Chapter 10 Shock 2

Wang Yingkai's words are not enough to reflect the situation at that time.

If this is an actual combat, then thousands of people of the Southern Army will attack, and they will still line up in a dense formation to launch an intensive charge. The most important thing is to fight to the death, then these attacking soldiers will be cut by bullets one by one like a mature wheat pole.

Wang Yingkai is also an old general in Beiyang, so he naturally won't talk nonsense!

This exercise was full of controversy from the beginning. When the court ruled that the attacking Third Battalion suffered more than half of the casualties and the rest collapsed and fled, the generals of the Southern Army immediately shouted about the unfairness of the referee. You know that they were thousands of people to attack a position with only three or 400 people, which could not be beaten. Forget it, how can it be more than half of the casualties in less than half an hour?

As a result, a big debate immediately broke out in the exercise court, and finally the dispute came to Yuan Shikai's side.

Machine Gun Team? Oh, it's the machine gun team that was tested last month. Has it become an army now? Is it really so powerful?" Yuan Shikai also doesn't believe it. Although the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army was reorganized from the old army in Shandong, and his overall combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Wuwei Right Army, it was also he who put a lot of effort into reorganization, and the combat effectiveness was also among the top three in China. He did not believe that the attack of thousands of people would be killed and injured in half an hour.

Although Duan Qirui also had doubts about the power of the machine gun, in line with the idea of supporting Zhao Dongyun, Wang Yingkai also said that the power of the machine gun was really so great, so he also insisted that the power of the machine gun team was really enough to cause more than half of the casualties of the third battalion of the Southern Army in half an hour!

Finally, Yuan Shikai waved his hand and immediately said, "In this case, let's all come together and see what's going on with Zhao Dongyun's machine gun team!"

It's better to see it with your own eyes than to hear the Taoism. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine the horrible scene of eight heavy machine guns cross-blocking and shooting together!

When Zhao Dongyun received an order to suspend the exercise, and a large number of Beiyang bosses such as Yuan Shikai, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui came to see his machine gun team's live ammunition exercise, he was stunned.

At the beginning, he wanted to perform well with the machine gun team, but he thought he could only make himself look better in the results of the exercise, but he did not expect Yuan Shikai and others to watch his machine gun team's live-fire exercise in person.

Withstand the excitement in his heart, Zhao Dongyun said to Lin Yongquan and others, "You have also heard that Lord Du Xian and all the superiors will come. I don't need to tell you more about the importance of it. I just want to say that opportunities are not often available. I hope you will cherish it!"

Yuan Shikai and a group of other Beiyang bosses are going to see the machine gun team's live-fire exercise. This is not only an opportunity for Zhao Dongyun, but also an opportunity for Lin Yongquan and others. To put it bluntly, whether they can eat and drink spicy food in the future depends on today's performance.

In order to prepare for this live ammunition exercise, Zhao Dongyun specially transferred a large number of live ammunition from behind, and asked his soldiers to get a large number of wooden stakes and so on, and then put these wooden stakes on the front open slope of positions 4 and 5 as targets.

After the preparation, Yuan Shikai and others also arrived on time!

Looking at Yuan Shikai in the imperial uniform, Zhao Dongyun's heart was excited that had not appeared for a long time. This excitement did not mean that he saw Yuan Shikai, a historical celebrity, but that he saw the opportunity to reach the top of the high position in front of him!

And now, what Zhao Dongyun has to do is to seize this opportunity!

More than ten years ago, Li Hongzhang also saw the shooting of the Maxim machine gun and was impressed by the power of the Maxim machine gun, thus creating the history of Maxim machine guns made in China. However, today's test shot and the test shot in history are completely different concepts.

The test shot for Li Hongzhang in those years was just to highlight the rate of fire of Maxim, a new weapon. Today, Zhao Dongyun wants to show Yuan Shikai and others that in addition to the reliability and rate of fire of the new heavy machine gun, it is more important to show the tactical advantages of the heavy machine gun.

After all, everyone knows that the heavy machine gun is fast, but whether it can really be applied on the battlefield, and how to apply it is a question.

When Zhao Dongyun saw Yuan Shikai and others coming, he immediately took the initiative to welcome him and said, "The Ministry has met Lord Xian!"

Yuan Shikai looked at Zhao Dongyun with a kind look, and then smiled and said, "You are Dongyun. You're welcome!" While reaching out for help.

Then he looked up and down at Zhao Dongyun and nodded: "Yes, the young man is very energetic and has the demeanor of my Beiyang!"

Although Zhao Dongyun is only a new battalion officer, in fact, he is already the backbone of the whole Beiyang system. Coupled with his overseas study experience and excellent military training theory in camp teaching, he is bound to continue to rise in the upcoming Beiyang expansion. For people like Zhao Dongyun Yuan Shikai won't put on the bad face that I'm the boss!

