After relocation and several expansions, in 1923 the main barracks of the militia regiment was enough to accommodate one and a half divisions for simultaneous training, proofreading and even small-scale low-intensity confrontation exercises!

According to the regulations for the basic training of militia soldiers issued to the army in 1916, the training of the militia was divided into three parts: morning, noon and evening. It is now the alternating season of winter and spring, and before 6 o'clock in the morning, only sentries on duty at night can be seen in the barracks, standing on the high guard tower, facing the morning sun without moving.

As soon as 6 o'clock arrived, after receiving the order, the bugler of the militia headquarters had already sounded the wake-up call, and the sharp wake-up call was like a thunderclap, facing the rising sunrise, piercing the last haze in the early morning, and announcing the start of a new day's training.

The camps of the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade suddenly moved, and in about seven minutes, you could see the soldiers constantly rushing out of the dormitory!

"It's all there! At ease! Attention! Count! ”

“…… At ease...... Standing ......"

In less than ten minutes, there were rows of people standing in the open space in front of the dormitories. A class of 10 people is a small dormitory, and one row is just enough for a neat queue.

Dressed neatly, with a 20-kilogram marching bag on his back and a Chinese-style rifle with a bayonet on it, he was neatly half-carried. After the count was completed, the platoons gathered on the big field and stood with the company as the base. The huge dumpfield, which was originally empty, was suddenly crowded with soldiers from the two brigades. At present, the two brigades of the militia are about 7,000 people without full strength.

Standing on the big field, watching the soldiers prepare to go out early, Zhang Shusheng walked up to the school review stand. In the eight years since the establishment of the militia group, Zhang Shusheng has one thing to do every morning, to see the army or students go out. The army is getting stronger, and a large-scale change of clothing is just around the corner, and he is full of expectations for his soldiers.

The army is the patron saint of a nation, and it is not how much money it spends and how strictly it manages it to form combat effectiveness, but it is necessary to shape a special military soul. An army without a military soul will only become someone else's logistics and transportation captain when it goes to the battlefield.

Students, on the other hand, are the future of the nation, and like the military, their importance should not be reflected only in the fact that they are financially well taken care of.

Every Monday, on the morning of Wednesday and Friday, Zhang Shusheng went to the militia group, and went to the school on the second and fourth days. The family business is getting bigger and bigger, and he disdains it when he shakes off his hands. I have a lot of energy, but I get up a little early, and with the current size of the army and students, I can completely take the lead.

"It's all there! Take a break, stand upright! The five-kilometer weight-bearing cross-country march begins!! Facing the dawn, watching Chenhui refract the cold light on a bayonet, Zhang Shusheng finally gave the order to.

At the same time, more than 20 miles away, on the Yunwu Mountain, the Second Brigade was stationed here. The establishment of the Second Brigade is rather mixed. Not only did the foundation of the second battalion of the bandit army in Yunwu Mountain at that time, but also some large and small rogue teams that were incorporated one after another, plus the reserve regiment that belonged to the second brigade during the war, it formed the second brigade that seemed to be extremely chaotic. But on the surface, it looks chaotic, but in reality it is not. Zhuge Sheng, who was determined to train an iron-blooded army, guarded the field with the brigade commander Tie Sanqian every morning with a saber, and followed the training throughout the whole process.

On the same big field, Zhuge Sheng, Tie Sanqian, and Chu Shiwen, the head of the reserve regiment, stood on the school review platform, and Zhuge Sheng, the instructor of the Second Brigade, waved his hand: Armed off-road begins!!

In less than 30 minutes, the armed off-road was over, and Zhang Shusheng did not leave as usual, but went to the canteen to routinely check the food situation. The logistics staff in the canteen could recognize this division commander who was wearing a major general's uniform and came to the raid in person every now and then.

The soldiers' breakfast was very rich, with two staple foods, steamed buns and porridge, and four vegetarian dishes, which were enough. Far more than the domestic food ration in the same period, of course, it is such a high-standard food treatment that can carry out such high-intensity training.

In the oversized simple canteen, Zhang Shusheng, Wu Tiejun, Jiang Baili, Tao Qian, Chen Jun, Li Junming, and other eight senior commanders and fighters of the militia also had their own tables, on which were exactly the same food as ordinary soldiers. This is not a show, except for Zhang Shusheng, the other seven people, as long as there is no urgent task delayed, they eat here five days a week.

At first, it was proposed by Jiang Baili, the country is weak, and in the autumn of troubled times, why should he lead soldiers first, so it has become an iron order for militia officers to start with a few people, including all middle and lower-level officers, who are not allowed to open small stoves alone! And with Zhang Shusheng's consent, this order to share weal and woe was also written into the military regulations of the militia group.

