Chapter 388: Recovering Liaonan 3
The basic infantry tactics of the Baath Army were to use in the offensive an improved way of attacking in columns adapted to this era. No pop-ups: Various makeshift fortifications consisting of barbed wire, trenches, and machine guns are used in defense.
Of course, this basic tactic adopted by the Baath Army was mainly aimed at all the enemies they might face in this era. As an advanced infantry tactic, the three-three system tactics were mastered by the Renaissance Army itself.
The adoption of tactics must be directed at a specific enemy. Advanced tactics are aimed at an advanced enemy. For the Renaissance Army, in this plane, they simply can't encounter an enemy that requires advanced tactics. Column attack and civil fortification defense, this tactic is enough to match any possible enemy of the Revival Army of this era.
The encounter between the Renaissance Army at Kiba Station and the Golden State Garrison in Gojin did not follow the usual tactical pattern of the Renaissance Army.
Wang Shuhui wanted to test the effect of the relatively backward linear tactics of defensive phalanx in this encounter, that is, the so-called queuing and shooting tactics for the lethality of cavalry. That's why he asked the artillery units not to take part in the fighting. After all, before the establishment of logistical supply lines, the supply of artillery shells was more difficult.
However, it is clear that because he did not order the machine-gun units not to participate in the battle, the fighters of a company of the forward unit of a battalion of the Ba'ath Army, located in a convex position, were given only one chance to shoot before the machine guns began to fire. After the four battalion-affiliated machine guns began firing, there was nothing for them to do.
It took only a few minutes for the four ten-barreled Gatling machine guns to wipe out all the cavalry on the Golden Jurchen side of the five or six hundred post-Jin Jurchens who had entered the firing range. This proves from the side that the mantra "everyone is equal in front of the machine gun" that the soldiers of the Baath Army often jokingly hang on their lips is really very objective.
In the eyes of the soldiers of the Ba'ath Army, although the lethality of the steel shells filled with the strong medicine was huge and amazing, in the covering shelling of the Ba'ath Army, if a few lucky enemies hid in a trench or a pit of earth, there was still a 1/10,000 or even 1,000 chance that the bursting shrapnel would be dodged by him. This is evidenced by the Baath Army's own civil fortifications. During the exercise, the purpose of building complete civil fortifications could achieve the goal of evading the fierce shelling of the Renaissance Army itself and protecting the lives of the soldiers.
However, unlike the evasibility of shrapnel from artillery shells, the strafing of machine guns is not immune to machine gun fire, whether it is an offensive or a defense, especially in defense, whether it is an enemy on horseback or an ordinary infantryman, whether it is a bandit Ming army, or now these Jurchen soldiers who seem to have a strong will to fight.
The fire network of four machine guns can easily tear apart all enemies. Not to mention that the enemy is a cavalry on horseback, or an elephant with a long nose and tusks, the largest animal on land, as described in the textbooks, and at the same time they can charge as fast as a horse, and they still cannot leave a life in the network of machine gun fire.
Just as the forward troops were easily tearing apart the five or six hundred Houjin cavalry that were rushing to the machine-gun position from the front, several staff officers, under the leadership of the chief of staff, had just given Wang Shuhui a heated explanation of the necessity of establishing a defensive position in accordance with the tactical requirements.
Because according to the system, Wang Shuhui, as the temporary commander-in-chief and political commissar of the First Army Corps of the Fuxing Army in southern Liaoning, should not directly command the battle. This is a serious ultra vires in the context of the Baath Army. Political cadres cannot interfere with the military command of operational cadres, and this is the steel system within the Baxing Army.
However, because of Wang Shuhui's special status as the chairman of the Ba'ath Party and as the mentor of all Ba'ath Party members, Wang Shuhui's sudden overstepping of his authority and directly issuing orders was not questioned and stopped by Sun Degang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Army Corps of the Revival Army in southern Liaoning and the first disciple of Wang Shuhui.
