A series of events that have happened since the birth of Xiao Luo Ting and the return of the fleet from North America since the Chinese New Year this year have made Luo Jian's thinking change a lot, and the idea of rushing to solve the national problem is now much weaker.

As time passed, Luo Jian's thoughts about the original time and space now gradually faded, and he had thought about this problem in his heart before, but he always anesthetized himself. In fact, Luo Jian also understood in his heart what the sudden disappearance of the three of them meant in his own time and space.

Although he knew very well that once he disappeared for more than two years, the original army would treat him as if he had sacrificed, and it was impossible for his wife in the original time and space to stop building a family, and if she really wanted to go back, she didn't know what situation she would face, but Luo Jian had been avoiding this question in his heart. Besides, he is not an only child at home, and there are brothers and sisters, their conditions are not bad, and there is no problem with the parents' living security in their old age.

After figuring out these cause and effect relationships, Luo Jian began to ponder ******** driving the Manchus out of China.

Since the beginning of this year, the rapid progress of technology has made Luo Jian very clear that it is only a matter of time before he defeats the Manchus, and what needs to be solved now is how to achieve victory at the lowest cost.

After returning from Zhenjiang, Luo Jian went to the General Staff Headquarters to conduct several days of deduction with Yi Bangcai and a group of staff officers, and finally came to the conclusion that as long as the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Division reached the expected level, with the Seventh Division as the main force, there would be no problem at all in directly attacking Beijing.

To what extent the training of the Seventh Division has reached, Luo Jian feels that he must personally investigate and understand. Wang Qiang only participated in the recruitment training and basic operation training of artillery in another time and space, and did not know much about infantry combat. If that's the case. That's a big deal.

The marines that Yan Yingyuan was training in had all been redressed. How are they training, Luo Jian hasn't seen it for a few months.

The next day, Luo Jian took Yi Bangcai and a few staff officers to the Marine Corps camp outside Nanjing, and the scene he saw on the training ground outside the camp made Luo Jian speechless for a long time.

On the huge training ground, the soldiers of the Marine Corps lined up in small phalanxes and were practicing their offensive formations.

It is estimated that Yan Yingyuan still took into account the difference between the new rifle and the Yangzhou Type 1 rifle, and the number of people in each phalanx was much less, only about forty people.

Seeing that Luo Jian brought people over, Yan Yingyuan ordered the troops to stand in place. He stepped forward to report to Luo Jian.

"Brother Liheng, it's completely wrong!" Luo Jian said helplessly to Yan Yingyuan.

"Governor, what's wrong?" Luo Jian's headless words made Yan Yingyuan not react for a moment.

"I mean, the training method is completely wrong, Brother Liheng, haven't you studied the difference between the Type 2 rifle and the Type 1 rifle? What do you think is the difference? ”

Luo Jian knew that Yan Yingyuan was not to blame, after the new equipment was issued, the corresponding training materials were not distributed to the troops, and the responsibility was actually on himself.

"Grand Duke, the Type 2 rifle is very good, not only has a longer range. And the reload speed is fast, there is no smoke when shooting. Does not affect the soldier's line of sight. Because of this, I have reduced the number of people in the phalanx a lot, and the Metropolitan Governor can't say that this is wrong, right? Yan Yingyuan is very clear about the advantages of the Yangzhou Type II rifle.

"Brother Liheng, what you said is true, but the biggest improvement of the Type 2 rifle compared to the Type 1 is not these." Luo Jian didn't want to say it directly, he wanted Yan Yingyuan to think about it himself.

"It's... Governor, you make me think. Yan Yingyuan saw that he didn't know the biggest advantage of the Yangzhou Type II rifle, and said with some embarrassment.

"Brother Liheng, firearms have been used more and more by everyone, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has copied our Yangzhou type rifle, and is also in full swing training the new army, although their rifle is not as good as our Yangzhou type, but its range and lethality are far stronger than the previous firearms." Luo Jian said slowly, and Yan Yingyuan listened and thought about it.

"The appearance of these rifles makes the previous shields and armor will no longer be able to play a protective role, the Qing soldiers were not equipped with a large number of long-range firearms in the past, our Yangzhou style can use this phalanx to fight them, and now they also have long-range firearms, we also use this kind of phalanx to fight against them, that is to kill a thousand enemies, self-injury eight hundred."

Seeing that Yan Yingyuan was still thinking, Luo Jian asked the staff officer to take a Yangzhou Type II semi-automatic rifle from a soldier and said to Yan Yingyuan:

"Gather all the officers of the Marine Corps, and today I will give you a tactical lesson."

Although Luo Jian was born in artillery, when he was working in an organ, he once squatted at the time of the infantry company captain, and also trained with the infantry for a long time, so he still knows some basic tactics of the infantry very well.

With a whistle, all the officers above the platoon of the Marine Corps gathered, and Luo Jian asked them to sit on the ground and came to the front of the team with their rifles.

"The rifle in our hands we call it a semi-automatic rifle, call it semi-automatic, this is because it needs to be loaded and unloaded the shell still needs us to complete it manually, and when the technology advances in the future, automatic rifles will also appear, and at that time, loading and unloading can be completed automatically."

Luo Jian raised the rifle in his hand high and said loudly: "Compared with the first-type rifle, the biggest advantage of our Type 2 rifle is that we can load bullets when we are lying down. ”

After saying that, Luo Jian fell to the ground with a forward pounce, and demonstrated to everyone the action of loading in a lying position, Yan Yingyuan looked at it and blushed, it seemed that he had understood.

