On the fiery training ground, the officers and men of the various divisions of the Volunteer Left Army further launched combat in the areas of stabbing and even hand-to-hand combat. Unlike those recruits, the volunteer divisions, from soldiers to officers, who have experienced many battlefields and are often used as assault elites, have a better understanding of the significance of bomb throwing and stabbing, especially melee hand-to-hand combat. On the battlefield, if you use heavy projectile fire against the enemy, you often need absolute firepower superiority to defeat the opponent in a very short time. However, if you can effectively use melee and night combat to attack the enemy, you can expose the shortcomings of most mediocre opponents who are afraid of melee and night combat to the greatest extent. Even if you have an advantage in equipment and firepower, you can win more easily.

The advantage of melee assault is also that because it avoids the attrition of a strong enemy with a large number of troops to the greatest extent, it can often capture more gunpowder and ammunition in the battle to serve the blasting attack. Explosive attacks, night bombings to deter opponents, and then using ammunition-loaded projectiles to crush opponents at close range, may seem dangerous, but in fact often avoid maximum casualties.

The stabbing training with the cooperation of three or five people on the field, and even the hand-to-hand combat scattering training on the scale of squad platoon and requiring a minimum neat formation made Xiao Xuan, who has not completely let go of martial arts in the past few years, was also moved.

After putting on the mask, Xiao Xuan, as an exchange officer of a foreign division, carried out a "steel crutch" bayonet stabbing training with a hand-to-hand combat team of the Second Regiment of the First Division of the Volunteer Army, which was said to have been a meritorious person on the battlefield. In order to avoid accidental injuries to the greatest extent, the heads are of course treated with special instruments, and the protective armor on both sides is also quite good. Xiao Xuan obviously had a great advantage in weapons, at least about a foot and a half longer than the opponent's spear. However, the other party is a hand-to-hand fight with the cooperation of three people. Unlike the first confrontation, a hand-to-hand combat team of the Third Division of the Volunteer Division put a lot of pressure on Xiao Xuan, who was barely proficient in martial arts, in the case of three to one, and obviously dealt with the upper hand, but the performance of this combat hero group in hand-to-hand combat was not very good. The tactical awareness is obviously too simple, and the basic movements of anti-left and anti-right stabs do not seem to be very proficient.

In order to understand the truth of the facts, Xiao Xuan still asked politely: "The hand-to-hand combat ability of your group on the training ground doesn't seem to be very strong." Could it be that there are some unique experiences and tricks on the battlefield? ”

The team leader didn't seem to have any intention of hiding his secrets, after all, the volunteer division advocated mutual communication and a straightforward atmosphere: "Listen to the tone, you should be a team that hasn't fought too much melee combat, and the martial artist invited from outside, right?" You don't know that. There is actually a big difference between the bayonet fight on the battlefield and the confrontation between each other on the training ground. Fighting each other on the training ground, both sides are actually not facing too much psychological pressure, for our brave people, even if it is a hand-to-hand fight of life and death, there are conditions to see the moves. But on the battlefield, it is not such a one-on-one confrontation at all. In order to be prepared for danger and counterattacks that may come at any time, you can't put all your energy and experience into how to fight each other hand-to-hand. Only by developing certain attack habits in peacetime, muscles on the battlefield... Oh, and muscle memory can also play a role in conditioning, which is conducive to breaking the enemy's needle and thread as quickly as possible. On top of the battle array, the enemy's hand-to-hand weapons such as spears or swords are not bayonets with strong armor-piercing or even penetrating capabilities. On the premise that you have basic armor protection, you may not be injured even if you knock or bump it. Even if it is a hard hit, most of them are minor injuries. The most effective consciousness in this case is not how to fight the enemy alone, but to attract friendly troops in other directions with a characteristic cry of fighting, and to quickly eliminate the most threatening hand-to-hand fighters and a few brave men of the enemy army with bullets still in their mouths. Of course, in most cases, hand-to-hand combat is in the minority. How to quickly and effectively pursue the enemy deserters is the most important thing. In many previous battles, the front of the enemy was often crushed by a blasting attack, or by being frightened by the proximity of firearms and grenade attacks. More often than not, the bayonet is used to meet and hunt down an opponent who has collapsed... ”

Hearing these words, Xiao Xuan's heart also suddenly realized, for many days, Xiao Xuan's understanding of stabbing training was largely based on the teachings and experience of modern warfare. However, are these experiences and lessons of modern warfare really suitable for this unique mode of warfare in ancient times in this era?

Without too much time-consuming and laborious direct investigation and inquiry, and after continuing to find the statements of seven or eight officers and soldiers who had performed more prominently in the battle, Xiao Xuan began to read the battle logs, combat records, and experience summaries of some model units. I found myself largely overestimating the significance of bayonets and progressing hand-to-hand combat. In essence, the level of tactics and firepower utilization has reached the level of today's volunteer divisions, and in battle, it is often the suppression of grenades or explosive attack methods that plays a decisive role, and effective and calm close shooting plays a further role. To a large extent, the significance of the bayonet is to pursue the remnants of the enemy and prevent the danger caused to them by individual counterattacks. There is no doubt that in the case of limited time, only by maximizing targeted training according to the actual situation of the battlefield can we achieve greater results.

In this way, the project of "chasing and stabbing and stabbing" was added to the subsequent training project, and the team of squads and platoons was used as a unit to carry out collective pursuit and stabbing and stabbing, and the teams of each army of the revolutionary army were selected to engage in special sparring training.

In addition to the stabbing, another project that has a lot of room for improvement in combat effectiveness is undoubtedly bombing. In terms of bomb throwing training that suits reality, the main forces of the divisions of the Chinese People's Volunteers and even the revolutionary army system have also begun to devote a lot of time to fiery consolidation training.

All units have extensively launched a "big contest" with company platoon as a unit, and the performance of the units in bomb throwing, stabbing and even comprehensive confrontation drills has also been consolidated and improved.

Of course, not the focus of the troops is on these projects. Because traditional cold weapons such as bows and arrows eat too much time for training, archers spend most of their time in special training and devote more time to equestrianism than others, in addition to the necessary stabbing training.

(End of chapter)