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Zhou Dajing, who was standing behind a shrub five or six meters away from Qin Chuan with a telescope, looked at Qin Chuan with some concern.

For more than half a year, Qin Chuan has always been full of worries, and he rarely laughs, except for Chu Yunfei, who dares to occasionally complain in front of Qin Chuan, or say a few witticisms to relax the atmosphere, and everyone else can feel a heavy depression in front of Qin Chuan.

Recently, the combat training arranged by Qin Chuan was all mountain offensive and defensive operations, and today's training is the last field tactical training in the Qin Chuan plan, and one of the key exercises is this demonstration exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to test the defender's trench setting, firepower arrangement, and personnel protection; The test of the attacking side is the battle formation after the attack, the alternating cover of the group, and the coordinated attack of each group. In addition, there is infantry artillery coordination.

Qin Chuan threw the cigarette butt that was about to burn his fingers to the ground, and then twisted it out with his riding boots, then nodded and got up and walked down the mountain road.

As soon as Qin Chuan moved, Gao Ying and a few guards came out of nowhere, and followed Qin Chuan and Zhou Dajing closely towards the bottom of the mountain.

The offensive and defensive site of the exercise was a hill only more than 400 meters high, and the trees and shrubs on the hillside that blocked the shooting range had already been cleared, and a shelter was built behind a soil ridge more than 500 meters away from the foot of the mountain. There were several fortifications scattered around the shelter, all of which were guarded by soldiers from the Shifeng Guard Company. Seeing Qin Chuan, those soldiers just put their heels together and straightened their bodies, and did not raise their hands to salute.

This is according to Qin Chuan's requirements, all officers and soldiers of the Yan Regiment do not have to raise their hands to salute when they are on duty with weapons in their hands.

What caught people's attention was that all these officers and soldiers in sight outside the shelter unit were wearing steel helmets painted with grass green paint.

You know, at this time, there was no army in the world that wore steel helmets. Steel helmets in the modern sense only appeared during the First World War, that is, twenty years later.

The steel helmet of Yantuan was customized in Germany by Qinchuan in imitation of the M17 steel helmet style of the German army during World War I. This kind of steel helmet not only has a narrow brim, but also has different heights at the front and back and sides, which can protect the ears and neck, and the helmet lining inside is also very comfortable.

The steel helmet was also patented in Europe and the United States through William Jr., this novel steel helmet, although the patent was accepted, but it was ridiculed by the foreigners in Europe and the United States, in Europe and the United States, this kind of steel helmet is called Qin's helmet.

Because the officers and men of the Yan Regiment have been wearing this kind of Qin helmet in the field training in the past two months, the officers and soldiers of the Huai Army to which Tianjin Wei and Beiyang belong have been surprised for a while, because of the fight against the Sheng Army's horse team, all the departments of the Huai Army, which are in the same breath as the Sheng Army, have a dislike for the Yan Regiment, and they are more mean when they speak, and they ridicule the officers and soldiers of the Salt Regiment as iron hat soldiers who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

In fact, Qin Chuan was going to customize such a Qin helmet for all the troops of the Huai Army. But the news that Zhou Fu fed back to him made Qin Chuan very discouraged, and none of the generals in the Beiyang departments were willing to let their subordinates wear such heavy "iron hats". According to Zhou Fu, those generals don't want to be said to be greedy for life and afraid of death. Even Qin Chuan could see a little stupidity in Zhou Fu's eyes.

This made Qin Chuan very helpless, and in the end he only ordered 20,000 tops.

Another thing that is also eye-catching, that is, in the open space outside the shelter, the men of the baggage company directly under the salt group are disassembling the twenty-four Maximine heavy machine guns with a blue glossy sheen from the bulky tripod and preparing to pack them.

The water-cooled Maxine heavy machine guns with thick cooling jackets in front of him have made some improvements in accordance with Qin Chuan's requirements. For example, there are many drawbacks in the tripod, and the original canvas material is not detachable, and the design of Qin Chuan is changed to a combination of metal and canvas, and it is also detachable. Maxine was very interested in this patent and bought it directly. The two sides agreed to pay Qin Chuan half of the patent fee received each year according to the number of output of each arsenal using this patent.

