Chapter 19: The Road to a Strong Army

With the end of the queue training and the familiarization of physical training, the most important technical and tactical training has been put on the course, and these coaching contents are by no means shown by watching TV and movies in later generations. Xu Ming used to watch "Bright Sword", and the devil commander pointed at his saber, and a big nest of little devils rushed forward in a mess. Then Brother Yunlong gave an order, and our army's light and heavy weapons opened fire violently, only to see that the charging Japanese troops fell to the ground one after another like falling leaves in a strong wind. At that time, it was very enjoyable to watch, but now if Xu Ming can go back, he will definitely complain: according to the wrong posture of the gun, there is no cover, the charge formation is not maintained, and there is no side attack support .......

Take shooting as an example, it is by no means as simple as aiming and firing at three points and one line. First of all, it is necessary to have the correct ranging ability, that is, in various terrains, according to the color of the terrain, the light of the background and the scene, the type and brightness of the target, the soldier can judge the distance between the target and himself.

Zhao Ren first demonstrated, he picked up a rifle, aimed at the target 200 meters away, his head was not aimed at the hole and the crosshair, but inclined to the ruler, and at the same time used two fingers to embed the vernier spring into the sheet spring of the ruler. After he set the ruler for this distance, the other instructors began to teach the soldiers how to divide the ruler at common distances such as 100 meters, 400 meters, and 600 meters.

The second step is to reload the bullets, and if anyone thinks that it is very simple and does not need to be learned, it is a big mistake and a big mistake. The simpler the tactical movements, the more standardized they must be, and they must be "familiar to the natural". The soldiers began to perform dismantling movements, lifting their guns, holding them to their chests, spinning the bolts, pressing the bullets, and administering insurance. Ordinary people would never have imagined that a simple reloading bullet would have such high requirements.

Next is the choice of shooting position, which is definitely the most important thing in the soldier's action. Elevation, dive, flat, direct, horizontal, kneeling, and sports shooting......... What matters are most important in the army, shoot! What is most important in shooting, the choice of shooting position! Xu Ming couldn't help it, and he also went to the addiction of lying down. This is not so casual as on TV, and there are rules for lying down: starting with a series of bodies starting from stepping out, kneeling, hands stretched forward, wrists outward, and palms on the ground; At the same time, adjust the gun body, maintain the gun surface, and determine a series of gun holding actions at the muzzle; Finally, end with the legs straight, the feet outward, and the heels flat on the ground.

Ahem, this is just lying down, not lying down! Prone shooting has stricter requirements for the movement and sequence of various parts of the body and firearms. Xu Ming happily took a complete set of movements, thinking that he had mastered the trick, Shangguan Min came over and told him that this was just a method of lying on the ground. There are also other recumbent shooting rules in villages, lakes, mountains and jungles! After Xu Ming listened, he immediately remembered the four ways of writing the fennel beans of Master Kong Yiji.

Is it true that each shooting position has different requirements in different terrains? To this question, Shangguan Min smiled and nodded.

When Xu Ming heard this answer, he felt that he was really lucky, and he was lucky to be able to invite such a high-level Huangpu student as a helper. If Xu Ming led the troops himself, I am afraid that there would be no other performance except to teach the soldiers to walk majestically and sing impassionedly.

When it comes to singing, Xu Ming has a lot to say. The choice of military songs is the magnificent "Themass", the energetic "LastofTheWilds", or the low-key and deep "Thedawn". These Warcraft soundtracks, which were commonly used in later generations, were actually made into military songs by Xu Ming!

It is not too difficult to calibrate the wind deviation and correct the temperature difference at the end of the rifle shooting teaching, and there are detailed correction figures for each distance under different wind forces. But light machine guns are slightly more difficult, while heavy machine guns are tough. The reason is very simple, the effective firing distance of the rifle is only 600 meters at most, and the engagement distance is more than 200 meters, while the flat firing distance of the Maxim heavy machine gun is more than 1,000 meters, and beyond the shooting, it can reach more than 2,000 meters. The increase in distance, the complexity of the armament, made the heavy machine gunner miserable. The soldiers were all sweating profusely, and they couldn't adjust the level and steering wheel well, and the observers made ridiculously poor corrections to the bullet beams.

There were continuous problems, and Zhao Ren was rarely angry. The consequences were severe: more than 200 people ran laps from the afternoon until the evening.

Xu Ming saw them walking into the camp one by one in despair, but he understood quite a lot, heavy machine guns and artillery belong to technical arms, and it stands to reason that they should at least have a high school culture to understand the logic, Xu Ming, who has learned high mathematics (of course, has almost forgotten it now), feels very difficult. Not to mention the ordinary people who were hoeing and fishing at home three months ago.

