Chapter 81 New Tactics of Infantry

Now the gun equipped with the third mixed association is the 31-year 75mm field rapid-fire gun purchased by the Beiyang New Army from Japan. This is said to be a quick-fire gun, but in fact, it is still a retreat gun, with a maximum rate of fire of about three rounds per minute. This performance is really not much better in this era.

However, the reason why Yuan Shikai bought guns from Japan is not because of the good performance of Japan's guns, but because it is cheap enough.

In history, the hundreds of artillery purchased in large quantities by the Beiyang New Army in the early days were basically second-hand 31-year wild guns and mountain cannons used by Japan. One is only a few thousand taels of silver. Only these old-fashioned return guns are so cheap, and the expensive barrel return guns are tens of thousands of taels of silver.

At present, in the Beiyang New Army, only a small number of Gruson guns are nealed guns, and the others are retreating guns. It is after the large-scale purchase of artillery from the German Kruppe factory that really allowed the Beiyang New Army to enter the era of retreating guns.

Since he was unable to buy artillery from Japan because of the tense situation in Northeast China, although Yuan Shikai still wanted to set up a bargain like a return gun, but there was no place to buy it, so he had to grit his teeth and order a new gun from the German Krumb factory, that is, the 1903 75mm field gun. This kind of fire Although the gun is not a complete version of the tube retreat gun in the eyes of later generations, it is barely a member of the tube retreat gun family.

This series of artillery is also the main export product of the German Kronp factory in the early 20th century. Romania, Japan, China and other countries have purchased large quantities. In addition to German origin, countries also have also imitated a large number of them, such as the famous Japanese 38-year-style wild gun, which is the 1903 75mm. The patent license of the field gun is the Japanese production version, and the Hanyang Arsenal in China has also carried out imitation production history. Fengtian Arsenal has also imitated and produced this gun based on the 38-year-old field gun.

It can be said that although the performance of the 1903 series of artillery is not top-notch, it is easy to use, and its performance is barely acceptable. In addition, the Germans are quite generously authorized to produce. Of course, more importantly, the German Krper artillery was a famous signboard before World War I. Everyone likes to buy it, and all kinds of them also led to this. The artillery is sold all over the world, which can be regarded as a classic model in the history of artillery.

In order to solve the artillery needed by the second town this summer, Yuan Shikai ordered dozens of artillery from the German Kruppa factory, mainly the 1903 75mm field gun, and the rest is the 75mm short-barred mountain gun. However, these new artillery are all prepared for the second town. In the absence of Zhao Dongyun's third mixed association, he can only continue to use the 31-year-style 75mm field gun made in Japan.

Because this 31-year field gun is a retreat gun, its performance is naturally not comparable to the new tube retreat gun. The maximum rate of fire is only three rounds per minute. However, Zhao Dongyun found that his artillerymen could not even hit the standard rate of fire, which was a little unhappy.

Seeing that Zhao Dongyun's face was a little unhappy, Liu Tinggui also said in his heart that he was not good, but he was also quite helpless. Although the artillery battalion under him has been formed for half a year now, it has been recruiting personnel in the early stage and did not recruit new recruits until late May.

At that time, because the artillery ordered by Xiang Ri had not yet arrived, they could only use a few old domestic guns for preliminary training. On the eve of their arrival in Jinzhou, they took 16 guns from the first town, and then went all the way to Jinzhou, waiting. After settling down in Jinzhou, his artillery battalion began to carry out adaptive training.

The training time is so short, and Liu Tinggui is not the kind of person with a pig's foot aura, but he doesn't have the ability to make his soldiers change from recruits to elite artillery at once. It is not easy for the artillery to train smoothly. As for the speed of fire, don't expect how fast it can be.

As a family member, Zhao Dongyun naturally knew the details of his army. Although he knew that Liu Tinggui had experienced this matter, he was still dissatisfied.

Of course, his dissatisfaction will not be openly said. He just frowned and continued to watch today's drill.

After the artillery fired one after another and a gunfire that could not be called 'rapid fire', the infantry also began to act. Under the command of officers at all levels, the infantry in blue and gray began to jump out of the excavated trenches to launch a charge.

The main body of today's drill is infantry and artillery coordination. Naturally, the artillery behind them continue to bombard, but the scope of the shelling has begun to extend backwards to prevent the enemy's rear reinforcements, and at the same time avoid causing accidental injuries to the infantry attacking on their own side. The scope of the shelling begins to extend, and the extension is slow Preface, Zhao Dongyun, who watched the exercise, and a large group of officers nodded together.

Although the rapid fire of his artillery is unsightly, just by cooperating with the extended and gradual shelling of the infantry is enough to prove that the quality of the backbone officers of Liu Tingui's artillery battalion is excellent, and what is missing only the time to train soldiers.

