The Qi army actively stepped up preparations for battle, and although the soldiers of the Qi army were a little tired, they still had great fighting spirit to fight. In other words, they far surpassed the main force of the Yan Army in terms of their will to fight.

"Deploy the machine guns over there, there may be a massive charge there. Remember, cover me with thatch. "A veteran of the Qi Army commanded a machine gun squad to push the machine gun to the preset machine gun bunker.

The Qi army captured a large number of revolver machine guns discarded by the Yan army, this machine gun was an old-fashioned machine gun for the Qin army, first of all, his rate of fire was limited by manpower, and it was impossible to achieve automation, and manpower was also the biggest disadvantage of the gun. The rate of fire of this machine gun is very limited. For example, manpower is uncontrollable, in the battlefield environment, the revolver machine gun can maintain a high rate of fire at the beginning, this is because people are still in a rational state at the beginning, can self-control the speed of the barrel, but with the escalation of blood, people's self-control ability rapidly declines. This leads to a rapid increase in the speed of the machine gun. And that's where the problem with this machine gun comes in. The fast rotary pistol made it impossible for the manual minigun to withstand overheated barrels, which heated up and led to the detonation of the bullets. This is a flaw that is common to all firearms.

When the Qin army used this firearm, they usually had two shooters, one of whom needed to deliberately control the rate of fire on the side so that the machine gun could maintain continuous fire.

The Yan army, on the other hand, did not have such a configuration, and they usually ignored the hidden problem of the rate of fire of the machine guns, the early and middle defensive phase. In the face of the assault of the Qi army, the machine gunners often frantically shook the handle of the machine gun in desperation. The consequence of this was that some machine-gun bunkers were inexplicably muted. The reason was that their machine guns were blown up. Not only did the Yan army suffer certain casualties, but even the blockade effect of the machine guns in the counter-assault operation collapsed.

Now this machine gun is in the hands of the Qi army. The Qi army naturally knew the great role of machine guns, especially in the face of group charges. The enormous lethality of the machine gun is very staggering.

But Qi Jun didn't know that the machine gun had such a safety hazard, after all, they didn't use it for a long time to find this problem. But they knew how to use machine guns. For example, in a relatively wide area, the Qi army will usually deliberately cover the machine gun in a position with a wide viewing angle, this position has a good viewing angle, if possible, the machine gun will be arranged on the commanding height that the charge must pass, in this position, the machine gun can play its killing role to the fullest.

The Qi army also learned a particularly crucial role from the Yan army, no, it can be said that it learned from the Qin army. That's the crossfire. When the Qin army dealt with a small number of barbarian nomadic tribes, it would often place some machine gun positions, or artillery in groups of two, or three, on the main traffic routes, and in one group, the machine guns covered each other at the same time. The machine guns in one group took full advantage of their firepower and crossed fire at each other, creating a terrible area of murder overlap in which the enemy would be subjected to twice the density of the machine guns. It was precisely this arrangement that the Qin army used to make the barbarian nomads suffer heavy losses.

But now, this tactic has been applied to the Yan army. War is a place to learn from each other. The Qin army has a good place, and the Qi army still accepts it. For example, the firepower was deployed to the commanding heights, and at the same time, the importance of the commanding heights was fully recognized by the Qi army. In the age of firearms, the commanding heights were given a special meaning. Sometimes, in order to control the commanding heights, a particularly large battle can break out on a large scale. For example, the most famous battle of the Three Emperors in history was carried out around the commanding heights. Napoleon used the commanding heights as bait and used the tactics of a central breakthrough to achieve the goal of the campaign.

The rapid upgrade of military weapons has also led to rapid changes in military tactics. The biggest change in the Qi army was not digging fortifications and extending from the surface to the ground, but that they were studying a skirmish charge tactic, in fact, this kind of skirmish charge tactics had been developed in the Zhao state, but their opponents were nomadic tribes, so the infantry tactics were not effectively played.

The Qi army was on the attacking side, and during the attack, they found that only by spreading the soldiers in a certain area could they effectively avoid this kind of large-scale massacre, and the Qi army was slaughtered by machine guns. This is a profound lesson for Qi Jun.

Now is not the time to start fighting, and the Qi army carefully arranges their defensive positions. Several important commanding heights and traffic arteries around were all controlled by the Qi army, while the Yan army was still idle.

Trenches on the high ground are being dug up, barbed wire has been erected, and the cavalry and infantry are giving full consideration to the cost of passing here. The Qi army constantly pushed machine guns and cannons to the commanding heights, or arranged them on the road that the Yan army must pass. Everything is in a tense arrangement.

