Chapter 32 Jinzhou School
As the war progressed, Wang Bin felt more and more that some of the tactical ideas he had put forward in the past needed to be propagated to the soldiers, and in the past, only the officers were required to understand these contents, and there was no mandatory requirement for his officers to master these contents.
But now, for the sake of the army's future combat effectiveness, Wang Bin needs officers to master these military ideas and tactics, and soldiers need to understand these.
Therefore, Wang Bin planned to set up a school in the barracks, and he himself would teach them every day to impart tactical ideas and some knowledge that he thought would be extremely useful, and these officers would return to the barracks to teach their soldiers after learning every day.
For example, today, Wang Bin was in the newly built academy next to the barracks to talk to a group of officers below about the tactics of machine guns.
"When building a machine gun position, you need to pick a wide firing position for the machine gun and have protection, and there must be a water source around, because all the machine guns we have are water-cooled, so we must ensure that there is enough cooling water, if there is no water source around, then you must bring enough cooling water for the machine gun."
After finishing speaking, Wang Bin looked down and saw groups of officers working hard to write down what they had just said.
Although this machine gun can be operated in the hands of trained soldiers, it is limited to manipulation, once it is time to use the machine gun to strafe the enemy from a distance, it is necessary to judge the distance of the enemy, and more importantly, when shooting, you must not just blindly pull the trigger, but also learn to use long and short shots.
At the same time, it is necessary to constantly pay attention to the use of cooling water, although theoretically this water-cooled machine gun is better than the air-cooled machine gun, there is no need to constantly change the barrel like the air-cooled machine, and it has better sustained combat ability than the air-cooled machine gun, but everything said is based on the availability of sufficient cooling water.
If there is not enough cooling water, the continuous operation of this heavy machine gun is just a pipe dream.
Therefore, when establishing the machine gun position, Wang Bin repeatedly stressed to the officers below that there should be a water source nearby, and if there is no water source nearby, then it is necessary to bring sufficient cooling water, otherwise there will be no enough cooling water supply during the war.
Then the water-cooled machine gun will only become a cup in the end.
Although he said that he was just a military fan, although the military theory he mastered was only a common-sense thing in later generations, and it could even be said to be quite backward, it was extremely forward-looking in this era.
Although these military theories that I have taught seem to be somewhat nondescript, I can constantly improve them in my daily training after I put them forward.
And all he has to pay is to move his mouth, and as for the rest, he only needs to leave it to his officers to practice step by step.
After talking about the tactics of this machine gun, Wang Bin paused and began to explain the theory of infantry, the original intention of this lecture on infantry theory was just to improve the ability of his soldiers to cooperate in combat, but what he didn't expect was that when the officers below heard that they were going to start talking about infantry combat theory, they were more active than listening to the theory of machine warfare.
But Wang Bin knew why this was the case when he thought about it.
Most of the officers under his command are in command of infantry, and only a small number of officers are responsible for commanding artillery and machine gunners, so naturally most of the officers are extremely interested in this infantry tactic, not to mention that most of the current mainstream theories are about infantry tactics and cavalry tactics.
When explaining these theories about infantry, Wang Bin also added some of his own understandings, although these understandings integrated some military ideas of later generations, but after saying them, they always showed some similarities and four differences, but they were more than enough to deal with the current war situation.
For example, in today's world, although the formation of the queue for shooting in the Napoleonic era has long since passed and has been changed to a relatively loose formation, this "loose" formation is only a little bit more dispersed than the formation of the queue for shooting, and it is more of a crowd tactic than a loose formation.
This situation lasted until the Russo-Japanese War, but only changed, and the mainstream thinking was still crowd tactics, knowing that it began to change to positional warfare and small-scale troop infiltration tactics in the later part of World War I, which brought heavy machine guns, submachine guns and other weapons to the stage of history.
And now, although countries think that this machine gun is a good thing, they are not too concerned about the installation of machine guns, because they generally believe that the appearance of machine guns cannot change the mode of war.
Therefore, the current infantry charge is still maintained on the traditional charge.
Therefore, Wang Bin hopes that his troops will be one step ahead of others, and learn to use skirmishers in the charge.
While Wang Bin was explaining these tactics, an officer suddenly signaled below that he had a question to ask.
Wang Bin saw that it was Sun Chuanfang, so he motioned to Sun Chuanfang to say the problem.
I saw Sun Chuanfang get up and ask, "My lord, this is to explain the lethality of the machine gun to the infantry and the skirmish line requirements when the infantry charges, so there is a requirement for the infantry to overcome the machine gun position." ”
Sun Chuanfang's question represents the question of many officers below, which emphasizes both machine guns and infantry charges, so we have to consider how to overcome the machine gun position.
After listening to Sun Chuanfang's question, Wang Bin first motioned for Sun Chuanfang to sit down.
Then he spoke
"Another tactic is proposed for this problem, which emphasizes the need to further strengthen the firepower of soldiers by attacking on a small scale, such as the need for infantry to carry light machine guns and small artillery or dropable bombs and submachine guns to suppress the opposing fire through strong firepower, and to seize the enemy's position through hand-to-hand combat after approaching the local position."
Although the tactics mentioned by Wang Bin are feasible, some of the weapons in it have not yet appeared, such as light machine guns, which have been developed now, but have not yet been mass-produced.
Another is the light artillery needed for small-scale attacks, Wang Bin believes that the best light artillery is mortar, but in this era, only the mortar gun, the predecessor of the mortar, cannot be as light and easy to carry as a mortar.
And the submachine gun does not even have a shadow in this era, so the above preparations can only be fantasized about now.
These tactical ideas put forward by Wang Bin made the officers below feel novel, so much so that they began to circulate among the soldiers.
Although the soldiers do not think so, they will always think of these tactics to solve these situations in the future.