On the desolate sand by the sea, the sudden sound of gunfire startled the pikas. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After the live firing, the teenager got up and lined up to leave, although only three bullets were fired, but the vast majority of them who had never touched a gun fired the first shot in their lives. According to Liang Hong's latest training plan, the tens of thousands of teenagers recruited will increase their target shooting training, so that they can pick up their guns at any time in case of an emergency battle, not to mention defeating the enemy, at least they can defend themselves.

In the largest tent in the center of the camp, nearly 100 teenagers sat neatly on the ground, quietly listening to Liang Hong's personal lecture. These were selected in advance from tens of thousands of people, between fifteen and twenty years old, in good health and strong enough to know at least two thousand words. As soon as they arrived at the camp, the eligible teenagers were tested that no one else had done, and those who proved to be brave and persevering were able to stay. Two thousand words is very common for children from scholarly families, but for rural teenagers, it is difficult to achieve without more than three years of private school education. The flood washed away everything indiscriminately, from poor people to wealthy families, so many of the recruited teenagers had gone to school. It's a pity that in the test designed by Liang Hong, the rate of rich children being eliminated is quite high.

The teenager who stayed behind was regarded as a treasure by Liang Hong. In the next few days, he planned to teach them as simple as possible the lessons of infantry drills, terrain maps, weapons, and infantry tactics. Just remember, you don't have to know why it is. These teenagers will be with him, as the last group to leave. With a month to go from now and the long sea journey ahead, his goal is to strengthen himself into an officer who can meet the minimum requirements. Not at the squad and platoon level, but at the battalion and company level officers, Liang Hong is almost unavailable now.

In front of everyone, the infantry drill code engraved by the assault exuded the scent of ink. This was done by Liang Hong after several modifications, and it was roughly offensive and defensive in machine gun and artillery conditions, which was actually equivalent to the tactical level of the middle of World War I.

"A standard infantry defensive position is to pile up enough earth as a breastwork. The crouching trenches are more than a meter deep, and sandbags are piled up 30 centimeters high on the ground to allow soldiers to stand and shoot freely, and to provide adequate body cover. The front-line trenches should be folded every 100 meters. ”

Liang Hong drew a continuous line on the blackboard, and then pointed to the center of the line triangle.

"Here it is necessary to set up firing points, cooperate with the infantry in the front-line trenches, and form a crossfire strike against the attacking enemy. The best option is to use it as a machine-gun position, high enough above the top of the front-line trench to allow the machine gun to fire beyond it. In the absence of machine guns, it is also necessary to equip here with enough excellent shooters to form sufficient lethality. ”

What a machine gun looks like, these teenagers have never seen it, but they are briefly introduced when they teach weapons courses. Now that time is pressing, Liang Hong doesn't need these teenagers to understand, he just needs to be able to remember it and remember it when he faces this situation in the future. Glancing at the teenagers with puzzled faces, he raised his hand and continued to draw on the blackboard, drawing another broken line farther away from the first line of defense.

"This will be the second line of defense, and the reserve troops will be concealed in the trenches here, and if the front line of defense is too wounded, it will be used for reinforcements at any time. If the forward line of defense is breached, the reserves here will choose to recapture their positions with a counter-charge, depending on the situation, or continue to resist on the spot and prevent the enemy from continuing to break through. ”

Liang Hong was explaining infantry defensive tactics, and according to his prediction, before the troops were sufficiently trained, they might have to face the Boer attack, and defensive warfare would be the most likely form of battle. Strategically, he tended to be active on the defensive, using weaker new units for front-line trench defense, while at the same time arming them with a sufficient number of machine guns. The elite troops, who have been trained for a relatively long time, are used for counter-assault and even roundabout operations.

"Do you understand?"

He asked, looking at these immature faces in front of him.

"Understood."

I got an answer, but it wasn't loud enough.

"You will be the officers who will command the battle in the future, and your confidence will be directly contagious to the soldiers under you. Answer louder! ”

"Got it!"

This time, the voice finally satisfied Liang Hong.

"Risaki"

Seeing that the officer on duty stood up and shouted a command, nearly 100 people stood up neatly and saluted.

Educated trainees are always easier to train, and after half a month, these teenagers who have read books already have a pretty good demeanor. He was sent out for intensive training, and the name of the training team was to the outside world, saying that he was preparing to train officers as an officer of the mine garrison.

Seeing Liang Hong walk out of the tent, the teenagers who had resumed their freedom of movement exchanged heads and talked about it. Some people are still discussing what has just been taught, and some people are quietly talking about the questions they have been wondering about these days, teaching them what they are going to do, and many people have a hunch that they may face a war in Africa.

Zhou Zirong, the sixth squad leader, glanced inside the tent, he had already figured out the focus of everyone's discussion, and it would definitely not be as simple as an ordinary mine garrison. His eldest brother participated in the First Sino-Japanese War to defend Weihai, and after returning to his hometown, he told many scenes of the war, equipped with machine guns, and it seems that there are quite a few of them, and this weapon is said to be very expensive. What will the opponent look like in a positional defensive battle, according to the content of the lecture, it is also machine guns and even artillery, and those who are well-trained to organize an effective offensive are not the army.

"Meet the six classes"

He yelled, not wanting the class to get involved in a pointless discussion. What could be more terrible than being a refugee starving to death, and in the back of his heart he even had a longing for possible war.

"Squad leader, what they said can't be true, right?"

Li Jie, the youngest in the class, ripped off his shirt and asked quietly.

"Does it matter if it's real or fake?"

Zhou Zirong asked calmly, and when he saw that Li Jie couldn't answer for a while, he smiled at Li Jie and said to the others in his class.

"So, if you have that spare time, you might as well go back to our own tent."

When Liang Hong was busy working at the mouth of the Yellow River, the wheels of the world were still rolling forward according to inertia. Distant Sudan, Kitchener's army was heading south along the White Nile, and not far from the city of Beijing, the Wuxu Revolution was coming to an end.

Since mid-September, there has been an undercurrent in the capital, and the struggle between the Restoration and the Conservative, the Imperial Party and the Later Party has become more and more intense, and many people have been speculating according to their own speculations about the situation. Kang Youwei jumped up and down more and more active, Emperor Guangxu had a bad premonition and wrote a secret edict, Yuan Shikai was the first rat at both ends, and the front foot was summoned by Guangxu to show his loyalty, and he ran to Rong Lu to tell the secret as soon as he got out of the palace.

On September 18, Yang Chongyi, the son and daughter of Li Hongzhang's eldest son, first jumped out to play a secret performance and asked the Empress Dowager Cixi to train the government on the same day. The Empress Dowager Cixi gladly agreed, and on the same day, the Guangxu Emperor was abolished to deal with government affairs alone, and all chapters must be submitted to the Empress Dowager before they can be decided. So anyone with a discerning eye can see that the sky in the capital has changed again.