At present, the artillery equipped with the Third Mixed Association is a 31-year-old 75-mm field rapid-fire gun purchased by the Beiyang New Army from Japan, which is said to be a rapid-fire gun, but in fact it is still a retreat gun, and the maximum rate of fire per minute is only about three rounds, which is really not very good in this era.

However, the reason why Yuan Shikai bought artillery from Japan was not because of how good the performance of the Japanese artillery was, but because it was cheap enough.

Historically, the hundreds of artillery pieces purchased by the Beiyang New Army in large quantities from the Japanese were basically second-hand 31-year-old field guns and mountain guns used by the Japanese, and only a few thousand taels of silver each, and only these old-fashioned cannons were so cheap, and the expensive tube cannons were casually tens of thousands of taels of silver.

At present, only a very small part of the Grusen artillery in the Beiyang New Army is a tube artillery, and the rest are all a frame artillery, and what really made the Beiyang New Army enter the era of tube and back artillery is after the large-scale purchase of artillery from the German Krupp factory.

Since he was unable to buy artillery from Japan because of the tense situation in the northeast, although Yuan Shikai still wanted to set up a cheap gun, but there was nowhere to buy it if he wanted to, so he could only grit his teeth and order a new type of artillery from the German Krupp factory, that is, the 1903 75mm field gun, although this kind of artillery could not be regarded as a complete version of the tube-retreat rapid-fire gun in the eyes of later generations, it was barely a member of the tube-retreat artillery family.

This series of artillery is also the main export product of the German Krupp factory at the beginning of the 20th century, Romania, Japan, China and other countries have purchased in large quantities, in addition to the German origin, countries also imitate a large number of them, such as the famous Japanese 38-year field gun, which is the patented Japanese version of the Krupp 1903 75 mm field gun, and in history, China's Hanyang Arsenal has also carried out imitation production, and the Fengtian Arsenal has also imitated the production of this cannon according to the Japanese 38-year field gun.

It can be said that although the performance of the 1903 series of guns is not top-notch, it is easy to use, the performance is barely passable, and the Germans are quite generous in authorized production, of course, more importantly, the German Krupp artillery before World War I is a well-known signboard, everyone likes to buy, and all kinds of add up to this gun is sold all over the world, which can be regarded as a classic model in the history of artillery.

In order to solve the artillery needed by the second town this summer, Yuan Shikai ordered dozens of artillery pieces from the German Krupp factory, mainly the 1903 75-mm field gun, and the rest were 75-mm short-barreled mountain guns. However, these new artillery pieces were all intended for use in the second town, and without Zhao Dongyun's share of the Third Mixed Association, he could only continue to use the 31-year-old 75-mm field guns made in Japan.

Because this 31-year-old field gun is a retreat gun, its performance naturally cannot be compared with the new type of barrel retreat gun, and the maximum rate of fire is only three rounds a minute, but Zhao Dongyun found that the artillery under his command could not even shoot the standard rate of fire, and he couldn't help but be a little unhappy.

Seeing that Zhao Dongyun's face was a little unhappy, Liu Tinggui also secretly said in his heart that it was not good, but he was also quite helpless, although the artillery battalion under his command had been formed for half a year now, but it had been in the process of recruiting personnel in the early stage, and it was not until late May that all the recruits were recruited.

At that time, because the artillery ordered by Xiang Ri had not yet arrived, they could only use a few old domestic artillery for preliminary training, and it was not until the eve of arriving in Jinzhou that they took over sixteen artillery pieces from the first town, and then went all the way to Jinzhou, and only after settling down in Jinzhou did his artillery battalion begin to carry out adaptive training.

The training time is so short, and he, Liu Tinggui, is not the kind of person with a pig's foot halo, but he doesn't have the ability to let the soldiers under him suddenly turn from recruits to elite artillerymen with a few words, which is not easy for the artillerymen to practice along the way, as for the rate of fire, don't expect it to be fast.

As a family member, Zhao Dongyun naturally knows the details of his own troops, although he knows in his heart that Liu Tinggui has already experienced this matter, but he is still dissatisfied.

Of course, his dissatisfaction will not be openly expressed, he just frowned and continued to watch today's drill.

As the artillerymen opened fire one after another, covering a fire that could not be called 'rapid fire', the infantry also began to move, and the infantrymen dressed in blue-gray began to leap out of the dug trenches and charge, under the command of officers of all ranks.

The main body of today's drill is the coordination of infantry and artillery, and the artillery in the rear naturally continues to shell, but the scope of the artillery has begun to extend backwards to block the enemy's rear reinforcements, and at the same time avoid causing accidental injuries to the infantry attacking on their own side.

Although the rapid fire of his artillery was unsightly, just relying on this hand to cooperate with the extended and gradual artillery bombardment of the infantry was enough to prove that the backbone officer of Liu Tinggui's artillery battalion was excellent, and what he lacked was only time to train the soldiers.

