Tao Chengzhang is not a person with a small belly, since he handed over the death squad of the Guangfu Army to Xu Xilin, he does not play any small tricks. Xu Xilin is even more so, since everything he wants to say has already been said, when it is time for a bloody battle, Xu Xilin doesn't want to talk nonsense at all.

The death squad is a permanent military unit in the Liberation Army, and this military unit undertakes assault and fortification, and the death squad has to bear most of the most dangerous battles with the greatest casualties. Not only in the Liberation Society, but also in the armed forces formed by other revolutionary parties, there are no military units such as death squads. This is also a tradition, and historically this kind of unit has a title, called "tooth soldiers". It probably takes the meaning of the sharp teeth when the beast attacks.

Of course, as a death squad, while facing much higher risks, you also enjoy more privileges. For example, in terms of equipment, in addition to a standard spear for each of the death squads, the officers also have short guns. The supply of bombs was also limited to the death squads. The Liberation Army in the ordinary formation only has long guns. As for the troops developed and led by the members of the Liberation Society, each unit was given a certain number of guns. For the other vassals, the Liberation Society will only have verbal pacification and food support.

This is also something that cannot be helped, and the Restoration Society is not a god with brainwashing skills, and it is impossible to turn everyone who stands under the banner of the Restoration Society into a warrior who is not afraid of death. This organization can only distinguish between distant and close relatives according to the degree of obedience to the organization, and from this point of view, the relationship between the various heroes within the Liberation Association is no smaller than the relationship with the People's Party.

Now there are about 500 people in the death squad, which is not much different from before the Battle of Hangzhou. It's just that the old death squad now has nearly 200 wounded soldiers who have not returned, and the new additions are all recommended by various factions later. The death squad is not only a preferential treatment in terms of equipment, but also an identity in itself. There is no need to put up other scores in front of other comrades of the Liberation Society, and if you proudly say "I am a death squad", you will immediately be looked down upon. Now there is a rumor about the death squad outside, "When Nanjing is defeated, the death squad will be given an official." Under such stimulation, after Xu Xilin took charge of the death squad, there was an endless stream of people who personally recommended themselves or asked people to ask for items. Most of the people who said the item were from humble backgrounds, and the picture was to get a chance to sell their lives by joining the death squad, and if they couldn't die on the battlefield, they would be an official in the future. No more being driven by others.

Xu Xilin originally wanted to take advantage of the last few days before departure to put the death squad in order, but the work was constantly interrupted by the people who came to talk about it. This can't help but make Xu Xilin feel very annoyed. In the first two days, he personally dealt with this time, and then Xu Xilin simply did not meet with such people at all.

During their inspection in Anhui, Xu Xilin and others also inspected the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. At that time, Xu Xilin was really eye-opening, from the basic skills of marching in the queue, to the loading and unloading of weapons, and more advanced is shooting, bombing, the military literacy of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army gave Xu Xilin a great intuitive understanding of how the army fights. When Xu Xilin really wanted to pass on this valuable knowledge to the death squad, he suddenly understood an idiom, "Handan toddler".

It is said that the person who went to Handan to learn the walking posture failed to learn the elegant walking posture of the Handan people, but even forgot how he used to walk, and finally had to climb home. With the training of "weapon disassembly", the purpose of the training of the People's Party is very clear, first of all, to let everyone know the structure of the gun and the principle of shooting. When you encounter a problem with your rifle, you can quickly troubleshoot it and continue fighting. Rifle breakdowns are common in these years, and it is necessary to master such techniques, and Xu Xilin deeply believes this.

The problem is that Mr. Xu simply doesn't understand why the BJP takes gun maintenance so seriously. Because of the infantry squad and platoon tactics, the BJP's troop input density was much lower than that of the infantry tactics of lining up and shooting. If a rifle broke down in one of the BJP squads, it meant the loss of nearly 10% of its firepower on a long front. In the case of the queue model, which is used to shoot in line, on the BJP's squad-based defensive front, they can put three or even five times the strength of the BJP. It's just that one or two guns are malfunctioning, and the problem is not visible at all.

Only seeing the performance, but not being able to understand the deep reason behind the surface, Xu Xilin's weapon disassembly training results were greatly reduced, not to mention that gun disassembly itself is also a science, and on the first day of training, gun disassembly led to damage to several rifles. And many people put the rifle parts back on, and when the rifle is probably restored to its original state, they find that there are a few "extra" parts that do not know where to install.

The rifle was a very valuable piece of equipment for the Liberation Society, and the firearm was damaged before the battle, which made the Liberation Society cadres who had no concept of logistics maintenance very painful. I finally installed the gun and replaced it with a new one. The cadre of the logistics department pleaded in a pitiful tone: "Mr. Xu, don't make trouble for us. Please. ”

There are not many people who know how to install firearms, and if Xu Xilin insists on carrying out this kind of dangerous training, these personnel can be exhausted to death just by wiping Xu Xilin's buttocks. Looking at the pleading eyes of these personnel, Xu Xilin had to agree to their request.

If the disassembly of the guns could not continue, the subsequent "test gun and calibration" training would naturally not be able to proceed smoothly. Xu Xilin once asked Chen Ke for a question, how to shoot the gun accurately. As a weaker side, Xu Xilin hopes that "every bullet will destroy an enemy". Chen Ke talked about "testing the gun". Originally, Chen Ke didn't understand this, and Chen Ke once thought that maintenance was to wipe the gun and oil it to prevent the gun from entering the dust and sand. Although he knew the rifle line in the barrel, Chen Ke did not have a "school shot" in his understanding of maintenance.

