Chapter 82 Wu Peifu's excitement

Not to mention anything else, the tactic of cross-shooting with a machine gun alone is enough to make Zhao Dongyun among the tactics in today's Beiyang, not to mention the specific applications of *, machine gun suppression and covering infantry charge, etc.

These things may be common in the eyes of future generations, but in this era, they represent the most advanced and even cross-era tactics in modern times. The most obvious is the machine gun. Zhao Dongyun moved the machine gun tactics during World War I and even World War II to today, increasing the lethal effect of machine guns by at least several times.

And what Chen Guangyuan admired more was not only these. What he admired more was that Zhao Dongyun not only said that he was indeed present. He founded the four battalion machine gun team for Beiyang, practiced the third mixed association with one hand, and let the third mixed association carry out new tactical training.

These things can't be done by ordinary people.

However, Chen Guangyuan still doesn't know that Zhao Dongyun, whom he admires, still frowns. He is still satisfied with the attacking side of the infantry drill just now, but he is a little dissatisfied with the tactical application of the defensive side.

One-on-one comparison of troops, and two machine guns to help the battle, will be easily taken down by the offensive side. If this is only the result agreed before the exercise, there is nothing to say, then it is a serious dereliction of duty for the defense to deploy artillery positions, barbed wire or other obstacles before the war.

Although the deployment of the machine gun is relatively reasonable, in front of the machine gun fortress, because it is not that kind of cement fixed fortress, it is very easy to be hit by enemy artillery. Unexpectedly, there are few infantry covering the machine gun, resulting in a circuitous attack by the attacking party and taking the lead in attacking the machine gun position. However, a few * were reimbursed for a machine gun position.

These made Zhao Dongyun feel quite dissatisfied. You should know that for a long time in the future, the Third Mixed Association in Liaodong can't afford to attack, but adopt a defensive posture. If the defensive ability is not strong enough, how can he stop the Russian army from advancing to the west? Why did you play armed neutrality in the Russo-Japanese War?

And during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, it was a defensive world, and defense was easier than attack. As long as the position was repaired and the machine gun was set up, no matter how the opposite side attacked, it would be a lot of death.

Zhao Dongyun also thought that when the Russians or Japan himself would attack his machine gun defense in the future, he would slaughter tens of thousands of people a day. If his defensive ability was insufficient, his machine gun position would be destroyed by two or three legs. What kind of machine guns would he play?

Zhao Dongyun wrote down one problem after another, but he would not say anything loudly now. In today's public place, he has to save some face for his subordinates. In the future, solving those problems one after another is the way for the superiors. He will scold his subordinates when he sees minor problems casually and embarrass his subordinates. The superior is usually the protagonist of a film and television drama.

So you will see Zhao Dongyun smiling: "Yes, although there are still some problems in the exercise, it is still quite good on the whole. It can be seen that you are all thoughtful!"

Then he turned his head and looked at Liu Tinggui and said, "Today, your artillery battalion has performed well. Although the gunners are still unfamiliar and the firing is slower, they have done a good job in terms of step artillery coordination!"

At the beginning, Liu Tingui was a little worried that Zhao Dongyun would be dissatisfied with the slow firing speed of his artillery battalion. Now he was finally relieved to hear that Zhao Dongyun did not say anything about it. He said, "Lord Quan Lai has raised a large number of excellent artillery officers, otherwise the humble position could not be so quickly. The shelf of the artillery battalion has been set up!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this. That's right. Zhao Dongyun did not invest much energy in training infantry and cavalry, but he kept paying attention to this artillery training from beginning to end. Even in order to solve the scarcity of artillery talents, he dug up walls everywhere and finally recruited several professional high-level talents. Among the quality artillery officers, there are Lu Jin of the first phase of the artillery section of non-commissioned officers studying in Japan, and Gong Guangming of the second phase of the artillery section of the non-commissioned officers studying in Japan. In addition, there are several old Beiyang artillery officers in the period of the military guard right army.

From the perspective of officers, the newly established 3rd Battalion of the Artillery is different from the infantry and cavalry battalions of the 3rd Mixed Association. The officers in it are not the direct line of Beiyang, but some officers from the old Huai Army and some non-commissioned officers in Japan.

Because most of these officers are personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun, and most of them are artillery officers from professional classes, they are also stronger than other troops in terms of professional quality.

When he spoke, a group of middle and low-level officers who participated in the army had also come to the stage. Zhao Dongyun was going to receive them for training as usual. The leader was Lu Jin, the current third battalion of the artillery. After returning to China, he first went to the surveying and mapping school as a teacher. Later, he was recruited by Zhao Dongyun and became the beginning of the third artillery battalion. An important officer in the founding period was also the second non-commissioned officer in Japan personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun. As the leader of the Third Battalion of the Artillery, he and Liu Tingui trained this artillery battalion together. He was the drill commander of the artillery battalion just now.

This person is one year younger than Zhao Dongyun and was also a student of Beiyang Martial Arts School in his early years. Although he did not have practical experience in the Beiyang Army in his early years, he was born in Beiyang, and his Beiyang Academy was also an important factor for him to win Zhao Dongyun's recruitment.

