In order for an armed force to develop in an orderly and gradual manner, the first step is to have soldiers, the second step is to have equipment, the third step is to have training, the fourth step is to have lofty goals, the fifth step is to awaken the spirit of modern nationalism and the modern state, the sixth step is to have the military quality and sense of collective, national, and national honor of modern soldiers, and the seventh step is to have a military combat theory with an overall surname.

In this series of development steps, the seventh step is the most crucial point in determining whether a unit is first-class, to be precise, the first-class army must have first-class military theory, just as "The Science of Victory" was to the Soviet Red Army and the PLA, just as "The Theory of War" was to the German army, just as "Sea Power" and J.F.C. Fuller's "War Guidance" were to the American army.

In terms of PLA alone, during the War of Liberation, Alexander. Vasilyevich. Suvorov's military theory of "observation, rapidity, and onslaught" and the concentration of superior forces to quickly annihilate the enemy army were constantly implemented in every detail, and PLA continued to implement this theory in the Korean War, the self-defense counterattack war against India, and the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam.

Song Biao's most admired military theories are "The Science of Victory" and Antoine. Henry. Jomini's "Introduction to the Art of War" and Clausewitz's "On War", Song Biao both agrees with and does not fully agree with it, probably because Clausewitz refutes Sun Tzu's idea of "going to war and plotting and surrendering without a fight" in the first sentence of the tone of Clausewitz's argument.

Song Biao felt that he was very lucky, he had formed his own armed forces in such a short time, and there was sufficient expansion of weapons and equipment, he thought, the problem he had to solve now was training and goals, and he had to find a suitable stage and value for this armed force, so that they could prove themselves, only in this way could they gradually develop, otherwise they would still be reduced to bandits and second-rate warlords.

Considering the short-term operational goals and development direction of this armed force alone, Song Biao has two choices at the moment, one is to find a way to contact the Tsarist Russian army, and ask for a sum of assistance to fight Han and Xiao Yueben, if he is lucky, he can play a role at a critical moment, and he may be able to kill thousands of Xiao Yueben; The second is to base on the foundation in front of us, continue to recruit people, develop slowly, and do not rush to meet with Xiao Yueben.

The second method is more appropriate, because the manpower on his side has not yet undergone formal training, and his combat quality is not even as good as that of bandits, and he is definitely not the opponent of the Yue army, and he can be beaten by the Yue army in a few rounds and cannot find the north.

Song Biao has four Makqin heavy machine guns in his hands, if there are Russians to help, ammunition is definitely not a problem, after all, he has a little money in his hand, and it is not a problem to buy a few more. Not to mention that he also has four hundred Winchester M1897 shotguns.

At the time of World War I, Germany already had the first generation of submachine guns, but the first generation of submachine guns had no advantage in front of the M1897. Because of the heavy use of M1897 by US soldiers, Germany even demanded that international law and international treaties limit the use of this weapon on the battlefield.

This kind of gun can actually be bought a little more, and the price is not expensive, at least much cheaper than the Makqin of five or six thousand silver yuan each.

If you only talk about family background, Song Biao knows that he is actually capable of following the Russians, but he has absolutely no intention of changing the outcome of the Russo-Russian War, at most he hopes that the two sides will fight more tragically, and although Ben won, he will win more tragically.

Then again, he himself has been a soldier for three years, and in good conscience he says that recruits who have not been trained for a year in the army and sent to the battlefield are basically equivalent to being cannon fodder, and if the war is as tragic as the counterattack against Vietnam, it would be very good to have half of the recruits survive the first month.

Even this year's training period depends on how you practice, like the training level of the people's [***] valve, [***] and the early stage of the communist army, three years of training is also a bunch of waste, basically you can only dig a trench and lie in it to shoot, and as soon as you blow the trumpet, you will rush straight up to block the machine gun hole.

The snow has been falling darkly, the north wind is cold and fast, and if you pee outside the hole, you can scatter an icicle, and no one can get out of the hole, and the firewood can only be used sparingly.

In the past few days, Song Biao has been teaching everyone to be familiar with the characteristics of modern rifles in the Erwolf Cave, and practicing shooting with the 30 rifles in this period.

Serving as a soldier is a technical job, and training is even more so.

The training of modern infantry is roughly divided into four aspects, namely, basic training, physical training, combat training, and tactical training, and basic training is mainly to train soldiers' organizational surnames, obedience to their habitual surnames, and basic combat capabilities.

If the formalized training procedures for communist recruits were adopted, and the basic education level of these caravan brothers was considered, it would take Song Biao at least three months to hone them.

In the face of this cruel reality, everyone is a horse bandit now, Song Biao separately designed a shooting crash course, in addition to a small part of the basic queue and tactical norms training, teach a lesson in shooting standard movements, explain the principles of basic fortifications, and most of the rest of the time is for everyone to practice firearms, not only practice 30-style rifles, other Nagant revolvers, Winchester shotguns, Makqin machine guns and grenades are practiced, not refined, only require everyone to know how to use, Trying to turn everyone into qualified bandits and horse thieves in the shortest possible time.

Song Biao also practiced horseback riding in the cave, and wanted to be a mountain master in the Northeast, and it was a sin not being able to ride a horse, just like the traffic police couldn't drive. These horses of the horse gang are hard-working types, but they are not difficult to ride, and they are most suitable for a novice like him.

In his spare time, through his own observation and small talk, Song Biao gradually gained a deeper understanding of these brothers in the caravan.

There are generally only about a dozen people in the Kwantung caravan, the team is too big to manage, and it can't receive so much big business, the horse gang that Song Biao met was improvised patchwork, and the business was received by Zhao Tingzhu from the Russians, but Zhao Tingzhu only had a few horses, and he couldn't take such a big business, so he went to Lao Jintou and Lao Guotou to discuss, and everyone formed a big horse gang to transport goods together.

