Chapter VI Infantry Training Guidelines
"Uncle Wang, this is some of the content that the little nephew has summed up in the past few days, you can see what's wrong with this, and let the little nephew go back and change it." Wang Bin sat on Wang Yingkai's lower right and asked Wang Yingkai.
At this time, Wang Yingkai sat on the first seat and looked at some of the content written by Wang Bin, and suddenly felt that Wang Bin was writing the training method with his heart, some of which even he felt that for the soldiers, Wang Bin's training method also had a lot of effects.
For example, the addition of a three-point-and-one-line aiming method to this weekday live ammunition shooting can improve the shooting accuracy of soldiers, and this change in the usual drills, although I have heard it once last time, but this time I watched it carefully from beginning to end, and suddenly I felt a sense of bosom friend.
I have always felt that the language of the exercise is obscure and difficult to understand, which seriously affects the exercise, and I have always wanted to change this, and Wang Bin's method has solved Wang Yingkai's troubles all the time. (In fact, such as "Lizheng" and "take a break", which are commonly understood by all ages, were originally proposed by Wang Yingkai and have been used since the Beiyang period, but few people know their origins.) Now it has been stolen by Wang Bin in advance)
Wang Yingkai looked at it for about 5 minutes, and then raised his head and said to Wang Bin
"Youde, your training method is so good that it can be used as a reference for my Beiyang armies, but some content needs to be changed."
"Uncle Wang, I think my writing is not bad, there are still places that need to be changed?" Wang Bin was puzzled. These are the most useful infantry training methods for this era based on my own views as a posterity, how can they need to be changed.
Wang Yingkai seemed to see what Wang Bin was thinking, and said: "Youde, the method you wrote is very good, but according to the old man, some are not necessary to write it, such as this, what is digging trenches, the old man has seen the trenches, but the old man thinks that this how to dig trenches does not need to be added."
If you think about it, before the two armies faced each other, you were digging trenches, and when you launched a charge, you had to climb out of the trenches, so it would be a waste of time to go back and forth, not to mention that the physical strength of the soldiers would also decrease, so that you lost some advantages, and how could you talk about victory, according to the old man, let's delete this paragraph. “
Wang Bin saw that Wang Yingkai insisted on deleting this point, and he was indeed a little disappointed in his heart, but he couldn't help but delete it.
This is because, according to the trend of history, the future trend of warfare will mostly rely on positions for defense, emphasizing the combination of stubborn defense and resolute counterattack.
The upcoming Russo-Japanese War also fully embodied this element, relying on the defense of trenches and fortresses, which caused Nogi Noshinori's army to suffer heavy losses, killing more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers, including his second son, Nogi Honori.
In particular, trench warfare was used to the extreme during the First World War, and in the Battle of the Somme, the British army used a dense formation to assault, and encountered the powerful fire of the German Maxim machine guns, and the British army lost nearly 60,000 people in one day.
Therefore, Wang Bin believes that the current Beiyang army must strengthen its understanding of trench warfare and related training.
Only by doing so can we not lag behind other countries in the future, but this point proposed by Wang Bin is not favored by Wang Yingkai, no wonder Beiyang will continue to decline in the future until it withdraws from the stage of history.
The bigwigs at the top are not forward-looking enough and blindly immerse themselves in the glory of the past, while the correct concepts put forward by knowledgeable people cannot be recognized.
As a result, Beiyang gradually split, and was finally wiped out by the Northern Expeditionary Army. "Then according to what Uncle Wang said," although Wang Bin was a little disappointed in his heart, he still had to respond.
Others don't pay attention to this, I do, anyway, the upcoming Russo-Japanese War will prove it, and trench warfare will become the mainstream.
"Then Uncle Wang, what do you think is written elsewhere?" Wang Bin asked again
"It's not bad, but the old man doesn't understand some places, but why this training is to train this armed cross-country 5 kilometers, single parallel bars, push-ups, sit-ups, boxing, obstacle running and this dirt work." Wang Yingkai asked while pointing out the content of the training method. "Uncle Wang is such an armed cross-country five-kilometer, single parallel bars, push-ups, and sit-ups to train the physical fitness of soldiers.
In this battle, there are always some places where soldiers are required to walk on foot, so this aspect of training is increased, and boxing is to strengthen the soldier's hand-to-hand combat ability, so that the soldier can increase the chance of survival on the battlefield in the white-knuckle battle.
On the battlefield, the terrain is always impossible, the terrain is all flat, and sometimes it may be fought in the mountains, and the role of this obstacle run is highlighted.
