July 21, 1900, 5:40 a.m., Shilitun.

Tick tick tick ......!

The east has been flushed with a trace of belly, and the sky above Shilitun has also been clouded, when a sharp long whistle suddenly sounded, breaking the quiet morning of Shilitun.

"The soldiers in the first row hurriedly got me up, only fifteen minutes to wash and go to the toilet, and before six o'clock all gathered at the threshing floor in the tunzi, and those who were late had breakfast canceled and ran five kilometers more."

"The soldiers of the second platoon all hurry up for me, only fifteen minutes to wash and go to the toilet, and all gather at the threshing floor in the tunzi before six o'clock, and those who are late will cancel breakfast and run five kilometers more."

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As Yue Weihua's whistle sounded, Yue Hai Yuehu and other six platoon commanders also quickly rushed to the courtyard where the soldiers of each platoon lived, playing the role of shouting to get up and babysitting, no way, after all, today is the first day of training, and there were still many soldiers who were drunk last night, for Yue Weihua's whistle, everyone has not yet developed a conditioned reflex, so they have to make a special case.

At 5:50, Yue Weihua solved the problem of personal physiology and hygiene, and was the first to arrive at the threshing floor, the entire threshing floor is almost half the size of a football field, boxy, about 60 meters long, and more than 40 meters wide.

After glancing at the threshing floor, Yue Weihua's eyes turned to the west of the village, where it was originally a paddy field and dry land, but now it is overgrown with barren grass, hundreds of acres of fertile land, because of the bad luck of Shilitun, this year is considered to be wasted, but it has also fulfilled the Black Dragon Army, and it is still more suitable for shooting range, because the end of the plain is the mountain range in the south.

"Brother Hua, you are still fast."

Yue Xiaodong was the second to come, there were two people on the playground, it was a private occasion, at this time, the children of the Yue family preferred to call Yue Weihua Brother Hua to show their closeness, of course, Yue Qingjie and Yue Qingren's two nephews, it was a little embarrassing, because these two nephews were about the same age as Yue Wei, and if they called uncle, they were really not used to shouting, of course, they were also worried that Yue Weihua would be called old, so they still called the young patriarch more in private.

"Xiaodong, you came the earliest, I'll give you some reward, do you want it?" Yue Weihua smiled and said.

"Yes, why not, hehe, that, Brother Hua, what kind of reward is it?"

Yue Xiaodong was also interested when he heard it, and hurriedly came up, through yesterday's relationship, especially last night's drink, the relationship between the two is relatively harmonious, so now Yue Xiaodong is also quite affectionate.

"Hehe, didn't you want to know yesterday, did we have any guns, I didn't say anything about it, and now I tell you, we now have three main weapons, one is the latest shell gun with a twenty-round magazine, which is what everyone often calls a box gun, the second is Lao Maozi's Mosinagan rifle, which is the Water Lianzhu rifle, and the other is the big guy, well, it is the Makqin heavy machine gun." Yue Weihua also said with a hint of pride.

In fact, it wasn't that Yue Weihua deliberately wanted to sell Guan Zi last night, but because he himself hadn't even figured out what weapons to exchange, and after everyone slept last night, Yue Weihua realized that he entered the Meritorious Pagoda, and it took more than an hour before he finally finalized these three.

Of course, if the merit points are enough, Yue Weihua will not be so entangled, directly each soldier is equipped with a box cannon, a water bead, and then a platoon is equipped with a Makqin heavy machine gun, isn't this over, but unfortunately Yue Weihua only has 773 merit points.

Among them, the box gun is the cheapest, a box gun with 500 bullets is only 2 merit points, but the box gun has a short range, only 50 to 150 meters, and the real effective killing is basically within 100 meters, preferably within 50 meters, so unless it is a short hand, the box gun is basically not used, but in order to allow everyone to be equipped with a gun, Yue Weihua still directly exchanged 70 box guns, so that two platoons can be equipped, and the merit points consumed are only 140.

Mosinagan rifle and 38 big cover, Yue Weihua finally chose the former, M1907 carbine, in this era, it is also the best, at least, it is much stronger than the M1891 rifle used by Russian soldiers now, M1907 carbine with 500 bullets, it takes 5 merit points, Yue Weihua exchanged 90 rods, and consumed 450 merit points.

Makqin heavy machine gun, Yue Weihua weighed it for a long time before deciding to redeem it, this is a good thing, in this era when repeating rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns have not yet been born, Makqin heavy machine gun is the only machine gun in the world that can automatically fire continuously, and the rate of fire per minute can reach more than 600 rounds.

The power of the Maxim heavy machine gun is definitely synonymous with power in this era, well, you will understand it with a few simple examples.

The first actual combat application of the Maxim heavy machine gun was from 1893 to 1894, in Rhodesia, South and Central Africa, in a war between the troops of the British Commonwealth and the local Mactabili-Suruz people, in this war, a Commonwealth army of more than 50 people, with only 4 Makqin heavy machine guns, repelled dozens of charges of more than 5,000 people in Mactabili, and, most importantly, killed more than 3,000 people on the other side.

