Jingshi, Luoyang.

"It is said that there were more than 2,000 such firearms in the court. The number is staggering, and most importantly, it is also equipped with bayonets. This is very dangerous for us. Xi Zhicai said worriedly.

A captain, company commander, installed the firearm and handed it to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's infantry battalion troops, numbering about nine hundred, could not exceed one thousand, because their salaries were too high to meet such a requirement. The most important thing is that the battalion is equipped with a lot of firearms, but compared to the Republican Army, they are too far behind.

The infantry battalion was armed with arquebuses imported from the Republican Army, which were powerful, but had a range of about twenty paces, and most importantly, the firearms had to keep an eye on the arquebuses they lit, as once the arquebuses were extinguished, the problem was very big. But even so, arquebus firearms still have a great advantage, and this advantage is very large. His lethality, penetration, can easily defeat soldiers equipped with heavy armor. This is something that no other weapon can do. Cao Cao's infantry battalion was equipped with such weapons.

"How about this weapon?" Cao Cao asked the captain and company commander. The infantry battalion was built exactly after the pattern of the Republican Army. Even the establishment, the name, because this way the original copy can better understand why the IRA did this. However, the firearms battalion equipped by the new army in Xiyuan is still carried out in accordance with the old military system, which leads to a series of consequences, for example, it is difficult for the military system of the commander and the commander to adapt to the arrangement of the Republican Army as a squad, and once there is no military rank, once the establishment is disrupted, it is difficult to effectively organize it again. Cao Cao is very smart, he knows that if he wants to learn, he has to learn one set, learn the same, learn the same, and then learn the same, and he can't afford to waste that time at all.

"It's very convenient, the installation is fast, you don't have to take care of the arquebus, and the weight is much easier, the arquebus is too bulky. The most important thing is that the killing distance has increased a lot, and I see that at seventy paces there is still a lot of power, but the earliest power range is thirty paces, and if we organize a three-stage attack, it will cause great damage to the infantry who come over, and moreover, we can install a bayonet on it, and after shooting, we can use a bayonet and turn it into a spear to fight, and the power is still very great. The company commander said.

Cao Cao nodded, and then looked carefully at the new firearms, this kind of firearms, which they seized when they were tracking down smuggling, were not many, only three, but they were enough to give Cao Cao a great shock. Because the IRA is already widely equipped with such firearms.

Compared with the two firearms, Cao Cao felt more and more that he was backward and terrible for the Republican Army, because their soldiers could concentrate their firepower, while they, because of the various technical difficulties of the arquebus. Bulky. The probability of a successful shot is very low, and in such a situation, it is simply impossible to have a greater development.

The perception that the Republican Army became the worst enemy is correct, because the Republican Army is not a unit equipped with such weapons, they are a group. The operation of arquebuses has been greatly simplified, but in contrast, the flintlock style has brought new developments, the emergence of this flintlock firearms means that the firearms tactics of the Republican Army will be more mature, and they will become more difficult, but unfortunately, the emergence of this kind of firearms, many high-level officials in the imperial court simply cannot attract enough attention. This is what Cao Cao is most worried about, what is changing is not the weapon, but their thinking, is their way of thinking, which needs to open a big horizon, if they can't open this horizon in time, when they are forced to open, they will suffer a big loss, this loss, the loss will be very large.

Cao Cao really wanted to reform, but the problem was that he was just a military captain, nothing more.

The shock of weapons is only secondary, the impact of thought, which is definitely not something that many people can solve.

Handan. 172nd Infantry Regiment. When they saw the number of the infantry regiment, they knew that this was definitely a newly formed unit.

Because according to the regimental number of the Republican Army, regiments before 50 years ago were generally relatively large, well-equipped, and the combat quality of the soldiers was very high, and most importantly, their combat effectiveness was very comprehensive and very strong. But after 100, especially after 150 infantry regiments, most of their soldiers come from local militias, they have only received simple military training, and some even do not, and the concept of combat is completely absent for them, and military discipline is very poor.

