The Rise of the Empire

What are the things that travelers like to do most? Making money, pretending to be B, opening a harem, bullying others? Maybe both are right, but for our protagonist, IQ and technical crushing are what we like the most! How can the extra hundred years of knowledge be wasted? Although at the beginning of the conversation with the uncle's representative, we said that we would verify the power of the new weapon through a friendly match, but consciously or unconsciously, our prince fell into some stumbling blocks! For example, zigzag trenches, barbed wire fences, gun nests, machine gun nests, and side and reverse positions... If the terrain does not allow it, he will also create a reverse slope position.

According to the prince's thinking, the best situation is that his uncle rushed over with cavalry, and then smashed his halberds in front of 4 rapid-fire guns and 6 machine guns and wiped out the whole army! Then I took the opportunity to introduce the new toys I just made, my things were promoted, and my uncle was also educated and learned new fighting postures! What a happy event! (It seems that this word is not appropriate to use here? Leave him alone!)

As a result, what people didn't expect was that my uncle was serious about it, and all these things were used in the end! However, His Royal Highness was still a little sympathetic, at least after the signal flag on the mountain conveyed the message that they had to wait for a while, the prince still let the troops rest where they were. In his opinion, it is a 20-year-old kid who has nothing to do, what kind of new weapon, just play with him when he is in a good mood, besides, if he kills a junior with a superior force, it is not he who is ashamed to spread the word myself! After the prince thought wildly, he suddenly found that no matter what the outcome of the exercise was, he seemed to be the loser...

"I'm a little regretful now." The prince looked at Earl Schelling next to him with some dissatisfaction. Facing the coercion of the prince, the Earl resolutely acted like an ostrich...

Although in order to give full play to the power of the weapon in his hand, Prince Ruprecht found an open area as a battlefield, but this is the royal hunting ground, how can there be so many flat lands! Even if he traveled all over the hunting grounds, the battlefields he found were still not perfect, such as the woods distributed beside the battlefield. These woods provided cover for the cavalry. If the opponent also brought artillery, then the one who suffers is obviously himself! What is this called lifting a rock to shoot yourself in the foot! Thinking of this, His Royal Highness depressedly picked up the binoculars and looked at the forest in the distance.

"Huh?!" What the prince didn't expect was that at the same moment, his uncle was doing the same thing. When he saw through the binoculars the officers and soldiers who were digging and the moving artillery emplacements in the distance, His Royal Highness instantly lost his composure. This is contrary to common sense! This fighting posture is different from what he has seen before! This is not scientific!

"It seems that Viscount Schmidt also participated in the Franco-Prussian War?" the prince said blankly.

"That's right. He was the commander of the infantry battalion at that time. He was selected to join the Guards because of his outstanding performance." The Earl immediately responded with trepidation.

"That means he is not a rookie." The prince put down the binoculars with a gloomy face. There is a monster! The situation in front of him immediately made the prince serious. If there were no special reasons, a battalion commander who had participated in the Franco-Prussian War would not have set up his position like this, would he? The few cannons were dispersed. This first of all violates the principle of centralized use of artillery.

Secondly, there seems to be a problem with the firing angle of the artillery, and there are huge firepower gaps between the various gun nests. Third, the infantry is too loose, and the rifle firepower cannot be guaranteed at such a troop density! It seems that a circle of fortifications has been built, but there are problems everywhere! No one who just graduated from military school would make such a bad arrangement! The only thing that can have some impact is probably those barbed wire fences, but if it is a real war, these things will be easily destroyed by artillery!

"It seems that the little guy's men are working on some fast-firing weapons recently? For example, machine guns?" The prince said casually.

now it's right! He had the same idea as the French, hoping to use dense bullets to block the infantry's way forward! The prince remembered something that happened during the Battle of Sedan that year. The French used a platoon gun that could fire 25 rounds of bullets in a few seconds. This weapon caused some troubles for the German infantry, but there was no egg Use it, because they were quickly taken out from a distance by Krupp's artillery!

After the war ended, he began to pay attention to various rapid-fire firearms, such as the Gatling hand-cranked machine gun at the beginning, and the Maxine machine gun that was recently displayed in various European countries. The latter is simply a perfect infantry weapon. A machine gun can withstand the firepower of a company, but it still has the problem of being too large. If this kid arranges this thing in the defense line, such an arrangement is justified!

"Cunning little guy!" The prince who guessed half right said with some dissatisfaction. No wonder I was asked to use cavalry to participate in the exercise, so I thought so! "At least he is smarter than the French, and knows how to use bunkers to cover his machine gun positions!" At this time, the prince had put away his thoughts of playing, and began to seriously consider how to break through his nephew's defense. The more careful study, the prince found that this crab array is really powerful!

"Machine guns should be deployed at these points! They can easily block all our assault paths. Secondly, their artillery is arranged separately. I don't understand the reason for this arrangement. It may be because they can't dig enough in a hurry. Big bunker. Lieutenant, do you have a way to knock out these guns?" he asked the artillery company commander next to him.

"It's difficult. The opponent's position is a bit tricky, and our artillery's ballistic trajectory is a bit straight, so we can't directly cross the obstacle and hit the target behind! But if we make some changes, there will be no problem!" The artillery second lieutenant replied.

The prince still underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, especially those who can leave their names in history! Did Prince Leopold really miss these new weapons? Even Wilhelm II, a half-assed military strategist, could discover the role of machine guns. Would the future commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front not think of it? Although everyone liked the dense formation at that time, the trajectory of the artillery was relatively straight, and indirect shooting was not popularized, but there were always situations on the battlefield that required indirect shooting, and the powerful German artillery would naturally deal with these problems.

The prince's men began to deploy their artillery, first they dug a hole in the ground, and behind them made a slope with earth. Other guns were fixed on specific racks to increase the elevation angle. After some planning, the prince thought that there was nothing left to do. The artillery of the half company in the front should be able to suppress the artillery in front of the opponent, and then the artillery of the other half company was used to suppress the machine guns on the flanks and another artillery. . The remaining artillery would destroy the other two and cover the cavalry charge from the flank.

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