Of course, what really made Maxim in the limelight was in World War I, the protagonist was replaced by the Germanic Empire, and the supporting role became the British army, when the Germanic Empire troops were equipped with MG08 Maxim heavy machine guns, in the battle of the Somme, in one day, the Germanic Empire troops killed more than 60,000 British troops, becoming the deadliest in World War I.

In 1900, although the major powers were basically equipped with Makqin heavy machine guns, but because they were too expensive, manufacturers were in short supply, of course, the most important thing is that everyone generally did not realize the real importance of Makqin, so most of them were not equipped much, just like Tsarist Russia, which had hundreds of thousands of standing armies, but equipped with more than 1,000 Makqin heavy machine guns.

As for the Qing court, like the most well-equipped Nie Shicheng Wuyi Army in the Wuwei Army, it has more than 13,000 troops, and its Makqin heavy machine guns are only two, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in the entire Qing court add up, whether it can exceed double digits is certain.

The Makqin heavy machine gun is indeed very expensive, even Yue Weihua needs 50 merit points to exchange it at merit points, and if it is bought with silver dollars, it will cost at least more than 1,000 silver dollars, and it is still priceless, the key is that this big guy is still a gold-swallowing beast, and if the bullet is shot, it will be a silver dollar.

However, despite this, Yue Weihua gritted his teeth and exchanged for three, preparing to directly form a heavy machine gun platoon, no matter what, the combat effectiveness and lethality of this heavy machine gun platoon are definitely worth looking forward to.

Speaking of which, Yue Xiaodong does not know as much about these three weapons as Yue Weihua, but he has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, at least he still understands the shell gun and Shui Lianzhu, and he has also used Shui Lianzhu, as for the shell gun, there is one on his body at this moment, but the shell gun on his body is a domestic imitation, and Yue Weihua's is exchanged for the merit tower, but all of them are the same original goods as the original Mauser factory, and it is an improved version of the factory in 1910, which is much better than the current Mauser factory, of course, Yue Xiaodong didn't know about these for the time being.

As for the Makqin heavy machine gun, although Yue Xiaodong has not seen its power with his own eyes, Yue Xiang has seen it, and when Yue Xiang was studying in Europe, whether it was the political and economic system, or the composition of the army, weapons and equipment, he had studied and researched, and naturally, these knowledge were all taught to Yue Xiaodong.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Yue Weihua had a Makqin heavy machine gun, Yue Xiaodong was stunned at first, then ecstatic, and immediately said loudly: "Brother Hua, if there is really a Makqin heavy machine gun, then I will make the decision for our six platoons, and I will choose the Makqin heavy machine gun." ”

"Okay, then your six platoons will be heavy machine gun platoons in the future, a total of three heavy machine guns, and in addition, you can also equip your platoon with ten box guns." Yue Weihua immediately agreed, although Yue Weihua had already thought of it, Yue Hai and they would definitely complain about themselves in the future, but Yue Weihua just wanted to let them know that the early birds had food to eat.

"What, heavy machine gun platoon?"

"And the box cannon?"

Yue Hai and Yue Hu from afar came side by side, their ears were quite pointed, and when they heard it, they quickly ran over, shouting and asking what was going on, but Yue Weihua smiled and didn't speak, because everyone was gathering here one after another, and the curtain of the Black Dragon Army's assault training was about to open.

The reason why he woke up twenty minutes early, and even asked a few platoon commanders to urge him personally, Yue Weihua just wanted to give everyone more time to prepare and adapt, Yue Weihua didn't want to get off the horse at every turn, set up a typical or something, to be honest, Yue Weihua is more willing to believe in these soldiers in front of him, believe that they are good, and believe that through his own personal participation, words and deeds, he will definitely let these soldiers who are sympathetic to the same disease in a short period of time be able to quickly reborn and quickly get out of the pain.

"Report, after the row is assembled, there should be 31 people, but there are 31 people."

"Report, the second row is assembled, there should be 30 people, but there are 30 people."

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"Comrades-in-arms, from today onwards, you are all professional soldiers, I hope you can forget your past identity and devote yourself to the training of the Black Dragon Army, and I can tell you clearly that within half a month, we will fight with Lao Maozi, so we need to grow up quickly in just more than ten days,......。"

"This assault training, the time is short and the task is heavy, the Black Dragon Army from top to bottom, must share weal and woe, and strive to complete this training, starting with me, including each of you, all need to participate in the training, the training tasks on the training table, regardless of the officers and soldiers, including me, the commander, are treated equally, and the officers, especially me, will definitely do the role of an example,......。"

"In this assault training, I hope to achieve at least two goals, one is to cultivate everyone's discipline and obedience, and the other is to improve the shooting hit rate."

"Okay, no more nonsense, now, I announce, the Black Dragon Army's assault training has officially begun."

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