Mortars are only 100 kilograms, and they are still divided into three parts. It is not much more troublesome to carry horses for high-speed maneuvering and follow cavalry battles than to equip them with machine guns. If their cavalry has machine guns and this mortar, they can have support firepower.
It’s best to win this riding sabre when fighting against any enemy, but if thousands of Russian cavalry can’t win it, they can finish it themselves. There are mortars and machine gunners, so how many people will die!
Let’s not think about Meng Enyuan’s thoughts. His officers, big and small, are also stunned. The day before yesterday, Liu Fuyou saw from the telescope that almost every meter had been bombed by shells, and a swearing broke out. "This fucking artillery is really fierce!"
He thought that if he could follow such a mortar team behind his first battalion after the battle, his fighting capacity would not soar!
Xi Hezhi, on the front line of the battle, is even more red-faced. He is only the lowest-ranking officer, but he can’t imagine how his troops will be equipped with mortars, and he doesn’t even think about what impact this large-scale mortar equipment will have on the combat effectiveness of the Third Mixed Association.
Those things were too far away for him, and now he didn’t think about why mortars would be so fierce. He knew that the bandits across the street had definitely been beaten.
Although it is 300 meters away, from the telescope, there is a cloud of smoke on the opposite side. More than 70 shells fall for a short period of less than 300 meters in a minute, and the opposite low wall is not the kind of perfect anti-shelling trench fortifications. After being plowed by 70 10 mm mortar shells, it is estimated that there are not many people left.
At this time, Xi Hezhi knew that his opportunity had come!
Although there was no prior coordination arrangement of artillery and infantry, the first thing was to let them conduct fire reconnaissance and not let them conquer the position, but a qualified grass-roots officer could not give up after seeing the opportunity!
So Xi Hezhi has once again waved his command knife and shouted, "Brothers, Lord Zhao has raised me for a long time, so that everyone can support their families on weekdays. This salary is no less than that of today’s Lord Zhao. It’s time to wait for me to work!"
Han Duotian around him was also excited and shouted, "If you rush over, kill his mother and I will avenge Dahu!"
Xi Hezhi continued to do the final morale boost. "Now those bandits across the street have been scattered by our artillery brothers, so we can win if we rush through!"
Xi Hezhi looked around again and shouted "bayonet!"
As the soldiers pulled the bayonet out of the waist and inserted it into the bayonet slot at the muzzle, Xi Hezhi also blew the bronze whistle!
The sharp whistle sounded in the ditch. The soldiers in the second row climbed out of the ditch with bayoneted rifles and then charged forward. Xi Hezhi also waved his saber and rushed out of the ditch, shouting "Go!"
The saber in his hand also waved forward from time to time, leading dozens of soldiers in the second row to launch a charge. During the charge, some people took turns to stop and squat, aiming at the distant low wall and shooting to suppress the fire.
Those bandits behind the low wall were almost stunned after the shelling just now. They fought loyalists in their bandit career, and it was not without loyalist shelling, but today this shelling is far different from what they encountered.
Just now, the dense artillery shells fell, causing serious casualties to nearly 100 bandits who had no anti-artillery fortifications. In just one minute, the bandits had fallen nearly once again. The back of the low wall was almost covered with dead bodies, and blood flowed across the wall. The bandits groaned in pain. Those who had been blown off their feet crawled, and their bellies were cut by shrapnel, and their intestines were crowded all over the floor. One man even tried to plug his intestines back while screaming.
At this time, among the remaining bandits who were charged by the second platoon, although a few people shot back, most people were horrified to see the Beiyang soldiers who seemed to come from all over the mountains, and some timid people even turned and ran away.
And this kind of thing, battlefield escape, has the first one, and then there will be the second one, and then it will run away in pieces.
When the soldiers in the second row launched the charge, they didn’t even rush to the low wall, which was 100 meters away. Fortunately, the bandits had run away, and not even a bandit shot them in the second half of the charge.
This made Xi Hezhi, who was ready to bear casualties, feel very surprised. This charge seemed to be more like an armed outing than a charge.
"Bandits are bandits, no matter what!" Xi Hezhi was full of contempt for these bandits. "You know, if I had known this, I would have rushed here with people!"
However, when Xi Hezhi led the low wall and saw the bodies on the ground and the wailing wounded, it turned out that he could no longer speak. From a rough look, there were 50 or 60 people lying here.