Qin Chuan's twelve companies in four battalions all added a machine gun platoon, each platoon had two squads with one heavy machine gun, and the other squad was equipped with four grenadier canisters.

Of course, the grenadier is also kept secret now, and Qin Chuan only took it out for the training of the troops at this training ground.

In the shelter department, Chu Yunfei, Wang Xiping, He Ruhuai, Fang Weijun, Du Baozhong, Xu Tong and other more than 20 battalion company commanders and several staff officers of the first battalion headquarters were all waiting in the shelter department in high spirits, some chatting in a low voice excitedly, and some were lying in front of the artillery team mirror to observe the situation of the opposite position. Qin Chuan didn't return the salute, but a flash of brilliance flashed in his eyes in an instant, showing an indescribable excitement in his heart.

Although these people are now wearing the rank of major set by Qin Chuan, in Qin Chuan's eyes, they are all future generals, and he often even imagines that these people standing in front of him will have shining generals on their shoulders. In the past six months, whenever he saw these maturing subordinates who carried his countless hopes, Qin Chuan's heart would involuntarily rise a wave of heat, and his dream beliefs and goals would become clearer.

Although Qin Chuan's heart was hot, he just tried his best to cover it up, waved his hand to signal the race to be casual, and walked to the observation hole of the shelter alone, looked at the opposite hill and looked back at the second battalion commander Wang Xiping and the first battalion commander Chu Yunfei.

"All ready?"

"Ready." Wang Xiping and Chu Yunfei both replied loudly.

After getting the answers of the two, Qin Chuan nodded at Zhou Dajing, then turned around and observed with an artillery mirror in his hand.

Zhou Dajing glanced at Qiu Qinghe, the commander of the artillery company on the side, turned to Chu Yunfei and Wang Xiping and said, "Let's start." ”

Chu Yunfei rolled up his sleeves and said to Qiu Qinghe: "Chuanxi, thirty pieces of cannonballs in the ocean, you kid is not a little wasteful, whether my eldest brother is worth spending this money depends on yours." Tell your artillery, targets, hills, open fire. ”

Qiu Qinghe just smiled, then reached out and grabbed a grass-green metal telephone receiver behind him, shook one of the handles on the telephone vigorously, and gave an order to the microphone.

"Target a small hill, start corrective firing, and after five minutes, ten rounds of rapid fire from each cannon."

Although the telephone was popular more than ten years ago, it is strange that the value of the military telephone that was common in later war films for troops to convey orders was not noticed by any country's military. Under Qin Chuan's instruction and personal guidance, he established contact with a Danish company, purchased electronic components for making telephones, completed the development of the world's first military telephone in the laboratory of Aurora University, and built Aurora Electric Company based on this laboratory. The metal-cased telephone used by the salt ball is produced by this company.

More than ten seconds after Qiu Qinghe put down the phone, a whistling sound from far and near came from more than three miles behind the shelter, and then an explosion sounded, followed by a cloud of smoke and dust rising dozens of meters in front of the obviously artificially modified fortifications near the top of the hill, and dirt and rocks flew everywhere.

Five minutes later, the screams came again, but this time the whistle was much more intensive, and then a large cloud of smoke and dust from the explosion rose around the fortifications at the top of the hill, and the smoke and dust raised by the dense explosion covered the top of the hill tightly in just a moment, and in addition to the flying broken branches and gravel, there were also fragments of the sacks that had been blown up by the violent air waves.

"Good!"

Chu Yunfei excitedly punched Qiu Qinghe: "Good boy, you really have you, my eldest brother's money didn't let you waste it in vain, just your cannonball, if we really want to fight with the little devils in the East, we will make sure that they cry and call their mother." ”

Qiu Qinghe pursed his lips: "You kid can't say good things in his mouth, those shells on weekdays are not something I want to waste, and I don't have a few live-fire exercises in a month, and the commander glared at me." But then again, if we hadn't fired live ammunition as if we didn't need money, our artillery wouldn't have been so skillful so quickly. As far as I am concerned, the students who have been training for two years in the Wubei Academy are not far behind. ”

Chu Yunfei knew that Qiu Qinghe was telling the truth, and looked at Qin Chuan, who had been standing in front of the observation mouth looking at the smoke-filled hills, and made a grimace at Wang Xiping, the commander of the second battalion.

