Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1755 Fire Stick

The king's army has basically finished explaining its tactics to them.

In short, the Wang army highly values ​​information superiority and demands the establishment of a comprehensive understanding of the battlefield situation.

In this era, due to the lack of personalized information terminals and 24/7 surveillance methods, the Wangshi mainly implements "distributed sensing".

In other words, it requires the frontline to proactively engage the enemy in firepower. The purpose is to lure the enemy, force them to retaliate or move, and ascertain their troop deployment and firepower system.

In the current environment, although the command may not know all the information on the front line, as long as the entire front line is mobilized and actively engages in infiltration and encirclement, it can continuously gather information about the enemy. With information, the artillery and air force will have targets, and then everything will be easier to solve.

This is the root of all tactics: the king's army, from the front lines, believed that the fire sticks in the hands of the infantry were unreliable.

During the Wanli era, the imperial army always felt that firing 50 rounds from a musket was less effective than firing one round from a tiger-squatting cannon. Rather than having a company advance to rifle firing range, they preferred to place all four infantry cannons at the same distance and then sweep the entire column with grapeshot. To avoid being annihilated by firepower, the enemy was forced to spread out their formation, which would then be easily wiped out by the charging cavalry.

Even now, the army of Shaoping still holds a similar view—because in the face of the true god of war, rocket launchers are nothing more than fire sticks.

The reason why the royal army ordered its infantry to engage rather than annihilate the enemy was that, although the royal army's infantry were carrying a lot of rocket launchers, the royal army did not expect to eliminate the enemy with rocket launchers.

The main purpose of carrying a rocket launcher is to quickly clear obstacles ahead during reconnaissance missions. Sometimes, the obstacle ahead is just a fortress or a firing point. If the entire reconnaissance operation has to be terminated because of such a firing point, and artillery support must be called in, then the efficiency would be too low.

So it's like taking out carrier-based aircraft with their missiles loaded and ready to be shot down. The general consensus among the troops was that once rocket launchers were deployed, they shouldn't be brought back; those things were incredibly heavy and took up space on vehicles. It was best to eliminate them all in one sortie. Once the rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and directional mines were used up, they could then return in infantry fighting vehicles.

"And this is the kind of task you are to carry out."

Shangluo did not assign them any tasks beyond the duties of the royal infantry—in other words, Shangluo did not send them to assassinate Romans. As mentioned before, annihilating the enemy was unnecessary, but eliminating the entire unit was essential.

This is also a difference when fighting the Romans. Normally, killing someone is considered a victory, and heads are always counted as war merits. But when fighting the Romans, because Romans could resurrect, killing them was meaningless; their equipment would simply be looted.

Only by completely annihilating the Roman army would they lose their entire equipment. Given Rome's current manufacturing capacity, which was almost completely paralyzed, this equipment was virtually impossible to replenish; in the end, they would only have their teeth and nails left.

[Actually, they weren't completely unarmed.]

"Really? They can respawn with their equipment?"

[You see, they were wearing military uniforms when they were reborn, so it's not like they couldn't bring anything; they could still bring some personal equipment.]

"What's the main stuff?" [Generally three things—besides the uniform, there's a canteen, a dagger, and a self-defense pistol. The canteen is for water to replenish stamina. The dagger is for survival and close-quarters combat. The pistol has one magazine of ammunition—well, that's about it. The only thing that can pose a threat at long range is the pistol. Its effective range is probably around 40-50 meters.]

"???" Shang Luo asked in surprise, "This sounds like equipment that spawns after you're born in some FPS game?"

[It is indeed somewhat similar, but that's really all Rome could do. Pistols are generated by default, while other equipment needs to be prepared separately.]

This also means that the desperate Roman army wasn't truly limited to using only their teeth and nails. The final opponent they might face was a group of desperate pistol-wielding men, or desperate knife-wielding men.

While holding a pistol in one hand and a dagger in the other is indeed the weapon of some elite troops, for most people, these two items are not as good as a fire poker, at least a fire poker is long enough.

So this is practically the same as being empty-handed; at most, it can only guarantee their courage to resist.

A pistol is, after all, a firearm. This is why the Romans went to great lengths to integrate it into their standard weaponry.

Shang Luo could understand why he did this. If it were him, no matter how difficult it was, he would also try to get a pistol. After all, sometimes, a pistol can bring about a miracle. A pistol provides the most basic psychological defense, letting the soldiers know that there is still a sliver of hope.

Even in horror games, the protagonist often only begins to put up an effective fight and can start looting items after obtaining a pistol.

"Hmm, an interesting design, but it'll be mine soon." Shang Luo was also very interested in the system. Although there was a small group of people using this system to fight against him, that wasn't a problem. He had many elite troops at his disposal, and he could send them to their deaths one by one in no time.

"Then, your mission in this tactic is clear." He said to the soldiers of the Herian Storm Assault Team, taking out his phone.

"Refer to your own tactical terminals, locate all valuable targets within the area I have designated, and then upload their coordinates to the information chain according to the prescribed format."

This was the objective that Shangluo assigned to them after careful consideration—the royal army's reconnaissance mission was to determine the locations of those targets. Ideally, they would also need to ascertain the value of the targets.

Because different levels of firepower should be deployed for targets of different values, this is also a kind of etiquette.

The hierarchy is as follows: ruler to ruler, minister to minister, father to son. Important targets are covered with 2000-kilogram aerial fissile bombs, secondary targets are topped with 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and less important targets are dealt with by howitzers of various calibers. And finally, for the most, most important targets, the Lianshan spacecraft is summoned to launch a relativistic kinetic energy strike from orbit.

Planning these firepower attacks is a complex art. Because people have legs, they'll run when bombed. Therefore, to unleash a sufficient amount of firepower in a short time, an entire military formation needs to be deployed to carry out the mission. All these actions must be fast, because information also has a time limit.

(End of this chapter)