"They're all people with their heads tied to their belts. If even you officers find the three meals of the army unpalatable, then why do you eat big fish and meat yourself, and let the soldiers eat them? ”

During this period, a company commander once found Zhang Shusheng and took out the article that there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and resolutely opposed it. The result was very simple, Zhang Shusheng withdrew him on the spot, do you really think that Lao Tzu spent money to raise fattening pigs? You have to respect Lao Tzu as a place to respect, the army is Lao Tzu, not for you to grow fat, and there is a difference between respect and inferiority.

Noble status should not be expressed in privilege, but in the charisma of a transcendent personality, in the great role of role as an example.

After breakfast, Zhang Shusheng, Jiang Baili and others went to see the individual soldier training and the company and platoon combination training in person. Different from the traditional training subjects, needless to say, the basic training content is greatly strengthened in the training of the militia regiments in terms of trench excavation, position drills, offensive and defensive drills, and so on.

So much so that after the soldiers enlisted, when the recruits were trained, in addition to a gun, there was also a shovel in their hands, and these two things will always accompany them.

"How is the civil-military construction in the training subjects going now?" In the training grounds, on several reserved hills, militia soldiers are throwing off their arms and working, wielding shovels and digging out curvilinear serpentine trenches, coupled with hidden communication ditches, scattered foxholes, and deep-dug bomb shelters.

Often, a company or even a battalion on a hill is engaged in excavation work at the same time. In addition to the difficult projects such as the supporting bomb shelters, a simple 30-meter-long improvised trench can be dug in an hour.

"On target!!"

Under the watchful eyes of the commanders and fighters of the militia regiment, more than 100 engineers quickly placed hundreds of targets at intervals of 200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters, and 50 meters. Some of the targets are not dead targets, and the sappers pull ropes to pull some of the targets to form the simplest moving targets.

This is not for the commanders and fighters of the militia regiment, such as Wu Tiejun and Jiang Baili, in addition to being in charge of some militia affairs and staff affairs, a considerable part of their time is spent supervising the formation and training the troops. If the troops are not combat-ready, everything else is. Once every three days, twice a week of actual combat training was set down.

"Fire!!"

With the order of several company commanders, the heavy machine gun fired first, adjusted the rate of fire to a slow speed, and with a rate of fire of 100 rounds a minute and a maximum range of nearly 1,000 meters, it easily fired at a target at a distance of 200 meters. The next to fire was the sniper gunners of the militia group, who put the moving target at a distance into the optical scope, and calculated a little that some people could hit the moving target with the first shot.

Although the Huaxia-style rifle is not as majestic as the first two weapons, it is superior in quantity, and after a burst of pulling the bolt, aiming, and after firing a salvo, it can easily hit the target at a distance of about 100 meters with a maximum range of nearly 800 meters, and hit a piercing one.

"Throw defensive grenades!!"

As soon as the company commander gave the order, the dozens of soldiers in charge of dropping the bomb took out a melon-shaped grenade from their waists, pulled off the small ring, and threw it violently with a slight delay.

Bang! Bang! Bang! In a dense burst of grenade explosions, targets at a distance of 50 meters were blown up into the sky one by one.

"Yes, the new dynamite is very powerful. The new 1918 grenade didn't disappoint me. ”

"Yes, this kind of grenade is much more advanced than the various grenades equipped by various warlords in the country." Jiang Baili, who is well versed in the internal affairs of China's old-fashioned armies, praised that compared with the militia groups, with the acceleration of the speed of changing clothes, the warlords have begun to show an all-round backward situation in terms of equipment and training.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, the new explosives were first applied to the relatively low-tech new grenades and new mines including anti-infantry and anti-armor mines. The first thing the arsenal came up with was an oval grenade that provided its own drawings, and the overall performance was very good, small in size, but not too light. The explosion power and fragment damage are good. One goes down, and it has a pretty good killing effect within a range of more than 10 meters.

"This kind of training, the effect is very obvious, and the new weapon also performs well, but it costs a little money!" Wu Tiejun nodded and said. After several years of lying on the back and trying his courage, the new weapons will be gradually distributed to the troops, and as the deputy division commander of the militia regiment, he is extremely looking forward to it.

Zhang Shusheng: "If the money is gone, you can make it again, but if the people are gone, there will be one more pit!" With this little money, don't feel distressed. Let's go, let's go and see how the artillerymen behave!! ”

The artillery training base is not here, and if an artillery shot goes down, it will be missed. A few miles away from the barracks, Dahewan was the training base for the artillery battalion. The entire Dahe Bay is turbulent in water, and in peacetime, it is used as a simple pontoon bridge for the troops' boat bridge unit exercises, and also serves as an artillery base.

The unique wide river surface, the artillery positions are arranged more than two miles from the shore, and the distance of hitting the river bank of seven or eight hundred meters and then hitting the uninhabited high mountain on the opposite side is also several miles, which is simply the most perfect artillery training ground.