"These artillery are really tough!" Xi He knew that these were artillery achievements, but he didn’t expect that the first wounded here were artillery achievements, but half of the bodies there were his second platoon fighting.
The one-hour shooting just now may take a long time for a soldier to hit one. Some soldiers didn’t hit it from beginning to end, but even if the hit rate is worse, they can kill 20 or 30 people.
But it’s only been so long that people can feel it.
So let Xihe know that the bodies in this place are all artillery Jie!
Chapter ninety-seven The third town
What used to be a fire reconnaissance attack turned into a forced attack in the end, and even more importantly, there were small casualties, which surprised Liu Fuyou himself. After seeing that the bandits behind the low wall were bombed by mortars, he was ready to send one or two platoons to reinforce the north ditch direction and then attack in the main direction.
But we haven’t waited for him to send more reinforcements. Then the second platoon just took the bandit defensive low wall position. After taking this position, it almost got through the channel to attack Hongjiatun from the north and made a direct attack on Hongjiatun hinterland.
Next, step by step, we will force the remaining 200-odd bandits to be killed one by one or to escape to the east and then fall into Meng Enyuan’s hand cavalry ambush.
"That Xihe knows that he did a good job this time!" Liu Fuyou is satisfied with Xi Hezhi’s performance, and he has been thinking about his name as the focus of this grand report.
A few days later, the battle report with Xi Hezhi’s name appeared on Zhao Dongyun’s desk. In this battle report, Xi Hezhi and Wei Anpo, two grass-roots officers, appeared several times. Meng Enyuan repeatedly practiced Wei Anpo’s mortar team and achieved good results. Two days before and after the war, Lu Shuangqiang fired more than 200 rounds of encirclement and suppression, which created a favorable opportunity. Xi Hezhi, who was only the most grass-roots officer of the platoon leader Beiyang body, led his troops to break through the bandit position twice and killed less than ten people himself, killing and injuring hundreds of bandits.
Although there are more than 1,000 troops participating in the anti-bandits war this time, only the mortar team and Liu Fuyou belong to the same infantry team, and the second platoon of the center-left team has been taking the main attack because of the front line.
Zhao Dongyun, a grass-roots officer whose hands have sprung up, is also a name that people will think of when they pull out in the future.
Zhao Dongyun is not too concerned about the detailed course of the battle. These detailed tactical courses are what the grass-roots officers need to pay attention to. Zhao Dongyun will pay attention to the casualty ratio and the final results. In addition, he will also pay attention to the various new tactics adopted by the troops. However, these things will not be known until they are summarized and reported by the Education Branch.
In this battle report, Meng Enyuan’s many troops were killed, three people were seriously injured, 17 were slightly injured, not counting the consumption of mortar shells, more than 270 machine bullets, more than 2,000 rifle bullets and more than 20,000 rounds. The result was that more than 150 bandits were killed, including wounded prisoners, more than 200 bandits were captured, more than 90 Russian Mosinnagan rifles were captured, more than 5,000 Russian cigarettes were used, more than 300 miscellaneous bombs were used, and more than 10,000 miscellaneous bombs were made Meng Enyuan happy. More than 600 horses were
These are all normal seizures. Those guns, including Mosinnagan, can be thrown into the warehouse. The only thing is those horses.
In addition, what is more important is that they searched out a lot of floating goods from Hongjiatun. Generally speaking, they are worth 72 thousand silver less
Zhao Dongyun’s face changed when he saw this seventy-two thousand silver. I didn’t expect bandits to make so much money, but I didn’t expect bandits to make more money!
"With this batch of money, it is estimated that it is not a problem to purchase dozens of mortars!" Zhao Dongyun put out the battle report and then said to Lin Yong around him, "This money for purchasing mortars and artillery shells is also a mortar team. Have you done it here?"
Lin Yongdao said, "Mortars are first imitated by artillery camps, but they are light. At the same time, because of their short range, they need to be close to the deployment station. Colleagues in the Education Department think that mortars should not be incorporated into artillery teams to fight with field guns. They can imitate the machine gun team to compile a battalion to fight for various troops in peacetime training and wartime!"
