Chapter 1751: The difference between old and new army

To be honest, it is extremely extravagant to form an army composed purely of high-skilled non-commissioned students. But Marin does not care, because Beihai has promoted compulsory education throughout the country, and can graduate thousands of non-commissioned officers every year.

In the future, even if half of the thousands of non-commissioned officers are selected every year as deputy military officers, 500 people will remain to join the young guards. Because there will be no shortage of people in the future, there will be no extravagance or extravagance.

How terrible is an army composed of purely non-commissioned military officers and students? In this era, I am afraid it is the elite of the elite! The Huangpu Student Army, who defeated the warlords, understands ... Moreover, because this army has been militarized since childhood, unlike the Huangpu students, they only received one or two years of education in their youth. On the major, this student army is many times more than the Huangpu student army!

In the future, Marin ’s plan is to make the Young Guards the real trump card of the North Sea, replacing the First Army and becoming the most capable army in the North Sea.

After all, the First Army is mainly mercenary, and its reliability is not very strong. This group of people can fight well, but if the North Sea country encounters difficulties and cannot even afford commissions, it is hard to say that these are from the mountainous regions of southern Germany. Only this group of young non-commissioned students who have received brainwashing education since childhood, will be loyal to Beihai and Marin as always.

And Marin is not thin for them, because of his full trust, Marin intends to make this trusted non-commissioned military unit fully equipped with new firearms using rotatable single-headed bullets, making it the most powerful firepower in the North Sea country. army!

Earlier, Marin had drawn 100 older people (late to school) from juvenile non-commissioned officers to form a juvenile marksman unit, all using single shots with long range and high accuracy. However, this army is too small to have a sufficient impact on large-scale wars. Therefore, Marin formed thousands of non-commissioned soldiers this time to replace the original small-scale troops. Thousands of sharpshooters are enough to tear a huge gap in the enemy line, so that the army commando can defeat the enemy ...

After using smokeless gunpowder, the effective range of the steel core single-headed bullet can reach about 200 meters. It should be pointed out that these 200 meters can be aimed and shot, not like the smoothbore gun. The hit rate is halved after 50 yards and the bullets fly around after 70 yards. There is no hit rate ...

In the previous battlefield against the coalition forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms, the 100 young marksmen of Marin actually played. However, because the number is very limited, they can only be used to attack enemy artillery positions, killing as few enemy artillery as possible. Although it played a great role, it did not play a decisive role in the overall situation of war. Because there are many armies, artillery is not important. Even if the artillery is wiped out, it does not necessarily affect the combat effectiveness of the unimportant army of artillery. At most, it only forms a certain deterrent to the enemy.

Thousands of marksmen are quite different ...

1000 sharp shooters, a round of salvo, can destroy at least hundreds of enemies. After two or three rounds, more than two thousand people can be eliminated. What is the concept of more than two thousand enemies? A army of 10,000 people, more than 2,000 people is equivalent to more than 20% of the soldiers.

As for the ancient army, most of the army is easy to collapse after more than 10% of the casualties. If the casualties are more than 20%, the probability of collapse is very high. Even with more than 20,000 troops, more than 2,000 people have reached a critical point of 10% collapse.

This is the first batch of 1,000 juvenile non-commissioned students, plus the original 100 juvenile marksman, Marin has 1100 marksman, can accurately kill each other within a distance of 200 meters.

Starting next year, another 500 people will be added to the Young Guards every year. Five years later, the Young Guards will have 3,600 marksmen. After two or three rounds of shooting, there are thousands of casualties. This is an unbearable huge casualty for any European army in this era.

Even the Ming dynasty army, with its hundreds of thousands of troops, could not bear such casualties. Because most of the Ming dynasty's troops were counted together, the only ones who could really fight were the family members and personal soldiers that the generals focused on training. The rest of the people just mingled with the elite members of these family members. It is okay to fight against the wind, and if you fight against the wind, as long as those family members are hit hard, others will inevitably collapse. The largest cavalry group in the Ming dynasty, Li Chengliang's home will be cavalry squadron — Liaodong Tieqi, but three thousand elite cavalry. Later, Li Rusong relied on these thousands of cavalry and beaten up Toyotomi Hideyoshi's meal in North Korea. Generally speaking, to deal with tens of thousands of people in the Ming Army, as long as the core of their thousands (or even only a few hundred) are disabled, the others are given away.

Not to mention the army, even the European army. Generally speaking, the first three rows of European mercenaries are the most elite. Historically, the German mercenaries, the first three rows are veterans, usually wearing half armor and iron helmets.

These veterans are elite, well equipped, and have the strongest combat effectiveness. And hidden behind the battle front are often old, weak, sick, and recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very general.

Even Swiss mercenaries across Europe are similar. Therefore, in the battle of Lübeck, Marin sent a large army to attack the old, weak, sick and recruits of the Swiss mercenaries from the back, which triggered the chaos of the Swiss battle array and led to the final defeat of the Swiss.

Therefore, the European military is actually similar. As long as the elite in the first three rows are eliminated, the basics behind are basically given away. This is the common problem of the ancient army-imbalanced strength, too dependent on elite driving.

This situation has changed since the army began to modernize and even modernize. Because of the use of a unified code to train the entire army, everyone's training level is generally not much different. Of course, there are elites, but the strength of most troops is relatively average, and their ability to fight independently is good. After all, even future generations, even platoon leaders, were also trained by professional military schools. In this way, a modernized army, a single unit, can be pulled out to perform tasks independently.

For example, while attacking a certain provincial city, the modern army has all the conditions to split up several regiments to sweep the nearby medium-sized cities, without having to wait for the large army to attack the provincial city and then remove them one by one.

But the ancient army was different, and a few elites took the whole army ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The rest of the troops left the elite to take the lead, and many would not fight. You can only wait for the main force to conquer a certain place, and then let the elite take the lead to go and conquer other places.

The same is true of Marin ’s army in the North Sea country, because he is worried that small-scale troops cannot complete their tasks independently. During operations, Marin basically acts according to the legion, and rarely sends out squares or even teams to go out alone to perform tasks. Unless, just going to the countryside for food or looting is not a tough task.

The young guards newly formed by Marin are different. Here, every soldier is an elite capable of thinking. Even if they are split into multiple 100-person teams, each 100-person team also has the ability to perform combat missions independently. Moreover, understanding and execution are better. After all, this group of teenagers have all received military education for many years, and the execution ability is absolutely nothing to say.

The mystery lies in the different capabilities of grassroots officers. Many of Marin ’s current legions, grassroots squad captains and the like, many are illiterate. If there are senior generals on-site command, they can also lead the army. If they are given a mission, let them lead their respective teams to perform the mission alone, to ensure that they are blind.

In the modern army, each team leader is a literate professional, and the execution ability is by no means comparable to those of rash officers. Moreover, the non-commissioned students of the Young Guards have received many years of military education, and they are not ordinary majors ...