When Zhang Shusheng and the others came to the artillery battalion directly under the division, they were just in time for training, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion had already arranged their artillery positions and were about to conduct live-fire training.

"Report to the division commander, the artillery battalion directly under the militia regiment is conducting live-fire training, and the commander of the artillery battalion is coming to report to the sea in the summer!" The commander of the artillery battalion of the militia regiment came to Zhang Shusheng in the summer, saluted and reported, graduated from the artillery department of the Yunnan Army, and has considerable talent in artillery. After coming to the militia regiment, he studied with the artillery chief Herman for half a year before he was officially in charge of the militia artillery unit.

From a 75mm German Krupp mountain gun to today's militia artillery battalion, in more than five years, the militia artillery power can be described as earth-shattering.

"Summer battalion commander, tell us about the firepower configuration of the artillery battalion!!" Zhang Shusheng signaled.

"Yes!" Speaking of the baby-like artillery battalion, the little unnaturalness of Xia Haiyuan disappeared, and he turned around and pointed to the cannons with the barrels on the artillery position: "At present, the artillery battalion is equipped with a total of 16 1920-style 75mm field guns, with old-fashioned shells, with a maximum range of 7.8 kilometers. With the new shells, which are currently available in limited quantities, the maximum range can be increased by 9 km. In addition, there is a defensive close-range fire squad equipped with four improved Maxim heavy machine guns. ”

"What kind of training course did you do today?"

"Live firing was arranged for both shells."

At the sound of the order, eight 75mm field guns equipped with old shells opened fire, followed by field guns equipped with new shells. The results of the comparison are obvious, not to mention the range, at least from the military telescope, you can see a few miles away on the hill on the other side of the river, the effect of the explosion is completely different.

"Report to the division commander, according to the statistics, the new artillery shells are ahead of the old artillery shells in all aspects, especially in terms of killing radius and killing effect, which have increased by about 30%."

Zhang Shusheng nodded with satisfaction, turned around and talked to Jiang Baili and the others with happy faces. Although I knew that the militia artillery battalion had just been distributed with new artillery shells, I did not expect to be able to catch up with the on-site observation of live ammunition today.

"Not to mention the artillery of the West, even the artillery of my brigade and regiment-level troops is much stronger than the old army in China. Now that our militia has its own field artillery, equipped with advanced new artillery shells, even if it is matched, it will not be pressed and beaten. Encountering surprises in a row, Jiang Baili's face was full of red light, not only him, but others were also enthusiastic. What is the army now? The army is soldiers + guns, and with the best soldiers, coupled with good guns and artillery, it is a truly strong army. In the past, if you want to buy a cannon, you may not be able to buy it from those Westerners who ask your grandfather and grandmother, but now you can finally produce it yourself, how can you not get excited about these people who love [***].

After the defeat of Germany, in addition to those weapons and equipment that were dismantled, many were also dismantled by the Entente. Zhang Shusheng tried his best and through various means, and finally exchanged the western medicine equivalent to gold with penicillin equivalent to gold from France for an old production line of a German artillery factory and a more advanced diesel engine production line. Of course, it was all before 1919, when Kenneth, an American, came forward to negotiate the purchase under the pretext of operating a foreign business in China.

However, the production of artillery was really difficult, even with Hermann and a group of German experts who were half-lured and half-abducted, limited by the lack of workers, the low yield of seamless steel pipes and the frightening factors that caused the first 75mm field gun to be produced in 1920.

As for the production of new explosives, it was even more bumpy, with the returned chemist Shi Bi led by the team of Chinese scholars, it took four years to overcome all the technical problems, according to the new explosives technology provided by Zhang Shusheng, in 1922 produced the first batch of qualified explosives for artillery shells, and at the end of the year produced the first batch of new shells and grenades, it is expected that by next year, a new medium-caliber bullet will also be available.

Considering the special terrain in the southwest, the backward transportation conditions, and the potential low-intensity war situation, the militia did not start to launch large-caliber artillery at the beginning, but began to produce 1921 105mm field guns in reserve at the rate of two guns a month from the beginning of 1922. In this way, the divisional artillery battalion was temporarily dominated by 75mm field artillery, the combat brigade was mainly composed of mountain artillery companies, and the combat units at the regimental level and below were mainly mortars of various calibers of the 1919 type.

Zhang Shusheng originally wanted to go to the cavalry company and the transportation company again, but suddenly a service soldier came to report by car.

"Commander, Miss Lu is here! She said that she had something important to find the teacher! ”

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The body is better, and the update is gradually speeding up. In fact, it's not that the fisherman is too slow to update, but that a chapter is often 5000-7/8000 words. This chapter is also more than 4,000 words, which is too much of a loss compared to the 2/3K party. You know, readers don't go to numbers. Fishermen will try to have as many words as possible.

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