Chapter 5 Training and Initial Formation
"Today is August 1st, and our Northern Expeditionary Army will enter Fujian to fight in September at the latest, so we only have one month to make the supplementary battalion form combat effectiveness. The ensuing battle into Fujian was of great importance to our brothers, and if it was successfully fought, it was possible that the supplementary battalion would be expanded into regiments or even brigades. After saying a big pie, Luo Yaoguo's two eyebrows slowly leaned together, and his eyes were full of worry.
"The third brother doesn't have to worry, we have been practicing in the supplementary camp for a month, and then let the brothers work harder and practice well, it will not be too bad." Seeing Luo Yaoguo's worries, Wang Bao was relieved.
"What I'm worried about is not that the brothers don't work hard, but that I don't know what tactics should be used to maximize the combat effectiveness of the troops, so I want the brothers to help me with the staff." Luo Yaoguo shook his head and said: "Dissatisfied brothers, I, a graduate of West Point, have learned a lot of advanced tactics of foreigners, but I think none of them are applicable to our current situation. ”
Luo Yaoguo does have a lot of advanced tactics in his head, not only the knowledge taught at West Point in the 20s given by God, but also the knowledge of air force operations that Luo Yaoguo learned in his previous life, but none of them are suitable for China's national conditions in the 20s. You have to use the most popular artillery infantry in the 20s, uh, sorry, the Northern Expeditionary Army has no artillery now, even if there are artillery and no shells, even if you get a shell, you will definitely not be able to hit. Not to mention what ground-air coordination, mechanized warfare, and so on.
Listening to Luo Yaoguo's words, Wu Ziliang scratched his head and smiled slightly: "The third brother was originally worried about this, in fact, the Guangdong army has summed up a set of tactics over the years, that is, the group charge relies on white-knuckle combat and grenades to win, although this tactic is backward, it is still quite effective in China." ”
"Yes, it is more popular in China to use flower machine guns or pistol teams to charge into battle, flower machine and box guns are fierce, if hundreds or thousands of ordinary enemies will definitely not be able to stop." Gao Shaojie's smile also gave an idea.
Li Shunen shook his head lightly and asked, "We don't even have rifles, where can we get a hand-held machine gun?" ”
"I think we can select a few veterans from the battalion who have good marksmanship to form a sniper team, what do you think?" Luo Yaoguo saw that the atmosphere was almost over, so he put forward his own ideas. "We have 27 squad leaders, all veterans, are there any of them who are particularly good at marksmanship?"
"There are a few, but they're squad leaders." Wang Bao was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to continue.
"It doesn't matter, big brother, you are responsible for selecting three of the best marksmanship from the 27 squad leaders, and then picking out three good guns from more than a hundred rifles in the battalion to be assigned to them, and let them pick their own bullets. I will give these three men the rank of second lieutenant, and they will form a sniper squad directly under the battalion headquarters, and they will rely on them to snipe enemy officers and machine gunners in future battles.
In addition, the proposal of the fourth brother to organize a pistol team is also very good, I will find a way to get 20 Mauser pistols, you go to your respective units to pick another 20 people, you want three squad leaders, one person is promoted to be the pistol captain, two are the squad leader, what do you think? ”
Seeing that everyone had no objections, Luo Yaoguo nodded and continued: "Each platoon will raise a deputy platoon leader, and select nine squad leaders with a little bit of education for them to serve concurrently or full-time, in addition, we only have 260 soldiers in addition to the squad leader, and the battalion headquarters, pistol team, orderlies and cooking squads of each company account for nearly 50 people, and there are 210 people divided into 27 squads, which is too much, I plan to merge the number of squads into 18, including squad leaders ranging from 12 to 13 people per squad." Each platoon has two squads, one fully armed with rifles and the other with grenades. That would make it easier for the next month to get the soldier to concentrate on one skill, either a rifle or a bomb. Do you think it's feasible? ”
Several people looked at each other and thought, "The third child, the third child, where do you want us to come to the staff?" Everything has been planned, but the plan should still be feasible. ”
"I have a question." Wu Ziliang's faint eyebrows twisted and asked: "I think the third brother's method is basically feasible, but the key is the cooperation of the riflemen, the grenadiers, the snipers and the pistol team, this seems to be a bit complicated." ”
"What do you think, big brother?" Luo Yaoguo nodded and asked for Wang Bao's opinion.
"The fifth brother's words are also right, there will be many problems with the cooperation of this unit, and the grenadier should be equipped with at least a spear or a broadsword, and he can also fight hand-to-hand with 10,000 grenades, which is available in the northern army.
I think when we attack, we should have the riflemen charge first, attract the enemy machine guns to fire, and then the sharpshooters shoot out the enemy's machine guns, and then everyone rushes together, and the sharpshooters hit the enemy officers in the back. ”
Wang Bao is worthy of being a veteran who has eaten for many years, and he has extremely rich battlefield experience.
"Okay, the eldest brother's method is really clever." Luo Yaoguo patted his thigh and shouted: "It's easy to organize like this, and a month's training should be able to pull the troops out." Now we can show our skills in the battle of Fujian! ”
On the same day, the supplementary battalion was reorganized, and the pistol team was also selected, and a veteran in his thirties named Wang Guodong had practiced a pistol and marksmanship because he had been a guard for a certain senior officer of the Cantonese army, and was now elected as the captain of the pistol team.