"This is a newly formed infantry regiment, and the superiors have only set up our regimental headquarters in the first place. Most of the officers are officer trainees assigned from military academies, and some have not yet graduated and have already served as second lieutenants in military academies, and the second lieutenant is their company commander, while we are in the current military cadet, but we have to hold the position of platoon commander. I really don't know what it's up to. Cao Ang took his notebook and recorded. Writing a diary has become a good habit for him, and he is used to writing down some things that should be noticed in the diary comprehensively, so that he can organize some ideas.

The situation with the new infantry regiments is far from rosy. They lack everything.

There was a lack of staff officers at the regimental headquarters, and the chief of staff had not yet been found. Some of the officers had been recruited from among the retired officers on an ad hoc basis, but those officers did not seem to be up to the task.

For example, their combat staff officer turned out to be an accountant in several workshops of the Handan Iron Works, and his long-term stable life made his body shape very out of shape, and he was a complete fat man. He always eats a lot of food, and the most annoying thing is that their officer standard is already ten yuan beyond the standard food standard. But this damn accounting operations staff officer still dislikes that the food is not good enough, perhaps, in a stable life, he can enjoy his own food, after all, accountants are a very special group, they are the same high-paying profession as the rising lawyers and doctors.

The military spirit of enduring hardships has long been lost in the stable life of accountants. **Escaped.

There are also officers who have long been unaccustomed to the life of the army. Most of them are retired officers, and they are always talking about the past, their experiences, and applying their past methods of fighting to the new army. There are many contradictions between newcomers and retired officers. All sorts of reports flew around the regimental headquarters.

Cao Ang was also helpless. The worst were the sergeants. Retired sergeants are recruited, very good, these sergeants have a wealth of combat experience, skills, and some are very eager for war, because Cao Ang can see from their eyes, they are very excited, excited to the extreme, they want to fight, they like to fight. There was no war, so they were unstable.

But they were too excited. These sergeants have corrupted a lot of military discipline, for example, alcohol is not allowed in the barracks, but in the past, when the army was fighting, it was allowed. So they brought it to the army, and they were always too excited, and the recruits who volunteered to join the army were unlucky.

They always do things that are unbearable to the actual sergeant major when they are at their happiest drunk, such as the sergeant major will take them to the hill and shout to destroy more enemies.

They were very brave and did not lose their courage. Those veterans, they have rich combat experience, for example, they use bold interspersed tactics, which are more flexible than in textbooks, which Cao Ang has never seen, they dare to boldly divide their troops, and even dare to launch sneak attacks when they are alone.

But the problem is that they are tainted with a lot of bad habits in society. They love to drink, and under the stimulation of alcohol, they command indiscriminately. Yes, they are brave and tactically mature, but under the stimulation of alcohol, they become inexplicable. They lived in the past, and they didn't accept too many new weapons, for example, the flintlock required three shots, and the range could be increased a little longer, but under the guidance of those veterans, they completely ignored this. Their bold sprint. This is something that has never been thought of.

There are also new recruits, and the recruits are all recruits who have no military foundation, and most of them are still children, although they are over eighteen years old, and some are married and have children, but they are still immature. Knowing nothing and not having any experience means that they will cause them a lot of problems when they fight, and the physical problems are not very big. But in obedience to orders, adaptation on the battlefield. It's still not satisfactory.

If such an army were driven to the front, he felt that it would be impossible to go to war without a year's training time.

Cao Ang's situation is common in many troops. After all, most of them are infantry regiments formed by new recruits, they are not fully staffed, they are not very well equipped with weapons, most of them are still children, and they don't know anything. Oops, very bad.

Inside the War Department.

"A lot of officers sent us reports of their complaints directly. Telegram I stopped them. In this case, more batteries will be wasted. I don't like that. Jia Xu looked unhappy and said that the Minister of Defense is also in charge of the army, although the training is not their business, but transportation, logistics and supplies, soldiers, etc., are all their business. And a lot.

"Many officers complained that those officers who came back from retirement, non-commissioned officers should not be used, they all had all kinds of contradictions, and they even taught cadets a lesson. But the problem is, there are too many things about drinking and fighting. The gendarmes can't even control it. And these. You see, among the newly recruited soldiers, there are deserters. Veterans bullying new recruits is the reason. Jia Xu said.

Shang Wu was very surprised, there were too many questions.