Chapter 463 Riot·How to Defeat Steam Knight
Night attack is indeed one of the effective methods to deal with Steam Knight.
After all, in order to ensure the condition of the steam armor, steam knights who have experienced battles during the day will have mechanics or the knights themselves perform maintenance at night.
At this time, if we can seize the opportunity, there is still hope for a successful attack.
The maintenance of the Steam Knight requires the replacement of wearing parts and consumables, the replacement of parts damaged in battle, the maintenance of weapons, and the loading of ammunition...
All in all, the powerful combat effectiveness of the Steam Knight is based on complex maintenance and logistical support.
So for steam knights, the infantry accompanying them is a very important configuration, because these infantry can play a very good protective role when the steam knights perform maintenance.
The Guards infantry battalion accompanying this Steam Knight flag regiment knew its responsibilities very well. The infantry battalion commander did not allow the soldiers he led to launch a fierce attack in the previous daytime battle.
On the contrary, they have only kept pace behind the Steam Knight, and have not had much desire to attack.
The main job on the battlefield is not to attack, but to clean up the area around the Steam Knight to ensure that there are no hidden fire points or traps around.
In the previous battle during the day, the injured steam knight was directly shot by a 4-pound infantry gun hidden on the second floor of the building. This caused damage to the armor and transmission mechanism of the arm. He had to give up the gun and replace it with a gun. Chainsword combat.
From this point of view, accompanying the infantry is still very important. Without them, it will have a great impact on the steam knight's combat, especially in urban street fighting, the accompanying infantry is very important. .
Therefore, the infantry battalion commander did not let his soldiers rest directly at night, but divided the soldiers of a battalion into three shifts, and then rested in shifts, always keeping at least one company of soldiers awake. At the same time, it also allowed them to maintain strict vigilance around the camp centered on the location of the train.
Around them, an infantry battalion from the colonial garrison was also stationed here, providing them with defensive coordination and also responsible for defending the train station.
Of course, their main task is to ensure the safety of the Steam Knights. After all, no matter how good the commander of the colonial garrison is, after seeing the powerful combat effectiveness of the Steam Knights during the day, he should understand who should be the leader in this battle. Lord.
Unless the commander of the colonial garrison is an idiot who thinks that the power of the Steam Knight will compete with him, the focus will be on the Steam Knight.
Although the commander of this colonial garrison cannot be said to be a particularly powerful general, he is at least a qualified officer.
So when the revolutionary army's night attack team launched a sneak attack, although it did have a certain impact on the colonial garrison and successfully plunged them into chaos, it also alerted the northern army at the same time. Let the Guards Infantry Battalion react in time and prepare for battle.
Even the Steam Knight has three machines that have completed maintenance and entered the battle.
The leader of the revolutionary army's night attack team was not a reckless man. Seeing that nothing could be done, he immediately chose to retreat.
However, even so, the three Steam Knights entering the battle still caused the night attack team to lose almost one-fifth of its manpower.
You must know that although the night attack team has less than a hundred people, all members are carefully selected from the revolutionary army. They have also received far more rigorous training than ordinary soldiers, and are specially trained for night operations. Had special training.
It can be said that the night attack team already has a little bit of the special forces from the original world of Perfecticot. If it was just a sneak attack on a routine mistake, the night attack team's operation tonight had actually been successful, because the colonial garrison troops responsible for defending the train station were already in chaos.
As long as the revolutionary army launches an attack at this time, there is great hope that the train station can be recaptured, even if the army from the north joins the battle.
Of course, the premise is to exclude the influence of steam knights.
The timely entry of the three Steam Knights into the battle not only dealt a heavy blow to the night attack team, but also disrupted their original plan.
Although a brave night attack team soldier successfully broke into the train very close to the train with an explosive bag, and Chen Gong ignited the explosive bag, he ultimately failed to attack the train and the people on the train. How much damage does a maintained Steam Rider do.
And this is also the main reason why the leader of the night attack team chose to retreat. They really have no means to effectively kill the train. Filling in this team is just to increase the kill record of the Steam Knight. That’s all.
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"They were able to organize an effective night attack. It seems that I need to improve my evaluation of the revolutionary army in the New World. The level of these guys is not bad!" In the laboratory, Purficott received the second actual combat report. The record about the revolutionary army's night attack made her couldn't help but praise it.
Don't think that a night attack is a very simple thing. Just let the soldiers stay up all night and launch the attack at night.
Or at most, add a person's title, a horse's hooves, and carry out covert operations without lighting a torch.
A real night attack certainly includes these contents, but it is not just these to be called a night attack.
It does not mean that if you have done these things well, you can launch a night attack.
First of all, what needs to be solved most is how to effectively deliver orders in a night environment. After all, you are going for a night attack. Even if you implement the agreed action plan, the connection between the troops and the commander is broken during the night attack. , how should the troops participating in the night attack attack? How to evacuate?
These require the commander to make arrangements in advance and coordinate the command to truly meet the conditions for launching a night attack.
Secret marching is also not easy. At least you have to ensure that the troops launching the night attack can clearly recognize the marching route without lighting torches at night, and at the same time ensure that the team does not get separated.
In other words, the soldiers participating in the night attack must at least not be night blind.
Although this is a disease that has almost disappeared in later generations, night blindness is still a common phenomenon in this era, especially for the poor, it is normal to not be able to see things at night .
Therefore, Purficott understood very well that the report stated that the colonial garrison infantry battalion almost collapsed when the night attack occurred.
After all, you can’t even see, so what can you do? You can't just blindly type by feel, right?
Therefore, a group of soldiers who can at least see things at night are also necessary for night attacks.
(End of this chapter)