Zhao Ren asked them to memorize all kinds of data, and the result can be imagined. They are like headless flies on the field.

But Xu Ming was not at ease with corporal punishment like this, he still had to go and see what was going on.

In the barracks at night, Shanshan lit a kerosene lamp, and Private Lu Hansheng had just finished washing his feet.

"Brother Han, duck nap". The brother who slept on his top bunk knew that he had not eaten and threw him a local name to eat.

Lu Hansheng happily took it, but he was still a little worried about his brother on the bunk. "How good it is for you Han Xinge to block (why do you have so many delicious foods here, Qiyang dialect is more difficult to understand, so the following will be translated directly into Mandarin), the chief found that he was going to touch the mold."

The old man obviously didn't care: "Cha, the mountain people have their own tricks, you don't know, how does the chief know, I dug a hole in the wall behind the pillow!" “

A voice came from outside the door, "I don't know if the mountain people have a clever plan, but the partition wall must have ears!" Then the door was pushed open, and Xu Ming entered the house.

When he put on the shop, he fell into a petrified state. Xu Mingyi frowned, "What are you doing here, why don't you go to the political trainer to ask for punishment!" “

The one who was calm and relaxed just now is now holding his head and running away.

"Lu Hansheng"

"Arrived," he shuddered.

Xu Ming walked to the table, picked up a stool and sat down, then motioned for Lu Hansheng to sit beside him, and said slowly:

"You have to understand Chief Zhao, Chief Zhao is a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, he led troops to fight in Sichuan, and not a single division has a heavy machine gun."

"So you have to know that Chief Zhao doesn't know how anxious he is when he sees that you can't study well."

Xu Ming's voice was very soft, but Lu Hansheng felt extremely ashamed when he heard it.

"Captain Xu, I will definitely practice hard tomorrow, no, I will start reciting the mantra at night now."

Xu Ming pressed his shoulder and told him not to get too excited.

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it after dinner, I just asked people to cook supper in the cafeteria. You go and inform me that you haven't eaten that night. “

"In addition, everyone called Chief Zhao together, and he didn't eat."

When it comes to shooting, there are people who do have talent, such as most people who have just become familiar with the essentials of posture and movement. But there are a few people, such as a soldier named Liu Junsheng, who has never hunted or served as a soldier before, but now the shooting level has reached the level of accurately hitting a moving target at a distance of 200 meters. With Xu Ming's consent, Zhao Ren promoted Liu Junsheng to class leader and became a coach counselor.

As for our Grand Master Xu Ming, cough, don't talk about it, just like Han Xiaoyu's "Providence": "It's always cruel to uncover the wound, it's providence to miss the target, and it's .........fate to miss it."

In addition to the technical work of shooting, the military actions of the squad and squad were also gradually launched. According to Zhao Ren's arrangement, the first thing the soldiers learned was reconnaissance and vigilance.

How important reconnaissance and vigilance are, Xu Ming, a second-class dealer who became a monk halfway, knows it. From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many troops and how many generals have fallen at this pass. Cause? The explanation given by Chen Huizhi is luck and negligence.

Therefore, Zhao Ren announced that from now on, the troops will strengthen the vigilance and patrol of the camp. Establish several light and dark cordons, change passwords from time to time, change patrol intervals irregularly, and establish relevant regulations and guidelines.

At the same time, the security regiment began to vigorously conduct reconnaissance and search during the march of the troops, and carried out the earliest confrontation exercises, constantly summing up and reviewing the gains and losses. Xu Ming knew that the Japanese army had done a very good job in this regard. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese combat units were rarely ambushed by the squadron, but frequently raided in foreign lands. In Xu Ming's view, his troops could be defeated by the Japanese army in frontal combat, but they must not be allowed to be attacked and slaughtered without preparation!

Individual military maneuvers and techniques are not practiced independently, instructors combine them with firing line maneuvers. When it comes to the line of fire, the first thing to learn is not to stop and charge, to detour, but to sign language.

Because on the battlefield, you can't hear orders or any sound clearly, let alone be quiet on certain occasions.

"Hands raised in the air, indicating progress".

"Hands raised continuously indicate running forward".

"Spread your hands from your chest to the left and right several times, indicating that you are spreading."

Others indicate hostility, reply, and knowledge. Zhao Ren announced that within a month, the verbal password would be issued along with the action. After a month, the 12 common and the derived 114 must be represented entirely by sign language!

Shangguan Min also created the mutual recognition action of the security regiment, which will greatly enhance the effect of anti-special anti-infiltration on the battlefield.

Next is the movement action, Zhao Ren raised his hands and fell down in unison, shouting, "Forward." ”

The Heavy immediately fell to the ground in a support stance. At the same time, the rest of the soldiers, several of them, were divided into groups, or sneaked behind various covers, or crawled with their legs and elbows moving each other, or rolled in with their guns. For running in the line of fire, everyone must do tactical movements, that is, they must not move in a straight line at a constant speed, but do a zigzag speed change.

