Gu Mazi was dressed in a new military uniform, his white gloves were spotless, his narrow foreign knife shone in the sun, and the golden buttons were even more shining.

"Brothers, we have to show our faces today, and let the governor and those black dwarfs from Nepal look down on us!" Gu Mazi roared loudly.

"The battalion commander can rest assured, and he promises to beat our governor to a disgrace." A company commander smirked wickedly.

Gu Mazi scolded with a smile: "Second Qian, you are a bad seed, you slapped the face of the governor, Lao Tzu's ass must not be opened by the military stick?" Do you want to slap our governor in the face or do you want to slap Lao Tzu's ass? ”

Qian Lao Er Thief smiled sheepishly and said: "The battalion commander's words sound wrong, compare your ass with our governor's face, what are your intentions?" Tonight, please give our brothers a tooth sacrifice, or I will go to the governor to sue you?? Brothers, are you right? ”

"Yes, Camp Commander Gu is in for a treat!"

"If you don't invite a guest, go to the governor and put his black bricks in front of him."

The training battalion is basically full of officers and non-commissioned officers, and he is used to laughing with Gu Mazi, and he is not afraid of him as a battalion commander. Gu Mazi's smile was full of pockmarks and trembled like a hornet's nest poked by a pole: "Wrapped in Lao Tzu, as long as you rabbit cubs make Lao Tzu's face today, we will eat big dishes in 'Jinghuai Building' at night!" ”

The soldiers were immediately in high spirits, the drummer beat the snare drum, and the rest of the men wiped their guns and leggings, waiting for the order to exercise.

In the trenches, Chai Dongliang and a few soldiers such as Runk had already hid in the trenches, and the soldiers of a squad were equipped with a Makqin and a grenadier canister, and the rest of the soldiers were armed with Hanfeng Ι rifles. Before the drill began, everyone turned their eyes to an iron cylinder to watch.

Several hollow iron pipes were joined together to form a strange thing, with a bell on it and a small hole at the bottom that was nearly an inch in diameter, and everyone looked at this opening. The height of the human head is still below the breastwork and sandbags, but it can be seen in full view of what is outside.

"This thing is fun!"

"What's going on? People on the inside can see what's outside! ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "This is called the trench periscope, people hiding in the trench can prevent being attacked by the enemy, and use it to observe the enemy situation outside." This is shoddy, and in the future you will be equipped with a standard trench periscope, which can be expanded in length, so it will be more convenient to use. ”

The trenches were built on the pattern of the First World War in another time and space, with thick breastwall walls, back walls, and small but strong anti-artillery holes. The trenches are dug so deep that people can safely walk with their backs straight inside without fear of being seen by the enemy. Inside, treadmills were built with mounds of earth every one or two meters, and the fighters could only reach the firing height by stepping on them. When you walk, you get down from the stepping platform, so that you don't accidentally straighten up and become a target for the enemy.

In order to better simulate the real scene of trench warfare, Chai Dongliang used iron pipes and mirrors to make a simple trench periscope. This way, the soldier does not have to poke his head out of the safety of the trench to observe the enemy outside.

The ammunition depot is more than 10 meters underneath, and the top is thick concrete, and then it is filled with loess at the same height as the ground, and telephone lines are drawn in the trenches that extend in all directions, so that the officers and the command post can keep in touch. Almost all the soldiers had never seen the telephone, and everyone wanted to touch it, and when the phone rang, these people were so frightened that no one dared to answer.

The Anhui Revolutionary Army was born out of the New Army of the former Qing Dynasty, and it was already the most advanced and educated soldiers in China, but most of them had never seen electric lights before, let alone made phone calls. When Chai Dongliang had just installed electric lights in the Wuhu camp, some soldiers lit dry smoke on the 25-watt light bulb.

Teng Teng Teng three green flares rose into the air, which was the signal for the countdown to the exercise, and the soldiers immediately became nervous.

Moments later, three more flares were fired, and the exercise officially began.

As Chai Dongliang expected, Gu Mazi held a foreign knife to command on the side of the team, the person who beat the small snare drum was irritable, and the soldiers of a company opened the straggler line, with a distance of fifteen meters and one person, and the front and back were staggered.

Not to mention, Gu Mazi didn't study in vain in the military academy, and he wasn't stupid enough to line up in a neat line and wait for the machine gun roll call.

Ben and the others pressed their rifles onto the training bullets with wooden bullets, and in the reinforced concrete machine gun fort, Makqin also hung a long chain of bullets. The bullet is also a training bullet with a wooden warhead, and the grenade is also improvized, this cast-iron shell is filled with cement mortar, which can be recovered and used multiple times, except that it cannot explode, and is exactly the same as a grenade in normal use.

Soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense wore steel helmets and protective suits filled with sand and cotton. Although the training bullet is a wooden warhead, it can be lethal when hit at the point. Chai Dongliang didn't want to be bleeding after a drill.

Gu Mazi led a company of soldiers to charge to the rhythm of the snare drum, and Chai Dongliang saw it clearly from the trench periscope. There was still a distance of 500 meters from the trench, Gu Mazi signaled to build a proposed machine gun position, two two-wheeled water-cooled Makqin were placed behind, a simple bunker was built with sandbags in front, and the machine gun was responsible for covering the soldiers and continued to charge.

"Bentou, bomb the machine gun position for me!" Chai Dongliang ordered.

Ben saw the position of the machine gun position clearly through the shooting hole in the breastwork, then crouched on the treadmill, reached out and visually measured the distance and bearing, then placed the grenadier canister, and the deputy shooter took out the training grenade, pulled out the safety pin and filled it into the gun port.

Makqin, who was dignified Gu Mazi's side, had already opened fire, and the wooden warhead hit this distance with almost no lethality, and it landed lightly at the front of the position.

One of the training shells in the canister flew over and landed fifty meters behind the side of a Maxim machine gun.

Chai Dongliang yelled: "Good fight!" ”

According to the rules of the exercise, the direction of the aiming of the training bomb must be deviated to a certain extent, otherwise it can be stoned to death if it falls straight down even if it is a solid bullet that does not explode. Fifty meters behind the side of the Maxim machine gun was exactly the demarcated shell strike area.

The officers and men of the training battalion also served as the referees of the exercise, and they ruled that a Maxim had been defeated, and several soldiers who were judged to have died dragged a heavy water-cooled Maxim away from the exercise site.

Gu Mazi saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered the remaining Makqin to shift positions, and at the moment of movement, the high rate of fire of the grenadier came into play, and a training bullet that looked like a single shot fell from the sky, and the speed of twenty-five rounds per minute had exceeded the rate of fire of the rifle, how could the bulky Makqin escape? The remaining machine gun was also judged destroyed.

The division was unfavorable, Gu Mazi was a little annoyed, and ordered the whole company to pass through an open field in front of him at high speed. At the command of the order, the soldiers accelerated their advance, and the Makqin on the defender's side of the trench also sounded.

Two soldiers, armed with machine guns, covered all areas in front of the trench at a rate of 800 rounds per minute. The wooden bullet hit the charging soldier, and immediately tore the click cloth on the outside of the protective suit, and the sand flowed to the ground. When the other soldiers saw that something was wrong, they immediately lay on the ground and crawled forward, when they heard Makqin's wooden bullet thumping on the steel helmet. It was easy to pass through an open area, and the referee team had already determined that eighty percent of the soldiers were incapacitated.

The only remaining 20 or so people were stopped by the barbed wire, which was full of barbs and barbed wire, and they did not dare to climb it, nor could they touch it, nor could they be picked with a bayonet, just like an iron hedgehog, and when they touched it, their hands were full of blood. What's even worse is that under the erected barbed wire is a 15-centimeter flat subway wire mesh suspended in the air, and the same barbs are all over the body, and if you step on it, you will immediately pierce the entire instep.

The soldiers, who were stopped by the barbed wire, became a live target for the machine guns, and most of them were killed instantly under the blow of the wooden warheads. A few clever men, looking for the remaining craters in the shooting range, hid in a place where the machine gun couldn't hit it. , return fire with a rifle. But a moment later, a string of grenades was thrown out of the trench and fell not far behind them.

When the referee team of the Changchang exercise sounded the gong for the termination of the exercise.

From beginning to end, the attacking soldiers of a company led by Gu Mazi were completely wiped out by the defenders of a squad in just half an hour, and the defenders had not had time to fire a single rifle from beginning to end. The problem was solved just with grenadiers, machine guns and grenades.

The brilliance of the results of the battle and the disparity in the proportion of casualties made the head of Ben smack his tongue, and it was surprising that he had completely annihilated the other side without any casualties!

From the first day they were soldiers, they had determined the creed of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves, but today is a real eye-opener, and there is still this mode of war?

If this is the way of fighting in the future, who will dare to attack? The advantage of the defending side is simply too great!

Chai Dongliang led people out of the trench, and kicked the depressed Gu Mazi's ass with the tip of his mud-stained boots: "Do you accept it?" ”

"Yes."

"Convincing or oral?"

"Convincing and convincing??? But Governor, if there is a real battle, I will definitely use artillery to open the way by attacking your position. ”

Chai Dongliang smiled: "Still not convinced?" Okay, drag a cannon and bombard the position. "Two French 75-millimeter caliber tube retreat guns copied by the Shanghai Manufacturing Bureau were dragged over, and the artillery was loaded with live ammunition and bombarded the already empty positions indiscriminately. Hundreds of shells repeatedly plowed the position several times, only to see that the sandbags were blown into the sky, the breastwork and back walls fell one piece, and the machine gun fort made of reinforced concrete was also lifted.

