The problem was that his choice of direction was limited.

It's not that Dashun didn't have cavalry, but the cavalry was not on the two wings, but in the center.

So he could only go around from the west and charge the phalanx from the west. Otherwise, if he went around to the back or the east, it is very likely that his side would be broken by a wave of Dashun cavalry before the phalanx started to charge.

And the three cavalry battalions of Dashun had no intention of rushing to the side to help the phalanx infantry, but went around in a big circle at full speed, going around the side and back of Jafar's cavalry.

Although cruel, the fact is that in Du Feng's view, Ceylon's draftees were worthless and did not affect the battle situation. Even if one phalanx was broken, the rest of the phalanxes would be fine. The limit of the Bengal cavalry was to break through one battalion phalanx, which might be overestimated.

Moreover, even if one battalion phalanx was broken up, it would have no impact on the overall situation and there would not be any chain reaction.

His order to the cavalry was to maneuver in a big circle, go around, prepare to make dumplings, pursue, and fight an annihilation war.

Jafar, who had already charged in person, did not realize that a huge danger had come at this time, because the battlefield was too chaotic and he could not know the full situation of the battlefield.

Now, he was still commanding the Bengal cavalry, and launched a full-scale attack on the phalanx with shrapnel exploding from time to time.

And the Dashun cavalry had quickly detoured to their positions.

At this point, the outcome of the war was already determined. Dashun perfectly played its specialized tactical system after the military reform, and used a large-scale battle with loopholes in the offensive tactics to completely complete the encirclement of the British-Indian coalition forces.

In addition to this tactical deployment, Du Feng issued an order before launching the previous attack, which was called "notorious" in the history books of South Asia in later generations.

[In this battle, the spoils of war on the battlefield belong to private individuals].

This sentence alone has no problem, and the Dashun army can't make the spoils of war public at all.

But in fact, the meaning of this sentence is to encourage soldiers... to kill all enemy officers.

The cavalry on the Bengal side originally had the habit of wearing gold and silver.

And these cavalry, as one of Jafar's betrayers and the foundation of his rule, are naturally well treated. Those Bengali infantrymen are just to make up the numbers, while these cavalrymen have high salaries and good treatment. In addition, they are Muslim cavalrymen, so they really have a lot of valuable small items on them.

The meaning of private spoils is that whoever kills the person gets to take the body. Who has money? Naturally, whoever is an officer has money.