Xu Ming, who was watching from the sidelines, now has a deep understanding of the unprofessionalism of the anti-Japanese drama, taking the march of the line of fire as an example, it is not a soldier shouting slogans and rushing forward. On the contrary, it is the silent soldier who constantly changes his movements, running, prostrating, rolling in, and sneaking. Everything is done according to the enemy's situation, according to the terrain, according to the situation of support. The teams also covered each other in batches and detoured to each other. If you don't do this on the battlefield, it's not a matter of professionalism or not, it's a choice of whether you want to die or not!

Only when the distance was 100 meters to the target, after the soldiers began to load their bayonets, did the leader shout the command "kill" and move forward quickly according to the essentials of the action. In the last 50 meters, the rest of the soldiers shouted at the same time, and rushed into the position according to the planned several charging routes. Auxiliary light machine guns crush the enemy at the point of charge and on the flanks, while heavy machine guns and mortars are responsible for blocking the enemy's rear and reinforcement routes.

Even if the charge is successful and the battle is successful, there is no rest, and the advancing soldiers must maintain contact with the retreating enemy forces and advance in depth, while the reserves are immediately supported.

Every morning, offensive drills are conducted, protective drills are conducted in the afternoon, and night combat drills are conducted at night.

The first step in protection was to evacuate the troops, and at the beginning of the First World War, the combat method of lining up in a neat formation and beating side drums has been abandoned in actual combat. In four days, the French army suffered 300,000 casualties! But in the Chinese Civil War, this mode of warfare continued. Xu Ming was saddened to see that many local army officers did not yet have modern tactical concepts. There was a division commander surnamed Liu who called himself Liu Sanchong, and preached that no matter what the enemy, his troops would definitely be able to defeat the opponent with only three charges. This may be effective in a low-level, poorly armed civil war, but it is impossible to win against the powerful Japanese army. Hey, I hope this thing will no longer command the troops during the Anti-Japanese War, otherwise, according to the accurate shooting and firepower coverage of the Japanese army, let alone charge three times, it is not good that one charge will be annihilated. Courage is no substitute for steel and technology, without which humans will not be able to rule the planet.

Evacuation is not about scattering the soldiers like beans, but about being learned. At a distance of 1,200 meters from the target, the troops formed a scattered half-group; At a distance of 400 meters, the infantry began to fight, and the troops formed into stragglers; At 200 meters, they will march in a skirmish. According to the terrain and the situation of the enemy's fire, the horizontal frontage, depth and distance of soldiers between the troops are determined.

Among the other protection settings, the most important are fortifications and civil engineering work. For example, camouflage and false positions and fortifications are extremely important, for example, camouflaged leaves need to be replaced in time, and all camouflage and falsification must be able to prevent aerial reconnaissance ....... For these, the officers, including Zhao Ren, did not realize the importance of it.

Maybe they didn't think it was necessary when they were ****, and they didn't need to fight a campaign in the Red Army. But in the end, Xu Ming convinced them with data.

"Each division of the Japanese army has 48 mountain artillery and heavy artillery pieces, and heavy artillery brigades or other artillery wings will be added at the army level. The base number of single artillery shells in the Japanese battle was 750-1500 rounds. According to Xu Ming, even in the face of divisional and regimental attacks, tens of thousands of artillery shells may be suffered on the position. These shells fell on the positions of our troops, and without strong and sheltered positions and fortifications, the consequences were unimaginable. Imagine that tens of thousands of stones are thrown at you, and it is also a very terrifying thing!

Criss-crossing communication trenches, independent but supportive skirmishers, bunkers, and anti-tank trenches are all set up according to the terrain. In the past few days, Xu Ming and the instructors began to carefully study the configuration of various fortifications, such as the support layer of the bunker, which must require a double layer of padding in the middle, which can block the direct hit of artillery below 120 mm caliber. The soldiers of the security regiment are all engineered, even if it is a squad of soldiers, and it is required to establish a system of fortifications that can be covered, stable and able to ensure logistics. Then clear the firing boundary before the fortifications, and determine the firing range of each unit and the firing elements of each position.........

Battlefield wounded treatment and first aid....

What to do if the commander is killed or injured or loses contact......

Disposition of enemy cavalry artillery......

Disposition of enemy aircraft......

Disposition of Vehicles......

Disposal of gas, smoke and bombs......

various dispositions of battlefield replenishment and application of enemy weapons and ammunition......

Of course, these trainings could not be completed in just a few months, but Xu Ming believed that he had enough time to train his team with nearly three years left before July 1937.