As a superior, whether it is Duan Qirui or Yuan Shikai treat the talents they need, their attitude is quite good!

Zhao Dongyun naturally had to cooperate with an excited look after hearing this,

After a long time, he recovered and said, "Lord Xian, please move to watch the exercise!"

After saying that, he took Yuan Shikai and others to the No. 4 highland. There was already a temporary wooden platform on it. Standing on it, he could better observe the subsequent machine gun live ammunition shooting.

After others went up, Zhao Dongyun stood beside Yuan Shikai and others and began to explain this live-fire exercise: "In order to defend the No. 4 and No. 5 highlands, in addition to deploying a team of infantry in each of these two places, I also deployed four Maxim machine guns in each of these two places, two new and two!"

"Defense is mainly carried out with the heavy machine gun point as the core, formed by the fierce fire of the heavy machine gun to form an intercept line, and the infantry is a secondary defense around the heavy machine gun. At the same time, in order to better play the firepower of the machine gun, oblique shooting is specially used, that is, the machine gun does not shoot directly, but performs oblique shooting. When necessary, the machine guns on both sides can cooperate with diagonal cross shooting to form two crossed fire blocking lines. At the same time, in order to avoid the intensive attack of heavy machine guns to attract the enemy's firepower, in addition to using the fixed shield of machine guns, our army has also built a solid machine gun fortress, which can effectively reduce the fire faced by machine guns. Force threat." Zhao Dongyun continued:

"In order to better simulate the actual combat situation, our army has arranged a large number of wooden dummy in the direction of the attackers!" Zhao Dongyun said that he still pointed the direction with his hands for a year, and Yuan Shikai and others on the side also picked up the telescope and looked in the direction pointed by Zhao Dongyun.

Sure enough, there are a large number of wooden pile dummyes about two or three hundred meters away, and these wooden piles are even unfolding in accordance with the current standard group. Since the speed of fire and accuracy of rifles became faster and higher, the line formations during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War have been abandoned by various countries one after another, followed by a loose troop formation, that is, each soldier disperses a certain distance and relies on obstacles to cover and attack forward.

However, although the troop density of the loose soldier formation has been greatly reduced compared with the linear formation era, the troop density is still too large for new weapons such as heavy machine guns.

Yuan Shikai and others continued to look at the defense line of the No. 4 and No. 5 highlands with binoculars. The horses in front of the defense line are normal, and although the trenches in the rear look strange, they are not beyond ordinary people's understanding. Only the machine gun fortresses in the trenches look different.

Although they heard Zhao Dongyun's explanation at the beginning, they still couldn't imagine how they could block the charge of thousands of people with such machine guns!

However, when those machine guns began to shoot, they were all stunned!

In order to create a better exercise effect, Zhao Dongyun ordered all the heavy machine guns to fire together. When eight machine guns spewed out dense fire tongues at the same time, the wooden piles and other simulated targets originally placed there were instantly shredded.

A general of the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army, that is, an officer of the Confederate Army, was speechless with his mouth half open!

In the previous exercise, he heard that thousands of his family could not attack two hills. On the contrary, when more than half of the casualties were awarded in less than half an hour, he could not believe it, and stubbornly believed that this was a misjudgment of the referee of the exercise and asked for a new ruling on the results of the exercise, which caused Yuan Shi all the way. Kai's way.

However, now he sees the shredded wooden stakes on the charging road. He can imagine that if his attacking troops were also attacked by live ammunition this morning, under such a fierce fire attack, more than half of the casualties may be small. It is estimated that the whole army will happen if they are beaten like this. Collapse!

Yuan Shikai also opened his eyes when he saw this scene. Naturally, he knew that the machine gun was quite powerful, but he did not expect that the effect of the machine gun would be so great under cross-shooting! He even began to imagine how many lives would the enemy have to take to break through his defense line if his Beiyang army was equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns.

At this moment, he understood why the great powers paid so much attention to heavy machine guns. Nowadays, whether it is the traditional powers such as Britain, Germany, France, Russia, or Japan, an emerging country, none of them have begun to install machine guns on a large scale. Yuan Shikai has not paid much attention to this before. But seeing this live-fire exercise led by Zhao Dongyun today made him really understand the power of the machine gun.

Yuan Shikai can climb to the position of governor of Zhili today and be designated as the successor of Beiyang by Li Hongzhang. Naturally, he has his advantages. So as soon as he realized the importance of machine guns, he almost immediately made up his mind to equip machine guns on a large scale.

At this time, the sound of machine guns has gradually stopped. Yuan Shikai took his eyes back from the distance, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Dongyun: "Dongyun!"

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