This earthwork was originally created to cooperate with trench excavation training, since Uncle Wang thinks that trench excavation training is not important, so let's remove it. “
Wang Bin replied: "Well, in general, Youde, your training policy, the old man can see that he is quite attentive, your training policy, the old man will study it again, and then decide to implement some of these policies in the army, and ah, you can perform well in the military exercise in three days, and when the time comes, plus your credit for writing the training policy, it is inevitable that you can't put the official position on the top under the push of the old man, and it is not a problem to be a commander." “
Wang Yingkai said: "Then the little nephew will thank Uncle Wang for his support." “
Hearing that he had the opportunity to become the commander, Wang Bin suddenly felt that there was a pie in the sky hanging down. "Youde doesn't have to be like this, you are already the junior of the old man, can't you give more support, plus you have written this training policy, you have a great credit, if you can take the lead in the three-day military exercise, the old man will say a few words to Lord Yuan, this position of commander will definitely be yours." "Since Uncle Wang said so, the little nephew will definitely play well in the military exercise."
Wang Bin replied while saying in his heart, this is the benefit of the people above, and he is promoted to an official much faster than others. "Well, just remember the old man's words." Wang Yingkai reminded: "Uncle Wang's words, the little nephew must be remembered in his heart, if there is nothing to do, then the little nephew will retire first." Wang Bin replied, "Go, go, go," Wang Yingkai waved his hand and motioned for Wang Bin to leave
After Wang Bin left Wang Yingkai's house, he still couldn't suppress the joy in his heart.
Thinking that he was finally standing outside the door of the decision-making level of the Beiyang Army, and he was about to have his own voice in Beiyang.
At this time, the second battalion was engaged in trench excavation training and the construction of position fortifications, and Ma Zikai and others, who were standing on the sidelines to watch the soldiers' training, did not know that their immediate superiors might officially show their talents after this military exercise, and the four of them would also usher in the road to promotion.
At this moment, Ma Zikai was saying to the rest of the team, "What do you say about the role of digging around in this trench, according to what I see when the time comes, it is difficult to fight, and you can still wait for the other party to fight yourself, if you wait for the other party to come over in the same place, isn't it stupid to wait, if you want me to say that the war should be fought with the other party's real swords, what's the use of just digging this and waiting for others to fight." ”
"Hmph, if you Ma Zikai understand this, then it's a strange thing, I see that you, Zhida, are talented, and you don't even see the benefits of digging trenches." Lin Hao hummed on the side
"Oh, I've never been to a private school, what's the matter, is it possible that you, Lin Daguan, have seen the mystery of this? That little brother is going to have to ask for advice. Ma Zikai retorted unconvinced.
"The reason why this team is telling you is that you can't see the mystery in giving you a few years." Lin Hao said sarcastically.
"You." Ma Zikai was about to refute
"Okay, I have heard enough of you two living treasures bickering every day, you guys are having fun, I don't know much about the trench, the army has fought and asked the army, as for talking about it here?"
Gu Chen, who was watching Ma Zikai and Lin Hao arguing from the side, said
Ma Zikai and Lin Hao said in unison: "This time, for Gu Chen's sake, I won't care about you." “
After hearing this, Gu Chen, who was on the side, only shook his head helplessly, and asked Xu Dajun, who was carefully watching the soldiers digging trenches on the side
"What do you think of this trench, Dajun?"
"Well, since you want us to talk about it, then let's talk about it, and we have the ability to take care of the adults.
Let's talk about the cat's ear holes and bunkers without saying anything else, let's first say that after the bunker is dug up, we will stand in and show our heads out, so that we can only hit the head on the other side.
And what kind of cat's ear hole, although it is only a hole, but during the battle, the enemy shells have been hit, and we dodge in the hole, and when the battle is over, we run out again, and nothing continues to fight, so we think this trench is of great use. ”
Xu Dajun said roughly.
After Xu Dajun finished speaking, Lin Hao, Ma Zikai, and Gu Chen thought about what Xu Dajun said, combined with the trench dug and nodded in unison. What Xu Dajun said still has some truth. "I think so, especially when the adults proposed to put barbed wire in front of the trenches, although we can't get that much barbed wire now, but I also see the benefits of this barbed wire." Gu Chen added on the side. "I can more or less guess the usefulness of the barbed wire, but I don't know if it's right." Gu Chen paused and said, "Don't say half of it, half of it, Gu Chen has anything to say at once, don't say it separately, I always hang my appetite." “
Ma Zikai said impatiently. "Well, I'll tell you all, this barbed wire fence is placed in front of the trench, and when the enemy rushes up, the barbed wire must be removed, or the barbed wire must be broken, but when there is a war, there is so much time to remove the barbed wire and break the barbed wire.
There is only one option, that is, to forcibly climb over the barbed wire, but even if he climbs over the barbed wire, he can't all turn over it, there are always those who turn over first and those who turn over later, plus at this time, it is impossible for the soldiers in the trenches to let the enemy go without firing a shot.
Therefore, there are relatively few enemies who can turn over, so that the benefits of holding the trench are not reflected. “
As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Ma Zikai, who was on the side, sighed: "Sure enough, I am still a great reader, what I said is that I am convinced." “