There is also a 26-year-old sharpshooter named Chen Tian who is the captain of the sniper team, although there are only two snipers under him, but this little Cantonese guy who tilts his head and squints all day long is indeed happy all day long. There are people in this world who are suitable for being officials, but some people are too lazy to manage people, and this sharpshooter who seems to be a fool belongs to the category of being too lazy to manage people. One of the other two sharpshooters named Zhang Hu is only 20 years old this year, he is from an Orion in the mountains near Shaoguan, Guangdong, he doesn't know a big character, but he has an amazing marksmanship, and his surname is like a bag of people within 300 meters! This is still the result of using a 7.92mm broken gun from the Ishii Arsenal. There is also a 35-year-old veteran called Brother Liu, who is short in stature, dark-skinned and a little bald, but his eyes are shining with cold light. Brother Liu, who has 20 years of experience in the army, has a brilliant marksmanship, and his specialty is not to hit long-distance targets, but to hit active targets within 200 meters. This distance is certainly shorter if you go to the European battlefield, but it is enough in the Chinese civil war in the 20s.
In this group of soldiers, Luo Yaoguo also found a talent, a person named Liu Dezhu, who was a native of Henan who had become a monk in Shaolin Temple, and later served as a soldier in the model regiment organized by Yuan Shikai, and his skills in fighting bayonets were superb. Don't look at this 25-year-old young man, who is thin and small, but the bayonet of the 1.80-meter-old Shandong Han Wang Leopard can't beat him! So this Liu Dezhu was appointed as the chief instructor of stabbing and was responsible for coaching stabbing skills.
In the next month of training, Wang Bao was responsible for training bomb throwing, Liu Dezhu was in charge of stabbing, Wang Guodong trained the pistol team, and the three snipers learned camouflage, reconnaissance and target identification under the guidance of Luo Yaoguo. In a blink of an eye, in September, the Northern Expeditionary Army's march into Fujian was gradually approaching.
It turned out that on August 21, 1922, Sun Yat-sen sent another big man under him, Hu Hanmin, to Yanping, Fujian Province, to contact Wang Yongquan, the commander of the 24th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Anhui system, and reached an agreement to jointly attack Fuzhou and expel Li Houji; And promised to expel Li, Fujian handed over Wang Yongquan to preside.
After reaching this agreement, Sun Yat-sen immediately ordered Xu Chongzhi's Northern Expeditionary Army to move to Fujian, and Luo Yaoguo's supplementary battalion naturally followed Huang Dawei's troops out of Ruijin. At the beginning, Xu Chongzhi led his troops to the junction of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, and the people's troops in Fujian also responded. Under such circumstances, Chen Jiongming, who had already gained a firm foothold in Guangdong, seemed to have forgotten to unite with the province for autonomy, and instead joined forces with Wu Peifu, and sent Yin Ji's Third Army of the Guangdong Army to "aid Fujian", combined with the 12th Division of the Beiyang Army, and Li Houji's Wang Xianchen to attack the Northern Expeditionary Army in three ways.
Because the immediate side did not know in advance that Sun Yat-sen and Wang Yongquan had reached an agreement, they fell into Xu Chongzhi's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain in this three-way siege. Xu Chongzhi first went south with the whole team, putting on the illusion that he was going to break through from the Wuping and Shanghang areas of western Fujian, attracting the enemy troops from three routes to concentrate in the western part of Fujian. Then, on September 7, he suddenly turned north and threw off the three-way pursuers, and broke into northern Fujian from Ninghua County in Fujian Province under the banner of Wang Yongquan's mixed 24th Brigade.
I ran back and forth for hundreds of miles along the way, and I experienced very few battles, but the battalion led by Luo Yaoguo did not experience battles.
"Third brother, have you heard? There was a battalion commander named Wei Lihuang in the Second Army of the Guangdong Army, who was sent out to the rear of the palace a few days ago. Entering Ninghua County, the Northern Expeditionary Army was able to get rid of the danger, and the march was suddenly a lot easier, and Wang Bao, who had been nervous along the way, was also in the mood to chat with Luo Yaoguo about the gossip he heard from nowhere, including a person named Wei Lihuang.
"Wei Lihuang? Seems to have heard of it somewhere? Luo Yaoguo felt that this name was more familiar, and he couldn't remember it after thinking about it, but he must have known that there was such a person.
"I heard the name is good, why did you make a meritorious contribution and get promoted?" Luo Yaoguo raised his head and smiled mysteriously at Wang Leopard: "What's the matter, I guessed it by the third brother, right?" ”
"Ahh Look at my brain, your second uncle is our chief of staff, how can you not know this kind of thing? But speaking of which, this kid is really lucky, he didn't let go of a shot and was promoted to the regiment commander, alas, why can't you say this kind of good thing can't be the turn of the third brother? Wang Bao said and talked about being promoted, this man only got mixed up with the platoon commander for more than ten years, Luo Yaoguo originally thought that he had no intention of becoming an official, but he didn't expect to really become an official, and he was quite addicted, and he was more serious than anyone else, so he was afraid that something would make a mistake and lose a major.
"Hehe, big brother, you see that we have entered Fujian at this time, and Zhou Yin and they didn't follow, do you know what it means?" Luo Yaoguo's face was full of smugness that could not be hidden.
Wang Bao scratched his head and thought about it and said, "This shows that the Yin people surnamed Zhou don't know?" ”
"This shows that Li Houji, a stupid bird, doesn't know that Wang Yongquan is colluding with us." Speaking of this, Luo Yaoguo couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Hehe, we have won this battle, why don't we wait for us to enter the gate of Fuzhou Li Houji is still in the dark, and when we take Fuzhou, our team will not be able to grow if we want to, do you think the third brother and I will not even be able to get a regiment leader?" ”
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