However, Zhao Yiming, chief of staff of the First Army of the Revival Army in southern Liaoning, will not have any doubts about his mentor like Sun Degang. He first pointed out to Wang Shuhui the wrongness of his ultra vires behavior, and then proposed to Wang Shuhui that not building defensive civil fortifications after encountering the enemy was an act that violated the basic tactical requirements of the infantry of the Fuxing Army.
Wang Shuhui himself also knew that his practice was against the system. Although when Zhao Yiming finished saying these words, the five or six hundred enemies were wiped out by the machine guns of the forward troops. But he can't say that Zhao Yiming's words are wrong. So in the subsequent post-war summary meeting, Wang Shuhui made a review.
Sun Degang is six years older than Zhao Yiming. Ten years ago, Sun Degang, who had just been orphaned, went from a sixteen-year-old homeless man who was about to starve to death to become Wang Shuhui's first disciples.
Unlike those disciples of the fourth and fifth batches who were later cultivated by the institutional training system established by Wang Shuhui, his feelings for Wang Shuhui were like relatives. Sun Degang, who was just 16 years old at the time, regarded Wang Shuhui, who took care of his life, handed him knowledge, and personally led him to military training, as a person like his father and brother.
Like many of Wang Shuhui's earliest disciples, Sun Degang's loyalty was first to Wang Shuhui, and then to the organization of the Baath Party.
Sun Degang was loyal to the Baxing Party and to the Baxing Party's ideology, system, concept, and discipline, because the Baaxing Party, the Baaxing Party's ideology, system, concept, and discipline, and everything else were created by Wang Shuhui. For Sun Degang, loyalty to the Baath Party is because loyalty to the Baath Party is loyalty to Wang Shuhui. In Sun Degang's eyes, Wang Shuhui and the Baath Party are one.
To give a simple example, if Wang Shuhui's words and deeds are in line with the system and discipline of the Baath Party, Sun Degang will follow Wang Shuhui's words and deeds. If Wang Shuhui does something that does not conform to the system and discipline of the Baath Party, Sun Degang will also follow Wang Shuhui's words and deeds.
Zhao Yiming was born as Wang Shuhui's last disciple. When he became Wang Shu's disciple, Wang Shuhui no longer taught them personally. Although they also gave them classes and guided their military training, their disciples were basically the same as those students of the junior military academies, living a collective life and receiving a standardized education.
For Zhao Yiming, the Baath Party is a holistic existence. The education they receive is such an education, and the knowledge they learn is this knowledge. For them, whether it is the founder of the Ba'ath Party like Wang Shuhui or an ordinary new member of the Ba'ath Party, they must abide by the system and discipline of the Ba'ath Party.
Stressing rules and abiding by discipline is the consciousness that the Baath Party education system established by Wang Shuhui has always required all students to establish.
Therefore, in Zhao Yiming's view, Wang Shuhui is the creator of the Baath Party and the mentor of all the members of the Baath Party. However, unless the Central Committee of the Ba'ath Party formulates a new system and discipline, then as a member of the Ba'ath Party, Wang Shuhui must pay attention to rules and abide by discipline.
Wang Shuhui does not pay attention to rules and does not abide by discipline, and any member of the revival party should point it out to him face to face.
For Wang Shuhui himself, he is of course emotionally inclined to the twenty-six-year-old Sun Degang. After all, no matter what, the relationship between Wang Shuhui and his first few batches of disciples is still quite deep. In the past few years of getting along with them, Wang Shuhui has established a kind of relationship with them. Only these disciples will see Wang Shuhui's truest expression of feelings.
However, from a rational point of view, Wang Shuhui certainly admires a member of the Baath Party like 20-year-old Zhao Yiming.
The purpose of the industrialized education system that he painstakingly established in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was actually to massively shape this kind of modern talents who emphasized rules and disciplined.
As the leader of a political party, Wang Shuhui prefers that all Baath Party members will be members of the Baath Party like Zhao Yiming, rather than Wang Shuhui's disciples like Sun Degang