Looking at the infantry side, as the officers at all levels blew bronze whistles and waved command knives, the soldiers began to climb out of the trenches with rifles that had been inserted with bayonets, scattered in the simulated smoke, and began to charge forward with their waists.

At the same time, several heavy machine guns deployed on the front have also been fired for fire suppression. Although they are all trained empty bombs, the unique click of heavy machine guns can still make people feel the dense firepower of heavy machine guns.

Under the cover of artillery and machine gun fire suppression, nearly 100 infantry in the two platoons began to charge the predetermined enemy positions. In Zhao Dongyun's telescope, when the infantry of the two platoons attacked from both sides of the front line, their formations were very scattered, which was very different from today's popular infantry tactics.

When the attacking side launched an attack, another infantry team playing the defensive side also began to take action. The two heavy machine guns were also deployed on both sides of the front line, and it was also a convex machine gun fortress. After the opposite infantry launched a charge, the two machine guns also began to shoot.

Of course, because this is just a drill, it is naturally impossible for a large number of soldiers to fall down as soon as they open fire, so the attacking soldiers just lie down and then use some bunkers to jump and crawl to continue to move forward, while some soldiers lie down with rifles to suppress shooting.

As time went by, the circuitous attacking soldiers were less than 30 meters close to the defensive front. Soon the attacking soldiers threw *. Although the thrown * was just a piece of wood that could not explode, the defensive officers also consciously saw * and began to Pret to be dead...

But the soldiers of the defense also began to throw pieces*!

When there was a stalemate, the attacker put a reserve team into the right wing. Naturally, according to the results agreed in advance, the attacker spent a lot of money to conquer the enemy's position.

Because this exercise is not large, and it is not a live-fire exercise, and even in order to save money, I can't even shoot more empty bullets. I only let a few machine guns hit for a while and listen to the sound. What was thrown out was simply a fake wooden iron*.

In terms of visual effects, it is far less beautiful than the domestic anti-Japanese dramas of later generations, and even boring. Even the soldiers involved are lazy.

But the layman watched the bustle and the insider watched the doorway. A group of officers watching the performance on such a boring exercise stage were distracted, and a few people directly took out * on the spot while writing and painting while thinking hard.

"Chen Tong, today's performance of these two teams can be said to be the essence of my new Beiyang infantry tactics. Looking at the circuitous attack formation, it is just like the charge tactics written by the commander!" Lin Yongquan sighed that although his relationship with Chen Guangyuan was not very good, he still admired his ability to train soldiers.

Zhao Dongyun proposed a new infantry tactic in Beiyang last year. At that time, Zhao Dongyun made an excuse that the German army had adopted the latest infantry tactics to deal with the fire suppression brought by machine guns. Yuan Shikai was also very touched after seeing the huge power of machine guns, but Yuan Shikai did not agree to The whole army promotes new offensive tactics for scattered soldiers, but further expands the distance between scattered soldiers' attacks to a limited extent.

However, this third mixed association is Zhao Dongyun's army, so it naturally doesn't matter how Zhao Dongyun trains the rest of the army. Although this new infantry tactic has not completely abandoned the previous thought of scattered soldiers, the gap between soldiers and soldiers is larger and thicker, and the training content of * has been added. The core of the tactic is no longer to fight against the opponent's soldiers. The core of the new tactic is to avoid the killing of enemy machine gun fire as much as possible.

And if you defend, you will naturally use machine guns to kill and injure the enemy charging soldiers as much as possible.

The Third Mixed Association adopts new infantry tactics for training, and Zhao Dongyun personally trains the tenth standard for himself when he has nothing to do. However, although these new book tactics are proposed and improved by Zhao Dongyun, the best way to train soldiers according to this tactic is Chen Guangyuan, not Zhao Dongyun's direct officers.

This has to be said to be a great irony!

It is precisely because of this that Lin Yongquan admires Chen Guangyuan's training ability.

Chen Guangyuan doesn't care about this. He relies on the ability to train soldiers to make a living. He may not be able to fight those famous historical generals, but he still has some skills in simple military training. Otherwise, he could not have crossed many long-awaited famous Beiyang generals to serve as the fifth standard.

Lin Yongquan admires Chen Guangyuan. In fact, Chen Guangyuan admires Zhao Dongyun more. In addition to Zhao Dongyun's promotion ability, he also admires those forward-looking strategic visions. In such a large China, there are many people who know that machine guns are fast and powerful, but they can root According to the development of a series of machine gun tactics, there are only a few people who have developed new infantry tactics based on the further extension of machine guns.