The whole position was in shambles, and it looked like it was already in ruins from a distance.

Chai Dongliang waved his hand to signal the shelling to stop, and then said to Gu Mazi Nunu: "You go to the position and take a look." Gu Mazi walked over and looked at it carefully for a long time, and froze. The barbed wire fence was blown up in a mess, tangled around each other, but it was more difficult to climb. The surface fortifications of the positions were blown up, but the anti-artillery holes, ammunition depots, and command posts were unharmed, and the bunkers in the trenches remained intact, where machine guns and grenadiers could still be used to inflict a devastating blow on the enemy.

If it is a real war, this round of frantic shelling, the blow to the defenders is minimal, and it can be said that there is almost no real effect.

Gu Mazi's face lit up: "Dudu, this time I am really convinced, I am convinced!" This trenching tactic is not bad, if there is a war next time, Lao Tzu will hide inside, see who can fight me! ”

Chai Dongliang smiled slightly: "Really? Trench warfare is invincible? ”

Gu Mazi was surprised: "Could it be that the governor still broke this ditch??? No, the method of trench warfare? ”

Chai Dong nodded and said: "In this world, there is a spear and a shield, and there must be an antidote within seven steps where poisonous snakes are infested, how can there be a battle method that cannot be cracked?" ”

Gu Mazi hurriedly said: "Dudu, then you hurry up and teach us, I really haven't seen such a war." ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Okay, when another batch of secret weapons will be sent later, you will defend me and attack, and watch me break your trench warfare!" ”

Gu Mazi's eyes lit up: "There are still good things?" Is there a cornucopia in the Governor's house? ”

Qian Lao Er ran over, covered with sand, and said with a smile while spitting out the sand in his mouth: "Battalion commander, you said okay, tonight 'Jinghuai Building' will eat big dishes!" ”

Gu Mazi snorted: "Eat a fart, I was beaten to the ground, and I still have the heart to invite you to dinner!" ”

Qian Lao Er smiled secretly: "Don't please, don't please, don't please??" I remember someone saying something about the ass, the face, or something. ”

Gu Mazi's face turned white with fright, and he hurriedly said, "Please, I can't ask for it??? My living ancestor, will you keep your mouth shut? ”

Chai Dongliang was a little curious: "What ass, face?" What kind of dumb riddles do you play? ”

Gu Mazi shook his head like a rattle: "It's nothing, it's just a bet between a few of us, I lost the game, so I have to invite everyone to dinner." ”

Chai Dongliang didn't bother to dig deeper, estimating that they were holding back some bad water. Take a closer look at the person in front of him, with a thin and shaved face, and a touch of Ren Danhu under his nose, he looks very much like the actor Yano Koji in later generations.

"You're talking about yourself?" Chai Dongliang asked.

Qian Lao Er bowed respectfully and replied: "The governor also said the same, when I was studying in Yueben, they all said that I was more like Yue himself than Yue himself. ”

"How many years have you been in Yuben?"

"Mine, in the sixth year of the book."

Chai Dongliang said strangely: "So long? Six years spent studying abroad? ”

Qian Lao Er smiled bitterly: "My father was originally a Huai army, and he was killed by Xiao Yuben in the first year, when I was a child, I was determined to grow up and go to the emperor who killed them to avenge my father, and when I was eighteen years old, I was admitted to the public-funded international students, but I stayed in Tokyo for six years and did not seize the opportunity, and I had to return to China after finishing the army non-commissioned officer school." ”

Chai Dongliang nodded, no wonder he behaved so much like himself, he dared to disguise himself and assassinate the emperor!

Another daring guy!

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese assassins were rampant, from the Empress Dowager Cixi to the state and county officials, all of whom were terrified by the name of the assassins, and the most funny thing was that many Manchu princes actually sent their henchmen to Tokyo to send protection money to the revolutionary party in order to avoid being assassinated. After Liangbi was assassinated by the assassins, the Empress Dowager Longyu convened a meeting of the princes, but no one dared to participate, and even the most ferocious Zongshe Party ran away without a trace. Later, the Chinese stopped playing this set, and it was the turn of Xiao Yuben, who before and after World War II, from the prime minister to the judge, the heads of the people killed by the assassins rolled, and finally no one wanted to be a cabinet minister, so he had to let a military waste like Hideki Tojo become the prime minister.

"Governor, the Military Advisory Office called, saying that a person named Song Jiaoren came to visit you, and he also brought a person!" A guard ran over and reported.

"Oh, what did he come to me for? And a little book? Chai Dongliang smiled: "Okay, go back and have a look." ”

(To be continued)