Chapter 420 The working people’s method of victory
How to win in the face of an invincible enemy? There have been too many successful cases in the history of Purficott's journey through the former world.
Aside from those cases that are too outrageous or have too many fantasy elements, if you want to defeat the weak with the strong, in the final analysis, you still need asymmetric warfare.
Don’t use your own weaknesses to counter your opponent’s strengths, use your strengths to weaken your opponent, and ultimately reduce your opponent’s combat effectiveness to a level that you can defeat or allow your opponent to retreat without a fight. This is using weakness. The key to victory.
For example, the strategy of exhausting troops in ancient China in the original world is the embodiment of such an idea.
When facing a powerful enemy, do not fight head-on. Instead, continue to consume the opponent until the opponent has lost its strong combat effectiveness or has reached a level that can be defeated. Then defeat the enemy.
Adhering to this idea, even someone as powerful as the Steam Knight is not invincible in Purficott's view.
First of all, the steam knight is far more logistically demanding than the knights and armies of the past. Although the steam knight armor is powerful, it itself is a sophisticated alchemy and engineering creation that requires careful maintenance and upkeep. Delicate war horses are even more difficult to maintain.
At least you can serve Uncle Ma well enough to be kicked or sent into the enemy camp, but if you can't serve the steam armor well, you won't be able to go to the battlefield.
And to serve a war horse, you only need to know its habits and recipes. Once you get familiar with the war horse, there won't be much of a problem.
Can you serve steam armor? Come on, here is a two-hundred-page operation manual. Memorize it first. Then there is a one-thousand-page maintenance manual over there. Memorize it again and you can learn how to maintain the steam armor.
Of course, in actual operation, you will not have to memorize a manual of 1,200 pages. After all, Purficott did not write that many things, but repairing and maintaining steam armor requires a basic level of knowledge. Engineering knowledge is certain.
This is just like the car drivers in the ancient world. Their driving skills may not be very good, but their car repair skills must be passable.
Because in that era, there was no way to call a tow truck or a mechanic to repair the car on site with just one phone call. Most drivers had no choice but to become mechanics themselves, doing everything from engine overhaul to tire replacement. You have to know a little bit.
The same goes for the Steam Knights. Although the Knights will be equipped with alchemists and professional engineers, when fighting on the battlefield, there is no way for the alchemists and engineers to follow them to the battlefield.
Although some knights have begun to try to train knights who understand alchemy and engineering to serve as technical sergeants, it is obvious that this cannot be done overnight.
In this case, it becomes very useful for the steam knight to know some basic maintenance knowledge.
But this is limited to routine maintenance or emergency battlefield repairs, and real inspection and maintenance undoubtedly require alchemists and engineers.
At this time, as long as these logistics personnel can be dealt with, the Steam Knight will naturally be at home. If you feel that the logistics personnel are closely protected and difficult to access under normal circumstances, you can also use a simpler method to cut off the steam knight's logistics supply.
After all, the Steam Knight is a mechanical creation of engineering. Even if the damaged parts can be repaired with alchemy, this is not an easy job for the alchemist. Therefore, according to Purficott's design, generally speaking, the parts of the Steam Knight Supplements are all produced by factories in the rear, rather than hand-made by alchemists on the battlefield.
At this time, you only need to cut off the parts delivery from the parts factory to the battlefield, which can also paralyze the steam knight.
If you still feel that the danger is too high, you can also adopt a simpler method, but the effect may not be that good, which is to cut off the source of coal fuel for the Steam Knights.
Today's steam knights still use steam engines, which means that coal is needed to maintain the operation of the steam knights.
Even if Purficott designed a gas storage bottle, it can ensure that the steam knight can still fight when the fuel is used up, but usually it is used to finally escape from the trap and avoid the steam armor being paralyzed. Captured reserve energy.
Generally speaking, this reserve energy is only enough for a few minutes.
So, cutting off the steam knights' fuel supply can also paralyze them.
The immobile steam knight is not much harder to kill than the traditional knight.
Although most of the empire's knights are extraordinary and possess considerable strength, one lead bullet is still enough to penetrate a knight's chest.
"In addition to cutting off logistics, you can also divert the tiger away from the mountain and use some strategies and means to divert the steam knight from the main target. Then the rest is to attack in the east or in the west. After all, the steam knight cannot be anywhere and anytime. Wearing steam armor, they are still humans after all and need to rest and eat." Purficott taught Kallen the tactics on how to defeat the steam knights. In her opinion, these are quite common. In the original world, they would be against Thirty-Six. If you have a little understanding of ancient military historical stories such as The Art of War or Sun Tzu's Art of War, you can tell them one, two, three or four.
This reminded Purficott that before she traveled through time, there was a saying circulating in the original world that her generation, once hailed as the successors of the new generation, had really learned the art of slaying dragons, and those precious skills were enough to The knowledge that changes the world is written in their textbooks, and the various information they had access to before also covers all aspects of military, culture, and medical care.
Those three sacred books known as time travel bibles were once read by all people. As long as they mastered the above contents, they could even calmly cope with the nuclear war wasteland after World War III, resume production, and rebuild the army. and people's power.
"Maybe these may seem a bit weird to you, but they are really not complicated." Purficott looked at Kallen's expression of wanting to grow a brain, and couldn't help but smile helplessly, and then said: "Forget it, I'll write a pamphlet later, and you can just follow the content."
"Okay! I will definitely study hard!" Kallen was immediately overjoyed and cheered loudly. He also said embarrassedly: "Actually, I'm not stupid, but I really don't understand things about war. If you ask my brother to come, he won't be as good at learning as me, but he will definitely understand these things. He I just like these things!”
“Really? Then you should consider recruiting your brother to join the team. If you want to fight against the steam knights or the imperial army, a person with real military knowledge is necessary, because You must first master the force, so that you can win." Purficott did not feel that Karen was shirking responsibility. She had done a good enough job, and it was normal to have things that she was not good at: "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. You must remember this sentence and always keep the barrel of the gun in your own hand.”
(End of this chapter)