The caution of the Qi army is the embodiment of the combat quality of an army, and if it rashly launches an attack, it will not be beneficial to the Qi army, even if it is launched. Nor can it completely annihilate the opponent's living forces. Launching an attack too early will only lead to a crushing battle, in which case the Qi army will be chased after exhaustively, and it may not be a good thing for the army to advance quickly. For example, their logistical supplies cannot be sustained.

At the same time, the troops may encounter a rapid counterattack by the enemy's living forces, and at that time, the army cannot stop even if it wants to. And it is easy to be surrounded by opponents, annihilated, and living forces.

And the Qi army stopped at this time, which can be said to be very clever to slow down the rapid advance of the army. Not only that, but the Qi army could achieve the goal of completely annihilating the opponent's living forces with the help of effective fortifications.

Warfare changed a lot during the Warring States period. That is, from the defeat operation in the Spring and Autumn Period, it evolved into a large-scale mobile encirclement operation. This drastic change in the mode of warfare means a tremendous escalation of the theory of warfare, from defeating the enemy in the past to destroying the adversary's living military forces, and this annihilation means directly attacking the entity of a country. This was the case in the Battle of Changping that year, when the Qin army took advantage of the favorable retreat opportunity to completely encircle the opponent's living military force, and then caused a great loss of Zhao's national strength. For a time, it shook the entire Kanto.

This kind of encirclement warfare has obvious oriental characteristics, and the western combat likes to use the tactics of defeat, but the eastern like this kind of roundabout attack from the flank, and the minister has a huge encirclement combat effect. In contrast, this tactic of the East is more able to solve the problem thoroughly. But there is a lot of risk, and that risk can make or break the outcome of a campaign, or even a war.

Just when the Qi army was arranging the fortifications, Yan Guo didn't think about it. The two states of Qin and Zhao teamed up to defraud the only remaining financial funds in the hands of the Yan state.

The Yan army purchased military weapons on a large scale in Qin, and Qin was also very interesting, except for some heavy artillery and special operations aircraft, the military orders were almost fully liberalized, and at the same time, Qin's banks borrowed heavily from Yan. Yan received a large number of military loans from the Qin Bank, which were then quickly returned to Qin's military production, while Qin's factory owners flowed the money back into the bank, because only with deposits could they borrow on a large scale, and then expand production and grab more orders.

Yan State is not a vain purchase, Qin State wants to send a special military observation and training group to help Yan State train a new type of Yan army capable of fighting. Due to the fact that a new type of army already existed before the Yan Kingdom. If a new type of army emerges, it will probably be difficult to highlight the special significance of the newly established army.

In this regard, the Yan people are more considerate than the Qin people, because most of the funds are contributed by the Prince Dan of the Yan State, because the foundation of the new army of the Yan State was established on the basis of the special armored mobile regiment that the Yan State had just established. Prince Dan not only purchased a full set of armored combat vehicle battalions of the Qin State. At the same time, a batch of tracked and wheeled motor vehicles was purchased. These vehicles could tow some light artillery. Strong mobility. On this basis, the armored mobile regiment of the Yan State was formed.

Then this regiment also needed to be equipped with some artillery regiments, engineer battalions, etc., attached to infantry regiments. It was then formed into a divisional unit. The brigade command was canceled because it was too cumbersome.

Considering that the funder and the right to use the establishment of the new army were in the hands of the prince, the Qin army called it the prince's army. The news of the Qin army spread far and wide, reaching the ears of Prince Dan. He spoke out.

"Prince Army! Princes' Army. ・・・・・・・”。 Prince Dan whispered to himself.

"Good. In the future, it will be called the prince's army. Although now there is only one division, later there can be a second, a third. Prince Dan exclaimed excitedly.

"According to the establishment of the Qin State, this can form an army." The relatives on the side whispered.

"Yes, yes. Right. Prince Dan said excitedly.

"According to the establishment of the Qin State, it should be called the first division of the prince and the second division of the prince. , the third division of the prince. ”

"Then form the Prince's First Army." Prince Dan said excitedly. In fact, Prince Dan was thinking that if such a development was followed, then he would have a new military force. And it is very likely to become the pillar force of Yan State. Then the military power of the Yan State actually fell into the hands of Prince Dan in the war. Come to think of it. Prince Dan was naturally more excited.

In fact, the state of Qin also had such considerations, did such a bold support for the crown prince of a country to set up an army arouse the sensitivity of the king of the country? The Qin State also had such considerations, however, the Qin State quickly ignored the existence of this problem. Because, the emergence of a large number of military orders stimulated Qin's military production, and at the same time brought great demand to the country's economy. These pulls were enough for the Qin state to obtain quite generous taxes and prosperity. For others, it was not considered by the Qin State.