The non-commissioned officer students who stayed in Japan in the late Qing Dynasty were basically dispatched by each province. Generally, after returning to China, they returned to the original province to serve. Therefore, it is more difficult for Zhao Dongyun to recruit non-commissioned officers from other provinces. Unless the student can't get a position in the original province or is not satisfied with another way out, he will follow Hua Zhenji of the first phase of the sergeant. Similarly, he turned to Zhao Dongyun when he could not get a real vacancy in the original province and took office in Beijing.

In addition, like all Beiyang bosses, he also rejects those revolutionary parties and prefers to use honest and mediocre people than revolutionary people full of genius, so there are not many non-commissioned officers recruited by Zhao Dongyun.

In addition to Lu Jin and Hua Zhenji, it is also a second phase of Gong Guangming. This man was not personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun, but took Duan Qirui's doorway. Originally, he was going to serve as the second bid of the artillery team in the second town, but Duan Qirui had no choice but to send him to Zhao Dongyun after losing the second town. .

Although this person is not Zhao Dongyun's direct line, he is barely the same faction. In addition, this person is a non-commissioned officer in Japan from the second phase of the artillery department. I don't mention whether he can fight, but it should be okay for training artillery, otherwise he will not be recommended by Duan Qirui.

So after he came, Zhao Dongyun made him the team leader of the former team of the artillery battalion.

For these young middle and lower-level officers, Zhao Dongyun walked up kindly and talked one after another, returned to the army, and said a word of encouragement from time to time, while Liu Tingui only introduced him. After all, there are hundreds of subordinate officers of the Third Mixed Association. Zhao Dongyun can't remember so much. People.

"This is Wu Peifu, the platoon leader of the left team!" When Liu Tinggui introduced a strong man who stood straight, he attracted Zhao Dongyun's attention.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Wu Peifu and rarely smiled: "You are the Wu Xiucai mentioned by Lu Jin. Well, work hard and make a big career!"

Wu Peifu showed excitement when he heard this. At this time, he was just a lowest-level officer. Not long ago, he was promoted from the main eye to the platoon leader. At present, Zhao Dongyun, the boss of the Third Mixed Association, actually remembered his name. Suddenly, he was so excited that he almost said nothing, which made Liu Tinggui on the side stared fiercely. After that, he returned to normal and replied, "Follow your guidance, Pei Fu will definitely not let you down!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded slightly, but his footsteps had already moved away to see other officers. If Wu Peifu followed him, he would hear Zhao Dongyun also call out the name of another officer. The man's performance was as excited as Wu Peifu.

To be honest, Zhao Dongyun can't remember the person Wu Peifu. The reason why he was able to call out the names of many low-level officers, including Wu Peifu, was that Liu Tinggui reminded him!

Although Wu Peifu said that he was also a great warlord in later generations, which of the large and small officers in today's Beiyang system is not a warlord in later generations? Needless to say, Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and other bigwigs, Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan, Lu Yongxiang and others are almost all warlords. If Zhao Dongyun is still curious about these historical warlords at the beginning of this era, then today, two years later, Zhao Dongyun has directly ignored them.

The current situation is that historical celebrities in later generations are looking up at Zhao Dongyun, instead of Zhao Dongyun running up for signatures when he sees some historical celebrities.

Zhao Dongyun does not care about historical fame when recruiting talents. He pays more attention to practical talents. In fact, most of his current subordinates are unknown, but his actual talent is no less than those historical generals.

For this, Wu Peifu and Gong Guangming, the former are famous historical generals, and the latter can't even find his information in Baidu, but the former Wu Peifu only studied half of the Kaiping Martial Arts School, and he is a half bucket of water that has not graduated. He did not go to Tianjin as a policeman as in history, but threw it last year. The first town of the Beiyang New Army, and then transferred to the third battalion of Zhao Dongyun's artillery this year. When it was first transferred, it was just the right eye.

To be honest, Wu Peifu, who has not been to the surveying and mapping school and has gone through a spy career, is far less important than Gong Guangming, a professional artillery officer from the second phase of Lushi artillery department, in Zhao Dongyun's heart.

Historical names will be caused by the need for environment. Those historical celebrities who do not get enough opportunities after history changes may spend their lives in such an unknown life, and some unknown little characters are enough to grow into new historical masters after getting opportunities and getting enough training.

Of course, gold will shine wherever it goes. All Zhao Dongyun has to do is give them an opportunity!

In history, Wu Peifu was born in surveying and mapping and used the professional artillery of surveying and mapping. In his early years, he was an artillery master, so Zhao Dongyun did not mind helping him continue to experience in the artillery force. As for whether he can become as talented as history, it depends on himself.

And Zhao Dongyun himself doesn't care. Speaking of famous historical generals, there are a lot of people in Beiyang, and it doesn't make much difference who is missing.

Moreover, creating a famous general is much more interesting than recovering a famous general!