Therefore, Lao Guo Tou's serious injury and Guo Erdong's death were the key to Song Biao pulling up a team so quickly, because Lao Jintou couldn't control Zhang Yahu and Yang Tiesheng's gang at that time.

Song Biao guessed that the old golden head was probably afraid that he would pull those horses away in one go, after all, he had just debuted, and he might not pay attention to the rules of the road, and these horses were the capital and all the belongings of the old golden head to retire.

People are very realistic.

The team is pulled up, but this is not a revolutionary team after all, there is no revolutionary appeal, in addition to trying to make a living and making a profit, everyone also has some ideas, only by analyzing everyone in place can we control everyone, this is a feeling of Song Biao.

The first two are the old gang leaders, and the last three are usually responsible for doing practical things.

As soon as Guo Erdong died, Lao Guo Tou's life and death were unpredictable, the people on Lao Guo Tou's side basically followed Zhang Yahu and Li Ergou, Lao Jintou's buddies all followed Yang Tiesheng and Zhao Tingzhu, and when Song Biao asked everyone to elect the captain by themselves, the three of them each had more than a dozen brothers to support.

People still need some special nutrition and supplements at the critical moment, slaughtered two dead horses to make soup, the dying old Guo Tou and those Russian injuries have gradually improved, and the complexion has been getting better and better in the past few days.

Nutrition is important.

On this morning, everyone continued to take out the frozen horse meat sealed in the snowdrift to cook soup, and boiled a large pot, Song Biao put on a gray tweed army coat and wore a pair of thick sheepskin snow boots that the Russians called "uly", and sat next to the fire to think about it.

Li Dahan is still in charge of cooking the soup, Yang Sangui is in charge of taking care of the sick and injured, and the others are playing with various firearms with their captains.

Sitting next to the fire, Song Biao stirred the flames with firewood, silently thinking about the matter of the underground reservoir area, it was snowing heavily these days, and he had never had the opportunity to deal with this problem, he hoped that he would go there early, and he would not bring anyone, even if it would take four or five days to fill in the aisle in the reservoir area.

That place was originally extremely remote, hidden deep in the old mountains, and the choice to build a reservoir area and a silo here was to take a fancy to this, if it was buried and covered with soil, it would be safer, and it should not be discovered.

Even so, Song Biao felt that he had to be vigilant at all times, because he was the last sentinel of the base in this era.

He always felt that there was a mission entrusted to him, and he had to protect this reservoir area and ensure that it did not fall into the hands of Yue himself and the Russians, and if he found out, it would be a disaster for the whole world.

If you think about it carefully, what a terrible thing this is, there are too many things in the reservoir area, such as nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, computers, optical fiber technology, guidance technology, guidance technology, integrated circuits, relay protection, and low-voltage electrical cabinets...... If there is a strong technical team responsible for doing a reverse study of these things, the effects will be extremely terrifying.

Not to mention anything else, just those few gates in the reservoir area are real hard industries, and the problem of tank protection will be solved by understanding the homogeneous armor technology of the gates.

"Guarding the Hunjiang River" is the mission given to Song Biao by history, because he alone knows how important this mission is.

Song Biao thought about all this coldly.

The old golden head walked over a little uninterestingly, sat next to Song Biao and smoked a dry cigarette, and reminded Song Biao: "Big boss, I think this snow is probably going to stop, and it will be almost in the afternoon, and it is estimated that it will be able to stop for a while." Do you think you send a team of people out to find the Russians who ran away, they don't know anything about the neighborhood, and they must have frozen into icemen when they encounter such a heavy snow in the wild. It's a dozen guns anyway, maybe you can make a small sum of cash, if I remember correctly, there is an official in there who is quite big! ”

As soon as Song Biao raised his eyes, he also remembered that there was indeed a person in the group of Russians wearing a tulup-style black military coat, which was made of bear leather and black wool, which could only be made by a cobbler in the Far East, and it was very valuable, and not every Russian [***] official could afford it.

According to Zhao Tingzhu, this kind of military coat can only be made to order in Vladivostok, and one piece costs hundreds of rubles, which is basically only bought by officers of the Tsarist Far East garrison in the Vladivostok region.

Song Biao nodded and said, "I'll take Zhao Tingzhu on a trip, in case of a battle, everyone hasn't had that level to deal with." ”

The old golden head smoked a dry cigarette and swallowed the clouds and mist, and replied: "Great master, you have to be careful! This business is a big business, I guess I am still staring at it, they have died so many people, maybe they will send someone to find it. ”

Song Biao pondered for a moment and said: "I will look for it, but I won't search on a large scale, after all, it's a war with Russia, at most, some small teams will go out." I think I'll let the bandits help, in addition to Liu Tongcang, what other bandits are there in this area? ”

The old golden head said: "That's too much, there are four or five famous ones in Hunjiang and Tonghua, and there are simply too many without names." As long as you have a gun, five or six guns can be a mountain master in Kanto, even if it is a big mountain master with the strength of Liu Tongcang, there is still Guo Siye in the Hunjiang River, and Guo Siye of the Red Clay Cliff, which is also a team of more than 70 foreign guns, which is not easy to mess with! ”

Song Biao sighed, didn't take this kind of team too seriously, and said, "Okay, I understand." ”

He also got up and walked outside the cave to take a general look at the weather, the light was better than the previous two days, and the snow was a little lighter, the key was that the wind was light, indicating that this big cold snap was about to pass, and he could really go out for activities in the afternoon.