Zhao Dongyun listen to nod "oh so also but wartime such as attachment? What is the specific preparation? "
Lin Yongdao: "According to the actual combat situation in Hongjiatun, the rapid mortar fire is very fast, and a team of six mortars can meet the fire support needs of a battalion, so each battalion can be equipped with a team of six mortars in wartime! In the early stage, if the military assets are insufficient, you can practice one battalion and four teams before sending each battalion in wartime. "
After listening, Zhao Dongyun said, "The mortar firing rate is extremely fast, and the ammunition consumption is also high. Is there too many six doors in this battalion? Can the battalion logistics forces afford it then?"
Lin Yong listened with embarrassment. "We haven’t discussed this logistics in detail for the time being, but it shouldn’t be a problem!"
Zhao Dongyun’s face changed. "If there is a problem, there is a problem. If there is no problem, there is no problem!"
"Logistics is the most important thing. Don’t neglect it. Go back and straighten out this part of logistics!" When Zhao Dongyun said this, he was already dissatisfied.
This Lin Yong has become more and more difficult to satisfy him in recent years. When the machine gun camp was newly built, Lin Yong’s ability was still acceptable, but by the time of the third association, his lack of ability and experience had already shown problems, but it was acceptable. However, since the third association became the third hybrid association, Zhao Dong Yunshou paving has become more and more large, not only the third hybrid association troops, but also a supplementary standard. At the same time, Zhao Dongyun also supervised the Jinzhou patrol camp, the new army, the old army, the total company commanders and the auxiliary soldiers. Together, he has more than 9,000 people in charge
In such a large army, almost all the miscellaneous things, including recruits and training, are in charge of the Education Department, and Lin Yong’s ability and experience have become increasingly difficult to support many complicated things in the Education Department.
Maybe it’s time to split up the education department, and it will be better to find a professional chief of staff to supervise the training department. He feels that he needs a professional chief of staff to assist him more and more, or he will have problems sooner or later if he continues to do so. Lin Yong is still suitable for recruiting and training new recruits in ordinary battalions. It is good everywhere, but it involves the establishment of troops, the direction of development and the command of war.
At this time, Lin Yong didn’t know that Zhao Dongyun had started to split the education department. He could continue to answer, "I’ll do it when I know it!"
Zhao Dongyun added at this time, "You said that one battalion, four teams, each team’s six-door team level establishment is too large. If there are four teams, it is not good to give six steps in wartime."
As Zhao Dongyun spoke, he picked up paper, pen and paper to write and draw. This is a preliminary calculation of the logistics bearing capacity of the mortar troops. Without this mortar, the advantage of low price will naturally not be exerted, but it will not work if there are more mortars. Although they are not expensive, they can’t hold back and fire too many shells. This is also an aspect of the challenge to the army when the logistics pressure is too great.
"At present, this kind of 10mm mortar can be compiled into one team, four teams and one battalion by imitating the artillery team. However, due to the need to get close to the infantry fighting station, this mortar battalion can be directly assigned to the infantry standard and adjusted by the infantry standard in wartime!" Zhao Dongyun’s words not only reduced the first-level establishment of mortar team, but also further increased the direct force assignment of infantry standard.
At present, the fire support of the Beiyang Army’s three-level troops, namely the standard, the association and the town, is generally handled by the field guns directly under it. Although mortar is powerful, it is limited by the range. If it is given full play to its high maneuverability, it is destined to be the standard support fire. Unless it is the 12 mm large-caliber mortar of later generations, it is not necessary to be directly under the jurisdiction of the town composite association.
"First, practice a battalion for the ninth bid and the tenth bid. After the follow-up is not so tense, add another battalion to supplement the bid!"
After listening to Lin Yong’s heart andao, you’ll get 32 mortars to the two battalions, and you’ll have to train 100 new recruits. If you have 562 thousand silver, I’m afraid you can’t even lift your head.
If you let him know that Zhao Dongyun also plans to purchase 60mm and 120mm mortars in large quantities, I don’t know how he feels.
Although Fuyuan Machine Factory currently has 10mm caliber mortars, their barrels are all imported anyway, and there is not much technical difference between 10mm and 60mm, even 120mm. Now Fuyuan Machine Factory has quickly finalized this 10mm mortar after hearing that the 10mm mortar can play a stable role, and said that it is a 10mm mortar. At the same time, the 60mm mortar has been reduced according to this mortar design, and the developer of the 120mm mortar has been shown.