"In the case of the lying position, the target of the human body is much smaller than when standing, and we can also use the terrain to conceal ourselves.

Luo Jian was demonstrating as he spoke, and the staff officers had already taken out their notebooks to make detailed records, which would be compiled into tactical textbooks in the future.

"Your captain also said just now, the second rifle is fast to load, fast loading means fast rate of fire, high rate of fire determines the firepower, in this case we also use this kind of phalanx tactics, not only will greatly increase our own casualties, but also a great waste of firepower."

Luo Jian spent the whole day in the Marine Corps. The infantry company platoon offensive formation and defensive tactics were given a detailed demonstration to the officers of the Marine Corps. When I get back to Nanjing. It's already dark.

After watching the training of the Marine Corps, Luo Jian was also quite worried about the training of the Seventh Division, what Wang Qiang had trained the Seventh Division to become, Luo Jian was eager to see.

I have to say that it is not easy to go on a long trip in this era, and even a head of government like Luo Jian has to prepare for a few days when he goes out, which makes Luo Jian miss the convenience of traveling in that time and space, carrying a bag, buying a plane ticket or a ticket and leaving.

It is more than a thousand miles from Nanjing to Jinan. Luo Jian and his entourage first went from Nanjing to Yizhou by boat, and then from Yizhou to Jinan, and then they traveled for more than ten days.

Although Luo Jian insisted on exercising every day, he rode the horse for four or five days in a row, and when he arrived in Jinan, he was still tired and exhausted, and he took a hot bath in the afternoon of the day he arrived, which was much better.

In the evening, Huang Degong gathered the main generals of the 7th and 6th Divisions near Jinan and gave Luo Jian a detailed introduction to the situation of the troops.

After listening to their introduction, Luo Jian learned that although the Wehrmacht had occupied most of Shandong, Shandong was very unpeaceful. In the area where the two armies faced off, small battles were taking place all the time. Because the casualties and results were not large, Huang Degong did not report to Nanjing.

Liu Xiongwu, commander of the Sixth Division, said that the Qing soldiers had built a large number of civil fortifications on the front line in Dezhou, and the 130,000 Qing soldiers who had supported Jinan from Xuzhou did not withdraw to Henan to return to Germany, but defended on the front line in Dezhou.

As a result, a large number of Qing troops were concentrated in the direction of Jinan, and the total number reached nearly 300,000, and it seems that Dolgon was very afraid of the Wehrmacht to attack Beijing in a long way.

According to Huang Degong, the current Qing soldiers are only guarding fortifications or fortified cities, and they are not at all the same as the Wehrmacht in field battles, and now they want to destroy the enemy in large numbers, unless they can break through the fortifications of the Qing troops in one fell swoop or directly break the city.

When the Sixth Division confronted the Qing soldiers at the front, the Qing soldiers at the forefront were basically no longer using broadswords and spears, and the worst was to use bows and arrows to guard the trenches, and better was to use flintlock pistols, the range of which was about half of that of Yangzhou Type 1 rifles, and many casualties of the Sixth Division were caused by this flintlock rifle.

One thing caught Luo Jian's attention, that is, Liu Xiongwu said that the Qing soldiers were also using a kind of cannonball that could bloom, but this kind of cannonball was not the kind that exploded when it landed, but was ignited with a burning fuse, and most of the ones that exploded after landing could be avoided, and the most troublesome thing was the kind that exploded in the sky.

This kind of artillery was developed by the Qing court's generals, and although the range was not as far as that of the Wehrmacht's artillery, it could also hit more than three miles, which was much farther than the previous red-coated cannons. Moreover, this kind of artillery is also dragged by iron wheels, and there is no longer a need to pull it to the position with a frame car and then lift it down to build a position.

This is the "credit" of Mao Yushi, the former director of the workshop of the military factory who defected to Beijing. Although the division of labor in the military factory in Yangzhou at that time was very detailed, as the director of the workshop, Mao Yushi still had a thorough understanding of all aspects of artillery manufacturing, and after the general was supervised, Mao Yushi began to make simple machine tools, with these machine tools, the speed of the Qing court to make artillery has also increased a lot.

For some Fan Wencheng, he also specially put the rain stone back to live in the house given by Dorgon for a few days, and the rain stone was so beautiful.

Liu Xiongwu saw only a few of these shells that could bloom on the forward positions of the Qing troops, and it seems that the Qing soldiers were not equipped with a large number of such artillery.

This news gave Luo Jian a sense of urgency to attack the Manchus, and he felt that if the Qing soldiers produced this kind of artillery in large quantities, it would inevitably increase the casualties of the troops in future battles.

Learning war in war, Luo Jian now feels that this is too reasonable, not only for himself and the National Defense Army, but also for the opponent Qing soldiers to continue to learn and improve, but the huge generation gap in technology is an insurmountable threshold for the Manchu court.

Now the Seventh Division of the National Defense Force is the product of the technological generation gap, in terms of weaponry, the Seventh Division has exceeded the Qing soldiers too much, this advantage in weapons and equipment has been fully reflected in the Seventh Division and a regiment to defend Jinan City, if it is not a regiment of ammunition exhausted, it is estimated that a regiment in Jinan City can cripple all the troops of Tan Tai.

This is under the condition of relying on the defense of the fortified city, and the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Division cannot be doubted. However, future battles will be mainly offensive operations, so what is the attack capability of the Seventh Division? This is what Luo Jian is most eager to know. (To be continued.) )