Section 144 The arms cooperate with the town of Beiyang
The shock brought to the Beiyang generals by the perfect match of aircraft and artillery has not yet passed, and the new army of Wuyi has begun to organize an attack. An iron-gray figure that was obviously different from the gray-blue Beiyang military uniform jumped out of the trench, and the soldiers in groups of three and five in a group did not charge in groups like the Beiyang Army, but the evacuation formation was staggered. The heavy machine gunners did not leave the trenches and provided fire support by extending their fire, while the light machine guns moved forward with the formation, occasionally choosing to lie down and fire at points. Riflemen were also paying attention to alternate cover shots, and from time to time grenades fired a grenade from behind the cover and landed in enemy trenches or fire points. Although they were empty cartridges and trainer grenades, the infantry of the Wuyi New Army was seriously demonstrating the tactical implementation of the infantry attack.
There was no deafening shouting and killing, no overwhelming waves of people, not even the wave attacks commonly used by the Orientals, and in the yellow earth, the iron-gray soldiers silently charged, lay down, and shot, and formed a tacit understanding with each other. When a soldier is shooting, the other two or three must be charging, and three people in a group, alternately using the terrain to advance, the leap speed of bending down and bowing down may not be much slower, but if it is under enemy fire, the area is much smaller. And the machine gunner is the core of this small formation, generally three or four three-person teams are behind a light machine gun, and near the light machine gun is a grenadier canister, such an infantry squad forms a well-defined inverted triangle formation, four or five infantry squads are staggered into a W shape, and behind it is a fire support group composed of two ultra-light infantry guns and Makqin heavy machine guns, as well as hunters swimming in groups of two, from time to time to show their ability to hurt people with hidden arrows.
"The headquarters of our army has been exhausted, why do you still want to attack?" A staff officer muttered quietly, and was kicked out by Cao Kun.
"Bastard thing, what's a shame on the battlefield. The face is stepped under the soles of the feet, and the mind should be on the opponent. Tell your boy, this is people don't hide their selfishness, or when the two armies face each other, if you kid wants to learn, you have to fill in with human life, and use your life or even Lao Tzu's life to learn to see. ”
"Zhong Shan scolded well, the old man has been resting on his laurels for a long time, and if he doesn't open his eyes, he will be incompetent and exhausted to death." Yuan Shikai seemed to be wandering on the sidelines, but his mind never left the changes in this battlefield.
"Dashuai, why do you say this." Cao Kun's head was full of sweat, this old Yuan never obeyed the old, and rarely heard him call himself an old man, this time let the boss misunderstand that he was pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, although it may not be bad for himself, but it is inevitable that there is a mustard in his heart. "There is no Beiyang without a big handsome, as long as I can be sincere and united, with a big handsome you at the helm and watch the wind, why not continue to dominate."
Yuan Shikai smiled slightly, knowing that the exclamation just now made Cao Laosan very frightened, and it also reflected that his position among the Beiyang generals was still as stable as Mount Tai. Raising the binoculars in his hand again, he saw that the red and black flags had crossed the first line of defense and continued to advance, and less than one percent of the soldiers were removed by the referee team.
"Teach Boroen, do you think this new army of martial arts can still enter your eyes?" Yuan Shikai was secretly surprised in his heart, but his face was as usual, and he didn't see any worry, he pretended to be relaxed and asked the German instructor who was holding the telescope next to him and hadn't put it down.
"Well, the combination of firepower can give full play to the performance of all kinds of weapons, and what is even more rare is that these infantry maintain a complete and clear formation in high-speed movement, which is not a one-day effort." Reluctantly put down the binoculars, after all, Bai Luo was sent to help the Beiyang Army's teaching, and the employer had questions, so he naturally couldn't help but answer, but as a senior officer, he was very fascinated by the new tactics and new ideas embodied in the charge of the infantry company of the Wuyi New Army, and he couldn't wait to replay it several times from beginning to end. "And their formation is very interesting, not only will not be dispersed by the enemy due to evacuation, but also avoid the group damage effect of the opponent's heavy weapons. Their tactics and contact methods are also a bit special, I think they must have been intentional, but I am not a beginner and have not been able to understand the mystery inside. ”
"Then according to the calculation of the teaching, how many troops do I need to resist the attack of such an infantry company?" Cao Kun also felt that the performance of the Wuyi New Army was very eye-catching, but he felt that he could not fall too much into his prestige, so he hoped to hear a fair evaluation from the German instructors, so as to expose the new clothes of the Wuyi New Army.
"Well, it's hard to estimate, but if it were an ordinary German infantry division to defend it, without building permanent fortifications, relying only on trenches, I think it would take at least a one-to-two ratio to hold the line. Of course, if our artillery fire cannot effectively hit the opponent's firepower points, a one-to-one offensive and defensive ratio is also possible. ”
"What, one to one. How is this possible? Cao Kun is not calm, Beiyang has always been a teacher of Germany, if the Germans admit it, then how can Beiyang fight.