It is expected that Zhao Dongyun’s Third Mixed Association will be able to form different barrage with different caliber mortars in the near future.
After seeing Lin Yong off, Zhao Dong Yun wrote back to Meng Enyuan. This time, Meng Enyuan captured more bandits, and these Lu Shuangqiang bandits were captured because they surrendered voluntarily after being beaten, which was not as sloppy as the former bandits.
The main battle in Hongjiatun War was two days before it happened. During these two days, the fighting capacity was Lu Shuang’s gun. Those bandits were fierce and fearless, but suffered heavy casualties. They were finally forced to lay down their weapons and surrender voluntarily.
Meng Enyuan wrote that the bandit’s own fierce fire hit as many as 40% of the casualties, but it still didn’t break up. This was replaced by his bandit. Those regular troops estimated that they would have collapsed long ago. Then Lu Shuangqiang was able to keep his hand on the final surrender or Lu Shuangqiang, the bandit leader, led the surrender
That is to say, although they were defeated, they were not crushed, which is a very difficult thing for a bandit force.
Moreover, after Lu Shuang’s gun and his bandits surrendered, they expressed their willingness to join the loyalist to render their services.
This made Zhao Dongyun hesitate to recruit bandits. He had thought about it before, but he found it was not cost-effective. More importantly, he didn’t know how long he could stay in the northeast. If he was transferred back to this place after the Russo-Japanese War, he couldn’t take it with him. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the recruited bandits really didn’t compliment Zhao Dongyun. He wanted a new army with combat effectiveness, but those bandits were adapted and formed, that is, a scout camp. The level was not big.
However, seeing Meng Enyuan’s belief that Lu Shuang’s gunmen and bandits were able to maintain forty percent casualties and did not collapse, he couldn’t help but also became curious. This Lu Shuang’s gun is a character. If there is such a gangster at hand to lead the bandit forces, it will also help him to eliminate other bandits in northern Jinzhou.
"Lu bu is willing to surrender, but he can make up a cavalry team to temporarily return to Jinzhou patrol battalion commander!" Zhao Dongyun didn’t object to Meng Enyuan’s proposal to incorporate Lv Shuangqiang, but he didn’t put Lv Shuangqiang bandits directly into the third bid of the riding team, but into Jinzhou Scout Camp. On the one hand, it was to avoid these bandits from affecting the atmosphere and quality of the new cavalry, on the other hand, it was to enrich the troops of Jinzhou Scout Camp so as to increase the number of troops to General Shengjing.
A few days ago, I was killed, and when I turned around, I became a friendly army, which made soldiers and bandits on both sides very unaccustomed!
However, it is going well to dock the bandits in the north of Jinzhou. Lu Shuangqiang and others naturally know that there are bandits there, and it is even more important to show loyalty. Meng Enyuan’s new army started work. He just took his people out of several bandits’ nests and let the third HunChengXie harvest a lot of goods.
When Zhao Dongyun was busy expanding his army and fighting bandits, he gradually entered the deep season, and at this time, something great happened again in China
On January 14, 1993, the Qing court formally established the "Training Division" to coordinate the compilation and training of the new national army.
The appearance in front of the training place is also a butterfly effect caused by Zhao Dongyun’s arrival. First, the rapid rise of Zhao Dongyun’s Beiyang body has caused the pace of Beiyang’s expansion faster than history. Yuan Shikai didn’t initially compile into the three towns of Beiyang Standing Army until 194, and half of them were still built. However, in the summer of 193, the Beiyang Standing Army already had two towns and a mixed association.
It is not surprising that the acceleration of Beiyang’s expansion naturally further stimulated the Qing court to compile and train new troops and gather the pace of local provincial armies.
It is worth noting that there is Tie Liang who is barely a non-Beiyang faction except Yi Kuang, the nominal head of the office. However, he was also recommended by Yuan Shikai before he became the minister of the mission, and the rest of the officials in the mission were all Beiyang officials. Yuan Shikai transferred Yuan Shikai’s staff, and Xu Shichang’s military and political department was making Zhili, that is, supplementing Liu Yongqing’s deputy envoy Yuan Shikai’s staff, Lu Jiagu. The Military Division is making Zhili make up for Duan Qirui’s agreement with Feng Guozhang; The Military Science Department is making the candidate, Wang Shizhen’s deputy envoy Lu Jianzhang.