"Makino, Chuanxi's cannon is accurate and fierce, I just don't know how your fortifications are being repaired?"

Wang Xiping just smiled and said, "Don't be poor, it's time for your soldiers to attack." ”

"You'll see."

Chu Yunfei turned around and said to a herald who had been waiting behind him: "Pass my order and order a company to attack." ”

Soon after the herald ran out, through the observation port, he could see more than 300 soldiers of the Salt Regiment wearing steel helmets and rifles with bayonets, pulling apart the stragglers and rushing towards the hill without a sound amid the rumbling of artillery.

The super-large detachment of more than 300 stopped when it was still 100 meters from the area covered by the shelling halfway up the hill, and the officers and men crouched on the ground with their guns in hand, allowing the steel helmets to clange from time to time on their heads as the debris fell from the air.

The shelling soon stopped, although the smoke and dust had not yet dissipated, the more than 300 people on the hillside, under the command of an officer carrying a shell gun, were in groups of three or four, and the three or four groups formed a small group of their own, or a single soldier, or a small group, alternately covering, braving the gravel and dust that could not stop falling, with the help of the cover of the terrain and features, they quickly rushed to the top of the mountain, and as the smoke and dust dissipated, the sight became clearer and clearer, and the mountain on the left side was slightly gentle, where the attacking salt regiment soldiers were the first to break through the opponent's position.

When the fiery red military flag of the salt regiment fluttered on the position, Qin Chuan removed his eyes from the artillery mirror and stood up straight, raised his hand to look at his watch, and nodded.

"Yes, the speed of breaking through the opponent's position in less than five minutes after the end of the shelling is very good, let's go, let's go to the mountains and have a look."

At the top of the hill, the officers and men of the first battalion who had completed the attack drill had already marched down the hill in formation, and Qin Chuan stood on the dilapidated fortifications that had been bombed by the shelling with more than 20 battalion company commanders and more than 30 staff officers, checking the effects of the shelling.

Wang Xiping's fortifications were built on the ridge, the front and rear three trenches, there were communication trenches between each other, the machine gun fire points were reinforced with logs, and even anti-artillery holes were dug at certain intervals, but in the fierce and accurate artillery fire, the three fortifications were still blown into a mess, and even half of the holes of the two anti-artillery holes were blown up.

After inspecting the position, Qin Chuan, who was standing on the edge of the trench, explained to the officers and staff officers of the salt regiment who were surrounding the periphery.

"As you have seen, no matter how strong the fortifications are, they are vulnerable to artillery bombardment. The defending side, when fighting, is especially important to preserve its own vitality. You should remember that when building fortifications in the mountains, you should build the fortifications on the ridges as much as possible, and before the enemy launches an artillery bombardment, it is enough to leave only a small number of troops on the position to monitor the opponent, and the rest of the personnel can withdraw to the anticline of the mountain to rest and stand by, so as to minimize casualties. ”

"With the increasing use of automatic firearms, and the continuation of the offensive tactics of the Napoleonic period, that is, attacking in dense formations, the attacking forces will inevitably suffer heavy losses."

Qin Chuan pointed to several heavy machine gun positions in the trenches: "These heavy machine guns will deal a fatal blow to the attacking troops. ”

"That's why I've repeatedly asked you, that when attacking, the troops must charge in a dispersed and alternate cover. This, not to mention the Japanese, now in Europe, the armies of those great powers are no less aware of this. In addition, when the troops charge, they must not only be good at protecting themselves, but also be fast, fierce, and ruthless, and the charging troops should be as close to the shelling area as possible, so that after the shelling, they can get close to the opponent's position in the shortest possible time and not give the opponent time to breathe. Of course, there are many tactics to seize the opponent's position, and it is not a rigid and blind rush and fierce attack, but it must vary from time to time, such as concentrating on a fierce attack, and also focusing on the two wings to contain a frontal breakthrough, and so on。。。。。。 ”

Qin Chuan didn't finish speaking, but his eyes were attracted by a war horse galloping in the distance below the mountain, and his heart sank.

Something must have happened again! (To be continued.) )