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Chapter 338 Chapter 338 The Battle of Ironforge

"Boom!" A grenade landed on the position of the troops of the Northern Dwarf Empire, raising a cloud of dust, covering the sky and the sun.

On the verge of the explosion, a soldier was shot in the head and fell down with blood all over his face.Farther away, some soldiers were stunned by the shock.

In fact, the troops of the Northern Dwarf Empire had never fought such a battle. They were overwhelmed by the enemy's artillery fire, but they couldn't see the enemy's artillery at all.

The original tactics of forming a decisive battle are obviously outdated now, and this kind of tactics is no different from sending to death now.

Tactics have fundamentally changed because of weapons, and now the end of the array attack is one, that is, to be easily wiped out by the opponent's heavy machine guns.

The Northern Dwarf Empire had never seen this brand new tactic, so they suffered a big loss in the decisive battle of the frontal collision.

The 10 troops suffered heavy losses in that decisive battle, which directly led to the fact that the current Northern Dwarf Empire could no longer send more elites to participate in the Battle of Ironforge.

The new tactics The Northern Dwarf Empire didn't have time to think about, so they could only think of some stupid ways to solve the problems they encountered.

On the one hand, they canceled the phalanx tactics of the troops, allowing the troops to hide on the spot and avoid concentrated attacks from artillery fire and heavy machine guns.

However, this tactic is primitive, and they have not been exposed to any trenches at all, so there is almost no earth-digging work.

Therefore, on the defense line outside Ironforge, there are actually no solid defensive positions such as trenches to block the advance of the Ice Kingdom's troops. There are only some hastily built parapets and the like.

These things basically have no defensive effect in the face of attacks from 75mm caliber howitzers.

What's more, in addition to the 75mm field guns, the Ice Kingdom also carries a large number of light-weight and easy-to-carry mortars.

These mortars are really magical weapons when attacking enemy targets at a distance of about 2 kilometers.

Because the charge is more and the power is greater, the power of the 80mm mortar is even better than that of the 75mm field gun, and the attack is more timely.

After all, most of the time, the dwarves were assigned to their own battalion-level combat units with such mortars. It was much easier to command and mobilize these artillery than to apply for indirect support from 75mm caliber howitzers.

In this case, the advancing speed of the Frozen Kingdom is naturally very fast, not because they are too strong, but because their opponents are too weak.

If this kind of war is placed closer to the Wright Kingdom, both parties involved in the war will dig earth and arrange trenches to reduce the loss of troops.

Even if the role of the trenches is actually not great, at least there will be such an arrangement, which will slow down the enemy's advance, reduce the losses of one's own side, and make the defensive side more decent.

The poor Northern Dwarf Empire has never studied this aspect at all. According to Tang Mo's words, their tactics are still in the last century.

It didn't take long for Datang Group's new weapons to change the world's war.In such a short period of time, many countries have not even heard of tactical methods such as trenches, let alone new methods of dealing with trenches such as grenades.

Now, the commanders of the Northern Dwarf Empire can be said to be brave and tenacious, but the soldiers in their hands don't even have a steel helmet.

There is no way around this, after all, they have never even heard of the theory that steel helmets can effectively prevent damage from shrapnel and can significantly reduce troop casualties.

In fact, even if they have heard of it, it is not easy to find a seller who can provide 10 helmets for a while.

Even the more powerful Ice Kingdom army was not equipped with steel helmets, and they reserved their limited transportation capacity for more valuable strategic resources.

For the Frozen Kingdom, the lives of soldiers are only secondary, the most important thing is the machine gun, and the bullets of the machine gun!
Because people don't need to be transported by sea, but bullets, shells, even cars, and the gasoline consumed by cars need to be shipped from Bunas, and then transported across the ocean to Yongdong Port.

"How could it be so strong... Didn't the Frozen Kingdom just sell Everwinter Harbor poorly?" A commander of the Northern Dwarf Empire put down his binoculars and retreated from behind a low wall where he was hiding. Neck groaned.

In just 15 minutes, the soldiers of one of his battalions seemed to be unable to hold on—he had never even seen the opponent's attack method, so he couldn't think of any way to deal with it.

Those dwarves and officers from the Ice Kingdom often have revolvers, which in the eyes of the defenders of Ironforge are simply artifacts beyond their cognition.

The opponent's weapon can fire 6 times in a row, and it takes half a day for my side to fire a single shot. This is not an equal war at all, okay?
And many veterans of the Frozen Kingdom are also equipped with lever-action rifles purchased from the Datang Group. Their combat efficiency is higher and they pose a greater threat to the troops of the Northern Dwarf Empire.

"My lord! I can't stand it in front of me!" A dwarf with a gauze wrapped around his head stumbled over, looking miserable.

"I saw it! You don't need to tell me again!" The dwarf commander in charge of this position shouted angrily: "500 people! You didn't even stand up for 20 minutes, and you were defeated by the opponent!"

"Big, my lord! We have done our best! The opponent is not showing up at all! We have no way to fight back!" The battalion leader was also very wronged, and explained in a crying voice.

In fact, he really has no good solution, because when the Ice Kingdom's army attacked, they used the updated tactics of the Datang Group.

After destroying the opponent's arrogance and destroying the first line of defense, the dwarf troops of the Ice Kingdom will try their best to get close to the enemy's defense line.

Then, they will find out the opponent's approximate defensive deployment, and then lift up the mortars and heavy machine guns-this is why early heavy machine guns often had shields and wheels.

In the early battles, heavy machine guns played a role similar to infantry cover.Before the appearance of weapons such as assault guns and infantry fighting vehicles, it was the mainstay of firepower that infantry relied on most.

When the shooters risked the enemy's cold guns and pushed the heavy machine guns close enough to the enemy's offensive position, the battle was often over.

The way to deal with this kind of machine gun advance tactics is actually very simple, that is, to prepare heavy machine guns on your own position.

(Forgive Long Ling, I don’t have much talent for naming, so Ironforge is used to death)
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