"I'm sorry, Mistercao. From what I've observed, it's clear that the opposing side is using new infantry tactics, and their advance is more adapted to the offensive of infantry under the defense of automatic weapons and rapid-fire guns combined with the trench system. "Beron is also a typical Prussian officer, rigorous and realistic, and will never despise the merits of the other party because of the arrogance of the whites, in fact, there are also people in the German ** team who put forward the theory of defensive superiority, but the geographical narrow, resource-poor Germany If it can't open the situation, there is almost no chance of becoming the head of the powers, and even the bad geographical location is enough for Germany to be hanged alive by Britain, France and Russia, so almost every German ** person is very concerned about how to break through the defense, and even obsessed. The discovery of such a novel and efficient offensive tactic in this routine military exercise in the Far East today made Beron almost thank God for the awe-inspiring situation of piling up corpses and blood in front of a three-dimensional trench system, and the blood of the Germanic people finally did not need to irrigate the land of France.
"Your Excellency General Tamura, what do you think?" Kawashima Naniwa was dressed as a civilian official, mingling in the ranks of the Japanese legation, and observing the performance of the autumn exercise with Major General Tamura and Zao, deputy chiefs of the General Staff Headquarters.
"Interesting, I didn't expect that the empire thought that the most elite Beiyang New Army was just like that, but this Wuyi New Army is very innovative." The deputy chief of staff headquarters, Tamura Yi, who has been an officer for decades, is as professional as Major General Zao, and he also noticed that this new army of Wuyi as a partial division is actually a tiger that cannot be underestimated, and their weapons and equipment are very creative, which is very suitable for the East Asian army dominated by light infantry, especially grenadiers and ultra-light infantry guns, which just fill the firepower gap at the infantry brigade and squadron level, but he also realized that even if he received hundreds of millions of compensation in the Sino-Japanese War, plus the part of Gengzi's indemnity, Nor was Japan capable of maintaining such a large fleet of the fourth largest fleet in the world while equipping each infantry squad with such a large amount of machine-gun firepower.
"Although their offensive tactics are original, their routines are completely imitating our army, could it be that they have our army officers as instructors? Well, I don't think I've heard of such a foreign aid project, maybe these officers are all graduates of Chengcheng School, hahaha. ”
Kawashima Naniwa said in his heart, you just guessed right, but unfortunately you misled yourself again, you have to blame me. "Your Excellency General Tamura, this new army of Wuyi was expanded from a militia group in Shandong, and now it is said that there are two towns of troops."
"Ao, is it the militia that made the Fifth Division suffer? No wonder there is a strong momentum, it seems that this army is not very abundant thanks to the troops, otherwise it will definitely become the second army that gives us a headache. Saying this, Tamura smiled: "Maybe it's time for Ogawa-kun to take a look, he prefers a strong army with firepower." ”
Kawashima smiled on the side, but complained about the boss in his heart, do you say you are addicted to being in the limelight? also went to Beiyang to show off in the autumn exercises, and now he was targeted by the people of the General Staff Headquarters, maybe in two days, the people from the investigation department will follow the investigation. At that time, he, a high-ranking cadre of the seemingly majestic Xingya Society, is actually just a civilian, so how can he deal with it.
"It seems that the other party has broken through the defense line of the third town of Beiyang, can you judge the result?" Although Kawashima Naniwa didn't know much about military affairs, he saw that the military flag of the new army of Wuyi had broken through the defense line and inserted it into the commanding heights.
"Not necessarily, it depends on whether the Beiyang Army's response is appropriate." Tamura did not agree with Kawashima's words, because he noticed that the Germans were moving forward to the observation point of the referee team, and it was obvious that another army had joined the battlefield, and the observation point could no longer control the overall situation, so he would move forward in this situation. "Well, it's a cavalry team, Cao Sang's response is very fast."
In the telescope, groups of gray uniformed cavalry are assembling from the anticline of the hills, obviously preparing to carry out a counter-assault on the new army of Wuyi that has just occupied the position.
A cavalry general led by him saw that his men and horses had gathered three or four hundred, and his own rout had already bypassed the hills and came to his assembly area, the time was ripe, he no longer hesitated, the Western command knife in his hand waved forward, and the people and horses roared and rushed up the low hills, like a flood peak that broke the embankment.
The cavalry general had just rushed down the hill a few dozen meters before he had to stop, and the scene in front of him made him really unbelievable. It was clearly the rear of his third trench, but in a short quarter of an hour two pit viper-shaped barbed wire fences had been pulled, and the newly turned earth on the ground told him that there must have been a mine that had just been planted underneath. In the third trench at a distance of 200 meters, several heavy machine-gun firing points had been piled up with sandbags, and on them were the cavalry's natural enemy, the Maxim heavy machine guns. The dense muzzles of the cavalry in the trenches that were already aimed at them seemed to be a solemn statement.
"This road is impassable, please take a detour."