Looking at the infantry again, as the officers at all levels blew the brass whistle and brandished the command knife, the soldiers began to climb out of the trench with their rifles that had been inserted with bayonets, scattered in the simulated gunsmoke, and began to charge forward with their waists bent.

At the same time, several heavy machine guns deployed on the battle line have also been fired to suppress fire, although they are all training empty cartridges, but the characteristic clicking sound of heavy machine guns can still make people feel the dense fire of heavy machine guns.

Under the cover of artillery and the suppression of machine-gun fire, nearly 100 infantry of the two platoons began to charge the predetermined enemy position, and in Zhao Dongyun's telescope, when the infantry of these two platoons attacked from both sides of the battle line, the formation was very scattered, and the gap between them and the popular infantry tactics today was very large.

When the attacker attacked, another infantry team acting as the defender also began to act, and the two heavy machine guns were also deployed on both sides of the battle line, and they were also convex machine gun fortresses, and after the opposing infantry launched a charge, the two machine guns also began to fire.

Of course, because this was just a drill, it was naturally impossible for a large number of soldiers to fall as soon as the fire was fired, so the soldiers on the attacking side just lay down and then used to jump and crawl to use some of the cover to continue to advance, while some soldiers were lying on their stomachs and using rifles to suppress the shooting.

As time slowly passed, the soldiers who attacked in a roundabout way were less than thirty meters close to the line of the defender, and soon the attacking soldiers threw out the grenade, although the grenade thrown was just a piece of wood and could not explode, but the officers of the defending side also consciously saw the grenade and began to play dead......

However, the soldiers on the defending side also began to throw grenades one by one!

When the battle was stalemate, the attackers threw a reserve force into the right flank, and the result was, of course, according to the pre-agreed results, and the attackers overcame the enemy positions at great cost.

Since the scale of this exercise was not large, and it was not a live-fire exercise, he was even reluctant to shoot more empty ammunition in order to save money, and only let a few machine guns fire for a while, and the grenade thrown out was simply a fake grenade made of wood and iron.

In terms of visual effects, it is far from being as good-looking as the domestic anti-Japanese dramas of later generations, and it can even be called boring, and even the soldiers involved in it are lazy.

However, the layman watched the excitement, the insider looked at the doorway, and a group of officers watching the show on such a boring drill platform watched attentively, and a few people even took out banknotes directly on the spot and pondered and meditated while writing and drawing.

"Chen Tongdao, today's two teams can be said to have won the essence of my Beiyang new infantry tactics, looking at the roundabout attack formation, it is just the same as the charging tactics written by the commander!" Lin Yongquan sighed after looking at it, although his relationship with Chen Guangyuan was not very good, he still admired his ability to train soldiers.

Zhao Dongyun proposed the new infantry tactics in Beiyang last year, when Zhao Dongyun used the excuse that the German Army had adopted the latest infantry tactics to deal with the fire suppression brought by machine guns, and Yuan Shikai They also had great feelings after seeing the huge power of machine guns, but Yuan Shikai did not agree to promote the new skirmish offensive tactics in the whole army, but further expanded the distance between skirmishers to a limited extent.

However, this third mixed association is Zhao Dongyun's troops, so how Zhao Dongyun wants to train the troops is naturally not in the hands of others. Although this new infantry tactic has not completely abandoned the previous line straggler mentality, the gap between soldiers is larger and the layers are thicker, and at the same time, grenade training has been added. The core of the tactics is no longer to fight against the opposing soldiers, but the core of the new tactics is to avoid the damage of the enemy's machine gun fire as much as possible.

As for defense, it is natural to use machine guns to kill and injure enemy charging soldiers as much as possible.

The Third Mixed Association used new infantry tactics for training, and Zhao Dongyun personally trained himself as the tenth standard of the commander when he had nothing to do, but although these new book tactics were proposed and perfected by Zhao Dongyun, it was Chen Guangyuan who really trained the best soldiers according to this tactic, not a large number of Zhao Dongyun's descendants.

This has to be said to be a great irony!

Lin Yongquan admires Chen Guangyuan's training ability precisely because of this.

Chen Guangyuan didn't care about this, he just relied on the skill of training to eat, he may not be able to do those historical generals in the war, but he still has some ability to simply train the soldiers, otherwise he would not have been able to cross the many long-awaited Beiyang famous generals to serve as the fifth standard.

Lin Yongquan admires Chen Guangyuan, in fact, Chen Guangyuan admires Zhao Dongyun even more, in addition to admiring Zhao Dongyun's promotion ability, he admires more those far-sighted strategic vision, in a huge China, there are more people who know that machine guns are rapid-fire and powerful, but there are only a handful of people who can develop a series of machine gun tactics based on machine guns, and even formulate new infantry tactics based on the further extension of machine guns.