The first to bring the concept of "school shooting" to the army were a few "gunners" who joined the "insurance regiment". As "gunners" who use guns as a means of making a living, although they have no theoretical knowledge, they know that if they do not have sufficient "calibration," they will not know where their bullets can "be crooked." These "gunners" do not simply aim their guns, they can adjust the angle of aiming according to the different guns in their hands.

At the "soldiers' meeting," the gunners who had performed well in the shooting training were forced by the soldiers to confess their secrets, and the troops immediately began the primitive "school shooting" spontaneously. Later, at the military democratic conference, the "school shooting" was learned by the Central Military Commission, and after some discussion on linking theory with practice, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was still called the "Insurance Corps," began to formulate a systematic system of "school shooting." Each rifle is subject to regular "calibration" adjustments. This greatly improved the accuracy of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's shooting in battle.

The knowledge that Xu Xilin brought from the People's Party was all superficial knowledge, and he could not have been very clear about the meaning of "school shooting". Moreover, "school shooting" is to cooperate with the tactics of infantry squads and platoons, and if there is no column attack training, they will form a group to shoot at each other, and the importance of "school shooting" will be greatly reduced. With this kind of kung fu and this kind of meticulous work, it is better to practice more bomb throwing more efficiently.

The bomb dropping training was also far from achieving the results that Xu Xilin had imagined, and the People's Party used standard grenades. The bomb throwing training is completely a standardized large-scale training. The Liberation Society is a homemade bomb, not to mention the explosive power of the bomb, it varies in quality and volume. Bombing is entirely dependent on personal aptitude and imagination, and the effect cannot be guaranteed.

After this training, the death squads of the Liberation Society spent a lot of energy, but they were not able to improve their combat level in general. The comrades felt extremely tired, and their spirits were not as good as they were before the training. In desperation, Xu Xilin accepted the suggestion of cadre Xu Shuisheng to suspend training and let the death squad rest completely and thoroughly.

"Shuisheng, what do you think of training next?" Even the energetic Xu Xilin showed fatigue after a few days.

"Mr. Xu, the plan today is to let everyone dare to rush forward when fighting. When the two armies meet, the brave wins, isn't our recovery army relying on courage to defeat the Qing army? Xu Shuisheng's suggestion is quite serious.

"Hmm." Xu Xilin nodded yes.

Although he made a very serious suggestion, Xu Shuisheng had a complicated heart. Xu Shuisheng was a member of the People's Party, he was originally a trader in Anhui, and during the First Anqing Campaign, he was forcibly taken back to the base area as a Manchu official for some reason. After screening, it was found that the wrong person was arrested. So he was given money and rations to go home. This kind of "benevolence and righteousness" is too shocking in this era, Xu Shuisheng was still a fish in the net at first, but he walked in the disaster area for three days, but found that he couldn't get out on his own. Although there is still dry food, there is no money in the disaster area to buy food. In desperation, Xu Shuisheng ran back to Fengtai County and dared to ask if he could follow the People's Party fleet back to Zhejiang.

The People's Party arranged for them to wait for the next fleet to go together, and during their stay, they had more contact with the People's Party, and Xu Shuisheng's panic gradually disappeared, and he became interested in the People's Party. Even if he was a relatively dilapidated small businessman, he naturally hoped to be able to join the big forces. After coming and going, Xu Shuisheng said that he was willing to work in the base area. At that time, there was a shortage of people in the base area, and since Xu Shuisheng asked for it, Xu Shuisheng, who could write and calculate, was recruited.

Half a year ago, Xu Shuisheng was ordered to form a team in Ningbo to join the Restoration Society. Xu Shuisheng's hometown of Ningbo has no shortage of coolies, and if he has money, he can pull up a team of twenty or thirty people. Tao Chengzhang called on the Zhejiang Revolutionary Party to gather in Hangzhou, and this army, which had seven or eight guns, went to Hangzhou. Treatment with and without guns is different, especially for small units that have no previous association with the Liberation Society. After all, he had worked in the base area, and while Xu Shuisheng had improved his knowledge, his feelings about military affairs were naturally different. During the attack on Hangzhou, Xu Shuisheng and his troops performed quite well, and soon became one of the main forces of the death squad.

At the same time, the intelligence agency of the People's Party relied on Xu Shuisheng's inside line to obtain a large amount of internal information from the Liberation Society.

Xu Shuisheng didn't know why the base area talked about standardization before, "the big difference is not bad", this is Xu Shuisheng's view, and now he understands after comparison that this is not a problem of "big difference", but a big problem of "a thousand miles of difference". It's a big difference, it's a standard weapon, and there will definitely be various differences. However, if there is a difference in the guiding ideology, don't look at the imitation of the appearance, in fact, it is not the same thing at all. Xu Shuisheng even felt a problem that was almost philosophical: the People's Party was "acting according to the law" under the leadership of Chen Ke, while the Liberation Society was pursuing "the result it hoped for". What is the difference between the two, Xu Shuisheng can't understand it, but he can feel that there is a world of difference between the two.

Retracting his thoughts, Xu Shuisheng drew his attention back to the problems he faced. Due to Ping Suli's good performance, Xu Xilin handed over the daily work to Xu Shuisheng to manage. After dealing with the matter at hand, Xu Shuisheng went to report. At Xu Xilin's door, he heard an argument in the house, but heard a woman's voice asking, "What if the foreigners send troops?" ”